Was Grace Gifford pregnant when she wed Joseph Plunkett in 1916?
New documentary suggests couple’s hasty marriage may have been to ward off scandal
The James Connolly papers: ‘Wasn’t it a full life? Isn’t this a good end?
‘Well, Lillie, hasn’t it been a full life and isn’t this a good end?’ the signatory to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic told his wife just before he was executed, in 1916
The Thomas Clarke papers: An impish wit who fretted about money
Thomas J Clarke, whose name appeared first among those of the signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, was an unbending Fenian – and a mordant, impish wit
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