Irish Republican Socialist Party - Founded in 1974 after a split in Official Sinn Fein. Site includes IRSP documents, pamphlets, history and other resources. IRSP is the political arm of the Irish National Liberation Army. The party supports the cease-fire but opposes the Good Friday Agreement.
The Workers Party - Seeks to establish a democratic, secular, socialist united Republic of Ireland. Site includes party history, policies and news. Formerly known as Official Sinn Fein. The party supports the Good Friday Agreement.
Republican Sinn Féin - Led by Ruairí Ó Brádaigh the group split from (Provisional) Sinn Fein in the 1980s. The party rejects the Good Friday Accord.
Irish Republican Socialist Movement - Committed to the ideas of Irish Marxist James Connolly and the creation of an Irish workers' republic, the IRSM is descended from the Official Irish Republican Army. Includes press releases.
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Republican Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Republican
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Republican "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Republican
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Republican If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Republican
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Republican If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Republican
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Republican Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Republican
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Republican "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Republican
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Republican Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Republican
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Republican Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Republican
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Republican I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Republican
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Republican "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Republican
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Republican A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Republican
