The great 20th century Irish patriot and freedom fighter Padraig Pearse once said, “To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win.” That is the spirit again animating the Irish people in spite of the unending twin threats of mass migration and Orwellian government.
Unfortunately, it is much harder for the Irish to change their leadership with their current parliamentary system. We have fraud — they have a rigged system. That’s why large numbers of voters “spoiled their vote” in the recent election, turning in deliberately damaged ballots to protest the choice of candidates. But the Irish people are no longer quiescent and complacent. Ever more of them are making their voices heard, raised against a domestic government nearly as tyrannical as the English invaders once were.
Pearse, who was executed for leading the 1916 Easter Rising, after which he and other brave fighters were captured at the Dublin General Post Office pictured above, argued that fighting tyranny is in itself always laudable even if its main objective fails. It is better to die a free man than live a slave. He explained, “We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.”
In a different discourse, Pearse put the same idea a different way: “Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!”
Glimmerings of his attitude are appearing in the protests that continue to rock Ireland. Lawyers for Justice Ireland (LFJI) slammed Sinn Féin and its leftist ilk for pushing destructive mass migration on the Emerald Isle and labeling anyone who objects as “racist” or “far-right.” Now some politicians are blathering about their loyalty to the Irish, but it’s insincere.
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“The only reason why the establishment (government and so-called opposition) are now frantically attempting to appease the Irish people is because they know the game is up,” LFJI argued. “The historic levels of spoilt votes in the recent presidential election shook the establishment to the core. The rise in serious crime among migrants is evident. They know that the Irish people are no longer prepared to witness the ongoing destruction of our country.”
The legal group then cited survey data to back up its argument. “The Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks Poll conducted on 31st October shows that 82% of the Irish people think that the government is not doing enough about immigration,” LFJI wrote. “For years, the establishment have been attacking those opposing them to instil [sic] fear in the silent majority …For years, the Irish people have been speaking in hushed tones, but the tide has now turned. The labelling and vilification no longer work. The silent majority are NO LONGER silent.”
The government and media in Ireland, as in so many Western nations, backstabbed its own citizens. “Sinn Féin, who are now proclaiming to be on the side of the Irish people, actively took part in vilifying protestors who took to the streets to oppose the State's immigration policies. On 26th April 2025, Sinn Féin held a counter protest in Dublin and chanted ‘Nazi scum off our streets’,” LFJI recalled.
To refuse to fight is to lose; to fight is to win. That should be the rallying cry of every patriot, both in Ireland and in America.
