Our house at Drumbally (Creggan, S
Armagh) had a small entrance porch and the main room was floored
in stone flags. There was an open hearth with a crook and the fire was built
over a pit into which a wheel bellows blew air through a connecting pipe to
stoke it.
When
Sussex (Thomas Radclyffe)
returned to England
for the succession (1558) of the new Queen Elizabeth, Shane O’Neill acted
quickly to establish his supremacy.
He
staggered from the taxi as the winter rain soaked his drunken face.He tried to wipe off the raindrops using the
sleeves of his worn-out denim jacket.With
the taxi pulling away...
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