“I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
