tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47583321202392264402024-03-13T11:06:59.215-07:00Republican Sinn Féin KildareIrish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.comBlogger279125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-78137588782380832362014-03-15T01:33:00.001-07:002014-03-15T01:33:09.426-07:00Tony Benn: A true friend of Ireland <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Statement by Des Dalton President of Republican
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">It is with great sadness that Sinn Féin notes the
passing of Tony Benn. He was truly a man of the highest integrity and principle
who was fearless in speaking truth to power and privilege. His famous five
questions to be put to those in power are a template for real democratic
engagement by people with the political process and a challenge to unaccountable
power elites everywhere: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">“1. What power do you have? 2. Where did you get
it? 3. In whose interests do you exercise it? 4. To whom are you accountable? 5.
And, how can we get rid of you? Anyone who cannot answer the last of those
questions does not live in a democratic system.” When the leadership of
the British Labour Party betrayed the miners of Scotland, Wales and England
during the Miner’s Strike of 1984/85 Tony Benn was resolute in his support for
them. </span></div>
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He was an internationalist in the truest sense of that word and was
consistent in his opposition to imperialism and colonialism. Unlike many who can
safely espouse causes that are far removed from them by distance etc Tony Benn
was consistent in opposing imperialism and exploitation wherever it was to be
found. In this regard he was a true friend of Ireland and spoke out against the
British occupation of Ireland, recognising that it was only the Irish people
themselves who could resolve any conflict in Ireland. </div>
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He recognised the British presence in Ireland as a fundamental cause of the
ongoing war in Ireland. Oppressed peoples everywhere have lost a true
champion of their cause. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis!</div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span>Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-28712184516127905662014-03-08T02:19:00.000-08:002014-03-08T02:19:42.274-08:00Republican Sinn Féin Treasure arrested for speaking Irish <div style="text-align: justify;">
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Des Dalton</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The actions of the RUC/PSNII in arresting and
charging Diarmuid Mac Dubhghlais a National Treasurer of Republican Sinn Féin
for speaking Irish, serves as a reminder that the nature of British Rule in
Ireland has not changed. He is charged simply with insisting on his right to
converse in the Irish language, reinforcing the point that within the Six-County
state it remains a crime to speak Irish. So much for the Strormont Agreement’s
commitment to: “full respect for, and equality of, civil, political, social and
cultural rights, of freedom from discrimination for all citizens. and of parity
of esteem and of just and equal treatment for the identity, ethos and
aspirations of both communities.” Such actions expose this for the empty
rhetoric that it is. The Six-County state is an abnormal and undemocratic entity
whose relationship with the nationalist people is that of a coloniser.
Consequently the very markers of a distinct Irish identity such as out language
are regarded as a threat to the Six-County state. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Despite promises to introduce an Irish Language Act
for the Six Counties nothing has been delivered and that was always the
intention of the British Government. Former British Six-County Direct Ruler
Peter Hain let ‘the cat out of the bag’ regarding the British government’s real
attitude to the Irish language. The newspaper Gaelscéal in 2012 reported Hain as
admitting that the promise of an Irish Language Act for the Six Counties was off
set by moving its ratification from Westminster to Stormont where, Hain
proclaimed there would be an “inbuilt majority” against it. The attempted
criminalisation of Irish speakers is only what is expected of a colonial state
whose intention is the eradication of any vestiges of Irish nationality, culture
or history. We call on Irish language organisations, civil liberties bodies and
activists to speak out against this assault on the right of Irish people to
speak their native language in their own country. This should be recognised for
what it is and no amount of sophistry or spin by the Stormont regime and its
apologists should be allowed to obscure the truth about what is happening here.
It is simply the suppression of the most basic civil and human rights, the right
to a distinct cultural and national identity. As we are reminded by Pádraig Mac
Piarais. “Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.”</span></span></div>
Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-25799379717196964482013-07-06T08:01:00.004-07:002013-07-06T08:02:08.920-07:00Ruairí Ó Brádaigh/Maolmhuire Ó Raghallaigh Cumann established in Co Wicklow<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A new <i>Republican Sinn Féin</i> Cumann has been established in County
Wicklow. It is a historic moment as the Republican movement hasn't had
an active Cumann in the Garden county since the pre-1986 era. The Cumann
has been named in honour of local man Maolmhuire Ó Raghallaigh and the
recently deceased Ruairí Ó Brádaigh. Both men gave a lifetime of service
to the Republican cause and stayed true to their principles to the end.
Ó Raghallaigh saw active service during the Counter-revolution of
1922-23 as a member of Neil 'Plunkett' O'Boyle's Flying Column, and
remained a dedicated Republican throughout all the defections over the
years until passing away in 1992. Ó Brádaigh joined the movement in 1950
and went on to become a legendary figure, serving as IRA Chief Of Staff
during Operation Harvest and also serving two lengthy terms as
president of Sinn Féin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Ruairí Ó Brádaigh/Maolmhuire Ó Raghallaigh Cumann pledge to offer
the people of County Wicklow a Republican alternative to the failed
policies of the Leinster House parties through the Éire Nua programme.
Republican Sinn Féin stand for a complete British withdrawal from
Ireland and the deliverance of social justice through the full
implementation of the 1916 Proclamation. As well as promoting the
policies of the Republican movement, we endeavour to highlight local
issues affecting local people and the ongoing use of selective
internment in the occupied six counties.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Cumann has members from all over County Wicklow and is looking
for fresh recruits. For further information you can contact the
Republican Sinn Féin head office at 018729747 or visit either of these
websites:</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.facebook.com/rsf.wicklow" rel="nofollow external" title="External link"><span style="color: blue;">www.facebook.com/rsf.wicklow</span></a><br />
<a href="mailto:RSFWicklow@hotmail.com">RSFWicklow@hotmail.com</a></span></span></div>
Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-70868845541097624282013-07-03T22:45:00.001-07:002013-07-03T22:45:49.076-07:00Wicklow County Council Condemned<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #37404e;">Republican
Sinn Fein in Wicklow wishes to highlight an issue which has been
brought to our attention in recent weeks. Residents and visitors of
Wicklow town have approached us at their wits end with the
unsatisfactory situation at hand.</span></b><br /><span style="color: #37404e;">The
quays and piers in the town are very popular among tourists and locals
alike. Walkers, sailors, fishing enthusiasts and people who just come to
take in the ar</span><span style="color: #37404e;">eas
natural beauty are among the many people who frequent the area daily.
However this popular area is being tarnished and polluted at the hands
of inept local authorities.<br />
The port for a considerable time now has been exporting "refuse derived
fuel" to Germany. At one stage 1,800 tonnes of this waste were being
stored in the port. Foul smells from the quay have been reported by many
people in the area. Local councillors last January claimed "these
smells have been eliminated". However this is a total fallacy. People
frequenting the area are often been forced to leave with the foul smell.<br />
Wicklow County Council have "passed the buck" so to speak, to the EPA in
regard to the policing of the waste that is stored in the port. They
have been tasked with "minimising the odour in the port". Clearly they
are not fulfilling their brief in this regard and they are causing
serious damage not just environmentally but also economically to the
area. Tourists and visitors are not staying around and in turn they are
not spending their money in the town.<br />
Ironically, just a few miles outside the town a landfill which accepts
150,000 tonnes of waste each year, is in operation for the last number
of years. Also causing serious odour problems. We of Republican Sinn
Fein in Wicklow ask the question "is it fitting to call Wicklow the
garden of Ireland anymore?". A county which boasts amazing natural
beauty is been let down badly by those who claim they are there to
protect it.</span></span></span></div>
Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-70162757457892735732013-06-28T04:37:00.005-07:002013-06-28T04:38:58.665-07:00RSF calls for independent and public inquiry into banking system<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Statement by Des Dalton, President of Republican Sinn Féin </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Republican Sinn Féin called for a fully independent, comprehensive
and public inquiry into the banking system on June 27. Such an inquiry
should also look at the role played by the then 26-County administration
as well, along with their neo-liberal economic cheerleaders on the
opposition benches of the Leinster House Assembly.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The contempt displayed by senior executives of the now defunct
Anglo Irish Bank – as revealed in the so-called “Anglo tapes” - merely
serves to illustrate the contempt in which the political and financial
elite hold the mass of the Irish people. The subsequent decision of the
26-County State to bail out the banking system heralded the beginning of
a vicious war of economic attrition waged against ordinary people
throughout the 26 Counties. The very fact that the Leinster House
political class think even now they should have a role in investigating
what occurred within the banking system underlines their disconnect from
the public mood. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The same political elite who are proposing to hold an in-house
inquiry into the banking, championed the very concept of so-called
“light-touch” regulation. This was of course just code for the
free-for-all that was not only tolerated but encouraged by the political
establishment that took place within the financial sector. When this
pyramid scheme economic system collapsed it was the Irish people who
were expected to foot the bill.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All of this reinforces our argument for a banking system which
first and foremost serves a social function, serving as an economic
driver for the essentials of a just and civilised society capable of
providing truly national health programme accessible to all at the point
of need, equal access to education at all levels and a system of real
social protection for our old, young and those on the margins of
society. As we point out in our social and economic programme Saol Nua
(A New Way of Life), social control of capital is essential to ensure
capital serves people rather than people being the slaves of capital. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By doing so you ensure balanced development and equitable
distribution of wealth. Money must be regarded, not as a commodity, but
as an accounting system in which all participate.</span></span></div>
Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-4103576355544661602013-06-26T13:20:00.001-07:002013-06-28T04:38:36.897-07:00Annual pilgrimage to grave of Wolfe Tone<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On June 16 Republican Sinn Féin held the annual Theobald Wolfe Tone commemoration in Bodenstown.</span></span></b></div>
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parade, led by a colour party, Cumann na mBan and Na Fianna assembled
in Sallins and marched to the grave of Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown. The
Chief Marshall was Seosamh Ó Maoileoin, Iar Mhí.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The colourful
parade, with many banners and the new Republican Sinn Féin flags,
marched in glorious sunshine along with the Pride of Éireann flute band
from Portadown, Co Armagh and Seán Doyle, the piper from North Antrim.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
the memorial to Wolfe Tone proceedings were chaired by An Chomhairleoir
Tomás Ó Curraoin, Gaillimh who spoke in Irish and English. He called on
Veteran Republican Cecilia Conway, Kildare to lay the wreath on behalf
of the Republican Movement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Chief Marshall then called the parade to Attention for the Dipping of the Flags, accompanied by a lament from the piper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tomás
Ó Curraoin asked the National Graves Association representative, Peig
Galligan, to say a few words and she spoke movingly of Liam Lynch and
his comrades, done to death by Free State forces 90 years ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tomás then introduced the President of Republican Sinn Féin, Des Dalton, Kildare to give the main oration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="swb" style="font-size: small;">Following the oration Tomás Ó Curraoin had harsh
words to say regarding the (as usual) over-the-top policing of the
parade and said that Republicans would not be intimidated or diverted
from the task before them – the achievement of a 32-County Ireland.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="swb" style="font-size: small;">While
the parade was in Bodenstown, members of the 26-County police seized
the proceeds of the Republican Sinn Féin bookstall in Sallins. The money
was later returned to members of the Officer Board.</span></span></div>
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Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-56362355784009517502013-06-17T10:50:00.000-07:002013-06-17T10:50:02.805-07:00Oration at the grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone<div style="text-align: left;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bodenstown Cemetery, Sunday, June 16 by President, Republican Sinn Féin, Des Dalton.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">“We have come to the holiest place in Ireland; holier to us even than the
place where Patrick sleeps in Down. Patrick brought us life, but this man died
for us. And though many before him and some since have died in testimony of the
truth of Ireland’s claim to nationhood, Wolfe Tone was the greatest of all that
have made that testimony, the greatest of all that have died for Ireland whether
in old time or in new. He was the greatest of Irish Nationalists; I believe he
was the greatest of Irishmen. And if I am right in this I am right in saying
that we stand in the holiest place in Ireland, for it must be that holiest sod
of a nation’s soil is the sod where the greatest of her dead lies buried.” Thus
spoke Pearse in 1913, one hundred years later those words still hold true. As
Irish Republicans we come here each year to reaffirm our commitment to the
ideals passed down to us by Tone and the Society of United Irishmen. </span></div>
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<br />Standing here on this sacred soil we come into communion with the
spirit of Tone and renew our Republican vow first taken by Tone and his comrades
on Belfast’s Cavehill in 1795: “Never to desist in our efforts until we have
subverted the authority of England over our country and asserted her
independence.” This was the programme of Tone and it remains the programme of
the Republican Movement today. We are proud of our continuity of ideology and
organisation with the United Irishmen, just as veterans of the United Irishmen
endorsed and supported the Young Irelanders in the 1840s, today’s movement
represents a meeting of the generations in common struggle. <br />The historian C.
