Who is Joseph Plunkett

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. Joseph Mary Plunkett married Grace Gifford in 1916, seven hours before his execution.

Background

Plunkett was born at 26 Upper Fitzwilliam Street in one of Dublin's most affluent districts. Both his parents came from wealthy backgrounds, and his father, George Noble Plunkett, had been made a papal count.Plunkett contracted tuberculosis (TB) at a young age and spent part of his youth in the warmer climates of the Mediterranean and North Africa. He spent time in Algiers where he studied Arabic literature and language and composed poetry in Arabic. He was educated at the ...
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Joseph Plunkett Poems

• This Heritage To The Race Of Kings
  This heritage to the race of kings,
  Their children and their children's seed
  Have wrought their prophecies in deed
  Of terrible and splendid things....
• The Spark
  Because I used to shun
  Death and the mouth of hell
  And count my battles won
  If I should see the sun...

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Joseph Plunkett Quotes

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Comments about Joseph Plunkett

• Stephen_j_moran: one of 13 british soldiers interviewed. he goes on to talk about serving at kilmainham. guarded countess markiewicz and joseph plunkett. "future wives brought in." jp married then taken out and shot. he would not have volunteered for the firing squad. "a terrible thing to do."
• Andymobrien: i’m a past pupil of a fee paying school, catholic university school on leeson street, the same school joseph mary plunkett went to, as well as a deranged and divorced sitcom writer. i’m a syndicalist, and i want everyone else to have the best of what i had. money well spent.
• Benreadspoetry: the presence of god by joseph mary plunkett
• Yesecondpost: really interesting bit of insight from jim mccann here on the song grace, about grace gifford, joseph mary plunkett's brief bride

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