THE IRISH EMOCRAT (Incorporating "Irish Freedom") New Series No. 79 JULY, 1951 Price 3d. De Valera heads i "veiled coalition^ MACBRIDE CHAMPS AT BROWNE "TREACHERY" fits available for investment we may see on a small scale the development of the "Business as nsuaP'-says PAUL O'HIGGINS more commercially profitable raw materi- Our Political Correspondent als in Ireland. AFTER THE DULLEST ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN HISTORY, 'DEV' WAS "REPUBLICAN" M Secondly, Fianna Fail, the "Republican RE-ELECTED TAOISEACH BY 74 VOTES TO 62, THE THREE INDEPEND- Party" more conscious' than Fine Gael, ENTS WHO LEFT CLANN NA POBLACHTA VOTED AGAINST THEIR FORMER of the people's rooted anti-imperialism is concerned to make a sham pretence of the CHIEF. maintenance of neutrality by at once for instance starting a training scheme for The new Government can only survive with the tacit consent of the Opposition Civil Defence against atomic bombs groupings and 'Dev' is in control of what is in effect a thinly veiled Coalition — a 'black' inter- against which, in fact, for. the people in a party Government. . given lpyal area., there is practically no Mr. Sean McBride, whose political means of defence. ineptitude in his handling of the On alt major Issues Fianna Fkil is at One with Fine Gael and-the small parties, Browne affair brought about Mr. Fiknna TOM xtoepted Marshall Aid fully SOME PEOPLE ABE LUCKY! Costelte's downfall, rages impotently aware of the political String*; attached. (See Page Four) against his former supporter. The. Fianna Fail organ, the 'Stmffljy Press' But no important policy changes are has welcomed the projected suhrey of Irish expected. There may be certain changes industrial resources by the1 Urflred States of emphasis but Coalition policy will con- profit-making concern International Basic tinue, having in any event been largely Economic Corporation. The 1l^fll*s«z It modelled on that of Fianna Fail. this survey is to Investigate pois&ie areas In a late message to the "Irish Demo- for profitable investment of United States crat" (see leader, Page Three),-Mr. Paul -oapttafc*' ~ -"' -^w^irviif*r O'Higgins describes the position in Dub- In its same issue (June 10th, 1951) the lin as "Business as usual." 'Sunday Press' welcomed the idea pro- jected by Theodore Koslow, financial edi- DUBLIN, 22 June tor of the United States International Dev is back in office. The change from News Service, that in order to obtain Costello to De Valera makes no im- cheap labour and cheap raw materials portant difference to the welfare of the United States firms should transfer opera- Irish people. De Valera's programme con- tions to Ireland. tains little that differs from the policy of the previous Government. The decision that the Store Street Bus Station shall be restored to its proper purpose can hardly be taken as indicative of any serious Connolly's change. On two points only a more serious dif- ference can be seen. Firstly, Fianna Fall old friend drawing its funds and support from the new Irish industrialists is likely to heip them in improving transport services and arrested incidentally profits, by developing Irish American Imperialism has arrested James Some Achill farmers do not look far for turf, but their land is in Connolly's old friend and shipbuilding and Irish motor-vehicle con- beth Gurley Flynn, Rundale and widely scattered. struction. Representing groups with pro- of the America-Irish, sympathies. Details are not yet to hand of the charge* to be preferred, but it is expected they will resuroble those which kept Jim Larkln In JaB Cork Supports FOLLOW McGINTY ON BACK PAGE § for "from two to ten years!" with a "flexible sentence." The charge then waa. "criminal § HE TIPPED $EVEN WINNERS § anarchy." Fianna Fall Protest resolutions should be poured into From J. SAVAGE ^ at a profit of £4-7-7 § the American Embassy in London or Dublin. N the general election Cork has definitely Release Mrs. Flynn at once. J rejected the inter-party Government by C BUT, REMEMBER, WHEN YOU WIN MONEY, THANKS TO K the victory of Fianna Fail in securing three out of the five seats in the City constituency. HIS SELECTIONS, THE "DEMOCRAT" HAS | Mr. James Hickey (Labour) scraped through C A FIGHTING FUND § for the last seat. SAILING TICKETS This, of Gourse, was SEE MIDDLE PAGE due to the Propor- tional Representation system, otherwise Fianna Fail would have gained a further seat. It was near im- Irish family broken up by British laws possible to canvas for Labour as the elec- 7 tors could not see any Gentleman- hooligans procure evictions UOW Polish gentleman-hooligans 'IRISH DEMOCRAT' REPORTER nounced that he needed the room for his difference between n voting for-theni and tried to terrorise the wife of a practice. * vottog for„thpm ar young Tipperary man wfrtrie family tat'ttr«e4M«#$]en 11 them notice to quit on the spot. With tears To Court took part In "the Coalition and 'whewhen It ppui t was broken up by British capitalist in her landlady's eyes she begged them to Doctors are important men, «nd 1 forward as Labour an ex-Fine Oael, T. D. rent laws, was told to an "Irish Demo- leave quietly and not take the case to the table citizens, even though Anthony, who voted for the flogging Bill in crat" reporter in Willesden. rent tribunal. Not so green as to be moved capable of Miring tht 1 1922. by the crocodile tears of this race of blood- When the iriihtftan, They failed to put forward any progressive "Do not publish my name," he urged suckers, they went to the tribunal, who worker was as gogi alii policy except lip service to poverty, slums and the "Democrat," "or I will lose my ia»t gave them nine months' security of tenure unemployment with no solution to these move, th» foil problems. They made it clear that they chance of accommodation." ar.d reduced the rent to 22'6 a week. •But to help him to 1 accepted capitalism as the term Labour did The young man lives In one furnished So what did the landlady do? Like a he brought his sleek Polish not mean anything to the workers. room for which he pays 30/- a week. good capitalist she took her capital else-- friends along to frighten the. wife, The Cork workers deposed Fine Oael. but where. She sold the premises to a Polish followed the husband for a while, but consider Labour no better. If Labour put Quit t doctor, and he proved fully capable 01" elded after spite hesitation, jUg'-'tio forward a Socialist policy independent of all A year ago. when his brought an making use of Britain's laws—one set for attacking tffrijmBy.'ltot fee parties, the result would have gained them wile (Continued on N* Ma) victory. addition to the family, the landlady gave the rich, another for the poor. He anr July, 1951 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July, 1951 THE IRISH What says the * Dismal Science?9 DEMOCRAT FLANN CAMPBELL ON Felon-setting fever afflicts A.P. League All Correspondence to The Editor * WE WILL STAND FIRM' - Kilrov. kiUoiimiins DESMOND GREAVES RICH AND POOR DETERMINATION of the Anti-partition League leadership, the "official Parliamentarians" at of the present day, never to suffer any undue inconvenience for Ireland, is expressed in their MAY HAYES 13 Lambs Conduit Passage, London, W.C.I TO the superficiaINl observe IRELANr Eire to-day may seem moreD prosperou s than attempts to exclude the followers of Connolly from the League. This can mean only one thing, WRITES: at any time since the Treaty. Wealth in its umccaii ricln• form may be seen in many Irish towns; and Dublin particularly, with its smart •yHE news that the Anti-Partition of RATE—Twelve Months 4/6 namely, that they have abandoned completely the republic of 1916 and are prepared for a "settle- Six Months 2/3 restaurants, chromium-plated pubs, shining American cars, and well-filled Ireland League, at its recent con- ment" half in, half out of the Empire. luxury shops shows all the outward signs of solid bourgeois affluence (so ference, decided to exclude Connolly long as you keep to the main streets and middle-class residential areas). To The two splendid Irishmen, Kilcommins and Kilroy, generally acknow- Association members from the League watch the smartly-tweeded farmers' wives at Leopardstown Races or to