Eamon Martin 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

Fianna Éireann

The name Fianna Éireann , also written Fianna na hÉireann and Na Fianna Éireann , has been used by various Irish republican youth movements throughout the 20th and 21st centuries...

, which he helped to found. He was also on the original Volunteer

Irish Volunteers

The Irish Volunteers was a military organisation established in 1913 by Irish nationalists. It was ostensibly formed in response to the formation of the Ulster Volunteers in 1912, and its declared primary aim was "to secure and maintain the rights and liberties common to the whole people of Ireland"...

 Executive Council (Provisional Committee).

During the Easter Rising

Easter Rising

The Easter Rising was an insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing the Irish Republic at a time when the British Empire was heavily engaged in the First World War...

 in 1916 he helped lead the attack (along with Garry Holahan, Paddy Holahan and Frank Gaskin) on the magazine fort in Phoenix Park

Phoenix Park

Phoenix Park is an urban park in Dublin, Ireland, lying 2–4 km west of the city centre, north of the River Liffey. Its 16 km perimeter wall encloses , one of the largest walled city parks in Europe. It includes large areas of grassland and tree-lined avenues, and since the seventeenth...

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.