Irish people "are done" with the lies and destruction says Jordan Crowley

Jordan Crowley

Jordan Crowley of the National Party says Irish people have had enough of all the lies and destruction.

Here is the text of his recent speech in Cork, which Sidestream News believes should be read by every Irish person, as the future of our nation hangs in the balance.

"Everyone needs to do whatever they can to push forward nationalism, get active locally," he began.

"Pearse said the nation is a 'spiritual' thing, it is not a market, it is not a jurisdiction, a set of laws, it is a people bound together by memory and blood, and a sense of themselves stretching backwards through our dead and forwards into our unborn.

"That is what he was fighting for, that is what he was shot for. Who owns that legacy now?

"A lot try to claim a piece of it. The free state, that runs the country, claims it. With a wreath and a ceremony laid by the same class of people that would have had Pearse, Connolly and Mac Donagh shot and smeared if they had been born 100 years later.

"The left claims it, they will tell you it was really a worker's rising, that Connolly's viewpoint was the only one that really mattered, that the waving of the green flag was just a distraction from the red one.

"Everyone wants to claim a piece of 1916, except the people who it actually belongs to- us.

"And the Rising is not just being stolen from us as a historical event, it is being stolen from us as our living inheritance.

"The people stealing it are the same people running this country into the ground.

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"Because that test is not happening somewhere else, it is happening to you. It is happening to your family. It is happening to the town your grandparents were born in.

"Think about what you have watched unfold in your own lifetime. A generation ago, an ordinary Irish person, with an ordinary job, could buy an ordinary house in an ordinary town and raise their family there.

"That was not a far off dream, that was not an expensive luxury- that was the base line. That is what the men of 1916 understood. That a country is supposed to provide a place where its people can live.

"Now look at what you and your children are being offered. A box bedroom in your parents house- well into your thirties. A shed in the garden that you can expect to raise a family in.

"A two hour commute to work from a town that you have no connection to. Or a one way flight to Sydney or Toronto because staying here is no longer a matter of choice.

"Or, if you are lucky, a mortgage that will out live your parents.

"That is not progress, that is not modernity, that is a country being converted in real time from our home into a global asset.

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"From our people's inheritance into somebody else's portfolio. I want to say something to every Irish man and woman.

"You have been trained for your entire adult life to be ashamed of what you are feeling right now. You have been trained by the classroom. You have been trained by the television.

"You have been trained by every clean and well spoken voice that has ever appeared on your screen to tell you what a decent person should think.

"You've been told that to love your country is embarrassing, that what noticing is happening to it is bigotry.

"You've been told that the feeling in your chest when you walk through the town that you grew up in, and that you don't recognise anymore - that feeling is something small and nasty and mean inside that you need to get rid of.

"It is not. That feeling is your ancient inheritance defending itself. The spiritual thing Pearse talked about.

"It is memory, it is blood, it is it is your people's sense of self, it is your ancestors still alive within you, calling out to you from across time and space, demanding that you take a stand.

"You are right to be angry young Irish people can't afford to live in the towns they grew up in. You are right to be angry that our houses are sold off to foreign funds and foreign nationals before Irish locals ever see the listing.

"You are right to be angry that an entire generation is being quietly exported whilst their sub-par replacements are quietly being imported.

"You are not paranoid, you are not hateful, you are not extreme. You are right, and they know you are right and that is why they are working so hard to convince you that you aren't.

"The way they do it , the way they have always done it, is to make sure we never see each other clearly. They have spent 100 years teaching Irish people to fight other Irish people.

"They teach the worker his enemy is the boss, and not the fund that bought his estate out from under him. They teach the tenant that their enemy is the landlord and not the state that priced her out of her own town.

"They teach the young that their enemy is the old and not the policy that sold out their future for pensions.

"They teach the ones who stayed, to resent the ones who left, and not the country that drove them out in the first place.

"They teach the rural that their enemy is the urban and the urban that their enemy is the rural. And neither of them: that their enemy is the same class of people, in the same Government buildings, making the same decisions that destroy both of them.

"Every one of us is handed a different enemy. Every one of us is pointing at the person next to us. Every one of us is kept too busy fighting each other to notice what was done to all of us.