ledged the born leaders of the younger Irish in Manchester, have been is just another manifestation of its DAMN YOUR observe a well-to-do Dublin businessman eating steaks in Jury's Hotel is subjected to a campaign of misrepresentation and blackmail. To the credit inability to form a real militant to realise how triumphantly the Catholic middle-class has arrived in Eire. of the Manchester anti-partitionists let it be said, they are overwhelmingly united movement in Britain. CONCESSIONS It has been a long and stony road from in 1943 of the Secretary of Irish Agricultural FLANN CAMPBELL in favour of these two men remaining in the League. Some have tried to the few barren acres of bogland or the miser- Organisation Society that ". . . output has Oar tragedy after another has befallen CEW will be deceived into thinking able huckster's shop which was usually all remained more or less stationary since the persuade them to give up their militant republican principles in order not the League, always due to the reactionary • that De Valera's return will mean the native Irish could hope for in the 18th beginning of the century." Independent," Laurence A. Waldron & Co. a new epoch of social and national (stockbrokers), National Credit Co., and to deprive the Manchester Irish of their leadership. But leadership not leadership. Since its revival in Britain in century down to the lush pastures of Meath Further, unemployment has not been and Property, Loan & Investment Co. Ltd. 1R46. it has been continually expelling and advance. The pensioners of Fianna or Guiney's emporiums of O'Connell Street "solved." The unemployed have been merely founded on republican principles would not help. excluding people—people like Capt. Henry Fail will, of course, begin their whis- which are so typical of the middle-class to- forced to emigrate. When the Protestant Lord Glenavy and pering campaigns and it will be said day, but the Catholic bourgeoisie have com- the Catholic Mr. Murphy meet in the board- The only solution is for all anti-partitionists who hold republican views Harrison, n. lifelong fighter (and it is a LL the evidence points to the conclusion room of the Property, Loan & Investment Ions; life and what a fight) for Irish unity in the pubs and saloons that De Valera pleted the journey at last, and show every A Co. they are not likely to argue about theo- to join the Connolly Association and fight to retain their membership of is at heart as revolutionary as ever, sign of complacency at their achievement. that it has not been the poorer section logy. The intricacies of high finance and ar.d many well-known Republicans of later of the community—workers, small farmers, profit-making will occupy their minds more the anti-partition League. Ignore the ban ! The A.P.L. is composed of Irish- years. iti this or that fine point he is prefer- At first sight there seems a solid economic petty shopkeepers, clerical employees and than religion. men and their native instincts will assert themselves against the splitters. able to somebody or somebody else, basis for this new-found prosperity. Irish the like—who have been gaining ground I joined the League in February, 1947, that on good authority after some- farmers, by far the biggest group in the during the last five years. On the contrary, The ban will become a dead letter. it seems clear from official figures that it has UT what of the poor? What of the mass was a member of Kilburn and Hammer- thing has happened he is going to do country, are making more money than ever B smith branches, later became a founaer before. For every £100 they got pre-war they has been the middle-class—large farmers, of working people in town and country? memoer of the Paddington branch and the devil and all . . . we can make a business men, bankers, and merchants—who Here the picture is not so rosy. Rising prophecy. Things will proceed as now get between £250 and £300. Industrial have been steadily improving their position prices and rising profits have brought great v/as its secretary until December, 1949, production has risen about 40 per cent, since under the beneficent rule of Fianna Fail and gains to those with goods to sell, but have KILROY WRITES: when it was broken up through the inter- heretofore. 1938, and more people are employed in manu- Fine Gael. brought nothing but hardship to those whose tain" Of silence around these negotia- MAY HAYES ference of what I term enemies of Irish "Ah! But he'll keep the country facturing than at any other time in Irish only commodity is their labour power. ^S one of the people affected by the unity—members of the League. I was also history. Company profits rose from £12 millions in tions. But more than once the Min- "See me again."—Page Eight. a member of the National Executive and neutral as he did before," cry his en- 1938 to £33 millions in 1949 according to The recent White Paper on Social Security decision of the recent Anti-Parti- ister of External Affairs has publicly thusiastic followers. Profits have soared, and the total national the recent Government White Paper on revealed that half the employed population tion of Ireland League Conference at declared abroad that it was only the for a short time vice-chairman of the National Income. Income Tax returns in- in Eire were getting under £3 10s. per week fact of Partition which kept us out of London Area Council. Whenever any We wonder, will he ? income, in monetary terms, is more than Sheffield which bars members of the twice as high as pre-war. Unemployment is dicate that between 1946-7 and 1948-9 profits —and this at a time when probably at least the Atlantic Pa£t. headway was made, then there was an- In the last war it was spontaneous down from a pre-war average of about 90,000 rose 29 per cent., and when the figures for £7 per week is needed to keep a man, his Connolly Association from League other witch-hunt. First it was Com- movement of the people for neutral- to a post-war average of about 70,000. 1950 are published they are likely to show wife and three children in reasonable membership in future I would like to This alone gives rise to grave sus- munists, then it was Protestants, now it an even bigger increase. Many privately- decency, let alone comfort. Scores of thou- picion that- these "shady deals" were is the Connolly Association. Whose turn ity, the demonstrations at the doors However, despite this apparently favour- owned companies which,publish no accounts sands of farm labourers get only 65/- per give my reasons for deciding to stand at least contemplated. This outrageous ernment and its Ministers on the next? 'What if the Knights of Coldmbia of th£ churches on that first day, that able picture, of economic progress during re- as well as large fanners have done particu- week. Women's-* wages are eeanctaJiously low by the Connolly Association and let duping of the Irish people Is, I reiterate Mother and Child Scheme; a classic of are replaced by Orangemen — there's kept Eire out. Did anybody who be- cent years, some 'Very 'awkward questions larly well for themselves out of the post-war with nearly two-thirds of all women em- the most serious and sinister aspect of reaction if ever there was one and one rfemain to be" answered. Has, total f^rm pro- inflation. ployed £n industry "arid" services getting under the League continue to pursue Its contemporary Irish politics. It does which did irreparable harm to the plenty of them in Britain—won't it be the longed to the Iri&h Army ever have duction increased as well as prices? How is £3 per week in 1948. In that year 7,000 senstless decline Into inevitable ob- not appear to matter to the late Min- Anti-Partition cause. How the Orange Catholics? illusions as to which side the Twenty- this new monetary wealth distributed? Will We can be sure that the 4,200 people with girls were working in industry and services scurity. ister for External Affairs that the cul- lenders must have chuckled. Six Counties was on ? If so, let them the high prices and high profits continue average Incomes of £3,300 per year who paid for under 30/- per week. And wages have' tural monuments of the centuries, the Mr. Hugh Minform stated some time ago indefinitely? super-tax in 1946-47 and the 