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Speaker E. MAITLAND Series No. 18 JUNE, 1946 Price 3d, KOfflOUMIi

RITISH Labour is giving moral, financial and active organisational support to the Socialist candidate, Flying-Officer Desmond Donnelly, nominated for the Down by-election. Flying - Officer Donnelly, who unsuc- successfully fought Eve- sham for Commonwealth O'RIORDAN in the General Election, is confident of success despite the Later the group may assist Labour can- weakness of Labour's organisation didates in Eire. and the agricultural nature of the "They were going to fight the election SUBSISTENCE constituency. The Tory vote is likely FIGHTS on a straight Socialist platform," said T ODGING allowances for transferred to be split between the official Union- Mr. McGhee. launching the campaign at workers are to continue only in a ist, unofficial Unionist and Independ- a meeting held in Victoria, London. modified form, states a letter which has ent candidates. Describing the appalling social condi- just been received by " Irish Democrat " tions in Northern Ireland, he said that in IN CORK A whirlwind campaign in support of Londonderry he had seen 90 persons from the Ministry of Labour. Donnelly has already been organised in ^ J ICK O'Riordan, popular Cork 'bus- living in six rooms, and in Lurgan he had Britain by the Friends of Ireland group In response to enquiries a Ministry met married men who brought home only worker who fought in the Inter- in the House of Commons. official states; "Regarding the question 39s. 2d. in wages. national Brigade and was interned as a of lodging allowances, I cannot do better Led by the group's energetic secretary, Republican in the Curragh during the war, than quote the following paragraph from will stand as Socialist candidate in the Mr. Harry McGhee, M.P. iPenistone), a Catholic-Protestant Unity team of experienced political campaigners, a statement made by the Minister in reply Cork by-elections caused by the resigna- including Mr. Fred Peart, MP. (Working- Their aim, he said, was to unite Catholic to a question in the House of Commons tion of William O'Dwyer, T.D. ton), Wing-Commander Millington, M.P. and Protestant alike under the banner of on 16th April. Socialism. Six-County Nationalists had O'Riordan was only narrowly defeated (Chelmsford), Mr. R. R. Stokes (Ipswich), Mr. Hugh Delargy (Miles Platting I, has fought for too long on ground selected "II.—Temporary Continuance in Modi- m the Cork municipal elections, and this moved into Down for a " blitz " on the for them by the Unionists. The workers fied Form of War-time Scheme of Grants time he should poll extremely well, parti- Tory stronghold. must sink their religious differences and in Respect of Temporary Transfer.—This cularly as he is likely to have the sup- form an alliance which would defeat the scheme will continue to operate in a port of Labour and Republicans. A Nonconformist minister, the Rev. Tories. modified form. The scope of the scheme Gordon Lang, M.P. (Stalybridge and Mr. McGhee made it plain that his will be restricted as future transfers to Factors which should help him are Hyde), is being brought over to combat the rising social discontent throughout criticisms of capitalism applied equally workers placed in employment away from the pro-Unionist propaganda of the to Eire as well as Northern Ireland. He Ireland and the loss of prestige which home in a very limited field of industries Orange Lodges. wanted to see Labour Governments Mr. de Valera has suffered among Repub- or services of the highest priority. In the installed in Dublin and Belfast as well licans as the result of the death on cases of workers already transferred away Money from Britain as London. (Applause.) from home, the facilities of the scheme hunger strike of Sean McCaughey. Questioned about Mr. Lemass's recent At least £500. including £100 from the will continue to be provided for those Possibly he may surprise Cork in the statements that " other countries might whose employment away from home is still British Labour Party, is being raised in experiment with Socialism but Eire was same way as Brendan Corish surprised essential in the national interest and will Wexford. Britain to fight the election. going to stick to private enterprise," Mr. otherwise be withdrawn after due notice McGhee reminded the audience of similar This by-election should do much to This large-scale intervention by British has been given to the workers concerned.'' sentiments expressed by Mr. Churchill. restore the confidence of the Labour Labour M.P.s will have—as Irish Demo- " Where is Churchill now?" he asked. movement in the south of Ireland, which crats forecast when the Friends of Ireland has been in a bad way since the split in FOUR WEEKS' NOTICE Mr. Hugh Delargy, M.P. (Miles Plat- the Labour Party took place. group was first formed—important poli- Workers already in receipt of lodging ting i, and Mr. J. Hudson, M.P. (West tical repercussions in Ireland. Co. Down allowance are being given at least four The decision of a group of active trade Ealing), also spoke at this meeting, which is only the first of the Northern Ireland weeks' notice of the termination of allow- unionists and intellectuals to form the was the first of a series to be organised ances if they are not employed in work Socialist Party in Cork arose out of local constituencies which the group are likely in Britain by the Friends of Ireland. conditions, and it is not their intention to contest. Labour in the Six Counties which is within the field of industries or Funds to fight the election are urgently to oppose the Labour Party. The Socialist cannot fail to grow as money and organi- services referred to, whilst those entering Party does not intend to spread outside required, and should be sent to Mr. R. R. new employment will now only qualify for Cork, and hopes later to be admitted to sational support are poured in from Stokes, M.P., House of Commons, West- such allowances if they are placed by the Labour Party. Britain. mirister, London, S.W.1. local officers in such work. The conditions and rates of payment of TRADE UNION SUPPORT. such allowances to workers coming within Indicative of the widespread support for the field will continue to be the same as 0 Riordan's candidature is the list of his under the war-time scheme. supporters, including many names promi- Fascist Terror in Greece nent in trade union and—welcome sign! — professional circles in the South, among UIR Charles Wickham, former head of shut down, while the judiciary is viciously them James Doolan, president, Cork No. 1 y reactionary. Branch, I.T.G.W.U.; Ed. Linehan and the Royal Ulster Constabulary and Wm. Sullivan, Bus Workers' Section, now chief of the British Police Mission The Labour MPs confirm previous HUNGER STRIKE 1 r.G.W.U.; Jack Hayes, chairman, Co:po- to Greece, shuts his eyes to the murder reports that Sir Charles Wickham has QAVID FLEMING, I.R.A. pris- rtion Workers' Section, I.T.G.W.U.; of Greek democrats while Fascist used his hiandate to " reorganise " the Benny O'Toole, chairman, Cinema Greek police forces merely as an excuse oner in Belfast jail, is, as we gangs terrorise the Greek countryside. Workers' Section, I.T.G.W.U ; Donal to strengthen the position of Monarchists. Sheehan, Cork Branch, Irish Rail- This is the opinion of three British go to press, in his 64th day of waymen's Union; Dr. Vincent Crotty, Sir Charles is, of course, well known to M D. . U.C.C.; Maire Keohane-Sheehan, Labour M.P.s. Messis. Dodds, Solley. and Northern Ireland as an "expert" in hunger strike. •S R.N ; Dei mot Kelliher, M.Sc., U.C.C.; Tiffany, who have just returned from Mr. Roynane, late chairman Cork Co- organising police terror against National- operative Guild, Cork No. 3 Brigade, Old Athens They say that there exists a ists, Republicans, and Socialis's. We urge all trade union and IRA.; Diarmuid McSweeney. secretary unilateral civil war—a war of the extreme Tenants' Council; and James Savage, ex- Right against all Democratic elements Just as he turns to blind eye to Labour organisations, if not too secretary Cork Branch. Irish Labour Monarchist excesses in Greece, so he who dare disagree with the Government Party. lias in the past turned a blind eye to anti- late, to wire irrflnediatcly to the in Greece. Murder, illegal Imprison- Catholic pogroms in Belfast. He reserves Money is urgently needed for O'Rior- Prime Ministers of Northern tlan's campaign, anil we issue an appeal ment, brutal assault, and intimidation his mailed fist for the Republican in the to all Cork workers now In Britain, parti- are the fate of thousands of victims. The Falls Road and the Republican in Athens. Ireland and Britain demanding cularly those in Dagenham. to subscribe premises of Republican and Left-wing It is about timo the British Govern- to the election fund. Subscriptions should his release. 