Key Issue 2 Key Figures Breakdown

- 7 Signatories Breakdown 1.) Thomas Clarke 2.)Sean MacDiarmada 3.)Pádraig Pearse 4.) Éammon Ceannt 5.) Joseph Plunkett 6.) James Connolly 7.) Thomas MacDonagh

• Thomas Clarke was a “v… fenian”.

Key figure in the Republican tradition

• How many years did he serve in prison for the 1880s bombing campaign in London? The D… bombing campaign?

He was the driving force behind the formation of the Military Council.

• Who was his young protégé?

He ensured the IRB gained influence within the Irish Volunteers.

• He was effectively the e… st… of the rising ?

Encouraged by John Devoy to return to Ireland in 1907.

Opened tobacco shop 1907, then 1911 one on Parnell Street where the IRB military council met.

• “veteran”

• 15 , Dynamite

• Séan MacDiarmada

• Elder statesman

• Séan MacDiarmada along with Clarke were given the primary role of secretly planning and orchestrating what insurrection (Hint: E… R… of April 1916) along with the military council.

• True/False: Séan MacDiarmada was a member of the IRB’s provisional committee?

• He was who’s young protégé?

• What age was he when he was executed by firing squad after the rising at Kilmainham jail, Dublin.

• Easter Rising

• True

• Thomas Clarke

• 33

• As well as being a schoolmaster, Pearse also trained as a …? Did he win the case and give year ? Give an example of his first and only case, reflecting what he stood for himself?

• What is the correct term to use for Pearse as a fluent Irish language speaker?

• What was Pearse obsessed with?

• Pearse believed that he wanted to emulate …’s example on the …

• True/False: After the rising, images of Pearse were often hung beside that of Christ in sympathisers’ homes in Dublin.

• He was a p… poet?

• What boys school did he establish in 1908 along with a later girls’ school?

• What is Pearse most known for drafting?

• Who appointed Pearse to make the graveside oration at Rossa’s burial?

• What is this event a illustration of? Hint: “The … flame?”

• Can you quote exactly what Pearse said at the graveside oration of the old Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa?

• Barrister, man with a cart, with his name written in Irish on it. No, 1905

• Gaeilgeoir

• Blood sacrifice

• Christ’s example on the cross

• True

• Prolific

• St Endas’ and St Ita’s

• Proclamation of the Irish Republic.

• Thomas Clarke

• Phoenix flame

• “From death springs life, from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations, the fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us with our fenian dead but while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”

• Éamonn Ceannt was …-founder of what organisation?

• Ceannt was commander of the … battalion of the Irish Volunteers which took control of the South Dublin Union.

• co-founder of the Irish Volunteers.

• Fourth

• Joseph Mary Plunkett was largely responsible for his m… strategy and planning in the rising?

• He negotiated with … for arms and support, which was viewed as treacherous behaviour.

• He was therefore, Director of M… Operations.

• Who was the woman he married in the Kilmainham jail chapel?

• military

• Germany

• Military

• Grace Gifford

• Who was the leader of the ICA- Irish Citizen Army?

• He was a radical s…

• He was committed to m…

• Where did he hail from?

• What was the reason to co-opt him last moment to the IRB military council?

• Unaware of the IRB’s secret and conspiratorial plans, Connolly had threatened to stage his own …? He commanded the Dublin Brigade during the Rising.

• True or False: Connolly was main contibutor to the Proclamtion alongside Pearse and MacDonagh?

• Due to his severe ankle wounds from fighting, what is significant about the way in which he was executed?

• James Connolly

• Socialist

• Marxism

• Scotland

• To prevent a premature rising.

• rising

• True

• Strapped to a chair

Thomas MacDonagh was a poet, playwright and educationalist.

• He was commandant of the … Battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers.

• He was the first or last member to be added to the Military Council shortly before the Rising?

• He commanded the garrison at … biscuit factory?

• He was executed at the s…’s yard at Kilmainham jail with Pearse and Clarke on 3rd May 1916?

• second

• last

• Jacobs

• stonebreakers’

Give 4 examples of the 7 signatories that contribute to historian Foy’s argument that the Rising consisted of “poet revolutionaries”

• Pearse

• Plunkett

• MacDonagh

• Ceannt

What was the name of the IRB newspaper that was Bulmer Hobson editor of ?

“Irish Freedom”