Florence and Josephine O'Donoghue's War of Independence: A Destiny That Shapes Our Ends edited by John Borgonovo. Irish Academic Press. (2006). ISBN-10: ‎0716533707. 6 1/4" x 9 3/4" xix, 252 pages Hardcover with dust jacket. DUST JACKET: Has some edge wear to the top of the dj. A tiny fold on the top of the front flap. Otherwise, no clips, tears, other unusual folds or missing pieces. Not price-clipped with no original price. BOOK: Bright gilt lettering on the spine. Very light cover edge wear. Previous owner name and date written in the ink inside the back cover. Probably not noticeable without my mentioning. I see No other previous owner markings.  No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. LJ20b

    "Historian and IRA leader Florence O'Donoghue describes his experiences as head of intelligence in Cork city during the Irish War of Independence. He candidly assesses the leaders of this period, including Tomas MacCurtain, Sean O'Hegarty, Terence MacSwiney and Michael Collins and critically examines the evolution of the Irish Volunteer citizen-soldiers. He also details his wife Josephine's role as the top IRA spy in Cork's British Army headquarters, working for the rebels in exchange for the return of her eldest son, lost in a bitter custody battle with her in-laws. After O'Donoghue kidnapped the child and reunited him with his mother, the two collaborators eventually fell in love and were secretly married in the spring of 1921. 
     Forty years later, the couple presented their story to their children in order to explain the family secret that had haunted their domestic lives. The first part of the book is O'Donoghue's and his wife's account of their activities in the Anglo-Irish War, written in 1961; the second part is composed of 47 letters in diary form, written by O'Donoghue to his wife while he was 'on the run' during the last ten weeks of the Anglo-Irish War, from May to July 1921. They provide a rare snapshot of the daily life of fugitive IRA guerrillas, and an insight into two people who followed their hearts to find 'a destiny that shapes our ends'." - the blurb on the front flap of the dust jacket.