Friday, November 10, 2006
Birthday of Padraic H.Pearse
I won't include the Wikipedia articles and it's speculations that Pearse was gay. He had a girlfriend and was engaged to marry her, but she drowned teaching another young woman how to swim and Pearse was never the same after she died.
An Account of the Easter Rising of 1916
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Member of that talented but sad generation of Irish poets, writers...
Executed by British only because he wanted his country to be free. Today - and then - he would be/ was considered a terrorist!
Executed by British only because he wanted his country to be free. Today - and then - he would be/ was considered a terrorist!
Yes and I heard the poet Seamus Heaney to his eternal disgrace pronounce Pearse 'a blood and soil fascist'!
I think up until recently Pearse may have been more respected in America than in Ireland.
His family are related to my family, as is the family of Countess Markievicz. I'm related actually to the Markievicz bunch as well as the Gore-Booths as the Markievicz family are related to the Pininski family, the last legit descendants of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Most people don't realize that Charlie was a descendant of Jan Sobieska III. If he'd only inherited some of that military talent! Perhaps then there might not have been a Rising of 1916! Perhaps then Pearse might have been a lawyer or a schoolmaster who wrote a little poetry on the side. I often wonder what would have happened if his girlfriend hadn't drowned. Sometimes loss really does bad things to people.
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I think up until recently Pearse may have been more respected in America than in Ireland.
His family are related to my family, as is the family of Countess Markievicz. I'm related actually to the Markievicz bunch as well as the Gore-Booths as the Markievicz family are related to the Pininski family, the last legit descendants of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Most people don't realize that Charlie was a descendant of Jan Sobieska III. If he'd only inherited some of that military talent! Perhaps then there might not have been a Rising of 1916! Perhaps then Pearse might have been a lawyer or a schoolmaster who wrote a little poetry on the side. I often wonder what would have happened if his girlfriend hadn't drowned. Sometimes loss really does bad things to people.
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