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In 1967 Republican Activists, Frank O’Donnell and Mick Murphy, were involved in an altercation outside O’Donnell’s house in Gardiner Place, with a number of Detective Sergeants of the Irish Political Police (also known as Harriers, or Branchmen), including one who is known to our historical selves as Festy Spratt, the Slug.
At the end of that scrap O’Donnell and Murphy found themselves in possession of what has become an historical artefact - Spratt’s Notebook, the Branchman’s Book Of Names.
Pretty much everybody who was anybody in those days, on the Left and Republican side of the Irish poltiical pitch, is in the Book; name, address, age and distinguishing marks, all noted there with malice aforethought and malicious intent.
Over fifty years later we’ve finally thought to share this gem with archaeologists and historians of the period. So here it is.
We’ve also taken the opportunity, in an introduction accompanying the Notebook, to delve back into the lives and times of our friends and enemies from those days; the Irregulars and the Branchmen who chased after them. This is a work in progress, which has a way to go before we can call it finished. But at least it has progressed this far. And again, here it is.
Anyone left out of the Notebook who feels badly done thereby should take the matter up with Festy. Its nothing to do with us.
Introduction: His Book Of Names
Contents
1: The Bare Bones Of Its Provenance
2: The Naked Truth Of Its Context
3: The Plain Tale Of A Plain Man Is No Plain Sailing
4: An Anti-Revisionist Interlude Ends
5: On Grattan Bridge On A Dull Grey Day
8: The Same Year's Pangs In Summerhill
11: A Mole In The Holy Of Holies
13: A Treatise On The Arte Of Poesy
15: On A Slop Spilled Snot Stained Counter
Complete Scan Of The Branchman's Notebook
Work In Progress, Introduction & Scan Of The Branchman's Notebook Together In PDF Book
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