MOCRAT FOUNDED IN 1939 MONTHLY ORGAN OF THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION
No. 376 OCTOBER 7975 Price IQp READERS! WE WILL SHORTLY HAVE TO PUT UP THE PRICE Of THE IRISH DEMOCRAT TAKE THE GAG TO MEET RISING COSTS . . . MEANWHILE, WILL THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD PAY OFF THE IRISH 15p VOLUNTARILY ? WILL TRUCE IN BRITAIN HOLD? Lobby Parliament November 4
Jj^S we go to press reports of renewed violence in North- NO SECOND CLASS CITIZENSHIP ern Ireland arouse fears that HE Connolly Association and the National Council for Civil Liberties have issued a joint the ceasefire is greatly threat- JACK DROMEY AT AN ened. T call for a massive lobby of Parliament on Tuesday evening, November 4th, to urge IRISH MEETING M.P.s to ensure that the Prevention of Terrorism Act is not renewed when it comes up for We hope that this is not so review in November, and that nothing embodying any of its objectionable provisions is and that all concerned will show the greatest possible fore- enacted in its place. ONE HUNDRED feearance. Under this Act, Irish people tion of the Transport & General • Send for the N.C.CL. report MEETINGS ON At the same time it is have been treated in a most Workers' Union. Mr Jack Dro- on the working of the Act. mey announced that such an This is obtainable at their ominous that Mr Paddy Devlin atrocious way. IRELAND action was in accordance with offices at 186 Kings Cross •t the S.D.L.P. has suggested They have been held without the policy of the Brent Trades Road, London, W.C.I, or from jpOLLOWING the visit to the that stability cannot be restored Council, of which he is secre- charge or trial for periods far the "Irish Democrat" Book- - six counties of the delega- under Merlyn Rees. tary. shop, 283 Grays Inn Road. The tion from the Greater London exceeding those nominally pro- price is 30p; but you should vided for in the Act, and sub- Arrangements are being made Association of Trades Councils, The Connolly Association add a few coppers for postage. there have been 58 report-back jected to intensive questioning for briefing meetings in London, Executive Committee, meeting meetings in the London area, under conditions where their Birmingham and elsewhere. The • Bring your friends to the •n Sunday, September 21st N.C.C.L. is bringing its reports and secretary Jack Dromery, a physical wants were not pro- briefing meeting to explain passed a resolution deploring up to date in time for the lobby, the Act which will take place Tippefaryman settled for many his decision to increase the vided for. and has undertaken to prepare at the Friends'Meeting House, years In England, is confident namber of persons ihterned. additional popular material. Tuesday, October 21st. Speak- that the numbers will pass a DEPORTED ers will include Jack Dromey hundred by the end of October. The Increase in harassment in The Connolly Association is and Desmond Greaves, and The -greater number of the Republican areas may have They have been deported to getting out a pledge or affirma- Tom Litterick M.P. will take meetings have been organised helped to spark off the violence. Ireland, although absolutely tion which will be sent to the chair. by branches and shop stewards' nothing has been proved against organisations and individuals committees, but there have His proposals for fresh re- them. inviting them to oppose the re- Whenever you jaersuade an been a number of district and pression thus seem badly off newal of the Act, and support organisation to support or spon- divisional councils, including track. They have been interrogated the lobby. sor the lobby, tell the "Irish the important London North and screened at ports of entry. Democrat", and if possible In- One of the central figures in District Committee of the The Government should real- form the Press. A.U.E.W. The Prevention of Terrorism the campaign is Mis6 Catherine Ue that the majority of the Act makes it a crime to be an Scorer, the Northern Ireland Following the lobby there will The official report-back con- •fitUh people are now willing Irishman, or at any rate come officer of the National Coyncil be a deputation to Mr Jenkins. ference took place on Saturday, »• consider favourably a hand- damned near to it. for Civil Liberties. September I3th, at the N.U.R. over of sovereignty to the Hall in Euston Road. majority of the Irish people and Within minutes of the decision WHAT TO DO The Association is planning a in the meantime there should be being taken Mr Gould of the Here are some of the things meeting with representatives of Hammersmith Trades Council 1976 the T.U.C., and there.will be a an effort to regain politioal which readers of the "Irish lobby of Parliament, when the pledged the support of his or- Democrat" can do :— normality based on civil rights ganisation, as did Mr Peter CALENDARS delegates will endeavbu* to for all citizens. Kavanagh of the Building Sec- • Raise money. We have calcu- secure a hearing from the Mem- lated that a minimum of £250 bers in a specially convened will be needed, for printing meeting. It is understood that and advertising. We can sup- 'Beautiful Ireland' friendly MLP.s haVe the matter ply collecting sheets. It will in hand. •• JUMBLE SALE not be necessary to sign full Twelve views in magnificent The report issued by the- As- to raise funds for the names on them; initials will colour sociation has proved so popular do. The more money that that already 1,400 copies "have IRISH DEMOCRAT comes in, the more we can do. 65p or 80p post free - been sold. Hie result has been a massive • Raise the matter at your trade from infusion of interest in the Irish union branch or trades coun- question into the London•£*•' CLAPHAM BATHS. Clapham Manor Street, S.W.4 cil. Invite them to have a "IRISH DEMOCRAT" bour movement, illustrating the 1 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1st : 2.30 p.m. speaker. There are on the BOOK CENTRE argument advanced by the Con- staff of the C.A. and N.C.C.L. nolly Association for nearly 40 V SOUTH LONDON CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION enough capable speakers to 283 Gray* Inn Road years, that the main job is to Offers of Jumble or help to 850-0283. supply all organisations who London, WC1 win the English workers over to want them. support us. October 1975 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 3 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT October 1975 REVIEW* K. B.C. CUCHULAIN Songs Old and New IN WINNIPEG NO DEMOCRACY HERE social change, probably it is one "Seasons in the Sun", by Rod "The Cuchulain Plays of W. B. ~Y| UCH noise has been made LET'S HAVE AN END TO THESE BOMBS of the most realistic documen- McKuen (Star Books, 95p) Yeats", a study by Reg Skene over the past two years BY JJOMLIS have stalled going oIf erosity or understanding, this is those who know that bombs are nity and among the British The establishment cannot "A Touch on the Times" by Roy taries of those times since it (Macmillan, £5.95). about the so-called "democratis- Palmer (Penguin, 80p) was written by the people, for T in England, and the mass what the Irish see, and naturally useless, still feel the frustration. working class. even be destroyed by blowing A EATS stated in his autobiogra- ation" of the E.E.C. The argu- LIAM O DREANAIN media have confidently pro- they are able to be quite as im- They cannot regard as enemies it it up members of its own class. EVERYBODY should know the the people, sold on street cor- phies that "We should write out ment has centred around the our own thoughts in as nearly as nounced them "made in Ire- placable as the English. those who affirm the separate- There is always somebody else song "Seasons in the Sun" made ners for pennies (social his- supposed "European Parlia- ftOW to explain why it does possible the language we thought to step into everybody's place famous in the summer of '74, torians take note). The book is ment". pose "amendments" which the land". it 6 it ness of Ireland, who make the not do to react emotionally them in." In so doing he cannot 'pHE political bomber is the declaration by the deed, even A system cannot be destroyed but the book contains more than full of old photographs and Council may then accept or modify We do not know whether they to a sense of frustration. have foreseen the lazy egotism that Strictly speaking there is no though the deed proves sterile. by actions against individuals. lust one song. Admittedly, memories. in turn. Changes of this sort by were made in Ireland or not, dead opposite of the thug or On the front page of this issue this maxim brings to so much such thing. What the Treaty of the Council must however be ap- The way to make sure there On the contrary it can be there are many of his early and we are not satisfied with the violent criminal. of the "Irish Democrat" there is The social history may be the modern poetry, but rather his own Rome refers to in Article 137 proved by the Assembly. But note are no bombs is to pursue a strengthened, because those whe urge to apply a wide cultural know- the evidence that they are. He is not to be understood by a call to try to end the Preven- poems, included "Afterward" basis of the book but it is the is an "Assembly" which shall that the power of the Assembly to policy that does not lead to are indifferent are rallied to the and "Land's End" from "Stan- and the use of a dramatic frame- But one thing is a dead cer- means of these conceptions. tion of Terrorism Act. scattering of ballads throughout consist of a number of Parlia- propose increases of non-obligatory frustration. side of the victim. yan Street and Other Sorrows", ledge. His thoughts stand apart expenditure is limited to certain tainty. Bombs do not help the He is a man who feels himself Over three hundred years ago the book that adds attraction. mentary representatives from it it it from him in the medium of drama rates. cause of Irish freedom. They in the grip of a relentless enemy, it it it there was a revolution in Eng- "We thought Perhaps" from If you love folk music, particu- work for much of his lyric poetry. each member state. AFTER the recent bombs sell- hinder it. an animal with one foot in a gUPPOSE an Irishman from the land which put an end to secret "With Love", the list is endless larly traditional folk, then Though writing from his emotions, Originally non-obligatory expen- hunter's trap, an insect strugg- trials, imprisonments