The Intelligence authorities found it difficult to accept that parents whose eldest adult child had been executed for his role in the Easter Rising, and who moreover had two more sons Volunteers (initially sentenced to death but commuted to 10-year sentences), were not actively involved in the Rising. Continue reading
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Mystic and Revolutionary
The strange phenomenon that was Joseph Mary Plunkett – invalid, bohemian, fey man of letters, theatrical spy, bookish military strategist, unrequited lover, very public lover, and ultimately executed revolutionary. Continue reading
An Unlikely Hero – Joseph Mary Plunkett
The story of Joseph Mary Plunkett is so dramatic, so full of high courage and drama and resolve, that it should have made the best kind of biography. Continue reading