Field Notes From An Extinction – Eoghan Walls

I tried to circumvent this familiar ground, but even then, he was growing curt with me. All the while I had been checking the doorway, waiting for Bridget to evidence herself, my surprise exhibit. For her to explode in, so I might reveal her in a humorous crescendo. Such theatricality is perhaps childish: but Frank had nothing but impatience & equivocations, so I blurted it out. myself: You are missing the point, Frank.

This is not about a sack or two of meal. Your affable McGonigle has delivered me a child. A human child. frank: What? myself: A child. Liam McGonigle has marooned a child with me—a girlchild, no less—in a pig’s basket. I gestured to the girl’s pallet on the ground. He stared at me, incredulous. So I retrieved her pinafore note, gave it him.

He needed the light of the doorway—his eyesight is weakening—but he stood there, perplexed, reading. frank: Is this some crude joke, Ignatius? myself: I do not find it funny, Frank. frank: Ig. Come on. Aisling O’Leary? The Dogwoman of Roscommon? myself: Shd I have heard of her? He spluttered over his words, looking from me to the paper & back again, with an indignance bordering on hostility. Truth be told, I was getting irritated by his whole lack of sympathy. frank: Ig! If you do indeed harbour the daughter of Aisling O’Leary, you are harbouring a dead girl.

Aisling O’Leary is a fiction. I mean, was there a real flesh-&-blood woman called Aisling O’Leary? There must have been. You have not heard of her? myself: No. frank: You are being honest here. myself: Why would I not be? frank: (exasperated) The Examiner tells of a woman in Roscommon, whose husband was shot during their evictment. Was in the Freeman’s Journal too. But the story has been taken up by the gossips with lurid abandon—how a woman tried to bite an officer of the law; how the sheriff who sacked her home was found two weeks later with his head removed.

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visit https://www.sevenstories.com/pg/resources-academics or email [email protected]. Printed in the USA. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 OceanofPDF.com For Neasa OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com A from The Irish Examiner wednesday 10th february, 1847 MURDER AT BALLYFIN nother bailiff has been slaughtered in the performance of his legal duties this Monday past. Joseph Montgomery arrived at the residence of one Mr O’Leary, in assistance with the sheriff and three other bailiffs, for the purpose of ejectment due to the failure to pay three years rent.

Mr O’Leary, we are informed, offered to settle the matter immediately, but the sheriff was not authorised to accept the payment, at which point the sheriff and three bailiffs entered the building for the purposes of rendering it uninhabitable, but when they began removing the roofing an altercation ensued.

Mr O’Leary’s wife fled the scene with a child, and Mr O’Leary was shot dead, but not without causing a grievous wound to John Montgomery of Strokestown, who was rushed back to town with a bullet in his jaw, and who died later of blood loss on the road. When the sheriff returned the next morning, neither the wife, child nor Mr O’Leary’s body were found on the property.

Mr Montgomery leaves behind a wife and three children. OceanofPDF.com L For the Deliverer of these Pages . . . est we die here, I implore you, dear reader, however you have procured these documents, please see to it that they find the light of civilization. I, Ignatius Green, ornithologist & redeemed öologist, do hereby declare Field Notes on the Garefowl, Volumes i & ii to be a full & true account of my dealings on Tor Mor Rock.

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