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Patrick Langford Beazley, from Killarney, County Kerry, moved to Egremont, Cumbria and was the editor of The Catholic Times newspaper for 40 years; Nannie Hickey was from Newcastle West, County Limerick. B\u00e9asla\u00ed’s parents married in March 1878, in the West Derby district of the county of Lancashire.[2] During his summer holidays in his younger years, he spent time in Ireland (near Kenmare, County Kerry) with his paternal uncle, Father James Beazley, where he began to learn Irish.[3] B\u00e9asla\u00ed was educated at St Xavier\u2019s Jesuit College in Liverpool, where he developed his keen interest in Irish; by the time he was aged 17 his Irish proficiency was exceptional.[4]Literary career[edit]After finishing his education at St Xavier\u2019s, B\u00e9asla\u00ed was encouraged to begin Irish poetry by Tadhg \u00d3 Donnchadha. B\u00e9asla\u00ed followed his father\u2019s footsteps into journalism; he began by working for the local Wallasey News, and in 1906 he moved to Dublin, and within a year became a freelance writer for the Irish Peasant, Irish Independent, Freeman’s Journal and Express. He was offered a permanent position with Independent Newspapers, as assistant leader writer and special reporter for the Dublin Evening Telegraph. He wrote regularly for the Freeman’s Journal, including a daily half-column in Irish.[4]After his early introduction to Irish poetry he became involved in staging Irish-language amateur drama at the Oireachtas annual music festival. B\u00e9asla\u00ed began to write both original works and adaptations from foreign languages. One of these works, Eachtra Pheadair Schlemiel (1909), was translated from German into Irish.[3]Later he continued to write poetry, such as the collection \u201cBealtaine 1916\u201d agus D\u00e1nta Eile (1920), and short stories such as “Earc agus Aine agus Sc\u00e9alta Eile”. Between 1913 and 1939 he wrote many plays, including Cliuche Carta\u00ed (1920), An Sgaothaire agus C\u00faig Dr\u00e1ma\u00ed Eile (1929), An Danar (1929) and An Bhean Chr\u00f3dha (1931). He wrote two books about his comrade Michael Collins: Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland (2 volumes, 1926) and Michael Collins: Soldier and Statesman (1937).       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4His works revolved around the Irish language movement and the IRA; these works focused on the independence struggle of Ireland. He wrote about these topics in newspapers such as the Standard and The Kerryman; his most notable work in newspapers during his later life included his contribution to the Irish Independent, which published a section called \u2018A Veteran Remembers\u2019 five days a week from 16 May to June 1957, as well as a weekly section called \u2018Moods and Memories\u2019 on Wednesdays from 24 May 1961 to 16 June 1965.[3]One of the awards B\u00e9asla\u00ed gained during his career was on 14 August 1928, B\u00e9asla\u00ed a gold medal at the Tailteann Literary Awards. While in Dublin, he joined the Keating Branch of the Gaelic League, and after he moved to Ireland he began using the Irish form of his name, Piaras B\u00e9asla\u00ed, rather than Percy Beazley.[3]Role in the 1916 Rising[edit]A founding member of The Irish Volunteers in 1913. In January 1916 he served as a courier for political activist and revolutionary leader Se\u00e1n Mac Diarmada. By the time of the Easter Rising that year, B\u00e9asla\u00ed was deputy commanding officer of the 1st Dublin Battalion. In an audio recording to which he contributed in 1958, he detailed his experience in the Rising, describing the rebels assembling before noon in Blackhall Street at battalion headquarters. After midday they marched out to the Four Courts, erecting barricades as they did so. The Four Courts was his main station.In the audio, he recalls a green flag with a gold harp in the centre; this was the non-Sinn F\u00e9in flag at the time. On the Friday evening the General Post Office, Dublin. B\u00e9asla\u00ed was in direct charge of the Four Courts area, and at one point during the fight he ordered a complete blackout. He recalled “things were going badly for the English soldiers” and described the whole event as “a weird experience”. He remembers the streets being lit up with fires in the darkness as if it were bright as day. He speaks of the intensity of the firing line and then how it suddenly ceased on the Friday. He remembered falling asleep and when he woke being presented with PH Pearse’s order to surrender. The rebels were brought to Richmond barracks. B\u00e9asla\u00ed then spent fifteen months in English prisons.[5]B\u00e9asla\u00ed served three years for penal servitude divided between a stringent Portland prison and a more lenient Lewes prison. He was then imprisoned two times within four months during 1919, both terms ending in celebrated escapes.[4] After his final prison release, Michael Collins approached B\u00e9asla\u00ed to edit An tOglach, the Irish Volunteer newspaper; this saw communication between GHQ and local volunteers drastically improved.[citation needed]Political career[edit]Later, B\u00e9asla\u00ed became director of publicity for the Irish Republican Army, and at the 1918 general election he was elected to the First D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann as Sinn F\u00e9in MP for Kerry East.[6] Sinn F\u00e9in MPs who had been elected in the Westminster elections of 1918 refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and instead assembled the following January at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament, D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann.[7] B\u00e9asla\u00ed was noted for his translation of the democratic programme of the First D\u00e1il, which he read aloud at the inaugural sitting.[8]He was a member of the Sinn F\u00e9in party for five years. Between 1919 and 1921 he represented the Kerry East constituency in the First D\u00e1il. Then, at the 1921 general election, he was returned unopposed to the Second D\u00e1il as a Sinn F\u00e9in Teachta D\u00e1la (TD) for Kerry\u2013Limerick West. Following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, B\u00e9asla\u00ed was re-elected there unopposed at the 1922 election as a pro-Treaty Sinn F\u00e9in candidate, and was thus a member of the Third D\u00e1il, which was Pro-Treaty at this stage. In 1922 he went to the USA to explain the Treaty to Sinn F\u00e9in’s Irish-American supporters. He did not contest the 1923 election.[9]He and Con Collins share the distinction of having been elected in three Irish general elections unopposed by any other candidates.[10][11]Gaelic League[edit]During B\u00e9asla\u00ed\u2019s time in London, he gave a lot of his time to the Gaelic League. In the Keating branch of the league, in Ireland, B\u00e9asla\u00ed developed an interest in the IRB. Cathal Brugha, a branch member, asked him to join the IRB. The Keating branch was where B\u00e9asla\u00ed met Michael Collins, eventually introducing Collins to his cousin and fellow branch member, Elizabeth Mernin.[12] B\u00e9asla\u00ed was also instrumental in establishing An F\u00e1inne, an Irish-speaking league whose members vowed to speak solely Irish among themselves and wore a membership badge of a circle. This coincided with his involvement in the Irish Republican Brotherhood. B\u00e9asla\u00ed\u2019s love of the Irish language gave him an opportunity to delve into his other hobbies. He wrote for Banba, an Irish journal published by the Gaelic League. He was able to express his love for theatre, in the Gaelic League, forming a group of men called “Na hAisteoir\u00ed”.[13]B\u00e9asla\u00ed died, unmarried, aged 84 on 22 June 1965, in a nursing home in Dublin. He was buried in a plot in Glasnevin Cemetery, after a Requiem Mass in St Columba\u2019s Church, Iona Road, Glasnevin.[14]  References[edit]^ Coogan, Tim Pat (1991). Michael Collins. Arrow Books. pp.\u00a098\u201399. ISBN\u00a00-09-968580-9.^ “FreeBMD District Info”. Freebmd.org.uk. 2016. Archived from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2016.^ a b c d Maume, Patrick (October 2009). “B\u00e9asla\u00ed, Piaras”. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 13 December 2021.^ a b c “Piaras B\u00e9asla\u00ed Papers” (PDF). National Library of Ireland. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 March 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2016.^ “The Fiercest Fighting 1916”. RTE Archives. 1956. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2016.^ “Piaras B\u00e9asla\u00ed”. Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2009.^ “Roll call of the first sitting of the First D\u00e1il”. D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann Historical Debates (in Ga). 21 January 1919. Archived from the original on 19 November 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2009.^ Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland by Piaras B\u00e9asla\u00ed (Dublin, 1926), vol. 1, p. 259.^ “Directory of Members – 1919-2016 – Houses of the Oireachtas – Tithe an Oireachtais”. Oireachtas.ie. Archived from the original on 24 November 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2016.^ “Piaras B\u00e9asla\u00ed”. ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2009.^ “Con Collins”. ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2009.^ Coleman, Marie (2009). “Mernin, Elizabeth”.  In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^ “B\u00c9ASLA\u00cd, Piaras (1881\u20131965)”. Ainm.ie. Archived from the original on 24 November 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2016.^ “Funeral Maj.-Gen. Piaras Beaslai”. 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