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No. 308 APRIL 1970 A call to all to work for it BRITISH TROOPS REMOVE G.A.A. WiAT MUST BE DONE TODAY TRICOLOUR IN DERRY A firm grasp of reality is a great revolutionary weapon. The Reunited after protest revolutionary or reformer who bases his actions on things which iiR. EDWARD McATEER is to protest against the action of are not condemns himself to defeat and frustration. m British troops who entered the private grounds of the G.A.A., Therefore as Easter comes round once more, and we celebrate at Celtic Park, Derry, and removed a tricolour that was flying the heroic episodes of the Irish revolution, it is proper to take there. "Chur rialoffi na Sasana stock and ask where we stand, and where does Ireland stand, and It was pointed out that the city to cause a breach of the peace. criochdheighilt Ho hEireann i what is the road forward to the completion of the work begun was virtually festooned with union bhfeidhm chwi maitheas a n- by Connolly, Pearce, Casement, MacDiarmada, Clarke and count- Jacks, and Mr. MeAteer asked: rsasen they art said to uasaicme fein.'*!. less more. "Did the person who authorised this that the G.A.A. sports We must look fearlessly at the rpHE crux could be put this way: want trouble?" was public property. The A. Jackson. weaknesses and difficulties that be- -*- while England wants to com- was later returned. set the Republican movement, of mit to a consortium of European movai of the Bag was due to a which the Connolly Association is a powers the preservation of the de- part, and at the same time see the pendent ftositlon of such countries \ vast opportunities that lie within as Ireland and her former colonies, our grasp if we are prepared to she is nevertheless anxious to retain think realistically and use what the lion's share of the spoils for E forces exist rather than dream of herself. forces we mould like to exist. It wonld be too bad itfon going m TVroapDT' will deny that Irish into E.E.C. Wes^ Germany secured It*" national anair.'tt li s are' ii.n • na nigrny near the tep of This Is because at the years go by fluid condition. There is 'actrat} England, flo the fee* is to tt? to the international league greatness of Connolly it being mere and in plenty. But there is little overall mat* Ireland with BngHmd before sense of direction, or fesBpcJ^Kw table of days lost through more appreciated. It Is he who pointed the transition period Is ever. Hence next; step on the roddt There is strides and industrial disputes. that national independence waa more ttUui | the talk of federalism. confusion both in tfiiory and prac- Politicians and pundits are al- the oolour of flags and pillar-boxes, and England would like to keep the tice. In London alone there teems border, as a united Irefcpd might partition would paralyse the Irish ways bemoaning the fact. But to be a demonstration or I? succeed in breaking free from Cfeua- movement. • this is more than balaneed by most days Of the week, mon Market and alL But how can the small numfier of public holi- The badges are now available again, and is little agreement ' on 'b&ir the the border be kept without dimifhai- days we have in the year, as the obtainable) from the Connolly Attoolatkm, issues they are about are inter- nation and Unionist ascendaa#y? A following $dbie shows: «.: 283 grays Inn Road, at 3s. each (postage On the other hand how can tin* fourneMe^ Wltfc -a reduction to 2s. 3d. for Scotland 5, England, Wales 6, be a deal with the Republic unless •tf quantities over a dozen. < CONNOLLY discrimination goes? This is the IRELAND %, New York 11, dilemma of English imperialism. Sweden 11, Japan 13, 8pain 14, One of the features of the situa- Germany 14, France 16, Italy tion is the capitulation of the fcrtoh 18, Cey|p»«|^y related. And not only do the A rag-mag slags Ireland speakers at different meetings often capitalists to the broad Kg.C. Ireland clearly dees net waste contradict each other, it often strategy of England. This does not man-days on puMio holidays, (UUPPOSE you picked up the that of the duchess who went to pens on the one platform at mean however that they relish the and Z&madarwll mittrtainty^ui^u, the Irish "Irish Democrat" and read Constantinople in the olden days. one meeting. destruction of native Irish industry, worker ten* out on more days the following, what would you She was very particular and sum- There is obviously a complex knot distributive trades and agriculture. each year than most of his over- expect the reaction of your moned the proprietor of the best to disentangle. This is aa attempt It is easy and tempting to get English workmates to be? hotel and Informed him that the to indicate some of the