The Words of Patrick Pearse

The History of Patrick Pearse, One of Irelands Greatest And Most Influential Political Figures and Leaders. A Poet, A Master of the Gaelic Language, And a Nationalist. Pearse was it all. And Died for his Land



I am come of the seed of the people, the people that sorrow,
That have no treasure but hope,
No riches laid up but a memory
Of an Ancient glory.
My mother bore me in bondage, in bondage my mother was born,
I am of the blood of serfs;
The children with whom I have played,
the men and women with whom I have eaten
Have had masters over them, have been under the lash of masters,
And, though gentle, have served churls;
Their hands that have touched mine,
the dear hands whose touch is familiar to me,
Have worn shameful manacles,
have been bitten at the wriest by manacles
Have grown hard with the manacles and the task-work of strangers.
I am flesh of the flesh of these lowly, I am bone of their bone,
I that have never submitted;
I that have a soul greater than the souls of my people's masters
I that have vision and prophecy and the gift of fiery speech,
I that have spoken with God on the top of His holy hill.

And because I am of the people, I understand the people,
I am sorrowful with their sorrow, I am hungry with their desire:
My heart has been heavy with the grief of mothers,
My eyes have been wet with the tears of children,
I have yearned with old wistful men,
And laughed or cursed with young men,

Their shame is my shame, and I have reddened for it,
Reddened for that they have served, they who should be free,
Reddened for that they have gone in want,
while others have been full,
Reddened for that they have walked in fear of lawyers and of their jailors
With their writs of summons and their handcuffs,
Men mean and cruel!
I could have borne stripes on my body
rather than this shame of my people.

And now I speak, being full of vision;
I speak to my people,
and I speak in my people's name to the masters of my people.
I say to my people that they are holy, that they are august,
despite their chains,
That they are greater than those that hold them, and stronger and purer,
That they have but need of courage,
and to call on the name of their God,
God the unforgetting, the dear God that loves the peoples
For whom He died naked, suffering shame.
And I say to my people's masters: Beware,
Beware of the thing that is coming,
beware of the risen people,
Who shall take what ye would not give.
Did ye think to conquer the people,
Or that Law is stronger than life and than men's desire to be free?
We will try it out with you, ye that have harried and held,
Ye that have bullied and bribed,
tyrants, hypocrites, liars!

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[gar2k10staffy]

August 1 1915

Padraic Pearse

They think they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have forseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools. the folls, the fools! -they have left us our fenian dead, and while Ireland hold these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.

THUMB THIS UP SO OTHER PEOPLE CAN READ IT AT THE TOP

[nallyterrace]

"Beware of the risen people

Who shall take what ye would not give."

People ask why I feel Irish Republicanism is still relevant in a generally peaceful and prosperous country. Those two lines from Pearse sum my opinion up. Why should we as Irish men and women be part of a state from which our Irish forefathers have always had to prise their rights from reluctant British hands? Why should we be linked to a state from which we have to take what they would not give?

[squirell1952]

THERE IS NO IRISH TEESHOCK OR PRESIDENT!!! teeshock or prez of THREE QUARTERS, yes, but not of IRELAND!! Study the atlas. And did Paudrigg Pearse REALLY say that the church-run system of education in Southern Ireland was a "murder machine". Now, that I'd love to know. |You don't have to be a cathollic to be a fucking bollox, you know. maybe it helps but i am cure other churches have their dirty bastards hidden somewhere.

Have any muslim scandals broken out yet? What's keeping them?

[deadpoolhanna]

and islolated protestant communities fearful of nationalism and Dublin rule. Surely it is not unimaginable that they can embrace their Irish identity as I and others I know of have. Religion can no longer play a part in the politics of this country nor can the petty tribalism still so prevalent in the North, otherwise the people of this island will never be free.

[deadpoolhanna]

I was born and bred in the loyalist heartlands of North Antrim, I see nothing but union jacks, red white and blue painted kerbs, vile sectarian graffiti and drunken louts parading their 'traditional culture' while managing to shred any piece of credibility with their disgusting, violent, WKD fueled behaviour. I joined a flute band when I was 14, and was taught UDA songs and so much other filth. Loyalism in the North is nothing more than thuggery, an olive branch must be extended to misinformed

[TheSmorris1]

Pearse was unlikely to have been "gay"; had there been a shred of evidence the British government would have exploited it to the max. Many people's openness and affection are misread, either in earnest or with malice intended. We can rest assured that the British would have liked nothing better than to have "exposed" another Irish patriot as a homosexual. That did not happen - I believe because it could not. There is no reason to debate this; the man was a courageous patriot.

[ronandotorres]

Padraig Pearse was a man of Ireland and spoke for the people of Ireland he fought and was executed for his so called crimes .it was he and and many others such as micheal Collins and eamonn de Valera who freed us the irish people and we are and ever shall be ever grateful for their deeds

[aseireann]

please delete the anntoation...

[Lissadell1916]

This day, 3rd May 1916 this great man was executed. His poems, songs, orations and deeds are still engraved on the hearts of so many men and women. I hope and pray that his vision of a free and united Ireland will come soon – “We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible”- “and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity, or rapine”– RIP

[MarmiteNelly]

@andr3w103 Yeah, you're the dope, go learn your Irish history there before you try correcting people.