History Of The Sinn Fein Movement And The Irish Rebellion Of 1916 Classic Reprint

Download or read book History of the Sinn Fein Movement and the Irish Rebellion of 1916 (Classic Reprint) written by Francis P. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Sinn Fein Movement and the Irish Rebellion of 1916 Not within the confines of human knowledge has it been known that any one nation has wielded such power or exercised such arbitrary control over international communications as England does to-day. The ships on the water that carry the mails, the ocean cables beneath the water, and the wireless telegraphy above the water are each and all completely in her hands. Every avenue of intelligence is guarded by her police and picketed by her agents. Service to her interests is the rule applied to the suppression or the dissemination of news. In the titanic struggle for existence in which she is engaged, this, from her point of view, may be justifiable; but from the point of view of history, founded upon truth, it is a malforming of facts and a poisoning of the wells of knowledge. In none of the fields of her worldwide activities is her censorship so complete or so drastic as it is in matters relating to Ireland or Ireland's interests at home or abroad. Not that there is anything new in her misrepresentation of Ireland and the Irish. That she has done for centuries in the forum, on the stage, and through the influences of her literature and drama. But never has there been such wholesale suppression of realities and falsification of truth as since the great war. Commencement was made by the false acclaim of Ireland's loyalty, and the climax was reached by the perversion of the rebellion of Easter week into an inconsequential street riot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.