On this the 110th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising the Leadership of the Republican Movementsends greetings to Irishmen and women at home and across the world.

The Republic proclaimed by Pádraig Pearse on Easter Monday 1916 and established by the majority vote of the Irish people in the election of 1918 has the allegiance of the Army Council.

We send greetings to all Republican prisoners and especially to Damian Harte, Lurgan, Co Armagh, convicted on contrived offences and sentenced to five years. He is being held by the forces of the Crown at Maghaberry jail.

We salute the brave Palestinian people living or existing in Gaza and the West Bank who continue to endure a most terrible genocide with the unremitting premeditated murder of tens of thousands of men, women, and children. Death by bombing, hunger and entrapment as buildings collapse.

The rights of immigrant people and refugees, people fleeing from war and hunger needs to be met with generous acceptance for their plight. They and their children will without doubt be the human assets of our country in years to come.

There are lessons we must all learn and promote in our dealing with communities around us. No religion has a monopoly on Irishness. The Republic was proclaimed: Ireland for all the people of the nation. We take our thoughts and our political aspirations from Theobald Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, Thomas Davis, O’Donovan Rossa and the men and women of Easter 1916.

Recruitment to this organisation is ongoing. Discipline and honour are the vital components and recruits coming into this organisation need to bring much of these attributes with them and a desire to achieve and improve these necessities.

Support the Irish language and speak it. Tá tábhacht faoi leith ag baint leis an nGaeilge. “Dá gcaillfí an Ghaeilge de chaillfí Éire,” a dúirt Pádraig Mac Piarais. “We are a place apart with our language, If we lose it, we lose Éire.”

The nature of resistance is changing and this Movement forges new ways to deal with the imperialEnglish partition of our country and the continued occupation. Their counter revolutionary tactics and strategies are evolving, and we must evolve ourtactics and strategies to thwart their efforts to capture our country.

This Movement is dedicated to the cause of Irish freedom. Towards this outcome the Republican Movement shall continue to “stand to” and strike at any time against the occupiers and their hirelings in Ireland.

— Issued by the Leadership of the Republican Movement, Easter 2026.

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