The City of Shadows

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Michael Russell. The City of Shadows

MICHAEL RUSSELL. The City of Shadows

PART ONE. Free State

1. The Phoenix Park

2. Merrion Square

3. Harold’s Cross

4. Stephen’s Green

5. Clanbrassil Street

6. Kilranelagh Hill

7. The Mater Hospital

8. Kilmashogue

9. The Gate

10. Red Cow Lane

11. Adelaide Road

12. Weaver’s Square

PART TWO. Free City

13. Oliva Cathedral

14. Danzig-Langfuhr

15. Zoppot Pier

16. Mattenbuden Bridge

17. The Forest Opera

18. Silberhütte

19. The Westerplatte

20. The Dead Vistula

PART THREE. Free Will

21. Glenmalure

22. Dorset Street

23. Westland Row

24. Baltinglass Hill

A Tale of Two Treaties

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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For Anita

But when or how I cannot tell;

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He didn’t see the bottle coming either, as Vincent summoned every ounce of fear and force and love in his body and pushed the splintered glass into the Blueshirt’s face. As the man cried out in pain, Vincent was already through the door that opened straight on to the stairs. The other Blueshirts, racing from behind the bar they were pillaging, were too late to stop the bolt on the inside of the staircase door shooting home. The older man was screaming now; he was momentarily blinded by the blood pouring down his face. The others wrenched at the door. It wouldn’t take long to break through it. It was just about as rotten and rickety as everything else in Carolan’s Bar.

Vincent Walsh was already at the top of the first flight of stairs. He didn’t stop. He carried on running up the narrow, twisting staircase that led to the top of the house. He pushed open the door to the tiny room that was his home. An iron-framed bed, a lopsided chest of drawers with a drawer missing, a hat stand with a few clothes, a wash basin and a jug, a paraffin stove, a pile of second-hand books. There was no lock on the door but he slammed it shut behind him and pushed the chest of drawers a few feet across the room against it. He turned to the bed and reached under the mattress. He pulled out a small bundle of letters, four blue envelopes.

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