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Patrick Pearse

Pádraig Pearse was born in Dublin on 10th November 1879 and whose full name is Patrick Henry Pearse or as probably preferred in Irish Pádraic Anraí Mac Piarais.

Patrick Pearse spoke Irish from an early age and became a member of the Conradh na nGaeilge (Gaelic League) and by when he was at the age of 23 he became the editor for the league's newspaper An Claidheamh Soluis which means The Sword of Light.

He knew how important the Irish language was for the sake of the Irish identity in Ireland and elsewhere and had become a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in 1914. The IRB wanted the removal of British interests in Ireland and for a Republic to be established. Pádraig Pearse climbed the ranks of the Irish Republican Brotherhood because of his passion towards his Irish culture and determination to see a Republic.

He was seated on the Supreme Council of the IRB in 1915 and who were the ones for the planning of the Irish Rising. He was appointed to become the president of new Irish Republic and would also be one the one who announced the Proclamation of the Irish Republic during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.

With nearly a week of fighting with British forces, after the reading of the Proclamation , Pádraig Pearse along with 14 Irish leaders, including James Connolly, surrendered to the British with each excuted thereafter at Kilmainham Gaol.

Pádraic Anraí Mac Piarais was Irish man who was proud of his identity; he was a teacher, a writer, a poet and a political activist with a crime of being a patriot of Ireland.

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