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Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
‘A free fight in County Mayo’
Chapter 1
‘Chuck the library’
‘We are not appointing a washerwoman or a mechanic’
‘I stand by the Constitution’
‘Talk to the vegetables better and make the cows work overtime’
Chapter 2
‘Toleration would be a weakness, if not a crime’
‘Chamberlain is a very un-Irish name …’
‘The conscientious bigot’
‘The “Castle Cawtholic”’
‘The Irish Times and the baser kind of Protestants’
‘Biting on granite’
‘The hydra-headed monster of intolerance’
Chapter 3
‘Cesspools of infamy’
‘Tales of a council chamber’
‘The rack and the gibbet’
‘The minister’s new move’
‘The respectable skirts of nationalism’
Chapter 4
‘The slipper lickers proceed …’
‘Mugs and thugs’
‘From Irish pigs to Irish policemen’
‘Personal pecuniary responsibilities’
Chapter 5
‘They will boycott your funeral’
‘An orgy of jobbery’
‘The shortest cut from Knockna-Skeherooh to Mowamanahan’
Chapter 6
‘Lapses into poetry’
‘The Castlebar way’
‘Honest mistakes’
‘A migratory Micawber’
‘Poison gas to the kindly Celtic people’
‘Catholic rights and Gaelic culture: for or against?’
‘Your bludgeoning days’
‘Shoddy English writers’
‘Manliness and manhood’
Chapter 7
‘The recent unpleasantness’
‘The nabobs at Dublin’
Chapter 8
‘Low fellowship and bad habits’
‘Dismissed I was’
‘Westwards to Mayo’
‘Crazy … unaisy … lazy’
‘The counter attractions of Gaelic football and step dancing’
‘Expediency, efficiency and economy’
Chapter 9
‘Unwept, unhonoured and unsung’
‘Inverted Ku Klux Klanism’
‘The Mayo damp squib’
‘The conscience of the ninety-nine per cent’
Chapter 10
‘Flappers who could not cook their father’s dinner’
‘A stench in the nostrils of the people’
‘The hind legs of a cow’
‘The cleaning of the courthouse’
‘Dances and night-walking’
Chapter 11
‘It was not a sectarian issue because, first of all, the Catholic church is not a sect’
‘The blunt truth’
‘Dancing to the tune of The Irish Times’
‘Charlestown’s answer’
Chapter 12
‘Gore-grimed tomahawks’
Chapter 13
‘Justified by stirabout and redeemed by porridge’
‘The point of a crowbar’
Chapter 14
‘The worst thing since Cromwell’
Chapter 15
‘I take the Ten Commandments as my code’
‘The Los Anglicisation of Ireland’
‘The war of brains’
‘An inconspicuous librarian’
‘A bookworm openly’
‘The starling and the stork’
Chapter 16
‘The brass-hat boyos’
‘Vouched expenses of locomotion’
‘Women who love it more than marriage’
‘A first-class political crisis’
Chapter 17
‘A weakling and a wobbler’
‘I believe he visits Mayo occasionally’
‘A long way of using a short word’
‘A little manliness’
‘Corrupt in twopence-halfpenny matters’
‘The pangs of intellectual famine’
Chapter 18
‘The library crux’
‘The will of the people’
Chapter 19
‘I like the work and I love the people’
Chapter 20
‘A rout, not a retreat’
‘You have a Clareman’s job’
Chapter 21
‘Inner emigration’
‘Mayo was right’
‘Violence of language … extreme virulence … scorn and obloquy’
Bibliography
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