The Truth about the Army Crisis (Official). With a Foreword by Major-General Liam Tobin. Issued by The Irish Republican Army Organisation, Dublin, [1924]. Pp 16. Publishers wrappers letterd in black. Crease to centre of wrappers, age-toning to contents pages. A good copy.

Pamphlet dealing with the ‘Mutiny’ of the Free State high ranking Officers in 1924. Provoked by a proposed reduction in army numbers in the immediate post-Civil War period.

Liam Tobin (1895-1963) was an Irish revolutionary and military officer. During the Irish War of Independence, he served as an IRA intelligence officer for Michael Collins’ Squad. Later, he became an officer in the Irish Army and the instigator of an Irish Army Mutiny in March 1924.