Roger Casement: Internationally famous human rights activist and investigative journalist Countess Constance Markievicz: Landed gentry Patrick Pearse: Poet and school master Tom Clarke: lifetime revolutionary James Connolly: Labor union leader Thomas MacDonagh: Literature professor 2/x
Joseph Plunkett: Poet Eamonn Ceannt: Accountant Sean MacDermott: Newspaper manager Ned Daly: Shop clerk William Pearse: Theater teacher Michael O'Hanrahan: Journalist and author John MacBride: Lifetime revolutionary, soldier Michael Mallin - Soldier, union leader 3/x
Con Colbert: Bakery clerk Sean Heuston: Lifetime revolutionary Thomas Kent: Landed gentry Eamon de Valera: Mathematics professor So, yeah, revolutions tend to take all kinds of people in, and not all of them have the same agendas (Connolly was a radical communist the other leaders didn't like). 4/4
Remind me, how did Gandhi get his start?
As a lawyer in London!
Pearse was also a (non-practicing) barrister.