strands, and impatient and cry "traitor" at than seas competitors, even allowing without trying to understand what Question: What has an intelli- wished to be assured that every suggest a way to unravel them. for Industrial dispute* Who's it is like to be in their shoes. But quotient (I.Q.) of 144? one of her retinue would be served The first thing is to try to apee for taking a Job in Oeylon, emotionalism never caught a fish. with the "proper English food." to grips with the situation*s where there are two months of Answer: A gross of Englishmen. "Certainly, madam," said the pro- whole. We need to grasp whai41s They have only relatively wfak public holidays in the year? .You would expefct them to be prietor, "and I oan do that the the governing factor in the present capitalism to fight England m annoyed. You would not expect better slnoe my hotel staff have a situation. They therefore cannot hope them, despite the notorious "sense long experience of catering for rriHE fundamental is that retatttlDs resist without calling on the !flgp« "Nl feidir glciiseacht , ftor- kers of Ireland. But the WNfeOft of humour" of the English, to foreigners." between Britain and P shoisalai a thogail tre mhargadh u who would be called otl to play appreciate being told that their Foreigners?" exclaimed the are in a state of flux. This is (Continued en Pin Three) 'if- a dheanamh le cuis ata fail countrymen were a pack of nincom- duohess. " Oh, you poor silly dear cause of the changed aims at Bri- bhais, mar ata an dream I... i poops. man I Don't yeu understand? We're tish imperialism. This Editorial is based an a talk ceannasach Oraisteach; fiu- J But apparently what is not funny ENOUSH. YOU Readers of the "Irish Democrat" given by Mr. Desmond m amhain nuair a chuireas se when applied to the English is so and members of the ConnoUy Asso- to the Central London1 cruth briomhar air fein agus e i funny that you have to laugh when ciation will be well aware that^ve of the Connolly AsuuulattUB on riocht bhais." it applies to the Irish. THE forecast this situation over 10 yg|rs Wednesday, March 18th. m ago. As soon as it was clear that chooghaile. "STWEEK" IRISH DEMOCRAT The students of the Portsmouth Britain was thinking of going hito it. Polytechnic had a grand gallivant at the E.E.O., replacing her own direct in February. One of them got as OUBLINi individual Imperialist rule over the far as Leeds and was selling a New Books, IBs Pearse tSreet. colonies with a collective im- magazine bearing the self-explana- BELFAST) Bookshop at Smlthfield. perialism, based mainly on econo- tory title "The naked Stweek" on LONDONi mic monopoly of the resources of the subject nations, it was clear the station concourse. «3 grays Inn Road, w.c.i. that relations with Ireland would In It there Was the entertaining Collets, SS Charing Cross Road. change. Just as the Union became puzzle:— Central Boefcs, n Orayt Inn Rd. out of date, so the present partition Q.: What has an I.Q. of 144? Peace Newt, 3 Caledonian Road. system with the colonial north and A.: A gross of Irishmen. BIRMINgttAMt the neo-cok>nial south must beootne The would-be reader who got a Key gaiirt ts Eteex Street. out of date. a few lines Into this farrago of OLASQOWl We predicted that when Ungtamd schoolboy puns, parodies and child- Olyde Books, 1M High Street. was compelled for her own reasons ishness would be forgiven for asking to change her method of control, "U w; Mne ruJ or U (since English education is well there would come an opportunity known to be so good) what was the a fhutatngt ach amhain an for Ireland to gain her freedom, level of intelligence of the students t-iarracht a ghabhas le smaoin- provided her people undamtaod who oould Write such rubbish? earnh as a chonJan fein agus a they were in a new and unprece- ., _ TIT FOR TAT bheathaa riaru da reir." dented situation and were pi spared Their ootleok Is petelMy eondi- • «'!* - Captaen Jack White. to do new and unprecedented things. MAO DIARMADA In muta me tame way at • TOM CLARKE April 1970 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT April 1970 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT

