Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, to Joseph McDonagh, a schoolmaster, and Mary Parker.
Thomas Ashe trained as a teacher and worked as a school principal in Lusk, Co. Dublin.
Following the surrender Plunkett was held in Kilmainham Gaol, and faced a court martial.
Willie was very devoted to Pádraig and the brothers had a very close relationship.
There is a reason we have a standing joke in this country about everybody having had an ancestor in the GPO, and it is precisely because so few of us had.
HQ for the Easter Rising
He was an accomplished piper and athlete with a keen interest in all things Gaelic and cultural
In her biography of the 1916 proclamation signatory, Joseph Plunkett, Honor O Brolchain tells a fascinating story. A Dublin jeweller on the afternoon of May 3rd 1916 was attending to a young lady who was purchasing wedding bands. She bought two rings but seemed very upset. When he asked her what the matter was she […]
Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, to Joseph McDonagh, a schoolmaster, and Mary Parker.
“Micheál is a first class revisionist”
A British inquiry did not recommend charges and the killings were largely forgotten given the scale of the Rising deaths.
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.