Willie Pearse
William "Willie" Pearse Irish: Liam Mac Piarais (November 15, 1881 – May 4, 1916) was an Irish republican executed for his part in the Easter Rising. He was a younger brother of Patrick Pearse, a leader of the rising.
Read more about Willie Pearse: Background, Easter Rising
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“‘But where can we draw water,’
Said Pearse to Connolly,
‘When all the wells are parched away?
O plain as plain can be
There’s nothing but our own red blood
Can make a right Rose Tree.’”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)