Join RSF and Commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916 - 2006
Ninety years ago in Dublin, seven men with a dream led out a small army of Irishmen and women - that Ireland might be free. The dream was an age-old one, half-formed and rough shaped at first but becoming more clearly defined down the years. The United Irishmen gave it substance, Wolfe Tone delineated it, Emmet, the Young Irelanders and the Fenians strove to achieve it.
In the 20th century the Irish language revival movement nurtured it anew - the dream of a free Ireland, owing allegiance to no other authority except her own; a Republic in which the Irish people would resume their rightful heritage as owners and rulers of the land. In this the 21st century we in Republican Sinn Fein continue the struggle to make the dream a reality.
Irelands struggle for freedom for all her children, protestant, catholic or dissenter is the core of Eire Nua. No amount of rewriting history by the Irish goverment in the Dail or by the the British Goverment, or by PSF will detract those of us in Republican Sinn Fein from continuing the struggle of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising.
'to subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England....and to assert the independence of my country - these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland... to substitute the common name of Irishman, in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and dissenter - these were my means' Theobald Wolf Tone
