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Padraig Pearse

paky · 2011-02-25 18:58:28

I was just looking at Padraig Pearses court matial address on the National Libray of Ireland's 1916 exhibit. Its quite an address, he comes across as a great orator but what I wanted to know was Pearse as influential in person as he was in writing? Alot of stuff I briefly read about Pearse is that he was a romantic and a…

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#202 03-07-2012 10:50pm

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Thanks, that is very helpful.

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#203 07-01-2013 2:01pm

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wolfpawnat wrote: »

Denerick puts it well.

Though he was not a man of battle and war, he ordered that any looters would be shot as it was not right to rob from others, but once looters were found, he did not have the heart to allow them to be shot.

When the garrison had moved to Moore Street and they held out against the British there, it was the witnessing of the murders of a barkeeper, his wife and 2 children by British Army machine gun fire as they waved a white flag to attempt to leave their home that caused Pearse to finally call for surrender, showing he was a compassionate man, who did not want to see innocent civilians die!

Strangely squeamish for a man attempting an armed uprising, it must be said. Not a bad trait in a man by any stretch, but perhaps better as a speech maker than a revolutionary.

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