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
- Éamon de Valera
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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