Raids and Rallies - Paperbackby Ernie O'Malley (Author) During the Civil War, when Ernie O'Malley lay under sentence of death in Mountjoy prison hospital, some of his notes were smuggled out. 'Most of all, ' he wrote, 'I would have liked to talk about the rank and file where I found solace. ' Raids and Rallies, an account of various offensives against the British in 1920 21, is his tribute to that rank and file. 'It was a people's war. That is why we fought so well from November