Patrick Pearse, poet, writer, founder of Scoil Eanna (St Enda’s) in 1908 and commander-in-chief of the forces of the Irish Republic during the Easter Rising, was executed in Kilmainham Jail, #OTD 1916.

#DIB https://www.dib.ie/biography/pearse-patrick-henry-a7247

This Man Had Kept A School – Pearse’s educational philosophy: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/10/pearse-education/

A right to rebel (including Pearse's take on rebellion) https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/03/27/right-to-rebel/

#pearse #education #rebellion #1916Rising #IrishPhilosophyOTD