Dishonouring the spirit of 1916

“WE place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God whose blessing we invoke upon our arms, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity or rapine”

This is an extract from the Proclamation of Poblacht na hÉireann, signed by Thomas Clarke, Sean Mac Diarmada, Thomas McDonagh, PH Pearse, Eamonn Ceannt, James Connolly and Joseph Plunkett.

No organisation or person who indulges in the indiscriminate laying of bombs in public places, punishment beatings or the threat of vicious violence against citizens can claim to inherit the character of the above signatories.