 | Shaw Desmond - 1923 - 590 pagini
...against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! — they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace." It was too terribly true. The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the new faith, Sinn Fein, that was... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs - 1972 - 662 pagini
...provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! They have left us our Fenian dead and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree, shall never be at peace." And our fellow American, Eamon DeValera, when he addressed a joint session of the Congress, in 1964,... | |
 | Martin Wallace - 1983 - 194 pagini
...Fenian, O'Donovan Rossa, ending 'the fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves Ireland unfree shall never be at peace'. When the Easter Rising began on 24 April 1916, Pearse read the proclamation of the Irish Republic to... | |
 | Yonah Alexander, Alan O'Day - 1986 - 288 pagini
...provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! - they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace. (Pearse 1922, pp. 136-137). The theme of resurrection is a law of nature, as well as God's. 'It is... | |
 | Janet Egleson Dunleavy, Gareth W. Dunleavy - 1991 - 501 pagini
...against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! — they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace — echoed all the way to Dundalk where the twenty-second ard-fheis of the Gaelic League was about... | |
 | Plantagenet Somerset Fry, Peter Plantagenet Somerset Fry, Fiona Somerset Fry - 1991 - 388 pagini
...earlier at the funeral of a noted Fenian, O'Donovan Rossa, 'they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.' The heroes of the rising were without graves; the British had buried their bodies in quicklime within... | |
 | Michael Roberts - 1994 - 86 pagini
...intimidated the other half....; but the fools, the fools, the fools! - they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace. As Mansergh observes in recounting these words, such "was the spirit that was behind the Easter uprising... | |
 | Martha Crenshaw - 2010 - 654 pagini
...1915, whose peroration — "The fools! the fools! the fools! they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace" — nonetheless furnished an equally potent manifesto. It would be incautious to say that all republicans... | |
 | John Ranelagh - 1994 - 340 pagini
...oration, ending with a cry: 'The fools, the fools, the fools! They have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.' Thomas J. Kelly (1833-1908) succeeded Stephens as IRB head centre after Stephens was deposed in December... | |
 | International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature. International Congress - 1995 - 214 pagini
...Pearse's famous words, recounted verbatim at the end of Act II: "they have left us our Fenian dead, and, while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland, unfree, shall never be at peace!" are immediately juxtaposed, and, I would argue, undercut, by Rosie Redmond's bawdy song: We cuddled... | |
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They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools... 