1]'' sent to James Savage, 19a, Popo's Quay, newspapers, trade union organisations, ment removed Fascist policemen, who Cork. youth clubs, etc , arc illegally raided and oppress Irish and Greek workers alike. June, 1946 June, 1946 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT IRISH DEMOCRAT ROOM 117, PREMIER HOUSE, 150 SOUTHAMPTON KOW, DAGGER AT LONDON, W.C.I Must Ireland Become Cannon All communications to be addressed t to the Editor, Flann Campbell. S BRITAIN'S Telephone No.: Ter. 3906 RATE—Twelve Months 4/- BRIAN BORU" onditions S i x Months 2 - Fodder Base? HEART "J" H E R E is a foolish impression became more intensified and her deter- Ireland cannot merely trust her future ^HOCKING conditions in Portlaoighise jail in which political prisoners abroad that because Ireland was mination io hold Ireland at all costs was to the results of this economic develop- B IVlIar espondent reinforced by methods which, by compari- ment. The Border must go so that a Y its refusal to repeal the were kept claci only in blanket and not allowed out in the fresh air and HUNGER neutral during the war she was left son. made the gang now in the dock at United Ireland can share in the tasks B Trades Disputes Act jri Nor- LARKfN IN sunlight for four-and-a-half years were revealed at the inquest en Seat Nuremberg appear like a bunch of Trinity ahead without fear of political strife thern Ireland. Ulster Unionism has out of everything. This reflects itself students arrested for writing rude words on rearing its ugly head and impeding future flung down a gauntlet to British McCaughey, i.R.A. prisoner who died after 23 days' hunger strike. in the note of despair heard among Tom Moore's statue. developments. Labour. UNION TALKS Ireland lay astride one of England's most those who claim to be guardians of Labour, Independent Labour, IMPORTANT discussions afl'cctins In Belfast jail it was admitted i STRIKES important lines of communications. There Atom Bomb Base ? was no imminent danger of military con- Commonwealth Labour, Socialist- the future of British trade unions the N.I. Minister of Home Affairs V:.. : the future of Ireland. Ireland at last is able to lay the founda- Republican, Nationalists and the In- flict. but the Dutch. Spanish and Portu- tions of a new and better land, with its with members in Ireland took place David Fleming—who as we ' 1" H E tragic death of Sean guese then were powerful nations. dependent Unionist, Nixon, voted Admitted that if one viewed the future people united in the fulfilment of those for the repeal of the Act. The in London last month betw een repre- McCaughey in Portlaoighise and England feared ideals for which men press is on the point of death after t 4 of Ireland in the light of what is going on Ireland reaching an Tories voted against. sentatives of British and Irish trade 1 N this striking article "Brian of 30 years ago laid days' hunger strike—had been beaten ilie continued detention of David in Dublin, especially in the ranks of the understanding with down their lives. The Unionist Minister of Labour, union conferences. Irish Labour Movement, they might feel other nations: she Boru" shows the geograph- over the head by a warder with a Fleming in Belfast—now, as we write, ical importance of Ireland in Alas, there are men Maginnes, took the opportunity Ai the conference were delegates from there is a basis for this attitude. also feared Ireland in Ireland,., who even offered by the debate to emphasise baton. this new age of trans- about 50 British unions, including such in his 64th day on hunger strike—has Fortunately, as that able Cork man. being used as a base at this late day, re- the gulf separating the Unionist Six wherefrom England continental airways. tain the conception Counties from Labour Britain. unions as the Transport Workers. Engi- At the irques: on MeCau.uhey. i!:e v: : - at least had one good result, ft has William Thompson, so ably pointed out in 1824: economic changes exercise a major could be invaded, But that the men of Ire- Britain, he contended, has got a neers. Electricians. Woodworkers. Rail- inn medical cllieoi- for Pcn'aoighisc NO NATION CAN MAKfi IRELAND A tocussed public attention on the in- influence on human actions and assist in land are but destined to be the cannon "Socialist mandate," while Nor- way Workers. Bricklayc-is and others. nv-'s-oxaniined by Mr. Scan MacBvldv as BATTLEGROUND UNLESS IRELAND fodder of the world's battles. thern Ireland had got a mandate cultural changes. Mr. Thomas Johnston and Mi. Jim Lav- fo'lows: human conditions under which politi- SO CHOOSES. Fik example, there is the "Irish Times." for private enterprise." kin. T.D., represented the Irish T.U.C. Recent developments in aerial trans- which visualises Ireland as a huge aero- Mr. MacBride: Would I be right m say- cal prisoners are detained in Ireland, The Unionist Press is elated by Mr. Arthur Deakin. formerly Mr. Bevin's port have made Ireland a country of Link with America drome and jumping-off base in a war be- every gesture of defiance by Stor- right-hand man in the T.G.W.U.. was in ing that up io 12 or 18 months ago he w.--< both North and South. supreme geopolitical importance. tween the United States and Britain on morit to the Labour Government, the chair. kept in solitary confinement and pet She stands astride the main lines of air With the present radical change in the one hand, and the Soviet Union on the and gives and cead mille failts to allowed to speak or associated with oth • communication between the U.S.A.. Europe transport Ireland looms large on the map other. Though delegates were pledged not to Revelations made during the in- of the world. Representatives of the every show of "independence." Con- YOU'VE DONE YOUR persons'.1- That is right. and the Middle East. She is no longer Is Ireland to be forever the storehouse tinuing its campaign of traducing reveal what took place at the conference, quest on McCaughey show that regarded as a hostile nation to be held world's nations now meet in Dublin to dis- for cannon fodder, or has its people at last Would you treat a dog in that fashion? cuss rules for the air traffic of the world. British domestic legislation it re- and the Press statement issued after- JOB —GET OUT ! events as grim and terrible as any- down, but one whose acquaintance it is iseen that dawn which illuminated the serves some measure of praise for wards stated the discussions was purely Mr. MGLoughlin: That is not a propel worth while cultivating. Intense competition between British and vision of Pearse, Connolly, and those who thing we read of in Davitt or Tom U.S. airlines (more intense than the died with them? Mr. Bevin's foreign policy. "consultative" and that "no decisions or An interesting aspect ni the campaign question. Three men, unrecognised by 99 per cent, Clarke or Mitchel's 'Jail Journal' still public is really aware) finds Ireland oc- "Mr. Bevin has done well .... recommendations were involved," it is which the Ivanhoe Committee organ- Mr. MacBride: If you had a dog would of the Irish, made their mark upon Irish cupying a ;;>,. n of commercial and Peace and Security known that the talks ranged over a wide ised to draw attention io their threat- take place in Irish prisons. history. Two were Italians: Christopher otherwise the Government's record you treat it in that fashion? strategic importance. Like other nations in this war-weary is uninspiring," says the "Belfast variety of topics, particularly the question ened eviction was the holding of a Columbus and John Cabot: another, a To-day, as nearly 400 years ago, Ire- competition for the best limerick or After a plause. Dr. Duane replied "No." Spaniard named Pinson. world, Ireland needs peace and security. Telegraph." of the effects of the Eire Government's In Portlaorghise, MeCaughey, clad land is astride one of the most important This will come from fulfilment of the cartoon which would express the 1 Clearly, Unionist Ulster is not a anti-trade union Acts of 1941, the split in Mr. MacBride (turning to the jury : only in a blanket, was not allowed These men discovered America—Colum- of Britahi's lines o£ communication—an tasks it pursues along the pathways of feeling of the hostel residents. Above bus in 1493-1504, John Cabot in 1498, and bridgehead for Britain, but a the Irish Trade Union Movement and The answer is "No." gentlemen, in case out in the fresh air for four-and-a-half important link between the U.S., Europe peace. is the winning cartoon by Mr. T. Pinson in 1500. and the Middle East. With the develop- dagger pointed at the heart of the question of granting greater auto- you did not hear it. years. In Belfast, the Minister of Those who visualise Ireland as a base Hogan, These discoveries later led to the crea- ment of air liners in the U.S. and in for planes carrying atomic bombs—as British democracy. nomy to the Irish executives of British Home affairs admitted that Fleming tion of the powerful economic nation Britain, there proceeds the development of unions. other planes will carry atomic bombs to THE PRISON CELL had been beaten over the head with known to-day as the United States. The an Irish airline service. bomb Ireland off the map—these persons FLEMING'S HERpiC BATTLE centre of gravity of the overseas activity UNITY IS KEY (Continued from Preceding Column! Mr. MacBride (to the witness): What is a baton. It has been testified by Mr. This development is lifting barriers, have no place in the life of Ireland. David Fleming's heroic battle for of the European Countries, like Holland, which for six years, kept Ireland isolated Irish workers formerly active in the maintain the Thirty-Two County unity of the size of the cell in which Sean Mc- Harry Diamond, Socialist-Republican Spain and Portugal, not forgetting Eng- Fortunately thousands of Irish men and freedom will have been decided by from the world. Further, it means the in- women now in Britain, will some day re- the time these lines are in print. T.U. Movement at home and now in the Irish T.U.C.; and (3) give autonomy Caughey was confined in solitary confine- M P. for the Falls, wh# has done fine land, was in America and other parts of creased industrialisation of Ireland, so the American hemisphere. turn home to be willing partners in the Britain recognise the delicate nature of to the Irish executives of British unions ment over three years?