Ireland: A Catspaw

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Irish Republicanism and the civil war against the Free State a Bolshevik enterprise. "...THE following chapters are a faithful record of a journey through Ireland during certain fateful months of the year 1922. The adventure was impelled by curiosity, idle enough, but not surprising when one considers the prominence which had been given to Irish affairs since the Easter Rising of 1916...." I. A Journey--May 1922. II. Dismay--Suspicion. II. Moira. IV. The Childers. V. The Trouble. VI. The Free State. VII. Daile Ireann. VIII. Loyalists. IX. Four Courts--De Valera. X. Howth--Its Meaning. XI. A White Rabbit. XII. "If Ireland Goes". XIII. An Encounter. XIV. The Black North. XV. Reason And Insanity. XVI. The Green Band. XVII. Tynan Abbey. XVIII. "...For The Love Of God". XIX. Meshes Of A Web. XX. A House In Chelsea. XXI. The Shadow Of A Spider. XXII. Irish Catholics And A Soviet Republic. XXIII. An Hour. XXIV. November Days. XXV. "Shall The Spider-Webs Swallow Them?". XXVI. After Six Years.