Episode 16 Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head...

Many people objected to the government allowing entry to so many economic refugees.

earthy humour

But the graver, in ploughing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs