Eamon Martin
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Eamon Martin (1893 - 1971) was an Irish Republican.
Martin was born in Dublin and educated at Westland Row Christian Brothers School. He was a former Chief of Staff of Fianna Éireann, which he helped to found. He was also on the original Volunteer Executive Council (Provisional Committee).
During the Easter Rising in 1916 he helped lead the attack (along with Garry Holahan, Paddy Holahan and Frank Gaskin) on the magazine fort in Phoenix Park which was to be the signal for the start of the rising. He went on to fight in the North King Street area, the site of a civilian massacre, and was shot at Church Street in the lung.
