Pearse final letter to his mother
Kilmainham Prison,
Dublin
3rd May 1916
Mrs. Pearse
St. Enda’s College,
Rathfarnham
Or
Cullenswood House,
Oakley Road
Ranelagh
My Dearest Mother
I have been hoping up to now that it would be possible to see you again, but it does not seem possible. Goodbye, dear, dear mother. Through you I say goodbye to Wow-Wow, M.B., Willie, Miss Byrne, Michael, Cousin Maggie, and everyone at St. Enda’s. I hope and I believe that Willie and the St. Enda’s boys will be safe.
I have written two papers about financial affairs and one about my books, which I want you to get. With them are a few poems which I want added to the poems of mine in MS, in the large bookcase. You asked me to write a little poem which would seem to be said by you about me. I have written it, and one copy is at Arbour Hill barracks with the other papers and Father Aloysius is taking charge of another copy of it.
I have just received Holy Communion. I am happy except for the great grief of parting from you. This is the death I should have asked for if God had given me the choice of all deaths, to die a soldier's death for Ireland and for freedom.
We have done right. People will say hard things of us now, but later on they will praise us. Do not grieve for all this, but think of it as a sacrifice which God asked of me and of you.
Good-bye again, dear, dear Mother May God bless you for your great love for me and for your great faith, and may He remember all that you have so bravely suffered. I hope soon to see Papa, and in a little while we shall all be together again.
Wow-wow, Willie, Mary Brigid, and Mother, goodbye. I have not words to tell my love of you, and how my heart yearns to you all. I will call to you in my heart at the last moment.
Your son, Pat
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