Mise Éire (other)
Mise Éire is a poem by Pádraic Pearse. Mise Éire may also refer to: *''Mise Éire'', a 1959 documentary film directed by George Morrison that tells the story of Irish revolutionary nationalism **''Mise Éire'', an album by Seán Ó Riada featuring the music he wrote for the soundtrack of the above-mentioned film *A poem by the Irish poet Eavan Boland Eavan Aisling Boland (24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996. Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role of w ...

Mise Éire
''Mise Éire'' (, Irish for "I mIreland") is a 1912 Irish-language poem by the Irish poet and Republican revolutionary leader Patrick Pearse. Background ''Mise Éire is'' a 1912 Irish-language poem by the Irish poet and Republican revolutionary leader Patrick Pearse. Political relevance In the poem, Pearse personifies Ireland as an old woman whose glory is past and who has been sold by her children. Later use Described as both a literary and historical text, it was regularly used by Republican prisoners in Long Kesh as a means of learning and teaching Irish. ''Is Mise'' continues to be relevant in post- partition Ireland, suggest scholars, as illustrating of the difficulties in identifying "Irishness" in Northern Ireland. Counter view The title of the poem was used as a title for a 1959 documentary film by George Morrison, which dealt with key figures and events in Irish Nationalism between the 1890s and the 1910s, including Pearse himself. Seán Ó Riada ...
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