Patrick Maher (Irish republican)

Patrick Maher (c. 1889 – 7 June 1921) was a member of the Irish Republican Army executed in Mountjoy Prison.

[1] A native of County Limerick, Maher was hanged along with Edmond Foley for his alleged involvement in the rescue of Seán Hogan at Knocklong Railway Station on 13 May 1919 in which two Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) officers were killed.

[4] He merely worked at the station grading poultry and eggs and he was at a crossroads three miles away at the time of the ambush.

[3] In a final message to other members of the IRA, Foley and Maher wrote:[4] Fight on, struggle on, for the honour, glory and freedom of dear old Ireland.

Farewell!Maher is one of a group of men hanged and buried in Mountjoy in the period 1920–21, commonly referred to as The Forgotten Ten.