Ireland Declaration of Independence
January 21st, 1919Whereas the Irish people is by right a free people:
- And whereas for seven hundred years the Irish people has never ceased to repudiate and has repeatedly prostested in arms against foreign usurpation:
- And whereas English rule in this country is, and always has been, based upon force and fraud and maintained by military occupation against the declared will of the people:
- And whereas the Irish Republic was proclaimed in Dublin on Easter Monday, 1916, by the Irish Republican Army, acting on the behalf of the Irish people:
- And whereas the Irish people is resolved to secure and maintain its complete independence in order to promote the common weal, to re-establish justice, to provide for future defence, to ensure peace at home and good will with all nations, and to constitute a national policy based upon the people's will, with equal right and equal opportunity for every citizen:
- And whereas at the threshold of a new era ni history the Irish electorate has in the General Election of December, 1918, seized the first occasion to declare by an overwhelming majority its firm allegiance to the Irish Republic:
- Now, therefore, we, the elected Representatives of the ancient Irish people in National Parliament assembled, do, in the name of the Irish nation, ratify the establishment of the Irish Republic and pledge ourselves and our people to make this declaration effective by every means at our command:
- We ordain that the elected Representatives of the Irish people alone have the power to make laws binding on th people of Ireland, and that the Irish Parliament is the only Parliament to which that people will give its allegiance:
- We solemnly declare foreign government in Ireland to be an invasion of our national right which we will never tolerate, and we demand the evacuation of our country by the English Garrison:
- We claim for our national independence the recognition and support of every free nation in the world, and we proclaim that independence to be a condition to international peace hereafter:
- In the name of the Irish People we humbly submit our destiny to Almighty God Who gave our fathers the courage and determination to persevere through long centuries of a ruthless tyranny, and strong in the justice of the cause which they have handed down to us, we ask His Divine blessing on this the last stage of the struggle we have pledged ourselves to carry through to freedom.
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reflected accurately the thoughts which I found rooted far down in
hour. At last, however, came a time when my uncle, M`Vittie of
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provide amply for my wants during the remainder of my life, and
coast of Caithness, which I think the old man must have bestowed
ever a grim sense of humour. Up to this time I had been an
my thoughts into effect, and, leaving all petty and sordid aims,
departure from my English home was somewhat accelerated by the fact
fiery, and I was apt to forget my own strength when enraged.
yelped at me, and folk looked askance when I met them. It ended by
to my northern possession, where I might at last find peace and an
my capital before I went, and so was able to take with me a choice
together with chemicals and such other things as I might need in my
mostly of sand, and extending for rather over two miles round the
a rambling, grey-stone building--when erected or wherefore none
quite good enough for one of my simple tastes. One room was my
sloping roof, I slung the hammock in which I always slept. There
was given over to the old crone who kept house for me. Save the
other side of Fergus Ness, there were no other people for many
behind it were two long barren hills, capped by other loftier ones
was from the land it used to sweep down this with a melancholy
attic window.
I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they
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