Desmond Greaves described the reorganisation of the United Irishmen in 1795,
transforming itself into a fully revolutionary movement as a: “…turning point in
Irish history. For the first time the Irish nation was exclusively identified
with Irish democracy”. </div>
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Today the Republican Movement continues to champion and lead the fight for
true All-Ireland democracy in defiance of the forces of reaction led by
Westminster, Stormont and Leinster House. The political and economic conditions
experienced by the Irish people today are a gross betrayal of the high ideals
and vision for a new Ireland articulated by Republicanism from Tone and Emmet
right up to today. </div>
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<br />Last week we laid to rest our Patron and former President Ruairí Ó
Brádaigh. Throughout his life he was a gifted and tireless worker for such an
Ireland, an Ireland worthy of the sacrifice given to achieve it and one that
lived up the high idealism of the historic Republican Movement. The actions of
the 26-County police evoked memories of the funeral of Frank Stagg and if
anything were a testament to power of a revolutionary idea over the seeming
might of a corrupt and failed state. In life they feared Ó Brádaigh and the
cause which he served and articulated with great skill, conviction and courage
and in death they showed that the power of the ideals and ideas he espoused
lived on with the same potency as before. </div>
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Ruairí Ó Brádaigh was one who lived fully according to the template of
Republicanism set out by the United Irishmen. For him sectarianism was a weapon
in the arsenal of the British State and one that must be countered as forcefully
as any political or military threat posed by that same state. Along with his
friend and comrade Dáithí Ó Conaill and other Republicans, he devised ÉIRE NUA
as a means of making a reality of Tone’s dream of substituting the common name
of Irish man and Irish woman for the denominations of Catholic, Protestant and
Dissenter. The central thrust of ÉIRE NUA is the maximum devolution of power
from national to provincial, regional, right down to local or community level.
The Provincial Parliaments will be elected by the people of each province
according to a system of proportional representation. </div>
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<br />Unionists and Nationalists within a nine-county Ulster would have a
real and meaningful input and control over the political, social, economic and
cultural life of their province, regions and communities. Unlike the
institutions set up under the Stormont and St Andrew’s Agreements, the
governmental structures set out in ÉIRE NUA, would be accountable only to the
people who elected them. Under ÉIRE NUA the sovereignty of the Irish people is
paramount.<br />As an alternative ÉIRE NUA offers a framework within which all
sections of the Irish people are the decision-makers on the vital issues for
their communities, their regions and their nation. </div>
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<br />The people of Ulster within a free and Federal Ireland will make
decisions affecting the people of a nine-county Ulster – they will not be
dependent on the whim of a foreign parliament or government. </div>
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<br />Speaking in University College Cork in January 2008, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
said: “We do not want to back the Unionists on to a cliff-edge politically where
they will oppose us all the more. Neither do we seek to have them as a permanent
and disgruntled political minority in one corner of Ireland. </div>
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<br />“During the 1970s, soundings were taken with every shade of unionism to
obtain reactions. The result in all cases was similar; first choice was an
independent Six Counties. We did not think that would be viable. All said, in
that case they would opt for our ‘four provinces idea’ as the ‘most generous on
offer’.</div>
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<br />“Apart from providing a solution to the Ulster situation, these
proposals would bring power nearer to the people and help to correct east-west
economic imbalance nationally. Republicans submit that such structures will be
necessary to ensure justice for all, including the 18% of the national
population who have supported the unionist position.” </div>
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<br />Tone had realised from the beginning that an effective union of the all
the people of Ireland would be necessary to affect a revolution. As James
Connolly pointed out in Labour in Irish History what was required to bring about
such a union of hearts and minds was: “The activity of a revolutionist with
statesmanship enough to find a common point upon which the two elements could
unite, and some great event, dramatic enough in its character, to arrest the
attention of all and fire them with a common feeling.” The figure with the
qualities set out by Connolly was Tone and the event capable of firing the
people with a revolutionary fervour was the French Revolution. </div>
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<br /> ÉIRE NUA also proposes a new All –Ireland constitution which
would be put to the people of Ireland for adoption and which would include a
Charter of Rights. A draft Charter of Rights contained within ÉIRE NUA enshrines
such fundamental rights as freedom of conscience, religion, ethical or political
beliefs; freedom of expression and communication, the right to education, to
join a trade union, the right to access adequate housing, food and medical care.
It is also proposed that the European Convention on Human Rights be made part of
the internal domestic law of the New Ireland. In fighting back against the new
imperialism of the finance capitalists of the EU superstate we carry an
alternative social and economic programme SAOL NUA. Our social and economic
programme SAOL NUA – A New Way of Life - represents a vision of Ireland based on
Republican, Socialist, and Self-reliance and Ecological principles; it
identifies the obstacles to be overcome and the goals to be reached if we are to
build an All-Ireland Federal Democratic Socialist Republic </div>
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<br />SAOL NUA is based on the principle that “…every person is entitled to
have his or her inherent human dignity respected and every citizen should be
able to enjoy freedom from poverty or insecurity and to have access to a fair
and adequate share of the nation's wealth. All citizens should be equal before
the law and all have the duty and the right to contribute by work to their own
welfare and the welfare of society.”</div>
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<br />It identifies the essential elements of Democratic Socialism which are
required in building the New Ireland; banking and all key industries must be
brought under democratic or social control and the further development of
community banking such as Credit Unions.<br />Social control of capital is
essential to ensure capital serves people rather than people being the slaves of
capital. By doing so you ensure balanced development and equitable distribution
of wealth. Money must be regarded, not as a commodity, but as an accounting
system in which all participate. </div>
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<br />We must have new indicators of what constitutes economic success to
replace the discredited indices of GNP and GDP. They merely record economic
activity in terms of transaction and movement of money, commodities etc. They
take no account of the voluntary sector, those who work in the home etc -- all
of who make a valuable contribution to the local and domestic economy. Quality
of Life is a far more valid index of human development and progress, the
recording of adult and infant mortality, literacy, access to health services,
nutrition etc. </div>
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<br />The UN Human Development Report mission statement is clear on what
distinguishes meaningful human development: “The goal is human freedom. And in
pursuing capabilities and realising rights, this freedom is vital. People must
be free to exercise their choices and to participate in decision-making that
affects their lives.”</div>
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<br />ÉIRE NUA and SAOL NUA give us a blueprint for the future built on the
sure foundation of true All-Ireland political and economic democracy. A
New Ireland fashioned from the ideals of the 1916 Proclamation and the
Democratic Programme of the First Dáil. As Liam Mellows reminded us we are back
to Tone: “Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will
not help us they must fall; we will free ourselves by the aid of that large and
respectable class of the community – the men of no property.”</div>
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<br />We have set out here what distguinishes Irish Republicanism from those
who collaborate in the interests of British or EU imperialism against the Irish
people. Because of this Irish Republicanism has throughout its history faced the
full brunt of British and later Free State repression. But all of their gallows,
firing squads, jails and internment camps could not and never will quench the
flame of true revolutionary Irish Republicanism. However the forces of the State
have introduced a new a more insidious threat to Republicanism, one if
unchallenged threatens to drive a wedge between Republicanism and the people of
Ireland. Even those who would declare themselves as opponents of the
revolutionary Republican tradition have admitted to a grudging respect for the
idealism and integrity that underpins it. </div>
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<br />Writing in the Irish Times on September 14 John Waters, whilst
dismissing the organisations to which Bobby Sands and Patsy O’Hara belonged to
in withering terms he still acknowledged: “there was something noble and
redemptive”. Over the past number of years we have seen a plethora of groups
emerge, a number of which have taken on the name of the historic Irish
Republican Army. The emergence of groupings styling themselves as ‘Republican’
who in reality are merely using that noble title to mask their real purpose of
extortion and racketeering. In some cases such groupings masquerade as
anti-drugs activists, posing as ‘champions of the community’. These
pseudo-Republican groups seek to control their communities through fear. Posing
as revolutionaries but merely hiding the grim reality that the only war they
wage is not one of national liberation but instead a war on the youth of their
own communities. The forcing of a parent to present their son for a punishment
shooting as happened in Derry is medieval and far removed from any ideal of
progressive Republicanism. </div>
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<br />The drugs’ gangs who peddle their wares in communities throughout
Ireland and across all classes are enemies of the Irish people. The community
and political activists who oppose them deserve our full and active support.
However the pseudo-Republican groupings that take money from the drug dealers
are no less parasitical than the drug dealers themselves. In many ways they are
worse in that they leech from the communities they purport to defend – in effect
they are drug dealers by proxy with the added insult of sullying the noble name
of Republicanism in doing so. </div>
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The activities of these pseudo-Republican gangs have the potential to eat
away like a cancer at the very heart of Irish Republicanism, leaving in their
wake an empty husk with neither relevance nor credibility. Such groups have
descended into a bloody feud with criminal gangs in a wasteful and futile
exercise, which has already resulted in much needless death. Sadly the feuds and
deaths which they have led to do not contribute in any way to the historic fight
for Irish freedom. The duty to halt this slide lies with those who claim the
title deeds of Republicanism. We have a bounden duty to hold out against
this hijacking of the Republican ideal; we must lead by example in ensuring that
authentic Irish Republicanism continues to live in the hearts of the Irish
people. It is not enough to claim those title deeds without acting on them. To
do so we in Republican Sinn Féin must ensure that a clear distinction can be
made between what represents true Republicanism and those who instead provide a
perverse and twisted parody of it. </div>
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<br />We must look first to ourselves if we are serious about building a
credible and effective opposition to the political and economic enslavement of
the Irish people. There are those who believe that there is a short cut to this
by creating a false unity, a so-called unity based on ignoring fundamental
principle. To do so is to build on sand and any movement built on such a
foundation contains within it the seeds of its own fragmentation and division.
