Let me carry your Cross for Ireland, Lord! For the cause of Roisin Dubh

“The Orangeman is a sufficiently funny person; and he is funny mainly because he is so serious.” P.H. Pearse

The last surviving IRA veteran of the Tan War, Dan Keating died #OnThisDay in 2007 aged 105. He attended up to 140 All-Ireland finals. A patron of @RepublicanSF he rejected both partition states, giving his only allegiance to the All-Ireland Republic proclaimed in 1916

'A sense of humour is not one of the strong points in an Orangeman’s nature.' James Connolly

'Ireland must be herself; not merely a free self-governing state, but authentically the Irish nation, bearing all the majestic marks of her nationhood. That the nation may live, the Irish life, both the inner life and the outer life, must be conserved.' P.H. Pearse

'Stand up for a United Ireland' James Connolly

'If we would build anew a university of chivalry in Ireland we must go back to the national life when it was untouched by foreign influence and uncorrupted by foreign thought.' Roger Casement

Roger Casement received his First Holy Communion just hours before being hanged at Pentonville Prison in London #OnThisDay in 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising. He was 51 years old.

'But let England make no mistake. The generous high-bred youth of Ireland will never fail to answer the call we pass on to them, will never fail to blaze forth in the red rage of war to win their country's freedom.' Thomas MacDonagh

'The Orangeman is no more loyal to England than we are. He wants the Union because he imagines that it secures his prosperity; but he is ready to fire on the Union flag the moment it threatens his prosperity.' P.H. Pearse

'Ireland is in the throes of a new invasion... It is a new plantation, this time with the blessing and connivance of the Parliamentary leaders of the Irish race'. James Connolly

"Ireland must be herself; not merely a free self-governing state, but authentically the Irish nation, bearing all the majestic marks of her nationhood. That the nation may live, the Irish life, both the inner life and the outer life, must be conserved.'' Pádraig Mac Piarais

'The enemy is within our gates. He teaches our children not to remember, but, to forget Ireland. He banishes our language from the schools.' Éamonn Ceannt

'The Fianna ideal can save the future'

''A free nation must have complete control over its own harbours, to open them or close them at will, or shut out any commodity, or allow it to enter in, just as it seemed best to suit the well-being of its own people" James Connolly

"We need a company of Gaels who will defend the honour of our race in the battle that is before us." P.H. Pearse

'We have in our keeping the hopes of all the children yet unborn, and that those hopes must be safeguarded and shepherded to fulfilment.' James Connolly

'The knowledge that there lives in this country, in this race, a holy cause that will be served and served in blood, and served still though it be betrayed by every man and woman of us but one. While the fire of this cause burns in one Irish heart, the Nation lives.' MacDonagh