Like many of the Irish, O'Malley was largely indifferent to the attempts to establish an independent Ireland until the Easter Rising of 1916. As the fight progressed his feelings changed and he joined the Irish Republican Army."

    The narrator, Martin Somers (an Englishman) is the Adjutant of Women in O'Cahan's Irish regiment that fought with James Graham, the Marquis of Montrose for the King in what is now called the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and of the adventures (misadventures) in those turbulent times.