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Joseph Plunkett, member of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic.

Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916) was born at 42 Upper Mount Street, Dublin, the son of George Noble Plunkett, a papal count and his wife Josephine Cranny.

He was educated by the Jesuits at the Catholic University School, Belvedere College and Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, where he wrote his first poetry and became interested in mystics such as St John of the Cross and St Teresa of Avila.

He contracted tuberculosis as a young man and spent periods in Italy, Algeria and Egypt in the years 1910-12.

Plunkett met Thomas MacDonagh when he had him as a tutor in Irish in preparation for the University College, Dublin matriculation examinations.

MacDonagh was to become a close friend, as both were interested in poetry, religion and mysticism. When MacDonagh established the literary journal Irish Review in 1911, he published some of Plunkett’s early po