6,000 farmers not risen much since then. that the enemies of Partition are the try to recall if they held a single who own farms of 200 acres or more in Eire Celtic culture and art, the irreplace- Then we had Dr. Browne receiving exercise based on the assumption of It is not difficult to imagine in what 1 did not wish to leave the League. able shrines and monastries—in fact, an admonition from his leader, Mr. Nationalists, Republicans, Communists A more careful analysis of Irish economic will not worry if they have to pay £30 for a BRITISH aggression. trends suggests that outputs of farm pro- a suit or 15/- for a lunch. squalor live the 70,000 unemployed, when a As Hoo. Secretary of Moss Side branch everything which Irishmen hold dear McBride. for appearing in public in a and Socialists. The Anti-Partition League single man draws only 22/6 per week, and for a considerable period, I did my best could be wiped away for ever in one photograph with the Protestant Arch- should make answer. "Yes, Mr. Minford, ducts has hardly risen at aU, that the gap It is these few thousand wealthy people when and where I could to further the day or one night if Ireland became the bishop. We have had the recent un- you are quite right, they are all members The great efforts of the Fianna Fall between rich and poor is steadily widening a man with a wife and two children 857- atom bomb base of the West. I hope propagandists now will be to damp down again, and that the whole rickety structure who dominate agricultural, industrial and per week. Admittedly, some of the highly- interests of the League. Now the elite signed letter read in Dublin Churches of our movement. What a fright Minford the Independent Labour and Republican of high prices, increasing profits and luxury- commercial life in Eire; and whether they skilled industrial workers, the "aristocracy of of the League shake their heads saaiy, charitably minded Irish ladies, who at Mass, suggesting that those who would get. Now I expect he is laughing up pall strings for Fianna Fail or Fine Gael labour," have gained somewhat from the pray for those who have "gone astray" voted for the Worker's League candi- movement (so thoroughly split by the living for the middleclass is built on very they ultimately control these two major say we are unfortunately being misled will pray for Ireland's protection date were commiting a mortal sin. his sleeve." Coalition which nobody will mourn) with shaky foundations. post-war boom in Industry (their rates are the and that much against the machinations of men such parties, and through them the political life sometimes high or higher than the London, along wrong path, (What brash, superstitious hypocrisy?) the promise of neutrality and keeping out of the country. They include representatives rates) but they only comprise a small sec- to their regret they will have to dis- as this. The Partition question, grave This we find is another encroachment of the Atlantic Pact. On this basis the ANUFACTURING industry has admit- of the old Protestant Ascendancy as well as pense with us. One or two of the ladies matter it undoubtedly is, paies to in- on the constitutional right of the M tion. about 21,000, out of a total Industri significance beside the prospect of tne people to vote for whom they piease. capitalists hope that they will make money tedly raised output about two-fifths the rising Catholic bourgeoisie. working population of 124,000—and In i are actually going to pray for us, complete loss of our heritage and all Then we have another Bishop warning out of war without being Involved In It. above the 1938-39 level, but this has been, cases their wages are bumped up by hoping we would see the error of our ihat is dear to us. students against entrance to Trinity In reality this money will be the price for achieved mainly on the basis of a re-stock- YPICAL specimens of this wealthy Irish periods of overtime. The small (shopkeepers ways. I will not comment on the lat- abandoning the Six Counties—and If war ing post-war boom which cannot last much T and farmers, poorly-paid clerical and profes- College and warning them of the aca- HENRY longer. Already the high prices and short- ruling-class are thle Lord Glenavy and ter offer. It is a kind thought one way demic and scientific knowledge they did come, who honestly believes it could the Mr. T. V. Murphy, relative of the notori- sional workers, such as teachers, are in many or the other and the ladies probaoly would be likely to come by 111 t U^re. involv* the North without the South? Will ages of essential raw materials resulting from ous William Martin Murphy who led the cases worse off than these skilled workers. Y second reason covers a broader American stockpiling is causing grave diffi- employers' fight against Jim Larkin in 1913. mean well M field but I will try to narrow it HARRISON "preparations for neutrality" be the cloak culties in industry. The number of workers for "preparations for war?" They are both rich and powerful men with EARSE'S and Connolly's dream of M down to the main issues. We usually employed in manufacturing—about 200,000 large interests in banking, Insurance, news- However it is very interesting to noie looked to the Irish Government for When the Coalition cried "End partition —is only a small proportion of what could P Ireland where "the sovereign pemL that in conjunction with tne decision support and guidance for our efforts ^HTS, to my mind, all ooints to the and go into the war pact I" the apologists be employed in a fully - developed Irish papers, transport and housing property. Lord would be "lorda aad mastere" has not j of the Conference, a number of the J fact that Ireland (Eire) as yet, is WRITES: Glenavy is director of the Bank of Ireland, become a reality. The Republic of Mr. over here, and I personally and I sup- too politically immature to absorb 4JIR,—In reply to your enquiry, I must avow Justified ft by pointing to the "fight" economy. Great Northern Railway, Central Bank, B. tello may have been legally Irish bishops are warning prospective pose many others, often wondered why Northern Ireland. Many people think ^ my opinion that the A nti-Partition against partition. Now when that will be and I. Steam Packet Co., Hibernian Fire and waving of flags and windy s emigrants to avoid contact with the this support and guidance despite so abandoned, its abandonment will be justi- Official figures show that total output of many eloquent speeches at home and about getting Northern Ireland "in." League'* baa on the Connolly Association is foodstuffs—which occupies half Eire's popu- General Insurance Co., National City Bank politicians in O'Connell St, bat the1 Connolly Clubs, on coming to IjJruain But how many think really deeply bad politics and worse patriotism. You fied by "keeping us out of war." lation, comprises one-third of the national and Property, Loan <& Investment Co, Mr. He ot Easter Week, which proclaimed" and'making the usual groundless asser- abroad was never forthcoming to any about what WOULD happen were sne simply cannot build an organisation by Republicans and Socialists will inscribe Murphy is director of the Hibernian Bank, by the worthwhile extent. Radio Eireann was income, and nine-tenths of the exports—is right of the people «f Ireland to the m tion that we are being financed always discreet in its references to the to come "in." Would the narrow- heresy-hunting and excommunications and on their banner the old, old maxim, only one or two per cent, above pre-war, and Independent Newspapers Ltd., publishers of ship of Ireland" and "equal righto Ui t Communist Party of Britain. Even the Anti-Partition League and part of the mindedness all be confined to one side? private denunciations by secret agents. Any- "DAMN YOUR CONCESSIONS — WE that figure was no greater than in 1900. Irish the "Irish Independent," "Evening Herald," opportunities for all its citizens" ultra-cautious Radio Eireann made Mansion House fund was LOANED to The "Irish Press" and the "Irish Inde- one who in good faith wants to end Partition WANT OUR COUNTRY." farmers cannot be proud of the statement "Sunday Independent" and "Weekly Irish still to be won. passing reference to the League's in- us to