The Gates Flew Open

Simon Smyth 🔖 reviews a classic from the corpus of Irish Republican literature.The book follows the author's imprisonment during the Irish Civil War. It starts with Peadar O'Donnell's mind going dark, his sensation of being buried and the panic of imprisonment. "I had never felt so unutterably alone."The downsides to this book are more than compensated by its upsides. It is a very good book but