and tor- ers of the "Irish Democrat" but it is spiced with "brand- you'd better order your copy Yeats attributed them to, The word "Parliament" suggests diture consisted chiefly of admini- And there is some evidence six counties wants to see his the ability to pass laws and control ling and squirming on a biolo- ture. found many an Irishman staring new, never - before - published now, it, is a treasury of folk new "characters of his own invention strative expenses, amounting t,o 3-4 that people who want to hinder country united, what can he do ? the executive. "Assembly" is a more per cent of the budget. Now it gist's forceps, a prisoner who These" things have come back into his pint of beer and pre- poems. and old. A book I, at least, am and to characters he drew from the cause of Irish freedom are neutral term. All they have to do includes the Social Fund and its must GET OUT if he breaks his What door can he knock at? in modern England, brought in tending not to see even this proucS to own. the mythological materials with fully aware of this fact. The As its title suggests, the which he worked." is assemble. The term can accom- share thus becomes 15 per cent. neck. What political action can he by a Ebbour government. And sober periodical. notorious Littlejohn who is do- poetry is full of summer, full Skene points this out in his cheap- modate a mere advisory body. In- He does not feel himself to take? the rights and liberties that were Does it help, to provide ex- deed it was chosen in 1957 because When the budget is finalised the ing time in Mountjoy for robbing of joy and re-birth, sunsets and ter dealing with the autobiographi- Council and Assembly give a joinc be making war on society. There is no political liberty in won years ago have to be fought cuses for searches, intimidations, little more than a counselling role a bank said he did it under green fields, sprinkled with cal origins of the Cuchulain plays. discharge to the Executive Commis- Society is making war on him. the six counties. He is discri- for all over again. inquisitions, creating vast com- LOCAL AFFAIRS r was assigned to it. ' British instructions in an at- beautiful photographs of > rHE five plays in the Cuchulain sion to implement it. The supreme overmastering minated against not for what he Isn't it obvious that the Bir- puterised dossiers on the whole cycle are: "On Baile's Strand'' tempt to discredit the Republi- beaches and seascapes, animals "Problems of Irish Local Govern- Since then, however, it has be- emotion is frustration. In caus- does, but what he is, and yet mingham bombs put us back, Irish community, and a few M (1903). "The Green Helmet" (1910), A FTER reading this simplified cans. It is also said that he and flowers (and Mr McKuen). ment Finance : Institute of come convenient in E.E.C. propa- ing the frustration the British he knows he is part of the not forward ? home as well ? "At the Hawk's Well" (1917), "The ganda to pretend that there is a account of the enlarged facul- acted as an agent provocateur, Pujblic Administration", by ties of the Assembly, one might establishment have caused the majority of the Irish people. The establishment cannot be Does it help, to spread a The book is a diary of his Only Jealousy of Emer" (1919) and real legislature hopping between getting people to undertake Donald de Buitkir (Dublin, "The Death of Cuchulain" (1938). wonder why so much ingenuity was bombs. It is the providing of opportu- destroyed by blowing up work- general sense of insecurity, so swn-chasing days and experi- Luxembourg and Strasbourg, so now actions which he knew woi^ld £1.35). Their main tools are mysticism, the Assembly never refers to itself expended for so minimal a result. And if many Irish people will nities for that political action, ers. But it can use the indig- that people are afraid to exer- ences over his eight or nine be to their detriment, things Celtic mythology, ritual, symbolism as anything but the European "Par- The reason is much the same as not admit in front of English the opening of the door, that is nation aroused to arm itself cise even the rights that have months of summer . . . eight or 'THIS is a sliort easy to read book they would not have done with- of how local authorities in Ire- and imagery. Introductory chapters liament", though it is not a Parlia- that which prompted the change of people that they disapprove of the great duty of thinking with extra powers, which are not been interfered with ? nine months of summer ? — of this study relate the cycle to ment, and has no legal right to name. The intricate procedure out his prompting. people both in the Irish commu- (Continued on Page Three) land raise their revenue^ An insight the bombs, it is because even then used against the workers. Yes. unlike some of us who is given of some of the problems of these aspects, explaining the play- the term. creates movement and gives the il- How we would like to know have to bear the brunt of win- raising finance locally as well as a wright's idea of an Irish mystical lusion that something is happening what he was doing in Birming- ter, the lucky Mr McKuen brief historical background to the order, his sense of Ireland's national The job of the Assembly is to give despite its lack of substance. opinions to the Council of Mini- ham all that time, and why the promises himself "eight or nine subject. There is, a summary of consciousness, his symbolic ritual sters. It is provided that if a Mention has not yet been made man who harboured him is not months of summer" at the very the current discussion on the developed in "A Vision" with his autobiographical influences and his motion of censure on the Executive of the latest draft amendments to to be prosecuted! least. He likes "to work in various ways of raising money Commission is carried by a two- the treaties which have been ap- TO THE CACKLE which indicates quite clearly that theory and practice of dramatic HELP THEM C1IT the sun, play in the sun, make thirds majority, then the Commis- proved by the Council and await We do know that at the Win- more people should be involved in technique. A chapter devoted to love and waste time in the sun" each of the five texts concludes the sion may resign. The insertion of a conference of heads of state to chester trial it was stated that j^JANY people in England ex-- their rights as a majority of the accident that the National Front If that recognition could dawti this discussion and controlling local endorse them. (but then don't we all). study. this provision was made in fir'm ultra-Unionists and members of claim to you what a ter- Irish people as a whole. saw in the outlook of these wor- among the workers of Englarfd affairs. confidence that such an event was the National Front discussed ribly complicated insoluble kers a possible fertile field for it would do more to bring His poetry reflects the man Reg Skene staged the Cuchulain extremely unlikely. This the sub- The Council has agreed that a How did this position come As everyone is aware one sound proposed modification in the obli- letting off bombs in the Mid- question faces them in Ireland. about ? It came about because their own even more insidious about a unity of Republicans in who has chased the^sun all his basic reason for collecting local cycle of plays together at the Uni- sequent history of the E.E.C. has versity of Winnipeg in 1969. His gatory expenditure shall stand un- lands to try and discredit the The poor things don't know the English Government im- propaganda. pursuit of sane constructive life — the sun is the source and taxes, or rates, was to make the confirmed. interpretations are backed up with? less the Council rejects it. What Irish, and get the English up which way to turn with it. posed it by force, and has main- JgUT, to return. The Republi- policies than anything else. centre of his world, and it cer- local authority autonomous. This change is involved here? At pre- against them. has now been undermined by profuse quotes from the primary Is it not time the Irish com- tained it by fraud and terror. cans are right. The Union- But what effect would it have tainly colours all his work. VVTITH regard to the E.E.C. Bud- sent the Council must not only not larger government grants along sources and liberal references to his * * get, the Assembly was first The placing of bombs and munity and those English ists are wrong. We do not hesi- on the Unionist-minded work- If nothing else it's a good comprehensive secondary research. reject a modification but also for- Tt! Tt! we can hear somebody ers ? A salutary one, you can with an increase in control over awarded the right simply to pro- mally accept it. The proposal is similar actions are things which people who do understand, tate to say it; the I.R.A. are book to read on dark, winter His book is an explanation and in- say. Look at all the decent trade be sure. It is not a question of local affairs. This has made deci- pose modifications in draft form. that it accepts it by not rejecting every member of the Irish com- helped them to cut the cackle unionists who support the bor- absolutely right in wanting a days, it seems to give one hope sion making very remote frow . the - terpretation of the plays. It makes It was then up to the Council to getting up and pitch-forking a. well-documented companion to it. There's progress for you! munity should determine that and see that at bottom the Irish der. Well, decent trade union- United Ireland, and where they for the fufcure and a nice warm people in towns and villages which decide whether to aecept its pro- them into a United Ireland. Tfc them and solidly supports his belief, he will have nothing to do with- question is baby simple ? ists they may or may not be ; are to be criticised is only in feeling inSide. is one aspect of the geaeral trend, posals. The Council has recognised that • The weight of public opinion, the methods they sometimes is a matter of reversing the away from democracy. in the importance of Yeats's ac- the Assembly may throw out the The Englishman watches the whatever about decency, they complishment as a playwright. In 1970 a Budgetary Treaty was exercised by responsible organ- adopt in hopes of achieving it. whole tenor of criticism. Every "A Touch on the Times" is budget in its entirety, if there is television, listens to the radio, are grievously mistaken. They J.B. TILLA BRADING signed which widened the