Sir,—Jim Smyth in his article ‘Wolfe Tone today’ (HI 32.1, Jan./Feb. 2024, pp 14–15) is less than fair to Patrick Pearse. It is contended that his famous 1913 Bodenstown oration tells us more about Pearse than about Tone. A reading of the speech shows otherwise. Pearse spends much of it praising the character of Tone, ... Read more
