"Easter Rising
The auctioning off of Easter Rising memorabilia
The news I receive from Ireland continues to dismay me and break my heart! Recently, I hear that the memorabilia left from the 1916 Easter Rising is to be auctioned today! My dear soul, to think that these men who brought about the freedom that the Republic of Ireland “enjoys” to this very day are not to be remembered in a museum, but rather to be bandied about in the private collection of goodness knows who! And to what purpose? Where are the funds going to be used? Will it be to the good of the Irish for whom these men of yesteryear gave their lives? I think not! To quote from the very distinguished Padraig Henry Pearse:

Mise Eire (I Am Ireland)

“I am Ireland
I am older than the Old Woman of Bearra,
Great is my glory,
I who gave birth to
Cuchulain the brave,
Great is my shame,
My own family
Have sold their mother.
I am Ireland,
I am lonelier than the
Old Woman of Bearra.”

And again:

"We know of only one definition of freedom; it is Tone's definition, it is Mitchel's definition, it is Rossa's definition. Let no man blaspheme the cause that the dead generations of Ireland served, by giving it any other name and definition other than their name and their definition."

-- Padraig Pearse

Regards,
An American Irish
Susan Repasky"

I continue to be amazed, I continue to be alarmed, and I continue to be saddened. I have been to the graves of many of the Patriots, I sank to my knees on the spot that Padraig Pearse was murdered at Kilmainham Gaol. I stood in amazement and horror when at Glasnevin I discovered the new memorial for the ten very young volunteers who died on the scaffold in Mountjoy Prison in the cause of freedom and the cause of Ireland. Why did it take eighty years to officially remember them? The Tara/M3 issue, the Rossport/Shell to Sea issue, the Turoe/N-6 issue, the Kilconnell/National Toll Roads Super-Dump Issue, the Poolbeg/Ringaskiddy issue, each one of these are a travesty and injustice to those who are Irish. Does anyone have a resolution, an answer?

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