Austin Stacks Footballers: Joe Barrett, Mikey Sheehy, Kieran Donaghy, Ger Power, Daniel Bohane, Austin Stack, John O'Keeffe, Liam Kearns

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Joe Barrett, Mikey Sheehy, Kieran Donaghy, Ger Power, Daniel Bohane, Austin Stack, John O'keeffe, Liam Kearns, John Joe Landers, Ger O'keeffe, Gary Scollard, Pa Laide, William Kirby, Dinny Long. Excerpt: Austin Stack (7 December 1879 27 April 1929) was an Irish revolutionary and politician. Stack was born in Ballymullen, Tralee, County Kerry . He was educated at the Christian Brothers School in Tralee. At the age of fourteen he left school and became a clerk in a solicitor's office. A gifted Gaelic footballer, he captained the Kerry team to All-Ireland victory in 1904. He also served as President of the Kerry Gaelic Athletic Association County Board. He became politically active in 1908 when he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood . In 1916, as commandant of the Kerry Brigade of the Irish Volunteers, he made preparations for the landing of arms by Roger Casement . Although he was made aware that Casement was arrested on Easter Saturday and was being held in Tralee, he made no attempt to rescue him from Ballymullen Barracks. District Inspector Kearney (RIC ) treated Casement very well and made sure Stack was aware that Casement could have been rescued, yet he refused to act as his orders were to rise later. Stack was arrested and sentenced to death for his involvement in the Rising, however, this was later commuted to penal servitude for life. He was released under general amnesty in June 1917 and was elected as an abstentionist Sinn Fin Member of Parliament for Kerry West in the 1918 Westminster election, becoming a member of the 1st Dil . He was automatically elected as an abstentionist member of the House of Commons of Southern Ireland and a member of the 2nd Dil as a Sinn Fin Teachta Dla for Kerry Limerick West at the 1921 elections. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Tre...