'Death before Dishonour'

Liam Lynch's bloodstained handkerchief embroidered by a member of Cumann na mBan in tribute to the fallen Chief of Staff of the IRA

''We have declared for an Irish Republic and will live under no other law.'' 🇮🇪

IRA General Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff of #ÓglaighnahÉireann died in Defence of the Republic #OnThisDay in 1923 following being fatally wounded by Free State forces in the Knockmealdown mountains

'The enemy is within our gates. He teaches our children not to remember, but, to forget Ireland. He banishes our language from the schools.'

Éamonn Ceannt

German Captain Karl Spindler set sail on the Aud bound for Ireland #OnThisDay in 1916. On board are arms for the Easter Rising

'The chief enemy of a Celtic revival today is the crushing force of capitalism which irresistibly destroys all national or racial characteristics.'

James Connolly

'The Rosary'

A poem written by Constance Markievicz in the College of Surgeons during the 1916 Easter Rising after witnessing her comrades in prayer.

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Sean Healy (15) of Na Fianna Éireann was killed in 1916 while carrying dispatches.

His dying words: 'God Bless the Volunteers'

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Thursday of Easter Week 1916 - Cathal Brugha defiantly sings 'God Save Ireland' and is wounded 25 times and survives a hand grenade blast while fighting British forces at the South Dublin Union

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“I know now what I have always felt, that the Irish nation can never die.''

Sean Mac Diarmada

Irish Citizen Army hoisted the Starry Plough over the Imperial Hotel on the Wednesday of Easter Week #EasterRising

Cumann na mBan were founded #OnThisDay in 1914. One of the oldest revolutionary organisations in Ireland

'My comrades and I believe we have struck the first successful blow for freedom, and so sure as we are going out this morning, so sure will freedom come as a direct result of our action...In this belief, we die happy.'

Thomas J. Clarke

Easter Tuesday: The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic salutes the citizens of Dublin

'We do not profess to represent the mass of the people of Ireland. We stand for the intellect and soul of Ireland.'

Thomas MacDonagh

'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.'

'We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God, Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms.'

Patrick Rankin from Newry, travelled by bicycle to fight for Ireland's freedom in the 1916 Easter Rising

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We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland

'The Irish Republic was proclaimed in Dublin on Easter Monday, 1916, by the Irish Republican Army acting on behalf of the Irish people.'

- Declaration of Independence (1919)

When boyhood's fire was in my blood
I read of ancient freemen