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	Patrick Pearse
		In 1908, Pearse founded his own school, St Enda's, through which he did much to preserve native culture, encouraging the use of the language and participation in traditional Irish sports, and taking the boys on trips to the west of Ireland.
		Along with most of the other leaders, including his brother Willie, he surrendered when it became apparent that victory was impossible, and was court-martialled and [both brothers were] executed by firing squad.
		In her biography of Pearse, Ruth Dudley Edwards[?] claimed that Pearse had latent homosexual tendencies, though she did not suggest, nor did she rule out the possibility, that he was a sexually active homosexual.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Padraig_Pearse.html (273 words)

	::Patrick Pearse::
		Patrick Pearse was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916.
		Pearse was born in 1879; his father, James, was a stone worker who worked on church buildings in Dublin and his mother, Margaret, came from a family that had endured the Great Famine in 1846 and had left County Meath for Dublin.
		Pearse had convinced himself that the real Irish language was based in Connaught and he taught himself the dialect of the area.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /patrick_pearse.htm (1502 words)

	sion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pearse took much pride in his players whether he saw them in their Hero-garb in Cullenswood's pleasant field or on the Abbey stage or in the small theatre he built on occasion in Cullenswood.
		Pearse had one stock defence to all criticism of his actions: he could not stand still till he rotted, and it was better to do something than nothing.
		Pearse in his dashing moods struck you as quite insane, but as one who knew he was and one with who it was pleasanter to go mad than with all the solid, sensible folk in the world.
	www.pearsecom.com /padraicpearse/sion.html (2328 words)

	"The Mother" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Padraig Pearse was born in 1879 to an Irish mother and father who lived in Dublin.
		Pearse, his brother Willie, and thirteen other leaders were executed by a firing squad for their involvement.
		It is thought that Pearse wrote the poem the night before he and the other fourteen men were executed, so perhaps he knew they were going to be killed.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~hynes/309K/student_websites/Hord/TheMother.html (343 words)

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		Born to James Pearse, an English stonecarver who found first work and later a new faith as an artisan embellishing Catholic edifices in Dublin, and Margaret Brady, whose family had fled the famine in Co. Meath and eked out a living in the same city, Patrick was the second of four children.
		Pearse's maverick stance endeared him neither to Sinn Fiin or the republican movement; the Bill, in his view, would allow the Gaelic nationalists at least the removal of one of their manacles.
		Pearse in 1913 recalled "that laughing gesture of a young man that is going into battle or climbing to a gibbet." He helped organize the Irish Volunteers: the public side of the outlawed Irish Republican Brotherhood, and both organizations would soon transform Pearse's visions reality.
	giveirelandbacktotheirish.com /pearse.htm (1505 words)

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		Pearse began teaching Irish at the Christian Brothers School and at the Jesuit University College in Dublin (one of his pupils for a time was a young James Joyce).
		Pearse built a small cottage at Ros Muc in County Galway and spent his summers in that Irish speaking area in the west or Ireland.
		Pearse was the primary author and first signatory of the Proclamation, which formally declared Ireland to be a republic and separate from Britain.
	www.patrickpearse.com /patrick_pearse/main.html (1800 words)

	Famous Irish Lives - Patrick Pearse
		Pearse developed a love of the Irish language at the Christian Brothers school in Westland Row, and joined the Gaelic League in 1896, soon going on to its executive.
		Pearse delivered a notable oration at the Emmet commemoration in 1911, and envisaged dying in an Irish revolution.
		Willie Pearse was one of fourteen others shot dead.
	www.irelandseye.com /irish/people/famous/pearse.shtm (359 words)

	Patrick Pearse: Ireland's Rebel
		Patrick Pearse was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 10, 1879 to an English sculptor and an Irish woman.
		Pearse became involved in militant groups as both a poet and a warrior and benefitted Ireland immensely in both ways.
		Pearse was a believer in a revolution while the British were occupied fighting a war in Europe.
	www.nadn.navy.mil /EnglishDept/ilv/pearse.htm (1906 words)

	Willie Pearse of 1916
		Willie was the younger brother of Pádraic Pearse, the Provisional President of the Irish Republic, yet Willie was only a private in the Volunteers during the Easter Rising.
		Willie was stationed in the GPO, where he stood by Pádraic's side untill the surrender order came.
		After the Rising, Willie was executed in Kilmainham Gaol on the 4th of May 1916.
	www.1916rising.com /pic_willie.html (103 words)

	Pádraic Henry Pearse (1879-1916)
		Often described as an idealistic dreamer, Padraic swore an oath with his younger brother, Willie, to free Ireland or die in the attempt.
		Initially in his political career Pearse was a moderate, supporting the Home Rule movement, but he soon conceived the idea that independence would only be achieved by force and sacrifice.
		Pearse was recruited into the IRB in 1912 and later became a member of the Military Council of the organisation.
	www.1916rising.com /pic_pearse.html (251 words)

