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NIFC SPEECHES
2007
NIFC Easter Address
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NIFC 2007 Easter Address
On this weekend ninety-one
years ago, Padraic Pearse proclaimed, on behalf on the Irish
people, the right of the Irish people to a free and sovereign
32-county Irish Republic. That historic Proclamation was read
from the steps of the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin at the
onset of the military uprising against the British Empire’s
seven century long colonization of Ireland.
This is the 91st
anniversary of that historic event. That proclamation and the
subsequent uprising was a defining moment in modern Irish
history. It is considered the most sacred of days in the Irish
Republican calendar. Republicans have never missed an Easter
commemoration since then either in Ireland or here in America
This is a particularly
important anniversary that we commemorate here today because
politicians in both the twenty-six and six county partitionist
sectarian states are redoubling their efforts to maintain and
safeguard the status quo, thus securing their own selfish
interests as well as Britain’s illegitimate occupation of the
six county state.
The latest betrayal by the
Provisionals, who abandoned republican principles in 1986, is by
far the most insidious and blatant of all the betrayals to the
32-county sovereign Irish Republic proclaimed by Pearse on the
steps of the GPO in 1916. Prior betrayals, although
unforgivable, did not reach the level of deceit and treachery as
did the Good Friday /St. Andrews Agreement embraced by the
Provisionals.
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