The voice in this poem is both personal and universal – it is the voice of Pearse’s own mother yet it speaks too for all those torn between grief and exultation. The poem interweaves opposites ...

Patrick Pearse was born on 10 November 1879 at 27 ... Ireland Literary Society and from 1898 began publishing papers and poems. Up until 1912 Pearse’s activities were largely restricted to ...

The themes of stoic idealism and mystical sacrifice can also be found in the poetry of Patrick Pearse. His poem, 'Fornocht Do Chonac Thú' ('Naked I Saw Thee'), reiterates the idea of self-denial ...

One of the leaders of the rebellion was one Patrick Pearse, a teacher, a barrister, a poet, a writer, a nationalist, a republican political activist, and a revolutionary. Pearse came to be seen by ...

Patrick Pearse, Eamonn Ceannt and Thomas MacDonagh ©DMC Photography Ireland being Ireland, the centenary of the Easter Rising is enveloped in romance, mythology and intellectual argument, much of ...

Patrick Pearse's progressive ideas on education will ... Having taught for some years, as well as writing plays, short stories and poetry in English and Irish, he was the editor of the Gaelic ...

More info Rare photos and papers belonging to Rising leaders Patrick Pearse and Joseph Mary Plunkett ... of politics and poetry, of hope and hardship. “Through this digital content, a worldwide ...

On Easter Monday 33 years ago a pale, impassioned schoolmaster named Patrick Pearse marched out of the door of Dublin’s General Post Office, hauled a flag of green, white and orange to the peak ...

Mise Éire ("I am Ireland") is a 1912 Irish-language poem by the Irish poet and Republican revolutionary leader Patrick Pearse. In the poem, Pearse personifies Ireland as an old woman whose glory ...

Patrick Pearse was born on 10 November 1879 at 27 ... Ireland Literary Society and from 1898 began publishing papers and poems. Up until 1912 Pearse’s activities were largely restricted to ...