Michael quill biography

(b. 18 September in Gourtloughera, Kilgarvan, County Kerry, Ireland; d. 28 January in New York City), labor leader and longtime head of the Transport Workers Union who crippled New York City in by shutting down the subway and bus systems during a mass transit strike.

Born to Roman Catholic farmers, John Daniel Quill and Margaret Lynch, Quill was the second youngest of eight children.

Michael quill biography

After leaving Kilgarvan National School at the age of fourteen, he joined the Irish Republican Army as a dispatch carrier. When Great Britain gave the southern part of Ireland independence, and "The Troubles" ended, Quill decided to emigrate and flipped a coin to pick his new home.

America won.

Arriving in New York City in , Quill found a job as a night gateman on the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) subway line and soon rose to the position of agent. From to , when twelve-hour, seven-day work-weeks were common, Quill worked in almost every station on the