ISSN Bulk Rate Return Address US Postage SAOIRSE PAID Box 1053 0791 - 0002 Hummel South Orange, Dist. Corp. N.J. 07079 LA CUIMHNEAGHAIN NAISIUNTA IRISH FREEDOM UIMH. 23 MARTA-MARCH 1989 25D (USA $1.50 per issue, $18 per year)

Th. Easter Lily i» u>e NATIONAL EMBLEM. The Easter Lily represent. Ibe NORTH and SOUTH united ID aa ezpreaaloo of appreciation of lh« principles, for 'V^. which Ihe meo of Easier W«tl taw up lh«ir H«a, The Easter Lily •• an emblem of Hop* tod Confidence la the ultimate realisation of everr lrUhman'. dream. - free from the cenlre lo Ihe Sea." We appeal W Ihe NATION, and la particular lo the 7»UBt lo WEAR Ml EASTER LILY

IRELAND 1989: A tottering colonialism blocks the march of the Irish people.

DURING THE coming weeks the The hidden agenda to Hillsborough in- Dublin and London administrations cluded the promise by Garret Fitzgerald will be presenting the results of that wholesale extradition of Irish polit- their 'review' of the workings of the ical prisoners would be granted. For this prize of unprecedented national betrayal, 'Intergovernmental Conference' set which Mr. Haughey's administration in up as part of the Hillsborough turn has not been slow to carry out, Mrs. Security Pact signed on November Thatcher could and did ignore the opposi- 15,1985. tion of the Unionists. This 'review procedure' since Novem- STORMONT OR DUBLIN ber last has failed miserably to generate For the British are quite prepared to BRITISH the hoped-for impression that it allows rule in Ireland through the agency of for any real change in British colonial rule Dublin, rather than Stormont, as long as in Ireland. It is not even a review of the they are ruling, as long as they are pulling Hillsborough Deal as a whole but simply the strings. The Unionists can and will be an opportunity for some further media dropped if the securing and stabilisation hype and the phoney and plastic politics of British imperial interests in Ireland of Brian Lenihan and Charlie Haughey, demand it. Those Irish people who have who have become Mrs Thatcher's main applauded the Hillsborough Deal because agents in Ireland, along with Tom King. it has angered the Unionists would do RULE: Any serious discussion of the Hills- well to heed this point. borough Deal must begin with Article 1 The willingness of Mr. Haughey to act (a) which "affirms that any change in the as Britain's agent is illustrated by his status of would only shifting of ground at the recent Fianna come about with the consent of a major- Fail ard-fheis in Dublin. His original ity of the people of Northern Ireland". climbdown from verbal Republicanism of the Fianna Fail variety can be traced to STARK RECOGNITION the Joint Communique with Mrs. In stark terms Dublin thereby form- Thatcher of May 21, 1980 when he ally agreed to recognise and accept the agreed to no change in the constitutional A SHAM British military and political presence in status of the Six without the Ireland. They accepted the illegal par- consent of the 'majority' there. tition of our territory and people against Mr. Haughey is now saying that devolu- the will of the majority in all of Ireland, tion to a new Stormont is acceptable, as something which is a total negation of is the Hillsborough Deal, "until some- democracy. They also recognised the thing better comes along". It was note- the Unionist claim to 'veto' created by worthy that he has ceased referring to the virtue of their artificial 'majority' within Six Counties as "a failed political entity. six northeastern . He also extended the 'carrot' to Free 1982 in , can (on March 1 ) hurry The Hillsborough Deal thus amounts to State Sinn Fe*in of 'a place in a broad REVIEon the streets anWd roads and even at fun- over to London to confer with him about a modernised internal settlement within national consensus' if armed resistance to erals while shoot-to-kill remains an integ- extradition. What has changed in the the context of British rule and cannot British rule was to cease. ral part of Britain's war in Ireland. meantime? bring peace to Ireland anymore than the To those who are currently saying that Treaty of Surrender in 1921, the Bound- O'BRIEN'S PRAISE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES with the 'Single European Market' of ary Agreement of 1925 or the Sunning- This earned praise from Conor Cruise Meanwhile the Nationalist nightmare dale Pact of 1973. O'Brien, writing in the Indo, who said goes on in the Six Counties with the 1992 the Border will be removed we that he (Mr. Haughey) is "no more a security cost alone to the 26 Counties of reply that the British garrison in the It has brought quite the opposite during Republican than I am". How true! an estimated £20 billion in the last North will remain — it is theii removal the last three years. Britain has increased Free State minister for justice Gerry twenty years. This amount is similar to from Ireland and the recognition of the her repression of Irish citizens in the Collins, who this time last year described the total indebtedness of the same 26 right of self-determination of the Irish Six Counties safe in the knowledge that British Attorney-General Patrick Mayhew Counties at present. The UDR and Brit- people acting as a unit that will bring Dublin now shared responsibility for her as "unfit to hold office" after his refusal ish Army patrol unhindered and RUC peace. The present sham 'review' of Brit- actions and insulated her from internat- to prosecute those against whom there primacy has been reversed in Border ish rule does nothing to hasten that ional criticism. was evidence in the shoot-to-kill cases of areas. Torture and harassment continues certain day. SAOIRSE - Mdrta/March 1989

ed the Catholic Hierarchy's inactivity on Thatcher uses the Six Counties as a the case of the Birmingham Six. He "breeding ground" for repressive meas- BIRMINGHAM SIX finished his address by referring to the ures before introducing these measures British policy of "holding hostages" be- into her own country. cause of the war situation in the Six INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT Counties. Eadaoin Heussaff, a member of the "WE ARE NOT impressed by the platitudes of the Hillsborough 'GREENS BEHIND THE SCENES' Birmingham Six Committee, informed Agreement — it is by the people on the streets and in the halls of Dublin Michael Mansfield, barrister for the the meeting of a picket which Paddy and Belfast that the case will be won. We must be wary of placing faith in Birmingham Six appeal in 1987/8, Mcllkenny (brother of Richard Mc- Ilkenny, one of the Birmingham Six) and the politicians; they obviously find it very hard to admit to a mistake, to highlighted the effects of the Thatcher junta on human rights - "What we are herself placed on the British embassy in a callous, cold, calculated crime against justice. They will not plead guilty Moscow, near the end of last year. 10,000 to their own crimes - let us not apologise for them. The Birmingham Six witnessing in Britain is the demolition, not simply the erosion, but the actual leaflets were distributed in two after- are without any doubt whatsoever totally innocent: hell is what British demolition of some very basic human noons during the picket, and a very justice' has created for these six people and others" - lawyer Richard rights, with the situation in the North of favourable response was received from Harvey, addressing a crowd of approximately 400 people in the Mansion Ireland given as the excuse for this. members of the public. House, Dublin, on Friday February 17, at a meeting organised by the Douglas Hurd is not so worried now The Committee is hoping that Mr Birmingham Six Committee. continued imprisonment of the Birming- about 'Reds under the Bed' - it's now Gorbachev will raise the case with Mrs Thatcher during his visit to London next Richard Harvey, who was involved in ham Six. The confidence of people in 'Greens behind the Scenes'; we (British) are but a short step away from writers month. Two representatives from the the defence team for the Guildford Four, state justice has been badly damaged — and musicians being imprisoned for their Soviet embassy were present at the Man- was in Ireland as a representative of the the Birmingham Six have been jailed for sion House meeting and the Committee something they did not do". political beliefs. How close to the Brehon Law Society and the US National emergency powers in South Africa are we hopes to generate substantially more Conference of Black Lawyers "to pay the Fr Murray received sustained applause international support for the case in the when he referred to the hypocrisy of the now? respects of tens of thousands of lawyers United Nations and throughout the 26- administration complaining Michael Mansfield continued on to in the US to Pat Finucane", shot dead in world in the coming months. his home by UDA gunmen on Sunday about the Birmingham Six to Mrs query the need for censorship laws at all night, February 12. Thatcher while they hold their own pol- "as the media are quite apt at censoring Offers of support/assistance etc. can Fr Raymond Murray spoke of "a lack itical prisoners in Portlaoise Jail and themselves". He then listed various be forwarded to Siobhan Mcllkenny, of nationalist confidence in the Hills- refuse men release dates who have spent television programmes which were with- 90, Farndon Road, Alum Rock, Birming- borough Agreement due to the jailing and over 15 years in prison. He also condemn- drawn, and outlined in detail the way ham, B8 3HS, England.