help us along. We usually had to pendent" would, naturally become the should be free to join in the work of ending tention to expell us. Apparently a lot National organ for these Protestants Partition. pay the expenses of speakers from Ire- (o express themselves unless they were of people are starting to "sit up and land, who came across here to address forced to continue with a "Digoted" Personally, I am an old-time Parnelitte take notice." Their attempts to be- public meetings. press of their own. Would the Irisn Nationalist. I am not a Communist nor, little us or isolate us will have a boom- papers be prepared to air the orange quite a different thing, am I a Connolly erang effect. It is invaluable propa- grievance and publish their letters to Socialist. I am not even a member of the ganda t AN EMPIRE FALLING? This month we publish two Exclusive to the "Irish Democrat" articles which examine cul- THE ARTS IN ULSTER | turel development in rela- by S. Ahramsky tion to politics and social Review of new symposium by ANDREW BOYD OIL progress in Ireland. We THE events in Persia have shown British | ' LSTER has been assessed geologi- he said that the aim of Ulster writers should 'THE Ulster Theatre also suffers from the invite further contributions cally and historically, politically be to realise Ulster to the rest of Ireland, -L regionalism. David Kennedy tells us ® Imperialism and have aroused the greatest not to erect a barrier between it and the that as far back as 1902 in the days of the to discussion of this import- and economically—and strategically other three provinces. Therefore, it is some- Ulster Branch of the Irish Literary Theatre interest in the world. by ambitious imperialists and Irish what pitiful to find Mr. John Boyd, who con- "this regionalist attitude was explicitly stated ant subject. huckster politicians; and now under tributes the section on Ulster prose, writing in their quarterly journal, "Ulad." To-day, Big demonstrations have taken place in the impetus of C.E.M.A. and Dame that "it would be surprising indeed If the the leader of the Ulster Theatre (the model contribution of such a small and isolated to which they all look) is Mr. St. John Er- Teheran, Abadan and other Persian cities, Dehra Parker' comes a survey of province (my italics, A.B. > was a large and vine who makes no attempt to conceal his Ulster's arts (The Arts in Ulster, Har- important contribution; and the truth is hatred of nationalist Ireland. demanding from the Persian Government the rapp, 10/6). It is a symposium cover- that we have not yet produced a dramatist " It is surely significant," writes Prof. speediest implementation of the nationalisa- Threat to ing architecture, drama, painting and of the stature of Shaw, a poet of the stature Estvn Evans in this year's Festival Guide to sculpture, prose, poetry and music, of Yeats, a novelist of the stature of Joyce." Northern Ireland, "that Ulster claims to tion law passed by the Majlis—the Persian with an introduction bv Sam Hanna But Shaw and Yeats and Joyce had a have invented the kitchen comedy, still the Parliament. Bell. breadth of vision immeasurably greater than staple form of drama In the province." Irish Culture that of any present-day Ulster writer. Ulster's drama, even in these days of the The request of the Persian Government that the Most of the contributors to this symposium Abbey's decline, is eclipsed by the fame of by PAUL DEANE realise that something is hindering cultural Unsettled conditions within the six coun- that renowned Dublin theatre. And the Anglo-Iranium Oil Company pays 75 per cent, of the development in Ulster. John Hewitt, who ties tend to make Ulster writers timid in Abbey became world famous because it was profits made since March to the Persian Government JT^VERI free nation has its own distinct writes on painting and sculptre, admits that their selection of subjects. The bitter and part of the Irish people's struggle for inde- and the rest be banked in a mutually agreed bank Fj contribution to make to world culture. "apart from one or two talented emigrants, unreasonable ideological and political con- pendence. But "Ulster regionalism has failed However, to-day the economic and cultural artists of Ulster descent are scarcely known flict between Catholics and Protestants is to inspire great music or an impassioned lit- until the question of compensation was settled, was predominance of certain large nations is such outside the province." And Nevin Foster on left safely alone. They keep on the careful erature such as so often heralded political turned down by the British Government and the that the specific national cultures of smaller music says that "Ulster so far as recent and side—especially the short story writers—and determination" because the Six Counties is peoples are threatened with imminent de- present-day composers are concerned, cannot confine themselves to the rural anecdote. an artificial state which cannot be justified Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. struction. If present trends continue, the claim any figure to whom the term great Sam Hanna Bell sees this preoccupation historically, politically, or culturally. It re- The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. controls an has been illegal, driven underground, but whole pattern of Irish culture and outlook could unhesitatingly be applied." with the countryside. He quotes from John mains in existence only because it suits the While the Government's policy is far The British forced a corrupt and weak Only Denis OD Hanna, who surveys Ul- strategy of British imperialism and the Persian Government to grant a conces- area of 100,000 square miles—neariy four succeeded in maintaining its organisation will be almost indistinguishable from that Hewitt who criticises Ulster writers for their from clear, an ugly and dangerous situa- times the size of Eire. It acted as a state and cohesion. in Britain and America. American cars, ster's architecture, comes anywhere near re- "wee farm at the hill foot, the cabin by the vested interests of Ulster capitalism to keep sion for 99 years to exploit oil resources American pop-corn and British manufac- cognising the reason for this poverty of the moss-side. Yet, mind you (continues Hewitt) it partitioned from the rest of Ireland. tion may seriously develop unless the to a famous British oil explorer, Mr. within a state with its police, and military British Government accedes to the re- detachments. The Government in Teheran |)ECENTLY, in April this year, 17,000 tures are not alone responsible for this, but arts in Northern Ireland. He sees the na- the writers are most of them townsmen. And the ridiculous position exists where D'Arcy. also the fact that the intellectual food of tional difficulty created by partition and Never the feeling of a wet day in Royal John Hewitt, poet and critic, can say that quest of the Persian authorities and re- —the capital—was a mere servant of the workers went on strike at Abaaan— our people comes increasingly from foreign thinking in terms of the whole nation he This was in 1901. In the beginning, oii Company. If any dissatisfaction occurred this in a country where strikes are for- Avenue, the tram tickets stuck like wet the crude and gaudy paintings of William of cognises the Tightness of the Persian was produced in small quantities but in sources. writes: leaves to the pavement." Orange, the present British Royal Family, people to nationalise their industries. and the Persian Government wanted more bidden by law. The strike lasted over a The cultural revival in Ireland, associated or the late Lord Carson, which are often 1913 the British Government realising the independence in its action then the fortnight. There were sympathy strikes in "To-day Ireland is again developing an Or if we wanted to be even more realist— vast potentialities of the oil resources ac- with the Gaelic League and the Abbey idiom of her own. Her task is to become a never the feeling of a wet day in the ship- seen on the gable ends of houses, are an ex- '"THE only thing that has stopped so far Southern tribes were set against the Cen- the north in the textiles area of Isfahan Theatre ijn the period 1890 to 1920, failed to modern European country prepared to recog- yards or the workers clinging on very tiny pression of folk art, and Estyn Evans can quired 55 per cent of the shares by in- tral authorities and the Government gave and taking even the Civil Service threat- fulfil its promise under the Free State and record that the music of flute and drum ' the British Government from send- vesting the comparatively small sum of nise that her cultural contribution must In- footholds to the rattling red trams that bump ing up to now troops is the Soviet-Persian in. The British were master of the game ened to strike as a solidarity sign with under De Valera. It failed because of the clude that of native and settler alike for by their way up the Queen's Road every even- bands on the Twelfth of July is more popular eleven million pounds,' the rest of the of "divide and rule." as is shown by the the oil workers Over 20,000 students continued uninterrupted economic domina- now all these ingredients go to make up ing taking thirty-five minutes for a journey than traditional Ulster songs. agreement of 1921 which lays down that shares being owned by Burma Oil Co.