Assem- isations and individuals of in- day the Unionist leaders are as- the history of the ballads be- good reason. But what is good or reads his paper when there's think their security, prosperity We make this point particu- sured by the British Govern- bly's right of scrutiny. The new reason"? And what is the likelihood fluence, should be brought to tween 1770 and 1914, reflecting anything to read in it, and he and future depend on keeping larly because as we go to press ment that they will stand with treaty made a distinction between of such blunderbus action being bear to create an atmosphere in the great upheavals that took "obligatory" and "nonohligatory" has paraded before him "two their fellow-countrymen in a the Tories are demanding that them to the last, that fundament FORTHCOMING TITLES taken? No more than that of dis- which those who feel like resort- subordinate position, and invite place in that age of industrial expenditure by the E.EA The missing the Commission by a two- sides." Mr Merlyn Rees is Cre- there shall be an all-out mili- tally Britain's object is to aid HeU or Connawght, by p. Berres- Poetry of Austin Clarke 3 Volumes. ing to violence know that it is and social change. "obligatory" category, is that "neces- thirds' majority. dited with having told Lena their fellow trade unionists in tary campaign to smash the the minority, the partitionists. ford-v Hamish Hamilton. held to be wrong by the majo- England to make themselves-ac- Mr Palmer draws on tradi- The Cuchulain Plays of W; B. sarily resulting from the Treaties Jeger, M.P. for St. Pancras LR.A. And we are -also aware Every statement • of this kind Ireland in the Twentieth Century or from acts adopted in accordance Apart from budgetary powers the rity of Irish people. Yeats: A Study by Reg Skene. South who asked him a ques- complices in a reign Of terror that there is pressure on the strengthens the hold of the tional and broadside ballads and by John A. Murphy. Gill & therewith." other aspect of "democratisation" tion, that there were two which is necessary to achieve the songs of entertainers and Macmillan. Mactnillan. it it it leaders of' the I.Tt.A. to' tear "up Unionists on the working class. is that of direct elections to the White Goats & Black Bees by "tribes." and maintain that position. the cease-ftre and launch fttll- If the attitude of the EnglMl writers to add colour and: Oliver Goldsmith by A. Lytton. At the beginning of this year the Assembly promised by 187&. The 'fiEFORE explaining why it is Doflftid Grant Michael Joseph. Now what's the dispute be- Whereas in reality their best seWe military operations. Labour Movement were to -be character to the coming of the Allen A Unwin. 1970 treaty came fully into effect. principal ideas advanced by the- wrong, and what the alterna- interests would be served by W4mm in the well by Julia It allows the Assembly to propose Assembly itself in January arethat tween them ? Fundamentally it We hope that neither of 'these today what it was 150-odd -years railways, the lives of the new A Conceptual Guide to Finnegans tive is, let us make it clear that O'Faolatn. Faber h- Faber. "modiflcatians" in the obligatory the elections should be held in May is over whether the six counties building up the mighty re- things will happen. A fresh industrial workers, the miseries Waka Begnal & Senn. Penn- we can understand why people ago, they would say to r- :• Ur \ i • 355, i^cluinl m^ijirilfigtttt fofft Just after the war I wanted to can't be right, though bath may fit ofi all the people. of 13 fron id tit va?-" w Sr™ . i. But we place our finger on kers are not scoundrels; they From l^age t "" visit Republican prisoners in think themselves right. what we conceive to be the fun- MORATORIUM* ON BOMBS Varkhurst. I had to go to the fWfE hasten to remark that the are woefully mistaken men afM IN June the Joint Oierachtas It-is tune for the1 British La- damental change of attitude re- 'Prison Commissioners to get leaders of the trade unions women. They have been content Committee oa the.E.E.C. points bour •movement to -decide for it- quired among'the British work- We want a complete and im- England that is as strong as the votes in the House of Commons. First we have the task of re- permission. They were tall, in the six counties can usually to allow the six counties to be- out that 13 out of 355, makes «... self which of the two is right ers, who should transmit it to mediate moratorium on bombs, Government. That power is the Unfortunately the T.U.C did storing to Irish people, in Britain horse-faced gentlemen whose see this point,-but are unable to come a hell on earth rafther proportion of 3.7 per cent,. whereas- and which is wrong, instead of their Government. so that something more effec- organised working class. Unless nothing about it. But now the the civil rights which have been the present 10 out of 108 make,£ •past carters were written all convince their members of it, than abandon an absurd:posi- trying to m«KBte between right "We have never advocated tive can be tried. And here it you can engage that power on resolution has gone through taken away by the Prevention per cent. The Committee screwed, over them. because of the unceasing torrent tion of twopence halfpenny and wrong. Por< that's the cause of sectarian and imperialist pro- violence as a means of solving looking down on twopence. is. your side you can never have again and providing the pressure of Terrorism Act. up its courage to assert that we "Why do you want to go of the trouble. paganda. ~ ^ the Irish problem. We have al- There is no sense in it. What it it it enough power at all. is kept up they will have to. should endeavour to maintain our- down and see these thugs?" Second, we must secure the representation at least at its pre- The cleavage has. its compre- ways condemned individual ter- harm if the English trade unions it it it asked one of the Ofacials. J^OW the "Irish Democrat" have got to persuade the There are many Irishmen in restoration of civil rights taken sent level and get 18, seats. makes bold to say that be- hensible sfde. Old skills are dis- rorism, not because it is morally Should say so ? British Trades Union Con- fHE Connolly Association has It was not said toprovoke me. more wicked than dropping a the London trade union move- away from our. countrymen• in The. attitude of" the • Pine Gael- appearing arid^^Jfe* are In jeo- We are not denying the sub- not thought/that up just now. ; They just could not understand yond question it is those who gress to stand for the freedom ment. They have joined with Northern Ireland; and the grant- Labour coalition to thfc "demoemt- pardy. The wayfet0 Wftlaee the bomb on Hiroshima, but be- ject its complexities. BnglalM It has been the- consistent argu- that: people oould be devoid of «are opposed 191 partition, those of Ireland. their fellow trade unionists of ing of the rights they have isatioor! debate has>ieontrftsted *tt* jobs is to get a united Irish cause not only does it-norworfc. has created such a mess thati^t ment of the Association through- respect for the things which •who want a. united Ireland, who It will take time. But it other nationalities to deal with never had. that of Britain and Oeniuarlc' Tttfr working class-and fight for a it acts against the cause it is is not going to be easy to get out its existence. they heid as sacred; English law are right, even though they are shouldn't take anything like the the position in the six counties, "strengthening;", of the. European new Ireland. But that-is not? an supposed to assist. We defy any out of it. We are not saying that But until recently there was andit order, English-property. in the minorityin the six coun- time fruitlessly wasted on the and now we have a hundred Then we will.have the ground "Parliament" has, been welcomed ties. So here we have a case immediate solution. "There is a supporter of individual terror- the S.D.L.P. are the boys for not much sign that the policy of clear for negotiations oh the and direct election fervently, sup- That the «actions of their ism to give one instance in other method. How long ago meetings of trade unionists dis- where the minority is right. If temptation to concentrate on Ireland; nor the "officials"; was the Clerkenwell explosion ? the Association was going to way England shold make a tom- ported, Moreover, the .Foreign SJiuir nation m Ireland had driven out keeping the Catholics outeitie, world history where it ever cussing what is to be done. ster Dr Fitzgerald has actively coo of the Irish people the last ves- Labour Party conference. It Is it not worth while leaving English establishment where Ire- All the folHes committed in the aud forget that they are rea% a majority while the rest of ard. Or perhaps-more like ^ the If the people of "England could What is required is a sensible been drafted and worked on by is a matter of setting the coun- the bombs down for a while, so arguing about alternative reel pea- land is concerned, tWs blank Republican cause do not ex- Ireland, »<*hwe inhabitants are worker who . is led away by be gbt to grasp that one basic course of action. some of the leading lawyers of try's alternative power on the that this can be tried? If we tor garnishing the absence of de- wall of total prejudice, this tinguish the fact that that cause overwhelmingly -against them, anti-black prejudiceBelfast shipyard workers in Belfast. labour market from the second- about the people at present the cost of relaunching hyper- as toy soldiers, and it looks as if should have stuck to its conference are likely to have been in Balls- years of the 1930s. lems of the North. Below is a form indicating sup- Mr Craig will regret having yielded decisions and fought to convince ary schools, others from the drawing pay-related unemploy- inflation. The Common Market port for the Lobby of Parliament bridge, but if they had been they Last year he was heard at the universities and colleges of com- Meanwhile the Government rules drastically restrict what While the "Irish Democrat" holds to Whitehall blandishments as he the people they were right, and ment benefit. Many of these which is to take place on Novem- withdraw when they had got a majo- would have seen present such lights Oxtord Conference on Ireland sug- merce and technology. At a con- seems to have no recourse other governments can do to foster the opinion that, generally speak- takes his place in the