NEW IRELAND ÉIRE NUA
D E L I X E R OU
CHILDREN
BY CIARAN QUINN SINN FÉIN REPRESENTATIVE IN NORTH AMERICA
The vision of a new and united Ireland is shared across the world. It is the hope of many Irish citizens who emigrated through choice or were forced by necessity. It is the dream of the generations who hold dear to a link to Ireland. Every phase in our struggle for freedom and independence has relied on other nations. Wolfe Tone while exiled in the United States made contact with France and travelled from there to Paris.
T
om Clarke, twice exiled to the United States, became a naturalized citizen while planning and fundraising for the Rising.
The Proclamation makes clear the standing of our “gallant allies in Europe” and our “exiled Children in America”. In Australia, Canada, and the US, dockworkers refused to unload British ships in protest over the 1981 Hunger Strikes. The Good Friday Agreement is an international agreement. facilitated by a US Envoy, underwritten by the EU, assisted by various renowned Canadians, and others from Finland and South Africa. It is the foreign policy success story of a generation. The fact that these international players remain committed twenty-three years later is a testament to their ownership and engagement. The internationalisation of our struggle has been
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