SAVAGE SENTENCES explosions or possession of explosives or But a stiff price was being exacted by both — as legitimate acts in a war of the English Establishment as Irish Repub- national liberation. YEARS Irish Prisoners licans were given terms of penal servitude In many cases the court was used as a during March. Most notable were the platform to speak to both the enemies AGO: savage sentences meted out in Manchester: and friends of the prisoners. The of War five Irishmen including Paddy CConnell "Speeches from the Dock" once more DURING MARCH 1939, the Bomb- stationary car was blown up in Birming- of Thurles, Co. Tipperary received 20 articulated protests of Irish patriotism. ham while fire broke out in a nearby house, years each, one received 14 years while ing Campaign initiated by the IRA BRAVERY throughout England continued. The both possibly accidental. Next day in one of the two who got seven years Coventry four telephone inspection cham- apiece was a woman, Mary Glenn from The bravery of the prisoners, many of system of sabotage outlined in the them in their late teens and early twenties S-Plan was steadily carried out, bers were bombed; on the 29th Hammer- Claremorris, Co. Mayo whose brother smith Bridge in London was damaged by Jack was among the 20-year men. but most of them more mature, as they mainly in London and the Midlands explosives. At Birmingham two were sentenced to faced long years among the hostile con- and North of England. On March 30, an accidental explosion 10 years and Tom Magill of Belfast got vict population of a strange land stood On March 2 in London there was an occurred in a tenement house room in seven years. At Glamorgan in Wales out in contrast to the vindictiveness of explosion at the aquaduct carrying the Birmingham occupied by two IRA Timothy Dacey received seven years for the English Ruling Class as represented on the bench. Grand Junction Canal over the North Volunteers. On the same day three busin- possession of explosives and at the Old Circular Road, Harlesden, while in Wed- ess premises were bombed in Liverpool Bailey in London 18 Irish prisoners were "You belong to the same murder gang, nesbury, Staffordshire a-similar explosion while a fourth bomb failed to explode. jailed. the , which was took place in a culvert under a canal. On the last day of the month six business Sentences here varied from 17 years responsible for the murder of British In Birmingham on March 4 two incend- premises were sabotaged in London and penal servitude down to three years Bor- officers up to 1922," declared a British iary bombs were detonated. Four days one in Coventry. stal in two cases and one of eighteen judge as he sentenced Gerald Wharton. later an unexploded bomb was found on months imprisonment. One of those The effect of such official anti-Irish the Central Electricity Board cable in The effect of all this was fear and panic sent to Borstal was Molly Gallagher prejudice on public opinion in Ireland Willesden, London while two carriages of as the age-old unsettled "Irish Question" originally from Liverpool, whose family can well be imagined. an express train from Wolverhampton to intervened in England once more. In came from Mayo. (Ref. "The ERA Coventry Explosions Euston Station were burnt out on March Ireland a strong current of Republican In keeping with Irish political traditions of 1939: (Trial of Peter Barnes and 11. feeling was running through the populace the prisoners "refused to plead" to English others)" by Letitia Fairfield — Notable HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE as support and recruits gathered to the courts since they regarded the charges — British Trials Series Vol. 77 - 1953. Later in the month, on the 22nd, a Republican Movement. in all cases either "conspiracy" to cause More next month)

rialta agus sheol se na fimis le cheile ait eigin, chofche. In iothlainn D6 go scortha d'irisi Gaeilge uair eigin chun pfosa gcasfar sinn. DONALL chugam freisin. Fuair me comhra agus b'fheidir Deanaim chomh-bhron coip den ch6ad eagran de deoch n6 dho a 61. Anois 6 chroi lena bhaintreach "Bheoir Bhaile" uaidh lena ta s6 ar lar ach nf dhean- Brfd, lena mhac Seamus, MAC AMHLAIGH bheannachtai chomh maith faidh m6 dearmad ar lena inion Mairin agus len a shiniu air. Is m6r Donall Mac Amhlaidh lena mhathair. NUAIR a chuala me an droch-sceal faoi bhas Dhonall agam an leabhar ud agus Mhic Amhlaigh baineadh geit uafasach asam — agus as a beidh go deo. Scrfobhamar Ian daoine eile. Ghoill se go mor orainn go raibh an ar gcuid litreacha go 16ir fear lach ud sciobtha uainn ar slili na ffrinne chomh as Gaeilge agus cheap FITZSIMONS/HANLON D6nall bocht go raibh tobann sin agus nach raibh deis aige slan a fhagail le m€ i bhfad nfos lfofa na THE 16TH ANNIVERSARY of Vols. Vivienne Fitz- 6 nine. mar a bhios agus ghrios- simons and Leo Hanlon was marked by Sinn Fein aigh se go minic m£ chun Ta a Ian, Ian scriofa ina chaith se an chuid is Poblachtach in Killougli Road Cemetery, Downpatrick faoi Dh6nall cheanna fein mo den a shaol ag obair altanna a scriobh as agus gach focal de tuilte ina mease leis an sluasaid Donall Mac Amhlaigh Gaeilge. Thug se on Sunday, February 12 last. go maith aige mar bhi se san fhoirgniocht. Ni raibh fein. Bhi s& neamhbhalbh nach beag dom le "scein- chaired the ceremony at ina dhuine uasal amach is aon eiri-in-airde ag Donall i gcoinne Arm Forghabh- seir" Bhearla a bhi idir The commemoration the graveside and Seamas amach. Ta fhios ag an saol riamh. ala Sasana in Eirinn agus i lamha agam chomh maith. was held at the grave of O Caoil laid a wreath on Fodlach gur sar-udar e gcoinne an eagoir a fhul- Ina dhiaidh sin is uile behalf of Sinn Fein Pob- nfor chasamar ar a cheile Vivienne Fitzsimons of freisin idir Gaeilge agus aing na priosunaigh cog- Cumann na mBan who lachtach. A decade of the Bearla ach bhi a chroi NEAMHBHALBH aidh. Go hairithe Seisear riamh. Sin fath eile go gcaoinim D6nall Mac died on active service near Rosary was recited in Irish saite sa Ghaeilge. Ce nach raibh se cean- Birmingham agus Ceathar by Eamon McNulty. Bhf gach a scriobh se gailte le Gluaiseacht na Guildford. Bhi s6 neamh- Amhlaigh. Fear cabhrach, Strangford Lough along Ian de ghrinn agus de Poblachtach riamh agus eaglach ar a son. Agus ar fear tuisceanach, fear uasal. with IRA Volunteer Leo Tomas O Lonargain, thuiscint ar saol an gnath gur chain se foreigean son na hEireann i gconai. Bhrath me go raibh se Hanlon on February 10, , delivered a stirring oibri, go hairithe saol ar de gach sort, d'fhan se Nuair bhfos fein i bprios- ina fior-chara dom agus 1973. oration to the good crowd ndeoraf thall i Sasana, ait dilis d'Eirinn ina shli un scriobh se chugam go bhfos ag suil go mbuail- . Seamas McCrickard who were in attendance. SAOIRSEBrit - Mdrta/March Assassinsst 1989 Work THERE IS strong evidence of Brit- such violations of the Convention since • British Junior NIO Minister Douglas ish involvement in the assassin- 1950, Britain has the worst record of Hogg targeted him by implication in the ations of leading Belfast lawyer Pat human rights in Europe. House of Commons last January and Finucane on February 12 and The other case related to the ban on repeated his allegation eleven times; Councillor John Davey of Magher- broadcast interviews with Republican • the unusually large number involved afelt District Council on February organisations, including Sinn Fe'in in his assassination, and the manner in 14 last. Poblachtach. which it was carried out indicates the The late Pat Finucane was a particularly South of the Border Pat Finucane was possibility of "dirty tricks" active and successful lawyer whose many preparing his brother Dermot's constitut- department involvement in either the legal challenges to the British government ional contest of the 1987 Extradition actual killing or the leaking of vital in- Act. He was also recently successful in Douglas Hogg remains part of the Brit- and its apparatus in the Six Counties over formation on him. ish regime in the Six Counties while Pat the years made him a target for assassin- the Belfast High Court in securing that RUC witnesses must give evidence at the Finucane's widow has said that his ation. In the case of Councillor John Davey of Gervaise McKerr shoot-to-kill inquest and remarks were "instrumental in Pat's He was currently involved in two cases Magherafelt it transpires that DUP Mid- overturning the British ruling sheltering death". Paddy McCrory, a fellow-Belfast against the British government before the Ulster MP and fellow-council member them from doing so. solicitor who represented the Gibraltar European Court of Human Rights. One Rev William McCrea had fingered' him in victims' families at the 'inquest' last year, challenged the British derogation from Three circumstances in particular point a House of Commons debate on June 29, has pointed out the likelihood of British the European Convention on Human in the direction of British involvement in 1988. Both William McCrea and Douglas intelligence involvement. Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in his assassination: Hogg were using their "parliamentary In a statement shortly after the deaths order to implement the seven-day • the RUC told Loyalists in custody privilege" when they targeted people for of both men, Sinn Fe'in Poblachtach ex- detention of suspects power in the that Mr Finucane (and other solicitors) assassination, thus making them immune tended sympathy to the stricken families Prevention of Terrorism Act. With 21 was "keeping IRA men out of prison"; from prosecution in a court. in both cases. Tipperary.Kildare Fianna Fail lashed Over EXTRADITION FIANNA FAIL representative for South Tipp- FIANNA Fail member of Leinster House for erary Noel Davern has been taken to task lately Kildare, Paddy Power, in reply to a member of over comments he made on an RTE News the group 'Fianna Fail Members Against programme, on which he said that extradition Extradition' who wrote to him asking him to to the British constituted an agreement signed support the case of Paul Anthony Kane, "between two civilized nations. " attacked members of his own party opposed to Cashel artist Padraig 0 re-establish the Republic", extradition. Paul Kane from Ardoyne in Belfast Mathuna, renowned for his of implementing the is currently fighting against extradition to the creativeness in the art of "Anglo-Irish Agreement — Six Counties. sculpturing precious met- made- by the It seems strange that vote catching. als, has not let Davern's coalition with the Labour Paddy Power should be so Reactions such as Paddy comments pass unnoticed party, condemned initially much in favour of extrad- Power's to protests from and accused him and his by CJ Haughey as 'copper- ition when he along with within Fianna Fail to party of collaboration fastening partition' but the entire Fianna Fail par- extradition or any other • Noel Davern • Paddy Power with the British Govern- now implemented by him liamentary party two years sellout on the National ish person who is engaged made at the annual Fianna ment. as and thus ago were so vocal in their Question, are driving the in an uprising against Brit- Fail Wolfe Tone Commem- hi a statement Padraig collaborating as diligently opposition to it. Principles few genuine republicans ish occupation is not only oration held at Bodens- 0 Mathuna quite rightly with the occupation and mean nothing to people within Fianna Fail to shameful but treasonable town last October. On this points to some glaring con- disestablishment of the like Paddy Power or the resign, and if these people and the use of Irish courts occasion one member of tradictions. "Surely", he Republic as did the Free other members of the do not resign they are ex- on behalf of England sim- the group, Nora Cumiskey said, "you (Deputy Staters. Fianna Fail parliamentary pelled as with the case of ilarly so," he concluded. from Dublin, was actually Davern) don't consider Referring to his fine party, when out of power Richard Greene last England's treatment of Ire- work as an artist, 0 Math- Relating to the political threatened with physical they play the 'green card' December. assault if the protest went land and the Irish to be una believes that his clause in the 1965 Extrad- so as to win the Repub- civilized or the actions of talent demands peace for ition Act, O Mathuna des- In his letter, Paddy Power ahead. The threat was re- lican vote, in so doing they denounced the methods of portedly made by a mem- a civilized state?! Or its its full development and cribes how Justice 0 Higg- bring the National Quest- continued occupation of suggests that the present ins reinterpreted the clause this group over the past ber of the Fianna Fail Ard ion to the level of cheap year and the protest they our Six Counties to be political situation of main- without the Irish people's Chomhairle. civilized or morally just- taining partition along consent and thus set the ified."?! with English tyranny is a wheels in motion to extra- shaming distraction which dite Dominick McGlinch- FIANNA FAIL is not helpful to creativity. ey, Seamas Shannon, Rob- ACCUSED "The downhill slide ert Russell and Gerry ACTION ON TB? Harte, all of whom would 0 Mathuna goes on to must be stopped and all OVER 70 South Arm- have been protected by to instal separate handling of TB has greatly increased accuse Fianna Fail, who must return to first prin- agh farmers gathered facilities on small farms in since the installation of ciples. To extradite an Ir- the original act. he says was "founded to in on South Armagh; British Army look-out Thursday, February 23 • veterinary authorities posts all over South last to discuss the wide- must take on board the Armagh. spread incidence of fact that the cutting of Forsa Slandftla Bovine TB in their area. wire and breaking of fen- "The Brits move at will through this area while all The meeting, organised ces on land by the British Rinne CABAIREACHT, Iris an Chumainn mbeadh siad ag roinnt na Army in the area is par- visitors to farms are supp- Ghaelaigh i gColaiste na Trionoide, BAC agall- cumhachta leo. Chun by the small farmers tially the cause of the osed to walk through a dis- amh le deanaf le Ruairf (5 Bradaigh, Uachtaran, clabhsur a chur ar rudafba organisation, NIAPA, spread of TB. infected bath. South Arm- Sinn Fein Poblachtach ina ndeireann se go mhaith leo forsa poihnf proposed the following POSTS agh is now a TB blackspot dteastafonn 6 Rialtas Shasana forsa slandala 'naisiunach' a bhunu. measures: Local Councillor Eamon and the activities of the 'naisiunach' a bhunu sna Se Chontae chomh "RMAB: Bhi sibhse mor • that reactor compen- Larkin, Leas-Uachtarain, British Occupation Forces luath agus is feidir leo. le ETA PM ag an am, no sation be increased from Sinn Fein Poblachtach, have in no small measure leis an phairti polaitiuil a 75% to 100% of market stressed that it was no co- contributed to this des- Seo thibs sliocht den mhor de iarbhaill ETA ghabh leo, nach raibh ? value; incidence that the spread perate situation", he said. "R6B: Bhi muid mor agallamh ina gcuireann PM isteach sa bhforsa nua. • research should be SLOGADH SHINN FEIN POBLACHTACH Ronan Mac Aodha Bhufan leo an am ... bhfodh undertaken into the causes/ Se^n chead rud a rinne Seosamh O Maoileoin, Oifigeach Cultuir, would like cheist: cad a thugann an muid ag argoint leo faoin spread of TB in the area; ETA Militar na ceann- all Oifigigh Cultuir/Cultural Officers of all Cumainn/ bhforsa nua poilihi ach • payment of supple- tuairim duit go mbeadh se fhorsa na bpoiUhf nua a Comhairlf Ceantair/Comhairli Cuige to contact him duirt siad linn, 'F6rsa nua mentary income where i gceist go mbunofar forsa mharu. 6 thaobh na S6 immediately at 21, Sraid Sea, BAC 2,(F6n: 01-718224) a bheas ann, beidh ar gcuid herds are partially deplet- slandala 'naisiunach' sna Chontae de, ta na Sas- to make arrangements for Slogadh Shinn Fein to be ed for a specific period Se' Chontae ? anaigh ag iarraidh an stait fear fein istigh ann' ... dar held on Saturday, September 9 next. Tus maith leath only; "ROB: Tharla a leitheid tuaisceartach a chur ar ndoigh s'en rud a bhi na hoibre! i dTir na mBascach. bhonn nua. T& • seo ag muidne ag ra leo na go • explanatory leaflets T-SHIRTS AND JACKETS D'fhogair Rialtas na teastail uathu le fiche mbeadh Madrid i gceannas should immediately be CUM ANN NA SAOIRSE, USA have produced Republican bliain anuas. Ba mhaith leo air agus go mbeadh siadsan made available; Spainne go raibh siad chun T-shirts and jackets with suitable designs. They will be na naisiunaithe a tharr- in aghaidh eilimh na forsa poiUhf Bascach a • grants of 50% should available for St. Patrick's Day. Details and designs in aingt isteach ann agus go mBascach." bhunu. Chuaigh cuid be made to small farmers next issue. SAOIRSE - MdrtalMarch 1989 SAOIRSE - Mdrta/March 1989

Address by Ruairi O Bradaigh, Uachtaran, at a This article is written as a tribute to all those Irish women who in every meeting of Comhairle na Mumhan (Munster generation have played a part in . EIREANN: Executive), Sinn Fein Poblachtach in Killaloe, Co. Women in Ireland's Ireland's fight for freedom. They Clare on Sunday 19 February, 1989. have often not been appreciated for the part they played. This first article deals with the period up to SIMPL 1923. SINN FEIN POBLACHTACH supports the workers, plant that the Sugar Com- Gearoid Mac Carthaigh pany turned down a £12 mil- farmers and general business community of North lion Indian order for 60,000 fight for freedom Tipperary in the struggle to retain their sugar factory tonnes of sugar because it in Thurles and hopes that the people will not be would push production fig- IN THE EARLIER days when Dublin. They were welcomed everywhere a number of Cumann na mBan members ures for a 12-month period except at Boland's Mills where they were were picked up by a Free State patrol fobbed off on this occasion with the sort of vague women were not as emancipated as promises about alternative employment that has led above the 200,000 tonnes they are today they did not always ordered to go home by De Valera. They while painting slogans on walls in Dublin. quota and would mean the They were placed in the back of an to such a sense of betrayal in the Tuam, Co. Gal way get the opportunity to play their did not go home but reported to Pearse at EEC Commission penalising the GPO. They were welcome there and Armoured car and taken to the Barracks. sugar-beet area. the company.) full part in the Fight but there are were active throughout the week. Luckily their paint and brushes were put But in recalling the various the further integration of our exceptions to this and such names Certainly it means that Nurse Eileen O'Farrell on Pearse's in as well. When the Armoured car arrived promises made by Leinster national wealth into the EEC there is no room for more as Anne Devlin and Sarah Curran orders negotiated the surrender with Gen- at the Barracks the Staters discovered the Rouse politicians on all sides conglomeration through the than one Irish sugar plant in stand out in Irish history. eral Lowe at a British barricade in Parnell inside of it covered with anti-Free State over the years to retain the development of a minimal in- the 1990s and that talk about During the 1798 Rising and later during Street and when it had been signed slogans in white paint. The women had major plants of Comhlacht frastructure — to facilitate Mallow and Carlow being any Robert Emmet's time women often acted carried Pearse's order to surrender to all not been idle during the journey. Siucra Eireann — one of our the transport of goods and more "viable" than Thurles as scouts and look-outs for their men. posts which were occupied in Dublin. I EASTER LILY INTRODUCED major efforts at public self- people in both directions. or Tuam — both of which There were cases where they participated had the honour to meet her on a plat- reliance within the limitations When the Cease-fire Dump Arms Order Next year, 1990, sees the were making a profit at the in the actual fighting and of course they form in Middle Abbey Street Dublin in of the Free State develop- effective ending of the in- time the decision to close took care of men who were wounded in was issued in 1923 women continued to ment efforts — we feel it is