A free man! How it sounds, doesn't it?
with the sun shining, and the blue sky over your head, and the birds twittering, and the grass beneath your feet! I wonder if I shall go mad before my time's up.
Mother was a Roman Catholic--most Irishwomen are; and dad was a Protestant, if he was anything.

However, that says nothing.

People that don't talk much about their religion, or follow it up at all, won't change it for all that.

So father, though mother tried him hard enough when they were first married, wouldn't hear of turning, not if he was to be killed for it, as I once heard him say.

'No!' he says, 'my father and grandfather, and all the lot, was Church people, and so I shall live and die.