John Eoin MacNeill Quotes
We will have no political future if we are not arrested.
The two were in the Dublin suburbs when others seized the Dublin Post Office and began the Easter Uprising without their knowledge. They were desperate to get to Downtown Dublin and have a role in the activities and get arrested with the more militant leaders.
John Eoin MacNeill, 1867-1945, Irish Historian and Politician, Minister of Finance, Minister of Education, Founder and Vice President of the Gaelic League, Chief of Staff, Irish Volunteers, Statement to Bulmer Hobson, 1916
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