Michael Mallin: 16lives

by Brian Hughes

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'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847172660
• ISBN13: 9781847172662
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: O'Brien Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.