"...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/

"If any two purposes should go together, they ought to be politics and athletics. A political people we must be; the exigencies of our situation force us into a perpetual war with England. Our politics being essentially national, so should our athletics."

https://cartlann.org/authors/unknown-author/athletics/

"The language of the outlaw gave the Law of God to man; the tongue of those who made bricks without straw was chosen for the shrine of Divine utterance on Earth while the speech of Pharoah lies smitten, silent as the stones of his Pyramids."

https://cartlann.org/authors/roger-casement/the-language-of-the-outlaw/

"Dá uaisle an t-ór is uaisle fá dhó an t-iarann."

Mo Thuairim Féin le Pádraig Mac Piarais, foilsithe mar cholún rialta sa pháipéar ‘The Irish Volunteer’, 1915.

https://cartlann.org/authors/padraig-pearse/mo-thuairim-fein/

"I would not have taken off my coat and gone to this work, if I had not known that we were laying the foundations by this movement for the recovery of our legislative independence."

https://cartlann.org/authors/charles-stewart-parnell/speech-at-galway-24th-october-1880/

Hello and welcome to the launch of Cló Fiann Publishing, a new Irish nationalist publishing house!

Check out our first release, The Irish Brigade in South Africa by Major John MacBride, now available for purchase.

https://clofiann.com/product/the-irish-brigade-in-south-africa/

"Before the Rooinecks get my guns they will have to kill all my Irish." - Commandant S. P. E. Trichard.

https://clofiann.com/product/the-irish-brigade-in-south-africa/

"Literature must be based on living speech... Modern Greece should be an example and a warning. There, owing to the creation of an artificial literary standard, a complete divorce has arisen between the language of the people and the language of the litterateurs." - Is Irish A Living Language? by Pádraig Pearse, 1908.

https://cartlann.org/authors/padraig-pearse/is-irish-a-living-language/

A new PDF release adding a new author to the site, the Home Rule leader Isaac Butt and his 1846 work on Irish national protectionism, Protection To Home Industry.

https://cartlann.org/authors/isaac-butt/protection-to-home-industry/

"We wish that we could quote the whole book. There is not one word of it in which we do not most heartily concur... Enough that we have shown pretty clearly that whatever Ireland wants, it is not ‘Free Trade.’" - John Mitchel

"One Deputy mentioned here about rattling the bones of the dead.... Remember, the day will come – soon, I hope, Free State or otherwise – when those bones shall be lifted as if they were the bones of saints. We won’t let them rattle."

https://cartlann.org/authors/margaret-pearse/margaret-pearses-speech-on-the-treaty/