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SIX men and four girls spent a night of June, during the Black-and-Tan war, at the Anglers’ Hotel above Lough Aonach in a certain mountainous district of southwestern Ireland, and something of their life stories, strangely intermingled, is told in the following pages.

The six men were:

Hugh Forbes, “The Small Dark Man,” ex-British officer, and famous guerilla leader of a Flying Column of the I.R.A. (Irish Republican Army);

Michael Flynn, his second in command, known as “Mickeen Oge Flynn,” unconditional republican, celibate by inclination, half priest by training;

Owen Jordan, doctor to the Flying Column, Irish-American and son of a Fenian;

Paddy Bawn Enright, ex-prize fighter, known as “The Quiet Man” because he hoped to end his days in “a quiet small little place on a hillside,” and was more likely to finish them in a Black-and-Tan ambush;

Sean Glynn, gentleman farmer, and intelligence officer to the I.R.A.; and

Archibald MacDonald, a Highlandman, captain in the Seaforth Highlanders, an old friend of Sean Glynn’s, inveterate angler, and a prisoner to the Flying Column because of that failing.

The girls were:

Margaid MacDonald, sister to Captain MacDonald, and a prisoner with him;

Joan Hyland, a young Irish girl, sweetheart to Sean Glynn;

Kate O’Brien, niece of a British major-general and as fervid a republican as Mickeen Oge Flynn; and

Nuala Kierley, secret-service agent to the I.R.A., broken in the cause.

The love story of Hugh Forbes is told in another book, “The Small Dark Man.” How the others fell victim to the Matriarchy—in whose Serfdom all men are—is told here.