Ernie O'Malley
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Ernest Bernard Malley was an Irish republican and writer. After a sheltered upbringing, as a young medical student in Dublin he witnessed and participated in the Easter Rising of 1916, an event that c
O'Malley pictured under an alias in Kilmainham Gaol, January 1921
Main Street, Castlebar, c. 1900
Ruins of the General Post Office
Michael Collins, O'Malley's superior at GHQ
Irish Civil War
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The Irish Civil War was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the B
Ernie O'Malley
…rank of general. Subsequently, O'Malley strongly opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and became assistant chief of staff of the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War of 1922–1923. After being severely wounded in a gun battle with Free State troops in November 1922, O'Malley was taken prisoner. He endured forty-one…
National Army soldiers armed with Lewis machine guns aboard a troop transport during the Civil War
The Four Courts along the River Liffey quayside. The building was occupied by anti-treaty forces during the Civil War, whom the National Army subsequently bombarded into surrender. The Irish national archives in the buildings were destroyed in the subsequent fire. The building was badly damaged but was fully restored after the war.
Dan Breen's appeal to Free State troops
National Army soldiers escorting an IRA prisoner