Aoife Clifford

And he has a sort of a network of informers that is feeding him information.

And he understands from the Irish community and also from his own background that there seems to be a perception that this triple hanging is going to subdue the Fenians and is going to

Cal, the cause for Irish independence.

And he knows, as the community knows, that it's going to do the absolute opposite.

So he's terribly worried that something bad is coming.

he's quite correct.

Something terrible is about to happen.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

And it's sort of, I mean, it's so obvious that I have to think of some of the virus heritage myself, how many times

The English have to know this to get it wrong every single time.

And here we go.

Here's another example of it.

To the extent that I was amazed to find out like the ballads are still being sung about this triple hanging.

They still haven't forgotten about it.

Oh, that is fascinating to know.

So Stephen Doyle is an Irishman as well, but he's coming via America.

And he has similarly, in fact, really, I think Stephen Doyle and James O'Connor are kind of the yin and the yang of this novel.

They're both on the opposite sides of the one coin because he's had a very difficult childhood as well, has ended up having to go to America as a teenager, has been treated pretty brutally there, has had a pretty brutal time of it, joins up for the Civil War as a Union soldier and discovers that his one great talent in life is killing people.

And so, of course, once the Civil War's over,