Ernie O'Malley by Harry Martin

Ernie O'Malley by Harry Martin

This is the extraordinary life story of Ernie O'Malley (1897-1957), one of Ireland's most complex and influential Republican figures, and later a hugely successful writer.

Born in Castlebar in 1897, Ernie O'Malley went on to serve as a General in the IRA at the young age of 23 and commanded 7,000 volunteers in the brutal War of Independence. Following the Truce and the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922, he took an aggressive anti-treaty position and commanded the Anti-Treaty forces during the subsequent Civil War, after his leadership role in the occupation of the Four Courts in June 1923.

What distinguishes O'Malley's story as remarkable is the stark difference between his dramatic life as a soldier and his subsequent bohemian world as a writer and renaissance man. After the establishment of the new State, O'Malley left Ireland and travelled extensively throughout Europe, America, and Mexico, mixing with the likes of Jack B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, and John Ford, and embarked upon a tumultuous marriage to American heiress-sculptor Helen Hooker.

Enriched with valuable unpublished material from his diaries, letters, and military dispatches, and the unique perspective of his son Cormac, Ernie O'Malley: A Life is the fascinating biography of an extraordinary Irishman.

Ernie O'Malley was a revolutionary republican and writer. One of the leading figures in the Irish Independence and civil wars, he survived wounds, imprisonment and hunger strike before going to the USA in 1928 to fundraise on de Valera's behalf. His books include On Another Man's Wound (1936), The Singing Flame (1936) and Raids and Rallies (1985). The Lilliput Press has previously published two collections of O'Malley's writings: No Surrender Here! The Civil War Papers of Ernie O'Malley 1922-1924 (2007) and Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters of Ernie O'Malley 1924-1957 (2011).

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ISBN 13	9781785373909
ISBN 10	1785373900
Title	Ernie O'Malley
Author	Harry Martin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Merrion Press
Year published	2021-09-24
Number of pages	272
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