We must instead concentrate our energies and focus our attention on building the
Republican Movement into what Dáithí Ó Conaill described as its historic role:
“It was the catalyst for the for the progressive forces of this country and
abroad who desired the establishment of a sovereign democratic socialist
Republic.” We must have confidence in ourselves and our own Movement and not
relying on other groups or organisations who may on the surface provide a
certain glamour and gloss but who lack the necessary ideological depth and
commitment to the task of achieving our ultimate goal, the complete ending of
British occupation and the re-establishment of the All-Ireland Republic of
Easter Week. It is our duty to take up the torch of freedom and carry it
forward; each person has a key role to play and must be willing to play it if we
are serious about completing our noble task.</div>
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<br />The political analysis provided by Republican Sinn Féin of the
political trajectory of the current process of embedding British rule in Ireland
has proven to be accurate. The very fact that the British Government and their
surrogates in Stormont still rely the draconian laws, secret evidence and
internment to protect their undemocratic statelet points to the abnormality of
British rule and partition. The continued interment without trial of Martin
Corey – justified by the British State on the basis of secret evidence – the
continued attempt to criminalise Republican POWs – the repressive deployment of
an armed colonial police force all illustrate for those who wish to see that the
nature and reality of British occupation has not changed. <br />Our analysis is
sound because it is based on the lessons of Irish history. Liberty, Equality and
Fraternity are not to be found within the portals of Leinster House, Stormont or
Westminster; they are to be found only by a revolutionary awakening of the Irish
people to their own strengths and possibilities as a people and nation. Wolfe
Tone was clear about this in his own day, he too rejected the puppet parliament
of College Green, he recognised it as merely an agent of the English Government,
an institution anchored in greed and corruption. <br />In words which are
applicable to both partitionist states today he wrote of the Dublin Parliament
in scathing terms: “The revolution of 1782 was a Revolution which enabled
Irishmen to sell at a much higher price their honour, their integrity and the
interests of their country; it was a revolution which, while at one stroke it
doubled the value of every borough-monger in the kingdom, left three-fourths of
our countrymen slaves as it found them, and the government of Ireland in the
base and wicked and contemptible hands of those who had spent their lives in
degrading and plundering her . . . The power remained in the hands of
our enemies, again to be exerted for our ruin, with this difference, that
formerly we had our distress, our injuries, and our insults gratis at the hands
of England, but now we pay very dearly to receive the same with aggravation,
through the hands of Irishmen.”</div>
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<br />The French Revolution armed the Society of United Irishmen with the
ideological tools to formulate a democratic programme for a free and independent
Irish Republic. Drawing on that rich tradition Irish Republicanism has remained
truly international in character. Irish Republicans are not bound by the narrow
vision of reaction and reformism but by the wide and embracing ideals of
progress and the revolutionary possibility of all peoples. Our cause is the
cause of humanity and in the words of the Proclamation of 1916: “…we pray that
no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity, or
rapine.”</div>
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<br />As we turn from this honoured place we should consider again the words
of Theobald Wolfe Tone: “To break the connection with England, the never-failing
source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country,
these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the
memory of past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman, in
place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter, these were my
means.” As Pearse puts it, here we have “implicit all the philosophy of
Irish Nationalism”, the very definition of Ireland a nation. I leave you with
the words of Pearse spoken here one hundred years ago: </div>
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“To that definition and to that programme we declare our adhesion anew;
pledging ourselves as Tone pledged himself – and in this sacred place, by this
graveside, let us not pledge ourselves to follow in the steps of Tone, never to
rest, either by day or by night, until his work be accomplished, deeming it the
proudest of all privileges to fight for freedom, to fight, not in despondency,
but in great joy, hoping for the victory in our day, but fighting on whether
victory seem near or far, never lowering our ideal, never bartering one jot or
tittle of our birthright, holding faith to the memory and the inspiration of
Tone, and accounting ourselves base as long as we endure the evil thing against
which he testified with his blood.”</div>
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<br />An Phoblacht Abú.</div>
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<br />Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-18342011423826731942013-06-11T03:58:00.003-07:002013-06-11T04:00:22.877-07:00Oration by Des Dalton, President, Republican Sinn Féin at the grave of Patron Ruairí O Brádaigh, St Coman’s Cemetery, Roscommon, June 8<div style="text-align: justify;">
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principles which had fired the soul and intellect of O’Donovan Rossa and
restated the determination of his generation to take up the torch of
freedom from Rossa and his generation: “I propose to you then that, here
by the grave of this unrepentant Fenian, we renew our baptismal vows;
that, here by the grave of this unconquered and unconquerable man, we
ask of God, each one for himself, such unshakable purpose, such high and
gallant courage, such unbreakable strength of soul as belonged to
O’Donovan Rossa. Deliberately here we avow ourselves, as he avowed
himself in the dock, Irishmen of one allegiance only. We of the Irish
Volunteers, and you others who are associated with us in to-day’s task
and duty, are bound together and must stand together henceforth in
brotherly union for the achievement of the freedom of Ireland. And we
know only one definition of freedom: it is Tone’s definition, it is
Mitchel’s definition, it is Rossa’s definition. Let no man blaspheme the
cause that the dead generations of Ireland served by giving it any
other name and definition than their name and their definition.”</span></span></b></div>
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freedom. For him there was but one straight and true path leading to the
All-Ireland Republic of Easter Week. We come here to mourn the loss of
Ruairí but we also come to celebrate his long and rich life. It was a
life marked by unselfish devotion to the cause of Irish freedom. It was a
life set apart by his sense of duty, honour and the intellectual rigour
that he brought to the Republican Movement. Indeed often would Ruairí
quote these lines from Louisa May Alcott, which are inscribed on the
headstone of the tireless champion of Republican prisoners and the
working class Charlotte Despard: “I slept, and dreamed that life was
beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty.” Coupled with all of this
was Ruairí’s deep humanity. He was a man whose empathy and compassion
for the downtrodden and oppressed knew no boundaries of race or creed.<br />
In his biography of Ruairí, Professor Robert W. White of Indiana
University, described Ruairí Ó Brádaigh’s life as: “…a window for
understanding his generation of Irish Republicans and how they received
the values of a previous generation and are transmitting those values to
the next generation.” In his introduction to the same book, the
journalist Ed Maloney described Ruairí as the “last, or one of the last
Irish Republicans”. Whilst the tribute was well intentioned the case is
quite different. It is because of the life’s work of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
that he is not the last Republican but has rather ensured the continuity
of Irish Republicanism, passing on the torch to succeeding generations.</span></span></div>
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the latter half of the 20th Century. He came to embody the very essence
of the Republican tradition, setting the very highest standards of
commitment, duty, honour and loyalty to the cause of Irish freedom. Of a
proud Republican heritage inherited from both his father Matt and his
mother May, since 1950 he served at every level of the Republican
Movement, and from 1956 took on the onerous responsibilities of national
leadership with only a short intervals, up to the present day. Ruairí
was a man of immense capability both as a politician and as a soldier.
He holds the unique distinction of serving as President of Sinn Féin,
Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and from 1957 to 1961 as a
TD, representing Longford/Westmeath.</span></span></div>
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Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, along with his close friend and comrade the late
Dáithí Ó Conaill, manned the gap against the forces of reformism who
sought to convert a revolutionary movement of national liberation into a
mere constitutional political party, first in 1969/70 and once again in
1986. For Ruairí the essential principles of Irish freedom were clear
and marked the political course to be followed. He dismissed any cult of
the personality warning always of the inherent dangers of following
merely the man or woman over the cause of Irish national independence.
At a time when our sense of identity is being steadily eroded, when our
people are discouraged from taking pride in their history or culture
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh was a tireless champion of the Irish language viewing
it as the cornerstone of our unique identity as a nation. Like Pádraig
Mac Piarais he believed in an Ireland that was: ‘not only free but
Gaelic as well; not only Gaelic but free as well’.<br />
Gael go smior ab ea Ruairí. Óna chuid ama i gColáiste Mel is i
gConamara, d’éirigh leis an teanga a thabhairt leis go han-líofa. Ar
feadh a shaoil sheas sé go daingean le cúis na Gaeilge agus d’fhéach
chuige go raibh Gaeilge ag an gclann ar fad.<br />
Faraoir, le caoga bliain anuas d’aithin an meath a tháinig ar an teanga
go háirithe an cúngú sna Gaeltachtaí is sa chóras oideachais. Tá an
Ghaeilge i mbaol go mór mura dtugtar áit lárnach di in Éirinn. Mar atá
faoi láthair níl áit do theangacha agus do chultúir ar nós na Gaeilge
agus ár gcultúr Gaelach atá ag tachtadh ár muintire. Daoibhse atá in
eagraíochtaí Gaeilge is gá daoibh an pictiúr mór seo, mar a deirtear, a
aithint. Tá an Ghaeilge i mbaol, tá sí á ceil tar pháistí na tire, tá
imeallú mór déanta uirthi.<br />
The Irish Language has always been dear to Ruairí’s heart. He spoke it
on every possible occasion and he saw to it that his children were all
immersed in it. Unfortunately during the last 50 years the Irish
language has been marginalized, neglected and downgraded in every
possible way. The people of the Gaeltacht have been bullied by the
politically-powerful and by international consumerism. This bullying has
undermined their way of life. The neglect in the Education system now
means that Irish is being denied to and hidden from 100’s of 1000’s of
Irish children.<br />
Who then is responsible for this obliteration of people’s languages and
cultures worldwide, including our own Irish? There is no place for own
heritage in this neo-liberal agenda, the EU won’t allow it, the two
states, even the 26 counties’ Dept of Education, work against the Irish
language. ‘Death by a 1000 cuts’ is the effective state policy on Irish
whatever niceties may be uttered. To the Irish Language Organisations we
say: Be very careful in your dealings with the Northern and Southern
states. Stop cosying up to these false promises. They’re only trying to
buy you off. 90% plus of the Irish people dearly love our language. They
want it passed on propery to our children, they want it central to
Irish life not neglected and marginalized. The Irish people need
leadership, the Irish language agencies need to give sustained,
determined leadership and we as Irish Republicans need to centrally
retain our commitment to the Irish language and culture at all times. <br />
As an Irish Republican he believed passionately in Theobald Wolfe Tone’s
vision of substituting the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and
Dissenter with the common name of Irish man and Irish woman. He played a
leading role in formulating the Éire Nua proposals for a Four Province
Federal Ireland, which was based on the principles of true
decentralisation of decision making with full particatpory democracy
involving all sections of the Irish people as trust founders of a New
Ireland. Such a democratic template would provide the Unionist minority
with a New Ireland with real political power and decision-making. He was
among the Republican leaders who met representatives of loyalism and
unionism as Feakle, Co Clare in 1974 and later strongly supported the
MacBride/Boal talks, which were eventually sabotaged by a 26-County
Government Minister. Such was Ruairí’s commitment to the principles of a
non-sectarian and pluralist Ireland that he and Dáithí Ó Conaill
stepped down from the positions of President and Vice President
respectively of Sinn Féin when Éire Nua was dropped as a policy document
to further the narrow political agenda of a reformist clique operating
within the Republican Movement in the early 1980s.</span></span></div>
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British Rule in Ireland. Drawing on the lessons of Irish history he
recognised that it constituted the root cause of conflict and injustice
for the Irish people. In opposing the 1998 Stormont Agreement he rightly
viewed it as a flawed document serving only to copper-fasten British
Rule while also institutionalising sectarianism, thereby further
deepening the sectarian divide. Ruairí Ó Brádaigh’s analysis has since
been bourne out by a number of independent studies which have shown an
increase in sectarianism in the Six Counties in the years since 1998.
