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A free and accessible archive of Irish literary works.
We host one of the largest collections of Irish historical material available online.
Our collection encompasses all periods of Irish history, and includes a wide range of political, economic, cultural, literary and historical works.
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The New Evangel
James Connolly
An early pamphlet collecting five of Connolly’s previous essays from Workers’ Republic.
The Re-Conquest of Ireland
James Connolly
A socialist manifesto arguing that Ireland’s freedom from foreign rule requires an economic revolution.
Labour, Nationality, and Religion
James Connolly
Explores the Catholic Church’s relation to English colonialism in Ireland.
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- Arthur Griffith: Sinn Féin’s Theorist
The following are quotes from our extensive collection of Arthur Griffith’s writings from his earliest editorials to his final testament. One of the most prolific Irish journalists of his time and a founding father of the early Irish state, his writings are of very great interest to those researching the early Sinn Féin movement. - November 2023 Update
Over the past year, some new and significant changes have been made to the site’s design. In brief, they are as follows: HOME PAGE TEXTS FORMATTING CLÓ GAELACH Notes: LIGHT MODE Note: The background image changes with the setting. PDFs Note: The ‘Contents’ section contains hyperlinks which will lead you directly to each chapter directly. Or, alternatively, you can click on ‘Document outline’ on the top-left of the page. AN CHARTLANN. - An Craoibhín Aoibhinn: The Thought of Douglas Hyde
‘The work of Douglas Hyde will live after him. It is not now possible that Irish can die, as but for him it would most assuredly have died. Even should it become extinct as a spoken language, reams of Irish literature have been preserved which but for Hyde would have perished.’ – An Craoibhin Aoibhinn, Diarmuid Coffey, 1917.
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Our Mad Rulers
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first drive mad. To judge by the events accompanying the visit of the Colonial Secretary to Dublin we might conclude that the governing classes of these countries have indeed come under this sentence of the gods.
Read more →Dublin and the War
December 8.—Announced in London and Dublin newspapers that the Right Hon Joseph Chamberlain, MP, Colonial Secretary, would visit Dublin on the 17th and 18th December to receive a degree from Trinity College.
Read more →Home Thrusts, 16th December
The Dublin Corporation. A great body of patriots. How their hearts do bleed for suffering humanity—at so much per bleed. How they do hate England, and love all her enemies—at election time.
Read more →Home Thrusts, 9th December
During the Boer war the English Jingo press will observe a close season for the sport of making game of the German Emperor. He is a great man, is the Kaiser.
Read more →Dogma and Food
At a meeting of the Sacred Heart Home in Dublin the other day a most powerful and impassioned appeal was made by the Archbishop of Dublin for funds to provide proper care and training for the Catholic children who, from the poverty and carelessness of their parents, frequently fall into the clutches of ‘proselytisers’ who make their misery a weapon of warfare against their religion.
Read more →A Plea for the Children
We wonder how many of our readers fully appreciated the significance of that plank in our municipal programme which demands the free maintenance of children at School. In no item of the Socialist programme are the economic and humanitarian aspects of the movement so closely blended, and none are so much required in the interest of future generations.
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