"This question of presenting Socialism so that it will appeal to the peculiar hereditary instincts and character of the people amongst whom you are operating is one of the first importance to the Socialist and Labour movement. A position, theoretically sound, may fail if expressed in terms unsuited to the apprehension of those to whom you are appealing... I have painstakingly stuck to the endeavour to translate Socialist doctrines into terms understood by the Irish, in or out of Ireland... my case was the case for workers to whom the traditions and aspirations of Irish Nationality had been of prime importance."

#irishpeople #nation #character #tradition #hereditary

"Let us consider our case – the case of Ireland. Consider it, not impartially, but with hearts beating fiercely with anger against all the organised injustice that threatens our existence.

Impartiality in the face of injustice is the virtue of a slave, or of well-fed beneficiaries of the fruits of injustice. Thank God, we are not impartial."

#existence #slavery

"For over 68 years the population of Ireland has been declining, the lifeblood of Ireland has been draining away. Whilst every European state has increased in population despite war and turmoil Ireland has gone steadily down the hill.

We have the most beautiful climate in the world, a climate which a wise national government could even improve by restoring the forests that once covered the island and broke the rainfall that comes in from the Atlantic ocean. We have a lively, quick minded, intelligent people, rich in soft kindliness, and graced with womanly beauty and manly vigour.

For centuries this people have been treated as outcasts in their own land, shut out from every chance of developing its resources, and ruled by an insolent class of land thieves and its followers."

#irishpeople #lifeblood #demographics #climate #environmentalism

James Connolly The Irish Flag

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"The Irish Race is an old race – perhaps the oldest in Europe. But in its individual members the Irish Race is ever young. Amongst no other people do the old so readily sympathise with and share in the hopes, the joys, and the spirit of the young. The Irish Race rises responsive to the call of battle; the beat of the drums seems to set its blood tingling through its veins to feel its feet once more set upon adventurous paths. A thousand times defeated the Irish Race once more pants to challenge its destiny.

And this is the spirit in which we hear the Call to the Great Adventure of our generation."

#irishrace #oldrace #europe #destiny

A conversation with James Connolly Heron, great-grandson of James Connolly, about his background, the life and legacy of his famous ancestor and the campaign to save Moore Street in Dublin.

Yes, it's Sinn Féin, but the Moore Street conservation campaign is more important than party politics.

https://youtu.be/FRzJInZ-1gs

"Heartbroken in such a land where the amenities and gifts of life are reserved for those most sordid in soul, where the possession of public spirit damns the career of the possessor, the young men and women have been deserting her as life deserts the things of this world upon whom Death has set its seal.

But still the nation persisted in claiming its right to existence, in determinedly planning a future built upon those young people who remained."

#nation #existence #soul

"Upon the top of this sacrifice of the living comes the borrowing of money to continue the work of hell, and this borrowing means pawning the labour and genius of the future to the financial leeches and usurious money-lenders of Europe and America.

Generations yet unborn are to be taxed to pay for the blood madness of the rulers of this; our children and our children’s children are to be compelled to pay in sweat and blood and tears for our weakness in submitting to the criminal ambitions of our rulers."

#children #usury #future

"..the Conquest of Ireland had meant the social and political servitude of the Irish masses and therefore the Re-Conquest of Ireland must mean the social as well as the political independence from servitude of every man, woman and child in Ireland. In other words, the common ownership of all Ireland by all the Irish."

#irishpeople #reconquest

James Connolly's popular work "The Reconquest of Ireland' now has a brand new custom made PDF courtesy of yours truly.

https://cartlann.org/authors/james-connolly/the-re-conquest-of-ireland/

James Connolly - The Fighting Race

Patrick Pearse - Ghosts (4)

As always feel free to download and distribute the video and audio and you can find the text to Pearse's The Coming Revolution (with loads more texts) on cartlann.org

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If we do not hold to our traditions, if we do not understand our ideology and what drives us and what motivates us, we're doomed to failure. Only by following in the foot steps of great men will we fully realise our potential as Gaels, only by understanding the magnificence of Pearse and Connolly and others will we truly see the glory of our race and all the physical, intellectual and spiritual vigour it maintains.

Beirigí bua.

James Connolly Socialism and Nationalism

"We did not all submit, a fact for which such of the Irish as exist in the future will bless us. Every Irish man or woman who helped to persuade a young Irish man to abandon Ireland and go to Flanders or the Dardanelles helped at the same time to assassinate Ireland, to rob her of her future children, to stifle the coming generation before it was born.

And every man who kept such a man at home helped by doing so to preserve the race, to keep for Ireland and for humanity the fathers of the future generation. That generation, those children yet unborn are the heritors of our hopes, the heirs of all those holy things for which our poets sung, our soldiers fought, our martyrs died."

#martyrs #existence #irishpeople #irishrace #future #children

text here

https://cartlann.org/authors/james-connolly/let-us-free-ireland/

James Connolly Let Us Free Ireland

... a manly figure in green grasped the other's hand beneath the Post Office porch, crying, "Thank God, Pearse, we have lived to see this day!"

Connolly to Pearse at the outset of the Rising and declaration of the Irish Republic.