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Ernie O’Malley with his son Cormac on the Aran Islands, 1954. Photograph by Jean McGrail.

One of the last republican prisoners to be released in 1924, Ernie O’Malley was advised to go abroad to recuperate. He travelled under an alias and on a British passport issued in London in 1925.

On the set of the iconic film The Quiet Man, County Mayo, 1951.

Ernie O’Malley with his son Cormac on the Aran Islands, 1954. Photograph by Jean McGrail.

Ernie O’Malley with his son Cormac on the Aran Islands, 1954. Photograph by Jean McGrail.

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