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<blockquote data-quote="$lave" data-source="post: 275" data-attributes="member: 1">Race realists and white advocates can disagree on Ireland. Some say the Ulster/Republic division is best. Some want a united Ireland. Some may even say that the break from Britain was unnecessary and tragic.What is indisputable is that those who fought for modern Ireland weren’t fighting for a nation of ideas. They were fighting for a nation. The Irish independence movement was preceded by a revival of Gaelic language, culture, and history. Many of the nationalist heroes of the Irish independence movement were champions of political and cultural independence. This even included sports; the Gaelic Athletic Association <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/opinion/how-the-irish-won-their-freedom.html" target="_blank">said</a> in 1884 that British sports were not “racy [sic] of the soil, but rather alien to it.”<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Padraic-Pearse-Collected-Works-Patrick/dp/195373006X" target="_blank">Patrick Pearse</a>, who was executed after the Easter Rising of 1916, was also one of Ireland’s literary giants. For him, Gaelic culture was essential to the struggle. At his court martial, he said that his purpose was to fight for Irish freedom, and though Germany meant no more to him than England did, he would have welcomed German aid.<a href="https://mindseyemag.com/magazine/the-struggle-for-ireland/" target="_blank">Read More</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="$lave, post: 275, member: 1"] Race realists and white advocates can disagree on Ireland. Some say the Ulster/Republic division is best. Some want a united Ireland. Some may even say that the break from Britain was unnecessary and tragic. What is indisputable is that those who fought for modern Ireland weren’t fighting for a nation of ideas. They were fighting for a nation. The Irish independence movement was preceded by a revival of Gaelic language, culture, and history. Many of the nationalist heroes of the Irish independence movement were champions of political [I]and [/I]cultural independence. This even included sports; the Gaelic Athletic Association [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/opinion/how-the-irish-won-their-freedom.html']said[/URL] in 1884 that British sports were not “racy [sic] of the soil, but rather alien to it.” [URL='https://www.amazon.com/Padraic-Pearse-Collected-Works-Patrick/dp/195373006X']Patrick Pearse[/URL], who was executed after the Easter Rising of 1916, was also one of Ireland’s literary giants. For him, Gaelic culture was essential to the struggle. At his court martial, he said that his purpose was to fight for Irish freedom, and though Germany meant no more to him than England did, he would have welcomed German aid. [URL='https://mindseyemag.com/magazine/the-struggle-for-ireland/'][B][I]Read More[/I][/B][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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