Easter Rising 1916
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'We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relents the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.'
James Connolly on the King
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We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.
Connolly on the British King
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'We confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.'
James Connolly
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British Crown forces carried out a terrorist attack in Croke Park
#OnThisDay
100 years ago. The RIC, Auxiliaries and Black and Tans massacred 14 Irish civilians, including 3 children at a Gaelic Football match between Tipperary and Dublin
#BloodySunday1920
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Joseph Plunkett and Grace Gifford got married on this night in 1916, in this Chapel in Kilmainham jail. He faced execution the next morning
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Easter Monday 1916. The Tricolour is raised above the GPO and Pádraig Pearse reads the Proclamation on behalf of the Provisional Government, proclaiming the whole of Ireland as a Sovereign Independent Republic
#EasterRising
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Easter Sunday 1916, the Proclamation of the Irish Republic is printed in Liberty Hall
#EasterRising
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'Cowards die many times; the brave die only once.'
Pádraig Pearse was executed,
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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Robert Emmet led a rebellion against British rule in Dublin
#OnThisDay
in 1803 to establish Ireland as a sovereign independent Republic
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Holy Saturday 1916, Joseph Plunkett writes a note to Grace Gifford with instructions on how to use a gun for her protection.
#EasterRising
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Holy Saturday of 1916. A note from Joseph Plunkett to Grace Gifford leaving instructions on how to use a gun to keep her safe
#EasterRising
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"I am proud to be a rebel and shall cling to my ‘rebellion’ with the last drop of my blood."
Roger Casement was hanged
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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Easter Monday 1916 - Irish Republicans storm the GPO in Dublin, prepared to take on the British Empire at its height to make Ireland a Sovereign and independent Republic. The Easter Rising begins.
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Today we salute Pádraig Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas J. Clarke who were executed for their role in the Easter Rising
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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'We're out for our Republic and to hell with your Free State'.
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Photograph of the women who fought the British Empire during Easter Week, 1916
#EasterRising
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Holy Saturday of 1916. A note from Joseph Plunkett to Grace Gifford leaving instructions on how to use a gun to keep her safe
#EasterRising
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'Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny imposed by the hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the darkest and most ignorant days of our history.'
James Connolly
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'A people mentally poisoned by the adulation of royalty can never attain to that spirit of self-reliant democracy.' - James Connolly
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'It is nothing, to give one's life for Ireland. I'm not the first and maybe I won't be the last. What's my life compared with the cause?'
Kevin Barry was executed
#OnThisDay
in 1920 aged 18 years old.
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The Fenian Rising took place
#OnThisDay
in 1867.
The Fenian Stars and Stripes flag had 32 stars representing the counties and 4 bars representing the provinces of Ireland
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Today we salute Pádraig Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas J. Clarke who were executed for their role in the Easter Rising
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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"Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when living."
#EasterRising
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"While Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible."
Constance Markievicz was born
#OnThisDay
in 1868
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Thomas Clarke pictured in the doorway of his tobacco shop at 75a Parnell Street, Dublin.
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Easter Monday 1916. The Tricolour is raised above the GPO and Pádraig Pearse reads the Proclamation on behalf of the Provisional Government, proclaiming the whole of Ireland as a Sovereign Independent Republic
#EasterRising
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'There is but one ideal – an Ireland ruled, and owned by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea.'- James Connolly
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'Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny imposed by the hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the darkest and most ignorant days of our history.'
James Connolly
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"I am proud to be a rebel and shall cling to my ‘rebellion’ with the last drop of my blood."
Roger Casement was hanged
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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'The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland..'
James Connolly, executed
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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Today we remember Joseph Plunkett, William Pearse, Edward Daly and Michael O'Hanrahan who marched out to face the firing squads, giving their lives for Ireland
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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James Connolly denouncing 'traitors' who welcome British royals to Ireland
#EasterRising
#RoyalVisitIreland
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On Halloween night 1920. Kevin Barry prepared for execution the next morning, with support from his college friends.
