- Hardcover: 720 pages
- Publisher: The Lilliput Press Ltd; illustrated edition edition (Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843511274
- ISBN-13: 978-1843511274
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,098,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Just over a month after the 1921 truce that ended Ireland's fight with Britain, Ernie O'Malley longed for a return to war. Ten months later he got what he wanted but this time civil war against many of the men he had once fought with, those who accepted the new Irish Free State. "No Surrender Here!" is the first comprehensive collection of letters, memoranda and orders detailing this period of chaos and confusion, intransigence and idealism that gripped the country from June 1922 to May 1923. These documents detail the war as it was fought with none of the benefits of hindsight or occasional artistry that mark the memoirs of many of the men involved, not least O'Malley's own carefully crafted narratives, "On Another Man's Wound" and "The Singing Flame".This collection documents one man's attitude to war and his difficult acceptance of peace, his experience of capture, imprisonment, hunger strike and finally release. In these letters, however, this book also captures the voices of both the leadership and the rank and file: the detached and often inappropriate orders from above, and the confusion of men who know that theirs is a hopeless cause. Letters to friends and family also reveal the more personal costs of war.These fully annotated documents, contextualized with a general introduction by Professor J.J. Lee, provide extraordinary insights into the republican mentality during the Irish Civil War, into what remains a contested and controversial period of modern Irish history.
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Cormac K.H. O'Malley co-edited with Richard English Prisoners: The Civil War Letters of Ernie O'Malley (Poolbeg, 1991) and edited Rising Out: Sean Connolly of Longford (1890-1921) by Ernie O'Malley (UCD Press, 2007). He is an international legal consultant based in New York City and Ernie O'Malley's son. Anne Dolan is a lecturer in modern Irish history and deputy director of the Centre for Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin. She is author of Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and Memory 1923-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
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An incredible documentation of the Irish Civil War
29 Mar 2011
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This book is a collection of writings written by Ernie O'Malley during the Irish Civil War. Devoutly Anti-Treaty, O'Malley was perhaps the most articulate and thought-provoking writer the Wars produced. A massive tome, the editors (including Cormac O'Malley) have done an impressive job of recording for posterity all of O'Malley's Civil War letters and memoranda, and researchers of the period will be forever indebted to them for this. This collection augments the information O'Malley has left us and through his other writings, and reveals more about the period of in question, for example providing hitherto unknown information about the operational orders of the Anti-Treaty forces. A fantastic book, definitely worth getting.
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