Occupation: Trade Unionist Birth: January 21, 1876 Death: January 30, 1947
Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land..
We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to o….
Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods..
By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things..
We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration..
I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants..
I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips..
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain ….
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right..
The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.
Russia is the only place where men and women can be free..
Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary….
Man must be associated with his fellows..
A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in ….
Intolerance has been the curse of our country..
It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measur….
The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on ….
The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and ….
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of….
I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at tha….
Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth f….