An Claíomh Solaishttp://anclaiomhsolais.com/copyright An Claíomh SolaisWelcome to another in our series of interviews with prominent figures and rising stars in contemporary Irish nationalism! Today we're talking to Patrick Quinlan from the National Party, a rapidly growing and influential political organisation in Ireland, one of the few if not the only such group with actual elected representatives. Read on to learn about engaging with th...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/an-interview-with-patrick-quinlan-from-the-national-party Good afternoon! As part of our ongoing series on rising nationalist stars and voices in Ireland, we're delighted to be able to introduce local community activist, businessman and politician, Rob Carry! We've been talking about his amazing work for and with his community, as well as his aspirations and plans for the future. ACS: ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/an-interview-with-rob-carry Good morning and welcome to another in our series of interviews with prominent figures and rising stars in modern Irish nationalism! Today we're talking to Gavin from a prominent and influential online discussion group, the X SPACES Éire Community. This very active group has at one time or another hosted many well-known nationalist names and continues to grow...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/an-interview-with-gavin-from-offgrid-ireland We are pleased to introduce a new rising star among Irish nationalists - although she needs no introduction for many of you who have attended Irish Ireland protests recently - Ciara Ní Mhainnín! Her uncompromising voice offers a clear challenge to the establishment and a great example for us all to follow. Ciara very kindly took the time to join us in an online...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/a-new-voice-for-ireland There is not much left to say. The Proclamation of the Irish Republic has been adduced in evidence against me as one of the Signatories. I adhere to every statement in the Proclamation. You think it already a dead and buried letter, but it lives, it lives. From minds alight with Ireland’s vivid intellect it sprang; in hearts aflame with Ireland’s mighty love it was conceiv...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-last-address-of-thomas-macdonagh I was once stranded on a desert island with a single companion. When two people are stranded on a desert island they naturally converse. We conversed. We sat on a stony beach and talked for hours. When we had exhausted all the unimportant subjects either of us could think of, we commenced to talk about important subjects. (I have observed that even on a desert island it is not conside...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/from-a-hermitage--december-1913 From An Claidheamh Soluis, July 18, 1903. In a letter to the Freeman’s Journal of Friday last, the Hon. Secretary of the Anti-Emigration Society directs attention to the grim figures revealed by the latest emigration returns issued by the Board of Trade. ‘They show,’ she writes, ‘that 23,401 Irish emigrants left the United ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/on-emigration Anyone who has studied, for any length of time, the life and writing of arch-Fenian Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rosa (Jeremiah O'Donovan-Rossa) must be struck by the sheer contempt in which he held British culture and civilisation at large. To some this might seem to be unfair, a sweeping judgement cast upon both the wicked and the good - what of the art, they as...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/rosa-agus-na-sacsanaigh In this decisive hour of Ireland’s destiny, when the soul of our nation is under foreign threat, we must speak with the certainty of the Men of 1916 and without compromise: there can be no alliance, association, or consultation with any figure who is connected to the British system, or who has worked in concert with the British establishment, MI5, or Crown forces—no matter...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/ireland-must-stand-alone-why-we-must-reject-british-interference-in-our-national-movement At the beginning of July, a protest titled "Newry Against Racism" is set to take place—on the surface, it looks like local groups. But like any sleight of hand, it masks a more insidious truth. This is not a march for unity, justice, or real equality. It is a calculated political move—a direct counter to the recent “Keep Ireland Irish” march, which br...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/newry-against-racism--a-british-government-front-in-disguise A thunderous 'maith thú' to the Irish men and women who gathered in their hundreds in Newry to protest the latest affront to Irish sovereignty: the attempt to declare Newry a so-called “sanctuary city” while her own people face homelessness, poverty, and displacement. This was no ordinary protest. This was the reawakening of the Irish Republican spirit&mdash...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/newry-rises-the-irish-republic-lives-in-her-people Perhaps few people outside of academia will have heard of the Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and perhaps fewer still will have absorbed his ‘ordinary language philosophy’ which revolutionized the way we analyse and make sense of everyday speech. And yet Wittgenstein was to philosophy what his muse Einstein was to physics, two of the most brilliant minds of the ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-philosopher-and-the-birds--ludwig-wittgenstein-and-the-irish-language A quiet transformation is underway in the Six Counties—one that receives far less scrutiny than it deserves. While debates around immigration often focus on Dublin and the broader southern state, a more insidious policy is unfolding under the radar in the North. Mass immigration into the Six Counties is orchestrated and directed by the British government, and while the numbers a...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-silent-plantation-how-mass-immigration-in-the-six-counties-serves-british-strategy Our vision for Ireland Those of us who are nationalists understand what it is that we are fighting for without need for explanation, but the commitment to the intangible goals of Irish nationalism is not inherent to everyone - for a lot of people, quite possibly the majority of people, our views seem irrational. Irrational because, as nature intended, they c...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/towards-the-gaelstt Fact: Dog breeders refuse to call mixed-breed dogs “mongrels” because the term is a derogatory slur. We are Indigenous Irish people—the proud living descendents of ancient Gaelic clans & tribes—our Celtic kind of one story has been racially & culturally homogenised for thousands of years in Ireland. We are not “mongrels!” Eve...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/mac-tre-questions-why-are-indigenous-irish-people-dehumanised-as-mongrels Whispers have grown over Sinn Féin’s postponement of their 2025 Ard Fheis. Some suggest disquiet within the ranks—discontent over the party’s embrace of mass immigration and radical gender policies pushed by elements of the leadership. Perhaps. But the truth is more practical: the Ard Fheis would have clashed with the presidential election. A tactical decision...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-ard-fheis-delay-and-the-crossroads-of-irish-republicanism There are moments when language reveals not just prejudice, but a deeper agenda. When Professor Jane Ohlmeyer of Trinity College Dublin referred to the Irish as “mongrels”, it was not a slip of the tongue. It was an expression of contempt—both for the Irish people and for the very idea of ethnic or cultural cohesion. Let us not dress it up. This is a racial...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-mongrel-remark-is-a-declaration-of-war-on-irish-identity--professor-ohlmeyer-must-be-removed In every movement that lives long enough to taste the air of power, there comes a time when it must look itself in the mirror—and not all who gaze back will like what they see. Sinn Féin—Irish by name, “Ourselves Alone”—was once the whisper of chivalry on the lips of poets and rebels. It was the ghost of Pearse at the GPO, the footstep of...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-final-days-of-sinn-fin There is a sacred thread that runs through Ireland — not carved in stone, or taught in colleges, but sung in the voices of her people. It is the tradition of amhráin náisiúnta, the patriotic songs of our land, that kept the heartbeat of the nation alive through centuries of sorrow and triumph. From the stirring verses of Boolavogue, where Father Mu...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-soul-of-a-nation-in-song There comes a time in every nation’s life when it must ask: Who are we, really? How do we decolonize? In Ireland, that question strikes deep. As for too long, we have confused citizenship with identity, paperwork with belonging. The truth is, being Irish is not a matter of location or legality — it is a matter of dúchas, of native soul, of no longer mimick...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/why-we-must-all-be-irish-irelanders There has been an increasing and unsettling tendency in the discourse surrounding mass immigration to Ireland for people to speak uncritically of "white" and "black" ethnic groups. This deeply misguided categorisation scheme finds its roots among US American racial narratives, and bears little to no relationship to bare reality, let alone Irish culture. N...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/a-question-of-colour Unveiling the True Agenda A frequently cited justification for mass immigration is the claim that migrants are essential for doing "menial" or "dirty" jobs which supposedly the Irish population is unwilling to perform. On the surface, this narrative seems compassionate or pragmatic, but upon closer examination, it reveals troubling underlying assumptions ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-myth-of-jobs-the-irish-wont-do In Ireland, our relationship with the land is as ancient and profound as our most sacred traditions. Long before modern distractions, our ancestors cherished the rhythms and sequences of nature, celebrating them as evidence of the delicate balance—the equilibrium—that breathes life into the very soul of our island. Today, this beautiful relationship is still ours to embrac...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/ire-gaelach-natures-timeless-dancethe-ancient-irish-tradition-of-awakening The phrase "Ireland for the Irish" often evokes strong reactions, yet its underlying meaning is straightforward, logical, and fundamentally just. At its heart, it poses a simple question: If Ireland isn't for the Irish people, then for whom should it be? This is not about exclusion or hostility. It's about affirming the right of the Irish people to prioriti...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/ireland-for-the-irish-why-this-phrase-matters Teastaíonn Éire Ghaelach uaim, Glan mar shruthán sléibhe, Áit ina maireann spiorad Na nGael i gcroí gach lae. Tír mhúnlaithe, faoi chúram Daoine dúchasacha féin, Ár gcine ársa slánaithe, Ár gcultúr faoi bhláth go tr&...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/i-want-an-irish-ireland- In the sacred mist that veils Éirinn's ancient hills, three warriors walk eternal—Seán MacDiarmada, Tom Clarke, and Eamonn Ceannt—borne by a spirit that echoes from the mighty Fianna. Their voices resound softly through glens once guarded by Fionn Mac Cumhaill, their courage a flame kindled in the hearts of those who keep vigil by fires long burning benea...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/echoes-of-the-fianna-a-tribute-to-sen-macdiarmada-tom-clarke-and-eamonn-ceannt This Easter, as we stand upon the sacred soil of our beloved Éire, let us remember not just the rising of Christ, but the rising of a nation — undaunted, unbowed, ever yearning for the light of freedom. For Easter is not merely a feast of the soul — it is a resurrection of our spirit, a call to awaken the blood of our ancestors that flows like fire through our veins...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/easter-message-from-the-fenian-tradition--2025 There is a fire that has never gone out. Though winds have blown across our hills and empires have cast their shadows upon our land, the spirit of Gaelic Ireland remains—a living ember in the hearts of her sons and daughters. It is not a myth or memory. It is blood. It is breath. It is the pulse beneath the skin of the nation, ancient and eternal. Ireland was...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-flame-still-burns-the-unbroken-spirit-of-gaelic-ireland Kilmainham Prison Dublin 3rd May 1916 My Dearest Mother, I have been hoping up to now that it would be possible for me to see you again, but it does not seem possible. Goodbye, dear, dear mother. Through you I say goodbye to Wow-Wow, M.B., Willie, Miss Byrne, Miceal, Cousin Maggie and everyone at St Enda’s. I hope and believe that Willie and the...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/ph-pearse-letters-awaiting-execution-2 Arbour Hill Barracks, Dublin, 1st May 1916. Dearest Mother, You will, I know, have been longing to hear from me. I don't know how much you have heard since the last note I sent you from the G.P.O. On Friday evening the post office was set on fire, and we had to abandon it. We dashed into Moore Street, and remained in the houses in Moore ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/ph-pearse-letters-awaiting-execution-i A marvellous description by Liam Bulfin in United Irishman ar 21 Aibreán 1906. Give us ten such men and English will be a second language in a generation! “This is Pádraig Ó Dálaigh, General Secretary, a southerner. He can work 12 and 15 hours a day. He has a perfect constitution. With care he may live to eat square meals in the 21st century...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/a-marvellous-description-by-liam-bulfin “It was not... a language merely that the Gaelic League was formed to save; it was a nation, it was a civilisation. It has restored the historic continuity of the Irish race. It has asked sacrifice, courage, and resolution of its members, and it has rewarded them by deepening their interest in their national past, by teaching them who...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/organisation “We can fill our minds with Gaelic ideas, and our lives with Gaelic customs, until there is no room for any other... the spark of native life is still there and can be fanned into flame. What we have before us is the great work of building up our nation. No soft road – a hard road, but inspiring and exalting. Irish art and I...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/tradition-and-culture No description of Irish martial arts would be complete without talking about the Heroic Feats! These were awe-inspiring skills and legendary abilities possessed by Irish heroes of old, as recounted in the mythohistories. The hero-feats of Cú Chulainn are perhaps the best recorded so we will mostly focus on them, but there are others, such as the trials that had to be overcome i...