DEMOCRACY AND CLASS STRUGGLE PUBLISH THIS SPEECH FROM SEAN DOYLE FROM 2014 AT THE GRAVESIDE OF THE EXECUTED IRISH LEADERS OF 1916.
TODAY ON THE 12TH MAY WE REMEMBER THE EXECUTION OF JAMES CONNOLLY A 100 YEARS AGO BY SOMEBODY WHO IS A LIVING EMBODIMENT OF JAMES CONNOLLY'S IDEALS COMRADE SEAN DOYLE.
FREE SEAN DOYLE NOW !
IT IS A GREAT HONOUR AND PRIVILEGE FOR ME TO SPEAK TO YOU AT THE GRAVESIDE OF THE EXECUTED LEADERS OF 1916.AS WE ARE ALL MINDFUL AT THIS TIME IN ENGLAND OF BANQUETS AND BALLS THE LATTER MIGHT BE THE MORE APPROPRIATE DESCRIPTION AS TO WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED FROM A SOCIALIST REPUBLICAN VIEWPOINT.
WE WILL NEVER RECOGNISE MONARCHY IT IS ACCEPTANCE OF CLASS DISTINCTION AND SUBJECTION TO SERVITUDE.
AS FOR MICHAEL D’S COMMENT THAT WE LIVE IN THE SHELTER OF OUR NEIGHBOURS IMPLIES PROTECTED SHIELDED NURTURED FROM HARM.
ASK THOSE IN THE STILL OCCUPIED SIX COUNTIES. ASK THE PRISONERS IN MAGHABERRY OR THOSE SELECTED ON THE STREETS FOR SELECTIVE INTERNMENT ABOUT NEIGHBOURLY SHELTER.WHAT HISTORY IS HE READING?
DEFINITELY NOT IRISH OVER THE LAST 800 YEARS! THAT IS WHY I FEEL COMPELLED TODAY TO TRUTHFULLY RECALL PART OF OUR HISTORY AND THOSE WHO SERVED FAITHFULLY THE SOCIALIST REPUBLICAN CAUSE DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS ALL LINKS IN THIS CHAIN OF INSPIRATION TO INSPIRE FUEL AND GUIDE US TO OUR DESTINY.
THE LINKS THE REVISIONISTS ARE DETERMINED TO BREAK, THE VERY ESSENCE OF OUR BEING WHICH TRANSCENDS ALL ADVERSARY. OUR VISION OF A JUST EQUAL SOCIETY WILL NOT BE BLINDED OR DENIED TO OUR CHILDREN BY THOSE FALSE PROPHETS WHOM HAVE SOLD THEIR SOULS FOR GREED AND BETRAYED THE TRUST AND SACRIFICES OF OUR DEAD GENERATION OUR HISTORICAL CHAIN OF TRUTH.
ON EASTER MONDAY 24TH OF APRIL 1916 AT 12.45 WHEN PADRAIC PEARSE READ THE PROCLAMATION OUTSIDE THE GPO THOMAS J CLARKE WAS AT HIS SIDE THE FENIAN VETERAN OF 58 YEARS PERCEIVED AS THE FATHER OF THE REVOLUTION THE LIVING LINK WITH 1867 WHEN THE PREVIOUS PROCLAMATION WAS PUBLISHED IN THE LONDON TIMES ON THE 5TH OF MARCH 1867 TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE GENOCIDE OF 1847 TITLED “THE IRISH PEOPLE TO THE WORLD”.
“HISTORY BEARS TESTIMONY TO THE INTENSITY OF OUR SUFFERINGS—OUR WAR IS AGAINST THE ARISTOCRATIC LOCUSTS, WHETHER ENGLISH OR IRISH, WHO HAVE EATEN THE VERDURE OF OUR FIELDS-AGAINST THE ARISTOCRATIC LEECHES WHO HAVE DRAINED ALIKE, OUR BLOOD, AND THEIRS, REPUBLICANS OF THE ENTIRE WORLD OUR CAUSE IS YOUR CAUSE—AVENGE YOURSELVES—HEREWITH WE PROCLAIM THE IRISH REPUBLIC”.
NO DOUBT PENNED IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENOCIDE AND BELIEF THAT THE WORLD AND OUR HISTORY WOULD NOT ALLOW TRUTH TO BE ITS FIRST VICTIM BUT SADLY TRUTH IS ALWAYS SECONDARY TO GREED IN THIS CURSED FREE MARKET.
THE BRITISH HISTORIAN THOMAS CARLYLE WRITES “IRELAND IS LIKE A HALF STARVED RAT, THAT THE CROSSES THE PATH OF AN ELEPHANT WHAT MUST THE ELEPHANT DO? SQUELCH IT BY HEAVENS SQUELCH IT”.
JOHN MITCHEL SAID “PROVIDENCE BROUGHT THE POTATO BLIGHT BUT BRITAIN CREATED THE FAMINE”. THEY NOT ALONE CREATED IT BUT CAPITALISED ON IT.
