Reading the recollections there is a touch of the Seanachaí telling stories around the fire on a winners night.  Like many Irish and other Revolutionaries he came from a comfortable background until disaster struck the family.  His grandfather family were linen bleachers as well as having a substantial farm with servant boys and girls and milking 20 cows.  In many part so West Cork into the 1960s a man with 20 cows would be regards as a strong farmer

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