Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and index.

[Part 1], 'The Dublin man' = 'Fear Bhaile Átha Cliath'. The road to rebellion : the development of Patrick Pearse's political thought, 1879-1914 / Joost Augusteijn -- 'I am the son of a good father' : James and Patrick Pearse / Brian Crowley -- 'A young schoolmaster of great literary talent' : Mary Hayden's friend, Patrick Pearse / Joyce Padbury -- Patrick Pearse : the Victorian Gael / Pat Cooke -- [Part 2], History, politics and culture = Stair, polaitíocht agus cultúr. Patrick Pearse : Irish modernist / Declan Kiberd -- 'The history of a century in a generation' : the perspective of an Irish journalist, P.H. Pearse / Regina Uí Chollatáin -- Laying the ghosts : Patrick Pearse and the reproach of history / James Quinn -- Pearse's legacy : the partition of Ireland / Thomas Hennessey -- Remembering and forgetting P.H. Pearse / Roisín Higgins -- [Part 3], Language, literature and education = Teanga, litríocht agus oideachas. The imagined community of Pearse's short stories / Angela Bourke -- The battle before us now is a battle of words : Pearse and postcolonial theory = An cath atá romhainn anois is geall le briathachath é : Pádraic Mac Piarais agus léann an iarchoilíneachais / Róisín Ní Ghairbhí -- 'An heroic poet who didn't amass riches' : P.H. Pearse and Maírtín Ó Direáin = File laochta nár cruinníodh leis stór : an Piarsach agus Máirtín Ó Direáin / Eoghan Ó hAnluain -- Exploiting the past : Pearse as editor and interpreter of Fiannaíocht literature / Caoimhín Breatnach -- Masculinity and citizenship : boyhood and nationhood at St. Enda's / Elaine Sisson -- Radicalising the classroom : Pearse, pedagogy of progressivism / Brendan Walsh.

Text in English ; preliminaries and two contributions with parallel Irish translation.