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At the same moment , in his room at the same hotel , Denis O'Shane , the Free State delegate , was typing _ his _ manifesto , which was about the tyranny exercised over South Ireland by Ulster . At 7.45 Macdermott finished his document , read it through with satisfaction and remembered that he had to go and dine with Garth . He left his hotel with this intention , and could not have said at what point his more profound , his indeed innate intention , which was to go to the Church of Notre Dame , asserted itself . Anyhow , at eight o'clock , there he was in the Place Cornavin , arriving at the outskirts of the crowd which was watching the white-robed crucifer and acolytes leading the procession out of the open church doors and down the steps . Macdermott , blocked by the crowd , could hardly see . He felt in an inferior position towards this procession , barred from it by a kindly and reverent crowd of onlookers . In his native city things were different .