On Another Man’s Wound
Author: O’MALLEY, Ernie.
Dublin: Anvil, 2002 (revised edition). 384 pages. Paperback.
Ernie O’Malley was a medical student in Dublin when the Easter Rising of 1916 broke out. At first he was indifferent. But with the failure of the Rising, the executions and the aftermath, his feelings changed. He joined the Irish Volunteers (later the Irish Republican Army) and organised battalions and companies around Ireland. His abilities and outstanding personal courage led to his appointment as OC of the 2nd Southern Division.
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. More than any other book of the period, 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.
ISBN: 1901737373
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