Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

The great appear great to us.

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour

The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question is a social question. The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people, or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them - the most recent swarm of land thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?

I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time