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-heroic-feats In the normal course of events, unless you are attempting to control an opponent, it’s not a good idea to move into close combat. Your main advantage is your stick and the length of your stick, your ability to inflict strikes while simultaneously avoiding strikes, using your footwork, but if it becomes a close combat situation a multitude of other elements come into play....http://anclaiomhsolais.com/seanbhata-close-fighting As an Crann Cosanta, from the Tree Guard * All strikes depicted should be considered to have come from the Crann Cosanta unless otherwise specified. All strikes should follow the principle of equilibrio, moving the offhand and arm back when striking forward. These strikes execute an arc, not a straight line, whose angle should be varied. In the dia...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/seanbhata-strikes-and-blocks Crann Cosanta, Tree or Pillar Guard Cú Cosanta, Watchdog Guard A good defensive guard. This allows you to protect your face, arms and entire torso with little more than a wrist movement....http://anclaiomhsolais.com/seanbhata-guards While it is recommended that people who wish to learn seanbhata start with training sticks, it is a good idea to look at real blackthorn options after you become more confident. If you want to fight like a bataire, you need to use their tools. Safety: Under no circumstances should bare blackthorn be used in sparring or for any other reason unless both combatants ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/seanbhata-basics The Irish blackthorn stick or shillelagh has a larger entry than the other items because it occupies a special place in Gaelic martial arts. Not only was it the last unique weapon used by the Irish after they were forbidden to own swords by occupation forces—which means it probably inherited many of the skills associated with Irish swordsmanship—but an enormous a...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/seanbhata Thrown stones The Strung Stone or Champion’s Handstone The Sling The Staff-Sling or Crann Tabail The Black knife or Sgian Dubh Gaelic Long Knife or Scian Fada...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/gaelic-weapons Although it was usually called collar and elbow, it was also called “Coiléar agus Uille” and “Brollaidheacht” as Gaeilge. The latter comes from the word for the front of a shirt and could be translated to “collaring”. In the 19th century, Brollaidheacht was practised throughout the country - "the chief physical sport of the mal...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/collar-and-elbow-wrestling Open hand traditions means unarmed martial arts like boxing, wrestling and so on. There is little strong evidence for surviving unarmed styles of Gaelic martial arts, since for most of history up until the early modern period everyone was armed with short swords at a minimum (also why there are no medieval European unarmed styles). However we do know that the Gaels were expe...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/open-hand-traditions Colourful woven belts called “crios”, pronounced kriss, have been a feature of Irish society since at least the Bronze Age and probably even before that. Roughly similar belts can be found in numerous European countries, but the Irish style of belt is unique in several ways. Traditionally it is woven from wool of six colours, often with a white border. The belts ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-crios-belt “The noblest, the bravest, the wisest of men is helpless when unarmed he meets in the jungle the tiger hungry for blood. Ireland met her tiger. If she gets away from its claws and yet again walks abroad unarmed she will indeed deserve to perish.” The Doctrine of Nationality The Irish Martial Tradition...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-warrior-gael “Ní bhíonn an rath ach mar a mbíonn an smacht There is no success without discipline” Irish seanfhocail The Legend Within Seanbhia, Food of our Forebears ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-physical-gael “A people so gifted must bring in their turn a very precious gift to literature; for is it not the function of literature by making known the real and imagined experiences of gifted souls to reveal to common men all the hidden splendours of the world and to make vocal its silent music? ” PH Pearse We don’t blush t...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/making-and-shaping “Here we were in the very heart of the land of mystery and romance on which so many years before that kindly hand had raised the curtain, bidding us look with eyes of childish wonder. And in that land we strayed long and far; learning to know its broad highways and its quiet bóithríns, its shining spreading plains and its tangled enchant...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/reading “Tír gan Teanga, Tír gan Anam” PH Pearse The one constant echoing down through the generations since An Gorta Mór is an urgent instruction to reclaim our own language, for only by doing so can we effectively establish a space for our own culture to flourish and develop its own richness. It...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-irish-language “We are now free in name. The extent to which we become free in fact and secure our freedom will be the extent to which we become Gaels again.” Michael Collins Dia dhaoibh a chairde! Welcome to the first edition of “Exercises for the Modern Gael”. This modest publication is the work of many patient...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/foreword Exercises for the Modern Gael Welcome to the first edition of Exercises for the Modern Gael! This is a guidebook and an instruction manual on how Irish people, whether at home or abroad, can take positive, proactive and practical steps to reclaim their ancient Gaelic heritage at a pace that suits themselves. We are renewing the int...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/exercises I n-ainm Dé, Dar Críost a Aon-Mhac, Dar Muire a Chaomh-Mháthair, Dar Pádraic Apstal Gaedheal, Dar dílseacht Chuilm Chille, Dar clú ar gcinidh, Dar crú ar sinnsear, Dar dúnmharbhadh Aodha Ruaidh, Dar bás truaighmhéileach Aodha Uí Néill...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/mionn British Rule's Last Stages What the Elections Meant We have seen how in ancient Ireland the people were themselves the guardians of their land, doing all for themselves according to their own laws and customs, as interpreted by the Brehons, which gave them security, prosperity, and national greatness, and how this was upset by the Engl...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/collapse-of-the-terror When they are shut up by Fionn on a sea-girt rock, without chance of escape. A Dialogue (Goll speaks) The end is come; upon this narrow rock To-morrow I must die; Wife of the ruddy cheeks and hair of flame, Leave me to-night and fly. Seek out the camp of Fionn and of his men Upon the westward side; Take ther...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-parting-of-goll-from-his-wife "As to Deirdre, she was a year in the household of Conchobar, after the death of the Sons of Usna. And though it might be a little thing to raise her head or to bring a smile over her lip, never once did she do it through all that space of time.... She took not sufficiency of food or sleep, nor lifted her head from her knee. When people of amusement were sent to her, she woul...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-great-lamentation-of-deirdre-for-the-sons-of-usna In recent days there's been an uproar over the appearance of the Irish tricolour, symbol and standard of the Republic, waving alongside the Union Jack during protest marches in Belfast. Outrage has been expressed in the halls of power from Dáíl Éireann to Stormount to Westminster. And in fairness it is quite a picture – not something you'd see every ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/coolock-and-the-union-jack The Council of the Irish Citizen Army has resolved, after grave and earnest deliberation, to hoist the green flag of Ireland over Liberty Hall, as over a fortress held for Ireland by the arms of Irishmen. This is a momentous decision in the most serious crisis Ireland has witnessed in our day and generation. It will, we are sure, send a thrill through the hearts of every true Irish ma...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-irish-flag THE IRISH REPUBLIC Vol. 1. No. 1 DUBLIN, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 19I6. One Penny “IF THE GERMANS CONQUERED ENGLAND.” In the London “New Statesman” for April 1st, an article is published—“If the Germans Conquered England,” which has the appearance of a very clever piece of satire written by an Irishman. Th...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/irish-war-news What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. Yet they were of a different...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/september-1913 In a short article like this I cannot deal in detail with the above heading, but, with the Editor’s permission, I hope to do so in future issues. Sufficient for the present, it must be to outline what we must do in the coming weeks if we would place the Crown of Freedom on the Dear Dark Head. The first and most essential is to prepare ourselves for the coming Day of Da...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-work-before-us Irish Protestantism remains, at least in its pulpits and politics, as distinctively a belligerent creed as when it first came to Ireland at the point of a Tudor sword. For long it stood entrenched the Church of an alien aristocracy, holding as the first article of establishment the right to regard Ireland as an appanage of conquest, with title-deeds depending, like those of ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/ulster-and-ireland Take my tidings! Stags contend; Snows descend— Summer's end! A chill wind raging; The sun low keeping, Swift to set O'er seas high sweeping. Dull red the fern; Shapes are shadows: Wild geese mourn O'er misty meadows. Keen cold limes Each weaker wing. Icy times&m...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/first-wintersong "Force rules the world, has ruled it, shall rule it" : thus Longfellow, and it would seem that the spirit of the age is witness of the truth of the expression. Physical force is in the ascendant, moral force, like a timid weakling, hides its head before the thunderbolt. It is a pity that it should be so, a thousand pities, but men must gird their souls to face fact...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-doctrine-of-force That week of famed renown, When the boys in green went out to fight The forces of the Crown. With Mausers bold and hearts of gold And the Countess dressed in green And high above the G.P.O. The rebel flag was seen. Then came ten thousand khaki coats Our rebel boys to kill, Before they reached O’Connell Street,...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/who-fears-to-speak-of-easter-week The following text is an extract from John Devoy’s autobiography Recollections of an Irish Rebel. Casement’s mission to Germany had three main objects: First, to secure German military help for Ireland when the opportunity offered. Second, to educate German public opinion on the Irish situation, so that the people would stand behind the Govern...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/irishgerman-treaty-of-1914 We who are old, Old and grey, O so old! Thousands of years, Thousands of years, If all were told: Give to these children, New from the world, Silence and love And the long Dew-dropping hours Of the night, And the stars above. William Butler Yeats ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/a-faery-song The night was dark, and the fight was ended, The moon shone down O’Connell Street, I stood alone, where brave men perished Those men have gone, their God to meet. My only son was shot in Dublin, Fighting for his country bold, He fought for Ireland and Ireland only, The Harp and Shamrock, Green, White and Gold. The fir...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-dying-rebel In the following article Sir Roger Casement, late Consul-General, Rio de Janeiro, who was amongst the first to see the necessity of a National Volunteer movement, refers to the Battle of Clontarf, and pleads for a Volunteer Review on the approaching Centenary. He also points out the necessity of having a National status for Ireland at the Olympic Games. There are two things ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/from-clontarf-to-berlin-national-status-in-sport [A friend with a surly, satirical face flings in our way this banter upon “Irish indolence.” Very well friend; we shame the devil and print your libel. Fas et ab hoste doceri. If there be any seeds of truth in it they will grow, when the chaff and wrappage only make manure for them.] (From Mr. Bramble’s unpublished Arboretum Hibernicum.) Many Iris...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/trees-of-liberty Is it War? The fight of the employees of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company against the attempt of that company to reduce them below the level of their fellow-workers has produced some very interesting developments. Late last week this office was honoured by a visit from a representative of the Irish Party in the person of a gentleman who most pompously announ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-dispute-on-the-docks I leave for the guidance of other Irish Revolutionaries who may tread the path which I have trod this advice, never to treat with the enemy, never to surrender at his mercy, but to fight at a finish. I see nothing gained but grave disaster caused by the surrender which has marked the end of the Irish Insurrection of 1916 – so far at least as Dublin is concerned. The en...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/amonn-ceannts-final-statement From the "Sickbed of Cuchulain." It is I who must go on this journey, Ou great necessity were best for me; Though another should have an equal fame Happier for me could I remain. Happier it were for me to be here, Subject to thee without reproach, Than to go,—though strange it may seem to thee,—...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-lamentation-of-fand-when-she-is-about-to-leave-cuchulain Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are ful...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-second-coming Most Dublin Leaguers will recollect that the Language Procession was the event which marked the coming of the League from out the Catacombs. Previously we had lived and made converts, and done good by stealth. Then suddenly we marched out to the sound of pipes and the beat of the drum, and lo! we were a force to be reckoned with in the social and political life of the country. We spok...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/publicity-a-new-policy "Crom Cruach and his sub-gods twelve," Said Cormac "are but carven treene; The axe that made them, haft or helve, Had worthier of our worship been. "But He who made the tree to grow, And hid in earth the iron-stone, And made the man with mind to know The axe's use, is God alone." Anon to priests...