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ANALYSISPatrick Pearse is most remembered for leading the 1916 Rising. But his contribution to education, being marked today with the launch of two commemorative stamps, was also revolutionary, writes Elaine Sisson

ONE HUNDRED years ago this month, the gates to St Enda's School, in Cullenswood House, Ranelagh, opened to enrol sons from some of the most eminent nationalist families in Ireland. Its headmaster and founder, Patrick Pearse, was realising a long-held dream of providing a modern, child-centred, bi-lingual education for Irish boys. Given his profile within the Gaelic League as a hard-working, if pedantic, advocate for the reform of education, it was perhaps inevitable that Pearse should some day look to founding his own school.