Original quote taken from Erin's Hope (revisited 1909).
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James Connolly: Erin's Hope - revised edition (1909)
"It is the blessed Christmas season, and we are prepared to have Christian charity to all men, but first we wish to see a practical sign of repentance – we wish the thief of our freedom to return fully and completely that, and all of that, which she has stolen. Until that event occurs our counsel to our countrymen shall continue to be like unto that of the Highland Chief in the Scottish poem –
To spoil the spoiler as they may,
And from the robber rend the prey. "
Forgive and Forget (1915)
To spoil the spoiler as they may,
And from the robber rend the prey. "
Forgive and Forget (1915)
All for the Cause
and
The Cause over All.
Shall we see another year and Ireland patiently bearing her Chains?
To all slaves in Revolt we wish A Merry Christmas!
Notes on the Front (1915)
and
The Cause over All.
Shall we see another year and Ireland patiently bearing her Chains?
To all slaves in Revolt we wish A Merry Christmas!
Notes on the Front (1915)
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Dr MATT TREACY: James Connolly would have had no truck with the cranky woke modern left
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James Connolly would have had no truck with the cranky woke modern left - Gript
James Connolly is often cited by the current liberal left movement as an icon, even though most of them either never believed in, or have ceased to believe in, Connolly’s goal of an independent sovereign Republic based on the generally understood concept…
"...one question agitating all Dublin is whether this Christmas will see a relighting of the Fiery Cross or the ringing of Christmas bells of peace and rejoicing. Possibly no more grim commentary upon the so-called civilisation of today could be instanced than that fact. Here we have a great city held up by a war between two classes, and in that war the contending classes are represented, on the one hand, by those who control the wealth, the capital, the armed forces and all the means of coercion; whilst, on the other hand, all that is represented is toiling men and women, with no assets except their brains and hands, and no powers except the power and capacity to suffer for a principle they esteem more valuable than life itself."
A Fiery Cross or Christmas Bells (1913)
A Fiery Cross or Christmas Bells (1913)
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The doubters asked Christ in His day for a sign. In our day they still ask for a sign. And in both cases it is the same answer.
“The Kingdom of Heaven [Freedom] is within you.”
“The Kingdom of Heaven can only be taken by violence.”
Heavenly words with an earthly meaning. Christmas week, 1796; Christmas week, 1915 – still hesitating.
Two Fateful Christmas Weeks (1915)
“The Kingdom of Heaven [Freedom] is within you.”
“The Kingdom of Heaven can only be taken by violence.”
Heavenly words with an earthly meaning. Christmas week, 1796; Christmas week, 1915 – still hesitating.
Two Fateful Christmas Weeks (1915)
"For the German people are a highly civilised people, responsive to every progressive influence, and, rapidly forging weapons for their own emancipation from native tyranny, whereas the Russian Empire stretches away into the depths of Asia, and relies on an army largely recruited from amongst many millions of barbarians who have not yet felt the first softening influence of civilisation. German thought is abreast of the best in the world; German influences have shaped for good the hopes of the world, but the thought and the hopes of the best in Russia were but the other day drowned in blood by Russia’s worst.
To help Britain is to help Russia to the dominance of Europe, to help the barbarian to crush the scientist. That is the reflection of the wise revolutionist of to-day.
Meanwhile the Orange enemy of Irish freedom wisely stays at home and conserves his forces, and the Irish Nationalist is encouraged by his leaders to rush abroad and shed his blood in a quarrel not his own, the simplest elements of which he does not understand."
#barbarians
To help Britain is to help Russia to the dominance of Europe, to help the barbarian to crush the scientist. That is the reflection of the wise revolutionist of to-day.
Meanwhile the Orange enemy of Irish freedom wisely stays at home and conserves his forces, and the Irish Nationalist is encouraged by his leaders to rush abroad and shed his blood in a quarrel not his own, the simplest elements of which he does not understand."
#barbarians