With much of Irelands 1916 commemorations focusing on the political and military not to mention a degree of controversial revisionism which has caused anger it was interesting to stumble across this article in the Irish Times that looked at the life of Easter Rising leader Padraig Pearse from a different

With much of Irelands 1916 commemorations focusing on the political and military not to mention a degree of controversial revisionism which has caused anger it was interesting to stumble across this article in the Irish Times that looked at the life of Easter Rising leader Padraig Pearse from a different perspective.

The article is entitled ?Patrick Pearse: Nature lover and warmonger? so initially I thought ?not more revisionism? but when I read the article I was pleasantly surprised.

It focuses on Pearse?s time at St. Enda’s School (Scoil

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