Cuimhní cinn a breacadh 1918-19 : an dara cuid

was done I expected that Fr Crehan would have ex-plained the whole affair. I forget now whether he was there or not, but he made no sign, nor did he either then or afterwards shoulder the responsibility for the matter as he ought to have done, and explained that the whole idea emanated from him and that it was he who brought us, or [?]strained us, in fact, to accompany him to Brayden’s office. It would have been easy for me to have explained this and to have shifted the blame – if any there was – on to him. I did nothing of the kind however. I said that I had gone to the Freeman in the interest of its readers to get some Connacht Irish into it, and that if the thing happened again I would do it over again. This answer nearly drove Fr Brennan out of his wits with fury. He spluttered