Liam Lynch: The Real Chief

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Liam Lynch joined the Irish Volunteers after the Easter Rising of 1916 & quickly rose through its ranks. He reorganised the Cork Brigade in 1919 & in 1921 became the commanding officer of the First Southern Division which controlled all the Volunteer Brigades in the south of the country. A prominant opponent of the Treaty of 1921 he became chief of staff of the anti-Treaty IRA leading the fight against the pro-Treaty forces until his death in 1923. With the aid of Liam Lynchs personal letters private documents & historical records Liam Lynch: The Real Chief traces the turbulent career of one of Irelands greatest guerrilla commanders from his birth in 1893 until his death twenty-nine years later in the Civil War when he was killed in action on the Knockmealdown mountains. This book demonstrates Liam Lynchs importance in Irish history including his efforts with Michael Collins Richard Mulcahy & others to avoid a civil war & his unwavering efforts to achieve a thirty-two county republic rather than a partitioned state. Part of the Irish Revolutionaries series being published in the run-up to the centenary of the 1916 Rising.