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-burial-of-king-cormac I was interested to read your notes in last week’s CLAIDHEAMH with reference to the question of how far the League has succeeded in making good speakers of Irish. My own opinion is that a really large number of people have acquired a better knowledge of the language than it would have been possible for them to acquire in the same period of a foreign language such as French or Ge...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/are-we-creating-speakers Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh. William Butler Yeats ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/a-drinking-song Daniel O’Connell killed the Irish language politically. In his day the Irish speakers formed the vast majority of the total population. In 1836 Lord Lyndhurst referred to Irish Catholics who sought equality with Protestants as ‘aliens in blood, in religion and in language.’ The movement led by O’Connell depended on its success on the publicity given t...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-political-value-of-the-irish-language O Mor of Moyne in Mag Suil, loss of a bird is no great occasion for grief. If you consider that you yourself must die, is it not an offence against your reason to lament a goose? Daughter of stalwart Donnchad, who, like all women, carry things to excess, are you unacquainted with storytelling, as your hastiness would suggest, when yo...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/on-the-loss-of-a-pet-goose ‘What good were it for me to manufacture perfect iron while my own breast is full of dross? What would it stead me to put properties of land in order, while I am at variance with myself? To speak it in a word: the cultivation of my individual self, here as I am, has from my youth upwards been constantly though dimly my wish and my purpose. Men are so inclined to conten...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/selfeducation [The following bombshell burst at our feet on Monday morning last – F. an Ch.] An irresistible conviction compels me to enter a protest against the tone and matter of two recent articles of yours dealing with plays, players, and acting. I am neither a player nor a playwright, and have no personal interest in the fortunes of any particular play, player, or band of playe...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/about-plays-and-playacting Anbthine mór ar muig Lir A great tempest upon the plain of Ler bold across its high borders Wind has arisen fierce winter has slain us, it has come across the sea The work of the plain — the great plain of Ler — has brought trouble upon our great host. Save something greater than all, no less, what...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/song-of-the-sea The Gaelic League has three policies to choose from at will, the Parliamentarian or deputation-cum-negotiation method; the Sinn Féin or self-reliance method; the physical force method. At present certain people want to restrict us to the use of the first or Parliamentarian method. The attempt must be resisted at all costs. The policy of ‘sanity and commonsense&r...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/politics-and-the-league A love much-enduring through a year is my love, It is grief close-hidden, It is stretching of strength beyond its bounds, It is fills the four quarters of the world; It is the highest height of heaven; It is breaking of the neck, It is battle with a spectre, It is drowning with water, It is a race against heaven, It is cha...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/what-is-love “I think Ireland would be formidable as an armed nation.” – Wolfe Tone. The Irish Volunteers have come to stay. So much is clear to anyone who studies the present National situation. The Volunteers are the key to that situation. Whatever of evil faces us will only be averted by them; whatever of good will only be ensured...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-change I am the wind on the sea; I am a wave of the deep; I am the sound of the sea; I am a stag of seven points; I am a hawk on a cliff; I am a tear of the sun; I am the fairest of herbs; I am a boar for valour; I am a salmon in a pool; I am a lake on a plain; I am a hill of Poetry; I am a battle-waging spear with ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/amorgens-song (In memory of Joseph Mary Plunkett) “Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, It’s with O’Leary in the grave.” Then, Yeats, what gave that Easter dawn A hue so radiantly brave? There was a rain of blood that day, Red rain in gay blue April weather. It blessed the earth till it gave birth To v...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/easter-week Chivalry dies when Imperialism begins. The one must kill the other. A chivalrous people must respect in others what they strive to maintain in themselves. Hence it comes that when the age of empire begins the age of chivalry dies. So it has ever been. Rome the Republic, Rome the Nation, had her knights and knighthood, and the ideals of knighthood are the laws of chivalry. Bu...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/chivalry The man was all shot through that came today Into the barrack square; A soldier I – I am not proud to say We killed him there; They brought him from the prison hospital; To see him in that chair I thought his smile would far more quickly call A man to prayer. Maybe we cannot understand this thing That makes these reb...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/connolly I looked round Belfast last week for the good of my health. I found myself on Tuesday evening at a concert promoted by the Red Branch Hurlers. Michael Cusack was in the chair. The man who could not enjoy the humour of the situation ought to eat his head or keep it between his two ears. Verily, the courage of some people passeth all understanding. Here was to be seen, presidi...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/an-craobh-ruadh-ab Bloomsday is almost upon us, that annual festival cherishing the inscrutable works of James Joyce, whose chief celebrants have always counted themselves among the enlightened and most progressive in an Irish society they yearn to reshape in the image of their muse and toothbrush-moustachioed Sibylline oracle. We can profit further by the comparison, for Joyce's classical...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/bloomsday-dublins-joycean-celebration-of-venereal-disease In response to the welcome given him at Kingstown, John Daly declared that his National spirit was unchanged by his years of suffering, and unequivocally condemned the un-Irish policy of dynamite. His words were as follows:— I went into a British dungeon an Irish Nationalist, and I am proud to say I am an Irish Nationalist still. I have often thought with feelings that...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/john-dalys-first-speeches-on-irish-soil WE are witnessing in Ireland to-day one of the most remarkable national rediscoveries of history. The sudden change that has come over the country the startling progress and triumph of the Sinn Féin movement the transformation of the One Bright Spot into a mightily-resolved nation loudly demanding that privilege of Self-Determination which is being bespoken for every other subm...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/towards-the-republic--the-secret-ireland ROBERT EMMET’s last will and testament providing that no monument shall be erected to his memory until Ireland takes her place among the nations of the earth is the true key to the national aspirations of the Irish people. When Ireland achieves full nationhood, then, and then only, will the epitaph of Robert Emmet be written. It will not be written while Ireland is a province, a...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-outlook These verses, improvised to the hum of the wheel, are flung from girl to girl as they sit spinning. The references are purely personal, and the refrain, which is sung by all the spinners, has no special meaning. First Girl. Mallo lero, and eambo nero, I crossed the wood as the day was dawning; Mallo lero, and eambo nero. Second Girl....http://anclaiomhsolais.com/a-spinningwheel-ditty As our professed intent is the revival of the Irish Language, we need a definite appointment of methods towards that consummation for immediate and persistent practice. A ready and earnest striving must be set afoot to tide over the present time, because everyone giving thought to the business must know that the decade now running is charged with a crisis which shall decide for all me...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/a-plea-for-prose The peaceful night that round me flows, Breaks through your iron prison doors, Free through the world your spirit goes, Forbidden hands are clasping yours. The wind is our confederate. The night has left her doors ajar, We meet beyond earth’s barred gate. Where all the world’s wild Rebels are. Eva Gore-Booth...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/comrades Today we are delighted to interview two of Ireland's up-and-coming political generation, Sophie Roker and Jessica McLoughlin! Congratulations on helping to set up the "Kildare Says No" protest group, now closing in on three months active! What made you decide to get involved with the group to begin with? Sophie: It sparked an...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/an-interview-with-election-candidates-sophie-roker-and-jessica-mcloughlin When they made the road across the bog of Lamrach for Mider, their King. Pile on the soil; thrust on the soil: Red are the oxen around who toil: Heavy the troops that my words obey; Heavy they seem, and yet men are they. Strongly, as piles, are the tree-trunks placed: Red are the wattles above them laced: Tired are your hand...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-song-of-the-fairies I need hardly tell you, coming back to Ireland after an absence of over twelve years, one is bound to notice many and great changes. Old familiar faces seem to have passed away, and some bore upon them those marks of maturity that comes from age and experience. In social and economical conditions there have been many changes, some of them, thank God, for the better, some, I am afraid,...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-turning-of-the-tide I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or a gibe To please a compani...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/easter-1916 In an article from the Irish Times [1], we get a glimpse of the root cause of many if not most of the troubles plaguing us in Ireland today. The question is posed in the manner of a breathless whisper, wide-eyed and astounded at its own daring: "Is the idea of a ‘country’ still useful in a world of climate challenges and AI?". This i...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-psychology-of-treason On the evening of the 18th September, 1867, an incident which was as startling to the people of Manchester, as it was brilliant in conception and daring in its execution, took place almost in the heart of that crowded English city. The memory of that heroic event and its tragic sequel will live in the hearts and minds of Irishmen as long as Croagh Patrick lifts its imperious head to t...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/major-macbride-on-the-manchester-martyrs Noble failure is not vain But hath a victory of its own A bright delectance from the slain Is down the generations thrown. And, more than Beauty understands Has made her lovelier here, it seems; I see white ships that crowd her strands, For mine are all the dead men’s dreams. Francis Ledwidge ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/oconnell-street The Felon has not been established for the mere purpose of speculating, or theorising, or teaching, but for that of acting, too. We feel the fact that it was the absence of anything like effective action that has made every Irish movement, hitherto, a ridiculous, as well as a melancholy, failure—a matter of mirth to our enemies, and of mockery to every people but ourselves. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-first-stepthe-felon-club A 9th century Irish poem Int én bec ro léc feit do rinn guip glanbuidi fo-ceird faíd ós Loch Laíg lon do chraíb charnbuidi The small bird chirp-chirruped: yellow nib, a note-spurt. Blackbird over Lagan water, cl...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-blackbird-by-belfast-loch After working some time as a tinsmith in Portland Prison, where I had been engaged at making oil bottles, cannisters and various kinds of tinware, I was shifted out to the yard to the job of packing the manufactured articles. When changed to this packing job I hadn’t an idea where the tinware I had to pack was being sent to. I merely got orders day by day to pack certa...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/through-the-outside-world Arran of many stags! Her very shoulders washed by ocean's foam; Of companies of hardy men the home, Whose blue spears reddened oft along her crags Where the quick-leaping deer doth roam. Beneath her russet oaks the acorns fall, Cool water in her streams, and, scattered all, Dark berries lurk, like down-dropped hidden tears,...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-isle-of-arran ‘Promise for me, Mitchel, promise for me,’ such was the shout that bursting like a thunderclap upon the thronged courthouse in Green-street on the 27th May, 1848, startled the judge, jury, and entire paraphernalia of British justice in Ireland. The shout came from all parts of the court, and so spontaneous, so vehement and determined was the cry that at first it seemed to ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/inspirations-from-mitchel From the "Sickbed of Cuchulain." Arise, O Champion of Ulster! In joyous health mayest thou awake; Look thou on Macha's King, beloved, Thy heavy slumber likes him not. Behold his shoulder full of brightness, Behold his horns for battle-array, Behold his chariots sweeping the glens, Behold the movement of his ch...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/summons-to-cuchulain When Nationalists look to the spread of education among their countrymen as a help towards their ends, they must be blind to the lesson of the present, for to-day there is less of national spirit than there was twenty years ago, when education was less common. Irishmen of to-day are by the increased facilities for education brought more into contact with the cynical and sceptical idea...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/cosmopolitanism-and-patriotism It seems to be accepted generally as axiomatic that education is a good thing, that no nation can hope to succeed in the struggle for existence without it, that the nation with the best system of education will triumph over those whose system is inferior. The possibilities of education in shaping the future of the human race are often held to be almost infinite. Many moderns seem to l...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-ideal-of-the-state-in-irish-education Mise Éire: Sine mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra Mór mo ghlóir: Mé a rug Cú Chulainn cróga. Mór mo náir: Mo chlann féin a dhíol a máthair. Mór mo phian: Bithnaimhde do mo shíorchiapadh. Mór mo bhrón...