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The National Question

• Please also read http://www.libertarian.ie/ireland.html: Libertarian Commentary on Ireland.
• http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard39.html
  National Liberation
  by Murray N. Rothbard
  This article, published in Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays, 2nd Edition, pp. 195Ŵ198, originally appeared in Libertarian Forum, vol. 1, no. 11, September 1, 1969.
  The recent rioting and virtual civil war in Northern Ireland points out, both for libertarians and for the world at large, the vital importance of pushing for and attaining the goal of national liberation for all oppressed people. Aside from being a necessary condition to the achievement of justice, national liberation is the only solution to the great world problems of territorial disputes and oppressive national rule. Yet, all too many anarchists and libertarians mistakenly scorn the idea of national liberation and independence as simply setting up more nation-states; they tragically do not realize that, taking this stand, they become in the concrete, objective supporters of the bloated, imperialistic nation-states of today.
• http://www.mises.org/journals/lar/pdfs/3_3/3_3_1.pdf
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  EDITORIAL
  The Irish Revolution
  Fifty years ago, on Easter Monday, April 25, 1916, began the glorious Irish Revolution, a revolution that was to end by sweeping away a monstrous record of brutality and oppression that had been foisted for centuries upon the long-suffering Irish people. In defeat- ing the mighty armies of the greatest and most ruth- less empire on the face of the earth, the Irish were the first people to have the courage and the stamina to follow through on the promise of the American Revolu- tion against the same imperial oppressors: a Revolution that had been the first successful war of national liberation in modern history. The Irish Revolution was the second such successful war. For other wars of national liberation prompted by the American Revolu- tion (e. g. Belgium, the Netherlands. Geneva, and later the revolutions of 1848) had been beaten back by the forces of armed international counter-revolution.
• http://www.manxman.co.im/cleague/
  The Celtic League is an inter-celtic organisation that campaigns for the social, political and cultural rights of the Celtic nations, as set out in the aims and objectives.
  It was founded in 1961 by Celtic nationalists who saw the need for an inter-Celtic organisation with a political dimension in order to make the peoples of the Celtic nations more aware of their commonality of language, history and culture, to further the Celtic Nations' right to independence and to promote the benefits of interceltic co-operation.
  The organisation, both at Branch and central level, campaigns on a broad range of issues relating to independence, language, culture and social and human rights. Branches co-operate in this where possible.
• http://www.etext.org/Politics/INAC/historical.revisionism
  REVISIONISM IN IRISH HISTORICAL WRITING
  The New Anti-Nationalist School of Historians
  by Peter Berresford Ellis
  (The following text was given as the 1989 C. Desmond Greaves Memorial Lecture, under the auspices of the Connolly Association, at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, on Tuesday, October 31, 1989.)
  Let me start by saying that I do not like the term 'revisionism' as applied to historians. Revisionism means the act of revising, correcting, improving or reinterpreting from new materials. Thus all historians worth their salt are 'revisionists'. The label is meaningless. My own view is that the school we are dealing with is a neo-colonial one, an anti-nationalist school which in its mildest form apologises for English imperialism in Ireland, or, in its strongest form supports that imperialism. We could term those historians from the 26 County state, who are engaged in such writing, as 'Unionist fellow travellers.'
• http://www.hibernianmedia.com/
  These are the last days of the Irish Nation. That, at least, is the contention of its many enemies.
  They advise us that the concept of Nationhood is an anachronism from another era and that the future for Ireland lies in its absorption into a European Superstate as just another bland, conformist region. The notion of Patriotism is anathema to these people.
  Unsurprisingly, the same commentators are eager to tell us that we are living in a post-Catholic society and that the Faith in Ireland is all but dead and gone. They relish the prospect of a lukewarm, secularised country in which the only form of spirituality is that of the new age variety.
  We in The Hibernian Magazine utterly reject this insidious view of Ireland. We are proud of our country and of the fact that generations of Patriots have fought and died to keep the ideal of an Irish Nation, true to God, alive in the hearts of our people. We are eternally grateful to our ancestors who, at enormous risk to themselves, maintained our Catholic Faith in the glens, woods and mountainsides despite the ever present threat of “dungeon, fire and sword”. Catholic Ireland will never be vanquished.
• http://www.hibernianmedia.com/
  These are the last days of the Irish Nation. That, at least, is the contention of its many enemies.
  They advise us that the concept of Nationhood is an anachronism from another era and that the future for Ireland lies in its absorption into a European Superstate as just another bland, conformist region. The notion of Patriotism is anathema to these people.
  Unsurprisingly, the same commentators are eager to tell us that we are living in a post-Catholic society and that the Faith in Ireland is all but dead and gone. They relish the prospect of a lukewarm, secularised country in which the only form of spirituality is that of the new age variety.
  We in The Hibernian Magazine utterly reject this insidious view of Ireland. We are proud of our country and of the fact that generations of Patriots have fought and died to keep the ideal of an Irish Nation, true to God, alive in the hearts of our people. We are eternally grateful to our ancestors who, at enormous risk to themselves, maintained our Catholic Faith in the glens, woods and mountainsides despite the ever present threat of “dungeon, fire and sword”. Catholic Ireland will never be vanquished.