Executed Participants in the Easter Rising - Conn Colbert, Eamonn Ceannt, Edward Daly (Irish Revolutionary), James Connolly, John MacBride, Joseph Plun (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Conn Colbert, Eamonn Ceannt, Edward Daly (Irish revolutionary), James Connolly, John MacBride, Joseph Plunkett, Michael Mallin, Michael O'Hanrahan, Patrick Pearse, Sean Heuston, Sean Mac Diarmada, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Clarke (Irish republican), Willie Pearse. Excerpt: Thomas James "Tom" Clarke (Irish: 11 March 1857 - 3 May 1916) was an Irish revolutionary leader and arguably the person most responsible for the 1916 Easter Rising. A proponent of violent revolution for most of his life, he spent 15 years in prison. Following his release he organized the Easter Rising, and was executed after it was quashed. Clarke was born on the Isle of Wight to James Clarke from Carrigallen, Leitrim, and his newly married bride, Mary Palmer from Clogheen Tipperary. His father was a soldier in the British Army and was based there. His father was transferred to South Africa when Thomas was one. The family moved with him. They did not return to Ireland until he was seven. He grew up in Dungannon, County Tyrone. Dungannon, in the heart of east Tyrone, was a part of the country that had witnessed constant resistance to English interference in Irish affairs from the early modern period. It was a hotbed of paramilitary organization, some of which was agrarian located, other of which was politically motivated. The famine had afflicted that part of Ireland well into the early 1850s, and was very much within living memory during Tom's youth. This was a stronghold of the United Irishmen in times past, and became a center of Fenianism. Dungannon-Coalisland was a bastion of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which in 1867, had risen in arms in various parts of Ireland. Clarke was drawn into this type of activity. When he was old enough to join, he became a member of the IRB in Dungannon. Clarke as a young man. He was later to become...