Patrick Pearse
Patrick Henry Pearse (also Padraig Henry Pearse, Irish Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais [ pɑ ː dɾ ˠ ik anɾ ˠ i ː mək p ʲ iəɾ ˠ əʃ ]; born November 10, 1879 in Dublin, † May 3, 1916 in Dublin) was an Irish teacher and writer. He led the Easter Rising of 1916 and was ( including James Connolly and Pearse's brother William) executed after its failure along with 14 other leaders of the uprising in Kilmainham Jail in Dublin.
Pearse's father was James Steinmetz. The family came from England, but James emigrated to Ireland and converted to Catholicism, both presumably for professional reasons. Pearse's mother was Irish, her family came from the Irish west ( Gaeltacht ) and said the Irish Gaelic as a first language. Pearse attended a school of the Catholic Christian Brotherhood. 1895 Pearse joined the Gaelic League in and quickly became one of its leaders. There he met the founder of the League, Dr. Douglas Hyde. Both, however, had very different views that led to later that Hyde resigned the presidency of the League.
Pearse taught Irish Gaelic and wrote poems and stories in the Irish language. 1908 Pearse founded his own school, St. Enda 's School in Dublin, in which he encouraged the students to exercise their own culture, language and traditional Irish sports. He also led the students on hiking the West of Ireland.
Pearse was a well-known figure in the Irish independence movement. He was co-founder of the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and entered 1914 in the Irish Republican Brotherhood. In this secret organization he belonged to the leadership circle soon and wrote on the occasion of the Easter Rising of 1916 the proclamation of the Republic of Ireland, whose signatories he belonged.
A wider audience Pearse had become particularly well known for his speech at the funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa on August 1, 1915 which was cited and discussed in detail in the newspapers of the country. Pearse ' A remark Ireland unfree will never be peaceful! ( ir: Ní bheidh Éire gan saoirse ar shíocháin choiche closely: . Ireland unfree Shall never be at peace! ) became a household word.
The central element of Pearse 's political philosophy, the elements of the Christian faith mingled with references to the pre-Christian tradition of Celtic Ireland, was the idea that more important than military success was the willingness to suffer. The Easter Rising, from the outset the military a chance, he saw as a necessary " blood sacrifice," the leaders of the Irish struggle for independence James Fintan Lalor (1807-1849), John Mitchel (1815-1875) and Thomas Davis (1814-1845), but especially Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1798), he depicted as saints and compared them with the martyrs of the Catholic faith. By sacrificing his own life and that of his colleagues, he hoped to have a ripple effect that would ultimately lead to victory. The rest of the story gave him right insofar as only the executions after the Easter Rising this made them popular among the people and led to the strengthening of the independence movement and the party Sinn Féin.
In the former St. Enda 's School in Dublin is now home to a museum dedicated to the work of Patrick Pearse.