The Fields of Edinburgh

Mr. Waters: I like people to remind us that Ireland, its history shows heroism. It shows the heroic struggle for freedom has no other country in recent history in Europe. So 1916, a rebellion squashed apparently forever squashing hopes of Irish independence. Just six years later, Ireland became independent. And we need to remember and hold those things because nationhood was a spiritual condition. A nation is a spiritual thing. We do not fight for ideas as such. We don't fight for freedom even in the norms of sense. We fight for the spiritual freedom to be in our own land, in our homeland,. Our beloved country despite whatever may come. Because of that, I believe we have