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On Dangerous Ground is the revolutionary period memoir of Republican M?ire Comerford (1893?1982). This striking memoir, one of the last of its era, includes Comerford?s original text, written mainly in the 1940s and ?50s, and new material unearthed from her extensive archive that also contains a wealth of photographs and memorabilia from the period.The memoir begins with Comerford?s recollection of Sunday strolls to Avondale, former home of Charles Stewart Parnell, who was a neighbour of her father, the mill owner James Comerford. As a young woman, she experiences a ?political awakening? at the hands of a fierce Unionist woman in a secretarial college in London. M?ire Comerford (the only Catholic in the class) begins to engage with Irish history books to counterbalance this brush with religious sectarianism. On her return to County Wexford to live with her mother?s people ? a move necessitated by the family?s change of fortune ? she re-enters the genteel world of fox hunting and
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