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4 unusual facts about Plunkett


Elizabeth Burke-Plunkett

She befriended unionists such as Field Marshal Douglas Haig, Horace Plunkett, and Chief Secretary George Wyndham and also nationalist leaders such as Charles Stuart Parnell, Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera.

In 1883 at 17 she married Arthur James Francis Plunkett, 11th Earl of Fingall, 4th Baron Fingall (1859–1929), state steward to the colonial administration in Dublin Castle and one of the few Catholics to hold an Irish peerage, thus becoming Countess Fingall.

Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax

Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax is the quadruple-barrelled surname of the descendants of Admiral The Honourable Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (1880–1967), who was the younger son of the 17th Baron of Dunsany by his wife Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Ernle-Erle-Drax, née Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Burton (1855–1916).

Ernle is pronounced earnly. The current head of the family is the Westminster M.P. Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, otherwise Richard Drax.


2012 Dublin Senior Football Championship

UCD, Ballyboden St Enda's, Raheny, St Oliver Plunkett's-Eoghan Ruadh, Skerries Harps, St Vincent's, St Peregrine's, Kilmacud Crokes, Trinity Gaels, Na Fianna, Ballymun Kickham's, St Patrick's Palmerstown, Parnells, Templeogue Synge Street, St Brigid's and Lucan Sarsfields all went on to qualify for the winners section of the second round of the Dublin Championship.

Arthur Plunkett

Plunkett never actually visited the bridge before he died in London of throat cancer on 13 August 1937.

Arthur Lancelot Bonner (Lance) Plunkett was a civil engineer involved in the design of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett

Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett is the second novel of the Eddie & the Gang with No Name trilogy by Northern Irish author, Colin Bateman, published on 13 May 2004 through Hodder Children's Books.

Bunyip aristocracy

A Committee, consisting of Messrs. Charles Cowper, T.A. Murray, George Macleay, E. Deas Thomson, J.H. Plunkett, Dr. Douglas, W. Thurlow, James Macarthur, James Martin, and W.C. Wentworth, appointed on the motion of W.C.Wentworth, held its first meeting, Sydney, 27 May 1853.

Edith Irvine

Wilma ("Billy") Plunkett, Photoarchivist at the Lee Library in 1988, indicates in her master’s project on Irvine, that the “family fortunes increased due to acquisitions of mines and other real estate,” and that the Irvine family became part of the “upper social strata of the area.”

Elizabeth Plunkett, Countess of Fingall

Lucas Plunkett's last wife was Margaret St. Lawrence, daughter of Nicholas St Lawrence, 9th Baron Howth.

George Plunkett

George Oliver Plunkett, son of George Noble Plunkett, Irish Republican and leading member of the IRA

Grace Gifford

Grace Gifford Plunkett died suddenly, and alone, on 13 December 1955 in an apartment in South Richmond Street.

James O'Halloran

Grattan, Lord Charlemont, Ponsonby, Plunkett, and a few patriots, continued to protest against the sale of the liberties and free Constitution of Ireland.

John Plunkett

Plunkett's remains were taken to Sydney and buried in the old Devonshire Street cemetery, beside those of Archpriest John Joseph Therry and Archdeacon McEncroe.

Joseph Plunkett

Throughout his life, Joseph Plunkett took an active interest in Irish heritage and the Irish language, and also studied Esperanto.

Karl Lenihan

In 2007, he was appointed as manager of Portlaoise's senior football team, with Tom Prendergast, Paddy Fitzpatrick and George Plunkett as his selectors and he was an instant success leading The Town to their 24th Laois Senior Football Championship title.

Killer on the Road

Following the Tate/LaBianca Murders, Plunkett attempts to meet Charles Manson, only to improperly identify a generic hippie as Manson and break into an apartment where he is having sex.

As time progresses and his body count rises, Plunkett perfects his techniques, outfitting a Dodge van with a series of hidden compartments and living amenities so that it can act as both his mobile home and murder factory.

Lexington Avenue bombing

Charles Plunkett, a party to the conspiracy, later stated that Berkman chose to remain behind the scenes rather than take an active role in the bombing due to his being on probation for the attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick.

Main Street, Letterkenny

Located in central Letterkenny, close to the Library and Arts Centre on the Lower Main Street side and the Bank of Ireland on the Upper Main Street side, it also overlooks Pearse Street and Oliver Plunkett Street.

Oliver Plunkett

In Colin Bateman's 2004 novel, Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett, the head of Oliver Plunkett head is stolen from St. Peter's Church.

Paddy Crosbie

Friends attending the service included Maureen Potter, James Plunkett, Brendan Grace, Maurice O'Doherty, president, Irish Actors' Equity; Seán Ó Síocháin, Chris Casey and Éamonn MacThomáis.

Streeter Seidell

The Old Man and the Seymour – Seidell plays Seymour Plunkett, an orphan who gets adopted by his sister after his dad dies.

Thomas FitzWilliam, 1st Viscount FitzWilliam

In 1605 he married Margaret Plunkett, daughter of Oliver Plunkett, 4th Baron Louth and Frances, sister of Henry Bagenal.

Waegwan

This took place under the orders of Major General Hobart R. Gay and Lieutenant General Dell Plunkett.


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