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During two long visits to Dublin, I was kinda amazed that very few of the Irish I chatted with knew much about Padraig Pearse, the incredible poet/patriot who forced the '16 Rising in spite of many who opposed it. Pearse seems to be considered by some as a nut, who was transfixed on the need for a blood sacrifice in order to move Ireland toward a Republic. Truth as I see it is that he, McBride,…