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Michael Mallin: Sixteen Lives (Sixteen Lives)
Brian Hughes
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Paperback. 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? Series: 16Lives. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 20. Weight in Grams: 284. Good clean copy, as new
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.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The O'Brien Press
Condition
Used, Like New
Series
16Lives
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781847172662
SKU
KSG0026126
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Ref
99-1
About Brian Hughes
Born in Dublin, Brian Hughes studied in NUI Maynooth and Trinity College Dublin.
Reviews for Michael Mallin: Sixteen Lives (Sixteen Lives)
Hughes has done a remarkable job in bringing back to the general public’s memory the role and life of one of the Easter Rising’s most neglected executed leaders. He writes with pace, and has managed to present a dignified and worthy portrait of a man who strove to social justice and saw as a means to this end the establishment ... Read more