Pádraig Mac Piarais founded St. Enda’s (Scoil Éanna) in Rathfarnham.
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was buried in Glasnevin cemetery
“You must not grieve for all this. We have preserved Ireland’s honour and our own”
Lorcán Mac Mathúna explores the intense spirituality of the writings of Patrick Pearse: poet, visionary, educator and leader of the Easter Rising, 1916
Pádraig Mac Piarais founded St. Enda’s (Scoil Éanna) in Rathfarnham.
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was buried in Glasnevin cemetery
“You must not grieve for all this. We have preserved Ireland’s honour and our own”
Culture or “Aufhebung”
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was buried in Glasnevin cemetery
“You must not grieve for all this. We have preserved Ireland’s honour and our own”
Pádraig Mac Piarais founded St. Enda’s (Scoil Éanna) in Rathfarnham. St. Enda’s was to have an “Irish standpoint and ‘atmosphere’” and be based on what Pearse saw as the two key characteristics of the ancient Irish system of education: freedom for the individual student and inspirational teaching. He wrote later in his essay on education […]
On this day, August 1st, in 1915, the old Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was buried in Glasnevin cemetery in one of the largest political funerals ever witnessed before or since in Dublin. At his graveside, the poet, nationalist and revolutionary, Pádraig Mac Piarais gave an electrifying oration which was a speech for the ages, remembered as […]