Souvenir Programme for Heuston & Colbert Commemoration
Souvenir programme for Heuston & Colbert Commemoration Aeridheacht, Croke Park, 12 May 1918. The event was organised in aid of Fianna Ėireann – Battalion II.
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- Level of description
- Item
- Date
- 12 May 1918
- Reference
- 5
- Extent and medium
- 15 pp; Printed
- Scope and content
- Souvenir programme for Heuston & Colbert Commemoration Aeridheacht, Croke Park, 12 May 1918. The event was organised in aid of Fianna Ėireann – Battalion II.
- Repository
- Irish Capuchin Archives
- Context
- Irish Capuchin Archives > Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution > The Papers of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. > Commemorative and Souvenir Publications
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- HEUSTON & COLBERT
- We give opportunities in the movement to save our language from dying, and we put Irish ideals before our boys by teaching them the true history of their country; why Emmet and Ton…
- The spirit of Ireland is free because Ireland's children have never shirked to pay the price. The path of Freedom is narrow and thorny. Heuston and Colbert trod that path. They sac…
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October 11/16/15 FIANNA ÉIREANN—BATT. II. HEUSTON & COLBERT COMMEMORATION AERIÒEACT CROKE PARK, SUNDAY, 12th MAY, 1918 SOUVENIR PROGRAMME. PRICE THREEPENCE. “ Whatever I have done I have done as a Soldier of Ireland in what I believe to be my country's best interest. I have, thank God, no vain regrets.” — J. J. Heuston.
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3 THE WORK OF FIANNA EIREANN. The Fianna was started in 1909, and its object was, as stated in its Constitution, to be the re-establishment of the Independence of Ireland, and to combat the demoralising influence of English schools and boys' organisations. We, too, have learned that the destiny of a nation lies in the hearts and hands of her young people. As their hearts cry liberty or cringe slavery, so will their country be enslaved or free. Therefore, we have set ourselves the task of building up Fianna Eireann to be the training ground of the nation, a centre which will embrace, and unite in brotherhood, all the young people of Ireland, irrespective of creed or class or party politics. We know that there are only two real parties in Ireland, Irish and English, and we are of Ireland's party. We hold that the only test necessary to know an Irishman is the same test that has always been applied to citizens all the world over—"Would you give your life for your country?" We teach that there is but one life worth giving—an Irish life; and one death worth dying—a hero's death. Our work in Ireland is a work of restoration, but it is something more. We must link up the life of Ireland to-day, and in the future, with the life of that Ireland that gave us the Cuchulain Sagas and the Stories of Fion and the Fianna and the strength and sweetness of Columb and Ciaran and the great schools. The Ireland that is pictured in our older literature was a land of kingly men and queenly women whose lives were strangely beautiful and noble, people who knew how to use life and how to sacrifice it when need arose. They had the fine perspective of things, ample and generous, the breadth of view and the depth of feeling without which no nation has ever risen to greatness.
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