On Another Man's Wound

By Ernie O'Malley

Book Overview

'On Another Man's Wound', its title taken from an old Ulster proverb, 'It's easy to sleep on another man's wound', was first published in 1936 and has become the classic account of the years 1916-21 in Ireland. It captures the essence of Ireland at the time, the way people lived, their attitudes, their beliefs, the songs they sang, the legends they knew. O'Malley pictures the Irish landscape magnificently, and his cameo sketches of the great personalities of the Rising and the war that followed bring them into instant focus.

The sequel 'The Singing Flame', which details O'Malley's experiences of the Irish Civil War, and 'Raids and Rallies', covering his comrade's experiences during the War of Independence, are also available from Mercier Press.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781178151
• ISBN13: 9781781178157
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Mercier Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Review of Ernie O'Malley's On Another Man's Wound

Literally, it must say that this book belongs to the most important texts of Irish Revolution, without which it is hardly possibly to understand its events. This is not only personal experience but there are numerous notes of Irish nationalism in general give colourful picture and interpretation of events by the point of active observer. Attentive reader surely gives a tribute to auther's witty and exact notice for situation and persons that determinated the following course of events include the mass of tensions led to Irish Civil War. Ernie is very intelligent teller, and more important, correct and just, his story has no ideological exaggerations, of course, to the degree which would be possible in such circumstance.