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Irish nationalist, history and folklore archive / Cartlann Stair agus Béaloidis Náisiúnach Éireannach.

[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"We Irish Workers are then not under the necessity of considering ourselves as bound by tradition to the Democratic Party; political parties are not formed by traditions, but by interests. Where then do our interests lie?"

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"Now the course of action implied in the name Sinn Féin, is the reverse of all that. It teaches the Irish people to rely upon themselves, and upon themselves alone, and teaches them also that dependence upon forces outside themselves is emasculating ..."

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"Fellow workers—the struggle for Irish freedom has two aspects: it is national and it is social. Its national ideal can never be realized until Ireland stands forth before the world, a nation free and independent."

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"From his earliest years he had but one passion, one ambition, to serve Ireland to the utmost of his capacity, and to that he sacrificed everything for which man ordinarily lives, wealth, comfort, wild oats, happiness perhaps..."

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"Well, for every Christian Church in India maintained by the free contributions of Christian people at home the Government establishes brothels for the use of its soldiers, the one frequently in sight of the other."

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"This is our hope, our proposed solution of the problem of divided forces, and on the day that that hope is consummated if anyone looks around for the class-conscious Irish workers he will, we believe, find them alert and determined"

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Train timetable with travel details for people travelling to Dublin to attend the O'Donovan Rossa funeral in Dublin on this day 1913.

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"[W]e propose to advise the Irish who are Socialists now to organize their forces as Irish and get again in touch with the organized bodies of literary, educational and revolutionary Irish"

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"When on the field of Bannockburn Robert the Bruce of Scotland overthrew the power of England, one of his chief supports was an Irish auxiliary legion of the O’Neills."

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"The wages of the agricultural laborers of India—where 70 per cent of the population derive their sole subsistence directly from the cultivation of the soil—are not such as to induce any very extravagant mode of living"

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"The independent producer, owning his own tools and knowing no master, has given way before the more effective productive powers of huge capital, concentrated in the hands of the great capitalist."

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"Well, this was rather depressing, but when we reached the hall upstairs to hold our last meeting there a few things happened which tended to ease a little humor on the situation. We met the prime movers in the eviction."

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"Thus economic science, based upon and in alliance with the facts of life, emphatically refutes the contentions of the writers of Marx’s day as well as those of the charlatans of our day who revamp the same arguments to prove the same point."

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"Until the movement is marked by the joyous, defiant, singing of revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the most distinctive marks of a popular revolutionary movement, it is the dogma of a few, and not the faith of the multitude."

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"Since the era of the French Revolution the world has changed in many things, and not the least in the economic conditions which mould politics and diplomacy."

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"Inconsistency and sacrifice of principle for the sake of votes mark both organisations, and ‘Be all things to all men’ might be the watchword of either."

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"The SDF declares Trade-Unionism to be played out, yet denounces any attack upon the labour leaders who declare Trade-Unionism to be all-powerful. The SDF declares the Workers’ Representation Committee to be worthless and a delusion ..."

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"Every farmer’s grievance became an Irish national grievance, every farmer refusing to pay rent was idealised as a patriot battling, not for his own purse, but for his country, every farmer evicted was acclaimed as a martyr for his country"

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"Then sing our rebel song as we
proudly sweep along
To end the age-old tyranny
that makes for human tears.
Our march is nearer done, with
each setting of the sun.
And the tyrants’ might is passing
with the passing of the years."

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[An Chartlann @AnChartlann]

"The key note of his character has been to preach revolution and to practise compromise, and to do neither thoroughly."

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