Today we publish the last part of our serialisation of Pádraig Pearse’s ‘The Sovereign People’. Finished by Pearse on this day, March 31st, in 1916, less than a month before the republic was declared from the steps of the GPO.

Today we publish part one of a three-part series of ‘The Sovereign People’, written by Pádraig Pearse in early 1916. Pearse finished ‘The Sovereign People’ on March 31st, less than four weeks before the Easter