TRADE UNIONS GET ACTIVE CENTRAL LONDON CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION IRISH IKIliT MfFM W@»lGtS NORTH WESTERN C.E.U COMMUNISTS: WALL PaiCPSS MM® ""PHE London Branch of the follow Mr. Lowe's advice that all TACKLES CALLAGHAN ALL-IRELAND National Union of Sheet- the trouble took place last year. Mr. Lowe is attending the conference "THE North-West Divisional concern at the "prevalence' metal Workers' held a special which takes place in June in the Conference of the Con- arms in Northern Ireland, w •• PARTY meeting to elect delegates to Isle of Man, and expressed the hope structional Engineering Union demand that Her Majesty's the 1970 biennial conference, at that he would have the honour of sent the following resolution to Government force the Govern- AT a conference in Belfast on which a resolution calling for ** Sunday, March 15th, the Irish moving this resolution as well. its national executive. The re- ment in Northern Ireland tn a 'Bill of Rights" writing de- accept the same strict .stan- Workers' Party based on Dublin, The London rbanch of the Sheet solution was passed by the mocracy into the constitution of dards of our own Police Port e' fused with the Communist Party Metal Workers' Union is one of the Executive and sent to the Home In his reply the Home Secre- of Northern Ireland to form a new Northern Ireland was passed largest in the trade union move- Secretary. tary described the proposed re- body reviving the Communist Party unanimously. ment, having 9,000 members. of Ireland, founded in June, 1933, organisation of the police and "This North-West Divisional Confe- and divided as a result of war-time The resolution ran: said it was the intention of the Fourteen other resolutions were rence condemns the Govern- restrictions. "That this Conference views accepted covering subjects like ap- ment of Northern Ireland for Government "to maintain law PATRICK O'DONOHUE JAMES KELLY PATRICK HENSEY prenticeship, increased old age with concern the mounting toll of its use of armed Police during and order in Northern Ireland The treasurer of the branch Drogheda-born James Kelly, A Dublin man of Laois stock, The new General Secretary is pensions, compulsory safety codes, is a Mayo man. He recently tormerly branch treasurer, is a vice-president of the Asso- MICHAEL O'RIORDAN violence in the six counties of the recent riots. The provoca- in the same way as in Great Cork-born Michael O'Riordan, who apposition to monopolies and mer- took over the job from James now concentrating on his job ciation, and veteran member, Northern Ireland which is widely tive nature of Police carrying Britain." Kelly. in the Spanish War, in the served his political apprenticeship gers, and above all opposition to as treasurer of the Irish is secretary of the branch. held to result from the attempt guns and indiscriminate use of Democrat." jniform of the Internationa in the I.R.A. He is held in high selling out to the Common Market. to operate the out-of-date constitu- these guns has led to working- Branch meets every Wednesday at 8 p.m. at 283 Grays Inn Road, London, W.0.1 Brigade. esteem by all sections of the tion in 1920. The London branch is not only class people, including children, Republican movement. After serv- one of the largest in the trade "It urges Her Majesty's Govern- being killed. Home Secretary, ROSCOMMON ing against Franco in the Inter- union movements it is one of those CHARLES CUNHIHGHAM Mr. James Callaghan, expressed national Brigade, he returned to ment to enact a Bill of Bights with the most advanced ideas. which would write into that con- Ireland only to be interned in the CLOSURES Curragh by the Fianna Fail stitution, (i.e. Government of Ire- r^HE Vidor (Eire) factory at land Act, 1920), all necessary IRELAND CAN AND WILL BE FREE Government. Roscommon town has closed guarantees for the maintenance for the good behaviour of the TRIP TO THE NORTH OF ENGLAND down after only two months troy Unionism for its own imperia- On his release he polled 6,000 of democracy. It hereby instructs twenty-six! Their people lost in list reasons, the people may well operation. Its Irish directors votes as a Socialist in Cork City. the National Executive to raise "TRAVELLING in England re- in the book. And computers have CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE the British electorate. be able to create a much wider this matter by Resolution at the cently I came to the conclu- By the politics of their makers, not of include Mr. P. Guerin and P G "anti-unionism" than was ever those who operate them. There is Lenihan, T.D. r The headquarters of the recon- earliest possible Annual Trade sion that there is a sullen FHE other line of thought comes thought of before. England is being stituted party will be in Dublin. Union Congress." much to be said therefore apart One third of the town's la- the price of the struggle would Indeed, it coincided with an in- in "The Times" and "The forced to gamble. dissent smouldering beneath "TROSTAN" from the profits to manufacturers, It was proposed by Mr. Charles bour force is now unemployed, insist on their due share of the creasing dissatisfaction with Guardian." "The Guardian" is The Executive committee consists the surface of this most phleg- North Sea gas, producing