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Michael’s Rebellion
Ballygobackwards Castle - Book 4
Harry Pope
Published in 2020 by
AG Books
www.agbooks.co.uk/
Digital edition converted and distributed by
Andrews UK Limited
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Copyright © 2020 Harry Pope
The right of Harry Pope to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without express prior written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted except with express prior written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended). Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damage.
All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Michael’s Rebellion
The atmosphere at Ballygobackwards Castle had changed appreciably over the past year or so. Previously, it had been families tilling the land, happy in their own content world that they were facing a future without concerning what occurred outside their sphere of influence. However, that world had encroached so much that the families had moved out. This had been a gradual process, because losing the whole population in one go would have been too much. The first family had gone during the night about six months ago. The next morning they just weren’t there. That particular family had been present in the Castle for over fifty years, so their going made for quite a lot of comment. Over six months each one had just gone, no-one knew where, it wasn’t somehow important really, the land would still be there with or without people to husband it, if they weren’t there then someone else would be back at some time in the future.
Before the exodus there had been over thirty families, people who were comfortable with each other, not saying a lot, used to harvesting the assets the land had to offer. By the Winter of 1915 there were no families in the Castle. The custodians were still present, but instead of families, in situ was a small army. At any one time this would consist of up to one hundred people, all under thirty, an even mixture of men and women, all very angry people, none content, all wanting to change their world. Or to be more precise, their country. They wanted an independent Ireland, free of the shackles of being ruled by their English lords, who had governed for centuries. It was time for change, it was time for revolution, and they were the ones who were going to do it. They had no idea that without exception they were all going to be dead within a year.
The destiny of Ireland was in their hands, and they were going to seize the opportunity, even if it meant that they died in the cause of freedom. That is why the families had moved out, they felt unwanted in their community. If they had stayed, they had known it was going to contribute to conflict, so the easiest thing was to return to a transient life.
The strange thing was, all the newcomers had all found their way to Ballygobackwards Castle independently, which was something very rare, because visitors usually had to be guided. It was a secret location, in the myths of rural Irish lore a place to be talked about in whispers, but not somewhere you went to if you had a lot of alternatives. But the present occupants had needed no map, no-one to show them the way, they had instinctively known how to find the Castle.
It was a conventional building. When a visitor saw Ballygobackwards Castle for the first time, they were confused as to its age.
