‘IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of Seamus Heaney and of the dead generations of bards, writers, sculptors, painters and actors from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.

Having organised and trained her artists through her secret revolutionary organisation, the Project Arts Centre, and through her open military organisations, the Abbey and Siamse Tíre having patiently perfected her cultural quarter, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, and, supported by the Arts Council and the Film Board and by gallant allies in Culture Ireland, but relying in the first on her own artistic impulse, she strikes in full confidence of victory.

We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the creative ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish arts, to be sovereign and indefeasible…’

Via Dublin Central Arts Workers on Facebook.