no coke, for subordinating education to the Cunningham of the Central Lon- and protest marches have been gains. Indeed there might be a Unionism on the part of ruling a little nearer to Irish realities 'THE uncertainty of imperialist of ten each from the six and don branch of the Connolly Asso- matic of nations, and that it is the cause of the shortage of needs of the electronics industry, repetition of 1919 when capitalism circles in Britain. Gradually the than the Labour men, and points twenty-six counties. Those from the as art has been all but completely held through the streets. The tactics thus leads to uncer- ciation, and seconded by Mr. Joseph only requires some catalyst like smokeless fuel, and the pollution itself was in the balance. So Lynch, idea was forming of breaking up out that "suspending Stormont" is six counties are: Andrew Barr, subordinated, and medicine is company owns two other fac- tainty in anti-imperialist tactics. Parker, a full-time organiser in the going into E.E.C. to make its above mentioned. The Gas Board Lemass and their friends prefer to the Unionist party and holding the hardly likely to gain acceptance, And both here and in Ireland those Hugh Moore, James Graham, Brian steadily being subordinated. tories in England, but it is London District Area. In the dis- ruling-class wish they had be- says that when North Sea gas is manoeuvre and negotiate behind six counties some other way. This since the Irish people themselves without much historical sense fill Graham, Mrs. Edwina Stewart, cussion that followed nobody raised haved themselves better. exhausted, which may be within a understood that the Irish plant the scenes, and as Mr. Wilson said was likewise part of .the bargaining are against it. It favours the deli- the gap with shibboleths, universal James Stewart, Miss Elizabeth Sin- any objection to the resolution, and few years, they Will NOT re-convert This general process of attempted was yielding the best profit. in Liverpool, they have discussed going on behind the scenes. Both berate splitting of the Unionist medicines, and worthy aspirations clair, Hugh Murphy, Sean Morris- feelings were expressed that not to town gas. What will they do? broilerisation affects the students, The same Mr. Lenihan was with him every single topic of com- England and House see the party, and the recasting of the that have little connection with sey, and William Somerset. For 50 years English foreign pa They will import gas, produced by mon interest in the world. only must there be full equality and I would expect a continuance once manager at the Athlone six-county Catholics as a bargain- whole party system in occupied reality. licy has been the same—a gather- the big oil monopolies that have of citizenship, but the partition of of unrest. For the moment attempts I^IANNA PAIL wants to get the ing counter. Ireland. The "Times" as good as Those from the twenty-six coun- ing of the West European powers been given the control of the North Sealfield factory that has also The great weakness of the ultra- Ireland must be ended. are being made to fool them with best possible deal from English instructed Chichester-Clarke to ties are: Sean Nolan, Sam Nolan, to isolate the Socialist East and Sea fields. So a priceless resource, recently closed as a result ol left is indeed its lack of historical false issues. I asked the students Imperialism. They are doing some- IT should be said here, inciden- challenge his die-hards, produce a Geoffrey Palmer, Joseph Deasy, present a common front to the that should have been used to the Free Trade Agreement. tally, that since the peak of sense. Thus recently we have seen T the 1966 Conference, it will at Bradford why there were no stu- thing much mpre complicated than split, and then look for upper-class George Jeflares, Alasdair Raftery, United States and the under-deve- make chemicals and not have been BREASAL 0 CAOLLAI, the emigration in the 'fifties the slogans imported from as far away A be remembered, Mr. John dent demonstrations against the just "giving in." So they must look Catholics to come into a Unionist Sean O'Rourke, Michael O'Reilly, loped countries. This led to Munich, burned, is squandered in the pro- Irish community in Britain has as China and Vietnam. These Lowe, who works at London Air- E.E.C., the great issue of the pre- Sinn Fein Organiser, for means of influencing- Britain. party with which it might be pos- Patrick McCarthy, and Michael and by 1940 BriJ^sh capitalists were cess of handing over the gas in- differentiated. There were always peoples have a worthy record port, successfully moved a resolu- sent time, the issue of whether (). Obviously there are two main ones. sible to