On the night of May 7th, hours before his execution, Michael Mallin, who had commanded the Irish Citizen Army at St Stephen's Green, wrote to his wife of how he had passed their house, a few hundred metres from Kilmainham Gaol, as he was being led from Richmond Barracks to his final destination.
He hoped to catch sight of his “darling wife, pulse of my heart”, or their four young children. “The only one of my household that I could cast my longing eyes on was poor Prinnie the dog; she looked so faithful there at the door . . . I am so cold; this has been a such a cruel week.”
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