THREE BODY BLOWS IRISH I/- HIT THE DEMOCRAT JULY 1969 UNIONISTS Foreign landlords burnt Irish question now international out of Westmeath farms N.I.L.P. SACKS RIGHTIST LEADERS IRISH LAND FOR IRISH PEOPLE! • S their internal support and international repute crumbled under three devastating 'pHREE large houses occupied by knocked down the gates, and the Germans in Meath and Louth placards they carry urging people ^^Th blowe FIRSs inT onBLOe Wmont wahs ththee Belfasattackt bUnionisty the influentias were lreduce Inter-d tomos weat damagink bumbling blogw protestsof all, .wa s struck by the Northern Ireland La- were set alight by the I.R.A. in early not to pay charges are being widely national Commission of Jurists which described the gerrymander- June as part of a campaign by Re- obeyed by the summer throngs each bour Party at its annual confer- publicans against incursions by Sunday. ing, discrimination in the six counties as shocking. ence. foreign landowners in Ireland. The statement went on to say A resolution was passed which Two of the properties belonged to that the six counties has become pledged the Labour Party to devot< large estates the local farmers have itself to the struggle for democracy a byword like South Africa for back- wanted divided for a long time. The WE ARE WITHIN SIGHT OF in the six counties as an integral Westmeath Lanifc^League hasybeen wardness and oppression. part of the civil rights movement. gitating that the^atoalfl be taken by the Land Cpmartasion. The SECOND BLOW was the As a result of the debate> on this although they had no connection OUR FIRST OBJECTIVE statement by Senator Edward Ken- issue the old pro-Unionist leaders with the burnings nedy in a message to the Belfast lost the* positions. Instead of an "jpHE Connolly Association rally Labour movement, especially the A debate has occuWU on the mat- trade unions. -4 Civil Rights Association which image of watered-down Unionism, ter in the German Parliament, in Trafalgar Square on July the NXL.P is now likely to present where there has been uproar be- said: "Your cause is a just cause. 13th, which follows a series of OMING to thfe Trafalgar Square one of vigorous national democracy. cause of this threat to German rally are contingents from the The reforms you seek are basic to nationals abroad. The incidents marches on the Ulster Office C Movement for (Colonial Freedom, all democracies worthy of the There is already speculation as have been condemned by many pub- from various parts of London, London District Sheet Metal Work- to whether they will amalgamate lic bodies in Ireland tat there Is name." ers, Wandsworth Trades Council, with Mr. Fitt's party and link up considerable local support for them. has as its object the reaffirma- together with the Wembley No. 3, ^JOUFLED with the statement was with Labour in the twenty-six coun- There is much support for the tion of the basic strategy for Amalgamated Engineering & Foun- a demand by one hundred mem- ties. R^Mlcans^ in^wtcMoyalao. where dry Wa*er& Hammersmith M& deip6ettcy wlilctt the Con- bers of Congress that President Trades Council Is also expected to NOTHER possibility is "to all- points to Brittae Bay every Sunday nolly Association has been bring its banner. Nixon should order his puppet A Ireland Civil Rights convention during June urging visitors not to Harold Wilson to end the present called by the three Labour parties pay the tolls imposed by local land- working on since the great But more are wanted. Is your with full official trade union sup- owners. state of affairs. marches across England that union among those who are think- port. This is what is believed to Until a few years ago anyone who were held in 1961 to 1963. ing it over? The THIRD, and in the long run have been in the mind of Mr. Brom- wanted could use the, roads and ley when he talked of the Xabeur paths leading to the splendid TPHAT strategy was to roll back movement taking the lead i» the beach at Brittas Bay. Then gates the Unionist tyranny with the civil rights movement which is now were put up and charges imposed somewhat short of Labour and How local Republicans have aid of British democracy, and thus APOLOGY TO CORRESPONDENTS trade union support free the people for the building of irPHE "Irish Democrat" apologises paper afloat, We need at least £30 a' united Ireland. to a number of correspondents a month. And we are glad to re- The developments in Strasbourg who sent letters to the editor on port that this month we have just and Washington mean-that tbt civil LIVERPOOL The first task was to make the controversial subjects. It has not got it. Our thanks to: A. Broad- rights question is now in the Add Irish Question an issue of British been found possible to publish hurst 3/6, Meic Haines 10/-, Joe of international politics good and 13 JULY - 3 p.m. politics by fixing British responsi- them. Whelaa £1 8a 6d, Miss F. C. Mc- proper. bility. The reason is the desperate Carthy 10/-, F. O. (Nuneaton) £3, Unless Britain's weak Premier PIER HEAD shortage of space. B. Wilkinson 15/-. M Keane 2/-, R. Wilson pulls himself together he That has been achieved. We now Brennan 2/6, Hammersmith Readers may find himself in serious diffi- This month we wanted to cover approach our first goal. The estab- 4/-, Camden Town Readers 6/8, culties. Tony MacCMIand lishment of a more democratic sys- the twenty-six county election as Paddington Readers 6/-, South (Liverpool Trades Council) tem, for already the~front of Union- thoroughly as possible. But we London Readers £1 8s. 6d„ Bast This is the ti»e for the British ism is breached. would need a twelve-page paper, and London Readers 7/6, G. and- E. Labour movement to be brought in could easily All it each month. Shields £19, P. Devlne £1, P. Cun- to the fray. A favourable vole at John MacClelland The vital thing now required is Unfortunately it is as much as ningham 10/-, Miscellaneous £2 the Labour Party conference could the participation of the British we can do to keep an eight-page 16s. 9d. Total £31 10s. 6d. well tip the scales.

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•NORTTHIHtM URBANE** (Six Irish Counties occupied by England) Trafalgar Square - 4 p.m Speakers : FREE THE ANDREW BARR Sunday, July 13th, 1969 PEOPLE TO SEAMUS COSTELLO JACK RUSCA WORK FOR JOHN RYAN, M.P. SEAMUS COSTELLO AN JOE DEIQHAN (Trade Union Leader) (Sinn Fein Councillor) ROBERT R08SITER IRISH Chairman: JOSEPH DEIGHAN JOHN RYAN, MP. JACK RUSCA DESMOND GREAVES REPUBLIC PARADE LEAVES MARBLE ARCH 3.15 p.m. July t969 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July 1969 WORLD COMMENTARY By PAT DEVINE NEWS FROM THE LEE By JIM SAVAGE CIVIL RIGHTS IRISH DEMOCRAT Iditor: DESMOND GREAVKS MAKING MONEY OUT OF APARTHEID \ssociate Editor: PROTEST I'I'HF Rhrvrlpsi-m , SEAN REDMOND HE Rhodesian fascists have o their senses, and continue dis- TOM BARRY HITS OUT AT EEC started Trojan more than 10 million solidated (33.5 per cent followed b\ completed their long-awaited cussions before the new Const a u- with a grade of around one pei V VP late the people here in this have been proud to play to the men. members and officials of Midle- Books: GERARD C'URRAN rel'erenduins and the result is as Anglo itself. "THE well-known Cork gue- DAY t ion is implemented. cent. ^ city oi Cork are beginning to audiences thVre. Several prominent ton Urban District Council and expected. Rand Selection. Zambian Angle- rrilla fighter Commandant- Songs: Patrick Bond Profits ot the Anglo-American see issues far more clearly than painters also held their exhibitions their wives, as well as local business British capitalism doesn't want to American and King of the Rand. General Tom Barry lectured re- against the They hope the referendum result Corporation of Rhodesia could be in the past, for instance Cork Cor- in the Group Theatre. men and clergy, stabbed in the back Administration: lose a juicy financial plum the ex- Harry Oppenheimer's family. Rio cently in Galway University and sectarianism will legalise their crimes against the tent of which can be seen from the £5 million to £10 million by 1972. poration asked the Minister for Ex- the people of the North by this of A. Curran, James Kelly, 'Iinto (Rhodesia) will bring in its African people. But it won't, It will comments of the "Daily Express" Shareholders are Charter Con- spoke for over two hours on his The sale was a package deal for official reception. D. Deighan, E. & G. Shields Empress Mine next year. Output is ternal Affairs to protest to the U.S. be just the opposite. Money Page 23-6-69 which makes personal experiences of the Tan an undisclosed sum and Russ Cor- P. Mulligan, C. Cunningham. Government abOut. the proposal to Mr. Joseph Duggan, chairman of 12™ JULY the following points. and Civil War. dump 27,000 tons of mustard and bett declined to give any informa- In a country of 4.500.000 people the Midleton U.D.C., presented a including 225.000 whites, nerve gas containers in the Atlantic. tion beyond saying, "I cannot tell POSTER PARADES roughly He was asked nuiherous questions, canteen of cutlery to the Mayor, 80,000 voted. The coloured PROFITEERS MOVE IN They were of the opinion that the you anything about this at all. In people one in relation to Vietnam. To fact, personally I have not pur- Charles Hamill, and the rest of the to ULSTER OFFICE with the exception of a few chiefs. Now that Rhodesia has seemingly this he replied : "Where every Irish gas was to be dumped about 400 Coleraine party were presented with were not allowed to vote. decided to go it alone a major part miles off the Texas coast. chased them at all." LONDON BOGUS REFORM patriot should stand 100 per cent local-made socks and Charlie went • of its future economic survival will Meanwhile throughout the coun- fPHE decision of the N.I.C.R.A. The "Daily Telegraph" of June depend on the mining industry. behind the Vietnamese who were Mr. T. P. Leahy.rwho is an elected right ahead and wore them. 23rd said editorially:-— fighting for their independence and member of the Gbrk Corporation, try there is intense interest and Meet at to resume street protest And a prospecting fever com- if he had the choice of being born speculation about the big property Duggan also wished Coleraine "Mr. Smith's proposal for a new parable with that in Western stated that the Gulf Stream and marches arises from the refusal' Constitution, approved by 72 per again he would choose to be born deal. Also active in Cork is the every success in the Blaxnit soccer ARCHWAY 10 a.m. of the Unionists to give a Australia is under way. the North Atlantic Drift came in trophy. It was rich businessmen cent of voters in an almost all- a Vietnamese, the greatest fighters Ireland's shores and there was a Ronald Lyons Estates Limited who straight answer about the char- Applications for exploration in the world." bought, land bounding on the Poula- who sponsored this "twinning" of HAMMERSMITH 10 a.m. white electorate, are calculated to licences have zoomed from six in danger that the gas would cause acter of their much-boosted increase and entrench racial dis- damage to sea life and plankton. In duff Road, in the city. They intend Midleton and Coleraine stunt, to 1967 to 44 last year ancl the rate Later in Cork, he addressed ap- foster bonds of friendship between STOCKWELL : 10 a.m. "reforms." crimination and white supremacy. the circumstances' he thought it building on the site, and the ulti- • this year is even higher. proximately thirty delegates repre- mate cost of the land and buildings, the two towns. The evening began That they chose to play down the For the first time in Cecil All the big South African mining proper that the Corporation should Rhodes country (how did he get senting Wales, Scotland, Britjjmy as the spokesman said, would come to with an open-air recital by the Holy Strabane march on June 28th houses, like Anglo American. bring the matter to the notice of it, I thought it was the African's well as all parts of Ireland, attend- the Department in Dublin. £600,000. Rosary Brass and Reed Band con- rather than set their Paisleyite dogs Johannesburg Consolidated Invest- ing the fifth annual Celtic Youth ducted by Dick Cashman. The Re- SATURDAY, 12th JULY on it shows they have learned some- country!