10/11/2026
Patrick Pearse, President of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic, Easter 1916, was born on this day, 10 November, in 1879.
Rugadh Pádraig Mac Piarais ar an lá seo 10 Samhain 1879. Chaith sé a shaol ag streachailt ar son na haislinge - Éire Saor agus Gaelach.
“To the Irish mind for more than a thousand years, freedom has had but one definition. It has meant not a limited freedom, a freedom conditioned by the interests of another nation, a freedom compatible with the suzerain authority of a foreign parliament, but absolute freedom, the sovereign control of Irish destinies.
“It has meant not the freedom of a class but the freedom of a people. It has meant not the freedom of a geographical fragment of Ireland but the freedom of all Ireland, of every sod of Ireland.” - ‘Ghosts’ by PH Pearse, 1915.
