Michael Mallin - remembering a forgotten leader from the 1916 Rising

The pregnant Mrs Gore-Booth went to London to have her baby and returned with an Irish heroine some weeks later. She was willing to accept execution so Mallin could escape the death penalty Mallin refused her kind offer and the rest is history.

Seanmor, you're confused. Countess Markievicz, eg. Constance Gore-Booth was born in London, the daughter of an Anglo Irish land owner of Lissadel House in Sligo. Her father fed tenants during the Famine. She was elected to Westminister but refused to take her seat. She did take her seat in the Dail in Dublin but left with DeValera in 1922 when the Dail approved the Anglo Irish Treaty which partitioned Northern Ireland. Partition has been in effect 90 years, 93% of the people of Northern Ireland do not want it ended. The 1998 Good Friday Agreement ending the IRA Provo Terrorists 30 years war required Ireland forfeit any claim to Northern Ireland.

seanomelb: As you know, Countess Markievick was sentenced to die by firing squad and was reprieved only because of her gender. In Dec. of 1918 she became the first woman ever elected to Westminister, when she ran as a Sinn Féin candidate in Dublin, but refused to take her seat because she'd have to swear a oath of allegiance to the English king. Unlike most of today's T.D.s, the Countess never supported Partition.

Pearse brothers got #16 Tram into town from Rathfarnham for 1916 Rising - surrendering from 16 Moore Street - with 16 leaders executed. Hmmm! A case of the recurring 16's? There was a little known mutiny by Irish soldiers in the British Army (BA) in India, on hearing of the Rising/Executions. Many 1916 Rebels were BA ex-servicemen, using their WWI experience in the field against their former employer(?) A member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers escorting Mallin's surrendering Royal College of Surgeons Garrison to prison told him they had spent the week shooting over their heads (ie deliberately missing) from the Shelbourne Hotel. And that had the Rebels waited until the war was over, Irish Regiments in the BA would have joined them. Enlistment to BA and vocations to Catholic Orders was often out of socio-economic desperation. BA thought Liberty Hall was Rebel HQ rather than GPO. Their hastily commissioned Royal Merchant ship - Gunboat Helga, clobbered the railway viaduct over Butt Bridge several times. Any antipathy between Mallin and Countess (Constance Gore-Booth) Marcievicz being ultimately reducible to class distinction. Him being inner-city working-class Dublin. Her being upper-class Anglo-Irish landed gentry from County Sligo.

Thanks for the snippet of history seanomelb, I will enjoy reading about her. So many unsung hero's and heroines losing their proper place, should all be part of school history subjects.

Most interesting...looking forward to the series.

Countess markovic offered to take command and take his place to save his life.She was concerned about his children, another forgotten Irish heroine.

This is a very informative article on the patriot who is described as one of the "founding fathers of the modern Irish state", along with James Connolly, Patrick Pearse and Eamon de Valera. It is true that their heroic actions in 1916 led to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. But in recent years, midleading journalists, revisionist historians and deceptive politians fail to mention that the men of 1916 sought full independence "... for the whole nation and all its parts...", a very worthy goal that still remains unachieved.