James Plunkett

James Plunkett. Writer: An Offering of Swans. James Plunkett Kelly was born on 21 May 1920, at Sandymount in Dublin. He was educated at the Synge Street Christian Brothers School, and the Municipal School of Music, Camden St., Dublin, playing violin and viola. He became clerk in Dublin Gas Co., 1937, and later a full-time trade union official; working under Jim Larkin, April 1946-47, who later featured as a character...