Irish Literary Supplement, March 22nd, 2005
ELAINE SISSON Pearse's Patriots St Enda's and the Cult of Boyhood Cork University Press, 2004
IN THE OPENING PAGES of her book Elaine Sisson sets out to be fair by raising the question whether Pearse was "an honourable Republican patriot or a misguided conservative fanatic." She suspects that "his legacy is troublesome," that indeed "he remains in a form of no man's land, suspended between veneration and vitriol." Nevertheless, there is mainly veneration in her book, with a hint of vitriol in her late chapter on homoeroticism; however, she mainly stresses Pearse's distinguished patriotism a...
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