padraig pearse

History is set in stone, but people always love to imagine the road not taken. One of the great what-ifs of Irish history is what would have happened if the 1916 leaders hadn’t been executed. A less often posed question is what would the…

We've all heard of Padraig Pearse, James Connolly, Eamon De Valera, Constance "Biz" Markievicz, and Michael Collins. Some of us have even heard of Eamon "I" Ceannt "Even" thanks to @aoiph's excellent twitter joke. But the 1916 Rising was…