satisfy the Republic, and O'Riordan. the most discredited men on earth. dustry to private enterprise. Irish doctors. But apart from them against imperialism. But any suc- tion calling upon the Wilson there is to be a new life for im- One is the regime in the north; the get them into a federation. Then, instead of capitulating when most were labourers. Not so today. cesses they have won have been Government to hold an enquiry into perialism that has exhausted all its ether is the Irish in Britain. It has been noted in some news- Hitler turned on themselves instead The gap is bridged by successful based on the concrete examination the situation in the six counties. previous possibilities. They said But what are the«»£W parties to papers that the northern members of on the East, they fought him. businessmen, so successful indeed of the needs and conditions of their It was because Mr. Wilson did not' OMMOH MftRKET. Everybody that many students were aware HYDE PARK All Irish newspapers speak as if be based on? They must be non- are mostly Protestant, the Southern Thus while the French capitalists that they can use their control of own countries. ' '.'.••- - ..._-L-. — C I spoke to was opposed to en- that academic qualifications are after years of woeful neglect of the sectarian, the two leading English Catholic. It is however more inte- were further discredited, the Eng- try. There was a sense of frustra- often lower on the continent, and exiles, Dublin has at last seen the advertising to try to influence edi- newspapers agree. But what if resting than that. There are equal lish were in a sense rehabilitated, LONDON China did not carry out the Long tion and helplessness, and great they would be able to practise in light and wants to do something torial policy in newspapers. The they are based on class lines? It March under the slogan of "the numbers of Protestants and Catho- FISHERS-IN not seen as the anti-national trai- indignation that their national the E.E.C. if they failed to get their for them. The reality is that the "Irish Democrat," of course, does would then be almost impossible to lics on the E.C. But the Nor- tors they really were. land for the people and the bullock identity was being taken away from degrees. EASTER SUNDAY exiles are now in a position to do not accept advertising. It prefers prevent the one based on'the work- for the road." The universal prin- themers have sent sight Protes- them without their consent. As something for the capitalists of freedom. And there are contrac- ing-class from fusing with a work- ciple of agrarian revolution re- tants and two Catholics, the MEET IN tors, gangers, and whats not, to- Southerners have sent eight Catho- The failure of the first Labour long as this national sentiment is 3 p.m. Dublin. ing-class party across the border. ceived application in a specifically I DON'T know about that. But gether with a large highly-skilled lics and two Protestants. Government to make decisive not diverted against the coloured There are "surveys in depth" of Chinese form. An Irish revolution *- when I got to Kings Cross I Irish working-class. There are This shows how superior the pro- * GALWAY CITY changes allowed the Tories to creep population it may be a very healthy PAT HENSEY Mr. Wilson's constituency, and a can only be achieved on the basis watched people come up the escala- clubs, dance halls, centres, with cess of wrecking Unionism is to Among the members are leading back again. And when Labour sign. new Irish newspaper ha§ appeared, of Irish conditions, Irish tactics, tor with tickets in their hand. total revenues of hundreds of thou- that of suspending Stormont, from trade unionists like Mr. Andrew HE anrtual general meeting of came in again they heeded the as a commercial venture, carefully and Irish outlook. There was a ticket collector at the sands of pounds. the Republican point of view. The Barr, Miw Elizabeth Sinclair and Tttie Gal way rbaneh of the bankers instead of heeding the prepared by professional engage- The distance the bigwigs are re- barrier. But before they reached EASTER SUNDAY suspension of Stormont and the It is therefore not really surpris- Mr. James Graham. The -delegates Rational Waters Restoration League people. ments and a market survey. It is While such a community is mote from the people is shown by her a stalwart official called briskly, fusion of the N.I.L.P. with British ing that the ultra-Left mix-up included members from Dublin, *as recently held and the follow- noteworthy that the main trend clearly a powerful force it must be Shawcross's letter to "The Times." "This way, please," and shepherded Labour means that English Labour various historical 'stages as well as