NIFC Interview of Sinn Fein President Ruairi O'Bradaigh
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Wednesday November 08, 2006 14:29
by Brian Wardlow - National Irish Freedom Committee
eirenuavisa at irishfreedom dot net
NIFC Interview of Sinn Fein President Ruairi O'Bradaigh
Informative interview of a lifelong Irish republican that will provide the viewer/listener with an inside prospective on the struggle for Irish freedom ,and the history and promotion of Eire Nua (New Ireland) an Irish formulated solution for a just and lasting peace in Ireland in the context of a British intent to withdraw from Ireland.
National Irish Freedom Committee Free-Form Video Discussion -- Segment Two with Ruairi O’ Bradaigh
Source: NIFC Editorial Staff
The National Irish Freedom Committee (NIFC) has produced the second segment of the Free-Form Video Discussion Series, featuring via telephone the president of Sinn Fein (republican) and co-author of the Eire Nua Federal Peace Solution, Ruairi O’ Bradaigh.
The hosts of the video discussion series: Brian Wardlow and Pat Williams began the segment with a recap of the prior segment which led into a short biography of Ruairi O’ Bradaigh and then his introduction.
Mr. O’Bradaigh answered questions posed by Brian and Pat with remarkable accuracy and detail. This informative segment will provide the viewer with a detailed understanding of historic facts not easily accessed elsewhere, and a clear understanding of the history of the Irish Republican drive to implement the Eire Nua Federal Peace Solution.
http://irishfreedom.net/Videos/FF%20Segment%202.wmv
Participation Email: freeforum@irishfreedom.net
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ON Saturday October 21, I attended a book launch sponsored by Indiana University Press at O’Lunney’s restaurant in Manhattan. The book, called Ruairi O’Bradaigh, The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, was the product of 20 years research by author Robert W. White, dean of the School of Liberal Arts and professor of sociology.
Dr. White’s comments at the event drew a clear distinction between Mr. O’Bradaigh’s position as the leader of the Irish Republican movement for the last 36 years, and Gerry Adams’ position as leader of a political party whose main agenda is sharing power in a British sectarian statelet demanding equal rights.
Mr. O’Bradaigh came to public notice at the 1970 Sinn Fein Ard Fheis (convention) when he and fellow Republicans walked out after irreconcilable differences over the 1918 Republican principle of abstention and separation from British partitioned administrations. They took with them the Sinn Fein constitution intact and its defense of the 32 county Irish Republic established in 1919 by the sovereign will of the Irish electorate.
The organization was renamed Provisional Sinn Fein and Mr. O’Bradaigh was elected its first president and held that position until succeeded by Adams in 1983. The anti-abstentionist faction became known as Official Sinn Fein.
Little did O’Bradaigh know at the time that he and fellow Republicans would be forced to do a repeat performance at the 1986 Provisional Sinn Fein Ard Fheis over the same issue of abstention. Again they walked out with the Sinn Fein constitution intact and reconvened as Republican Sinn Fein. He was again elected president and still holds that position today.
Not only did the Provisionals join Leinster House in Dublin, but also Stormont and Westminster in 1998. According to Provisional Sinn Fein Councilor Francie Molloy, they are now “prepared to administer British rule in Ireland for the foreseeable future. The very principle of partition is accepted.”
Journalist Ed Moloney, who wrote the forward to the book, also provides another detailed account of the Provisionals’ gradual departure from Republicanism into six county community egalitarianism in his recent book A Secret History of the IRA.
The Provisionals’ political rivals north and south still refer to them as Republicans, but that self-serving misnomer aids the rivals in gloating over the apparent defeat of Irish Republicanism and Sinn Fein’s absorption into a partitionist Assembly rather than remaining opposed to its existence.
The two partitioned states in Ireland were created by the British in order to suppress the infant 32 county Irish Republic. By definition, Irish Republicanism and British imperialism are diametrically opposed.
For over two centuries Irish Republicans have resisted the illegal and illegitimate British occupation, and since 1918 Republican Sinn Fein has guarded its Republican principles in support of the sovereign and free 32 county Ireland.
Vic Sackett
i didnt know gerry adams attennded this!! as he is the president of sinn féin and a "real republican". victory to the shinners!!!!
Real Republican??? Gerry Adams? Victory to the shinners??? Since when has a sell out been seen as victory?
Victory to the Psni shinners more like.
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