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...mean arrest and certain death to two of the signers. Garry agreed without batting an eye. In Mount joy Prison he and Tully were put in the same cell; they were to be shot in the morning. To his astonishment Garry discovered that Tully's real name was Tulloolagh: she was a woman. The night passed differently from what he had expected. And at dawn he and Tulloolagh were released; the other two had been shot instead. Garry had been ready enough to die for Ireland; his night with Tulloolagh had rather shaken him; and now this final anticlimax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: German Falstaff | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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