John McBride (Seán Mac Giolla Bhríde) died on 5 May 1916 in Kilmainham Gaol. He was executed by the British for his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. McBride took part in the Second Boer War on the Boer side, for whom he raised the Irish Transvaal Brigade which became known as MacBride's Brigade. In 1903 he married Maud Gonne. The following year their son Seán MacBride was born.

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