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/mise-ire The Irish Citizen Army was founded during the great Dublin Lock-Out of 1913-14, for the purpose of protecting the working class, and of preserving its right of public meeting and free association. The streets of Dublin had been covered by the bodies of helpless men, women, boys and girls brutally batoned by the uniformed bullies of the British Government. Three men had been ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/for-the-citizen-army Ancient Irish Civilization Glories of the Past It was not only by the British armed occupation that Ireland was subdued. It was by means of the destruction, after great effort, of our Gaelic civilization. This destruction brought upon us the loss almost of nationality itself. For the last 100 years or more Ireland has been a nati...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/distinctive-culture We gather from the American newspapers that our countrymen in the United States army and navy have been highly distinguishing themselves in the cause of the war with Spain. This is as it should be and in consonance with all our Irish traditions. We are a fighting race, we are told, and every Irishman is always proud to hear our politicians and journalists tell of our exploits in the f...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-fighting-race ARMY OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC, Headquarters (Dublin Command), 28th April, 1916. To Soldiers. This is the fifth day of the establishment of the Irish Republic, and the flag of our country still floats from the most important buildings in Dublin, and is gallantly protected by the Officers and Irish Soldiers in arms throughout the country. Not a day passes without seeing...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/final-dispatch-from-the-gpo Well, my lords and gentlemen, I don’t think any person present here is surprised at the verdict found against me. I have been prepared for this verdict ever since I was arrested, although I thought it my duty to fight the British government inch by inch. I felt I was sure to be found guilty, since the advisers of the Crown took what the Attorney-General was pleased the other day...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/thomas-clarke-lubys-speech-from-the-dock I and Pangur Bán, my cat, 'Tis a like task we are at; Hunting mice is his delight, Hunting words I sit all night. Better far than praise of men 'Tis to sit with book and pen; Pangur bears me no ill-will, He, too, plies his simple skill. 'Tis a merry thing to see At our tasks how glad are we, ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/pangur-bn Since the 12th century, England has been the unsleeping enemy of Ireland. Generally her tyranny has shown itself, in the form of undisguised oppression. Sometimes, however, she has affected to conciliate and make great concessions to Ireland. Whenever this has been the case, the apparent concession has invariably had the effect of extending her unjust aut...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/82-and-29 We make no apology for devoting both our Irish and our English editorials this week to an event the bearing of which on our own immediate work in the language movement will be obvious to all except the superficial. We mean the inauguration of a Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Baile Átha Cliath. Such an event is in kind as real a manifestation of the new life which ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-future-of-irish-art Poor splendid Poet of the burning eyes And withered hair and godly pallid brow, Low-voiced and shrinking and apart wert thou, And little men thy dreaming could despise. How vain, how vain the laughter of the wise! Before thy Folly’s throne their children bow— For lo ! thy deathless spirit triumphs now, And mortal wrongs and ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/to-james-clarence-mangan We do not know that there has been published in Ireland in our time any book in English more important than “The Resurrection of Hungary.” It may look absurd to write thus of a penny pamphlet, but we are weighing our words. “The Resurrection of Hungary” marks an epoch, because it crystalises into a national policy the doctrines which during the past ten years h...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/hungary-and-ireland Preface to Amráin Sheagháin Chláraigh Mhic Dhomhnaill JOHN CLARACH MacDONNELL, now lying in an humble grave at Charleville, was a prominent man in the Ireland of his day. He was chief ollamh of Munster during several years of his life. He presided at periodical assemblies of the Munster poets. He sang the afflictions of his country in tender verse. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/preface-to-amrin-sheaghin-chlraigh-mhic-dhomhnaill Certain friendly discussions in which we have recently been engaged suggest the fact that very many, not merely of those who would describe themselves simply as ‘sympathisers’ with the language movement, but of those who fully accept the Gaelic League’s programme and are actual workers within the organisation, have nevertheless no adequate, accurate, coherent idea of...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-case-for-irish My mirth and merriment, soft and sweet art thou, Child of the race of Conn art thou; My mirth and merriment, soft and sweet art thou, Of the race of Coll and Conn art thou. My smooth green rush, my laughter sweet, My little plant in the rocky cleft, Were it not for the spell on thy tiny feet Thou wouldst not here be left, Not ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-fairies-lullaby During the past six or seven years I have grown so accustomed to having an organ at my disposal for the expression of my views and whims that I have come to look on an organ, as some men look on tobacco and others on motor-cars and aeroplanes, as among the necessities of life. Use is a second nature, and the growing complexity of civilization adds daily to the list of indispensable th...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/collected-writings-from-an-macaomh--cullenswood-house The following is a verbatim report of the speech delivered to 10,000 people at Ballyjamesduff on Sunday, May 26, 1918 by the Rev M O’Flanagan C.C. Crossna, vice-president, Sinn Féin. The censor refused to allow even one word of the speech to be published. Father O’Flanagan, who received a great ovation, said:— Men of Breffni, for many years&...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/fr-oflanagans-suppressed-speech A very large meeting was held on May 24 at Jenkinstown, County Louth, in furtherance of the Irish National Volunteer movement. Dr. Blake presided and the principal address was delivered by Mr. P. H. Pearse, who represented the Provisional Executive of the Volunteers. Mr. Pearse said that the present generation in Ireland were putting themselves once more in touch with the vi...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/speech-at-jenkinstown-county-louth Owing to the very critical position, all orders given to Irish Volunteers for tomorrow, Easter Sunday, are hereby rescinded, and no parades, marches, or other movements of Irish Volunteers will take place. Each individual Volunteer will obey this order strictly in every particular. EOIN MACNEILL, Chief of Staff, Irish Volunteers. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/countermanding-order-to-volunteers Táid Na Réalta ‘n-a Seasamh Táid na réalta ‘n-a seasamh ar an aer, An ghrian is an ghealach ‘n-a luighe; Tá an fhairrge tráighte gan braon, ‘S níl réim ag an eala mar bhíodh; Tá an cuaichín i mbarraibh na ngéag ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-stars-stand-up DEAR SIR, – In assenting to aid in the formation and conduct of a journal intended to fill the place and take up the mission of The United Irishmen, I think it desirable to make a short statement of the principles and conditions, public and personal on which alone I would desire to be accepted as a partner in this undertaking. I think there is none of them to which you will obje...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-rights-of-ireland The white bloom of the blackthorn, she, The small sweet raspberry-blossom, she; More fair the shy, rare glance of her eye, Than the wealth of the world to me. My heart's pulse, my secret, she, The flower of the fragrant apple, she; A summer glow o'er the winter's snow, 'Twixt Christmas and Easter, she. F...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/she A Presbyterian clergyman of Armagh who appears to take all his mental nourishment through the paps of bigotry, gave expression to some strange feelings regarding the Irish language in a Belfast paper not long ago. He is unacquainted with the language, and the statements he made regarding the extent to which it is spoken, and the value of its literature, showed that he knows nothing ab...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/taking-bigots-to-task Headquarters, Army of the Irish Republic. General Post Office, Dublin. 28th April, 1916, 9.30 a.m. The Forces of the Irish Republic, which was proclaimed in Dublin on Easter Monday, 24th April, have been in possession of the central part of the capital since 12 noon on that day. Up to yesterday afternoon Headquarters was in touch with all the main outlying p...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/final-address “This is Pádraig Ó Dálaigh, General Secretary, a southerner. He can work 12 and 15 hours a day. He has a perfect constitution. With care he may live to eat square meals in the 21st century. He seems to have lived a long time already although his face is under the 30 limit. It is his brain that is old. His heart and all the rest of him are young ... ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-general-secretary-of-the-gaelic-league Ireland, as we have seen, has had the misfortune to provoke many worthy writers to a sad debauch of sentimentalism. It has pleased their fancy especially to picture her as a sphinx, mysterious, elusive, inscrutable. It is impossible to govern her, declare these theorists, because it is impossible to understand her. She is the femme incomprise of modern politics. Her temperament is a m...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-open-secret-of-ireland--chapter-iv-the-ravages-of-unionism Now that the libraries have yielded up so much of the buried treasures of Irish literature and that so much more which has not yet seen the light of day has been surveyed and appraised by competent authorities, one is better able than one was even so recently as ten years ago to fix a value and attach a definition to Ireland’s contribution to the world’s vision of beauty. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/some-aspects-of-irish-literature Recent events in Ireland have gone far to show that the old lines of political demarcation no longer serve to express any reality in the lives of the people. The growth of unrest in the industrial field, the bitterness of industrial conflict, the maimer in which employers of the most varying political and religious faiths combine against the workers in the attempt to starve ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/chapter-ix-reconquest--a-summing-up Mughdhorn has challenged my psychology as un-Irish. At least, he has challenged as un-Irish the psychology of any man that holds the view that it has not been merely for the sake of saving the Irish language we Leaguers have been working all these years. That is a view which I hold and have promulgated. Hence I take it there is question here of my psychology. It is a little ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-psychology-of-a-volunteer Last week we witnessed in Dublin the first political parade of the coming generation. Between twenty-five and thirty thousand children turned out and walked in processional order through the streets of the city, to show the world that British Imperialism had cast no glamour over their young minds. And that in the person of Her Britannic Majesty they recognised only a woman – no ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-coming-generation Now that the progress of the language movement is slowly but gradually forcing the hands of those who have charged themselves with the education of our youth, it behoves all those interested in the nationalising of Irish education to look around them and take advantage of the return of reason just beginning to be apparent in the minds of school managers and others whose avocations bri...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-primary-school-system Here be ghosts that I have raised this Christmastide, ghosts of dead men that have bequeathed a trust to us living men. Ghosts are troublesome things in a house or in a family, as we knew even before Ibsen taught us. There is only one way to appease a ghost. You must do the thing it asks you. The ghosts of a nation sometimes ask very big things; and they must be appeased, whatever the...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/ghosts When we consider the circumscribed area in which Irish is a vernacular speech, and the slight hold it has on the public bodies of the country, and how sadly it is neglected by the State and by State institutions, it requires some courage, some confidence in our cause, to claim for that language the distinction of being the national language of Ireland. Nevertheless it is a c...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-irish-language--the-national-language-of-ireland O’Donovan Rossa was not the greatest man of the Fenian generation, but he was its most typical man. He was the man that to the masses of his countrymen then and since stood most starkly and plainly for the Fenian idea. More lovable and understandable than the cold and enigmatic Stephens, better known than the shy and sensitive Kickham, more human than the scholarly and...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/odonovan-rossa One of the arguments most frequently used by those who oppose or are indifferent to the Irish language, and its claims on the interest and support of Irishmen and women, is that of its ‘usefulness’ in the environment of our day. Many who in other respects claim to be, and are patriotic enough, confess themselves unable to follow those language enthusiasts who would regain ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-language-of-the-outlaw Sgoil Éanna. Teach fheadha chúilinn Ráth Ó Maine, Baile Átha Cliath. Sgoil Gaedhealach le haghaidh Gaedheal Óg. Osglóchar an Sgoil seo an 7ad lá de mhí Mheadhoin an Fhogmhair, 1908. ST. ENDA’S SCHOOL, CULLENSWOOD HOUSE, RATHMINES, DUBLIN. IRISH IRELAND ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/sgoil-anna-advertisement Martin Johnston, of Idaho, sending us some money this week, says it has put some life into the Irish people in Idaho to see that we go in for laying London in ashes. What we do is this: We hold that England and Ireland are at war; that if England was driven to the wall, as Ireland is, she would not scruple setting fire to Dublin and every other Irish city. We advocate fighti...