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  • Kilmainham Gaol 1916

    Info that others that might find interesting.

    Cemetery: Kilmainham Gaol
    Name: Patrick Pearse & Others

    Date Of Photograph: 2009
    Photo can be seen at:

    Image file size: 237.9 Kb

    Here, after Easter Week, 1916,
    The Following Leaders Were Executed
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    May 3 1916
    P.H. Pearse
    Thomas J. Clarke
    Thomas MacDonagh

    May 4 1916
    Joseph Plunkett
    Edward Daly
    Michael O'Hanrahan
    William Pearse

    May 5 1916
    John MacBride

    8 May 1916
    Con Colbert
    Eamonn Ceannt
    Michael Mallin
    Seán Heuston
    Seán Mac Diarmada
    James Connolly

    Additional Comments:
    This plaque is in the walled-in courtyard where the executions took place.
    teresa

  • #2
    One of the most moving places on Earth. I first visited before it was properly open to the public (part of my Ireland under the Union course) and shocked fellow course members by weeping buckets of tears. I think it was the sight of a separate flag for the already mortally wounded James Connelly (and what it represented) that did for me. I have been back, but always find it hard to go into that yard.

    Jay
    Janet in Yorkshire



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    • #3
      Originally posted by Janet in Yorkshire View Post
      One of the most moving places on Earth. I first visited before it was properly open to the public (part of my Ireland under the Union course) and shocked fellow course members by weeping buckets of tears. I think it was the sight of a separate flag for the already mortally wounded James Connelly (and what it represented) that did for me. I have been back, but always find it hard to go into that yard.

      Jay

      I'm sure it would move me to tears too.

      Many of my Pollard's other relatives could have lost their lives too, but good fortune was on their side.

      It was a terrible time for all who were unvolved and so may civillians lost their lives too. Some were even trampled to death during the riots in Dublin. Some were buried without ever being identified. How sad is that?

      Many British Solders lost their lives in Ireland too.
      teresa

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      • #4
        Executed May 3 1916

        Patrick H. Pearse, BA, BL., one of the seven signatories to the declaration of an Irish Republic. He was described as ‘Commandant-General of the Army of the Irish Republic and President of the Provisional Government. Pearse who was 36 years of age, was a member of the Irish Bar and the founder and headmaster of St Enda’s School for Boys at Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. He was born in Dublin but of English descent. He was educated at the Christian Brother’s School, Westland Row and the Royal University. At the age of 17 he founded and became Presedent of the New Ireland Literary Society. He had been a member of the Executive of the Gaelic League, was a fine Gaelic scholar and wrote miracle plays in Gaelic for the pupils of his school, some of whom took part in the rising. Pearse was a noted orator and represented the Gaelic League at Welsh and Scottish Festivals.
        He spent his last hours in prison writing poetry.

        Thomas J. Clarke was the first of seven signatories to the declaration of an Irish Republic. He represented the old Fenian conspiracy on the ‘Provisional Government’. A native of Dungannon and in 1879 emigrated to the USA where he became Adjutant of the Irish Volunteers of New York. In 1881 he was sentenced to penal servitude for life in England for complicity in dynamite outrages and released on ticket-of-leave in 1898. A year later he returned to America and married the niece of his fellow convict, John Daly of Limerick. In 1907 he returned to Dublin, opened a tobacco and newspaper shop in Great Britain St. and became prominent once more as a speaker at Fenian anniversaries. Clarke was president of the O’Donovan Rosea Funeral Committee and was among the leaders at the General Post Office in Sackville St., during Easter week. He was one of the men who directed operations on the day of the gunrunning at Howth and his shop in Great Britain St., was a rendezvous for his comrades. Remarkable evidence of the forethought and preparation given by this veteran to the cause of the rebellion was provided in the intimation made in the first list of subscriptions to the Irish Volunteers Dependants Fund. He left a widow and three young children.

        Thomas MacDonagh, MA one of the seven signatories to the declaration of an Irish Republic. He was a native of Cloughjordan and early in life intended to devote himself to the Church, but did not persevere in that purpose. After the publication of John MacNeil’s order cancelling the Easter manoeuvres, MacDonagh issued an order from Dublin Brigade Headquarters on Easter Sunday the 23rd, that ‘all Volunteers are to stay in Dublin until further orders.’ He issued a final order on Easter Monday directing the four city battalions to parade for inspection and route march at 10.am, to bring full arms, equipment and one day’s rations. He commanded the insurgents in Jacobs biscuit factory and was one of the signatories to the document of surrender.
        MacDoagh was an MA of the National University of Ireland and a tutor of English Literature in University College, Dublin and was associated with P H Pearse in the conduct of St Edna’s College, Rathfarnham, after he has spent time teaching in Fermoy and Kilkenny. He was a poet and dramatist and published several books of verse. A play of his, ‘When the Dawn is Come’ was produced at the Abbey Theatre in 1908. He was a director of the Irish Theatre in Hardwicke Street.
        MacDonagh left two children, a widow who is a sister of Mrs Joseph Plunkett

        Executed May 4 1916

        Joseph Plunkett One of the seven signatories to the declaration of an Irish Republic.
        He was married the night before his execution to Miss Grace Gifford, who’s sister was married to Thomas MacDonagh. Joseph Plunkett was the eldest son of the Count and Countess Plunkett. Two of his brothers, George and John also took part in the rising, were sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted in their cases to ten years penal servitude. Joseph Plunkett was a poet and a dramatist and for a time edited ‘The Iris Review’. He was 24 years of age ad acted as secretary to James Connelly during Easter Week in the General Post Office. He had been in Spain early in the year and believed to be there for the purpose of negotiating with Germany.
        Mrs Joseph Plunkett is the daughter of a well known Dublin solicitor.

