Michael Mallin / Brian Hughes.
Series: 16 livesPublication details: Dublin : The O'Brien Press, 2012.Description: 256 p. : ill., maps, plates ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781847172662 : (pbk.)
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Loanable Book | Library | Irish Collection | 920 MAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000444209 |
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? - See back cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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