The Patrick Pearse letters

The National Library of Ireland has put the personal papers of the final two signatories to the Proclamation online. Ronan McGreevy opens the files on Patrick Pearse

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Page one: Letter from Patrick Pearse to Joseph McGarrity regarding fundraising in Philadelphia for the Irish Volunteers, in which he says that "the movement is sweeping through the country like a whirlwind" [19th June 1914].

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