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It is not the will of the majority which ultimately prevails; that which ultimately prevails is the ideal of the noblest of each generation. Happy indeed that race and generation in which the ideal of the noblest and the will of the majority unite.
James Connolly
Thus, in both of its aspects the Week will see a notable re-assertion of the continuity, the vitality, the indomitable persistence and insistence of Irish nationality. Here is a thing that refuses to be crushed.
The Stubborn Gael (1907) - Pádraig Mac Piarais (Patrick Pearse)
Joy for your love and your faith and your courage,
Glowing and glad to the last anguished breath !
Thanks be to God for you, Terence MacSwiney !
Thanks be to God for your life and your death !
Terence McSwiney (1920) - Brian Ó hUigínn (Brian O'Higgins)
"The cause that never dies," the ideal held always by the Gaelic race that once dominated Europe-now held by the heir and successor of that race here, the Irish. The calamities of our history have given a voice to that cause.
Tomás Mac Donnchadha (Thomas MacDonagh)
It is a mistake to call the Nationalism of any period a policy; it is a tradition, a belief, an ideal, an end, but in no sense the means which a policy is most certainly. It has always existed; it shall always exist as long as Ireland rises above the waves of the Atlantic.
W.R.
Alone in my little hut, all alone so, alone I came into the world, alone I shall go from it.
If being alone I have done wrong at all, through the pride of this world, hear my wail as I lament all alone, O God!
The Hermit - A Celtic Miscellany (1972)
One can only imagine the terror when the fatigued British foot and guard regiments saw the red-coated Wild Geese advancing with fixed bayonets towards them, some shouting in Irish ‘Cuimhnígí ar Luimneach’, ‘Remember Limerick!’
The Battle of Fontenoy - The Irish Brigades Abroad
In your contests with British factions the difference between Tory and Whig is, that with the Tory you have a fair stand-up fight, while the Whig lures you into an ambuscade, and, when he has got you at his mercy, calls in the Tory to help him to give you a thrashing.
J.M
The near future is to decide whether this ancient nation is to perish after such a long and glorious struggle, or whether we are to rear for her a race of men and women that will stand, when the time to do so comes, for right against might,
Pádraig Mac Piarais (1911)
The indifferent and unthinking are satisfied with these shallow opinions of slavishness and ignorance, and they drift along on the tide of Anglicisation without a thought for the nobility of their country's past, without a single hope or resolve for the return of her glory
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"Delightful is the land beyond all dreams,
Fairer than aught thine eyes have ever seen.
There all the year the fruit is on the tree,
And all the year the bloom is on the flower.
Oisín in the Land of Youth
THE art of writing, the art of painting, the art of drawing, the art of planning and designing, the art of composing, the art of singing, the art of acting, the art of music, the art of speaking-all these different members of the National Family should work hand in hand with
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No pup am I to play about the feet of ladies fair,
But where the hounds of war are loosed you’ll find me ever there;
No mongrel whelp to watch the fire or crouch beside the hearth,
I stand beside the fords, I scare the champion from his path.
The Boys' Cú Chulainn (1904)
This is the true Irish mysticism, the mysticism which recognises no real dividing line between the seen and the unseen, and to which the imagined experience is often more vivid than the real experience.
Some Aspects of Irish Literature (1912) - Pádraig Mac Piarais
‘Tis better to watch on the tops of the cold bens,
‘Though short of sleep, yet gladsome,
Urging fight against foreign soldiery
Who hold your fathers’ land!
God With You, Heroes of the Gael - Angus Mac Daighre O’Daly (1580)
The student who takes up Irish without a knowledge of Irish history loses the true meaning of the language: his study is but a cult; he may cherish the flower, but he has torn it from its roots.
Irish History (1907) - Pádraig Mac Piarais ( Patrick Pearse)
They plundered all; only one fair treasure
That the spoiler's hand could not break or steal -
'Twas Faith, unswerving, in God thy Saviour,
Thy heart within was its shrine and seal.
Ireland's Faith - Brian Ó hUigínn (Brian O'Higgins)
The Irish are a distinct race, a separate people, capable of directing and ruling themselves. In the dispositions of God’s Providence this island has come into the lawful possession of the Irish people. It is theirs to have, to hold, and to control, to the exclusion of all others
