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Michael Malone (1888-1916) was the officer in charge of C Company’s defence of Northumberland Road, and a lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. Born in Dublin, Malone was a carpenter who had won prizes in art and drawing from the Technical Schools. A devout Catholic, he was a member of St Patrick’s Confraternity in Ringsend, Dublin (Catholic Bulletin, 1916).
He was described by Seamus Grace, who occupied 25 Northumberland Road with him during the battle, to have been “a fine well-built young man with good features, serious minded but with an excellent sense of humour, but when the occasion arose could be a very strict disciplinarian”.
(MAI, BMH WS 310, 1949, p. 1)