—He was changed work for the welfare of Republicans that she will be able to give to her sons development of Ireland. Fleming's terrible ordeal makes The tides of commerce began to flow him the personification of the cause the present discussions and are hoping with regard to finance, strike decisions, into a larger cell at times. There was a in jail, that seven I.FLA. prisoners and daughters an opportunity to apply One of the essentials in this task is the etc., without making any formal organ- double cell that we gave prisoners con- West, and the Atlantic increased in im- their skill and knowledge at home instead unity of the Thirty-two Counties. In this of his country's liberation and uni- for some solution which will: (1) Reunite died soon after their release and portance as that of the Mediterranean de- fication. It brings to the forefront isational break between Ireland and fined, turn about. I don't know exact'.;; of sc -king an outlet for them in lands the leaders of the Irish Labour Movement the Trade Union Movement in Eire; (2) othere had been removed to mental clined. beyor: 1 the seas. the brutal sentences of hostile (Continued in Next Column) Britain. the dimensions of the cell. should set an example. courts on persons charged with homes. In Britain,- ont of approxi- Tin ough this development Ireland can Let the past be a source of inspiration political offences, conditions in the Mr. MacBride (to the witness): Did yet; mately 60 prisoners'sentenced for the Key Point in Atlantic come into her own. Linked with the U.S., for the future, not the memory of preju- have to attend the prisoner for a nervous she will have access to developments in gaols, brutality of gaolers, and most i.R.A. bombings iti 1939-40, one has dices to be occasionally revived. Maybe important of all, the political injus- breakdown?—He suffered from a nervous Even at that time, Ireland became a technique and so be able to afford those the Irish in Britain will unite and set an tices which give rise to such condition for a time. died, another gone mad, a third is country of geopolitical importance. Eng- educational advantages which previously example to their fellow countrymen at tragedies. nearly blind, and 0 Southampton "It may be that an election will have thing as clear as mud to the "ignorant" It is not the boys and girls who are at schools on strike. in the present system by which workers the forces of Labour and build a mass are forced to quit their hostels if their Row Ijondon. W.C.I. to lie held here, and I sincerely hope Yanks? fault. «They just don't feel Inclined to The only way in which this can be movement of the common people. employers refuse to deduct the 5s. weekly that if there is the other side and the ally their youthful enthusiasms and dealt with is by the close co-operatioD of WHIT- MONDAY people who tell you their object is to idealism to organisations alien to them bed charge. Surname Decline and Fall nil branches of the teaching profession ATTRACTION Only by the slow and patient build- smash the Unionist Party in the Six in spirit and purpose. And would yow in a campaign for an all-in plan of Irish building operatives, who were fore- Counties and then De Valera Party in ISTORY shows it is possible for a blame them? Christian Names ing of the organised working-elass the Twenty-Six Counties and then to Hpolitical party to sink to the depths national education. most In the Ivanhoc campaign, which A record crowd is expected to see • What a ehance this offers to really Cork v Cavan Gaelic football re-play movement will the standards of Hfc set up a Workers' Republic—I think of degradation after having served an live youth organisations. Hew about it, It Is time that national, secondary and attracted national attention through the Address Mitcham Stadium. London, at 3 p.m < of the people be raised and the that is a polite name for a Communist honourable purpose as the mouthpiece Labour and Progressives? technk;al teachers considered the forma- 111 "" publicity it received in the "Daily Mail," Whit-Monday. (See Gael Og's" re:: country eventually united. tion ql a single teachers' union. "News Chronicle," "Dally Worker" and ments on Page 6 1 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT June, 1946 June, 1946 4 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT DEMOCRAT'S DIARY UI.JH.ni* The Great Betrayal GREEKS HAD A 'New Era in ELEVEN CITIES HONOUR "CHARLES STEWART PARNELL'S pACKED houses, enthusiastic audiences, Anglo-Irish large collections, a determination to build MEMORY HAS ONLY CEASED TO GROW WORD FOR IT the Labour movement in Ireland—these were lU'ERVONE in Ireland knows the , the characteristics of meetings held last month 1 Relations' NOLLY DIM AND WRAITH-LIKE SINCE HE WAS j ^ wi'iking class record of tie 'L:s/. in eleven cities in Ireland, Britain Independent." In 1913 the Mu-phv large and ex'temeiy success- 'DISCOVERED' BY HOLLYWOOD AS THE j family, who held 'arg • shares m '.'.. " ful meetings v,r."e organised by and America to commemorate ; P l•. wis the head and Lent of :h, ths Connolly Association and "Irish the 30th anniversary of the exe- employers' combination which tried i< Democrat" in Britain to comme,-i- QUINTESSENTIAL ROMANTIC" break "Liricmism." In 191C the "Ir.c! - orato the 30th anniversary of Con- cution of Ireland's Socialist nolly's death. O'Cor.nill refused to lend countenance pendent" called for the blood cf Con- T -.as natural thai the i!se ol' ivvolu- i s wills for ti,a<. while it was impossible martyr, James Connolly. ; under the Consrtut'on to ask for more to the agrarian struggle of his day—the nolly lying wounded in gaol. Du:li - Over 40 new members were re- { •j. nary leptlbhcamMn. Ix nt upon an ;.„m n restoruiione. Oration's Parliament. Tithe War. Parneli. far from refusing, the Civil War all its forces were thrown cruited and £17 collected tor the One thousand Dublfoj Uachers. now on uppfi.i to arms, and sccrnful in its resist- lent his name, aid and encouragement to Association. ••No man lias a right to fix a boun- on the side of the Cosgraveites. When strike, headed the greaY'iYIOy 12th march ance to the bitter hostility of the reform- Michael Davitt in building the Land nusliolme Public Hall in Man- dary to the onward march of a nation." Hitler and Mussolini provoked tlv:: in Dublin the largest Labour "cfcnon tra- League, and waging the Land War of 1879- ; ist - parliamentarian Nationalists, should puppet Franco into rebellion against tin chester was crowded on May 12th t on for many years. \ i Parnell, with his delicate sensitivity to 1882. lor a meeting addressed by Mr. push mio the background the name and lawful government of Spain it launched the significance ci words, never said one Lester Hutchinson, Labour M.P. for At this meeting sustained entering repute of he, who more than any other, There is no blot on Parnell's record a lying, hysterical campaign of false- word more than he intended, and there is comparable to O Council's treatment of Rusholme. greeted the statement of Jim Larkin, put tiie Parliamentary Party, not merely hoods against the Spanish Republicans. no mistaking his meaning here. Davis and Young Ireland. On the con- junior. T.D.. that: "the men and wWen "on the map," but in the vital centre of It fostered at all times the darkest and Mr. Hutchinson spoke of his He fought for Home Rule, and but for trary. Parnell himself was driven from family's personal connections with iparading to-day are following Connolly's practical politics. most backward elements in Irish poli- the paity split would have won it. He the Party into his grave by an intrigue as the great Irish leader, and said that principles in fighting for a better stan- Natural, too, that in the post-Treaty re- fought compelling!?' for Home Rule while malevolent as that which drove Young tics, the O'Duffys, Beltons, Cosgraves the English Labour Movement dard of'life and higher education for the MR. MALACHY GRAY, Belfast Trades Council, and SENATOR SAM KYLE, action against the merely romantic Repub- Ireland from the O Connellite Repeal and Blueshirt gangs. owed a great deal to Connolly. Em- children." Mr. Larkin added that the A.I.G.W.U., who spoke at the Connolly Commemoration meeting in Dublin. licans. Left Wing writers and speakers Association. Recently in its anti-Soviet frenzy the phasising the necessity for a steady De Valera Government, in operating the should underscore the names and repute of improvement in Anglo-Irish rela- "Independent" made a super-howler! Standstill Wages Order had lowered the those leaders who had more conspicuously tions, Mr. Hutchinson denounced living standards of the mass of the forced to the front the agrarian situation In this article . . . Parnell's Greatness the mischievous reports in the Tory ;ind economic questions generally. people. I N its issue of March 29th it carries a press about the expulsion of Irish T. A. JACKSON, historian, Parnell never had openly associated with workers from this country. The Yet it detracts nothing from the de- J story from its London correspondent the Fenians as such. But he could not Ulster Tories were keeping in step, Senator Sam Kyle. Irish T.U.C.. em- DEBT OF HONOUR served fame of the Republicans from possibly have been blind to the fact that about the situation in Greece, alleging phasised the fact that Connolly was a Wolfe Tone to O'Donovan Rossa, Cathal claims that Parnell, in his not with the British Labour Gov- Fenians gave him effective support pre- Socialist. Brugha and Patrick Pearse; or the that Macedonians and Bulgars were ernment, but with their reactionary restricted field, was the cisely because his conduct of the National making repeated raids over the Greek brethren in Britain, he said. agrarians and economic revolutionaries, struggle gave them greater facilities for Mr. Malachy Gray, Belfast Trades from Fintan Lalor to Davitt, Connolly the recruiting and organisation of their frontier. These raiders when caught, it Council, in bringing fraternal greetings, TO IRISH VOLUNTEERS and Liam Mellows- if we insist that a equal of Tone, Davis, underground revolutionary movement. alleges, claimed to be Soviet citizens, NEW ERA stated that a turning point had been key position in the historical evolution and appealed for the protection of the reached in the political relations between J^HE British Government recogniscs of Irish national struggle was filled Mitchel and Connolly. The more nearly Parnell advanced to- Attacking the Six-County Gov- discouragement, and now they were on Soviet Embassy in Athens. Ireland and Britain with the election of worthily by Charles Stewart Pamell. wards Home Rule, the more certainly he ernment, for its treatment of the a "debt of honour" to the volun- the verge