'The boys from the college were up outside the gate and they said the Rosary. They also sang the Soldier’s Song, which did me more good than you can imagine.'
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We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland
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'We honour St. Patrick’s Day because in it we see the spiritual conception of the separate identity of the Irish race. On this Festival then our prayer is: Honour to St. Patrick the Irish Apostle, and Freedom to his people.'
James Connolly
#StPatricksDay
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'Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny imposed by the hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the darkest and most ignorant days of our history.'
James Connolly
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Theobald Wolfe Tone, the founding father of Irish Republicanism was born
#OnThisDay
in 1763
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'The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland..'
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"I am proud to be a rebel and shall cling to my ‘rebellion’ with the last drop of my blood."
Roger Casement died for Ireland, hanged in Pentonville prison
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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Today we salute Seán Mac Diarmada and James Connolly who were executed
#OnThisDay
in 1916
#EasterRising
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'The whole history of Ireland is a record of betrayals by politicians and statesmen.'
James Connolly
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Easter Sunday 1916, the Proclamation of the Irish Republic is printed in Liberty Hall.
#EasterRising
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Who fears to speak of Easter Week? That week of famed renown,
When the boys in green went out to fight the forces of the Crown.
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Patrick Rankin from Newry, travelled by bicycle to fight for Ireland's freedom in the 1916 Easter Rising
#EasterRising
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Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of James Connolly in Edinburgh.
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Today we remember Joseph Plunkett, William Pearse, Edward Daly and Michael O'Hanrahan who marched out to face the firing squads, giving their lives for Ireland
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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“I know now what I have always felt, that the Irish nation can never die.''
Sean Mac Diarmada, executed
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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The Easter Rising began
#OnThisDay
in 1916 to establish every inch of Ireland as a sovereign Independent Republic
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Joseph Plunkett married Grace Gifford in Kilmainham Gaol on the eve of his execution
#OnThisDay
in 1916
#EasterRising
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Today is the 100th anniversary of the Crossbarry Ambush when 104 IRA volunteers led by Commandant General Tom Barry attacked and fought their way out of an encirclement of 1,200 British forces against all odds.
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'If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!'
James Connolly, executed
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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“I am very happy I am dying for the glory of God and the honour of Ireland.”
Joseph Plunkett, executed
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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Today we remember Joseph Plunkett, William Pearse, Edward Daly and Michael O'Hanrahan who marched out to face the firing squads, giving their lives for Ireland
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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“I am very happy I am dying for the glory of God and the honour of Ireland.”
Joseph Plunkett was executed
#OnThisDay
in 1916
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The last surviving IRA veteran of the Tan War, Dan Keating died
#OnThisDay
in 2007 aged 105. He attended up to 140 All-Ireland finals. A patron of
@RepublicanSF
he rejected both partition states, giving his only allegiance to the All-Ireland Republic proclaimed in 1916
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'You'll never have peace in this country until the British army and its administration in the six counties is shifted.'
Tom Barry died
#OnThisDay
in 1980
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A young Kevin Barry about to score a try for his college rugby team at Lansdowne Road in 1917. In 1920 he was hanged by the British for taking part in the fight for Irish freedom.
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''I die that the nation may live. Damn your concessions England, we want our country.''
- Sean Mac Diarmada
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Today we remember Éamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin, Seán Heuston and Con Colbert, who were executed
#OnThisDay
in 1916 for their role in the Easter Rising
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"It is nothing, to give one's life for Ireland. I'm not the first and maybe I won't be the last. What's my life compared with the cause?”
Kevin Barry was executed
#OnThisDay
in 1920 aged 18 years old
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'The Orangeman is no more loyal to England than we are. He wants the Union because he imagines that it secures his prosperity; but he is ready to fire on the Union flag the moment it threatens his prosperity.'
