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Peace and the Gael
Author: Pádraic H. Pearse
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Select editions- P.H. Pearse, An sgoil: a direct method course in Irish (Dublin: Maunsel, 1913).
- P.H. Pearse, How does she stand?: three addresses (The Bodenstown series no. 1) (Dublin: Irish Freedom Press, 1915).
- P.H. Pearse, From a hermitage (The Bodenstown series no. 2)(Dublin: Irish Freedom Press, 1915).
- P.H. Pearse, The murder machine (The Bodenstown series no. 3) (Dublin: Whelan, 1916). Repr. U.C.C.: Department of Education, 1959.
- P.H. Pearse, Ghosts (Tracts for the Times) (Dublin: Whelan, 1916).
- P.H. Pearse, The Spiritual Nation (Tracts for the Times) (Dublin: Whelan, 1916).
- P.H. Pearse, The Sovereign People (Tracts for the Times) (Dublin: Whelan, 1916).
- P.H. Pearse, The Separatist Idea (Tracts for the Times) (Dublin: Whelan, 1916).
- Pádraic Colum, E.J. Harrington O'Brien (ed), Poems of the Irish revolutionary brotherhood, Thomas MacDonagh, P.H. Pearse (Pádraic MacPiarais), Joseph Mary Plunkett, Sir Roger Casement. (New and enl. ed.) (Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1916). First edition, July, 1916; second edition, enlarged, September, 1916.
- Michael Henry Gaffney, The stories of Pádraic Pearse (Dublin [etc.]: The Talbot Press Ltd. 1935). Contains ten plays by M.H. Gaffney based upon stories by Pádraic Pearse, and three plays by Pádraic Pearse edited by M.H. Gaffney.
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- Pádraic Pearse, Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse . . . (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1917). 3rd ed. Translated by Joseph Campbell, introduction by Patrick Browne.
- Pádraic Pearse, Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse. 6th ed. (Dublin: Phoenix, 1924 1917) v. 1. Political writings and speeches v. 2. Plays, stories, poems.
- Pádraic Pearse, Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse (Dublin: Phoenix Pub. Co., 1924). 5 vols. [v. 1] Songs of the Irish rebels and specimens from an Irish anthology. Some aspects of Irish literature. Three lectures on Gaelic topics. [v. 2] Plays, stories, poems. [v. 3] Scríbinní. [v. 4] The story of a success [being a record of St. Enda's College] The man called Pearse / by Desmond Ryan. [v. 5] Political writings and speeches.
- Pádraic Pearse, Short stories of Pádraic Pearse (Cork: Mercier Press, 1968 1976 1989). (Iosagan, Eoineen of the birds, The roads, The black chafer, The keening woman).
- Pádraic Pearse, Political writing and speeches (Irish prose writings, 20) (Tokyo: Hon-no-tomosha, 1992). Originally published: Dublin: Maunsel & Roberts, 1922.
- Pádraic Pearse, Political writings and speeches (Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse) (Dublin and London: Maunsel & Roberts Ltd., 1922).
- Pádraic Pearse, Political writings and Speeches (Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse) (Dublin: Phoenix 1916). 6th ed. (Dublin [etc.]: Phoenix, 1924).
- Pádraic Pearse, Plays Stories Poems (Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse) (Dublin, London: Maunsel & Company Ltd., 1917). 5th ed. 1922. Also pubd. by Talbot Press, Dublin, 1917, repr. 1966. Repr. New York: AMS Press, 1978.
- Pádraic Pearse, Filíocht Ghaeilge Pádraig Mhic Phiarais (Áth Cliath: Clóchomhar, 1981) Leabhair thaighde ; an 35u iml.
- Pádraic Pearse, Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse (New York: Stokes, 1918). Contains The Singer, The King, The Master, Íosagán.
- Pádraic Pearse, Songs of the Irish rebels and specimens from an Irish anthology: some aspects of Irish literature: three lectures on Gaelic topics (Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse) (Dublin: The Phoenix Publishing Co. 1910).
- Pádraic Pearse, Songs of the Irish rebels (Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse) (Dublin: Phoenix Pub. Co., 1917).
- Pádraic Pearse, Songs of the Irish rebels, and Specimens from an Irish anthology (Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse) (Dublin: Maunsel, 1918).
- Pádraic Pearse, The story of a success (The complete works of P. H. Pearse) (Dublin: Phoenix Pub. Co., 1917) .
- Pádraic Pearse, Scríbhinní (The complete works of P. H. Pearse) (Dublin: Phoenix Pub. Co., 1917).
