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Margaret Ball was a prominent member of 16th-century Irish society, who, despite being the widow of a Lord Mayor of Dublin, was arrested for her adherence to the Catholic faith and died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle. She was declared a martyr for the faith by the Catholic Church and beatified in 1992, one of a group of 17 Irish Catholic Martyrs. Wikipedia  

✵ 1515 – 1584
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“It was one long scene of unrelieved misery; not the sort of thing a man of his position should ever be subjected to. One knew that these things happened in war, of course; they were regrettable but necessary. But one preferred not to experience them at first hand.”

Margaret Ball

Source: Lost in Translation (1995), Chapter 11 (p. 201)

War

“For once his years of teaching experience stood him in good stead; he was an old hand at sounding knowledgeable while dodging surprise questions from smart-breeched scholars.”

Margaret Ball

Source: Lost in Translation (1995), Chapter 8 (p. 150)

Question , Knowledge

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