Ernie O'Malley Library


Item Number: 250

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $200

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Description

Four books by Irish Revolutionary, Ernie O'Malley. The three Interview books have been edited by Ernie's son and Stonington resident, Cormac O'Malley.



  • On Another Man's Wound

  • The Men Will Talk to Me: The Mayo Interviews

  • The Men Will Talk to Me: The Kerry Interviews

  • The Men Will Talk to Me: The Galway Interviews


Ernie O'Malley, 26 May 1897 – 25 March 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 wrote three books, On Another Man's Wound, The Singing Flame, and Raids and Rallies. The first describes his early life and role in the War of Independence, while the second covers the Civil War.


O'Malley's extensive notes, compiled while he was an active IRA officer, are one of the best primary historical sources for the revolutionary period in Ireland, 1919–23, from the republican perspective. In the 1930s and 1940s he also toured Ireland interviewing veterans of the republican struggle. His papers are now housed in the University College Dublin archives, to whom they were donated by O'Malley's son, Cormac, in 1974. Cormac O'Malley retains the bulk of the remainder of his father's personal papers, poetry, and some manuscripts.