BOOKWORM
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls In the middle of the Civil War, an IRA intelligence report from November 1922 assessed the 52 pro-Treaty members of Dublin Corporation thus: ten Treaty, including (Lord Mayor) Laurence O’Neill and Alfie Byrne; 32 pro-Treaty, ‘but not so bad’; and ten hard pro-Treatyites, ‘real bad eggs’. One of those ‘bad eggs’ … Read more