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No. 369 MARCH 7975 10 p MICHAEL MULLEN SPEAKS IN LONDON INTERNMENT MUST 60 AMES LARKIN'S successor, Mr Michael Mullen, General Secretary J of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, speaks in London at what promises to be a historic meeting. Accompanying bint will be Rev. Terence McCaughey, ' nificance is that now at last the Derry-born Presbyterian, who lectures in Irish ; Assembly- leaders of the Irish working man Paddy Devlin, Mr Andrew Burr and possibly Miss Eliza- class, who have been advocating beth Sinclair. sane solutions all along, are .be- Supporting splints include Government policy in England. coming able to make their Mr Stan Torne, M.P. (Preston) The centre of such a changed voices heard above the hubbub who offered to be a teller policy is an approach based on and speak to the workers, Irish against the anti-Terrorism Bill, Ireland for the Irish, and its or British, in England. and Frank Watters of Birming- immediate objective is the end- r ham. ing of internment. Mr Anthony Coughlan, of the ROUSING It is 50 years since such a Irish Sovereignty Movement, The Connolly Association is galaxy of trade union, Labour has written the following pro- organising the meetipg with the and democratic celebrities came file of Mr Mullen. object of rousing the Irish and to speak in England, and its sig- Profile of a leader. the British Labour movement to MftMtfHAEL MULLEN (Gmi. IT&GWU) fight politically for % change of i • Vitfi' ii.ln ll'f t II PROFILE OF A LEADER jtflCHAEL MULLEN is general for the opposition of the Irish secretary of Ireland's larg- trade union movement to Irish K i est union, the Irish Transport & membership qf the E.E.C. in the rrii General Workers' Union, foun- Common Market referendum ded by Jim Larkin. He holds three years ago. Together with the office, which was once held the other general officers of the to the Common by James Connolly and in doing union, Mr John Carroll, vicd- Building too high so continues James Connolly's QINCE the 26 counties Joined the Fabrics, Wexford (180) r Polytex, president, and Senator Fintan irjpHE Central Bank has been Athlone (35). tradition of linking, the cause of Kennedy, president, he swung ^ Common Market over 3,000 jobs labour with the cause of Ireland, allowed to get away with its in the clothing and textile indus- his union into opposition to the N addition 763 workers have been the cause of Ireland with the controversial new headquarters in tries have been lost; 1,500 workers plans of Fianna Fail and Fine I made redundant in faotories cause of labour. Gael on the E.E.C. The Irish Dame Street, Dublin, on condition are on a three-day week and there which are still operating — 58 by Transport & General Workers' they lop some 13 feet off the height are threats to many more jobs, The role of the Transport Donald Davis of Dun Laoghalre; Union in turn carried with it of the roof. according to a national group sec- 393 by Goodbody's, Waterford; 85 Union has always been crucial for the Irish labour movement, the Irish Congress of Trade rotary of the Irish Transport and by Castleguard Textiles; 52 by for it organises nearly one-half Unions, the Labour Party and Thus despite the opposition of General Workers Union, Mr Mahonys of Blarney; 63 by Youghai Carpets; 42 by G.T. Carpets, Derry- of the trade unionists in the the greater part of the Irish huge numbers of concerned people Michael Gannon. Unemployment who were worried at a blatant beg; 55 by Lana Knitwear, Shannon, Republic. Since Michael Mullen labour movement. Michael Mul- runs at over 100,000. and 15 by Rhunlagh of Waterford. flouting of the Planning Act, Dr became general secretary in len remains a vehement critic T. K. Whitaker and architect Mr 1969 the union has adopted a of Jirish involvement with the Aquascutum of Llmerlok has been much more politically progres- E.E.C. He is a friend of Jocfc Bam Stephenson, have been sup- Mr Gannon said that his union threatened with closure, writ* the sive role than hitherto. This was Jones, his opposite number as ported by the Minister for Local was in constant communication loss of 220 Jobs, and companies on particularly the case on the secretary of the T.G.W.U. in Government, Mr Tully, and allowed with the IDA and the Minister for short-time in the textile Industry Comilion Market. Britain, and was host to Jones to retain a building which was built Industry and Commerce, Mr Keat- include Slane Manufacturing (250 workers), Castleguard Textiles More than any single man when he spoke against the 30 feet higher than it should have ing, to see what can be done to (400) and Salts Ireland (450). Michael Mullen was responsible (Continued on Page Five) been under the plans originally pbp^ct home Industries. The submitted by the Bank. Minister has up to now refused to adopt any protective measures for = The shape of the roof i6 to be these vulnerable and labour inten- • * DO NOT MISS THIS HISTORIC MEETING • • different from tfwt • originally sive industries because It would planned- and the. height of the toeon flouting the Common Market building is to be half the difference Speakers : HAMMERSMITH rules. between the height initially per- TOWN HALL mitted and the height which the ANDREW BARR (President I.C.T.U.) (King St., Hammersmith W6) Bank pushed up the building to Here are details of some of the Assemblyman P. DEVLIN (S.D.L.P., Belfast) >n breach of the Planning Laws. firms whloh have closed down WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 recently» the Kite Manufacturing Doubtless to many It seems a Co., Kinsale (220 Jobs); 8troud REV. TERENQE McCAUGHEY Mutable "compromise". In fact it Riley Co., Dublin (60); Freedex, (Irish Civil Liberties, Dublin) ADMISSION lOp 'hows that the Planning Laws are Dublin (180); Smyth and Co., Cavan (16); Arva Clothing, Cavan (35);
TWE\T1.SIX COUNTIES SIX COrNTY fcCENE Nuclear threat to South-East Ireland KEATING J'HE Irish Government is con- nuclear reactor, which has also within seconds to keep the tem- hundreds of thousands of years. U.D.A. NETWORK OF ILLEGALITIES sidering building a nuclear been pushed by powerful inter- perature down. This is what It is said by the Irish Nuclear o'omic reactor at Carnsore Point ests in Britain. But there are the emergency cooling system Energy Board that we will not STRIKES WOULD the Unionist extre- More to the point is evidence and Leeds were particularly Perhaps public interest should But an illegal cremation goes m Wexford in order to generate high levels of risk involved in does. have to store these wastes in mists be able to undertake given by the two Daveys at militant. They used to go up have been turned in another on under their eyes, and the e'ectricity. A Nuclear Energy such a reactor. Ireland; other countries will If the temperature is not kept another lock-out like the one Winchester Crown Court in De- on Dartmoor with ammunition direction. That must remain a police know nothing about it ! Board has been set up to advise agree to deal with them for us. TARA DEAL JT is readily admitted by all down the outcome might he cember, 1974. Then three men and engage in weapons prac- matter of speculation until the THE Irish Government and Tara they engineered in May last If this is true, then it can -v. the whole business and there that on no account must the what is called the "China syn- But for how long will other were sent to prison, one of case is heard. At least it is ' Mines have at last struck a year ? Amazing revelations in tice. only be explained by the old i. plenty of controversy about contents of a nuclear reactor be drome", a molten mass of radio- countries accept the risks of bargain over the development of the "'Time Out" indicate that there them John Gadd, described as This is what the Daveys said good that the activities of the principle that right-wing vio- ft these days down Wexford released into the environment active metal eating its way storage of wastes generated Navan mine — the richest zinc mine is fragmentation and factional- deputy commander of the Ulster about the conversation of Gadd U.D.A. have come under scru- lence is treated leniently, while xv ay. surrounding it. The contents of down into the earth. The re- elsewhere ? in Western Europe, with ore deposits lsation in the "once monolithic Defence Association in Britain. and his companions: "They tiny. There is clear evidence the left is mercilessly hunted On the one hand are those a typical reactor contain radio- lease of radioactivity caused by These are some of the dan- estimated to be worth £2,000 million Protestant working class." The web of criminality re- seemed to be obsessed with that members of that organisa- down. who think the building project active materials which are ap- such an accident would cause and more in value. tion were at any rate thinking gers involved in nuclear reactors vealed in the Winchester case bombing in England, in order it it it will bring lots of extra employ- proximately equal to the radio- thousands of deaths. The emer- and it is extremely doubtful if That the monolithic quality would suggest that instead of to discredit the I.R.A. and they about bombs. ment and money into the area active fallout from thousands gency core cooling system has The bargain was long delayed, for rTHE spate of sectarian killings it is a wise decision for Ireland was imposed by an astonishing entering on "fishing