ABSTRACT
The movement for an Irish Ireland, free and Gaelic, at times seems to stretch back over a thousand years into the Celtic twilight. The militant Irish Republican Movement has continued almost unchanged: the goal is the same, an Ireland both free and Gaelic without cant or compromise, and the means is the same, physical force. The Army is on the edge of a new viable departure to unite the whole people of Ireland through militant social action in a Republic of those of little property. It is clear that all the long years of nominal independence have not greatly transformed Ireland, still a peripheral and exploited province of British interests, still a pale green copy of discarded London fashions and foibles, still a truncated nation not free, not united, and not Gaelic. In Ireland, the long years have not gone unnoticed for Republican ideas have fertilized Irish life even while the sower was denied.
