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Feb. 12th, 2009 | 01:51 pm



Because my comics have so much white space, and I am new to all this, I keep trying different ways to get rid of it! Here my friends is: paintbrush. Now before anyone pipes in with "everyone knows Tom Clarke was the reaaaall leader behind the Easter Rising," I say hush and let me have my fun with Patrick Pearse, go 'way with you. Anyway Pearse could write some stirring stuff, I give him that.


James Connolly is my favorite leader of the Rising, and as the Marxist-Socialist, the odd one out. It was this quote I found in a book of essays that made me very interested in the man at first, it was very different:

Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for “Ireland” and yet can pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, the shame and the degradation, wrought upon the people of Ireland – yea, wrought by Irish men and women upon Irish men and women – without burning to end it is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call “Ireland.”

Between you and I, I think Irish history is some of the most interesting stuff out there.

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EditsWithLongHair

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from: [info]editswlonghair
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:24 pm (UTC)
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Hilarious!

If you're into Irish history, check out href="http://www.black47.com/">Black 47, a band from New York City. Songs on their earlier albums are rife with the veritable rogues gallery of Irish history...

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:37 pm (UTC)
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They sing a lot of old songs I am familiar with

Once we had to drag my uncle Jim out of an Irish bar because he wanted to sing The Patriot Game

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special_boots

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from: [info]special_boots
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:24 pm (UTC)
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As long as you're doing Ireland, you should definitely do a comic about Isaac Butt.

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Claire Hennessy

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from: [info]iliketea
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:38 pm (UTC)
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And Parnell and his special lady friend!

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Dale O'Flaherty

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from: [info]daleof
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:24 pm (UTC)
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Hooray!

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:39 pm (UTC)
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you are an excitable man

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Brian M. Brown

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from: [info]boxbrown
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:25 pm (UTC)
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My name is James Connolly I didn't come here to die!

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:43 pm (UTC)
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I like the song, but ah the fist paragraph of page 30

http://books.google.com/books?id=TGwCEc2DyGgC&printsec=frontcover#PPA30,M1

Did your dad listen to Irish rebel songs too

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The Modesto Kid

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from: [info]themodestokid
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:31 pm (UTC)
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Hey thanks -- ya got me to look up Patrick Pearse on the Wiki.

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:43 pm (UTC)
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he is worth looking up!

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Kimmy

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from: [info]rubyrainstorm
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:37 pm (UTC)
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It is pretty awesome, indeed.

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my cocoa doesn't taste like camera

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from: [info]fegie
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:37 pm (UTC)
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Wow, that quote you have there. Da-mn.

I think this is one of my favorite comics of yours yet.

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:44 pm (UTC)
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If only I knew which book it came from, but I have a list of 6 books it may have came from!

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Claire Hennessy

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from: [info]iliketea
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:40 pm (UTC)
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AWESOME. I never thought I would see Patrick Pearse in a comic. *is Irish, and a history student, and spent far too much time in school learning about the Rising*

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:45 pm (UTC)
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haha you are like me if the topic was the Plains of Abraham

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laura

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from: [info]lola_joan
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:46 pm (UTC)
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That Pearse of yours is a devilishly handsome fellow! How do you do that?

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:49 pm (UTC)
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he had a pretty strong profile I think

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IREpearse.jpg

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ms_geekette

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from: [info]ms_geekette
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:48 pm (UTC)
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Woo, Ireland!

I think your next comic should be a cage match against U2 and The Cranberries. Bono vs. Dolores O'Riordan. YES!

As an aside, a very popular vacation destination among the Irish is the Dingle Peninsula...also the former home to many a monk building beehive huts out of stone. And hey, I've heard Dolores O'Riordan has a house there. I tell you, the comics just write themselves. ;-)

You could do a whole series of Irish monk comics, really. Those guys were wacky.

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Patrick!

from: anonymous
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:51 pm (UTC)
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tut tut, everyone knows his name is Padraig Pearse.

gosh, like.

(sarcasm)

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Michael

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from: [info]ping816
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:54 pm (UTC)
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Aw no Michael Collins comics?

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: [info]beatonna
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:58 pm (UTC)
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there is a Michael Collins quote about the both of them at the bottom of Patrick Pearse's wikipedia if that is compensation

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from: [info]cuthalion
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 07:56 pm (UTC)
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I had some trouble with the flow of the panels:



I think if you're going to change direction like that, you should either make a gap between the rows or make the top panels a different width than the bottom panels or something

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Bill

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from: [info]mycroftholmes
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 11:28 pm (UTC)
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Gaps work.