melancholy workers have not been unem- ing, the ideal system would be ber 4th, and is fully explained on cortege led by Terence O'Neill with rity to leave the E.E.C., instead they of the Northern scene as Sir Robert gesting the desirability of a new servative estimate at least one- than to lecture the other capi- employment at home. More and ployed before. On pay-related where children of all colours, creeds, our front page. Chichester Clarke and Mr Brian shrank back overawed at the will Kinahan, Lord and Lady Brooke- partition of Ireland. This from a tenth of these will not have got talist countries of Europe to "re- more the E.E.G. is showing it- We ask individuals to indicate man who has stood for Parliament benefit many can do nearly as classes and whatnot should go to Faulkner not far behind. of the people expressed in a mani- borough, Mr Norman Brand and Mr a job by next spring, nearly one well as when they were at work flate" their economies quicker self to be economically disad- their support by inviting their pulated vote. in the Labour interest! school together, there is no doubt "VI"ANY Irish nationalists are glad John Glover. year after they have shut the —when one takes into account than they are doing, if only the vantageous to the ordinary that Father Mullen makes some Trade Union, shop stewards' com- mittee, or other organisation to there is a chance that power- school doors behind them for that they spend less on bus fares Germans, the French and the people of the Member States very cogent points that expose the Surely the people of the six coun- ITHE other week Mr Kyle let his Benelux people, as well as the concerned, as the capitalist sys- endorse it, and send it in to the sharing is dead. This will free the ties will fall for the same trick, say The upper class from the North the last time. They are not en- and so on. But when the pay- doublethink" of so many advo- S.D.L.P. for a worthier role. fancy really run away with him. Americans would stimulate tem falls deeper and deeper into cates of, "integrated schools" in "Irish Democrat" at 283 Grays Inn the psephologists of London. Bring rubbed shoulders with the upper- titled to any unemployment related period expires their in- Road, London W.C.I. In an article for the London their economies they might buy crisis. In fact the E.E.C. makes Northern Ireland. His logic cuts It is not just that there is no in a firm of publicity consultants. class from the South, with Fianna benefit, of course, as they will comes will fall drastically and On the right there is the text of Put a Government pamphlet "Times" he spoke about the likeli- not have worked the requisite more Irish exports and Ireland's the crisis worse for ordinary through many of the woolly-minded power to share. What is so attrac- Fail and Fine Gael politicians, Dub- hood of an Army coup in Dublin one can expect them to be much a handbill which explains briefly tive to English imperialism is that through every door. Din power- number of weeks to build up in- export-based industries would people, not better. And no- hypocrisies of this subject. lin bankers and businessmen and if the situation in the North got more critical of Government what is wrong wfth the Prevention for the S.D.L.P. to accept posts of sharing into them day and night where are its adverse effects the cream — if that is the word for out of hand. Such a coup would surance rights, and so they must failure to maintain jobs. By ex- pick up out of the recession. "Should a State which cannot of Terrorism Act, and appeals for profit under the Crown in a parti- on the ma30l media, and the vast be supported by elements in the continue depending on their tending the benefit period and They are hoping for exactly the more clearly evident than in the hold together and avoid civil war support for the lobby. tion government would seem to silent majority in the six counties it — of the southern Irish bour- Fianna Pail Party in order to get parents. You can imagine the subsidising unemployment pay same thing in Britain, one may new Member States to whose without suppressing religious edu- On past occasions our friends in spell the reconciliation of the will outvote the Unionists, and the geoisie. cation ever have been brought into Unionists will accept the vote as rid of the Coalition and the possi- heartbreak and humiliation this by contributions from those say. peoples the E.E.C. was supposed various cities have photographed nationalists to permanent'partition. existence in the first place?" asks material from the "Irish Democrat" tamely as the English Labour Party. bility of this happening was being will cause countless young who are at work, the Govern- to Jbring such prosperity—Ire- To be in the opposition is one Of course back up North the visi- seriously discussed in Dublin. CUCH a hapless position is a land, Britain and Denmark. Father Mullen. A very good point and printed thousands of copies. thing. To be in the Cabinet and people who have been expecting ment is doing its best to dampen The great thing about being an tors would not seek to draw atten- consequence of the Irish that! We invite them to do so again, as share responsibility for every blun- for.years to be able to stand on down opposition. English Cabinet Minister is that tion to the fact that they were hob- this will ensure the widest pos- der and outrage is another. The We do not know when Mr Kyle their own feet on leaving Government's reliance on "ex- And it is this year's crop of you can dream dreams and be paid nobbing in "a foreign country" I IE challenges the sincerity of sible distribution of the message. cunning Englishmen want to en- was last in Dublin or, if he was school. port-led growth" ever since the school-leavers who are bearing 1 * many of the advocates of Otherwise, cut it out and paste it ten thousand a year for it. which is out of 4bounds to "good there, with whom he was discussing ANOTHER vignette of the un- Sean Lemass era of the late the hard consequences of all the snare the S.D.L.P. for all time, to the possibility of coups by the Irish mixed schooling in Northern Ire- up on whatever notice board is most catch them and imprison them in At the same time it is a pity loyalists'. They would not like ft THE bad position of young " employment situation in 1950s. Export-led growth is fine lies their parents were told ami Army. For though Dublin is a land. For the blunt truth is that convenient to you. acceptance of the imposed consti- that the opponents of the Unionists one bit if the ordinary working Ireland: one in 12 people in if there are countries willing to believed about the Common great city for rumours and tali people is the aspect of un- the Unionist - Orange politico - sec- cannot get together and propose people of both parts of Ireland take one's exports, tout When Market. stories of all sorts no-one who knew employment which is hitting Limerick is without a Job and tarian outlook is the factor mainly constitutional arrangements which came together — as they surely will anything could give credence to responsible for the religious will take into account the needs of the Irish people and leave imperial some day, when quite other people such a tale. bigotry in the North. But the sup- DECLARATION porters of Orangeism, knowing well calculations on one side. Could will be attending the Dublin Hers* that they are at fault, are forever that be a resolution for the new Show, a Horse Show moreover that Perhaps someone was having Mr WE/I. the undersigned, while in no way sympathising with acts of year? Kyle on in a Dublin pub. Mr on the lookout for guilty-conscience terrorism, however motivated, and convinced that progress Is achieved will no longer be very "Royal"! Ruairi Brugha, the Fianna Fail BRAIN-WASHING WITH THE LIBERATOR alibis which will transfer their bur- by tit*: united action of the many, and not by the exaggerated efforts Party's spokesman on Northern Ire- den of guilt on to some other scape- of the few, express the opinion that the Prevention of Terrorism Act, goat. And all the better if they rushed hastily through Parliament in the aftermath of the Birmingham Please print and distribute land. wrote a letter to "The Times" for independence could have enquiring about Mr Kyle's sources, HTHE 200th anniversary of the O'Connell held by Fintan Lalor pacifist, is counterposed to the can blame the Catholics for this as bomb outrage, has caused unnecessary hardship to innocent persons, birth of Daniel O'Connell and Connolly. "men of violence." O'Connell, rallied the mass of the Irish well. Hence their sneers and gibes and should be repealed. Its provisions should have no place in English but so far as. we know he received law. no further enlightenment. is giving some people in Ire- Every generation interprets the man who discouraged the people into an enormously pow- at Catholic schools. erful movement at the time. We therefore support the lobby of Parliament on November 4th. land an occasion to use the re- the past in the light of its own use of Irish, is contrasted with Father Mullen in his article 1975, and trust that the Government will see its way to abandon policies This is a bad act At one level it is an example of putation of the "Liberator" as political and economic prob- those who wish to uphold and O'Connell, because of his sta- points out that when State schools of repression and seek constructive political solutions. the quality of Mr Kyle's expertise an excuse for bashing political lems. At present in Ireland, as extend the language. A tradi- ture. and popularity was. in an - with no religious instruction — NAME on Ireland and as such is of little trends they disapprove of. Re- part of the Common Market tion of parliamentarism, moder- outstanding position to organise were proposed in 1923 shortly after importance. At another, though, it such a movement. But his class visionist historians, white-wash- game and because of Britain's ation and constitutionalism go- the Six Counties were set up, it Organisation shows the sheer ignorance of the was the Protestant clergymen who ers of British imperialism and failure to do the right thing in ing back to O'Connell, is praised position prevented him from situation which is so widespread in insisted that State schools should as superior to the republicanism seeing or grasping the oppor- the British Establishment that a anti-national pundits and edi- the North, a powerful lobby