O'Gaora, Colm

Colm O'Gaora was an important figure in the development of Republicanism and the Irish Republican Brotherhood in the west of Ireland and was a leading figure in the first generation of nationalist intellectuals who defined the emergence of the nascent Irish state. O’ Gaora grew up in the Connemara Gaeltacht, joined the Irish Volunteers during preperations for the 1916 Rising in Galway in Mayo and was subsequently imprisonment in Dublin and Darthmoore. On his release he returned to Republican activities working with Peadar O'Donnell and was imprisoned again in Galway.

Books by O'Gaora, Colm

On the Run: The story of an Irish Freedom Fighter

The translated autobiography of Colm O'Gaora, a leading figure in the first generation of nationalist figures who defined the emergence of the Irish state.

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