![]() ![]() "What have you done for Ireland? How have you answered the Call? Are you pleased with the part you're playing in the job that demands us all? Have you changed the tweed for the khaki to serve with rank and file, as your comrades are gladly serving, or isn't it worth your while?" An extract from a first World War recruitment poster from 1915.ġ3. "Seanabhean is ea mise anois go bhfuil cos léi insan uaigh is an chos eile ar a bruach." / "I am an old woman now with one foot in the grave and the other on its edge." Peig Sayer's opening gambit, 1936ġ2. I would be ashamed of my own name and my murdered husband's name if I did… Long live the Republic!" Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, 193ġ1. I recognise it as no crime to be in my own country. "Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver." Countess Markiewicz, October 1915ġ0. "I recognise no partition. “I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.”ĩ. Sinead O’Connor on Saturday Night Live 8. "Fight the real enemy." Sinead O'Connor rips up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, 1992 ![]()
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