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Six Minutes Until Death

Marching to their deaths they sang the music to “Top of Cork Road”. Joe McKelvey had read in “Gadfly” that it took six minutes for a man to bleed to death when shot in the heart. Commenting, one said if they were shot they hoped it would not take that long. Little did they know it takes everyone that long to die when shot that way, and it was soon coming for them…

He Lost Her That He Desired

He lost her, that he desired, A love that was not to be, Her… she married another, That she loved more, though …

Three Men Dead

On listening to a talk about three men killed by firing squad in Birr castle in 1922 during the Irish Civil War. …