S1, E5: Thomas MacDonagh was born in 1878, the eldest son of two primary school-teachers in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary. He went to Rockwell College in 1892 to study for the priesthood but left again in 1901 abandoning his vocation. A playright, poet and university lecturer MacDonagh commanded the Volunteer forces in Jacob's Biscuit Factory during the rising and was later jailed. MacDonagh was executed on May 3rd 1916.