I: The Red and the Green (1965)

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"I'm glad you like The Red and the Green - no one has cared much about it, generally least successful - people don't want to hear about Ireland. " -Letter to Roly Cochrane, 14 January 1986

Conradi says IM regretted romanticising violence here

Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) ?= Millie

1902 Panhard

🏇 Second-Lieutenant Andrew Chase-White, 21yo, stationed at Longford

👰Frances Bellman, his fiancee

💰Christopher Bellman, her father

Heather Kinnard Bellman, her mother, died young

Finglas, the Bellmans' villa in Sandycove ave

Hilda Drumm Chase-White, his mother, moving to Claresville in Dalkey

Henry Chase-White, his late father 

Janet Selborne-Doyle Dumay Chase-White, his grandmother

🤡Barnabas 'Barney' Drumm, his uncle, Catholic convert, drinker 🔫🎯 parody of Donald MacKinnon?

👢Millie Dumay, his adventurous aunt, lives in Upper Mount street and Rathblane

Brian Dumay, his outdoorsy uncle, Catholic convert, died c1910

👵Kathleen Kinnard, Brian's wife, Heather's sister, remarried Barney

👊Pat Dumay, their son, 22yo 'the iron man' studying law

👦Cathal Dumay, their son 13yo?

Sir Arthur Kinnard, Kathleen's and Heather's brother, married Millie, died young

(siblings Arthur/Kathleen married siblings Millie/Brian)

Dumays live in IM's old house on Blessington Street

source

We Be Soldiers Three

poem:Green above the Red

tune: Whiskey in the Jar [eg]

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Sandycove Martello tower: occupied parttime in 1916 by Oliver Gogarty, not yet but soon to be made famous by 'Ulysses'

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Harold Gilman (1876-1919)
Portrait of Mrs Whelan

'Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan' by John Lavery