expedi- had apparently worked out a ft ft ft —much as Gulf Oil brought a of Hiroshima-style nuclear wea- never been fully tested, except the mining interests were anxious flows on apace. Almost to build such a device, in to concede the minimum possible network of intimidation is tions" for supposititious I.R.A. plan of attack. Birmingham temporary boom to Bantry while pons. on computers. There have never every day Catholics are assassi- Wexford or anywhere else. share to the Government and the shown clearly. Protection rac- men, the British authorities and the West Country were A MONG other things the the Whiddy terminal was being A typical nuclear reactor been actual^tests of the full sys- nated. The E.S.B. has already deve- Irish people. The Government, on kets flourished. Recalcitrants should turn their attentions to target areas mentioned." "Gadd U.D.A. is spposed to have built. The local Chamber of contains about 40,000 fuel rods. tem carried out in situations loped a strong bureaucratic the other hand, wanted to get the were "knee-capped" sometimes the activities of the extreme really wanted a bombing cam- been mixed up in was the kid- But in the midst of these Commerce is to the fore here, These fuel rods are made up corresponding to a real break- lobby anxious to get ahead with mine into operation and yielding with an electric drill. While right. paign," said Jackie Davev. "He napping of the German diplo- traditional murders an even with the usual quota of "gom- of metal containers which have down. In recent months there the project—which would give revenue to the State as soon as Catholics were murdered with seemed to keep on and on about mat and businessman Herr more sinister development is beenmen" types, anxious to the radioactive fuel inside. have been several weaknesses possible. There were court cases, And then there will not be a jobs, prestige and influence to a fieidish torture (one was bran- bombing the British." Niedermayer. seen. It is the Unionist extrem- make some quick money what- When the nuclear reactor is in found in the cooling systems of confrontations, brealS in negotia- repetition of May 1974. number of key officials. But ded on the back and had a The Daveys told "Time Out" ists murdering each other. ever the long-term consequen- operation, the fuel rods reach American reactors, which have tions and all the other feints and it it it At the Connolly Association that Germans working in the Up to now the British autho- there are indications of some ploys that are to be expected when poker thrust down his throat), ces. On the other are an assort- extremely high temperatures. caused them to be temporarily Conference in London on shipyard discovered guns being rities have tried to impose their second thoughts among mem- different interests confront one members of the U.D.A. were "VOW take a look at Mr ment of concerned interests, Normally the temperature is closed down while the weak- X November 24th, a Birmingham bers of the Government, now brought back into line in peni- Gadd. brought in for the Unionists. law and order on the nationalist conservationists, scientifically- kept down by the water which nesses were being examined, another on important issues. delegate remarked on the that natural gas has been found. tential torture chambers. They told Niedermeyer. who areas, while leaving the Union- minded people worried about flows past the fuel-rods. This ANOTHER nuclear reactor He was a great admirer of amazing speed with which ultra- Far better to make more ra- The details of the bargain are was honorary German Consul ists to enjoy their own. safety factors and people dubi- water carries the heat out of problem is that it constantly Mr Enoch Powell. He was also right-wing demonstrators ap- tional use of this and adopt these: The State is to get 25 per All very well when there's in the six counties. Now that policy of tender- ous about the relevance of the nuclear furnace. It is rather produces high-level radioactive (say the Daveys) a member of peared after the bomb had gone other measures to respond to cent of the shares of Tara Mines, only one leadership. But what He was bumped off, they say, ness to the right, is reaping its atomic energy to Ireland's like the water which flows wastes which have to be re- giving it one-quarter ownership in the National Front. He gave off in the pub. the "energy crisis" than to un- if there is a split? Recent mur- because he knew too much, inevitable reward when rival needs, now that deposits of gas around the engine of a motor- moved in small quantities. These the company and the right to ap- them stickers on which was critically play along with the There are a number of young and his body was cremated at dictators shoot it out for the have been found off Kinsale car keeping it cool. are extremely dangerous and point two directors to the Board.. ders suggest it. printed "Boycott produce of the proponents of "nuclear power", Irish people held under charge Roselawn cemetery. trappings and emoluments of and there is a likely prospect persistent poisons. According In addition there will be a 4? per Irish Republic". If, for any reason, the reactor with its pseudo prestige and of having planted that bomb. It Just think of the endless power. of finding substantial oil re- to the American Atomic Energy cent royalty on Tara's profits and He told the Daveys that should lose its cooling water; also its appalling dangers. has been claimed that there is harassment, searching, checking, Mr Rees has talked about serves in due time. Commission no technically or the normal 50 per cent rate o* there were 8,390 U.D.A. men in for example if the pipes carry- company profits tax. In addition no evidence that thev planted arresting and enquiring that bringing the Unionist guns in. economically feasible method England. Those in Liverpool The E.S.B., who are in charge ing the water into or out of the Tara hands over to the State free TERENCE it. goes on in the nationalist areas. It is very high time he did. of the nuclear project, want to nuclear furnace should fracture, for long-term storage or dis- of charge the private minerals construct a station based on the large amounts of emergency posal is available. Some of TENANTS SAY which it controls at Navan, com- present American light water cooling water must be delivered these wastes remain active for prising about 10 per cent of the McCAUGHEY Tara orebody. LEAVE E EC. HE Rev. Terence McCaughey is ,TPHE eighth annual conference In all the State take from the T Lecturer in Irish at Trinity MR. MICHAEL MULLEN «»•« one policy of working towards dis- other words, the British Govern- J- of the National Association of Tara operation would amount to College, Dublin. He was secretary engagement. Not a disengage- ment would have to withdraw LYNCH TELLS ENGLAND 'WITHDRAW' E.E.C. in Dublin last summer, Dail until his resignation on Tenants' Organisations has called just over two-thirds of the profits, of Citizens for Civil Liberties for ment which would leave a from the Northern Unionists the along with Ian Mikardo, M.P., becoming general secretary in E recognise that those who work against it by insisting from his Ard Fheis speech may be for Irish withdrawal from the in the estimate of the Minister for several years during the 1960s and Congo situation behind, how- unilateral and untenable veto in Liberty Hall. Wconstitute the British Govern- on its continued maintenance of of interest: Common Market, "in view of the Industry and Commerce, Mr Justin has been identified with the Civil 1969. He became a senator in ever . . . but a political process on the dissolution of the union ment and their supporters were sovereignty in Ireland. In a radio catastrophe caused to the Irish Keating. Rights Movement in the North 1973, but those who thought which would give every encour- which they have been accorded "Fianna Fail supported the broad JIJICHAEL MULLEN believes, never those who supported the old interview afterwards Mr Lynch was people in general by Ireland's ac- The ore will be extracted at the from its outset, speaking at civil that making Michael Mullen a agement to both communities in by successive British govern- ideas of imperialistic expansion at asked how this implied call for a principles of the Sunningdale as Connolly believed, that cession to the E.E.C." rate of about 2$ million tons per rights meetings in different parts of senator would make him more Northern Ireland, and the Irish ments. the expense of this or that country. British declaration of intent on Agreement, but when Sunningdale the trade union and labour The conference, which was at- annum, which gives the mine a life the six counties on many occasions. pliable and co-operative to the Government, to come together But that does not excuse them their disengagement differed from the collapsed a new situation emerged. movement should be to the fore tended by delegates from 70 of around 27 years. He is Presbyterian Chaplain to powers-that-be have been sadly current responsibility. They must similar demand of the Provisional The Coalition Government then, in the struggle for civil liberties to work out the Constitution "For as long as Britain up- without any real policy on the tenants' associations throughout Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. disabused. Michael Mullen is and institutions appropriate to holds such a veto thus giving now