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About George Oliver Plunkett
George Oliver Plunkett, known to his contemporaries as Seoirse Plunkett, was a militant Irish republican. He was sentenced to death with his elder brother Joseph and his younger brother John after the 1916 Easter Rising, but while Joseph was executed, George's and John's sentences were later commuted. He was released in 1917, fought in the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War for the Anti-Treaty IRA, and was briefly IRA Chief of Staff during World War II.
Everything about George Oliver Plunkett →- Born
- 1894
- Died
- 1944