Ernie O’Malley was a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising and was an active member of the IRA during the War of Independence. Later in life, he wrote several books, including one in which he described his time as a prisoner of the “F Company” of the Auxiliaries in December 1920. Ernie O’Malley, photographed by his wife Helen Hooker O’Malley in 1936 in the “Passeges leading to the cell where I was imprisoned”.
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