Patrick Pearse in The Irish Revolutionary War
The Amish religion is one of the most traditional cultures in America today; Patrick Pearse had the same dedication to his country and his culture as the Amish do to their religion today. Pearse’s early life and ambitions shaped him into the hard working, intelligent man he was. Through his life experiences, endeavors, poetry and his role in the Easter Rising, Pearse greatly affected the outcome of the Irish Revolutionary War. Patrick Pearse was a dedicated traditionalist and a cause of the Irish Independence War.
Born to an English stone carver and an Irish women in the Dublin, Patrick Pearse had one brother, Willie, and a sister, Margaret. Pearse was a highly advanced student who had a love for traditional Irish life from his great-aunt’s influence. (Erie First!) By the age of 16, Pearse had joined a council called the Gaelic League. The Gaelic League, also know as, Conradh na Gaeilge, taught classes around the country on classic Irish language and culture. (Primary Students) Upon joining this group, he decided to change his name to Pádric Piaris. Three years after he joined, he became the editor of their newspaper, An Claidheamh Soluis ("The Sword of Light"), which
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he held for 6 years. Using his status from his job, he tried repeatedly to ‘beat’ the British intellectually. He used his knowledge to fight back, instead of force. Such as publishing Irish works instead of the British, and ancient tales. After no results from his intellectual warfare, he gave up being editor in chief and started a school of Irish Culture called St. Edna’s. St. Edna’s School School for Boys (Scoil Éanna) opened in 1908 due to Pearse disbelieving in the Irish Education. ‘Our education teaches fine you Irishmen to grow up as a good Englishman’ (Halla Mor) Besides the sciences, all of the class were taught in Gaelic, also referred to as Irish. The curriculum of the school had classes from gardening to Egyptology, along with its own magazine, An Scoláire (The Scholar). Many of the men involved in teaching and learning went with Pearse to the Easter Rising, including his brother William Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Eamonn Ceannt and Con Colbert. Only 15 boys attending the school actually fought in the rebellion. St. Edna’s was originally located in Dublin at the Cullenswood House, but when enrollment went over 130 in 1910, he moved it to Hermitage in Rathfarnham, on the outside of Dublin. Moving the school was a bad choice, as most the boys could no longer attend and enrollment dropped to 70, never reaching higher than 60 students afterwards. The school’s loss of students drove Pearse to become active in the bloodthirsty groups such as the Irish Voluntary, and the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Pearse was a well- known poet and inspired many people with his words.
Pearse is most well known for his Graveside Oration of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. His words inspired the attack during Easter week, known as the Easter Rising. Read this quote, and think of the meaning these people took from Pearse. “The Defenders of this Realm have worked well in secret and in the open. They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! — they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
(TheJournalie) Along with this speech, he wrote a lot of poetry that planted seeds in the minds of these young nationalists. The poem, “The Mother,” is in my opinion the most persuasive poem he wrote. He wrote of a mother’s pride in seeing her sons fighting in the war for what’s right, no matter how much it hurts her. I do not grudge them: Lord, I do not grudge My two strong sons that I have seen go out To break their strength and die, they and a few, In bloody protest for a glorious thing, They shall be spoken of among their people, The generations shall remember them, And call them blessed; But I will speak their names to my own heart In the long nights; The little names that were familiar once Round my dead hearth. Lord, thou art hard on mothers: We suffer in their coming and their going; And tho' I grudge them not, I weary, weary Of the long sorrow-And yet I have my joy: My sons were faithful, and they fought. -Patrick Henry Pearse Imagine these young men, who have a fear in their hearts that they would ruin their families, or are scared of death. Imagine the strength and will to fight that would flood them knowing they made their mother’s proud, and they did what was right. Which all lead to the horrible tragedy known as The Easter Rising. The Easter Rising was an orchestrated rebellion organized by Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, Thomas Clarke, Thomas MacDonagh, Sean McDermott, Joseph Plunkett & Eamonn Ceannt. Yet, none of these men ever fired a gun through the whole week. These 6 men were also executed for the rebellion. Pearse read the Proclamation of Independence of Ireland, and became the spokesperson of this revolt, and known as, “The First President of Ireland.” (Easter 1916) An unknown amount of men on the rebels side were wounded, but a total of 609 men on both sides of this fight were wounded or killed in the rebellion, including the 6 executed men. Only 36 years old, Pearse begged they leave the men who fought for the side of freedom to live. On May 3rd, of 1916, around 4 in the morning, Pearse was the first man to be executed by firing squad. Closely followed by his brother, then Connolly, and throughout the rest of the day, the other 3 men. The war had been put off since the outbreak of World War I, but Pearse restarted this war with his words and simple manipulative abilities. During his life, Pearse had only a little influence on this war, but after the news of the execution of Connolly, and Pearse, and the war between Britain and Ireland was in full swing. Along with starting this war, he also completely changed the education. In Ireland, it is now mandatory that schools teach their students Irish history and language became required. Patrick Pearse was a dedicated traditionalist, and a morally obligated man. Being dedicated, and traditional helped Pearse cause the Irish Revolutionary War. He built up dedication through his life, and his work influenced a culture back to its glory. His words influenced people to be passionate about something, to put their lives and their deaths into a reason, and make it matter. Everyone has something that matters to them, more than most things. Something they’re passionate about; can you make yours matter?
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