We are delighted to welcome Professor Tim McGloughlin to the Pearse Museum on Wednesday, 10 May to deliver a lecture on his his grandfather, Alfred McGloughlin, entitled "Intervals of Peace": The artistic journey of a Civil War prisoner. A nephew of the Pearse...

More people visit St. Enda’s Park in these pandemic times than ever before.  Many notice the follies dotted around the park and probably wonder what these funny little buildings are all about. Follies are officially described as: “A Folly is a building constructed...

The Scoil Éanna Art Gallery Patrick Pearse had a keen interest in art and wrote some very insightful art criticism in the Gaelic League newspaper, An Claidheamh Soluis. Art played a key role in the life of Scoil Éanna. The boys were surrounded by works of art and the...

Pearse Museum, dedicated to the memory of one of the 1916 Proclamation signatories, Padraig Pearse, and his brother, William, based in his former school at St. Enda’s Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin, has achieved the highest standard possible under a museum national standards...

  Among the ways we marked the centenary of the deaths of Patrick and William Pearse this years was by planting two trees in the walled garden. The first tree was planted on the 3 May in memory of Patrick Pearse...

Pearse's court martial took place on 2 May, 1916 in the Gymnasium of Richmond Barracks. Below is the text of his address to the court: ''My sole object in surrendering unconditionally was to save the slaughter of the civil population and to save the lives of our...

  We were delighted to host the launch of the GAA Senior Championship in the Museum today. As luck would have it Éanna de Búrca, son of Frank Burke, happened to be in the...

This week the Pearse Museum was featured on Nationwide; you can catch up online on the RTE Player by clicking here. 1916 LETTERS / REPORT ANNE CASSIN Often when we think of prominent figures from history they are synonymous in our minds with momentous events. Mention...