📜 A Letter to the People of Éire

In Defence of Memory, Sovereignty, and Sacred Ground

"The fools, the fools, the fools! They have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace."
— Pádraig Pearse, Easter Oration at the grave of O'Donovan Rossa, 1915

A hundred and nine years ago, a man stepped forward onto the steps of the GPO and spoke a dream aloud.

That man was Pádraig Pearse.

He did not speak as a politician. He spoke as a father of a broken country. A poet of the soul of a people. A servant of a flame that could not be extinguished.

That flame is now under threat—not from invaders with rifles, but from developers with contracts. From corporations with no memory. From a government that has forgotten who it serves.

The General Post Office—altar of the Rising—is being handed over to a British development firm.

This is not rumour.
This is not hysteria.
This is happening.

Hammerson PLC, with the blessing of An Bord Pleanála, will now be given power to “repurpose” the very site where the Irish Republic was proclaimed.

Let us be absolutely clear: this is not just a planning decision.
It is a spiritual desecration.
A violation of memory.
A mocking of the sacrifices made by the women and men of 1916.

Would you turn Croke Park into a casino?
Would you turn Glasnevin into a hotel?
Would you sell the graves of the executed leaders to the highest bidder?

No?

Then why are we allowing this?

And while the GPO is handed over, Moore Street is silenced.
St. Michan’s crypt is burned.
Student homes become state contracts for private profit.
And all across the land, what was sacred becomes commercialised, sterilised, erased.

This is not development. It is dispossession by stealth.

It is the same story, again.
Land taken.
Memory buried.
Profit over people.
Ireland for sale.

But we were warned.

“They have left us our Fenian dead… and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.” — Pearse

So we now say:

We hold those graves.
We remember the flame.
And we will not allow this sacred place—the place where our sovereignty was spoken aloud—to be reduced to cafés, luxury apartments, or a headquarters for RTÉ, an organisation that has betrayed public trust more than once.

We are not anti-progress.
We are not anti-foreign.
We are pro-remembrance.
We are pro-truth.
We are pro-sovereignty of spirit and land.

This is a peaceful letter.
But it carries the heartbeat of a nation stirred awake.

To our fellow Irish people:
Now is the time to rise—not in arms, but in memory, clarity, and voice.

To our politicians:
We are watching.
You serve the people, not the profit.
You answer to the children of the Rising.

To Hammerson PLC and their backers:
You may own properties.
But you will never own our soul.

People of Éire
For the Circle of Light
Under the Sigil of Remembrance