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Patrick Henry Pearse (also known as Pádraig or Pádraic Pearse; Irish: Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais; 10 November 1879 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. Following his execution along with fifteen ...
"Ireland unfree shall never be at peace" were the climactic closing words of the graveside oration of Patrick Pearse at the funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa on 1 August 1915. The oration roused Irish republican feeling and was a significant element in the lead-up to the Easter Rising of 1916.
Pearse had already written optimistically on the fate of Ireland's strong sons' martyrdom in his poem "The Mother"; Is Mise takes the opposite, more pessimistic view of the sacrifice. [7] In the words of Boss, Nordin and Orlinder, Boland "opposes and corrects Pearse's view on Ireland...No longer, as in the earlier poem, is the personification ...
Patrick Pearse Holohan (born 3 May 1988) is an Irish politician and retired mixed martial artist who previously competed in the flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor from 2007 until his retirement in 2016, Holohan also competed for the promotion Cage Contender and was a competitor on The ...
In a future independent Ireland the school system would be bilingual. [1] He opposed the state with the state emphasis on standardised curriculums and exams. [1] Schools were largely church run, though he only referred in passing to Clongowes Wood College and a passing reference to the church maintaining "a portion of the machinery". [1]
St. Enda's School (Irish: Scoil Éanna) was an Irish language secondary established in 1908 by Irish nationalist Patrick Pearse. Originally Pearse's school was established in 1908 at Cullenswood House, Ranelagh before moving to the Hermitage in Rathfarnham in 1910.
[citation needed] Their son, John, was a British Army officer who with his father also took part in the suppression of the Rising and accepting the surrender of Pearse [19] —fought at Gallipoli and the Somme and subsequently became a Hollywood actor under the screen name John Loder. [20] General Lowe died in London on 7 February 1944, aged 82.
The Pearse Museum (Irish: Músaem na bPiarsach) is dedicated to the memory of Patrick Pearse and his brother, William. Patrick Pearse was an educationalist and nationalist who was executed for his part in the 1916 Rising. The museum is situated in St. Enda's Park in the suburb of Rathfarnham on the south side of Dublin, Ireland.