ol destitution. This raiding continued, says the bright- He is not easy to write about. He came neared the point at which Separatism Nationalist minority, Mr. M Boyle, the Labour Government last year. Nor- teers from Eire who served in the The benefits which they claimed of old "planter" stock on both sides of his (distinct from Federalism> would become a eyed genius of the "Independents" who presided, said Anglo-Irish rela- thern Toryism was now isolated and had British Forces during the war and is were, in hio submission, both legal and Charles Stewart Parnell was tions had been bedevilled in the pedigree. On his father's side he was con- practical issue. London office, to face the challenge of a growing Labour moral. Charity was not the way in past by the Tories; now that these now working out a scheme by which nected with a family holding an English The more successfully Parnell demon- "until an Indian unit, commanded bv Movement in the North. which to treat these men. baronv; his mother was American by born June, 1846. people had been thrown out by the these volunteers will get unemploy- strated his ability to build and maintain an Irishman, took over a section of what British people, the Irish people ex- They had British Government securi- birth." a Party which operated in disciplined in- ment benefit if they refllrn to Eire. one could only call, as between allies, pected a new era in Anglo-Irish ties in the shape cf insurance stamps, dependence of both Liberal and Tory TEACHERS STRIKE the front. This Indian unit captured a relations to begin. This was stated by Viscount Jowitt. but these could not be honouied. Parties, the more English proletarian clearly conscious that, when it was won, Bulgar agent who claimed he was a Speaking at a Connolly commemora- Lord Chancellor, in the House of Lords What did they pay contributions for? Misconceptions the Irish nation en masse would use the Radicals saw in his success a proof of Mr. T. Watters suggested that Soviet citizen, who, like Ferdinand the tion meeting in Mullingar, Mr. Archie last month. Lord Jowitt: They paid contributions victory as a jumping-off point for further the possibility of, as well as the need for, Bull, was just smelling the flowers. closer economic relations between It is necessary to stress this because, to Heron, Dublin, said they had all come to as part of an insurance scheme, and they advances. an independent party of the working class. Post-haste there arrived from Athens by the two countries could go a long Replying to the Earl of Cork and his contemporaries, he seemed, in speech way towards easing the grievous the conclusion that the only way to have to observe the conditions of the Whether they feared Irish Republican- plane M. PoulizpantzofI, of the Soviet Orrery, who asked what progress was and bearing, the complete antithesis of food shortage affecting Britain. He achieve unity, as well as independence, scheme. We aie discussing this now on a ism or English proletarian class-con- Legation, who unhesitatingly recognised being made in the negotiations on the everything conventionally "Irish." condemned the Special Powers Act. was by persuading the people in the North legal basis, and one of the conditions of sciousness, leaning ever more closely to the Bulgar as a respected and respect- subject of Southern Irish volunteers and Reyolutionary Leader the scheme is that if they choose to stay His accent and language were those of Socialism and Communism. English able Soviet citizen, who must have been A telegram was sent to the that it was going to be in their interests unemployment benefit, Viscount Jowitt an educated English aristocrat; clearly a in Britain unemployment benefit is avail- There lies the core of the matter. Parnell Liberals and Irish moderates, clerics and kidnapped by the Greek Right, aided by British and Six-County Govern- to come in. said:— Cambridge man, save only for the slight laymen, all grew increasingly to fear reactionary British, from Bulgar soil. ments urging the release of David able to them. If they choose to go out of the sentimentalists and mythologists Miss Louie Bennett, of Dublin, referring "The Earl of Cork and Orrery, who trace of Old Virginia, which made him was a reformist-parliamentarian, who Parnell. Fleming. of the country it is not available to them. When the Irish officer, who had been to the teachers' strike, said: "We are not raised this matter, has a strong case. seem more refined, more educated and merely happened incidentally to be Irish. more aristocratic than was usual with the The mo:e enthusiastically the common on leave, suddenly returned, and equally going to allow the teachers to be de- With the greatest respect I say that he Lord Jowitt later said that they would UNITY AGAINST TORIES English aristocracy. The real Parnell was an Irish people in Ireland and the working class unhesitatingly recognised the 'Bulgar' as feated and humiliated by the Govern- had such a strong case that it was a pity not accept the claim of civilians, but in England rallied to his support, the his havildar—Major Ram Singhwell— "The Irish people had not fought that the Government recognised a debt An intensely sensitive man. deeply revolutionary leader who merely hap- ment. Let the Minister go. Fifty per to overstate it in the way he did. I find more they feared him. was the Soviet diplomat's lace diplo- to substitute one capitalist class for affectionate, he shrank instinctively from pened to be in Parliament. cent, of the schools are not fit for children myself in great difficulty to imagine how of honour to volunteers for the British matically red." another," said Mr. S. Maitland, ad- Forces in Eire who had come "not to any displays of emotion. His rigorously He did what O'Connell failed notoriously The divorce action gave them their ex- to be taught in or for teachers to stand it can possibly be thought that these men cuse—but this was the real reason for the dressing a crowd of several hun- earn money . . but to share with us imposed self-discipline made him seem to to do -built a Parliamentary party which dred in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, in." have any legal claim. The have not— Great Betrayal. the brunt of the fighting and the heat English observers, and to his more ebullient not only swept the field in Ireland itself, a juicy piece of anti-Sovietism— on May 12th. Capitalism had none whatever." and burden of the day." A scheme was and loquacious followers, icily cold and but remained until the final disaster, It is a proof of Parnell's greatness, that if only it were true! But "Pouliz- brought only poverty, unemploy- OUT OF STEP superciliously reserved. proof against English beguilements and with liim were buried, for a full generation, being worked out which would satisfy pantzoff" is about as real as most of the ment and emigration to Ireland, he Relations between the British Govern- MORAL CLAIM He had a natural bent for experimental corruption. the hopes of Ireland. said. Socialism would bring jobs, their obligations to these volunteers. mythical "dangerous Reds'' which the ment and the Six-County Government are science, and that, together with his in- homes and security. Previously the Earl of Cork and Orrery "Irish Independent" editorial staff are not good, said Mr. H. McGhee, Labour grained artistic hatred of every sort of in- had said: Many of the men came to always cooking up in their fertile Unity of all the anti-Unionist sincerity, made him abhor those floods M.P. and secretary of the Friends of Ire- Britain voluntarily in the face of much NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS forces was the key to the defeat of of rhetoric, and bursts of excited elo- brains. land Group at Westminster, at Belfast, the Brooke Government in Northern How many volunteers from Eire served quence, in which Irish Parliamentarians where he addressed a May Day demon- COLLECT?-HE SAYS THE Isn't it about time the Dublin workers took Ireland. in the British forces in the war? commonly outdo all competitors. the "pantzoff" the editor of the "Irish stration. In reply to questions asked by the Earl Mr. W. Barr was in the chair. To men who knew the "stage Irishman," Independent?1' Irish unity could be brought about by of Cork and Orrery in the House of Lords Parnell seemed frigid where he should— A widely . repre- the development of the Labour Paity, and on March 19th last, it was stated that to comply with convention—have been JOB IS EASY sentative meeting the bringing of the social services in the 43,249 men and 4,6'95 women from Eire glow:na with warmth. In a party which, \ WELCOME visitor to our office re- of Irish workers "PJERE is 10/- for the Fighting C. E. Bray, 2s.; Birmingham Branch, Con- Twenty-Six Counties up to the British had served in the British armed forces by long-established custom, had an im- *- cently was Alec Digges, ex-Inter- in Ford's and nolly Association, 14s.; Bull Ring, Birm- during the war, but Lord Addison, Secre- presciiptable right to be eloquent on any Fund," writes a Birmingham national Brigader, who was seriously from local build- standard. ingham collection, £3 12s.; E. McCraith, tary ol State for Dominion Affairs, said provocation or none, he seemed "tongue- reader. "I made a collection on the wounded lighting for the liberation of ing sites was held Mr. Gilbert Lynch, president of the 2s. 6d.; F. Walshe, £1 10s.; Mrs. Hum- in Dagenham on that the bases on which the information tied." Holland last year. T.U.C.. brought fraternal greetings from job as I sold my papers and it was May 19th. Dele- was given were no; sat;s."actory. To veteran "hard-shell" Fenians, to phries, 3s.; Miss O'Connelly, 6s.; J. M. Mc- Now recuperating from his injuries in the South. In the North there was a easy to collect a few shillings. If Kinney, 2s. 9d.; W. Maxwell, 1s.; M. gates from the A memorandum pivpa.ed by the Com- whom the very name of "parliamentarian" London. Alec brings news of many of local Trades slogan: "Step