Patrick Pearse Quotes About Ireland

• You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.

  Patrick Pearse

  Children, Passion, Winning

  Patrick Pearse at his court-martial, publish by the 75th Anniversary Committee, Dublin, 1991.

• As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

  Patrick Pearse

  Attitude, Men, Long

• Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

  Patrick Pearse

  Revolutionary, Unfree, Ireland

  Speech at grave of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, 1 Aug. 1915

• One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...

  Patrick Pearse

  Powerful, Night, Law

  "The Cause Of Ireland" by Liz Curtis, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast, (p. 190), 1994.

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