Category: History - European

Sinn Fein: An Illumination

When Pitt and Castlereagh forced through the Act of Union, they forged a weapon with the potentiality of utterly subjecting the Irish nation, of extinguishing wholly its civilisation, its name, and its memory; for they made possible that policy of peaceful penetration which in...

Chapters

4. CHAPTER IV

"The policy of Sinn Fein purposes to bring Ireland out of the corner and make her assert her existence to the world. I have spoken of an essential; but the basis of the policy i...

7. CHAPTER VII

The English people, either collectively or individually, do not want to give Ireland freedom. Some of them are willing to concede the name of freedom whilst reserving its machin...

6. CHAPTER VI

The Sinn Fein movement may be said to have begun in 1905 with, the general adoption by the Separatist organisations in that year of the "Sinn Fein Policy" as a basis of operatio...

2. CHAPTER II

It is not easy to say whether the policy of peaceful penetration which was pursued in Ireland in the nineteenth century was planned beforehand, whether Pitt actually carried the...

5. CHAPTER V

A small man, very sturdily built, nothing remarkable about his appearance except his eyes, which are impenetrable and steely, taciturn, deliberate, speaking when he does speak w...

3. CHAPTER III

It may be asserted with truth that the youth of Ireland, in every generation, are by instinct Separatist, that "their dream is of the swift sword-thrust," and that therefore in...

1. CHAPTER I

When Pitt and Castlereagh forced through the Act of Union, they forged a weapon with the potentiality of utterly subjecting the Irish nation, of extinguishing wholly its civilis...

8. CHAPTER VIII

The promoters of the Volunteer movement had not contemplated insurrection, nor had they identified themselves with any extreme or physical force policy. They were not committed...

9. Chapter IV, with two alterations. In the first place it is based frankly

on separation, with no mention of the Constitution of 1782; and in the second place its immediate objective is the Peace Conference. Mr. Griffith believes intensely, and he has...