He was shot over 20 times.
Three bullets stayed in his body.
And he still walked out of the war alive.
November 1922. Free State soldiers surround a Dublin hideout on Ailesbury Road. Gunfire tears through the house and garden. Irish Republican commander Ernie O’Malley tries to run. He is hit again and again — then captured, barely breathing.
Doctors later said he was too badly wounded to stand trial. That delay may have saved him from a firing squad.
This is the story of the man who survived the bullets, the prison, and the Irish Civil War.
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