Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption: The Mind of the Easter Rising, 1916 by Sean Farrell MoranMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a thoroughly researched biography of the Irish revolutionist. The 230-odd page book is so rich in footnotes that is both a very quick read for the actual text and a container of myriad pointers to further exploration. Beside a political life awakened during the Irish literary renaissance, when new sages and ancient mythics rekindled a fire in the Gaelic soul, this is a psychologically probing account. Connections are made from Pearse's asexual adulthood and childhood red light district cross-dressing cosplay to a life's energy sublimated into self-sacrifice for nationhood.
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