Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure by Ruth Dudley Edwards (HQ897)

Published 1979: First Faber & Faber Edition / Softcover / Very Good Condition

Original pictorial stiff card covers. 384 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled top edge. Slight shelf wear on covers and slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. Scarce! (HQ897)

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"There has always been argument about whether Pearse's leadership of the Easter Rising in 1916 represented a failure or a triumph. Ireland certainly thrives on her martyrs and Pearse, who found himself on Easter Monday proclaimed President of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the army of the Republic, took on himself the most bitter of roles at the finish: he was the first to make the move to surrender - and he was the first to be executed.
Pearse has an extraordinary reputation in Ireland today (although ironically his father was an Englishman): he is seen popularly as a romantic poet and playwright, educational theorist and political thinker, socialist, nationalist and military leader." 1977 EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley. Google Books.