Research Catalog

Title

The men will talk to me : Ernie O'Malley's interviews with the Northern Divisions / [edited by] Síobhra Aiken, Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh, Liam Ó Duibhir, Diarmuid Ó Tuama.

Author

O'Malley, Ernie, 1897-1957

Publication

• Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland : Merrion Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Aiken, Síobhra
• Mac Bhloscaidh, Fearghal
• Ó Duibhir, Liam
• Ó Tuama, Diarmuid

Description

xxiii, 259 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 23 cm

Summary

A collection of interviews conducted and recorded by famed Irish Republican revolutionary, Ernie O'Malley, during the 1940s and 1950s. The interviews in this volume are with the survivors of the Northern Divisions of the IRA, chief among them Frank Aiken, Peadar O'Donnell and Paddy McLogan, who offer fascinating insights into the North's centrality in the War of Independence and the slide towards Civil War in Ireland. The book's title refers to the implicit trust the interviewees placed in Ernie O'Malley, earned through his reputation as a fearsome military commander, as the veterans revealed details to O'Malley which they wouldn't have disclosed to their closest family. Startling direct, their experiences include the mobilisation of the Dundalk Volunteers for the 1916 Rising, the events of Bloody Sunday (1920), the Belfast Pogroms, and the planning of historical escapes from the Curragh and Kilkenny Gaol. This is an extraordinary record of the men's rich experience of the military conflict during this time of great upheaval in Irish history, while also candidly revealing the physical and psychological scars of the revolutionary mindset. -- Publisher description

Subject

• Irish Republican Army > Interviews
• Irish Republican Army
• War of Independence (Ireland : 1919-1921)
• 1919-1921
• Revolutionaries > Northern Ireland > Interviews
• Revolutionaries
• Ireland > History > War of Independence, 1919-1921 > Personal narratives
• Ireland > History > Easter Rising, 1916 > Personal narratives
• Ireland
• Northern Ireland

Genre/Form

• History.
• Interviews.
• Personal narratives.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Chronology of the War of Independence and Civil War in the North -- Introduction -- 1st Northern Division (Donegal and Derry City): Peadar O'Donnell; Joe Sweeney -- 2nd Northern Division (Tyrone and Derry): Dr. Patrick McCartan; Charlie Daly -- 3rd Northern Division (North Down and Antrim): Seamus Woods; Roger McCorley; Tom McNally; Jack 'Seán' Leonard -- 4th Northern Division (Louth, Armagh, Monaghan, and South Down): Michael O'Hanlon; Michael Donnelly; John McCoy; Michael Murney; Patrick McLogan; Frank Aiken -- Short biographical sketches of individuals referenced in the endnotes -- The Earnie O'Malley interviews: methodology, chronology, interviewees / Eve Morrison.

Call Number

JFD 19-1222

ISBN

• 1785371649
• 9781785371646

LCCN

2018379436

OCLC

1016437231

Author

O'Malley, Ernie, 1897-1957, interviewer.

Title

The men will talk to me : Ernie O'Malley's interviews with the Northern Divisions / [edited by] Síobhra Aiken, Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh, Liam Ó Duibhir, Diarmuid Ó Tuama.

Publisher

Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland : Merrion Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1919-1921

Added Author

Aiken, Síobhra, editor.

Mac Bhloscaidh, Fearghal, editor.

Ó Duibhir, Liam, editor.

Ó Tuama, Diarmuid, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-1222