Irish Republic

Yes, it's interesting looking at even the commemorations for 1898, like the 100th anniversary of the 1798 rebellion.

that a lot of IRB members are disappointed because they think this period of commemorations will draw a lot of people into republicanism and the IRB itself, but it doesn't quite get the interest among the general public that they think it will, or at least lead a lot of members of the public into the IRB.

Yeah, I mean, I think from a kind of propaganda point of view or a discourse point of view, to use modern terms, you know, it did keep the idea of Irish republicanism more to the forefront in Irish discourse because the Home Rule Party is evolving into something that's kind of different from its earlier stage where it is very Fenian, infiltrated.

And whereas the reformed Irish Parliamentary Party after the Parnell split under John Redmond tends to be more pro-British more conciliatory, less Fenian in outlook, although there's still a good few former Fenian MPs in it.

So I think 1898 and the celebration of the United Irishmen and their ideology does probably help to keep Irish republicanism alive in a way.

But no, there's no big influx of recruits.

They don't also seem to have a great direction.

And also a very censorious man when he's manager of the Abbey Theatre and stuff.

I'll tell you what was interesting, and a lot of Americans might not know this, so it might be worth mentioning, because Ireland is 35 miles away from here in a straight line, and he was in Dublin and blah, blah, blah.

And for the entirety of his basically 48-hour stay in the Irish Republic... which is the bottom half not owned by or not governed by Great Britain.

No, he wants to combine them, so don't worry about it.

Yeah.

Irlandismo, sí

...con la República Irlandesa.

Y aunque es cierto que por primera vez gobierna en Irlanda del Norte el Sinn Féin, el Partido Nacionalista Irlandés, y que la demografía y, y, y el contexto también pos-Brexit ayudan a que la gente de Irlanda del Norte sea cada vez más pro-irlandesa y menos pro-británica, yo creo que la gente en Irlanda del Norte lo que quiere es estabilidad y que la cosa funcione y que la frontera se quede abierta.

Entonces, igual, a cambio de que no haya lío, prefieren quedarse en Reino Unido y que todo funcione y ya está.

No, that would be Donald Trump.

He joined the IRA, backing an Irish Republic.

"Now," he said.

It's part of an anti-British turn that the orange man who's turned green is obviously engaged in.

Now, as much as I despise the oaf Boris Johnson, I hope he has survived, though there's no word on his condition so far.

A nation waits expectantly.

And Donald Trump unexpectedly backed an Irish Republic right now.

"If it's going to happen sooner or later, let it happen now," said Donald Trump.

In April 1916, a handful of armed volunteers took over key sites in Dublin on Easter Monday, declaring an independent republic while Britain was still at war with Germany.

That uprising was organized by a small military council from the Irish Republican Brotherhood, but its participants, people like Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, belonged to larger movements that had been building for decades.

What makes this episode particularly striking is that the rising, which lasted six days, ended with defeat, yet it set off a chain reaction that reshaped Irish politics.

After the rebels surrendered on the 29th of April, the British-imposed martial law arrested thousands and executed sixteen leaders by court martial, most notably Pearse, Brabazon, and MacMahon.

Sinn Féin swept the 1918 election.

Then the Irish Republic declared itself, sparking violent conflict with British forces.

The Black and Tans and Auxiliaries turned towns into battlegrounds.

The Anglo-Irish Treaty finally partitioned the island, leaving Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom.