Wilmington resident to pen book on Ireland's violent history
The faded brown autograph book has seen a lot of wear in the past century. Its pages are filled with signatures, snatches of poetry and inspiring slogans -- all written out, in florid cursive, by Irish prison inmates. The autograph book belonged to Sean McCarthy, a teenaged Irish revolutionary. Swept up by British arrests after the Easter Rising of 1916, young Sean found himself transported to Spike Island, a prison in Cork harbor, along with other members of the Irish Republican Army. The book passed to McCarthy's daughter, Joan Brillaud. Her husband, Andre Brillaud, is now working to preser...
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