Occupation: Trade Unionist Birth: January 21, 1876 Death: January 30, 1947
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still amo….
The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed t….
Comrades - We are living in momentous times!.
We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration..
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….
I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips..
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 ….
Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods..
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 ….
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right..
Man must be associated with his fellows..
By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things..
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….
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….
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….
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….
The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.
I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants..
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 ….
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….
Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land..