—P.D.i his aim that ments and General Mining are Congress. The Congress, the prim- ft ft ft publican Movement in Cork entered thing these nine months. power should rest in 'civilised taking part. Also throughout the city and If you want to join in hands' is deliberately rejected. ary aim of which is to help young county there is intense, interest, rpHEN we had one of th^ world's the following on its Roll of Dis- What's their game now? To re- But so too are British groups such people active in national movements speculation and worry by the citi- leading clothing companies. The honour for participating in this apply: group their forces under the pre- "The new aim set by Mr. as Charter Consolidated, Rio to communicate with eacli other. reception:— tence of liberalisation. They hope Smith is 'parity; to be achieved Tinto-Zinc, and Lonrho, as zens about the 60 Cork properties American firm of Genesco, has ac- CONNOLLY being sold in a package deal. The quired the Co. Cork firm of Kire to gain time by relying on specious by bringing the number of Afri- well as Canadians Falconbridge He had this to say, that he was grounds of the Cork County Cricket Joe Duggan, chairman, U.D.C.; ASSOCIATION, promises to create diversions be- can seats in Parliament up to that Nickel, Americans Union Carbide totaKy opposed to any involvement Manufacturing Co. Ltd., more than Club and the adjoining Sunday's 400 people are employed in the Kire tween militant Catholic and hesit- held by Europeans. Under the and Dutchmen Billiton. by $hi6 country in N.A.T.O., and Denis Lyons, town clerk, who comes 283 Grays Inn Rd„ W.C.1. most favourable conditions for Well Boating and Tennis Club factories at Kinsale, Bandon and ant Protestant workers, and within Information on this budding criticised the Anglo-Irish Free Trade from Dunmanway; Africans the process would take which between them occupy nearly Fermoy. the Civil Rights movement itself. bonanza of the seventies, says the Agreement and our proposed entry ten acres of sports grounds on Hilda Beechinor, secretary, U.D.C.; several generations. It could be "Express," is closely guarded. But to the Common Market. "I would That Chichester-Clarke's reforms Cork's famed Mardyke (the song All this speculation in land and are bogus need not be doubted. stopped or slowed down." here is the first comprehensive • BEITBRIDGE Jj better have our nation destroyed "The Bells of Shandon") known to property by foreigners has the full Con Sheehan, town foreman; The actual voting was: For the guide to what is happening. than see it become part of the in- C.A. BRANCH That Paisley kept away from Stra- all exiles from here, was sold by the approval and support of the Fianna Constitution 61.130, against 14.237. NICKEL: Anglo American already teflS&tional power structure." he Michael O'Sullivan, town engineer; bane means that he had received owners to a returned American by Pail (Soldiers of Destiny) Govern- assurances from the Government. For a Republic 52,724, against 20,766. has two mines. These will produce DESi A the name of Rues Corbett who is ment of the twenty-six counties, who Dick Haslam, manager; AT OXFORD What else would have kept him Despite the above statement, the 7.500 tons a year by 1972. obviously acting on behalf of some no longer care what happens to this away? The abolition of gerry- "Telegraph" persists in saying there Total reserves at Madyieva— In answer to questions Comman- J. T. Miles, managing director of is still time for Mr. Smith, the American syndicate. Also sold is country. PTHERE is now a Connolly Asso- mandering in local Government is opening this year—are well over 30 danMSeneral Barry said that if civil Midleton Worsteds Ltd.; Rhodesians and Mr. Wilson to come WHERE THE SEARCHING AND DIGGING ARE GOING ON the Group Theatre and Arts Club. elation branch in Oxford to be achieved only by the virtual million tons, and at the already war had been avoided ever consti- Next we turn our attention to the uitianal issues in 192%. we would Very Rev. Canon J. Rea, P.P., D.D., Nearly 40 people attended a recent abolition of local Government expected at 3.500 tons a year from 197] ft ft ft town of Midleton in East Cork. have it over social issues. Tom V.F.; meeting, which was addressed by the itself. Housing allocation reform is with reserves of over 20 million tons r Civil Rights and Sinn Fein mem- to be voluntary. Unemployment is grading about one per cent. With a Barry led the famous West Cork PHfi announcement about the Association's General Secretary, Pljdhg Column in the War of Inde- bers picketed the Tara Hotel in Rev. Mr. J. W. R. Fleming, rector; Sean Redmond, who gave an ac- to remain. The Special Powers Act A LETTER FROM MR. DOHENY sizeable copper output as well, A Group Theatre has caused con- protest against the arrival of the if it has to go will be replaced by NOTES & NEWS -profits could get close to £5 million pendence which has become legen- cern in theatrical and art circles in count of the Association's work in dary. Mayor of Coleraine and thirteen Brother Hegarty of Midleton, Chris- Britain. A number of those present an equally vicious Public Order Act. WOULD like to take this oppor- vote-policy which was already BIRMINGHAM Irish and a year. Cork, for it has made a tremen- members of the Coleraine Corpora- tian Brothers School, ancl aU the I joined up and the branch was for- Since the only part of the civil tunity to reply to your article wrung from O'Neill, but his first act others are to be congratu- Most promising prospecting re- dous cultural contribution in the tion. Mrs. Rebecca McGlade, who other councillors and their wives. sults have come from J.C.I, which tWwhere in Ireland was there such nine years of its existence. For mally constituted. The Secretary is rights case that has been admitted ("Democrat," May) concerning the was to release Paisley and Bunting lated on their success in secur- represented the Civil Rights move- Mr. Mick Leahy, well known in Ox- is reported to have struck nickel a Concentration of British military many producers and actors it was This was a black day for Midle- is that they have a case, there are developments in Northern Ireland. from prison. ing the remains of Barnes and and Slack and Tans as there was ment in the six counties, took part ford Irish circles. I 1 TOGETHER with this Chichester- 1 with two borehole grades of a a workshop in which they learned in the picket and described Cole- ton which contributed so much in no spoils to fall out over. Unity as First of all, it is a serious error McCormack to Ireland. in West Cork during the fighting ever must be the watchword. Clark has thrown his first sop mouthwatering eight per cent and their trade. Many young play- raine as one of-the blackest spots the cause of freedom. to assume that the Northern Ire- six per cent. years 191S-21, and nowjiere had they Mr. Redmond made it clear that land Government "has not the to the Civil Rights Movement by it it it to1 intend with a guerrilla force so wrights and players got their oppor- for discrimination in the six coun- Indeed what is wanted is wider COPPER: Lonrho has the bases tunity of having public presenta- ft ft ft there was no intention of setting up slightest understanding of the revo- announcing an amnesty on charges daring or so resourceful. He led ties. Also pickets were placed on in opposition to the Oxford Civil unity. The decision of the N.I.L.P. arising out of recent demonstra- The report of the enquiry into the of a major mine at Inyati. Total tions in this intimate little theatre. conference to back civil rights is of lution that has engulfed it." It is reserves could exceed 15 million ttris 9mall band to fight and outwit business shops who displayed goods / \N tne other hand in North Cork, Rights Committee, which in fact obvious to all that there has been tions. Thus, with one master-stroke disturbances in Derr.v last October th» heavily-equipped army of a from this area. Joe Sherlock (Sinn Fein), who had the support of the Association's vital importance. This party has he has turned the arch-enemy of is to be kept secret. There is only tons with a grade around two per In the Little Theatre in the South the ear of the Protestant workers nothing like a revolution. mtgftty empire. Main Street, world-famous artists To our eternal shame as Cork- is chairman of Mallow Urban Dis- members in the area. The Associa- democracy and his cronie loose in one possible conclusion: it must say cent. South African Manganase trict Council, had a direct clash with tion had been the first to suggest who are politically conscious if not The Unionist Party has not been Northern Ireland. the Government ancl R.U.C. were has taken out leases all round the The fights that took place at the Minister for Health, Mr. Flana- concentrating on the lack of demo- exceptionally advanced. - These will toppled, nor are there any grounds The new P.M. is obviously astute to blame. Lonrho find. Messina has two big, Totreen, Kilmichael, Borcatia, gan, on the future of Mallow cratic rights in Northern Ireland. never be brought to play a decisive at present for assuming that it will enough to use Paisley as a buffer low-grade prospects under wraps. Crdfiflbacry and elsewhere against Canadian miners County Hospital. The Minister had But it also stood for a united Irish part except through their own be toppled either in the near or to absorb some of the hatred which it it it One. west of Bulawayo could have the ruthless forces that occupied A disgrace to come to Mallow to hear the views Republic and would add to the poli- organisations. There is the possi- distant future. In fact the ad- would sooner or later be directed reserves of up to 10 million tons as Ireland will live for ever in the pass revolution1 of the North Cork Committee for tical Hfe of Oxford. bility of the Northern Ireland Com- ditional British tropps which have against himself, had Paisley re- Angered by the continuous pene- could that further .north at annals of freedom. Tom Barry was the retention of the hospital. He mittee of the T.U.C. taking a hand. been dispatched to Ireland, together mained in prison. Paisley, who tration of American supermarkets Shackleton. chW"of the most colourful personali- rpHGE Nickel Belt Labour Club of 'Wanrfonf had been presented 'with a petition During question time Mr. Red- If it did so, then civil rights would with the increase in the number of thrives on hatred, will no doubt be with the consequent impoverish- PLATINUM: Large reserves of ties toi that period and was brilliant Sudbury, Ontario, has written signed by 12,000 people in the area mond was asked if he agreed with be brought years nearer. B-Specials is a clear enough indica- only too willing to accommodate ment of small traders, Argentinians Platinum are known to exist in as well as brave. to Mr. Callaghan, British Home Sec- XJfrTHOEVER initiated the proposal calling for the retention of the hos- calling for strikes in support of civil The presence of Conor Cruise tion that it has grown considerably him. have blown up a number of these Rhodesia. But there have been retary, enclosing a resolution pro- ** that Chicago's Mayor Daly pital. rights. This had been urged in Ox- O'Brien on the platform in Stra- stronger. At present, all the indications shops in the city of Buenos Ayres. severe technical problems in ex- posed by Bro. Weir Reid and should be invited to Waterford this ford recently. He replied by saying bane is an indication that neglect The resignation of Capt. O'Neill lead to the unmistakable conclusion tracting the metal. However. Anglo- seconded by Bro. Wm. Martin, call- summer must be sorry he ever Joe went into battle with the that those who advocated this of the north is not to be a con- has been hailed by many as a that Chichester-Clark is putting his it it it American and Union Carbide are ing for full civil rights for all citi- thought of the idea, it has aroused Minister on the recommendations should raise it with the shop- tinuing feature of the Dublin major victory for the Civil Rights own house in order before taking both thought to be close to licking S€AN REDMOND zens who live in the six counties of Such opposition. which would leave North Cork with stewards in Pressed Steel -and Mor- Labour scene. Movement. Capt. O'Neill was a action in other dirpctions—a lesson \ S the "Democrat" goes to press this obstacle. occupied Ulster. an estimated population of 70,000 ris rather than address their re- -1 ' comes news that the Northern GOLD: General Mining is work- Irish people all over the country Irish Labour, on a thirty-two moderate who was forced to resign which his opponents would do well The chib is based on Sudbury and without a hospital, but with only marks to students who were power- Ireland Civil Rights Association in- ing on a new mine near Untali. AT READING are indignant that the man who county basis, backed by a strong l>ecause of his inability to control to learn. for the most part consists of Nickel was mainly responsible for the surgical facilities. There were less in this field. his own right wing—it follows from Bearing these developments in tends to resume its series of COAL: Lonrho is working in an miners. united movement aiming for marches with a demonstration in area close to the South African bor- ITTTHSI Reading Peace Association police brutality at the Democratic shouts of "Dictatorship" at the simple agreed objectives, could this that the extremist wing of the mind, it is difficult indeed to see There is growing indignation in Plans are being made for further Strabane on Saturday, June 28th. der which contains large coal re- and Reading Area Movement Convention in Chicago last year, Minister from those present, and exert an enormous influence on the Unionist Party has also grown how the Unionist Party has become Canada at the unwillingness of the when Eugene McCarthy's supporters he faced Joe Sherlock with only the meetings in Oxford, and those in- stronger. fossilised—in fact every new de- This decision arises from the inso- serves. for Colonial Freedom organised a terested should contact the Con- Wilson Government. At the very DIAMONDS: De Beers has moved British Labour Government to face were hammered in the streets, width of the chair between them. Capt. O'Neill's successor, Chi- velopment leads to the opposite con- lent refusal of the Unionist Gov- meeting in June on the struggle in nolly Association Head Office least it could encourage the passing into Rhodesia in a big way this its responsibilities in the six. should be made welcome to any He .then left his position and ap- chester-Clark, has expressed his in- clusion ernment to set any date to the I*w Biei a Ireland, which was ad*- counties. at the next Labour Party Con- promised but not produced "re- year. dressed by Sean Redmond, General Irish city. proached Joe, who was only a short firmee of resolutions which are on tention to pursue the one-man-one- As always, propaganda must play Waterford City Council, however, distance away. Verbal exchanges" its part in the struggle for Human forms " EMERALDS: Rio Tinto already Secretary of the Connolly Associa- the agenda. has a large deposit and is looking tion. dominated by Fianna Fail and Fine foHowed but everything he said was Even such a development itself Rights and Civil Liberties, but it is Gael members, have decided to rejected by Joe Sherlock. The meet- a great mistake to claim inroads it it it for more while Lonrho may have a The speaker analysed the North- CHEMICAL would not guarantee Government promising possibility not far away confer the freedom of the city on ing ended In disorderly confusion. From Australia action. But without it as a pre- LETTIB where none exist. It only leads to ern Ireland Government reform the Chicago political boss. disillusionment in the end. The death of Alice Cuilen, M.P. ALADDIN'S CAVE programme, and showed how inade- Contrast this with Midleton, liminary Government action is not lor the Gorbals, and of Ben Parkin This is virtually an Aladdin's "I WORKERS' If Mayor Daly comes there will lrPHE Connolly Association of likely. Without the big battalions JOHN DOHENY quate it was. He assured the be many people protesting in whose chairman so slavishly crawled \ T a meeting of the South Lon- Paddington >, removes from the Cave. No wonder the Tory audience that the struggle for civil to the enemies of his country for ^ Australia has sent us a report of the working class victory is im- scene two staunch friends of Ireland hierarchy have fought like wild- Waterford, including the local of activities. They participated in possible. -* ' don Branch of the Connolly rights would go on, and it needed RESOLUTION Constituency Labour Party, the the purpose of satisfying the ascen- Association held on June 12th. a and of the Connolly Association cats in support of Smith. And may- the support of British democrats. dancy class of Midleton. the annual Easter commemoration The objective of those in Britain be it would also be time to say no r Waterford Civil Rights Association, w resolution was carried deploring the LETTER l liHE Annual Conference of the in Melbourne, and also in the May ho want democracy in the six it it it The Association had called oh the Sinn Fein arid other bodies. If he unnecessary space devoted to wonder Premier Wilson has dallied British Government to introduce a Chemical Workers' Union meet- Day march. Events In the six counties must be, now as before, the and piddled around talking of j has any sense he will think twice counties have been well publicised winning of the decisive organisa- General De Gaulle's visit to Ireland "Bill of Rights" for Northern Ire- ing at the Royal Hotel, London, on in the June "Irish Democrat" and VIAY I congratulate the "Demo- In Ireland the sudden death of sanctions which he didn't intend to May 31st, 1969, passed a resolution about calling there. Better still, in Australia, and the Association tions of the labour movement for crat'' on the consistently high Sean Dmine, TD for South-west land. He urged them to take up the Waterford City Council cnuki the virtually obsequious tone in apply, rather than take the ele- this demand. on "Civil Rights in Northern Ire- In the Midlands now finds more interest in its work the demand that a Bill of Rights be standard of lis contents and artlclas Dublin, removes another consider- mentary action of a military ex- rescind Its invitation. A public meeting on Civil Rights passed to write democracy into the which the article was written. The The meeting agreed to write to land." It ran:— view was expressed that the General on Irish questions generally, and able figure, and may in the coming pedition that could have solved the the Government, the Reading "This annual meeting supports rPHE Birmingham and Coventry being planned for June, and also an constitution of Northern Ireland. also for the light frequently thrown by-election lose Labour a seat. problem in a week branches of the Campaign for event to mark James Connolly's was thoroughly reactionary and no Labour Party, and the local M.P., the movement for Civil Mghts in Inevitably that democracy will be better friend to the Irish workers upon problems in tha other Celtic THE STRUGGLE INTENSIFIES Social Justice in Northern Ireland birth. "scd to bring about, In the fullness oountrias. Your achievement Is ad- expressing support for the civil Northern I'rMwnd and reWHIMs the THE CA FUND 01 than to the French. U Thant, Secretary General ol r both oonttnue to be active. Mr. rights struggle, and calling on the British tflMHir ttVMrnrnem of its l PHK Connolly Association's rally time, the united Republic of mirable considering the faot that the United Nations, describes the Sean Redmond, General Secretary British Government to take action ultimate responsibility to ensure In Trafalgar Square on July The Association is endeavouring •lames Connolly. PATRVQK BONO you have to mark on such a pre- behaviour of some 60.000 white Rho- of the Connolly Association, visited along the lines suggested by the that the Government of Northern ,13th, is going to cost a lot of money. to persuade the trade union move- oariops budget. C. D. U. desian voters as a "threat to peace both cities recently where he spoke speaker. Ireland iMIVWuM* taste democratic 'We estimate about £250. Where win ment to make protests to the I enclose a small donation, which cannot l>e ignored," says the with committee members of both In closing the meeflhg, the Chair- reforms MrMMNtfc" it come from? We depend on the British Government and to the regretting that it cannot be bigger 11th JULY 8.30 "Teleg raph." groups, and also Connolly Associa- man, Mr. Max Perl said; "We have The resolution was moved by V. readers and supporters of the British High Commissioner in Can- JOIN THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION for tha momant, and wish you con- Every religious group from CathoV tion members. not done enough. We must do N. Crowe "Newton Rubber," Man- "Democrat." berra. So far the Waterside FILL IN THI8 FORM tinued supcess from myself and at lie to Protestant In Rhodesia and Workers' Federation has expressed comrades in tha Welsh national more.'' chester, and seconded by Walter 8o please send in the donations, Birmingham 8ocial Justice Cam- Please send me full particulars of how 1 can join the the world have denounced the Lawless, Perivale Branch. and why not take up a collection support. movement. Smith iiction. •» it it ft paign is planning a big outdoor Connolly Association. Irish Club A letter from MIbs HMntoth Sin- among your friends? Ololch yn fawr lawn, am gynnal The United Nations has con- meeting on J\ily 18th in Snow Hill A newsletter entitled 'The Harp" Name aafon mor uohel yn rhudalannu'r N June also Sean Redmond spoke clair, Belfast, thanked the movers Our thanks to: Joe O'Connor car park. Coventry Campaign was is now being produced by the Asso- demned it. 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% July 1969 4 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July 1969 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 5 ANTHONY COUGHLAN'S WHITHER CIVIL RIGHTS Contribution to discussion REVIFIFYING 'TWO years ago the then Prime it w;>s split from top to bottom and (Unionist > centenary of the North- BY ' Minister, Captain O'Neill. from side to side. Its boasted unity ern Ireland Stale! had suffered hammer blows. Even .[P., announced that plans were tlie Orange Order was said to have POST MORTEM \ N example was given to the ELIZABETH SINCLAIR loot to celebrate 50 years of been in danger of being split, on ELECTION - * world. But not the fond one the Northern Ireland State. two occasions. The stresses and the Unionist Party imagined. The strains of the past few years were These included a grandiose campaign launched by the brought to a head when the Fianna Fail 75 seats, Fine Gael 50, Fine Gael Labour pleasure garden in Belfast which N.I.C.R.A. on" August 4tli, 1968. for even if they held their ideas. They <11 One-man-one-vote in local elec- Fianna Fail Independent'. Northern Ireland Civil Rights Asso- was to constitute a monument an end to discrimination in the discovered that they hadn't a friend tions. The abolition of the pro- 75 50 18 1 ciation demanded, as was its right, Labour 18, Independents 1 — this is the Seats, 1969 ior Unionist rule. O'Neill was allocation of local authority housing in the places where friends were perty vote in all Northern Ire- that democratic reforms be brought needed—especially at Westminster. land elections. The setting up result of the general election for the 19th 72 47 22 3 confident that he could unite the in in line with those operating in and jobs in the public sector, one- Seats, 1965 man-one-vote in local government The reforms asked for by the of the Lowry Commission to people behind ^uch a grand ges- Britain. Dail. Expected by no-one, it returns Fianna ture. Discord would be silenced. elections, freedom of speech and N.I.C.R.A. and an awakened people examine local boundaries and were so elementary that no-one out- whose report is expected in the The forging of unity would be assembly, an end to the Special Fail to office with a comfortable overall First preferences, 1969 602,000 450,000 223,000 42,000 The Association had the right Powers Act and for the introduction side of Northern Ireland could un- autumn. Universal franchise a victory for O'Neill, his Gov- programme of demands. It gave a of legislation along the lines of the derstand the reluctance of the will operate from 1971 for local majority and three more seats than in the First preferences, 1965 597,000 427,000 193,000 36,000 ernment and party. That vic- clear lead and received support in British Race Relations Act brought Northern Ireland Government to government elections and there 1965 election. tory would forge the chains of all quarters when it took to the an immediate reaction from thou- unbend. will be pressure to bring in the) Unionist domination for another streets to win there what could not sands of people all over the North. And so the campaign proceeded vote at 18 years of age, as in The 1965 result was Fianna Fail 72, Fine Gael 47, Labour 22 and Percentage of first preference vote, 1969 46% 34% 17% 3% fifty years. be won by other means in all the until, on November 22nd. O'Neill Britain. Independents three. Far from this election resulting in a coalition years of Unionist rule since 1920. It brought a reaction from the announced five reforms. But not (2) A point.s system has been Unionist government. When a situation, therefore, or in a minority government, it means Fianna Percentage of first preference vote, 1965 48% 34% 15% 3% The hopes, aspirations and one-man-one-vote—the backwoods- worked out by the Government Fail has made an extraordinary recovery in support since the P.R- dreams of O'Neill were shattered. After October 5th, 1968, when Civil march took place in Derry on Octo- men of the Unionist Party would for the allocation of local autho- referendum last October, when their proposals were beaten by The plans were wrenched from the Rights marchers were brutally at- ber 5th it was met with the full never concede this demand. But rity housing and which will force of the Royal Ulster Consta- 25MM votes. Fine Gael has increased its representation by three drawing-boards. The Northern Ire- tacked in Derry City, the world the tide was too strong. O'Neill come into force in August, 1968. bulary, a riot squad and water- and—against all expectation—Labour gets four seats less than in land Government will not be able learned of the "benefits" of Union- went to the electorate of Northern The system will be open to ist rule for over 500,000 Catholic cannons. This was Craig's effort to Ireland in February 1969, as much amendment to suit local needs 1965. io celebrate "the success" of fifty A win that was a great surprise years of Unionist home rule in citizens and others who dared to end the campaign. But his effort to bolster up his own position as and not the local electoral dropped. In 1885, however, there misfired. Labour has been reduced in quite the way envisaged in the hal- oppose that rule. The repression of leader of the Unionist Party as to register. numbers—they have 18 now was an increase in the numbers all opposition, by all the means kill his opponents in the streets. elected which doubled that Party's T^I ANN A FAIL'S clear win in a change of some kind—and the reduced majority. Far from suf- cyon O'Neill days. The model of The marchers stood up to Craig (2) The totally discredited Unionist- compared with 19 when the Dail available to a political party which strength. With the support of the the General Election sur- mood of the country these days is fering because of his stand for "devolution" has been found want- and his armed police. The people He won a Phvrric victory. He dominated Derry Corporation controlled the area right down to and Derry Rural District Coun- dissolved—but the change in its youth and the trade union move- prised everybody and there has a critical, forward-looking one— socialism, he had emphasised dur- ing. of Derry also stood up and were lasted a short time as the Prime the management committees of the Minister in the new Parliament and cil were summarily sacked and political base and composition is ment the Labour Party should be been much speculation as to they didn't like the alternatives ing the election campaign that the counted—in support of the cam- offered. Labour Party's policies were a con- smallest local authority schools was his job was taken from him by a Derry Development Commis- remarkable and full of signifi- able to do the same. "We must use how they made such a come In the same period, "devotion" to paign. The lid that had been Quite possibly the Opposition par- coction of "those fellows in Dublin" the British Crown and Common- complete. securely fastened down on the Major James Chichester-Clark, who sion set up to administer and cance for the future. It is for what may be a long period in oppo- back after the referendum ties would have done better, especi- and should not be taken seriously, wealth has been clearly seen for Unionists' dirty box of tricks for had stated that he could not accept develop the area for the next the present a largely Dublin- sition to learn much ourselves and debacle of last October. If complaints were raised at cen- the demand for one-man-one-vote. five years. to explain to the Irish people what ally in the country, if there had Some of his constituents have what it really is—a tangible, tawdry nearly half a century was prised off. based party, with 11 of its 18 been a coalition agreement between ascribed his plummeting vote to his tral or local government level they But Chichester-Clark had to give (4) The Cameron Commission, un- our