Ernie O'Malley

Raids and Rallies: Ireland's War of Independence

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During the Civil War, when Ernie O'Malley lay under sentence of death in Mountjoy prison hospital, some of his notes were smuggled out. 'Most of all,' he wrote, 'I would have liked to talk about the rank and file where I found solace. ' &newpara;Raids and Rallies, an account of various offensives against the British in 1920- 21, is his tribute to that rank and file. 'It was a people's war, that is why we fought so well from November 1920 ...'&newpara;'What helps to make these memoirs notable ... is that O'Malley writes more than a documentary in his constant awareness of nature in the background. ' - Sunday Press&newpara;'Entranc… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-85635-822-4
EAN: 9781856358224
Produktnummer: 13951071
Verlag: Mercier Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor

Ernie O'Malley was born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo, in 1897 and was prominent in the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. His best known works were 'On Another Man's Wound', 'The Singing Flame', and 'Raids and Rallies'. He was for a time editor of 'The Bell', and was given a state funeral with full military honors when he died in Dublin in March 1957.