by Step with Britain," but monwealth Iiish Association states that was a thing abhorred—implying, along other supporters tried this I am sure 0 Leary, 5s.; Nora Gallagher, 10s.; J. J. his old comradcs in the Irish Unit ci' Council, A.E.U., what were they doing to keep step by step with "provincialism" and "West Britain- Irish men and women •.. l.o joined during Conran, 2s. 6d.; P. J. Duggan, 5s.; L. the International Brigade. Transport W o r- with the working-class populations of the ism," a natural love for tortuous intrigue — you will hit your target every certain periods are excluded from these Lowther, 5s.; National Members, 11r,.; Johnny Power and Mick O'Riordan, im- kers and Foundry world? Parnell s skill in holding his own against month." figures, and also that substantial num- Dagenham Meeting collection, £8 0s. 1d. prisoned in the Curragh during the war. I*. Clancy Workers were pre- In Sligo. Mr. 0. Hanley, I N TO., sa d it the Liberal and Tory leaders, including sent, and a de- bers of men from E:ie aie believed to the master of Parliamentary ring-craft, Total, £34 2s. 2d. are now active in the Irish Labuta n o', e- was deplorable that 2.000 men and We hope other friends of our paper will cision was taken to press for a have enlisted from English to'.ins, giving Gladstone h mself (whom Parnell pri- ment; Johnny being chairman of i1 ^ women had been forced to emigrate from take this suggestion. Don't, just send Send all subscriptions to the Manager, civic ccntre for all workers in local addres: e;;. vately dubbed the "Grand Old Spider") Waterford Labour Party and Mick Dagenham. Mayo. Mr. J. McNilfe and Mr. J. Hunt your personal contribution. Touch the "Irish Democrat," 150 Southampton Row, seemed automatically to cut him off from militant trade unionist among Co !. t; .. - also spoke. the true apostolic succession whose guar- other fellow. Ask him if he is prepared Mr. Patrick Clancy, national London, W.C.1. workers. EIGHT V.C.s dians '.lie Fenians were. to give 3d., 6d., or even Is. per week and secretary, Connolly Association, was In Wexford, Mr. Brendan Corish, popular Labour T.D. for the constituency, The A.-socm.ion believes that more than let you send it along each month. Write Recently demobbed from the Biitish A my loudly applauded for his references to Connolly's Socialist teachings, and Mr. G. Lynch, Irish Trade Union Con- 165,000 Irish volunteers served with the lor one of our collecting cards and make with the rank of major is P, i :'y while Mr. Flann Campbell said the gress. spoke; while Mr. Gerald O'Reilly British Forcis between 1939—45. Uncrowned King sure we tcp the £30 target by July 1st. O Daire, while Sean Dowling a id J m best memorial they could erect to andMr. Michael Quill, of the New York The memorandum concludes: Weasc will you Prendergast, both of wr.ctn si • : • Connolly was a strong Labour Thus when, in the end. Parnell was Transport Workers' Union, spoke at the "Last week there was awarded to the rear-gunners are expecting Movement in Ireland North and cited as co-respondent in a divorce suit to Ask Your Friends Transport Hall on May 10th. BRENDAN CORISH, T.I). gallant fortes of Canada their tenth released from the R.A.F. within a !<• South. which no defence was offered, it was easy Come to the Ball? Victoria Cross. A Government spokes- Letters pour in daily from all parts of months. Terry Flanagan, former c MI- for his enemies, both clericals and laymen, man announced in the House cf Com- to hold him up as an example of every- Britain from persons asking advice. We RISH Theatre Group, sponsored by the tain in the Irish Army, is now secretary HYDE PARK RALLY Connolly Association, holds its end-of- mons that Eire had won eight Victoria thing that a good Irishman should not b<;. plan to hold many public meetings in the I of the Mount Sheet Club in Dub in. Among the other speakers were season dance, Wednesday. June 19th, at Crosses and one Geoige Cioss. Canada summer The Connolly Association and Paddy Power and Bob Doyle are lead- Mr. J. O'Connell, Mr. Albert Sweet- When Hollywood fastens ghoulishly 7.30 p.m. in the Victory Hall, Leicester man, Mr. Jack Newman and Mr. RESCUE IRELAND FROM WORSHIP has a population of some eleven-twelve upon the final episode to extract a modern "Irish Democrat" stride ahead in power ing members of the Connolly Associa- Square, London. Sean Mulligan. millions and had something like one "'I'HEJiesI memorial to Connolly is to version of the Tristram-Isolde, Lancelot- and influence. Don t let our work be held tion ir Britain. million of men and women serving in the Guinevere motif, all the real Irish signifi- Dancing to Frank Lee's Band. Tickets Resolutions were passed unani- 1 secure the adoption of his Socialist up by lack of money. war. Eue. w.th a population of less than cance of Parnell evaporates, to leave only available from Molly O'Leary. c o "Irish mously protesting against the con- pnneipli's in all lands, especially in Ire- OF PAST a sentimental wraith, whose Sole connec- Send not only your personal contribu- Democrat." 150 Southampton Row. Lon- / \THER members of the Irish unit tinued detention ot David Fleming land." says Pat Dooley. chairman of the three million, had an unknown number and above all in tho growth to power ot tion with Ireland was that he allowed the don, W.C.I. about whom I have heard news re- in Belfast Gaol, and condemning Connolly Association, in a message to the of n en and women serving in the war. tion early this month, but ask your mates, a strong Irish Labour Movement, Irish masses to idolise him as their "un- cently are Paddy McLoughliu. Joe the brutal treatment of Sean commemoration meeting arranged by Why should the number not be carefully your friends in the pub. your room-mates Fortnightly Sunday socials, run by the oquipped with Connolly's theory and in- crowned king"; until, of course,-the priests McCaughey in Portlaoiyhise. ascertained and frankly acknowledged? Group at the Workers' Musical Associa- Monks, Paddy Duff. Frank Edwaids Gerald O'Reilly, in New York. spired by his work among the workers told them they must not. in the hostel to support lis. Messrs. P. Clancy, Flann Camp- tion. 9 Great Newport Street, London, and Tom O'Br.en ol every land in which he set foot. bell and Patrick Early were among "Modern Ireland must be rescued from It is time to restore the balar^, and £30 is the minimum we now need W.C.2, proved so successful that they wall But what of Bill Scott, Paddy Smith, and the speakers at a big rally in Hyde its worship of the past to face the reclaim for a more understanding monthly. be continued throughout the summer the other Irishmen who fought so gal- "Only thus can the freedom and unity Park on May 12th. ingeneies of the present." says Dooley. generation the true Parnell—a battle- mon ths. of Ireland for which he died—finally be Thanks to all who contributed in May: lantly for Republican Spain? The Wolverhampton Branch, "Its future gloiy lies not on the scaffold Ford Strike Settled " leader of the Irish nation, who in his altaincd. We here in Britain are lefreshed P. OD, £5; Ben Owens, £1; H. McCor- We would be glad to hear of these and Connolly Association, has been of the martyrs, nor in the lime pits of the restricted field standi out (as Patrick Programme -June 2nd: "Riders to the by th^ example of many Irish-Americans, Following file recent successful strike at other members who could attend a re- reformed following the holding executioners. Pearse saw) as the equal of Tone, Davis, mack, 10s.; West London Branch, Con- Sea." Workers' Musical Associa! ion. 7 whose participation in the Labour and their works in Dagenham, the Ford Com- union of Irish I.B.-ers planned for next, of a successful meeting in Ihe Vine Mitchel and Connolly. nolly Association, £3 «s. 6d.; 8.E.M., 5s.; p.m. June 9th: Ramble to Epping Forest. It lies in the strivings of its worker- Trade Union Movement is a constant chal- pany has made an agreement with the 12 Hotel, Wolverhampton, on May But there Is no reason te suppose that May Day collection, £1 17s. 6d.; "Arklow," June 16th: "Spreading the News" and mcr.th in London. planners, who soek to mechanise its agri- lenge to that section of Irish opinion trade unions Involved, including the social, W.M.A., 7 p.m. June 23rd: Ramble 12th. Mr. C. Bray and Mr. S. Mait- which seeks to canonise Connolly the Pamell would have been content merely to is. «d.; Office collection, £1 11s. 6d.; J.C., culture, build its industries, let the sun- A.E.U.. T.G.W.U.. E.TU. and Foundry through Bucks., and if fine, swimming. land were the speakers. Nationalist, and crucify Connolly the Workers Shop stewards are recognised restore Orattan's Parliament. We have £2; W. Barr, 5S.; F.C., 10s.; P.D. £1 5s.; light ot scientific education cast their June 30th: Social, W.M.A., 7 p.m. FLANN CAMPBELL beneficent rays into every Irish village. Socialist." and a Joint Woiks Committee 6ct up. 6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT June, 1946 JiKJe, 194o THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 7 London Gaels To See Cork- POST YOUR PAMPHLET, BOOK, AND VERSE "IRISH DEMOCRAT" Cavan Clash At Whit HOME ! TWO WRITERS DON'T ONDON Gaels will have an opportunity to see first-class football when L Cork play Cavan at Mitchani at 3 p.m. on Whit-Monday. MAKE A LITERATURE hy Co:isr.iom:n.. .\n the O A.A. Central SPOTLIGHT OH SPORT AHTftli'lt 0'*il \9 Mi^KSMV Corn-.l ti f.'.:- on :o rcc'ure Britain to the Modern Irish Short Stories: •By J.A.D.• provincial status of a county, "Gael Og" Edited by Alan Steele and WE are ihe music-makers, writ's. -1 J IMMY BliUEN. Irish golfing who has just arrived in Ireland, plans to •This .'