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Item Details
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MICHAEL MALLIN
16LIVES |
| By: |
Brian Hughes |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1847176100 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847176103 |
| Publisher: |
O'BRIEN PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2013 |
| Series: |
16Lives |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Michael Mallin was a devout Catholic, a temperance advocate, father of four young children and husband to a pregnant wife when he was executed for his part in the Easter Rising. In this revealing new book, the first ever biography of Mallin, Brian Hughes asks what led such a man, with so much to lose, to wage war against the British in 1916? |
| Synopsis: |
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? |
| Illustrations: |
16 Halftones, black and white |
| Publication: |
Ireland |
| Imprint: |
O'Brien Press Ltd |
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Non-returnable |
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