If anything matters to you its the welfare of weaker people, you are always worried about people less fortunate than you. When someone says something and you do not agree you will let them know. when you get an idea you see it through to the very end. Although this is not a bad thing it can be sometimes.



On Easter Monday, 24th April, he led the Irish Citizens Army from Liberty Hall to the General Post Office and commanded military operations there throughout the week of Easter 1916. He was wounded once in the forearm by a bullet but hid his wound from his men. Until he was later shot again in the ankle and he could no longer command . He spent the rest of the week on a bed but still gave orders to his men . When the GPO became to unstable to remain in he was lifted out of the GPO on a stretcher . With his men around him forming a human shield from the machine gun bullets and taken to O`Moore St. After Pearse surrendered the GPO connolly was arrested and later executed sitting in a chair as he was too badly injured to stand . As a priest tried to pray over him he asked him instead to pray for the men who were about to execute him