Three Lectures on Gaelic Topics

Patrick H. Pearse

Three Lectures on Gaelic Topics

Dublin

Gill

1898

A first edition of Pearse’s first independent publication, these lectures were dedicated to the New Ireland Literary Society, of which he was then president. “Gaelic literature, like the Gaelic Race, has long been dying,” he writes here, “but it is ‘fated not to die.’” Pearse was a scholar and teacher of Gaelic years before becoming a leader of the Easter Rising. James Joyce took his class on Gaelic while at University College Dublin, although he mocked Pearse’s overt nationalism.