Pearse Papers,
1870-1932
Papers of the Pearse family containing a wealth of biographical information on all aspects of family members' various endeavors. Includes papers pertaining to: James Pearse's sculpting business at 27 New Brunswick Street, Dublin; financial and administrative records pertaining to St. Enda's School, run by Mrs. Margaret Pearse following the execution of her sons in 1916; papers relating to the Leinster Stage Society, founded by, amongst others, William Pearse; and a wealth of papers pertaining to Padraic Pearse's involvement in the Gaelic League.
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Notes: | James Pearse (1839-1900), sculptor, originally from London, moved from Birmingham to Ireland in the 1860s to start his own business in Dublin. He converted to Catholicism at St. Argus Church in Dublin and in October 1877, he married his second wife, Margaret Brady (1857-1932), a shop assistant, at the Church of St. Agatha, North William Street, Dublin. They had four children, Margaret Mary (1878-1968), Patrick Henry (1879-1916), William (1881-1916), and Mary Bridget (1888-1947). Physical description: 119 folders. more |
| Arrangement: | Fonds |
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Letter from Sir Roger Casement, Pentonville Prison, to Father Eamon Murnane, about the state of his mental health before and after his trial,
1916 July 3.
| In Collection: | Pearse Papers, 1870-1932 |
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| Description: | Writes: "I have often thought of you and your visits - and the books you left for me. I am hoping to get them here to read, and have asked for them today. I should like to see you here but I can arrange no visits here - altho' I think you can get leave to come, but not to see me alone ... I was so overwrought and unbalanced before my trial. I hardly know what I was doing or saying or thinking often and lived in a kind of dream - or dreadful nightmare half my days. I am much better now and happier that that terrible ordeal is over and am sleeping better than I have done since I was a boy. Before I had all sorts of things on my mind - to trouble me - now I have none, and although I am in this cell I feel happier than I have been for a very long time - except when I think of Ireland. My last sight of Ireland before the war was Tory Island, away in the far northwest; and my last sight of it since the war was that awful two days of Good Friday and Easter Saturday when I was captured, and carried off from McKenna's Fort to Dublin." |
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| Language: | English |
| Extent: | 1 item (4 pages) with envelope. |
| Format: | Manuscript |
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MS 17,044/1
(Manuscripts Reading Room) |
| Rights: | Reproduction rights owned by National Library of Ireland. |