superinhuman

Updated: May 24, 2025

"I appeal to the immaculate God I swear by the Throne of Heaven, before which I must shortly appear by the blood of the murdered patriots who have gone before me that my conduct has been, through all this peril, and through all my purposes, governed only by the conviction which I have uttered, and by no other view than that of the emancipation of my country from the superinhuman oppression under which she has so long and too patiently travailed; and I confidently hope that, wild and chimerical as it may appear, there is still union and strength in Ireland to accomplish this noblest of enterprises.

Various - Speeches from the Dock, Part I