Irish America is being called upon to support the campaign to erect a statue dedicated to Easter Rising leader Patrick Pearse outside the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin. The campaign is being ...

On September 8, 1908, Patrick Pearse opened St Enda’s College, Ireland's first bilingual, lay Catholic school for boys. This book extract gives an insight into how the Pearse family battled to save ...

A fresh look at Patrick Pearse RTE's splendid documentary on 1916 Rising leader is not to be missed, writes John A Murphy WE CAN be thankful that the 85th anniv RTE's splendid documentary on 1916 ...

How would you like to work on the rugged Connemara coast where 1916 Easter Rising leader Patrick Pearse spent his summers? Well, the Office of Public Works (OPW) is extending that opportunity to ...

‘For want of proper education, people in this country had forgotten that they had a country - but men like Patrick Pearse and schools like St. Enda’s are bringing back again the consciousness of ...

Patrick Pearse spent the Christmas holidays a hundred years ago doing one of his favourite things - writing. The titles of the two works he completed were unseasonably morbid - consistent with the ...

Patrick Pearse was born on 10 November 1879 at 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. Educated at the CBS Westland Row, he then studied at University College Dublin and graduated in Irish, English and ...

A collector has uncovered a letter showing that Patrick Pearse visited Belfast in 1911 to campaign for Irish language rights. Easter Rising leader Pearse and future president of Ireland, Douglas Hyde ...

Government officials have ruled out forcing the owner of Patrick Pearse's handwritten surrender letter to sell it to the state. The note, which marked the end of the 1916 Rising, failed to reach the 1 ...