Background
PLUNKETT, George Noble was born on December 3, 1851 in Dublin. E. surviving son of P. J. Plunkett, U.D.C., Rathmines.
PLUNKETT, George Noble was born on December 3, 1851 in Dublin. E. surviving son of P. J. Plunkett, U.D.C., Rathmines.
Clongowes College. Dublin University. Prizeman in French language and literature, Trinity College, Dublin.
Honourable Member of University Philosophical Society. Vice-President of Royal Irish Academy, 1907-1908, and representative of Academy on Nobel Prize Committee for Literature. Honourable Corresponding Member of the Academie Royale d’Archeologie de Belgique.
President Society for Preservation of the Irish Language. Vice president of National Literary Society, Celtic Congress (Brussels), Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland, the International. Art Congress, etc.; Governor of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Member of Teclm. and Agricultural Committee, Dublin C.C. Of General Comm, and Judge of Arts and Industries, Royal Dublin Society. Member of Royal Society of Arts.
Of Society of Painters in Tempera. Of Societe Frangaise des Amis des Arts. Of Society of Authors.
Of British Association. Of Aeronautical Society. Of Council, Dante Society (London), etc.
He has helped to found many societies for the promotion of education and the special study of art, literature, music, and science, and has given courses of lectures on the history of art, Irish archaeology, Irish painters, sculptors, architects, writers, etc. Chairman Press Fund (Dublin). Associate, Institute of Journalists.
Member, British Internat. Association of J ournalists. Count (of Rome, hereditary), K.C.H.S., P.R.S.A.I.; Honourable Associate R.I.B.A; Barrister- at-law; Justice of the Peace; Director of National Museum of Science and Art, Dublin.
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Clubs: Royal Societies; Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
Has travelled throughout Europe and America.
Spouse 1884, Josephine,daughter of P. Cranny, Muckross Park.