December 1956. She stated publicly that play a leading role in the struggle. In adequate IDA industrial pol- them was taken — misses the the fighting. In most cases they had to night "that the young men of Oglaigh na necessary to remind all con- icy based on tax-holidays basic point. That basic point play the harder part of waiting alone at • Anne Devlin 1925 the Easter lily was introduced by cerned that there is little the hEireann who were fighting in occupied Cumann na mBan as the National Em- which has been operating is the EEC 200,000 tonnes home to rear their families while the men politicians can do for Irish founded in 1913 women were entitled to Ireland were the true successors of the blem of Commemoration of Ireland's since 1958. "New industry" quota which is not only a were away fighting or were in prison. sugar-growing or indeed for become members with full rights of men with whom she had served in 1916." dead. The Easter Lily is still the property in the greater part of Ireland constant, but a basic fact that Very often they waited in vain as their any other type of rural devel- equality with the male members. In 1916 She died the following April while I was of Cumann na mBan and no other body from then on will be confined almost the entire media as men were dead. they joined in the fighting in all buildings a prisoner in Mountjoy Jail. opment based on the process- to tourism and the develop- • Picket by Thurles sugar factory workers outside Comhlacht Siucra Eireann head- has the right to claim it. For a number of well as the political smoke quarters in Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin on February 16 last. During the Land League Fanny Parnell held by the . They also ing of native materials, once ment of golf courses as well screens simply tend to ignore. Following the Surrender of 1916 the years past the National Commemoration ments brazenly described as their crisis will insist on a founded the Womens Land League. This participated in the attack on Dublin one accepts the EEC ground- as a few pickings in minority The current crisis in Thurles 200,000 tonnes quota limit women of Ireland were actively engaged Committee have acted as distribution "integrated regional plans". organisation became so militant that Castle. Many of them were wounded rules that were set out on craft and natural resource only brings to a head in a par- wider national debate that on Irish beet production — a in tending to the wants of the relatives agents for Cumann na mBan. , Even in this area the full" will have to include the SEA, Fanny Parnell was ordered by her brother during the week's fighting. The Countess entry into the multinational areas. ticularly acute and sad way deliberate attempt by Bruss- of those who had died in the fight and implications of shut-downs lack of regional planning and to disband it as he considered it a danger Markievicz was one of the first to join. rich man's club in the 1970s. It is in that context that the the inevitable logic of EEC els to corner the market, raising funds for the relatives of the men like the Thurles sugar plant indeed our whole relation- to his political career. She served as second-in-command to fight for the Irish Sugar Com- policies and the stark reality despite the alleged commit- in prison. On the first anniversary at are not being discussed. Al- ship with the EEC now that ment to market economics, In 1900 Queen Victoria of England vis- Michael Mallin in the College of Surgeons IRISH SECTORS pany needs to be fought at a that Leinster House is no Easter 1917 women flew Tricolours ready there are fears about the mirage of unending and the effective handing ited Dublin. To mark the occasion a party in Stephen's Green. She was sentenced to UNDERMINED time when the CAP agricul- longer in charge of even the from many inaccessible positions around the impact of the closure on agricultural advance — always over of the control of Irish had been arranged for 5,000 selected death with the other leaders of the Rising The EEC is committed to tural bubble has also burst main Irish public sector com- the country. the railway line from Water- an illusion as we pointed out destinies to Brussels by the children of British supporters by the but this sentence was commuted to life unbridled capitalist exploitat- and farm incomes, due to be panies - apart of course from ford to Limerick. Indeed for from the beginning — is time-serving politicians of authorities in the Phoenix Park. imprisonment. Released with the rest of WOMEN JUSTICES ion of workers and resources cut by 3 per cent this year, being allowed to pour huge what remains of an already finally being seen for what it Leinster House and then- the prisoners in 1917, she was elected to When the 1st Dail set up Republican across national boundaries. seem destined to a stagnant sums of tax-payers' money 30,000 CHILDREN truncated national railway is. even more vulgularly well- the First Dail in 1919 and became Minis- Courts in 1920 there were many women Indeed the current fashion- and uncertain future. into "rationalisation" in Maud Gonne McBride and a number of system. Sinn Fe'iii Poblach- heeled brethren in the so- ter for Labour. She was the first woman Justices appointed. To name one of able flavour "1992" aims EEC RESTRICTS order to bring them to a other women got together and organised in Ireland and England, if not in the many, Mary Twamley, a life long member iacli while standing firmly That debate has to begin called "European" 'Tarliam- another party for the poor children of specifically to intensify this PRODUCTION point where they can be sold ent" in Strasbourg. world, to be elected a member of Parliam- of Cumann na mBan, was District Justice process. Once you accept with the Tipperary people in with the simple reality of a Dublin. This treat was held in Clonturk The simple truth about CSE off to international capitalists ent and a Minister of Parliament. for the York Street district of Dublin. this, and the SEA package Park, Drumcondra, and was a resounding remains that a 200,000 tonn- who invite elected represent- During the Black-and-Tan War women aimed to bring it about, it is success. An estimated 30,000 children Shortly after the founding of Oglaigh es quota for sugar-beet grow- atives on to their boards in na hEireann in 1913 the organisation of played a vital role doing intelligence futile to complain when ing was agreed over a decade order to maintain an "inside attended. work, providing clothing and food for the native Irish sectors are under- During the visit to Dublin of the Cumann na mBan was founded. They ago with the Brussels bur- track" of vital commercial CLONMULT SINN FEIN have been active in Ireland's fight up to men on the run as well as caring for • Countess Markievicz mined. As futile as it is to try eaucracy and that there is decisions leading to the most English Queen the women of Dublin wounded men and acting as couriers. Many women were interned in Kil- and promote "Buy Irish" Poblachtach erected a black banner across O'Connell the present day. Their constitution nothing the company or the strategic (i.e. cheap) take- CEREMONIES declares that they are an autonomous During the Dail debates on the Treaty mainham Jail by the Free Staters during campaigns and to complain politicians or any new private overbids. Street in protest. They also hung black in 1922 not one woman TD voted for the years 1922 - 1923. The story of their about emigration. The EEC OUR AIMS - For a full British withdrawal from Ireland flags from the windows of houses through- organisation and declares that the first of firm can do to change the sit- Some time-serving politic- .... The establishment of a true 32-County Socialist acceptance of the Treaty. When Free treatment there is told in "The Jangle of and the SEA aim to make SINN FEIN Poblachtach out Dublin and in many cases barricaded its aims is "to assist Oglaigh na hEireann uation as long as this very ians have even attempted to Republic .... The establishment of a new All-Ireland State forces attacked the Republic in the Keys" by one of them — the late emigration easier. commemorated the 68th the doors of the houses to impede the by every means available to them in the basic specific and clear-cut parade this situation as a vir- parliament, completely outside the present partitionist June of that year Countess Markievicz Mrs (President of Sinn anniversary of the Clon- RIC when they tried to pull down the fight for the Freedom of Ireland". There is no "home market" restriction to the march of tue, seeking a mandate for set-up, to oversee the running of the new neutral non- joined the fighting in the Hamman Hotel Fe'in from 1937-50). Aoife Taffe who mult massacre by cerem- aligned Ireland .... flags. CUMANN NA MBAN anymore. German, Dutch, Irish progress remains in "further integration" under where she fought under escaped from the gaol hid for several place. That quota condemns the SEA in next June's elec- onies in Midleton, Co. OUR HISTORY - Formed in 1905 •- we are the oldest As a direct result of this Inghuiidhe na When founded Cumann na mBan were French and British big busin- right until the end. hours in a coal wagon which was parked all existing Irish sugar plants Cork during February. organisation in the country .... Organised throughout hEireann was founded in October 1900 trained in military drill, first aid, comm- ess has a "right" — encourag- tions and offering nothing Throughout 1922 and 1923 as well as on the nearby railway line until it moved to death in the medium if not more consoling to endangered the 32 Counties .... Since our formation, we have and Maud Gonne was elected President. unications, coding and de-coding. On ed officially — to buy out At Clonmult in 1921 the continuously rejected failed compromise situations, at carrying out the same tasks as they had off to safer places. the short-term. Jrish workers and the quarter- Easter Monday 1916 members of Cum- during the Black-and-Tan War they also valuable Irish assets. Regional of the present in existence since the British partitioned our The concluding part of Gearoid Mac Policy for like