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Organ of the WHEN IN LONDON VISIT THE Connolly Association FOUR PROVINCES MOCRAT BOOKSHOP 244/246 GRAYS INN ROAD No 483 MAY 1984 30p (Russeit Square tube)

FOR ALL IRISH BOOKS REAGAN NOT - Best Stock in Britain — IRISH BANNED Bettaney IN LONG KESH WELCOME IN operated JUST how inhuman can you gel. The people in charge of the Maze Prison. in Ireland Long Kesh—Mr Prior's minions—arc- now out to prevent the prisoners A MAN CiIIS sears in |ail and .i learning or communicating with one shocking wigging from the iiidgc loi another in Irish offering the Russians information they didn't want. Rev Denis Paul, who has concerned IRELAND Do you believe that'.' himself with the prisoners' welfare for Irish papers gave a different stor\. vears, says that the Northern Ireland Do \ ou remember the case ol ihr Office censors Irish newspapers, three Russian diplomats accused ol prevents prisoners learning Irish or gathering information though one ol writing letters or receiving them in Irish. WANTS IRELAND FOR ihem couldn't speak ,i word of English' The playing of Gaelic football is also not ll look three good fleet Street allowed. lunches lo launder that story and il never came out thai MI5 was in il up to Father Paul said that he is considering WORLD WAR the neck. The Foreign Office didn't want taking a case to the European Court of Charles llaughey to know, and he was Human Rights, which ruled in a case fed what a Dublin newspaper describes involving prisoners on the Isle of Wight as "rubbish". that they had a right to freedom of Students promise "disruption" BETTAN1Y spent three years in communication. Ireland. Iwo of them at i'hiepval PRESIDENT Reagan is coming to Ireland with two objects in view. One is to identify himself barracks. I isburn. Bui he had main "It is only a matter of applyingthat with Ireland and compete for the Irish American vote. The other is to destroy Irish neutrality "sccuiitv discussions" with twentysix decision to the cultural tyranny going i.ounty intelligence officers in Dublin. on at the Maze", he says. "The whole and link a combined NATO and EEC into his war plans. If he could combine the two with the Die venue? Phoenix Park thinking is anti-Irish,' anti-national aid of promises to help over partition, that would be ideal for him. As in Britain there is mounting I'eai and of a typically basic sectarian and suspicion of the politically natu re." unaccountable secret police forces, and That is why it was very mistaken of Mr Charles Haughey to ask for much greater than t h e it would have embarrassed Ihe coalition He said that while issues of the local American good offices in relation to partition. The Americans will say Government realises." il it had been revealed thai tile Russians were set up not b\ Irish intelligence bin Catholic paper 'The Irish News' had "What'll you give me?" And the only thing the Irish have to give is A campaign against Reagan's been banned, "filthy English papers b\ MI5. neutrality. That is why there can be no bargaining. Irish Sovereignty is a Foreigh Policy has been organized like the 'Sun' and 'Star' had been People are already asking how far the right. with wide support among both allowed in." Irish security services have been taken NOT WANTFD This is no disrespect to his clergy and laity, It will be over by MI5 as part of the preparations When he was asked about the security It is very fortunate that the office. Nor is it any affront to the remembered that Bishop Casey of for NATO membership and participa- risk in allowing prisoners to speak a tion in the third world war. danger of this man's visit is so decent American people many of Galway recently demanded that language the wardeis did not HTZGER AI.D is blamed lor widely understood in Ireland. For whom—indeed we hope it will Ireland should sever diplomatic understand, he said it was the duty ol the deceiving Haughev, but it is said he was the first time a President of the British Government to provide pristjn prove a majority—are against this relations with the USA because of led "bent" information himself. officers who did understand Irish. United States is being told that he man's murder-mongering the support for murder and Spying is a dirty game. So is countei is not wai.i-d in Ireland. policies. He is so senile that he can torture in Central America. spying. So are all covert operations. Sometimes ihe slink must g( ; "II a group of Portuguese sailors only woik three hours a day. His NO NATO insufferable, so that even a hard-bitten were arrested in Bellas!, would they brain can only respond to The campaign was launched at \115 Man feels that he's just gol to get not be allowed to speak lo each swashbuckling and militaristic out. other?" he asked. BLOOD a public meeting addressed by Mr sentiments, and he surrounds Sean MacBride and Mr Michael 7 hat a tough gum-shoe operator was turned into a Communist by what he himself with hangers on who feed D. Higgins. chairman of the Irish SUCKERS! saw in Northern Ireland is a rare him what he wants. In a word, it is Labour Party. A number of third commentary on British imperialism, SUSTENTATION not his person but his policy that is FOREIGN FIRMS established in world, church and peace groups .old the state ol B\/amine degeneracv objectionable. the British State has been brought to the twenty-Six Count.es sent over support them. The Workers' under I hatcher's would-be dictaloi- It is to be hoped that this is well- Party is also running a campaign FUND £300 million home in profits last ship. year. demonstrated and that his visit to against the visit, and poets and THIS month's figure is not too bad. But Ireland results in votes for balladeers have been engaged to anybody who runs through the list will This has been a major shock to provide popular songs one ol notice that a considerable sum was Irish Government Planners for Mondale. which runs "Please don't invite us raised by Connolly Association they have been used to foreign Among those who are activities, and that the number and home to NATO." firms reinvesting most of their preparing demonstrations are the SOUTH LONDON variety of donors has fallen off a bit, not profits in Ireland or financing new students. Their president Mr Joe There is no doubt that Fianna that we blame them. We've been coming CONNOLLY ASSOC. it a bit hot getting together the funds to expansion from existing business. Duffy promised to give him "the Fail's National Youth Committee start the new bookshop. However, we Of course it was always on the cards treatment we gave Barry would have been in the campaign MEETS FORTNIGHTLY AT hope that once those cheque-books that ihe multinationals would look for Desmond over the medical-card but for strong pressure from the begin to fill up again they won't forget lo their pav-off sometime. They certainh issue." adult party. They propose to JEFFREYS ROAD LIBRARY, overflow. did not come to Ireland for the sake of DISRUPTION make their views known to the Irish people's bright blue eves. Stockwell, London SW4 They propose to disrupt his v isit President privately. Fine Gael's Our thanks lo: Bui it raises more questions aboul the wisdom uf relying so much on foreign by sitting outside the gates of any youth intended to hold a meeting THURSDAYS — 8 pm M. McGuire t'5. Glasgowman l'5. R capital to develop the economy. Clearly University College he plans to in support of Reagan, but drew Anderson 70p. A Higgins £3. .I. Bird ihe foreign business has not been a great visit, thus keeping him out. Mr back in view of his extreme ||«y 10th II . 16. South London Social £50. South success in generating employment. for Duffv said that though this unpopularity. London C. A. £65. T. Egan £2. J there are more peopl- cut of work now CATH SCORER on disruption might not secure McKeever £5. G. Ward £1. J. Kavanagh than are employed in manufacturing. There is much criticism of Mr Civil Liberties in the £.1.20. Central Jumble Sale £71.60. The capital flow ing into the country also everybody's approval, "it is Dick Spring's decision to Central London Theatre Trip £21. R J Six Counties helped the balance of payments. nothing like the disruption he is "welcome" President Reagan Tolhurst £5. M. Cook £2.R.H .£5.K .C These figures remind us us that capital causing to millions of people which is regarded as one more £6. B. Riordan £1. G. Stone £3.50. E also flows out. In fact both flows May 24th - around the world. Public illustration of the Labour O'D. £30. C.C. £5. supporters in Central increase the dependence of the economy animosity towards President MARY CAMPBELL on London £27.96. in South London on board rooms and bankers in foreign Parliamentarian's increasing £42.99. in East London 50p. parts Reaean" Mr Duffv continued, "is identification with Fine Gael. The Anti-Irish Joke MAY 1984 IRISH DEMOCRAT j Speech to Connolly Association Conference 31 March 1984 by Irish CND Secretary -I IRISH DEMOCRAT MAY 1984 TOUGH TIME PEADAR O'DONNELLAT A MAY MISCELLANY dermotno

PADRAIG 0 CONCH I IK reports musicians ot Comhaltas Ceoltoiri FOR CIVIL Ioreann, and a course for teachers at LONDON IRISH CENTRE peace with honour in Carditt The Bank of Ireland ( Banc Iwerddon) has gone Trinity College, Dublin. He now hopes Defend Irish ^ 1 W ,.. U. public' without 111 st h'f treann" inscribed on lis main branch that allied Irish Banks will also give a Bill.I:I . lid that I! •.; ,'„ ' i * 11 p huge mil.I '. ... i , k I \ M I »> II. leason- In-! t \ 11 i „e..;,:- :1 , :„ LIBERTIES i ill Ji i _ . - t impei i.i!i-m w ei e in Wales will very likely set a pattern to' lead from Cardiff pel n. i ,K» a it d .: f' i e v . - . e i \ 1 be followed throughout Britain According to all accounts the recent .lev I lopnieiit in I n-h polil i-. - 1 In- n.i- and in.untcn.a ., . l:;-|> i,i u:;i. eood elI- as well a- had < >r.i ol I i\ MM I i 1 N I K.Hh 1 < )' K maiks \)i I >. "i -nd C i reaves teniai ked that British Trade Union delegation to Iii ndamental p -,i: . it- i..,ii-p.!.j- • IV.Kl.l- ' I > •'tllv't ( IMI.J i >IJ M..n co,id ellccl- was that li-hl M> a i the 50th anniversary ol the lounchng ot the ( >' \ssociation which began Ireland was a powerful success. Mr.Sean M .it In* icptthheanistn at a Mr. O C onchuir shows the Bank is by up as ail oil-hoot — o! British I Nil ai I lie const .I ;ii•[ .it ;;is ,.| I, 'M- t \ i i (lie National C oum.il I T C nil I iberties ',(, :|i. I iidon biaiich ol Republican Redmond (Municipal Workers) told the meetnie -rgani/ed h\ the ( onnollv no means the Gaelophobe that might Ul'9 wiili -i\ members We now li.o include not m-i aholition ot ,!! nu.i , who held their Annul (.ienct.il Meeting Con-.'ies- w.i- the onlv leinnani "I that Irish Democrat, "These were politically Association to celebrate the fiftieth have been imagined. In February it aboi t " tltili ill 1 lel.Mid till tlu N itli weapons hut iNo the ,hss,,|,.; ., ; .it the ( us University. London, over the org.iiii'.ii 'U that had survived to the minded dedicated people. You should .inniver*.iiv ot the establishment ol the sponsored a tour of Britain bs the w ill i s the South ) - u Ilk h loinpa: es military alliances S poluv .•! weekend ot Plh April It reflected how pre-en: clav He stressed the have seen them make mincemeat of the Neutrality Republican Congress, ol which Ml well pel i.ipila Willi the numhci ol lush lieu11.ilstS is suppoiled • K "i • things are |itst as had now as thev were respotisib htv ol all who considered two-nationists." O'[)o:-u'l was the niov ing spirit meant an ulca • ,1 neiili alnv w In, h • : t + t relationship which emerged between the members ol Bnti-hCND Ibenmcw under the "National Government" ol ihcnisclv. internationalist to defend I AM \er> pleased that the title "Irish — tlu Soviet Union vetoed Ireland'- pt opuiotis niciclv pas-n e and ictu nig hut i \ a the thirties I o add insulfto the injuries Irish neutrality and d e m a n d Mr Bernard O'Connell. EC member new state and Britain. In the new On the platform with him were the CONFERENCE Neutrality and World Peace" has been •ipplic.ition to join the I nited Nations in Us sea I c 11 tor w oi |,i pi a.. .,i\! ol CIS 11 liberties, the NCCI had been independent Irish republic of the Connolly Association, whose situation Ireland's relationship uith the loin: s-^ietatv ol the Congie—. N11 included in your discussions todav I lit' the c.nly fifties — presumably for tln- d 1 s a I ill a ill e il I - using e v , set-up' hv a fascist organisation land I lie audience was remarkable to' the brainchild the delegation was, tells us world was mediated, in both directions. Paddv B'.ine. hiniscll ovci seventy. Mi lact that it has been is symptomatic ol rcason. When the Republic did opjVntunitv to initiate niectit who knows who el-e'l, members ot 1 vane!' -'1 opinion represented and the RESOLUTIONS that ten people went over, one of them b\ London. 