The Mother - Padraic Pearse by University College Dublin

The insurrection in 1916 inspired a vibrant body of poetry. These works engage in fundamental ways with the ideals of independence and with the feelings and experiences that helped shape modern Ireland.
As part of the 1916 Irish Independent / UCD supplement series Dr. Lucy Collins has analysed key poetry of 1916.

University College Dublin in partnership with the Irish Independent is inviting members of the public to vote for their favourite poem related to "Easter 1916".

People can read the poems and cast their vote here: http://www.independent.ie/risingpoems

The insurrection in 1916 inspired a vibrant body of poetry. These works engage in fundamental ways with the ideals of independence and with the feelings and experiences that helped shape modern Ireland.
As part of the 1916 Irish Independent / UCD supplement series Dr. Lucy Collins has analysed key poetry of 1916.

University College Dublin in partnership with the Irish Independent is inviting members of the public to vote for their favourite poem related to "Easter 1916".

People can read the poems and cast their vote here: http://www.independent.ie/risingpoems

I do not grudge them: Lord, I do not grudge
My two strong sons that I have seen go out
To break their strength and die, they and a few,
In bloody protest for a glorious thing,
They shall be spoken of among their people,
The generations shall remember them,
And call them blessed;
But I will speak their names to my own heart
In the long nights;
The little names that were familiar once
Round my dead hearth.
Lord, thou art hard on mothers:
We suffer in their coming and their going;
And tho' I grudge them not, I weary, weary
Of the long sorrow---And yet I have my joy:
My sons were faithful, and they fought.