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?
Circa l’autore
Born in Dublin, Brian Hughes studied in NUI Maynooth and Trinity College Dublin.
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 272 ● ISBN 9781847176103 ● Dimensione 4.4 MB ● Casa editrice The O’Brien Press ● Città London ● Paese GB ● Pubblicato 2013 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 2818051 ● Protezione dalla copia DRM sociale