1922
Diary 2nd September 1922
Dan O’Donovan was in the paper, and the outrageous speech he made at the Dunore inquest was quoted in full. I’m copying it out here:
“When the British forces were installed in Ireland, it was hard to find man or woman in Wexford with pluck enough to fight the foreign intruder. To my knowledge, no English soldier was fired upon around here during the whole of the Anglo-Irish war and I do not think I am wrong in stating that the present occasion is the first on which a soldier was killed in Wexford since 1798. The Truce begot a lot of warriors and those now attacking the National Army are just emerging from the burrows where the British terror drove them.
“Hysterical young females are among the most active adherents to the Irregular cause because hitherto it
