Quotes from Patrick Pearse

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

A country without a language is a country without a soul.

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

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

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.

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.