.ear's Congress on Easter Sunday1: "boy-wonder" will return to bis' buy and export Irish greyhounds for Joan Hancock (Penguin, 1 /-) And we are the dreamers of dreams, did ; rer ail produce a tew surprises. The?; golf when he plays in the British America. He has leased a field near wandering by the lone sea-breakers, re-cotiuition of the Central Council Amateur Golf Championships at Limerick where he plans to build a track an ail-county representation was a sur- Birkdale. Bruen has been absent for greyhound trials. THE short story is the modern And sitting by desolate dreams: prise. and we will have to wait and see from big golf since 1939. when he \\ orld losers and world forsakers. was beaten in the Irish Close Cham- TENNIS world's most important con- it will be an improvement on the systert|? pionships at Royal Dublin. Illness Results of the Davis Cup trials last On whom the pale moon gleams: operating heretofore before passing judgfj tribution to literary form. The has kept him out of the game for month will not help lighten the tasks of Vet we are the movers and shakers ment. some time. Bruen was known as the selectors for the Irish Davis Cap team. position it occupies in literature Oftc important aspect e! it is that it the "boy-wonder" in 1936-37. R. E. Egan was in great form, beating B. Of the world for ever, it seems. duces the provincial status ef Britain A. Haughton in straight sets. J. P. is similar to that occupied by a His record is one of the most re- that of a county, as regards represents^ ^PcHaie beat R. J. McCabe after a stiff markable of any amateur golfer. bungalow in relation to architec- tion. four-set battle. The standard of play was | After winning the boys' champion- higher than is usual in such trials ture as a whole. To those who have the interests of ships. he rapidly became the lead- 1A/1TH wonderful deathless ditties exiled G.A.A. men at heart, this is ing amateur in the country RACING Everything is there, but there is net definitely a discouraging and retrograde though still only 17. He won the We build up the world's great cities A nice profit has been shown by my Irish Close Championships in 1937- a great quantity el' any one thing. step. horses to follow on the flat so far this And out of a fabulous storv 38 and Irish Amateur Open in 1938. Just as the suburban bungalow grew Maybe it :s a question of the Central season. With only four out of my ten We fashion an empire's glory : Council becoming flushed with excess of He played for Ireland in all inter- running, three were placed and one. out of the village cottage, so the mod- One man with a dream, at pleasure. wealth and forgetful of the roots from nationals in 1937-38. and at St. An- Hypericum, won the 1,000 Guineas. ern short story is a development of drew's set up a new record of 69. whence it sprung and for the purpose for It may be a bit chilly yet, but Irish As promised in these column. I am re- Shall go forth and conquer a crown; He was leading amateur in the the ancient fable. which the G.A.A. was founded. swimmers are already beginning to cording each month the profit and losses be seen at the "Forty Foot" near British Open Championships of And three with a new song's measure made on a stake of £1 to win. It is perhaps simply because new forms EXILED GAELS Dublin. 1939 and was No. 1 player on the Can trample an empire down. victorious British Walker Cup team Here is our first table: have never come easily to the Irish, that Anyone who contends that our exiled against America in 1939. Horses Loss Profit the indisputable greatness of her litera- JAMES MASON, Britain's most Gaels are less dear to us than those at The final of the individual college cham- d. £ s. d. SOCCER Aprotan ture would be more readily perceivable in home—and this Cork motion implies that pionship between St. Patrick's, Armagh, popular film star, in a scene from —should remember the words of the Many sports writers predicted that W. Patter a collection of plays, poems or novels than the film, "Odd Man Out," based on \\IE, in the ages lying and St. Jarlath's, Tuam, was, as any dis- Best Seller esteemed late Cardinal McRory: 'The Sloan, 26-years-old Irish soccer inter- it is in this anthology of short stories. the ^ovel by F. L. (Jreen. criminating G.A.A. fan expected, a spark- Sunstroke * In the buried past of the earth, G.A.A. is more than merely one organisa- ling scintillating affair with the issue very national, would sign from Tranmere Rovers to Everton. I can now state that Fine Lad One or even two great writers don't Built Nineveh with our sighing, tion for the benefit of the bodies of young much in doubt until the final whistle. Glervgrigor Sloan will sign for Arsenal instead of make a great literature. Take Dostoevsry Irishmen, it is, or should be, an organisa- Golden Cloud And Babel itself with our mirth; The final score, Armagh 4-9 (21 pts.) Everton. and Gorky out of 19th century Russian tion which also benefits their immortal Gold Drill one's trade to say that it was; it would and Tuam 3-11 (20 pts.) might give the literature and a magnificent human And o'erthrew them with our prophesying souls.' Sloan was transferred from Manchester Gulf Stream also be a libel on the Irish. false impression that it was a slap-dash United to Tranmere Rovers in 1938 for achievement still remains. But even The least the Central Council could do Hypericum 16 13 4 Yet within this partitioned sample of To the old of the new world's worth; high-scoring spree, but never were scores £300. Northampton has signed McKenna Joyce's two shifty Dubliners and Liam now would be to give representation to Irish writing, there are contained those harder to get or more deserved than the (half-back), who was with Liftfield, and O'Flaherty's two wives of the same tinker For each age is a dream that is dying, each of the counties' in Britain—London, very forces that have, in the working out scores by each side. Undoubtedly for- R. Jenkins, a wing-foward formerly with cannot turn this Penguin into a collec- Or one that is coming to birth. Liverpool, Warwick, etc. Belfast Celtic. of their natural processes, caused that ward play excelled defensive play, but the tion of great short stories. In Short not a happy Annual Congress outstanding contribution to human general approach work and finish of Kevin Quinn, the Rugby international, JOBS VACANT for Britain. expression, which is catalogued by each set of forwards set up a standard has signed for Bohemians. One good thing which did emerge was " I RISH DEMOCRAT" wants sellers in Yeats and Moore bibliophiles as "Anglo-Irish Literature." that never before was reached in Croke Results: Clif tonville 2, English Univer- ' all parts of Britain and Ireland. If that Cork and Cavan WILL after all The imprint of the whole of Ireland is Park and will scarcely ever be excelled or ities 1; Distillery 1, Bangor 1; Bohemians you can contact Irish workers in factories, perhaps the best measure of an O 'FLAHERTY travel to London for the Whit-Monday traced across these pages. equalled. 1, Gentoran 0. hostels, building sites, hospitals or trans- anthology's worth is the omissions that IRISH PRISONERS' WELFARE game. The hurlers cannot travel, as local port depots you should be selling our § GREYHOUNDS puncture it. Are the stories of Yeats, The revolutionary humanism of Liam Championship games engage all their at- Igo Jones, St. Pat's wonder forward, set paper. COMMITTEE George Moore, Wilde and James Stephens O'Flahertv, who must, if one judges him IN DUBLIN § tention. Cork are flying over and back— the seal on an exceptional college foot- Miss B. O'Shea has sold Seskin Hero to absent because of the first of the three by his best work, "Famine," "Spring Sow- § flying high surely, in order to be back at ball reputation by contributing three goals Mr. W. H. Kearon, Arklow, for £1,400. You can easily sell 100 copies on a Sat- J 1AM O'FLAHERTY, Irish novelist, is Seskin Hero was a sensational winner in urday evening round the dance halls, pubs adjectives that go into the title? If this ing" and "The Black Soul." be considered Work on Tuesday; while Cavan will travel four points to the total. J back in Dublin after working for six the final of the April Stakes at Ennis- or outside the chapel on Sunday mornings. be the case, why have no writers younger with O'Casey and Peadar O'Donnell as by the mundane, humdrum Beifast-Hey- He completely eluded and outwitted the corthy, when he beat Paris Model and the Write to the Manager. "Irish Democrat"' than Frank O'Connor's generation been the other major living figure in Irish years In Connecticut, U.S.A., on his book, sham route—a route only too familiar to St. Jarlath defence, and all his scores £3,000 dog, Knockroe Manhattan, in 30.45. 150 Southampton Row, London. W.C.I, for s Ceilidhe-Mhor included? Letters. "Land"—a sequel to his book, "Famine." many exiles.'' were tonics. Mr. William Duffy, an Irish-American. supplies. HOLBORN HALL, Although no young Irish short story A turn over a page carries one into a "Land," a story of Land League days, has His toe-to-hand runs were reminiscent LIVELY COLLEGE GAME writer, yet known to the readers of those more distant mansion, where the rare already been published in New York. Grays Inn Road, Holborn, of Alfie Murray, the Armagh and Ulster Highlights of the past month's G.A.A prep, schools of literature, "the little texture of Joyce's lonely prose, with its * * * London toe-to-hand specialist. This Co. Tyrone activities were the victories of St. magazines," can equal England's Wil- European depth and civilising width, bey is smallish but sturdy, and if he de- Sean O'Casey's play, "Red Roses For in aid of the Patrick's, Armagh, in the first ever indi- liam Sanson or the Welsh Rhys Davies; permanently resides. vidual college championship, and to the velops physically should be a big addition Test Your Skill On surely there is something by one or Me," having finished successful ryns at Irish Prisoners' Welfare Fund Joyce's work arrived, so unexpectedly on overcoming by Meath of the Corrigan to Tyrone and Ulster for many years to other of the many young writers, both Hammersmith and Swiss Cottage, is now the Irish scene, as a sunburst after the FRIDAY, 14th JUNE Park bogey in their re-play of the come. in the Republic and it's amputated terri- at the New Theatre, West End of London. twilight, that the fact has been ignored O'Casey's new play, "Oakleaves and TICKETS 2/6 7.30-11 p.m. National League semi-final with Antrim. MEATH-ANTRIM RE-PLAY These Questions tory, or Valentin Iremonger, John Hewitt that Joyce, the only important imagina- or Maurice James Craig, whose inclusion Lavender," has just been published. The Meath v. Antrim re-play at Corrigan THIS month "Irish Democrat" is running a general knowledge tive writer in post-reformation Irish should be imperative to any adequate (Macmillan, 6 O Park was a repetition of their Navan epic literature, belonged both to the pre-treaty competition which is open to all our readers. Prizes win be: editing in this field. * * * of the previous fortnight, the final score ruling class and had a Catholic back- First, Half-a-guinea. Second, a copy of R. M. Fox's "History of fes^l t^Sl (<£?