Patrick Henry Pearse (10 November 1879 - 3 May 1916), known to Irish nationalists as Pádraig Pearse or Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais, was a teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916.

In an unpublished autobiography, Patrick Pearse described himself as the 'strange thing that I am'. So intimately was he to become associated with the Easter Rising that it has become almost impossible for historians since to 'see the man'. He was born in Dublin, the son of a self-educated, free-thinking sculptor from England who specialised in ecclesiastical work.

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Researchers at the County Clare Heritage Centre in the south west of Ireland have unearthed documentation to show one of Ali's great grandfathers came from the county town of Ennis. It seems Abe Grady, born around 160 years ago in County Clare, emigrated to the United States in the 1860s.