"Modern Irish History, properly understood, may be said to start with the close of the Williamite Wars in the year 1691. All the political life of Ireland during the next 200 years draws its colouring from, and can only be understood in the light of that conflict between King James of England and William, Prince of Orange.
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King James was one of the most worthless representatives of a worthless race that ever sat upon a throne; that the ‘pious glorious and immortal’ William was a mere adventurer fighting for his own hand, and his army recruited from the impecunious swordsmen of Europe who cared as little for Protestantism as they did for human life; and that neither army had the slightest claim to be considered as a patriot army combating for the freedom of the Irish race."
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King James was one of the most worthless representatives of a worthless race that ever sat upon a throne; that the ‘pious glorious and immortal’ William was a mere adventurer fighting for his own hand, and his army recruited from the impecunious swordsmen of Europe who cared as little for Protestantism as they did for human life; and that neither army had the slightest claim to be considered as a patriot army combating for the freedom of the Irish race."
Forwarded from Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
''Ireland does not want a change of master. It would be folly to destroy English tyranny in order to erect a domestic tyranny that would need another revolution to free the people. The Irish Republic stands therefore for the ownership of Ireland by the people of Ireland. It means that the means and process of production must not be used for the profit or aggrandisement of any group or class.
Ireland has not yet become industrialised. It never will if in rejecting and casting off British Imperialism (and its offspring the Free State and Northern Parliaments) the Irish workers insist that a native imperialism does not replace it...[in follows quote in pic]”
- Liam Mellows
Ireland has not yet become industrialised. It never will if in rejecting and casting off British Imperialism (and its offspring the Free State and Northern Parliaments) the Irish workers insist that a native imperialism does not replace it...[in follows quote in pic]”
- Liam Mellows
The above post about Liam Mellows is in a very similar vein to one of Connolly's most well known quotes:
"If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.
England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs."
The interests of the capitalist system are diametrically opposed to the aims of Nationalism.
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"If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.
England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs."
The interests of the capitalist system are diametrically opposed to the aims of Nationalism.
If you aren't already, make sure to follow @IrelandArchive for more Irish Nationalist historical content.
"Capitalism is now the enemy, it reaches across the ocean; and, after the Irish agriculturist has gathered his harvest and brought it to market, he finds that a competitor living three thousand miles away under a friendly flag has undersold and beggared him."
"As we have again and again pointed out, the Irish question is a social question, the whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself, in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them – the most recent swarm of land-thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?"
Taken from Labour In Irish History, Chapter XVI: The working class: The inheritors of the Irish ideals of the past – The repository of the hopes of the future.
Taken from Labour In Irish History, Chapter XVI: The working class: The inheritors of the Irish ideals of the past – The repository of the hopes of the future.
"...the Proclamation of the Irish Republic that Pearse read out at the General Post Office on Easter Monday, a sacred document signed and coauthored by Connolly, contained no reference to the working-class or socialism..."
Was Connolly a marxist? I think he considered himself to be one, in the sense that he accepted many important points of marxist doctrine... though it is by no means certain that he understood by this [historical materialism] exactly what marxists mean... he, of course, recognised that economic factors helped to mould ethical codes and political forms. But it seems likely that for him the economic interpretation of history merely meant that economic conditions had a preponderating, though hitherto insufficiently appreciated, influence in shaping the course of history....
What is most fundamental, however, in marxism is dialectical materialism and, in this sense, I do not believe that Connolly was a Marxist... a theologically inconsistent Catholic but no materialist.
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What is most fundamental, however, in marxism is dialectical materialism and, in this sense, I do not believe that Connolly was a Marxist... a theologically inconsistent Catholic but no materialist.
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Forwarded from Heroes of Ireland
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Forwarded from Heroes of Ireland
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Forwarded from Cartlann.org
Featuring a new PDF of the Collected Writings of James Fintan Lalor, the radical Young Irelander, starring a preface by none other than James Connolly.
https://cartlann.org/authors/james-fintan-lalor/
https://cartlann.org/authors/james-fintan-lalor/
"In Ireland at the present time there are at work a variety of agencies seeking to preserve the national sentiment in the hearts of the people.
These agencies, whether Irish Language movements, Literary Societies or Commemoration Committees, are undoubtedly doing a work of lasting benefit to this country in helping to save from extinction the precious racial and national history, language and characteristics of our people."
#irishpeople #irishrace #extinction #characteristics #language #irishman
These agencies, whether Irish Language movements, Literary Societies or Commemoration Committees, are undoubtedly doing a work of lasting benefit to this country in helping to save from extinction the precious racial and national history, language and characteristics of our people."
#irishpeople #irishrace #extinction #characteristics #language #irishman
"If the national movement of our day is not merely to re-enact the old sad tragedies of our past history, it must show itself capable of rising to the exigencies of the moment.
It must demonstrate to the people of Ireland that our nationalism is not merely a morbid idealising of the past, but is also capable of formulating a distinct and definite answer to the problems of the present and a political and economic creed capable of adjustment to the wants of the future."
#nationalism #irishpeople #past #present #future #political #economic #creed #history
It must demonstrate to the people of Ireland that our nationalism is not merely a morbid idealising of the past, but is also capable of formulating a distinct and definite answer to the problems of the present and a political and economic creed capable of adjustment to the wants of the future."
#nationalism #irishpeople #past #present #future #political #economic #creed #history
"The Socialist who would destroy, root and branch, the whole brutally materialistic system of civilisation, which like the English language we have adopted as our own, is, I hold, a far more deadly foe to English rule and tutelage, than the superficial thinker who imagines it possible to reconcile Irish freedom with those insidious but disastrous forms of economic subjection – landlord tyranny, capitalist fraud and unclean usury; baneful fruits of the Norman Conquest, the unholy trinity, of which Strongbow and Diarmuid MacMurchadha – Norman thief and Irish traitor – were the fitting precursors and apostles. "
#usury #Norman #irishtraitor #socialist #materialistic #language #civilisation #economic
#usury #Norman #irishtraitor #socialist #materialistic #language #civilisation #economic
"If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.
England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs."
#blood #martyrs #tears #capitalists #englisharmy #dublincastle #flag
England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs."
#blood #martyrs #tears #capitalists #englisharmy #dublincastle #flag