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    On Another Man’s Wound

    By Ernie O’Malley

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    THE DRAMATIC STORY OF THE EASTER RISING BY THE COMMANDANT-GENERAL OF THE I.RA.

    The year is 1916—the Easter Week rising in Dublin. University student Ernie O’Malley forsook his books, picked up a rifle and joined the rebels.

    As an officer in the I.R.A. he organised resistance throughout Ireland. Moving from Tipperary to Kerry, through Cork to Limerick, his life was in constant danger. Often he evaded capture by a hairsbreadth. Several times he was wounded. Eventually he fell into the hands of the infamous Black and Tans and was imprisoned in the dreaded Kilmainham Gaol. Although threatened with torture he remained true to the Cause and escaped to emerge proudly as Commandant-General of the I.R.A., in command of 7000 volunteers.

    This is the story of five turbulent years—1916-1921. Of one man who gave himself wholeheartedly to the cause of Irish freedom. The story of five years when the green land of Erin was once more reddened with the blood of patriot and foe. When an ‘Army without Banners’ took on a mighty Empire.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBorodino Books
    Release dateApr 3, 2018
    ISBN9781789121551
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    Ernie O’Malley

    Ernie O'Malley (May 26, 1897 - March 25, 1957) was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) officer during the Irish War of Independence and a commander of the anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War. He was the author of three books: On Another Man's Wound (1936), describing his early life and role in the War of Independence; The Singing Flame (1978), covering the Civil War; and Raids and Rallies (1985). Born Ernest Bernard Malley in Castlebar, County Mayo, into a lower-middle class Roman Catholic family, he moved to Dublin as a child. He was studying medicine at University College Dublin when, at the outset of the Easter Rising in 1916, he joined F Company, 1st battalion, Dublin Brigade. He then joined the Irish volunteers and Conradh na Gaeilge in 1917, left his studies, and worked as a full-time organiser for the IRA from 1918. Appointed 2nd Lieutenant of the Coalisland district, he saw action during the War of Independence and the Civil War. Wounded and captured after a shoot-out with Free State soldiers in 1922, he was transferred to Mountjoy Prison and elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin North at the 1923 general election—one of the last republican prisoners to be released following the end of hostilities. He left Ireland in 1928 and toured the U.S., raising funds for the establishment of the new Irish Republican newspaper, The Irish Press, before arriving in Taos, New Mexico in 1930. He began work on his account of the manuscript that would later become On Another Man's Wound, studied at the Mexico City University of the Arts, and worked as a high school teacher. In 1934, O'Malley was granted a pension by the Fianna Fáil government as a combatant in the Irish War of Independence and returned to Ireland. Having endured ill-health from the wounds and hardship suffered during his revolutionary days, O’Malley was given a state funeral after his death in 1957, aged 59.

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