On Another Man's Wound

More than any other book of the period, On Another Man's Wound captures the feel of Irelandthe way people lived, their attitudes and beliefsand paints brilliant cameo sketches of the great personalities of the Rising and the War. Like many of the Irish, O'Malley was largely indifferent to the attempts to establish an independent Irelanduntil the Easter Rising of 1916. As the fight progressed his feelings changed and he joined the Irish Republican Army.