1 he economtctilh Pes::, -:. Cneave- and the chanman. the changing face of Irish politics and, eventually |om the United Nations in I ntiv aito the C oninion Mat ket has propose mea-uie-. to mediate and it - v. hich had merely been informed ol their evident widespread consensus Among being Mr Bill Goulding of Birmingham backward stale, from whii.h manv \li N- v ( i-udon perhaps, of British politics too. With the 1955 a new era of Iri-li foreign policy caused a v..si|\ increased leportagc ol envisaged that lilts should lak. t ! ., rights. But this provoked an outers those i. presenting the laboui who was active in the CA for may years hundreds ol thousands emigrated, could ON IRELAND deployment of Cruise missiles the « hole began At that time, l.iam Cosgrave. international affairs in Ireland and conjunction with other neutral an In when reported I he meeting decided M : () IK-ii'iell ieir.itked that in the Committee oil Ireland were Mr Martin Others included Mr George Davies of aitord to maintain only .i limited question of British neutrality litis been Minister lor External Allans said: provided hues ol communication with aligned eountiies \ thud ni.iioi , narrowly against eellm,: mucked hv w lio'e c.'Ui se •>! his polictis.il hie he had Collins I i.litot ol "New I about and Blackburn Trades Council, and Mr number of diplomatic missions abroad BRITISH Trade Unionists are raised and many people ha\e become "Our aim should he . . . to avoid the icsi ol the world which did not pass Irish CM) is io seek the tiansh . , ; 'ou.hing pitch nevei been "ii the winning side But he Ireland" Miss Miriam lames, herselt Courcha of ACTT. The delegation News, communications, information, increasingly restive at attempts to stifle suddenly aware that, just next door, is .1 becoming associated with particular through London as heielolore and had military spending to the sohiti, a explained that v* hat he had gone out to connectei: with the Congress as-a very made Dublin its headquarters, but made trading, export and import activities discussion on the subject of Ireland. state which has been neutral since its 'blocs' or groups so far as possible." divctsilied the country'- Hading world pov c: !v Sarah Spencer and Ian Marts:i mosed win was not nist modifications ol the votin-e g'i and Paddy Byrne himself. a two day visit to Belfast, meeting were all processed in London. To a lai ee Ignoring right-wing advice not to inception 6.1 years ago. Many people in It is interesting that it should have relationships. Increased piospeiuv and eoocl motions condemning 'Super- vvav capitalism worked politically, but representatives of the Trades Council extent the view ol the world presented to I Mil'I R and ! rade I'nion opinion express opinions on the six county the British peace movement see the been ti Line Gael Minister (and ,i very associated loreign Havel and. ol course, grasses' and the "Prevention ol the changing of its economic structure in and NFVRA, Sinn Fein and others, the Irish people was a British view. was represented b\ Mr Mich lei Martin. scandal, the TGWU delegation to the Republic's neutrality as an example of conservative man) who laid down the the massive advances in electronic I 1 Is I the pea i e in o v e inn i Terrorism" legislation, which were the Jiresoon >• I - iciahsin I his was a before returning to Dublin and Mi Michael Mellv and Mr "Hairmie" West Midlands Region of the I.abour the path Britain could follow CNDat ground rules which were subsequently communications created a need for everywhere lush v Nil .s a .oiripl. • passed 'nem-con' Iw,, motions which much i:i II; diflicult lob and tew Liverpool. O'Douojhue. Mi Masdau Renwick of Party helped to carry a resolution calling its annual conference 111 I9K1 passed a lollowed by I lanna fail. As soon .is it wider and wider sections ot the mixture ol pioiesi. educational ath' had not been put on the agenda were politici ills set theniselve* K A glance at the sponsorship list of the Attempts were made to breach this "Inloitu.i: on on Ireland" was present for the withdrawal of the British army motion supporting Irish neutrality was possible for Ireland to have a voice population lo vlew then owncountrv m lobbying activities Activities unlade trom the 'Campaign tor 1 a hour delegation shows it was one of the most apparently impenetrable wall — as lor togethei wi'li lnendstio.il I loop- Out from Northern Ireland bv 396,000 to Several trade unions (including my o» . on international affairs there was .i a world context. <\l the -anie lime the promoting the idea ot Nuclc.n I ice Representation i n Northern important in recent years, and if may example when Sean MacBridc. then III i i W I an interesting account ol Movement 244.000 votes. AUEW-I. ,SS) have passed similar tendency towards an independent collapse ol detente and the increasing /ones (most ot the local authorities an- Ireland' — member, i e i e e t e d this open up a new chapter in Anglo-Irish Minister for I xternal Affairs, set up the the event- that led up to the foundation 1 lvcipou Connolly Association was A similar resolution is tablHl lor the motions. approach. More than twenty years letir ol nuclear war sparked the growth no w NE/sl. monitoring and exposine attempt bv Orangemen to interfere in relations, in which British Trade Irish News Agency in 1949. This bodv ot the I -ingress, and the division ol lepre-emed by Mi Joe O'Cirady and conference of NALGO, whereas the before. De V'alera had maintained a of the movement against uucle.u the use ol iiisli communication* the I abour Party's affairs— and trom Unionists opposed to partition meet and was not particularly successful and did among those who participated Newcastle branch by Mr Michael Crowe General Municipal and Boilermakers' similarly independent voice in the vv capons in Ireland as ail integral part ol facilities by NAIO. making proposal* the Haldane Society. opposing the conter with the up to now silent majority Irish Republicanism, in the broadest not last very long. Britain, whether by which let to its break up. He thought I lie audience contained a substantial Union will debate an even more I eague of Nations. the worldwide movement to the Government for action which Unionist 'Veto' The meeting voted to of the Irish trade unions whose outlook sense, is fundamentally internationalist delault or design elfectivclv quaran- those who wanted to go straight to a nunibei ol old Republicans." advanced resolution calling for the 1 introduce a discussion ol the modern should be taken in 1 ei n.iIlonalIv. debate .his, and it was well moved by is patriotic. It may put an end to the — founded in the same traditions as the tined Ireland. A result ol this was that reunification of Ireland. lush peace movement in this way working with Ihird World stippon Nick Blake. Padds O' Connor (also of miserable, opportunistic, myopic American and French revolutions. foreign affairs were seldom discussed in because I wish to cast us development in I 111 KI were, ol course, leasons groups against the militarisation which the Society) and Stephen Huggett THERE are six resolutions on Ireland obsession with Belfast alone. Paradoxically, when the Irish state was Inland. Irish neutrality came to be seen terms ol a movement 'struggling to be spev.UR lo Irel.iiid lor the growth ol a is now extending to even pail ol the (Connollv Association delegate) spoke at the UCATT conference, and it is Among sponsoring organisations established it became an inward-looking as ;i negative thing — as I said, tyi born, to come to fruition in adverse ill o v e ill cut lot d I s a r ill a in cut, world and lor the next year we shall be against a 'wrecking amendment', but in BRUCE KENT IN BELFAST confidently expected that Irish delegates were ACTT, NUFTA, and branches of and defensive entity, its people inward-looking and defensive posture conditions. I personally believe that the I echnological developments ensured engaged in a national "Disarmament the end the motion was 'referred back' AUEW, UCATT, TRW, ALGO, a disappointed and confused, not |tist bv which reached its high point during the will insist on their being debated, though that Ireland — onc> considered lo be J Bruce Kent, secretary of happened I risli people could expect their dominating factor in Irish politics i- the and Neutrality" canvass to increa*e to the NCC'I Executive for MONSIC NOR doubtless efforts will be made to apply number of Trades Councils and the the civil war which followed Second World War. IntemationalK relationship between Ireland and peripheral to any niiliitn y confrontation public awareness ol these issues. British CM), told a Belfast press country to become covered with US Connolly Association. Members of independence hut by the reality of the Ireland was seen as tin adjunct of Britain reconsideration the gag as was done last time. (even a nuclc.ii one)— might, in future, conference recently that he saw plenty military bases just as Spain and Britain Parliament included Joan Maynard, The importance of these develop- be at the centre ol siieh a confrontation. of signs that NATO wanted influence in had been He said that the existence of Mil MEETING also demanded to ments lies in the erosion of the "know- Tony Benn, Reg Race, Les Huckfield, Ihe NAIO concept ol nuclear wai- Membership of Irish CM) covers all Ireland. He cited the visits of Kissinger the 120 I S bases in Britain was the debate a motion condemning the Tories, nothingism" of Unions who fear the Ray Powell, Dennis Canavan, Ron lighling with a gradu.ited escalation sections ol the community. We have last sear and Ronald Reagan in this "as greatest surrender of sovereignty ever in no uncertain terms, lor their effect of a progressive policy on their Brown, Syd Bidwell, Allan Roberts and Irom conventional to mieletn strikes studiously avoided being associated well as lots ol rumours that Ireland's voluntarily made by one great power to Bob Parry. TRANSNATIONALS TRAMPLE ON reactionary legislation Tom Durkin membership figures in the six counties involves the rapid ait transport ol with anv political party or ideological entrv to NATO would be the price for another and George Smith from Kilburn TO Wl i In the West Midlands conference the Prominent personalities who hundreds of thousands of American trend — we have, in fact, membcis from some sort of deal over the border." CND's General Secretars supported US HCONOMIST Professor .1 K 3.000 jobs. But with near static car sales spoke strongly on behalf of the motion, Irish resolution was supported bv sponsored in their personal capacity By JOHN BOYD troops lo Europe. Ireland would be an every political parly in the country - the protesters outside the air defence (uilbraith stated recently: "I have never in the lit there would have to be a iob and some ot the leadership were NUPE and ASTMS. included Ken Livingstone, Alan Sapper, ideal staging post lor (Ins. 1 he large and small — apait. 1 think fiom He warned that some I IX members radar station at Bishopscourt. Co. joined my colleagues of the left in the loss somewhere else. In fact just up the discomforted by the big vote which The "knpw' nothing" position was Brian Mathers, Jack Collins of the Kent development ol submarine and sea- the Democratic Unionist Party ol Mr wanted the Common Market's brief to Down, which was part of NATO's great crusade against multinationals and they have become much more road tit British 1 ey land6.000 |obs would carried the motion. Members and maintained tfy the right-wing AUEW miners, Noel Harris, Chris Robinson based missiles has made the North-East Paisley. In the south we li.oe be extended into the military field, command structure committed to the 1 hev have had a useful role in breaking important, their trade having grown by have to go because the U000 jobs at delegates evidently toll that not all and electricians union, the EETPU. and Andy Wilson. Atlantic a key area ol global parliament at y members ol cvciv which would put Ireland into a difficult early use of nuclear weapons. While in down national frontiers. We would one and a half times, twice that of the Nissan will be alongside robots that governments are equally bad, and were Even here, however, there are stirrings t + t confrontation. Because of this and the political paily Several Government position the North Monsignor Kent visited the never have had the Common Market Gross National Product (GNPi o\et the have taken over the human's |ohs. This quite happy to identity where the special among the membership The subject Although Labour at the time of developing possibility ol long-i ange ministers are members All the largci Ireland, he s.tid. would be "an ideal Bishopscourt protesters and said they except that multi-national corporations past decade. is called labour intensive work and damage was coming from' cannot be brushed under the table for writing bids fair to do well in the local Soviet ail-strikes against Britian. 'I i.ide Unions arc affiliated and the Irish spot loi much greater military were doing a great job found the trade barriers in western results in "competition" where wage ever. elections, the polls show a check to the NAIO's need lor ladar. electronic Congress has been very suppoitive ol involvement bv NATO" and it this I urope a nuisance and proceeded to Three quarters ol the INC's reductions will be called lor in order to party's rise in popularity. Some of the spying and communications of various our aetiv ities— it recently organised the Michael loot, MP, whose tamily has keep the original plant linanciallv urge a political development that got rid investment takes place not in types on Irish territory litis increased. been closely involved with the NCCT establishment "experts" are trying to Inst peace conference ol Irish I rade of them." underdeveloped countries but in viable. In the USA the INC- have blame the miners. Various voices were heard demanding Unionists as part of its peace policy. since the start, was the guest speaker on carried this several steps further by member stales of the OIC'I) thai Ireland play Us role in defending the the Sunday More likely it is Mr Kinnock's failure How powerful are these multi- Many church groups are affiliated and (Organisation for Lconomic Co- threatening to invest in other parts ol the West, thai Irish people had a to give unconditional support. Mr nationals or transnational corporations? bishops and leading churchmen haw operation and Development). Nearly .ill world unless wages are cut", env ironment BUY IRISH! Kinnock is of course an improvement on responsibility and indeed a duiv to do spoken on CND plalfoims. I here is ., I hree ol the in lie people new ly elected Breaking the sport connexion Is there any link with the policies of the members of the OECD are developed protection laws are dropped and so on so. Decency, honoui and other to the NCCT 's Executive have the arch-ditherer Michael Foot who present government in Britain and the ready acceptance for. and interesi in, the April 13th on the subject, of the Gaelic and industrialised. As far as the TNCs The policies of the Torv government appropriate values were invoked, particular interest in Ireland One. I \S I > 1 \k the I I C ruled that a MR MICH Ml () l.OINGSIGH. could never answer a straight question objectives of these organisations'.' ideas of I he campaign fiom manv. in anv Athletic Association, whos- centenary are concerned the role ol the developing in Britain is to aid at each step and in all t Catherine Scorer, topped the poll. She is Government-funded 'Buy Irish'scheme Kerry man resident in Dublin, lectured straight and threw away an election by conimiinitv organisations. falls this year. The meeting took place in 1 lie transnational (l'NCs) are so and emerging countries is to provide respects the growth of the I NCs The io I iverpool Connolly Association on "kiclcing into his own goal. But he has his also to be congratulated lor chairing a w as against ill. i ulc's ol the I I C. >o die called because they straddle several profits from investments, payments for Nissan plant will have huge grants and the Irish Centre. Mount Pleasant and tull share of the right-winger's habit of A campaign ol what can only be vers difficult meeting so well. II i sh V i ov e i n men t d ropped 11 s national territories and do their best not aid given to its buildingsuch that Nissan G A A Chairman Chris Johnston credits and primarily profits from 1 haven't talked about Northern campaign crying stinking fish. described as deslabilisation of Irish Ml PHI \ IIUGGK.TT to be responsible to the sovereignty of unequal trade The TNCs achieve this bv will pay very little but end up with a nice explained that many of his members The miners and the Coal Board (with foreign policv was commenced. 