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...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...
...separate state. It is interesting to speculate how much further advanced the United States would be today if the issues of our Civil War had been settled in the critical period following the American Revolution. It may be in Ireland that the solution attributed to Sir Horace Plunkett will be applied; that everybody with any ideas as to how Ireland should be governed should be put into one great convention hall and the doors locked; after allowing sufficient time for argument the doors should be opened,--and the survivor would rule the country! Possibly the Irish may reach a point...