Raids and Rallies, recently reissued by Mercier Press, forms part of Ernie O’Malley’s remarkable revolutionary trilogy, in addition to his War of Independence and Civil War memoirs, On Another Man’s Wound and The Singing Flame. Raids and Rallies , first published as a series of articles in the Sunday Press in the 1950s, recounts a number of ambushes during the War of Independence, mostly in County Tipperary, one of the many areas where O’Malley was despatched as a travelling organiser on behalf of IRA GHQ.