Pearse Museum and St Enda's Park

17/05/2026

Meet talented young artist Dan Dorcey with one of two beautiful paintings he did for National Drawing Day, and which we are delighted to display in the Nature Room.

Thank you for sharing your art with us Dan!

15/05/2026

It's National Biodiversity Week, a week of special events throughout the country which celebrate our connection with nature and our environment, and which encourage us to play our part in protecting biodiversity.

To mark the week, St Enda's Park will host two special events:

Wednesday 20th May 2pm
Join Alan Tomney for a guided walk focusing on our native trees

Thursday 21st May 2pm
Join us for a biodiversity walk led by Eddie Hill

Both events are free, and the meeting point for both walks is in the courtyard.

13/05/2026

Saturday 16 May is National Drawing Day, so come along to Pearse Museum and St Enda's Park and explore your artistic side! You're welcome to sketch and draw in the Park and Museum. Drawing materials will be available in both the Museum and the Nature room, and colouring sheets showing illustrations showing Cú Chulainn, Fionn mac Cumhaill and other members of the Fianna from the time of Scoil Éanna will also be available.

St. Enda's Park and Pearse Museum are inspiring places, so what better space could you find in which to try your hand at creating some art!

04/05/2026

This is one of three poems written by Patrick Pearse in Arbour Hill Barracks. It was dedicated to his brother Willie. At the time Patrick had no idea that Willie would also be executed for his role in the 1916 Rising on 4 May 1916.

To My Brother

O faithful!
Moulded in one womb,
We two have stood together all the years,
All the glad years and all the sorrowful years,
Own brothers: through good repute and ill,
In direst peril true to me,
Leaving all things for me, spending yourself
In the hard service that I taught to you,
Of all the men that I have known on earth,
You only have been my familiar friend,
Nor needed I another.

03/05/2026

Today marks the 110th anniversary of the ex*****on of Patrick Pearse in Kilmainham Gaol on 3 May 1916. Ongoing sniper fire in the city meant his family could not get to the Gaol to say goodbye. His last letter to his family concluded with the lines:
'Wow-wow, Willie, Mary Brigid, and Mother, good-bye. I have not words to tell my love for you, and how my hearts yearns to you all. I will call to you in my heart at the last moment.'

12/04/2026

The Brothers by artist Liam O'Neil, unveiled in 2002 in the Walled Garden at St Enda's Park. In memory of the brothers Patrick and William Pearse who were e executed for their involvement in the 1916 Rising.

05/04/2026

On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the Pearse brothers returned, somewhat unexpectedly, to St. Enda's. They had made their farewells the previous day, but due to the postponement of the Rising they were able to return to their mother and sisters and had a supper of chicken salad. The cups the two brothers drank from that day were preserved by their mother as a memento of that last family time together and are on display in the museum today. Years later, Patrick's sister Margaret described their final goodbye in the front hall:
'After tea and a little talk they both arranged to leave us again. As they were passing through the front hall Pat suddenly turned back and went down the stairs again. Mother said, ‘Did you forget something?’ He said ‘I did’. He came back and either mother or I asked him ‘Did you get it?’ – I do not know what it was that he had forgotten – his answer was ‘I did’. Those were the last words I ever heard him speak.'

17/03/2026

On St. Patrick's Day 1917 Conor McGinley, a former pupil of Patrick Pearse in Scoil Éanna, was incarcerated in Lewes Prison in England as a result of his involvement in the 1916 Rising. Throughout his time in English prisons he received lots of lettters and postcards from relatives and friends at home. Today we are featuring some of the St. Patrick's Day postcards he received, including one from his brother Eunan (another former Scoil Éanna pupil and 1916 Rising veteran) and his sister Máire. Among the other postcards he received was one from Alice Milligan, the nationalist poet and Gaelic League campaigner who seems to have been living in Nottingham at the time. A studio photograph taken of Conor around this time shows him sitting on the left, his sister Máire standing in the middle and Eunan on the right.

07/03/2026

Táimid ar bís go mbeidh turas speisialta againn trí ghaeilge mar chuid de Sheachtain na Gaeilge 2026. Bígí linn!

Tá ticéid saor in aisce ach beidh ort do spás a chuir in áirithe trí ríomhphost a sheoladh chuig: [email protected]

We're delighted to announce a special tour in irish to mark Seachtain na Gaeilge! Don't miss out! Tickets are free, but it's advisable to book at [email protected].

Foghlaim faoi Scoil Éanna, na Piarsaigh agus stair na hÉireann ar thuras treoraithe trí ghaeilge leis an OPW. Saor in aisce. Cuir d’áit in áirithe trí ríomhphost a sheoladh chuig: [email protected]

06/03/2026

It's always so uplifting to come upon 'a host of golden daffodils'. Spring is donning its brightest clothes!

04/03/2026

Today is the anniversary of the birth of the revolutionary Robert Emmet on 4 March 1778. It is said that as a young man Emmet walked in the grounds of the park with hsi swetheart Sarah Curran and the Museum now holds the block on which he was executed. Today's image comes from the Scoil Éanna school prospectus produced c.1920s and shows the block. In 1919 it featured in a propaganda film to promote the purchase of loan bonds to support the new revolutionary government. The film features Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith signing bonds on the block in front of the school and selling them to well known figures like Mrs. Pearse and her daughter Margaret.