—an Irish example. In 1933 when the Persian marched in Teheran on April 22nd. In tion of Ireland by England. As long as Ire- Ireland." that could be walked in less than half that the presence of foreign troops in Persian associate firm of Shell-Mex and by other Government showed some slight form of May over 70,000 demonstrated in Teheran. land was not free to direct her own economic • * • time. territory will be treated by the Soviet as private investors. If we take 1913 as the independence the British Authorities Martial Law and arrests, even shootings, destiny in the best interests of her people, a direct threat to its frontier and the first year that yielded considerable results did,.not frighten the worker^ of Persia. her own culture was subordinated to foreign T>UT thp fusion of the cultures of native forced the. Persians to ^ign a new treaty importations, which on the free market were *' and settler—if we can find no, better Soviet Government has the right to move in oil we shall see an interesting rise in renewing the concession to 1993. to in troops and keep thefn theVe until the oil— The campaign for'nationalisation of the able outstrip the native product. term than "settler"' for Protestant Irishmen oil in Persia has received the widest sup- HERITAGE —is exactly what the Ulster Unionist Coun- riOUU) or dare any one of our .Ulster Boaks and Peftpfc foreign troops are removed from Persian 1913 248,000 tons How did the Persian people fare? The cil does not want, because having established territory. 1929 5,549.000 tons British Government is painting an idyllic port of the mass of the people. Tire Per- To-day some groups in Ireland are plaster- ^ Writers do for Belfast what Walter AST month we had news of *>* appeal 1939 10,329.000 tons sian Government—although composed of ing the walls with the call "Ban English and consolidated their rule with bombs and Greenwood did for Salford? Greenwood L for wprld peace issued by welH picture of the wonders they have done for right wing elements—have not openly publications." One might well ask the pur- bigotry the Ulster Tories now desire to con- built his novel, "Love on the Dole," on the writers. This month world-famous r What is all this about, asks the be- 1949 31,750,000 tons the workers in the oil fields. Mr. Robens, struct for their six-county statelet a separ- wildered reader of the press? What right come out against the wishes of the people, pose of such a ban, so long as we continue death of a worker during a clash with the have put out a similar appeal. P A glance will show how enormously pro- the Minister of Labour said "the fact was and no Government will be able to stay to be flooded with cheap American "publica- ate culture, a facade that would make them police In the days of economic depression. among them is Sir Arnoldtijifct, MS*te r < has the British Government in a country duction has risen. If 1913 equals 100, then that Persia and the Persian people had tions and with British and American films. look different from the other twenty-six In the unemployed struggles in 1932, two King's MUdck, and well Kjr^"'-— a few thousand miles away? Irrespective a day m office that will flout the decision counties of Ireland. 1949 is 128 times more. Not a bad increase derived enormous benefits from the opera- to nationalise the oil. While it is interesting to note that the sen- Belfast workers lost their lives. associations with Ireland, of what the British Government might on such a small sum of money put in. tions of the oil company." It seems that sational Italian film, "Bitter Rice," has been Hence the encouragement given to their But Sam Henna Bell would object to this include Sir Adriah Boult, describe It is essential that everybody while Mr. Robens and the Labour Gov- The people of Persia are on the move, shown in Dublin, while the much greater historian, Hugh Shearman and the literary because he thinks there is "nothing so tire- ahd Aloh Bush. Isn't it tl should be familiar with some of the back- OOK now at the profits accrued to the ernment may succeed in misleading cer- determined to sever their dependence on film, "Bioycle Thieves," has not, the truth audacity of their quixotic champion, St. John some as the individual who sees a novel in artists inside Irelahd to d ground. tain sections of the population of Britain imperialism, and are also determined to remains that the solution lies not in the Ervine, that urbane playwright who would every sociological history." But surely the with the cause of peace? L sweep away all obstacles which are still in negative course of banning such importa- "biff" everyone who is not orange and true For nearly a century British influence ernment. Prom 1948 to 1950 alone nearly the Persian workers know better. tions, but in the positive development of our creation of a novel from some historical in Persia has been predominant but parti- £225 million pounds were made. The Per- their way. 765,000 have signed the Peace blue. event depends on the courage, the ability own books and films—of our own culture. and above all, the social consciousness of cularly has British Influence grown to sian Government received oniy 20 per HPHE representative of the Persian Gov- petition: one must bear in mind that tha What is valuable in our own culture? Now the latest announcement is that the TTLSTERMEN in the news recently include great dimensions since oil was discovered. cent of that, namely, £45 million pounds. peace campaign is semi-illegal and has to Stormont government has guaranteed finan- the novelist. ernment at the International Labour Firstly, there is our Gaelic heritage which cial support to a C.E.M.A. project for form- ^ W. R. Rodgers, who has been elected Conference stated last November that the be carried on under difficult circum- imparts a distinctive flavour and quality. Our Anne Crone's novel, "Bridle Steen," a to the Irish Academy of Letters, to fill the stances. problem is to preserve this in its living form, ing an Ulster repertory company. But if realistic and thoughtful study of the as yet place created by the death of Bernard Shaw, oil workers receive starvation wages. "The namely in the peasants of the Gaelic- the attitude of mind behind this offer is the irreconcilable conflict between the two Chris- and Tyrone Guthrie, who has been made * ' —Continued from Page One basic wages" of 40 wals a day (officially 'pHE Persian people do not wish to have speaking areas. Unfortunately we are de- same as that which actuates the Unionists to tian religions in Fermanagh is briefly des- director of the Old Vic. FAMILY BROKEN UP approximately 7/-, unofficially worth only demand control of the Northern Ireland re- cribed by Mr. John Boyd as the upbringing " their country formed into a war base stroying this part of our heritage. Wantonly, gion of the B.B.C. because some of the pro- the wife's pram into the street, smashed Rats and Arms 3/6) the official budget says that a fam- against the Soviet Union, which would we fail to see that the revival of Irish among of a girl in rural society. their