Quote#Remembrance
To his teaching we owe it there is such a thing as Irish Nationalism…
Quote byPatrick Pearse · 1879–1916
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Address delivered at the Grave of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown Churchyard, Co. Kildare, 22 June 1913.
English (original)
To his teaching we owe it there is such a thing as Irish Nationalism and to the memory of the deed he nerved his generation to do, to the memory of ‘98, we owe it that there is any manhood left in Ireland.
— Patrick Pearse
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