The Pearse Museum ( ga, Músaem na bPiarsach) is dedicated to the memory of
Patrick Pearse
Patrick Henry Pearse (also known as Pádraig or Pádraic Pearse; ga, Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais; 10 November 1879 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist and revolutionary who ...
and his brother,
William
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
. Patrick Pearse was an educationalist and nationalist who was executed for his part in the
1916 Rising. The museum is situated in
St. Enda's Park in the suburb of Rathfarnham on the south side of
Dublin
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,
Ireland
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. It was formerly an Irish speaking school named
St. Enda's. Originally Pearse's school was set up in Ranelagh on 8 September 1908. It moved to Rathfarnham in 1910. After Pearse was executed for his part take in the 1916 rising, and due to decreasing numbers and increasing financial worries, the school closed in 1935. After Padraig Pearse's sister (
Margaret Mary Pearse) died in 1968, St. Enda's and its grounds were handed over to the state, and the school house is now a museum devoted to the Pearse brothers. The museum contains reconstructions of many of the original rooms, including Pearse's study, the family sitting room, the school art gallery, the school museum and one of the dormitories. There is also a gallery devoted exclusively to the sculpture of William Pearse. Visitors can also visit a nature study room in the courtyard behind the school house where examples of Irish plants and
animals
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can be found.
The museum is an 18th-century house (built after 1786) situated in a parkland setting: from 1840 to 1857 it was the home of
Richard Moore,
Attorney General for Ireland
The Attorney-General for Ireland was an Irish and then (from the Act of Union 1800) United Kingdom government office-holder. He was senior in rank to the Solicitor-General for Ireland: both advised the Crown on Irish legal matters. With the ...
and judge.
The museum was closed for renovations in May 2006 and re-opened to the public on 28 November 2008. The museum is open seven days a week and admission is free.
Pearse Museum information at Heritage Ireland
Gallery
Pearse Museum western elevation.JPG, Pearse Museum, western elevation. Entrance to museum behind modern walls
Yew hedge, formal garden of Pearse Museum.JPG, Formal garden of the Pearse Museum
External links
The Pearse Museum
References
Biographical museums in the Republic of Ireland
History museums in the Republic of Ireland
Natural history museums in the Republic of Ireland
Museums in South Dublin (county)
Rathfarnham
Buildings and structures in South Dublin (county)
Museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
1979 establishments in Ireland
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