Ireland's Case for Freedom: Written in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, in the Summer of 1918 |
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... fact that the Irish nation still exists , in spite of the policy of extermination carried on persistently for 360 years , in- cluding , as will be found in this Statement , murder by Act of Par- liament ; " extermination preached by ...
... fact that the Irish nation still exists , in spite of the policy of extermination carried on persistently for 360 years , in- cluding , as will be found in this Statement , murder by Act of Par- liament ; " extermination preached by ...
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... facts show that Ireland has ample financial strength to discharge the duties of an independent State , they in no way weaken her claim to the common justice of restitution of the ex- cessive charges and reparation of wanton damage ...
... facts show that Ireland has ample financial strength to discharge the duties of an independent State , they in no way weaken her claim to the common justice of restitution of the ex- cessive charges and reparation of wanton damage ...
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... fact of their having done so as powerful additional sup- port of Ireland's claim , and the execution of those patriots as crim- inals , in flagrant breach of the international convention of The Hague , 1907 , Clause c , after they had ...
... fact of their having done so as powerful additional sup- port of Ireland's claim , and the execution of those patriots as crim- inals , in flagrant breach of the international convention of The Hague , 1907 , Clause c , after they had ...
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... fact that now , under direct English rule , most of Ireland's harbors are empty and have no com- merce . The necessary liberty to engage in commerce is one of the most important of our objects after independence itself ; because ...
... fact that now , under direct English rule , most of Ireland's harbors are empty and have no com- merce . The necessary liberty to engage in commerce is one of the most important of our objects after independence itself ; because ...
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... facts revealed make intervention incumbent under that law as a duty on civilized States . Of this character is the policy of extermination . That policy im- poses on the Irish a duty of resistance even when there is no pros- pect of ...
... facts revealed make intervention incumbent under that law as a duty on civilized States . Of this character is the policy of extermination . That policy im- poses on the Irish a duty of resistance even when there is no pros- pect of ...
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Page 69 - ... of all vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Page 79 - Resolved, therefore, that, as men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as Protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the penal laws against our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, and that we conceive the measure to be fraught with the happiest consequences to the union and prosperity of the inhabitants of Ireland.
Page 86 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 42 - ... happy where they could find them; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast...
Page 42 - ... ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 46 - real" by the House of Commons, when Wentworth was about to be impeached, was one which has been supposed to refer to the treatment of the Galway jury, " that jurors, who gave their verdict according to their consciences, were censured in the Castle Chamber, in great fines, sometimes pilloried, with loss of ears, and bored through the tongue, and sometimes marked in the forehead with an iron, with other infamous punishments."!
Page 105 - From Queen Elizabeth's reign until the Union the various commercial confraternities of Great Britain never for a moment relaxed their relentless grip on the trades of Ireland. One by one, each of our nascent industries was either strangled in its birth, or handed over, gagged and bound, to the jealous custody of the rival interests in England, until at last every fountain of wealth was hermetically sealed, and even the traditions of commercial enterprise have perished through desuetude.
Page 112 - It is a simple and unexaggerated statement of the fact, that, in the entire history of representative government there is no instance of corruption having been applied on so large a scale, and with such audacious effrontery.
Page 55 - At the end of six years, I can set down these things calmly; but to see them might have driven a wise man mad. There is no need to recount how the Assistant Barristers and Sheriffs, aided by the Police, tore down the roof-trees and ploughed up the hearths of village after village — how the Quarter...
Page 55 - I speak it deliberately — we have made it the most degraded and the most miserable country in the world...