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?
- ISBN10 1847176100
- ISBN13 9781847176103
- Publish Date 1 October 2013 (first published 26 March 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint O'Brien Press Ltd
- Format eBook
- Pages 272
- Language English