No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, "Thus far shalt thou go and no further."

"Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation."

- Charles Stewart Parnell

"Brave Irishmen, our cause is common. Like you we hold as indefeasible the right of all nations to liberty."

- General Jean Joseph Amable Humbert

"In my son's veins flowed the blood of Irish rebels" - Ernesto Guevara Lynch Che's Father

"In the history of our fight against British imperialists, there is no other struggle which has influenced us so much, and for which we have so much sympathy, as that of the brave Irish nation"

- Subhas Chandra Bose - founder of the Indian National Army

"Give Ireland back to the Irish" - Paul McCartney

"If it's a choice between the IRA and the British Army, I'm with the IRA" - John Lennon

Peter Mandelson says there will probably be a united Ireland in Gerry Adams' lifetime, because Britain has no stomach for a renewed fight with the IRA.

"....a cowardly desertion of the Protestants of the West and South" - 'Lord' Edward Carson (speaking about Partition of Ulster)

Lord Carson, who bitterly opposed the creation of 'Northern Ireland', also disliked many of Ulster's local characteristics and in particular the culture of Orangeism. He stated that their speeches reminded him of the unrolling of a mummy. All old bones and rotten rags.[5]

Sir Patrick Mayhew stated that the behaviour of the Orange Order would "disgrace a tribe of cannibals"

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UNITED KINGDOM??

For many years now, opinion polls have shown that the majority of people in Scotland, England and Wales want withdrawal from Northern Ireland.

(In March 1988 The Sun invited its readers to vote, by telephone, for or against the British presence in Northern Ireland. Embarrassed news managers were forced to bury the news of the result on an inside page - it was 45,453 for pulling out, 10,450 for staying put.)

A Gallup poll in 1998 it found 50% supported a United Ireland and only 17% supporting Northern Ireland remaining part of the uk


SURGE IN SUPPORT FOR IRISH UNITY

41% Britons favour united Ireland; Only 26% want Ulster in UK

Special report: Northern Ireland

Jonathan Freedland
Tuesday August 21, 2001
The Guardian


A verdict to strike a chill through Ulster unionism comes in today's Guardian/ ICM poll, which finds more Britons think Northern Ireland should be part of a united Ireland than believe it belongs in the United Kingdom.
In a finding that hits at the very heart of unionist ideology - which regards the province as an integral part of the UK - 41% of Britons believe Northern Ireland should be joined with the Irish republic while only 26% say it should continue as part of the UK.

For unionists, many of whom consider themselves British and refer to Britain as the mainland, today's findings amount to a cold shoulder from their fellow citizens. Only one in four wants the province to stay part of the country.

Today's poll sees the pro-unification camp extend a 15% lead over the stay-in-the-UK position.

It also brings Britain closer into line with opinion within the Irish republic - where polls show an overwhelming majority continues to favour unification.

A 1999 survey found 86% of Irish voters still wanted to unite the island - despite a massive Yes vote in the May 1998 referendum approving the Good Friday agreement, which required the republic to renounce its constitutional claim on the north.

Surveys in the US have shown clear majorities of American opinion in favour of a united Ireland, too. With today's poll confirming that British views are shifting dramatically, Ulster's unionists look increasingly isolated in their opposition to Irish unity.

There is even more significant support in Great Britain for Ireland to reunify as a political entity.The British Social Attitudes Survey in 2004 found 32% supported Northern Ireland remaining part of the UK, and 45% supported a united Ireland.


"After we are gone, what will you say you were doing? Will you say you were with us in our struggle or were you conforming to the very system that drove us to our deaths?"

- Patsy O'Hara

"There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government."

- Gerry Adams, 1984

"We do not see why Ireland should allow England to govern her, either through Englishmen, as at present, or through Irishmen under an appearance of self-government"

- Padraig Pearse

"It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his countrys subjection to England"

- Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Saor Éire
Saor Alba
Saor an Phalaistín anois!

Ni ceart go cur le cheile!

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