On the Run : The Story of an Irish Freedom Fighter

by O'Gaora, Colm; Ohaodha, Micheal; O'Donnell, Ruan

• ISBN13: 9781856357517
• ISBN10: 1856357511
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-15
• Publisher: Dufour Editions

Summary

The Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) consisted to a large degree of a series of reprisal killings between the IRA and the British Crown forces. An important figure in the development of Republicanism and the Irish Republican Brotherhood in the west of Ireland, Colm O'Gaora, was also a leading figure in the first generation of nationalist intellectuals who defined the emergence of the nascent Irish state. On the Run is his memoir, which provides a fascinating insight into a particularly turbulent era in Irish history.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Preface	p. 13
Family and Birth	p. 15
My First Day at School	p. 37
The Teaching Certificate	p. 53
How I Began Writing in Irish	p. 65
Working as a Teacher	p. 83
In Erris	p. 115
Five Blissful Years in Clifden	p. 134
Here and There in Connemara	p. 148
Divisions within the various Nationalist Organisations	p. 160
Easter Week 1916: A Glorious Week for Ireland	p. 175
Free Once More	p. 212
The Revival of the Volunteers	p. 220
Nationalist Groupings in County Galway	p. 227
A Prisoner Once More	p. 236
A Representative of Dáil Éireann	p. 263
The War of Independence	p. 277
Taking the Fight to Connemara	p. 286
Endnotes	p. 326
Bibliography	p. 345
Index	p. 348
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