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 ...

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 ...

A new book insists 1916 Easter Rising leader Patrick Pearse was camera-shy and was determined to be photographed only from the side. That’s because he had a pronounced squint, explains the book ...

‘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 ...

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 ...