The economically and politically oppressed and partitioned Ireland of
today is far removed from the vision of a New Ireland, which inspired
Irish Republicans such as Ruairí Ó Brádaigh.<br />
Standing by Ruairí’s graveside we can only truly honour him by turning
our eyes to the future, by pledging ourselves to once more take up the
fight for a New Ireland. Today our country is being assailed by the twin
imperialisms of British military and political occupation and the
economic and social oppression of the EU/ECB and IMF. These represent
the old and new imperialisms, representing a threat to the very
existence of the historic Irish Nation. In the Six Counties political
repression remains the norm and the very fact that there remain
political prisoners in Maghaberry, the internment without trial of
veteran Republican Martin Corey and until recently of Marian Price, the
presence of an armed Colonial police force using the same methods of
repression, drawing on the same draconian laws to enforce the writ of
the British Government all point to the abnormality of the Six County
State. British Rule in Ireland will never be wither normal or acceptable
and the lesson of Irish history remains as Ruairí continually pointed
out: as along as there is a British military and political presence in
Ireland there will always be a section of the Irish people determined to
resist it. In the 26-County State our people are being robbed of the
very markers of a civilised society, the ability to care for our sick
and old, to educate our young and to provide for those on the economic
margins of society. All of this is being imposed on our people in order
to prop up the undemocratic EU superstate and its baking system.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Irish people it seems are merely fodder to be sacrificed on the
high alter of EU finance capitalism. But not only are our people
plundered financially but also culturally. It seems that the denizens of
Leinster House, Stormont, Westminster and Brussels are intent on
robbing us of our identity as a separate people and nation. Writing
recently in the Sunday Business Post, Tom McGurk wrote that because the
Irish people are being thought that it is wrong to take pride in our
history, of resistance, our distinct culture and identity, today they
are being denied the very tools of a strong sense of national identity
required to stand up to EU Troika in contrast to people’s across Europe
who have heroically defended themselves and their societies from the
grip of the financial and banking elites. With Thomas Davis we believe:
“This country of ours is no sand bank, thrown up by some recent caprice
of earth. It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of
civilisation.” The Irish nation is not bound by the artificial borders
of the two partition states, The philosopher Dr Mathew O’Donnell writes
that nations rather than states, which are simply units of political
organisation, bring people together: “For people are not brought
together by a state; the state is the subsequent organisation of people
who already posses some kind of unity…It is with the nation that one’s
loyalty lies. There is no disowning it, no alternative to it. There
should be a feeling for the nation, for it is one’s own people. This is
the origin for the effective element in patriotism.”<br />
In the early 1890s the Irish Revolution began in earnest, speaking in
1892 the founder of Conradh na Gaelige Dubhghlas de Híde spoke of the
need to reverse the process of anglicising Ireland: “When we speak of
'The Necessity for De-Anglicising the Irish Nation', we mean it, not as a
protest against imitating what is best in the English people, for that
would be absurd, but rather to show the folly of neglecting what is
Irish, and hastening to adopt, pell-mell, and indiscriminately,
everything that is English, simply because it is English.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He went to set out why we as a people needed to reconnect with our
own distinct cultural identity if we were to prosper: “I would earnestly
appeal to every one, whether Unionist or Nationalist, who wishes to see
the Irish nation produce its best -- surely whatever our politics are
we all wish that -- to set his face against this constant running to
England for our books, literature, music, games, fashions, and ideas. I
appeal to every one whatever his politics -- for this is no political
matter -- to do his best to help the Irish race to develop in future
upon Irish lines, even at the risk of encouraging national aspirations,
because upon Irish lines alone can the Irish race once more become what
it was of yore -- one of the most original, artistic, literary, and
charming peoples of Europe.” As the centenary of the 1916 Rising draws
near we have the opportunity once again to awaken the national
consciousness to our possibilities as a people and the high ideals which
have in the past inspired us to greater things and a vision of a New
and better Ireland. As we approach the centenary of the 1916 Rising a
battle has commenced for the hearts and minds of the Irish people.<br />
The legacy as well as the essential message of 1916 is at stake for this
and future generations. The resources of both partitionist states are
being employed in order to sanitise our history to the point that it has
been robbed of any meaning. Equivalence is being made between the
forces of occupation and the independence movement that no
self-respecting nation would contemplate. Does France commemorate the
Vichy policemen or Norway its Quislings who collaborated with German
occupation forces? The 1916 Rising for Irish Republicans is not only an
important moment in our history but a beacon to light our way forward.
It is an event that not only continues to occupy a central place in our
history but also remains relevant due to the simple fact that it remains
unfinished business.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 1916 Proclamation sets out clearly the principles upon which
the All-Ireland Republic should rest. It takes no great examination to
see that both the Six and 26-County states fall far short of the
definition of freedom and democracy set by the men and women of 1916.
This would be and remains the abiding message of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh.<br />
In carrying on the work to which Ruairí dedicated his adult life we must
bring to it the same high standards, the same commitment to truth and
honour which guided him. We must never lose sight of the high idealism
of 1916 because it will always speak to us of a New and better Ireland
and with it the possibility of revolutionary social, political and
economic change. and should note well the words of Brian Ó hUiginn:
“Keep close to them on the road they walked without flinching, the road
whose signposts, as Liam Mellows said, are unmistakable, the road of
truth and honour and earnestness and courage, the road of no wavering,
of no compromise with wrong, of no surrender – the only road that leads
to the freedom and happiness of the indivisible Republic of Ireland.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As we turn from this place we remember with pride our fallen
chieftain, our Fenian Chief (as Desmond Ryan described James Stephens) I
think it is appropriate to conclude with some words penned by John
Fisher Murray To the Memory of Thomas Davis:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“A spark of his celestial fire, The God of freemen struck from
thee; Made thee to spurn each low desire, Nor bend the uncompromising
knee; Made thee to vow thy live to rive with ceaseless tug, th’
oppressor’s chain with lyre, with pen, with pen, with sword, to strive
for thy dear land – nor strive in vain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How hapless is our country’s fate – If heaven in pity to us send,
Like thee, one glorious, good and great – to guide, instruct us, and
amend: How soon thy honoured life is o’er – Soon Heaven demandeth thee
again; We grope on darkling as before, And fear lest thou hast died in
vain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In vain – no never! O’er thy grave, Thy spirit dwelleth in the air;
Thy passionate love, thy prupose brave, Thy hope assured, thy promise
fair. Generous and wise, farerwell! – Forego tears for the glorious dead
and gone; His tears if his, still flow for slaves and cowards living
on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To Patsy, Mait, Ruairí Óg, Conor, Deirdre, Ethne and Colm,his
grandchildren and great-grandchild we extend our deepest sympathies and
our gratitute to you and the extended Ó Brádaigh family for the life of
Ruairí and his unparalled contribution to the cause of a free Ireland.
Ar dheis dé go raibh a anam dílis.</span></span></div>
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on June 5 of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Patron and former President, Republican Sinn
Féin.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Ruairí Ó Brádaigh was a towering figure of Irish Republicanism in the
latter half of the 20th century. He came to embody the very essence of the
Republican tradition, setting the very highest standards of commitment, duty,
honour and loyalty to the cause of Irish freedom.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Since 1950 he served at every level of the Republican Movement, and from
1956 took on the onerous responsibilities of national leadership with only a
short interval, up to the present day. Ruairí was a man of immense capability
both as a politician and as a soldier. He holds the unique distinction of
serving as President of Sinn Féin, Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army
and from 1957 to 1961 as a TD, representing Longford/Westmeath.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">At critical junctures in the history of the Republican Movement, Ruairí
Ó Brádaigh, along with his close friend and comrade, the late Dáithí Ó Conaill,
manned the gap against the forces of reformism who sought to convert a
revolutionary movement of national liberation into a mere constitutional
political party, first in 1969/70 and once again in 1986.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">For Ruairí the essential principles of Irish freedom were clear and
marked the political course to be followed. He dismissed any cult of the
personality, warning always of the inherent dangers of following merely the man
or woman over the cause of Irish national independence. At a time when our
sense of identity is being steadily eroded, when our people are discouraged
from taking pride in their history or culture Ruairí Ó Brádaigh was a tireless
champion of the Irish language viewing it as the cornerstone of our unique
identity as a nation.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Like Pádraig Mac Piarais he believed in an Ireland that was: not only
free but Gaelic as well; not only Gaelic but free as well.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">As an Irish Republican he believed passionately in Theobald Wolfe Tones
vision of substituting the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter
with the common name of Irish man and Irish woman.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">He played a leading role in formulating the ÉIRE NUA proposals for a
four-province Federal Ireland, which was based on the principles of true
decentralisation of decision-making with full particatpory democracy involving
all sections of the Irish people as trust founders of a New Ireland. Such a
democratic template would provide the Unionist minority with a New Ireland with
real political power and decision-making. He was among the Republican leaders
who met representatives of loyalism and unionism at Feakle, Co Clare in 1974
and later strongly supported the MacBride/Boal talks, which were eventually
sabotaged by a 26-County Government Minister.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Such was Ruairís commitment to the principles of a non-sectarian and
pluralist Ireland that he and Dáithí Ó Conaill stepped down from the positions
of President and Vice President respectively of Sinn Féin when ÉIRE NUA was
dropped as a policy document to further the agenda of a reformist clique
operating within the Republican Movement in the early 1980s.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">For Ruairí Ó Brádaigh there could be no temporising on the issue of
British rule in Ireland. Drawing on the lessons of Irish history he recognised
that it constituted the root cause of conflict and injustice for the Irish
people. In opposing the 1998 Stormont Agreement he rightly viewed it as a
flawed document serving only to copper-fasten British Rule while also
institutionalising sectarianism, thereby further deepening the sectarian
divide. Ruairí Ó Brádaighs analysis has since been bourne out by a number of
independent studies which have shown an increase in sectarianism in the Six
Counties in the years since 1998. The economically and politically oppressed
and partitioned Ireland is far removed from the vision of a New Ireland, which
inspired Irish Republicans such as Ruairí Ó Brádaigh.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">In an introduction to the biography of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh written by
Professor Robert White, the journalist Ed Moloney described Ruairí as the last,
or one of the last Irish Republicans. Whilst the tribute was well intentioned
the case is quite different. It is because of the lifes work of Ruairí Ó
Brádaigh that he is not the last Republican but has rather ensured the
continuity of Irish Republicanism, passing on the torch to succeeding
generations.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">We in Republican Sinn Féin are proud to remember him as our President
and later our Patron, as a man of great intellect, coupled with great humanity
and empathy for the oppressed both in Ireland and internationally. We salute
his memory and pledge our resolve to honour him by continuing his work, guided
by the same principles and maintaining the same high standards of integrity,
truth and that marked Ruairí Ó Brádaigh as man and patriot. We extend our
profound sympathies to his wife Patsy, and the Ó Brádaigh family. Ar dheis dé
go raibh a anam dílis.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">1932: Born in Longford.</span></span></span><br />
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1950: Joined Sinn Féin</span></span></span><br />
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1951: Joined the Irish Republican Army.</span></span></span><br />
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1955: OC Arborfield arms raid.</span></span></span><br />
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1956: 2 o/c Teeling Column, South Fermanagh.</span></span></span><br />
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1957: Elected in Longford-Westmeath Sinn Féin TD to All-Ireland parliament.</span></span></span><br />
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1958: Escaped with Dáithí Ó Conaill from Curragh Camp.</span></span></span><br />
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1958-9 and 1960-62: IRA Chief of Staff.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">
1966: Republican candidate in Fermanagh-South Tyrone.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">
1970-83: President of Sinn Féin.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">
1987 to date: President of Republican Sinn Féin.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">
2009-2013: Patron of Republican Sinn Féin.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">
Married to Patsy, six children: Mait, Ruairí Óg, Conor, Deirdre, Ethne, Colm,
grandchildren and great-grandchild. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">He
was a secondary teacher by profession.</span></span></span>Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-63090533038736771022013-06-05T11:55:00.000-07:002013-06-05T11:57:05.649-07:00RSF Wicklow: GAA hypocrisy exposed<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This weekend saw the introduction of "hawkeye" by the GAA in the
Leinster Football Quarter Final match between West Meath and Dublin.</span></span></b></div>
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serious six figure sum". However this they can easily afford,operating
profits for the association last year were in excess of 50 million euro.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile this weekend the annual Comortas Peile na Ghaeltachta took
place. This year the host club were from Waterford, Rinn O gCuanach CLG.
