The Singing Flame. Introduction by Frances-Mary Blake. Anvil Books, 1978. First Edition. Pp, 312. Cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Ownership stamp to front free endpaper. A nice bright copy.

The second book in Ernie O’Malley’s memoirs of the War of Independence and Civil War covering the period 1922-1924. His first ‘On Another Man’s Wound’ was an account of the fighting in Kerry during the Irish revolution (1916-1921) was published in 1936.