Thornley, David (Autumn–Winter 1971). "Patrick Pearse and the Pearse Family". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 60 (239/240). Dublin: Irish Province of the Society of Jesus: 332–346. ISSN0039-3495. JSTOR30088734.
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"Patrick Pearse"(PDF). The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives. National Library of Ireland. 2006. Archived from the original(PDF) on 19 May 2006.
In a statement to the Bureau of Military History, dated 26 January 1948, Hobson claimed: "After the formation of the Irish Volunteers in October [recte November] 1913, Pádraig Pearse was sworn in by me as a member of the IRB in December of that year ... I swore him in before his departure for the States." (See: National Library of Ireland, 3.2.1 Bulmer Hobson and Denis McCulloughArchived 28 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, in The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives, p. 18. Retrieved 1 January 2008. Hobson, in his Foundation of Growth of the Irish Volunteers, 1913–1914, also states that Pearse was not a member of the IRB when the Irish Volunteers were founded in November.
"Patrick Pearse"(PDF). The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives. National Library of Ireland. 2006. Archived from the original(PDF) on 19 May 2006.
In a statement to the Bureau of Military History, dated 26 January 1948, Hobson claimed: "After the formation of the Irish Volunteers in October [recte November] 1913, Pádraig Pearse was sworn in by me as a member of the IRB in December of that year ... I swore him in before his departure for the States." (See: National Library of Ireland, 3.2.1 Bulmer Hobson and Denis McCulloughArchived 28 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, in The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives, p. 18. Retrieved 1 January 2008. Hobson, in his Foundation of Growth of the Irish Volunteers, 1913–1914, also states that Pearse was not a member of the IRB when the Irish Volunteers were founded in November.
Thornley, David (Autumn–Winter 1971). "Patrick Pearse and the Pearse Family". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 60 (239/240). Dublin: Irish Province of the Society of Jesus: 332–346. ISSN0039-3495. JSTOR30088734.