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Page 1 - Roy Johnston was involved with a group of Marxist in the Promethean society while in Trinity College (he’s from an Ulster-Scots Presbyterian background) and flirted initially with Stalinism.
Page 2 - The group agreed that the “Irish language be left as the preserve of specialist and cranks” and that the “Irish language was reactionary to socialism” and called for its eradication. They also thought the same of Catholicism but Roy pointed it that it was best not to say this publicly, given how religious Irish people were at the time.
Page 2 - The group agreed that the “Irish language be left as the preserve of specialist and cranks” and that the “Irish language was reactionary to socialism” and called for its eradication. They also thought the same of Catholicism but Roy pointed it that it was best not to say this publicly, given how religious Irish people were at the time.
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Page 3 - Just a bit about the society and their relations to various other left leaning groups. Arguments with Trotskyists.
Page 4 - Society establishes their own journal in 1947. Johnston thought the atomic bomb was not an ‘unqualified evil’ and shared the happy thought the bomb ‘could also become a force on the side of socialism’
Page 5 - “Their attitude towards republicanism and nationalism was hostile and there were references to the IRA’s war time flirtation with fascism”
“The society removed the word “Irish” from the subhead of their journal as they felt it smacked with nationalism promoted by Ailtirí na hAiséirí”
Book then notes if it weren’t for the small minority of Irish communists in the 1930s who returned from Spain after fighting with Frank Ryan to give lectures, there wouldn’t have been any connection to these people and Republicanism.
Page 4 - Society establishes their own journal in 1947. Johnston thought the atomic bomb was not an ‘unqualified evil’ and shared the happy thought the bomb ‘could also become a force on the side of socialism’
Page 5 - “Their attitude towards republicanism and nationalism was hostile and there were references to the IRA’s war time flirtation with fascism”
“The society removed the word “Irish” from the subhead of their journal as they felt it smacked with nationalism promoted by Ailtirí na hAiséirí”
Book then notes if it weren’t for the small minority of Irish communists in the 1930s who returned from Spain after fighting with Frank Ryan to give lectures, there wouldn’t have been any connection to these people and Republicanism.
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"The State is a physical body prepared for the incarnation of the soul of a race.....In the highest civilizations the individual citizen is raised above himself and made part of a greater life, which we may call the National Being."
George William Russell (A.E.), 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟭𝟲)
George William Russell (A.E.), 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟭𝟲)
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"The Gaelic League has worked to give back to the Irish people their mother-tongue and their native culture: the result of these cultural and humanistic studies has been a new racial vitality – the spiritual, economic and social renaissance of the Irish Gaels. Thus viewed, the movement inaugurated and promoted by the Gaelic League in Ireland is seen to be no anaemic literary fad but essentially a method and means for the spiritual enfranchisement of a brilliantly gifted race."
Logan, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱: 𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟬𝟵)
Logan, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱: 𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟬𝟵)
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“The result is not merely to cut us off from a heroic Celtic world—as bright as the pages of Scott and more authentic than those of Herodotus—but to make Irish Nationality an affair of yesterday, an invention of the last English-speaking hundred years, and to surrender those higher landmarks and title-deeds of national individuality which we derive from laws and institutions, and modes of thought all but as ancient and unalterable as the ocean cliffs that secure our Island's throne of nationhood."
William O'Brien criticises "anglicised" Irish nationalism, noting contemporary excessive reliance on Tone and Davis, to the exclusion of the Gaelic tradition.
𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 (𝟭𝟴𝟵𝟯)
William O'Brien criticises "anglicised" Irish nationalism, noting contemporary excessive reliance on Tone and Davis, to the exclusion of the Gaelic tradition.
𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 (𝟭𝟴𝟵𝟯)
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Surprisingly, the first Irish-language version of the 1916 Proclamation was written by Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin, founder of Ailtirí na hAiséirghe, in their newspaper Aiséirí in 1941 for the 25th anniversary of the Rising.
Official translation only adopted into state in 1959. Reasons for 1916 Leaders only having English draft was purely pragmatic, being read it in the middle of O'Connell Street and all.
From 'Atlas of the Irish Revolution'
Official translation only adopted into state in 1959. Reasons for 1916 Leaders only having English draft was purely pragmatic, being read it in the middle of O'Connell Street and all.
From 'Atlas of the Irish Revolution'
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Grace O' Malley was known as the Pirate Queen, and lived in the 16th century. She was the daughter of O'Malley clan chieftain, located in South West of Co Mayo. She was one of the foremost heroine of her time. Her clan controlled the sea routes along the West Coasts of Ireland.
She was married at a young age, to the head of the O'Flaherty clan. When he got killed, she took charge of both clans. She remarries, later on, with Richard Burke, another powerful irish clan chief. But the marriage was short lived.
As England was gaining control over Ireland, Grace was taking pressure, and turned to piracy, blockading Galway port. When the english governor Connaught captured her 2 sons, she sailed to England, to speak to Queen Elizabeth, directly. They met in Greenwich. Grace refuses to bow. They agreed to a truce: if Grace stops attacking english sheeps and switches to spanish ones, her sons would be returned. The Queen kept her side of the bargain.
Grace died at Rockfleet Castle in 1603.
She was married at a young age, to the head of the O'Flaherty clan. When he got killed, she took charge of both clans. She remarries, later on, with Richard Burke, another powerful irish clan chief. But the marriage was short lived.
As England was gaining control over Ireland, Grace was taking pressure, and turned to piracy, blockading Galway port. When the english governor Connaught captured her 2 sons, she sailed to England, to speak to Queen Elizabeth, directly. They met in Greenwich. Grace refuses to bow. They agreed to a truce: if Grace stops attacking english sheeps and switches to spanish ones, her sons would be returned. The Queen kept her side of the bargain.
Grace died at Rockfleet Castle in 1603.
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Along with the Official Handbook of the Saorstát (see reply), the Free State government also commissioned 'The Book of the Resurrection (Leabhar na hAiséirighe)' in 1924. Initial funding also came from Joseph McGarrity, a Clann na nGael activist in the United States
Was a 20th-century illuminated manuscript made via traditional means to commemorate the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, and others who died during the Irish War of Independence and "a national memorial to the memory of the heroes who [had] given their lives for the attainment of the absolute independence of Ireland since Easter Week 1916."
Art O'Murnaghan was the artist selected to do it. The manuscript is held by the National Museum of Ireland with few pages in museums around the world.
Imagine if we achieved full freedom and the energy wasn't sapped by the retardation of the Treaty and tragedy of Civil War.
Was a 20th-century illuminated manuscript made via traditional means to commemorate the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, and others who died during the Irish War of Independence and "a national memorial to the memory of the heroes who [had] given their lives for the attainment of the absolute independence of Ireland since Easter Week 1916."
Art O'Murnaghan was the artist selected to do it. The manuscript is held by the National Museum of Ireland with few pages in museums around the world.
Imagine if we achieved full freedom and the energy wasn't sapped by the retardation of the Treaty and tragedy of Civil War.