of the Easter Rising, executed (born 1857). Thomas MacDonagh, nationalist, poet, rebel and an Easter Rising leader, executed (born 1878). Patrick Pearse, teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist, an Easter Rising leader, executed (born 1879). 4 May Edward Daly, Easter Rising participant, executed by firing squad (born 1891). Willie Pearse, Easter Rising participant, executed, brother of Patrick Pearse (born 1891). Joseph Plunkett, nationalist, poet, journalist and an Easter Rising leader, executed (born 1887). 5 May – John MacBride, nationalist, rebel and an Easter Rising leader, executed (born 1865). 8 May Éamonn Ceannt, nationalist, rebel and an Easter Rising leader, executed (born 1881). Conn Colbert, nationalist and rebel, Easter Rising participant, executed (born 1888). Seán Heuston, Fianna Éireann member, Easter Rising participant, executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol (born 1891). Michael Mallin, second in command of Irish Citizen Army, Easter Rising participant, executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol (born 1874). 9 May – Thomas Kent, nationalist and rebel, executed following a gunfight with the RIC (born 1865). 12 May James Connolly, socialist, trade unionist, nationalist, rebel and an Easter Rising leader, executed (born 1868). Seán Mac Diarmada, nationalist, rebel and an Easter Rising leader, executed (born 1883). 5 June – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British Field Marshal and statesman (born 1850). 1 July – William Crozier, cricketer (born 1873). 23 July – Thomas MacDonald Patterson, politician and newspaper publisher in the United States (born 1839). 3 August – Roger Casement, British diplomat, nationalist, poet and Irish revolutionary, executed at Pentonville Prison (born 1864). 25 August – Maurice O'Rorke, politician and Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives (born 1830). 9 September – Thomas Kettle, writer, barrister, Nationalist politician and economist, killed in action (born 1880). 19 October – Alexander Young, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Ruiterskraal, South Africa, killed in action (born 1873). 25 October – John Todhunter, poet and playwright (born 1839). 2 November – Frank Hugh O'Donnell, writer and nationalist politician (born 1846). 18 December – Henry Mitchell Jones, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, Crimea (born 1831). 22 December – James O'Kelly, nationalist politician and journalist, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (born 1845). References 1910s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland Ireland