Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.

I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.

But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic.

Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.