Letter from Pádraig Pearse to Seamus Doyle, 17 February 1916
Enniscorthy SGOIL EANNA,
RÁTH FEARNÁIN. ST. ENDA'S COLLEGE
RATHFARNHAM 17th Feb 1916 A cara On the whole I should prefer not to have
my photograph on the cover. The Souvenir is a
very good idea, but I think a portrait of
Emmet would be better (as well as handsomer),
on the cover. After I am hanged my portrait
will be interesting, but not before. I presume that the 4:30 train (arriving 7:39)
will take me down in good time? I shall have
to return early on the Thursday morning, as
I have to be in Belfast on the night of
the 2nd. Sincerely yours P. H. Pearse
A letter from Pádraig Pearse (Patrick Henry Pearse, 1879-1916), writer, educationalist and revolutionary, to Seamus Doyle, a member of the Irish Volunteers in Enniscorthy, County Wexford. This letter refers to the use of Pearse's image on the cover of a publication. He writes that an image of Robert Emmet would be more suitable and 'After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting, but not before.' He also writes about travel arrangements for a trip to Wexford. Pearse was a leading member of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising, a signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, commander in chief of the rebel forces and declared president of the Provisional Government on the outbreak of the Rising. He was executed for his part in the Rising on 3 May 1916. Doyle was lieutenant in the Enniscorthy battalion of the Irish Volunteers and one of the men active in Enniscorthy during the Easter Rising, one of the few places outside Dublin to see any military action. Three other copies of this letter from the Military Archives of Ireland are also in the Letters of 1916.
- Patrick Henry Pearse
- Seamus Doyle
- 1916-02-17
- Culture and the Arts
How to cite
Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__3039.html)
- Place
- St Enda's College, Rathfarnham, Dublin, Ireland
- Mentioned in
- Letter from Patrick Pearse to Seamus Doyle, 17 February 1916
- Letter from Patrick Pearse to Seamus Doyle, 17 February 1916
- Letter from Patrick Pearse to Seamus Doyle, 17 February 1916
- Letter from Pádraig Pearse to Seamus Doyle, 17 February 1916
- Mentioned in
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- Letter from Patrick Pearse to Seamus Doyle, 17 February 1916
- Letter from Patrick Pearse to Seamus Doyle, 17 February 1916
- Letter from Patrick Pearse to Seamus Doyle, 17 February 1916
- Letter from Patrick Pearse to Seán T. O'Kelly, 22 April 1916
- Copy of letter from Patrick Pearse to his mother Margaret Pearse, 3 May 1916
- Letter from Patrick Pearse to his mother Margaret Pearse, 3 May 1916
- Letter from Patrick Pearse, 25 November 1915
- Letter from Patrick Pearse, 9 December 1915
- Company Mobilisation Order from Patrick Pearse to Frank Sheridan, 20 April 1916
- Letter from Patrick Pearse to his mother Margaret Pearse, 3 May 1916
- Copy of last letter from Patrick Pearse to his mother Margaret Pearse, 3 May 1916
- Company Mobilisation Order from P.H. Pearse to F. Sheridan, 20 April 1916
- Letter from Patrick Pearse to Mr O'Danaher, 14 December 1915
- Letter from Patrick Pearse, 4 March 1916
- Letter from Pádraig Pearse to Seamus Doyle, 17 February 1916
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