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    Grandpa The Sniper

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    In April 1916 Ballaghaderreen-born Frank Shouldice lined out for the Dublin football team in the final of the GAA's Croke Cup. Two weeks later he's up the Jameson malthouse at North King Street with a rifle in one hand and a borrowed pair of binoculars in the other. 'Grandpa The Sniper' is a remarkable account of what happened next, forensically researched and written by his grandson Frank Shouldice Jnr. in a work described by Prof Diarmaid Ferriter as "rich, evocative and vivid".

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    In April 1916 Ballaghaderreen-born Frank Shouldice lined out for the Dublin football team in the final of the GAA's Croke Cup. Two weeks later he's up the Jameson malthouse at North King Street with a rifle in one hand and a borrowed pair of binoculars in the other. 'Grandpa The Sniper' is a remarkable account of what happened next, forensically researched and written by his grandson Frank Shouldice Jnr. in a work described by Prof Diarmaid Ferriter as "rich, evocative and vivid".

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    In April 1916 Ballaghaderreen-born Frank Shouldice lined out for the Dublin football team in the final of the GAA's Croke Cup. Two weeks later he's up the Jameson malthouse at North King Street with a rifle in one hand and a borrowed pair of binoculars in the other. 'Grandpa The Sniper' is a remarkable account of what happened next, forensically researched and written by his grandson Frank Shouldice Jnr. in a work described by Prof Diarmaid Ferriter as "rich, evocative and vivid".

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    Grandpa The Sniper

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    In April 1916 Ballaghaderreen-born Frank Shouldice lined out for the Dublin football team in the final of the GAA's Croke Cup. Two weeks later he's up the Jameson malthouse at North King Street with a rifle in one hand and a borrowed pair of binoculars in the other. 'Grandpa The Sniper' is a remarkable account of what happened next, forensically researched and written by his grandson Frank Shouldice Jnr. in a work described by Prof Diarmaid Ferriter as "rich, evocative and vivid".

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    Pearses surrender begins the next chapter of

    this extraordinary story. In the eventful years


    that follow, Frank, formerly a civil servant, will
    spend jail terms in Stafford, Brixton and Wormwood
    Scrubs. When he gets home to Ballaghaderreen,
    County Roscommon he is placed under surveillance
    by MI5, the military and police in Ireland. He
    is court-martialled in Frongoch internment camp
    and Incarcerated at Usk Prison in Wales, where he
    leads a daring four-man escape to freedom.
    But he didnt like to talk about it. And when
    Irelands War of Independence descends into Civil
    War he lays down his gun forever.
    Drawing on prison letters, personal diaries
    and secret military and police files, Grandpa
    the Sniper retraces a remarkable journey by a
    reluctant hero. Part biography, part memoir, it
    offers readers a rare insight into one of the
    quiet men who gave their all for Irish freedom.

    www.theliffeypress.com

    GRANDPA THE SNIPER

    Except he is very much alive. His brother Jack


    commands the barricaded street below. In some of
    the heaviest fighting of the Easter Rising the
    South Staffordshire Regiment cant budge a pocket
    of Irish Volunteers defiantly holding out. Through
    the sights of a borrowed pair of binoculars Frank
    takes aim from the Jameson malthouse high above.
    The street is soon littered with casualties and
    the British troops are forced to withdraw.

    Frank Shouldice

    Its April, 1916. Dublin GAA footballer Frank


    Shouldice has just won the Croke Cup. Its a
    big achievement, but he has other things on his
    mind. Two weeks after the final whistle hes on a
    rooftop in North King Street with a rifle in his
    hand. His cheekbone is grazed by a bullet smashing
    into the wall behind him and, according to a
    confidential military file, Frank Shouldice is
    killed in action.

    GRANDPA
    THE SNIPER
    The Remarkable Story of a 1916 Volunteer

    rich, evocative and vivid


    an absorbing family history
    Diarmaid Ferriter,
    professor of modern irish history, ucd

    Frank Shouldice

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