Suantraidhe Agus Goltraidhe
Patrick Pearse (Pádraig Mac Piarais, 1879–1916)
Suantraidhe Agus Goltraidhe
Baile atha cilath [Dublin], Irish Review, 1914
Gregory and Yeats were both long acquainted with teacher and poet Patrick Pearse, but they were cautious of close association with him, given Pearse’s open advocacy of physical-force insurrection and his fixation on the redeeming value of blood sacrifice in Ireland’s cause. Yeats had indeed recently termed him “half cracked” and a “dangerous man.” Pearse had nonetheless remained cordial and sent Yeats this copy of his poems in Irish, Suantraidhe Agus Goltraidhe (Songs of Sleep and Sorrow), in 1914. Yeats had regifted the book to Gregory, not least since, the book “being in Irish”—as she crisply noted—he was unable to read it.
: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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