Joseph Plunkett: Born in Dublin in 1887. Plunkett graduated from UCD in 1909 after being educated in England. A sickly child, he travelled for 2 years due to ill health returning to Dublin in 1911 to become editor of the Irish Review. Along with MacDonagh he established the Irish National Theatre. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and the IRB in 1914.
Plunketts farm in Kimmage was used to store the arms landed at Howth in 1914. It was also used as a training camp for young men invited to Ireland from Britain to avoid conscription.
Despite suffering from Tuberculosis he struggled from his sick bed to become Director of Military Operations & Strategy. He was assisted by a young man and unknown IRB volunteer, Michael Collins.

Plunkett married his sweetheart, Grace Gifford, in Kilmainham Gaol just hours before his execution on 4 May 1916.