Ernie O'Malley

On Another Man's Wound: Ernie O'Malley and Ireland's War for Independence

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'On Another Man's Wound', its title taken from an old Ulster proverb, 'It's easy to sleep on another man's wound', was first published in 1936 and has become the classic account of the years 1916-21 in Ireland. It captures the essence of Ireland at the time, the way people lived, their attitudes, their beliefs, the songs they sang, the legends they knew. O'Malley pictures the Irish landscape magnificently, and his cameo sketches of the great personalities of the Rising and the war that followed bring them into instant focus. The sequel 'The Singing Flame', which details O'Malley's experiences of the Irish Civil War, and 'Raids and Rallies', c… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: O'Malley, Cormac (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78117-173-8
EAN: 9781781171738
Produktnummer: 30781482
Verlag: Mercier Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 448 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'919 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. He was for a time editor of The Bell, and was a close friend and supporter of Jack B. Yeats. Ernie O'Malley was given a State funeral with full military honors when he died in Dublin in March 1957.