IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921

IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921 features the factual accounts of 25 daring rescues, rescue attempts and jailbreaks which raised the morale of nationalist Ireland and brought world-wide ridicule and discredit on the prison and internment camp systems in Britain and Ireland. With stories of their resistence to the degrading criminal code by the political prisoners, the hunger strikes and jail riots, the savage beatings and punishments the prisoners suffered during their incarceration, their accounts offer a window on the world of the men who fought and were imprisoned during the struggle for Ireland's independence. Here is history documented by the men who made it.

Edited by Florence O'Donoghue, the intelligence officer with the Cork No. 1 Brigade during Ireland's War of Independence, a role in which he was instrumental in a number of successful IRA actions. During the Civil War he remained neutral and made strenuous efforts to avert it. He went on to serve in the Irish Army and wrote a number of books and edited several others.