Sunday, February 14, 2010

Little scene from the Irish Easter Rising

"So on the sunny Monday morning after Easter, as Irish Volunteers and troops of the Citizen Army assembled at Liberty Hall, Connolly's headquarters, Pearse ignored his sister's embarrassingly shrill plea: 'Come home Pat, and leave all this foolishness'! Instead he marched off with his men."

Piers Brendon: The decline and fall of the British Empire 1781-1997

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