wash-basin, and cut off their light. ily of four must have a minimum of 40 English speaking children is a ludicrous sub- grammes on the air are too Irish in content, Jane Austen brought up many girls in grams of meat or fish a day per person throw their country into a wilderness. For and do not put strongly enough the Union- ONDON art galleries are giving plenty The police came in answer to their com- Of those families who have accommoda- imperialism, British and American. Per- stitute for the preservation of the living ex- ist case, then it would not help to create an rural society but they had not to face the L of wall-space at the moment tQ Irish plaints, but merely "warned" the Poles. tion itself, many live in rat-infested dens and 12 grams of cheese. This "royal meal" sia is "the gateway to the rest of the ponents of Gaelic culture. independent theatre that would reflect and problems that perplexed Bridie Steen. Bridie painters. Louis de Brocquy has an exhibition which the council is powerless to improve. adds up to 77 wals. Hence you get a high Our native governments in some areas interpret all that is best In Ulster life. Steen's was no ordinary upbringing of a The baby took ill. Did the Polish doctor degree of under-nourishment and disease Middle East" and Captain Liddell Hart, have done less for these people than the old country girl, but Mr. Boyd quotes Lord Dun- at Gimpel Fils; Norah McGulnness at the attend to it? Not he. The Irishman's own In one case a worker took two rats he the well-known British military expert, Congested Districts Board, which indeed did The Ulster Unionists are so self-conscious sany "who thinks it is not one of the great Leicester Galleries, and five young MSh doctor was stopped on the stairs and is widespread. Persia has the highest in- says "its importance lies in it being the about their political position, which they con- painters have just had a Joint exhibition at had caught up to the officials but was told fant mortality in the world—500 per 1,000. very little. The necessity of emigration, novels of our time," and leaves it at that. another West End gallery. warned not to go near the family. they could do nothing to house him pro- In the whole of Persia only 77,315 children way of approach by land or air to Rus- whether permanently or seasonally, in order tinually strive to justify, that any offers of Yet "Bridie Steen" has been compared to The court decided that a doctor was a perly. sia's oil fields in the Caucasus and her to live; the absence of markets in Gaelic- financial help. In any sphere whatsoever, Hardy's "Tess of the DUbervilles." receive education. This out of a popula- new industrial plants in the Urals." speaking areas; the appalling conditions of cannot be without political motive, and be- doctor and an eviction order was served on Workers at a Willesden factory invited tion of 17 million people. life we are leading to the disruption of life ing Ulster business men and capitalists they Boyd leaves also Donn Byrne, George the family. - the housing manager to address their How the British Government cares for in these areas, and the adoption of the Eng- know only too well the meaning of "he who Birmingham and Peader O'Donnell merely OHN FORD, the director of "the Grapes This means that the security given by It is hardly surprising that the Persian the future of Persia can be seen again by putting down their names. He forgets to J of Wrath" and "The In/ormer," is on; A.E.U. branch. The official explained the lish language, if not customs of mind, in pays the piper calls the tune." mention two of the best known historical location in Connemara, making a film ot a rent tribunal can be upset in a court of matter simply and truthfully: people were getting impatient with this from Captain Liddell Hart who wri tes, in order to live. Maurice Walsh's "The Quiet Man.", law, and that the laws supposedly de- beneficient Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. In 1946 the case of war, the British to put a brake Some bright boys have suggested that we novels on Ulster, "The Power of the Dog," a signed to protect the tenants are counter- "There would be no housing problem novel of Castlereagh in the aftermath of '88 him are Barry Fitzgerald, yictor If there were no armaments pro- a strike in the oil town of Abadan lasted on the Russians, must use demolition on preserve our Gaelic heritage through the AMES Connolly warned against.the sec- and "The Northern Iron," which is the story and John Wayne. Ford, wbo was bom I acted by strong laws setting this protec- over three weeks. This was a taste of the roads through the mountains. establishment of a library of gramophone r tarian partition of Irish culture when of Jemmy Hope's part in the rebellion. O'Fienne, comes from Bligo stock. ^^^ tion aside. gramme," he said. what is coming. The British authorities First exploit the resources of the coun- records. What records can replace the living But why should capitalism build houses did not like the growing strength of the try, then ruin it by demolition. exponents of a culture? Labour Helps to be knocked down for people who are to workers, and pressure was exerted on the The Persian people are determined to SOLUTION be killqfJ: when it can squeeze every Shah and the Persian Government to sup- prevent this from happening. The solution is simple but, in official terms, The Middlesex County Housing Dept., no doubt Impractical. In our Irish-speaking l after the A.E.T7., local Labour Councillors fartMng out of them by keeping them press the Tudeh party—the most orga- The support of every people must be homefdss and slaving them making useless nised party of the workers, A pretext was given to them in this fight for Inde- areas, through the establishment of decent and even the local Labour M.P. had in- tanks and bombs? living conditions and the opportunity of con- terested themselves in the case, sent the found in 1948 and since then the Tuden pendence. genial employment, the people must be able My Mnepeiitty family to Rowton House in Crispian St. 'C V '.J?", t V^'J t^ to earn the living in the medium of their IkJY father and motfter were Irish I wish't I was like you: The new "guests" had to be out at 7 a.m. native tongue. Rural life must be reformed m and in again at 7 p.m. They spent the days :> so that the womenfolk In particular are freed And I am Irish too: You're liraky in your hlrth star, tramping the streets, trying to change the 5 of their traditional burden of drudgery, I bought a wee Adil for ninepence Ahtf in your ftdil, too!" § drudgery of a type which makes every daugh- And it Iristft too. baby's napkins in underground stations, is gave me back my ftdil, Defy the splitters' gag operation ter vow that her mother's lot shall not be I'm up in the morning early LIE begging cafe owners to heat milk. hers, a vow which usually ends In emigra- "my fftfll %m alto. After a week of this "life," the County TT is utterly wrong and shameful that round militant republicans like Kll- llamentary Party treated Larry Gin- To meet the dawn of the day, 1 tion, rather than in a resolution to stay and And stepping like a may boy Council sent them to the Church Army the splitting activities of the lead- commins and Kilroy, who would thus noli. fight for better things. The provision of And to the lintwhites' piping hostel at Marble Arch, which though free ers of the Anti-Partition League should be able to save the movement from ex- There Is only one way to defeat the § dance-hall*, recreational facilities, more The many's a tune I play. He jamped the Leargaldti Knowe. from the worst objections of Crispian St. be allowed to continue. The latest gag- tinction. the ban. Let the steady influx Of Antl- § papers and magazines in Irish, and even the I never ttW hihf affdr1, was scarcely "home from Jwme."' ging operation, the expulsion of the Yet the original leaders were not the ban. Let the steady Influx of Arttl- 5 construction of a radio station undei-local NE pleasant eve in June time Connolly Association members, is a even able to draw up a constitution for Partitlon League members Into the § control, would enable the Gaelic speaker to iMWhU ^mtle Ill order to prove beyond a shadow of grim warning that