Remembering Easter Rising hero Thomas Ashe 100 years on

After suffering three days of ‘inhuman, dangerous and barbaric’ treatment, Easter Rising hero Thomas Ashe died in hospital, 100 years ago today, says Robert Hume.

Thomas Patrick Ashe was born in the village of Lipsole, near Dingle, Co.Kerry, in 1885, the seventh of ten children. He attended the local National School at Ardamore, and went on to work there as a monitor.

When he was 20, he trained as a teacher at De La Salle College, Waterford, and became principal at Corduff National School, Lusk, Co. Dublin, where he taught Gaelic.