Pádraig Ó Fathaigh's War of Independence
Subtitle: recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer
By: edited by Timothy G. McMahon.
Contributors: McMahon, Timothy G.
Series: Irish narratives
Publisher: Cork University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cork
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: Ó Fathaigh, Pádraig, 1879-1976.; Gaelic League (Ireland); Revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography.; Irish language -- Revival.; Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 -- Personal narratives.; Ireland -- History -- 1922-
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives.
Description: "A lifelong Gaelic Leaguer in Galway. Already an Irish Volunteer before 1916, O Fathaigh was arrested on Easter Tuesday. He spent the next year undergoing penal servitude, the first of four terms of imprisonment between 1916 and 1920." "His handwritten recollections illuminate life 'on the run' and in prison, and will interest all students of the Irish revolution and the Gaelic Revival."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-99) and index.