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Almost 40 years on, while preparing for another conflict to decide the issue of the Border, the house would be where my mother would meet my father for the first time. It would also be where my grand-aunt would have her election HQ when she ran for Sinn Féin in the general election of 1957, garnering 3,171 first preferences. On the day of the burning the British soldiers marched up the long bohereen to the house, past the fort field with its almost intact fairy fort and souterrain, which, according to family lore, provided shelter for many an IRA man. They also passed the stone steps up to the front garden with its holly arch cultivated, we were told, by my grand-uncle Charlie Daly, IRB man, Tyrone IRA commander and one of the four shot at Drumboe Castle in Donegal on March 14th, 1923, in the dying days of the Civil War by those who had once been comrades.

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