All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.
James ConnollyThe Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars
James ConnollyOnly the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
James ConnollyI can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time
James Connolly