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Him wrote in
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God I'm good.

Bertei

POBLACHT NA H EIREANN
___________________________
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
OF THE
IRISH REPUBLIC
TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND

IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead
generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood,
Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for
her freedom.

Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret
revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and
through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteers and the
Irish Citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline, having
resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now
seizes that moment, and, supported by her exiled children in America
and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on her own
strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory.

We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of
Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be
sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a
foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can
it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people.
In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to
national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the last three
hundred years they have asserted it to arms. Standing on that
fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the
world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign
Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our
comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare, and of
its exaltation among the nations.

The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance
of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious
and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its
citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and
prosperity of the whole nation and all of its parts, cherishing all of
the children of the nation equally and oblivious of the differences
carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a
minority from the majority in the past.

Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment
of a permanent National, representative of the whole people of Ireland
and elected by the suffrages of all her men and women, the Provisional
Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military
affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.

We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the
Most High God. Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms, and we pray
that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, in
humanity, or rapine. In this supreme hour the Irish nation must, by
its valour and discipline and by the readiness of its children to
sacrifice themselves for the common good, prove itself worthy of the
august destiny to which it is called.

Signed on Behalf of the Provisional Government.

Thomas J. Clarke,
Sean Mac Diarmada, Thomas MacDonagh,
P. H. Pearse, Eamonn Ceannt,
James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett