Irishmen and Irishwomen: In the name of God and of the dead
generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood,

Irishmen and Irishwomen: In the name of God and of the dead
generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood,
Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for
her freedom. Having organised and trained her manhood through her
secret revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood,
and through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteers, and
the Irish Citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline,
having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she
now seizes that moment, and, supported by her exiled children in
America and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on
her own strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory.


We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of
Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be
sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a
foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can
it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people.
In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to
national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three
hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that
fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the
world, we hereby proclaim the Irish republic as a sovereign
independent state, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our
comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare, and of
its exaltation among the nations.


The Irish republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance
of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The republic guarantees religious
and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its
citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and
prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all
the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences
carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a
minority from the majority in the past.


Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment
of a permanent national government, representative of the whole people
of Ireland, and elected by the suffrages of all her men and women, the
Provisional Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil
and military affairs of the republic in trust for the people. We place
the cause of the Irish republic 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 dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity, or
rapine. In this supreme hour the Irish nation must, by its valour and
discipline, and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice
themselves for the common good, prove itself worthy of the august
destiny to which it is called.

Sighe haighill.

Irishmen and Irishwomen: In the name of God and of the dead