- Julius Pokorny, Die Seele Irlands: Novellen und Gedichte aus dem Irisch-Gälischen des Patrick Henry Pearse und Anderer zum ersten Male ins Deutsche übertragen (Halle a.S.: Max Niemeyer 1922)
- James Simmons, Ten Irish poets: an anthology of poems by George Buchanan, John Hewitt, Pádraic Fiacc, Pearse Hutchinson, James Simmons, Michael Hartnett, Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin, Michael Foley, Frank Ormsby & Tom Mathews (Cheadle: Carcanet Press, 1974).
- Cathal Ó hAinle (ed), Gearrscéalta an Phiarsaigh (Dublin: Helicon, 1979).
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- Xavier Carty, In bloody protestthe tragedy of Patrick Pearse (Dublin: Able 1978).
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- Mary Maguire Colum, St. Enda's School, Rathfarnham, Dublin.
Founded by Pádraic H. Pearse. (New York: Save St. Enda's Committee 1917).
- Pádraic H. Pearse ([s.l.: s.n., C. F. Connolly) 1920).
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- Stefan Fodor, Douglas Hyde, Eoin MacNeill, and Pádraic Pearse of the Gaelic League: a study in Irish cultural nationalism and separatism, 1893-1916 (1986). Thesis (M.A.)Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1986.
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- John J. Horgan, Parnell to Pearse: some recollections and reflections (Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1948).
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educator in the Gaelic tradition (1939) (Thesis (M.A.)Marquette
University, 1939).
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The edition used in the digital edition- Pádraic Pearse Peace and the Gael in Political Writings and Speeches. , Dublin, Phoenix Publishing Co. Ltd. (1924) page 213218
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Peace and the Gael: Author: Pádraic H. Pearse
p.215
(December 1915)
When we are old (those of us who live to be old) we shall tell our
grandchildren of the Christmas of 1915 as the second Christmas which saw
the nations at war for the freedom of the seas; as the last Christmas,
it may be, which saw Ireland, the gate of the seas, in the keeping of
the English. For that is the thing for which men are bleeding to-day in
France and Serbia, in Poland and Mesopotamia. The many fight to uphold a
tyranny three centuries old, the most arrogant tyranny that there has
ever been in the world; and the few fight to break that tyranny. Always
it is the many who fight for the evil thing, and the few who fight for
the good thing; and always it is the few who win. For God fights with
the small battalions. If sometimes it has seemed otherwise, it is
because the few who have fought for the good cause have been guilty of
some secret faltering, some infidelity to
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their best selves, some shrinking back in the face of a tremendous duty.
The last sixteen months have been the most glorious in the history of
Europe. Heroism has come back to the earth. On whichever side the men
who rule the peoples have marshalled them, whether with England to
uphold her tyranny of the seas, or with Germany to break that tyranny,
the people themselves have gone into battle because to each the old
voice that speaks out of the soil of a nation has spoken anew. Each
fights for the fatherland. It is policy that moves the governments; it
is patriotism that stirs the peoples. Belgium defending her soil is
heroic, and so is Turkey fighting with her back to Constantinople.
It is good for the world that such things should be done. The old heart
of the earth needed to be warmed with the red wine of the battlefields.
Such august homage was never before offered to God as this, the homage
of millions of lives given gladly for love of country.
War is a terrible thing, and this is the most terrible of wars. But this
war is not more terrible than the evils which it will end or help to
end. It is not more terrible
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than the exploitation of the English masses by cruel plutocrats; it is
not more terrible than the infidelity of the French masses to their old
spiritual ideals; it is not more terrible than the enslavement of the
Poles by Russia, than the enslavement of the Irish by England. What if
the war kindles in the slow breasts of English toilers a wrath like the
wrath of the French in 1789? What if the war brings France back to her
altars, as sorrow brings back broken men and women to God? What if the
war sets Poland and Ireland free? If the war does these things, will
not the war have been worth while?
War is a terrible thing, but war is not an evil thing. It is the things
that make war necessary that are evil. The tyrannies that wars break,
the lying formulae that wars overthrow, the hypocrisies that wars strip
naked, are evil. Many people in Ireland dread war because they do not
know it. Ireland has not known the exhilaration of war for over a
hundred years. Yet who will say that she has known the blessings of
peace? When war comes to Ireland, she must welcome it as she would
welcome the Angel of God. And she will.
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It is because peace is so precious a boon that war is so sacred a duty.
Ireland will not find Christ's peace until she has taken Christ's sword.
What peace she has known in these latter days has been the devil's
peace, peace with sin, peace with dishonour. It is a foul thing, dear
only to men of foul breeds. Christ's peace is lovely in its coming,
beautiful are its feet on the mountains. But it is heralded by terrific
messengers; seraphim and cherubim blow trumpets of war before it. We
must not flinch when we are passing through that uproar; we must not
faint at the sight of blood. Winning through it, we (or those of us who
survive) shall come unto great joy. We and our fathers have known the
Pax Britannica. To our sons we must bequeath the Peace of the Gael.