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From: "conaught" <>
Subject: [MAYO] Easter Week Series #16
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:30:30 -0700



Liam Mellows (1892-1922) was born in Lancashire, reared in Co. Wexford. He
was educated at the Royal Hibernian Military School. James Connolly
influenced him toward socialism. Sworn into the Irish Republican
Brotherhood (IRB) in 1912, he was a founding member of the Irish Volunteers.
Although deported to England, he returned for the Easter Rising of 1916. He
then escaped to the USA where he was agent for de Valera's tour in 1920. He
opposed the Treaty as a coercion and betrayal of the republic.
His employment includes working with Devoy on Gaelic American and as editor
of Poblacht na hÉireann, Quartermaster General of the Irish Republican Army,
1921. He was a member of the Four Courts garrison, June 1922.
Arrested in September 1922, he was executed on December 8, 1922.

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Ellen Naliboff

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Selected references:

Boylan, Henry, A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Third Edition, Gill &
Macmillan, Dublin, 1998.

Connolly, S.J., editor, The Oxford Companion to Irish History, Oxford
University Press, 1998.

Foster, R.F., Modern Ireland, 1600-1972, Penguin Books, 1988.

Fry, Peter and Fiona Somerset, A History of Ireland, Barnes & Noble, New
York, 1988

Llywelyn, Morgan, 1921, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York, 2001.







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