bring forward positive sugges- IRA. He replied that he and his HE agreement provides for th® and national unity and indepen- North, began to turn its back on the country, listened to some very his own man. He is not some- an all-Ireland situation. A to Northern Unionists the power tions to reverse \ the bad decisions Party envisaged a new British supply of zinc concentrate ot He is in the finest political tradi- dence for Ireland. He embodies the fundamental aims of the Irish strong speeches against continued T one to be bought or easily shut which were take^ in the past. I policy being implemented over a an Irish zinc refinery "whidh may tion of Northern Presbyterianism, all that is best in the nationalist change in British policy is the to prevent the establishment of people. One Minister declared that Irish membership. up. And in fact these days, believe that the British Govern- period of time, in a phased and be established by the Minister". the tradition from which Irish re- and republican tradition, but sees essential prerequisite of this. permanent good relations be- he was not actively working to- Mr Martin O'Kelly, Nutgrove- when the Labour Party's parti- ment should positively encourage orderly way, in consultation with In the meantime, the Tara people publicanism itself emanated in the tween the peoples of these two wards Irish unity, while another Rathfarnfi'am Branch, Dublin, said the way forward as being based cipation in the National Coali- the idea of a unified approach on all the interests involved, rather will be permitted to export the ore 18th century. He has been out- "The call for such a change islands — then that veto will proposed abandoning Articles 2 and that Ireland was experiencing on political activity—Catholics all sides and by all concerned as than suddenly and violently. It is for smelting overseas. The spoken in his views at the Presby- tion has given rise to many a in British policy," he said, "is naturally be used. For it will be 3 of our Constitution which reject another fanvfne as a result of the and Protestants coming together the only ultimate solution of our doubtful if the Provisionals would Minister has said that he regards terian Assembly on occasion and sad and shameful situation, frequently misrepresented as the right of the British Govern- E.E.C. We had a mountain of beef through the labour movement, in the interests of all those poli- national problem. This would agree to the validity of the distinc- the smelter as a matter of urgency, has urged his colleagues there to Michael Mullen's continued cri- being a demand that Britain ment to have sovereign claim on in cold storage but the Irish people supported by those in the Bri- ticians who batten on the fears impose a corresponding responsi- tion, for in their more recent but he did not elaborate on who stand firmly for those principles of ticism and outspokenness have should put pressure on Northern part of Ireland's territory . . . were left to starve. All they had and prejudices of the Northern bility on us. We have the institu- formulation of the "declaration of would own and operate the smelter civil liberty, independent-minded- tish labour movement who stand made him a goad to the con- to eat was bread, tea and potatoes, Protestants to join the Irish Loyalist population to see that tions, financial, administrative, intent" demand they have sensibly" "In recent weeks the only overt when it was established. Certainly ness and radical democracy which for democracy and national in- for they could not afford meat ex- sciences—and the weak politics Republic, with its present Con- it is used. Only the withdrawal commercial and otherwise, and we moved away from the idea of a act of the 'Coalition Government the State will have a stake in it, were features of Ulster Presby- dependence for Ireland and who cept on rare occasions. It was get- —of the Labour members of the stitution and laws unchanged. have the personnel, on both sides time-limit and a rapid British with- in relation to the North of Ireland but whether this stake is a minority terianism in its greatest days. believe that the cause of social of that veto by Westminster ting to the stage where even the Government. A man in Telefis In fact no thoughtful Irish de- of the Border, capable of carrying drawal from Ireland, which was a situation was the publication of the or a majority holding only time emancipation in Britain requires can cut the political ground bread was too dear. We had the Eireann put it aptly the other mocrat advocates this. What is that responsibility on a mutually feature of their earlier pronounce- Criminal Jurisdiction Bill, the pur- will tell. Born in Belfast, Terence Mc- from under those political self- highest unemployment since the the establishment of a free and day, when he said he regarded agreed and phased basis". ments on the matter. pose of which will be the trial of Caughey grew up at Ballycastle on called for is that the Govern- seekers and open the way to War, industries were closing and united Ireland for its fulfilment. Thus Mr Jack Lynch, leader of persons in the Republic's Jurisdic- The deal will disappoint the many the Antrim Coast. He was educated Mullen as the core of such con- ment of the Republic and the progressive political develop- people were being laid off. We were the Fianna Fail Party and former R Lynch's speech shows well, tion for alleged crimes committed people, especially in the Trade at Larne and at Campbell College, structive political opposition as representatives of Catholics and told that this was a world trend, He has consistently deplored ment amongst the Northern Taoiseach, in his speech on the Mhowever, the way in which elsewhere. All of us agree that Union and Labour Movement, who Belfast, and subsequently at Cam- existed in the Republic. Protestants in the North should but it seems that the economies of actions and forms of activity Protestants. Hence the funda- Six Counties at the Fianna Fail Fianna Fail has moved towards a those who commit crimes must be had been pressing for outright State bridge University. He has a be enabled to work out the Con- Sweden and Norway, who stayed mental importance of the Ard Fheis in Dublin in mid-Febru- more principled and realistic state- brought to justice, but only in a ownership of the mine and its Bachelor of Divinity Degree from which would divide Irishman outside the E.E.C., were booming, stitution of a new all-Ireland change in British policy which ary. It is clear that what he is ment of the way out of the North- way that conforms with our Con- operations. The minerals are in Edinburgh University, and has been from Irishman, especially in It was of some importance, while Denmark, which had joined, state — a Constitution which is called for and tfie importance referring to is a return to the ern problem while in Opposition. stitution and preserves the rule of UCfct completely State-owned in law, teaching at Trinity College for the Northern Ireland. At the same therefore, that Senator Mullen had 10 per cent unemployment, Northern Protestants could play classical Fianna Fail Policy that Mr Lynch is clearly responding to law in our procedures. I am satis- and in effect what the Minister is past decade. His wife is from the time he is respected amongst wrote before Christmas to all of a British declaration of in- which was even higher than our doing is to allow th* private an essential role in drafting Britain should "positively en- feeling among the rank and file of fled that the Criminal Jurisdiction Island of Lewis, Scotland and comes republicans of all camps and his the non-Tory members of the tent on ultimate disengagement own. He urged the NATO to organ- interests, Tara Mines, en«*third of and which would meet all their courage" Irish unity, rather than his Party. Some other extracts Bill fails to do either." from the Protestant Gaelic-speak- good offices were crucial in which would underwrite that ise a petition calling for a new the profits gained from exploiting British Parliament, urging a new legitimate needs, claims and mg people who still flourish there. bringing to an end the recent change." referendum on E.E.C. membership. a mine whioh they do not own. It initiative for peace by the Bri- aspirations." hunger strike in Portlaoise Pri- tish Government in Northern is true that they have sunk capital E is himself from Ulster small- rPHE president of NATO, Mr son and securing a settlement Ireland, an initiative which re- Important and pertinent words in developing the mine to date, but farm Protestant stock, and on fJE went on to state that no E.E.C. orders to Ireland unchallenged Christy Hynes, spoke of "the H of the prisoners' demands in ceived a number of friendly —coming from an Irishman of they could have been compensated his mother's side has many con- small farmers being herded off constructive dialogue or such influence and standing. ''I^HE directives, regulations and Oireachtas' Committee in half a instruments each year on average, for this, If the State had taken over nections with people prominent in which honour was satisfied all and favourable replies from their homesteads while the cattle stable agreement on a final poli- * draft proposals of the EEC are year occurred within the week! This which become law in the EEC mem- the fuH working of the mine. Ulster education circles over the around. British M.P.s indicating support