{"product_id":"9781847176103","title":"Michael Mallin: 16Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eExecuted in Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May 1916, Michael Mallin had commanded a garrison of rebels in St Stephen’s Green and the College of Surgeons during Easter Week. He was Chief-of-Staff and second-in-command to James Connolly in the Irish Citizen Army.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBorn in a tenement in Dublin in 1874, he joined the British army aged fourteen as a drummer. He then worked as a silk weaver and became an active trade unionist and secretary of the Silk Weavers’ Union.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA devout Catholic, a temperance advocate, father of four young children and husband of a pregnant wife when executed – what brought such a man, with so much to lose, to wage war against the British in 1916?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Irish American Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137103380720,"sku":"9781847176103","price":12.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781847176103_p0.jpg?v=1763746522","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847176103","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}