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The Psychology of a Volunteer
Author: Pádraic H. Pearse
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The edition used in the digital edition- Pádraic Pearse The Psychology of a Volunteer in Political Writings and Speeches. , Dublin, Phoenix Publishing Co. Ltd. (1924) page 101107
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The Psychology of a Volunteer: Author: Pádraic H. Pearse
p.103
(January 1914)
Mughdhorn has challenged my psychology as un-Irish.
At least, he has challenged as un-Irish the psychology of any man that
holds the view that it has not been merely for the sake of saving the
Irish language we Leaguers have been working all these years. That is a
view which I hold and have promulgated. Hence I take it there is
question here of my psychology. It is a little embarrassing to a shy
person to have his psychology discussed in public. One feels inclined to
protest indignantly with the old lady whom the doctor suspected of
appendicitis, explaining to her that it meant inflammation of the
appendix. Why, I haven't got such a thing! She
thought he meant a kind of tail. I really shrink from a public
investigation into my psychology.
p.104
Let me
see how Mughdhorn will like a very tender
examination of his.
I formally challenge as not only un-Irish,
but as diseased, the psychology of the man who holds that Parnell's
declaration to the people of Connacht that he would not have taken
off his coat to the land question but that he saw in it a means to rouse
the people of Ireland to assert their right to self-government,
betrayed the Palesman addressing the mere Gael, and that it was
supercilious at that. The declaration in question was one of
those four or five illuminating and unforgettable sentences of Parnell's
which prove him to have been the one really great Nationalist of his
time: the true successor of Tone and Mitchel, though working with such
different means. The sentence betrays not the Palesman (whatever that
may mean) but the Irish Nationalist. I hold its Nationalism to be
authentic, and, further, that there is no other Nationalism than the
Nationalism therein implied, i.e., that the nation is more important than
any part of the nation. A national leader in a struggle for
self-government could not have turned aside from the main issue in order
to
p.105
take up even temporarily any other issue, however
important, than the national one, except with the object of
strengthening his forces for the main fightthe fight for nationhood.
Parnell, as leader of the Irish in their struggle for nationhood, would
not have been justified in devoting on hour of his time or one penny of
his funds to the land war except as a means to an end. Had Parnell had
his way the land war would not have been fought out until the national
war had been won; and it is a pity that Parnell had not his way, as we
and our children may realise full soon.
I challenge again the Irish
psychology of the man who sets up the Gael and the Palesman as opposing
forces, with conflicting outlooks. We are all Irish, Leinster-reared or
Connacht-reared; your native Irish speaker of Iveragh or Ennis is more
fully in touch with the spiritual past of Ireland than your Wexfordman
or your Kildareman, but your Wexfordman or your Kildareman has other
Irish traditions which your Iveraghman or your Errisman has lost. It is
a great thing to have heard in childhood the songs of a Tadhg
Gaedhealach or to have seen a
p.106
Raftery or a Colm Wallace;
it is an equally great thing to have known old men who fought in Wexford
in '98, or to have been nursed by a woman who made bullets for the
Fenians. All such memories, old and new, are part of Irish history, and
he who would segregate Irish history and Irish men into two sectionsIrish-speaking and English speaking is not helping toward achieving
Ireland a Nation.
Am I a Palesman and is Lord O'Brien of Kilfenora a
Gael? I propose that in future we reserve the term Palesman for those
who uphold the domination of the English in Ireland. I propose also that
we substitute for the denominations Gael, Gall, and Gall-Gael the common
name of Irishman.
I do not know who among the Gaelic Leaguers
that have joined the Volunteers has been foolish enough to suggest that
he cares for the language merely as a sort of stimulant in the fight
for nationhood. Certainly not I: I have spent the best fifteen years
of my life teaching and working for the idea that the language is an
essential part of the nation. I have not modified my attitude in
anything that I have recently said
p.107
or written; I have only confessed
(and not for the first time) that in the Gaelic League I have all along
been working not for the language merely, but for the nation. I now go
further, and say that anyone who has been working for the language
merely (if there be any such) has never had the true Gaelic League spirit at all, and though in the Gaelic League has never really been of
it. I protest that it was not philology, not folklore, not literature,
we went into the Gaelic League to serve, but: Ireland a Nation.