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TID PROVISIONAS COVZD
IRISH REPUBLI
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IRISHHSN AHD ms!WouEll : In tbs naro o! God znd o! tho Joed gencaitas.
from which sha reeeives bor old lradhtlon ot nallonhocd.Ireland. theough us summaus
her chlldron to hor flug and zirikes for her frcodom.
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Ktusjmoaei yoices soll ytnog poyuem you paajeni pgz posjuugio Sujao
organisatlon. the' Irish Republlean Brotherhood, and through her open teutasy
oruanisatlons., the Irish Volunteors and tho Irish Citlzen Army. havhng.patientiy?
porfected hor disciplno, having rosolutely wallod for ths right morcnt lo roveat
itself. she now selzes that momont. and. supported by her oxllod childron Ia Amarics
End by grllant alles in Europe, bul relying in the Orst. on,her own strength, sha
otrikes in full'conndento of vlctory.
Wo declare thc rigbt of the peopio of lreland to tho ownerabip ot ireland. and to
theu nfeltered control of lrish destialas.to bo soverelgn and Indofeasibla.
Thc loag
usurpalion of thal.right by a foreign people uod governmont bas nol exiinguished fbo
right, cor can it ever bo oxtinguished oxcopt by the dostructlon of ths Irish people. In
cvery goneratuon the Irish peopie have asserled thelr rlght to nsllonul frcodoro and
soveieignty: six limes durlng tho pasi three hundred years they buvo assrted it ib
arnis. Standing on that fundamontai rlght aud agaln asserting it in arms in iha faco
o! the vorid. wo herby' prociaim the Irish Republic as a Soverdiga indepndent 3tate.
zind we pkdge our lires ahd ihc liyesof our comrados.in.arms to tho causo of lts freedoin.
of its welfare. and of lta oxaltatlon among tho natlonx.
The Irish Bopublic is ontlicd to.and horoby clatims. the,allgianco of overy
rights znd equsl opportunities to all ls cilzons, and dcclaros ils,resolvo lo pursug
by n pllen government. which havo divlded a minority ltom the majority in the past.
Untl our arms have brought the opporluno monent for the establishmant of a
Mrmansnt Nationat Government. representativeof tho wholo people of Iroland &rd
Cnttutod, will administer the civil rnd milltary alfalrs of the topubllce la tratt fs
Eypcople.
We place the cause of ths Irlsh Hepubllcunder thoprotectionorthet Hlgh Ccd.
eause will dichanour lt by cowardlco,inhurnanlly.or rapins.
In thls supraero t
lo sacrice tbemselves for tho conmon gosd, prore jtolf worthyolthe ausust
Bo hich l lcalled.
fytued ca Biest ed sre Prorlbexyl Owermeext.
THOBAB J. CLADRE.
ANBaODLAHBADA.
THOBAS URDOA
PHAISS,
BAHOMH CEAM
TEB CONHOLLY:
JOoBPHFZU

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