Ireland (It has emerged in the current of-a-million unemployed than Fourth Battalion, First CITIZEN ARMY EQUALITY ann na mBan reported for duty at all pos- carried out an intensive publicity cam- Carthaigh's tribute will be carried in next country .... itions held by Oglaigh na hEireann in is little more than facilitating crisis over the Thurles sugar some main-road develop- Cork Brigade, IRA were OUR REQUIREMENTS - When the Irish Citizen Army was paign against the Free State. One night month's paper. surrounded in a farmhouse by British Forces. Five FOR YOU TO JOIN WITH US sequences, in terms of recurring episodes and images, Volunteers were killed in Don't let your disatisfaction end in only a veroal action, seven were murder- comment or complaint to your work-mates/ DIARM AID O SUILLEABHAIN wrote 'Ireland - Free State or Nation?'dX and in the frighteningly real quantums of 'past facsim- iles', even allowing for the fact that we are of course ed following surrender and neighbours etc - do something; hit back; join an IRELAND-FREE STATE OR NATION? the end of 1976. A native of Eyeries, Bearna, Co. Cork he spent most of his two were executed in Cork organised body of people committed to life teaching in Gorey,Co. Wexford. He receivedthe Irish Academy of Letters mere mortals and hampered accordingly by fixity of military barracks making a Award for his book An Uain Bheo. PART ONE of this essay, which viewpoint. Indeed this same 'fixity of viewpoint' may obtaining change, real change, outside of the total of 14 fatal casualties. present system - Join us, Join Sinn Fein will be serialised in future editions,iscarried below. DiarmaidO Suilleabhhain accord as charitable an apologia as one can muster on An informer, a British ex- died in 1985, aged 52. Leaba i mease eigse Eireann go raibh aige. behalf of fellow-Irishmen who perpetrated exceedingly serviceman, was later court - Poblachtach. DLARMAID O SUILLEABHAIN" barbaric atrocities in the name of post-Treaty Ireland. martialled and executed by the IRA. Our future depends on ourselves, Sinn Fein, not serious and permanent issue of territorial division or time to time, especially at election time in the South, a evertheless, and despite the mortal coils and frail- on some pin-striped self-serving careerist in ertain recent events have given a sharper focus to Wreaths were laid on what is probably the world's most historical partition would appear to have received only secondary sop to the Northern minority. Such placebos eased what- ties, any serious examen of the Ireland condition, Duolin, London or Brussels. attention. This strange lapse can in part be attributed to especially that of today, will identify immediate- Sunday February 19 on C malaise, that paradoxical condition known as ever remnants of national consciousness were left in N Republican graves in St. the erroneous belief that a promised Boundary Commis- Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. Labour ceased with Connolly ly the Free State Syndrome. Not of course that that Free-Statery. That such an entity (sic) exists there can John the Baptist Church JOIN THE REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT be no doubt. Indeed it has a multiple existence in that sion would review and adjust the Six County borderline. in that respect, its national vision clouded, its virility and particular condition is something new or startling. The old cemetery and also the The said lapse may also be explained, of course, by the socialism castrated and debauched, a mere sounding truth of course is that Free-Statery has been with us now its dimension (suitably suffering from a lack of Church of the Most Holy I wish to join Sinn Fein Poblachtach Dimension!) is to be found not merely on a segment of a growth of a 'State' or 'Statelet' mentality or, if you like, board for merry-go-round political intellectuals, always for over half a century, a chronic political disease, a sad Rosary cemetery by Denis anachronism in European terms. Black and brown may- Ba mhaith liom bheith i mo bhall de political map, not merely on a time-stained Treaty-page, contemporaneous polarisation North and South. In the prepared to wag as tail to the thin rump of any Free Buckley on behalf of the Sinn Fe'in Poblachtach. not merely in the labyrinth that is post-1922 Irish South, partial self-rule, power and its trappings, a State coalition. Furthermore, the 1937 Constitution fade but blue still holds its hue! At no time since the relatives. history but in the minds and conditioned reflexes of our 'capital city', Dublin — all had been 'achieved' and could buttressed the Separating Line by carefully-made am- mad-dogs of Generalissimo O'Duffy have the Blueshirt Alf Mac Aodha Bhui in not be 'risked' by engaging the Northern forces of symptoms beer, more menacing or rampant than today. the oration recounted the people. biguous references to the extent of the national territory Ainm secession. In many ways the Six county statelet was a and by subtle differentiation between de facto and de Daily and by judicial stealth, Cosgrave girds himself events at Clonmult in 1921 and stressed that the The same mental attitude was struck and dominat- mirror-image of the Free State itself, born of gun, jure jurisdictions whilst inferring that the Southern ethos more constrict; igly in the Franconian mantle. However, Seoladh bigotry and separatism. Henceforth Leinster House true successors of those ed by the ideology of separatism immediately after the was Catholic Nationalism. it is only quite recently that the real nature of this can- who fought and died there Treaty. If we study the Treaty Debate of 1922, it is would not, to use a latter day Wilsonism, 'be seen dead 1 cer has been made manifest. Indeed it might be said that It was the erudite Dunne who stated in his famous -:•:•:•: 1 were in Sinn Fein Pob- noticeable that in tae main it had to do with Crown with that lot up there'; the same held true for Stormont work "The Serial Universe" that in "regressive time" the it was or e advent of a Civil Rights groundswell lachtach today. strictures and appendages such as the Oath of Allegiance, vis-a-vis Leinster House. "observer" must be immortal. There is ^uch in our and Republicanism in the Six Counties that the focus on the tporfc' and the payment of annuities; the more True, pious platitudes would be mouthed from history that haunts us as observers in terms of repeated the Dublin 3 : became clear and sharp. •••••••••Mr-— Send to: Sinn Fe'in Poblachtach, 21 Shaw Street (off Diarmaid O Suilleabhain Pearse Street) Dublin 2. Fon: 718224. SAOIRSE - Marta/March 1989

LITREACHA

on the council's attitude death in September 1963. regime never interfered for we cannot dishonour Sinn Fein Poblachtach, the In Eadan to Stormont. Mr Joseph For many years he was a in the actions of the the names of those brave true custodians, in our Connellan, Sinn F6in, speaker at Easter Comm- "democratically elected Fianna who made the ult- view, of the Republican "moved that the Belfast emorations in Newry. He government". imate sacrifice in the name Tradition. We wish them Polasaithe Minister for Home Affairs was among those arrested Even moderate and legal of this great cause. every success. be informed that they did after the Rising in 1916 opposition was not toler- We therefore reiterate not recognise the author- and interned at Frongoch FIANNA EIREANN Mawhinney ated. The People's Demo- our ongoing support for BEAL FEIRSTE ity of the Belfast Parliam- prison camp in Wales until cracy was not a Repub- ent". Mr James McGuill, release came with the lican body. Its aim was to Sinn F6in, seconded. amnesty. He was soon in get civil rights for all My question is how can prison again for his ideals, sections of the commun- non-recognition of Storm- joined others on hunger ity. They staged a peace- ont be equated with alleg- strike and was released ful march from Belfast to iance to the Free State or at the Treaty. Deny. The Rev. Ian Pais- to Leinster House? In fact, Finally, it is clear that ley and Major Bunting only the year before on Daniel Sheridan would with the willing assistance 26 May, 1920, the same never have allowed his of the RUC harassed the body passed the following name be associated with marchers every inch of motion in the name of any declaration of support the way, culminating in James McGuill, namely: for anything less than the the obscene brutality of "That this Board of elect- 32 County Republic of Burntollet Bridge. Reasonsfor Youth Emigration ed representatives of the Pearse and Tone. He Brian Mawhinney Newry Union at a duly How did the present A chara, Party in 1970, and Gerry would not have allowed war (not Troubles) begin ? It is now evident to Adams party in 1986. A chara, convened meeting hereby the council, of which he acknowledge the authority Twenty years ago the IRA young Irish boys and girls All desertions from the Bheadh muid buioch was chairman, waver on had, for all practical pur- what the future has in store Republican Movement duit da dtabharfa spas of Dail Eireann, as the this. That would have been duly elected Government poses ceased to exist. In for them under our neo- meant rejection of the duinn do cholun litreach le unthinkable for him. It is Catholic/Nationalist areas colonial system — many Proclamation of 1916 and ra go bhfuilimid in 6adan of the Irish people and in the interests of truth undertake to give effect to "IRA - I Ran Away" was will have to seek a liveli- a bonus for British imper- amach is amach an choras and the good name of to be seen on the walls. hood in foreign lands ialism in Ireland. oideachais ur ata ar intinn all decrees duly promul- Daniel Sheridan that the gated by the said Dail Two electricity install- which is denied to them at The 26 County state ag an Uasal Brian Mawhin- headline "Newry Votes to ations were blown up, home. They are not told ney MP 6 thaobh na Eireann in so far as the join Free State" must be never paid it's way and same affect this Board. allegedly by the IRA. the reason why this is is now £26 billion in Gaeilge de. challenged. Later Unionist paramil- "That copies of this res- happening — that