Even in the closing years of his own life, Ó Cuinneagáin never lost faith in either the relevance or the inevitability of Aiséirghe's programme.
Responding to an enquiry from a researcher in 1978, he pointed out that the movement had never formally disbanded and that it 'could spring to life again!'.
Shortly before his death in 1990, he startled Risteárd Ó Glaisne by saying:
"You think we're all washed up. We're not. You wait and see - our day is coming."
Responding to an enquiry from a researcher in 1978, he pointed out that the movement had never formally disbanded and that it 'could spring to life again!'.
Shortly before his death in 1990, he startled Risteárd Ó Glaisne by saying:
"You think we're all washed up. We're not. You wait and see - our day is coming."
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Forwarded from The Hedge School
The biggest task will be the restoration of the language. How can we express our most subtle thoughts and finest feelings in a foreign tongue? Irish will scarcely be our language in this generation, not even perhaps in the next. But until we have it again on our tongues and in our minds we are not free, and we will produce no immortal literature.
Distinctive Culture, Michael Collins. Lúnasa 1922
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"All these parading royalties, all this insolent aristocracy, all these grovelling, dirt-eating capitalist traitors, all these are but signs of disease in any social state - diseases which a royal visit brings to a head and spews in all its nastiness before our horrified eyes."
- James Connolly
- James Connolly
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"Some of you may wonder why you have never read about Aiséirghe in the Irish Press or Independent.
For once in their history those papers display a startling unity of thought in their treatment of Aiséirghe.
They are afraid of Ailtirí na hAiséirge and of the actions of the people when they learn of its being; afraid they will lose their party subsidies, because they know that Aiséirghe, backed by the Irish people will not stand for any more of the present rotten political party system of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, or Labour.
I say to you that Aiséirghe, by the will of the Irish people, will within twenty-four months, be the dominating force in Éire and I mean the 32 Counties."
- Ceannaire Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin
'Combating Rotteness', 8ú Bealtaine 1943, Port Láirge.
For once in their history those papers display a startling unity of thought in their treatment of Aiséirghe.
They are afraid of Ailtirí na hAiséirge and of the actions of the people when they learn of its being; afraid they will lose their party subsidies, because they know that Aiséirghe, backed by the Irish people will not stand for any more of the present rotten political party system of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, or Labour.
I say to you that Aiséirghe, by the will of the Irish people, will within twenty-four months, be the dominating force in Éire and I mean the 32 Counties."
- Ceannaire Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin
'Combating Rotteness', 8ú Bealtaine 1943, Port Láirge.
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"The real issue of Partition is the presence of Britain’s occupation forces. To remove the last member of these from the territory of Ireland is the task of this generation."
Ceannaire Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin
25ú Bealtaine 1947, Doire.
Ceannaire Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin
25ú Bealtaine 1947, Doire.
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