Words which political leaders in supposed to be vetted by the Joint barons celebrate the attainment of tical solution was likely to take is all to the good, but it points ber States automatically. On the other hand this would years. His unole, Mr Tom Finni- for the proposals his letter con- the British labour movement Oireachtas Committee on the EEC their Green £ and the workers and Michael Mullen joined the place between Protestants and to the total ndnsense of expecting have entailed long legal proceedings gan, was President of Magee Col- tained. would do well to pay attention liefore they become law and effec- When the Joint Oireachtas Com- housewives are the scapegoats. Transport Union in 1935 and Catholics, North and South, a committee of this kind effectively and It is by no means certain that lege, Derry, for many years. He to. tive in Ireland. This Committee, mittee was meeting many months When one speaker made the took over the secretaryship of until an orderly and constructive to control what the EEC is up to. the conservative Irish courts would was a remarkable man, a pacifist which consists of representatives ago, most of its time was taken up point that the E.E.C. was mainly There has been similar dissatisfac- have upheld the position of a and a socialist, who supported the the hotels and catering branch disengagement was seen to be Michael Mullen is married from all parties in the Irish Dail, by a battle with the Minister for for the purpose of uniting Europe, fHE letter called for an end tion expressed with the "controls" radically interventionist Govern- organisation of the Derry dockers of the union in 1950. If you the policy of the British Gov- and has two sons and .fhree is said to be the "democratic safe- Finance about inadequate staffing. he was followed by a number of to internment, as this was of a similar body in the British ment. Moreover, a Government in the 1930s. He played an out- happen to be in a Dublin hotel ernment and Parliament. In guard" which would keep the Irish In the course of the year during speakers who said that the Com- "the most immediate obstacle to daughters. House of Commons, except that, dominated by Fine Gael would standing part in building up Magee or restaurant with the general parliament and public informed of to be fair to it, the latter body which it visibly functioned, it is mon Market was for the big car- political advance in the North." not surprising therefore that it only never have agreed to a total State College into the 1950s. These secretary (or the G.S. as he is whatever might be against Irish has met more regularly than its tels and the ranchers. There was It also called for a Bill of Rights managed to issue three reports, take-over of the mine. activities did not endear him to the affectionately known), tt will be interests in EEC legislation. Irish counterpart. no unity at present, one of the dele- local Unionist Establishment and which would strengthen demo- JOIN THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION which collectively amounted to 12 gates said. All one had to do was clear from the special attention HIS therefore is the "compro- when he left Derry after quarter of cracy and entrench political FILL IN THIS FORM How ineffective this Committee paees. to look at the different countries you will get that the waiters mise" Mr Keating has agreed a century's work, the only people is turning out to be is shown by I^ROM Ireland's accession to the It is true that the Joint fighting among themselves. Ger- T and hotel workers he was so freedoms in Northern Ireland, I agree with the aims and policy of the Connolly Association 1 to. It is a subject the Minister to see him off at the station were the fact that it has met in public EEC in January 1973 to the Oireachtas Committee has sub- many was fighting over the Green concerned in organising, remem- as has been advocated by the and enclose £2.00 for a year's membership or £1.00 for 6 has quite implicit views on. On some of the dookers he had helped only nine times since August 1973 end of November 1974 the Govern- committees which are supposed to Pound and food prices. And how ber and think highly of the man Irish and British Trade Union months. the day the Tara deal was an- before the War. The University and it did not meet at all between ment isued 55 statutory instruments be meeting regularly. But there could Ireland and Britain be united Congresses. nounced the "Irish Times" carried was planted at Coleraine. who served them well. He was July 1974 and the end of January. and passed two Acts in connection has been no evidence of their work in Europe when Britain was en- Name an extended private Interview with elected secretary of the Dublin with Ireland's EEC membership. for six months now, in the form forcing internment in Northern To open the way to a perma- Mr Keating, in the course of which district council of the union in Address It would still almost certainly Even this does not fully reflect the of even the briefest report to a Ireland, asked another? The Rev. McCaughey maintains he states: 1956 and in 1960 became a nent political solution Senator not be meeting were it not for a impact of the EEC on Ireland, for public session of the full committee. The tone of the Conference gives these radical traditions and has member of Dublin Corporation. Mullen urged that the Labour strong attack on this scandalous much of EEC legislation is directly So much for "democratic con- interesting insight into the reac- "I think it is absolutely obliga- addeg.to them by his own work and situation issued in early February Government should "lay the axe applicable without the intervention trols" in the EEC. It shows again tions of ordinary Irish people as tory to compromise. OtherwIW I optical activity. He is highly Cut out and post to 283 Grays Inn Road. London, W.C.I by the Irish Sovereignty Move- fJE was elected to the Dail as to the root of the problem by of the Irish Government. It has how the Common Market makes a the country moves into its third have no doubt we will perish. • tfiougbt ,.pf t as a speaker and Membership brings you a free copy of the Irish Democrat ment. It was hardly a coincidence breaking with bipartisanship been estimated that the EEC Coun- farce of democracy and the year of Common Market member- have no philosophical difitoulty preacher and frequently talks on T.D. for Dublin North-West by post every month. that the Hrst meeting of the cil of Ministers approves some 300 sovereignty of elected parliaments. ship. about compromise whatever." Radio Telefis Eireann, in 1961 and remained in the and openly embarking on a *
2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT March 1975 March 1975 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 6 lltlSH SOXGS BOOKS ON THE ONE ROAD CLARES YEATS' SEARCH DRAGOONS THREE LEAF AN EXPERIMENT ANATOMIZED -jpHOUGH we've had our quarrels now and then, HEN, on Ramillies' bloody that the majority in the six coun- heard something like it before. This would emerge with greater FOR FORM Now is the time to make them up again- W ••The People's Democracy", by force if Mr Arthur had ad- field, Paul Arthur (Blackstaff Press, ties is a minority of the Irish The seven ages of man "Yeats's Golden Dawn", by Sure aren't we all Irish anyhow ? The baffled Frcnch were forced people receives no explanation, mitted the relevance of the Belfast, pp.160. Paperback Trade Union movement. The George Mills Harper (Mac- And we've got to step together now. to yield. although it is the abiding grievance Mr Arthur's method does not SHAMROCK £2). make for smooth reading. To movement for Civil Rights in millan, £7). The victor Saxon backward reeled of the nationalist population. make matters worse, in his zeal for Northern Ireland was launched on I )ROFESSOR HARPER rightly Before the charge of Clare's I F a genie were to pop out of a CHORUS: Though there is, it is true, a cur- references he has not only included the initiative of the Belfast Trades • pleads justification for raking Dragoons, DY the side our ship was anchored on a bright St. Patrick's Day, 1 bottle m Grays Inn Road, and sory examination of the economic much indifferent matter, but has Council; its Secretary, Miss Eliza- over the ashes of the "Hermetic On the one road, sharing the one load, The flags we conquered in that fray On the quay a lass was sighing for her lover going away. offer me three wishes, I'd be sorely and political features of the six placed reliable authors, special beth Sinclair was requited when Society of the Golden Dawn" by Look (one in Ypres' choir, they say, In her hand she held an emblem and its parting leaves were three. tempted to waste the first on con- On the road to God Knows where ; county state, and it would be hard pleaders and journalistic pot- Miss Devlin and her friends went its significance in the development We'll win them company today, And her parting words were : "Darling, look on these and think signing all the "Social Science" de- On the long road, it may be the wrong road, to avoid it altogether, Mr Arthur boilers virtually on the same foot- to Belfast with the express inten- of Yeats's poetic theory and prac- Or bravely die like Clare's Dragoons. partments of the universities of the of me." takes his departure, in studying ing. He wants a quotation from tion of ousting her. "We were tice. The poet was an initiate of But we're together now, who