PATRICK PEARSE Quotes: LIFE SPRINGS FROM DEATH; AND FROM THE GRAVES OF PATRIOT MEN AND WOMEN SPRING LIVING NATIONS.

in ireland •  7 years ago  (edited)

PATRICK PEARSE Quotes:
LIFE SPRINGS FROM DEATH; AND FROM THE GRAVES OF PATRIOT MEN AND WOMEN SPRING LIVING NATIONS.

Patrick Henry Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916.

He kept the rising very quiet: He was one of only 30 people to know that the Rising would take place. Pearse, who had been secretly planning the insurrection for two years.

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Thanks, @eroche @deirdyweirdy @steem-dublin & @anomaly for the up votes I am on the search for more freedom quotes from different people trroughout history.