Plunkett's interest in politics likely came mostly through his sons, Joseph, George and John, and though it was following the execution of Joseph that he became radicalised, it is likely that Joseph swore him into the Irish Republican Brotherhood some time before he was shot.

Amongst others, Horace Plunkett's home in County Dublin was then burnt down during the Irish Civil War ( 1922 – 23 ) because of his involvement in the Irish Senate.

In 1918 the Volunteers, the Irish National League, and Count Plunkett's followers, the Liberty Clubs agreed to merge under the Sinn Féin banner with Éamon de Valera as President to fight the 1918 general election on an abstentionist platform.

While most of Horace Plunkett's efforts were devoted to his causes, he was also active in Dublin circles, and with family matters.

Larkin has been the subject of poems by Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh, Frank O ' Connor and Lola Ridge ; his character has been central in plays by Daniel Corkery, George Russell ( Æ ), and Sean O ' Casey ; and he is a heroic figure in the background of James Plunkett's novel Strumpet City.

Plunkett's father was a news vendor afflicted with progressive blindness, who had to support his blind wife along with their three children.

Linehan attended Plunkett's School in Whitehall, followed by Catholic University School, a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys located on the southside of central Dublin, before joining Hot Press.

* 2000: Winners u13 League Division 1 Dublin Junior Hurling Championship, Under 11 Camaint, Junior Hurling League Top 4, Ladies Football Minor Championship, Ladies Football Under 16 Championship. Denn GAA Club Invitation Tournament Senior Football Winners, Under 14 Evening Herald Floodlit Cup, PJ Troy Under 13 Hurling Tournament, Jim King Cup Minor A Football, St. Oliver Plunkett's Senior Hurling Tournament and promotion to Division 1 Senior Hurling.

Nevers ' # 1 jersey is retired, one of two to be retired by the school ( the other is Jim Plunkett's )

They questioned William Plunkett's loyalty for he had remained largely " passive " regarding the American Revolution.

Plunkett's touchdowns dropped and his interceptions rose in the following seasons, however, and he struggled with injuries and a shaky offensive line for the rest of his tenure in New England.

The Virginia estate was eventually sold around the year 1750 on behalf of the Plunkett's to pay off mounting debts, setting the way for a new landlord Thomas Taylor, Lord Headfort to continue in building the town where others had failed.

Plunkett's son, Joseph Mary Plunkett, was, at the time, serving a sentence of penal servitude for his part in the 1916 Rising.

England needed to keep the Pakistani run rate below five an over, however, after setting a target of 231, but Plunkett's seven overs went for 63-Kamran Akmal taking 39 off the 25 balls Plunkett bowled to him.

New England also influenced the AFC East championship race, as Plunkett's 88-yard fourth-quarter touchdown pass to former Stanford teammate Randy Vataha on the final day of the season dropped the Baltimore Colts to a 10-4-0 record and into second place in the division behind the 10-3-1 Miami Dolphins.

Super Bowl XV was the climax of Plunkett's revival as an NFL starting quarterback.

Oakland linebacker Rod Martin intercepted Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski's first pass of the game and returned it 17 yards to Philadelphia's 30-yard line, setting up Jim Plunkett's 2-yard touchdown pass to Cliff Branch 7 plays later.

The drive stalled when Plunkett's third down pass fell incomplete, but Ray Guy's 27-yard punt pinned Washington back at their own 12-yard line with 12 seconds left in the half.

In James Plunkett's Farewell Companions, one of the characters claims to have been " through Trinity ", having entered at College Green and left at the Nassau Street Gate.

horse studs ( earning the title " The Horse Capital of Victoria "), wineries ( Mitchelton, Tahbilk, Plunkett's ), olives and alpacas.

St Oliver Plunkett's and Cullion respectively facilitate both senior and intermediate hurling enthusiasts.

Plunkett's arrival ushered in an era of wide-open passing, pro-style offenses in the Pac-8, a trend that has continued to the present.

Plunkett's first game was a 20-6 victory over the Oakland Raiders, the Patriots ' first regular-season contest at Schaefer Stadium.

There are numerous uses of the phrase in literature, including Trollope's The Kelly's and the O ' Kellys ( 1848 ), p. 221 ; James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake ( 1939 ), p. 87. 31 ; James Plunkett's Farewell Companions ( 1977 ), p. 293 and Edna O ' Brien's Down By The River ( 1996 ), p. 1.

Signs urge silence in the ' sacred ' place, where so many visitors have seen the enormous altar, St. Oliver Plunkett's bones and head, and the grand architecture of the large building.

... a gathering of Irish traditional musicians for the purpose of celebrating their common interest in the music by playing it together in a relaxed, informal setting, while in the process generally beefing up the mystical cultural mantra that hums along uninterruptedly beneath all manifestations of Irishness worldwide.

Moreover, his sons played an important role in fighting against Irish Catholic rebellion in the 1640s and ' 50s, assisting in the victory of the British and Protestant interest in Ireland.

There were many published works that helped spark an interest in building telescopes such as Irish telescope maker Rev.

The Irish parliament was created, which often sat at Drogheda, until the Tudors took greater interest in Irish affairs from 1485 and moved it back to Dublin.

A striking development in British / Irish writing in the past 25 years has been the renewed interest in the First World War.

Nevertheless, Chamberlain maintained an interest in Irish affairs, and proposed to the Cabinet an Irish Central Board that would have legislative powers for land, education and communications.

Sylloge, 1632 ), is of interest as casting light on the relations between English and Irish scholars.

Known for his interest in Irish history he wrote a number of books on the topic.

The constitution of Grattan's parliament offered no security, as the differences over the regency question had made evident that in matters of imperial interest the policy of the Irish parliament and that of Great Britain would be in agreement.

He was crushed when Hart died ( Douglas was 14 ) and his interest in the Irish language, which was the first language he began to study in any detail, as his own undertaking, flagged for a while.

Perhaps due to lack of interest in other enterprises, his attention was drawn to the theme dominating the Irish political scene of the mid-1870s, Isaac Butt ’ s Home Rule League formed in 1873 to campaign for a moderate degree of self-government.

This drew the interest of the Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ), a physical force Irish organisation that had staged a rebellion in 1867.

However, since the revival of interest in the Ulster dialects of Scots in Northern Ireland in the 1990s, new orthographies have been created, which, according to Irish language activist Aodán Mac Póilin, seek " to be as different to English ( and occasionally Scots ) as possible.

Carteret was a profuse and popular Lord Lieutenant who pleased both the English interest and the native Irish.

In the Irish Parliament Ormonde and the majority of peers supported the Tory interest.

" In fact, de Brus was never to receive anything more than purely nominal recognition from any of the more powerful Irish Kings, and despite entreaties at various times over the next three years was ignored by those whom he did not directly interest.

Having asserted during the debates that " whoever was against the bill had either an Irish interest or an Irish understanding ", he was challenged by Lord Ossory.

Owen Roe professed to be acting in the interest of Charles I ; but his real aim was the complete Independence of Ireland as a Roman Catholic country, while the Old English Catholics represented by the council desired to secure religious liberty and an Irish constitution under the crown of England.

He and Lord Inchiquin commanded the forces which defeated the Irish irregular army at the Battle of Liscarroll on 3 September 1642, thereby preserving the Protestant interest in southern Ireland for the remainder of the decade.

He also developed a keen interest in the Irish language, which is something shared by his grandson.

His interest in the Irish language continues to this day, and he regularly appears on Irish language television programmes.