1 Ins Inland because out topic today relersio would have been in attendance but for the country they have invest nitwit in. The artificially fixing prices lor raw profitable investment. Tile policy of full Irish neutrality which, ol course, li was taken up instead by the the Tory government behind it) are took many hu ms — from free trips and the lecture clashing with three 'awav" INCs number about 12.000. employ materials too low. Raw materials arc the support for the LLC is part of the restricts us to the Irish state. Irish CNI) C onlcclciaiioil ol Irish Industries, the locked in battle Mr Scargill and his medals lor tinny generals supplied by SLIPPING matches. over .'2 million people and are main cxpoil item ol developing support lor the I NCs. the tow over the has no position on the existence o! the principal employers' bodv. for a private executive have to contend with the I cderal German army, to veiled responsible for 75'" ol world trade. countries budget repayments is a smokescieen to Border oilier than that a nuclear wat gt oup can urge *Buy I rish' alright within Mr O Loingsigh said that the GAA Spenserite scabs of Nottingham who thieals ol economic sanctions. IRISH SEA In Britain nearly luo thirds of total cover the colossal sums rcallv involved will vaporise its physical manifestation. the si i ,iiliacke: oi i I <' , ales arose from the defeat of the Fenians and justify their scabbery with demands for a I oi innately tins campaign appears lobe corporate profits come from either I rade in the opposite direction also in shifting whole Industrie- around I low ever Irish CNI) is a 32-countv body the establishment of the I.and League It National Ballot. For Mr Kinnock and having the opposite ellect Itom that British TNCs overseas or foreign 1 NC's reaps a high rate ol profit when tlie western I mope I he removal of the with several thousand members in POLLUTION ON THE was in effect the origin ol the modern Mr Hattersley to demand a national which was intended—it alerted the Irish 'I i ualantee I nsh' has now been in Britain. Alter the USA. Britain has INCs supply commodities to the "nuisance" ol the national liontter- .Northern Ireland — who. ol coinse. national movement, and provided the ballot under those circumstances is to [X'ople lo the dangers ol being inveigled launched as a limited company yvitli a the largest stake in I NCs Per capita developing countries, lor example in goes hand in hand with -ma-lung the opuatc in a dilleicnl political situation healthy yo ng r.eople who joined the declare no confidence in the miners' into NAIO and greatly contributed to I HI I ATI-S I move in the Irish Sea ho.iid consisting of represent.niv-• ol Brit am is better oil than the USA in this South America theTNCs overstate their trade union movement to make httl have been active in opposing the Volunteers and C'umann na mBan. He executive. When people hear that they the grow th ol the Campaign for Nuclear pollution scandal is the move to dump tcKui.-'s industry and the trade unions FOODFRONT respect because ot its smaller prices of antibiotics bv 650^ and of available, il and w hen required, a cheap deployment ol C "titse missiles ami paid tribute to Michael Cusack who "There they are again; running down r Disarmament. The development ol so sea the radio-active mud that has population. v it.minis hv 7.1() ;. survile labour lorce lor the INC - I lie Bnlisli nuclcal policy geneiallv. A peace called the inaugural meeting at Thurles. their own side." And that's how Labour called I mope.in Political Co-operation contaminated Mars port harbour. I ,i *' , eat >.' I 1)00 million worth ol DURING the current "recession" the dispute between the Nf \1 and the camp has been established at the SINCI joining the 1 I ( Ireland has follow ing the decision to break from the support is lost. If you want to know IN\ I SI MINI bv foreign 1 NCs in a within the 1 EC is perhaps the greatest vi>!i>,imc! goods were imported and I NCs have continued to expand and National Coal Board ov er pit closures is Bishopscourt radar station in Co I)ou n been producing a declining amount ol imperial athletic organizations which how to keep it, study Mr Soargtll and Mr developed country does not necessarily potential lineal lo Irish neutrality and I lie local council wan: 1 • convert the unpolled turnitaic made up two-llurds smaller lr\ have been pushed out of part ol the -time grand plan. Profitable a* a piotesl against these policies and n food per head ol population, which is had previously dominated Irish sport. Livingstone. mean that more job'- are created I or this also litis invoked a response Many harbour into a marina -o as to make while processed lood amounted to one business Sales outside the TNCs home bits ol the NCB will be handed to the iicclitlv celebrated Its Inst huthda. unique among developed Western example it was recently announced by people who support the 1 EC a- an money from tourism quarter ot the market territories have increased from 2.V; ol I NCs at the same lime a- curbing the On i me in be i s in Noi I hern 11 eland c o nu- countries. the British Government that the economic unit ate opposed lo a the total in the 1470s to around W, influence ol coal as a eompeiitiv e luel to ll om all sections ol the community in So there is plenty ot loom for Buv Japanese Nissan corporation would developing common foreign policy lor It is admitted that the radio-active I ast seat one in tour potatoes today I lieu dominance litis increased oil and nuclear energy tough proportion. I think, with the 11 is If and '(Ilia ran teed Irish', the words LIVERPOOL CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION build ,i plant in Britain that would create its members il that involves a negation consu med in I t ela nd w as imported, lor a 1111 overall result ol I he policies ichgious make-up ol the community. mud is a result ol the Wtndscale/ that go with the Irish quality symbol ot lush neutrality Sellafield discharges for which nobody staggering £ Imillion supporting the INC- will be I lic-y strongly suppoit the nculialilv .1 the Republic and see advantages in ihi* has vet been brought to book W H 11 I I H IS scheme is a good one it On top ot that i Imillion, nearly as underdevelopment unpolled into loi themselves and also, indeed, loi I lie- is shanielul and ndictilou . that the Irish much was paid tor frozen chips from industrialised countries like Britain It is in this env ironnicnt thai the Irish rather than exporting development to C Nl) grew. I want to emphasise that it people on this side ol the watei But the Ministiv ot \giiculture CIOVeminent representing the majority Holland and Denmark, where the CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION AGM ol the people, should allow itself to be ALAN HEUSAFF the emerging countries. That i- il the started as a movement lor disarmament proposes to ignore the radio-activity climate is much less favourable tor INC- are allowed to continue their hut I mm the very first linked the I oiiv C oiighlan has eyplaine,I in and treat the mud as normal silt bound b\ the I EC rules in such a potato growing than in Ireland mat lei \ nd vet w hen the gov eminent is General Secretary, Celtic League SATURDAY, 19th MAY quest ol trampling down all national question o| lush neuttahty 1 his makes detail Ihe threats to Irish nciiliahlv So much for the w oriders the I EC was barriers and subjugating all working sense because international relations are which invoke the need lor a CO.IMIOIIS I I is doing this on the advice of the pieventcd tiom binding a 'Buv Irish' supposed 'o perform tor Irish people to then profit-. conducted between stales and the onlv policy ol suppoii loi il 11ash neuliahl \ Department of the Hnvtronment which campaign, there are people silly enough agriculture I he C ommon Market gave PUBLIC SESSION 2 pm An understanding ol the iole ol the wav that individuals in Ireland can is in I lie interests ol I he Bi it isli pe.iples as has discovered a nice little get-out. The to think that u can actually introduce the farmers m >re money for what they LECTURES ON INC- in the world today will help to influence the process ol disarmament is well as the Irish people. A world w it ho tit Radio-active Substances Act, 1960 'socialism' V well expect a prisoner to already p:oc.ticed. especially meat and bring them to an end along w nil the ter- bv e He oil raging the Ii ish C jov eminent to iiculi.il or non-aligned countries covers "waste directly generated bs the take time oil from prison for a holiday in 1 milk ,or which the , a*ic input is grass. rible effects tliev have in in.inv countries plav a role in the UN and ill other divided merely into Ihe black and while nuclear industry " [t argues that the key Spam But it gave the larmcrs no incentive to • "THE CELTIC NATIONS" throughout the world including Britain international lora In turn, the onlv wav o! two huge military blocs comprises up w ord is "direct", the wrste has not come I lie whole Biusscls business in not produce more Manv of them took the . 292 ALUM ROCK ROAD, It i- high lime loi a new order ol that an Irish Government can plav such a picture too horrible lo think about ]t -litught out of the pipe but has been alone against everything that smacks of extra money and shifted over to grass ; economic- and trade til tile world in a lole is hv remaining neutral Small I, as national secretary of Irish ( Nl), sitting in Marvport harbour Therefore socialism, bin II IS against basic growing Iron tillage That was much i 13 MAY -7 pm BIRMINGHAM 8 w Inch i here i- no place tor t he i av age- < >1 countries have a mediating role lo plav I I MI Id leave one message with I Ins it is not directly generated democracy Countries like Norway. easier and meant less work the INC - oi then le.iring down ol between the military blocs il tlicv set lonleieilce and Willi the British I aboui Sweden. Switzerland and Austria are national frontier- and national I hen minds to it w he leas small count lies movement it would be this — help us i,. Ot course it was directly generated not socialist c'oilixries but their Hence the importation of potatoes IRISH CENTRE, Mount Pleasant .1 -pit aiioit- lor real pi ogre-- can have little, il any. influence within ilc lctill t he neutrality ol t lie I nsh -i jie when- it was ge-nerjHed—but any excuse government* are-far more democratic and scandals like that. The EEC has is good enftugh Dflmp it " the sea and and ropim-nc to their peoples than an- made the basic problems of Irish let the cancer rates soar Money's the government within the Common agriculture more difficult to tackle, not LIVERPOOL mtrm thine Market can be'. e.isiei i. IRISH DEMOCRAT MAY 1984

Sam Hasten, Chairman of the Nortlgr^ Ireland Socialist Party, Sean Murrey of the Communist Party, and myself for the Republican Congress of which I was now Joint Secretary with Frank Ryan Ernie O'Malley sent a message of support The editor was Frank Ryan He had returned wounded from Spain in MEMORIES " REPUBLICANCONGRESS March 1937, and went back a year later Whilst he was home 1 went with him, Amongst Ihe sull youthful "veterans" April 1936, the Republican Congress Joe Doyle, Robejt Emmett, Lorcan lollcition ol this tribute through the 1 hese rent strikes were most horses 111 the area — and us contents i his month we proudly present to our readers a lon^ were Kit Conway, Jack Nalty (both contingent taking part in the annual Leonard and some others to a meeting in I and Commission and the sum involved .alarming. We told the tenants to were piled agains! Ihe door and sel withhold the rent, but no! lo spend 11. a killed in Spam). Larry O'Connor Peter Easter parade to Glusnevin Cemetery the Mans ion House. Dublin to article b\ \ir Patrick Byrne giving the inside story o} the some millions being duly transferred alight At this stage, about midnight. difficult injunction for people on th- Ledwith, Joe Doyle. Billy Kelly. Robert were subjected to attacks by organised introduce a new printing of James to I ondon The payment of these By Murray gave the order to retire. Republican Congress exclusively to the IRISH , borderline of starvation to comply w n > Emmett. Lorcan Leonard. Dinny Fascists all along the route The "Irish Connolly's works. Some clown behind annui'ies had been bitterly resented, and | w hich we J"1 across the roofs to safety ' We held street meetings in alley ways and Coady (killed in Spain), and many People" reported us kepi interrupting the speakers with DKMOC RAI. Readers who wish for extra copies of this when an agitation to have them PATRICK BYRNE Connolly House, a large building four courts, using borrowed chairs for a others, all of Dublin In Castlecomer the cry "What about the works of S! abolished commenced in County storeys high was burned to the ground "Shreiking the most obscene abuse unique issue should apply as soon as possible to Mr Noel platform, and arranged to fight off any there was Mick Brennan. in the west Patrick'.'" Frank soon turned around, Donegal, instigated bv the redoubtable Joint Secretary 1'he police did nothing during all the . . hurling stones and railings torn eviction threat. Brian Corrigan and Tony Lavelle. and grabbed ihe offender by the lapels, Gordon at the Pour Provinces Bookshop, 244-246 Grays Inn Socialist-Republican leader. Peadar with commotion, except look on. obviously from graves, the gangsters did not in the Norlh. Victor Halley and Jack shook a massive fist under his nose and O'Doinell, the movement spread Similar activity was taking place in sympathetic to the rioters shrink from pursuing the processionists Road. I .ondon, \V ( i McGoughan advised him to keep his bloody mouth nationwide The Fi a n n a Fail Waterford where I rank Edwards ran into the cemetery itself and transform- FRANK RYAN I WAS a student at Ihe Workers' shut, or he'd "get the works of Frank government with the utmost reluctance foul of a local church dignaiorv. Frank The Republican Congress was held on ing it into a bedlam of hatred." and College when the mob attacked. With Ryan." A 1 PR! SIM then- election in 1932 tiles were victorious woio sucked into campaign and was al lhat time a teacher in Mount Sion 29-30 September 1934 in Rathmmes The main target of the mob was other students, about SO. I was taking a AT this time, all over Britain, awakening inleiesl in : In.: f 1 a n n a I ail hail r e c e t e v e d legislation 10 withhold the annuities was Christian Brothers school. He was asked town Hall. When I arrived on the Captain Jack While He had been course in Political Economy (Marx). Committees were being set up to send HHe li.is recently \li"w: •!• considerable supporl Irom the iRA in passu! in the Dail The National bv the then Bishop of Waterford and morning of the 29th. I saw a mob taking injured with a blow of an iron cross European History, and Revolution in food to hard pressed Republican Spain leatlil l's dealing Will. Ill' ' • I i.tle ihe election campaign Iwo days alter (iosei nment a! Westminster, led bv the FRANK EDWARDS 1 ismore to sign an undertaking that he shape in a street facing the Town Hall, wrenched from a grave It was necessary 1 Theory and Practice. Madame Despard, In Dublin the "Irish Foodship for Spam lilt sei 1 >nd world w ai .11 '.' . !"