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/burn-london Five months ago I hailed the Irish Volunteers as a development of the language movement and not a departure from it. It is for us of the Gaelic League who are Volunteers to see to this. Because we have become Volunteers we must not cease to be Gaelic Leaguers. Our years in the Gaelic League will have gone for nothing and less than nothing, unless we carry our Gaelic League f...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-volunteers-and-the-language Three ways of government are possible in Ireland—national self-government, government by force, and government by corruption. Twist it and turn it whatever way you please, you will never discover any other possibility. As a matter of fact, the government of Ireland, once it was taken over by the British Parliament, has always been a mixture of force and corruption. The principal...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-alternative-coercion-corruption-or Redmond’s proselytising campaign was opened on Friday night last in this historical old city. The show was well stage; the claque well trained, and the opening chorus given with great éclat. When the strains of that noble and inspiring doggerel, God Save the King, led by that sweet-toned cajoler, ‘Erbert Enery Asquith ceased, a feeling of intense disquietude was rem...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/redmonds-proselytising-campaign If it is unlikely to have any other happy outcome – as we fear it is – the tragi-comedy which ran its absurd course at the Abbey Theatre last week will at least concentrate the attention of Gaels on the absolute necessity for the foundation of an Irish Theatre in the capital of Ireland. Anglo-Ireland has shown at its worst, and a very unlovely worst it is. We can...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-passing-of-angloirish-drama DEAR SIR – I am much pleased to see that you take an interest in Irish Athletics. It is time that a handbook was published with rules, &c., for all Irish games. The English Handbooks of Athletics are very good in their way, but they do not touch on many of the Irish games which, although much practised, are not included in the events on programmes of athletic sports. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/irish-athletics When critics (or his own Doppelganger, which was his severest critic) urged against Mitchel that his glorious wrath was a purely destructive force, a thing splendid in slaying but, unlike Davis’s love, with no fecundity or life-giving beneficence within it, Mitchel had an adequate answer: “…Can you dare to pronounce that the winds, and the lightnings, ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-hearts-desire Nothing would please us better than to keep clear of the vexed question of “priests in politics,” if we could do so without injury to the cause which we are endeavouring to serve. But the question was forced upon us. We saw clearly that the people should be taught to distinguish between the priest as a minister of religion and the priest as a politician before they could b...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/priests-in-politics We are promised a new departure in Irish politics. The “party of action” – meaning the “Fenians” – are to be all at once transformed into constitutionalists and parliamentarians, and are henceforth to devote all their energies to return “Fenian” as representatives of Ireland to the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/fenians-in-parliament Since joining the Kildare Says No group, I have been faced with the glaring reality of what our country has become and the dark path that will follow in coming years. As a mother, all you ever want to do is protect your children from the big bad world and it is a scary prospect to think of what kind of Ireland they will be growing up in. Irrespective of whether people agree ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/written-by-a-young-mother-in-kildare Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen— Though the duties of an Auditor practically begin and end with the delivery of the Inaugural Address, yet the position is, from one point of view, a far from enviable one. Like most posts of honour it is also a post of danger, as on the success or failure of the Inaugural Address depends, to some extent, the success or failure of th...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-intellectual-future-of-the-gael Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot’s fate, Who hangs his head for shame? He’s all a knave or half a slave Who slights his country thus: But a true man, like you, man, Will fill your glass with us. We drin...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-memory-of-the-dead It is five years since the Gaelic League made its first great effort to secure the observation of La Fheile Padraic in a manner expressive of its significance as the national feast-day and befitting the fair and ancient fame of Ireland. To-day the Festival is so firmly established as one of the three or four central events of the year—ranking only behind Christmas and ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/la-fheile-padraic-notes-and-reflections A very happy Easter to you all! Today, as we commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising, let us take a moment to remember those who fought and died for our independence, our freedom, our self determination and our right to choose our own destiny as a people, one hundred and eight years ago. They did the impossible and stood against the mightiest empire the world had ever s...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/easter-2024-address The themes of Early Irish Literature are many of them the themes of modern romantic literature — in lyric poetry, nature and humanity: nature, the joy of natural things, the joy of the earth’ s beauty, the woods and the birds in the woods, the delight of summer, season surpassing, grateful to dwellers in a northern land, the terror of the white winter when not a bell is he...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/notes-for-a-lecture-on-ancient-irish-literature In bringing to a conclusion the series of leading articles which we have devoted to the Bilingual Programme, we may with advantage dwell on certain maxims and methods of modern educationists which are, indeed, applicable to unilingual equally with bilingual teaching, but which in our opinion are especially deserving of the study of every teacher who would make a success of the Bilingu...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-philosophy-of-education In civilised countries, the cities and towns invariably exercise immense influence over the affairs of the nation. The thoughts and deeds of citizens have far more weight than those of the rural population. Especially in the troublous days of transition, when great social changes are taking place – when old beliefs and old formulas are passing away – when ancient...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/a-heroic-capital An old tradition has it that Patrick of the Gael wrested from the Most High a promise that Ireland should never lose the Faith. And Ireland’s fidelity has passed into a proverb among the nations. That old legend refers to the Gael’s unwavering faith in spiritual things, – his tranquil reliance on the unseen Power which rules the Universe. Daring thinkers have arisen ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/an-act-of-faith Since the present contest began it is eighteen years; and eighteen years makes a long period, and large portion in the lifetime of one generation. Since it began, youth has grown grey and manhood gone far to the grave. It must now at length, from sheer necessity, be brought to a quick determination, whether for or against us; or it must cease altogether and forever. It can n...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/resistance The politician we shall always have with us, and it is highly desirable that we should. Every nation has need of politician; Ireland, perhaps, more than most. We could not banish the politician if we would; we would not even if we could. He is a fact, a permanent fact, an inevitable fact. While it is highly desirable that we should have politicians, it is highly undesirable ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-politician-in-the-gaedhealtacht On being asked by the hard-working members of the O’Growney Branch of the Gaelic League to address a few words to you on the occasion of this night’s entertainment, I felt it difficult to refuse, as I have long ago learned how justly the members of this branch appreciate the full significance of the language movement, and how strenuously they labour to attain the objects o...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/some-phases-of-the-language-revival-movement In anticipation of the coming celebration of the centenary of the year 1798 in Ireland next year, the Irishmen of Ireland, England and Scotland are projecting the starting of a new Irish national organization, to be called by the name of “Fuath-na-Gall.” The English meaning of that Irish name is “Hatred of the Stranger,” or ‘hatred of the foreigner,&rsquo...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/fuathnagall With the launching of the Volunteer Movement, we the Irish people not only reassume our manhood, but once again voice our claim to stand among the nations of the world in the full tradition of the Christian civilisation. For a hundred and fourteen years we have suffered the degradation consequent on our close dependence on the most degraded nation of Europe. Perhaps, indeed,...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/civilised-nationhood-reached-through-the-volunteers To be logical, I will begin and end in Irish, but it may be that there are some present who cannot follow me in that language. Ireland is the only country in the civilised world in which a person addressing a gathering of natives of the country has to make a shameful admission that most of his audience will not understand an address delivered in their country’s language. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/lecture-to-carrickonsuir-branch-of-the-gaelic-league I have been asked over and over again when the Hurling was first started in Ireland. I am unable to answer. It is certain that the game is of Irish origin. Lughaigh (anglicised Luy) of the Long Hand established the Tailtean games more than eleven centuries before the birth of Christ. They were funeral games, commemorative of his stepmother, Tailte, a Spanish princess, who nu...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/hurling TUNE – “The Belfast Mountains.” ’Twas on the Belfast mountains I heard a maid complain, Who vexed the sweet June evening with her voice-broken strain, Crying, “Woe is me! Love’s anguish is more than heart can dree, Since young Harry Joy McCracken died on the gallows tree. “At Donegore, right proudly he ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/henry-joy-mccracken--the-belfast-mountains Our holiest love of Ireland was quickened by the shores of Lough Lein. The heaviest woe—the keenest agony recorded in our annals has been the lot of our people since, but those shores remain unchanged; and the vision that met our youthful eye—filling our soul with joy, giving a high and settled purpose to our life by wedding us for ever to the cause of Ireland—may be...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/isle-race-and-doom "An Irish Ireland" is a phrase you will find oft-repeated throughout early 20th century Irish publications such as An Claíomh Solais and other periodicals of the time. In articles, opinion pieces, news reportage, and even in advertising, the Gael was urged to stand united for an Irish Ireland. Further, there are calls for nationalists to join the cause, and ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/an-irish-ireland Ireland occupies a position among the nations of the earth unique in a great variety of its aspects, but in no one particular is this singularity more marked than in the possession of what is known as a ‘physical force party’ – a party, that is to say, whose members are united upon no one point, and agree upon no single principle, except upon the use of physical forc...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/physical-force-in-irish-politics It is never the mass of a people that forms it real and efficient might. It is the men by whom that mass is moved and managed. All the great acts of history have been done by a very few men. Take half a dozen names out of any revolution upon record, and what would have been the result? Not Scotland but Wallace barred and baffled Edward. Not England but Cromwell struck a king...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/clearing-decks Proudly the note of the trumpet is sounding, Loudly the war-cries arise on the gale, Fleetly the steed by Lough Swilly is bounding To join the thick squadrons in Samer’s green vale. On every mountaineer! Strangers to flight and fear; Rush to the standard of dauntless Red Hugh!1 Bonnoght and Gallowglass...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/odonnell-abu Scarcely, if at all, less important than the study and development of the Irish Language is the study and understanding of Irish History. Let not the ready critic accuse us of abandoning the root idea, the single purpose of the Gaelic League. By no means. The preservation of the historical national language as the living language of the country is the one and only object of the League...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/irish-history Taken from Memoirs of General Thomas Francis Meagher by Michael Cavanagh, 1892. At length, on the 9th of July, 1849, the order for the deportation of the State prisoners arrived at Richmond Bridewell. It had been expected, and they were ready. On that morning Meagher addressed the following letter to his friend, John P. Leonard, of Paris. It has a peculiar inter...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/meaghers-final-letter-in-ireland I was lazing the other evening in my garden—even Gaelic Leaguers ‘laze’ sometimes; and I am fortunate—or unfortunate—in possessing a garden full of quaint crannies and ingles which perpetually invite me to dalliance. My favourite nook is one overlooking the smooth lawn which stretches at one side of the house. From it I have a noble view of my e...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/in-my-garden To Mr John Daly 15 Barrington Street Limerick Kilmainham Jail Dublin 11th May 1916 My dear Daly, Just a wee note to bid you goodbye. I expect in a few hours to join Tom and the other heroes in a better world. I have been sentenced to a soldier’s death, to be shot tomorrow morning. I have nothing to say about thi...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/sen-mac-diarmadas-final-letter-before-execution Next week is the Gael’s week. The Language Movement will for eight days dominate Irish life to the exclusion of almost every other public or private interest. In the churches Irish prayers will be offered, Irish hymns will be sung, Irish sermons will be preached. In the streets of the towns and cities dense masses of men and women will march to the stirring strains of ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-stubborn-gael The Dead Who Died For Ireland The dead who died for Ireland! Oh, these are living words To nerve the hearts of patriots— To steel avenging swords— They thrill the soul when spoken, and lowly bend the head With reverence for the memories of all our martyred dea...