Sneak peek.

We are interested in transcribing articles and books on Irish nationalism, provided they are in the public domain, that were originally published in foreign languages. If any fluent speakers wish to volunteer, feel free to contact us via Twitter.

"Davis was the first public man in modern Ireland to realise that the Nation must be rebuilt upon the Gael. Neither Grattan nor Wolfe Tone... realised as Davis did that while it is impossible to undo the Plantations, it is essential to undo the Conquest."

https://cartlann.org/authors/arthur-griffith/thomas-davis-the-thinker-and-teacher/

"We are thinking not how to get rid of the dead, but how to keep the living alive – a matter of very small interest to the body which makes laws for us."

https://cartlann.org/authors/john-mitchel/sanatory-reform/

"Woe betide the man who did not comply with their demands because the poets at once satirised him. Satire was the one thing in primitive days in Ireland which no person could stand."

https://cartlann.org/authors/douglas-hyde/the-development-of-the-irish-poet/

"Empires may crumble; states and cities may pass away; mountains may lie level with the plain, and the lakes and streams of the world run dry; – but the Poor Old Woman will be honoured of men again, the Bright Dark-Haired Rose will again be enthroned."

https://cartlann.org/authors/padraig-pearse/an-act-of-faith/

"We hope that traditional singing and traditional recitation, exactly as we know them, will always be heard in Ireland–by cottage fires in the winter evenings. We would not have them on the stages of great theatres; we would not bring them into the brawl of cities. Not that they are not worthy to be heard in the high places of art; but that they demand for their fitting rendering and their fitting appreciation an attitude of mind on the part both of artist and of audience which is possible only in the light of a turf fire blazing on an earthen floor. They are of the countrysides and for the countrysides; let us keep them in the countrysides. To transplant them were to kill them."

https://cartlann.org/authors/padraig-pearse/traditionalism/

On this day in 1916, John MacBride was executed by a British firing squad in the yard of Kilmainham Gaol. On this anniversary, we post our introduction to our upcoming first book release, The Irish Brigade in South Africa.

https://cartlann.org/2022/05/05/introduction-to-the-irish-brigade-in-south-africa/

"That the first and last principle of the Irish Citizen Army is the avowal that the ownership of Ireland, moral and material, is vested of right in the people of Ireland."

https://cartlann.org/authors/irish-citizen-army/constitution-of-the-irish-citizen-army/

"So our children, who enter school with an abundant store of pure and vivacious Irish, leave it “educated” into ignoramuses who speak no language, who own no country, who have but one ambition in life – to shake the dust of Ireland off their feet as soon as they can."

From "Education in the 'West of Ireland'", a 1905 article by Pádraig Pearse written for the Scottish Gaelic nationalist journal Guth na Bliadhna (Voice of the Year).

https://cartlann.org/authors/padraig-pearse/education-in-the-west-of-ireland/

"It was by the stream
Of the castled Maine,
One Autumn eve, in the Teuton’s land,
That I dreamed this dream
Of the time and reign
Of Cáhal Mór of the Wine red Hand!"

https://cartlann.org/authors/james-clarence-mangan/

"Midnight is red with the plunderer’s fires!
On with O’Donnell, then,
Fight the old fight again,
Sons of Tirconnell all valiant and true!
Make the false Saxon feel
Erin’s avenging steel!
Strike for your country – O’Donnell-aboo!"

https://cartlann.org/authors/michael-joseph-mccann/odonnell-abu/

"For Ireland, for Ireland, for Ireland all,
Our ranks we band in might;
From her four seas we at Ireland’s call
In Ireland’s cause unite,
And march to the hosting of Gael and Gall,
To claim our Freedom’s right."

https://cartlann.org/authors/thomas-macdonagh/marching-song-of-the-irish-volunteers/

"The greatest enthusiasm prevailed amongst the Rebels... Their spirit and determination was wonderful. Nothing could damp the spirits of all who were out... Laughter and fun never deserted them."

https://cartlann.org/authors/liam-mellows/true-story-of-the-galway-insurrection/

"...The ultimate aim for which alone I laboured – to give back to Ireland her national existence – is forgotten or repudiated... There seems to me no more hope for the Irish Cause than for the corpse on the dissecting table."

https://cartlann.org/authors/charles-gavan-duffy/the-corpse-on-the-dissecting-table/

From the infamous resignation letter of MP and leader of Tenant Right, Charles Gavan Duffy, addressed to his constituents of New Ross and published in The Nation. Gavan Duffy would leave Ireland for Australia, despondent at the state of the country.

The League of North and South movement, which he founded in the aftermath of '48, as a big tent coalition with some of the Presbyterian ministry and the Catholic priesthood, and which Duffy hoped to act as a vanguard for Irish nationalism, had collapsed. Duffy was scathing, blaming the cowardice of the Presbyterian ministry and Catholic priesthood, and the treachery of many of the Tenant Right MPs, most famously William Keogh and John Sadleir, who took offices in the British government.

"And now, farewell. We part, in sorrow, indeed, but not in anger. I have no cause of personal complaint. I have had far more confidence and sympathy from the Irish people than I had any just claim to; and the co-operation always of friends who made life useful and pleasant."

Arthur Griffith: Sinn Féin Theorist, a 1922 article published in the French journal La Vie des Peuples by Charles-Marie Garnier has now been translated onto the site.

https://cartlann.org/authors/arthur-griffith/arthur-griffith-sinn-fein-theorist/

"Studying Griffith’s texts allows us to avoid a serious mistake, that of looking at Sinn Féin politics as a mere process of political action among so many others. To borrow the very apt phrase of P. S. O’Hegarty, Sinn Féin is a national philosophy. The mistake can arise because in attacking the dominant party, Sinn Féin appears as a (merely) political opponent. But this no more than a secondary, negligible aspect of Sinn Féin. Its originality, its unique value, is demonstrated by the fact that it can expand to take in every faction and individual, howsoever gifted they may be, so diverse, so opposed even, who speaks in its name."

"We have no national Government—we are ruled by Englishmen, and the servants of Englishmen whose object is the interest of another country, whose instrument is corruption, and whose strength is the weakness of Ireland."

On this day, the 1798 rebellion begun.

https://cartlann.org/authors/united-irishmen/