Patrick
Pearse was
born in Paris, France,
on 3rd November, 1901.
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Patrick Pearse, speech at his court-martial (1916)
I have helped to organize, to arm, to train, and to discipline my
fellow countrymen to the sole end that when the time came, they might
fight for Irish freedom. The time, as it seemed to me, did come. We
seem to have lost, we have not lost. To refuse to fight would have
been to lose, to fight is to win, we have kept faith with the past,
and handed a tradition to the future. You cannot conquer Ireland;
you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom; if our deed has
not been sufficient
to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.
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