Belfast, Waterford, and Maya ing Executive elected: HE main complaint is that the both of the Irish Press in Ireland recalled that its members have It gives the impression of a crabbed them into one of London Trans- SOCIAL becomes the bastion of partition, various geographical locations. Chairman, Seosamh Mac Eoin; T Government is doing things and the new Irish paper in Eng- their own economic interests and old man indignant that the English port's ridiculous automatic gates. and as Michael O'Leary, T.D., said They confuse the struggle for Vioe-Chalrman, Fursa Breathnach; without any mandate and the land is pro-Labour. What is the ties within Britain, independently of people should object to their Parlia- Surely there'll be a flash of revolt, at the Irish Labour Party Confe- democracy with that specific aspect secretary, Ignatius Craven; trea- people have lost control of their EVENING reason? A pro-Wilson atmosphere Irish nationality. ment doing things for which it has I said. There was. I hadn't to rence, the splitter of the workers of the struggle for democracy we surer, P. Geraghty; P.R.O., Broasal own lives. has been built up by those close no mandate. He regards industrial wait long either. A glorious old 8 p.m. of Ireland. call the national liberation struggle PAT DEV1NE • Caedai, the last from Oachtar to the Leinster House cabinet. Per- UT one marked peculiarity of action to influence the Government Cockney woman stalked past the They confuse both of these with Art. haps it indicates that an acceptable B the present position is that the struggle for socialism and for Local Government. Huge authori- as an attack on the "sovereignty of loud-mouthed official, handed her THE WHEATSHEAF / JF course if the tactics of impe- A series of wants was planned ileal is envisaged, and an effort is England has not by all appearances the workers' immediate needs. It IN HOSPITAL ties are being created. A man can- Parliament." The mass of the ticket to the collector and declared. rialism have not yet been to the spring, fair the purpose of High Street being made to alert the Tories to decided exactly what to do. Her is tempting when you are lost to not travel to where decisions are people are wondering whether Par- "There's too much of this these finally decided, the Republican tfamkndlng the puMic ownership the power of the Irish vote to de- strategy is easily enough seen. It make general statements. But if taken. The countryside is being liament has the right to hand over days." MANCHESTER movement doesn't know what It has and development of the fisheries of • fend it. Or it may be to keep Wil- is dictated by the position of the they do not express immediate put under the town, and a great its sovereignty to foreign powers! got to meet. This is in part the son to whatever word he has given. monopolies in relation to E.E.C. concrete possibilities they remain I island new racket will spring up, buying cause of present uncertainty and All ever the ooun^ apart from No comment—but the authorities Or warn him of the need to give But the tactics do not seem to have in the sphere of piety rather than land at agricultural prices, and sell- Music: Pat Kilroy present divisions. In one set of Education. At last suspicion is need to think! more or take less. The Irish In been worked out. practice. ing it at city prices. It is of course circumstances Leinster House could already going on, but in the new growing of all the fanciful fooling Britain are being made part of the that has come out of the training hidden horse-trading, and people If the Unionist party is to go become something with which to huge authorities people think it will IN these conditions the work of colleges, the basis being that you who were never in the slightest in- what is to replace it? Enoch face and fight British imperialism. Mkilg from "the^lrish people tra- be done more easily. the Connolly Association is of can turn out pliable workers terested in them are now bubbling Powell says in effect the British In another there would be nothing Mttooai rights in tlialr awn country. greater importance than ever in its cheaply if you make sure they are with enthusiasm. Conservative Party, with its fron- for it but the "Irish Republic now Th» league plans a MHfl at Cal- history. From the Connolly Asso- Municipal planning. All the not given the intellectual equipment MEETING tier on the present border. For all virtually established"—for example way City salmon weir on KfWfl nth if we fail to keep Ireland out of ciation alone can come the en- towns in Yorkshire look alike now,'' to think for themselves. I saw a 'PHIS Is possible because the Irish mild word "suspension" of Stor- at > pm On April iMh K w»M be IN SUPPORT OF