> for taking 11I t ice talks were resumed 1 .ih. ir traitors. Ramsey MacDonald would not remain in any organisation o! numbering about 200. behind a banner 10 gel him away quickly Fortunately, then an old frail woman with a heart of Committee" was established, under the sci nil (in 1 ho Spanish c is il .'. i' s '"CI! \U between do Valera and the Arms and 1 I! Ihomas, over-reacted to ihis which ihe Catholic C h u r c h reading "God bless our Pope " There ihe Rosary had stal led and this caused a a lion, awarded a gold watchat the end presidency of Father Mich a e I vivors weio able spo.ts ! THE III ( 0un1.1l (IRA) about the possibility ol measure and imposed crippling taxes on disapproved He refused, and was was some apprehension inside the Town lull during which Tom O'Brien and of term to the best student, which. ! O'Flanagan, a Republican priest who unit- 1 Spain now havMI O • * . Ills' L'O' (using the (wo movements I hes both all lush goods entering Britain promptly dismissed from his teacher's Hall. Frank Ryan asked me whether I myself got him away Captain White 1934-1984 regret to say wasn't I. The mob attack had been chaplain to ihe first Dail in eminent I abi >111 I lie even's • • drew their suppoit Irom the uihan and 1 his cold, or economic war lasted for post. had "any stuff (guns) I hadn't. He felt wrote afterwards: "By the aid of two related problems, the solution of which contractor who was behaving badlv followed the usual pattern, hymn sing- 1919, and acting President of the were ac I is el v ngaged rural winking ilass and the small six soars Irish industrialists were hard Frank in an article published in the that we should take this precaution: Republican Congress comrades, who can only be found in the solidarity of towards the work-force, by putting out ing. swearing, and brick throwing. Leslie Republic while de Valera was in the I his rem wed intciesi ;i :• I '! lilv ,1 ! tarnnng communits, and their aims Int. but the (arming community, book "Survivors" recalled an issue of mobs can swell very fast and can be very knew ihe geography, we left by an the workers, small farmers, and pea- ol action a Heel of vehicles on the site I Datken was in charge of the defence. At United States in 1920 the Vice- .mil s( n 1.11 i, muIII 11 ms 1 >ht.1.; 0 SL'.IIS were almost identical Ihe outcome especially the big cattle ranchers ihe "Republican Congress" which dangerous. So. with Larry O'Connor, inconspicuous back door Slipping sants North and South w as entrusted with this task, so with five the time, structural repairs were being Presidents were: the Earl of I.istowel. ag«> in.1 s ho duo to a simii.u it 1 ovists liowcvei. was inconclusive sustained heavy losses displayed prominently on the front page Chairman ot the Dublin Congress, we under a barbed wire fence, the Congress The statement called lor a Republican men. all armed, we approached the undertaken inside the house, so we had Professor Rudmos Browne, Maud .il pioson! 11' IH.H dcprcssin.' p i >d I n I his was a time ol gieat depression 111 Nevertheless, despite the hardship a beautiful Red Flag with the words of went to Christy "Sniper" Clark's house comrades and 1 dropped on to the Congress and was signed hv William scene of action. Bill Scott (later to serve plenty of "ammunition" to hurl at the Gonne McBride. Lennox Robinson, employ 1110111 ihon. a-, mra w.i 'hieeand western lu rope 111 general, and 111 caused by these punitive measures, the Jim O' C o n n e 11' s "Red Flag" in Dominick Street. Christy was a railway and soon emerged into safety McMullen. Chairman, Belfast Trades 111 ihe International Brigade) seemed to crowd in the street. We were saved this Dorothy McArdle. f rank Edwards and .1 halt mi If 11 ins I ho 11 i j * union Ireland. Noith and South, in particular people in general remained loyal lo underneath Frank wrote "This caused quartermaster in the born-again Irish and a Glasnevin tram " Council. William Craig (At U). appear from nowhere: "Get to hell out time by the intervention of some IRA Peadar O'Donnell I was appointed f ull- movement was uiuloi gloat p: • -sure In Ihere was a quarter ol a million I laruia f ail, bul not all. The Opposition nervous readers 10 protest that they were Citjzen Army. We returned to On the following day. Easter Murtagh Morgan (President I I &GVV1'. of it, Pat. The place is swarmingwith the stalwarts, principally Mick Kelly, O/C time Organising Secretary (iciinaiiv il had hoon wipi\; OI.:I al .1 unemployed 111 the island out ol a Parts then known as C'umann na already under sufficient pressure from Rathmines with some "stuff' — |ust to Monday. Willie Gallagher. Communist Belfast); J. Swindenbank (M il); John Special Branch " 1 immediately Dublin Brigade, who masquerading as Our headquarters was at 14 Sackville Sli 1 iko In I In loi in |9 U ., Mussolini population ol about lour millions n( iacdheal developed a "military wing" certain quarters without going out to be on the saf e side. As things turned out, MP for West Fife, was listed as one of Campbell. Daniel t.oughran, and P. "dismissed" the squad telling them to police officers ordered the mob to Place, off O'Connell Street 1 he- had eailioi extinguished il in Italy In Conditions in the North were, il called the Blueshirts This was a Fascist seek it." He wondered why Frank Ryan the mob failed to attract the numbers the speakers at a Congress Rally in Hadden (Northern Ireland Socialist separate and make their way quickly out disperse at gun point. premises, which were quite large, had K111 a 1 n a strong ( on :: s a 11 s e anything, worse than in the Free State had taken this step. College Green There was a very large- organisation composed mainlv of of danger. I learned afterwards that the they expected, and faded away. Party ). ( All Protestants) The College had been receiving the not been used for some lime, and were 111 government was engaged in depressing Hie shipyards were almost at a disgruntled f ree State Officers political I was in Congress headquarters 111 I11 my view this was the first truly crowd. mostly hostile, but no platform The organisation ol Congress proposed sabotage had been discussed need of an infusion of fresh paint. 1 lie- standstill. 20,000 workers 111 the linen Marlborough Street with Frank Ryan full treatment from the capitalist press, lor the speakers (the owner of the lorry Iho living siandaids ol (ho mass o| [ho opportunists, seasoned with lumpen- at an open Trade Union branch meeting. Socialist Conference to be held 111 branches now proceeded thoughout the and pulpit. A story was current that office telephone was connected, but pooplo l'o\011v was uidespio.iJ in the industry were idle. In the slums ol pioletarian elements, and led by a when the issue arrived, beaimg the red Ireland since Connolly's death. There had been intimidated) Peadar country A headquarters was Other more ambitic s militaristic there were no directories. How long I'IIOS \-h!'. H U C: Bellas! X.000 children were declared hs llag. 1 asked Frank why he had come out inside the door at Eccles Street was O'Donnell mounted a lamp standard and the oonnli and i former Police Commissioner Eoin adventures, including a raid on a was a strong representation from the established at II2 Marlborough Street, placed a "Sacred Heart" mat for the would we have to wan for them'.' In the- hiingei inaiihes woio tin' .-'lor ol tho ihe Belfast Education Committee to be O'Dutly, who declared at a meeting in so strong. He told me that at the time of North. William McMullen, Chairman of and commenced speaking. This was ihe Dublin, and a weekls paper "The barracks for arms, were rejected event, ten minutes. Dtnnv Coady, who suffering from malnutrition. the truce 111 July 1921, he was students to wipe their boots on. This was signal for a volley of stones, bricks and das ' West I imerick in 1933 that "What the overwhelmingly in Committee. the Belfast Trades Council presided. Republican Congress" was launched. a barefaced lie. was present during the inspection, had (hi loni on asions in : ti • ; < isj \ oa i I Ihe South was also enduring severe" Blackshtrts did lor Italy, and the commanded to take his unit of the East One hundred and eighty three delegates bottles which crashed against the wall of There was a new and wonderful spirit Eventually, realistic political activity disappeared for that length of time, now haw hoon asked [0 spo.o ; Irish and economic depression There was mass Brownshirts did for Germany, the 1 imerick Battalion to a local creamery In June I934, for the first time, a were present from all parts of Ireland, Ihe Bank of Ireland behind 11s. Al ihis abroad, attracting especially, the young. took over from militarism, and it was re-appeared with a complete set. Sooialist groups on the in -.r ol ihe unemployment: poverty anil starvation Blueshirts will do for Ireland " that had been taken over by the workers contingent of workers numbering about from the Shankhill Road to Achill stage the police stopped the meeting. In fact some of our youthful helpers agreed to give the IRA their guns back Naturally. 1 did not ask him where he- Republic .111 ( mii' 1 ess VV lien I spoke at a 111 the crowded slums ol Dublin, O'Diifly's "March on Dublin" was w ho were fly ing the red flag, and to eject 500 travelled from the Shankhill and Sound. Workers from the western Peadar O'Donnell, Gene Downey and were so eager, I recall especially Miriam (or most of them) provided they were got them. In the office next morning, a meeting in Mainhcsi.-i. under the Waterlord. Cork, and elsewhere: planned for 13 August, and there was a them. Frank carried out his orders and Ballymacarret areas of Belfast in a fleet seaboard expressed their grievances and myself were laken into "protective" Gogarly, Oliver Norton, and Miriam ceremoniously received! boy about 16 years of age presented auspues ol ihe I ahoui ( 011111111100 on stagnation 111 the countryside I victions general mobilisation of Blueshirts to hauled down the red flag. This had since of coaches to take part in the annual their hopes in Irish (the only language custody and removed to College Street James, whom I feared were taking time Congress branches everywhere took himself. He said thai he had heard that I Ireland, a nioinhei ol ihe audience, a I10111 smallholdings, and mass emigra- converge on I etnster House (the Dail). weighed heavily 011 his conscience, and Wolfe Tone commemoration at • some of them knew). There was a large police station. We could hear the mob oil Irom school lor Congress work part in Trade Union activity, employing was looking for a decorator, and if so Pmlessoi ot 11 isioi s. I old me I ha I il was tion, was on a scale unequalled since the Al ihe last moment, the march was he was now making amends. Bodenstown, Co Kildare. On arrival in number of fraternal delegates from roaring for our blood outside in between Nora Connolly in her last book wrote tor ihe firs! time in Ireland the technique my search was over. He was a painter by- nn "dill." In commit lo willing I he IXKlK prohibited by the Government, but ' IHE Congress branches did not Dublin they went to Arbour Hill to lav Britain and the United Slates. All the- singing hymns. "Faith of our Fathers", ol the period: of the mass picket. On one occasion 200 trade. and with the help of another evenls I had tiled lo desctibe as a 111! galhoiing stoim ol frustration already the city was swarming with confine their activities to tenant league wreaths on Connolly's grave, and then re-solutions were practical, dealing with was top ol their charts. of our members were arrested for travelled to Bodenstown to take part in "man" would do the job f or me He said poini.inonl 1 oi 1 ad llo poniled mil llial and angci bloke in Hcllast Ihe "Irish Blucshirt bands Ihe IRA leadership "then the Republican Congress agitation. They were engaged in employment, housing, fuel, transport, AMONGST other activities, the picketing a large chain store in Dublin, the parade, behindtheirbanners reading his name was Brendan Behan Before- \ 01 \ III I lo is known 11 on 1 I he siaiulpoinl Press" ol 4 Octohci. 1912 reported had remained withdrawn from this came along, when there was a vacuum assisting miners 011 strike at the youth, the unemployed, and the need Congress continued to tight slum where some employees were receiving a "Wolfe Tone Commemoration I934 — long, he and his mate (another boy ol Iho lank and lile ol gloat ladical " 10,000 uncmplovcd matched in protest crisis, except lo exhort their followers to for a political movement in Ireland. Il Castlecomer. taking part in hunger for a Socialist way forward. There was a tenants' battles. On the night alter the weekly wage of 12/- The 200 served a Shankhill Road Branch — Break the ibout the same age), had transformed movements ol iho pasi. |m "the against ihe scale ol relief paid on certain avoid "Party Politics," Hut large was purely Socialist as well. We wanted 'f marches, and in rallies and ref reshing absence of chauv inist jargon. College Cireen affair, a meeting of term in Mountjov Jail connection with Capitalism," and he place I paid them £50 and they were same leason lhal vvoiking peoplt won. disiiess schemes laght shillings a week numbers ol Republicans and Socalists to start a new Parly and we wanted the demonstrations ot all kinds. I was On the central issue, however, ihe Dublin Tenants' l eague were clue to TEN ANT I E AG 11ES were formed 111 "James Connolly Club, Belfast — lelighted Brendan, vears later, told me nol a lu a \ s 11 le 1 all', and I hose who weio. loi .1 man 10 support his wile and were 111 the streets to counter Biueshirl Republican C ongress lo be Ihe next I frequently 111 Belfast at this time and Congress was split down the middle. meet ill the new Congress headquarters the cities. In Dublin and Waterford United Irishmen of 1934." One of the hat this was Ihe firs! wage he had evei had nol llie lime 01 iho mean* ol I.imils " On 12 Octohci the "Press" demonstrations. In Februarv 1934, the government. We had so many people spoke at meetings deep in Shankhill This was whether the Congress should in Middle Abbey Street. I expected that especially shocking slum conditions men who carried the latter banner. Jim .-arned. and 11 was lus first job. iccoidittg iho snuggles in whuli ihev u polled "Cordon around Belfast Army Council (IRA) issued an order that it would have been. (Everything was territory. resolve itself into a new revolutionary after the events of the weekend, which were revealed. In both cities some Straney, died in the crossing of the Ebro. The Committee gol down to the task woio engaged So lhal too ol Ion w ha I w 1 Stioet lightmgin widely separated areas lhal Volunteers were "Not to take part Socialism at that time. The Republican The movement now had to bear the Socialist Party, or remain as a finned had been well covered in all the papers clerical involvement (as slum landlords) the last major offensive of the of raising money fast Our speakers know ol ihe I ewlleis. Iho I udditos. 