18th July, 1874 - 7th July, 1922

Also, Charles William St. John Burgess

Born in Dublin. Joined Irish Volunteers in 1913. Would eventually become defense Minister of underground Irish Dail. Helped to re - organise the volunteers, alongside Michael Collins, while Eamonn DeValera was still in Gaol. Presided over the Dail during DeValera's visit to the U.S. Also a member of the IRB. Assisted with the unloading of arms for the rebels from the Asgard at Howth (1914). Recieved 22 wounds in defending a pass in the Nursing Home during the Dublin Rising of 1916. Presumed dead but in fact ended up holding off brit soldiers and thereby saving a group of Irish volunteers. He was supposed to join the delegation to london in 1921 that ended in the Aglo-Irish Treaty but refused to leave his troops so he did not go. He did not want to have any deliberations with the enemy. Shot by Free-State forces 5th July 1922. Died two days later.

After the signing of the treaty he is quoted as saying "If our last bullet had been fired, our last shilling spent, and our last man lying on the ground with the enemy howling around him with the bayonets raised to plunge into his body, that man should say - true to tradition handed down - if they say to him 'Now, will you come into our empire?' - he should and he would, say 'No, I will not!'"