Description

For the first time in published form The Men Will Talk to Me: Galway Interviews chronicles the experiences of the Galway-based survivors of the War of Independence and the Civil War, recorded in the hand-written notebooks of Ernie O Malley. Many of the individuals would not talk about their experiences, even to their own families, but were willing to talk to Commandant General O Malley, the senior surviving Republican military commander, who took on the task of preserving the memories of these participants. The resulting O Malley notebooks provide an unrivaled insight into this important period of Irish history, including the attack on Clifden and life on the run for the Galway IRA volunteers.