My real hope, is that from these graves of Barnes and McCormack, will emanate a combination of the old and new spirit, a spirit that will inspire men and women with the noble idealism of Pearse, the social and economic philosophy and aims of Connolly, and the fighting and courageous heart of Cathal Brugha. A spirit that will ensure the final completion of the task which our martyrs were compelled to leave unfinished.
That is how Barnes and McCormack had best be honoured, that is how they would wish to be honoured, because that is why they lie in a martyred grave today."

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Jimmy Steele's speech at the reburial of Volunteers Peter Barnes and James McCormack (6th July, 1969)

"Thinking Irishmen hold no brief for Communism, and unlike certain alleged statements of the Stormont and Westminster brand they did not commence to see in Marxism the evil pernicious thing that it is, only when Communism began to grab some of the ripest plums in the imperialist orchard, to the detriment of the self-styled 'democratic nations.' Genuine Irish Republicans have never made any secret of where their sympathies lay during the period from 1939 to the ostensible 'end of hostilities' in Europe and the Far East."

Resurgent Ulster [Edited by Jimmy Steele] (September 1954)

I, for my part, hold that victory lies not in senseless armour, nor in the vain din of cannon, but in living and courageous souls. Remember how often when you were not so well equipped or disciplined you have overcome greater generals and forces, and even Bagenal himself. The English never could compare with the Irish in spirit, courage or steadfastness in battle, and the Irish who will be fighting against you will be dispirited by the consciousness of their crime and schism in fighting against the Catholic faith.

This very Catholic faith will stimulate your valour. Here you are to defend Christianity, fatherland, children and wives. Here must well-deserved chastisement be meted out to Bagenal, of all heretics, your bitterest enemy, who assails your properties, who thirsts for your blood, who impugns my honour.

Speech At The Battle of Yellow Ford (1598) - Aodh Mór Ó Néill (Hugh O’Neill)

"Where Sinn Féin Stands documents several other incidents. These include the expulsion of the north Kerry comhairle ceantair in 1966, the expulsion of the entire Cumann na mBan organisation for their objections to communist groups taking part in the 1968 Bodenstown parade, as well as the disbandment of the Sligo town Sinn Féin cumann in 1969. Like Cumann na mBan, the Sligo expulsion was due to their objection to the participation of the Connolly Youth movement in the Easter commemoration parade. Regarding the 1968 Bodenstown commemoration, at the muster field, Goulding had assured the President of Cumann na mBan, Susie Mulcahy, that no communist banners would be carried at the march. According to MacCárthaigh, whose wife was marching with na mBan, Goulding had that organisation marching near the head of the parade and allowed communist banners to be carried near the rear when most of the crowd had set off.

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On being informed of this, the women’s contingent stepped off the road en route to the graveyard. The entire organisation was subsequently expelled from the republican movement."

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A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, 1969-1980 - Gearóid Ó Faoleán (2019)

The man is thine, O Emer,
He has broken from me, O noble wife,
No less, the thing that my hand cannot reach,
I am fated to desire it.

Many men were seeking me
Both in shelters and in secret places;
My tryst was never made with them,
Because I myself was high-minded.

Joyless she who gives love to one
Who does not heed her love;
It were better for her to be destroyed
If she be not loved as she loves.

With fifty women hast thou come hither,
Noble Emer, of the yellow locks,
To overthrow Fand, it were not well
To kill her in her misery.

Three times fifty have I there,
—Beautiful, marriageable women,—
Together with me in the fort:
They will not abandon me.

The Lamentation of Fand When She Is About to Leave Cú Chulainn - The Poem-Book of the Gael (1913)

"Irish Freedom, as your correspondent rightly points out is run by the Communist Party (Farleigh Press). It is not, however,in any way the organ of the I.R.A.. It is opposed to the IRA, and says so; it also condemns the bombings. Here is a quote from the June copy, in an article written by Paddy O'Daire(commandant in the International Brigade: "The I.R.A will not admit that not only its weakness and lack of mass backing, but also the lack of interest of the Irish people in the movement are the results of the continued expulsion of all Left-Wing elements from its ranks."

Wolfe Tone Weekly (July 1939)

Right noble and valiant defenders of your country and liberty, let us consider with what nations and for what causes we are now about to wage battle. That enemy of his country, that tyrant of his people, and foe of all men, who was formerly driven out of the land, is now returned with the support of foreign troops, and bent on the general ruin of the state. Envious of his country’s welfare, he has brought in a foreign race, that, by the aid of a fierce and detested nation, he may be able to inflict upon us the mischief to which his own strength was unequal. Himself an enemy, he has called in our greatest national enemy; a people who have long aimed at being lords over him as well as over all of us, and give out that the dominion of our land justly belongs to them, and is even destined to them by ancient prophecies.

Speech by Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair to the Men of Ireland - The Conquest of Ireland, Giraldus Cambrensis (1189)