Irish War of Independence.- Walshe (Maurice Reginald, Irish Republican, imprisoned at Spike Island, Cork; Kilkenny Prison, Limerick Prison and elsewhere) Behind prison bars in Stricklands Command, manuscript, c. 124pp. excluding blanks, 1f. torn in half without loss, some ff. loose and others working loose, slightly browned, free endpapers torn and loose, original cloth, defective with loss, lacks spine, 255 x 194mm., [c. 1920's].*** An account of various incidents and imprisonment in the Anglo-Irish war of 1920-21. One incident concerns a Lieutenant Litchfield [Litchford] of the Lincolnshire Regiment, "A party of Republican Officers were surprised by a patrol of Police and Military at Knockroe Drangan. Hopelessly outnumbered... the small party would not comply with the order of 'surrender' and after a short engagement Lieutenants Fleming Lieutenant Patrick Hackett and Adjutant Martin Clancy were shot. The present writer was captured here. On the following evening... our friend Lieutenant Litchfield arrived from Tipperary with his Armoured car & I quickly learned that it was the intention of this officer to carry the dead Republican officers to Tipperary on the back of the car, and that I was to be placed immediately over the dead bodies of my comrades and secured there by means of a rope tied round my body and handcuffs placed on my wrists." - Walsh.Other headings include: "Tipperary Military Barracks"; "An informer in Camp"; "Jokes passed between soldiers and prisoners"; "Hostage taking from Tipperary"; "Fermoy Barracks Cork"; "Sentenced to death"; "Hunger Striking"; "Spike Island"; "Active Resistance"; "Removal to Kilkenny Prison"; "The making of the Tunnel" etc.Sir Peter Strickland (1869–1951), army officer.