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Thomas James Clarke ( Irish: Tomás Séamus Ó Cléirigh; 11 March 1858 – 3 May 1916 [1]) was an Irish republican and a leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Clarke was arguably the person most responsible for the 1916 Easter Rising. A proponent of armed struggle against British rule in Ireland for most of his life, Clarke spent 15 ...
May 3, 2024 · Thomas Clarke was a key member of the Irish revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. ... At age 20 he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and his career as an indefatigable ...
It began on March 11th 1857 when Tom Clarke was born in Co Tipperary. Two months later his Irish Protestant father James, a British Army bombardier, married Tom's mother Mary Palmer, a Catholic ...
- Jailed For His Part in The Fenian Dynamite Campaign
- Reviving The Irish Republican Brotherhood
- IRB Was Not Interested in Home Rule For Ireland
- Planning Funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa
- ‘Make It Hot as Hell, Throw Discretion to The Winds’
- ‘In This Belief We Die Happy’
Clarke got a job as an explosives operative working on building sites on Staten Island. He put his explosives skills to use when O’Donovan Rossa sent him to London in 1883 to carry out what became known as the Dynamite Campaign. It involved bombing key targets in the city including the Tower of London and the House of Commons. The operation was inf...
Once back home in Ireland, he worked hard to revive the IRB which was flagging by then and seemed a little tired to the new generation of nationalists. Nevertheless, he set about trying to revive it and found willing assistants in people like Bulmer Hobson and Seán MacDiarmada (MacDermott), who held him in great esteem because his republican pedigr...
There were an estimated 160,000 men in the Volunteer Force by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. By that time, Britain had passed the Government of Ireland Act, which would provide Ireland with Home Rule once the war was over. By Home Rule they meant Ireland would have its own parliament in Dublin to govern Irish affairs. Ireland would st...
He made a huge contribution to the nationalist cause when he arranged the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa, who died in America in 1915. Clarke saw immediately how a funeral for such a venerated Fenian could help boost the nationalist cause, but to gain maximum effect, it needed to be held in Ireland. As a close friend of Rossa and his family, Clarke was...
Pearse was aware of the sensitivity of the occasion and the danger of provoking the authorities so he asked Clarke for advice on how he should set the tone of the oration. Clarke replied: “Make it hot as hell, throw discretion to the winds.” Pearse went on to deliver one of the most memorable and powerful speeches of all time in Ireland. His closin...
Shortly before he was executed, he gave his wife Kathleen this Message to the Irish People. It read: “I and my fellow signatories believe we have struck the first successful blow for Irish freedom. The next blow, which we have no doubt Ireland will strike, will win through. In this belief, we die happy.” Like the other Easter Rising leaders, Clarke...
Dec 12, 2021 · TOM CLARKE. Born on the Isle of Wight in 1857 Tom Clarke was a senior figure within the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), a veteran of the dynamite campaign of the late nineteenth century, and the living embodiment of the Fenian tradition.
Tom Clarke. Thomas James “Tom” Clarke (Irish: Tomás Séamus Ó Cléirigh; 11 March 1858 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish revolutionary leader and arguably the person most responsible for the 1916 Easter Rising. A proponent of violent revolution for most of his life, he spent 15 years in prison.
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Easter Rising, Irish republican insurrection against British government in Ireland, which began on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, in Dublin. The insurrection was planned by Patrick Pearse, Tom Clarke, and several other leaders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which was a revolutionary society within the nationalist organization called the ...
