On May 3, 1916, the first of the executions were held for the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. Padraig Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, and Thomas Clarke were executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail.
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.
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