John MacNeill Sinn Fein volunteers leader
Photograph from The History of The Great War volume 5 published 1918 photographer uncredited. Info from wiki: Eoin MacNeill (Irish: Eoin Mac Néill; 15 May 1867 – 15 October 1945) was an Irish scholar, Irish language enthusiast, nationalist activist, and Sinn Féin politician.[1] MacNeill has been described as "the father of the modern study of early Irish medieval history."[2] A key figure of the Gaelic revival, he was a co-founder of the Gaelic League, to preserve Irish language and culture. In 1913 he established the Irish Volunteers and served as their Chief-of-Staff. He held this position at the outbreak of the Easter Rising but had no role in it or its planning, which was carried out by IRB infiltrators. MacNeill helped countermand the Easter Monday uprising, after learning about it and confronting Patrick Pearse, by placing a last minute news advertisement advising Volunteers not to take part. He was later elected to the First Dáil as a member of Sinn Féin.
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