TOM BARRY.

They said i was ruthless,daring, savage,bloodthirsty, even


heartless...,the clergy called me and my comrades murderers . But the british were met with their own weapons- they had gone down in the mire to destroy us and our nation,and down after them we had to go.




PAEDAR O DONNELL

If Dan Breen and Sean Treacy had waited for a course in sandhurst in 1919, there would have been no revolution in Ireland

DAN BREEN

One is not particular about personal appearance when there is an army at ones heels and a price of a thousand pounds on ones head

BRENDAN BEHAN


"Fetch me a Parabellum and a couple-hundred shells;
Lead me to the 'Murder Gang' and we'll blow them all to Hell;
For just today I heard them say how Treacy met defeat,
How lovely Sean is dead and gone, shot down in Talbot Street


LIAM LYNCH CHIEF OF STAFF ANTI TREATY I R A,

We have declared for an irish republic and will not live under any other law.


The knocklong rescue

THE news had spread through Ireland,
And sprang from shore to shore,
Of such a deed no living man
Has ever heard before,
From out thoes guarded carriages,
Mid a panic stricken throng,
Sean hogan he was rescued,
At the station of knocklong.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something.
— Bobby Sands.

"The first Irishman to join the British army was a bastard!"

Michael Mallin

Padraig Pearse on Easter 1916

We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

We have preserved Ireland's honour and our own. Our deeds of last week are the most splendid in Ireland's history.

People will say things of us now, but we shall be remembered by posterity and blesses by unborn generations.

You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.


"It is madness, but it is glorious madness." - The O'Rahilly

"Believing that the British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland, the presence, in any one generation of Irishmen, of even a respectable minority, ready to die to affirm that truth, makes that Government for ever a usurpation and a crime against human progress."

JAMES CONNOLLY,
Commandant-General, Dublin Division,
Army of the Irish Republic


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beware of the risen people
"And I say to my people's masters: Beware, Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people, Who shall take what ye would not give. Did ye think to conquer the people, Or that Law is stronger than life and than men's desire to be free? We will try it out with you, ye that have harried and held, Ye that have bullied and bribed, .....tyrants, hypocrites, liars!"

-- Patrick Pearse - "The Rebel"

The Sleeping Rose

Barry's dead and Cork's asleep,
McSweeney's cause been sold.
And the blood still lies on Kerry's roads,
Unwashed by winds of old.
The hares cross lonely, barren ways,
Where once columns tramped the night,
And but a few still whisper Tracey's name,
By hearthened fires in dancing light.

The Rose of Munster's dead boys,
She choked upon her blood,
And Barry's men died in her screams,
Trampled down into her mud.
Who cares for Kerry's lonely graves,
The King of Cashel's gone to Clare,
And those impoverished downtrodden fold,
As ever — laid naked, poor and bare.

Barry's dead, does no-one hear?
Kilmicheal's road — what worth?
While Irishmen wear rusty chains,
That beset them by their birth.
Oh! Barry's gone let Munster weep,
His pleading ghost cries in the night,
But the Munster rose will only bloom again,
When Munster men join freedom's fight.
Bobby Sands 1979

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
Bobby Sands