As the war years progressed, coal, the basic Dublin fuel, became increasingly scarce and eventually almost unobtainable. Large stocks of turf were brought from the country and stored in the Phoenix Park. They were collected by mainly small traders who usually dealt in coal and were brought around from house to house and sold to householders in the same way coal had been. Miller described them as: “endless dinosaur worms of turf. They are mountained up with a primitive builders’ precision, thatched up with a mason’s art... Nothing short of a color picture, which shows the rich furry brown of the turf against the autumn leaves is worth anything. To photo this place might be half a year’s work if you are luckier than I... it’s an atmosphere... appalling like ammunition dumps under spring blossoms...endless cases and stacks of shells.”
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