1I10 Rcsolsci and nlle linng by police 011 111 any action against Fascist-Imperialist Congress was very strong. It was a lull weight of reaction, lay and clerical. Front of all progressive forces against (with appropriate editorial comment), was uncovered. Every week our paper Republican forces in Spain in I939. The addressed meetings all over Ireland, ( hailisls and iho I emails, has heei. huge crowds ol unemployed, especially organisations as this was not the policy grand time. Often I would travel up and Connolly House, (he headquarters of Fascism that lew tenants would turn up. To ms "The Republican Congress" carried Congress branches left the assembly including Belfast where an active- absorbed lioin iho liilsMiipalholii 111 the I alls and Shankill area lohn of ihe Arms." down the country with Mick Price the Communist Party was attacked by a Peadar O'Donnell. Chairman ol the great surprise, there was a full new horror stories of the Dublin slums. field at Sallins as part of the huge supporting Committee was 111 existence. writings ol middle i lass liaiks and (leogan ol Milllield shot dead Samuel organising branches." mob and burned. Earlier, the Workers' Republic an C ongress, in a recent letter attendance, and a sole of complete- Thirty thousand families were living parade, but when our Belfast friends Appeals were printed and widely host 1I0 houigci us histoi mils Ha\tci ol Regent Street died ol wounds I Ills policy ol isolation from the IN Dublin, where I was actively College in Madame Despard's house in to me has provided a definition ol Our confidence 111 us was enthusiastically developing class struggle, and non- in single rooms. Forty-nine per tried to follow us. their path was barred distributed I recall one slogan read: Ol iho R epuhlii a 11 ( on » 1 • s- received 111 an attack made on an involved, live Branches were ticcies Street, had been their target. I aims: passed. resistance to Fascism, was causing great cent of ihe city's housing svas by a cordon of the IRA with orders to "6d will buy a bar of soap, a tin of milk, inoM'inenl in 11 eland m ihe I hit 110s Idi lo aiiiiouied car that had become trapped established, soon lo he joined by a sixth was present in both places when under "The central idea of the Republican In Spain 111 July 1936, Franco discontent in the rank and file ol the unlit lor habitation At ihis tune I prevent them from leaving unless they and a bandage." It was difficult, and at has been leeoided I here air Iwo 111 a trench " file "Bellas! I olograph" branch composed ol British cx- seige. Congress was that an identifiable commenced Ins result against the Republican movement. The crisis came was Chairman ol the Dublin United agreed to keep their banners furled. This limes dangerous work. Some ot our paniphlels In i ieoige < iiltnore. and 1I10 conlessed lhal "I here was an exchange Servicemen. with Captain.lack Whiteas I11 Connolly House on the night oft he- w orking class vanguard should mobilise Spanish Government. Ihe Congress at the IRA Annual Convention 011 17 Tenant Leagues. I have only space to the Belfast men refused to do, but collectors were beaten up. However, splendid serial, also liom his pen. lhal ol mischief niakcis all over the ills ll Chairman. Ihis branch was a direct attack 1 was in a room on the ground all the independence forces. The other became the rallying ground tor all who March 1914 in Dublin. Michael Price give three typical examples of life in the charged the cordon and fought their way there was considerable sy mpathy lor the has appeared in leoenl issues ol "Iho was significant lhal loi once the result ol a new approach I had floor hand setting some leaflets from an view was that we declare for a Workers' supported the legally elected democratic called loi a declaration ol a "Workers' Dublin slums. I quote from reports in through to join the Republican Spanish people, holding out in Madrid, Irish Deiliociat " Iho suhieel is also icligious question did nol enter into the advocated to ex-soldiers 111 an article "A antique printing press that had once Republic. The details of the Congress government. The general election of Republic " as the .11111 of the Army The our paper: Congress contingent numbering several and elsewhere, and the indiscriminate menlionod in "flank Ryan" In Sean tioublo Youths Itom Protestant areas Message 10 I x-Sers icemen" which w as been used for Connolly's "Workers you probably know better than me, bul February 1936 brought the Popular Right leadership was shocked Sean "Climbing a rickety stairs I entered thousand and march with them through bombing ol Guernica and other towns C1011111. and in "I'cadai O'Donnoll woio lo be lonnd 111 Catholic districts, published 111 "Die Republican Republic" in 1913. I was not a member the essential feature of it was that il saw Front lo powei I11 a Cortes Russell said ill,it they "were not a small room over a vegetable store, or Sallins village behind the Workers' caused widespread condemnation I he- Irish Social Rebel." by Michael Mi In and v isa vcrsa Congress" 111 November 1934. Oil ol the CP. but they allowed me this itself mobilising all the independence (Parliament) of 475 seats, the interested 111 Party politics " Peadar O' more properly speaking a stable in the Union of Ireland band playing "The open intervention by the Italian ern\ Ol ourso. Ihe I lies ol iho In tins situation, while the revolution Armistice Day a contingent o! British facility. There were books and papers on forces behind, a clearly recognisable- Popular Front held 27X seats, made up Donnoll called lor a Republican Con vicinity of Parnell Square. There was Red Flag". Fascists, and ihe German Na/i on the "Republican Congress" (in ihe Nmili was being served up on a plate in Belfast, ex-serv icemen, proudly displacing their display in the front window. Suddenly workers' vanguard. You will remember of 146 Republicans. 9X Socialists. 21 gross ilial would rally all shades ol anli- no fire (in April). There was one bed on side o! I ianco. and Ihe reporls ol iiiulei iho heading ol "Ihe Noiihoni what was the IRA leadership doing' medals, marched with R.publican this was shattered bv flying stones. The cemetery, however, was well the depth of working class support " Communists, and 13 other Radicals I ascist and Republican opinion. I Ins which lay a married girl oft 9, who was refti-gees arriving in Dublin from Berlin VVorkei"). and olhei papers published Organising a " Bo v col I Bass" Congress branches through cheering There was a mob gathering outside. I guarded by the Tipperary Brigade. To T HE voting was 99 for a United Although the Communists had won was opposed hv the I xecutive expecting a baby. The bedclothes were and Vienna, brought into our funds In ihe ( ongrcss " I he lush People, ami ( ampaign Because ol some disparaging crowds o! I>11 Miners 111 a demonstration dashed out to boll the street door. There avoid an unseemly scene, the wreaths Front, and X4 for a Socialist Partv only 21 seats, the press 111 general hailed Committee w ho vv on bv one vote I here- old coats. The husband, who was un- generous donations Irom Jewish firms " I hi' Irish Democrat." will pro\ide .1 tcmaiks the Bass boss. ( olonel Cirel- against war and poverty. I had urged was a meeting in progress upstairs. were laid on the roadside, and we O'Donnell, Ryan, Gtlmore, Murray led the result as a triumph lor "the Reds". upon Peadar O'Donncil. Michael Price, employed, was receiving 9/- a week and the Ic.vish community, and as well mine ol inloimalion loi Ihe sliideni 01 I111. ssas reporteil lo have made about this new approach because ot the disgust Paddy Flanagan of the NUR was withdrew to Sallins. The "Irish Times" for a United Front Against were Roddy Hie "New Yoik Herald-Tribune" of6 Gcoigc (iilmore and frank Rvan loll outdoor assistance, of this sum 6/- went as from liberals, trade unionists and ievolulionar\ moscments ol lite pouod the lush, some IR \ leadeis took 11111 I loll when I saw some ex-servicemen lecturing to about XO people. Our first commented next day on the irony of Connolly, Michael Price, Nora September 1936 (nol a radical papcrl the ( mis ent 1011 and the IRA. on rent, leaving 3/- for food and other Republicans By the lime our ship was VV niiiig 111 I ondon. sv itliout relet em 0 to mage and soul units out into ihe being set upon lor wearing their medals consideration was to get the "civilians" Ulster Protestants being prevented bv Connolly, and others. Personally I summarised the election results as necessities. On the day of my visit they due lo sail, a considerable amount had these sou 1 cos. I must rel\ mainls on m\ siieels ol Dublin and elsewhere lo raid I his pioccdure was 10 be repeated at and poppies 011 then ragged coats out w hich we did by a back door,before Tipperary Catholics from honouring favoured Ihe idea of a new Socialist follows; had been living on rice for twodays. bul been subscribed 111 goods of all kinds, incmoiv ol those exciting limes, ami the pubs, loirils the customers, and destros si 1111 la 1 cons on 1 ions all over t he coil ntrv the mob completed the encirclement of Wolfe Tone. Oui pasi involvement with the IRA this was now exhausted." Party, hul loyally to Peadar. frank "The February elections were con- wonderlul people I had the honoui and Vt Iho Dublin Brigade Convention, al lood. clothing, medical supplies, soap perfectly good slocks ol bottled Bass, an weighed he,is lis loi a lime 011 the new the building. We then went through the MEANWHILE preparations were Ryan and Murray determined my vote. tested on Ihe issue which is still Ihe issue privilege ol woiking with in the light which I was a delegate, a motion calling "In the front 'parlour' of a house in and cash, which was used in bulk buying aitisils m which I regie! lo sas I svas organisation An attempt was made to drill for a seige. Brian O'Neill was going going ahead for the holding of the Looking back I think 11 was a great in Spain. Shall the Spanish Republic be against f ascism anil lot a Soiialisi loi Iho adoption ol a socialist policy was Coleraine Street live the Keogh family. ol food 011 a large scale engaged create a "military sung" by resurrecting about with a woodman's axe (I don't Congress. There was strong Trade mistake lhat we did not go for a retained on the lines of social and Itelaiul opposed hs Sean Mcliiide. who carried The room is eight feet square. It con- I AR1 V one morning 111 March I93X. The 1 lanna I ail Party under the the Irish Cili/en Arms We still had know where he got it). Johnnie Nolan Union support. The Workers' Union of Workers' Paris. Michael Price said lo agrarian reforms laid do« n in its found- ihe meeting bv a small majority. file tains two beds, a table, and some a convoy ol lorries let! Sackville Place MN I AR1 II SI memories arc ol the leadership ol ile Valera were now 111 slocks of arms, t here was more drilling and Jim Prendergast were barricading Ireland, the second largest in the South me after the vote. "You have put the ing and its constitution? Or shall it be d i s s i d c 111 s. including 111 s s e I! , chairs. At night 11 human beings pack for Belfast We flew Irish tricolours until Pastel Rebellion 111 Dublin 111 I9|(> I government and endeavouring lo 111 the lulls, and 011 one occasion when the stairs using benches from the lecture had affiliated. Their leader, the great revolution back 100 years." discarded in all its fundamental ele- immediately sv it lull ow into Ihis den. In one bed seven of the we came 10 the border and then changed was rising toui sears ol ago at Ihe tunc implement the old Sinn l einn policy ol entering Congress headquarters 111 room. Jim Larkin, was a staunch supporter from then on the movement lost ments. Seventy-five per cent of 13 mil- children sleep. In the other the them for Spanish Republican tricolours. anil sis alls retail the panic and piaseis "sell reliance" At thai nine agriculture A special Conference convened al Marlborough Street. 1 saw through an I was on the first floor with Sean and frequently spoke on Congress momentum. Trade Union support lion Spanish voters cast their ballots for parents and two children rest." Despite an assurance that the convoy within our home, and the gun lite and was largely based on cattle ranching Athlono on 7-X April 1934. was attended open basement window, a class ol Murray and others. The lights were platforms. Other Unions giving support melted away, ihe Connollys and olheis the preservation and continuance of the would be cleared through Customs, we red skies w 11 ho 111 (I ross uig up 111 Mich a f lanna fail would speed Ihe plough, In ovei 200 lormei IRA leaders and ( ongress workeis engaged 111 small arms extinguished and we opened the windows were the Miners, the Printers, the Republic." "Families of 12 are frequently found retreated in 10 the oblivion of the Labour revolutionary era. I naturally gr.o Jiali ' pioniiiionl Republicans and Socialists, were slopped by the RUC and break up the large under-utilised estates, (revolver) dull to lessen the danger of flying glass. We Seamen, the Woodworkers, the Party Roddy Connolly was distressed, Oil our side, an liish Battalion, to be living in single rooms. In one house in "impounded" 111 Newry barracks. Our 111 time to membership ol Sinn Fein and and make the soil ol Ireland available and 1 lie call was issued lor a Republican tins addiction 10 the traditional could see the mob outside. In between Garmentmakers, Plasterers, Women Holies Street, 49 people are living. as indeed most ol us were. Nora took il led by Frank Ryan, was raised to serve its "military wing", the IRA 1 he Congiess arrest (I had 20 men with me) caused a loi ihe people ol Ireland To a greal "physical force" side of the Republican singing hymns and hurling abuse at us, Workers' Union, Tram & Busmen, and very hard. I11 her last book she had with the International Brigade. I was not organisation then | I1'?1') bore little 11 Wo believe that a Republic of a storm 111 Belfast, and the local foodship extent this policy succeeded One spin movement had limited advantages 111 Ihe Tenants' Leagues, run bs they were chucking books and papers on many others. The IT&GWU in the writlen "The Communists did nol want directly concerned in this, and I hope ans. resemblance lo the piesent I niled Ireland will never be achieved Committee (President, Lord Antrim) oil was that when wai came in 1919. ihe lhal our members were used lo Republican Congress personnel, a lire they had going in the mi Idle of the North gave us their full support, but in a Republican Congress. They were out some comrade who was involved and "Prosiiis' I he IRA was still a power!uI. except through a struggle which speedily obtained our release. T he- lountrv was largely sell sufficient in discipline and quick mobilisation, but it organised rent strikes for bettei street in Nazi fashion. Then bricks and all the South the leaders were holding off'to lor a United front, but this was taught in Spain will write this su.r- well organised, and well disciplined uproots capitalism on its way. We can- convoy of trucks was intact except for lood and as Ihe ports had been was disastrous in lhat the struggle was conditions On one occasion the Third kinds of missiles came crashing see how matters would turn out Within something Russia wanted, not wlial we Perhaps Joe Monks ( "Spanish Joe" not organisation. Il was only three sears nol conceive a free Ireland and a sub- some bags of flour which had been returned in a position to remain neutral not 111 a military stage, and amongst Dublin District Committee carried on a into the darkened room, which we the Congress branches a new, young wanted." to be confused with another Joe Monks since the leadership had included ject working class." bayoneted by the RUC, presumablv I II! BATTI I lor the I and other tilings 11 prov ided an escape route rent strike for two months affecting five- promptly hurled back. The mob was so team was emerging. The greatest was Although the Republican Congress an active Congress worker in Dublin), I amorin do Valera. Sean 1 emass. A supporting call w as received Irom a looking for arms. On the dockside in Annuities commenced 111 1931 Ihe loi opportunist I rade Union leaders streets in the vicinity of Westland Row, dense we caused a number ol injuries — Cora Hughes, a beautiful, brave and movement had received a shattering or Alec Digges. or Mick Brennan. who Ihomas Aiken, and other civil war special Conference ol I rade I'monists Belfast next morning we saw our ship I and Annuities were payments made who were quite happy to see terrorism and finally won a 25% reduction in rent { 27. 