{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  On asking a younger Irish historian whether this is a fact, I have been told that the charge has been made against Mitchel more than once. The defence is that his mind was, sadly, affected by his  prison experiences. Very well. The equally sad fact is that during the American Civil War Irish soldiers fought on both sides of the divide.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}