IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921

Factual accounts of 25 daring rescues, rescue attempts and jailbreaks during the War of Independence, told by the men who participated. With stories of their resistance to the degrading British criminal code, their accounts offer a window on the world of the men who fought and were imprisoned during the struggle for Ireland's independence. IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921 features the factual accounts of 25 daring rescues, rescue attempts and jailbreaks which raised the morale of nationalist Ireland and brought world-wide ridicule and discredit on the prison and internment camp systems in Britain and Ireland. With stories of their resistance to the degrading criminal code by the political prisoners, the hunger strikes and jail riots, the savage beatings and punishments the prisoners suffered during their incarceration, their accounts offer a window on the world of the men who fought and were imprisoned during the struggle for Ireland's independence. Here is history documented by the men who made it.