New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-01
Sought Provisional Re
public to Throw Off
British Yoke.
ASKED SACRIFICE
FOR FREEDOMS SAKE
Appealed to Exiles in United
States and "Allies in
Europe" to Aid.

London, April 30-The proclamation
issued by tho insurgents at Dublin at
/ the outbreak Of the revolt reads as fol-
/ lows:
"The provisional government Of the
Irish Republic to the people Of Ire
| land:
Irish men and Irish women. in tho
name Of God and of the dead genera
/ tions from which you received the old
| traditions Of nationhood, Ireland,
/ through us, summons her children 10
| her flag and strikes for her freedom,
! having organized and trained her man
| hood through her secret revolutionary
organization, the Irish Republican
Brotherhood, and through her open
| military organization, the Irish Volun-
teers and the Irish citizen army.
Having patiently perfected their
discipline and resolutely waited for
| the right moment to reveal itself, she
now seizes that moment, and, support
| cd by her exiled children in America
and by her gallant allies in Europe, By
relying on her own strength, she
strikes. in full confidence of victory.
Freedom Inextinguishable.
ave declare the right Of the people
| Of Ireland 10 the ownership of Ire
/ land and to unfettercd control of Irish
/ destinies, 10 be sovereign and indie
/ feasible Long usurpation OF that right
| by a foreign people and government
| has not extinguished that right. nor
can 10 ever be exiting ished except by
an every generation the Irish people
| have asserted their right 10 national
freedom and sovereignty. Six times
! during the last 800 years they have
asserted IT in arms. Standing on that
fundamental right. and again assert
ing 10 in arms, In the face Of the world
| we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic
as sovereign independent state, and
! we pledge our lives and the lives of our
comrades IN arms 10 the cause OF ITS
freedom, its welfare and its eXaltatlon
among nations.
THE Irish Republic is entitled 20
and hereby claims, the allegiance OF
/ every lrIshman and Irish woman. The
republic guarantees religious and civil
liberty, equal rights and equal oppor-
/ tunitIes 20 all its citizens, and declares
its resolve 70 pursue the happiness
/ and prosperity Of the whole nation and
OF all its parts, cherishing all the chill
/ dren of the nation equally, and OBJ
liyious of the differences carefully
fostered by an alien government, which
have divided the minority from the
majority in the past.
Institute Provisional Government.
Until our arms have brought the OPP
perfume moment for the establishment
of a permanent national government
representative Of the whole people OF
Ireland and elected by the suffrage OF
al. her men and women, the provisional
government hereby constituted, will
administer the civil and military affairs
of the republic in trust for the people
1--WE place the cause OF the Irish Re
public 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 dishonor il
by cowardice, inhumanity or rapine. In
this supreme hour the Irish nation
must by its valor and discipline and by
the readiness of its children TO sacri-
fee themselves for the common good
prove itself worthy of the august des-
tiny TO which II is called.
Signed in behalf of the provisional
government: Thomas J. Clarke, S
MacDiarmad. Thomas MacDonagh, J. II
Pearce. T.. Ceannt, James Connolly, Jo-
seph Plunkett."