Characters
- Donal Davoren - a poet of about thirty living with Seumus in the tenement. Some of the residents suspect he has an affiliation with the IRA.
- Seumas Shields - a broken-down, lazy peddler of about thirty five disillusioned over the nationalist cause he supports who wishes the conflict will end.
- Tommy Owens - a younger man of twenty five that is enamored with the Republican effort.
- Adolphus Grigson - an alcoholic resident of the tenement; a self-proclaimed "Orangeman", Grigson's Protestantism exemplified by his Bible and his picture of King William triumphant at the Battle of the Boyne hanging on the wall doesn't exempt him from being harassed by the Black and Tans.
- Mrs Grigson - Adolphus' wife.
- Minnie Powell - a woman of twenty three that fawns over Davoran by virtue of his supposed IRA connections; she is sardonically equated to Kathleen Ni Houlihan, the symbol of Irish nationalism.
- Mr Mulligan - the landlord of the tenement.
- Mr Maguire - an IRA volunteer and friend of Seumas'.
- Mrs Henderson - a resident of a neighboring tenement and a champion of Mr Gallogher's plea.
- Mr Gallogher - a resident of a neighboring tenement seeking the IRA's help.
- An Auxiliary - a soldier of the Auxiliary Division
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