DURING THIS STARVATION FOOD WAS EXPORTED FROM 20 PORTS THROUGHOUT IRELAND WHILE OVER A MILLION PEOPLE DIED IN DITCHES OF STARVATION AND DISEASE. SO CALLED RELIEF SHOPS WERE SET UP BUT NOTHING COULD BE SOLD BELOW MARKET VALUE TO PEOPLE WITH NO MONEY.
WORK SCHEMES WERE STARTED BUT ANY TENANT FARMER WITH MORE THAN HALF AN ACRE COULD NOT APPLY THUS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS GAVE UP THEIR TENANCY THAT THEY MAY FEED THEIR CHILDREN. THE SCHEMES WERE DISCONTINUED AFTER SIX MONTHS ACHIEVING MORE VOLUNTARY DISPOSSESSION THEN THEY HAD BY EVICTIONS. 734,000 PERSONS WERE DISCHARGED.
THEY WERE NOW AS HELPLESS AS MEN ON A RAFT IN MID OCEAN. BUT HISTORY IS NOT SO RECORDED IN OTHER COUNTRIES, THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST, AND THE GENOCIDE IN RWANDA, OUR COUNTRY, OUR PEOPLE, OUR HISTORY, AND OUR TRUTH GENOCIDE.
“IT IS SAID TO BE FORGOTTEN IS TO DIE TWICE”.
WE MUST MAKE SURE THAT THE TRUTH BE KNOWN AND THEIR MEMORY LIVES ON. A POEM WRITTEN IN 1847 BY JANE WILDE BORN IN COUNTY WEXFORD MOTHER OF OSCAR WILDE TITLED “THE FAMINE YEAR” I WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE ONE VERSE:
“WEARY MEN, WHAT REAP YE—GOLDEN CORN FOR THE STRANGER,
WHAT SOW YE—HUMAN CORPSE THAT AWAIT FOR THE AVENGER,
FAINTING FORMS, ALL HUNGER STRICKEN, WHAT SEE YOU IN THE OFFING,
STATELY SHIPS TO BEAR OUR FOOD AWAY, AMID THE STRANGERS SCOFFING,
THERE’S A PROUD ARRAY OF SOLDIERS—WHAT DO THEY ROUND YOUR DOOR,
THEY GUARD OUR MASTERS’ GRANARIES, FROM THE THIN HANDS OF THE POOR,
PALE MOTHERS, WHEREFORE WEEPING, WOULD TO GOD THAT WE WERE DEAD,
OUR CHILDREN, SWOON BEFORE US, AND WE CANNOT GIVE THEM BREAD”.
I’M QUITE SURE WHEN THEY WROTE THE 1916 PROCLAMATION THEY WERE MINDFULLY AWARE OF THE PAST AND THEIR PART IN THIS LONG TRADITION AND ULTIMATE SACRIFICE PREPARING TO LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR IRISH FREEDOM.
JAMES CONNOLLY GUARDED AND WROTE OF HIS CONCERNS EXTENSIVELY WHILE ALSO INFLUENCING SOME OF HIS COMRADES “WE MEAN TO BE FREE AND IN EVERY ENEMY OF TYRANNY WE RECOGNISE A BROTHER WHEREVER BE HIS BIRTHPLACE.
IN EVERY ENEMY OF FREEDOM WE ALSO RECOGNISE AN ENEMY THOUGH HE WERE AS IRISH AS OUR HILLS THE WHOLE OF IRELAND FOR THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND THEIR PUBLIC PROPERTY TO BE OWNED AND OPERATED AS A NATIONAL HERITAGE BY THE LABOUR OF FREE MEN N A FREE COUNTRY”.
HIS CONCERNS WERE BORNE OUT IN THE COUNTER REVOLUTION OF 1922 WHEN THE NATIVE COLLABORATORS ARMED WITH BRITISH ARTILLERY BOMBARDED AND EXECUTED THE REVOLUTIONARIES. WHEN WORD REACHED AMERICA OF THE EXECUTION OF LIAM MELLOWS IN NEW YORK A MEMORIAL MEETING WAS HELD AT THE IRISH CARMELITE HALL.
MRS MURIEL MC SWINEY WIDOW OF LORD MAYOR OF CORK TERENCE MC SWEENEY DELIVERED THE ADDRESS. SHE SAID “RATHER THAN THAT THEY SHOULD TURN IMPERIALISTS I PREFER TO SEE THEM BOTH DEAD”.
CONNOLLY FIRST MET MELLOWS AT COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ’S HOUSE. HE WAS SO IMPRESSED HE REMARKED TO HIS DAUGHTER NORA “I HAVE MET A REAL MAN”.
EVER SINCE THE COUNTER REVOLUTION OF 1922 MOST WITH FEW EXCEPTIONS EITHER OPTED FOR NATIONAL FREEDOM OR SOCIAL FREEDOM AND IGNORING THE CONNOLLY TWO STRAND APPROACH I BELIEVE TO OUR DETRIMENT.
ONE EXCEPTION WHOM I’M PROUD TO HAVE KNOWN AND WORKED WITH AS A COMRADE AND FRIEND UP TO HIS ASSASSINATION ON THE 5TH OF OCTOBER 1977 WAS THE LATE SEAMUS COSTELLO.
