Joseph Plunkett was executed on May 4th 1916, with William Pearse, Edward Daly and Michael O’Hanrahan, for their role in the Easter Rising
Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, to Joseph McDonagh, a schoolmaster, and Mary Parker.
Easter Rising leaders: Pádraig Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh were executed by a firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol.
Éinniú understood the history behind the songs
Spectacular hoard
“You must not grieve for all this. We have preserved Ireland’s honour and our own”
The Count was offered a pardon from all his crimes by the Anglican Bishop of Meath, Bishop Jones, if he testified against the Catholic priests.
The story of Roger Casement’s landing and capture at Banna Strand in Kerry as he attempted to bring arms ashore for the 1916 Rising, is commemorated in the famed ballad Banna Strand.
Start of ‘gigantic’ movement
Joseph Plunket and Grace Gifford married just hours before he was executed in the Stone-breakers’ Yard
Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916 and lasted for six days.
Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Sesamh Máire Pluincéid) was an Irish nationalist, republican, poet, journalist, revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising