With his hatred of what was theatrical (1:124) he is put off by the posturings and attitudinizings of the chief actors.

His trenchant criticisms of the Church's repression […] include a discussion of the considerable 1938 success of the fledgling NODL in getting magazines removed from various points of sale.

An Avonside 0-4-4T with outside cylinders, bought by the S.M.A. in 1882 and scrapped in 1892 as a dismal failure, was one of the motive power oddities (some of them mortgaged).

They then brought up a part of the board fence of the Convent lands, the fence wood was laid on the tar barrels, to make a bonfire, to raise an alarm of fire, and collect a greater number of people, there was a steady stream of people coming up with armsfull of the fence to feed the bonfire, I have no doubt that the tall man I saw is the prisoner at the bar.