Bulmer Hobson

Acts suspiciously nonchalant himself, so as not to suggest he has any foreknowledge, and in the end has to take even stronger measures and force Stivey to open the safe.

But then again, would you point the finger at your partner in crime? Because Vickers tells anyone that will listen that Shackleton is guilty, including Vickers' half-brother, nationalist MP Piers O'Mahony, who in turn tells a Belfast-born, New York-based journalist, Bulmer Hobson...

It's

another anomaly, if you like, or part of the intrigue.

But through his stepbrother, the most accurate and near to the real life events is told publicly.

by a prominent member of the nationalist

media, Bulmer Hobson.

He's not just a nationalist.

And this was what was cranking up the crisis.

The Irish Volunteers had been formed in 1913 and this Irish Volunteer movement had been conceived by an IRB man, Bulmer Hobson, who persuaded an academic, Eoin MacNeill, to lead it.

MacNeill argued that nationalists should defend legislative independence as the Volunteers of the 18th century had done.

After a meeting on the 25th of November 1913 in the Rotunda Concert Hall, 3,000 had joined.