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ERock

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from: [info]bigbetterirish
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 08:04 pm (UTC)
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you're ridiculously talented :D also, go ireland. i'm from cavan and proud!

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ruby_sword

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from: [info]ruby_sword
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 08:04 pm (UTC)
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I must tell you that I actually cheered when I saw your post come up on my friends list!

Irish history is super interesting, I did some of it for my History GCSE.

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from: [info]gauxyogbq
date: May. 18th, 2009 08:37 am (UTC)
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I think that most Irish people would agree with you



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Kettu, Тёня, 狐, Дилги, Лиса, Sionnach, whatever

interesting fact

from: [info]foxfour
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 08:18 pm (UTC)
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the original Proclamation of the Irish Republic had many printing problems, since the printing supplies were mostly… liberated. So the original printing had smaller es and the C in REPUBLIC was actually a filed-down G.

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Z. Coldwater

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from: [info]zeecoldwater
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 08:23 pm (UTC)
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That is hilarious. Rather typical of the entire Rising, really.

It was a shambles and sadly cost Connolly his life. And it took them until the 1930s (or 1920s?) to get a proper republic, anyway.

And N. Ireland is still with Great Britain.

Irish rebellions have a tendency of being completely in vain, sadly.

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Z. Coldwater

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from: [info]zeecoldwater
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 08:22 pm (UTC)
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James Connolly was a fantastic man indeed; he and the other James, Big Jim Larkin, did a lot of good work that was sadly undone/ignored/obstructed by crazy poet-mystics, schoolteachers and postmen.

Yeats was pretty badass too. Not a revolutionary, but told off the entire Irish public for rioting after seeing Synge's Playboy of the Western World (because Irish countrymen and women are all pious, virtuous and sexless, apparently and Synge's depiction of poverty and amorality is wroooooong).


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Z. Coldwater

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from: [info]zeecoldwater
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 08:26 pm (UTC)
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Should clarify. William Butler Yeats, not his brother, Jack Butler Yeats. The poet, not the painter.

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datwilliams

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from: [info]datwilliams
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 08:32 pm (UTC)
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I've never minded your white space because your form is strong. To reduce my white space, i go nuts with hatching and cross hatching sometimes

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from: [info]glockblob.blogspot.com
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 08:35 pm (UTC)
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Good gravy I didn't know any of this and now I am fascinated! The power of Educomics.
Thank you for introducing me to this awesome person! He reminds me of Enjolras, a little bit, in terms of the barricade-side manner and such (obviously not in the "my only love is la Patria" way). The Irish tenth of my blood has been stirred. (The English tenth feels a little guilty.)

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callan

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from: [info]callanhead
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 08:35 pm (UTC)
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you have done well in getting rid of white space, i think this looks good good good. all evolving and things. Pearse is too cool in this, i love the plunk sitting panel. the last two panels on their own could be a thrillion comics about anything.

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Ian Rennie

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from: [info]lamuella
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 08:54 pm (UTC)
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not sure if you've read any of Preacher, but there's an issue of that set during the Easter Rising that tries to show what an utter bloody idiot Pearse was

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cholma

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from: [info]cholma
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 08:57 pm (UTC)
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The first panel made me think of the theme to "All In The Family", particularly this line:
"Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again..."


My brain is weird.

And what do you know: It's on YouTube for you younglings who have no idea what I'm talking about! :)

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Bill

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from: [info]mycroftholmes
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 11:31 pm (UTC)
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:O An All In the Family fan. Excellent.

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elisheva

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from: [info]punzerel
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 09:05 pm (UTC)
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Between you and I, I think Irish history is some of the most interesting stuff out there.

I am one totally un-Irish Canadian who agrees with you there. Irish history is the best. Have you checked out the Neeson film Michael Collins? It's excellent, even if I do have some issues with the portrayal of de Valera. The Wind that Shakes the Barley is another good one, from a rather different angle. They can both be difficult to watch, though.

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cptnspldng

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from: [info]cptnspldng
date: Feb. 13th, 2009 03:57 am (UTC)
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I had a little trouble getting past de Valera being played by Snape.

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the Jew

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from: [info]aaronica
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 09:08 pm (UTC)
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I have been a huge fan of yours for ages and just wanted to say this comic seems like an immense jump forward in your visual style - in addition to being smart and witty like all of your comics it is also even more beautiful than usual.

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My!

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from: [info]mofoartist
date: Feb. 13th, 2009 10:02 pm (UTC)
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that icon of yours is so true.

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bogswallop

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from: [info]bogswallop
date: Feb. 12th, 2009 09:13 pm (UTC)
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HEY LET'S BLOW UP HALF OF DUBLIN, GREAT JOB LADS.

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