Search for ira speaker:Pearse Doherty (KildareStreet.com)

Seanad: Matter Raised Under Standing Order 31 (21 Feb 2008): Pearse Doherty: ...during this period. The use of the lily at funerals symbolises the restored innocence of the soul at death. Today, republicans continue to honour the heroic sacrifice made in 1916 when the IRA, hopelessly outnumbered and ill-equipped, faced the might of the British Army and showed the world, in the words of Patrick Pearse, that Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.

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