Title
Farewell Letter of P.H. Pearse
Coverage
Limerick
Publisher
M. Fitzpatrick, Printer, 99 O'Connell Street
Date
[1916]
Subject
“Written to his Mother a few hours before he was Shot in Kilmainham Jail in Connection with the Irish Insurrection, April, 1916.”
Description
These flyers, printed soon after the execution of the leaders of the Irish rebellion, were used as propaganda for the nationalist cause. Pearse, a school teacher, writes in his final letter, “This is the death I should have asked for…to die a soldier’s death for Ireland and Freedom.”
Source
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
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