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Mullin, Patrick
(1938 -1990)
 Patrick Mullin was born in Williamstown,
Co. Galway in 1938. He came to the USA in his early 20’s.and served
in its armed forces from 1962-1964. After completing his military
service he went to work for the New York Telephone Co. where he
remained for the remainder of his working life.
In the mid-1960’s, Pat became a
founding member of the United Brooklyn Irish whose objective was to
lend financial support to the oppressed Nationalists in the British
occupied six Irish counties. Eventually the group became the
Brooklyn Chapter of Irish Northern Aid (INA). Pat went on to serve
on the Executive Committee of the INA
In 1981, Pat was arrested along with
Mike Flannery, George Harrison, Tom Falvey, and Danny Gormley all
highly respected amongst Irish Republicans in the New York area.
All five were acquitted of all charges in November 1982.
By 1989 Pat knew that Provisional
Sinn Fein/INA were going in the wrong direction so he quit INA and
helped re-activate Friends Of Irish Freedom (FIOF), originally
founded in 1916. He was an Executive Officer in FOIF until his
death in 1990. Patrick Mullin was a quiet, unassuming man. He
never looked for attention or publicity.
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Lest we
forget
They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think
that they have purchased half of us and intimidated
the other half. They think that they have foreseen
everything, think that they have provided against
everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! -
they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland
holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at
peace.
Padraic Pearse oration given at
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa's
funeral on Aug. 1, 1915
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