Éamon de Valera - Connolly was "intensely nationalistic . he told me so"
Video : President Éamon de Valera discusses the Gaelic League and James Connolly on the steps of Áras an Uachtaráin 1962 . De Valera says James Connolly who was a member of the Gaelic League and was learning the Irish Language was "intensely nationalistic . he told me so"
It was in the Gaelic League that i realised best what a nation was and what had to be done to get the freedom necessary to realise ourselves again . you had in the league at that time , you had Pearse , you had MacDonagh , Ceannt and Plunkett and of course men like Clarke and Connolly were intensely nationalistic , some may think that Connolly was not so much but thats not true , I know its not true because he told me so . he was intensely in favour of freedom for our Country , and it would be very difficult to be in the Gaelic league and be thinking of the nation whos language you were learning without being in favour of freedom for that Country . It brought us into contact with Irish history in a very special way
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No politics in sport
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dublin lad
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why not just do the project with Spheros and leave Unite out of it . Why do they need unite ?
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love Rovers Hate Politics , I was wondering what was going on with rovers , was seeing political stickers like rovers against direct provision , love rovers hate racism , you dont have to be irish to love rovers . all these political messages were starting to appear round my area .
there is a big push on now to hijack sport for political ends . it must stop
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Charlie
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rule 5.1.4 of the FAI governance handbook says .. "the Association shall require
that its Members be and remain, neutral in matters of politics and religion" ... surely aligning yourself with a trade union is a breach of that rule
https://www.fai.ie/sites/default/files/atoms/files/FAI%20Handbook.pdf
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Roy is Keane
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clondalkin
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the selling point to parents is that is just fun educational tools to help their childs education . the real motive is recruitment . gradually they will introduce the child to Unite and get the child involved over time in its activities , before long parents have a full blown communist on their hands and once someone goes down that road its very hard to get them back.
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at home 3 HEAD BANGERS can't lead a donkey,
never mind a Country.TRAITORS PARADISE...
and their paid,to do it....Ha Ha Ha Ha The 3 STOOGES.
DRIVERLESS,DRACONIAN,DESPOTIC,DERANGED,DEVOID OF DIGNITY. lol
Despite the orange in the flag and the name of your website, De Valera and Connelly only saw room for one colour. There used to be a name for people like that....
now we're ruled by the eu commission , an organisation that ignores democratic referendum results like nice and lisbon referendum and then claims to have the moral high ground lecturing other non EU countries about their behaviour when they themselves are doing the same