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Michael Tsarion - Irish Origins of Civilization.. - PDF Drive
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A History of the Irish Nation: Social, Ecclesiastical, Biographical ... - Mary Francis Cusack - Google Books
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"England has triumphed mainly from her position. The qualities of her people have, undoubtely, counted for much, but her unrivalled position in the lap of the Atlantic, barring the seaways and closing the tideways of Central and North-Eastern Europe, has counted for more.

With this key she has opened the world to herself and closed it to her rivals.

The long war with France ended in the enhancement of this position by the destruction of the only rival fleet in being.

Europe, without navies, without shipping became for England a mere westward projection of Asia, dominated by warlike peoples who could always be set by the ears and made to fight upon points of dynastic honor, while England appropriated the markets of mankind.

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Thenceforth, for the best part of a century, while Europe was spent in what, to the superior Briton were tribal conflicts, the seas & coasts of the world lay open to the intrusions of his commerce, his colonists, his finance, until there was seemingly nothing left outside the two Americas worth laying hands on

This highly favored maritime position depends, however, upon an unnamed factor, the unchallenged possession & use of which by England has been the true foundation of her imperial greatness. Without Ireland there would be to-day no British Empire. The vital importance of Ireland to England is understood, but never proclaimed by every British statesman.

To subdue that western and ocean-closing island and to exploit its resources, its people and, above all, its position, to the sole advantage of the eastern island has been the set aim of every English government from the days of Henry VIII onwards. The vital importance of Ireland to Europe is not and has not been understood by any European statesman

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To them it has not been a European island, a vital and necessary element of European development, but an appanage of England, an island beyond an island, a mere geographical expression in the titles of the conqueror.

Louis XIV came nearest, perhaps, of European rulers to realizing its importance in the conflict of European interests when he sought to establish James II on its throne as rival to the monarch of Great-Britain and counterpoise to the British sovereignty in the western seas. Montesquieu alone of French writers grasped the importance of Ireland in the international affairs of his time, and lie blames the vacillation of Louis, who failed to put forth his strength, to establish James upon the throne of Ireland and thus by a successful act of perpetual separation to “affaiblir le voisin.”

Napoleon, too late, in St. Helena realized his error: “Had I gone to Ireland instead of to Egypt, the empire of England was at an end.”

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Anti Plantation protestors cruising in style in Ballymun

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Another clip of the split from Marxists in 69/70 and the birth of the Provisional IRA

Full doc here

Clip of John Kelly, one the founding members of the Provisional IRA, on the 1969/70 split

“The IRA was in a state of disarray, the military line had been neglected in favour of a more socialist marxist-leninist approach with which most Traditional Republicans disagreed leading to disaffection within the movement”

Full doc here

Jim Gibney talking about the influence of People's Democracy on the younger membership during the 70s.

A lot of uneducated younger ones in Belfast and elsewhere with no real idea of Republicanism, had a lot of access to Trotskyists and other Red literature from the Red groups that could operate and were not banned. Sinn Féin couldn't really establish a proper organisation in Belfast throughout the 70s, and the PDs had a lot of room to soak up the political element.

The PD movement into Sinn Féin is one of the most important understated moments in the political history of the Troubles.

Modern Sinn Féin is the bastard child of the Stoopers and PDs.

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