cares? Viva ta, for Ireland's wrong! world to the seventy-seventh circle "People's Democracy", from the everybody. squeezed out" said the Chairman, this Rosicrucian order for at least Viva la, for Ireland's right. of perdition Of course I'd have to Northmen, Southmen, comrades all, CHORUS: "international student movement.' Mr Joe Cooper. thirty years and at the time of its Viva la, in battle throng, bring them back again. But the And the mountains must have But providing you know some- Great Schism, 1900-1901, held the For a Spanish steed and sabre Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Donegal, Three-leaf shamrock I adore thee, your three leaves I long to free third wish would remain to prevent been in labour. He produces a thing about the subject already, if Mr Arthur grew disillusioned position of Imperator of Isis-Urania bright! On the one road, swinging along, When there's better days in Ireland I'll come home and marry the publication of theses. "model of the stages of growth you are prepared to plough through with People's Democracy. And it Temple under his cabbalistic motto Another Clare is here to lead, Not that I want to be hard on through which radical movements it, you will find in this book the may be for that reason that his of Demon Est Deus Inversus. By Singing a Soldier's Song. thee. The worthy son of such a breed; Mr Arthur. He has excised a pass in the natural history of their principal facts and the main issues book improves as it goes along. He a careful study of letters, unpub- The French expect some famous number of footnotes in preparing careers", the invention of Mr Ar- they raise. It is obvious that makes an effort to assign reasons lished essays and an abandoned Just before the ship had started as he laid her hand on mine, Tinker, tailor, every mother's son deed, his thesis for publication. Foot- mand L. Mauss. People's Democracy was a creation for the extraordinary political posi- novel in Yeats's library, all bearing Just before that we had parted she looked with loving eyes so kind, tions taken up by People's Demo- Butcher, baker, shouldering his gun, When Clare leads on his bold notes. he calls them; they are all These stages of growth are: In- of the "New Left". That it split on what now seems the "trivial, dragoons. To my coat she pinned an emblem and its parting leaves were three gathered together at the back of cipiency, coalescence, institutional- the civil rights movement, provoked cracy. The fundamental appears to even ludicrous" dissensions of long- Rich man, poor man, every man in line, His wounds are in his breast and And her parting words were: "Darling, look on these ami think of the book, so that you pull its flimsy isation, fragmentation and demise. the years of sectarian outrage, and be its leaders' extreme sectishness forgotten devotees, the writer drains" All together, just like Old Lang Syne, face, me." structure to pieces looking where He puts People's Democracy bears a heavy responsibility for and an arrogance beyond belief. It attention to an abiding aspect of The bearna baoghail is still his he has got things from. He has through the lot of them. This is placing the civil rights movement is quite clear that not one of them Yeats's philosophy, his conviction p»tace But tonight I am an exile far from home and far from thee. told the story of "People's of course academic mumbo-jumbo. at a disadvantage vis-a-vis British gave the slightest study to Con- that ritual magic can release the Night is darkest just before dawn, nolly's teachings, though his name The foremost of his bold dragoons. Next my heart I'll wear your token, love, no matter where I be, Democracy" the academic way, and The professors love it, but the imperialism, emerges clearly from soul from its earthly constraints From dissension Ireland is reborn, though at one time a member was for ever on their lips. They Viva la the new brigade! And although the seas divide us and your face I might never see ordinary man thinks he may have a critical reading of these pages. into absorption in a cosmic life Now let us all, United Irishmen, himself, he has achieved some mea- wanted a united Ireland. They saw which is above sense and above Viva la, the old one, too! When there's better days in Ireland I'll come home and marry thee. that it was necessary to unite the Viva la, the rose shall fade, sure of objectivity. consciousness. Make our land a Nation Once Again. But he should have re-written the working class. Coming as they did And the shamrock shine for for the most part from middle- Enchantment is the chord most ever new! whole manuscript, and set his story in the wider context of the Whose world cruise class and rural backgrounds, or frequently struck in the collections Oh! Comrades, think how Ireland THE HILLS OF DONEGAL age-long struggle for democracy in adopting the outlook of those from of poetry between "The Bose" GOODBYE, JOHNNY pines, Ireland. The requirements of a such backgrounds, they were blind (1893) and "Responsibilities" (1914). Her exiled lords, her rifted shrines, thesis do not permit this. The stu- are you paying for? to the fact that the supreme unifier But, with the possible exception of H, Donegal, the pride of all, my heart still turns to thee, IUST twenty years ago today 1 grasped my mother's hand, Her dearest hope the ordered lines, dent must have a "subject" which of the working class is the move- a few poems belonging to what My cottage home, where oft I've roamed when I was yeung and free, And bursting charge of Clare's O should not be so wide as to en- "Marxian Economic Theory", by has yet to be proved in practice ment which organises the workers Vivienne Koch has called the tragic She kissed and blessed her only sen going to a foreign land; Big houses grand in a foreign land cannot compare at all, Dragoons, croach on the subjects of others. Meghnad Desai (Gray Mills, that pound notes elm build a house as a class — the Trade Union phase, all Yeats's work relates the The neighbours took me from her breast and told me I must go, Te my cottage bright on a winter's night on the hills of Donegal. Then fling your green flag to the Just as young scientists looking for £5.20, 163pp.). or that the recently discovered rich movement. They were unaware physical world to the larger one of Yet I could hear my mother's voice, though her words were soft mineral deposits in Ireland are that men and women had been de- the soul or imagination. Through- sky, better jobs accumulate "publica- HE first page of this work sums and low: Right well I mind the harvest time that doleful dreary day, going to be mined by share certi- voting their lives to the work of out his life his most intense experi- Be LIMERICK! your battle-cry, tions" so that the technical periodi- up the latest contribution in When I left all in Donegal to wander far away, T ficates. If machines oreate wealth, organising and unification. ences, his love for Maud Gonne, his CHORUS: And charge, till blood flows fetlock- cals are crammed with worthless the 116-year-old discussion follow- Near Cresslough town my friends Stood round; I Md farewell to all, as Mr Desai suggests, I am at a A celticism,, his family affections and Goodbye, Johnny dear, when you're far away high junk, so the writers of theses in- ing Marx's discovery and develop- Around the track of Clare's And from the van I waved my hand to the hills of Donegal. clude "references" to show how loss to understand why employers They did not know that thirty friendships, were subsumed into a Don't forget your dear old mother far across the sea; ment of tae theory of surplus value Dragoons. much reading they have done, get a little cross when workers go years ago youngsters like them- search for ultimate truth. His Gazing back through the blossoms gay on my own native hill, —"ttie Marxists usually start off Write a letter now and then and send her what you can, THOMAS DAVIS. though a good part of it is sheer on strike. selves had come into the Whitehall decade of passionate involvement I thought no shame (eh, who could blame) 'twas there I cried my fill, with primitive economics and go in an esoteric society, which ended And don't forget where'er you go that you're an Irishman. waste of time. in the end the author indicates restaurant straight from the Gaelic My parents kind ran in my mind, my friends and ownraiw atl, through every stage of society in a in 1901, is therefore of great in- Mr Arthur has 329 footnotes to in his heart tbat perhaps Marxist League and had sat, drunk tea, THE SHORES OF My heart did ache, I thought 'twould break in leaving Donegal. descriptive fashion trying to 'prove' terest. We sailed away from Queenstown, that is the Cobh of Cork, 116 pages of text. So tie is ob- economics is correot by stating that argued and banged the table about by citing authorities that labour is rpHE book has a nostalgic appeal, A very pleasant voyage we had, and soon were in New York. viously well read in his subject. "tlift unfinished tasti bf Marxian issues which the People's Democracy From Derry Quay we steamed a*ay, the waters calm and stitt, the source of all weatth and that apart from any contribution to Friends I had to meet there, and work I got next day, AMERIKAY Even so there is not a single quota- economic theory" Is the further de- thought they had discovered for the Down Lough Foyle our tug did toil to the Mg ship at Moville, the Marxian scheme is