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This letter, written by Patrick Pearse, concerns a statement of accounts for Desmond, a pupil at St Enda's, who Pearse states is doing very well and working hard. St. Enda's was a school Pearse established himself, through the school Pearse promoted the use of the Irish language amongst other things.Patrick Pearse (1879-1916), a writer, a school headmaster and a key member of the military council of the IRB who planned the Easter Rising, Pearse was one of the signatories of the proclamation of the Irish republic (largely his own writing), which he read outside the GPO after the outbreak of the Rising. As president of the provisional government Pearse called for the surrender and was executed on 3 May 1916. Pearse's mother, Margaret Pearse (1857-1932) kept Pearse's school, St Enda's, open after his death and was later elected as a TD.
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