5 Aug 2026, 11:31 UTC276 views8 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Message to the Irish People, 3 May, 1916
I and my fellow-signatories believe we have struck the first successful blow for Freedom. The next blow, which we
have no doubt Ireland will strike, will win through. In this belief we die happy.
THOMAS J. CLARKE,
Kilmainham Jail, 3 May, 1916.
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2 Aug 2026, 11:33 UTC277 views8 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
You are longing for the summer,
For the richness and the glory
Of the hedgerows, tall and hoary,
Shading many a pleasant lane;
With their wealth of fragrant blossom,
Where the tiny birds are tripping,
Where the silver drops are dripping
After kindly Irish rain:
You are longing for the bogland where the slanting sunbeams lie,
For the perfume of the clover in the meadows—so am I.
You are longing for the summer,
For th…
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29 Jul 2026, 11:30 UTC≈2,090 views9 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
How often, alas! has the cause of Ireland been betrayed by the selfish passions and reckless impulses of men who with disciplined minds and guarded hearts would have willingly died for her? Men who would have endured rack and gibbet rather than betray Ireland for material gain have sold her interests for the less tangible but no less real selfishness of their own minds. Men whom sensual passions could not have sacrif…
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26 Jul 2026, 11:32 UTC405 views11 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
How great the tale, that there should be,
In God's Son's heart, a place for me!
That on a sinner's lips like mine,
The cross of Jesus Christ should shine!
Christ Jesus, bend me to Thy will,
My feet to urge, my griefs to still;
That even my flesh and blood may be
A temple sanctified to Thee.
No rest, no calm, my soul may win,
Because my body craves to sin,
Till Thou, dear Lord, Thyself impart
Peace to my head, light…
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22 Jul 2026, 11:31 UTC703 views9 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
With the launching of the Volunteer Movement, we the Irish people not only reassume our manhood, but once again voice our claim to stand among the nations of the world in the full tradition of the Christian civilisation. For a hundred and fourteen years we have suffered the degradation consequent on our close dependence on the most degraded nation of Europe. Perhaps, indeed, “Nation” is too proud a name to apply to a…
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19 Jul 2026, 11:32 UTC706 views7 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Naked I saw thee,
O beauty of beauty!
And I blinded my eyes
For fear I should flinch.
I heard thy music,
O sweetness of sweetness!
And I shut my ears
For fear I should fail.
I kissed thy lips,
O sweetness of sweetness!
And I hardened my heart
For fear of my ruin.
I blinded my eyes,
And my ears I shut,
I hardened my heart
And my love I quenched.
I turned my back
On the dream I had shaped,
And to this road before m…
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15 Jul 2026, 11:30 UTC596 views11 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Right noble and valiant defenders of your country and liberty, let us consider with what nations and for what causes we are now about to wage battle. That enemy of his country, that tyrant of his people, and foe of all men, who was formerly driven out of the land, is now returned with the support of foreign troops, and bent on the general ruin of the state. Envious of his country’s welfare, he has brought in a foreig…
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12 Jul 2026, 11:33 UTC549 views8 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
The man is thine, O Emer,
He has broken from me, O noble wife,
No less, the thing that my hand cannot reach,
I am fated to desire it.
Many men were seeking me
Both in shelters and in secret places;
My tryst was never made with them,
Because I myself was high-minded.
Joyless she who gives love to one
Who does not heed her love;
It were better for her to be destroyed
If she be not loved as she loves.
With fifty wome…
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8 Jul 2026, 11:35 UTC≈2,960 views13 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
I, for my part, hold that victory lies not in senseless armour, nor in the vain din of cannon, but in living and courageous souls. Remember how often when you were not so well equipped or disciplined you have overcome greater generals and forces, and even Bagenal himself. The English never could compare with the Irish in spirit, courage or steadfastness in battle, and the Irish who will be fighting against you will b…
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5 Jul 2026, 11:32 UTC497 views10 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
So the foul fiend works: he tires our hearts with fury,
and with evil temptation shakes our innermost hearts.
Keep Christ in your minds, my men, and let your cry re-echo.
Stay stern in your resolve, spurn the lures of the enemy
and seek your safety in the weapons of virtue.
Keep Christ in your minds, my men, and let your cry re-echo.
Firm faith and a blessed zeal will conquer all.
The ancient enemy will fail and sh…
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1 Jul 2026, 11:30 UTC549 views11 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
‘The case is simply this, that Irish is the language of Ireland. It is because it is the language of Ireland, and not because it happens to be a rich and beautiful language, a strong and flexible language, a subtle and delicate language, that we would fain preserve it. If it were a sterile and unlovely speech, weak and unadaptable, rigid and colourless, it would equally be our duty to preserve it, for it is ours, it …
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27 Jun 2026, 11:31 UTC606 views10 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Look back through the pages of our story-not the false tale given to the world by our one enemy and even still believed by Anglicised Irishmen-and in the darkness of every night of woe you will see some heroic, humble figure holding aloft the lantern of hope, inspiring the leal and unselfish to hold out until comes the first glimmering of the dawn, saying to those who will listen that never yet has our cause gone dow…
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