Mise Éire

For other uses, see Mise Éire (disambiguation).

Mise Éire (meaning "I am Ireland") is a 1912 Irish-language poem by the Irish poet and Republican revolutionary leader Patrick Pearse. In the poem, Pearse personifies Ireland as an old woman whose glory is past and who has been sold by her children.^[1] The poem inspired a 1959 film of the same name by George Morrison and a poem by the same name by Eavan Boland.^[2][3]

References

1. ^ Foster, Robert Fitzroy (2001). The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Oxford University Press. pp. 283–84. ISBN 0192893238. http://books.google.com/books?id=loeoi9tnWm0C&pg=PA284&dq=pearse+%22mise+eire%22&cd=13#v=onepage&q=pearse%20%22mise%20eire%22&f=false. 
2. ^ Gómez Reus, Teresa; Aránzazu Usandizaga (2008). Inside Out: Women Negotiating, Subverting, Appropriating Public and Private Space. Rodopi. p. 343. ISBN 9042024410. http://books.google.com/books?id=EzPWp5GcOnsC&pg=PA343&dq=pearse+%22mise+eire%22&cd=19#v=onepage&q=pearse%20%22mise%20eire%22&f=false. 
3. ^ Bourke, Angela (2002). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions. New York University Press. p. 1295. ISBN 0814799086. http://books.google.com/books?id=qZ6W1LiIyYYC&pg=PA1295&dq=pearse+%22mise+eire%22&cd=17#v=onepage&q=pearse%20%22mise%20eire%22&f=false.