From NOEBIE.net
On this 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, we remember the martyrs who lost their lives in the cause of freedom. Here are some links apropos of the day.
1916 The Irish Rebellion (Documentary from The University of Notre Dame)
Between The Risings (Special Issue of Jacobin Magazine)
The Writings of James Connolly
Our demands most moderate are – We only want the earth!
Where all your rights have become only an accumulated wrong, where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to gather the fruits of their own labours, and, even while they beg, to see things inexorably withdrawn from them – then, surely, it is a braver, a saner and truer thing to be a rebel, in act and in deed, against such circumstances as these, than to tamely accept it, as the natural lot of men.
– Sir Roger Casement
David Rovics sings of the Saint Patrick Battalion, in concert at Belfast.