As Big Mama told it, her father had to flee Ireland because of his seditious writing. Her cousin, Jack Boyd-Barrett rebelled at Catholic Institutions and the Jesuits almost from the moment he was sent to Clongowes. (Clongowes was, forgive me, the Hogwarts of Catholic Ireland.) He was a strong presence in the American McCarthy family, retiring to California in the 30s.
In 1937, he went to Ireland and researched one of "The Great O'Neills" of Elizabeth I's time and wrote a popular history book about it. The Great O'Neill's, Hugh and Sean, have the reputation of being the last great chiefs to resist the English authority.
Lots of ASPD and lots of occasion for it!
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