1 learned, were hospital cases. Some eloquent girl Other young leaders 111 blow, it did not succumb, as some- served in the Republican Air Force, will leaders, who deciding upon a new in Hcllast being loaded The dockers were most twice yearly bv the farmers to meet the used as a substitute for industrial action At the same time the Fourth District were beaten up on the stretchers before Dublin, where I was mainly engaged, writers would now have us believe A undertake this task, before it is too late approach, had taken their seals 111 the Iriendlv and made a collection for our capital cost lhal had been involved in We are convinced that the horrors I or example, on one occasion when Committee won rehousing by the Dublin reaching the ambulance by (he mob who were Charlie Donnelly (killed in Spain), depleted Congress organisation carried A new Congress paper "The Irish Dail, and 111 June 1927 only latled by the funds. The ship beat the blockade off the buying out the landlords al the time ol of the capitalist economic system, Ihe there was trouble 011 a public works Corpoi a In 111 lor ihe tenants of Mageo thought they were our people. Bobby Walsh, Nora McGinley, Joe on, and was to receive a new infusion of Democrat", was founded at a meeting 111 Speaker's casting vole lo bring the t ree Spanish coast by German and Franco's Ihe Treaty The new free State menace of l aseism the question of pro|ect 111 a certain area 111 Dublin, it was Court, a collection of filthy cottages fil Meanwhile, a hayloft had been Leonard, Kay Fitzpatrick, Rosie Burke, life when the Spanish Civil War Dublin in March 1937. The speakers State Government down In the general warships, and arrived safely at Almerta. government had agreed to lake over the Irish National unitv are inter- decided to lake action against a only lor ihe vermin abounding therein discovered — there were still stables for Flann Campbell, and Maggie Doyle commenced in July 1936. Before that, in included Dr Owen Sheehv Skeffington. Continued on Page Seven IRISH DEMOCRAT MAY 1984 THE BANKS OF MY OWN KILLETER IRISH DEMOCRAT Edited by MAY 1984 FAIR have in 111s possession .1 note 111 his LOVELY LEE handwriting lot the ( .ingress | xeeutise IRISH 10 consider the piopos.il Ihe PATRICK \ I I FN IIO V hum si count 1 s lolk REPUBLICAN CONGRESS (Concluded) Oil. otu-ri mv thoughts and m> fancies take flight. \ wee while, if vou please: demonstration w.is countered with sers good However, in the l.iec ol lo (he home of mv childhood assay; BOND I'll sinu for \ou a verse or Ivvo From Page Five Meelian and W ilium Be at tie In March, lush organisations in the United States excessive brutality bs the police using Fun n.i Fail host iln s. and I K \ batons and tiuvrms I ,.mk was badlv Id ilif davs when mv patriot fervour shone bright. lo amuse \ou at vour ease. Congress activities meanwhile a mass rally was held 111 the Central issued a call Ironi New York to all obscurantism, the "call" disappeared 1 n]ured. bin continued undetei red to try i re I thought that those jovs would decay. It's .ill about .1 handsome girl continued ir. other areas ol struggle Mission Hall, lower Abbes Street, »o sections ol the Republican movement in into the sand to maintain the Congress movement In llnd her equal would be ran. Local branches thai had been denounce fascism, and uphold the Ireland to meet in conference to form .1 I or rn\ heart was us liuht as the wild winds that blow. SONGS Earls in 1939 it was clear that the tall until Ills return to the Sp.uiish Iront on \111l I hi first place th.it I met hi r Spanish Republic united Ironi lor the achiev ement of "the considerably reinforced by new ol the Republic in Spain was imminent Down the Wartlike, through eaeh elm tree. W as ,it Killeter fair. unity and independence of Ireland as a June 5. 193" members were engaged in renewed Frank Ryan had been captured on 31 Where I sported and plaved in the yreen lealv shade. IN September 19 3". Pe.1d.1r Republic " The signatories were John J W itli the I.ill ol the Spanish Republic, Trade Union action, tenant leagues were March. I93M by Italian troops He O'Donnell and Brian Corrigan were O'Reilly, lor the American Association and the outbreak lis e months later of the On the hanks ot niv own lovely Lee. Hir eves did shine like diamonds. busy agu.;. ir. slum areas. The Left escaped (he death sentence imposed bs movement was no longer in retreat and organising the Irish Migratory Union for the Recognition of the Republic Second World Wat. the Republican Her cheeks bloomed like the rose: court martial due largely to the THE MAGHERAFELT we held meetings and rallies when and along the western coast, following (he (Fianna Fail orientated); Joseph Congress movement that had shown I was a beautiful land and the green isle of sonjj. "she is niv first and only love. intercession of de Valera. then head of where we liked tragic loss of ten y oung w orkers' lives in McGarrity, Clan na Gael (IRA) and such promise, disintegrated No matter where she goes, the Irish Government After the I re her gems shed their light o'er the world. a bothy fire at Kirkintilloch in Scotland Gerard O'Reilly for the Republican Out of the entire Republican move- she completely stole mv heart, mv hovs. On 17 January 1937, a meeting under outbreak of war in September 1939. he When wrathful dogs came bearing ages of wrong, MAY FAIR Every year thousands of migratory Congress Leagues of America. The call ment in Ireland, the Congress alone had Hie (ruth I now declare. the auspices of the Congress held in the was taken bv the Germans to Berlin in workers, young men and women mostly, was addressed to all County Councils opposed the march of fascism and sup- lo the standard St Patrick unfurled. I AM nice wee bouncing girl And the first place that I met her. Gaiety Theatre. Dublin, was packed the expectation that he would engage in Says I, "Dear Mother, do not fret left their homes for seasonal work — and political organisations in Ireland II ported the Spanish Republic The Con- Oh. would I were there with the friends I love best, Was ,il Killeter l air from "the gods" to (he stalls. Father anti-British propaganda He never did And mv age is scarce sixteen. potato picking — to earn enough to tide was savagely sabotaged In the words ol gress alone had made inroads into And set your mind at rest, Michael O'Flanagan, a brilliant orator so. He was well treated, however, and \nd m> bosom loud partner with me, And when I'm dressed all in my them over the winter on their re(urn. George Gilmore. "The James Bonds of sectarianism in the North ancfTiad won a l or I must leave this house one day presided, and the principal speaker was acted for a time as a kind of unofficial I would roam o'er that shore and when weary would rest These people represented (he living Irish Ihe time did their work " The response measure of Protestant support unknow 11 best. a Basque priest Father Ramon La Irish envoy until his health failed He As the wild bird leaves its nest, But now we have got married. language, for the preservation of which of the Councils and organisations that since 1798 It had tried to extend the On the banks of mv own lovely l ee. Sure. I look like any queen; Borda, who referred to Franco as "a died in Dresden in June 1944. I'll dress me in my new blue frock And we're happy as vou know: so much cant and hypocrisy was spoken did receive it was encouraging. Donegal. Irish revolution beyond the bourgeois blood thirsty militarist, and Fascist," Frank Ryan was a charming and 1 here's maidens gay who are on We're always light-hearted, by successive Irish capitalist Limerick and Clare Councils endorsed And I'll comb my bonny brown whose troops had executed 25 priests limits set for it by consecutive Irish I,el il either freeze or snow. lovable man. He was also very Oh, how oft in (he springtime of laughter and song - their way governments, but so little was done to the call A number of Fianna Fail capitalist governments, and political hair - when San Sebastian had fallen On 19 courageous. During the year he was And about to sell their ware. And silting by the fireside. save the people who spoke it branches also reacted fav ourably.andol parties and organisations masquerading Shall I ever forget those dear hours. February a meeting was held in the home from Spain recovering from a I here'II be many a boy from I oome She laughs quite heartily there. the leadership Dan Breen. Dr Jim as Republican, and to achieve by the With the boys of m> vouth I rambled along On the first of May I will make my Engineers' Hall, Dawson Street, to pay bad wound in his arm. he organised, to Moy Saving: "The first place that I mil vou. Hanningan, Paddy Rtgney, Cu Uladh. united action of all progressive forces of wav tribute to the first Irishmen to die with with Tom Barry and Tadhg Lynch, in I hrough banks of lovely wild flowers; John, In 1935 our hopes had been raised by and some others expressed their support the left in Ireland the Socialist Republic \t the Magherafelt May I air. ' the Irish Battalion in (he International May 1937. a massive anti-coronation And then when the evening sun, sinking to rest. lo the Magherafelt May lair. Was at hilleter l air.'' the "Call from America." In June of initially — until "Dev" put the boot in envisaged by James Connolly and for Brigade. They were Dinny Coady, demonstration in Dublin (occasioned by I stayed around till evening. (hat year representatives of the major The response of the Trade Unions was which he gave his life Shed her golden light over the sea, My mother cautioned me going out, Frank Conroy, Daniel Boyle. James the abdication of King Edward VIII) I I he maid with her lover the wild daisies caressed, Still hoping to make a sale "Do not stay long in town, We're blessed wilh a family. On the banks of mv own lovely l ee. And let the bad come to the worst. Ivvo girls and a boy. l-or if you do vour father My courage ne'er did fail; I hev are the sunshine of our home. And I on vou will frown; Our heart's delight and joy. Oh, what joys would be mine ere life would decline, As night came on all hope had gone Be sure lo shun bad company And little .lohn.the youngest, l ike sand 011 the sea-beaten shore, And homeward I did repair l.aughs when sitting in his chair. BLINKER, BAN AND BAMBOOZLE And of young men beware, At a wake or a dance 1 will take niv II the steel-feathered eagle o'erspreading the line. I ho' nice vou be, don't make too Saving: "The first place that vou met mv "Ireland: The Propaganda War" Liz Curtis, Pluto Press, pp 336. £5.50. Ma. Brought tidings of freedom once more chance Reviewed by free Was at Killeter l air." But now what remains of this poor strength to crave. And forget the hiring fair. \t the Magherafelt May I air." THE importance of this book cannot be witnessed since the Races of Castlebar. BLOODY SUNDAY, 30th January, But that my last crimson drop be for thee, overstressed. it is the first major work on tharctfy setting the scene for the 1972. Having murdered 13 unarmed SEAN de BURCA lo sprinkle the grass o'er my forefather's grave. the subject of Britain's propaganda nauseating litany of lies, damned lies civilians, the army entangled itself in a and Tory propaganda to which the On the banks of mv own lovely I ee. THE MEN OF MARY, THE PRIDE OF campaign against the nationalist snare of lies, detractions and more lies. community in Northern Ireland since public has since been subjected. A Guardian reporter present at the the present spate of hostilities began in scene recalled how the army opened fire, THE WEST THE WEST ADOLF HI1LF.K sf.td, "The great The ensuing Compton Report 1969. even on those whose arms were raised proved to be a whitewash which (Air: For Ireland I Won't Tell Her Name) GAA STORY masses of the people will more easily fall Willi I we honour in son); and in story aloft, and on one man holding a white victims (o a great lie than to a small concluded thai ill-treatment had taken I ho names of our patriot men. handkerchief. An eyewitness Times one." The British authorities have place but that there had been no Whose valour has covered with glory THE summer shines bright from the plain Painstakingly researched, it is a reporter heard Land Forces IRELAND, BOYS, HURRAH applied this tenet to great effect. Most brutalitv. because the interrogators l ull many a mountain and glen. To the hills where the clear rocks are piled; "The Story of the GAA in Liver- horrifying catalogue of the diverse and Commander General Ford exhorting Britons would readily accept that the had not intended to inflict pain.