The City of Strangers. Michael Russell
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MICHAEL RUSSELL
The City of Strangers
For
Anya, Seren, Finn, Coinneach and Marta And the Silver Meteor To the Pennsylvania Station
Send but a song oversea for us,
Heart of their hearts who are free,
Heart of their singer to be for us
More than our singing can be.
‘To Walt Whitman in America’
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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From Decoding the IRA
Table of Contents
10. Pennsylvania Six-Five-Thousand
16. A Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Street
21. A Hundred and Sixteenth Street
Mrs Leticia Harris, aged 53, who resided at 14 Herbert Place, Dublin, disappeared some time after 6 a.m. on Sunday, 8 th March. The following morning her car was discovered at premises in Corbawn Lane, leading from Shankill to the sea. There were numerous bloodstains inside the car, and the police later in the day found a bloodstained hatchet in a shed adjoining her house, and also bloodstains on the flower borders in the garden. The police theory is that Mrs Harris was murdered in her own home and the body taken away in her car. Mrs Harris is the wife of Dr Cecil Wingfield Harris, 81 Pembroke Road, Dublin.
The Irish Times
West Cork, November 1922
The storm did not come suddenly. All day the wind from the Atlantic had blown hard and cold and fast against Pallas Strand. The grey sky sped past overhead, heavy, thick, turbulent. The noise was unceasing, humming and roaring, loud and soft, and loud and soft again, but always there, along with the beat of the sea