By the age of twenty-six he was in Dublin, working with Maud Gonne and Arthur Griffith against the King’s visit to Ireland. He soon was an enthusiastic teacher of Irish, founding a local Gaelic League Branch at Carlow (the first person of the working class to do so). He was an excellent student, fascinated with language (he would later write two adventure novels), and joined the Gaelic League when he was twenty one. O’Hanrahan, a cork-cutter from Carlow, came from a Fenian family. This was not due to modesty-although O’Hanrahan was modest-but because his responsibility as Quartermaster General required absolute secrecy. It may be partially due to the fact that he was more of a work horse than a show horse, but the principal reason is that he (like Tom Clarke) was the most close-mouthed and self-effacing of revolutionaries. Michael O’Hanrahan is one of the lesser known Easter Rising martyrs, but this has nothing to do with his importance to the Rising or to Irish Nationalism itself.
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