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Mary McLouchlin was among the approximately 2000 rebels who provided witness statements to the Bureau of Military History regarding their roles in the Easter Rising of 1916. The bureau's archive is the largest collection of images, testimonies, and documents about the Rising.
Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Seosamh Máire Pluincéid; 21 November 1887 – 4 May 1916) was an Irish republican, poet and journalist. As a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, he was one of the seven signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Plunkett married Grace Gifford in 1916, seven hours before his execution.
The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), [2] also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War.
The Proclamation of the Republic (Irish: Forógra na Poblachta), also known as the 1916 Proclamation or the Easter Proclamation, was a document issued by the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising in Ireland, which began on 24 April 1916.
"A 1916 Medal Pair to Thomas Walsh, Irish Citizen Army, Who Served During the 1916 Easter Rising with the General Post Office and City Hall Garrisons". 27 January 2016. Conor Feehan (20 August 2011). "Riddle of the 1916 Rising family and the deadly grenades hidden under floor which shut the DART". "Citizen Army Garrisons – Easter Week 1916".
Grace Evelyn Gifford Plunkett (4 March 1888 – 13 December 1955) was an Irish artist and cartoonist who was active in the Republican movement, who married her fiancé Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol only a few hours before he was executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising.
Once the Rising was over Gibney remained active with the nationalist movement and joined Cumann na mBan in September of that year (1916). She had met her fiancé Dick McKee, who was a Commandant of the Irish Volunteers and later the Irish Republican Army in Dublin, in 1915. During the War of Independence she operated as a courier for the IRA ...
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