Joseph Mary Plunkett, the youngest signatory of the proclmation of the republic. He was born in Dublin, 1887 to the son of Count and Countess Plunkett. Gifted with much literary genius, while still a boy he edited the "Irish Review". He published a volume of poems titled "The circle and the sword".

During the Great War he succeeded in entering Ger many and getting in touch with Sir Roger Casement.

He left a sick bed to take part in the Rising.