Wolfe Tone

'I don’t believe the Saxon will ever relax his grip except by the persuasion of lead and cold steel.’ Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa

'We must see our present fight right through to the very end'. Bobby Sands

Today in 1798, Wolfe Tone is sentenced by the British to hang for treason.

"I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life." - Wolfe Tone

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I have laboured to abolish the infernal spirit of religious persecution by uniting the Catholics and Dissenters. - Wolfe Tone

"There would be no peace process if it were not for the IRA." Gerry Adams

On this day 1835 O'Connell meets with the United Irishman to recieve a silver vase in thanks of his support for civil & religious liberty.

Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice. - Robert Emmet

Today in 1803 Robert Emmet is executed in Dublin for treason for leading a rebellion earlier in the year.

Today in 1922, Michael Collins is shot dead at Béal na Bláth in Cork by anti-treaty republicans.

Today in 1879, the Irish Land League, the influential peasant rights organisation, is set up in Castlebar, Mayo.

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. Bobby Sands

'They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken" (Bobby Sands)

“We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times” James Connolly

After all I have done for a sacred cause, death is no sacrifice. - Wolfe Tone during his trial in 1798.

‘You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion of freedom.' Patrick Pearse

'They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken" (Bobby Sands)

"Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall" Wolfe Tone

Theobald Wolfe Tone was born on this day 1763. A protestant, an Irishman and a Republican.