english: Pearse was an incredibly imaginative child – in his autobiography he wrote ‘with every book that was read to me, with every picture I saw, with every story or song that I heard; I saw myself daring or suffering all the things that were dared or suffered in the book or song or picture’.
non_english: Bhí samhlaíocht iontach ag an bPiarsach agus é ina pháiste – scríobh sé ina dhírbheathaisnéis ‘with every book that was read to me, with every picture I saw, with every story or song that I heard; I saw myself daring or suffering all the things that were dared or suffered in the book or song or picture’.