20 Facts About Michael Mallin

Michael Thomas Christopher Mallin was an Irish republican, Socialist and devout Catholic who took an active role in the Easter Rising of 1916.

Michael Mallin was a silk weaver, the co-founder with Francis Sheehy-Skeffington of the Socialist Party of Ireland, and was second-in-command of the Irish Citizen Army under James Connolly in the Easter Rising, in which he commanded the garrison at St Stephen's Green in Dublin.

Michael Mallin received his early education at the National School at Denmark Street.

Michael Mallin's mother witnessed the public execution of the Manchester Martyrs.

Michael Mallin enrolled as a soldier with the British Army's 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers on 21 October 1889.

Michael Mallin's regiment was sent to India in 1896, where he served out the remainder of his almost fourteen-year career, taking part in the Tirah Campaign.

On Michael Mallin's return to Ireland, he became a silk weaver's apprentice under his uncle James, who was a former soldier in the British Army.

Michael Mallin became active in politics, and was the secretary of the Socialist Party of Ireland.

Michael Mallin progressed to become a leading official in the silk weavers' union.

Michael Mallin was appointed second-in-command and chief training officer of the Irish Citizen Army, which was formed to protect workers from the Dublin Metropolitan Police and from employer-funded gangs of strike-breakers.

Michael Mallin was appointed chief of staff of the ICA in October 1914.

When Connolly was inducted into the Irish Republican Brotherhood in January 1916, Michael Mallin began preparing ICA members for the imminent armed revolution.

Michael Mallin planned to occupy the Shelbourne Hotel, located on the north-east side of the park, but insufficient manpower prevented him from doing so.

Under intense fire, Michael Mallin ordered his troops to retreat to the Royal College of Surgeons on the west side of the park.

Michael Mallin was court-martialled on 5 May, found guilty of the charge of treason and he was executed by firing squad in the stonebreaker's yard at Kilmainham Gaol at sunrise on 8 May 1916.

De Courcy-Wheeler, when Michael Mallin was given leave to speak he used the opportunity to thank Capt.

Michael Mallin knew he was a condemned man, and that nothing he could say to the court martial would alter that fact.

The court-martial of Michael Mallin presented Maxwell with the opportunity to place Markievicz in a commanding role and thereby strengthen his hand to execute her as a "ringleader of the rebellion" those guilty of cold blooded murder.

Joseph Michael Mallin SJ, born on 13 September 1913, was a Jesuit priest and teacher in Hong Kong.

Michael Mallin was the last surviving child of those executed in the Rising until his death in Hong Kong on 1 April 2018 at the age of 104.