The 1916 proclamation, the manifesto of the 1916 rebels, states: âThe Republic guarantees
religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and
declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all
its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the
differences carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a minority from
the majority in the past.â ---- These noble aspirations would become almost a bible of
Irish Republican ideals and within six years, after the end of the War of Independence in
1922, a section of that movement had a chance to implement these ideals. However the
society established after the war of independence âThe Irish Free Stateâ was a pale shadow
of even the most modest interpretation of this document. Civil liberties were almost non
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