	Easter Monday 1916
		Pearse began his life-long study of the Irish language at age 11; perhaps his strident nationalism was a byproduct of his study of the language that the British had tried so hard to destroy over the centuries.
		The school operated until 1935, run eventually by Pearse’s mother and sister, but none of the four founders of the school would see that day — all four would be executed within five days of each other in May 1916.
		In military terms, there was nothing for Pearse and his cohorts to do but call off the rising, but Pearse was not a military man, he was a visionary.
	www.theirishgazette.com /Pages/5_2006_Easter.html (2227 words)

	1916 Easter Rising - Images of Ireland.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pearse and Connolly should not be separated for they wre complementary to each other, and on the day on which they signed the Easter Week Proclamation, their aims and objects were identical.
		Pearse's political development was almost complete at this stage, but not quite, it took the 1913 strike to awaken him to a full realization of the fact that the workers struggle for social justice was part of the nation's struggle for independence.
		Pearse was the first to be singled out for execution, he was not allowed to see his mother or brother before he was executed on May 3, 1916.
	www.imagesofireland.net /easterrising.html (7006 words)

	Patrick Pearse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Irish-speaking influence of Pearse's great-aunt Margaret, together with his schooling at the CBS Westland Row, instilled in him an early love for the Irish language.
		Pearse was 36 years old at the time of his death.
		In the case of Pearse it was claimed that his heart was broken when this young woman drowned; as a result, he avoided any romantic attachments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patrick_Pearse (2403 words)

	Willie Pearse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Willie was born in Dublin and throughout his life lived in the shadow of his brother to whom he was devoted and with whom he formed a particularly close relationship.
		Willie was involved in the arts and theatre at St. Enda's and aided the overall running of the school.
		On May 3, William Pearse was granted permission to visit his brother in Kilmainham Jail, to see him for the final time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willie_Pearse (259 words)

	::The Easter Uprising::
		From what we know Patrick Pearse said to his mother, we know that he was all but sure the rebellion would fail.
		Patrick Pearse announced the creation of the Republic of Ireland from the Post Office.
		Connolly had been seriously wounded and it was Patrick Pearse that formally surrendered to the British.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /easter_uprising.htm (1458 words)

	CHAPTER 28
		Pearse, no less than Connolly, was opposed to the capitalist order that had for generations destroyed his native country, but he did not share Connolly’s reliance on class war.
		Pearse, in his letter, suggests that he felt that it was well that a Rising had taken place, but also well the whole country had not come into it.
		The seven signatories of the proclamation of independence (Pearse, Connolly, Clarke, McDonagh, MacDermott, Plunkett, and Ceannt) were all executed to the outrage of the Irish public who had now begun to revise their opinion of the insurgents.
	users.bigpond.net.au /icry/chapter_28.htm (5841 words)

	Poetry: Padraic Pearse
		Padraic Pearse (1879-1916), the son of an Irish mother and an English father, was born in Dublin and educated at the Christian Brothers' School.
		Pearse envisioned a free Gaelic Ireland, and to encourage that end through education, he founded St. Enda's College, a school for boys.
		He was arrested along with several other leaders (including his brother Willie) and shot by a firing squad on May 3, 1916.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /LITLINKS/poetry/pearse.htm (140 words)

	Family of Mary Ann Bradley (1881 - 1964)
		Mary Ann (Nellie) Bradley (1881 - 1964) married Willie Bradley (1873 - 1962), the son of Hugh and Jane Bradley, of Muneagh, Buncrana, Co. Donegal.
		Hughie (1903 to 1986) married Agnes Crossan (1912 to 1979) and settled in Derry.
		Willie 1909 - 1983) married Sally McCauley of Toomerbridge and moved to London where they had five children: Liam, Francis, Brian, Mary and Birdie.
	bradley.home.tripod.com /id14.html (509 words)

	Irish Council Against Blood Sports - Latest News
		In her letter, written from a nursing home in 1967, Senator Pearse outlined how her brothers, Padraic and Willie, were kind to animals and would have been opposed to hare coursing.
		Senator Margaret Pearse had felt so strongly about hare coursing in 1967 that she took the time and trouble, then aged 89, to write a letter to the national press, condemning the blood sport.
		In my letter to the press I invoked the names of my two brothers Padraic and Willie and I was absolutely correct in affirming that they would both have been totally opposed to the inhuman treatment meted out to the innocent little hares at the coursing matches.
	www.banbloodsports.com /ln-0604e.htm (792 words)

	Easter Rising - TheWildGeese.com
		The school operated until 1935, run eventually by Pearse's mother and sister, but none of the four founders of the school would see that day all four would be executed within five days of each other in May 1916.
		Willie's capitol offense was being the brother of Patrick Pearse.
		Pearse must have anguished as those words, in place of the expected "FIRE," were heard.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/pearse.html (3556 words)

