"I have just done one of the hardest tasks I have ever had to do. I have had to condemn to death one of the finest characters I have ever come across. There must be something very wrong in the state of things that makes a man like that a rebel. I don't wonder that his pupils adored him."
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Charles Blackader, the British officer who chaired Pearse's court-martial, as cited in Frank M. Flanagan, "Patrick H. Pearse," Minerva, volume 1 (1997)
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