His jacket came off next, and got dropped behind himself on the mattress: a little extra something to lie back on later.
"I lived in tenements the whole time I was there. Was with me mum and dad up until the age of eighteen — then I moved in with me brother and his mates. Who it so happened were the Republican Brotherhood. They'd go out to the wetlands for trainin'. I tagged along, a coupla times."
It'd been quiet out there. He'd found it a bit unsettling then, too. Cassidy reached for the paper bag again to start laying out its contents.
"It wasn't another five years after that I was boardin' a ship across the Atlantic. Away from a dyin' country, to a place where anyone was supposed t'be able to make somethin' of himself."
He knew that much to be a myth, by now, but he didn't sound bitter. More nostalgic, for a time when he was still capable of believing in something as pure as that.
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"I lived in tenements the whole time I was there. Was with me mum and dad up until the age of eighteen — then I moved in with me brother and his mates. Who it so happened were the Republican Brotherhood. They'd go out to the wetlands for trainin'. I tagged along, a coupla times."
It'd been quiet out there. He'd found it a bit unsettling then, too. Cassidy reached for the paper bag again to start laying out its contents.
"It wasn't another five years after that I was boardin' a ship across the Atlantic. Away from a dyin' country, to a place where anyone was supposed t'be able to make somethin' of himself."
He knew that much to be a myth, by now, but he didn't sound bitter. More nostalgic, for a time when he was still capable of believing in something as pure as that.