This fascinating eyewitness account of the events in Ireland from the Easter Rising of 1916 until 1923 is now back in print for the first time since it was originally published in 1924. It is written from a now almost forgotten viewpoint -- that of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. O'Hegarty's heroes were Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins and he took the Pro-Treaty side in 1921, strongly opposing those who assumed a continuing mandate for force after ratification of the treaty. The book contains vivid character sketches of Griffith, Collins and de Valera and as Tom Garvin writes in his Introduction 'it is . . . written with enormous passion, verve and energy; it reads like a thriller.'
