Joseph Plunkett

thumb| Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Seosamh 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. Quotes I see His blood upon the rose,    And in the stars the glory of His eyes; His body gleams amid eternal snows;    His tears fall from the skies. Lyric, written before his execution in the Dublin Rebellion of 1916, printed in Theodore Maynard, Carven from the Laurel Tree: Essays (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1918), p. 3 Cf. Leonard Feeney External links Category:1887 births Category:1916 deaths Category:Poets from Ireland Category:Republicans from Ireland Category:Journalists from Ireland Category:Executed people