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-dead-who-died-for-ireland Speaking broadly, every Urban or District Council Chamber in an Irish-speaking or semi-Irish-speaking district is a stronghold of Englishism—or at any rate of un-Irishism—in thought and speech. Last week we urged that the time had come when the movement might reasonably expect that the Boards in the Gaedhealtacht should declare themselves with the Gael to the extent of mak...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/what-the-district-councils-might-do One of the features of the times in Ireland is the prominence, which every year is growing more marked, of Athletics in our daily life. A few years since there was none of the colossal tournaments and few, if any, of the sporting journals which today stare one in the face at every turn. Athleticism, as old as civilisation, has latterly in most parts of the world become almost a necess...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/athletics-and-other-things One glorious characteristic of the true Irish is a constant stumbling-block to the West-Briton – that bastard Bull – and, to the legitimate Bull, a strong abomination. This characteristic is seen in the reluctance, aversion or horror with which the true Irish have been ever brought to place the life or liberty of any man, even a foe, in the power of the laws under which we...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/felonsetting Republished in The Secret History of the Fenian Conspiracy by John Rutherford, 1877. Although Rutherford states that the full manuscript was to appear in print at a later date, these are among the only surviving extracts. Discipline is the essential of revolution. He who needs to be sworn to loyalty is not worth having. Still an oath is requisite to Conspiracy; the ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/general-rules-for-revolution Reproduced in manuscript form in the In Memory of O’Donovan Rossa, Fenian funeral souvenir published in 1915. My husband (O’Donovan Rossa) was as he said of himself in the dock an Irishman since he was born and I can testify that during his last long illness he was the same unconquerable Irishman breathing the same unalterable desire for the absolute fre...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/telegram-to-dublin A language is evolved by a nation for the purpose of expressing its thought. Thus a nation’s speech is in a real sense the creation of that nation. Now, anything created by me is what it is because I, its creator, am what I am. I am what I am because of my history, personal and ancestral. Applying this commonplace of psychology, a nation’s language is what it is because th...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/what-is-a-national-language One great cardinal principle the Gaelic League has set before it. That principle is, that to preserve the National Language of Ireland is the surest and, under all the circumstances, the most practical permanent way to maintain the identity of Ireland as a Nation, to keep unbroken the line of glorious and tragic history that joins her to the past, and to set free and develop the facul...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/essentials The name of O’Donovan Rossa having been drawn into this matter, we give insertion to the following correspondence, in which his view of the “New Departure” is very emphatically expressed: – Executive Office, Fenian Brotherhood, New York, Dec. 13, 1878. ROSSA – Have you anything to do with this ‘New Departure&rsquo...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/on-the-new-departure “London Bridge is broken down, “Grand!” said the little bee. London Bridge is broke down, Fair la-dye!” Our friends in London have sent us some of the London papers, and we give the benefit of them to our readers this week. London Bridge is broken down – so broken that the architects say it will have to be taken dow...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/london-bridge The aims of the Gaelic League resolve themselves in practice into an educational campaign. However sincere men may object to the compelling of Irish children to study their native tongue none can oppose our objection to systems of education which cater for our country in much the same manner as if it were a British colony in Asia or Africa, or as if our identity were one with that of ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/a-matter-of-education The Irish-speaking child is the most important living thing in Ireland to-day. As Gaelic Leaguers we believe that the maintenance of the Irish language as a vernacular depends on the education—in a wide sense—of the Irish-speaking child. It is a noble thing to think that something like 200,000 boys and girls and young men and young women of Irish birth are to-day learning ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-irishspeaking-child IRELAND IS A NATION, not merely for the reason which, in the case of other countries, has been taken as pre-sufficient, that she has claimed at all times, and still claims to be, a nation, but also because, even though no claim were put forward on her behalf, history shows her to be a distinct nation from remotely ancient times. For over a thousand years Ireland possessed, a...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/irelands-case-for-independence The following forms correspondence between Griffith, as editor of Sinn Féin, and Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, a pacifist and Irish nationalist later summarily executed by British forces during the Easter Rising, on a eulogy Griffith wrote for the then-recently deceased Frederick Ryan, an Irish socialist republican where he questioned Ryan’s adherence to nationalism. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/nationalists-and-internationalists We’ve bent too long to braggart wrong, While force our prayers derided; We’ve fought too long, ourselves among, By knaves and clans divided. United now, no more we’ll bow, Foul faction we discard it; And now thank God! our native sod Has native swords to guard it. Like rivers which, o’er valleys rich,...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/native-swords From time to time in the course of these articles I have had occasion to refer to that terrible “silent system” which prevailed in the English convict prisons; these references were more or less casual. A further word of detailed explanation concerning this system and its effects upon the prisoner, where the imprisonment is for a long term of years, may prove int...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-silence-torture Richard Pigott was an opportunist and a man who considered himself considerably more cunning and capable than he, in reality, was. As is often the case with such people, once they enter middle age and their luck, such as it was, runs out, whatever semblance of conviction they once clothed themselves with falls in tatters and their many treacheries are exposed for all the world to see....http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-pigott-forgeries Mr. P. H. Pearse writes:— Mr. Redmond at Wexford and Waterford and Mr. Dillon at Ballaghadereen have declared it to be false that the Irish Party has bargained with the Government to ship off the Irish Volunteers as a body to the war. I accept those assurances, and I grant with Mr. Redmond that, even had the Irish Party so bargained, the thing could not have b...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-issue Ireland possesses many relics of antiquity, round towers, ancient crosses, beehive cells, forts, duns and the like. She possesses old books of rare value, in which her ancient laws and customs are recorded. These treasures are carefully guarded by zealous votaries of antiquity. Not an adverse breath of wind is allowed to blow on the ancient ornaments, or the ancient books. M...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-living-irish-language-a-priceless-treasure-to-the-irish-race A terrible and splendid trust Heartens the host of Inisfail: Their dream is of the swift sword-thrust A lightning glory of the Gael, Croagh Patrick is the place of prayers, And Tara the assembling place: But each sweet wind of Ireland bears The trump of battle on its race. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/ways-of-war The following are An Craoibhin’s words spoken at the Ardchraobh inaugural meeting, 1911:— Just as Yellowstone Park, the national reservation in America, contains all the noble fauna which have disappeared elsewhere, so does our national reservation of the Irish-speaking districts contain for us the invaluable life and traditions of the past. But these di...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/address-to-the-ardchraobh-inaugural-meeting My Dearest M. Before this note reaches you I shall have fallen as a Soldier in the cause of Irish Freedom. I write to bid you a last farewell in this world, and rely on you to pray fervently and get the prayers of the whole community for the repose of my soul. I am quite prepared for the journey. The Priest was with me, and I received Holy Communion this morning. It was only...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/final-letter-to-his-sister-an-irish-nun Commenting on our Irish leader of the week before last – of which our English leader of last week was an expansion – the Irish Peasant falls into pretty much the train of thought in which we were when we penned last week’s homily on the function of literature. ‘Ireland,’ writes our contemporary, ‘for a long time has been afrai...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/literature-life-and-the-oireachtas-competitions As this Saturday is the 12th of July, and as I am supposed to be writing about the North of Ireland in particular, it becomes imperative that I say something about this great and glorious festival. The Anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne is celebrated in Belfast by what is locally known as an Orange Walk. The brethren turn out and take possession of the principal streets ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/july-the-12th As it may be doubted by many whether the society of Fenians is included and denounced among the societies condemned in the Pontifical Constitution, our most holy Father Pius IX, having first taken the opinions of the eminent cardinals, the inquisitors general appointed to guard against heretical perversity in the universal Christian Republic, lest the hearts of the faithful, particula...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/excommunication-of-the-irish-republican-brotherhood The blossoms of early summer whitened the fragrant hedgerows, a cluster of delicate rose bloom here and there breaking through the gleaming whiteness, like a blush on the snowy white cheek of some beautiful young cailín, coyly, yet gladly, tripping towards the curtained portals of the future, behind which love and life are waiting. The gold sun shimmered through the b...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-convicts-dream The Ard-Fheis concerned itself with so many different phases of League activity that one desirous of evaluating its work or underlining its decisions must necessarily take up its Agenda Paper section by section and point by point. We prefer to commence with what appears to us to have been infinitely the most important part of the programme of the Ard-Fheis, as it is infinitely the mos...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-education-question OBJECT. TO RE-ESTABLISH THE INDEPENDENCE OF IRELAND. MEANS. The training of the youth of Ireland, mentally and physically, to achieve this object by teaching scouting and military exercises, Irish history, and the Irish language. DECLARATION. I promise to work for the Independence of Ireland, n...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-constitution-of-the-fianna-as-amended-by-the-ardfheis-1913 In honouring O’Donovan Rossa the workers of Ireland are doing more than merely paying homage to an unconquerable fighter. They are signifying their adhesion to the principle of which Rossa till his latest days was a living embodiment—the principle that the freedom of a people must in the last analysis rest in the hands of that people—that there is no outside force ca...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/why-the-citizen-army-honours-rossa The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic salutes the Citizens of Dublin on the momentous occasion of the proclamation of a SOVEREIGN INDEPENDENT IRISH STATE, now in course of being established by Irishmen in arms. The Republican forces hold the lines taken up at twelve noon on Easter Monday, and nowhere, despite fierce and almost continuous attacks of the British tro...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/manifesto-to-the-citizens-of-dublin - It is one thing to see the enemy’s point of view; it is another thing to fight the enemy. - The Irishman who says he would prefer to be under German rule than under English rule is a slave. - The Irishman who says he would prefer to be under English rule than under German rule is a slave. - The Irishman who knows he should be under Irish rule and under no ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/twenty-plain-facts-for-irishmen (Dedicated to the Citizen Army) Armed for the battle Kneel we before Thee, Bless Thou our banners, God of the brave Ireland is living! Shout we triumphant, Ireland is waking! Hands grasp the sword. Who fights for Ireland God guides his blows home, Who...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/prayer-on-the-battlefield I think I am right in holding that the Volunteer movement has sprung out of the language movement. It is one of a large and thriving family of youngsters of whom, whether it own them or not (and it is chary enough about owning some of them), the Gaelic League is undoubtedly the parent. The League has become a highly respectable member of society; it sits in high places and h...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/vision-and-courage-the-gaelic-leagues-place-in-irish-history The language movement arose in an Ireland in which, generally speaking, ideas had become stereotyped. It was an Ireland in which men followed certain banners by instinct, and shouted battle-cries without thinking of their full significance, and fought sturdily and often heroically without inquiring if their own lives were consistent with the principles for which they fought. Into this...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-critic The yearly return of the Registrar-General has filled all hearts that beat for Ireland with dismay and awakened anew the cry of sorrow throughout the land. Westward still hies the youth, the strength, and the vigour of the land leaving to us who remain behind, only the empty seats and the vacant places that once knew laughing eyes and merry vices. Why this should be, and app...