really be Protestant schools. He THE Prevention of Terrorism Act was rushed breakneck through and radicalism which is alleged- tunity. Like other middle-class newspaper like "The Times"—even torial writers of various kinds— seeks to denigrate everything points to an instance when Catho- Parliament in the aftermath of the Birmingham bombings. ly causing such trouble in Ire- national leaders after him, he though it U only a shadow of the of whom there are plenty in national. O'Conriell, the "con- lic children began to attend a State Obviously the Government cant tolerate the blowing up of inno- land today. was afraid to lead the people PRICE MAY SOON GO UP great paper it once was—should Ireland these days—are seeking stitutionalist," is opposed to the school in considerable numbers. cent citizens, but have they done the right thing to prevent it ? offer such nonsense to its readers. to overthrow the view of revolutionaries. O'Connell. the on economic and social issues "The result was that Protestant for fear they would want t® Don't delude yourself that profit is 'T'HE political whitewashing of parents withdrew their children THI8 is rattier a distress call. not being made. It is. We say "No," the "Liberator" is, of travel further than he was him- and sent them to another school a The "Irish Democrat" is going But it isn't made by the "Irish . . . . A>' , course, carried out by middle- self willing to go, leaving him mile away." to have to put up its price. Democrat" or the Connolly Asso- Many innocent people have been arrested. As of August 7th, class conservative writers serv- behind in doing so. ciation. 766 people have been arretted, only 32 1wve becnohar MAJORITY WANT IRISH TELEVISION Father Mullen, being a priest, is We hate doing it, although we Act. ing middle-class conservative naturally concerned about the reli- know everybody else is doing it. HAT will we have to raise the there has been only one conviction for an ofleitM under Sixty-six people have been issued with exclusion orders, an* A MAJOR Government-sponsored iT^HE most dramatic single statis- that the depopulation and angli- interests. For just as O'Connell HTHIS was at the heart of gious nature of education, but he We know there are a number of W price to7 We have been ad- in some cases families' breadwinners have been deported with survey on the status and future tic is the claim that less than cisation of the Irish-speaking dis- in his day—despite his achieve- O'Connell's dispute with points out that there should be no regular readers who* would pay any- vised to put it up to ISp at one barrier to having Joint classes, thing within reason to have the fell swoopl This would afford a grave consequent hardship. of the Irish language, the biggest 6 per cent of the population claim tricts Is accelerating. A principal ments—sided with the lords of the Young Irelanders, who saw to be fluent Irish speakers. This joint projects, games, debates and paper each month. But there is brief spell to recover recent losses Police are fingerprinting every person held, and also photo- social research project ever moun- cause is the low standard of Irish lands and of millions against him for the essentially conserv- ted In Ireland, was completed last runs counter to the findings of among white-collar workers there. those who championed the true so on "in a State from which dis- always a loss of circulation, and before the tide of government- graphing the majority of them. some other surveys and the Census ative politician that he was. His crimination has been eliminated." we publish the paper not for profit sponsored inflation sweeps on. year. The survey, which reportedly In other words, the white-collar interests of the people on key They are not adhering to "Judges' Rules" designed to protect cost £250,000, provides the only returns, which give much higher staffs of such factories as are conservatism was shown also but for the political message it Meanwhile, would our readers let issues, so today it is the respec- an arrested person. People are being held incommunicado without comprehensive, authoritative statis- figures. Perhaps it comes down brought in from outside, the activi- by his hostility to the emerg- gfves out. us know what they think, and all table, the comfortable and the rrtHIS is to throw back their access to lawyers or their families for up to seven days.!. tics about the Irish language avail- to how people interpreted being ties of the tourist Industry and the ence of trade unions when they -*- humbug into the faces of those The fact Is that we are placed who can afford give us the extra 5p "fluent", but it does look as If those monied who seek to use him as able. Yet the survey has not yet low standard of Irish among teach- sought to organise themselves who contend that "separate educa- in the same position as our readers. voluntarily. That unnecessary suffering is being inflicted On INNdCENT capable of effortless communication an ideological weapon against been published and Dublin is full ers, policemen and public service in Britain and by his opposi- tion" is the cause of the bigotry Every mortal thing is going up. Our best thanks to the following persons is shown in several cases where trade unions acted t* of rumours that Influential figures in the language is relatively low. personnel who come to the Gael- the forces and movements they tion to the radical demands Three months ago we were told for donations received in August protect shop stewards it was desired to deport, and these men were tacht from elsewhere in the country and trouble In the North. In the Government would like to On the other hand, the number most fear and hate—against re- made by the Chartists in the the printworkers had been awarded and September: completely cleared and are peacefully at work In Mils country become agents of its disintegration. Irish peaple should make it widely have it suppressed. claiming some knowledge is very publicanism, socialism and all 1830s and 1840s. a 331 per oent increase. We don't D. O'Brien £1, J. Kane £1, C. today. But for their trade union membership they would have known that the so-called 8tate Power £1.15, S.D. 50p, C. Kelly £2, The suggested reason is that the large, over 10 per cent, which is The report recommends that If radical agitation. grudge It them. But the cost had been deported. probably much higher than when anything is to survive of the Gael- schools in Northern Ireland do not to be passed on to us. Postage, M. Kane £1, W. Daniels £3, Metro- survey, while it includes many dis- Conservative politicians are teach Irish history. Irish geography, the Irish State was founded. So tacht—with Its linguistic and cul- O'Connell did good work in railfares, gas and electricity in the politan Social £6.16, S. Clarke £1.14, couraging If realistic figures about Irish geology or Irish anything, too Is the number with good and tural traditions going back over two rousing the people to oppose the praised by conservative histor- office, all are rising as It seems like J. Healy £5, Oxford C.A. £7, Miss the present position of the lan- ians and a conservative period with very few and occasional ex- LOBBY PARLIAMENT guage, also shows the widespread positive attitudes towards the Irish millenla—the people of the area penal laws and to organist in a big balloon disappearing into the J. K McCarthy 50p, C. Kelly £2, language. A majority of the popu- should have much more control sees its reflection in other con- ceptions where enlightened teachers B. Farringdon £2, K. Andrews £2, The National Council for Civil Liberties and the ConnoHy Association are public support and sympathy that pressing the Government for take another line, on their own sky where we oan't follow them. lation, for example, favour Govern- over their own affairs. A form of servative periods. M.O.M. £1.15, L. Clendenning £1.10, jointly appealing to all citliens with a sense of justice to lobby their Members exists for Irish and for the prin- their repeal, but his landlord initiative and without encourage- Who Is making the money? The ment support for Irish on television regional government should be estab- International firms that have cor- Leona Robinson £10, T. Bevan £4, of Parliament on Tuesday, November 4th, from mid-afternoon onwards. They ciples of the language revival effort. background Winded him to the ment from those concerned with should ask the M.P.s to vote against the renewal of any of the provisions of To have these views publicised by and radio, although a majority lished there, possibly by elections to a So it is with Dan O'Connell nered world paper supplies. The Newcastle Branch Film Show £20, oppose Government revival policies regional Gaeltteht assembly, which force which might have made it the official Curriculum. F.H.O. £5, T. Donaghy £1, South this Act in any form, when it comes up for review later in the month. putting the survey on general sale and the current publicity he is r big Industrial monopolies that the which Involve compulsion. Irish, It would have responsibility for hous- possible to repeal the Act of Those who lobby would.be well advised to carry some form of identifiesUoa might give encouragement to those receiving in Ireland. He did They,are still reminiscent of bankrupt nationalised industries London Readers £9.85, East Lon- seems, is known best, used most ing, educatloln, Industry and so on. Union—the opposition to land- don Readers £2.01, Central London —for example, a Trade Union 'card, and remember that while they have a opposing the anti-national brain- some good things and for them those schools established by the secretly subsidise. The entire loss frequently and most favourably re- It also says that methods of lord tyranny of the peasantry ®tagljsh,' Oovernment In Ireland in Readers £3.04, West London Read- perfect right to lobby their Members of Parliament, 'it is natural In these washers and the champions of the he should get the credit, but the of the Gas Industry is reported to disturbed times that the authorities should be anxious over security, and this State re-broadcasting of BBC1. garded by the 17 to 22 year age- teaching Irish be reorganised to combined with political leader- the last century where one of the ers £2.92, J. Kelly £1, P. O'Con- judgement of Lalor and Con- correspond to the special cheap should not be resented. Rags and parcels should be left at home. group. emphasise spoken Irish above all ship