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Life
| [var. 1846]; b. nr. Cookstown; son of Catholic tenant farmers, his father dying when he was two; he sold out his tenant right to pay for his mother's funeral; worked as carpenter; became a supporter of the Fenian movement in 1865 and contrib. to The Irishman; attended Cookstown Academy and joined local library; he enjoyed the patronage of S. J. MacMullan, later Professor of English at QUB; won a scholarship to Queen’s College, Galway, grad. BA (Med.) 1880, and worked initially as a locum in Britain before becoming established in Cardiff, where he remained; |
| elected Chairman of Cardiff branch of Irish National League; initially supported Parnell but was later disillusioned; met Pearse at the Pan-Celtic Congress (Cardiff, 1899); he was denounced as non-nationalist in Claidheamh Soluis after differences with Pearse; voted out of office in Irish National League; latterly served as a ship’s doctor and visited Jamaica; ultimately became magistrate; he wrote an autobiography issued posthumously as Story of a Toiler’s Life (1921); d. in Cardiff. |
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Works
Story of a Toiler’s Life (Dublin: Maunsel 1921), rep. as The
Story of A Toiler’s Life, ed. Patrick Maume (UCD Press 2000),
256pp.
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Criticism
Patrick Maume, ‘James Mullin: The Poor Scholar’, in Irish
Studies Review (April 1999), pp.29-39.
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