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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.
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