Speeches from the Dock or Protests of Irish Patriotism

by A M Sullivan

This is a collection of speeches – deeply moving, deeply inspiring – which became a national bestseller in Ireland. It includes Robert Emmet’s speech which all school children learned, as well as that of Wolf Tone. The effect may have been more profound than we know, as on the Nationalist side the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and subsequent atrocities were perpetrated by my generation. The appalling nature of the violence on the other side must not give absolution.