Stuk IE LMOD 268 - 1911 Cheque made out to Pádraig Mac Piarais

paper, ink. 14.5 x 8 cm

Cheque for amount of £4-9-0. Dublin 27 September 1911, The Munster and Leinster Bank Ltd., stamped in The Royal Bank of Ireland, Terenure Branch on 30 September 1911
This cheque for four pounds and nine shillings was paid to Pádraig Mac Piarais, future President of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic, who signed the reverse side in both Irish and English. This small piece of paper highlights the common misnomer of ‘Pádraig Pearse’. A central figure in the Irish Language revival movement, Pearse practiced linguistic dichotomy. It was either Pádraig Mac Piarais or P.H. Pearse, never a mongrel of the two.

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