policies mean," he said. and materialistic thing, i.e., a yearly From all corners of the world T.D.S from the area around the Obviously the 46^per cent of the them. Fine Gael would have liked timidity rather than his forth- were shrugged off. The Unionists way. The campaign launched in der the chairmanship of Lord There will be others among La- voters who gave first preference to subvention by the British Exche- there came writers, journalists, radio capital. this, but Labour had said no. This rightedness in standing for Labour always had the big majorities. If August, a few short months before, Cameron, to inquire into the bour's new recruits who will see the Fianna Fail didn't want a change quer said to be of the order of £100 and television commentators and didn't injure Labour in Dublin, Party policies. Bills were introduced by Opposition had wrenched concessions from events of October 5th in Derry (JEVERAL of the provincial La- Parnellite analogy as apt. of Government. Or if they wanted million a year to keep the Northern cameramen to find out just what where in terms of votes they are Ireland State afloat. The alleged M.P.s at Stormont to forward demo- O'Neill and Clark and the following and subsequent events was set bour T.D.s lost their seats—Mr. Michael O Morain, Minister for cratic reform—a vote of the Union- went on in this little near-forgotten programme of reform was an- up and has been busy in the Tom Kyne in Waterford, Mrs. Des- right on Fine Gael's tail, but it devotion underwent a great trial corner of Ireland, masquerading as affected reaction outside Dublin. Justice, used a verbal paint-pot in when persons like Wm. Craig, M.P. ish bench could soon settle such nounced :— (Continued on Page Six) mond to mid-Cork, Mr. McAuliffe in the election campaign with talk matters. an integral part of the "United Cork North-East, and the votes of found that he had a boss over in Kingdom of Great Britain and A NATION OF WORKERS NOW rpHEN there was Mr. Kevin Bo- about "Trinity Reds," "psychedelic Whitehall and just couldn't do what the Labour T.D.s elected outside The "divine rule" of the Unionist Northern Ireland." -"- land's redrawing of the constitu- Maoists," "queers" and "long-haired he would dearly have liked to do— Dublin fell significantly. r Party was assured. The Stormont pHIS General Election has seen the. political centre of gravity of ency boundaries. With the fall in intellectuals." The Taoiseach spoke put the entire opposition in chains There was publicity, but not for heaven could not be breached. CRAIGAVON PROVES A FLOP In 1961 there were three Labour the Irish Labour Party shift decisively from the country to the population of Connaught which about his "duty" to combat "Lab- in Northern Ireland. a Golden Jubilee. Instead of praise, Lucifer, in the shape of an alterna- T.D.s in the Dublin area, in 1965 the town, and to Dublin in particular. It is, after all, only to be has taken place, constituencies all our's extreme socialist policies" there was worldwide condemnation. jU IX COUNTY showpiece New tive government, would not have to employed prefer to stay where they there were six; in 1969 they have along the West were cut from four- which were "alien" to Ireland. This His dream of U.D.I, came up The real face of Unionism was re- ^ Town, Craigavon, is going to are rather than participate in this expected, for it is in the towns the workers are, and their numbers be thrown out by the due process become 11. This time, too, the seaters to three. Clever boundary is a theme Fianna Fail will con- against the subsidy from London vealed and the verdict was lacerat- find it hard to get people to live crazy scheme. Labour Party had put up candidates are increasing year by year. of elections—he could not get into draughtsmanship by Mr. Boland tinue to maintain and if the Labour and the Government of Ireland Act, ing—ior O'Neill and his Govern- there, according to a "Belfast John Hume, M.P. for Foyle, has in every constituency in the country Here are some figures showing the underlying social basis of that heaven. ensured that the x odd seat went Party obliges them by going on the 1920, and the latter showed that ment. Telegraph" survey. Over one-flfth tabled a motion in Stormont that for the first time. All along the that shift. They give the numbers and percentage of people work- generally to Fianna Fail rather defensive they will be playing right he was a pretty small fish in the of the workers in the huge Good- the Unionist Government should West, however, the Labour vote was The Golden Jubilee would go for- ing in agriculture on the one hand and outside agriculture on the than Fine Gael. into the hands of the Government. whole British imperialist edifice. year factory, which was opened not proceed with further plans for very small, 4 per cent, 5 per cent, , ward. It was all as God, nature rpHE Unionist Government tried other on two different dates, 1926, the year of the first Free State this year, have left already. Of Craigavon until they consider first 6 per cent in different constituen- Partly as a result, while Fianna and the Unionist Party had ordered. to stall. It tried to hold back census, and 1966, the year of the last census. TplANNA FAIL concentrated on r 10,000 unemployed throughout the whether the money would not be cies. Here the battle was entirely Fail got 46 per cent of first pre- piIE "unique" quality of the Come 1971, an example would be the granting of democratic reforms. attacking the Labour Party's J- Unionist Party aiso suffered. "given lfi> the world and, in no time But it was too late. They were un- North who were screened for jobs better spent in helping older towns between Manna Fail and Fine Gael. ferences, it has over half the num- socialism, while Labour made much there, only 70 said they would go In Agriculture For the first time in its long history at all, we'd all be celebrating the able to hold entrenched positions— and cities. It was OBly in Dublin, and particu- Outside Agriculture ber of seats in the Dail itself. of the sale of Mr. Charles Haug- to Craigavon. larly among young people in Dub- 1926 662,000 638,000 hey's house and land during the lin, that the turn towards Labour 51% 49% The Taoiseach Jack Lynch, made Craigavon is the name given to a much better impression also than election, for £201,000, to Matt Gal- of the past decade continued; and lagher, leading developer and Fian- the strings of houses which are this was mainly at the expense of the other party leaders, as during being built between Lurgan and OIL GALORE! 1966 341,000 777,000 na Fail supporter. mum Fianna Fail. the election campaign he travelled sazebos Yis, BUT ptiyy Portadown as part of the Unionist 3»% 70% around the country "to meet the CITIZENS' ACTION Commit- over by the State and the Water- the nation, hut to all its mate- CIOME of the big American oil Apart from these there was no rial possessions, the nation's soil policy of concentrating development ^ companies are now starting The new Dail will see many new people." Suspicion of peculation A tee has been formed in Ennis- fall, Woodlands and the non- in the Protestant areas around Bel- faces. Only just 100 of the mem- debate on serious policy issues. The arable land be used as a National and all its resources, all the exploration on the searbed off the In 1926 half the labour force worked on the land; 40 years later hangs over some of his Ministers," Free Trade Agreement and Com- kerry, Co. Wicklow, to demand fast. This "New Town", named bers of the last Dail will return to but Mr. Lynch himself is univers- Park. wealth and all the wealth- Southern Irish Coast Marathon it was less than one third. mon Market were hardly men- that the vast Powerscourt Estate producing processes within the after the bigot who was Lord Car- Petroleum, subsidiary of the giant their seats in Leinster House. Over aly admitted to be honest in his son's chief lieutenant, is planned forty of the outgoing members have How did this change affect the principal social classes ? The tioned. Labour referred to Fianna be taken' over by the State. The In the interests of the com- nation, and with him we reaf- Marathon Oil Company of Ohio, is dealings. It counts for quite a lot munity we demand that the total to absorb millions of pounds and either retired or been defeated. It census data give also a breakdown of the labour force into em- in Irish politics nowadays and Mr. Fail's increasing subservience to local people are particularly in- firm that all rights to private the main company involved. British political and economic arable land be acquired by the thousands of people in factories is the greatest clean-out of any Dail ployers of labour, self-employed and workers, as follows :— Lynch won his Party an enormous censed at the proposals to turn property must be subordinated On licence from the Irish Gov- policy, but there was no sustained Land Commission to be used as to the public right and welfare." and housing estates ribboning along since the foundation of the state lot of votes. part of the estate into a wild life the railway line. ernment, they are exploring 18,000 and brings to the front of Irish campaign on this theme. a farming Co-operative. - .,v Self-employed square miles of sea-bed between public life a new political genera- "TBEN there was Fianna Fail's reserve with lions, giraffes, zebras Rents are very high, however, and Relatives Partition did not arise, nor the We are opposed to any scheme and amenities few. Even-the un- Tuskar Roack, Co. Wexford, and the tion. Employers assisting Employees "red scare" against the Labour and other animals. which uses this arable land as a Fastnet Lighthouse, Co. Cork. Party. This classical refuge of question of support for the civil At least 1*1 T.D.s have gone from 1926 79,000 565400 667,000 rights movement in the North by wild life reserve or any other Irish discovery Later they intend moving to the right-wing political parties had no At the end of May a reception sea off the Aran Islands and North Fianna Fail, including Sean Lemass 6% 44% 50% seeking the extension of civil rights tourist venture. and 8ean MacEntee; 14 from Fine effect in Dublin, where the people was held to Powerscourt House to Mayo. down here. The paradox was that hear Mr.-Jim Chipperfield of the Whether the idea of a wild New bus methods Gael, Including James Dillon, John it was most directed against, Cruise will aid lepers If they find oil it should help the A. Obstello and Decian Costello; 1966 27,000 337,000 754300 O'Brien, Thornley and Keating, in constituencies outside Dublin. circus family outline the scheme. life reserve is desirable or not is Labour went on the defensive be- But protesters were present carry- TJADIO telephones in buses and Irish economy — if ft, is processed seven have gone' from Labour. 21% 30% 67i% piled up huge stacks of votes. It a matter for the State Enter- A MAJOR break-through in the television cameras pointed at cause of its "socialism" instead of ing slogans: "Small Farmers In. 1 and refined in Ireland, that is, and is doubtful if it had much effect prise to decide and we suggest * war against leprosy, one of the city centre bus queues are being ABOUR' will continue for the Today, therefore, the working class is by far the largest class in the State, putting Fianna Fail on the defen- Animals Out." "The Land For The that any decision should take most horrible of diseases, which is not exported unprocessed as is hap- with 674% of the working population receiving wages or salaries and many down country, either, apart from People" and similar demands. introduced by C.I.E. to Dublin as pening with millions of pounds L time being under the leadership some very backward areas. sive for renaging on republicanism. into account the expert opinion a health scourge throughout large part of their plan to apply "ad- of them members of trade unions. There are fewer employers than ever— of the Dublin Zoological authori- worth of zinc and copper ore from of Mr. Brendan Corish, but It Is One Labour T.D. in a rural con- parts of Africa, Asia and South vanced technology" to the fight hard not to see the advent of Conor though a lot more big employers—and less than a third are "self-employed." It will be interesting to see what ties. Ireland at the moment. Most of the latter are small farmers, the rest being small shopkeepers or stituency got back into the Dail by T^HE Citizens' Action Committee America, has been made in the against traffic congestion Cruise O'Brien, Justin Keating and lessons Labour will draw from this Medical Research Council of Ire- tradesmen. the skin of his teeth with a greatly election over the next two years. has since been active in the We affirm our support for the Already Buses 19 and 19A be- David Thomley to the party, as well These basic statistics, therefore, show the growth of the Irish working village. Meetings have been held land's laboratory at Trinity College. as the return of Dr. Noel Browne, concepts on which our nation tween Ballymun and Rial to have class and the dramatic decline of the small bourgeoisie. They show more and pickets maintained on the was founded as expressed to the the telephones. The idea is that who had been defeated in 1965, not employees working for fewer employers, which inevitably occurs when big busi- gates of the Powerscourt Estate, Dr. Vincent Barry and his col- Shannon crux— making quite a difference in time. ness grows at the expense of small. first paragraph of the Demo- leagues, working with a tiny budget central traffic controllers will assess which is now owned by the Slaz- the traffic and crowd situation Dr. O'Brien, who is the most poli- They also show the basis for the long-term growth of the Labour move- FIANNA FAIL WON THE cratic Programme of the first of £50,000 per annum, have synthe- enger family, The Committee, with these devices and use than tically experienced of the new ment. The increasing mass of employees inevitably seeks political representa- Da 11. sised a new drug - called "Lampren" union recognised whose secretary is Mr. Tom Red- to throw in reserves of buses at Labour men, ascribed his own high tion of its own. This has begun in Dublin with its large concentration of which Is very effective against the working class people, its old Labour traditions and trade union organisation. mond, former secretary of the "We declare in the words of peak hours where they are most ri"*HE workers at the E.I. Company, vote and the Labour Party's success bacteria that generate leprosy and Many workers still vote Fianna Fail or Fine Gael, but the drift of working GAELIC LANGUAGE VOTES Manchester branch of the Con- the Irish Republican Proclama- needed by the waiting crowds. Shannon, have at last won in Dublin to the desire of people tion the right of the people of which seems to have the ability to class allegiance away from the two "middle class" parties Is clearly shown TT looks as if Fianna Fall got the nolly Association, includes in. its Most people will welcome any- recognition for their union, the in the city, and particularly young in this election. some anti-Irish votes, but it got Ireland to the ownership of prevent the fearful adverse side- Irish language vote in this elec- ranks members of Sinn Fein, the thing that helps the long-suffering Irish Transport and General, from working-class people, for a new Fianna Fail many of the pro- Ireland and to the unfettered effects that occur when various tion, though many of the language Labour Party and the Irish bus-users, but the help will be the giant American monopoly party with radical policies, and the language ones. control of Irish destinies to be other drugs are used. people, especially the young, have Workers' Party. It has recently little. As the cars increase in num- Oeneral Electric, which wanted to Labour Party was the only one indefeasible, and in the language been bitterly critical of so many of It is a regrettable equation, but issued the following statement: The compound was originally de- ber—two-thirds of them moving keep the union out of their factory. offering itself as such in Dublin. of our first President, Padraig A Party of Auctioneers Fianna Fail's anti-national policies will tend to remain unless the La- veloped against T.B„ but It was very around the city occupied only by Recognition was the main issue to Pearse, we declare that the "We will make slower gains in of recent years. bour Party ceases to equivocate on "The Enniskerry Citizens' Ac- expensive. It was. however, used in the driver—it becomes even clearer the bitter dispute at the E.I. fac- the country because there are less JT is interesting to look at very generul, of course. The occu- nation's sovereignty extends not The reason for this is simply that the language question tion Committee demand that the clinical trials against leprosy in that the only solution is for people tory last year. young people there," he said, "show- the social position of the pation of "businessman" or "com- only to all men and women of Fianna Fail said they would retain Powerscourt Estate be taken Nigeria and proved extremely effec- to leave motor-cars altogether out- The E.I. Company, it will be re- ing how the Government has a members of the new Dail, for pany director," for example, doesn't Down in Connemara, however, Irish as a language to be taught to tive. It is now being produced more side the city centre, possibly beyond membered, put strong pressure on vested Interest in emigration, which tell much about where a man young Padratg Mac An Iomatre, the the way a man earns his living Irish schoolchildren, while Fine cheaply and is going on sale to the canals, with whatever excep- the majority of their employees not reinforces the conservatism of the gets his money. Most of them are Gaeltacht Civil Rights candidate, can tell you a lot about him. precise enough to make possible an Gael and the Labour Party said they for whom Malrtin O Cadhain and If you would like to havo the "DEMOCRAT" posted to pharmacies throughout those parts tions are deemed to be reasonable. to Join the union When the factory countryside." of the world where leprosy is com- Public opinion is slowly moving to occupational profile of each party would drop it. Irish would be an many language people were working, you, tend this cut-out with your subscription to : was picketed the company brought He also remarked that while When several members of "optional" subject only according to did very well. He got over one-third mon. this direction. in workers on buses, some of which Labour has not grown numerically in the Dail. the same Party belong to the Ixrth the opposition party policy of the Gaeltacht votes which tradi- The IRISH DEMOORAT, 283 Grays Inn Rd., London, W.C.1 As well as this socially valuable To quote an "Irish Times" edito- were burned'by the LR.A. in this election, a linear Increase is The working class connections same occupation it reveals that documents, though some Labour tionally went to Fianna Fail and work of a high order, Dr.- Barry's rial which advocates this solution: A committee appointed by the not the only criterion by which to of the Labour Party are clear. with 18/- for a year 8/- for six months Party, its policies and the Seven of their 18 T.D.s are trade spokesmen sounded as if they were polled one-flfth of a long list of team has also gained renown inter- "The annual increase in one-way Minister for Labour last year when judge the strength of Labour. candidates. His intervention around interests it upholds. union officials. As well there are unhappy with the proposal to drop nationally for work on anti-cancer streets, freeways and no-parking all the employees went back to "compulsory" Irish. Carna, Carraroe and Rosmuc Numc work, has now recommended that A 8 an authority on the Parnelllte In Irish elections the ballot four university lecturers, the new agents. As the "Irish Times" areas is a guide to the progress of The anti-national L.F.M. inter- showed that, whatever about "com- the company should recognise tho period, he pointed out that in jJapers carry the occupation of intake in Dublin in this election medical correspondent commented traffic thrombosis. These are no vened by putting up flashy stickers pulsory" Irish, those who have Address more than palliatives: nothing less union for negotiating purposes on 1860. when the Irish Party recruited candidates after their names and and two medical men, Noel Browne considering his tiny budget: "It on city lamp-posts and walls: spoken It from birth down in the than major surgery will keep the behalf of its members. The com- i new active section under Parnell - these have been published in and John O'Connell. The remain- seems that we in Ireland are get- heir actual numbers In Parliament Fianna Fail No, Compulsory Irish Oaeltacht weren't very satisfied with ting very much for very little." city alive for any length of time." pany has agreed to do so. the press. Some designations are (Continued on Pag* Eight) No. This may have got Fine Gael the way things were. 6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July 1969 July J 969 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT mm 1 THE MEMORY OF THE Boolavogue pre] ®]TItiiiiiilSiiiiillijl H T Boolavogue as the sun was A STUDY IN LI .1.111E X setting BOOKS UHk 1BWIHIINH llll DEAD A Enigma of George Bernard Shaw milH ulwt J O'er the bright May meadows ot edited by HO fears to speak of Ninety- The dust of some is Irish earth, LOCAL HISTORY Among their own they rest; Shelmalier, The Bogus Image of Bernard W eight? Historical Notes on Laois, by And that same land that gave A rebel hand set the heather Shaw, by R. J. Minney, Leslie Who blushes at the name? blazing BEFORE THE 12th OF JULY Seosamh Mac Caba. Old Laois THE BLARNEY ROSES When cowards mock the patriots' them birth GERARD Frewin, 35/-. fate Has caught them to her breast; And brought the neighbours from William III and the Respectable XIV. under the terms of a treaty Society, County Library, 'TWAS over in old Ireland, near the town of Cushendall, And we will pray that from their far and near, Revolution—The part played which involved an undertaking by Who hangs his head for shame? ^'INETEEN years alter his Portlaoise; pp 128. Price 5/-. * " One morn I met a damsel there, the fairest of them all. He's all a knave, or half a slave clay Then Father Murphy from Q|t| CURRAN by William of Orange in the Charles that* he would openly de- Twas with my young aflections and my money she did go, Who slights his country thus Full many a race may start Kilcormack Revolution of 1688, by Lucile clare himself a Catholic "as soon death a dozen or so of JOSEPH MacCABE was a But true men, like you men, Of true men, like you, men, Pinkham; $8. Published by as the situation in England per- Shaw's 57 plays are still popu- schoolteacher in Ballyroan, Co And she told me she belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow. To play as brave a part. Spurred up the ranks with a Will fill your glass with us. rousing cry: Archon Books. mitted it." He did not, however, lar. Royalties, including those Laois, who spent his spare time CHORUS: "Arm! Arm!" he cried, "for I've 'This scholarly book answers the feel inclined to declare his religion from the Gabriel Pascal films like the famous Dr. Joyce before They rose in dark and evil days him. gathering the folklore and We drink the memory of the brave, To free their native land come to lead you, ojuestion which must often until he was on his deathbed. of Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Can anybody tell me where the Blarney Roses grow ? THE GREAT traditions of the people, and using The faithful and the few, And kindled then a living blaze For Ireland's freedom we live or present itself to the student of With his elder brother dead (who and Caesar and Cleopatra, and It may be down in Limerick Town, or over in Mayo; Some lie far off beyond the wave, them to elucidate the course of That nothing shall withstand; die." Irish politics. How did the name also had been his protector from profits from the stage and It's somewhere in the Emerald Isle, but this I want to know ; Some sleep in Ireland, too; Alas, that might should conquer of William of Orange survive into local history. All, all are gone, but still lives on SATIRIST the fruits of his own follies) James screen version of My Fair Lady Can anybody tell me where the Blarney Roses grow ? right, He led us on 'gainst the common modern politics to be still used as had no one to restrain him. He It is hard to imagine a pastime The fame of those who died, They fell and passed away soldiers, W. A. SPECK : "Swift'' (Evans a rallying symbol by the Unionists have long since freed his huge And true men, like you, men, rapidly undermined his own posi- more fruitful and fascinating, and Her cheeks were like the roses, her hair a raven hue But true men, like you, men, Bros., 8s 6d). estate from indebtedness to the Remember them with pride. Are plenty here today. And the cowardly yeomen we put in Northern Ireland? The Orange- tion by giving Catholics key posi- the results, which have been Before that she was done with me she had me ravin' too ! to flight (TEAT Swift was politically and men present William as a dashing, tions in the Army and Navy, re- Treasury, leaving munificent gathered together in this short, She left me, sorely stranded, not a coin she left you know, Then here's their memory, let it be 'Twas at the Harrow the boys of socially an Irish rather than heroic figure. In fact, he was moving the disabilities on Catho- surpluses for equal division posthumous work, will be of inter- Some on the shores of distant Wexford And she told me she belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow. To us a guiding light an English writer must be inferred never robust, being always sickly, lics generally and most frighening among his legatees, the National est to all Irish people, and not only lands Showed Bookey's regiment how men those from Laois. Their weary hearts have laid, To cheer our fight for Liberty from his indignation at England's asthmatic, with a temperament to of all he brought over 3,000 Irish Gallery of Ireland, the British And teach us to unite! \could fight. arrogance in the affair of Wood's They've roses in Killarney, and the same in County Clare, And by the stranger's heedless go with it—suspicious, cold, calcu- soldiers to add to his army. He Museum and R.A.D.A. The very first page starts trains Though good and ill be Ireland's Lookxout for hirelings, King George coinage, the "casus belli" of the lating. But he was undoubtedly a also behaved as though Parliament of speculation in the mind. Laois But 'pon my word, those roses, boys, I can't see anywhere. hands Their lonely graves were made; still of England, Drapier's Letters. The ferocity of very astute politician, a good orga- was a naughty child to be sent It is a suitable moment for a is divided into the land of the She blarneyed me, for by the powers, she left me broke, Ho! Ho ! But though their day be far away, Though sad as theirs your fate, Search every kingdom where his satire and his love of mystifica- away in disgrace and only re- cool look at the amazing career of Lalors. and the lands of the Tuath Yet true men, be you, men, niser, a master of intrigue and a •"Did this damsel that belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow. Beyond the Atlantic foam, breathes a slave, tion—the "meaning" of Gulliver's competent military strategist. The called when he, the monarch, this philanthropist, a career neatly mhic Lughadha. Yet the clan in true men, like you, men, Like those of Ninety-eight For Father Murphy from County J. K. INGRAM. Travels has been the object of as English supporters of William needed it. The Pope, an ally of bisected-into 50 years of humiliat- name Mac Lughadha is not one oi Acushla, gra-machree, my boys, she murmured soft, did she, Their spirit's still at home. Wexford much speculation as that of Finne- were the Orangeists and the William's