Books – Memoirs

Books written by participants in the War of Independence and/or Civil War or collections of their memories.

Aiken, Siobhan et al (Eds)	The Men will Talk to Me - Ernie O'Malley's Interviews with the Northern Divisions	Newbridge	Merrion Press	2018
Andrews, C S	Dublin Made Me	Cork	Mercier Press	1979
Andrews, C S	Man of No Property	Cork	Mercier Press	1982
Aubane Historical Society	The 'Boys' of the Millstreet Battalion Area	Aubane	Aubane Historical Society	2003
Baker, Joe	My Stand for Freedom: Autobiography of an Irish Republican Soldier	Westport		1988
Barry, Tom	The Reality of the Anglo-Irish War	Tralee	Anvil Books	1974
Barry, Tom	Guerrilla Days in Ireland	Dublin	Anvil Books	1999
Bielenberg, Andy et al (Eds)	The Men will Talk to Me - West Cork Interviews by Ernie O'Malley	Cork	Mercier Press	2015
Borgonovo, John (Ed)	Florence and Josephine O'Donoghue's War of Independence	Dublin	Irish Academic Press	2006
Breen, Dan	My Fight for Irish Freedom	Dublin	Anvil Books	1989
Brennan, Michael	The War in Clare 1911-21	Dublin	Four Courts Press	1980
Brennan, Robert	Allegiance	Dublin	Brown & Nolan	1950
Briscoe, Robert	For the Life of Me: the adventurous autobiography of the Irish rebel who became the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin	London		1957
Browne, Charlie	The Story of the 7th	Macroom	Macroom Printing Works	1971
Brugha, M. MacSwiney	History's Daughter	Dublin		2005
Campbell, Joseph [Elaine Ni Chuilleanáin (Ed)]	As I was among the Captives	Cork	Cork University Press	2001
Chamberlain, Austen	Politics from Inside	London		1936
Churchill, Winston	The Gathering Storm	Boston		1948
Clarke, Kathleen	Revolutionary Woman: My Fight for Ireland's Freedom	Dublin		1991
Clarke, Olga Pyne	She Came of Decent People	London	Methuen	1986
Cockerill, Brigadier General Sir G.	What Fools we Were	London		1944
Comerford, James J	My Kilkenny IRA Days 1916-22	Kilkenny		1978
Comerford, Máire (Dully, Hilary (Ed))	On Dangerous Ground: A Memoir of the Irish Revolution	Dublin	Lilliput Press	2022
Crozier, Frank P	Impressions and Recollections	London	T. Werner Laurie	1930
Crozier, Frank P	Ireland Forever	London	Johnathon Cape	1932
Dalton, Charles	With the Dublin Brigade 1917-1921	London	Peter Davies	1929
Duff, Douglas V	Sword for Hire	London		1936
Everett, Katherine	Bricks and Flowers	London	Constable	1949
Ewart, Wilfrid	A Journey in Ireland 1921	Dublin	UCD Press
Figgis, Darrell	Recollections of the Irish War 1914-1921	New York	Doubleday, Doran & Company	1927?
Figgis, Darrell	A Chronicle of Jails	Dublin	UCD Press
Fisher, H. A. L.	An Unfinished Autobiography	London		1940
Fitzgerald, Desmond	Prelude to Statescraft	London		1939
Gallagher, Frank	Days of Fear: Diary of a Hunger Strike	London		1928
Gallagher, Frank	The Anglo-Irish Treaty	London	Hutchinson	1965
Griffith, Kenneth and O'Grady, Timothy	Ireland's Unfinished Revolution: An Oral History	Boulder	Roberts Rinehart Publications	1999
Hammond, Bill	Soldier of the Rearguard	Fermoy	Eigse Publications	1977
Harnett, Mossie	Victory and Woe	Dublin	University College Dublin Press	2002
Harrington, Niall C	Kerry Landing August 1922	Dublin	Anvil Books	1992
Healy, T. M.	Letters and Leaders of My Day, 2 Volumes	London		1928
Hobson,Bulmer	Ireland Yesterday and Tomorrow	Tralee	Anvil Books	1968
Hogan, James [Donncadh Ó Corráin (Ed)]	James Hogan: Revolutionary, Historian and Political Scientist	Dublin		2001
Jones, Tom (Keith Middlemas (Ed))	Whitehall Diary, vol III	Oxford		1971
Long, Walter	Memories	London		1923
MacEoin, Uinseann	Survivors	Dublin		1981
Macready, Neville	Annals of an Active Life Vol II	London	Hutchinson Radius	1924
MacSwiney, Terence	Principles of Freedom	USA		1921
Magill, Andrew Philip	From Dublin Castle to Stormont	Cork	Cork University Press	2005
Malone, James (Trans and Ed Patrick J Twohig)	Blood on the Flag	Ballincollig, Co Cork	Tower Books	1996
Malone, Tom	Alias Sean Forde	Dublin	Elo Press	2000
Markievicz, Countess	Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz	London		1987
Martin, Hugh	Ireland in Insurrection - An Englishman's Record of Fact	London	Daniel O'Connor	1921
McCartan, Patrick	With de Valera in America	Dublin		1932
McDonnell, Kathleen Keyes	There is a Bridge at Bandon	Cork	Mercier Press	1972
McElborough, Robert	Loyalism and Labour in Belfast	Cork	Cork University Press	2002
McGuinness, Charles John	Nomad - Memoirs of and Irish Sailor, Soldier, Pirate, Pearl-diver, Gun-runner, Rebel and Antarctic Explorer	Buncrana	Merdog Books	2018
McKenna, John	A Beleaguered Station: the Memoir of Head Constable John McKenna	Belfast		2009
