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Patrick Pearse Biography

Patrick Henry Pearse (also known as Pádraig or Pádraic Pearse; Irish: Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais; An Piarsach; 10 November 1879 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. Following his execution along with fifteen others, Pearse came to be seen by many as the embodiment of the rebellion.

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Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

Life, Men, Patriot, Spring, Springs

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

Attitude, Long, Men, Rebellion, Women

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

Ireland, Peace, Revolutionary, Unfree

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood. . . there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

Blood, Cleansing, Finals, Manhood, Slavery, Thing

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

Fighting, Lose, Lost, Past, Win, Winning

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us

Education, Inspire, Irish, People, Wise

A country without a language is a country without a soul.

Country, Language, Soul, Travel

One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness. . . it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated. . . It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds.

Immutable, Law, Night, Piece, Powerful, Things

We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

Cheerfully, Die, Grieving, Ready, Ready To Die

You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win by a better deed.

Children, Passion, Winning, Ireland, Extinguish, Deed

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Generation, Joy, Laughter, Sacrifice, Salt

The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally.

Cherishing, Children, Guarantees, Opportunity, Religious, Republic