Thomas Mullins (Irish politician)

Thomas Lincoln Joseph Mullins (12 February 1903 – 2 November 1978) was an American-born Irish Fianna Fáil politician.

[1] He was born 12 February 1903 in New Rochelle, New York, the only child of Martin and Catherine Mullins originally from Cork and Galway respectively.

[1] He joined Fianna Éireann and later the Irish Republican Army, serving in A Company, 5th Battalion, 3rd Cork Brigade.

He was arrested in 1920 along with his father, and was imprisoned in Spike Island, Wormwood Scrubs, and Ballykinler until the end of 1921.

Opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, he joined the anti-Treaty IRA faction and was arrested and imprisoned in Mountjoy, where he went on hunger strike for forty-one days in October 1923.