for national independence. ffflruii textbooks taught children rates afforded to ONE giant mono- chulr £1, South London C.A. £42.10, Dublin being what It Is, however, nolly will remain definitive, ir- For those who would like to polish up their arguments against the Act r else and that further Incentives be to "bless the fortune and the grace poly. The Post Offioe are said to Coleraine 50p, E. McLaughlan £5, it is not surprising that there have ' I"VH35 report seemingly contains a offered to schools using Irish It was Fintan Lalor who respective of the exaggerations that an my birth hath smiled, and J Argue £1. R. Doyle £1. TOTAL: there are briefing meetings addressed by Jack Drome.v and Desmond Greaves been some leaks of the main find- send out the oorrsepondenoe of big at the Uf'ATT Hall. Gough Street, Birmingham, on October 26th, at 7.3* lot of information on the Gael- partly or exclusively as the medium showed how the forces of land of O'Connell's current "rehafoiH- made me in these pagan days a concerns at specially reduced rates. £147.12. ings of the report. tacht and, not surprisingly, tells us p.m., and at the Friends Meeting House, Fusion Road. N.W.1, at 7.39 p.m. of Instruction. agitation and a political struggle tators." happy English child"! That's where the money goes. PLEASE KEEP IT UP on Tuesday. October 21st. with Tom Litterick, M P. in the chair. e THE IRISH DEMOCRAT October 1975 October 1975 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 7 IRISH SOftGS HOOKS THE VALLEY OF WHO FEARS TO DOWN BY THE GLENSIDE SPEAK OF *n?WAS down by the glenside I met an old woman, A-plucking young nettles, she ne'er heard me coming, FIFTY YEARS OF STRUGGLE KNOCKANURE And I listened a while to the song she was humming— EASTER WEEK Giory-o, glory-o to the bold Fenian men ! ' Communist Party of Ireland: nolly and who adhered to his teach- but hounded and terrorised those VOU may sing and speak about Easter Week and the heroes of Socialist States became common grave Government passed ttie tAir: "The Memory of the Dead") Outline History", (New Books ings. In the interim years be- who tried to organise them. knowledge. Coercion Act legally banning the' 'Ninety-eight, tween the murder of Connolly and 'Tis fifty long years since I saw the moon beaming Publications, Dublin, 45p). Revolutionary Worker Groups and Of the Fenian men who roamed the glen, in victory or defeat; HO fears to speak of Easter the founding of the Party in 1921, '' PHE priest Father Kavanagh in Another factor was the large in- the I.R.A. Their names on history's page are told, their memory will endure— W Week? On strong manly forms and on eyes with hope gleaming, lirHEN I was at school in Dub- the left remained scattered and answer to the militant CJ^stle- fusion of foreign capital started by • This, however sounded the death Not a song was sung of our darling sons in the Valley of Knockanure. Who dares its fame deplore? I see them again, sure, through all my day-dreaming, ^ ' lin, tUe Christian Brothers suffered from the general under- comer miner, Jimmy Walshe, who Lemass resulting in increased pros- mining of the working class move- knell for the Government. The red-gold flame of Erin's name Glory-o, glory-o to the bold Fenian men ! told us with the help of McCarthy's protested that he was entitled to perity and with it came a question- ment by its enforced subordination There was Walsh and Lyons and Dalton, boys, they were young Confronts the world onoe more! History of Ireland of the crimes of his own views, told him "You are ing of many of the old political be- Among the many historic events Oh, Irishmen, remember than, England against the Irish people. to the middle class nationalists of too ignorant to have any in this History the Republican and in their prime, Some died by the wayside, seme died 'mid the stranger, Sinn Fein, in the period of the first liefs. There was also the un- And raise your heads with pride, They never told us that the rich opinions ..." Congress in 1934 is of particuteu- They made their way to a lonely spot where the Black and Tans And wise men have told us, their cause was,a failure, Dail." deniable fact that two Socialist For great men and .straight men always betray the poor or any- countries, both Cuba and Poland interest. did hide ; But they stood by old Ireland, and they never feared danger, Haue fought for you and died. thing about the struggle between The Communists were never ac- were Catholic countries and the There were two resolutions (B The Republic bold they did uphold though outlawed on the moor. Glory-o, glory-o to the bold Fenian men ! Labour and Capital. Instead they Both before the 1921 Treaty and after it, church and state not only cepted as a normal part of Irish largest Communist Party in from the ultra left elements. This And side by side they fought and died in the Valley of Knockanure. The spirit-wave that oame to save warned against two great evils in political life until the 1960s with Europe1 was in Italy the intellectual demanded the immediate declara- The peerless Celtic soul, did nothing for the unemployed I passed on my way, God be praised that I met her, the world; women and Com- the end of the Cold War and the centre of Catholicism. tion of a Workers' Republic. This From-earthly-stain of geeadand gain munism. The women would lead us and workers on starvation wages Twas on a neighbouring hillside, we listened with dismay, Be life long, or short, I will never forget her, strength and prosperity Of the was purely demagogic, divisive, and Kit; every house in the whole townland a maiden knelt to pray ; Had caught them in its roll; into sin and the Communists were Before the 60s, particularly an attempt to appease the protest- Had swept them high>to do or die, We may,have been brave mens but we'll never haue better, out to destroy religion. We knew before the war, the man of small They're closing in around them now with rifle fire so sure, Giory-o, glory-o to the bold Fenian men! ant working class who were more To sound a trumpet call; there were plenty of girls and property saw the Communists as Orange than Socialist. Ami Lyons is dead and Dalton's down in the Valley of Knockanure. For true men though few. men, women about but never a com- the obstacle to the famous pot of To follow one and all, munist did we ever see. So many gold of the leprechaun stories. The second Resolution which was Tbey took them then beside a fence to where the furze did bloom, a lad left school determined to find passed by a small majority waS for Like brothers so they faced the foe to meet-their dreadful doom ; Upon their shield a. stainless field, out as much as possible about both With the moving in of the big a United Front of all the different IS groups who wanted to see Irelahd ' When Dalton spoke his voice it broke with a passion proud and pure With virtues blazoned bright; women and Communism. operators, supermarkets, hotel With Temperance and Purity (Air : "Irish Molly O") builders, Shell Oil, ICI, Pye, Ples- Free and United. "For our land we die as we face the sky in the Valley of seys, Unilever, Standard Tele- And Truth and rHonour dight. So it was with great interest sp^^e at Moving the Resolution, Peadar Knockanure." phones who bowed down to neither So now they stand, at God's right Umeriok is beautiful, as everybody knouts, that I read the first ever history O'Donnell said that, on the road Churches, Kings nor Governments, hand* Andi fey that city of my heart how proud old,Shannon flows! of the Communist Party of Ireland, "The New' Edinburgh Review, early years,-with samples of his to the Irish Republic, Irish capital- But e're the guns could seal his fate Con D. had broken through, the small property man and many Who framed their dauntless olay, disappointed however that it-was Nos. 28 & 29 (EUSPB, Bucc- jejune efforts a» a- novelist,-on his ism should be Uprooted. It sweeps down by the brave old townr as pueerintdejifcrand tone in the Churches realised they had With a prayer to God he spurned the sod as against the hill he flew; Who taught them and brought them only an outline. In this case the leueh Place, Edinburgh 8). role in the resuscitation of nine- At w hen- SarsftcW swept tbe Saxons from the watts ofudtey Edwards as and his genius for propagttttng farmers could win national free- The evening sun is setting now behind the Feale and Lea, Will save our Jandifrom shame. Though times will change and friends will andiman will not Painting the more times you come T*7"HEN the 1021 Treaty was dom. Those who oppose that point The ancient foe. has boasted-ho! guest editor, to artidtes on GBS faith in his own superiority. The pale, pale moon is rising far out beyond Tralee, oontrot; back to it the more you find in it. marking the twenty-fifth anniver- ' * signed, the C.P.I. denounced of view would Still leave the con- The dismal stars and clouds afar are darkening o'er the moor, That Irish men were tame. ' If there is a consensus, It Is that it as a betrayal of the people. They duct >of the "Independence Strngl&le They'd brought their souls for paltry No, not for friends long .passed away* or day* f«r > ever flown, sary of his dttfth. contribu- And the Banshee cried where our heroes died in the Valley of There is an excellent introduc- tors, -all < teachers or students of SHaWs seeond haif-oentury ^ of exist- ended their manifesto with the in the hands of the middle class*." doles, But that the maiden I adore is sad; in Gdiwyoweitii tion to start with. As D. Greaves Knockanure. Edinburgh university, vary widely ence was a resounding success. He words: And of entertaining plays on The Spanish Civil War; Unam- White Walsh and Lyons and Dalton are resting in the clay That lie, men! shall, die, men! Socialist organisation began in the to stages in many 'parts of the "The Communist Party swears >n Pearse and JMunkett's graves* Oh, she I love is beautiful, and world-wide is her/, fame, their value-judgments, the quality no allegiance to the Free State; , ployed Struggles; The Ballyfernot We- have true men yet in Ireland to man the gap today ; 1840s. The first Marxist partynvas of their contributions, though far 'world, wrote at least one-great ane Co-op; Sean Murray jailed; add She dwell* down, by the. rushing tide, and Eire is her home: founded' by Connolly in Dublin in —"Saint Joan"—one which pinched will not be faithful to King While grass is green in Ireland your memory will endure, from uniform, being generally high. Belfast's October 1932. The brave who've gone to linger on And dearer than my very life her glances are to me, 1896 and called The Irish Socialist the trousers of Ireland's National George. We repudiate with CM guard and keep .the place you sleep in the Valley of Knockanure. Beneath the tyrant's heal— The light that guides my weaeysout acresslife'ststormy sea. Republican Party; -Throughout Gallery — "Pygmalion" — and one scorn and hatred common citi- This history is a must for all We know, they vRfay; another day their lires both Connolly and Lar- Shaw is trounced for his ignor- — "Heartbreak House" — which is zenship of Ireland with Great students of Irish politics. kin worked night and day for ance of the United States, cele- Britain as she is now. 'We de- With clash of clanging steel. I loved* her in my boyhood, and now in manhootTs noon, so enigmatic thbt comment remains Now from ftbaittceJI their voices swell, organisation of the most op- brated by almost everyone for his muted even in these OnfnUNMtod nounce-as a fraud and a mockery m» .-,H.i()»r, j ..nil,, . Ti The vision of my life is Hill to dry, thy tears, a*»on; TAIMSE IM CHODLADH And loudly sail on you, pressed section of an oppressed wit, compassionated by a Catholic articles. . ] the British Commonwealth of I'd. sing unto tbe temb o* danoe beneath the g*Uow» tree prletttor his wistful quest of God, Nations. The only true common- Then ask, men! the task, menl nation — the working class. Their It would be necessary only to TPRATHNOININ deanach i gcean cois leasa dhom, To see.her on the hills once more, proud, passionate and -free. great achievement was the organ- chastised for his unphlfosophical, wealth of nations is the WWld THAT YET REMAIN»m D& abandon the editorial fchimsy that • Taimse im chodladh 's na duietear me; isation of the unskijUed. Up to the emasculated socialism, by turns ad- the contributors are characters in a Federation of Workers' Repub- 'Sea dheareas lef thaobh an speirbhean mhaisiuil, MICHAEL.. SCANLON murder of Liam Mallows and his mirfed for his courage, abused for Shavian dialogue pt|y Jkom outre- lics. Only as a -Unit- of such a i < T&iffise im chodladh 's na duistear me; comrades there is plenty of de- his levity and ridlouled for the tombe flnd .we he* ''''lT»re the Federation can Ireland -achieve Ihe stone outside shallowness of his historical know- her freedom ..." Bo. bhaehal lach peartach dreim reaeh harrachas, tailed material. Prom 1921 let the material for a symposium In book book speak tor itself. ledge. 4n addition, Ihe TO-odd pages A carnfholt craobhach ag teacht lei ar bhaillecrith, form whtah, givm «ie «npk -ef ln- "Long live the Irish Republic. Dun Murphy's THB ROSE OF ARftfiMORE —er, rttber,'-bordered root angular terest^slrown so far -by tretand *in "A Terrible Beauty is Bom", by Is i ag caitheamh na saighead trim thaobh do chealg me The Communist Party of Ire- tridtyohs crammed with often faulty "Long live the World Federa- • a •mick itofyfic. ' m •aftMnOt' £ •' (HamishI"- »df-.T • J Y thoughts today, though I'mifan away, dwell e» TftcennailPs 1 Shaw's voluminous- (hade, may-well % Taimse im chodladh 's na duistear me; land was a natural continuity of »d«B of informa- •be single eommeHMrotlenef the tion of Workers' R»puWics. sbnrei • the remnants Of the socialist amtttice**s % door tion on •hnw's hkibnir origins, on quarter-centenary. "Work for a Republic! Hold Is mo biuiatbaillin og a togadh go. ceannasach, The salt sea air and the coHeensft fair of lovely green Gweedore. -THERE'S,a.sweet garden spot in. organisations associated with Con- -the asoetic self-discipline of tiis SEAMUS titEAC Y your guns and ^rht for a Taimsa im chodladh *s na duistear me; • our memory, , There's a flower there beyond compare that I'll treasure ever more, Republic! ..." ss Do cuireadh le foirneart anonn thar farraige Itfs the place we wererbona.Jn!and(< TUft grand colleen In her gown of treenrshe's the Rose of Aranmore. in such a book-^as this (snbtlWui Taim&e im.. chodladh 's na duistear me; , reared; The Emissary sent by tttfc TOO?, to The Irlsh 'Troubkn W13I-IJ22) ia ,' . the Republican stronghold ih the thes^ financhQly cnslm»;^j«n. It Go bhfeicoad an lo go mbbeidh ar ar Shasaneigh, '71s long yean -ago since we-left it,. I've t ravetled-far* neath the North»rn &hM' si»ft®J M sa&enodbye, Ughaim ar a ndfom's iad ag treabiiadh's ag branar duinn Bet return there we will if we're south, urging Cork as the Capital of And seen many maids.jn ^^olien^lfftefctenentfia topic sky, the Republic, < and advising the-pub- ..younaC' " ; '' Gan mise bheith ann muna dteannam an malide leo spared; ! «het d atony adore- "Damned Englishman : A study At *he stone time a mass of'de- lication of' a democratic programme, Min ^ Taimse ,jm chodladh 's na duistear me; Our friends and companions of It must -however be -said that childhood That grand colleen in her gown of green* (heRbee-of /Mrenmore. of-Etskitte Childers", by Tom tailed information about ChlWers some 'aspects of ^Mr.flours -literary got a cold reception from General days #nljfeh does not Would assemble each night nearrk * Cox (Exposition Press, Hieks- has >be6&>p»itat*kingly gaSheMtf to- style cause unnecessary irritation. ' Liam Lynch. As D. Sheaves' wrote Irish question; In which case, wfeat gether.' How many of us realised, in the life of Mellows; score, fc>' $ v*- Bht soon I wilb return again t* the, scenes I lowrfse well, ville, M$w York; 374pp. $10). He never. seems sure of his tenses. maittera If the accidence Is some- THE STUTTERING LOWERS Round Dan Murphy's shop, and Jor'ex&mpfe, that Ohilders was a There .are passages in - which the tlfaes bftd ("the' oltlans had Where many an Irish lad and lass tUninrftntes oti-fennrde tell; THE title ^Ods book Is deriVfed, contemporary 1 of Bertrand Russell "To Lynch it was merely a swam"), the dates wtOClg (Kevin how often, we've sat 1 story is told in the pteSfeht. But The siiveai^dnnes-and^bHiie>-inenonsaainnfrlhe nsifahore, of course, from the notorious at Oen^cidge, send -tfie two, to- doubtful proposal for getting Barry was arrested on'September A WEE bit over the lea, my lads, On the stone that stood outside bis from time to time, and nttfor- labour behind Republicans. The Aed;thaAgnMMUoUeeBiinhor«ovwi of «reen;the JKne e»Hsnnmore. •speech ih.tHe second Dtfll, in which gethcr-with Edwtard Marsh'made a 30th, 1^0, not August ttfh; th. ** A wee. bit over the green,, door I tunatieiy'too many times, the' rtiture vision was absent. Ifr had Men Arthur Qriath refused to answer joint - excursion into ?? shop as- Ohilders's ouestions about t^e dis- timely lipped, as for example "Nine "my 1922, 'had ribf yet begun; They,were sure they'd neven.be s-s-s-s-s-s-seen, my lads, CH0RU8: establishmeot-of the Republic over sistdht aftd such mnttem *ere Those days in our hearts we will Most iwtders will .probably find million would perish in the .foreign-to-him." James Connolly agreed with the They were sure they'd never be seen. ww^ cwBSNb mmm which (SWi yw^&mUfa the feftftpwr on the "treaty" nego- 'hofctilitlee" and "The Irish--ttirlia- I MA. to rise'On Brttef Shndd^, not ConMntedraMhoiiih wbwew floor, It is the flBst^attempt at, a full tiations ' the most impressive. imentary Party had opposed twid The Unionist leaders tn the »«Mutt?>, mnd nfenee Thefl iout came a- bonny-wee lass, and thedwngs «*»'*•* sung jjfS'l >wn» »«watliinflt ooot- morning, inn May* length biography of Brsklne Chll- now -would -refuse cooperation," or North acknowledge that WtMvil ders. It -is the. product of .many And she was 0! so fair, * i»4fte-dey we were youngs ^"Tb'hear'fhe-Hlirde whiette and aee->the landw a» 4heiri>lay But there are useful -insights "he was given the death-sentence Wte- add the' cHnp "tnv*K»fc& to the years' work by an ahle and cul- r And she went: intn tbe pent man's corn, Ow the- stone* ouMcto- Dim t spied yoim»'hap- When the CfVil War "Wns ee«» to Mr O'Connor, already ndttwMy When pur day's work wes over we'd^ "OH why are you loitering,,here, pretty maid?" its irreproachable • repUbUcan • aai- meeMHere, ; .wes mftiftful of the "Johnny-cbttie- pens properly. TlvMtte ' jMRMtby, be going ^gklmt' toe KefOMlcans, And out came abcave young lad "I'm. waiting,for my, tru^.iove,'" softly she said: tude. . lately" who was being acclaimed wents'tomarrow. UhenaOdaetly the tzunrnvums - vsvum thoput- I n'tke-winter er just WHhw f "SUaJJ J be your true lo«(e and wiH you agree And, he was a .fisherman's son The boys and the girls all tngrtMr t Unfortunately it was produced the espert in his chosen field,'but every thing ertny. tUHtortan ting leeide-of arms-and paftllripa- To^teake ypuc.own U>¥a and .follow with' me ?" And he went Into the poor-man's corn Weuld >oin in 6ome iniwoent -game< under a dUBeulty that the author did not realise that he himself, should observe stricter chriwdlsgy. tten in toe tfinil.' Tails 'twas T& see wbqre the lass hadg-g-gig-g-g-gone my lads, D«n RSarptoy wouM'bring down' his did pot deserve. He,did not ap- • and his' rightwlng policies, were to .There-are.nlio 'smaller laps*. Of vehemently oppoded by Peadar parently have lull access to 4he To see Wlrere the lass had gone. fiddle, "I'iit'gjwe! yoniihne beaMocr and fine silken gown, -blame. fact, for example. Mellows was O'Donnell. A few months later family reeotda, and thei- result s is While his daughter looked after the l'Nk fine yosi' smart petticoats flounced to ttie'ground) thirty - >ot Hwentjwwven Swfcen * he tbe RQpublicaQfi.gave up the armed that the book is the story of Chil- fctructte«iiuc thM' Mrifuos. He put his arm around her waist, store, I'll tlMnsuynm fino< Jewel* and live but for thee fpHE author cominents on the ap- died. 2 But Jtbere -are dttJMany ders seen toom-the outside. .rpeauance of She myetery 'man He kissed her cheek and chin, The-mwsio did ring and sweet eongs If yon'll-'leave your true love and. follow wJUH me." glaring errors of fact. Solecisms, -In 1834, due Jtft the.reduced mem- author could not get inside his skin John -Chartres. >and one ragtets Their«pr8fK>he< the -bonny wee lass we would sing - yes - :Po»d IWr^jgMf: »«Wp, toee;*».«was dUhpntled and because he-tmd not avtttTable the -that he-did not. pursue -this eolg- On the stone outside Dan Murphy's 1 Childers liWa- -itiiamtonuicestoP'r replaced by the Irish' 'Worker "I fenr- H»W a s-s^s-s-s^wiinv my tad, "I want mme of your hpaver or. fine silk or hose, material -that would enable him to mfttlc figure further. That he was door! (What ancester Is not a kinsman?). 4««eguc. on some- •irard, and did not wait to go to afld by 'his enemies.'tftis'^pe -of from under these trees, body in ^he future. wAgUl It is hard With toe"l«ra Illump, as to'Other That's never been kissed before. it was poverty caused us to roam. heaven' for it. He assisted Meyd ffl^uJc 61 adWthe ls 't6o *DUUIUlbn Capitalist eOtmtfta,%lK'¥nen«trom W-'to^/- l And he was tattered and torn, "fatfitten nnd the lwbk &hs a fite- For mem'ry will fly to the days now And when he came there and found she was gone The story ias it 'unftJkU is the ters on the Bnglish side-who sud- This Is on'the'nhole-a lacy,-tertd- a -wet*. IIII Nil l\ BRITAIN
