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File Correspondence and Papers of the Pearse Family
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Irish Press Clippings

The file comprises the following article clippings:
‘Pearse saw Ireland with idealism, and detachment’, 'Irish Press', 10 Nov. 1954. Another clipping from the same edition of the paper includes articles by Francis MacManus, Pádraig de Brún, and Lennox Robinson.
Desmond Ryan, ‘Emmet’s spirit over Rathfarnham’, 'Irish Press', 13 Nov. 1954.
Desmond Ryan, ‘A moment with Pearse’, 'Irish Press', 11 Nov. 1954. Includes a photograph Senator Margaret Mary Pearse, ‘the only surviving member of the family’.
Desmond Ryan, ‘Pearse the orator’, 'Irish Press', 12 Nov. 1954.

Letter to Margaret Pearse from the Royal Insurance Company

Letter from the Royal Insurance Office, to Margaret Pearse, Sandymount Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin, re a policy of life insurance on her late husband (James Pearse) and the amount paid to the National Bank Ltd. on his death. With two manuscript enclosures seemingly re James Pearse’s debts and his account with the National Bank (4 March 1902).

Letters to James Pearse from E.H. Johnston

Letters to James Pearse from E.H. Johnston. The letters refer to payments of rent by Pearse on his residence at 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. With an enclosed set of accounts re payments for the upkeep of the premises.

Letters to James Pearse from J. Graham Alexander

Letters from J. Graham Alexander, 47 Lower Gardner Street, Dublin, to James Pearse, re ‘Johnston, a bankrupt’. The first letter encloses a copy of a letter (29 Aug. 1888) to Alexander from Messrs Casey & Clay.

Letters to James Pearse from Mr. Humphreys

Letters to James Pearse from a Mr. Humphreys, ‘The National Reformer’, 20 Circus Road, St. John’s Wood, London. The letters to a manuscript sent by Pearse for possible publication. Humphreys affirms that Charles Bradlaugh ‘has been so much occupied with the litigation that he has not yet had time to examine’ the manuscript (29 December 1889).

Letters to James Pearse from W.J. Ramsey

Letters to James Pearse from W.J. Ramsey, Manager, the Progressive Publishing Company, 28 Stonecutter Street, London. The letter of 25 November 1884 encloses a clipping of an advertisement for ‘Socialism a curse / a reply to a Lecture delivered by Edward B. Aveling’ and ‘Is God the First Cause?’ (1883) by ‘Humanitas’ (James Pearse).

Letters to Patrick Pearse from John Meritt

Letters to Patrick Pearse from John Merritt, Naval Office, Custom House, New York. The letters refer to Pearse’s efforts to raise funds for St. Enda’s School and to Merrit’s thoughts on the nature of the education system in Ireland. The letter of 20 April 1914 refers to Pearse’s attendance at a meeting in Celtic Park in New York. It reads ‘The unprovoked, senseless, brutal, and cowardly physical assault to which you were subjected at Celtic Park yesterday, within a radius of twenty five feet of me, and in which, I believe, two of your teeth were knocked out, has filled me with disgust at the strange, incomprehensible and fiendish actions of some of my misguided countrymen’. One of the letters is incomplete (the upper portion has been torn away).

Letters to Patrick Pearse from Martin Jerome Keogh

letter to Patrick Pearse from Martin Jerome Keogh, Supreme Court of the State of New York, New Rochelle, New York, re donations to Pearse’s St. Enda’s School fund. The file includes a letter from John Sheehan, 253 Broadway, New York City, to Keogh enclosing $25 for the fund.

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