\ DKKI* in Canadian woods we've met. Forget nol I he boys of the heather. The birds sing a clear, joyous strain poof". Centenary publication. duplicitous tactics employed by the the troops. "Go on the paras, go and get IRA was responsible for the initial W ho marshalled their bravest and besl. Obtainable 75p (32pp)Tom British media, under pressure from them " "Around the world the truth will From one bright island flown; And the flowers are in bloom o'er the wild— outbreak of bombings in 1969. Yet it When hire was broken in Wexford, successive British governments, to The usual whitewash job followed in echo. Great is the land we tread, but yet But a flower, all these fair flowers above Walsh, 69 Mi! ton A v., Liverpool was loyalist:, who patrol-bombed And looked for revenge to the West. prevent the British public and the world the shape of the Widgery Report and no Cromwell's men arc here again: Our hearts are with our own. 14. schools and bars as early as 1966. In In sweetness, blooms deep in my breast; at large from learning the shameful prosecutions were brought against England's name once more is 'S March, April and October of 1969, And ere we leave this shanty small. C "MORI 'Tis the lone flower of kindness and love • realities'of tl.c situation and the roots of any of the troops involved in the sullied loyalists bombed electricity and water I giic you "Ihe gallant old West," JOHN MITCHEL'S Gaelic Football the problem in the Six Counties, and to carnage. More significant, however, is In the eyes of honest men." While fades the autumn day. For Mary, the Pride of the West. installations at a time when the IRA had boy s, Club are to be congratulated on their deny the nationalists the basic human the fact that none of the "gunmen" in — popular Republican song We II toast old Ireland! dear old Ireland! not made its presence felt. Later, a Where rallied our bravest and When she goes from the wild hills among initiative in producing this publication. right of presenting their case .0 a public the crowd were ever Charged, and the While the British t.iedia remained Ireland, boys, Hurrah! loyalist confessed 10 complicity in all of best. 32 pages of historical facts and 59% of whom in 1971 were in favour of authorities compensated out of court, gagged and blindfolded at its own To the town on the verge of the plain. the bombings but, as was the intention, When Ireland was broken and photographs. troops withdrawal. the injured and relatives of the dead to request, international attention was We've heard her faults a hundred times, Could you see her sweet face 'mid the throng. the media blamed the IRA. bleeding. It is nol known when the Liverpool the sum of £95,000. foctissed directly on Ireland during and I he new ones and the old, Hurrah, for the men ol the West. You would never forget it again; County Board Was established though il after the H-Block hunger-strikes. Press and television reports of RUC In December 1971, the IRA was again Revelations of army torture on I11 stjngs and sermons, ranns and rhymes, And the gallants who pass, when they see is well attested thai Irish games were in "Terrorists" at home were hailed as I hi hill-tops with glory were glowing. baton-charges on Civil Rights marchers, blamed when a bomb killed 15 people in republican suspects came as no surprise full swing in the city in 1906. It seems freedom-fighters abroad, and in Enlarged some fifty-lold. ' I was the eve of a bright harvest day. And the crowd, think her brightest and best, troops brutality and internment without McGurk's Bar. Seven years afterwards a to those with so.r.e knowledge of the unlikely that the Liverpool board was Whitehall the lories raged But take them all, the great and small. When the ships we'd been wearily wailing history of the British Army in Ireland. And they ask who such fair maid can be— long after the original foundation of the trial, greatly embarrassed the loyalist, Robert Campbell was convicted Sailed into killala's broad bay. But whereas Cromwell and General And this we've got to say: My Mary, the Pride of the West. GAA in 1884 government. Those with a vested of all 15 murde.s and sentenced to a Worldwide demonstrations and \111l over the hills went the slogan minimum of 25 years. To admit that the Lake boasted openly of their exploits in Existing minutes show a resolution to interest in the continued British widespread condemnation of Thatcher's Here's dear old Ireland! good old Ireland! that direction and were applauded in lo waken in everv breast When each night at her father's broad hearth occupation of Ireland, aware of the IRA was blameless, on this or any other intransigence received no attention from Ireland, boys. Hurrah! rename the board the Lancashire the fire that has never been quenched, occasion, would not comply with England, the authorities in 1971, fearing I sit near my love by the fire, County Board in 1928, but the old name adverse effects on the American public the British media. Instead, much bovs. of television coverage of the Vietnam government policy: thus the media an uproar similar to that created by the We know that brave and good men tried I have all that my heart on this earth was still being used until 1940 when Sean emphasis was placed on the "suicide" \mong Ihe true hearts of (he West. ignored the fact of Campbell's Black and Tan atrocities fifty years Mclnerncy spoke for the l.ancashire War. cried "Enough!" The spineless aspect of Bobby Sands' death which was I o snap her rusty chain. Can love and desire and admire. conviction. earlier mugged the media accordingly. Chorus County Board. The Liverpool club was media capitulated with a rapidity not portrayed to the British public as an I he patriots suffered, martyrs died. Then her eyes, like two clear stars above killala was ours ere Ihe midnight. known as» Eire Og for the greatct part of IR A propaganda slum \nd all. 'tis said, in vain: And high over Itallina town. With their kind looks on me often rest, the century. THIS book is a mine ol information Kill 110 hoy. 110! a glance will show Our banners in triumph were waving Till I'm wild, wild with fondness and love A:, well as producirg this booklet lull and contains disclosures too numerous Before ihe nest sun had gone down; of dates and facts John Mitchels have How far they've won their way - For Mary, the Pride of the West. to elaborate upon here including a We gathered to speed Ihe good work, organised a series of public events, Here's good old Ireland! loved old Ireland! Lets Unionists off the Hook detailed list of 48 television boys. including pageants, exhibitions and programmes on the North which have Ireland, boys. Hurrah! Iht true men ancar and afar. R. D. JOYCE music festivals, particulars ol which are been banned, censored or delayed An And history can tell how we routed obtainable from Mr Tom Walsh or The 'A Short History of Ireland' by John O'Beirne Ranelagh. Published br Cambridge University Press. We've seen the wedding and the wake. account of the teal circumstances I lie redcoats through old ( asllehar. SEOLADH NA NGAMHNA Irish Centre. Mount Pleasant. Paperback £5.95 280pp. I he pattern and the fair: surrounding the shooting of Bernadette ( hoi us Oil the Spring Bank holiday there w ill TRATHNOININ aoibhinn ar fiar a'ghleanna McAhskcy will surprise those who read \nd lithe young frames at the dear old games And pledge me. "Ihe stoul sons of b" .1 party night lor the young people at John O'Ber iie Ranelagh's sh >rt d'scrimii.atii.n. Wo one can deny that in British newspapers only The use ol I11 the kindly Irish air; France.' bovs. 's me a' seola na ngamhan fe'n bhfasch the Irish Centre. THE: wntmg ol histories ot Ireland has history is a well w rittcn. straightforward the area of housing, as well as jobs, animals as army propaganda designed Hold Humbert and all his hrasc men. 'sea do dhearcas sa taobh liom an speirbhean cailce Still more eloquent of the initiative become a popular pastime A desire to \nd the loud "Hurrah," we have heard it too. account of the story of Ireland from education, public representation, the to tug at the heart-strings ol the antmal- Whose tramp, like Ihe trumpet of battle being show n is the feast of Irish culture explain the present sorry division of the And a thundering "Clear the way!" Ciuintais, banuil, naireach. c rlic't limes ,0 the present day. He North was run by Protestants for losing British is examined 111 detail Brought hope to the drooping again. being held 111 the International Garden country — how did it all h.-ppen This is D'fhios rui os fein go seimh de'n ainnir explains with exemplary clarity the Protestants. Cover-ups regarding children killed by Here's gay old Ireland! dear old Ireland! Since f ire has caught lo her bosom Festival stadium on Sunday . 17th June. the burning question thai sends zealous complexities ot late nineteenth century plastic bullets are ruthlessly exposed, Ireland, boys. Hurrah! On many a mountain and hill. Arhh aoinne i thar lear do thainig I our 9-a-sidc teams w ill compete for the historians back to the beginnings of parliamentary politics when Liberal One could also argue about the ano Conor Cruise O'Brien's I hi gallants who fell so. they're here, "Ar lorg na ngabhain sea d'fhagas an baile Redmond/Fox trophy. and there w ill V history in an effort to sort out the Unionists first united with sequence of events that set the present metamorphosis is 'reated with the bovs. Is ceann ni bhfaghad go la diobh." music and dancing from Ihe Cot.ili.'l!. s strands thai led to tragic conflict. Conservatives in the British Parliament troubles alight. For example the part contempt it desers .s \lid well we know in cool grev eves. I (1 cheer us lo i ietiirs still. and 11 isli Centre dancers. in order to oppose Gladstone's limited played by the evil genius of Ian Paisley in When the hard day's work is o'er, Ta crainn in caoirthinn i luinin na coille r Throughout the book as Home Rule Bill. This signified the the downfall of Te encc O'Neill and as ( horns throughout the long, depressing history I low soft and sweet are the words that greet 'gus ragham n ar aon go la ann beginning of the use of the "Orange ..r opooner.! of Catholic Civil Rights of Ireland, one is constantly reminded I he friends who meet once more: I hough all the bright drcamings we Mar a mbeidh ceolta na n-ean da soir cui a' chodla Card" in British politics, which lia. gets very little mention. One comment is how the odds arc forever -.lacked in With Mary Machree!" and "My I'at. lis lie!" cherished. 'Sgeomuid na gamhna 'maireach. A BEST SELLER IN PAPERBACK continued to the present day worth quoting. "Between 1949 and 1969 Went down in disaster and woe. the British Home Office had no civil Britain's favour. I he power and \nd "Mv own heart night and dav!" Geobham-na cead saor o mhaoir na coille His two final chapters are devoted to Iht spirit of old si ill is with as Keane: Published by Sphere servants working full time on Northern arrogancc of the British media permits Oil. fond old Ireland! dear old Ireland! Fear a thuirt go la doibh, "Good Behaviour:" by Molly the period since the Treaty in 1922, one llial never would bend to Ihe foe: Ireland There were no formal channels few Irish victories Books Ltd: £2.95: 245pp. covering "Southern Ireland", the other Ireland, hoys. Hurrah! Vint t onnacht is ready whenever Is le fainne'n lae beam ar aon 'nar sheasamh of control or supervision of the the six counties. His account of the Nonetheless, one such victory was I In Inud-rolling luck of the drum Ag soladh na ngamhan fe'n bhlasach. ,11 is good to see Molly Keane's besl remind her daughter of her unloved, Stormont Government or Parliament, South is tough and realistic, with that of Donal Kennedy who needs no Rings out to awaken the echoes selling novel in paperback When first unmarried state: Papa, his riding days bey011,' the financial and budgetary Bui deep in ( anadian woods, we've met. perhaps an oser-emphasis on the power introduction lo Democrat readers His \nd tell us - the morning has come. "Beirim mo mhallacht do mhaorai na coille seo published 111 H8I il was among the curtailed by the loss of a leg 111 the w ar: a arrangement monitored by tiie of the Catholic Church The author single-minded action against The Times \nd we may never see again nominations tor the Booker Prize tragic governess. Rose, the not so Treasury." Mar is iad a d'fhag anseo le fan me. regard the wrners Joyce. jhaw. Wilde, lor an article which laidthe blame for all I he dear old isle where our hearts are set C hoius faithful servant. Hubert: the adored M'athair is mo mhathair go bronach sa bhaile I lie novel is .1 delightfully wicked and O'Caso. as part of a diaspora of One can disagree with the deaths in Northern Ireland since 1969 And our first fond hopes remain! brother. Richard, a possible lover. So here's to ihe gallant old West, bovs. Is gan goire agam teacht ina lathair; comedy. set 111 a decaying mansion in the Irish talent forced to leave Ireland on the IRA's doorstep, resulted in a Looking over Aroon's shoulder is the interpretation and significance of events But come, till up another cup. Which rallied her bravest and besl. South of Ireland, inhabited by ,111 Catholic social and cultural attitudes Press Council reprimand for lhal Is anois a stoirin, 0 tharia ag imeacht thu impish author giving a further but it is 00 harm to be reminded that And with every sup let's sav: When Ireland was broken and bleeding. Anglo-Irish family, whose fortunes arc That statement would surely have newspaper and has encouraged others le Is o tharia nach tu ata i ndan dom, dimension to the characters as the solid before 1966 Northern Irelrnd affairs Hurrah, bovs! Hurrah for the West! 011 the decline. evoked a pithy conment from Oscar take action in similar instances. "Here's loved old Ireland! good old Ireland! rock of privilege crumbles vviih tlicr were seldom discussed in Westminster Seo dhuit mo phoigin ar bharra mo mhearaibh. Wilde, already twenty-two sears in liis Ireland, bovs. Hurrah! W II I.I AM ROOM \ I lie story is lold by.Aroon St Charles, fortune, leaving only the tradition of Having set up the state ihe British "Ireland The Propaganda W:ir Is a stoirin mo chuig cead slan leat. lonely Paris grave b' th„' time the treats Government turned a lo Ihe the ungainly daughter of the house, ' Goo J Behaviour" with which to face Wind eye provides the ammunition and the was signed »ay in it w as thiough w hose eves vie see the antics of 'the world w hich feeing administered incentive for its readers to emulate M< In opinio.1 of until violence f"rc*d t+iem lo take .111 array of memorable characters. This is an amusing and perceptive the this reviewer rhe Kennedy' determination There is Mcmnn beautiful, selfish, bov'k. -wrH ^wcfHi-eadine. chapter on the Six Counties lets «+ie notice distant. lies er missing an opportunity to E.J.C. Unionists off the h'ook of NO* AH fMU.ON I cannot rccommcnd it too liigWy IRISH DEMOCRAT MAY 1984 8 i i THE KERRY DIARIST Peter FROM CALLAN

