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"Nó mar Óisín ag osnaí’s ag caoine
D’ éis na Féine go léir dhul fé líoga...
Dlítear d’fhile ann gan tráth
Cia chaill an daille díon bhláth
Is go bhfuil san uair-se dá bhun
Preimh na huaisle da leanmhain
Cia tearc diobh lenu gcuirtear suim
A bhfile fir ná a bhfoghlam."
The Fianna volunteer to defend Ireland from the invasion of the 'World King'.
'Cath Finntrágha' (The Battle of Ventry), 15th century text.
"Loss of identity is a pathology...comparable to amnesia, to forgetting, the nature of which is to plunge beings and things into indistinction. It is like the 'voiceless words' that Nietzsche speaks of....this process by which the subject ceases to exist as such."
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"The authorities too were aware that history was capable of stirring up powerful emotions and took pains to ensure that the national school curriculum contained nothing that might encourage a sense of historical grievance...the exclusion of Irish history from the curriculum was
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"[Herder] insisted that human civilisation depends not on the...universal, but on particular and national characteristics...Governments came and went, administrative rules were made and unmade, but society was an organic accretion of communal experience and past culture."
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"The root of globalism, the assertion that everything is interchangeable and commensurable, is fundamentally anti-ecological...Deterritorialisation is the anti-humanist project par excellence, insofar as it denies man connection to the soil from which his culture springs, it
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Seo an leabhar a bhí i gceist agam. Cén fáth ar baineadh an cineál leabhair seo den chúrsa ardteiste?
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"Revivalism is not an attempt at seamless continuity but more properly an act of 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 that takes the residue of the past not as a sign of finality but, rather, of latency and possibility...The critical intervention is...ultimately, then, the realisation of agency."
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"The individual’s...years of adult life are but a tiny drop in the vast Ocean of Existence...But give this man a Country and establish a link of solidarity between his individual efforts and the efforts of all subsequent generations...reveal to him a special goal."
Mazzini
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#Otd 1693: Irish Brigade of France fought in Battle of Marsaglia, near Turin, Italy (War of Grand Alliance). Catholic French army of Marshal Nicolas Catinat victors over Grand Alliance under Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy. Grand Alliance heavy losses: 10,000 dead or wounded. ⚔️
