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‘Between Two Flags – John Mitchel and Jenny Verner’ by Anthony G. Russell (Merrion Press, 2015).

By Anthony G Russell ‘I feel better this morning’, remarked John Mitchel to his brother. ‘I think I will soon rise.’ But those were, in fact, the last words the veteran Republican passed away, peacefully, in the bedroom of his childhood home in Newry, Co. Down, on 20 March 1875. For the previous thirty years, […]