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A Jesuit priest whose father was a leader in Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising has died.
Fr Joseph Mallin, who was 104, died on Easter Sunday in Hong Kong.
His father, Commandant Michael Mallin, was in command of the Irish Citizen Army at St Stephen’s Green during Easter week 1916.
Michael was executed by a firing squad for his role in the armed insurrection just a few weeks later. He left four children and a pregnant wife.
Joseph was was two-and-a-half years old.
It is said Michael gave his wife a note prior to his execution saying he hoped his daughter Una would be a nun and Joseph a priest.
Both Una and Joseph followed his wishes.
Joseph became a Jesuit. In 1948 he moved to Hong Kong where he was a missionary.
Commenting on Joseph’s death, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mícheál MacDonncha, said “Fr Joseph was awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin in 2016 and the award was presented to him in Hong Kong by my predecessor Críona Ní Dhálaigh.
“… Joseph cherished the memory of his father and his legacy of commitment to the cause of Irish freedom.
“[His] sincere patriotism was an inspiration and it was a great source of pride that he held the Freedom of the City of Dublin.”
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