Liam Forde

Liam Forde

Liam Forde was an alias used by Séamas Ó Maoiléoin (aka James Malone) (1891 - 1958) of Tyrrellspass, County Westmeath, Ireland when working as a spy for Michael Collins.

His brother, Thomas, a soldier in East Limerick during the Anglo-Irish War, used the name Sean Forde.

References

*"Blood on the Flag", Fr. Patrick J. Twohig, 1996, being a translation of Séamas Ó Maoiléoin's "B'fhiú an braon fola" (The drop of blood was worth it), published posthumously in 1959.
*"Alias Sean Forde", Tom Malone.

Background references

*"Where Mountainy Men Have Sown", Michael O'Suilleabhain.
*"My Fight for Irish Freedom", Dan Breen.
*"On Another Man's Wound", Ernie O'Malley.


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