FOUR GLORIOUS YEARS 1918-1921 by Frank Gallagher. Blackwater Press, Dublin 2005. Illustrated. Weighs 670 grams. Excellent condition. 

Following the Easter Rising of 1916, Frank Gallagher joined the IRA and collaborated with Erskine Childers to publish the Irish Bulletin alongside the Republican publicity staff and fought alongside Éamon de Valera during the Irish War of Independence. Gallagher served long stints in prison due to his IRA involvement and went on many hunger strikes (the shortest lasting three days, the longest 41).In the 1920s Gallagher and thousands of other Irish Republican prisoners went on hunger strike to protest their internment without charges/trials and prison conditions. Gallagher led approximately 100 interned men on a successful 14 day hunger strike demanding Prisoner of War status or release (they were released).