I wonder what the Anti-Treaty Rhetoric was like at this time? Surely if this is so measured and asking the country to come together, they wouldnt then be saying anything that might, I dunno, pour petrol on the fire?
>” they would have to complete it, not over the bodies of foreign soldiers, but over the dead bodies of their own countrymen. They would have to wade through Irish blood, through the blood of the soldiers of the Irish Government, and through, perhaps, the blood of some of the members of the Government in order to get Irish freedom”
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I wonder what the Anti-Treaty Rhetoric was like at this time? Surely if this is so measured and asking the country to come together, they wouldnt then be saying anything that might, I dunno, pour petrol on the fire?
>” they would have to complete it, not over the bodies of foreign soldiers, but over the dead bodies of their own countrymen. They would have to wade through Irish blood, through the blood of the soldiers of the Irish Government, and through, perhaps, the blood of some of the members of the Government in order to get Irish freedom”
Ah shit
Reenactment of Pearse speech: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_G_0PJkt8zU