Irish Independence

Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Irish Independence’

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A Selfish Liberty Frederick Douglass

American anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass contrasts two kinds of ‘nationalist’.

American anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass visited Ireland in 1845, and loved it. But in time he came to realise that there are two kinds of nationalist: those who want freedom everywhere, and those who want it only for themselves, and will enslave any other land or people in order to get it.

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