Conradh na Gaeilge Glaschú 1916 Seachtar Dearmadta - The Forgotten Seven: Michael Mallin & Ned Daly

1916 Seachtar Dearmadta: Michael Mallin & Ned Daly

Two episodes from 1916 Seachtar Dearmadta: (The Forgotten Seven), the follow-up series to the award-winning 1916 Seachtar na Cásca telling the story of the other seven leaders executed after the Easter Rising in Kilmainham Gaol.

This series from Abu Media explores the lives of these seven other executed men. In the series a one hour-long programme is dedicated to each one of them: Michael Mallin, Ned Daly, John MacBride, Willie Pearse, Micheál O’Hanrahan, Seán Heuston and Con Colbert.
Maintains the standard set by the critically acclaimed first series it tells their stories in a docu-dramatic form, with re-enactments of episodes from their lives interspersed with information from various historians.

On the first of four screening events, The 1916 Rising Centenary Committee (Scotland) and the Pádraig Pearse Branch of Conradh na Gaeilge, will screen the episodes from the series about Michael Mallin and Edward 'Ned' Daly.

Mallin, who commanded the Irish Citizen Army in St. Stephen's Green during the rising, and was one of the last to surrender.

Edward 'Ned' Daly was the Commandant of Dublin’s 1st Battalion during the 1916 Easter Rising and at age 25, was the youngest man to hold such a high rank and also the youngest to be executed on May 4th 1916.