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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?
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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 of an Irish republic, and eventually died for this belief. With Brian Hughes’ biography, Michael Mallin steps out of the shadow of James Connolly, and firmly into the pantheon of Irish history
(hereditasnexus.com)will inform the general reader, serve the Leaving Certificate student of modern Irish history well and would not go amiss in the hands of undergraduates ... further books in the series will do well to match these two and will be looked forward to by many
(Dublin Review of Books)Hughes compellingly portrays a softly spoken music teacher and a dedicated family man with a strong sense of discipline whose commitment to violent insurrection robbed his pregnant wife of a husband and his four young children of a father
(History Ireland)conscientious attention to detail evokes the man and the period
(History Ireland)‘written in an unfussy style, the book is consistent with the publisher’s aim of providing ‘meticulously researched yet accessible’ biographies of the Easter Rising leaders between now and 2016
(History Ireland)rescues Mallin from the long shadows cast by the Proclamation signatories
(History Ireland)[an] assured biography, the first on its subject
(History Ireland)interesting series
(The Irish Catholic)insightful ... hopefully, other biographies in the O’Brien Press 1916 series meet the high standard set by Brian Hughes
(Liberty)his last letter to his wife is moving in its intimacy ... the book is worth buying for the letter alone
(Liberty)About the Author
Born in Dublin, Brian Hughes studied in NUI Maynooth and Trinity College Dublin.
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- PublisherO'Brien Press Ltd
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1847172660
- ISBN 13 9781847172662
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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