we are debt and pays £2 bill- Is leir nach bhfuil s6 PRO Bearna Uladh itaries were jailed for this. a divided and exploited ion a year in interest. sasta an stadas cheanna a olution be forwarded to Sinn Fe"in Poblachtach The whole of Bombay the Republican Minister people. Those who take seats in thabhairt don Gaeilge agus Street was burned down. the 26 County parliament a mbeidh ag gach teanga for Foreign Affairs for Ireland, geographically, A Catholic street. At Lena- historically and culturally are obliged to collaborate eile Eorpach d'anneoin gur transmission to the govern- No Return doon a Protestant mob, ments of Europe and to is ONE NATION. Britain fully with Crown forces. eiligh s6 go n-aitheoidh se assisted by the British So you have extradition tabhacht na teanga ar aon the president and chair- invaded Ireland in 1169 Army prevented Catholic and has exploited our and the spending of a mill- cheim le Breatnais. man of the Senate and to Bigoted families from occupying House of Representatives people to this present day. ion a day to maintain Dar leis an nuachoras, houses. A Catholic Church Irish men and women have a British imposed border, caithfidh gach scolaire a ba of the USA; also 30 copies was attacked in East authenticated by the offic- Junta! resisted British rule in every while they close hospitals mhaith leis Gaeilge a Belfast. generation. So we have that affects the poor. fhreastal, Bearla agus ial stamp of this Board be forwarded (by hand) to A chara, Peaceful protest was not had bloodshed, not just With the removal of teanga amhain eile, mar Let's clear away some of permitted, so war erupted. over the past 20 years, and shampla Francaise, a tariff barriers Ford, Dun- the Secretary of Dail the political smog so pre- The Unionist/Protestant/ it will continue while lop and many others pull- dheanamh chomh maith. Eireann for submission to valent in this country, Orange groups have sown Britain remains here. The Sa Bhreatain Bheag, afach, ed out and are now dump- the various foreign govern- North and South. dragon's teeth. great Bishop O'Dwyer of ing their goods into the 26- beidh Breatnais le teagasc ments". Mr Patrick Kelly The last election held in These people who talk Limerick told the butchers do gach scolaire sna county market, causing proposed the motion in the whole island was in of peace do not want of the empire in 1916 widespread unemployment Mheanscoileanna mar bun- James McGuill's absence. 1918 and returned an over- peace. They want a return "While grass grows and abhar ar fud na tire sin. and forcing our young Mr Robert Kelly seconded. whelming vote for the Re- to the status quo Ante- water runs there will be people to emigrate and Ma thagann an tairiscint This clear statement of public. A section of Union- Bellum, that is a restor- men and women in Ireland with that the foreigners seo isteach, creidimid nach allegiance to Dail Eireann ist/Protestant/Orange supp- ation of a bigoted junta who will fight and die for who come in get free mbeidh na huimhreacha only and to the Republic orters centred around Bel- which is not prepared to Irish freedom". factories, pay no tax, mhora ata ag staideir was never rescinded, fast with the connivance give fair play to the Nation- teanga na nGael sa la ata P.H. Pearse and his gall- invest all their huge prof- pigeon-holed or superced- of the British government alist/Catholic community. ant comrades declared Ire- its abroad, putting nothing inniu ann le fail sna blianta ed by recognition of the established a State which P Caomhanach le teacht. Ta Mawhinney land as a Sovereign Inde- back into the 26-county Free State. There could was founded, not on his- Sraid Fhearcair pendent State in 1916. economy. ag cur beaguchtach ar 6gra tory or geography, but on BAC2 be no mistaking the Newry That Proclamation was rat- The propagandists for an Tuaiscirt a dteanga fein councillor's support for the largest area which PS This letter was sent to a fhoghlaim. ified by a free vote of the the system say that we can the Republic which was would give a two-to-one the Editor of the Irish people of all Ireland in majority in perpetuity to have peace and unity by Ba ch6ir go dtabharfadh declared in arms at Easter Times but was not pub- 1918. The people's repres- consent. Northern Ireland gach Slua a thacafocht do 1916 and ratified by the the Unionist/Protestant/ lished in their letters' entatives in National Parl- Orange Party. was planted with English Cearta na Gaeilge sna Se people of Ireland as a unit page. iament on 21st January, and Scotch soldiers, the Chondae. Bigi cinnte go in the election of Decem- This was reinforced with 1919 issued a declaration natives driven from their mbeidh seans ag orga na ber 1918 who declared a policy of denying em- of Independence stating land. You would not con- haite Gaeilge a fhreastail overwhelming support for ployment and housing to that foreign parliament in vert one per cent of their sna scoileanna! Gabhaigf in Sinn Fein. the Nationalist/Catholic Ireland was an invasion of descendants in a million 6adan Mawhinney! The principled stance of people. Did not Craigavon Fianna the Irish people's right years, not while Britain Beir Bua! the Newry councillor who say: "This is a Protestant and must never again be keeps them in a privil- Slua Fianna Eireann would not bend the knee parliament for a Protest- Eireann tolerated. That to take eged position with first Beal Feirste Thiar to Stormont resulted in ant people" ? Did not seats or recognise any preference to jobs, hous- the abolition of this and a Brookeborough say: "I do Support parliament other than the ing etc. number of other councils not employ a Catholic and Sovereign Independent which had taken similar I advise my fellow-Union- A chara, Parliament of all Ireland John Hume and Gerry action. ists to do likewise" ? We the leadership of would be a betrayal and a Adams may talk about For your information Political constituencies NA FIANNA EIREANN, rejection of the Irish compromise, that if Mr. and the James McGuill from were gerrymandered. Then Belfast, in the light of people's rights and of the Adams would take his Dromintee died in Dublin it was copper-fastened with recent feedback to local Proclamation of 1916. seat in the 26-county in February 1946. His the. use of pogroms and Sluaite concerning our parliament, there is no Free State residence and business the extra voting power stance as regards absten- Britain trampled on the point in not taking his premises at Dromintee given to business houses, tionism and our support democratic will of the seat in a devolved parl- A chara, were burned to the ground overwhelmingly Unionist/ for Republican political Irish people by sending in iament in the Six Count- The "On This Day" by Crown Forces in 1922. Protestant/Orange. New parties, find it necessary to a murder band — the ies, as both states were column (Irish News Belfast He had been a vice- industries were concen- clarify our position in this Black and Tans, to slaugh- set up under the Govern- December 19, 1988) dealt chairman of Armagh trated in the predomin- matter. ter, burn and terrorise our ment of Ireland Act 1920. with reports from Decem- County Council and a antly Unionist areas. This Not once since the people. But brute force A devolved government ber 19, 1921 and bore member of Newry District Oligarchy brooked no foundation of our organ- failed and they tried would only mean old wine the remarkable headline Council and Poor Law opposition. The natural isation in 1909 and the treachery — divide and in new bottles and would "Newry Votes to join Free Guardians (19J9-1922). and logical site for the commitment made to the conquer. Britain divided not bring justice. Sectar- State". Such was not the He was a divisional officer New University was Deny constitution ratified in the the historic Irish Nation ianism is the lifeblood of case, nor was it borne out of the Fourth Northern city with the nucleus of First DAIL EIREANN of under the so called Treaty British rule and cannot of the article which Division, IRA during the Magee University College. 1919 have we given way to of 1921, setting up two bring peace. Unity and followed. War of Independence. It was placed in Coleraine, compromise in the struggle states geared and designed peace will only come when The report of a meeting Councillor Dan Sheridan which is an overgrown to establish an All-Ireland to serve British interests. we go back to the declar- of the Newry Board of served a lengthy term on village with no facilities Republic. We have had five major ation of Independence of Guardians which was held the SS Argenta prison-ship for a University. The New In 1986 we reaffirmed breakaways from the Re- 1919. the previous Saturday in Belfast Lough. At the University is failing. The our support for those who publican Movement since Martin Calligan presided over by Sinn F6in time of the Treaty he British government, al- refuse to recognise or par- 1922. The first Free Stat- Kilmurry McMahon councillor, Mr. Daniel F stayed with the Republic though it had supreme take in any partitionist ers, now Fine Gael, Fianna Sinn Fein Poblachtach Sheridan, told of a debate and remained so until his power over the Six County government of this land Fail in 1926, the Workers' Co. Clare SAOIRSE -MdrtalMarch 1989 pathy is extended to the with him he inspired affect- COMHBHRON family of Liam Fagan, ion and love. Ravensdale, who died on "His family and Co. November 30th last. From BRODIE KELLY Roscommon people can be CONVERY, Deepest sym- Republican Sinn F6in, proud of a loyal son who pathy is extended to the London. IT IS WITH deep regret we record the death of Brodie Convery and Taylor fam- Kelly on February 15, at the age of 87 years. gave all that was asked KELLY, Sincere sympathy to Ireland and sought ilies, Belfast on the recent He had remained an active Republican up to his last death of Michael Convery. is extended to the familv illness and rejected the 26-County partition state five nothing for himself. Go ndeana Dia trocaire ar of James 'Brodie' Kelly, "Leaba i mease na who died on February 15. times in his life, in 1922, 1926, 1946, 1969 and more a anam. From Sinn Fein I mease laochra na nGael recently in 1986. "Dilis go h-e"ag" is indeed his epitaph. bhFmrni go raibh aige." Poblachtach, Beal Feirste. CONVERY, Sincere sym- go raibh se. From the At the removal to St. Cumann, COMDT.