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

This is purely organic content we don't want money and we'll never ask for any - we just ask that you share the content around so young Irishmen and Irishwomen will at least have the opportunity to see the words of our national founders first-hand.

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.

"No work in Ireland for Irishmen, lots of work in Ireland for Brit-Huns – every ship that goes to England carrying away Irish men to jobs in England; every ship that comes to Ireland carrying over Brit-Huns to jobs in Ireland.

Was ever a nation so beset?"

#scab #immigration #capitalism #wages

Pearse - Three Addresses - Robert Emmett and the Ireland of Today 2

"We Irish are today the only working class in Europe who are not in revolt against the slavery of the capitalist system; we are the only people with whom the highest ambition in life is to get a good wage from their masters; we are the only people who have not risen intellectually to a conception of what life might be without masters; we are the only people, outside of England, who are trade unionists only in the shop, but become the veriest lackeys of our masters at the political ballot box; and we would all die for the freedom of our country, yet would continue that country in the hands of employers and landlords, who could at their will refuse us the right to live upon it."

#irishpeople #country #capitalism #landlord

"You are neglecting your duty as long as you allow your City Hall to be in the power of men who as landlords derive their living from the rents they extort...

You are traitor to your duty as long as you elect to Parliament the members of a political party which... is officered, managed and financed by that same class – the landlords of our city slums."

#irishtraitor #landlord