those who have the Ahti-Partitlon League, and had to O I met a lochrie-man : But wbilMu I think I hea kloa;r him Connolly Association grow anjl con- lead a life in which his culture would be that It is the Socialists and Com- manoeuvred themselves into the con- get Pat Dooley to do it for them. Me tinue. Stay in the League. Defy at- § free to develop. His face amf hands ware weazen, AtftfMmtlng IM tha wind I who are out to smash the family, trei of the League are preparing an drew up a broad democratic constitu- His height wis not a span. III lire tempts to put ydti out. Appeal ta the 5 There is no simple solution to this prob- |u|Y father and mother wore Irish st council transferred the wife Mt ofjtosateherc y which will appal and tion which was the admiration of simi- members' good sense as Irish patriots § He boor'd me far my ftdil . . . the world ever, and lem of securing a flourishing national cul- M A am Irish too: MtOhlSh 'thth«e membership when It Is to refuse to put the ban-me-Republi- ture. Much can be done by arousing public "You know." *ay* lie, "like yott, mi I to be glad It was not Norfolk, fmany ' cirrcarriei d out. reaflta* him by oa- cans resolution Into efleet It « Wee ftdifc ftr ntnepande, t and nartpwmg and see- awareness. Oiir writer* and artists nittut My father and mother Were Irish, unfortunate Irish famille« The last pretence that they stand for the provisions h« hacMnfro- As May Hayes says on anqt turn more to the people for help ahd inspira- an INDEPENDENT united Ireland has Without the worti put into the first It was the Corum tion. Our people can prc*Wht the market- And I am IriM (do!" the husband sits in Willes- been abandoned. They fear that If the artr without which our cultural wdrkera must 1 80/- a week for his room. In followers ri Connolly remain within a Cotmellf / starve or conform to another pattern. IE took my W4e red ftdil, igwiAr the >y>gip». tra rats, the enMhary ran* MM Me I iItt «MwMttt aria haw hJik tBn separatisESM2t wh; o jttfa& f The Stat* could play an important pari ia H And ttttih » tiit* It* turned .and 33/8 for the accom- members, who are sound and patriotic than a ve*oe crying m the for" his l the protection (H ow threatened onlUirr and The Glaise In H whtfeffTe 1 them the .way tha it* futaro 4evelopment. Project* inch a* a tfce wife and child. After that jr W^ifir"vrri~JrT P anJ" d wop^n", will gather Tt^y Ttreate TWWd 1 — T- i W0 . » rwmmmm ^ National fkeatre and Concert Hail majr. only The Llotian In It m1»rn,_ 'Hi ' be acbtarrd through the c*-operkU«n of In- Says he, "My lad, you're lucky dividual initiative with the State and other public bodies, particularly trade unions. [7 i ! , 8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July, 1951 TIE IRISH LANGUAGE PRESS SEE ME AGAir reviewed by t I'TKTHEK increase in printing costs : * A BELFAST CORRESPONDENT 111 \I) \( III s AND HIAKTAOHKS. The capitalist papers do not have In worry. AN examination of the Irish Jan- a consequence, the gains achieved as a result of the Irish language press more than any- They increase the cost to their advertisers as guage press of recent months ol the strtiLisir lor national independence thing. The weekly paper. "Indiu." owing well as raising and the revival ot the language would be perhaps to the fact that it receives a gran! the price to the shows that Irish-Ireland in common lost. from the Government, did not comment reader. No such with other sections of the community, sharply on the case but gave guarded edi- Americanism torial support to Dr. Browne in a leading safety valve for is searching for a solution to the prob- article in last month's issue. Another writer the 'Democrat.' lems which confront the country both A leading article in the January issue of in the same issue points out that if the Re- Only as the in the international and domestic the same journal entitled "The American last resort Danger," expressed alarm at the growing publicans had heeded the Bi.^hop in the would we in- spheres. American influence on all aspects of Irish past, that there would be no Republic in crease the price This is expressed most clearly, perhaps, in life and called for a firm stand against fur- Ireland to-day. to our readers. the columns of "Comhar." the monthly ther American penetration. We are the magazine published in Dublin by the "Cotnh- On the question of Partition, the line is Controversy only paper to chaidreamh." an organisation for Irish- taken that the people in the Twenty-six This editorial is. however, under heavy remain at the MAY HAYES speaking students in the universities. ^ Counties must return to the policy of Tone fire in the correspondence columns of this old price. But Recent issues have dealt with such ques- and the United Irishmen and make an ap- month's issue. Apparently, a resolution expenses must he met and can only be done tions as Ireland's neutrality in a future war, peal to the progressive-minded people of the passed at a meeting of the committee respon- with your support. Kvei v single copy must pointing out that if Ireland was drawn into North. sible for the publication of the magazine, be sold, and we earnestly ask our read> > the American block and British and Ameri- All sections of the Irish language Press are stating the views expressed, did not repre- send generously to our Fighting Fund, ot •> can troops were stationed in the country as united in demanding that the Government sent completely the views ol the committee. wise the paper is in danger. assist in the establishment of an Irish film It is stated editorially however that the Busi- Our special notice on Page Three that our industry. This would help to some extent ness Committee of the magazine examined Organiser may be appointed on August 1st is to combat the flooding of the county with the editorial and decided by a heavy major- a matter for your special attention. Please American "culture" and war propaganda ity to stand by it. do send TO-DAY every penny you can afford. BOXING by J. A. Doyle through the medium of the cinema. A news These cross-currents and conflicts of opin- P. Cuddy 2/6; Mrs. Dokes 2/-; S. Konayne reel company was actually established a short ion show that sections of the middle class 2 -; M. Fogarty 4 -; P. Kilroy 2/-; M. Gray time ago and made several first-class news are searching for a progressive solution to ,£1; B. Burke 2/6; P. McLaughlin £1; reels but found difficulty in having these the problems which face Ireland in the pre- American Sympathiser £2; West London THE LUCKIEST displayed as most of the cinemas in Ireland sent tense international situation and that £8-16-0; G. Fitzgerald 2/-; Margt. Larmour are controlled by British monopolies; conse- there is a basis for a national anti-imperial- 2/6; American Sympathiser =£1-8-4. quently it went out of business. ist front mobilised around a broad popular It was the Dr. Browne case, however, programme of resistance to imperialist and N their annual Trinity Week tournament which emphasised the progressive tendency domestic reaction. the DuJ>lin University Boxing Club beat 1St. Mary's B.C., London, by seven bouts to one at the Trinity Gymnasium, Dublin. The best bout of the evening was the middleweight contest between M. McCor- G.A.A, mack (Dublin University) and A. Atkinson (St. Mary's). These two boys went at it IWEXFORD, by beating Dublin 6.9 straight from the bell. The first two rounds " to 4.6 in the Leinster Senior produced plenty of good solid punching, but Hurling semi-final at Kilkenny, quali- NEXT MONTy H in the third round the Irish boy got home a telling straight left and following up with a fied to meet Laoighis in the final at flurry of punches put his opponent down for Croke Park on July 15th. a count of eight. jfriebricb Hsngels's Dublin's big fault lay in its forward Tha? only London ...win for the (.night was registered vjHMtfr Welterweight, J. Suther- line, which threw away certain points land? Tii'ut u£ a hWllv trood ftght against 9 in their effort to score goals. The P. Shanks to gain a well deserved victory. unyielding Wexford defence fought "History of Ireland hard and held the Dublin forwards Other results were: Feather: B. Browett (T.C.D.) bt Beauso- out in the second half. This was a