# Liam Mellows

> William Joseph Mellows was an Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician. Born in England to an English father and Irish mother, he grew up in Ashton-under-Lyne before moving to Ireland, being raised in Cork, Dublin and his mother's native Wexford. 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. During the Irish Civil War Mellows was captured by Pro-Treaty forces after the surrender of the Four Courts in June 1922. On 8 December 1922 he was one of four senior IRA men executed by the free state Government.

*Irish politician (1892-1922)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Born:** 1892-05-25
- **Died:** 1922-12-08
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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