•> (<£?) being 1-6 <9 pts,), Antrim 1-4 (7 pts.). If moreover, the editors included L. A. ground. "The Nineteenth Hole of Europe," by the Irish Citizen Army." the Irish playwright, Vivian Connell, was Wales beat Antrim failed gallantly before a taller, G. Strong why did they leave out Donn ^ 5 heavier Meath XV. and those who ex- RULES Byrne? recently at the Granville Theatre, | MEET YOUR IKISH FRIENDS \ pected the Corrigah Park bogey to (1) Each entry form must be accompanied by three penny stamps. One Lovely Story Walham Green, London. ai frighten Meath must have got a rude (2) Answers must be written legibly in block capitals in ink. * * * § Ireland shock. Generally speaking, the southern (3) Envelopes containing answers must be clearly marked, "Competition" Sunburst After Twilight Gaelic, the parent of what we know as Cyril Cusack. brilliant Abbey actor, THE TARA CLUB county football teams and mentors arc in the top left-hand corner. Is this collection as good as the pre- Irish Literature, is represented by one by our Boxing Correspondent (4) All answers must reach the Eoitor, "Irish Democrat," 150 Southampton made a great hit in the BBC. broadcast miles ahead of the northern teams as vious Penguin series have led us to really lovely story, "The Black Ass," who 390/4 Brixton Road, London, S.W. regards tactics and strategy. Row, London, W.C.I., by first post on Saturday, 15th June. of "Juno and the Paycock." "lYTALES defeated Ireland by five bouts expect; for instance, after their collection always managed to stand "with his back (5) The first correct answer, or most nearly correct answer, opened on * * * to four at Cardiff last month. Meath now meet Wexford in the 15th May will be the winner. of modern American stories? to the weather." CEILIDHE EVER! WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY. It was the first visit of an Irish boxing National League final. (6) No correspondence can be entered into about this competition. The It would be betraying the function of There might have been more transla- Michael MacLiammoir, whose "I'M Meet team to Cardiff since 1935, and the Irish This meeting of these two Leinster Editor's decision is final. tions from a language, the ripples of by Moonlight," ran for six weeks in Irish and Modern Dances to Frank boys got a great reception, P. Byrne teams bears out an oM pet contention of whose island beauty have circled out into Dublin, Is writing a play about Peg lee and hl» Radio and Recording i Scouts) being singled out for a remark- mine that in an open draw Leinster would QUESTIONS Tara Ceilldhe Band. able ovation at the end of his display the sea of a world language. Woffington. win the All-Ireland football final more (1) Patrick l'carsc's full initials were "P.H." What docs (he "H" stand for? * * * against the British and Welsh light- The Frank O'Connor story is an O. often than any other province, owing to ^ South London's Irish Social Centre C weight champion, E. Thomas, who de- World Labour Henry-like bit of fun. The argument The poem, "West End Menu." printed in feated him on points. the excellent high standard of football advanced in the opening passages can but our May issue was by L. H. Daiken. Billy O'Neill (Belfast) beat Paddy Bon- played in at least nine of Its W counties. (2) Who wrote the song, "Kelly of Killane"? Come* of Age be strengthened when we remember nar (Deny) on points over eight rounds The National League hurling final rests O'Connor's "Guests of The Nation" which, in a North of Ireland tournament last between Dublin, who defeated Cork, Tipp. (3) Where was the famous jockey, Steve Donoghue, born? BETTY WALLACE month. O'Neill, defying 71bs. weight han- Fnri'wnrtl by Ihf 111. "«»• with Silone's "The Fox" and Erskine Cald- and Kilkenny—no mean feat—and the (4) Name in their proper sequence the signatories of the faster Week Send your copy of the dicap. had to go all out to defeat Bonnar, G. I .sum well's "Rachel." must bo considered one atomic Clare, who blitzed Limerick and II YOU WANT TO CONSULT who gave him the hardest fight of his of the outstanding stories of our Galway. All Gaeldom awaits this game, I'roclamatiou Mr. Isaacs says: "I commend this IRISH DEMOCRAT home career. O'Neill was in fine fettle and was generation. THE as the Banner County on the rampage book to all Trade Unionists and very elusive in light corners. (5) What is the real name of the Irish actor, Harry Fitzgerald? when you've read it. has always excited the imagination with indeed to nil persons who wish SECOND COME-BACK prospects of mighty deeds. to understand the Trade Union Paul Potts CONNOLLY movement." .">'•«. '><'. Jim Doran (Belfast) beat Siki O'Neill Donegal and Down qualified at the ex- (6) Complete this well-known quotation by James Connolly: ASSOCIATION 'Dublin) in their eight-round return con- panse of Cavan and Armagh respectively test. This was Doran's second come-back CUT THIS OUT for the Ulster Junior Championship final " is the most foreign tiling in Ireland." The Siovy of ADVISORY SERVICE fight and he was rather slower than usual. and await a date. Both have good, virile CUT OUT THIS COUPON Slki is a game scrapper but only a moder- teams, and the final should be both inter- (7) Lowry Meagher was a famous ia) footballer, (b) hurler, (c) soccer PLEASE SEND ME THE "IRISH DEMOCRAT" FOR TWELVE ate puncher. the Engineer* and post to tlie Connolly Association. esting and exciting. Ulster is the only MONTHS. I enclose P.O. for 4/- 8ean Phillips (Dublin) beat T. Mc- player, (d) sports writer? JAMES B. JEFFERYS 6th Floor. Premier House, 150 South- Menemy (Belfast), ex-amateur champion. province to have progressed so far in the ampton Kow. London, W.C.I, together (8) At least three of the signatories of the 1916 Proelar...ition were poets. This is not only a story of strikes, Both boxers were very cagey for the first 1946 championships. lock-outs and negotiations, but with Postal Order for 1 - two rounds. GAEL OG. Who were they? also of struggles to adjust policies Name Making a come-back after six years, and organisation to a changing Name Dixie McCall (Belfast) beat 4. Gillen (Bel- (9) Who is Croke Park named after? social and political background Address fast) over srfx rounds. Gillen started well and a rapidlv changing industry. but laded out in the fourth round. (10) "We serve neither King nor Kaiser but Ireland" was a sloean of the \«lilr<- SMALL ADS. IDS. (

\ THE IRISH DEMOCRAT June, 1946

•yHE dest'ek-s of Uose nailers whose territories compose the British • oi tne num.. race has Lies are not identical but inextric- "ig struggle I' freedom. ably interwoven. Geographically, his- u.eply rooted in ' people's i.,o- ahvavs bee tiie most le r i ca! 1 y and economically, the con- baiile-ciy e\er invented. nection between Britain and Ireland !ar feeling was admirab'h has been so close that it cannot be b\ Roosevelt in his Four roedorn of Speech and Re- broken. adorn from Want and Pear. Although the Ens'ish. Scots, Wel.-h ami ut th' •st important of the Font Free- mis i reedom from Want-til! other £ LESTER HUTCHINSON, M.P. 1 'ish have d.ti wist racial origins ito-day I tlvv are vary intermixedand different eedoti epend upon it. I traditions the individual, in religious and social AF i TEN tolerance. Its policy is fiimly based on ER and Ireland has never been a conflict of peoples: )t has btra a long and agonising sweeping from the face of the earth the ciruggio against a British ruling class exploitation of man by man. the degrada- 'A CHEAT YEARS thai oppressed the Ir:sh and British tion and impoverishment of the mass of people alike in diK'erent degrees. humanity by the insatiable and tyran- thj plane broke through the soft nous few. » bed o.' cloud;, and I hull my first SOCIALIST' S!ir.ip;e <>f Ireland for ten years, Connolly realised that political freedom Uowth Heart rushed out to greet us ^ UNIQUE feature about James THE aegi ," S:Cn of Elisabeth, the plan- to be real must be founded on economic were flying over and scon vie Dun « utions ol James I., the decimations of freedom. A sentence in an article re- Connolly's life and work was Laogiiairc Harbour. Cromwell, the war wasted by William of cently published in the Dublin "Irish Re- As i looked down a few thousand Orange, were till, historically considered, view " drives home the point: "It matters the high esteem in which he was held little whether an eviction notice is feet below, the fieids looked like expiessions of the imperialism of a rising by leaders of the working-class move- green iawns dottfd with tiny houses capitalist class. The unrepresentative stamped with a crown or a harp." surrounded by trees. Everything tyranny imposed on Ireland, the oppres- Since the people's great war against ment, not only in Ireland, but also in was fresh and green. sion of the people by absentee landlords, Fascism, recently concluded in its mili- Britain and America. Here are some The aircraft dipped as though in spoliation of the country and impoverish- tary aspect, the world has entered into salute as it glided toward Dublin s ment of the people were the last grimmest phase of tributes to Connolly paid by leaders