leil. Lightweight: G. Kostick (T.C.D.) bt very disappointing tie and did not W. Murphy (St. Mary's). Welter: P. come up to the standard of the Shanks (T.C.D.) lost to L. Sutherland (St. Mary's). Light-middle: M. McCormack WILL BE Laoighis-Kilkenny tie. (T.C.D.) bt A. Atkinson (St. Mary's). Cruiser: J. Nisco (T.C.D.) bt P. Bradford Dublin were beaten both in the air and (St. Mary's). Heavy: R. Clynch (T.C.D.) on the ground, this induced them to switch bt E. Whitburn (St. Mary's). Light: B. round their forward line. O'Neill went to Murphy (T.C.D.) bt P. Pribram (St. centre field and Allen into the forward line, Mary's). CONTINUED but this, however, failed to make any differ- ence to a game that Wexford was winning Some time ago I wrote in this column that hands dow n. Jack Gardiner, the British Empire and Euro- pean heavyweight champion, was the luckiest On their performance against Kilkenny the champion ever, and how right I was. Gar- men of Laoighis should give Wexford a hard diner was indeed fortunate that his last fight game. Personally, I think Laoighis, showing was not a championship fight. I have never McGinty the same form as they did against the Kil- seen a champion so easily beaten. Should kenny team, should win. At the same venue the Dublin minor liur- Jack Gardiner ever enter the ring with klcGINTYICACIN, in our May issue, ad- © Johnny Williams, the Rugby boy will leave the season and hope you punters will re- lers qualified to meet Kilkenny in the linal minus his boxing titles. vised our readers to follow the member the "Irifeh Democrat" Fighting by defeating Wexford by 4.4 to 2.3. following 12 horses over the distance Fund:— Most of my readers have heard of the fa- Keepatwoatwo, Tancred, Fair Seller, Chief mous Donnelly's Hollow, situated at the he set out. Here is an abstract from Justice. Ki Ming, Saved, Abadan, Backtor, Curragh, Co. Kildare. Here is the reason for his column of our May issue Par Avon. North Carolina, Prince Hamlet, -by- It being famous: "After weeks of sifting information I Chinese Cracker. have compiled a dossier of the following 12 DONNELLY AND COOPER horses which will, I think, show a profit Here is a record of how they ran: — DESMOND COME all you true bred Irishmen, if backed every time they run. I have a NORTH CAROLINA, won 5 to 1 I hope you will 'draw near, feeling we will be well in at the end of FAIR SELLER, won 1 to 5 And likewise pay attention to those few lines TANCRED, won 15 to 8 BARRY I have here. It is as true a story as ever you did hear (Continued from Preceding Column) NORTH CAROLINA, won 10 to I Of how Donnelly fought Cooper on the Cur- FAIR SELLER, won 5 to 5 The Boys of Wexford were a beaten team ragh, of Kildare. The second round that Cooper fought he SAVED, won 4 to 6 at the start of the second half, and were It was on the 3rd of June, brave boys, the knocked down Donnelly, CHINESE CRACKER, won 7 to 4 easily outclassed by the Dublin side. challenge was sent o'er And Dan likewise, being of true game, he KEEPATWOATWO, 2nd 11 to 4 From Britannia to old Grania to raise her rose most furiously. Tipperary, fielding only seven of their all- Eight active then was Cooper, lie knocked FAIR SELLER, 2nd 6 to 4 Ireland team, easily beat Clare's best team son once more, KI MING, 2nd 3 to 1 in the final of the Thomond Shield by 5.13 To renew the satisfaction and the credit to Donnelly down again. to 3.4. Tipp's policy of taking their oppor- recall, Those Englishmen they gave three ehecrs, CHINESE CRACKER, 2nd .... 10 to 1 tunity of scoring points and not going all out They are all ia deep distraction since Daniel saying: "The battle is all in vain." FAIR SELLER, 3rd 3 to 1 for the major score certainly paid dividends. conquered PAR AVON, 3rd 5 to 2 | This too, was noticeable in their tie against BACKTOR, 3rd 9 to 2 1 Galway at Mitcham during the WhitSirti Long life to brave Miss Kelly, 'tis recorded holidays. Old Grania read the challenge and received on the plain. Those selected also included a Big Win it with a smile: She boldly stepped into the ring, saying, and Place Double, North Carolina 10-1 and Cavan defeated Down by 2.9 to 0.7 in the "You'd better hasten to Kildare, my well "Dan, what do you mean?" Tancred 15-8. Also a place double, Backtor first round of the Ulster Senior football beloved child; "Well done," says she, "brave Donnelly, my and Fair Seller and Chinese Cracker and championships. It'» therto you'll reign victorious as you often Irish boy, machree! Fair Seller. From May to June 22nd we It was only in the second half that the did before, My whole estate I have laid out on you, brave show a clear profit of £41 7s. 7d. Cavan men really played like a team. I am And your deeds will shine most glorious DonneJUy." Here are my 12 to follow for July and doubtful, however, if this team will regain around sweet Erin's shore." Then Donnelly rose up again and meeting August:— the Ulster championship. Down missed The challenge was accepted and those heroes wtth great might. many chances by dawdling when scores did prepare To stagnate those nobles all, he continued on Backtor seemed likely and on their display deserved To meet brave Captain Kelly on the Curragh the flfltf. , Keppatwoatwo to lose. of Kildare. Tho' Cooper stood in his own defence, exer- TIh» title-holders, Armagh, had a fairly Those Englishmen bet ten to one that day tkm proved in vain, Saved. easy win over Tyrone whom they beat 1.3 to against poor Dan. For be seen receired a temple blow that Arctic Prince 2.3 in their opening round of the Ulster Such odds as this could fte'er dismay the hurled him o'er the rails. football championship. Mood of an Irishman. Lively Bloom J Other results were:— Y4u sons of proud Britannia, your (toasting Prima vera Ulster football championships, Antrim 1.6, When those two. bully Were w* rwjtU. Fiery Torch Donegal 1.3. Ulster Junior Hurling cham- off In the ring, Since Hjifligrr by Dan Donnelly has met his pionship, Down 6.4, Cavan 4.2. Ulster Minor war* then fully determined each other's Abftdan football championship, Fermanagh 2.7, 1 n In etrven rounds he got nine knock-downs, Par Avon MoMghan 0.7. vfeaiMtk' ' " •"' • h broken Jaw-bone, tiae-they parried that tln»~ Sybil'* Nephew ,y iJIHH taoriu* hlm owrn: 'SMke .hanfe" Mid the, "brave Donnelly, Printed by Ripley Printing Society Ltd. I do»r, my child, the twttfc is all our own." BirUumfo (T.U.), Ripley, Derbys., and published by — Sent by Mrs. J. Tobln, Montenotte, the Editor at 13 Lambs Conduit Passage, «*jNMW* *>-*»>t Cork. Royal Enterance. London, W.C.I. * MMW rk of Irish Republicanism, was In the The last date on which sailing tickets ent the twenty-six covin tied enJoy- bubble of the present agricultural boom ** the outside through means whiah papers have Increased their prices recently, <'l>air. bursts, either because America and Bri- aim to exploit the resources of the district, thougfc tfkefr -resources ane far greater than Principal speakers were Mr. Desmond are required is September 15th. You should a temporary and pr^ariotis prosperity fvin, author of "James Connolly," "The be safe by any route after that date. The to their participating in a war-boom tarn force Ireland to carry a share of the for larger private, or state profit, then tlie ours. We are not subsidised or financed from Itising," and other writings, and Mr. Eoln Obtainable at Booksellers or through the 'Irish Democrat* war preparations, or penalise her for re- /esult. wiU ^e merely to dislodge the people any party source whatever, and we depend data when you must have a saMtng ticket at wasting any money on armaments. entirely upon our sales and the contributions <> Mahoney, to whose work In England in for all sailings from Helyhead to Bun ... ifmpi . - • i j, v:; -jt&Qffs,^ ' who knew the west before the war fusing to do so, theti , the demand will apd destroy Gaeltacht. If the by no of our refers. *"llaboration with the Connolly Association arise. means new idea—it was advocated by Geo. •"•is largely due the release of the republican Laoghalre are tfith July to 13th AugMt, Ki the thatched houses Where are the ^ Individua^cagitajijsjjs .J&e. Jpfteph Swee- RuasglL,iakan im nw* recjwUn-aad well. ' W itfwrt«m»Ml
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