Frank Thornton (Irish republican)

Frank Thornton (1891–1965) was an Irish republican active in the Irish revolutionary period.

He was born in Drogheda the eldest of eight children. The family emigrated to Liverpool where he joined the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers. During the Easter Rising, he initially commanded at Liberty Hall before taking charge of the Imperial Hotel on O’Connell Street. He sustained two wounds.

After the surrender, he was sentenced to death under the mistaken name of "Frank Drennan". The sentence was later commuted to ten years. He was imprisoned in Dartmoor and Portland and was released under the 1917 general amnesty. Frank Thornton died on holiday in Sitges, Spain on 22 September 1965.

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