crimes committed against airport at Collinstown. I had the social revolution. The cor- of the Labour movement in Britain : impression of a stately building the Irish people by a ruling rriHE writer of this rupt and decadent ruling standing very erect, looking out class that also committed -L article, Mr. LUS- class has been swept from over a wide plain. The aircraft crimes against the English TER HUTCHINSON, office throughout two- touched down on the concrete run- people. M P. (Rusholme), fol- thirds of Europe, and is way in front of the Aer Lingus lowing the famous menaced in the remaining Professor Laski It is important that this Meerut trial, served building. Saying goodbye to our should be recognised on third. Recalling an occasion on which he heard charming, competent Irish hostess, both sides of the Irish sea. one year's imprison- Connolly and A.E., the Irish poet and ment in Indian jails Asia, stagnant for over a I walked again in Ireland. This The class that despoiled mystic, speaking at the Albei t Hall. Lon- I thought, is the land whose sons for liis work on behalf thousand years, has Ireland was responsible in awakened to a staggering don, 32 years ago. at the time of a strike in and daughters have written so England for the Enclosures of Trade Unionism in many pages of glory in the history India. He is now a social consciousness: the Jacob's biscuit factory, Pro. Harold Laski, Acts, the Anti-Combination impact on the West of a of freedom, whose songs, poems, member of the chairman of the British Labour Party, Laws, the appalling factory triumphant Socialism in plays and music have endeared our conditions, the Peterloo and Friends of Ireland writes: "At that time I admired Connolly race to men in all lands. India and China will have other massacres, and the group in the British more tremendous repercus- deeply, and as the years went on I have House of Commons. In front of the G.P.O. in O'Connell transportation of hundreds sions than the 18th century admired him even more deeply." Street, I thought of the historic of British working men to impact of the then more happenings of that Easter Monday work in chains on the plantations of Van developed West in Asia. Dieman's Land. morning that were destined to set In Britain, a Labour Government is in Will Lawther ablaze the flame of patriotism in the It would have been natural for the Eng- power for the first time. The Tories, the hearts of the Irish nation. lish and Irish peoples to have joined organisation of imperialism, have suf- (President of National Union of O'Connell Street was busy. forces against their common oppressor; fered a disastrous defeat, and struggle Mine workers) Thousands of people walked in all for there was no essential conflict between desperately against Labour's policy of "I knew Connolly before the last war. them. To prevent such unity every pos- directions, and hundreds of cyclists nationalisation and social reform, in and I consider his books on the Irish sible weapon was used—religious differ- which they recognise correctly the basis on the main street competed with Labour Movement as being amongst the cars, trams, horse-drawn cabs and ences, industrial rivalry and historical of Socialism. carts. misrepresentation. finest books that have been written on the Labour Movement in any country. His MONEY PLENTIFUL "Labour in Irish History" will rank with Hotels, restaurants and pubs are rPHEY have one stronghold left—in Nor- Fines's history of the miners, as an out- doing a fine trade, thick juicy rpHE oppressor had a certain measure thern Ireland, where the Tories are standing work, because it was written by steaks, eggs galore, lots of bacon, -L of success in keeping the two peoples still in power. When Craigavon said that a man himself intimately connected with you can even buy a cooked chicken divided. But he could not prevent Irish- the rulers at Stormont would march step the movement and not a detached ob- or a ham to take away. men taking a prominent part in the by step with the British Government, he server. When I asked for a whiskey the struggle for British liberties, nor English- meant a Tory government. Now they barmaid queried, "Scotch or Irish," men fighting for and supporting Irish in- march step by step with the Tories agonist "As a man there is no question that but I found later that whiskey is dependence. the British Government: as they did in Connolly was one of the finest characters sometimes in short supply and cigar- 1913-14 against Asquith. Ireland has produced, and as long as ettes are not always easy to obtain. If the oppressor found Irish and English instruments of his policy, it should not The Ulster conspiracy of Carson, Bir- there exists in the International Labour Otherwise Dublin seems to be a kenhead and Joynson-Hicks must not be Movement a feeling of appreciation for an city of plenty for those with the be forgotten that there were men like Furgus O'Connor and Bronterre O'Brien allowed to be repeated against the Labour individual, Jim Connolly will always oc- necessary cash. English money is Government. as plentiful as Irish, an indication who led the Chartist Movement in cupy one of the top places. in itself that quite a few people Britain; that there were men like Case- ment and Erskine Childers, who gave I think it is imperative to-day for Irish from Britain and the North partake men in particular to study Connolly's of Dublin's luxuries. their lives for Ireland. \ N alliance is imperative between the works, because his outlook was well ahead "1 people of Eire, of Northern Ireland Seeing scores of children of school At the time of the Easter Rebellion and of his times, and in the troubled phase age playing in the streets off Wex- of the "troubles" that preceded the Irish and of Britain for the defeat of Toryism Ireland is now passing through, nothing ford Street I was sharply reminded Treaty, thousands of ordinary English and other forms of reaction. Such an that Dublin teachers wore on strike. better as a basis for understanding and men and women fought their own Gov- alliance alone can break the Partition, It took my friend a long time to con- ernment and demonstrated emphatically action exists than Connolly's works." vince me that the De Valera Gov- their sympathy for Ireland. The Black unite Ireland, and bring a new under- ernment refused to give our and Tan policy of Lloyd George was con- standing and comradeship to the free teachers a salary and standard of demned by the great majority of the and soverign peoples of Britain and Ire- living comparable with teachers in British people; and the unrest in Britain land. W. Gallacher, M.P. Northern Ireland. was one of the prime factors that forced "Connolly was a great Socialist. Not a change of policy. The basis of such an alliance is only uid iie give outstanding service to the VIRILE LEADERSHIP Socialism. True Socialists in Britain have always cause of Irish freedom based upon his The great tragedy is that each stood for full independence for Ireland; section of workers fight alone with- Socialist philosophy, but he also contribu- they have also fought imperialism in Asia ted to the advance of Socialism in out a coherent or co-ordinated and Africa. In this thev had the support leadership. The average worker of Socialists in Ireland—of great Inter- America and played a full part in the de- seems to have little faith in any national Socialists like James Connolly. Xo Truth in velopment, of its international character. leadership, whether government or He was a good Irishman and a great inter- trade union officials. A black cloud nationalist." of defeatism, confusion and division ^'Express*' Scare hangs over the Labour organisa- THERE is no truth in the "Daily tions while the government and em- / 'ONNOLLY believed that Socialism ployers are striving to build 1 Express " scare of last month about " would be the final salvation of the 250,000 Irish workers being sent home. Tom Bell economic barriers between the work- Irish and of all other peoples. In famous ing people of North and South. words, which cannot be too often repeated, Sensational stories that Irish workers "Connolly travelled all over Scotland, lec- The Dublin working-class needs he said: "The Cause of Ireland is the were to be offered the alternative of going turing and organising. As lecturer, pro- strong virile leadership, a leadership Cause of Labour: and the Cause of into the mines or hosp.tals or being sent pagandist and organiser, he was unique. back to Ireland have been officially denied, prepared to fight and sacrifice for Labour is the Cause of Ireland." Proletanan of the proletarians, he had unity because "the heart of Ireland and no more credence should be placed none of the snobbeiy and pretentiousness is still wild and young, proud, But Connolly, too. was a nationalist. in them th an in the usual political stunts strong and brave as the heart of a That is to sav, he thought, as do all of the Beaverbrook Press. that mar so many of our leaders. He was thoroughbred." Given an honest, Socialists, that the national independence i true son of 'he working class; devoted fighting lead they can end the pre- of a country was the pre-requisite for and self-sacrificing for the cause of the sent economic policies of the govern- Socialism. He therefore fought and lost SAILINGS TO LIVERPOOL AND workers' emancipation from capitalist ment and employers which are his life for the Irish Republic. slavery." against the true interest of our PRESTON country. It is important to realise that an Irish Passenger sailings between Liverpool Republic to Connolly was not an end in Printed by Ripley Printing Society Ltd. Jim Keehan itself, but a means to an end. National- and Dublin by the B. and I. Steampacket (T.U.), Ripley, Derby.s., and published by ism by itself is not enough, and can be Company resumed on May 22 There will the Editor, Premier House, 150 Southamp- dangerous to popular liberty: nationalism be sailings each way twice weekly. ton Row, London, W.C.I.