still a valid Yeats' criticism, in its evocation of I'LL be bidding farewell to the land tion from the "Irish Democrat", the velopment and "application of a first time. And what on earth does But with all the hospitality I could hear my mother say: Some love to see each tower and tree, eaoh ancient lordly halt, if not the only, tnrth." a vanished sub-world of_ learned 1 of my youth, "Irish Socialist", or "Unity", nor is richly oomplex model . . ." I would "People's Democracy" mean? But my thoughts that day were far away on the hills of Donegal. Marx's fundamental contribution and disputatious zealots whose Chorus there a single Trade Union state- agree the understanding and AP- Having recently heard about And the home I love so well, to economies was the theory of names have lost any resonance they ment. The Trade Union movement PLICATION of Marxist economics socialism, and learned of its magic And the mountains grand of my surplus value which means in a ever had. Two of them, S. L. Mao- Round Tory tsle we steamed in style, the mainland we could see, indeed does not even receive a te these islands is the only solution properties from the Trotskyites — own native land, nutshell that a worker creates Gregor Mathers (Deo Duce Comite Till Muckish grand, with glistening sand, smiled over CruSkatee; mention. to the "crises", 'spiralling infla- you only have to pronounce the I'll be bidding them all farewell, more wealth in one week than he Perro) and Aleister Crowley (Per- Elagh, much more brighter still, looked proudly over all, tion", and ail the ether Ills of capi- word, and all difficulties fade away PAT O'DONNELL With an aching heart I will bid A NOTHER more serious symptom receives in a week's wages. In a durabo) are characters almost too l heaved a sigh and Md goodbye to the hills of DonegaL talist economies. Where at the — they applied the new principle adieu ' of "Thesisiasis" is the need to capitalist economy those owning rich for history: they deserve to moment it seems more important to the Irish question. Open, (Sung to the air of 'The Boston Burglar', this street ballad commem- For to-morrow I'll sail far away, be "scholarly", and one suspects the means of production also own have been invented by Dickens. Amongst those hills St. Columbkille left miracles and cures, to out nations in two and Join the sesame! Mr Arthur puts it very O'er the raging foam for to seek a that Mr Arthur, advised no doubt the goeds produced Including the Otherwise it has to be admitted orates the man who hilled Carey, the informer who betrayed the Amid streams and dells and holy wells his power It still endures; rich man's club, the C.EX., in a well: "The New Left in p.D. com- home / \ by his mentors, achieved some of surplus value, the worker being in that the complex, subjective, sojne-"" Green Garden cell and old Doone Well where St. Ffrtlaifs waters fall, last-ditch defense of owning the pounded error on error by adopting 'Invincibles' responsible for the Phoenix Park assassinations in 1882) On the shores of Amerikay. his appeaxajace of dispassionateness a position of selling hi* labour only. times mystical nature of the issues, A simple shrine unchanged by time on the ihlls of Dontgat. surplus value than it does to have the Catholic working class as its by adopting a pre-conceived aca- The argument, on paper, about and the hundred pages of appen- fciY name is Pat O'Donnell and I come from Donegal, Suure it's not for the love of gol* a rational society brought about by agent for advancement. . . . Clearly demic framework, in which he ex- surplus value oentres around what dices,. make for laborious reading. I am, you know, a venomous foe to traitors one and all. I'm going, a socialist economy. Catholics were opposed to the It's not for the love of fame, tended or compressed his subject as aoftytilv creates the surplus value. status quo, and the working class The reward, however, lies In a new For the shooting of James Carey I was tried in London town, you might use a shoe-stretcher or a That fortune bright may shine o'er T*m economists wb» support a This serious work is marred by as the most economically deprived perspective on Yeats's art. strait jacket. Thus he begins with Ami now upon the gallows high my life I must lay down. me, CAISLEAN U« NEILL capitalist economy and the anti- the many mistakes, some of them section of that community could be What Professor Harper stresses an explanation of Mr A. J. Mill- misleading, in the quotations from And give me a glorious name; £ead slrin tfhon oiche 'reir, se mo l£an nach i anocht 'na tus, Marxists, aft outlined in this work, relied on to mount the most mili- is a tension in Yeats's mind be- I sailed on board the shop Melrose m August, 'eighty-three, nei-s "crystallized politics" where attempt to prove that wealth, in- Marx's "Capital" —use the actual tant opposition to the State. But tween occultism and poetry, -be- It's not for the love of gold I'm Lets an mbuachaillfn sptfritiil a bhreagfhadh m£ seal ar a ghluin. (teste Lijphart) there is a Before I landed in Capetown it oame wefl known to me; going, tfudtng surplus value, Is somehow editions of "Capital" and not the the adoption of the Catholic work- tween the unseen and the tangible Mar do chuir tu orm t'Aaradh, a mhHe-gr* goal is ni leat-sa mo ruin "majority dictatorship". The origin quotations. When I saw he was James Carey we had angry words and Mows, O'er this weary and stormy sea, created by machines or the mathe- ing class meant antagonising the world. Like Blake and Morris, of the dictatorship, namely the fact JOHN BOYD The villain, he tried to take my life on board the ship Melrose. But to seek a home for my own Ach cead gear, ti no sleibhte 'dhul Mir me's tu. matical mystery of eoonomios. It Protestant workers . . ..." Yeats was as alive to the richness true love Thus the ultra left joined with as to the mystery of life. He I steed up to defend myself and fight before t'd die, On the shores of Amerikay. Ta an gftirdfn seo 'na fh&ach, a mhfle gr6 bin agus mfee Horn fh6in the ultra-right, and before long in shared with Coleridge, Shelley and Ta na pabhsaithe a' f*s ann, is bre>iftta tfhft MtfttM f& riamh. Roseetti a belief that art is an A pocket pi9tol I drew forth and at him I let fly; And when I am bidding my last order to show they were not Ni chluinfea ceol cl£irsf 'dhul ah t-Sltiid fteo ni oe«T fcfna na n-6an, Catholic sectaries, they were instrument of divinity for imposing I gave him the second revolver, boys, which pierced him through the farewell, THE PLOUGH AND STARS order on the chaos of existence. 0 d'6a!uigh mo ghr£ uaim, craoibh ill/Inn, go Caisfe&n Of Nlill. leading campaigns and grievances heart The tears like rain will blind, south of the border. Seen in this light, Yeats's unyield- And I iet him have the third one, boys, before we did depart. To think of friends of my own "Theatre in Ireland," by Michael O hAodha (Basil Blackwell, £3.50). ing Insistence In 1900-1901 on tradi- native land, Is a gCaislean Ui N6ill ta an pearla 'bhain dhiom-sa mo ghrA. They were simultaneously dog- tion, uniformity and discipline Carey's wife and son came into the cabin where he lay, And the home I'm leaving behind, Go tftag me fh6n speis df go mor i ngan fhios do'n slua. THERE is only one statue to an aotor in Ireland* As late as 1890 W. B. Yeats was of the opinion matists and opportunists. It will _within his magical Order is part And saw him lying in ali his gore, which filled her with dismay. But if I'm to die In a foreign land, Ag Teallach 'ti mh6ir sea conuioiMft is oodftfatomts MB ghr4. tbat Irish literature for all Its antiquity had not yet reached the phase of drama. Theatre, be very surprising if many of them of a consistent eesthetic. it is are not sitting in well-breeched "O'Dennell, you shot my husband," Mrs. Carey now did cry. And be buried so far away, Ac a samhail nil le fill ann, ach an rdalt eolais ar an mfcaite utfthail. whether in elaaetoal Greece or medieval Europe, evolved ita towns, so that rural Qgelic society, tempting to transfer this finding Mo fond mothers tears wilt be shed prosperity in very few years' time, to the vexed question of Yeats's '"Oft, yes I l did, in self-defence, madam," then said I. even though its accomplishment both in prose and in epic and lyrfo poetry owed everything to the o'er my grave, Ba mhilse liom do phftigin n4 an ros a thaganns ar blfMh all thought of the workers' repub- political thought, reconciling his On the shores of Amerikay. human voice, passed without knowing the emotive; power of the stage. It was known fitfully in lic miles from their heads. One faith In a ruling «ite with his ad- The captain had me handouffed and in irons firmly bound; Is le cumha mor i ndiaidh mo stoirifi.ni monagogtodatatm fein trA Ireland from the late ITth century until the threshold of the Wtti only through English plays day I saw an Oxford Maoist hoarse And if I ever do twturn again, miration for activists like John He handed me over as a Fenian when w* landed In Capetown. Bliain 'can olohe ar6ir, sea rtab na capalll an f&l, with shouting "smash capitalism". My own native land to see, performed Tn Dublin and a few towns of the more anglicised perimeter. O'Leary and Patrick Bearse. I was then brought back to London until my trial came on, Agus cHualtfh glad de ttlm, s<5 mo lean gear, amach ins a' snimh. Next week he was on the editorial Its there that my friends will meet