A poor starved group tried to take meal Mulligan's IK! I \N[) -v. ill ate Hint •• [•, isi ha \ e 1 nM . i)l HI I \l DR AI 1 HI in authorities when such was the right and from boats en route from Clonmel to been a pretty wretched eountii. beset relcrence : • the foregoing stales that proper thing to do: he gaxe evidence Carrick-on-Sutr, but the peelers fired at wnh poieitv and ni|usiices. luminal tlicie were m;inx icasons lor this abject against two policemen who killed a them from the boats. Three were killed Peepshow niisitile and neglect. in the middlt ol ihe piive:Iv — lie land-leasing svstem. the young man in Callan—one of w horn was and six badly wounded of the last ttnUii> \nd ( ailan -so pleasant absence d the landlords who convicted, the other allowed to go free unfortunate Family of the Gael MR t . H.iki i !.'i iik'i I lijib l ..«.•) fltdge and prosperous a little i.iumn town squandered m London and in other 'unfairly.' Humphrey O'Sullivan was of (Clanna Gael bocht). This occurred on lu* I..-•mim-tidcd Ili.il III, U.I Inr> todav — appatentls lanked among tilt lashionabli centres the tolls and rents an independent turn of mind and while the tenth day of this month le this 'I )u':!ik < ...in' -If Mill) hi utmued most wretched licit is how an I nghsli extracted 1:0111 their unhappx tenants, he constantly bemoaned and Thursday gone by ... ' in \. ill Ik i u I K'l.im! In In- i ;nul he Msitoi m the \ear I x3s sav the plate "I the hnrgeoning population and earlv lamented the sorry state of his people he .iluik 111.II lllllfv I .Mini >1 in ' .led 'ill had heard. c\cn in l ngland. ol tile m a r I i a g e - . the lack o I a 11 v disapproved very strongly of the •iik! tlh'Ki.'i. III! II" 11n\ I ... .'.'icni wictchcd conditions ol a town ill lilt commcnMirate culnva'.ion of the Catholic marches, demonstrations in FROM the perspective of today, one . Ill ml. I L>1)1.11111 ' ml.C. ilk' ' '-' vv.v es lountv ol Kilkenny, called ( alien (sic); counirvside. vet the people for all then favour of the abolition of the tithes hundred and fifty seven years later, and British M.klins. should -tceiu- and finding that this town is hut eight wretchedness seem to have been high which were paid to the Protestant straining to be fair to all sides — the "stiaut Iiii'iio" He suggests : I :oil ,1 miles from k ilkenin . I devoted a day to spirited and life-loving as extract after clergymen by a people of a different loyal servants of the state (Irishmen too, MMI ; 111 c i five \eats Oil lilt hii'.li lit ( alien I no cr Iras el led t h rough a more extra.! ' Humphrcv O'Sulliv ail's faith; sectarianism was rife in all Ireland no doubt) and the poor hungry states "it is iimcahstic lo Khv\c i' pleasing ami smiling country. than that diaries 11..x\ Indeed tile dead hand ot in those times and O'Sullivan was well countryfolk driven to desperation — s inu ilo ih.il the maul poueis eiun b\ which lies between Kilkenny and thccleigv -eemed to lav asheavilx on the aware of its destructive nature: he was and with the best will in the world, what till -Net I.ill be repealed. tom.Minw oi ( alien, and I never entered a town spirits ol 'lie 1 einster peasants as the on good terms with the Protestants of can one say but that the system reeked of in the neat Inline " lie ieeoir.ni- -'.Is a lellcctmg so imii h disgrace upon the u 111 list and harsh laws (hex lived under the district and managed to enlist their rottenness, and that what happened that new Act io be a'Mcvu'd anim.il.•. ' >i ai owner ol it. as this In so execrable a One eiuiv lor ail f aster Mondax reads support for Catholic Emancipation day in the fertile county of Tipperary least li\e \ears condition ait the streets ol this town (mv rough 1 taiisiat 1011); 'Young men and although in his diary he remarked was the logical outcome of those Capi- Review ol t he operations t the that tht mail coach, in passing through women did 1101 partake of their cubogla ruefully that it was a sorry state of affairs talistic values which are upheld for our \ o i t h e t n I r e hi ml I I me : v . n e > il. is allowed twelve minutes extra; an collection ol I.aster eggs) 111 the when the Gaeil had to beg freedom in approval so enthusiastically today. The Pnn isiotis | Act I47K IIMSt) s 40 indulgence which can surprise no one tompanv of each other. I here was 110 their own country. men who tried to take some of the meal who drives, or rather attempts to drive, courting nor laughter nor drinking nor for themselves and their hungry families through the street; lor no one who has dancing Most 01 them remained at UNLIKE Samuel Pepys, however, were breaking the law — no question at the use ot his limbs, would consent to be home because faster Mondax is 110 O'Sullivan does not give us many all about that — and in the law the police I I has been disclosed thai both guards driven And vet. w ill it he credited, that a longer a iiohdax Because the bishops glimpses of his family and private life: were justified in shooting at them, and are offered to all Northern Ireland's tiyhl loll is levied on the entrance into the have cancelled il as a holidax.' his wife is mentioned in only one entry in that says more about the law and the Supreme ( Hurt judges, six counts tourt town, ol every article lor consumption; his diary though her death grieved him people who frame it than a lot! judges and 17 full time magistrates. and thai not one shilling ol the money so 1 1 is 11,ml lor the modern mag or greatly. But he was a resilent character, I eading council who feel I ho mas be And on a sadly topical note on the rccievtd. is laid out loi the benclit ol the woman to grasp lo what extent the too, and one year after the death of his threatened can also apph for protection. 14th June in that same year: "How long iwo low II Catholic ( htirch 111 Ireland had become wife he wrote as follows: 'A year ago before this Gaelic tongue in which I "I had not vel seen in Ireland. a tow n permeated with dour and joyless today, my dear wife Mary Delahunty write disappears? There are fine new s.i wictclied a condition as this. I Protestantism bx the 19th Century but died. I and my children should be tear- schools being built daily now to teach ()\ the ill IIH i s .'.ilk. "Wh.. the arrived in n vcrx early in the morning; even the h unless game of hurling was wet but the dead are not the companions this new language, i.e. the Saxon t >o\ ei nmeiit ha\e ilone licit is •,.. I'liim ami hav ing been promised a breaklast in lot bidden iv tyrannical parish priests of the living. But what will my four poor English. But alas! There is no interest in the polite tatlies , .| Northern I: eland a gtocer's shop (loi there is no inn in as. even a hundred years later, were the orphaned children do if I marry again, the fine smooth Gaelic if we except the into the Ileal t ol Hilt.nil I Ills . , \ ;ew ( alien). I walked through the ouiskii!s innocent o issroad dances. What Jesus and what will I do, or they, or my swaddlers who seek to entice the Gael to wideh held " I oto Menu Ml' li -l o! the tow n. a nd round a little common ( hi is! wo. Id have thought about the business, if I do not ' practise this new accursed faith." (This < oinni..:is w hieh lies close lo it. and there I saw the killiov atntade of the 19th and earlv and One of the pleasures of reading reference of course is to those Protestant people c i a w 11 n g out o I then midOOth ( enturx clergy 111 Ireland calls O'Sullivan's diaries is in finding the sects who sought to convert the Irish hovels--tlicv and then liovtls not one foi some speculation: but I hardly think proper and original Irish versions of through the medium of their own shade bctlci than I have seen in the 1! would i ave recommended itsell to \ rlnemplov mi lit ill. leases .,. .1 > placenames and in trying to connect language. A man of his time and 1 ; M.'II.IS ol (iianada. wh le the people Mini. Humphrey O'Sulliv an himself was ll.i pi. .1 Us ol I lie i a |ot ha nks I I'e ' 1 them with fhe English traslations or upbringing, O'Sullivan naturally loe a. olcs excavated ai the hanks 1 lov cr o; c good ilungs ol hie. ol a line . e.n • , [iisi - leased sin >w ar i. ! corruptions — Teampall Loisc is detested the proselytisers but if the I lien e .1 hi Us ..en lucre holes, witu meat and a'unnk to go with it. and his Iieml Haiet.ns Hank »•>•».* tniinon. Burnchurch, but what is the English Catholic clergy had shown any concern nothing within them t I speak ol two diaries are lull ol accounts of the many National \V est nniistei VMM million. form of Cnoc Riabhach? More for the language; if they had, like the l vv heie I entei ed) excepting a little si law nioii;h-watermg repasts lie partook — I IOMIS Hank 4l') million Midl.md fascinating to the general reader, 1 Welsh Methodists, encouraged it in and one oi two biokui stools And ali gcnerallx 111 the company of the local Hank '..V^ million imagine, are the many accounts of prices worship and prayer, we might have seen ill, othei outskirts ol the town arc in priest! But he was akvav s charitable and and wages. On the seventh of April 1827, it live as the spoken language of the m.iiiv a similai condilion-- ranges ol I ulI of concern for 1 he poor, though to be for example, "A big market of potatoes, majority of our people.) hovels, vx11h.>ni a rax ol comfort oi a sure he was ,1 constant - ritic of their I 111 I Ist, i I tclctu e Regiment, w Inch oats, turf and coal. Sixpence the stone of ii.lie ol civilisation about them, and uncouth and sometimes quite barbarous is pail 11 the Mulish Num. has potatoes; from seventeen shillings to a I will conclude this month's offering people either in a state ol actual ways Cruelty to animals offended him, annouiited that VI ' million has been pound the barrel of oats, thirty shillings with a typically sad little entry of the starvation, oi barclx keeping body and the goading of a bull for fun appears lo donated b\ \anons well-wishers lot for wheat at O'Brien's Mills; tenpence diarist's, that for June 27th, 1827: 'We soul together All tills I saw and cannot be a pastime of the 1 usiics of lus day and then Hene'.oltnl I tnul Moie than hall the hundredweight of coal; two shillings distributed yellow meal today at three he deceived; and Ironi the enquiries 1 hi one occasion he comments angrily 011 has tome liom neh supporters m for a basket of turf (one wonders how half pence a pot. The spirit of the Irish is which I made ol intelligent persons, the the persecution which 'coip na sraide' I ngland I he I I >K I like the lorniei big the basket might be if coal was a much lowered. Hunger.' Pi ol est a ill clcigynian among the (the street rabble) were visiting upon an Khodesian Delence Rcginict)!) is mere tenpence perewt); from fourpence nimihct. I max state, that in this town unfortunate hedgehog. O'Sullivan. 100. Next month I will return to composed "I peisonne! lo\al lo the halfpenny to sixpence hall penny for a containing between loiu and live was conscious and — w h a t was Humphrey O'Sullivan but those of my Hiitish 11 o \ e i n 111 e n t I here arc 2.700 hundredweight of cabbage plants; thousand inhabitants, at least one more—concerned, that tile native readers who may not be able to read the lull time and 4.Mill p.m tuners who ftvepence the pot of meal or twenty I ho II sa n d a i c without I e g III a I language was 111 decline and unlike the original Irish can read selections from hold down two |ohs I lu\ ait all Iraiiltd shillings the cwt. . . . employment, six oi seven hundred I iberator who mainly spoke Lnglish at the diaries as published by Mercier in t In- list ol \ a nous J it ca nils which I ho eiilitelv destitute; and thai llieie arc public meetings. ()'Sullivan encouraged Books of Cork. ni.t\ keep at hoiut I o date 141 I' I >K As one would expect many of the big upwards ol two hundred actual and supported n. Nor was he afraid, like sokhtis have been killed and ow i events of his time are chronicled by PONALL MacAMHl.AIGH niendic.nils ui tile lown—persons many of the more prosperous, middle- tw ice that nunibci iniiued Humphrey O'Sullivan May 13th ineapahle ol vv ork class Irish of his day. to oppose the 1827 ... A gloomy story from Suirside.

II If British and Irish (.oiernments arc currentl\ discussing Ihe development of THE CONNOLLY Direct Mroadcasting (DBS). It seems thai if Ireland does not go in with Britain il GARRET THE INNOCENT ASSOCIATION could hale its own satellite broadcasting is the sole surviving Irish material which could be reeieu'd 11 I 'l Ol' ncv ci learn", said I'll.u les Minister could not find enough "Can we now hope that all that remnant of the in parts of Britain. Ihe British 1 laaghcv lo (iunell I it/Gerald in the gcnerositx o oodwill 10 support our sophistry and ambivalence and self- t.merriment do not want I his-the) "ant Hail "W ill von ncvci Iiildc-rsi.iild thai 1 a use deception that has oo/ed out of Ihe Irish lo come under Ihe British in. mallei what soli words or Government buildings and Iveag.i controlled DBS. According lo the D AI I \ piok'siaiious aic used the age-old realitx Britain relentlessly and remorse- House for some time now. will cease and I I II (. R \ I* II I he Independenl P'cvails Icsslv pursues Britain's sell interests, no, lhat the cold harsh reality will be REPUBLICAN Broadcasting \uthorit\. sa\ Ihat Irish 1 ngland has no I ricnds. onlv mlerests. matter whom it hurts or affects. I hope accepted that Ireland's best interests are partnership in a Brilish satellite is not as i he man said Hauglio vv as ct incising that this lesson wdl be fully understood best defended by Irishmen and women CONGRESS inconceivable hut points out that 1 it/( ierald in trenchant tashion oxer Ins in another context also. The old people and that all the appeasement and the politic a ll\ il would he a i e r\ altitude to the I 1C "siiperlevv" on had a phrase that would apply to your platitudes and the honeyed words mean controversial decision. I here would be in11k Hut his woids have a wider situation: lie who sups with the devil nothing when the chips are down?, said It began as its difficulties selling the idea in Dublin, where application I hex show whv the British must use a long spoon ' the fianna Fail leader. the spectre of British imperialism from ( IOV ei nmeni. which was enthusiastic London Branch ihe ski mighl be raised.' ( rilies feel thai about lack I vncli as leadei ol I lanna the sisiem will also he made available lo I .ui have no gieai 'gia' loi his the Americans lo flood K.urope with its slk CCssol peculiar I\pe ol "mind cleaning" born Ihe Mulish Pnnic Muiisiei openlv WHY NOT again ei angelism i.MUlenined the I aoiseach's depaituie ALAN HEUSAFF lioin the cotilercnce table", said JOIN UP? llaughcy "Ihe laoiseach gets no BRETON REFUGEE IN DUBLIN I ()R I )S chance— 1 oid Mansfield has u'cognition w hatev cr tor all the gestures icsigned as a Ministci ol State in the .'I appeasement and compliance lie has Northern Ireland office and 1 Old I >oil made suite he came into ollicc speaks on has taken the position ol 1'aiii.inicniai\ "Where was the evidence ol I'ndei Secrctan in the same office. Inciidliness and co-operation in Apply; Brussels' In a matter thai v nallv alfected THE CELTIC NATIONS our national economic interes's. that Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd