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Last Updated: 26th January, 2007

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Finally... I am getting around to updating this website again! Today I restored the Irish/gaelic lessons that I know many of you were asking for! I will continue to update this website more often and add some new content, so check back from time to time to seew what is new! I would like to ask you to email me any suggestions you think would improve this website. You can contact me by clicking here. Ideas for articles to include, or even entire sections to be added MOST welcome. Please mark the subject "Ideas for Ireland First" or simply "Ireland First" so I won't miss your post in with all the spam I get (and man, do I get a lot of spam!, over 200 pieces a day!)

Kind Regards as always!

Ray Cantillon (Eirefirst.com admin)

"I speak to my people, and I speak in my people's name to the masters of my people. I say to my people that they are holy, that they are august, despite their chains, That they are greater than those that hold them, and stronger and purer, That they have but need of courage, and to call on the name of their God, God the unforgetting, the dear God that loves the peoples For whom He died naked, suffering shame. And I say to my people's masters: Beware, Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people, Who shall take what ye would not give. Did ye think to conquer the people, Or that Law is stronger than life and than men's desire to be free? We will try it out with you, ye that have harried and held, Ye that have bullied and bribed, tyrants, hypocrites, liars!" - Excerpt from "The Rebel" by Patrick Pearse.

"Self-government is our right, a thing born in us at birth. A thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself - than the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers, or to love our kind. If it be treason to fight against such an unnatural fate as this, then I am proud to be a rebel, and shall cling to my 'rebellion' with the last drop of my blood." - Roger Casement made from the dock of the Old Bailey.

The leadership of Oglaigh na hEireann has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign. This will take effect from 4 p.m. this afternoon. All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. All volunteers have been instructed to assist the development of purely political and democratic programs through exclusively peaceful means. Volunteers must not engage in any other activities whatsoever. - PIRA statement July 28th, 2005