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BACK PAGES:Ernie O’Malley was one of the most successful IRA commanders during the War of Independence and a dedicated opponent of the treaty, who went on to write the two best memoirs of those periods, On Another Man’s Wound and The Singing Flame. He was captured during the Civil War at the home in Ailesbury Road, Dublin, of Ellen Humphreys, a sister of The O’Rahilly and also a committed anti-treatyite. This contemporary report described his capture, making the most of the sketchy details available on the weekend of his arrest.

ONE SOLDIER of the National Army was killed, a prominent leader of the Republicans was seriously wounded, and two women were slightly injured when national troops went to search 36 Ailesbury Road, Dublin, last Saturday morning.