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Kathleen Lally (née Nugent (b. 1925) and Brian Lally

Kathleen Lally begins by explaining how her father, Christopher Nugent, acquired the nickname ‘Bull’. She recalls the occasion at the opening of the Slua Hall in Swords when her father and others wore their medals, and Éamon de Valera performed the opening ceremony. The Nugent family home on the Main Street in Swords is remembered, where Kathleen’s grandmother kept a lodging house. Christopher Nugent was 17 when he joined the Irish Volunteers, along with Willie Doyle who was later to become his brother-in-law. Kathleen remarks that the Lawless family were younger than her father. Thomas Ashe, who taught at Corduff National School, also taught Irish classes near Swords, and Kathleen remembers that her father had a great grá for Ashe. Her father never spoke much about the Battle of Ashbourne she says, and her son Brian explains that Christopher was a member of the 5th Battalion. The men stayed in Newbarn Lane before proceeding to Ashbourne, and his grandfather was alleged to have fired a shot. John Crennigan was killed in the action. Christopher Nugent is buried in Swords but his gravestone bears no indication of his part in the Battle of Ashbourne. Kathleen recalls the fact that the ‘lads’ did not want any inscription on the grave. Brian discusses the history of the Old IRA Commemorative Society which formerly fundraised to help indigent relatives of Old IRA men. Kathleen remembers Tommy Scully, an old friend of her father, who worked at the Lawless farm after the Rising. Brian has a letter to the General Officer Commanding, signed by de Valera. Brian worked as a prison officer from 1967 to 1995, and from 1977 he was stationed at Mountjoy Prison. Comparisons are made between the Old IRA and new IRA. Kathleen discusses her father’s nature, describing him as of fiery character though very straight. Her mother’s family, the Ryans, were not directly involved in the Rising, and both the Ryans and the Nugents supported de Valera. Her aunt, Molly Nugent, lived in a lodge on

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