Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

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

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

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.

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

We who hold his (Wolfe Tone) principles believe that any movement which would successfully grapple with the problem of national freedom must draw its inspiration not from the mouldering records of the past, but from the glowing hopes of the living present, the vast possibilities of the mighty future.

There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.