HE BELIEVED IN THE CONNOLLY APPROACH WHICH WAS NOTED I’M PROUD TO SAY BY NORA CONNOLLY O’BRIEN SHE WROTE,” I HAD SO MUCH HOPE IN HIM TO ME HE EXPRESSED HIMSELF SO MUCH ON MY FATHER’S LINE OF THOUGHT THAT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE HAD BEEN A THOROUGH READER OF ALL JAMES CONNOLLY’S WRITINGS.
HE NOT ALONE WAS A FEARLESS SOLDIER BUT A COMPLETE FEARLESS REVOLUTIONARY A POLITICAL SOLDIER READY TO DO BATTLE ON THE STREETS, COUNCIL CHAMBER OR UNION MEETING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND GUIDING PEOPLE TO BELIEVE IN THEIR COLLECTIVE ABILITY TO EMPOWER THEMSELVES AND TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR OWN LIVES AND DESTINY.
THE TASK AHEAD FOR US HAS NO PLACE FOR OLD STYLE LEADERS AND BLIND FOLLOWERS THAT HAS BETRAYED US AND INDEBTED OUR CHILDREN FOR GENERATIONS TO COME TREATED OUR ELDERLY SURPLUS TO REQUIREMENT APPALLING TREATMENT REDUCING HEATING AND LIGHTING ALLOWANCE, CARERS HOURS, TRIPLING OF PRESCRIPTION CHARGES AND A DISMAL HEALTH SERVICE.
OUR YOUTH EMIGRATION OR SLAVE LABOUR A RACE TO THE BOTTOM, DISTRESSED MORTGAGES SOLD AT A PREMIUM TO FOREIGN SPECULATORS, HOME TAX, WATER TAX THE SALE OF SEMI STATE COMPANIES FROM BRITISH SUBJECTS TO TROIKA SUBJECTS UNDERWRITERS FOR THE BANKS, BONDHOLDERS AND SPECULATORS AND THE RICH GAMBLERS OF EUROPE
THE PRESENT COALITION GOVERNMENT OF FINE GAEL AND LABOUR AND THE PREVIOUS FIANNA FAIL AND GREEN COALITION THEIR LEADERSHIP AS IN THE BIG UNIONS ARE SELLING US OUT IMPOVERISHING US AND RAPING OUR COUNTRY AT THE BEHEST OF THE TROIKA. THEIR REWARD IS BIG JOBS IN EUROPE.
WE THE IMPOVERISHED PAY THEIR WAGES AND THEIR PENSIONS WHILE THEY COVER UP DEALS ENJOY JUNKETS AND SUPPRESS TRUTH IN THEIR PRETENCE TO NORMALISE THE OCCUPIED SIX COUNTIES THEY ATTEND MEETINGS AS PART OF THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT UNDER THE PRETEXT IT FUNCTIONS AS A NORMAL ADMINISTRATION WHILE POLICING AND THE PRISON SERVICE IS OPERATING SELECTIVE INTERNMENT AND THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS THAT IS IN BREACH OF HUMAN RIGHTS REGULATIONS.
IN THE WORDS OF WOLFE TONE “UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE IRISH PEOPLE UNITED AND DEMANDED THEIR JUST RIGHTS THAT THE WEALTH OF THE COUNTRY WOULD BE CONTROLLED FROM OUTSIDE OR BE SIPHONED OFF WITH THE WILLING CONNIVANCE OF A SUBSERVIENT IRISH PARLIAMENT.
NOTHING WILL CHANGE UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE IRISH PEOPLE CONTROL THEIR OWN AFFAIRS AND BECAUSE THEIR ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE IS CONSIDERED A FIT SUBJECT FOR BARTER OR SALE BY OUR PUPPET GOVERNMENT.
THE TIME FOR COMPLAINING MOANING AND JAWING ON RADIO AND TV IS OVER. IT IS TIME FOR POSITIVE UNIFIED ACTION. IF IT IS WRONG TO FIGHT FOR A FUTURE FOR OUR CHILDREN FREE FROM THE DEBTS OF BANKS AND SPECULATORS FREE FROM THE GREED OF THIS PREDATOR SOCIETY THEN I AM PROUD TO DO WRONG TO DO RIGHT FOR OUR CHILDREN.
WE MUST HAVE THE COURAGE TO ENGAGE IN ALL ASPECTS OF OUR STRUGGLE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES ORGANISING RESISTANCE BUILDING PEOPLE’S CONFIDENCE IN UNITY OF PURPOSE IN THE FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT THE SYSTEM CANNOT BE REFORMED THAT IT IS TIME FOR CHANGE A NEW SOCIETY DETERMINED BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE AS INSPIRED BY OUR SOCIALIST REPUBLICAN PAST.
THAT IS OUR HISTORY, TOMORROW IS OUR FUTURE BUT TODAY IS A GIFT IT IS THE PRESENT AND OUR ONLY OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE THE OUTCOME OF OUR FUTURE FOR ALL OUR SAKES ÉIRÍGÍ.
FREE SEAN DOYLE
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