Irish Revolutionary. Better known as Sean MacDiarmada, he was an organizer for Sinn Fein republican political and a signatory to the Proclamation of the Republic. Active during the Easter 1916 rising, despite being a sufferer from polio, he was one of fourteen leaders of the uprising to be court-martialed and executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail in Dublin, Ireland (a further 75 were condemned but reprieved).
Irish Revolutionary. Better known as Sean MacDiarmada, he was an organizer for Sinn Fein republican political and a signatory to the Proclamation of the Republic. Active during the Easter 1916 rising, despite being a sufferer from polio, he was one of fourteen leaders of the uprising to be court-martialed and executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail in Dublin, Ireland (a further 75 were condemned but reprieved).
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