Seamus Rafter

Seamus Rafter (24 January 1873 – 12 September 1918) was an Irishman who launched the Gaelic League in Enniscorthy, Wexford.

He was a commander in the Wexford Brigade of the Irish Republican Brotherhood[1][2][3] during the failed 1916 Easter Rising in Enniscorthy.

[3] After about one year, the rebels were released, and Rafter continued to recruit volunteers for his cause.

He died on September the 12th 1918, of wounds he received from an accidental detonation of explosives he was manufacturing in his business premises which was intended to be used against the British forces.

[9] In 1958,[10] a granite statue of Rafter, representing participants in the Easter Rising, was erected in the Abbey Square in Enniscorthy.