Word: shindyism
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...took him nearly 30 years, says O'Faolain, to free himself by "slow, tentative, instinctive" steps from the "soft smother of the provincial featherbed." The first step took him to the university, where he learned "the hot and vivid [Irish] pleasures of aimless disputation, of purely contentious shindyism." A second, more important, step took him in 1920 into the Irish Republican Army. His experiences in the I.R.A., first fighting the British and later the troops of the Irish Free State during the civil war, left him with a "savage disillusion with Ireland's ineptitude...
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