Pearse Museum and St Enda's Park

18/10/2026

Join us for some Spooktacular Halloween Fun at Pearse Museum & St. Enda's Park! If you dare! 👻🎃

12/10/2026

Join us on Friday 16th October and Saturday 17th October at 2:30pm for a guided tour of Pearse Museum. Meet in the Museum Reception. The tour will last approximately one hour. Parking available at the Museum Car Parks off Sarah Curran Avenue and at Taylor's Lane. All Welcome. Bígí linn!

11/10/2026

Join us today, Sunday 11th October at 2:30pm for a free guided tour of Pearse Museum.

Meet at Reception of the Museum. Tour will last approximately one hour. Parking available at the Museum Car Parks off Sarah Curran Avenue and at Taylor's Lane. All Welcome. Fáilte dhaoibh go leir!

07/10/2026

Join us tomorrow at 2.30pm for a guided tour of the Pearse Museum. All welcome!

Bígí linn!

03/10/2026

We are delighted to welcome ‘Intervals of Peace’: The Civil War Prison Art of Alfred McGloughlin back to the Pearse Museum. On 21 October 1922, several months into the Irish Civil War, Alfred McGloughlin was arrested in his home by Free State forces and brought to Wellington Barracks in Dublin. He spent the following year as a political prisoner, first in Wellington Barracks, then Hare Park in the Curragh, before a final stay in Mountjoy Prison from where he was released on 13 October 1923. Although he was an active supporter of the Anti-Treaty side, he was never charged with a specific offence. He experienced periods of severe ill-treatment during his incarceration but, as mentioned in his obituary in 1932, he also found ‘intervals of peace in prison, sketching in watercolours, and filling a portfolio with pencil-drawings of his comrades’. Many of these portraits and watercolour sketches are now on display in the Pearse Museum.

Alfred McGloughlin was the nephew of 1916 leaders Patrick and William Pearse and grew up in the Pearse household following the breakdown of his parents' marriage. He later helped in the running of Patrick Pearse’s school, Scoil Éanna and Pearse described him as a member of staff 'without portfolio'. He was particularly involved in the set design for the school's elaborate theatrical production. He also designed the cover of the school magazine 'An Macaomh', and provided illustrations of the park for the Christmas 1910 edition. Alfred went on to become a draughtsman with J & C McGloughlin Ltd., a decorative metalwork business owned by his father’s family, and studied art part-time in the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art.

McGloughlin also developed an interest in theatre and wrote and performed in numerous plays. He joined the Irish Volunteers and was involved in the Howth gun-running of 1914. He was Sinn Féin’s director of elections in south Dublin for the 1918 and 1921 elections and stood as a candidate himself during the local elections of 1920. Following his release from prison he set up his own building company. When this business failed, he obtained a position as a draughtsman with the Office of Public Works. He remained active as a political journalist, and was a regular contributor to the republican newspaper ‘An Phoblacht’. His health never recovered from his time in prison. He died from heart disease aged just 44 in 1932 while being nursed by his mother Emily in her home in Emmet's Fort on the grounds of St. Enda's Park.

02/10/2026

The roll-call is at 1pm on Saturday 3 October! Meet in the courtyard.

Have you ever wanted to know more about the Classroom in the Corner in St Enda's Park? Join Shannon this Saturday 3 October at 1pm for a short pop-up about the classroom itself, Pearse's educational philosophies and why Scoil Éanna was such a revolutionary school. All welcome! Meet in the Courtyard.

02/10/2026

We're very excited to announce our second annual pumpkin painting competition! We're prepared to be scared!

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28/09/2026

Have you ever wanted to know more about the Classroom in the Corner in St Enda's Park? Join Shannon this Saturday 3 October at 1pm for a short pop-up about the classroom itself, Pearse's educational philosophies and why Scoil Éanna was such a revolutionary school. All welcome! Meet in the Courtyard.

24/09/2026

We are thrilled to be involved in Open House again and sharing our knowledge of and interest in the wonderful follies dotted around the parkland. And this year for the first time we are participating in Open House Junior, and we are very excited about that!

Our Open House Junior tours of the follies take place on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th at 11am. For further information and to book places see https://openhousedublin.com/locations/a-tour-of-the-follies-of-st-endas-park-junior/

We have additional follies tours on Saturday 17th October and Sunday 18th October at 11am. For information and to book your place see https://openhousedublin.com/locations/a-tour-of-the-follies-of-st-endas-park/

Please note: Places on these tours are limited and booking is essential via the Open House website.

05/09/2026

James Pearse died 5 September 1900 while visiting his family in Birmingham, the city where he had grown up and learned his trade as a monumental sculptor.His son, P.H.Pearse, was very proud of his father's work and craftmanship and wrote in his autobiography:
"... If ever in an Irish church you find, amid a wilderness of bad sculpture, something good and true and lovingly finished you may be sure that it was carved by my father or by one of his pupils."