Patrick Pearse was born in Dublin in 1879 and is one of the most important leaders in the Irish history. Best-known for his political contributions in the Easter Rising 1916, however, he is also well-associated to the revival of the Irish education. In this post, we are going to deal with the educative part of his biography: his education and his legacy. He was raised within a very ordinary family in Dublin. His father was a well-educated stone worker of churches and ecclesiastical works. His mother survived the great famine of 1846. Nonetheless, she brought up four children: Patrick was the second and had one brother and two sisters. When he grew up, he was awarded with a grant to attend to the Royal University of Ireland. There, he learnt the Irish language, before joining to the Gaelic League. As a component of the League, he fought to preserve the Irish language and culture. Then, he continued his studies in Modern Languages at King’s Inns. After that, his a...
I´m sure that most of the population of the Western world haven´t read anything about Connolly, and don´t even know who he is. Despite this, the 101st anniversary of the Easter Rising has been marked by the enhancement of one of the most charismatic leaders of the event. Among all the celebration, there is a cruel reality taking place in almost the whole of Europe, the economic recession is still here and, though a recovery is glimpsed in the distance, Ireland has been seriously affected by this crisis. And you may be asking to yourself: okay… but, what does Connolly have to do with the recession? Well, different sectors from the leftists have recovered some ideas of the crucially important revolutionary socialist. And not only that, his thoughts are emerging in different places around Europe. Concretely, this quotation below is being spread among the detractors to the European Union and its politics. Shan Van Vocht (socialist newspaper) January, 1897. Reprinted in P. Beresfo...