5000 people from all around the different Gaeltacht areas were expected
to attend. Unfortunately the competition is in decline in recent times
and clubs from Donegal and Connemara were unable to attend due to travel
costs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is a clear indication of the disgraceful direction the
association is headed. The promotion of our natives language was one of
the corner stones of its foundation. Occupying police forces are now
wined and dined annually in HQ while clubs from Gaeltacht areas are
forced to withdraw from their annual competition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sinn Fein Poblachtach in Wicklow stand firmly against this despicable
betrayal. The technology known as "hawkeye" boasts it can reveal what
the human eye can't see, however the GAA either can't see OR does not
want to see the betrayal and hypocrisy which is endemic in the
association in modern times.</span></span></div>
Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-89213534944646499662013-06-05T11:53:00.002-07:002013-06-05T11:58:04.422-07:00Republican Sinn Fein Wicklow point of clarification<div style="text-align: justify;">
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to point out that the current story on the theft of copper in the county
Wicklow News today has nothing to do with us. </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">People may be
confused as we originally highlighted the problem last week in The Wicklow
People, following numerous members of the public telling us of the problems it
is causing them in their everyday lives.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">It would seem an
elected representative has "recycled" the story to enhance their own
profile. This only shows us all that is wrong in local politics in the county.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-32848874056999874162013-05-31T13:48:00.002-07:002013-06-05T11:57:42.694-07:00Release of Marian Price welcomed<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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how Republican Sinn Féin welcomed the decision by the Parole Board in the
Occupied Six Counties to release Marian Price on May 30, 2013.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">For over two years
the British authorities made Marion Prices’ life a living hell because she refused
to bend to, or accept, British rule in Ireland. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Spurious charges
were levelled against her and though granted bail by the courts, the British
state refused to release her. Marion Price should never have been jailed in the
first place. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">We also take this
opportunity to call for the immediate unconditional release of political
hostage Martin Corey, from Maghaberry jail in Co Antrim. Like Marian, Martin
should never have been arrested let alone interned for over three years. His
attempts to find justice has been thwarted at every turn, the latest the
refusal by the British to allow his case go to the Supreme Court in London. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Another young
Republican prisoner faces an uncertain future with an indeterminate sentence
hanging over his head. An inexcusable sentence, harsh in the extreme; a young
man paying the price for being a Republican. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">The blame for the
imprisonment of Marian and Martin lies squarely with the British and their
puppets in Stormont who implement British rule in Ireland and no amount of crocodile
tears from former comrades - of both Marian and Martin - will ease or erase the
suffering Marion has endured over the past two years.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">We would like to
finally welcome her home and wish her a speedy recovery and all the best for
the future. </span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">POW Department</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">May 30, 2013.</span></span></span></b></div>
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Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-42047936821332810002013-05-30T09:08:00.004-07:002013-05-30T09:08:58.385-07:00Wicklow: Cuimhneacháin 100 Bliain Knocknadruce<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On May 12 a large number of Republicans from Wicklow, Dublin, Monaghan and
indeed France, gathered at Knocknadruce, Co Wicklow to commemorate the 90th
anniversary of the murder by Free State forces of Niall Plunkett Ó Baoighill,
from the Rosses in Co Donegal.</span></span></b></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Proceedings were chaired by An tUachtarán, Sinn Féin Poblachtach, Des
Dalton. Kitty Hawkins recited a decade of the Rosary as Gaeilge. A nephew of
Niall Plunkett O’Boyle, Michael O’Boyle, who travelled from France each year for
the commemoration, was called on by Des Dalton to say a few words.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the course of his address he said: “Like many before me I am honoured to
stand here today to give this oration on the 90th anniversary of the death of
Niall Plunkett O’Boyle, a young Republican soldier who was ruthlessly shot down
whilst unarmed buy a cowardly Free Stater named McCorley, ironically related to
the patriot [United Irishman] Roddy McCorley.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“After arrests and escapes, Plunkett eventually came to this part of the
country, formed a flying column and carried out many successful missions against
the enemies of the Republic. Plunkett was a true son of Ireland, there was
nothing else on his mind but the pursuit of national liberation from that cruel
foe, England.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“He was a man with clear vision and an unbroken determination for lasting
freedom from British tyranny. Compromise to Plunkett was treason. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“What has that got to say about Adams and his tame lackey McGuinness who
have not just compromised but sold out patriotism for their 30 pieces of silver
and a shake of Lizzie’s hand?</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Plunkett was one of the most active Volunteers against the infamous and
murderous criminals, the Black-and-Tans who were honoured in a “ceremony” at
Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin last August. Is there anything these Quislings at
Leinster House will not resort to to curry favour with Lizzie’s
government?</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“A quote from Robert Burns springs to mind: ‘What a parcel of rogues in our
Nation.’<br /><br />“I visited here in the mid-seventies and was privileged to
meet Myles O’Reilly. Here was a man who had actually been a comrade of Plunkett
and had fought alongside him. He related to me the killing of Plunkett and how
he would have been here himself if he hadn’t been arrested just days
before.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“The cause that he and his brave comrades fought and gave up their young
lives for, a free All-Ireland Republic is still to this day being attacked by
the modern Free Staters.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“However, as my father told me many years ago now, true Republicans will
never give up the struggle, and I am proud to see before me today some of those
true Republicans he talked about!</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“With the centenary of a well-known event fast approaching, I would like to
finish if I may by quoting a few lines from Easter 1916 by WB Yeats:</span></span></div>
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Pearse<br />Now and in time to be,<br />Wherever green is worn,<br />Are changed,
changed utterly:<br />A terrible beauty is born.’ ”</span></span></div>
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Rossan, a biography of Niall Plunkett O’Boyle, himself from the Rosses in
Donegal, although now residing in Monaghan:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“A mhuintir Chill Mhantain agus a phoblachtánaigh go léir tá sé thar chúig
bliana fichead ó thugh mé an óráid dheiridh ag comóradh Néill Phluincéid Uí
Bhaoighill anseo i gCnoc na dTrús agus tá lúcháir mhór orm a bheith arís inniu
le comóradh a dhéanamh ar an laoch chróga sin as Leac Éineach i Rosa Thír
Chonaill a thug a bheo ar son saoirse na hÉireann ag geimheal an tighe seo 15ú
Bealtaine 1923. Cé go bhfuil mórán dar bpoblachtánaigh dílse anois ar shlí na
fírinne tá lúcháir mhór orm go bhfuil mac dearthára do Niall Pluincéid, sin mac
Mhíchíl Uí Bhaoighill anseo linn an bealach ar fad as an Fhrainc len’ uncail á
chomóradh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“It is now over 25 years since I last spoke at the Neil Plunkett O’Boyle
commemoration in Knocknadruce and I am indeed privileged to be back again to
honour that patriot from the Rosses who was shot by Free State forces at the
corner of this house on May 15, 1923. Since that sunny day over 25 years ago,
many dear and faithful Republican comrades have gone to their eternal reward but
I am very pleased to have with us a nephew of Neil Plunkett – Michael Boyle all
the way from France – to take part in his uncle’s commemoration. Michael has
previously visited Knocknadruce as did his aunt Brigid who was a great help to
me in America when I wrote the life story of the Rosses patriot – Óglach na
Rosann – in 1994, and for a second edition which was published in 1996.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“In a space of half a century many young Republicans have come to the fore
and as some may not be familiar with the activities of Neil Plunkett O’Boyle,
the fight for freedom in 1921, the Black and Tan War and the Civil War which
caused the death of this brave soldier, I feel I should again give a short
profile of the Rosses volunteer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“He was born in Leac Éineach near Burtonport in the Rosses in Donegal in
1898, a member of a family of three boys and four girls. His father, Niall
Mhíchíl Bhig, was a local surveyor and farmer and his mother, Mary Eoghainín Bán
was a staunch Republican from the Diamond, Dungloe. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Plunkett attended the local school at Roshine and went to High school in
Letterkenny. He went to work for the Derry and Lough Swilly railway, joined Sinn
Féin and took a special interest in Irish history. The local Rosses historian,
Patrick O’Donnell, a national teacher form Mullaghaduff, had this to say of the
young Rosses Republican in the Irish Press (26 April 1954):</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“ ‘In the long and troubled story of our struggle against oppression many
brave men have given their all. Their names are written in letters of gold in
the glorious pages of our country’s history. It is but right that a special
place should be reserved for the name of Neil Plunkett O’Boyle. He was called
‘Plunkett’ because he thought so highly of Joseph Plunkett, the leader who
fought in Easter week. He was known by that name until his death, and it is by
that name that he is remembered in his native Rosses until the present
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“There are so many heroic episodes in Plunkett’s life and initially I will
only related to a few and then I will recite the words of a song which I feel
covers the important parts of his history. May I state that more songs about
Plunkett i nGaeilge agus i mBéarla were written than were of the politicians who
were afterwards leaders of the government in the Southern Free State. Most of
the songs in English are covered in the book Óglach na Rossan and I have
distributed copies of some of them here today, a copy of the Plunkett Column and
a photo of Myles Reilly who was with Plunkett in Wicklow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“1918 – Emigration to Glasgow, New Mains Colliery, B. Company, 2nd Batt.
