2021-03-31 23:37:36
“We must look at citizenship in the context of the modern world, and in the modern world, the National Party believes that it is nationality that is at the core of what it means to be Irish, not citizenship. Citizenship is merely a legal document. Citizenship is a set of legal rights that are conferred through the constitution, itself only a legal document binding only as long as the legal authority which put it in place is binding. Nationality, on the other hand, is at the very core of who we are. It cannot be conferred by law, it cannot be removed by law, it is bound up with our very identity, and it is ethnic and can only be ethnic.”
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“Freedom, Pearse said, is something that can be lost and won again but nationality once lost can never be won back. It is like a dead man. He shall not ever rise again. So the National Party is very clear in understanding —as Pearse understood it and as all Irish nationalists understood it until recently —that nationality is ethnic; that it is based on genetic blood inheritance, shared history, culture, tradition, cultural affinity and a willingness to sacrifice for the thing called Ireland.”
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“Citizenship, to be sure, as far as it is based on positive law, can be given to pretty much anybody on the face of the planet. However, we would suggest —in fact we would strongly suggest —that it be only in very rare circumstances that nationality and citizenship are apart.”
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“As I said, citizenship can be conferred on a non-national but if it is done on any great scale it creates a problem, because political power within the Nation State rests on those who have citizenship and exercise it through their citizenship. How are we going to have the State protect the Nation if the vast majority of the citizens of the State do not have Irish nationality? That's not a problem for the globalists. They want it that way. But it is a problem if you care about Ireland and the Irish people.”
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“If citizenship is granted to non-nationals on a large scale, then the Nation in a very short period of time becomes deprived of the protection of the State. Now, we have in the past as an Irish people, managed to survive without the protection of the State, indeed under the direct attack of the State, in particular in colonial times under British Rule... A nation could survive in a time when there wasn't huge transient global migration. A nation could survive under foreign government. That is no longer possible. We require a native Irish government to protect a native Irish Nation and a native Irish State.”
Extracts from an address by Justin Barrett, Ceannaire an Pháirtí Náisiúnta, 30 March 2021
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