George Noble Plunkett

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George Noble Count Plunkett ( Irish Seoirse Pluincéad, to Cunta Pluincéad , born December 3, 1851 in Dublin , † March 12, 1948 ibid) was an Irish politician of the Sinn Féin .

biography

Count Plunkett graduated in law and was subsequently used as plädierender lawyer ( Barrister-at-Law ) worked as well as author and journalist .

In 1877 he published the first version of his Christmas carol God's Chosen Festival . In 1884 he was appointed by Pope Leo XIII. raised to the rank of papal count . In 1886 he was appointed to the Irish Bar . From 1907 to 1916 he was the curator of the National Museum of Ireland . He was politically active in the following years.

In 1918, Sinn Féin was elected as a candidate for the First House of Commons ( First Dáil ), where she subsequently represented the interests of Roscommon . On January 22, 1922 he was the representative of Cathal Brugha for one day chairman of the Dáil ( Ceann Comhairle ). On the same day he was appointed Foreign Minister of the Provisional Government and held this post for two and a half years until August 26, 1921. After that he was Minister of Fine Arts until January 9, 1922 , but did not belong to the government of Éamon de Valera Cabinet member.

As an opponent of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, he did not accept his seat in the Dáil Éireann between 1922 and 1927, despite his re-election in 1922 and 1923 as a member of Parliament ( Teachta Dála ) . In the June 1927 elections he finally lost his seat in the House of Commons as a supporter of a Republic of Ireland .

Plunkett died of cancer in his Dublin home in March 1948 and was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery . He was married to Mary Josephine Cranny; the marriage had seven children, including Joseph Plunkett .

George Noble Plunkett was a member of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Satirist Art" Notable Irish Members (Historic): George, Count Plunkett , holysepulchre.ie, accessed December 27, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Plunkett, George Noble
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plunkett, George Noble Count
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish politician, minister
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1948
Place of death Dublin