Scottish Brigade IRA, supply of arms across the Irish Sea, 5 years imprisonment
in Peterhead Jail in Scotland and release due to the Treaty Amnesty 1922,
Commandant of the Burtonport Battalion IRA, worked with Charlie Daly, Sean
Lehane, Peadar O’Donnell, control of Glenveigh Castle, attack on Meemore,
Annagry and Glenties barracks, arrest in Crolly 1922, on the Lady Wicklow ship
from Buncrana to Newbridge internment camp, led the escape through a very long
sewer tunnel with 160 other prisoners, the most daring escape ever from R-Block
Prison, Newbridge, October 1922 and back to Wicklow to take charge of the
‘Plunkett’ Column (October 1922 – May 1923), when he was shot here in
Knocknadruce although the ceasefire was in operation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“And this is one of the songs written by the poet Dominic O’Kelly a teacher
from Doocharry in Donegal in 1948 which covers many of his crusades: <br />Comdt.
Neil "Plunkett” Boyle<br />Born 1898 at Lackeenagh near Burtonport<br />“Killed in
Action" by Free State Troops at Mrs Norton's house in Knocknadruce, Valleymount,
Co. Wicklow, on the 15th May 1923.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He died for his country that freedom might live<br />And gave to dear Ireland
all man has to give.<br />The blood of such martyrs has hallowed our soil<br />Not
least of whose members was Neil "Plunkett" Boyle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Away up in Wicklow 'mid mountains so tall<br />Afar from his homestead in
dear Donegal<br />By Irishmen slain, where O'Dwyer did toil<br />Fell Irish
Republican, Neil ‘Plunkett’ Boyle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">'Twas down at Lackeenagh he first saw the light<br />This hero whose fate was
for Erin to fight.<br />In Scotland’s black coalpits he worked for a while<br />For
Rosses air sighing was Neil ‘Plunkett’ Boyle.</span></span></div>
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last, it was not a fine:<br />From five years’ sentence he did not recoil,<br />For
steadfast and daring was Neil ‘Plunkett’ Boyle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Truce brought him home and the Treaty came then<br />Neil stood with the
few who were faithfully true men:<br />When captured by Staters, they treated him
vile<br />To Newbridge Camp prison went Captain Neil Boyle.</span></span></div>
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cold camp alone.<br />By night and by day did these captives here
toil<br />A-digging a tunnel with Captain Neil Boyle.</span></span></div>
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up by Meenmore:<br />Brave Frank was sent northward to fight nigh the
Foyle<br />While eastward to Wicklow went Captain Neil Boyle.</span></span></div>
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only twelve men…<br />Yet sixteen days after the traitor for spoil<br />Surrounded
and captured and shot Commandant Boyle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The day he was buried nigh Kincasslagh shore<br />Brought Staters with rifles
and lorries galore…<br />To see them parading made Irish blood boil<br />Around by
the coffin of Commandant Boyle.</span></span></div>
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lies 'neath this clay:<br />Oh, Mary Eoghain Bháin sure 'tis proud you should
smile<br />That you were the mother of Commandant Boyle.</span></span></div>
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worthy of true man and brave<br />Than that now erect on his own native soil
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To-day in the Rosses remembrance we keep<br />Where breezes of freedom blow
in from the deep —<br />All out to continue the struggle and toil<br />For an Irish
Republic like Neil "Plunkett" Boyle.<br />Dominic O'Kelly<br />At MacCauley 's
Hotel<br />Letterkenny, 12.1.1948.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“It is unbelievable that although the ceasefire was in operation on the May
15, 1923 the Free State forces searched the whole area from Holywood until they
came to the last house in Knocknadruce which was Nortons at the time. Nolans
lived nearby and were always a great help to members of the ‘Plunkett’ Column.
Myles Reilly, a member of the column, was in Blessington Barracks on this
particular night but this is how he related the story of that fateful
morning:</span></span></div>
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Holywood, to tell Paddy Farrell who was on ‘lookout’ that the soldiers were
coming up the lane. An exchange of fire took place and ‘Plunkett’ was afraid
that Mrs Norton, her daughter Sarah and the workman would be injured because
they had riddled the house with bullets and the holes are yet to be seen.
‘Plunkett’ pulled on his trousers and shirt and went out with his hands up to
surrender so that the family would not be injured. He was asked to walk up and
stand by the 4’ wall. He was asked was he Seán Plunkett (he used that name) and
when he said he was, he was shot through the eye and another bullet to his head.
He died instantly.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“There is a more comprehensive report of this episode in the book Óglach na
Rossan. <br />There were many despicable episodes during the Civil War such as
Ballyseedy and the shooting of Daly, Enright, O’Sullivan and Larkin in the woods
of Drumboe but this was a murderous and unnecessary attack when the ceasefire
was in operation. The words of the song ‘Plunkett of the Hills’ shows the evils
of the Civil War and the opportunity it gave the British to divide and
conquer:<br />‘You did your best out in the West,<br />To save our leader
true.<br />But while Irish sons wore British guns<br />There was nothing you could
do.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“On the last occasion I spoke here in Knocknadruce I spent a pleasant
evening with the late Dáithí Ó Conaill, his wife Deirdre and a loyal North
Antrim volunteer, Frank McGarry in Tutty’s pub in Holywood and naturally we were
very dismayed by the actions of the state forces in Knocknadruce in 1923, some
who were previously on the Republican side in Belfast. Only a year prior to
1986, a split occurred in the Provisional movement and although that was not
welcome, we were all determined that Republican Sinn Féin would carry on the
objectives ‘Plunkett’ set out to achieve when he first joined the IRA in the
Rosses in 1918, ina dhiaidh sin ba Éire saor agus Gaelacth a bhí mar chuspóir
aige do 32-Contaethe na h-Éireann agus lean sé dó sin go deireadh, an Ireland
free and Gaelic was his objective to the end.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“In honouring an Irish patriot here today I do not wish to dwell on any
rancour amongst Irish people as unity among genuine Irish Republicans is
necessary to achieve ultimate freedom. However, the names of ‘Plunkett’, Dáithí
Ó Conaill, Tone and Pearse, I feel would not concur with the direction former
comrades have taken in the acceptance of the British presence in the North, a
British Police Board and the sustainability of a Stormont government which was
proscribed by a former British Prime Minister. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“And we now have Marian Price and Martin Corry interned by another British
Minister of State. A new plan is necessary if we are to achieve Plunkett’s
32-county Republic, Gaelic and free. We will have to follow in the footsteps of
the United Irishmen, The Young Irelanders, The Fenians, The Men of 1916, Cumann
na mBan and all the volunteers men and women who gave their lives for Irish
freedom up until this day. They had to repudiate comrades who diverted from that
course although we would all welcome an ultimate peaceful solution it cannot be
achieved without the freedom from foreign which the heroes of the past desired.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“However, Republican Sinn Féin will show the integrity of the Republican
movement and by the continuous publication of an excellent paper – Saoirse – and
will adhere to Ireland’s right to a sovereign peaceful nation amongst the free
nations of the world. Saoirse is a paper that reminds me of An Claidheamh Solais
which Pádraig Pearse edited at the beginning of the last century or An tÓglach
published in 1918 and should get the support of all Republicans.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“The people of Wicklow and Kildare gave great support to the ‘Plunkett’
Column from Kylebeg to Blessington to Dunlavin to Valleymount to Tallaght. Mass
was said for Plunkett in Kilbride by Fr Doherty and Mrs Lambert of Lacken, where
the column often stayed, accompanied the funeral to the Rosses. I would
personally like to thank the people of Wicklow for their great help to me when I
was doing research for the book Óglach na Rosann in the eighties especially
Kitty Hawkins and family, Myles Reilly, who went around the county with me, his
wife Tess and family, the Lambert family of Lacken, Séamas Mooney of Kilbride
and Nano Miley at whose grave I spoke in Donard a few years ago, a great, kind
woman, who travelled to Donegal to see relations of Plunkett and Dan Magee from
the ‘Plunkett’ Column. Many thanks to them all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Ar mbuíochas daofa uilig agus ar dheis Dé go raibh anamnacha uaisle na
n-Óglach ar fad, fir agus mná, a throid ar son saoirse na h-Éireann, an saoirse
bhuan sin a chaithfear a chur i gcríoch.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Following the commemoration Mrs Nolan and her family extended their usual
generous hospitality to all those who attended, for which we thank them.</span></span></div>
Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-58159067681409700412013-05-19T02:16:00.002-07:002013-05-19T02:16:16.524-07:00Ramsey Clark supports Martin Corey<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span>Ramsey Clark, President,
International Anti-imperialist Coordinating Committee (IACC), and
Founder, International Action Centre (IAC) has issued the following
statement:</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><span>Martin Corey has been held in
Maghaberry Prison illegally since April 2010 without any charge ever
being placed against him. In fact no one knows why he is there, not even
the judges who reviewed his case. Human Rights Judge Lord Justice
Colman Treacy ordered in July 2012 his immediate release and placed no
conditions upon him. With a blatant disregard of the judicial process
the British Secretary of State overturned this order, and Martin remains
detained in Maghaberry to this day. He is being victimized in prison in
many ways and his basic rights are denied. I have long urged the
release Martin Corey and once more reiterate that his detention is a
violation of his fundamental human rights and he must be immediately
released. </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><em><span>Ramsey Clark</span></em></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span>President</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><em><span>Released by Manik Mukherjee, General Secretary, IACC, through the Republican Sinn Féin International Department, <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.rsf-international.org/" rel="nofollow external" title="External link">http://www.rsf-international.org/</a></span></em></span></span></div>
Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-35164365130851025792013-05-19T02:12:00.001-07:002013-05-19T02:12:44.790-07:00Statement by RSF in Wicklow<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><b>Sinn Fein Poblachtach in Wicklow feels its imperative for us
to highlight the problems surrounding the theft of copper from overhead
telephone lines.</b><br /><br />
Many people from the east of the county have approached us and informed
us of the problem. It is mainly rural areas which are being affected.
