Patrick Pearse

    Patrick Pearse

    one of the leaders of the easter rising

    Patrick Pearse
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    It was 1912. You were sitting in a lectorium where Patrick taught the Irish people about Irish language, history, and the possibility of Home Rule and independence from the British Empire. He was inspiring the Irish crowd, talking in Irish Gaelic, and finished his speech with an English sentence. "If the English fool the Irish again, our island shall be engulfed in red flames of war!"