Patrick Pearse - Fanatic Heart

Documentary on the life of Patrick Pearse, Pádraic or Pádraig Pearse; Irish: Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais; An Piarsach;
In 1915 he joined the IRB. He was co-opted onto their Supreme Council and the Secret Military Council. Pearse’s graveside oration at O’Donovan Rossa’s (fenian) funeral in 1915, ended with the much quoted words, ‘Ireland unfree shall never be at peace’, and was influential in the build up to the Easter Rising.

Pearse played an active role in the subsequent preparations for the Rising: arranging for the landing of German arms on the Aud; negotiating with Connolly; instructing and sending despatches to the volunteers; lulling the British authorities and deceiving Eoin O’Neill. He also wrote at length to justify and to explain the reasons for an insurrection. He committed the Gaelic League to action. His declaration that the Gaelic League was a political body led to the resignation of Dr. Douglas Hyde. On the 23 April, the Military Council appointed him Commandant-General of the Army of the Irish Republic and President of the Provisional Government, which was to be proclaimed the next day.

During Easter week Pearse served at the rebellion headquarters, the General Post Office (GPO), Dublin. He along with six other signatories signed the ‘Proclamation of the Irish Republic’, which he as Chairman of the Provisional Government read to the public on the 24 April, 1916. This signalled the beginning of the Easter Rising. Pearse and fourteen other leaders, were executed by firing squad after the Rising. Another leader, Sir Roger Casement was hanged in London in Aug 1916.

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