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Comarta-Cumne βασιας
ΔΣΙΙΣ
LIAM MIC βΙΔΡΑΙΡ.
PADRAIC H. PEARSE
The Hermitage, Rathfarnham
PEARSE MEMORIAL.
AN APPEAL TO THE
IRISH RACE.
Βυό ἐσαρτ χο mbeaō ōil-cumne na bβιαρρας nior τεο ι χεροιōτιb χαεōilχεοιρi 'na aon aicme eile in ēirinn nō τaob amuc ō'ēirinn. Cait βάσιας Mac βιαραιρ blat a ōiseas βασἐρι ar pon na χαεōilχe. τa a pian ar obair Connarta na χαεōilχe χυρ an la moir. Δχυρ πιαιρ ceap pē Sgoil Eanna b' i an χαεōilχ an bun-teanga innti. Ir beas an mēro vo bi rgolta na hērieann as veanam ar pon na teangan an παιρ iro. Δχυρ ba ōeacair an puro obair rgoileaōacta a ōeanam ar χαεōilχ. Δc luis an βιαρρac leir an obair asur ō'eiris teir χο mait le n-a linn. Δc ta sēar-saō pōr le rgoil pior-χαεōealac. τa rgolta an bēarlacair βαιρρins plūirpeac in ēirinn pōr. τa na būiro asur na peoinini beasnac com laioir ir biorar ariam. τa saō le rgoil pior-χαεōealac—i oteangam asur i rpiorao—asur ir ē peo an rasar rgoile geallamaoro veanam ve Sgoil Eanna maeirigeann linn i cur ar a bonnaib arir. Berō pi mar crann pearta asur mar tur corainte in asarō sac nāmao vo'n cineaō χαεōeal. ni pēroir an obair tabactac peo vo ōeanam i sceart san ponnt mait aristo. Δc ō tatar as' bailiū in amerioca asur in ēirinn ceana ni teartuigeann ac com-oibrō ōilear ō χαεōealgōriub asur le congnam vē berō an baire linn.
The purpose of the present appeal is to secure a worthy memorial to the Brothers Pearse. The Hermitage, Rathfarnham, the scene of the labours of their last years, is still in the hands of Mrs. Pearse, and may be secured to the Nation if prompt steps are taken to raise the purchase money necessary. Since September, 1916, the work of St. Enda's has been carried on in its first home, Cullenswood House, Rathmines. Since March, 1917, the St. Enda's Purchase Committee, under the patronage of George Noble Count Plunkett, has been working to raise the funds required to transfer Sgoil Eanna again to the healthiest, most beautiful, and most
romantic spot in South Co. Dublin—the Hermitage. Owing to the extraordinary circumstances of the time, no effective appeal could then be made, and the few hundred pounds collected have been spent in paying the rent of the Hermitage, so as to preserve the right of purchase. This Committee has now been merged in the present movement, and will work in co-operation with the Save St. Enda's Committee in America, but trusts the generosity of the Irish people at home will be the largest factor in yet saving St. Enda's for the Irish Nation. The option of purchasing the Hermitage is passing away, and action must be taken at once. That is our apology, if apology indeed be needed, for making the present appeal, which, owing to the urgency of the National Aid and other emergency matters, we have hesitated to make.
St. Enda's was so much the expression of P. H. Pearse's personality that its importance as the most practicable and soundest attempt to reform Irish education has been disregarded. Next to the freedom of his country, the object that lay nearest to his heart was that of National Education. With Thomas Davis and many of our greatest Irishmen, he held that National Education was the bed-rock of a Nation. He saw with clear vision that Irish was being betrayed in the schools. In this spirit he founded Sgoil Eanna, which responded to his ideals and reached its most gracious success in the spacious buildings and fifty acres extent of the Hermitage grounds, already associated closely with memories of Robert Emmet and the Young Irelanders. Ancient legend and modern history combine to hallow the region in which the Three Rock Mountain, Tibbradden, Kilmashogue, Ticknock, Mount Pelier, and Glenasmole are landmarks. The Hermitage grounds command glorious prospects of the Dublin Hills—the Hermitage itself of the Bay and the whole Dublin coastline.
The Hermitage will now be for evermore linked with Pearse's name and work, Sgoil Eanna and the gallant "sunward bound" of 1916, but to maintain this association in its full sanctity it is essential that the Hermitage shall not fall into strange or hostile hands. The Nation must retain and house continuously Sgoil Eanna in its former home as the pioneer National College of Ireland.
To this end we now appeal to the Irish Race—and we know the Irish people abroad will desire to be represented in this truly National work—to subscribe a sum of £10,000 to purchase the title deeds of the Hermitage, to furnish it as a suitable home for two hundred boys, and to provide all necessary equipment for a first-
class National College. To secure the property for the Nation and at the same time to maintain the Pearse association, it is proposed to appoint National Trustees, of which Mrs. Pearse will hold the place of honour, and to make provision for the continuity of the Trusteeship, and the College will be placed under the control of a suitable Committee, subject to the ultimate authority of the Trustees. A Headmaster, qualified in every way to carry forward the ideals of Pearse, will be placed in charge of the school, which we have every reason to believe will be self-supporting if once established in its old premises at the Hermitage. This will be the Nation's monument to Patrick Pearse and his devoted brother William. It will be also the Nation's endowment of a school which will ensure a succession of young men qualified for the Nation's service who have never attorned to the educational ideals of the enemy; of young men steeped in Irish culture, as an Englishman, an American, or a German is steeped in the culture of his race.
nior bperoir ōil-cumne na bβιαρρac vo comēato i n-aon vōis nior orieamnaise na an ēremiteac a ceannac asur Sgoil Eanna a buanū ann. ni vōis linn so scurproir pēn rpēr i teact cumne vēanta ve ēloic nō ve ēreatūma act sur bpeas leo ōil-cumne i scporōte asur i meanman a scom-χαεōeal asur so mōr mōri scporōtib na macparōe ar a paib spaō asur sean aca tar cumpe.
MRS. PEARSE.
GEORGE NOBLE COUNT PLUNKETT.
CU ULADH.
MRS. E. CEANNT
REV. DR. BROWNE, D.D., MAYNOOTH.
ALFRED McGLOUGHLIN.
ALLIS bean (LABRAIS) MIC βIONNSAIL } Hon. Secretaries.
FEARGUS DE BURCA, B.A.
REV. EUGENE NEVIN.
REV. R. FULLERTON (Belfast).
Mrs. SHEEHY-SKEFFINGTON.
Mrs. E. CEANNT.
PROF. EOIN MACNEILL.
PROF. STOCKLEY (Cork).
ARTHUR GRIFFITH, M.I.P.
LAURENCE GINNELL, M.I.P. JOSEPH McGUINNESS, M.I.P. W. COSGRAVE, M.I.P. DR. HAYES. EAMONN BULFIN. AUSTIN STACK. JOSEPH MacDONAGH. FINIAN LYNCH, B.A.
Subscriptions to be sent to Hon. Treas., St. Enda's College, Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin.