Short Stories of Pádraic Pearse – Bilingual Edition

Description

Cnuasach gearrscéalta le Pádraig Mac Piarais, leagan Gaeilge agus leagan Béarla in éindí lena chéile. A selection of short stories by Patrick Pearse, facing-page Irish and English version. Stories in this collection:

• Íosagán
• Eoghainín na nÉan
• Na Bóithre
• An Dearg-Daol
• An Bhean Chaointe

Selected and translated by Desmond Maguire. Cover design: John Skelton. Mercier Press.

Pádraic Pearse, who played a prominent part in the 1916 rebellion, declared Ireland a Republic from the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin. He was executed, along with the other leaders, for his part in the Rising. But he was a gentle warrior at heart.

These five stories show us that Pearse was a man of deep understanding with immense human awareness of the way of life of the average person. He analyses the sorrows and joys of the Irish people of his time, and writes of the tragedies of life and death from which they could never escape