Word: plunketts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lest these objections should seem trivial, Admiral Plunkett, Commandant of the 3rd Naval District, was reported to have said that the play would prevent enlistments; and that, after seeing it, "no mother would allow her son to enter the army or marine life...
...Author. Edward John Moreton Dra'x Plunkett Lord Dunsany, 18th Baron, is descended from an ancient Irish line whose title was conferred in 1439. He has filled his 46 years with a true Hibernian's two diversions-fighting and dreaming. He found the former with the Coldstream in Africa, and with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers more recently...
Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett: "Addressing blind men in Light House No. 1, Manhattan, I astonished the audience by saying that I had raised a boy who had been blind from the age of 2. I revealed that my protégé had lived in Boston, attended Harvard College and Law School. At the end of the speech I ordered the bandmaster to play the colors. To curious reporters I gave no further information...
...Irish Statesman, published by Sir Horace Plunkett, passed away in 1920 during the hottest period of the struggle of the Irish for Independence. Nevertheless it has sprung up anew, its latest issue labeled...
...Mary MacSwiney, Countess Markievicz, Count Plunkett, all prominent Republicans, were arrested and placed in Tipperary jail...