"And it works. It has been working. It has been working on all of us for longer than (anyone in this room) has been alive.

"And it will keep working until it doesn't. Until something happens that they cannot script. That they can't spin, that they can't flatten fast enough.

"And what comes to mind is the recent fuel protests. Especially at Whitegate in Cork. Because when ordinary Irish people stood outside that refinery, who was standing there?

"Lorry drivers and farmers. Pensioners and young fathers. Workers and small business owners. The man who couldn't afford the diesel and the man who ran the business that needed it.

"On every map they have ever drawn for us, those people were supposed to be at each other's throats.

"Yet they weren't. They stood together. Because when the pressure gets real enough, when the theft gets obvious enough, all of the fake, state manufactured in-fighting falls away.

"What is left is the only thing that ever mattered; ours. And the state knew it.

"That is why they would not sit down with the people at the protest, that is why there was no negotiation, that is why the Defence Forces were sent instead. Because to negotiate with those people would have been to admit that 'a people' had shown up.

"Not a class, not a stakeholder group, not a committee of carefully managed voices, a people, and a people, once it sees itself, is the single biggest threat to their power.

"I want to ask every Irish person something: what do you think that the men and women who came before us were thinking?

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"The people buried in the graveyards we walk past without a second's thought. The ones who hid priests in their homes.

"Who taught their children the Irish language by candle light in hedge schools, who buried their dead in famine ditches and kept going.

"Do you think they suffered like that for an economic zone? Do you think they starved for a passport, do you think they died so that 100 years later we could be told that our love of them is backwards? No, they did it for us.

"For the people in this room, for the people of this generation, for a chance that one day somewhere far down the line, a people that has been battered and scattered and lied to and silenced will stand up and say:

"We are still here. We remember. We have not forgotten what you gave us and we will not be the generation that lets it in."

"But this is not just about what we owe to our dead. This is what we owe to the ones who have yet to come.

"Somewhere in this country, there is a child who has yet to be born, a child who will one day walk into a classroom and stand in front of a map of Ireland, and be told a story about who they are, what is that story going to be?

"Is the story going to be the one we were told? That this country is just a market, just an economy, and a brand to go along with it.

"Is it going to be that there is no such thing as an Irish people, only members of the proletariat and bourgeoisie, and everything else is just mythology?

"Is it going to be the story that the free state tells? That Irishness is whoever happens to be holding a piece of paper issued by them that week?

"Or is it going to be the story that all of our ancestors told? That Pearse told? That your Grandmother told? The story that has been told in this country for 1,000 years?

"We do not just carry a flag, we carry a bloodline.

"We carry the names of our dead and the dreams of our unborn.

"We walk the same roads our Grandfathers walked, we live near the same fields our Great Grandmothers worked... we remember the hunger.

"We remember the struggle and the songs whispered when speaking out meant prison or death.

"Those people believed in something greater than themselves and they passed that legacy onto us, that is the story Pearse told, that is the story we are here to tell.

"Whose deciding the story of the child growing up inside of this country right now? Is it by us? By the people of this country?

"It is being decided by whether we fight back or whether we take it.

"Let me say this plainly. Everything they have done to us, the theft, the brainwashing, the fragmentation, the smearing, the soldiers at the gates of our own refineries, every bit of it depends on one thing.

"One single thing. That you do not see who you are.

"That you keep believing that the worker is the enemy of the boss, that the tenant is the enemy of the landlord, that the rural is the enemy of the urban, that the ones who left are the enemy of the ones who stayed, that your Grandparents are dead and gone and that they have nothing important to offer you.

"That your unborn Grandchildren are just some abstraction that you owe nothing to. That your country is just a market and your people are a myth.

"It is a bare faced lie and we are done with all of it. We are done being told who our enemies are. We are done being told that our ancestors have nothing left to say.

"We are done being told that our unborn are a meaningless abstraction. We are done being told that this country is a brand and our people are a folk tale to go along with it.

"We are done. Because we are not a thousand different isolated groups of competing peoples, we are one people, we are the Irish people and this is our country, not theirs."