Download or read book Short Stories of Padraig Pearse: The Easter Rising Hero of 1916 written by Patrick Pearse and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pádraic Pearse, who played a prominent part in the 1916 rebellion, declared Ireland a Republic from the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin. He was executed, along with the other leaders, for his part in the Rising. But he was a gentle warrior at heart. These five stories show us that Pearse was a man of deep understanding with immense human awareness of the way of life of the average person. He analyses the sorrows and joys of the Irish people of his time, and writes of the tragedies of life and death from which they could never escape.