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/emigration--how-to-stay-it Thomas MacDonagh - It would not be seemly for me to go to my doom without trying to express, however inadequately, my sense of the high honour I enjoy in being one of those predestined to die in this generation in the cause of Irish freedom. You will, perhaps, understand this sentiment, for it is one to which an Imperial poet of a bygone age bore immortal testimony “It is sweet ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/speech-at-courtmartial Since Catholic Emancipation allowed Irish Catholics to become members of the British Parliament there has been talk of a spirit which the said members and their satellites of the Leagues and Registration Associations have been pleased to call “Advanced” Nationalism. Now there is no earthly reason why the adjective should be applied, for the objective towards which this spi...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/advanced-nationalism At a time when legislative proposals universally confessed to be of vital concern for the future of Ireland have been put forward, and are awaiting decision, a plan has been deliberately adopted by one of the great English political parties, advocated by the leaders of that party and by its numerous organs in the Press, and brought systematically to bear on English public opinion, to ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/manifesto-of-the-irish-volunteers Next week the eleventh Oireachtas, assembled in Baile Átha Cliath in the face of Gael and Gall, will once more send forth Ireland’s challenge to the Outland Races; will once more sound Ireland’s slogan to her own faint-hearted, but never despairing, children. Who talks of disaster and defeat? Who talks of death and decay? Shall a nation three thousand year...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/misneach To those of us who are growing up boys and girls will probably fall the task of finally settling the ‘Irish question.’ Now is the time, therefore, for us to consider the course we are to follow and the methods to be adopted to ensure success. As we are not skilled enough in the use of platitudes, we interpret Irish freedom literally, and as we are not old enough ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-fianna Men of Ireland:— We have assembled here to-day to welcome to the City Hall of our country’s capital the mortal remains of one of the noble felons of our land. He lived to a great old age. His name had already grown into Irish history when most of us were boys. He was one of those who rose in the dark and evil days to right their native land. He was hated by the enemies of ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/oration-for-jeremiah-odonovan-rossa "Whatever the net result of a different course of history might have been the Celtic temperament must bow to accomplished facts. English influence has prevailed in Ireland, and will in all probability prevail in the future. A country incomparably richer and more populous, which lies between Ireland and the Continent, which has command of the seas, and is the sole external mar...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/conquered Last month two articles were published in the columns of Irish Freedom advocating an active alliance between Democracy and the Separatists. The advice of the writers of these two papers is of the same nature, and so plausible are they, in the form in which they are presented, that they would be likely to convince many that a mutual advantage is to be derived from such an alliance....http://anclaiomhsolais.com/democracy-and-nationality The history of Irish trade, commerce and industry has yet to be written. Ancient Ireland traded extensively with the Roman Empire, Gaul, Spain and Greece. In the Middle Ages Ireland carried on extensive commerce with France, Flanders, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and independent Scotland, Wales and England. The Guild merchants of the great Continental trade centres mostly included...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-economic-oppression-of-ireland In 1843 there were more than a million men of fighting age on the soil of Ireland who supported O’Connell’s demand for Repeal with their voices, and waited for his word to support it with their hands. An English Cabinet Minister surveying the situation, observed that the growth of Irish Population was a menace. Hence, the Famine. In 1845 the potato-blight appeare...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-influence-of-fenianism The Irish Volunteers have stated our objects in the original manifesto. People have professed to find that statement vague and unsatisfactory. If they have mistaken the sense of the statement, the mistake is their own, and not that of the Volunteers. The statement itself is perfectly plain, and meant exactly what it said. It had put it that the primary object of the Irish Vo...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/when-we-fight-we-fight-for This, the closing year of the century, has witnessed a national revival in Ireland that is really gratifying to everybody with a mind capable of appreciating the development of a genuine Gaelic spirit. Unfortunately, there are many, very many, who have still the vaguest and most irrational conception of what the Celtic spirit is, but those who understand the question in its ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-national-revival Originally given the title “How Does She Stand?”. Since I have landed in this country I have not seen in any American newspaper a reference to Ireland that was even approximately accurate in its facts. Personalities the most diverse are confounded; antagonistic movements are spoken of as if they were identical; phases of the same movement are made to app...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/letter-to-the-new-york-evening-journal The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic salutes the Citizens of Dublin on the momentous occasion of the proclamation of a SOVEREIGN INDEPENDENT IRISH STATE, now in course of being established by Irishmen in arms. The Republican forces hold the lines taken up at twelve noon on Easter Monday, and nowhere, despite fierce and almost continuous attacks of the British tro...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-provisional-government-to-the-citizens-of-dublin Pádraig Pearse’s Speech at the Inaugural Meeting of the Irish Volunteers The inaugural meeting of the Irish Volunteers was held on 25th November, 1913, at the Rotunda, Dublin. The bearing of arms is the proudest right and most essential duty of citizenship. Irishmen ceased to be citizens and became a mob when they threw away the arms with which they ha...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/pdraig-pearses-speech-at-the-inaugural-meeting-of-the-irish-volunteers When in Norway a few years ago the question of political separation from Sweden was submitted to a plebiscite, nineteen voted against independence: they were ignorant of history or insensible of its teachings. We have in Ireland to-day many, perhaps a majority, who are not familiar with even the bare outlines of Irish history. They know little or nothing of the origin of the...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/ireland-or-west-britain The success of every human cause must depend, under God, upon the men who work for it – the men whom it has itself produced. High and noble as may be its aims, true and beautiful as may be its principles, a human movement must be carried on by human agents. Providence displays itself through its instruments. Their zeal as shown in energy, their earnestness as shown in ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-individual From the appendix of The Story of the Irish Citizen Army by Seán O’Casey, published 1919. WHY IRISH WORKERS SHOULD NOT JOIN THE NATIONAL VOLUNTEERS! Because many members of the Executive are hostile to the workers. Because it is controlled by the forces that have always opposed Labour. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/first-handbill-issued-by-the-irish-citizen-army Written only a week after the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association (G.A.A.) Possibly written by Michael Cusack, its founder but is unsigned and therefore true authorship is unknown. Sufficient attention is not given in Ireland to muscular development. By force of circumstance we are absorbed with politics and education. The only hope of our young people who have no ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/athletics To the Most Reverend Dr. Nulty, Bishop of Meath. My Lord, I have just published another pamphlet, entitled “For God and Ireland,” and although I know your Lordship cannot agree with my views on polemics, I know also that you are not averse to fair and friendly discussion on any subject interesting to Irishmen; so, lest I might be considered discourteous...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/for-god-and-ireland Think of the patriots whose names are enshrined in the history of Ireland! What would they do to-day? Would they repudiate or endorse England’s claim to rule the land for which they lived and died? Would they make use of the best opportunity that has ever occurred in the history of Ireland for obtaining the Independence of their country—or would they crawl on the...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/irelands-independence-day Resources To Be Developed Mr. de Valera, in a speech he made on February 19, warned the people of Ireland against a life of ease, against living practically ‘the life of the beasts’, which, he fears, they may be tempted to do in Ireland under the Free State. The chance that materialism will take possession of the Irish people is no more likely in...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/building-up-ireland That this Club be called ‘THE DUNGANNON CLUB (NO. 1), BELFAST. That it be open to all Irishmen who endorse its propaganda. That its objects are:— The Building up of Ireland: (a) Intellectually—By educating the people by means of Schools, Classes, Lectures, Publications, etc. The establishment of Librari...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/constitution-of-the-dungannon-clubs MY DEAR SIR – I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your commission inviting me to become a patron of the “Gaelic Athletic Association,” of which you are, it appears, the Hon. Secretary. I accede to your request with the utmost pleasure. One of the most painful, let me assure you, and, at the same time, one of the most frequently recurring reflections that, a...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/letter-to-michael-cusack GENERAL ELECTION MANIFESTO TO THE IRISH PEOPLE THE coming General Election is fraught with vital possibilities for the future of our nation. Ireland is faced with the question whether this generation wills it that she is to march out into the full sunlight of freedom, or is to remain in the shadow of a base imperialism that has brought and ever will bring in its train naught...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/sinn-fin-manifesto-1918 If the writings of Swift and Mitchel were obliterated from the nation’s memory, there would still remain two documents to preach as fiercely as Swift and Mitchel have done what English Government in Ireland meant and means. These seditious documents are issued under the authority of his Britannic Majesty’s Government. They are the British Government’s Census Report o...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/when-the-government-publishes-sedition We have been accused more than once of intolerance and exclusiveness. The accusation is unfounded. We would go out of our way to conciliate any Irishman worth having. On the other hand, it is true, that we have always denounced false notions of conciliation and toleration. We think the adhesion of dishonest politicians a misfortune rather than a gain. Many kinds of weakness too, unfit...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/doubters-and-shams O, my Róisín Dubh, Do not sigh, do not weep! The priests are on the ocean green, They march along the Deep. There’s wine from the royal Pope, Upon the ocean green; And Spanish ale shall give you hope, My Róisín Dubh! My own Rosaleen! Shall glad your heart, shall...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/my-risn-dubh A Laffan’s telegram from Paris, dated January 3rd, 1902 says:— John MacBride, who has been fighting for the Boers, has written a letter of New Year greeting and advice to the John MacBride Club, of Dublin, in the course of which the following passages occur:— There is only one thing can put a new soul in Erin, and that is the merry clash of steel k...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/letter-to-the-john-macbride-club-of-dublin This forms part of a correspondence between James Connolly and Patrick MacManus. This article is responding to a Connolly article, and Connolly later wrote a response to this article. My purpose is not to defend the ideas of Mr. Connolly regarding the formation of a Republican party, nor yet to oppose, but merely to call attention to what I believe would be the result. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/an-irish-republican-parliamentary-party The following letter from Liam Mellows contradicting Chief Flynn’s atrocious falsehood that he had made a confession implicating certain other Irishmen in a plot for a new insurrection in Ireland will speak for itself: New York, November 5, 1917. Editor of THE GAELIC AMERICAN: Sir, – I enclose herewith a copy of a letter which I sent to the Ne...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/mellows-nails-flynns-lies There has been nothing more amazing in the recent past in Ireland than the growth of the Language Movement. Fifteen years ago, the people, who would not grant that the national language was doomed, were counted by units; to-day, there are thousands, even hundreds of thousands, who are determined that it shall not die. Yet it must not be supposed that the attitude of all those numbers ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/some-thoughts-about-the-future-of-irish-literature Friends of the Irish people, you Who’d right your country’s wrong, Will hear from me a word or two; My tale will not be long. In old Iov Laoghaire by the hills My youthful days passed by, That ‘Famine’ came which filled the keels; I saw my father die....http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-soldier-of-fortune Our leading articles for the past three months have been devoted to an examination of the actual situation in the Irish-speaking districts, and to the suggestion of remedies for the deplorable state of affairs revealed by that examination. We have seen that, speaking generally, vernacular Irish continues to die in its home; that it continues to die in spite of the fact (we a...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-englishspeaking-tradition In the world of Irish-Ireland the abject figure of the Seóinín stands prominently before the eyes of all. Conspicuous but undignified he presents the appearance of a scarecrow and performs some of its functions although not so innocuous. Appeal and exhortation have swept round his feet, censure and denunciation have buffeted his breast, contempt and ridicule have beat up...