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If the declaration of policy may seem new, the principle upon which it is based is as ancient as the Irish race. Ireland will accept nothing short of complete liberty.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=191,371,1349,54" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-5", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The faith in a free Ireland which her boldest and ablest sons sealed with their blood a year ago is not to be abandoned now. From our advanced post our Nation can never retreat.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=193,480,1338,50" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-6", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "To bring this affirmation of the National faith and the National will to a practical issue, it is necessary to organise the whole country.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=192,594,1339,48" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-7", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The vast majority of our people hold, as their fathers held, the principles for which Ireland has fought through the centuries. If the members elected in Ireland represented the opinions of their constituencies they would be sitting as an independent body in Ireland, not as a minority accepting its defeat in a foreign Parliament.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=192,667,1339,51" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-8", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The complaint of those who trusted the so-called constitutional movement is, that the men they appointed to represent them, from being their agents, became their masters. In consequence the daily needs of the country and the material advantages upon which its life depends, have been made secondary to the little plots and plans of the Party at Westminster. In this condition of affairs it was an easy matter to transfer to the English Party dictators the allegiance of men pledged to Ireland. The payment of Irish members by England severed a natural tie between the electors and the elected. The Irish member of Parliament is in most cases no more than an English pensioner. By the English Government's refusal to allow a general election to take place during the war, the expression of Irish opinion through the electoral system has been silenced.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=192,851,1336,52" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-9", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The position of the Irish Party during Easter Week was deplorable. The Leader of the Irish Party accepted the points of view of the Government. He speaks like an Englishman, intent on maintaining English supremacy, not as an Irishman who believes that his Nation has the rights common to all nations, and the duty to wrest her liberties from foreign control by every means in her power.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=188,1256,1346,51" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-10", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The Irish Party's alliance with the Liberals and the nondescript administration that followed is ostensibly come to an end. But inter-communication between the Party and the Government is not ended, although the Party are at present in a position of absolute hopelessness. The nominal Home Rule Act is a worthless measure that it would be injurious to Ireland to put into operation. But the Party cannot take even that mock Act from the war shelf where it lies with other \"scraps of paper\". The alternative plan fathered by the Party, by which the Irish people were to be permanently divided for the convenience of England, may at any moment be revived, if the Irish people show weakness or unpreparedness for national emergencies.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=188,1439,1343,51" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-11", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Even from a material point of view not only was Ireland made, as far as these men could make it, a part of the accursed Union, but her progress, nay her very existence, has been subjected to the convenience of the enemy.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=188,1772,1342,49" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-12", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Ireland at this moment is without any consultative body representing popular", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=183,1881,1348,52" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-13", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "feeling, experience, or judgment, regarding the conditions of the country and its future. We are faced with taxation, for a war not ours, which would reduce our people to hopeless poverty and keep them in misery for generations to come. We are faced with the danger of famine if we do not take measures to protect our resources and keep the people's food in the country.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1762,110,1458,46" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-14", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "English devices to control our labour and to lead up to the forcing of our population into the English army are already in operation, and require to be met at once by the wisdom and determination of the people. The whole machinery of England, because of England's necessities, is being turned against Ireland, without any regard for Ireland's rights and Ireland's needs. It is the business of Ireland at once to take control of her own resources, national and material, and to secure and protect her own authority for her own people.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1874,292,1344,53" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-15", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The dominant body of resolute men left without the opportunity of enforcing their opinions on the hustings in the various constituencies throughout Ireland, demands representation by other means.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1874,553,1344,52" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-16", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "We want a free Ireland. We want liberty not merely for those who are free in soul, but also for those whose souls need liberation. We want one people, composite and various as they may be in moods and aims, to be knit into a vigorous nation. Such differences test the fibre of our patriotism, the largeness of our view, and the sincerity of our principles. It was for freedom, and for freedom only, that our heroes died, and none but men strong enough to bear the trials of a nation, and singleminded to think of Ireland only, can win Ireland's liberty. No foreign power must control the incomings and outgoings of her trade, the raising of necessary taxes, the establishment of her national army of defence. There shall be but one authority in the Nation, and Ireland's representatives must be subject to Ireland, and answerable to the Irish people alone.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1865,662,1353,56" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-17", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The Irish Party have refused to make any claim for the representation of Ireland in the Peace Conference, and have allowed to go uncontradicted the statement of English Ministers that Ireland would not be represented in that Conference.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1866,1070,1347,53" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-18", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Ireland has reclaimed her title to separate national existence. She should proceed at once to establish her own Council and state the her own case for recognition among the Nations. The world is looking forward to the assertion of National rights from the various peoples claiming independence. If the Nation fails to state such a claim, or fails to do it quickly, it will be considered as acquiescing in its dependence on another country. Also the terms in which the claims to national freedom are stated will be taken as defining the rights and aims of the particular nation.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1862,1182,1351,51" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-19", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The claim of Ireland must be made as though Ireland were already a separate entity. No consideration of existing restrictions of national expression, no sufferance of the present interference with Irish liberty, no subservience to the prejudices or convenience of another power should be allowed to mar the national demand. We are a Nation; we should be less than a Nation if we accepted or suggested terms that limited our Freedom.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1863,1444,1350,48" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-20", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "I have therefore decided to convene an Assembly of the representatives of the Administrative Bodies and National Organisations, and other public men of Ireland. The first of its duties will be to address itself to the Peace Conference with a view to obtaining the support of Nations which will be represented at that Conference. With its representative authority this Assembly will claim the recognition of the Sovereign Status of Ireland; that Status to be guaranteed by the Continental Powers of Europe and by the United States of America.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1858,1667,1355,49" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-21", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "I ask your Council to give in their adhesion to the principles and methods enunciated in this letter, and having so expressed their approval, to appoint two of their members to take part as delegates in the Assembly to be held in the Mansion House, Dublin, at 11.30 a.m. on the 19th of April.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=3580,106,1367,40" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-22", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "If your Council adopts the principle which the Assembly is convened to put into action, please have the appended form filled up, and forwarded to me at 26 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin—as soon as possible.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=3580,257,1363,39" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-23", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "I am,", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=4073,423,109,29" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56813/p01.json#anno-24", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Yours sincerely,", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=4299,483,288,32" } ] } ] } ], "metadata": [ { "label": { "en": [ "Level of description" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Item" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Date" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "17 Mar. 1917" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Reference" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "2" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Extent and medium" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "1 p.; Printed" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Scope and content" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "In the circular Plunkett promoted Sinn Féin’s strategy and declared that ‘the position of the Irish Party during Easter Week was deplorable. The Leader of the Irish Party [John Redmond] accepted the points of view of the government. He speaks like an Englishman intent on maintaining English supremacy, not as an Irishman who believes that his Nation has the rights common to all nations, and the duty to wrest her liberties from foreign control by every means in her power’." ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Repository" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Irish Capuchin Archives" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Context" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Irish Capuchin Archives > Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution > Pamphlets, Cartoons and Publicity Material > Elections" ] } } ], "summary": { "en": [ "In the circular Plunkett promoted Sinn Féin’s strategy and declared that ‘the position of the Irish Party during Easter Week was deplorable. The Leader of the Irish Party [John Redmond] accepted the points of view of the government. He speaks like an Englishman intent on maintaining English supremacy, not as an Irishman who believes that his Nation has the rights common to all nations, and the duty to wrest her liberties from foreign control by every means in her power’." ] }, "thumbnail": [ { "id": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56813.jpg/full/200,/0/default.jpg", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg" } ], "navDate": "1917-01-01T00:00:00Z" }