1. Fiona Plunkett was an Irish republican involved in the organisation of the Easter 1916 Rising and a leading member of Cumann na mBan.
17 Facts About Fiona Plunkett
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Fiona Plunkett, born Josephine Plunkett on 11 January 1896, and the name later shortened to Fiona, then Fi, was the daughter of George Noble Plunkett and Josephine Cranny.
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Fiona Plunkett was the youngest of seven children: Philomena, Mary, Geraldine, Jack, George and Joseph Plunkett, who all took part in the Easter Rising.
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Fiona Plunkett's father was the curator of the National Museum of Ireland, however he was forced to step down and exiled to Oxford following both his and his children's actions during the 1916 Rising.
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Fiona Plunkett later became a politician, being a member of the then newly formed Sinn Fein party.
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Fiona Plunkett was engaged three times but never married, and died at the age of 81, in 1977 in a Dublin hospital of natural causes.
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Fiona Plunkett sat in on her brothers' lessons, in an attempt to receive an education.
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Fiona Plunkett briefly attended the classy Convent of the Sacred Heart in Leeson Street and another of the order's convents, Mount Anville.
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Fiona Plunkett had access to the library of her father, which allowed her to read on various topics.
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The mothers, sisters, wives and daughters of the Rising's leaders perceived themselves as sidelined, with Fiona Plunkett resisting the move to amalgamate them into Sinn Fein.
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Fiona Plunkett remained particularly close to her sister-in-law Grace Gifford.
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In 1926, Fiona Plunkett was tried and imprisoned for her involvement in a raid of the home of Edward Levi, was part of an ongoing campaign against Dublin moneylenders.
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In 1942, Fiona Plunkett stepped onto a platform during a commemoration of the Rising at Arbor Hill church, condemning the Irish government's treatment of political prisoners under Eamon de Valera's authority.
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References to this "Fiona Plunkett Incident" were censored in the Irish press in the following days.
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In 1971 Fiona Plunkett wrote a letter to the editor of The Irish Times criticising the contemporary truce in Northern Ireland, urging the Irish people to stand up against "British domination".
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Fiona Plunkett went on to say that any celebrations for attained peace while Britain remained in Ireland were a "hollow mockery" of the Irish people.
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Fiona Plunkett was buried in Glasnevin cemetery, in the Republican plot.