This is far from a "victimless" crime and is causing serious damage to
the local economic and communication network.<br /><br />
Business's relying on telephonic communications have been left bereft
of a landline service and it is losing them money. In this climate,with
the lack of support from the Free State government support for small and
indigenous business, this is not what they need.<br /><br /><span>Also many
old, sick or vulnerable people have been robbed of a key contact with
there family and friends. We would implore anyone who knows someone
living in the areas affected who is vulnerable or on there own to call
to them and check up on them.<br /><br />
Remember Ireland is in essence "a community of communities" and it is
our duty to look after those that need our help that live in ours.</span></span></span></span></span>
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Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-48139424043796932032013-05-04T09:47:00.000-07:002013-05-04T09:47:12.702-07:00Neil ‘Plunkett’ O’Boyle 90th anniversary commemoration<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span>Republican Sinn Féin will be marking the 90<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the death of Commandant Neil ‘Plunkett’ O’Boyle at the
hands of Free State forces with a commemoration in Knocknadruce, Co
Wicklow on Sunday May 12 at 3.00pm.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>The oration will be given by Padraig Ó Baoighill, Co Donegal,<span> </span>author
of the biography of Neill ‘Plunkett’ O’Boyle. A nephew of Neil
‘Plunkett’ O’Boyle, Michael O’Boyle, who is travelling from France will
also speak.</span></span></span></div>
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Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-16682754834787560032013-04-12T05:51:00.000-07:002013-05-19T02:11:28.196-07:00Wolfe Tone Commemoration<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wolfe Tone Commemoration</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bodenstwon, 2.30pm</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sunday, June 16</b></span></span></div>
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Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-70886473860122079782013-04-12T05:48:00.001-07:002013-04-12T05:48:19.267-07:00Neil 'Plunkett' O'Boyle 90th Anniversary Commemoration<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Neil 'Plunkett' O'Boyle 90th Anniversary Commemoration</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Knocknadruce, Co Wicklow</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sunday, May 12, 3pm</span></span></b></div>
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Irish-Republican Solidarity Viennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17102642412010707908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4758332120239226440.post-52898882437684003422013-04-10T10:57:00.004-07:002013-04-10T10:59:27.954-07:00Thatcher dies: memory of Hunger Strikers lives on<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>The announcement of
the death of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on April 8
immediately brought to mind all of those who were victims of her policies and
unrelenting right-wing ideology.</b> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"> It affects us
here in Ireland as well but around the world both directly and indirectly by
her unstinting support for fascist regimes such as that of Augusto Pinochet in
Chile. </span></span></span></div>
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course think at once of the 1981 hunger strikes and the stonehearted response
of Thatcher’s government to any appeal to a common humanity. The Patron of
Republican Sinn Féin Ruairí Ó Brádaigh says that one of his abiding memories of
the 1981 election campaign in support of the prisoner candidates is that at the
very mention of the name Bobby Sands people would raise their heads whereas
when Margaret Thatcher’s name was uttered people’s heads would drop. </span></span></span></div>
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radio’s News At One programme on April 8 the former deputy-leader of the SDLP
Séamus Mallon stated that Thatcher viewed the 26-County State as merely a
colony of Britain. </span></span></span></div>
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vicious war of terror was waged on the nationalist people of the Six Counties,
which included a stepping up of the collusion between British State forces and
loyalist death squads. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Human rights lawyers
such as Pat Finucane, assassinated by a British-backed loyalist death squad in
1988, became prime targets of a British State determined to crush all
opposition to its hold on Ireland. </span></span></span></div>
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Thatcher you must grasp that she was an unreconstructed colonialist who could
not imagine the sun ever setting on a fast-diminishing British world dominance. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Her imperialist
adventure to wrest Las Malvinas back from Argentina in 1982 seemed more like
something from 1882 but was very much part of the image she wished to
cultivate. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Cloaking herself in
jingoism and intolerance she was prepared to murder over 323 young Argentinean
sailors on the Belgrano in order to bolster her grip on power in Britain. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Within her own State
she had no scruples about waging war on entire communities and almost the
entire trade union movement, openly declaring that the miners were “the enemy
within”. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">The scars of the
social upheaval caused by Thatcherism are all too evident in the Britain of
2013. As one commentator noted she was prepared to sacrifice two-thirds of her
people in order to satisfy one-third. Her legacy was one of polarisation and
increased inequality. </span></span></span></div>
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perspective she epitomised a British political establishment that had failed to
learn from its experience by continuing to implement the same polices of
coercion and oppression in response to the Irish people’s demand for national
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while internationally Thatcher’s faith in an unregulated market helped sow the
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the President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton said:</span></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">Every year Irish
Republican gather at monuments and graves throughout Ireland and around the
world both to commemorate the heroic deeds of the past but also to rededicate
themselves to the essential work of the present which is to bring to victory
the cause for which that generation like those before and since: “weighed so
little what they gave” in the words of Yeats. The 1916 Rising gave us our
charter of freedom and it serves the cornerstone of everything that we do as
Irish Republicans. To regard 1916 as merely an historical event would be to do
a disservice to all that sacrifice. We can only properly honour the memory of
those who have gone before by recognising that their cause and ideals remain
for us to realise. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">In commemorating
1916 we also remember the men and women who made the supreme sacrifice
throughout the preceding and succeeding generations. Ninety years ago at
Drumboe four more names were inscribed on Ireland’s <i>Roll of Honour.</i>
Charlie Daly, Tim O’Sullivan and Dan Enright came to join the fight with their
comrades in Ulster and along
with Sean Larkin of Derry died in defence of the full freedom of Ireland. Daly,
Larkin, O’Sullivan and Enright were in the words of Peadar O’Donnell among that
brave band of men and women who: “milled the stampede of 1922.” These men and
women fought to preserve the All-Ireland Republic from the forces of reaction,
forces who sought to undo the work of the ‘Four Glorious Years’ when the
All-Ireland Republic became a functioning reality. The Counter-Revolution of
1922-23 was a war between the forces of All-Ireland democracy and those who
were willing tools of British imperialism; the present failed partitionist
system is its legacy.</span></span></span></div>
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Ballyseedy, Countess Bridge and other sites throughout Ireland are
names, which ring with infamy. The dark deeds carried out in these places
should serve as a salutary lesson to those who think it possible to temporise
or compromise on the principle of Irish freedom and the depths to which those
who collaborate with British rule can sink. Brian Ó hUiginn writes: “The lesson
of 1922, of all the years before it and all the years since is that when you
seek help from an enemy invader against your own, you become his contemptible
slave. He will degrade you and drive you to do deeds that your people will
remember with shame for all the years to be.” It is a lesson that should be
noted by those who today sit comfortably in Stormont and Leinster House.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IE">As we approach the centenary of the 1916 Rising a battle has commenced
for the hearts and minds of the Irish people. The legacy as well as the
essential message of 1916 is at stake for this and future generations. The
resources of both partitionist states are being employed in order to sanitise
our history to the point that it has been robbed of any meaning. Equivalence is
being made between the forces of occupation and the independence movement that
no self-respecting nation would contemplate.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"> Does France
commemorate the Vichy policemen or Norway its
Quislings who collaborated with German occupation forces? The 1916 Rising for
Irish Republicans is not only an important moment in our history but a beacon
to light our way forward. It is an event that not only continues to occupy a
central place in our history but also remains relevant due to the simple fact
that it remains unfinished business. The 1916 Proclamation sets out clearly the
principles upon which the All-Ireland
Republic should rest. It
takes no great examination to see that both the Six and 26-County states fall
far short of the definition of freedom and democracy set by the men and women
of 1916. We would do well to remember the words of Pearse: <i>“We know only one
definition of freedom: it is Tone’s definition, it is Mitchel’s definition, it
is Rossa’s definition. Let no man blaspheme the cause that the dead generations
of Ireland
served by giving it any other name and definition than their name and their
definition.”</i> If 1916 and all that it represents was of no relevance to the Ireland of
today the 26-County Administration, the British Government and its surrogates in
Stormont could quite happily ignore it. Instead they are attempting to erase
from the public mind any notion of Ireland as a nation by hijacking our
history, robbing this and future generations of their identity, even the name
Ireland has now been replaced in the official lexicon by the meaningless term
“the island” in a blatant attempt to deny the essential unity of the Irish
Nation. Instead loyalty to the state is expected to replace the natural sense
of allegiance and identification people feel towards their nation. The philosopher Dr Mathew O’Donnell writes
that nations rather than states, which are simply units of political
organisation, bring people together<i>: “For people are not brought together by
a state; the state is the subsequent organisation of people who already posses
some kind of unity…It is with the nation that one’s loyalty lies. There is no
disowning it, no alternative to it. There should be a feeling for the nation,
for it is one’s own people. This is the origin for the effective element in
patriotism.” </i>Dr O’Donnell warns of the dangers of substituting state for
nation: <i>“ An unduly emotional attachment to the state – the organising
coercing element – will surely lead to totalitarianism, expansionism,
militarism. And an unduly detached critical attitude to the nation could lead
to an exaggerated cosmopolitanism, rootlessness, and in the long run, a general
impoverishment of the spirit through the loss of the sense of belonging. If
humanity is reduced to pure individuality it is a poor and stunted thing.” </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">Like Thomas
Davis we believe: <i>“This country of ours is no sand bank, thrown up by some
recent caprice of earth. It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of
civilisation.” </i>We must never lose sight of the high idealism of 1916 because
it will always speak to us of a New and better Ireland and with it the
possibility of revolutionary social, political and economic change.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">Today we see all
too clearly the evidence of the failure of both paritionist states. In the 26
Counties once more our young people are being exported while the political and
economic elites wage a war of attrition and economic terrorism on the people of
the country. The language used by 26-County County ministers resonates of a
Victorian morality speaking almost in terms of a “deserving and undeserving
poor.’ They are collaborating with the new imperialists of the EU/ECB and IMF
Troika in the their attempt to economically enslave the people of the 26
Counties. In the Six Counties the evidence of the old imperialism of British
Rule is all too evident for those who wish to see. Despite the protestations of
the Stormont regime and its apologists in the media the internment without
trial of Martin Corey and the continued imprisonment of Marian Price expose the
Six-County State as an undemocratic and abnormal political entity. In July last
year the then British Secretary of State Owen Paterson was willing to subvert
his state’s own judicial process in order to keep Martin Corey in jail. </span>Forty-one years after the introduction of
internment in the Six Counties it is once more being employed as a means of
silencing Irish Republicans. <span lang="EN">What has happened to Martin Corey constitutes not only an attack on
Martin’s human and civil rights but are an attack on the human and civil rights
of all people within the Six Counties. The ongoing struggle by Republican POWs
in Maghaberry prison are yet another indicator of the abnormality of the
Six-County State. We extend them our greetings and pledge them our continued
solidarity. On top of this while the Provos mouth emply words of protest about
the effects of austerity in the 26 Counties they along with the DUP willingly
implement cuts in health, education and other esetnial services across the Six
Counties. </span></span></span></div>
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Six-County state and its inherent sectarianism. On December 3 Belfast City
Council voted to end the daily flying of the ‘Union Jack’ flag over Belfast
City Hall. Instead a coalition comprising of the Provisionals, the SDLP and the
Alliance voted to fly the ‘Union Jack’ on 17 designated days. This unleashed an
orgy of loyalist rioting and protests across the Six Counties but particularly
focussed on East Belfast. In contrast to the heavy handed treatment meted out
by the RUC/PSNI to Republicans and nationalists who have engaged in peaceful
protests the loyalists riots were met with only token opposition from the
RUC/PSNI. Indeed Republicans attending the annual Bloody Sunday commemorative
march in Derry on January 27 witnessed the RUC/PSNI helping loyalists to erect
loyalists flags in the city. Compare this with the Republicans who have been
jailed for simply participating in a peaceful protest march highlighting the
ongoing internment of Martin Corey. On the top of this comes the call from the
Provisionals for a ‘Border Poll’ on Irish unity. It is important that all of
this is viewed in context in order to understand what is going on here. With
the securing of British rule the big constitutional questions have been removed
from the political agenda and in their place instead we find the tribal and
sectarian games of one-upmanship of the two sectarian power blocs at Stormont
led by the Provos and the DUP. In his <i>Irish News</i> column on December 15
Patrick Murphy described Stormont as: <i>“…a sectarian carve-up of limited
autonomy…It is designed to cater for, rather than counter, sectarian
differences.” </i>The Provisionals are quite happy to tout the vote in Belfast
City Council as a victory, but over whom? British Rule is firmly entrenched administered
and policed by the Provos and their camp followers, internment with-out trial
and the attempted criminalisation of Republican prisoners goes on, political
policing and repression is the daily experience of nationalist communities
across the Six Counties, little wonder then the Provos would attempt to reduce
the issue of Irish freedom to a question of flags and symbols. By doing so they
hope to distract from their abandonment of even a basic nationalist, let alone,
a Republican position. In 2009 </span>Vincent
Browne in his nightly TV3 programme put it clearly. He said in effect that the
nationalist view had been rejected and the unionist position had been accepted.
