Most people are familiar with the seven leaders who signed the proclamation declaring a republic in the 1916 Easter rising, Connolly, Pearse, Plunkett, Mac Diarmada, Ceannt ,Clarke and Mac Donagh. However there were an additional nine volunteers who were executed along with the leaders. They were : Thomas Kent, Michael O’Halloran, Con Colbert, Edward Daly, John Mc Bride, Michael Mallin, Michael O’Hanrahan, Roger Casement, Sean Hueston and William