The ancient institution of professional story-telling held its ground both in Ireland and in Scotland down to a very recent period; and it is questionable if it be even yet quite extinct. Within my own memory, this sort of entertainment was quite usual among the farming classes of the south of Ireland. The family and workmen, and any neighbours that chose to drop in, would sit round the kitchen fire after the day's work—or perhaps gather in a barn on a summer or autumn evening—to listen to some local shanachie reciting one of his innumerable Gaelic tales.

Old Celtic Romances - P.W. Joyce (1920)

We're aware that not everyone who enters university is a political subversive in the making or there to get a useless degree at great expense; many pursue higher education simply for the purpose of maximising their God given gifts and to improve society. Our activists therefore made sure to strike the educational, recreational and residential centres of the area, broadcasting our message as much as possible to the young, gifted future of our people.
May they reject the subversive poison that is endemic in these institutions and use their higher education for a truly higher purpose; service to their Nation and Race
Erin Go Bragh 🫡

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Look back through the pages of our story-not the false tale given to the world by our one enemy and even still believed by Anglicised Irishmen-and in the darkness of every night of woe you will see some heroic, humble figure holding aloft the lantern of hope, inspiring the leal and unselfish to hold out until comes the first glimmering of the dawn, saying to those who will listen that never yet has our cause gone down in utter defeat, that never yet has Ireland surrendered to her enemy and admitted that the long struggle for the right against the wrong was ended finally and forever. There has been a sentinel watching unwearyingly through every starless night-each one a link in the chain of remembrance and fidelity-and that chain has never once been broken. That is why we have survived as a nation, a wounded nation, a bleeding nation, a pain-filled nation, a heart-sore nation, a mourning nation, but a nation unconquered and unsubdued.

Wolfe Tone Annual 1956 - Brian Ó hUigínn (Brian O'Higgins)

"During the past number of years we have seen a constant and heavy influx of foreign Jews in N.E. Ulster, which, in view of the enforced emigration of Ulstermen, is rapidly placing Belfast into the hands of International Jewry. Not unnaturally, these Jews are fervently attached to England, the home of Capitalism and High Finance. Many are money-lenders, exacting exorbitant interest, and haunting and persecuting the poor workers who have fallen into their clutches. These unscrupulous wretches are a curse to the community. The Republic will rid the country of such vermin."

IRA War News (November 1940)

‘The case is simply this, that Irish is the language of Ireland. It is because it is the language of Ireland, and not because it happens to be a rich and beautiful language, a strong and flexible language, a subtle and delicate language, that we would fain preserve it. If it were a sterile and unlovely speech, weak and unadaptable, rigid and colourless, it would equally be our duty to preserve it, for it is ours, it is the speech we have ourselves fashioned from our inner consciousness for the purpose of expressing our thought, and to disown it, for that it were unlovely, would be to disown ourselves.’

The Case for Irish (1905) - Pádraig Mac Piarais (Patrick Henry Pearse)

"The nations who introduced into an European war these Asiatic and African savages, and, in the case of some, cannibals, will stand condemned at the bar of posterity for the worst act ever committed by white men against the white race."
Reminder that Arthur Griffith, original founder of Sinn Féin in 1905, referred to the addition of Africans into Europe as "The Crime Against Europe" while editor of the newspaper Nationality.

He wondered 'why did we breed Congress?', an indication of the decisive role that the CPI(Communist Party of Ireland) had played in the IRA split and the formation of the Congress(Republican Congress). O'Reilly described Congress as 'a bastard of misguided Communists', presumably the non-Party elements within it, or perhaps it was a reference to the confusion over the Comintern message to Murray. The Party had 'fathered' Congress because it lacked a real conception of the force of Communism and failed to see that the best elements were already with them. 'Having kidded ourselves we were doing something at last, the public birth at Athlone was greeted as not only a very welcome baby brother, but nearly a bigger and better child than ourselves. Crash went the Communist Party and its vanguard for nearly a month.'

The Communist Party of Ireland: 1921 - 2011 - Matt Treacy (2012)