Mee, Jeremiah [Gaughan, J Anthony (Ed)]	The Memoirs of Constable Jeremiah Mee RIC	Cork	Mercier Press	2012
Menzies, C. [writing as 'A Woman of No Importance']	As Others See Us	London		1924
Middlemas, Keith (Ed)	Thomas Jones - Whitehall Diary, Vol 1: 1916-1925	London		1969
Middlemas, Keith (Ed)	Thomas Jones - Whitehall Diary, Vol 3, Ireland 1918-25	Oxford		1971
Midleton, Earl of	Ireland - Dupe or Heroine	London		1932
Midleton, Earl of	Records and Reactions: 1856-1939	London		1939
Mitchell, Maud	The Man with the Long Hair	Glenwood	Glenwood Publications	1993
Moylan, Sean	In His Own Words	Aubane	Aubane Historical Society	2003
Moynihan, Jamie	Memoirs of an Old Warrior	Cork	Mercier Press	2014
Moynihan, M. (Ed.)	The Speeches and Statements of Éamon de Valera, 1917-1973	Dublin		1980
Mullins, Billy	Memoirs of Billy Mullins, Veteran of the War of Independence	Tralee		1983
Murphy, Jeremiah	When Youth was Mine - A Memoir of Kerry 1902-1925	Dublin	Mentor Press	1998
Neligan,David	The Spy in the Castle	London	Prendeville Publishing	1999
Nic Shiubhlaigh, M.	The Splendid Years	Dublin		1955
Ó Brion, Leon (Ed.)	In Great Haste: Letters of Michael Collins and Kitty Kiernan	Dublin		1993
Ó Ceallaigh, S. T.	Seán T	Dublin		1993
Ó Faoláin, Sean	Vive Moi	London	Rupert Hart-Davies	1965
Ó Fathaigh, Pádraig [Timothy G. McMahon (Ed.)]	Recollection of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer	Cork	Cork University Press	2000
Ó Ruairc, Padraig Óg (Ed)	The Men will Talk to Me - Clare Interviews by Ernie O'Malley	Cork	Mercier Press	2016
O'Donnell, Peadar	There Will be Another Day	Dublin		1963
O'Donnell, Peadar	The Gates Flew Open	Cork		1965
O'Farrell, Peter	Memoirs of Irish Volunteer Activity, 1917-1924	New York		1978
O'Hea O'Keeffe, Jane	Recollections of 1916 and Its Aftermath	Tralee		2005
O'Higgins, Kevin	Civil War and the Events that Led to It	Dublin		1922
O'Malley, Cormac and Dolan, Anne	No Surrender Here - The Civil War Papers of Ernie O'Malley	Dublin	Lilliput Press	2007
O'Malley, Cormac K. H. and Horgan, Tim (Eds)	The Men will Talk to Me - Kerry Interviews by Ernie O'Malley	Cork	Mercier Press	2012
O'Malley, Cormac K. H. and Keane, Vincent (Eds)	The Men will Talk to Me - Mayo Interviews by Ernie O'Malley	Cork	Mercier Press	2014
O'Malley, Cormac K. H. and Ó Comhraí, Cormac (Eds)	The Men will Talk to Me - Galway Interviews by Ernie O'Malley	Cork	Mercier Press	2013
O'Malley, Ernie	The Singing Flame	Dublin	Anvil Books	1978
O'Malley, Ernie	Raids and Rallies	Dublin	Anvil Books	1982
O'Malley, Ernie	On Another Man's Wound	Dublin	Anvil Books	1990
O'Suilleabhain, Micheal	Where Mountainey Men have Sown	Tralee	Anvil Books	1965
Pinkman, John A	In the Legion of the Vanguard	Cork	Mercier Press	1998
Plunkett Dillon, Geraldine	All in the Blood	Dublin	A & A Farmer	2006
Regan, John [Augusteijn, Joost (Ed)]	The Memoirs of John M. Regan, a Catholic Officer in the RIC and RUC, 1909-48	Dublin	Four Courts Press	2007
Ryan, Annie	Comrades - Inside the War of Independence	Dublin	Liberties Press	2007
Self, Robert C. (Ed)	The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters	Cambridge		1995
Sheehan, William	British Voices From the Irish War of Independence 1918-1921	Cork	Collins Press	2005
Sherwin, Frank	Independent and Unrepentant	Dublin	Irish Academic Press	2007
Street, C J C (I O)	Ireland in 1921	London	Philip Allan	1922
Street, C J C (I O)	The Administration of Ireland 1920	Belfast	Athol Books	2001
Sturgis, Mark [Hopkinson, Michael (Ed)]	The Last Days of Dublin Castle: The Diaries of Mark Sturgis	Dublin	Irish Academic Press	1999
Taylor, A. J. P. (Ed)	Llyod George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson	London		1971
Thomson, Basil	The Scene Changes	New York		1939
Vane, F.	Agin the Government	London		1929
Walsh, J J	Recollections of a Rebel	Tralee		1949
Ward, Margaret (Ed.)	In Their Own Words	Dublin		2001
Waters, Samuel [Ball, S. (Ed)]	A Policeman's Ireland: Recollections of Samuel Waters, RIC	Cork		1999
Winter, Brig O de l'E	Winter's Tale	London	Richards Press	1955
Woodcock, C.	Experiences of an Officer's Wife in Ireland	London		1921
Deasy, Liam	Towards Ireland Free	Cork	Royal Carbery Books	1973
Deasy, Liam	Brother against Brother	Cork	Mercier Press	1998
Good, Joe	Enchanted by Dreams - The Journal of a Revolutionary	Dingle	Brandon	1996
Hogan, David (Gallagher, Frank)	Four Glorious Years 1918-1921	Dublin	Blackwater Press	2005
Lankford, Siobhan	The Hope and the Sadness	Cork	Tower Books	1980

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