Galway 32CSM Commemoration

Tuam Martyrs Commemoration 2008

Liam Mellows 32CSM Galway, are pleased to announce a solidarity commemoration which will take place on Sunday 20th July 2008. Assemble at 1:30p.m. at the 1916 Monument on Bishop Street, Tuam, Co. Galway (Supervalu Car Park) and march to the Old Workhouse Monument in Dublin Road, Tuam, where six brave volunteers were executed by Free State Forces in April 1923. The six men executed, five from Galway and one from Mayo, were shot by a free state firing squad in the old workhouse in Tuam, Co. Galway on the 11th April 1923 towards the end of the civil war in Connaught.

32CSM Canvassing in Galway for NO Vote to the Lisbon Treaty

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement in Galway would like to thank the people of Galway for their support against the Lisbon Treaty. As a result of our engagement with them we would like to thank all those who expressed an interest in joining the 32CSM. Whilst canvassing the people of Galway today we are in no doubt that they will return a No Vote against the Lisbon Treaty.

Below are some pictures of todays 32CSM campaign against the Lisbon Treaty in Galway

32CSM in Eyre Square



32CSM and Free Palestine Movement in Shop Street Galway

32CSM Members Leaflet Eyre Square

32CSM Galway Vote NO to Lisbon

1. British Parliamentary and European Parliamentary activity in Ireland is not democratically accountable to the Irish people.

2. The Lisbon Referendum is being put to a section of the Irish people and is not a valid expression of Irish self determination. Ireland is a 32 County Sovereign Nation whose sovereignty is violated by a foreign power.

3. The rights supposedly 'defended' by Lisbon excludes the Irish people's right to self determination.

4. Lisbon seeks a common Foreign and Defence policy amongst EU members which will negate the British Governments spurious stance of 'having not selfish, strategic or economic reasons' to remain in Ireland.

5. Common EU positions in Defence, Economics and Taxation will inevitable mean control by the larger Military and Economic Members of the EU. Neutrality will be made redundant.

6. The terms of the Lisbon Treaty have already been democratically rejected.

Liam Mellows addressing the Dáil on 28 April 1922

Liam Mellows addressing the Dáil on the approach to the Irish Civil War on 28th April 1922
"There would no question of civil war here now were it not for the undermining of the Republic. The Republic has been deserted by those who state they still intend to work for a Republic. The Volunteers can have very little faith at this moment in the Government that assembles here, because all they can see in it is a chameleon Government. One moment, when they look at it, it is the green, white and orange of the Republic, and at another moment, when they look at it, it is the red, white and blue of the British Empire. We in the Army, who have taken this step, have been termed “mutineers,” “irregulars,” and so forth. We are not mutineers, because we have remained loyal to our trust. We are not mutineers except against the British Government in this country. We may be “irregular” in the sense that funds are not forthcoming to maintain us, but we were always like that and it is no disgrace to be called “irregulars” in that sense. We are not wild people."