politician, animator
1954 – 1981
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
It is said we live in modern times,Is modern torture, pain and hypocrisy.
In the gutters lies the black man, dead,Who lived and died without liberty
There's rain on the wind, the tears of spirits, There's more than God for man to fear.
Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
Dear Mum, I know you're always thereTo face the world and all its wrong.
A guide to me in times of plight I give my thanks for eternity.
There’s an inner thing in every man, Like a slashing searing knife.
It wept by the waters of Babylon, Along the Appian Way.
Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.
The body doesn't accept the lack of food, and it suffers from the temptation of food and from other aspects which gnaw at it perpetually. The body fights back sure enough, but at the end of the day, everything returns to the primary consideration - that is, the mind.