Liam Mellows, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLiam Mellows
Irish politician
Date of Birth: 25-May-1892
Place of Birth: Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 08-Dec-1922
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Liam Mellows
- Liam (William Joseph) Mellows (Irish: Liam Ó MaoilÃosa, 25 May 1892 – 8 December 1922; surname often misspelled as Mellowes) was an Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician.
- Born in England, to a British Army father, Mellows grew up in Ashton-under-Lyne, Dublin, Cork and Wexford (where his mother was born).
- He was active with the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Irish Volunteers, and participated in the Easter Rising in County Galway, and the War of Independence.
- Elected as a TD to the First Dáil, he rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty and was captured by pro-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War.
- Mellows was executed by Free State forces in 1922.
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