George Noble Plunkett

George Noble Plunkett
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office 22 January 1919 – 26 August 1921
Preceded by	New office
Succeeded by	Arthur Griffith
Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann
In office 22 January 1919 – 22 January 1919
Preceded by	Cathal Brugha
Succeeded by	Seán T. O'Kelly
Teachta Dála
In office December 1918 – June 1927
Constituency	Leitrim–Roscommon North, Roscommon
MP for Roscommon North
In office 1917–1922
Personal details
Born	(1851-12-03)3 December 1851 Dublin, Ireland
Died	12 March 1948(1948-03-12) (aged 96) Dublin, Ireland
Political party	Sinn Féin
Spouse(s)	Josephine Cranny
Children	7
Alma mater	University of Dublin
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Count George Noble Plunkett (Irish: An Cunta Pluincéad; 3 December 1851 – 12 March 1948) was a biographer, politician and Irish nationalist, and father of Joseph Plunkett, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916.

Part of the prominent Irish Norman Plunkett family, which included Saint Oliver Plunkett (1629–1681), George's relatives included the Earls of Fingall - his great-grandfather George Plunkett (1750–1824) was "in the sixth degree removed in relationship" (fifth cousin) to the 8th Earl of Fingall - and the Barons of Dunsany, whose line had conformed to the Church of Ireland in the eighteenth century. One of that line, Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett, had served as Unionist MP for South Dublin (1892–1900), but became a convinced Home Rule supporter by 1912 as an alternative to the partition of Ireland, and served as a member of the first Irish Free State Senate (1922–23).

Born in Dublin, Plunkett was the son of Patrick Joseph Plunkett (1817–1918), a builder, and Elizabeth Noble (Plunkett). The family income allowed Plunkett to attend school in Nice, France, Clongowes Wood College and the University of Dublin. At Dublin he studied Renaissance and medieval art among other topics, ultimately graduating in 1884. Plunkett spent much time abroad and throughout Italy.

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