        Edward Daly, was Commandant of the rebels in the Four Courts. Edward Daly’s father was a brother of John Daly, and old Finean, who was afterwards Mayor of Limerick, where he died two months after the Easter rising.
        Edward Daly was the only son of his widowed mother and was born in 1891, six months after his father’s death. He was educated at Limerick and came to Dublin a few years ago, residing with his sister Mrs Thomas J Clarke and her husband (who was also executed). During the rebellion Daly was in charge of the rebels in the north west area of Dublin which included, the Four Courts, Linenhall Barracks, Church Street and North King Street where some of the fiercest fighting took place.



        Michael O'Hanrahan was a man of considerable literary ability. He was employed in a clerical capacity at the headquarters of the Volunteers in Dawson Street and was one if the most trusted men in the Volunteer organisation. He belonged to New Ross and spent his early year in Carlow. He was the author of a work of military adventure entitled ‘A Swordsman of the Brigade’. His brother Henry O’Hanrahan was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He was also employed on the clerical staff at the headquarters of the Volunteers.


        William Pearse a brother of Patrick H Pearse was educated at the Christian Brother’s School, Westland Row. After a period of work as a sculptor he became associated with his brother and Thomas MacDonagh in the management of St. Edna’s College, Rathfarnham. He was a keen Irish Irelander attending the Oireachatas and other festivals attired in ancient Gaelic costume. He was a stage enthusiast and appeared on the boards of the Abbey Theatre and the Irish Theatre, Hardwick St.
        teresa

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        • #5
          Executed May 5 1916

          John MacBride, Major, He was associated with Thomas MacDonagh in the command of the forces that occupied the Jacobs biscuit factory. He was a native of Westport, Co. Mayo who threw over the Irish Constitutional Party in 1895 and joined the fiscal party. He emigrated to South Africa, became a naturalised citizen of the Transvaal. When the Boer war broke out he organised and led the Irish Brigade which fought against the British. He was a commissioned officer in Kruger’s Army with the rank of Major. At the end of the war, he went to Paris as one of the delegates from the Irish Transvaal Committee to Mr Kruger, then in the city, who told him he would never forget how the Irish Brigade stood by the men in their hour of need.
          During the visit to France, he met Miss Maude Gonne, whom he married two years later and afterwards she divorced him. Under the general amnesty after the South African War, McBride returned to Ireland
          teresa

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          • #6
            Executed 8 May 1916

            Con Colbert
            Cornelius Colbert played an active part in the rebellion, He was a native of Athea Co. Clare, aged about 23 and was employed as a junior clerk in a Dublin Bakery. He had been active in Nationalist movements since leaving school, particularly in organising the National Boy Scouts and the Fianna.

            Eamonn Ceannt - Edmund Kent one of the seven signatories (Eamonn Ceannt). He was born in Galway in 1882 and educated in Dublin and occupied and important position on the clerical staff in the Treasurer’s office of the Dublin Corporation. He was a foundation member of the Gaelic League and a member of the Coisde Gnotha. Kent commanded the rebels who held South Dublin Union. He left a widow and a young son.

            Michael Mallin a Commandant of the Citizen Army was in charge of the rebels at St. Stephen’s Green and afterwards in the Royal college of Surgeons with the Countess Markievicz. He was a silk weaver by trade, a musician and an active member of the Workingman’s Temperance Committee, in Church St. He left a widow and five children.


            Seán Heuston. J. J. Heuston was executed for taking a very prominent part in the rebellion. He was a comparatively young man as was occupied as a clerk on the staff of the Great Southern & Western Railway after being educated by the Christian Brothers. He was a lieutenant in the National Boy Scouts.

            Seán Mac Diarmada. John MacDermott was one of the seven signatories (Sean MacDiarmada) to the declaration of an Irish Republic. He was a native of Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim and physically, not a strong man. He edited a weekly paper advocating the cause of the Volunteers. After a political mission in America he became active in organising in the West and for an anti-recruiting speech, he was prosecuted under the Defence of the Realm Act and sentenced to 4 months in prison. He was much in request as a speaker.

            James Connolly. James Thomas Connolly was one of the seven signatories to the declaration of an Irish Republic. Known as the Commandant General, of the Dublin Division, of the Army of the Irish Republic. He was one of the three rebel leaders who signed the document of surrender on the 29th April. He was wounded in the middle of the week but continued to direct operations in the GPO from a couch. After the collapse he was removed to Dublin Castle Red Cross Hospital. He was executed after trial by court marshall.
            He was a Monoghan man, son of an artisan and about 50years of age. When a young man, he went to Edinburgh with his parents and soon afterwards became actively associated with the district branch of the Social Democratic Union, a Socialist body. After ten years active work as a Socialist he left Edinburgh and came to Dublin where he founded, in the early nineties, the Irish Socialist Republican party. Later he went to the States, where he found congenial associates among the ultra-revolutionary Socialists. He wrote a book ‘Labour in Irish History’. Six years ago he returned to Ireland in the belief that times were more propitious for his propaganda. He broke new ground at Belfast immediately after the great dock strike there, which had given James Larkin his introduction to Irish Industrial agitation. Connolly subsequently transferred his activities to Dublin, where he became the nominal second-in-command, but the real leader of Larkin’s Irish Transport Workers’ Union. He took a prominent part in the strikes of 1913. He originated and commanded the Citizen Army and blended in with the Sinn Fein Volunteers. Connolly left a wife and three of a family.
            teresa

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