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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 ...
Full copies of the Easter Proclamation are now treated as a revered Irish national icon, and a copy was sold at auction for €390,000 in December 2004. [13] A copy owned (and later signed as a memento) by Rising participant Seán T. O'Kelly was presented by him to the Irish parliament buildings, Leinster House , during his tenure as President ...
This would put Pearse in third place, after Clarke and Mac Diarmada, the original organisers of the Rising. Connolly , as leader of the Irish Citizen Army , would come after him. These four (plus Plunkett ) were in the GPO Headquarters during the Rising, and military orders were issued by all four.
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Pearse himself attended a private school from 1886 to 1891, then CBS Westland Row from 1891 to 1896. [3] He took the matriculation exam of the Royal University of Ireland in 1898 and was awarded BA and BL degrees by 1901. [3] His BA subjects were Irish, English and French. [3]
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The song is named after Róisín Dubh Ní Néill (Rose O'Neill), one of the daughters of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who was betrothed (and later married) to Red Hugh O'Donnell in 1587, when they were both teenagers.
From, 1903 to 1909 the paper was edited by Pádraig Pearse, the teacher and barrister who later became a key figure in the Easter Rising in 1916. Under his editorship the paper played a prominent role in the Irish Literary Revival , publishing original literary works in both Irish and English and devoting considerable space to commentary on ...