P.H. Pearse
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The new statue of Roger Casement in Dún Laoghaire
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On Good Friday of 1916, Roger Casement was captured at Banna Strand, attempting to land arms for the Easter Rising
#EasterRising
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'The Orangeman is no more loyal to England than we are. He wants the Union because he imagines that it secures his prosperity; but he is ready to fire on the Union flag the moment it threatens his prosperity.'
P.H. Pearse
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'We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland!'
Irish Citizen Army pledging to fight for Ireland and Ireland only.
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Fr. Joseph Mallin, the only surviving child of an executed leader of the Easter Rising has died at the age of 104. He was two years old when his father Michael Mallin was executed by firing squad in 1916. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
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Easter Monday 1916. The Tricolour is raised above the GPO and Pádraig Pearse reads the Proclamation on behalf of the Provisional Government, proclaiming the whole of Ireland as a Sovereign Independent Republic
#EasterRising
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'Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny imposed by the hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the darkest and most ignorant days of our history.'
- James Connolly
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Easter Monday 1916. The Tricolour is raised above the GPO and Pádraig Pearse reads the Proclamation on behalf of the Provisional Government, proclaiming the whole of Ireland as a Sovereign Independent Republic
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'Ireland has a history; why should it be suppressed? Ireland has a language; why should it be destroyed? Ireland has a nationality, written even on her physical outlines by the hand of Providence; why close our eyes to the fact?'
Pádraig Mac Piarais
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'We are the voice of an idea which is older than any empire and will outlast every Empire.'
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Holy Saturday of 1916. A note from Joseph Plunkett to Grace Gifford leaving instructions on how to use a gun to keep her safe
#EasterRising
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On Halloween night 1920. Kevin Barry prepared for execution the next morning, with support from his college friends.
'The boys from the college were up outside the gate and they said the Rosary. They also sang the Soldier’s Song, which did me more good than you can imagine.'
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The Easter Rising began
#OnThisDay
in 1916 to establish Ireland as a sovereign Independent Republic.
#EasterRising
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'You'll never have peace in this country until the British army and its administration in the six counties is shifted.'
Tom Barry died
#OnThisDay
in 1980
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Beannachtaí na Cásca oraibh!
Happy Easter to all followers of the page
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'The enemy is within our gates. He teaches our children not to remember, but, to forget Ireland. He banishes our language from the schools.'
Éamonn Ceannt
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Easter Sunday 1916, the Proclamation of the Irish Republic is printed in Liberty Hall
#EasterRising
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'We honour St. Patrick’s Day because in it we see the spiritual conception of the separate identity of the Irish race. On this Festival then our prayer is: Honour to St. Patrick the Irish Apostle, and Freedom to his people.'
James Connolly
#HappyStPatricksDay
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Grace Gifford Plunkett, a lifelong Irish Republican and the widow of 1916 signatory Joseph Plunkett died
#OnThisDay
in 1955
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'You'll never have peace in this country until the British army and its administration in the six counties is shifted.'
Tom Barry
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''When I was a child of ten, I went on my bare knees by my bedside one night and promised God that I should devote my Life to an effort to free my country. I have kept the promise.''
Padraig Mac Piarais
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Terence MacSwiney died for Ireland on hunger strike, on this day 100 years ago.
''It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will conquer."
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Joseph Plunkett and Grace Gifford got married on this night in 1916, on the eve of his execution
#EasterRising
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Roger Casement received his First Holy Communion just hours before being hanged at Pentonville Prison in London
#OnThisDay
in 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising. He was 51 years old.
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James Connolly's daughter Nora recalls the last moments visiting her father along with her mother, just hours before his execution
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Joseph Plunkett and Grace Gifford got married on this night in 1916, on the eve of his execution
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'Ireland belongs to the Irish. We believe, then, that it is the duty of Irishmen to struggle always, never giving in or growing weary, until they have won back their country again.'
Pádraig Mac Piarais
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''A free nation must have complete control over its own harbours, to open them or close them at will, or shut out any commodity, or allow it to enter in, just as it seemed best to suit the well-being of its own people"
James Connolly
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