See here for more stories from Vanishing Ireland ‘When you got a blow from Master Henry, you wouldn’t get up for three days’. ‘Master Henry’ was Henry Curran, a powerfully built, curly-haired Republican employed for protection during the Irish War of Independence by German Hawkins, a Protestant farmer from County Wicklow. ‘He was a burster alright’, […]
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