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Joseph Mary Plunkett
Life
1887-1916; poet and revolutionary, son of Count George Noble Plunkett; ed. privately and at Stonyhurst; spent parts of childhood in Sicily and Malta for reasons of health [TB]; The Circle and the Sword (1911), poems, were published while he was in Algieria; met Thomas MacDonagh before leaving for Algiers and sought Irish lessons from him for matriculation at National University; settled in Donnybrook on returning to Ireland and shared a house there with his sister Geraldine; co-ed.
Grace lyrics
with Padraic Colum and others, The Irish Review, suppressed on account of his own articles, Nov. 1914; associated with Edward Martyn and Thomas MacDonagh in founding Irish Theatre, Hardwicke St., 1914; joined IRB and became Director of Operations;
became a mbr.
of the IRB Supreme Council and Military Council, 1915; accompanied Casement, a close friend, to Germany in search of guns and left German High Command unimpressed; co-ed. with Sean Mac Diarmada the ‘Castle
