Steer the Rear
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IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN:
In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she
Receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us,
Summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret
Revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood,
And through her open military organisations,
The Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army,
Having patiently perfected her discipline,
Having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself,
She now seizes that moment,
And supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies
In Europe, but relying in the first on her own
Strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory.
We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of
Ireland and to the unfettered control of
Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.
The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government
Has not extinguished the right,
Nor can it ever be extinguished except
By the destruction of the Irish people.
In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to
National freedom and sovereignty;
Six times during the past three
Hundred years they have asserted it in arms.
Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in
The face of the world,
We hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent
State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades in arms
To the cause of its freedom,
Of its welfare, and of its exaltation among the nations.
The Irish Republic is entitled to,
And hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman.
The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty,
Equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens,
And declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of
The whole nation and of all its parts,
Cherishing all the children of the nation equally,
And oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien
Government,
Which have divided a minority from the majority in the past.
Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the
Establishment of a permanent National Government,
Representative of the whole people of Ireland and elected by the
Suffrages of all her men and women, the Provisional Government,
Hereby constituted,
Will administer the civil and military
Affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.
We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the
Most High God, Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms,
And we pray that no one who serves that cause
Will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity, or rapine.
In this supreme hour the Irish nation must,
By its valour and discipline,
And by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the
Common good,
Prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.
Signed on behalf of the Provisional Government:
THOMAS J.
CLARKE
SEAN Mac DIARMADA
P.
H.
PEARSE
JAMES CONNOLLY
THOMAS Mac
DONAGH
EAMONN CEANNT
JOSEPH PLUNKETT
In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she
Receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us,
Summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret
Revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood,
And through her open military organisations,
The Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army,
Having patiently perfected her discipline,
Having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself,
She now seizes that moment,
And supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies
In Europe, but relying in the first on her own
Strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory.
We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of
Ireland and to the unfettered control of
Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.
The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government
Has not extinguished the right,
Nor can it ever be extinguished except
By the destruction of the Irish people.
In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to
National freedom and sovereignty;
Six times during the past three
Hundred years they have asserted it in arms.
Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in
The face of the world,
We hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent
State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades in arms
To the cause of its freedom,
Of its welfare, and of its exaltation among the nations.
The Irish Republic is entitled to,
And hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman.
The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty,
Equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens,
And declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of
The whole nation and of all its parts,
Cherishing all the children of the nation equally,
And oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien
Government,
Which have divided a minority from the majority in the past.
Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the
Establishment of a permanent National Government,
Representative of the whole people of Ireland and elected by the
Suffrages of all her men and women, the Provisional Government,
Hereby constituted,
Will administer the civil and military
Affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.
We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the
Most High God, Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms,
And we pray that no one who serves that cause
Will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity, or rapine.
In this supreme hour the Irish nation must,
By its valour and discipline,
And by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the
Common good,
Prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.
Signed on behalf of the Provisional Government:
THOMAS J.
CLARKE
SEAN Mac DIARMADA
P.
H.
PEARSE
JAMES CONNOLLY
THOMAS Mac
DONAGH
EAMONN CEANNT
JOSEPH PLUNKETT