In conceding to the solicitations of the managers of this Institution, to deliver a lecture on the: “Social Condition of Women,” I have had to struggle against a two-fold obstacle, that of depressed health, and a mind robbed of much of its energy and elasticity by a deep domestic sorrow. And while I feel the … Continue reading Anna Doyle Wheeler. ‘Rights of Women’ (1830)
Author: Conor McCabe
I write on class and Irish finance and am involved in activist education with political, trade union, and community groups
Fenian Proclamation Of The Irish Republic (1867)
The Irish People to the World We have suffered centuries of outrage, enforced poverty, and bitter misery. Our rights and liberties have been trampled on by an alien aristocracy, who treating us as foes, usurped our lands, and drew away from our unfortunate country all material riches. The real owners of the soil were removed … Continue reading Fenian Proclamation Of The Irish Republic (1867)
Objects and Rules of the Irish Democratic Association (1850)
(Reprinted in The Irishman, 12 Jan 1850, and reproduced in Rachel O'Higgins, 'Ireland and Chartism: A study of the influence of Irishmen and the Irish Question on the Chartist Movement.' Thesis: TCD, 1959, appendix iv) Objects: 1st. The elevation of the character and condition of the working classes, so that our artisans may understand their … Continue reading Objects and Rules of the Irish Democratic Association (1850)
Manifesto of the National Labour League to the Working Men of Ireland (1887)
[No extant copy of the manifesto is known to exist. It is reproduced here from two long quotations from it that were published by the Irish Times on 14 Oct and 21 Oct 1887. The two sources have been merged below. Fintan Lane was first to rediscover the manifesto, and quoted from the 21 Oct … Continue reading Manifesto of the National Labour League to the Working Men of Ireland (1887)
Peadar O’Donnell. For or Against the Ranchers? Irish Working Farmers in the Economic War. (1932)
The ranchers and big farmers are sore distressed about Ireland these days. In fact, they say they are going to leave us; that this is no longer a country fit for their kind to live in. They do not seem to have noticed that for many, many years Ireland was no country for the small … Continue reading Peadar O’Donnell. For or Against the Ranchers? Irish Working Farmers in the Economic War. (1932)
Christine Kinealy. ‘Patrick O’Higgins’ (2016)
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Vincent Geoghegan. ‘The emergence and submergence of Irish socialism, 1821-51.’ (1993)
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William Thompson, ‘Address to the Industrious Classes of Britain and Ireland’ (1826)
William Thompson. ‘Address to the Industrious Classes of Britain and Ireland; Particularly to our Neighbours, the Distressed Spitalfields Weavers.’ The Co-operative Magazine and Monthly Herald. Vol.1 no.11 (November 1826), pp 2-6. "The system of labor, by which your productive powers have been hitherto misdirected, is fast coming to its close. All kinds of labor, agricultural … Continue reading William Thompson, ‘Address to the Industrious Classes of Britain and Ireland’ (1826)
‘An Alarm to the Unprejudiced and Well-Minded Protestants of Ireland: or, Seasonable Queries Upon the Rise, Danger, and Tendency, of the White-Boys’ (Cork, 1762)
Waterford, July 7. The following is the last speech and declaration of Darby Brown, Patrick Brown, David Ahern, Richard Healy, and Patrick Power, who were hanged and quartered at the county gallows, this day, being all found guilty of treason, for burning the house of John Fowloe at Monebue, near Caperquin, in the county of … Continue reading ‘An Alarm to the Unprejudiced and Well-Minded Protestants of Ireland: or, Seasonable Queries Upon the Rise, Danger, and Tendency, of the White-Boys’ (Cork, 1762)
Saor Éire. Constitution and Rules (1931)
[See below for PDf of full document] In 1916 British rule was exercised nakedly by British officials. Power was in the hands of planters and landlords and their associates in banking and industrial combines. The mass of the Irish people were in bondage to the few and an army and a police force were stationed … Continue reading Saor Éire. Constitution and Rules (1931)
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