Joseph Plunkett was a key strategist of the 1916 Rising

Joseph Plunkett’s grand-niece Honor Ó Brolcháin looks back on the life of the youngest Rebel leader to be executed

WHEN I began working on the biography of Joseph Plunkett, I felt as though I had known him all my life — the humorous, scholarly, gregarious, shy, mystical, practical grand-uncle whom I could have known but didn’t.

A foreign army stole him and shot him for his desire for democracy, equality and liberty.