Finally, on a week where we have featured photographs of significant figures from the time of the Easter Rising and the period thereafter, we have a photograph of the continuation of the dream of PH Pearse! St. Endas School with Margaret Pearse in the 1930s. Have you ever wondered at the feelings of Mrs. Pearse and her daughter when they knew that their sons and brothers were to be shot by firing squad? The heartbreak must have been unbearable...

In the decades after the Rising, our contributors tell us that the lady pictured (Margaret Mary Pearse - sister of Pádraig and Willie) was a teacher at St. Enda's until it closed in the mid-1930s. She became a senator later in the 1930s, and served in the Seanad until her death in 1968....

Photographers: Various

Collection: Irish Political Figures Photographic Collection

Date: c.1930

NLI Ref: NPA POLF239