Time now to BIRMINGHAM start Irish PROGRESS QNE of the drawbacks about "BIRMINGHAM Connolly Associa- i \NCE again the Greater London Thus if a foreman was to tion is continuing to grow Education Authority is run- the building maintenance SERIAL STORY come upon one of the men tak- steadily and Secretary Michael ning two sets of Irish classes. gang, 1 was soon to discover, ing it easy, or maybe having a Ryan is highly satisfied with the They will already have started was that two-thirds of the repair BY smoke when he should not have successful coach trip to take part when the "Irish Democrat" is on work had to be done indoors been smoking, or even doing in the anti-internment demonstra- the stands, but it won't matter if amid the noise and heat that some particular job in the wrong tion held by the Association in you join a week or so late, as the was the lot of the engineering DONALL way, he could immediately write London. first classes are often preliminary. shop workers so that, except for you out a pass and send you The coach halted at Coventry and The tutors are Connolly Associa- the odd day out in the air or the home as a punishment. The loss Oxford to pick up members from tion member Seamus Kenneally of frequent enough trips out to tip MacAMHLAIGH of two or three days' pay was those cities. Ring, and our good friend Seamus a dumper load of concrete something not to be incurred On August 20th Mr Sean Kenny, Daly of Cork. rubble, you were almost as long branch chairman, gave a talk to too lightly, of course, but from a local youth group in which the The beginners' classes are on under a roof as anyone else. the frequency of the passing out Mondays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. foreman was not too happy to deepening concern of the young it would seem that a lot of the people was obvious from the ques- (Seamus Kenneally) and Thurs- In the winter there were times see me go. old-timers delighted in depriving days 6.15 to 8.15 'Seamus Daly). tions and discussion. when this was no bad thing the men under their charge of A happy event was the return of The Monday classes are at the indeed, when it rained and you In the end he consented, how- Christopher Hatton School, Lay- the badly-needed few shillings. Jimmy Lindsay to Birmingham knew building workers outside ever, and the following Monday after a spell as a guest of Her Stall Street, off Roseberry Avenue 1 began in the yard gang, a job (Holborn end) and the Thursday would be sent home with con- The war changed all this like Majesty in Derry jail, happily none which I was to keep for two classes are at the St. Matthew sequent loss of earnings or, so much else qnd Savvo would the worse for an experience he Church of England School, Old Pye worse still, work on getting years—which in my case at dwell unbelievingly on the great should never have had. Street, S.W.I. thoroughly soaked, but even then least, was a considerable record. changes he found when he came The Branch has organised two there were lots of bright fresh The yard work provided a fair back in 1945; the free and easy Friday evening Polk Clubs, and this /pHERE are opportunities to study will be a prominent feature of days when you longed for a share of variety with the added atmosphere, the independence -*- for 'O' and 'A' levels and future work, the object being to breath of clean air and when advantage that it was almost Fainne examinations. Students of the workers and the reduced raise funds for the "Democrat". may enrol at any time during the the brief excursion down to thp totally out of doors; there were power of the foremen. But in- Plans are being made to hire year, and the fee is £3.50 per tip or up to the stores for some four of us together as a rule— stead of rejoicing in all this as transport so that Birmingham can annum, or £1.20 a term. piece of equipment became a tough old boy called Jerry who you might reasonably suppose be well represented at the lobby of Classes for those who know some something to look forward to. had been captured'in the second that he would, old Savvo would Parliament the Association is call- Irish already are held on Tues- world war and endured some actually be incensed at the new ing for November 4th. Will any days from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., and Before long 1 began to think unbelievable hardships in the freedom the men enjoyed. friends in Coventry or Wolver- again from 7.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at seriously of packing it in alto- course of a long, .forced march ; hampton please get in touch the Stanhope Institute, 248 Maryle- gether and looking for some- another man called SOvvo who "The slackness, Pat, you just through 283 Grays Inn Road, London. Jbone Road, London N.W.I, with Mr thing outside where things were had some forty years' service in couldn't believe it, everything Daly as tutor, and on Wednesdays begining to pick up again after the Works apart from the years had R.B. from 7.30, to 9 p.m. at the St. a seasonal slackness. Just then, gone to hell, no discipline Matthew Church of England School, between 1939 only the telephone him at 595 1097. Indeed reason or other was the lowest No matter whit we might fttttal meeting called by the Poli- it « nojiarm to telephone at the 4n the entire Works and nobody begiq tQjdiscuss in. the^Utteryals tical Committee ..Qjt. the London start as the tutors can acfviie>you at all wanted to be a part of it. bet ' ' ' as to which doss is the most suit- A new employee on being lorries able for you to attend. drafted into the yard gang in- the end to the "* Ray- Buckton harder tl would W> ety, whose chairatfin'is Mr AH there was a great deal of heavy ditions, on that part; U.8JLE. & F.) m favour of the im- tell us with r Lomas, has supported inf ny as- lifting from time to time in the with the benefits of mediate enactment of a Bill of the pects of the Irfeh piovement Bights to the inhabit- yard. Barrels of oxide; for in- mechanisation in the ii like mo over the past years. ' ' ants «t the six counties at present stance, had to be manoeuvred y he s -A Cotaference is being called the guBetiag deprivation of nor- from the incoming wagons • mMas JM by :,C0in- mal political liberties. Mr BUCkton either by hand or with the aid the grt* i dwelt on the evils ttf violence and of a sack harrow at they were abused. ] mlftj^therewftre no that.4 sectarianism and called " on the called and you could give your mechani fplfal of mefe Connected with the laWtof Ijawaafteut to exercise its back a very nasty wrench in- no mamf h^iheafcy^had to be the htirddu Associatioa- as a student responsibilities. ' deed while engaged in this par- manhant id and dragged about. their own —? nearly thirty years ago. The seconder1 was Mr Andrew ticular job. There were frequent was know "tin' founder ttf the "left- Barr who had proposed the Bill of loads of pig-iron^ too. and these There were any OHOiiftt of to those • - "Promethean Society" JUghts motion of the 1873 Con- had to be loaded by hand into petty rettrtothm and puntsh- money—and ivened up Trinl^y CbUege at «m*s. He recalled the previous wire sttffapes o heavy enough a time when tevi ctiretf to say "Tjoo", Since then be has become vote and pointedout that nothing task % any standard. tom cj^^uo^- was dope - to implement it. He one of ttMi molt noted ex- toped thie resolution would have a right"M^^&ne,' to x^ ^-^f^vmm w*-. He is better fate. J*HE transfer to the yard gang tinjee and would like to see a m at rm, a SPECIAL meeting on the, Irish mhos not made too smoothly, powerful speaker. : The Association's delegates will question was called fry the for while they were orrfy too A for a'da^^Sr^miW- tin* real any nate,used to growpostttvety be J|r Pet«r Mulll«»n of tfee North- Connolly Association and addressed witling to gain a new and tot- mpmm of the nostalgic m he recouped his > mtpMk «anDon- by Mr Noel Harris, ft member of ally Unexpected recruit my own , rulWfi^ipWppjf'0*V! in the ' 'Wtirf-1 of Mi&'mSf AMpciatkm the Executive Committee, of, the i - ' •• Irish Congress of " •UltjWi'.n >•• eating heat Of the smithy which hopes to have an opportunity of was the hardest department in drawinc attention to thi relevance Mr Harris had at v.to 'J form part of the all the Works. of the PtihH^ a^mm Act of the tton, but was prevei . iJftBi crpes- AMBITIOUS GAELIC LEAGUE ing to Britain IjjH' " " -city , "Sweat, Pat?" he would de land. „ ' ;«v»> V "m Ire* ride. "To* MiMi^jft'lMfrw .. m mprob- PROGRAMME AT nothing about '• !>V i ix- jk. til- i ?.' lems,facing TradTtjnioMsts in the •PHE ^aelle League is breaking • ' .ffwrted sweat sweat sIk counties. The raeetingyas not • new ground In Coventry with ties, Pat, we f' wen attended/ attmt fotaty-flve a most impressive day oonferwnoe, "More bluddy turning up. These included several beginning at IfcM a.m. on gatur- ' Mmfc* members of the A.8.UB..**, dele- tlflu fttfct " ' 'v«' young NorfoV gation, and a number of 'miners tut *mm ie the Lanoheeter \m<> from various parts of the country. Polyteehnl* teem B.U. to vo's In the discussion several of these tmm funnnllii tk••nfilntlnn mam \ily- < complained of the'confusion being ben are to reatf papers, Mr Oenail iContbuidX caused by people who talked about MaoAmhiaigh • •*> writing in Irish, setting a date for the'jttttatfni^-of and {Brian ttowell on the Manx DCftMOW GHIAVE8 British tfopps without, addressing laiiMnir,; iSiSl UCATT MALL, (Sough St. themselves to the politic** settle- Patrick O'gulHvan will ipeak on BaeUe League at Sunday, Oetober ment which could not be separated Irish Today, and Brendan Caul- «a npelern Causeway, CaMey, 7.30 prn from such a proposition. field on Irish In Britain, aemmmri Grays