“To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, 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 objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.” PeopleMeanCountryWholeGovernmentPastPoliticalEvilNamesMemoriesCommonBreakFailingSourceRepublicanConnectionsEnglandCatholicIndependenceTyrannyObjectivesSubstitutesIrelandProtestantsAbolishDenominationsIrishmenDissension Book:Freedom the Wolfe Tone way Source: Freedom the Wolfe Tone way
“My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.” ThreeWalksOne ThingLandMovementPossibilityRepublicanThousandIndependenceConvincedMilesNativeIrelandThousand MilesNative Land Author:James Stephens
“The British leadership has acknowledged that it only became possible to end the violence in North Ireland when it stopped thinking of the [Irish Republican Army] as "a terrorist organization" and began treating it as a political actor with genuine grievances that deserved to be addressed.” ThinkingEndsPoliticalActorsViolenceRepublicanOrganizationArmyBritishTerroristGenuineIrelandGrievance Author:Richard A. Falk
“Someone in Ireland asked me how many Republican poets there were in the U.S., and I thought maybe two. Maybe there are 10,000 poets, and maybe there are two Republicans among them.” TwoPoetRepublicanIreland Author:Robert Hass