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Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Sesamh Máire Pluincéid) was an Irish nationalist, republican, poet, journalist, revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising
If this news strikes you as odd, then just imagine how it might be received in Áras an Uachtaráin.
Better poets (writing proper poetry) won’t arise unless we foster a culture that encourages it.
Life through lens of the everyday
Spring and Fall bookend the season of flourishing and withering, and so it is the title of Gerard Manley Hopkins address to a young girl, who laments the passing of the multitudes of leaves in autumn. In this poem the author questions a child, Margaret, over the cause of her grief. She grieves over the […]
It is said that a civilisation turns through cycles; through four ages, finishing in decay and rebirth. The great Arabic historian of the 14th Century, Ibin Khaldun, framed this as a culture’s will to live, and the vitality of this he termed the “asabiyyah”. The cycle of culture echoes the seasons of a human life which […]
Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Sesamh Máire Pluincéid) was an Irish nationalist, republican, poet, journalist, revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising
Of all the writing where Pearse elucidates his revolutionary conscience, his poem ‘The Rebel’ is clearest. There is a searing sense of righteous pain in its lines, arising from the sense of a denial of destiny -a betrayal of the dignity of humanity formed in God’s image. It harkens back to Robert Emmet’s speech from […]
ON THIS DAY: Good Friday: Poem written by Joseph Mary Plunkett referencing Good Friday Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Seosamh Máire Pluincéid, 21 November 1887 – 4 May 1916) was an Irish nationalist, republican, poet, journalist, revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. He was married to his childhood sweetheart Grace Gifford in 1916, 7 hours before […]
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