PROCLAMATION OF THE SOVEREIGN IRISH NATION
POBLACHT NA HÉIREANN, THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL OF THE IRISH NATION TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND
IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of our ancestors who cherished this land, and in honour of the children yet unborn, Ireland, through us, calls her people to stand together, not in violence but in peaceful and unwavering courage, to restore honesty, compassion, and justice to our homeland.
Having endured betrayal by leaders who sold our birthright, watched foreign investors buy our lands while our children sleep in cars, and seen homes built for headlines yet bought up by faceless funds, we rise peacefully but unyielding.
We denounce the monopolies that poison our soils, rivers, and hills; sterile plantations that strip the land for quick profit; supermarkets that erase our farming communities; and schools that teach our children obedience over wonder, leaving them strangers in their own homeland and still speaking foreign tongues after a century of home rule.
We name the crisis in our health system, hospitals overflowing with endless waiting lists, family doctors once the heart of every town now replaced by health centres where weeks pass before an appointment is granted and prescriptions are handed out in place of root-cause healing. We stand for fair and equal treatment for all, born here or welcomed here, and demand honest accounting of housing contracts costing tens of thousands per month for small numbers of refugees, which insult both them and us, breeding resentment where compassion should dwell.
We expose the betrayal of our sovereign waters, where Ireland holds twelve percent of Europe’s seas but receives only four percent of the fishing rights, while massive foreign factory ships, unvetted and unchecked, hoover our fish stocks, devastating our coasts as our own fleets are decommissioned under quotas dictated by distant powers.
We proclaim the right to have a Garda force that protects the people and not corrupt so-called leaders, where once the local guard was respected and part of the community, we now have central Garda stations while drugs and violence creep into our towns and villages, all paid for by our taxes.
We will not be silent while peaceful protests for justice are infiltrated by those who seek violence, giving a puppet government the excuse to smear the righteous as extremists while real criminals remain unchallenged in high offices.
We proclaim the right of every Irish person to know their neighbours, to walk safely and freely in their communities, to learn and speak our native tongue with pride, and to steward our land and sea in ways that nourish life for generations to come.
We declare that institutions meant to guard our people and places must be restored to serve us, not foreign investors or monopolies. We demand a government that tells the whole truth and honours the dignity of every person, rooted in justice and care.
We stand peacefully yet firm, we will not raise the sword but we will raise our voices, our stories, and our love for one another. We will march side by side, farmers and fishers, teachers and healers, youth and elders, workers and artists, refusing to hate, refusing to hide, refusing to be divided.
Until we can establish a permanent National Assembly freely chosen by the people, grounded in honesty and compassion, we, the Provisional Council of the Irish Nation, offer this proclamation in trust, that Ireland can rise again as a sovereign nation of care, creativity, and true freedom, a place where none are homeless, none voiceless, none forgotten.
Signed on behalf of the Provisional Council of the Irish Nation.
Thomas J. Clarke Seán Mac Diarmada Thomas MacDonagh
P. H. Pearse Éamonn Ceannt James Connolly Joseph Plunkett
