Plunkett, Horace (1854-1932)--DB9699
Biographical Notes
Date of birth and date of death
24.12.1854-26.03.1932
Maiden name, place of origin
Sherborne, Gloucestershire, England
Marital status, religious denomination, children
Single; Church of Ireland (Anglican); No Children
Social background, family connections
Son of an aristocrat and estate landowner, the 16th Baron Dunsany
Education, occupation and public functions
Education
University of Oxford, University College: Bachelor of Arts in History 1873-1878; Eton College 1868-1872
Occupation
Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland: First vice-president 1899-1907; Manager of a co-operative store at Doneraile, County Cork, 1889-1891; Ranching in the Powder River Valley, Wyoming, 1879-1889; Dunsany estate, County Meath: Manager of a co-operative store 1878-1879
Functions in agricultural institutions
Plunkett Foundation: Founder 1919; American Country Life Commission: Proposer 1906; Ballyhahill co-operative creamery, County Limerick: Founder 1891; Irish Agricultural Organisation Society: first president 1894-, Co-founder 1894
Functions in other institutions
Irish Convention: Chairman 1917-1918
Political activities
Seanad Eireann: Senator 1922-1923; Irish Dominion League: Founder 1919; House of Commons, UK: Unionist Member of Parliament for South Dublin 1892-1900
Short Biography
References
Own publications
- A Better Way: An Appeal to Ulster not to Desert Ireland, Dublin 1914
- A Country Life Institute: A Suggested Irish-American Contribution to Rural Progress, Dublin 1909
- Agricultural Co-operation in Its Application to the Industry, the Business, and the Life of the Farm, London 1925
- Dominion Self-Government, Dublin 1919
- England's Irish Policy During and After the War, Dublin 1920
- Help for Self-Help in Ireland, Dublin 1898
- Home Rule and Conscription, Dublin and London 1918
- Ireland in the New Century, London 1904
- Irish Chaos: The British Cause and the Irish Cure, Dublin 1920
- Noblesse Oblige: An Irish Rendering, Dublin 1908
- Plain Talks to Irish Farmers, Dublin 1910
- Report of the Proceedings of the Irish Convention, Dublin 1918
- Report of the Recess Committee on the Establishment of a Department of Agriculture and Industries for Ireland, Dublin 1896
- Science and the Problem of Rural Life, London 1908
- Some Tendencies of Modern Medicine: From the Lay Point of View, Belfast 1913
- The Irish Agricultural Organisation Society and Its Aims: To the Farmers of Ireland, Dublin 1905
- The Irish Convention: Confidential Report to His Majesty the King, Dublin 1918
- The Irish Question in a New Light, New York 1898
- The Irish Situation in America at Westminster and in Ireland, Dublin 1920
- The Neglect of Country Life: A Plea and a Policy, Dublin 1909
- The New Development in Agricultural Co-operation, 1908
- The New Movement in Ireland, Dublin 1899
- The Rural Life Problem of the United States: Notes of an Irish Observer, New York 1910
- The Sociological Aspects of the Agrarian Revolution in Ireland, Keele 1910
- The United Irishwomen: Their Place, Work, and Ideals, Dublin 1911
- The Unsettlement of the Irish Land Question, Dublin and London 1909
Sources
- Bolger, Patrick, The Irish Co-operative Movement: Its History and Development, Dublin 1977
- Digby, Margaret, Horace Plunkett: An Anglo-American Irishman, Oxford 1949
- Keating, Carla (Ed.), Plunkett and Co-operatives: Past, Present and Future, Cork 1983
- O Fathartaigh, Mícheál, Developing Rural Ireland: A History of the Irish Agricultural Advisory Services, Dublin 2021
- West, Trevor, Horace Plunkett: Co-operation and Politics: An Irish Biography, Gerrards Cross and Washington DC, 1986
- West, Trevor, Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett, Dictionary of Irish Biography Online