b.5 July 1894 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
d.21 January 1944 (aged 49)
Ballymascanlan, County Louth, Ireland
Political party: Sinn Féin
known to his contemporaries as Seoirse Plunkett, Irish: Seoirse Oilibhéar Pluincéid, was a militant Irish republican. Sentenced to death with his elder brother Joseph Plunkett and his younger brother John after the 1916 Easter Rising, but George's and John's sentences were commuted. Released in 1917, fought in the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War, and was briefly IRA Chief of Staff during World War II.
Father: George Noble Plunkett #197246420 & Josephine Mary Cranny 1858–1944
Relatives:
Joseph Plunkett (Brother)aka: Seosamh Pluincéid #4268, Fiona Plunkett (Sister) #197246583
Education: Belvedere College, Stonyhurst College
Alma mater: University College Dublin
Military service Branch/service
Irish Volunteers Irish Republican Army
Anti-Treaty IRA
Rank: Commandant
Battles/wars: Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War
Seoirse was born in 1894, in Dublin where his parents lived at the time, the son of George Noble Plunkett, a papal count and curator of the National Museum and his wife, Josephine, née Cranny; the Plunkett and Cranny families were both housing developers.
George was named after his father and his collateral ancestor Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, (1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland who was the last victim of the Popish Plot, was martyred in 1681.
One of seven children; his siblings were Philomena (Mimi, 1886), Joseph (1887 #4268, Moya (Maria, 1889), Geraldine (Gerry, 1891), Fiona (1896) and John (Jack, 1897). Like his brother, Joseph, he was sent to England to be educated at the exclusive Catholic public school Stonyhurst College, and is recorded there in the 1911 England Census, leaving him with an upper-class English accent.
Could this be brother John #169585547
d.21 January 1944 (aged 49)
Ballymascanlan, County Louth, Ireland
Political party: Sinn Féin
known to his contemporaries as Seoirse Plunkett, Irish: Seoirse Oilibhéar Pluincéid, was a militant Irish republican. Sentenced to death with his elder brother Joseph Plunkett and his younger brother John after the 1916 Easter Rising, but George's and John's sentences were commuted. Released in 1917, fought in the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War, and was briefly IRA Chief of Staff during World War II.
Father: George Noble Plunkett #197246420 & Josephine Mary Cranny 1858–1944
Relatives:
Joseph Plunkett (Brother)aka: Seosamh Pluincéid #4268, Fiona Plunkett (Sister) #197246583
Education: Belvedere College, Stonyhurst College
Alma mater: University College Dublin
Military service Branch/service
Irish Volunteers Irish Republican Army
Anti-Treaty IRA
Rank: Commandant
Battles/wars: Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War
Seoirse was born in 1894, in Dublin where his parents lived at the time, the son of George Noble Plunkett, a papal count and curator of the National Museum and his wife, Josephine, née Cranny; the Plunkett and Cranny families were both housing developers.
George was named after his father and his collateral ancestor Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, (1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland who was the last victim of the Popish Plot, was martyred in 1681.
One of seven children; his siblings were Philomena (Mimi, 1886), Joseph (1887 #4268, Moya (Maria, 1889), Geraldine (Gerry, 1891), Fiona (1896) and John (Jack, 1897). Like his brother, Joseph, he was sent to England to be educated at the exclusive Catholic public school Stonyhurst College, and is recorded there in the 1911 England Census, leaving him with an upper-class English accent.
Could this be brother John #169585547
b.5 July 1894 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
d.21 January 1944 (aged 49)
Ballymascanlan, County Louth, Ireland
Political party: Sinn Féin
known to his contemporaries as Seoirse Plunkett, Irish: Seoirse Oilibhéar Pluincéid, was a militant Irish republican. Sentenced to death with his elder brother Joseph Plunkett and his younger brother John after the 1916 Easter Rising, but George's and John's sentences were commuted. Released in 1917, fought in the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War, and was briefly IRA Chief of Staff during World War II.
Father: George Noble Plunkett #197246420 & Josephine Mary Cranny 1858–1944
Relatives:
Joseph Plunkett (Brother)aka: Seosamh Pluincéid #4268, Fiona Plunkett (Sister) #197246583
Education: Belvedere College, Stonyhurst College
Alma mater: University College Dublin
Military service Branch/service
Irish Volunteers Irish Republican Army
Anti-Treaty IRA
Rank: Commandant
Battles/wars: Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War
Seoirse was born in 1894, in Dublin where his parents lived at the time, the son of George Noble Plunkett, a papal count and curator of the National Museum and his wife, Josephine, née Cranny; the Plunkett and Cranny families were both housing developers.
George was named after his father and his collateral ancestor Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, (1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland who was the last victim of the Popish Plot, was martyred in 1681.
One of seven children; his siblings were Philomena (Mimi, 1886), Joseph (1887 #4268, Moya (Maria, 1889), Geraldine (Gerry, 1891), Fiona (1896) and John (Jack, 1897). Like his brother, Joseph, he was sent to England to be educated at the exclusive Catholic public school Stonyhurst College, and is recorded there in the 1911 England Census, leaving him with an upper-class English accent.
Could this be brother John #169585547
d.21 January 1944 (aged 49)
Ballymascanlan, County Louth, Ireland
Political party: Sinn Féin
known to his contemporaries as Seoirse Plunkett, Irish: Seoirse Oilibhéar Pluincéid, was a militant Irish republican. Sentenced to death with his elder brother Joseph Plunkett and his younger brother John after the 1916 Easter Rising, but George's and John's sentences were commuted. Released in 1917, fought in the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War, and was briefly IRA Chief of Staff during World War II.
Father: George Noble Plunkett #197246420 & Josephine Mary Cranny 1858–1944
Relatives:
Joseph Plunkett (Brother)aka: Seosamh Pluincéid #4268, Fiona Plunkett (Sister) #197246583
Education: Belvedere College, Stonyhurst College
Alma mater: University College Dublin
Military service Branch/service
Irish Volunteers Irish Republican Army
Anti-Treaty IRA
Rank: Commandant
Battles/wars: Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War
Seoirse was born in 1894, in Dublin where his parents lived at the time, the son of George Noble Plunkett, a papal count and curator of the National Museum and his wife, Josephine, née Cranny; the Plunkett and Cranny families were both housing developers.
George was named after his father and his collateral ancestor Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, (1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland who was the last victim of the Popish Plot, was martyred in 1681.
One of seven children; his siblings were Philomena (Mimi, 1886), Joseph (1887 #4268, Moya (Maria, 1889), Geraldine (Gerry, 1891), Fiona (1896) and John (Jack, 1897). Like his brother, Joseph, he was sent to England to be educated at the exclusive Catholic public school Stonyhurst College, and is recorded there in the 1911 England Census, leaving him with an upper-class English accent.
Could this be brother John #169585547
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