saint endas park

Follow Grange Road to St. Enda's Park, where Patrick Pearse, patriot, poet and teacher, ran an Irish-speaking school, Scoil Eanna.

It was here that, with his mother, brother and sisters, Pearse strove to put his progressive educational ideas into practice, and from here that Patrick and his brother William went out to fight on Easter Monday 1916. Both were executed for their parts in leading the Easter Rising.

Scoil Eanna now houses a museum commemorating the Pearse brothers.

The teaching at Scoil Eanna included appreciation of nature and today there is a nature centre with environmental exhibits and a Wayfarer nature walk through the grounds.