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/

"Blood is thicker than water, and Irish blood is thicker than any blood in this world."

- Liam Mellows

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"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

"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

"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

"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

All Material will be taken from the Left Archive.

This channel will be dedicated to posting anything Based we find in the documents from this website which is predominately Left Wing groups although as we know, talking points of the Left 60 years ago aren't the same as talking points of the Left today.

To start this channel off, the first group we shall look at are Official Sinn Féin with a total of 37 published documents on the Left Archive. These publications include:

The United Irishman
The Starry Plough [Derry]
The Plough
The Irish People, Teoiric
Republican Worker
Repsol Pamphlets
An Eochair

Recommended book on Official Sinn Féin will also be attached here as a PDF (The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party)

"What is Patriotism? Love of country, someone answers. But what is meant by ‘love of country’? “The rich man,” says a French writer, “loves his country because he conceives it owes him a duty, whereas the poor man loves his country as he believes he owes it a duty.” The recognition of the duty we owe our country is, I take it, the real mainspring of patriotic action; and our ‘country’, properly understood, means not merely the particular spot on the earth's surface from which we derive our parentage, but also comprises all the men, women and children of our race whose collective life constitutes our country’s political existence."

#patriotism #country #irishrace #irishpeople #children #parentage #duty

"Lord Lieutenants were unknown in Ireland before the Norman invasion. They have ever represented a foreign dominion, and the fight for Irish ‘rights’ does not date from the year 1800, but goes back a trifle of 600 years before that event.

As a matter of fact there never was such a thing as an Irish Parliament. The collection of exploiters who met in College Green were not Irish in any sense of the term. Their Parliament was no more than the council of a horde of foreign brigands deliberating as to the best and safest method of plundering the natives."

#norman #natives #foreign #invasion #exploiters #plunder

"Lord Lieutenants were unknown in Ireland before the Norman invasion. They have ever represented a foreign dominion, and the fight for Irish ‘rights’ does not date from the year 1800, but goes back a trifle of 600 years before that event.

As a matter of fact there never was such a thing as an Irish Parliament. The collection of exploiters who met in College Green were not Irish in any sense of the term. Their Parliament was no more than the council of a horde of foreign brigands deliberating as to the best and safest method of plundering the natives."

#norman #natives #foreign #invasion #exploiters #plunder

"... brand as enemies of Ireland all who believe in the subjection of labour to capital – brand as traitors to his country all who live by skinning Irish labour"

#borders #immigration #capitalists #exploiters

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"The truth I have so often pointed out, that the employing class are the most immediate enemies of the Irish workers, and that until we have mustered up courage, and acquired knowledge, enough to drive this home-made breed of tyrants from public life we need not delude ourselves with the hope that the gates of national emancipation will ever open to us.

... here are Irishmen... openly declaring that the prosperity of Ireland depends upon the robbery of her working class...

Thus showing that when men of their class speak of ‘loving their country’ they do not mean that they love the people, but only the soil – the inanimate earth, not the living, suffering men and women."

#country #tyrants #soil

"The land was once the property of the Irish clans. The clans were then the corporate embodiment of the life of the Irish nation... the right of ownership still lives on and should now be established in the modern corporate embodiment of the Irish nation – our public boards, municipalities, and independent Irish Congress, when we are men enough to win one."

#nation #clan #corporate

"The establishment of our social arrangements on a Socialist basis will ensure material prosperity to all men and women, and by so ensuring leave the race full freedom to seek for such expression of its faculties as is best suited to their varying characters."

#irishrace #character

"[Capitalist Society's] glaring contradictions are so many and so apparent that many of its most zealous defenders rely for their success in maintaining its integrity intact upon their skill in impressing the ignorant multitude with the belief that reform is hopeless, and, therefore, politics a mere waste of time."

#capitalism #political

"When capitalism has made the private interest coincide with the common weal; when machinery becomes in reality ‘labour-saving’, and not as at present, wage-saving; when an overstocked market means for the worker a well stocked larder, and not idleness and hunger, then it will be time for our enemies to tell us of our future difficulties.

But under Capitalism that time will never come."

#capitalism #machinery #hunger #future