against Prance, dis- ing poverty and an approximately the seven great names of Laois. If you belong to Ireland, it's yourself belongs to me; Sweeps o'er the land like a mighty gan's Wake—also suggest what is Orange order later formed in Ire- approved of James's foolishness. equal span of dazzling success and Who then was Lughaidh? wave. scarcely cause for wonder, that wealth. The title is not to be in- H«rDonegal comallye brogue, it captured me, you know, land was a close relative. Although William had declared The name has been traced back birth, education and sixty years of terpreted literally. Mr. Minney's to the Fir Bolg and beyond, and Bad scran to her—and that same place —where the Blarney himself for toleration of Catholic- residence in Ireland left their mark The Orange Order, The Banner biography establishes a close one suspects it is the same as the Roses grow! THf BOSTON BURGLAR We took Camolin and Enniscorthy. ism and the dissenters, this did not on th& Dean's work as surely as did with William on his White Horse enough correspondence between the Lug that is found at the back of A. MELVILLE. And Wexford storming drove out prevent himself from landing in our foes his admiration of Pope, Arbuthnot and the slogan "Remember The public person of G.B.S., which place names like Lyons, Leydon, WAS born and bred in Boston, boys, a place you all know well, and Gay. South-West England with banners Shaw claim as "my greatest work I 'Twas at Sliabh Coilite our pikes Boyne" have been used consistently saying "Protect your Protestant and conceiveably London—the Cel- Brought lip by honest parents, the truth to you I'll tell; were reeking It strikes an Irish reader as to rally the most backward ele- of fiction," and his real character, tic deity whose exploits are drawn Brought up by honest parents and reared most tenderly and English Liberties." Ironically, which was as idiosyncratic as good With the crimson gore of the curious that Mr. Speck, an his- ments against reform and revolu- a third of William's large army upon in the tales of Cuchullainn Till I became a sporting blade at the age of twenty-three. Irish whiskey. The Shores of Americay beaten Yeos; torian, attaches little Significance to tion against the abolition of the were Roman Catholic. and Finn. At Tubberneering and Bally Ellis this fact, which is no doubt the key penal laws, to prevent Catholic IITR. MacCABE'S lists of names With James in Prance and Wil- 'Lt be bidding farewell to the And when I am bidding my last My character was taken and I was brought to trial Full many a Hessian lay in his to many of the puzzles he seeks to emancipation; to defeat Home * PART from notes made over 30 1 with local pronunciations and solve in this book. He nevertheless liam installed in London, but not land of my youth farewell My parents thought to bail me out, but I was kept in jail. gore; Rule; to make the partition of the years of personal acquaintance, evolutionary history will be mainly » makes a valuable contribution to yet on the throne, there was a And the home that I loved so well, The tears like rain will blind The jury found me guilty and the judge he wrote it down— Ah, Father Murphy, had aid come country possible and to maintain the book draws on information interesting to experts. Likewise his And the mountains grand of my To think of the friends in my own over the study of an enigmatic and his- the Police State in the Six Coun- general attack on the property of supplied by Shaw's friends and "For robbing of the Union Bank you are sent to Charlestown." Catholics and most of them were tracing of places will be mainly in- own native land native isle The green flag floated from shore torically important writer. Swift ties. Today the same symbols rally neighbours, his housekeeper, his I'lUjbe bidding them all farewell, removed from positions of import- teresting to people who know the And the home I am leaving behind. to shore. was from his youth caught up in the the opponents of the Civil Rights printers and a host of writers, im- mft an aching heart I will bid I saw my aged father and he standing by the Ba.', literary, political and religious con- ance. districts he is discussing. For if I am to die in some foreign movement. presarios and artists as diverse as them adieu, Likewise my loving mother a-tearing out her hair, troversies of the Augustan Age. For the general reader the story For tomorrow I Sail away range At Vinegar Hill, o'er the pleasant Miss Pinkham's account of the Tl/'HEN his Protestant European Arthur Askey and Sybil Thorndyke. A-tearing of her old grey looks and the tears came trickling down- Slaney, They provided the content of A "religious situation" in the latter *" allies complained to William all of whom knew him profession- of the clans of Laois is likely to be O'er the raging foam to seek a And be buried so far, far away, Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the the most interesting part of the home Saying, "John, my son, what have you done to be sent to Our heroes- vainly stood back to half of the 17th century shows that that he was jeopardising the lives ally in one way or another. No fond mother's tears will be shed Books and Gulliver's Travels; more- book. There is a useful account of On the shores of Americay. o'er my grave Charlestown ?" back the Paisleyites would have been of Protestants in European coun- Shaw contrived to be a Commu- And the Yeos at Tullow took over, the form of his prose-works, the O'Moore family, with the story On the shores of Americay. considered backward even then. tries, he replied (despite his sec- nist who gave his blessing to Hitler Sure tis not for the love of the Father Murphy his method of assuming a fictitious of the famous Rorv O'Moore and There's a girl in Boston City, boys, a girl I do love well, Religion still played a part as a tarian banners) that he hadn't the and Mussolini, an energetic Social- gold I go And if ever I do return again And burned his body upon the persona, or mask, to achieve his motivating force and although it other who deserve to be equally And tis not for the love of fame, And if e'er I get my liberty with her I mean to dwell, rack. characteristic corrosive irony, was a power to stop the pogroms, denied ist councillor of St. Pancras, who famous of the same name. My own native land to see, was by no means as important as responsibility for them and blamed Or that fortune bright may shine If e'er I get my liberty, bad company I will shun, God grant you glory, brave Father prudent precaution in the dangerous was accepted as a fellow Conserva- Mr. MacCabe's researches are al- Tis there that my friends will me«t it had been at the opening of the the English. •n me, And the robbing of the Union Bank, likewise the drinking of rum. Murphy, metier of polemicist at a time when tive by his well-off neighbours at lied to a sound national outlook. Or give me a glorious name. me And open Heaven te all your men! century it was used as a propa- Ayot St. Lawrence, a professing With smiles they will welcome me. prosecution for libel was a conven- The Ambassador for Spain who The Northern half of Laois is 'Tis not for the love of the gold The cause that called you may call tional weapon in the warfare of ganda weapon at the time of the had given out Wililam's Declaration atheist given to solitary meditation I go Tis not for the love of gold I go Ye lads that are at liberty should keep it while ye can ; you tomorrow Revolution of 1688 to a degree named after the Lalor clan. Mr. O'er this weary and stormy sea ideas. to assist his cause, had his house in church, an enthusiastic philan- MacCabe quotes from the greatest O'er this weary and stormy sea Don't roam the streets by night or day or break the laws of man ; In another fight for the green that makes it necessary to give derer of remarkably limited sexual But to seek a home for my own But to seek a home for myself and again. jTH'R- SPECK'S knowledge of his- burned down. William wrote a long of the Lalors, James Fihtan: you For if ye do ye're sure to rue and become a man like me the issue a little more than pass- letter of apology to the King or experience, and a lifelong teetotal- v true love ~ tory is put to excellent use in ing attention here. The truth erf "Not the constitution that Tone On the sttHftjof An*riOW. On the shores of Amerieay. A-serving out your twenty years in the penitentiary. P. J. McCALL. Spain, who was one of his allies In ler who pretended not to notice the relating Swift's themes—whether he the matter is that no Korean three ounces of Scotch which his died to abolish, but the constitu- . ^njSniTM -im m S ".i" «—'—— wrote in the role Of a peer, a bishop, Europe. tion Tone died to obtain, indepen- Catholic or Protestant statesman, It is a great pity that Miss Pink- housekeeper put in his soup daily a draper, a ship's Surgeon, a Grub whatever his country might be, during his last illness. dence, roll and absolute indepen- —FROM PAGE FIVE St. hack, an asttologer or a tub ham's book gave so much space to dence for this island and for "WHITHER CIVIL RIGHTS?"-DISCUSSION could have found a foreign policy the preparation of William's con- preacher—to the events and per- that would have been entirely every man in this island." sonalities of the period. He succeeds spiracy and so little to events after irpHE ambivalence of Shaw's Mr. MacCabe's comment: Two past few months acquiring writ- must not be allowed to get away the old. The latter keep intoning: rallying-ground for the movement semi-colonial area—or even the compatible with hia personal in tracing a unity in the labyrinth- 1688, especially William's campaign -*- opinions and behaviour is ex- slogans that still hold good." It is ten and oral evidence of condi- with it. "Nothing has happened. Nothing at home and would provide our home country. ine vagaries of the Dean's anger religious beliefs . . . Many Pro- In Ireland. plained by the insecurity of his a pity that Mr. MacCabe did not tions in Northern Ireland. Neither should we have any illu- has changed." Having no faith in friends in Britain with a clear state- The various calls—made in North- and argues persu&sively that his testants were willing to speak high The author brings out clearly the early life. He had to strike atti- live to see the publication of this (5) The Government has appointed sions about the role of the Civil themselves, they attempt to trans- ment of our aims. In Northern Ire- ern Ireland—for the suspension ol bigoted conservatism, his scorn of sounding phrases about the de- fact that 1688 was merely a palace tudes to attract attention to his book by the society he was largely an Ombudsman — refused on Eights movement. There must be fer that lack of faith to the people. land there must be one strong and the Stormont Parliament and rule Dissent on the one hand and Deism fence of their religion, especially revolution. talents. It does not occur to Mr. instrumental in founding. three occasions previously when recognition of the fact that its aims The new sages cry that there united leadership. The Association through the Governor-General, the on the other, his fleering contempt when and if that defence also in- This Was in truth a respectable MLnney that young Shaw's greatest Bills calling for same were put were, and are, limited in scope— C.D0. will be "civil war." They do not must be seen to speak with one suspension of the Government of for all pretentiousness whether volved common action against revolution, one in Which the right handicap may have been the Anglo- before the Northern Ireland although they have proved far- realise or understand that the voice and to act under one leader- Ireland Act and the rule of Northei n literary or scientific, his professed Prance. When the time came to people could and did take part. Irish syndrome, the malaise that Parliament by Miss Sheila Mur- reaching in effect. Its aims at- people are now strong enough not ship. The work to be done here Ireland through a Commissioner, or misanthropy, are consistent with a act they were just as willing to Their task was to preserve that comes from being brought up in a trait does more honour than any oaghan, Liberal M.P. The Om- tracted support from persons from to allow themselves to be propelled must not be attempted to be trans- genuine devotion to truth. accept help from any source. (the state's) structure intact for community without wishing to be- eulogy to Shaw's memory. It shows budsman will take over before all classes and creeds in Northern the proposal to compel the British into a civil or sectarian war. They ferred to Britain. Government to bring in reforms in EAVANN CONOR IT is obvious from these remarks their own use and for protection long to it. It is the mark, for ex- a bonny fighter, a heroic worker the Parliamentary summer re- Ireland concerned with ordinary 1 have, by their very strength, unity Northern Ireland—would only put that the hysterical atmosphere against a group (republicans and ample, of the landowner-politician who wrote six failed novels in nine cess. decencies, common Justice and civil of purpose and determination, UUPPORT, if it is to be effective, engendered on July 12th by the 1 years before turning to drama, and liberties. 