Saturday, April 26, 2003

Roscommon -- Ireland should not be ashamed of patriotism April 20, 2003 A call on the people of Ireland not to be ashamed of patriotism nor be blinded by false promises was made by a leading member of Republican Sinn Féin at an Easter Sunday commemoration in Roscommon. Geraldine McNamara from Tipperary, a member of the Ard Comhairle of RSF said people should not surrender to the false leadership of the Provisionals. "They no longer represent Republicans...they have betrayed the ordinary people," she said. "We in Republican Sinn Féin will continue to remain steadfast against the oppressors of Irish nationhood because we know we are right. Peace can never be achieved with justice and that will only come about when the British are prepared to try a new process and get out of Ireland for good. We stand as the only political party who will not recognize or legitimize partition. We make no apologies for continuing to preach the gospel of Irish Republicanism. The Ireland of two states which we live in today did not come from the Easter Rising of 1916 - it arose from the defeat of the independence movement when the British divided our country. Republican Sinn Féin today embodies the teachings and hopes of all the patriots of the past. They have passed the torch to us. Let us work hard and work together in the hope that their dreams and ours of a united free Ireland will soon become a reality. 12:46:23 PM     Portlaoise prison -- Easter Rising remembered by jailed Republicans who remain true to Irish freedom April 20, 2003 A gathering of Republican POW's who remain faithful to the ideals and principles of Republicanism are holding an Easter Sunday ceremony in Portlaoise Jail to remember all those who died in the cause of Irish freedom. The event was planned to take place on Easter Sunday at 10.00 am to mark the 1916 Rising when the Irish Republic was declared from the steps of the GPO in Dublin. A spokesman said that the prison ceremony would involve all the Republicans who oppose the Stormont Agreement. We oppose it because the Agreement will not bring a real or lasting peace, he said. It fails to address the real cause of the conflict, the British presence in Ireland. It is with sadness that we see former comrades in the Provisionals now administering British rule in Ireland but the basic cause of conflict remains and the Agreement cannot resolve it - the Agreement promises integration to the Unionists and a united Ireland to Nationalists - it cannot satisfy both aspirations, he added. While the Easter Rising was short-lived, it re-awakened the spirit of freedom, fanned the flame of Irish nationalism against foreign rule and restored the national aspiration to a free and independent country. The Rising was also significant in that it represented the culmination of various revolutionary activities and uprisings in the preceding generations - in a continuity of direct confrontation with the British forces of occupation. We are now appealing to all true Republicans who desire national self-determination and who oppose British rule to come together in a spirit of revolutionary comradeship and take the war of liberation to the forces of the British crown in Ireland. 12:42:39 PM

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