-GENERAL Tom pathy is extended to the Mary's Church, Lucan on Convery and Taylor famil- Sinn F6in Poblachtach, February 17, Dublin mem- Maguire, last and faithful ies, Belfast on the recent BaileAthaCliath. bers of Sinn Fein Poblach- survivor of the Second (all- death of Michael Convery. McGLINCHEY, Sincere Fire Order in May 1923 Ireland) Dail Eireann and sympathy is extended to tach under DaithfO Conaill Brodie remained on the Go raibh suaimhneas sioraf Nellie McGlinchey and formed a Guard of Honour patron of Sinn Fein Pob- da anam. From Comhairle run in dug-outs on the lachtach, made one of his family, Derry on the flanking the Tricolour- Rockingham estate near Uladh, Sinn Fein Poblach- death of Joe RIP. From draped coffin. rare public appearances at tach. Boyle, and later as a shop the funeral of the late friends and associates of Next day members of assistant in Edenderry, Co. CONVERY, The Ard Republican Sinn F6in in the Co. Roscommon IRA James "Brodie" Kelly at Chomhairle of Sinn F6in London. Offaly under an assumed Ballintubber, Co. Ros- Poblachtach extends deep- Commemoration Comm- name. He was never cap- est sympathy to Geraldine McGLINCHEY, Deepest ittee, of which Brodie common on Saturday, Feb- sympathy is extended to tured. ruary 18. Taylor, Belfast on the Kelly was a founder mem- " In 1926 he was among recent death of her father, the McGlinchey family in ber, provided a Guard of the founder members of Interviewed by SAOIRSE Michael Convery .Solas na Creggan, Derry on the Honour at his native after the burial, General bhFlaitheas da anam. death of our old friend the Roscommon IRA Joe who died before Christ- Ballintubber under the Committee which has or- Maguire said that Brodie CONVERY, Deepest sym- command of Sylvester Kelly was one of the pathy is extended to the mas 1988. From Bridget ganised the Easter (1916) Convery and Taylor fam- Gavin and Terry McWeen- Fitzsimons. Commemoration cerem- best Volunteers who served • Brodie Kelly, aged 17 in the Second Western ilies, Belfast on the recent ey London. Padraic Cryan, chairman years, in Volunteer onies in the county each death of Michael Convery. of the Commemoration Divisional area in the O'NEILL, Deepest sym- uniform. year since. He worked Go raibh suaimhneas siorai pathy is extended to the Committee, presided at the hard to erect the worthy 1920s. (Tom Maguire was Surrender in 1922. He Divisional OC) da anam. From Cumann family of Bridie O'Neill, graveside and Tom Flynn, fought against the Free County Memorial to his na mBan. Belfast, who died recent- bugler, Castlerea sounded comrades at Shankill Cross. He went on to say that CONVERY, Sincere sym- ly. From Maggie Langsdorf State and was the comrade Brodie Kelly's service was the Last Post and Reveille. of Pat Mulrennan, of "Right into the 1930s, pathy is extended to and family, Dublin. Ruairi O Bradaigh, in the given down the years at Geraldine Taylor, Belfast O'NEILL, Deepest sym- Loughglynn, slain treach- Brodie Kelly was OC South great personal expense. As on the recent death of her graveside oration said that erously in Athlone Barr- Roscommon Battalion, pathy is extended to the that day's ceremonies were a soldier, Brodie was ready father, Michael Convery. family of Bridie O'Neill, acks while a prisoner in IRA and to the day of his for any situation, but was Ar dh6is lamh De go raibh Belfast who died recently. a sad but proud duty to a 1922 and of the Repub- death he would not deny a anam. From Lita Nf steadfast Republican being also a clever active service I mease laochra na nGael licans executed there in the Volunteers who carried man. As a person he was Chathmhaoil. go raibh si. From Cumann buried in his native place. 1923. on the fight against British na mBan. "Brodie Kelly threw him- loyal and possessed of FAGAN, Sincere sym- "Later that year Brodie rule in 1939-40, in 1956- strong character. "His de- self manfully into the nat- Kelly was engaged in the 62, or from 1969 onwards. ional struggle when he parture leaves a gap, and who died on March 7, attack on Headford, Co. "He gave active assistance the world is a more I gCUIMHNE 1988. Always remembered joined the South Ros- Galway Free State milit- by Lita. common Brigade, IRA in down the years while his bleak place for his pass- ary post. As a reprisal for ing," he said. WARD, In proud and his late teens in the period this, six IRA Volunteers health lasted and was the WARD, In proud and loving memory of Pat following the 1916 Rising. were executed by the Free true comrade of all who Asked to sum up Brodie loving memory of Pat, Ward, who died on March fought. He evoked respect Kelly's career as a Repub- who died on March 7, 7, 1988. Always remem- State in Tuam three days 1988. Always remembered "He saw active service later. from all who came into lican over six decades, bered by his comrades in in the Black-and-Tan War contact with him but for General Maguire said he and missed by Mary, Cumann na mBan. and rejected the Treaty of Following the Cease those who worked closely was "unpurchasable". Fodhla and Eiru. WARD, In proud and lov- "But we have all bent low ing memory of Pat Ward, ism had reached a low ebb Seamus Burke is survived and low and kissed the who died on March 7, at that time Seamus had by his wife, nieces and quiet feet of Cathleen, the 1988. Sadly missed by Seamus Burke stood with the* minority of nephews. Ruairi O Brad- daughter of Houlihan." Cumann Wolfe Tone, internees who reorganised aigh, Uachtaran, Sinn F6in WARD, In proud and lov- Tamhlacht, Baile Atha REPUBLICAN veteran Seamus Burke of Tuam, Co. ing memory of Pat Ward, Cliath. Galway died after a long illness on February 13. He was the Movement on their re- Poblachtach and Frank lease from captivity. "It Glynn, Galway County 81 years and had been an active Republican for many was just a bad phase which Councillor were present at decades. would pass", he used to both removal and funeral. Members of Sinn Fein said he first came to know say. Patrick Synnott Poblachtach escorted his Seamus Burke in the Curr- Following the military He was a humble and un- Tricolour-draped coffin to agh j Concentration Camp defeat of the Republic in assuming soldier who THE death took place on December 1, 1988 of Patrick St. Jarleth's Cathedral, in the 1940s. Seamus had the War against the Free sought only to advance the Synnott of Luton, Bedfordshire, England. He was for Tuam and formed a Guard been interned without trial State, S6amus had joined Cause of Easter 1916 and many years an active Republican in the town. He was of Honour at his burial in there following his deport- the Irish Republican Army of the First (All-Ireland) 58 years old. Cortoon cemetery. ation from England during in 1925 at the age of 18. Dail Eireann. He will be Padraig O Sionnachain, the Sabotage Campaign of He had never let down the missed by his comrades Paddy, as he was affect- those in need. He was An Cam M6r, Uaran M6r, 1939-40. ionately known to his at the time of his death Republican position to the and friends, especially in many friends in Luton, spoke at the graveside. He Even when Republican- day of his death. North Galway." still supporting the Irish was a founder member of cause. He was a fluent and escorted by a Guard ult of enemy action. Sinn F6in with Jim Reilly Irish speaker and socialist, of Honour of the Sligo "But he was also a in 1971. Together with and a great example to Noble Six Cumann of Sinn staunch Republican him- Sean Campbell and the all who had the good Michael Mooney self who rejected com- late Jim Reilly, he was fortune to know him and F6in Poblachtach. one of the first to join and Councillor Joe O'Neill promise in 1969 and again work with him. THE SUDDEN DEATH of Michael Mooney of Sligo on in 1986. He saw active ser- help set up the cumann in presided at the graveside Luton and was for over February 13 came as a great shock to Republicans. He and Dan Hoban of New- vice against the British A wreath in green, white Occupation Forces and eight years its vice- and orange was laid on was 49 years old. port, Co. Mayo, an old chairman. friend and comrade of never hesitated in his sup- his grave by Michael Michael was manager of ior cycling champion with Michael Mooney, gave the port for the Republican Paddy Synnott came to Holden on behalf of Sinn Hunter's, coal merchants, the NACA in earlier years. oration. Movement down the years. Luton from Dublin in the Fein Poblachtach. We Sligo for a number of At the largely attended Dan Hoban said that "All of us who knew early fifties. He was a tender our deepest sym- years past and was a mem- funeral from St. Mary's Michael was a great hum- him will miss him, but par- highly respected member pathy to his wife, family ber of Sligo Harbour Cathedral to the local cem- anitarian who carried out ticularly his immediate of the Irish community and friends. Go ndeana Commissioners. He had etery the coffin was drap- countless acts of kindness family, Maeve, Darragh, and always had time for Dia tr6caire ar a anam. also been All-Ireland jun- ed in the Irish Tricolour to people in need, and es- Rory, Tony, Eileen and pecially to the families of Kathleen. McILKENNY, Siobhan imprisoned Republicans "AT dheis De go raibh a and baby Sinead, Birming- Beannachtai ham, (and Colin!) - and of those killed as a res- anam uasal." Thanks very much for the Joe Higgins book, card and kind REPUBLICANS were grieved by the death of Joe strike in 1940 are buried. "Joe Higgins served a CASEY/McCREESH Cum- thoughts on the birth of term of imprisonment in Higgins of Cahirlistrane, Headford, Co. Galway on Jan- Frank Glynn, Sinn Fein ann, Sinn F6in Poblach- Carl. Most unexpected and Mountjoy Jail in 1972", tach, Co. Longford, wish uary 26. He was 54 years and was a member of the Poblachtach member of most appreciated. Thanks, Galway County Council he continued. "On the to thank all who contrib- Siobhan, will write a Republican Movement since 