1. Thomas Patrick Ashe was an Irish revolutionary and politician.
28 Facts About Thomas Ashe
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Thomas Ashe was a member of the Gaelic League, the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers.
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Thomas Ashe was a senior commander in the Easter Rising of 1916.
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Thomas Ashe's was a family of ten, seven boys and three girls.
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Thomas Ashe's mother died aged 58, some years before Thomas died.
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Thomas Ashe was fond of the Irish language and started branches of the Gaelic League in Skerries and other neighbouring villages.
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Thomas Ashe was a member of the Irish National Teachers Organisation.
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Thomas Ashe spent his last years before his death teaching children in Lusk, where he founded the award-winning Lusk Black Raven Pipe Band, as well as Round Towers Lusk Gaelic Athletic Association Club, in 1906.
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Thomas Ashe joined the Irish Volunteers upon its foundation in November 1913.
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Thomas Ashe was a member of the Keating Branch of the Gaelic League and the Lusk company of the volunteers and probably founded it.
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Thomas Ashe sat on the governing body of the Gaelic League, and collected considerable sums of money during a trip to the US in 1914 for both the Volunteers and the League.
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Thomas Ashe was sent a messenger Mollie Adrian by Pearse with orders to hold the main road from Fairyhouse.
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Thomas Ashe was sent back to report to Connolly, who returned an order to send 40 men to the GPO.
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Thomas Ashe was only able to send 20 due to his shortage of men.
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Thomas Ashe was to contact the 1st battalion at Cross Guns Bridge, although he found no one there because vice-commandant Piaras Beaslai knew nothing of this plan.
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Thomas Ashe himself had only been appointed commandant shortly before Easter.
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Twenty-four hours after the rising collapsed, Thomas Ashe's battalion surrendered on the orders of Patrick Pearse.
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Thomas Ashe sent Richard Mulcahy to Dublin to verify its authenticity.
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Thomas Ashe was imprisoned in the Frongoch internment camp and Lewes Prison in England.
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De Valera, Ashe and Thomas Hunter led a prisoner hunger strike on 28 May 1917 to add to this pressure.
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Thomas Ashe was released from jail in June 1917 under the general amnesty which was given to republican prisoners.
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Thomas Ashe went on the run but was captured in Dublin and detained at the Curragh but was then transferred to Mountjoy Prison in Dublin.
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Thomas Ashe was convicted on the sedition charge and sentenced to two years hard labour.
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Thomas Ashe was carried back, blue in the face and unconscious.
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Thomas Ashe was removed to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, where he died within a few hours.
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Thomas Ashe was given a military funeral and a volley of shots was fired over his coffin, following which Michael Collins declared "Nothing additional remains to be said, that volley which we have just heard is the only speech which it is proper to make above the grave of a dead Fenian".
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Thomas Ashe's remains were removed to the Pro-Cathedral on Thursday evening and placed on a catafalque in the main entrance.
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In 2017 a statue of Thomas Ashe was unveiled outside Round Towers GAA in Lusk.