We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

by Fintan O'Toole

The lord mayor of Cork, T. J. O’Sullivan, told protestors that ‘If they want murder, they’ll have murder – one of theirs will go for each of ours.’6 O’Sullivan did not represent the IRA, Sinn Féin or even Fianna Fáil. He was solid Fine Gael stock.