ROMANCE OF THE WAR
FREE STATE. COLONEL AND ' HIS BRIDE. (Received 23rd August, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 21st Auguit. The "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Limerick says that a romance of the Irish war has been disclosed. ColonelCommandant O'Neill) one of the best leaders of the Free State troops, obtained marriage leave. He was travelling with hu, fiancee to Boscrea for the ceremony when, within sight of the church, the motor-can were ambushed and the party taken pruonei They were escort ed to the rebel headquarters in the mountains, where the women were released and. the colonel detained A few days latei the colonel's fiancee received a message, after which "she was taken to a; farmhouse, in the mountains: where a piiest performed the delayed ceremony. The husband is still a captive.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1922, Page 5
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