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Title:	Photograph of Patrick Moran. Executed in Mountjoy Jail, 1921
Authors:	Dun Laoghaire and Bray 1913 Commemorative Committee Moran, May
Keywords:	Patrick Moran Paddy Moran Forgotten Ten Mountjoy Jail
Issue Date:	1916
Description:	Paddy Moran Photograph. Patrick Moran was born on the 14th of March 1888 in Crossna, Co. Roscommon, and was executed in Mountjoy Prison on 14 March 1921. He was an active member of the G.A.A., and was involved in the 1913 Lock-out. He was also an IRB member and later the Irish Volunteers. During the 1916 Rising he fought in Jacob's Factory. He was imprisoned at Knutsford Prison, Wormwood Scrubs and Frongoch. He was released in July 1916. In 1917, he founded the Irish National Union of Vintners, Grocers and Allied Trades. He went on to serve as the organisation's president and chairman of its Kingstown branch. He was arrested twice in 1920 and after Bloody Sunday was charged with the murder of a member of the Cairo Gang of British intelligence agents. While in detention at Arbour Hill Prison, he was identified (incorrectly) as being one of a group of men who had killed Lieutenant Ames at 38 Mount Street, Dublin. He denied any involvement and had been to be at Mass in Blackrock by a DMP and several others at the time of the murder. He was transferred from Arbour Hill to Kilmainham Jail, two cells away from Ernie O'Malley. On 14 February 1921, Moran, O'Malley and Frank Teeling broke through the padlock on an outer gate of the prison. However Moran refused to take the opportunity to escape. Moran was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged on 14 March 1921. The Archbishop of Dublin spoke out against the sentence. Over 40,000 people gathered outside Mountjoy to pray for the six men who were hanged between 6am and 8pm. Aftermath: In 1961 a park was opened in Moran's memory in Dún Laoghaire. He is one of a group of men hanged in Mountjoy Prison in the period 1920-1921 known as The Forgotten Ten. In 2001 he and the other nine, including Kevin Barry, were exhumed from their graves in the prison and given a full State Funeral. He is now buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10599/10313
Copyright:	Reproduced by kind permission of May Moran. South Dublin Libraries do not own the reproduction rights to this image. If you wish to reproduce this image please contact South Dublin Libraries Local Studies, County Library, Tallaght, or e-mail localstudies@sdublincoco.ie.
Appears in Collections:	1913-1915: Preparation 1916-1921: Revolution Published Items

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