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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 ...
Although the Easter Rising was short-lived, it set in train the events that led to the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922. [8] Today, Pearse's funeral oration is considered one of the most important speeches in 20th-century Irish history. The manuscript of this speech is now held in the Pearse Museum, Rathfarnham, Dublin. [9]
The riots began during the play's second act when Rosie Redmond, a prostitute, is seen lounging in the pub awaiting clients as the Figure in the Window, using the words of Patrick Pearse, declares that 'Bloodshed is a cleansing and a sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood'. [4]
The reading of the proclamation by Patrick Pearse outside the General Post Office (GPO) on Sackville Street (now called O'Connell Street), Dublin's main thoroughfare, marked the beginning of the Rising. [3] The proclamation was modelled on a similar independence proclamation issued during the 1803 rebellion by Robert Emmet. [4]
At the close of the Easter Rising in 1916, the besieged Irish republicans surrender to the British Army at the republicans' headquarters in Dublin.Several key figures of the Rising, including Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Clarke and James Connolly, are executed by firing squad.
The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), [2] also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War.
Richard P. Gogan (29 November 1899 – 28 April 1982) was a member of the Irish Volunteers who fought in the 1916 Easter Rising. [1] In later life, he became a Fianna Fáil politician. [ 2 ]
It describes a fictional conversation between James Connolly and Patrick Pearse, the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. First, Pearse says that a "breath of politic words" or a "wind that blows / across the bitter sea" (Britain [2]) might have withered their "Rose Tree," or, Ireland. [3] Connolly replies that the tree "needs to be but watered."