Posts Tagged ‘Patrick Pearse’
Celestial Harmony: The Foundation Stone Garden
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: On April 24, 1916, a small garden known as Foundation Stone was installed at Farm Leigh House in Phoenix Park. With a commemorative speech by the esteemed Patrick Pearse, this unique garden was brought to life, a reflection of the solar system as it stood…
Read MoreW.B. Yeats’ “The Rose Tree”: Politics, Sacrifice, and the Blooming of Ireland
by William Butler Yeats ‘O words are lightly spoken,’ Said Pearse to Connolly, ‘Maybe a breath of politic words Has withered our Rose Tree; Or maybe but a wind that blows Across the bitter sea.’ ‘It needs to be but watered,’ James Connolly replied, ‘To make the green come out again And spread on every…
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