Hellraisers Journal: Rebel Uprising in Dublin; Irish Republic Proclaimed from Steps of General Post Office

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday April 26, 1916
From the New York Evening World:"Irish in Dublin Rise In Revolt"

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Proclamation of the Irish Republic

At four minutes past the noon hour on Easter Monday, Patrick Pearse read the following Proclamation from the General Post Office in the city of Dublin:

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POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE
IRISH REPUBLIC
TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND

IRISHMAN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.

Having organized and trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary organization, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organizations, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, and, supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on her own strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory.

We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people. In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, 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.

The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irish woman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities of all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a minority in the past.

Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment of a permanent National Government, representative of the whole people of Ireland and elected by the suffrages of all her men and women, the Provision Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.

We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God, Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity, or rapine. In this supreme hour the Irish nation must, by its valour and discipline and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the common good, prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.
Signed on behalf of the Provisional Government,

THOMAS J. CLARKE
SEAN MAC DIERMADA THOMAS MACDONAGH
P.H.PEARSE EAMONN CEANNT
JAMES CONNOLLY JOSEPH PLUNKETT

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Fighting is reported to be intense in the streets of Dublin with many dead. Only time will tell whether or not the long struggle of the Irish people for freedom from British tyranny will prevail with this generation.

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SOURCES

The Evening World
(New York, New York)
-Apr 25, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/78663458/

Easter 1916 Website
http://www.easter1916.net/proclamation.htm

IMAGES
Easter Rising Dublin, NY Evening World, Apr 25, 1916
Easter Rising Dublin, Post Office Seized w/ text, NY Evening World, Apr 25, 1916
Easter Rising Dublin, 17 Killed, NY Evening World, Apr 25, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/78663458/
Easter Rising, Proclamation Irish Republic, Easter Monday Apr 24, 1916
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_the_Irish_Republic
Easter Rising, Seven signers of Proclamation of Apr 24, 1916
http://www.easter1916.net/proclamation.htm

See also:
Easter Rising
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising

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Proclamation Read by Dr Aoife Whelan

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Proclamation Read by Dr Conor Mulvagh

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Footage of Easter Rising 1916

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WE NEVER FORGET

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The Foggy Dew - The Wolfe Tones
Lyrics by Canon Charles O'Neill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foggy_Dew_(Irish_ballad)

As down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I
There Armed lines of marching men in squadrons passed me by
No pipe did hum, no battle drum did sound its dread tattoo
But the Angelus Bell o'er the Liffey's swell rang out in the foggy dew

Right proudly high over Dublin Town they hung out the flag of war
'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud-El-Bar
And from the plains of Royal Meath strong men came hurrying through
While Britannia's Huns, with their long range guns sailed in through the foggy dew

Oh the night fell black, and the rifles' crack made perfidious Albion reel
In the leaden rain, seven tongues of flame did shine o'er the lines of steel
By each shining blade a prayer was said, that to Ireland her sons be true
But when morning broke, still the war flag shook out its folds in the foggy dew

'Twas England bade our wild geese go, that "small nations might be free";
Their lonely graves are by Suvla's waves or the fringe of the great North Sea.
Oh, had they died by Pearse's side or fought with Cathal Brugha
Their graves we'd keep where the Fenians sleep, 'neath the shroud of the foggy dew.

Oh the bravest fell, and the Requiem bell rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Eastertide in the springing of the year
While the world did gaze, in deep amaze, at those fearless men, but few,
Who bore the fight that freedom's light might shine through the foggy dew

As back through the glen I rode again and my heart with grief was sore
For I parted then with valiant men whom I never shall see more
But to and fro in my dreams I go and I kneel and pray for you,
For slavery fled, O glorious dead, when you fell in the foggy dew.

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" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "

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he was well known and much beloved by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and her family during the time that he lived in the US.

Hellraisers will have much more on James Connolly during the next few weeks.
Stay tuned.

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A great crowd had gathered Outside of Kilmainhaim,
With their heads uncovered they knelt on the ground,
For inside that grim prison lay a brave Irish Soldier,
His life for his Country about to lay down,

He Went to his death like a true son of Ireland,
The firing party he bravely did face,
Then the order rang out: "Present arms, fire,"
James Connolly fell into a ready made grave.

The black flag they hoisted, the cruel deed was over,
Gone was a man who loved Ireland so well,
There was many a sad heart in Dublin that morning,
When they murdered James Connolly, the Irish Rebel.

God's curse on you England, you cruel-hearted monster
Your deeds they would shame all the devils in Hell
There are no flowers blooming but the shamrock is growing
On the grave of James Connolly, the Irish Rebel,

Many years have rolled by since that Irish rebellion,
When the guns of Britannia they loudly did speak.
The bold IRA they stood shoulder to shoulder
And the blood from their bodies flowed down Sackville Street

The Four Courts of Dublin the English bombarded,
The spirit of freedom they tried hard to quell,
But above all the din rose the cry "No Surrender",
'Twas the voice of James Connolly, the Irish Rebel.

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Thank you for commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising.

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Hellraisers will be following this story off and on for the next few weeks. Esp will we cover the story of the martyr, James Connolly, for he lived in the US for several years and was well known by American unionists and Socialists.

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Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
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always great to see you at HJ!

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          My ancestors are from France. My dad's side of the family tree came here through England and snatched several Welch lads along the way, hence my name. My mom's side took a more direct route and mixed it up a bit creating some Hispanic and Native branches in the new world.
          As I was in the splinter "outlaw twig" of the family, I never fully integrated our history into my weltanschauung, but if there was a fight, we were there, or so I was lead to believe.

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knitty gritty of history.

Hate to mention it here during the Easter Uprising, but my maternal side is almost all English with one big branch that came from the Puritans and another big branch that was Quaker. Actually, part of Quaker branch arrived as Puritans and then became Quakers and had to, therefore, take their leave of Massachusetts sooner than the Puritan branch.

The Puritan branch got to Minnesota via Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois (during civil war).

The Quakers came via Massachusetts, Long Island, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and then Canada for two generations after the Revolution, then Indiana, and finally Minnesota. Our direct ancestor was disowned by the Society of Friends in Canada for an unapproved marriage, so that by the time they got to Indiana, they were no longer Quakers and his son fought with the MN 7th during the Civil War.

Many interesting stories.

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          My wife's people come from the Nantucket Coffin clan. With a few Starbucks, and Folgers tossed in for good measure. Not a joke, actual cousins and lest we forget: One sunken coffee laden ship off the coast of California. After the loss of that shipment, grandpa gave it up and moved to the gold fields of Oregon (yep California gold rush was in NorthEastern Oregon) to raise chickens and potatoes to make a fortune feeding the miners. So a small (not so rich) splinter of the Coffin family wound up in the Grande Ronde Valley of Oregon.
          My scoundrel, thieves in the night ancestors probably stole stuff from your more civilized, upstanding citizen ancestors as they made there way west to get to the "Promised Land" of Utah. Many take umbrage at my pointing out this aspect of the Mormon community. I will see your disowning and raise you a couple of grifters and shills . . . Ka-Ching.

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We were all pretty mild mannered farmers. Minnesota nIce and all that.

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