Padraig Pearse is known first and foremost for his role in the Irish Republican Movement, but he was also an important and significant educator, establishing a school in Dublin. In writing this book, Seamus O'Buachalla demonstrates the industry with which Patrick Pearse applied himself to the subject of education. By any criteria, his educational work was significant, original, extensive and progressive; his wider recognition as an innovative educationalist has been impeded by the manner in which his literary and political achievements have tended to obscure its significance in the popular image. The availability of his collected writings on education may accelerate the belated recognition of his educational work in its Irish and European dimensions.
(Educational writings of Patrick Pearse who founded famous Scoil Eanna in Dublin. He afterwards lead the Easter Week Rising in Dublin 1916)