The City of Strangers. Michael Russell

      MICHAEL RUSSELL

       The City of Strangers

      For

      Anya, Seren, Finn, Coinneach and Marta And the Silver Meteor To the Pennsylvania Station

      Send but a song oversea for us,

      Heart of their hearts who are free,

      Heart of their singer to be for us

      More than our singing can be.

       ‘To Walt Whitman in America’

       Algernon Charles Swinburne

      RPACN FEBSA HOGYH VTNOY IKSAO RYHOI VAUAR OAOIR OKWGQ MWAYA IERIL IETTM NNSTN ATAUA OIETH ARGTR YLHRA NASRI FOOAA AIALL TINYN LMENV NOOYG EEHOS OAOET GECTN: List of spies noted. Am forwarding it to Intelligence Director for his information. Are you able to carry out annihilation of all spies?

      From Decoding the IRA

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Epigraph

Part One: Uptown

1. Pallas Strand

2. Fulton Market

3. Kilranelagh

4. Corbawn Lane

5. Inns Quay

6. West Thirty-Sixth Street

7. The Yankee Clipper

       8. Fifty-Second Street

       9. Centre Street

       10. Pennsylvania Six-Five-Thousand

       11. Fifth Avenue

       12. The Hampshire House

       Part Two: Upstate

       13. Locust Valley

       14. Central Park

       15. Flushing Meadows

       16. A Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Street

       17. The Waldorf-Astoria

       18. Route Eleven

       19. Mexico Bay

       20. The Empire State

       21. A Hundred and Sixteenth Street

       22. Saint Patrick’s Cathedral

       Part Three: Upstroke

       23. Dún Laoghaire

       24. Béarra

       25. The Four Courts

       26. Henrietta Street

       27. Reilig Chill Rannaireach

       28. Royal Oak

       War and the Rumour of War

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by Michael Russell

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       PART ONE

       Uptown

       Mrs Leticia Harris, aged 53, who resided at 14 Herbert Place, Dublin, disappeared some time after 6 a.m. on Sunday, 8 ^th March. The following morning her car was discovered at premises in Corbawn Lane, leading from Shankill to the sea. There were numerous bloodstains inside the car, and the police later in the day found a bloodstained hatchet in a shed adjoining her house, and also bloodstains on the flower borders in the garden. The police theory is that Mrs Harris was murdered in her own home and the body taken away in her car. Mrs Harris is the wife of Dr Cecil Wingfield Harris, 81 Pembroke Road, Dublin.

      The Irish Times

       1. Pallas Strand

       West Cork, November 1922

      The storm did not come suddenly. All day the wind from the Atlantic had blown hard and cold and fast against Pallas Strand. The grey sky sped past overhead, heavy, thick, turbulent. The noise was unceasing, humming and roaring, loud and soft, and loud and soft again, but always there, along with the beat of the sea