The memoirs of IRA commander and life-long Kerry republican Dan Mulvihill, an aide to anti-Treaty IRA chief of staff, Liam Lynch, reveals the anger of many of his former comrades about developments in the early years of the conflict in the Six Counties.

In this extract from ‘One Man’s Ireland: Memoirs of Dan Mulvihill, Maverick Republican’, historian Dr Owen O’Shea describes how Mulvihill tried to mobilise others in support of the Catholic community in the North.