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-seinn A good many years ago, when I was about 15, I was going to a Latin school in Kanturk. One day, as I was on my way from home, going towards that town, I met, at a place called Cáim Caraige, a boy who was considerably bigger and older than I was. He saw some books under my arm. He took one, and looked through some of its pages. It was a Greek book. After a good look at it, he spo...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/is-the-english-language-poisonous Ten months ago a Provisional Committee commenced the Irish Volunteer movement with the sole purpose of securing and defending the Rights and Liberties of the Irish people. The movement on these lines, though thwarted and opposed for a time, obtained the support of the Irish Nation. When the Volunteer movement had become the main factor in the National position, Mr. Redmond d...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/manifesto-against-john-redmond See who comes over the red-blossomed heather, Their green banners kissing the pure mountain air, Heads erect, eyes to front, stepping proudly together, Sure freedom sits throned on each proud spirit there. Down the hill twining, Their blessed steel shining, Like rivers of beauty that flow from each glen, From...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-bold-fenian-men We alluded a few weeks ago to the do-nothings who would do everything when everything was done, who would be “as good as any when the time would come.” But we leave them now in their cowardly cosiness to draw attention to that relation of theirs who’d be “the first man to handle a pike in the morning if he thought it would be of any use.” There ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-first-man-to-handle-a-pike Can we Gaelicise Ireland? Can we counteract the countless influences which are daily turning us into West Britons? Can we succeed, not only in stemming the tide of Anglicisation, but in turning it, and in converting a population of semi-slaves into a Gaelic Nation? These are the questions that should occupy the attention of every one who is seriously interested in Ireland&rs...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/can-we-gaelicise-ireland One paragraph from a letter of Mr. FITZPATRICK, Parish Priest of Skibbereen, published in the Freeman of yesterday, includes within it the whole history of Ireland for the year 1847, and, by anticipation, of the two or three years following: – “The ground continues unsown and uncultivated. There is a mutual distrust between the landlord and...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/next-years-famine RALLY FOR HISTORIC IRELAND. Why have we come? A new paper, and of all places in Cork, why? Because we believe that in Cork genuine nationalists of all parties and sincere lovers of Ireland are crying out in their hearts for a rallying part from which to declare war on the ancient enemy of our race; war on their allies within our gates, who would sell her honour openly...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/editorials-from-fianna-fil Of the Irish Volunteers as an organisation this is no place to speak. Of the causes that led to the founding of that organisation it is yet impossible to speak in such a way as to shut out political discussion; and political discussion should cease when the present duty of the Nation stands clear. But of the Irish Volunteer, of the man for Ireland in 1915, one can speak, as one can sp...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-volunteers-in-1915 Some men, faint-hearted, ever seek Our programme to retouch, And will insist, whene’er they speak That we demand too much. ‘Tis passing strange, yet I declare Such statements give me mirth, For our demands most moderate are, We only want the earth. “Be moderate,” the trimmers cry, Who dread th...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/we-only-want-the-earth The Editors of ‘Fianna’ have been pestering me to write an article for their Christmas Number. Being naturally lazy I hate to write an article, and being naturally good natured I hate to refuse. Of course, while everybody will consent to the accuracy of the first description a few evil disposed persons will refuse to accept the second. So to prove that I am reall...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/an-irish-blackguard It is likely that the Treaty may be beaten but that does not in any way indicate that I am without hope. Ireland is not going to be deprived of her right to live her life in her own way no matter who tries to deny or to defer that right. The Irish people have already decided that the Treaty meets with their approval as being the practical course to adopt at the present time. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/statement-in-defence-of-the-treaty The Auditor of the College Historical Society delivered an address on ‘The Doctrine of Nationality.’ The ‘Freeman’ did not report a word of the address, but it reported very fully what Dr. Hyde said about it. The ‘Irish Times’ gave half-a-column to the auditor and three columns to the speakers – two of whom, in a column-and-a-half of our conte...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-doctrine-of-nationality A meeting of representatives of Irish National societies was held at the rooms of the Celtic Literary Society, Dublin, on Sunday last. Mr. James F. Egan presided, and there were also present delegates from the Young Ireland Society, Cork; Irish National Club, Manchester; Major MacBride Athletic and Literary Club, Michael Dwyer National Club, Robert Emmet ’98 Club, Dublin; Tullam...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/formation-of-cumann-na-ngaedheal Take a map and draw a line on it from the point of Irish Donegal to the tip of Irish Kerry, and you shall have drawn a line through Sligo and Mayo, Galway and Clare and Cork, through the foreign divisions of our divided country wherein the Irish language is a living force, and then read and think. A few weeks ago above the country of the O’Donnells the flag of Red Hugh...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/irish-ireland If England may justly boast of her Stonehenge us the noblest monument of its kind now existing, Ireland can, with equal reason, feel proud of the sepulchral tumulus of New Grange — a monument of human labour only exceeded in grandeur by the tomb of Agamemnon, at Mycene or the pyramids of the Egyptian Kings, to both of which it is so nearly allied in many of its general features ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/new-grange No movement having for its object the social and political advancement of a nation from the tyranny of imported and enforced customs and manners can be regarded as perfect if it has not made adequate provision for the preservation and cultivation of the National pastimes of the people. Voluntary neglect of such pastimes is a sure sign of National decay and of approaching dissolution....http://anclaiomhsolais.com/a-word-about-irish-athletics Men and Women of Kerry, it is a great honour to me to be asked to speak here today – to speak to the great gathering of the men and women of Kerry, of my native county, who have come to this fort in order to show by their presence, and to show to the world that is watching us, that we stand by the same principles that Sir Roger Casement stood by when he mounted that strand. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/oration-at-casement-fort I take it as a great compliment that so many of you, the rising young women of Ireland, who are distinguishing yourselves every day and coming more and more to the front, should give me this opportunity. We older people look to you with great hopes and a great confidence that in your gradual emancipation you are bringing fresh ideas, fresh energies, and above all a great genius for sa...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/women-ideals-and-the-nation To the People of Ireland: Fellow-countrymen – Ireland has had one record for seven hundred years – that of a continuous struggle against English domination. In that struggle our forefathers have, at all times, borne an honourable part. You are bound, by every sacred tie and every noble aspiration, to follow in their footsteps. The issue is now put plainly before ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/ireland-for-the-irish-or-ireland-with-the-english The present generation of Irishmen are privileged to witness the establishment of a newspaper in their national language, a project which has been the dream and hope of Irish scholars and workers for nearly a century. Our appearance at the opening of this Centennial year of 1898 is significant of the brighter days for the old tongue which Thomas Davis predicted would surely come. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/sinn-fin ‘God save all here and bless your work,’ says Rory, of the hill.’ A new year has come and with it the hope that before its course is run, nay, before the roses of its summer have faded and fallen, it may be given to our eyes to behold the first beams of the daybreak dispersing for ever the gloom of our long penitential night of sorrow. If in this ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/for-the-old-land While the Allies are advancing by trenches in France, and the cause of small Nationalities is being daily established on a firmer foundation by the ‘Freeman’s Journal,’ most people forget to note the progress of the War in Ireland. We do not sufficiently take to heart the flaring poster’s command to remember Belgium! That small country with an area one fourth o...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-war-in-ireland Ireland, Ireland, ’fore the wide world, Ireland, Ireland over all! When we fight we’ll fight for Ireland, Answer only Ireland’s call; Plain and mountain, rock and ocean, From the Shannon to the sea. Ireland, Ireland, ’fore the wide world, Ireland one and Ireland free! ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/ireland-over-all We, the boys of Na Fianna Éireann, have started out on a great undertaking. We have pledged ourselves to “work for the Independence of Ireland”; to free our people from the foreign yoke; to raise our country from the ashes of captivity, and to crown her before the nations. I. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/manifesto-to-the-boys-of-ireland OBJECTS. To advance the cause of Irish liberty. To organise Irishwomen in furtherance of this object. To assist in arming and equipping a body of Irishmen for the defence of Ireland. To form a Fund for these purposes to be called “The Defence of Ireland Fun...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/constitution-of-cumann-na-mban The English robbed the Irish, and having pauperized them, made poverty a crime. Then, the Irish were a proud people, and made desperate efforts to hide their poverty, and no greater offense could be given to one of the old stock than to have poverty thrown in his face – ‘twas the worst aspuchaun that could be thrown at him. We belong to the “ould stock;” there ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-crime-of-poverty Eoin Mac Néill is one of the least communicative of men, and he has never, so far as we are aware, confided to anyone how far he anticipated such developments as—say—the National Holiday movement, or the Oireachtas Art Exhibition, or the Woollen Mill at Kilkenny, when he conceived the idea of founding the Gaelic League. The probabilities are that he never allowed hi...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-art-revival Yesterday, in the King’s Bench Division, before the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Andrews, and Mr. Justice Gibson, the magistrates’ case of McBride vs McGovern came on for hearing on a case stated for the opinion of the Court by the magistrates sitting at Dunfanaghy Petty Sessions, County Donegal, who, on the complaint of Head-Constable Hugh McGovern, R.I.C., convicted N...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/arguments-in-niall-mac-giolla-bhrighde-case It will be evident from what we have written in our last two leading articles that a nation’s language – fashioned as it is by the nation itself for the purpose of expressing its thought, conditioned by the nation’s peculiarities, mental and physical, which, in turn, are conditioned by the nation’s past history, expressive of the nation’s point of view, w...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/language-and-nationality Following up on our Gaelic culture series, we are delighted to be able to present to you the rules of Fidchell, the Irish game of kings! This game can be purchased, but it's easy to get started and try it out for yourself. All you need is a 7 x 7 board, which can be squares or pins marked out - even on paper - 16 white or attacker pieces, a king piece, and 8 darker-coloure...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/the-rules-of-fidchell Inis Fail, in noting the appointment of Miss Milligan as Lantern Lecturer to the Gaelic League, takes exception to a recent statement of hers, “that while ‘nationalism’ should include ‘Gaelicism,’ the latter ‘cannot include nationalism as it is bigger.’” This dictum, the writer thinks, goes to show that Miss Milligan is not sound in her ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/nationality-and-gaelicism When we are old (those of us who live to be old) we shall tell our grandchildren of the Christmas of 1915 as the second Christmas which saw the nations at war for the freedom of the seas; as the last Christmas, it may be, which saw Ireland, the gate of the seas, in the keeping of the English. For that is the thing for which men are bleeding today in France and Serbia, in Poland and Me...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/peace-and-the-gael Nationalism is a word which readers will find oft-repeated in the original articles which comprise An Claíomh Solais, and this may lead to some confusion, since great efforts have been made of late to redefine the word “nationalism” and transform its meaning into a pejorative, negative and undesirable one. The interpretation certain partie...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/nationalism In these days of increasing censorship and the repression of independent voices, it's more important than ever for those outside the mainstream media to stay in contact with the public and keep them updated with news and views that matter and that you won't see on TV. The original An Claíomh Solais was a weekly publication which hit the news stands once a...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/join ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/polls ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/petitions Please use the form below to contact us, or reach out at info@anclaiomhsolais.com. ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/contact ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/articles ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/home An Claíomh Solais, or as it was sometimes spelled, An Claidheamh Soluis, was originally an Irish and English language nationalist newspaper published in Ireland from around 1899 to 1932, although there were several years where it wasn't published at all, or it was pu...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/about ...http://anclaiomhsolais.com/news