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William Joseph Mellows 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 i
Mellows c. 1920s
Mellows in uniform
Liam Mellows Gravestone unveiled in 2016
British Army military intelligence file for William Mellowes
Roderick O'Connor was an Irish republican who was Director of Engineering for the IRA in the Irish War of Independence. O'Connor opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and was chairman of the republic
Portrait of O'Connor, early 1920s
Back row l-r: Éamon de Valera, Kevin O'Higgins and his best man, Rory O'Connor, at O'Higgins' wedding, October 1921. A year later O'Higgins would sign O'Connor's death warrant
Rory O'Connor addressing members of the IRA's Dublin City Brigade at Smithfield, April 1922