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'Éamonn Ceannt' (born 'Edward Thomas Kent' (21 September, 1881 – 8 May, 1916) was an Irish nationalist and rebel.
Ceannt was born in Glenamaddy, Ballymoe, County Galway, one of seven children. His father was a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary. When he retired in 1892, he moved his family to Dublin.
It was there that young Edward became interested in the Irish Ireland movement. He joined the Gaelic League, adopting the Irish version of his name (Éamonn), and becoming a master of the uilleann pipes, even putting on a performance for Pope Pius X, who was on that occasion accompanied by a group of elderly Irish priests that had been long living in exile. He was employed as an accountant for the Dublin Corporation.
Sometime around 1913 he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and later was one of the founding members of the Irish Volunteers. As such he was important in the planning of the Easter Rising of 1916, being one of the original members of the Military Committee and thus one of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of the Republic. He was made commandant of the 4th Battalion of the Volunteers, and during the Rising was stationed at the South Dublin Union and the Marrowbone Lane Distillery , with more than a hundred men under his command, notably his second-in-command Cathal Brugha, and W. T. Cosgrave. His unit saw intense fighting at times during the week, but surrendered when ordered to do so by his superior officer Patrick Pearse. Ceannt's position was one of only two that was not taken in the rising, along with Éamon de Valera's at Boland's Mill.
Ceannt was held in Kilmainham Jail until his execution by firing squad on 8 May, 1916, aged 34.
★ William Henry, ''Supreme Sacrifice: The Story of Eamonn Ceannt'', Mercier Press, 2005
'Éamonn Ceannt' (born 'Edward Thomas Kent' (21 September, 1881 – 8 May, 1916) was an Irish nationalist and rebel.
Ceannt was born in Glenamaddy, Ballymoe, County Galway, one of seven children. His father was a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary. When he retired in 1892, he moved his family to Dublin.
It was there that young Edward became interested in the Irish Ireland movement. He joined the Gaelic League, adopting the Irish version of his name (Éamonn), and becoming a master of the uilleann pipes, even putting on a performance for Pope Pius X, who was on that occasion accompanied by a group of elderly Irish priests that had been long living in exile. He was employed as an accountant for the Dublin Corporation.
Sometime around 1913 he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and later was one of the founding members of the Irish Volunteers. As such he was important in the planning of the Easter Rising of 1916, being one of the original members of the Military Committee and thus one of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of the Republic. He was made commandant of the 4th Battalion of the Volunteers, and during the Rising was stationed at the South Dublin Union and the Marrowbone Lane Distillery , with more than a hundred men under his command, notably his second-in-command Cathal Brugha, and W. T. Cosgrave. His unit saw intense fighting at times during the week, but surrendered when ordered to do so by his superior officer Patrick Pearse. Ceannt's position was one of only two that was not taken in the rising, along with Éamon de Valera's at Boland's Mill.
Ceannt was held in Kilmainham Jail until his execution by firing squad on 8 May, 1916, aged 34.
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★ William Henry, ''Supreme Sacrifice: The Story of Eamonn Ceannt'', Mercier Press, 2005
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