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So, what have you been reading recently? | 📚 Weekly book discussion, review, and recommendations thread, December 7th, 2025 (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] cwtshycwtsh@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Almost done with Constance Markievicz Irish Revolutionary by Anne Haverty.

Seamus O'Connor, a Sinn Féiner wrote that the AOH supporters kept up a barrage of shouting and throwing stones, potatoes and eggs (which they were buying at sixpence each) at the speakers'. He described how the Countess Markievicz, in a trench coat, having been hit several times with potatoes and eggs exclaimed, 'in what to me was her peculiar accent, "I care no more for your stones than I cared for the bullets of Easter Week."'

What an interesting life some people get to live.