1 back the clock of reform and would dissenters) with truly revolutio- of the Six Counties. H>> The Government announced gained a measure of control of ' within Britain, can only come A STUDY OF Orangemen is more reminiscent of nary principles. then waited seven more years to from a unity of all the organisa- hinder further and more fundamen- It shows itself in Shaw's long- that legislation would be pro- Its strength lies in its ability to events. tal advances in the Northern Ire- Elizabeth Is England when the Since the important aspect of have his first play produced, a man vided to deal with grievances at unite persons ol all ix>)itical par- Given a correct and clear lead, tions there who claim to have an PHYSICAL FORCE Northumberland Catholic rtobles harboured resentment against his well-disposed towards mankind interest in Ireland and its future. land scene. William's role in the Revolution mother for having caused him to local authority level and against ties opposed to a denial ol civil free from ambiguities, they will were plotting to put Mary Queen was the saving of England from himself especially, shrewd in some When too many parties or persons FREDERICK ENGELS: "The spend six months at a Catholic public bodies—an advance on liberties. Attempts to shift the avoid the pitfalls that would please "VyHAT needs to be done, and I of Scots on the throne of England English Republicanism, it seems matters, childlgh in others, a the present position in Britain. movement from its broad base can the Unionists. The cry of "civil approach the throne, the throne is was pleased to learn that the Role of Force in History," school. It may be, more than his comedian with wonderful power and have Elizabeth assassinated or logical that he should be used post- admiration for the purpose and re- (7) There has been a promise to only weaken the struggle for the war' is a cry of despair and denotes able to play off one against the first steps had been taken, is an translated by Jack Cohen, perhaps the fears and hatreds of over language, conscientious, vain, edited by Ernct Wangermann humously to delay the achievement forming zeal of Ibsen, the hidden review the Civil Authorities realisation of the refoims already a lack of faith in the people and other. For too long that has been examination of the Govern- the Orangemen are best explained of an Irish Republic. at once parsimonious and generous, won and prevent the movement the position in Northern Ireland ment of Ireland Act with a (Lawrence & WMiart, 21$). base of that "topsy-turvy but witty • Special Powers) Act (although, the movement. The people are not by their having assisted in and On some not too distant date we and for some reason lonely. at the same time, attempts are from reaching greater heights. and among the Irish organisations view to writing into it, by way vyRITTEN eighty-one years ago, adjustment of accepted conven- out for political adventures—they benefited from the oppression of hope to make a bonfire of his ban- tions" condemned by Winston When he died at 94 hi6 house- being made to strengthen the Those who speak of "Green Tories", are organising for such reforms as in Britain. We continue to play of amendment, clauses and passages * ' and now for the first time available in English, this study of the majority of their fellow ners and slogans because then there Churchill at the time of Shaw's keeper was convinced it was be- • Public Order Act, 1951, by way who introduce patter about "the will enable them to take wise poli- at that sectional game at our peril. that will state, without any ambi- countrymen. cause he had lost Interest in the class struggle" just do not under- the origins of the German Empire will not be only Protestant liberties, visit to Russia in 1931. of the Public Order (Amend- tical decisions in the not-too-distant I welcome the opening of the dis- guity, the rights of the minorities Miss Pinkham shows how care- world. stand the nature of the campaign contains Httle that modern research but just Irish liberty. ment) Bill). This Act has at- future. cussion on the matter in the June in Northern Ireland and which will fully William had planned for This excellent warts-and-all por- SEAMU6 TR6ACV. or the deoth of deprivation of civil would call in question. It traces G.C. tracted the very unwelcome issue of the "Irish Democrat". I include ixiwers to protect those years befWe 1688 to "get his hands liberties in the ranks of those who THE future of the Civil Rights the stages by which Bismarck im- attention of responsible persons realise the fears expressed about rights. Call it what you will a on the English Throne." He built are part of the minorities. ' movement in Northern Ireland, Bill of Eights, etc.—the Act must posed Prussian hegemony and th$ everywhere and has earned the the setting up of more organisations up numerous contacts all over Eng- strongest strictures from the remembering its limited objectives be dragged out of its pigeonhole antiquated social forms of the Jun- rl1HE gains made Dy the movement —it is not a political movement and more committees. I also know kers on the complex of states which land and was intimate with the HOW TO ELIMINATE CIVIL WAR >•" International Commission of that the journal will do its every and revised In the interests of the must also be acknowledged. Mr seeking ix>wer will be determined people of this area. made up central Europe after the English political scene. The weak- Jurists last month. Cahir Healy, a Nationalist M.P. of by its ability to recognise realities endeavour to win unity and so Congress of Vienna. ness of James's position before Wil- Hobbes' "Leviathan," edited with an Introduction by C. B. Macphersen (Pelican Classics. (9) The Government have promised long reoute and now retired, wrote and its determination to work assist, within the context of condi- The Unionist Government and liam's invasion can be seen from a to have consultations with tions within Britain, our efforts here Iff/-). me, as long ago as Inst October and within the context of those realities Party will continue to keep up its Engels saw Bismarck's policy of brief look at Charles II's reign. TyROTTSN during the years of sovereign, and the Arts flow natu- resides inalienably in the .people Members of the Opposition and in Northern Ireland to make the blood, and iron as a necessary stated: "You (the N.I.C.R.A. > will inside and outside Parliament. bluster. It will continue to de- Charles, a very clever statesman, " confrontation between rally out of unquestioning obe- and we have the beginnings of two such meetings have already probably accomolish more in six Above all. its future depends on the fundamental changes in British nounce its opDonents. It will at- phase in the movement towards was secretly subsidised by Louis dience, modern democratic theory. been held. legislation affecting Northern Ire- world revolution. In depriving the Charles I and the parliament, "Le- months than we were able to do in success of its efforts to win the tempt to besmirch their reputations viathan" purported to be a treatise "Leviathan" is even more remark- land and decry their motives. This one German bourgeoisie of political tions this assumption in the Intro- If, in applying the method of NE has no illusions a'x>t:t the •Ifty years ' support of the broad trade union on the elimination of civil war. In geometry -the rigorous process from able as a work of art than as a - expects. But nothing should be power Bismarck consolidated their O Unionist Government and Party. And he was right. There are and labour movemeht. I agree that, in the ultimate, the duction, It was not shared by con- fact It is a blueprint for the bour- political document. It is one of allowed to deviate the movement, social predominance as Louis observable elements to deducible Or tlieir intentions. Th^ir devlous- those who. without 'he understand- Much hard stead and slogging British Parliament has the greatest temporary progressive thinkers, and geois State which by the time of truths— to the infinitely more com- the earliest masterpieces of English from its oath. Such attempts of Napoleon—whose schemes provid^J ness has been with us for a long, ing of a man of Mr. Healv's calibre, work faces its members one resDonsibillty for Northern Ireland it is certainly doubtful whether the publication (1951) was beginning to plex data of man in society, he prose, worlds a Way, in its lucidity, the Unionists to take Uie movement Bismarck at once with a method long time. They have announced would denigrate the advances made acknowledges the glamour of the and am not attracted to the idea imperialist world wars of this cen- take Its first firm steps. This new. glossed over some of the most sig- restraint, disciplined use of sHAile and Its leadership on to the old and a "casus belli"—had done in reforms. Steps have already been and who, endlessly, by writ ten and streets but, when all is demonstrated that that Parliament will, of its tury have advanced the cause of mercftntUlst, competitive world of nificant facts of human nature, the and scrupulous subordination of battlf fields most favourable to them Prance. In so doing, Engels argues, taken to translate them into prac- oral argument, would trv to con- for. there must be a sitting down own volition, recognise the wrong world socialism.. Investments, banks and money- Inchoate, but powerful mass of in- style to matter, from We tortuous must not be allowed to succeed. lie hastened the confrontation be- periphrases and resounding Latin- tice by way of legislation. It will vince us that nothing has changed to consolidate the gains made and done to Ireland and make suitable This unfinished essay represents wages determined Hobbes' basic as- definable longings, dreams and in- tween the bourgeoisie and the new the author's view of German his- isms Of Milton, Bacon or Sir be the task of the Civil Rights in Northern Ireland prepare for those to come There amends unless it is made to do so "Whither Civil Rights?" That is sumptions. stincts, the weakness lies in the class of urban workers. tory down to two years before the limited knowledge of psychology in Thomas Browne. It foreshadows movement to see that a good job One links them With the sages of is a need to reformulate the pro- by the strength of the movement a question for the mast serious dis- |)R.USSIAN policy, once the em- gramme of demands, having In end of Bismarck's bloody career. It For htm man Is an acquisitive his day. the flowering of prom-writing in the is dune and that, above all. the yore who would forever intone the here and the correctness of the cussion And this discussion must pire had taken constitutional machine, compelled by nature following generation, in the pages Unionists are not allowed to get mind those which the Government merits reading for the liveliness of dirge, ' , nothing will ever change proposals made bv our friends in take olace—soon. That is, if we are form after 19W, must logically lead always to seek his own profit, rea- His claim to be the founder of a of Dry den, Addison and Steele. away with the story that they were in Northern Ireland. You'll never have announced acceptance of and Britain. We do not reouire British the narrative, and deeper study a* not to lose the benefits won and to war, possibly world war. Engels son is an extension of arithmetic, new science of politics is none the The Introduction Is an admirable responsible for the reforms. This be able to beat the Unionists." The others still to be won. troops—they were never a guaran- a model of that method of historical surrender the Initiative to our believed that this would represent materialism which James Connolly religion an Instrument of govern- less » re«peetable one. It remained essay on the historical importance will be their intention awl tliey latter-day sa^es are just variants of Such a programme would be a tee of civil rights in a colonial or opponents. yet another stage In the evolution adopted in his treatment of Irish ment, justice the fulfilment of con- only for Routine (hi. m* the following of Hobbes' political thinking. towards socialism, ft Is editor ques- history. C.0. tract, right is the will of the century, to show that sovereignty «. TMMCY 8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July 1969 IRISH LABOUR'S NEW LOOK BENCH FIANNA FAIL'S wingers. Strongly opposed to the |"pHE Labour Party should make O'Donovan. Mr. Justin Keating is Labour Party in time, or at least all but a professor, and as well one wing of it. Also a scholar, Common Market. Will be Labour J- up in fire-power what they Party spokesman on health will lose in numbers during the there are the medical men Noel historian, biographer of Parnell, FUTURE literary critic and dramatist. matters. Has worked the last two lifetime of the 19th Dail. Browne and John O'Connell. Not to forget the two ex-U.C.C. gradu- DAVID THORNLEY. Trinity Col- years as a psychiatrist in St. Certainly if brains and "fire- ates, Michael O'Leary and Barry lege Professor of Politics. Topped Brendan's Mental Hospital, "yyHAT will Fianna Fail be u} power' 'are synonymous this com- Desmond. Grangegorman. Something of an to now that they are back individualist. ment will prove true. These ^ight men are Dublin in Government, euphoric with There are no less than three T.D.s. Their presence as a bloc ELECTION BARRY DESMOND. Newly elec- success ? university professors amongst the in the Parliamentary Labour Party ted for Dun-Laoghaire-Rathdown, The people have voted for n< Labour Party's new T.D.s—Doctors is amazing when one considers the POST-MORTEM where there has never before been change at the present time. The Thornley, Cruise O'Brien and John traditional anti-intellectualism of a Labour seat. Industrial Officer country seems reasonably pros- that Party in former decades. with the Irish Congress of Trade the poll in Dublin North-West perous to many; pensions and child They include, however, some of the Unions and well-known through- (Cabra/Finglas), largely because of allowances went up substantially in most intelligent Irishmen of their out the country for his trade his reputation as a TV commenta- the pre-election Budget. The Fret generation. There is no doubt that union work. Used to be chairman tor. A very pious Catholic; elec- Trade Agreement is a threat, but it A party of if they want to they will be able of the Labour Party and also sec- tion agent to Noel Browne in the hasn't yet hit many people badly. to mount a very strong attack on retary of the Irish Anti-Apartheid 1950s. Was invited to join the If they confine themselves to auctioneers the anti-democratic and anti- Movement. Articulate and willing Labour Party by Brendan Halli- counting heads in the Dail lobby. (Continued from Page Four) national policies