George Plant
George Plant (5 January 1904 – 5 March 1942) was a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who was executed by the Irish Government in 1942. Early life, IRA service, arrest and prison George Plant was born into a Church of Ireland farming family in Fethard County Tipperary on 5 January 1904, the second eldest child and son in a family of six children. His parents were John William Albert Plant, a farmer, and Catherine Hayden. One Sunday in 1916 George and his older brother Jimmy were arrested by the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) after being seen speaking to two well known Republicans, Seán Hayes and Dan Breen. In custody the two brothers were beaten and mistreated; they both developed a hatred of the RIC. George Plant served with the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA during the Irish War of Independence and with the Anti-Treaty IRA in the Irish civil war. In 1923 George Plant and his brother Jimmy left Ireland for Canada and the United States but continued as active IRA members. In 1929 they returned to Ireland and carried out a bank raid in Tipperary town on behalf of the IRA (17 April 1929). They were