James Connolly

celticbest

James Connolly 95 years dead today, RIP.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Connolly

ALWAYS REMEMBERED

A great crowd had gathered,outside of Kilmainham,
Their heads all uncovered,they knelt to the ground.
For inside that grim prison,lay a brave Irish soldier,
His life for his country about to lay down

He went to his death like a true son of Ireland,
The firing party he bravely did face.
Then the order ran out,present arms and fire,
James Connolly fell into a ready made grave.

The black flag was hoisted,the cruel deed was over.
Gone was a man who loved Ireland so well,
There was many a sad heart,in Dublin that morning,
When they murdered James Connolly,the Irish rebel

Many years have gone by since that Irish rebellion,
When the guns of Britannia,they loudly did speak,
And the bold I.R.A. they stood shoulder to shoulder,
As the blood from their bodies flowed down Sackville street

The four courts of Dublin,the English bombarded,
The spirit they tried hard to quell,
But above all the dim came the cry no surrender,
Was the voice of James Connolly,the Irish rebel.

Pauleta

Communist

Zebra3

Pauleta wrote: »

Communist

No, he was a socialist.

who the fug

Zebra3 wrote: »

No, he was a socialist.

Fellow traveller then

JohnFalstaff

Here's to you Connolly, my man,
Who cast the last torch on the pile.
You too, had Ireland in your care.

AE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Std3hNmtKfc

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Put whatever definition on him you want, hes a hero in my eyes.

General Zod

pop down to his statue today, pay your respects.

Mr Benevolent

Meh.

upandcumming

celticbest wrote: »

ALWAYS REMEMBERED

Yeah, I think about him every day.

Notorious97

Great man, the country owes him alot, along with the other brave men and women who fought and died for this country.

Link to his articles for anybody interested in reading what he wrote.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/index.htm

Big Nasty

In Before Wolfe Tone :pac::pac::pac:

The Scientician

Connolly Was There

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqv9LpfHg8c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4zt3hOkiwg

Dartz

It reminds me how I feel about Bobby Sand's anniversary.


I couldn't give a Fúck

El Guapo!

His last statement:

Given to his daughter Nora Connolly on eve of his murder by the British

To the Field General Court Martial, held at Dublin Castle, on May 9th, 1916:

I do not wish to make any defence except against charges of wanton cruelty to prisoners. These trifling allegations that have been made, if they record facts that really happened deal only with the almost unavoidable incidents of a hurried uprising against long established authority, and nowhere show evidence of set purpose to wantonly injure unarmed persons.

We went out to break the connection between this country and the British Empire, and to establish an Irish Republic. We believed that the call we then issued to the people of Ireland, was a nobler call, in a holier cause, than any call issued to them during this war, having any connection with the war. We succeeded in proving that Irishmen are ready to die endeavouring 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.

Believing that the British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland, the presence, in any one generation of Irishmen, of even a respectable minority, ready to die to affirm that truth, makes that Government for ever a usurpation and a crime against human progress.

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.



JAMES CONNOLLY,
Commandant-General, Dublin Division,
Army of the Irish Republic