On September 8, 1908, Patrick Pearse opened St Enda’s College, Ireland's first bilingual, lay Catholic school for boys. This book extract gives an insight into how the Pearse family battled to save ...

This episode looks at the leader of 1916 through the prism of his family, and explores the lives of his siblings and parents - to paint a fresh portrait of one of the most studied figures in Irish ...

IN JUNE 1945, Senator Margaret Pearse delivered the opening address at the annual Aeridheacht (Fermanagh Feis) in Enniskillen, in which she urged her audience not to "talk of Northern Ireland but of ...

Later today, the Taoiseach will officially open the restored Pearse family home at Number 27 Pearse St The house where Patrick Pearse was born and grew up had fallen on hard times. It was previously a ...

Madam, - I would like to draw your readers' attention to inaccurate references to the first family of James Pearse, father of… Madam, - I would like to draw your readers' attention to inaccurate ...

A FUND-RAISING night is being organised by the Pearse family from Balrothery on Saturday 29th March in Ollie's Place in Skerries. The night is in aid of the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dun ...

Pearse Jordan was shot dead by police officers in 1992 The jury at an inquest into the death of an IRA man shot by police 20 years ago was ineffective and "hopelessly divided", the High Court has ...

In 1954, Irving Berlin wrote the song Sisters which appeared in the film White Christmas. “Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters” is the opening line of a song which presents a candy ...