	Margaret Pearse - Politics.ie Wiki
		Margaret Pearse was the mother of Pádraig Pearse and Willie Pearse.
		Padraig had been a signatory to the Proclamation but Willie appears to have been executed simply because he was Padraig's brother.
		Her daughter Margaret Mary Pearse also joined Fianna Fáil and served as a TD and a Senator for the party up until her death.
	www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Margaret_Pearse (375 words)

	macrua: This day in history...
		Throughout his life, Willie lived in the shadow of his brother to whom he was devoted, and the two formed a particularly close, but somewhat unbalanced, relationship in which William was completely devoted to Pádraic.
		Probably because of his plead and of course his relation with Pádraic William Pearse was sentenced to death.
		Between 4 and 4.30am on 4 May 1916, William Pearse was shot in the former stonebreakers yard at Kilmainham Prison.
	macrua.livejournal.com /13115.html (1086 words)

	Western People - 2003/07/02: Pearse Stadium memories, John Donnellan and Roy Keane
		But the semi-final clash of Mayo and Galway at Pearse Stadium on June 25th was the one that counted.
		And a young lion, Willie Loftus, who was later in the year to captain Mayo Under 21s to an All-Ireland title, was added to midfield to provide thrust and combativeness.
		Those at home watching the game on TV got up to make a cup of tea when the transmission failed, and, by the time normal service was resumed, Meath had stuck in two goals in a 3-14 to 1-14 result.
	archives.tcm.ie /westernpeople/2003/07/02/story14360.asp (947 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Sport - Council offers to mediate to save Livingston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Willie Dunn (left) was adamant Flynn’s bid remained the only option.
		WILLIE DUNN today revealed that West Lothian Council are ready to step in to try and resolve the stand-off which threatens the future of Livingston Football Club.
		The Lionheart consortium led by Pearse Flynn has attained preferred bidder status with the club’s administrators but major shareholder Dominic Keane insists no-one has approached him with a view to purchasing his stake.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /sport.cfm?id=507362004 (640 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - The Hunt for Red Willie
		A legend among the locals and a faceless rebel to the British soldiers, Red Willie is, in physical terms, quite simply a mask.
		Le Blanc's right hand man Sergeant Tanner is played by David Pearse who undoubtedly steals the show with a highly entertaining performance credited not only to a witty script but also to Pearse's own brilliance as an actor.
		Although the plot is somewhat clichéd and predictable, this is one hilarious piece of theatre.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2001/0823/redwillie.html (358 words)

	A Life of Pádraic Pearse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By all accounts, it was a happy, loving family, with four children, Pat and Willie and their two sisters, Margaret and Mary-Brigid.
		Life seems to have been good for the Pearse family, at a time when there was desperate poverty in Ireland, and especially in Dublin.
		The first was his brother Willie, who sold the family business to help fund the school project, and gave up most of his own ambitions as an artist in order to teach art to Pat's 'boys' and to be his chief supporter in good times and bad.
	www.pearsecom.com /padraicpearse/biography.htm (1727 words)

	1916 Easter Rising
		Their leaders, Patrick Pearse, James Connolly and the others, knew that their chances of success were so slight as to be almost non-existent.
		Indeed, MacNeill's decision to call off the Rising, and Pearse's to go ahead, was really the death-knell of the Volunteers and of the Nationalist Party whose armed force they were supposed to be.
		Later that day he and Pearse and the remaining rebels escaped from a building that was by now almost red-hot and about to collapse.
	users.bigpond.net.au /kirwilli/1916 (4875 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Europe
		The document was written by Pearse on April 30, 1916, as he awaited execution in Dublin's Arbour Hill prison after he surrendered following six days of fighting with British troops in the streets of the Irish capital.
		A Franciscan monk, Father Columbus, asked Pearse to write the document because an order for surrender signed a day earlier at the headquarters of General John Maxwell, commander of the British troops in Ireland, failed to reach some rebels.
		Pearse, who was president of the Provisional Government and general of the Irish Republican Army, was executed by firing squad on May 3, 1916, at Kilmainham jail for his part in the Easter Rising.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aPIRXYY_PGII (441 words)

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		Pearse Og opened the match in attack and had a number of opportunities that fell wide.
		Willie McSorley kept Harps in the game with a tremendous point blank save, but St Michaels managed a point from a free soon after.
		Willie McSorley, Fergus McAleavey, Martin Gill, Jungle McKee, Chuckie Morris (Paddy Grimes), Charlie Vernon 0-1, Ciaran McKenna, Philip McKinney, Martin McKenna, Peadar Toal 0-6 (0-5 frees)(0-1 “50”), Butler Agnew 0-1 (Mickey Donnelly), Ebbie Toal 0-1 (0-1 free) (Paddy Morrison), Paul Dynes 0-2, Sean Morrison and Harpo McKenna 0-1.
	www.armaghharps.com /old/latest_news.htm (9213 words)

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