Irish Resistance Quotes

Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.

We went out to break the connection between this country and the British Empire, and to establish an Irish Republic …. We succeeded in proving that Irishmen are ready to die endeavoring to win for Ireland those national rights which the British Government has been asking them to die to win for Belgium. As long as that remains the case, the cause of Irish freedom is safe…. I personally thank God that I have lived to see the day when thousands of Irish men and boys, and hundreds of Irish women and girls, were ready to affirm that truth, and to attest it with their lives if need be.

Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else.

No agency less potent than the red tide of war on Irish soil will ever enable the Irish race to recover its self respect …

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

Edward Bruce, he who was the common ruin of the Gaels and Foreigners of Ireland, was by the Foreigners … killed at Dundalk by dint of fierce fighting …. And never was there a better deed done for the Irish than this … For in Bruce’s time, for three years and a half, falsehood and famine and homicide filled the country, and undoubtedly men ate each other.

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

We intend, Citizen General, to restore to a people ripe for revolution, the independence and liberty for which it clamors. Ireland has groaned under the hateful yoke of England for centuries. The Defenders … are already secretly armed…. Detach Ireland from England, and she will be reduced to a second-rate power.

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

Ireland is a place which must have so great an Army kept up in it, as may make the Irish desist from doing themselves or the English harm by their future Rebellions