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Irish Patriot, Poet, Writer, Someone, Gaelic Alliance member, Goidelic Volunteer, Gaelic Republican,
Easter Proclamation Human. Executed Leader of rendering Easter Dare.
Early Life
Joseph Mary Plunkett, the second of seven domestic, was born on November 21, in Dublin to George Lady Plunkett at an earlier time Josephine Plunkett (nee Cranny).
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In her biography of the proclamation signatory, Joseph Plunkett, Honor O Brolchain tells a fascinating story.
A Dublin jeweller on the afternoon of May 3rd was attending to a young lady who was purchasing wedding bands. She bought two rings but seemed very upset. When he asked her what the matter was she confessed that she was about to get married but that her fiancé was condemned to execution before a firing squad at dawn.
The jeweller knew very well who the young woman was talking about and before Grace Gifford had married Joseph Plunkett in the chapel at Kilmainham at around 8pm that night their story had spread around the city. It was a sensational story which tugged at the heartstrings and was on the front page of the morning newspapers just hours after Plunkett had been shot by a firing squad.
As the story formed from the reports of witnesses over the weeks it took on mythical status. The essential facts of the story were that Grace Gifford was allowed attend the prison chapel at Kilmainham jail and Joseph Plunket was brought in in handcuffs. They were removed and the wedding ceremony was witnessed by two guards who held rifles to attention while the priest performed the sacrament. It took just ten minutes and Plunkett was returned to his cell immediately. Gifford w
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Joseph Plunkett
Irish republican, poet and journalist ()
For other people named Joseph Plunkett, see Joseph Plunkett (disambiguation).
Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Seosamh Máire Pluincéid; 21 November – 4 May ) was an Irish republican, poet and journalist. As a leader of the Easter Rising, he was one of the seven signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Plunkett married Grace Gifford in , seven hours before his execution.
Background
[edit]Plunkett was born at 26 Upper Fitzwilliam Street in one of Dublin's most affluent districts.[2] Both his parents came from wealthy backgrounds,[3] and his father, George Noble Plunkett, had been made a papal count.[4]
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.[5] He was educated at the Catholic University School (CUS) and by the Jesuits at Belvedere College in Dublin and later at Stonyhurst College, in Lancashire, England where he acquired some military knowledge from the Officers' Training Corps. Throughout his life, Joseph Plunkett took an active interest in Irish heritage