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When Patrick Pearse founded an Irish language school for boys in 1908 his aim was to create a modern, Irish male citizen from the ancient models of masculinity. Pearse's Patriots explores how the idea of a modern Irish boyhood was created at St. Enda's through Christian iconography and mythology as well as a modern preoccupation with patriotism, Gaelic games, theatre and juvenile literature

Pearse's Patriots: St. Enda's and the Cult of Boyhood

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    Publisher: Cork University Press
    Publication Date: 15/06/2005
    ISBN13: 9781859183953, 978-1859183953
    ISBN10: 1859183956

    Number of Pages: 240

    Non Fiction , History

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    When Patrick Pearse founded an Irish language school for boys in 1908 his aim was to create a modern, Irish male citizen from the ancient models of masculinity. Pearse's Patriots explores how the idea of a modern Irish boyhood was created at St. Enda's through Christian iconography and mythology as well as a modern preoccupation with patriotism, Gaelic games, theatre and juvenile literature

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