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The Irish Government was bound by the terms of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement to submit Articles 2 and 3 to amendment by referendum.As a result, the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution was adopted during June of the same year by 94% of those voting.
Thomas Murray (2015) "Socio-Economic Rights and the Making of the 1937 Irish Constitution", Irish Political Studies,Vol 31 (4), pp. 502–524. DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2015.1095738; Micheál Ó Cearúil, Bunreacht na hÉireann: A Study of the Irish Text (published by the All Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, The Stationery Office, 1999).
In what was to be the most widely read account of the rebellion since its centenary, The Year of Liberty (1969), [117]: 54 Thomas Pakenham (overlooking 1741, the famine "year of slaughter") wrote: [118] The rebellion of 1798 is the most violent and tragic event in Irish history between the Jacobite wars and the Great Famine. In the space of a ...
John Philpot Curran (24 July 1750 – 14 October 1817) was an Irish orator, politician, and lawyer known for his skills in defence of civil and political liberty. He first won popular acclaim in 1780, as the only lawyer in his circuit willing to represent a Catholic priest horsewhipped by an Anglo-Irish lord.
The Declaration of Independence (Irish: Forógra na Saoirse, French: Déclaration d'indépendance) was a document adopted by Dáil Éireann, the revolutionary parliament of the Irish Republic, at its first meeting in the Mansion House, Dublin, on 21 January 1919.
The proclamation was printed prior to the Rising on a Summit Wharfedale Stop Cylinder Press in Liberty Hall, Eden Quay (HQ of the Irish Citizen Army).The document had problems with the layout and design because of a shortage of type.
John Stuart Mill. Philosophers from the earliest times have considered the question of liberty. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD) wrote: . a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed.
The Liberty of the Ancients was a participatory republican liberty, [99] which gave the citizens the right to influence politics directly through debates and votes in the public assembly. [98] In order to support this degree of participation, citizenship was a burdensome moral obligation requiring a considerable investment of time and energy.