Ernie O'Malley
Irish republican, politician and writer
Died when: 59 years 303 days (717 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Ernest Bernard Malley (Irish: Earnán Ó Máille; 26 May 1897 – 25 March 1957) was an IRA officer during the Irish War of Independence.
Subsequently, he became assistant chief of staff of the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War.O'Malley was an active revolutionary who displayed courage in battle and was wounded a number of times.
He wrote two memoirs, On Another Man's Wound and The Singing Flame, and two histories, Raids and Rallies and Rising Out: Seán Connolly of Longford, 1890–1921.
The memoirs cover his early life, the War of Independence and the Civil War period.Although he was elected to Dáil Éireann in 1923 while in prison, O'Malley largely eschewed politics, seeing himself primarily as a soldier who had "fought and killed the enemies of our nation".