Michael Mallin
16Lives
Biography & Memoir, Historical, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, History
| Author: | Brian Hughes | ISBN: | 9781847176103 |
| Publisher: | The O'Brien Press | Publication: | October 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | The O'Brien Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Brian Hughes |
| ISBN: | 9781847176103 |
| Publisher: | The O'Brien Press |
| Publication: | October 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | The O'Brien Press |
| Language: | English |
Executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May 1916, Michael Mallin had commanded a garrison of rebels in St Stephen’s Green and the College of Surgeons during Easter Week. He was Chief-of-Staff and second-in-command to James Connolly in the Irish Citizen Army.
Born in a tenement in Dublin in 1874, he joined the British army aged fourteen as a drummer. He then worked as a silk weaver and became an active trade unionist and secretary of the Silk Weavers’ Union.
A devout Catholic, a temperance advocate, father of four young children and husband of a pregnant wife when executed – what brought such a man, with so much to lose, to wage war against the British in 1916?
Executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May 1916, Michael Mallin had commanded a garrison of rebels in St Stephen’s Green and the College of Surgeons during Easter Week. He was Chief-of-Staff and second-in-command to James Connolly in the Irish Citizen Army.
Born in a tenement in Dublin in 1874, he joined the British army aged fourteen as a drummer. He then worked as a silk weaver and became an active trade unionist and secretary of the Silk Weavers’ Union.
A devout Catholic, a temperance advocate, father of four young children and husband of a pregnant wife when executed – what brought such a man, with so much to lose, to wage war against the British in 1916?
