Lorcán Mac Mathúna explores the intense spirituality of the writings of Patrick Pearse: poet, visionary, educator and leader of the Easter Rising, 1916
Of all the writing where Pearse elucidates his revolutionary conscience, his poem ‘The Rebel’ is clearest. There is a searing sense of righteous pain in its lines, arising from the sense of a denial of destiny -a betrayal of the dignity of humanity formed in God’s image. It harkens back to Robert Emmet’s speech from […]