Pádraig O'Fathaigh's War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer

by Pádraig Ó Fathaigh

Padraig O Fathaigh ( 1879-1976) was a lifelong Gaelic Leaguer and teacher of Irish. Already a prominent member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers before 1916, O Fathaigh was arrested on Easter Tuesday before he could join forces with Liam Mellows. He spent the next year undergoing penal servitude, the first of four terms of imprisonment between 1916 and 1920. When at liberty he acted as an intelligence officer in South Galway...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859181457
• ISBN13: 9781859181454
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"