
James Connolly and Irish anticolonial resistance (Pt.1) w/ Chris Beausang
The East is a Podcast
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Let Us Free Ireland
"Let us free ilit never mind such base carnal thoughts as concern work and wages, healthy homes, or lives unclouded by poverty. The rack red tained landlord is not also an irishman? And wherefore should we hate him?" "We will protect all classes," says the patriot who won't touch socialism. 'If you pay your rent, you will be evicted, but the evicting party, under command of the sheriff, will wear green uniforms' "...and when you cannot find employment, and giving up the struggle of a wife in despair, enter the poor house the band of the nearest regiment of the irish army", he adds.
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