Liam Mellows - A Revolutionary Life
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Liam Mellows, A Revolutionary Life
by Connolly Association & Desmond Greaves School
Liam Mellows was one of the most extraordinary and important of the leaders of the 'Irish Revolution', a term which best describes the great political upheaval that occurred in Ireland during the period 1912-1922.
He began his political life at the beginning of the revolutionary period and perished in the flames of counter-revolution at the end of 1922, shot by the Free State authorities along with his comrades Rory O'Connor, Joe McKelvey and Richard Barrett.
The four men were shot as a reprisal for the killing of a pro-Treaty politician although they had been held in Mountjoy Prison for the previous five months and could not have had the faintest complicity in the assassination.
Here are two essays about the life of Irish revolutionary; Liam Mellows.
The first by Desmond Greaves was originally published in The Capuchin Annual, 1972. Greaves points out that there is no such things as a "born revolutionary" and many strands, circumstances and experiences go to make one. This was particularly evident in the espousal of Liam Mellows towards the cause of the "men of no property".
The second, by Peadar O'Donnell, is taken from a lecture organised by the Connolly Association in December 1972 to mark the 50th anniversary of Mellow's execution and of which a recording was unearthed and transcribed recently. The lecture has been edited for presentation in article form.
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by Connolly Association & Desmond Greaves School
Liam Mellows was one of the most extraordinary and important of the leaders of the 'Irish Revolution', a term which best describes the great political upheaval that occurred in Ireland during the period 1912-1922.
He began his political life at the beginning of the revolutionary period and perished in the flames of counter-revolution at the end of 1922, shot by the Free State authorities along with his comrades Rory O'Connor, Joe McKelvey and Richard Barrett.
The four men were shot as a reprisal for the killing of a pro-Treaty politician although they had been held in Mountjoy Prison for the previous five months and could not have had the faintest complicity in the assassination.
Here are two essays about the life of Irish revolutionary; Liam Mellows.
The first by Desmond Greaves was originally published in The Capuchin Annual, 1972. Greaves points out that there is no such things as a "born revolutionary" and many strands, circumstances and experiences go to make one. This was particularly evident in the espousal of Liam Mellows towards the cause of the "men of no property".
The second, by Peadar O'Donnell, is taken from a lecture organised by the Connolly Association in December 1972 to mark the 50th anniversary of Mellow's execution and of which a recording was unearthed and transcribed recently. The lecture has been edited for presentation in article form.
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