Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption: The Mind of the Easter Rising, 1916

by Sean Farrell Moran

Patrick Pearse, an important Irish journalist, educator, and artist, came to play the pivotal role in the Easter Rising of 1916. Here Seán Farrell Moran examines Pearse within the context of contemporary Irish politics and culture to explain how this unlikely revolutionary became the spokesman of the violent forces within the nationalist movement.

Genres: Biography, Ireland

233 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1993

Reviews

[CJ Gerardy]

Read for my “History of Europe in the 20th Century” class. My professor wrote this book. Do you think I’ll get extra credit if I rate it 5 stars?

[Thomas Schulte]

This is a thoroughly researched biography of the Irish revolutionist. The 230-odd page book is so rich in footnotes that is both a very quick read for the actual text and a container of myriad pointers to further exploration. Beside a political life awakened during the Irish literary renaissance, when new sages and ancient mythics rekindled a fire in the Gaelic soul, this is a psychologically probing account. Connections are made from Pearse's asexual adulthood and childhood red light district cross-dressing cosplay to a life's energy sublimated into self-sacrifice for nationhood.

[Mike Sweeney]

I'm Irish and a fucking nerd. A very telling tale....