William Pearse, a leader during Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising, was executed on May 4, 1916. Below, a look at the Irish revolutionary's life. William (Willie) Pearse was born on November 15, 1881, two years after his brother Patrick in the same house on Great Brunswick Street.
Michael Collins’ “light-hearted” sojourn into the Great Brunswick Street (Pearse St), Dublin Metropolitan Police Station on April 7, 1919, got serious, quickly.
Author Dermot McEvoy takes a look at the events leading up to Michael Collins' Bloody Sunday, one of the seminal events in Irish revolutionary history.