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'Entrancing reading, not only for those who lived through those times but for those who seek an insight into the mentality of the men who took on the might of the British Empire.' --The Sunday Independent
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Ernie O'Malley was one of the leading fighters in the 'people's war' - as he called it - against the British campaign in Ireland 1920-21. Those were the guerilla days when small groups of poorly-armed Irish Volunteers, the Irish Republican Army, whose military training was for the most part elemental, fought to achieve the aims of 1916 as endorsed emphatically through the general election of 1918: freedom from foreign rule. O'Malley was an Irish Republican Army officer during the Irish War of Independence and a senior commander of the anti-treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War and wrote three books about his experiences, On Another Man's Wound, The Singing Flame, and Raids and Rallies. Raids and Rallies, written while still fresh in the mind and memory, is O'Malley's account of some of the offensives in Tipperary, Roscommon, Clare and Mayo. He took part in three, the attacks on Hollyford, Drangan and Rearcross RIC barracks and had first-hand knowledge of the others including those at Rineen, Scramogue, Tourmakeady, Modreeny, Kilmeena and Carrowkennedy.
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Primary historical sources, as O'Malley's accounts are here, cannot be easily labelled as good or bad. They are the product of their writer and of their time. Errors on the part of the writer are as much of interest to historians as the verifiable 'facts'.
From a literary point of view, however, this volume is very readable and of interest to the historian of the period and the general reader. In particular O'Malley's frustration with his fellow fighters and the fighting system he was working for are interesting points within the works. As well as this O'Malley's work provides a study of the mentality of the people fighting at this period.
Essentially it is a book of 9 short stories (if the account can be called as such) detailing different military actions within the 1920-21 period. With O'Malley's clear and unchallenging style it can be read equally well as 9 distinct historical accounts or as a single work.
From a literary point of view, however, this volume is very readable and of interest to the historian of the period and the general reader. In particular O'Malley's frustration with his fellow fighters and the fighting system he was working for are interesting points within the works. As well as this O'Malley's work provides a study of the mentality of the people fighting at this period.
Essentially it is a book of 9 short stories (if the account can be called as such) detailing different military actions within the 1920-21 period. With O'Malley's clear and unchallenging style it can be read equally well as 9 distinct historical accounts or as a single work.
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This is a rather slight book with three chapters covering events in which O'Malley himself was a participant and the others accounts that he gathered at a later date. His own two volumes of autobiography are a far more interesting read. Nonetheless this book gives a flavour of the War of Independence in rural Ireland in 1919/21. Small scale actions rarely involving more than twenty or thirty participants on either side. The IRA had to pick its targets carefully and make surprise and local knowledge overcome its limited weaponry and comparatively untrained units. Success or disaster depended on assessing how much time would elapse before enemy reinforcements arrived on the scene. Little quarter was asked or given on either side and prisoners were often executed in cold blood.
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