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IF JESUS

THE RHYTHM OF TIME

WHAT COMPELS YOUNG MEN TO DIE?

H-BLOCK SONG

NINETY MILES FROM DUBLIN

FOREVER ON MY MIND

PRISONERS STATEMENT 01/03/81

PRISONERS STATEMENT 04/07/81

PRISONERS STATEMENT 03/10/81

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“They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.”

— Bobby Sands

“I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.”

“I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bounds have no part in us.”

— Francis Hughes

“We stand for the freedom of the Irish nation so that future generations will enjoy the prosperity they rightly deserve, free from foreign interference, oppression and exploitation. The real criminals are the British imperialists who have thrived on the blood and sweat of generations of Irish men”.

— Patsy O’Hara

“They won’t break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon”.

“There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.”

“They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn’t want to be broken.”

“They have maintained control of Ireland through force of arms and there is only one way to end it. I would rather die than rot in this concrete tomb for years to come”.

“My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by us. The people not only opened the doors of their homes to lend us a hand, but they opened their hearts to us. I learned that without the people, we could not survive and I knew that I owed them everything.”

“I am not a criminal. I never was, and never will be one.”

— Kieran Doherty

“All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.”

The last words said to his mother, Peggy: “Please mammy, let the fight go on!”

–Patsy O’Hara

“Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.”

“I am fully aware of the pain and suffering I will have to endure and I know that at the end I may and most likely will have to forfeit my life.”

— Tom McElwee

“I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.”

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