Who is Thomas Ashe

Thomas Patrick Ashe (Irish: Tomás Pádraig Ághas; 12 January 1885 – 25 September 1917) was a member of the Gaelic League, the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers.

Background

Thomas Ashe was born in the townland of Kinard East, Lispole, Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland, to Gregory Ashe (d. 1927), a farmer, and his wife Ellen Hanifin, on 12 January 1885, according to his baptismal record and his sister Nora, or 15 March 1885, according to state birth records. His was a family of ten, seven boys and three girls. Thomas was the seventh child, with three brothers following him. His mother died aged 58, some years before Thomas died. Both Irish and English were spoken in their house, with Thom...
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Thomas Ashe Poems

• To Two Bereaved
  You must be sad; for though it is to Heaven,
  'Tis hard to yield a little girl of seven.
  Alas, for me 'tis hard my grief to rule,
  Who only met her as she went to school;...
• Meet We No Angels, Pansie?
  Came, on a Sabbath noon, my sweet,
  In white, to find her lover;
  The grass grew proud beneath her feet,
  The green elm-leaves above her:-...

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Comments about Thomas Ashe

• Dubgaa14: the round towers lusk team which defeated ballyboughal in the 1962 junior championship final in the thomas ashe cup in croke park.
• Eirigi1916: thomas clarke is in my thoughts, and macswiney, stagg, gaughan, thomas ashe, mccaughey. dear god, we have so many that another one to those knaves means nothing, or so they say, for some day they’ll pay. -14
• Hoopsghirl88: as this night heads towards a day we hold so dearly we remember with pride those fearless volunteers that over many years hungered for justice from thomas ashe to those brave blanketmen to the fearless men & woman of hs80/hs81 the bravest ten &those who bravely carried on oct 81
• Cavancoco: town hall street and main street, cavan will be closed from its junction with thomas ashe and town hall street on thursday, 23 february 2023 from 6pm to 9pm to accommodate the cavan orphanage fire victims 80th anniversary commemoration ceremony.
• Whosbrownbread: february 06 remembering those who died on this day : marghanita laski (1988) danny thomas (1991) arthur ashe (1993) joseph cotten (1994) jack kirby (1994) gwen watford (1994) patsy smart (1996) carl wilson (1998) 2/3

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