Wolfe Tone

Irish Republican information, quotes and pictures. Focus on Wolfe Tone and pre-1921.

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'I don’t believe the Saxon will ever relax his grip except by the persuasion of lead and cold steel.’ Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa

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'We must see our present fight right through to the very end'.
Bobby Sands

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Today in 1798, Wolfe Tone is sentenced by the British to hang for treason.

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"I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life." - Wolfe Tone

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I have laboured to abolish the infernal spirit of religious persecution by uniting the Catholics and Dissenters. - Wolfe Tone

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"There would be no peace process if it were not for the IRA." Gerry Adams

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On this day 1835 O'Connell meets with the United Irishman to recieve a silver vase in thanks of his support for civil & religious liberty.

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Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice. - Robert Emmet

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Today in 1803 Robert Emmet is executed in Dublin for treason for leading a rebellion earlier in the year.

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Today in 1922, Michael Collins is shot dead at Béal na Bláth in Cork by anti-treaty republicans.

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Today in 1879, the Irish Land League, the influential peasant rights organisation, is set up in Castlebar, Mayo.

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The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show.
Bobby Sands

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'They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken" (Bobby Sands)

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“We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times” James Connolly

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After all I have done for a sacred cause, death is no sacrifice. - Wolfe Tone during his trial in 1798.

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‘You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion of freedom.' Patrick Pearse

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'They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken" (Bobby Sands)

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"Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall" Wolfe Tone

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Theobald Wolfe Tone was born on this day 1763. A protestant, an Irishman and a Republican.