This volume is the definitive biography of Liam Mellows, one of the most radical and intellectually questioning members of the 1916-1922 Irish Republican leadership. It is a standard source for the years 1916-1922, a period when Ireland experienced revolutionary turmoil, partition and Civil War. This revised edition includes a new introduction by Ruan O’Donnell, as well as the preface by Gerry Adams from the 2004 edition.

As Adams comments, the book offers ‘an incisive insight into the important 1916-22 period when the island was partitioned [and] … into the social and class politics which underpinned the Republican split on the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty’.

Desmond Greaves (1913-1988) was one of Ireland’s leading historians, and was also author of biographies of James Connolly and Sean O’Casey, as well as other works.

Ruan O’Donnell is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Limerick and former Visiting Chair of Irish Studies at Notre Dame University.

Gerry Adams was President of Sinn Fein from 1983 to 2018. He has published many titles on the social history and culture of Belfast as well as a series of memoirs.