1957. and Paddy Ruane, former evening of , uted to its CABHAIR proper letter later (!!). At the removal of the councillor were present. local Republicans had (Irish Republican Prison- From John, Mary and Guard of Honour of Sinn ers' Dependants Fund) Carl Horan, Dublin. remains from Headford to Fein Poblachtach escorted Ruairi O Bradaigh spoke at painted 'British Murderers Out' on an English ship in collection over the Christ- Cahirlistrane Church on the Tricolour-draped cof- the graveside. mas period. RUANE, Congratulations January 28 as many as fin. A large attendance He said that Joe Higgins Galway Docks. to Paddy and Nora Ruane, eight car loads of Special was present at Donagh- had given service to the 'The dockers refused to EASTER greetings and grandparents, Carnmore, Branch and Task Force patrick Cemetery as he Republic of Frank Cunn- unload it until the dead of fraternal good wishes to all Oranmore, Co. Galway were present under a was interred in the family ane, Stephen Joyce and all Deny were buried and on Irish Republican prisoners and to Brendan and Anne the same evening as the (Ruane) Bannon, Maree, police Superintendent and grave which is close to the those interred in the Plot of war in Ireland, Britain, Oranmore on the birth of the entire area surrounding Republican Plot where the nearby. He had never falt- British embassy was burn- Europe and the USA. ed in Dublin, Joe Higgins their first girl, Aoifc. From the church was covered. men executed in Tuam ered in that regard, neither From the Sinn Fein Pob- Comhairle Ceantair na Following 1 lam Mass on and Athlone and Tony in 1969, in 1986, or at any was found with bottles of lachtach Committee, Lon- Gaillimhe, Sinn F6in Pob- Sunday, January 29 a Darcy who died on hunger- time. petrol in his car." don. lachtach. 8 SAOIRSE - MdrtalMarch 1989

^REMINDER: On Saturday March 26 next, Summer time begins so clocks should be put BACK one hour that night. Easter Commemorations 1989 Cemetery, Scotstown; Wreath-laying cere- BELFAST mony will be held at Vol. Fergal O'Hanlon Easter Sunday, Milltown Republican Monument, 12 noon Monaghan Town. Plot, 12.30pm. NORTH ANTRIM CAVAN Easter Sunday, Republican Memorial, Easter Sunday Commemoration to Vol. Shane's Cairn, Cushendun, 3pm. Jack McCabe*s grave, Killane Cemetery, Shercock, 3pm. NORTH ARMAGH CLARE/TIPPERARY : Easter Sunday Commemoration Joint Commemoration Easter Sunday. after 11am Mass, at St.Colman'sCemetery. Assemble at Killaloe Bridge (Ballina side) : Commemoration 1pm Eas- at 2.30pm. Wreath laying ceremonies at ter Sunday at Vol. Michael Crossey's Republican Monument after 10am grave, St. Patrick's Cemetery. Mass and at grave of Vol. Paddy McNam- ara, Ballina, Killaloe before main OFFALY commemoration commences, (see also Wreath laying ceremonies throughout the IMEACHTAI) county. CORK Easter Sunday Commemoration Cork ROSCOMMON City. Assemble at the National Mon- Easter Sunday wreath laying ceremony ument, Grand Parade, 2.30pm. Parade to Elphin after 11.30am Mass. Parade to Co. Republican Plot, St. Finbarr's Cemetery Roscommon IRA Memorial at Shankhill. Wreath laying at city and county mem- County Commemoration Kiltoom at orials on Easter Sunday morning. 3.30pm. Parade to Comdt. Toby Mann- DERRY NORTH GALWAY to Brig.-Adj. Joe Beirne's grave for ion's grave in Kiltoom Old Cemetery. Easter Sunday, assemble at Queally's ceremony. Easter Sunday Commemoration Derry Cross, Cahirlistrane at 3pm. Parade to SLIGO City. Assemble at the Cuchulain Repub LIMERICK Donaghpatrick Cemetery for Commem- 57th Annual Commemoration organised Mean Memorial at 12 noon. Veteran Rep- oration. Easter Sunday Commemoration Limerick ublican Sean Keenan, Derry will attend. City. Assemble Bedford Row at 12.45pm. by National Graves Association, Sligo on Wreath laying ceremonies at Republican KERRY March to the Republican Plot, Mount St. Easter Sunday. Assemble outside Town graves in the Loup Cemetery 9am, Lawrence Cemetery. Hall at 3pm and march to the Republican SOUTH KERRY Plot in the City Cemetery. Dungiven Cemetery 10.30pm. Cahirciveen, Easter Sunday. Assemble at the Fair Green. 2.30pm. Parade to Killa- LONGFORD SOUTH ARMAGH DONEGAL varogue Cemetery. Laying of wreath at 3rd Easter Sunday. Assemble at Drumlish at Holy Saturday Commemoration, Clady Holy Saturday, Republican Plot, Carrick- South Kerry Brigade Monument in Church 3pm. Parade to Lieut. Tommy Kelleher cruppin Cemetery, Camloch, 7pm. Bridge, 6.30pm; Doneyloop, Castlefin, Street along the route of the march. Memorial Cross. 7.30pm; Easter Sunday, Republican Plot, Drom- LOUTH intee after 9am Mass; Vols. John and Easter Sunday, Assemble Johnson's Cor- KERRY NORTH Dundalk, Easter Sunday. Assemble at the Thomas O'Reilly's grave, Killeen, ner, Stranorlar, 2.30pm for march to Easter Sunday wreath laying ceremony at 10.45am; Newry Commemoration to Drumboe. Adelphi Cinema at 2pm. Parade to the Re- Republican Plot, Listowel at 12 noon. publican Plot, St. Patrick's Cemetery. Foll- Republican Plot, 4pm; Wreath-laying DOWN fTralee Commemoration assemble at owed by a wreath laying ceremony at the ceremonies will be held at Edentubber, Easter Sunday Commemoration, Aughlis- Denny Street at 3pm. Parade to the grave of LiamFagan,Ravensd ale Cemetery. Vol. Michael McVerry's Memorial, Cully- naflin Churchyard, Cast lewel Ian, 10.30am. Republican Plot, Rath Cemetery. hanna, Vol. Francis Jordan's grave, DUBLIN Easter Monday wreath laying ceremony MAYO Jonesboro, also Mullaghbawn. Sat Republican Memorial, Killarney at Easter Sunday Commemoration Burr- Easter Sunday Commemoration at the Ppm. GPO, O'Connell Street, Dublin at 12 noon. ishoole Cemetery, Newport at 3pm. Cer- TYRONE emony at graves of Staff-Capt. Jim Moran Easter Sunday Commemoration, Aghy- Wreath laying ceremony at the Republican KILDARE Plot, afterwards. and Capt. James Clinton, IRA. aran to Vol. Seamus Harvey's grave, Easter Sunday Commemoration, Kildare Easter Monday Cemetery, Easter Monday Commemoration, Kilkelly. 12.30pm. Town. Assemble Square 11.30am. Parade Dun Laoghaire at 1pm. Assemble after 12 noon Mass and parade to Republican Plot in Grey Abbey to East Mayo Brigade Memorial. WESTMEATH FERMANAGH Cemetery. Wreathlaying ceremonies at Easter Sunday Commemoration Boher at Easter Sunday Commemoration, Roslea Hollywood, Ballymore Eustace and 3pm. Wreath laying ceremonies in Corn- 2.30pm. Assemble at Roslea Cemetery, Droichead Nua. MEATH amagh, Athlone, Moate Memorial, Mount ceremony at the graves of the Roslea LAOIS Easter Sunday Commemoration at Temple, Enniscoffey, Fore, Meedin, Martyrs, Republican Plot. Easter Sunday wreath laying ceremony at Knockmark Cemetery, Drumree 3pm, at Tyrellspass and Bailyglass Republican the National Monument, New Cemetery the grave of Fian Seamus Fox, killed in graves. GALWAY Stephen's Green, 1916. SOUTH GALWAY Portlaoise, 12 noon. WEXFORD Easter Sunday Commemoration, Shan- LEITRIM MONAGHAN Wexford Town, Easter Sunday. Parade aglish, Gort. Assemble at Whelan's in Easter Sunday Commemoration Mohill. Easter Sunday Commemoration, to Vol. from Crescent Quay at 3pm to the Repub- Shanaglish village after 12 o'clock Mass. lAssomble Station Road at 3pm. March Seamus McElwaine's grave, Urbleshanny lican Plot, St. Ibar's Cemetery,Crosstown.

was stopped and question- Sadie and Alan Roberts, WEXFORD TOWN Harassment-report it! ed similarly near his home IMEACHTAI Dublin - 01-823581 (after Sunday March 12, 3pm HARASSMENT OF Sinn Fein Poblachtach when returning with his 4pm). Assemble at the Republican Garden of members by .26-county police in plain-clothes wife and daughter at lam • • • • t from a Comhaltas Ceol- FEILE CH1ARA1N Remembrance and operating in private cars took place during Festival of Drama SOCIAL FUNCTION • • • • * toiri Eireann session in ANNUAL DINNER February. Incidents have been reported to us 3rd-5th March 1989 Sligo town. At 1.30am the DANCE AND EASTER SOCIAL from Westmeath, Sligo, Donegal, Leitrim and Music and Dance same night he was knock- TESTIMONIAL SATURDAY Kerry. ed up and brought from OILEAN CHLEIRE Easter Sunday Night, APRIL 1 In the Sligo case, the SHOOTING THREAT his bed by a detective who All-in weekend fare March 26, at 9pm at 9pm member was returning The men ran up to him repeated the same quest- £21 per person KYNE'S CENTRAL Lakeside Hotel home from work at Drum- flashing identity cards and ions which were put half Bus departing TAVERN ahaire when he was foll- told him "you are lucky an hour earlier on the Dublin City Quay Killaloe, Co. Clare LOUGHGEORGE owed by a number of men we didn't shoot you". roadside. Friday 3rd March, 10am "• "• • • • COUNTY GALWAY in a private car flashing Questions followed about Accommodation B/B JAP4ES PARLE Music: headlights. Finally the pur- his vehicle, all of which in- In all cases mentioned and evening meal PAT HOGAN ' Alice and the Rivals' r suers on a narrow country formation was available names and addresses were riday and Saturday night JOHN CREANE Taille £2.50 road used a hand-held from the motor taxation supplied to SAOIRSE. Is inclusive. Executed by the Free State Comhairle Ceantair na siren whereupon the Rep- office of Sligo Co. Council. there police harassment Enquiries: March 13,1923 Gaillimhe Sinn Fe*in ublican stopped. Earlier the same member in your area? COMMEMORATION Poblachtach.

Ireland and Britain £6.50 Ainm (name). DRAW RESULTS The winning numbers in the February Draw organ- Europe, Australia etc £9 Seoladh (address). ised for CABHAIR - Irish Republican Prisoners' De- IRISH FREEDOM N. American edition $18 » pendants Fund in Dublin were as follows: First Available from: Send to: Prize £\QO,no.292;Second Official Organ of Sinn Fein Poblachtach — P.O. Box 1053 SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom Prize £50, no. 146; Third published monthly. At home or abroad make South Orange 21, Shaw Street Prize £25, no. 34; Five sure of your copy by taking out a subscription. New Jersey 07079 Dublin 2 Prizes of"£5, nos. 140,296, USA Ireland 37, 193, 212.

Published by Sinn Fdin Poblachtach: 21, Sraid Sea,Baile AthaCliath 2; 21, Shaw Street (off Pearse Street), Dublin 2. Fon: 718224.Telex: 91761. Printed by Lithographic Printers Ltd