likely to be pur- to speak out on some good, though gan, its General Secretary, a Fianna Fail could become even sued by Fianna Fail, now that they not necessarily vety popular, month before the election, to con- more complacent and authoritarian ing five comprise a farmer, a book- are safely back in office gain. test the seat vacated by Michael causes. maker, a factory worker, a jour- Here are some pen-pictures of Mullin who had resigned to become MICHAEL O'LEARY. Re-elected There are plenty of clouds on the nalist and a local government the Labour men likely to be in the secretary of the I.T.G.W.U. with a greatly increased majority horizon, however, and they need only come nearer to see the newh official, the latter being the original news over the. next few years. JUSTIN KEATING. Teaches in Dublin North-Central. • One of CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN. Pos- veterinary science at T.C.D. Was the main architects of the changes elected Government in deep occupation of Mr. Brendan Corish, trouble indeed. Leader of the Labour Party. sibly the best-known Irishman for several years a leading mem- in policy and personnel in the abroad with the exception of ber of the Connolly Association in Labour Party over the past two There is the Free Trade Agrer- "TTERE is a breakdown of the ment just mentioned. Another 10 main occupations in Fianna Eamon de Valera. Used to be in London. Made his public reputa- years. Has been opposed to any the Irish diplomatic service and per cent comes off Irish tariffs on Fail and Fine Gael. tion as a television commentator notions of a Labour-Fine Gael was head of the civilian side of the on farming matters. Knows more Coalition and a strong advocate of July 1st to bring them down to F.F. F.G. United Nations Congo operation in half what they were four years ago Farmers 16 21 about Irish agriculture than pos- Labour "going it alone" if they 1960-61. Resigned in order to be sibly anyone in Ireland. If the eventually hope to replace Fine British goods, already flooding our Lawyers 10 8 able to expose the trickery of the Labour Party is to make any come- Gael as main opposition party. A shops, will soon become a torrent. Shopkeepers /Publicans 11 6 British, Belgians and French in back in rural Ireland, or even Corkman like Desmond, the two of The critical period of the Agree- Auctioneers / Agents 11 2 Katanga. Later was head of Ireland outside Dublin, after this them were originally contem- ment is the next three years. Jack Teachers 7 3 Nkrumah's university in Ghana election Keating will be the man poraries in U.C.C. and their careers Lynch will be under heavy pressure Doctors 3 2 and a professor in New York, to tell them how .Prominent in the have closely followed one another. from both Labour and Fine Gael Others 17 8 where he was active in the N.F.A.- and respected among the The election of both confirms the American anti-Vietnam War move- country's farmers. Unclear on the old saying about Corkmen getting Total 75 50 ment. Common Market. on in Dublin — rather ironically ELECTION They have 37 farmers between Is much disliked in British and NOEL BROWNE. Former T.D. when one remembers there is not POST-MORTEM them, just a quarter of the total American imperialist circles because and Minister of Health. Won the a single Labour seat in Cork of 144 T.D.S. Not all these of this record and very much seat vacated by Sean MacEntee in itself. Like Mr. Keating, Mr. to have it revised to Ireland's ad- farmers are farmers exclusively. hated by Fianna Fail. Is likely to Dublin South East, a man whose O'Leary was a member of the vantage. But will the British be There are one or two "fanners and be Labour Party spokesman on tongue will not be missed in the Connolly Association in London. willing to oblige, at a time when garage proprietors," an occasional foreign affairs, to which far more new Dail. The crisis over Browne's DR. JOHN O'DONOVAN. Pro- they will be doing everything to in- "farmer and publican" and a few attention will be paid with him in "Mother and Child" scheme fessor of Economics in U.C.D. crease their own exports and cut "farmers and businessmen," though the Dail. It will be interesting to brought down the 1948 Coalition Elected in Dublin South-Central. imports? Since when did the Bri- it is not specified what the busi- see how he will react to British Government in which he was Used to be Parliamentary Secretary tish sacrifice their own interests to nesses are. imperialism in Ireland. Hitherto Minister for Health. Originally to John A Costello in the) Coali- help Ireland? has been a liberal on internal Irish Clann na Poblachta, later Fianna tion Government, when he was a One eighth of the Dail consists TP the British economic crisis gets political issues. Critical of the Free Fail, later National Progressive member of Fine Gael. Liberal and of lawyers. Fine Gael has mostly worse in the autumn, will the Trade Agreement and the Common Democrat (with Jack McQuillan). unorthordox in many of his solicitors and Fianna Fail has British impose import controls and Market. Has found his political home in opinions. Critical of the Common more barristers. cut down purchases from Ireland, A man of great personal pride the Labour Party where he is the Market, for example. Joined the Fianna Fail has 11 auctioneers in contravention of the Agreement? and integrity. May well lead the hero of many young Dublin left Labour Party some years ago. and agents, one seventh of that If they do, Fianna Fail will have party's representation in the Dail. the country in a right mess. Indeed the most striking thing in The 26 Comities will have a big the table is the large number of balance of payments deficit this TD,s who are shown to have some MR. McCORMAC COMES BACK year. Mr. Haughey, Minister of connection with the buying and sell- Finance, spoke of the country's ing of goods and property. This |TAEAR EDITOR, — Thanks for Independence movement." This being in an economic crisis last is especially true of Fianna Fail. ^ entering my letter in your June would go forward under the banner March. Then we had a splurge issue. Now allow me to be so bold of "revolutionary nationalism." with the Budget in April, when is surely reasonable to include as,.to correct you on one or two LETTER rthe lawyers here, for many of But now he says no such move- everything was rosy once again. points. Wolfe Tone was a revolu- There will probably be another them make money by conveyancing tionary. Hie civil rightq movement ment exists in Ireland So the civil and acting as intermediaries in understand the fight for jobs, Budget later this, year, with further is not a revolutionary movement. It houses etc. is "one of the greatest rights people can scarcely be divert- property deals. If they are added ing from something which does not heavy taxation, now that Fianna is a constitutionalist one> and the forces preparing the ground for Fail is back in office. to the shopkeepers and the auc- true followers of Wolfe Tone would exist I tioneers and agents, It comes to 32 more fundamental change" (you not have anything to do with such don't tell us what fundamental His reading of Tone is quite mis- The Criipinal Justice Bill will re- people « oo altogether, naarfy sume its passage through the Dail. a movement. All our revolutionaries change and how It's going to be taken. Tone used both constitu- *» Fianna Fail Dail Party, although the strong opposition over detested the constitutionalists, as brought about). Well the fight for tional and unconstitutional means most of whom get money from Fintan Lalor put it "I was never the past year has already got rid teuytag and selling. These men are jobs and houses etc. can have the of fighting British occupation. He one of O'Connell's creeping crawling began by urging a "reform of the of some of the most dangerous not engaged in production, either value of Instilling this into people provisions. cowardly creatures." a sense of awareness, a vital factor suffrage," and a petition to the as workers or employers. They get More important will be the Trade indeed. But when such activities King of England (which took a living as "go-betweens.'' You refer to the "existing na- Union Bills. The new Fianna Fail tional independence movement." I become a diversion from the place). When the ascendancy class If the country, or much of it, is replied with violence he gave them Government will inevitably have to up for sale numbers of these deny that any such movement exists struggle for an all-Ireland Republic confront the unions. Fianna Fail in Ireland. There is a rag-bag of then those concerned must be ex- back the violence they gave him. gentlemen should be well aide to Naturally, But he wasn't looking will want an "incomes policy- profit thereby. Is this not related republicans and Communists and posed for what they are—lackeys for which read "wage control"—as Socialists and god-knows-what in- and stooges of imperialism. for it. to the trend of Fianna Fail's policy It,is completely false to say that in Britain, to hold down wages for far the past teu years? volving themselves in all kinds of LEO McCORMAC the benefit of employers, and they protests against all kinds of things. T) EPLY: Last month Mr. Mc- the great Irish leaders of the past Teachers make up one-tenth of rejected constitutional agitation. will want "laws to restrict" union ftanQft Fail TX>.s, there being But this rag-bag has nothing to Cormac was advocating the rights and powers. offer on the question of tackling the "moulding" from the majority of Connolly spent years at it. Pearse seven altogether, while Fine Gael Yet the trade unions grow root cause of Ireland's ills—not spoke at a Home Rule meeting in has only three. Fine Gael has two the Irish people of a "revolutionary stronger numerically year by year even a phrase, You say I do not force in the form of a National O'Connell Street. Sinn Fein estab- university lecturers, however, lished the revolutionary Dail by and they are nftw closely linked to whereas Fianna Fall has none. But participating in a British-run elec- the Labour Party, a link which is it is Labour which has most of the tioa likely to be more than a formality academics, the four university Life'is more complicated than with former Labour T.D. and for- people mentioned already. IVAN COOPER AT C.D.U. MEETING blue-prints. It is not true that pro- mer Republican Internee, Michael The "others" in the table in- vided you can get the word "revolu- Mullin, as secretary of the Trans- clude several company directors, riV/TR. IVAN COOPER, M P., was retain its broad base, and those who tionary" enough times into a sen- port and General Workers' Union but It is not cleqr what kind of the main speaker at a meet- wished to splinter it should not be tence, then you have your revolu-. irpWE Taoiseach is likely to shuffle company. There are also some ing in Paddington on June 25th. It allowed to do so. tion.—Editor. J- his Cabinet. Mr. Michael O other professional people and there was organised by the Campaign for Mr. Cooper concluded by saying Morain would be no loss from the seem to be about five or six Fiarinn Democracy in Ulster, whose Trea- that they had been encouraged by Department of Justice, nor Mr Fail TXXs who might be classed surer, Mr. Ken Graham, chaired the the support which had come from Blaney from Agriculture, where he as manual and white collar meeting. Other speakers were Mr. Britain. The movement In this C.A. PARADE oould never get on with the workers, like Mr. Qua Healy of John Ryan, M.P., and Mr. Chris country held the ace card because farmers. Both of these gentlemen Cork, a dental mechanic by occu- Norwood, M.P. of Britain's overall responsibility for IN LONDON distinguished themselves in the Northern Ireland. pation, or Mr. Joe Dowling who / Saturday, June 14th members depths of political slander an.: describes himself as a "tech- Mr. Copper said that in recent scurrility during the election. times there had been a papering of the Connolly Association nician." Fine Gael seems to have over of the cracks in the Unionist held a poster parade along Oxford Mr. Lynch is in a stronger pom two manual workers amongst its Party. It was claimed that the LONDON MEETINGS Street, London's main shopping tlon than ever. He is general 1:- farmers and solicitors. They are I ONDON Connolly Association thoroughfare. The posters dealt i liked and widely popular. Thr Party was now the party of J Mr. Fintan Coogan of Galway reform. This was not true. ^ members have addressed meet- with the civil rights demands In helped Fianna Fail immensely w West, an electrical welder, and The extremists were in fact ings of 8treatham, Hornsey, and Northern Ireland, and also hun- the election. He has yet to show Mr. Begley of South Kerry, a wood- taking over many of the local par- North Kensington branches of the dreds of leaflets were distributed, however, whether he can stand m> worker. ties! They were engaged on a Young Communist League. which told the people of London to any serious crisis and get Clearly the mass of workers propaganda campaign to discredit The speaker in North Kensington that despite some reforms the demo- response from the people when tli< and trade unionists have few repre- the Civil Rights movement, while was Mr. Frank Small, who was well cratic rights of the people of nation, rather than Just the Fiann sentatives amongst the Fianna introducing reforms which were the received when he stressed the need Northern Ireland were greatly in- Fall Party, ,1s threatened. Fail and Fine Gael T.D.s. , absolute minimum. for involving the British Labour ferior to those enjoyed by Lon- Within his Party now, no on. movement In the struggle. doners. The abuses which still pre- could possibly challenge him. an<. Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd The Unionists were now employ- He advocated a bill of rights to vail were listed on the leaflet. we should therefore hear less oi (T.U.), Nottingham Rd., Ripley, ing two full-time publicity men, guarantee b