But the history of Irish drama Carroll, M. J. Moiloy, Bryan in Smock Alley in 1670. An EAVANN CONOR staff of a Tory daily. And the prosecution witnesses were Carey's wife and son. 11 me, since 1000, which Miche&l O hAodha MacMahon and Waiter Macken. examination of the dialogue in ' "" With a smile, they'll welcome me, presents in book, has been The author writes authoritatively "The Plough and the Stars" draws Th£ book is thus worth reading. back: He means irreparable. On To ati the evidence they swore, I said it was a He, For my own true love is as dear vital. and sometimes tempestuous. not caily on Iri?h and. other .plays, attention to a complex of influences But unfortunately its literary style page 83 "appeal" fe used as a But the jury found me guilty, and the Judge made hts reply: to me, Irish music in Ealing Inevitably, the Abbey commands the plots of which he sometimes including Shakespeare, the Bible, leaves much to be desired. Leaving transitive. We also hear on page "Yeu'il never more see Erin's shore, O'Donnell, you must die most attention with its record of encapsulates in a sentence, but also Synge and Dublin dialect. aside what are presumably printer's 89 of a "miniscute" part- Be *as As the flowers that Mossom in •'I "'HIS year Easter is being cele- oeived when it was shown on Tele- over 500 new plays by Irish on acting and production, com- Hie book's comprehensive title errors (forebearance on page 10) an obsession with printing terms. On the twenty-first of December, upon the gallows high." May, brated by the West London feis Eireann last year. The journal authors and its roster of play- memorating famous performers from is justified by the fact that It deals we have "weaved a thread" on A pity then, that his printer mis- With a "Cead Mile Failte" they'll branch of the Connolly Association "Hibemia" regretted at the time wrights ol talent, wjging into Peggy WoAtngtan to Michael Mfec- with the philosophy as wdl as the page 24, "guage" on page 38. the spells them! . t wish I was a free man, and could live anether year, welcome me back, with a showing of two films about that it had not been Irish made. »'d make all those informers fly before my eyes with fear; From the shores of Amerikay. genius in the case of Synge apd Liammoir and neatly summarising data of the Irish stage, with such absurd New Left argot-word And — ah woe! — all pur rela- Irish music and musicians. The •'Sadly," it said, "it was French TV "co-optation" on page 42 and else- tions have been "done la" and're- 8t Patrick banished the serpents frem our Messed and holy ground Sure It's not for the love of gold O'Casey, Mr O hAodha subdivides the differing aims of Dublin's two topics as Yeats's disappointed ambi- films will be followed with live which provided this almost defini- where, "phrenetically active" on placed by relationships. All of I'd make them fly before my eyes like a hare before the hound. I'm going, tive survey of Irish traditional its history into a formative period main theatres: where the Abibey tion to promote poetic drama, the music and refreshments. page 49 (elsewhere, bless us, there which reinforces our original ptpa. Ifs not for the love of fame, music which was mesmeric, right under the guidance of Yeats and taught audiences to use their ears, competition between the play of "Ceol—the Musictnakers" is a film is a phrenetic situation!) and a The material of the thesis should Here's a health unto old Donegal, the place where I was born, That fortune bright may shine o'er from the haunting opening shots Lady Gregory (who contributed 40 the Oate since 1928 has been ideas and the play of primal made recently by Oomhaltse Ceol- curious fusion of direct and indirect have been re-written ftpoufc end te Likewise the United States, for them I hold no soorn; me, of the Cliffs of Moher seen through (days), then the west Cook teaching them to use their eyes emotion, naturalism in dialogue toiri Elreann and Which has been tragedies of T. C. Murray and the as well. and the stage as a reflection of speech on page 57. end, the scribblers and chattecboxes Unto the Virgin Mary on my bended knees I call And give me a glorious name, the mist ..." described by one R.T.E. official as grotesque fantasies of George Fitz- national life. And it finds room On page 63 we are told that a should have been forgotten about, To pray for poor O'Bonnetl from the town of Donegal. it's not for the love of gold I'm T\BEP knowledge and love of the "the film which comes nearest to These exciting entertainments maurice, followed by O'Casey's for the sideshows as well as the second demonstration "followed the and then some of Mr Arthur's going, will take place at Ealing Town Hall J ' are have made the author capturing the real excitement of great trilogy, an era dominated by big features, for plays in Irish, same format" as the first. On page own qiiite shrewd conclusions could Good Christians aft, on you I call, this is my dying day- O'er this weary and stormy sea, on Thursday, March 27th at 8 p.m. indefatigable. A propos Mnc- Irish traditional music made to Lennox Robinson and St. John broadcast plays, amateur acting 64 there is an "irrevocable apllt" — have ^een clothed in more worthy » am an honest irishman, kind Christians for me pray; But to seek a home for my own Tickets are 50p and are available Liammoir's brilliant Hamlet he date." Ervine and a further one associ- and Belfast's Arts,. Group and one can imagine the P.D. mounting habilaments. My grave is ready open, and I'm ready for te die, true love, The other film was made for from the Trlsh Democrat office, 283 gives a history of the role in ated with names like Paul Vincent Lyric. Seamus Treacy the rostrum and calling the split AI LEACH May the Lord have mercy on my soul while In my grave I lie. On the sheres of Amerikay. French television and was well re- Grays Inn Road, London, W.C.I. Ireland since the first performance 8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT March 1975
IK 1*11 I\ BKITA1* Peace PATRICK WARD TAKES FOOD Conference r_pE Standing Committee of j^T times the look on Jordan's grips with retirement. Now if the Connolly Association face would be in complete SERIAL STORY he'd got a hobby or something on February 16th sent a letter debates contrast to what he was saying to occupy his mind." to An Taoiseach urging the Gov- and now and then, while being BY "He's got a hobby," Higgs ernment of the Republic to use Ireland more than usually abject, he said. "Drinking." its best endeavours to bring would gesture rudely into the DONALL $MUDGER'S visit with the about an accommodation with RS EDW1NA STEWART, Of 'phone while Higgs jigged about Boss took rather longer than republican prisoners in Port- M Belfast NICRA, was well re- in delight. When the caller was MacAMHLAIGH we would have expected and laoise jail that would make pos- ceived when she opened th,e de- somebody on Jordan's own level, when he passed by the office sible the ending of their hunger bate on t h e six counties or lower down the scale, his window on his way out there strike. at the Conference on world manner would become conde- was a jauntiness in his manner Next month : It expressed serious concern peace, called by the liaison com- scending and familiar with that caused Jordan to go all mittee, at the London School of over the condition of Patrick "Bub !" substituting for "Suh !" Donal MacAmhlaigh quiet and thoughtful. Then a Economics on Sunday, 23rd Febru- and now and again when things Ward, former London and Man- ary. few days later old Smudger paid chester building trade worker, went wrong he could be a bit starts a new serial . . . us a visit again, only this time Quite apart from the continuing of a tartar. who is reported to be at death's violence in the six counties, Ire- Don't miss it! he went straight through to the door. land is involved through treaty Jordan began to give himself Boss with no more than a Mr Ward was well known and commitments. The Gardiner Com- other airs, too, and took to cheery wave to ourselves. 'I respected in West and South Lon- pletely and that his friends had mittee recognised that England's carrying a briefcase to work wonder what the bloody old fool don having worked on the Ivy- deserted him en masse; he was "responsibilities in Northern Ire- even though it contained noth- wants this time ?" Jordan asked bridge building job. land" (i.e. occupation of Irish soil ing more than a few sandwiches now reduced to his weekly pen- pettishly. and enforced partition of Ireland) sion which was never intended iTPHE Association said that if —and at one time he even be- "Perhaps he wants his job there was no other way of sav- arise from treaty obligations under to keep him in the style of gan to talk of exchanging his back," Higgs answered wicked- ing Mr Ward's life, then he should N.A.T.O. and the rules of the living he liked to pursue. E.E.C. scooter for a car, a luxury which ly, "there's provision for that, be released unconditionally. The "Poor, foolish old Smudge," There have been enquiries as to his wages scarcely entitled him you know, as long as there's a Association explained that it urged the Connolly Association's attitude to. But for the most part Jordan Jordan sighed. vacancy." this line of action from humanitar- to this conference since it had no was all right as senior clerk " Smudgerophilus," groaned It was the proverbially true ian considerations, and in hope of delegate present. The answer is and unless the Boss began to the bonus clerk with an imbe- word spoken in jest. Smudger contributing to an atmosphere of peace and conciliation among all that its attitude is one of support. pile things on he left us pretty cile look on his face. wanted his job back and, what Irishmen. Unfortunately by an oversight for much alone. "It's a damn shame," Jordan was more, he got it. Of course which they handsomely apologised, Since then, on Sunday, February When the Boss was in a bit said, "it really is. That money it wouldn't make any difference the organisers' intended invitation 16th an agreement was reached be- of a "tear" and complaining could have lasted him the rest to Jordan's status, the Boss as- to the C.A. was never posted. The of his days if he hadn't gone tween the Dublin Government and C.A. did not find out the con- about something or other Jor- sured him when he broke the and squandered it like that. I'd the I.R.A. which gave the prisoners ference organiser's address until dan would appeal to us to speed news later that day, he'd still sufficient concessions to enable have made it last." two days before the conference and things up a bit, referring to the be in command of the ship ex- them to call off the hunger strike. when the telephone invitation at Boss's displeasure in vaguely " Scecula sceculorum," said cept that now he'd have an Patrick Ward who had been length came, it was too late to find nautical terms like "storm Higgs. extra hand—Smudger. moved to Jervis Street hospital in a representative, as it was after clouds to starboard", or "de- I think we were all a little Poor Jordan had a beaten Dublin then began to take food. It the conference had begun. pression over Iceland". It was depressed for the next few days look about him that afternoon is hoped that he will make a com- The Association hopes to be only when things got well on thinking about Smudger's folly. when he came from the Boss's plete. recovery. represented next time. top of him that he turned nasty. There was even some half- office with the news. hearted suggestion of having a Meanwhile the reports of "Well, the creeping bloody whip-round but this was rejec- Smudger's steady progress to- Judas," he complained, ignoring Put this Act on ted for we ' all knew that" ! wards penury were coming in. th? pite $ work *4r ' ~ Smudger had his' own notions One day Bill Meecham told us f iqe—lobby that-' Smudger had fatten out * ... jyjEMBERS of the ConnoII*, with some of his boozing pals, ger now -couldn't Association in London and; rounding on them in the Town hours in fttip fust return Birmingham lobbied their:,, Arms the day before andoatling the publUk, ' every oneefaeP Members of Parliament on^ them a bunch of bloodsuckers. around darn* have to domr fach I** Tuiesday, February. 18th. Pur- This was rightly interpreted to yards whim Smudger ome „.„„ „ ., . „ S pose of the lobby was to urge mean that Smudger's superan- started his lOi the Monday there, arid tfo wa* in -the that the "Prevention of Terror- nuation was almost run out and. Everyone Was sdWV fill ^Wrri and It was felt it- six county position wa estroying civil liberties to England! ism" Act should be put "on ice" there were solemn forebodings we foundtttf worfe5 Comfortable to have to pending its lapsing in' June. as to what the future held for not to dwM wiifa ixitghr,: some i The chair was taken by Charles Cunningham, and the other They, pointed out that there him. ND I sat at, A then one day> quite unex- speakers were Despiond- Greaves was now a cease-fire in the six "Poor old bugger; poor silly pectedly, old Smudger's face tent wftfc c ii plate Reside and Stan Newtek, |CP,',1 who depu- counties, and the danger of egotistical bugger!" Jordan appeared at '-ptfityhdow Meecham. Mr Jordan wtis still tised for the local M.P., Mr A. W. terrorist activities in Britain commented with genuine sym- wearing art ^ruHcharacteristic, head of tfi&effld*, of course, but Stallard, who had been suddenly was now less than it had been pathy while Higgs, activated, abashed look, the snow had all old Smudger heMM ~ to 'vrigain called to Birmiitgham. for several years. began screaming "Buggera, bug- influence in *<»core of dflferent Mr Newerts spoke of the mood in gone now butthecpid persisted J The Home Secretary should geroo!" and poor Smudger lopked chilled ways* creeping-til to $jp/Mk with Parliament when the Prevention of issue instructions to police the de jjpssible Terrorism Act went through. He J^ WEEK or so later it was to the bone. forces that they should take and taking more and more upon justified his voting for it on the confirmed that Smudger's "Why, it's Colonel Smith action only under previous le- himself, Almo8t bkfiw \vi knew grounds that something had to be himself (!' Jordan exclaimed done and be seen to be done, gislation. lump sum had run out com- it Smudger futd regained a lot with a—perhaps forgivable— otherwise there might be a savage of his old authority mnd though A memorandum on the touch of ^condescension. "Come right-wing backlash; that is, it was working of the Act was presen- on in to the fire, you old son Jordan strove against him for to save the position of the Labour ted to the M.P.s, and it was Elizabeth of a gun, don't stand about out a time, making an„ issue of Party in the country. urged that there should be there in the cold." things and reminding Smudger Mr Andy Higgins did not like of their altered positions, he action to prevent abuses under Smudger came in nodding in- this explanation, and put a pointed began by degrees to accept de- question; the police had been given -previous legislation. gratiatingly all round and Jor- feat. massive new powers so that the The case was instanced of the dan sat him down and brought Birmingham youngster who A fatalistic kind of inertia right-wingers could see that Par- the fags out. liament was doing something; did was held in a police station for in London seemed to overtake him and I "Well, me old son, how's it the police use, these powers for the 17 hours without food and have no doubt at all that within INHERE is a certainty of a going—retirement ? By jove, old same reason, to show that they in water. There should be strict a matter of weeks old Smudger good attendance at the timer, you're thriving on it— turn were doing something? And instructions that persons in cus- was de facto if not de jure run- branch meeting on March 12th. isn't he, Higgs "T was not the whole of this panic tody should be supplied as of ning the place again. 1 say I The guest speaker will be Miss "Absolutely! What - ho!" legislation a recipe for creating in- right with food, drink and nor- Elizabeth Sinclair, and there will Higgs bellowedBursting at have no doubt because I did not justice. mal toilet facilities. There were be just a Wee element of a cele- the folly 'd^mma, eh ?" wait to see the outcome. 1 Shar- Mr Newens, whose complete honesty and sincerity in the thing instances of these being wi$h- bration. We'll say no more than "Well, ittdn't one long laugh," ing a desk with Bill Meecham is not in question, could only re- 3ield over Several days. There that. Smudger •m^gmt'. &*eadfng wasn't much in the way. of should also be the right to The meeting is at 283 Grays Inn status and anyway the gtfmy peat that on balance he thought be his hands&(1 fa was could do nothing else, it will b? secure the visit of a medical Road, «n Wednesday at 8 p.m. aware of condescension in elder bush outside the Office Mfes Sinclair retires from the remembered that those opposed to man on request. their manjw MjppK't let on; was nicely fn bloom again.* Secretaryship of the Belfast Trades the bill could riot muster two tellers. The lobby also urged upon (Concluded) Council at the end of this month. the conver§c#fon, nwhow, was All the saHle we think Andy had MM Members the immediate end of She will be attending her last full a kit one-sided with jJordan Oonall Amhlaigti a point. • internment--not just letting a Council meeting on March 5th. doing most of the work while few out day by day but the Her friends in London will want Smudger nodded and looked em mm Jmmm WW •JUL. - •: .: ending of the principle of in- to wish her a long, active and pros- round hlnt/ rtdt quite at ease. ternment, and the repeal of the perous future, and we can think of And then, titer twenty minutes iB NIGHT WITH Emergency legislation that per- one or two ways in which it can be or so, Smudger got MP and said mitted it. donp. Miss Sinclair has held the he'd better%ok In oti the Boss , MONDAY, V ; nNk m « *m. post of Secretary to Belfast Trades Mr Mark Clinton, who spoke on his way out. at SOUTH LONDON POIYTCOHNJC STUDENTS' UNION to Mr Julius Silverman on this Council for twenty-seven years. "Yes, to be sure, Bill! The CLUB. Rotary fttott subject, told the "Irish Demo- Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd., gaffer'll be Qkuffed to see you," crat" that there was no douJ^t (Elephant 3c Castle, Batorloo, so go along London Road, turn right (T.U.), Nottingham Road, Ripley, Jordan urged and otthe door into ftoomas Doyie street, thep Rotary.StnftTpp left): . , that Mr Silverman had mov^H closed behind Derbyshire, and published by ' MNflHfO * MBtCtHO strongly against internment "Poor old bugger, Connolly Publications Ltd., at WnHHRMCNff.. - BAR Contribution after the cease-fire. 283 Grays Inn Rd., London, WC1. sic symptom 1 i