Honest account of a doomed IRA offensive

Memoir: My Life in the IRA: The Border Campaign, By Michael Ryan (edited by Padraig Yeates), Mercier Press, €19.95

Michael Ryan fell in love shortly before his 21st birthday. The object of his affections was Mary Óg, “a beautiful but shy girl” who felt exactly the same way about him. Unfortunately, in 1957 he was an IRA man on the run and she was the daughter of a republican family from Antrim who ...