The nationalist standpoint was that the people of Ireland as a whole should
determine the future of Ireland. He continued: “<i>The Unionist position was
that the majority in the Six Counties should decide the future. We have all
become unionists.”</i> Having abandoned Republicanism the Provos have embraced
sectarianism as the means to consolidate their power base. As Patrick Murphy
points out: <i>“With few modern writers, philosophers or even poets saying much
about the Irish nation, nationalism in the north has degenerated into what we
might call quantitative sectarianism. It uses a sectarian inch tape to quantify
the frequency of flag flying, the number of Catholics in the census results and
the volume of music from Orange bands. Unionism is delighted to hold the other
end of the British-made tape.”</i> It is working class Protestants now who are
the enemy not the British Government as establishment Provo leaders queue up to
shake hands with the Queen of England while at the same time stoking the flames
of sectarian conflict. The nationalist community within the Six Counties have
rightly not allowed themselves to be sucked into the naked sectarian violence
despite blatant attempts to provoke a response with attacks on nationalist
areas. Republican Sinn Féin correctly refused to rise to the bate of Unionist
stooge Willie Frazer when a loyalist protest at Leinster House was mooted.
Instead leadership is required in keeping the focus on the core issue, which is
partition and British rule in Ireland. The Provo’s sectarian alter ego in the
DUP likewise is playing the sectarian card in order to bolster and increase their
power. </span></span></div>
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January the Provos called for a ‘Border Poll’, again more of the smoke and
mirrors designed to give their supporters the illusion of actually doing
something to end partition while masking the reality that they have been
absorbed wholesale into the machinery of British rule. By rejecting the very
notion of an historic Irish nation and swallowing the idea that British
generated sectarianism is a conflict between two nationalities the Provos have
undermined any effective argument for Irish unity, reducing their case to one
of pure economics. In the late 1940s having lost power after 16 years Fianna
Fáil latched onto the issue of partition using the Anti-Partition League as a
vehicle to consolidate their base and rebuild support. The waving of the green
flag and the platitudes about the ‘fourth green field’ were their electoral
stock-in-trade. Now the Provos are playing a similar game. As Patrick Murphy
puts it: “…the proposed border poll is cleaver electioneering for more
important polls north and south.” For true Republicans the attempts by the
Provos to besmirch Republicanism with sectarianism is as reprehensible as those
who would try to link it with criminality.</span></span></div>
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serious threat to Republicanism is that posed by the gangs operating under the
banner of Republicanism who are engaging in activities which sully the proud
and honoured name of Irish Republicanism. Elements within the media are more
than happy to promote these groupings as representative of the Republican
tradition hoping that in the process they will discredit and delegitimise
Republicanism in the eyes of the Irish people. </span><span lang="EN-IE">the pseudo-Republican groupings that take money
from the drug dealers are no less parasitical than the drug dealers themselves.
In many ways they are worse in that they leech from the communities they
purport to defend – in effect they are drug dealers by proxy with the added
insult of sullying the noble name of Republicanism in doing so. These pseudo-
gangs masquerading as Republicans have nothing to contribute to the struggle
for a free Ireland and should disband now. </span></span></span></div>
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Republicanism. We have a bounden duty to
hold out against this hijacking of the Republican ideal; we must lead by example in ensuring that authentic Irish
Republicanism continues to live in the hearts of the Irish people.
Republican Sinn Féin must maintain its organisational integrity and thereby
ensure that we provide a focal point for those seeking a true and credible
Republican alternative. </span></span></span></div>
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Anti-Imperialist Forum in Belfast as an Irish Republican Alternative to the G8
summit taking place in Co Fermanagh. The forum will be a platform for
discussion and debate for anti-imperialist activists from Ireland and abroad to
discuss alternatives to the imperialist world order as represented by the G8
group of states. Delegates from abroad will provide an international
perspective and allow Ireland’s struggle against the twin imperialisms to be
viewed in its international context. We are calling on those interested in
contributing to the debate on a New Ireland to join us in Belfast and begin the
process of building a network of solidarity among all peoples around the world
striving a new and better world. Culminating with the annual Wolfe Tone
commemoration in Bodenstown on June 16 it will be truly a weekend suffused with
the spirit of anti-imperialism. </span></span></span></div>
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as long as Britain continues to deny Ireland and her people their right
unfettered nationhood that denial will be met with resistance. This response to
British Rule has proven to be an iron law of Irish history, denying its reality
will not make it go away. We believe that only by fully engaging with the root
cause of conflict, which is partition and continued British occupation, can
there be any prospect of a just and lasting settlement. A public declaration of
intent by the British Government to withdraw militarily and politically from
Ireland will create the space necessary to build a New Ireland for all sections
of the Irish people, Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter. We believe that <b>Éire
Nua</b> coupled with our social and economic programme <b>Saol Nua </b>contains
the basis for a truly pluralist 32-County Federal Democratic Socialist
Republic. We resolutely and unapologetically take our stand on the Proclamation
of 1916: <i>“</i></span><i><span lang="EN">We
declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to
the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.
The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not
extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the
destruction of the Irish people.”</span></i><span lang="EN"> Our proposals contained in <b>Towards A Peaceful Ireland </b>provides for
the election of a 32-County Constituent Assembly to draft an All-Ireland
Constitution, providing the mechanism by which the process of creating a New
Ireland can begin.</span></span></span></div>
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Free Ireland. History teaches us that there are no short cuts on that road and
only by achieving the goal of the All-Ireland Republic of Easter Week can we
fully realise our full potential as a free people, taking our place rightfully
among the nations of the earth.</span></span></span></div>
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entrusted to us and should note well the words of </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">Brian Ó hUiginn: <i>“Keep close to them on the road they walked
without flinching, the road whose signposts, as Liam Mellows said, are
unmistakable, the road of truth and honour and earnestness and courage, the
road of no wavering, of no compromise with wrong, of no surrender – the only
road that leads to the freedom and happiness of the indivisible Republic of
Ireland.”</i></span><i><span lang="EN-IE"></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is a great honor that we - the Republican POWs in Maghaberry - have this opportunity once again to address you, the people of Ireland and abroad, on this the 97th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. We extend Easter greetings to our comrades, friends and supporters not just in Ireland but throughout the world. We would also like to thank Republican Sinn Féin and CABHAIR for all the work done on our behalf. We extend special greetings to our families whose support is invaluable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To our comrades on the outside, we extend hearty congratulations and admiration on your continued defiance of British rule, your efforts to build the Republican Movement in the face of adversity is a testimony to your courage and principles. It is clear to see that the legacy of the 1916 Rising lives on. Only by standing firm to the principles of genuine Republicanism will we see our country realise its destiny as a free nation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The legacy of the insurrection in 1916 and the sacrifices made by so many Irish Patriots has inspired us to withstand the dreadful conditions of our imprisonment. We are aware that we are only the latest generation of Irish Republicans who have been imprisoned for struggling to free our country and we take encouragement from those who have gone before us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As Prisoners of War we find ourselves incarcerated due to British Rule in Ireland, your efforts and actions give us great hope. We affirm that Irish Republicanism is alive and vibrant, kept alive by people like you. As Republican Prisoners of War we will not shy away from our duty and we salute all those in Ireland and abroad who work towards the Independence of Ireland by any means necessary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With three years to go until the Centenary of the Historic Easter Rising, we are confident that our comrades will remain resolute in their attempts to drive the British occupation forces from our country. We pledge our allegiance to the leadership of the Republican Movement and urge all our people to stand with us in our fight against British imperialism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Signed O/C Maghaberry Gaol, March 2013.</b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Republican Sinn Féin</i> will be holding an Irish Anti-Imperialist Forum as a counter to the G8 Summit in June. <i>The Anti-Imperialist Forum/Republican Alternative to the G8</i>
will take place in Belfast on June 14 and 15. The forum will discuss
all aspects of imperialism both in terms of British imperialism in
Ireland as well as the new imperialism of the EU, ECB and IMF as
experienced by the people of the 26 Counties. Delegates from
international anti-imperialist organisations will provide a world
perspective.</span></span>
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It is intended as a forum for political and community activists from
throughout Ireland and abroad to discuss the various political, social
and economic aspects of imperialism from both an Irish as well as an
international perspective. Such a debate can be used to chart a way
forward towards building an Irish and international alternative to the
neo-liberal political and economic policies of the G8 and other trans
global imperialist organisations.</span></span>
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More details of the Anti-Imperialist forum will be released over the coming weeks.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Kildare Republican Sinn Féin held a picket at the Town Hall in
Naas, Co Kildare on Saturday February 23 to highlight the ongoing
internment without trial of veteran Republican Martin Corey by the
British Government as well as the ongoing struggle for political status
being waged by the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry prison in Co
Antrim.</b><br /><br />Speaking at the picket the Athy based national
President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton said that the struggle of
the Republican prisoners was part of the fight for a New Ireland: “It is
part of the same fight as that against austerity and the troika of the
EU,ECB and IMF that is holding this part of Ireland to ransom, it is
part of the same fight against the sacrifice of this and future
generation to bailout the EU’s banking system. Ireland is being assailed
by two imperialisms, the new imperialism of the troika in the 26
Counties and the old imperialism of British occupation in the Six
Counties, they are both two side of the same coin. The internment
without trial of Martin Corey as well as the continued imprisonment of
Marian Price gives the lie to those who would pretend that the
Six-County State is a normal democratic state where civil and political
rights are protected, their imprisonment expose it for the undemocratic
and sectarian entity that it is. We call for their immediate and
unconditional release.” Des Dalton sai<span style="font-size: small;">d.</span></span></span><br />
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