viable thank and every one of those 102,701 voters.
Rinne siad obair republicanism and the Tone are no more remain republican He ensured that I, or any have a lot to say on that subject. the congratulate each and maith leis is men votai. Go raibh mile maith agaibh.
became clear, everything else became obscure. Before 9 June we were told that a vote for Sinn Fein would be a vote for the IRA. After 9 June we were told, well ahem, the Sinn Fein vote can't really be interpreted as a vote for the IRA and our opponents tried vainly to explain away our success. We also had the ridiculous spectacle of establishment figures lining up to tell us that they won't talk to will or any Peter Barry played it really safe.
member of Sinn Fein, couldn't talk atrocious Section 31 as his medium. Nobody thought of asking us whether we were interested in talking to Garret Barry. I am sure you people would All these contradictions, and others besides, have come clearly into focus because Sinn Fein have won the leadership of the anti-imperialist peorepublican veto and because we have leadership to sell out those they purported to represent in the past. We have started on the road to building a strong, dynamic political movement throughout the six countries and we will continue to make gains and to increase our vote as this development, the broadening of our struggle and of our gains prothe socialist republican tradition of Connolly and Pearse. We gave people an alternative and they responded to us. Our vote will not go away and it winning and we will be victorious in driving the British out of Ireland and achieving what all those others lack the struggle in the six counties, and women Volunteers of the IRA. Sinr Fein defends, not through any sense of bravado or fixation with physical force but through necessity the right defence. frish peopleaveihe rightis British presence. The IRA need no electoral mandate for its armed struggle. It derives its mandate from the presence of a foreign government on Irish soil and stands on the same right signatories of the 1916 proclamation other Irishmen and women who took the painful but correct position that the British government, scornful of the force of argument will listen only to the argument There are those who tell us that government will not be moved by armed struggle. The history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tell us that they will not be moved by It is fitting, and I am glad of the opportunity therefore to pay tribute