"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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