Michael Mallin - 1916 Poster

A stunning poster of Michael Mallin poster who was born in 1874 in Dublin.
Secretary of the Silk Weaver’s Union, the co-founder with Francis Sheehy-Skeffington of the Socialist Party of Ireland, Mallin was second-in-command of the Irish Citizen Army under James Connolly. He was a devout Catholic and a member of the Working Men’s Temperance Club .
Mallin had enrolled as a soldier with the British Army's 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1889. During the early years of his service he was stationed in Great Britain and Ireland. His 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. It was during his time in India that he became radicalised. In 1897, when asked to donate to the memorial fund for Queen Victoria's jubilee year he refused because 'he could not subscribe as the English monarch had taken an oath to uphold the Protestant faith'.
Mallin fought alongside Markievicz in St Stephen’s Green where, in a naïvely chosen and hopeless position militarily, they sustained heavy gunfire and casualties from the rooves of surrounding buildings (including the Shelbourne Hotel) until they retreated to and occupied the College of Surgeons where they surrendered on Easter Sunday. Mallin was executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 8th May 1916.

This poster has been recreated in the style of the original 1916 Leader's posters using a photograph of Mallin from the Walton Collection, mounted on green suede and framed beautifully in a black aged mahogany frame with a gold gilt line.