I said to him, “Will you pray for the men who are about to shoot you”, and he said, “I will say a prayer for all brave men who do their duty.”… His prayer was… “Forgive them for they know not what they do.”… and then they shot him….
James Connolly’s last words with a Father Aloysius, in Nora Connolly, “The Irish Rebellion of 1916, Or The Unbroken Tradition”, New York: Boni and Liverright, 1919, p. 190.















