For years and years it had gone off in splendid style, as long as anyone could remember : even since Kate and Julia, after the death of their brother Pat, had left the house in Stoney Batter and taken Mary Jane, their own niece, to live with them in the dark, gaunt house on Usher's Island, the upper part of which they had rented from Mr Fulham, the corn-factor on the ground floor.

Control, dispossession, violence, and tyranny are not “defensive”: they are part of an organized, ongoing aggression.

But in a minority government scenario, the governor general might still be called upon to play a part.

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