guns being fired in the capital of my own country, Ireland. It was a rude awakening, guns being fired at the people of my own race by soldiers of the same army with which I was serving. The echo of these guns in Dublin was to drown into insignificance the clamour of all other guns during the remaining two and a half years of war".In Guerilla Days in Ireland Tom Barry describes the evolution of his own thinking (from a British soldier to an Irish revolutionary) to the setting up of the West Cork Flying Column (a volunteer force never exceeding 310 fighters), its training, and its plan of campaign. Reception Guerilla Days in Ireland was serialised in The Irish Press prior to publication and was already generating discussion in the letters pages of Irish newspapers before the release of the book. The book was a commercial success and favourably reviewed, with the Examiner writing "if other leaders of the period make equal contributions to the story of the time in which they were engaged in militant or political activities, writers of the future when history can be written with more detachment than at present.- will have an amount of valuable material written by " men on the spot." A story by a man on the spot is always more valuable than second evidence". The Tuam Herald's review stated that it "deserves a prominent place on every Irish bookshelf". In other media The book was adapted into a play of the same in 2012. References 1949 non-fiction books Irish republican books Urban guerrilla warfare handbooks and manuals Works about the Irish Republican Army Works about the Irish War of Independence