Liam Mellows
Liam Mellows | |
|---|---|
Mellows c. 1920s | |
| Teachta Dála | |
| In office May 1921 – June 1922 | |
| Constituency | Galway |
| In office December 1918 – May 1921 | |
| Constituency | Both East Galway and North Meath |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 May 1892 Ashton-under-Lyne, England |
| Died | 8 December 1922 (aged 30) Dublin, Ireland |
| Party | Sinn Féin |
| Relatives | Barney Mellows (brother) |
| Military service | |
| Branch/service | |
| Rank | Commandant general |
| Battles/wars | |
William Joseph Mellows (Irish: Liam Ó Maoilíosa, 25 May 1892 – 8 December 1922) was an Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician. Born in England to an English father and Irish mother, he grew up in Ashton-under-Lyne before moving to Ireland, being raised in Cork, Dublin and his mother's native Wexford. He was active with the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Irish Volunteers, and participated in the Easter Rising in County Galway and the War of Independence. Elected as a TD to the First Dáil, he rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty. During the Irish Civil War Mellows was captured by Pro-Treaty forces after the surrender of the Four Courts in June 1922. On 8 December 1922 he was one of four senior IRA men executed by the free state Government.