BILL OF RIGHTS E.E.C. and Leinster House thereby lightenment of the Irish com- a man told me in Doncaster where four-year-old who had been taught 1 question is now back in Bri- mont the thinking of such Labour Dht. There wlM ho a forfeits all claim to allegiance by munity on all the complex factors we had to walk half a mile to cross her letters reading words she could tish politics. It is useful to recall men as Michael Foot is essentially on May itth, and a PETITION the Irish pepple. in this tangled situation. i at «>liMM on May Mat, the main street. There were a few not recognise to a seven-year-old the steps by which it was got back. the same. Except that it is the pedestrian subways. They were un- sister who had been taught to "re- Some will recall the Birmingham British Labour Party or a fused What we have got to do is to try Ahtf^ to * awo^that The splitting of N.I.C R A. also signposted and led to nowhere in cognise the shape of words." When Conference of the Connolly Asso- British-Northern Ireland Labour to stop Westminster from coming way on ttoaad Jays Is Invited by arose from uncertainties. There many cases. The youngsters she came to a word she did not FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE ciation when the aims was set to Party that would extend from to the rescue of Unionism by "sus- the secretary to get in touch with were some on the right who might, jumped over the railings and know she was lost. She was im- "bring the Irish question back into Dover to Enniskillen pending" Stormont. They should Democrat" foreign him. Ha la l*Mtiae Craven, Man- if Fianna Fail gave the go-ahead, dodged the traffic. "The authorities prisoned in what her teacher cared Euston Road, London British politics," by means of rais- pass a Bill of Rights. The result commentator for the greater part nm r milium" Co. Calway—In It may be that some would hope have moved to a position of under- don't care," sajd the man. to show her. The young girl was mg the question of civil rights. The would be the wrecking of Unionism of 20 years, has been compelled to the heart of the Llam Mellows' that during "suspension" after the standing with a reconstituted "mo- free She knew the principle and 8 p.m., FRIDAY, 17th APRIL Connolly Association campaign be- as we have known it, and a new enter hospital for an operation. country! bribery apparatus got in full swing, derate" Unionism. There were Pottution. A few miles outside could figure things out for herself. Kan in 1968, and slowly interest was type of struggle within the si* Doncaster the Coal Board has ar- and the boys had Jobs and the those on the ultra-left who while counties in which the Protestant His article therefore does not That was in HuddersfteM, inci- won. The crucial turning point In ranged to set up a smokeless fuel promises of job6, the six counties holding up their hands in horror workers would learn that the se- appear this month. Readers will dentally, apart from the two cities JOHN' HUME, M P. (Derry) August, 19*8, was not a bolt from plant to be owned and run by pri- might be another place. It might, at the duplicity of the "green curity and prosperity which they all wish him a speedy and complete HAD CYMKU of Leeds and Bradford, the only the blue. It wag the point at which vate enterprise. It will blacken STAN NEWENS, M P. (M.C.F.) but it might not. Most Irishmen Tories." would accept the suspen- think can be got through the link recovery, and it is hoped to include town in the West Riding to have the powers that be decided to per- miles of fields and cause smog on agree that if England takes some- sion of Stormont tomorrow, and with England, can really only be his article next month. mm Welsh Nationalist Party. kept Its pleasant character. And TOM MCDOWELL (Social Justice) mit publicity. Previous struggles a housing estate. The Board has thing "temporarily," it is gone for turn to phrase-making about got through a united Ireland. * Plaid Cymru, launched its an- Leeds and Bradford are looking a bad been simply ignored. spent thousands developing a clean good. Partition was to last only "socialism." The main official body •aal St. David's Day fund with a wee bit peeked. DESMOND GREAVES (C.A.) The way to prevent "suspension" target of 4M.OOO for fighting the process, that does not cause smog, On the one hand the need to pla- six years. Even if "suspension" was is sound. It sets its face against is not by accusing Michael Foot, (MBftral Election. If there are any but the "planners" have denied it ANTHONY COUGHLAN >ate the Republic was greater; on only going to last six months, it "suspension is in" on the left. and and others of deliberately helping IRISH BOOKS might be very hard to end It. "neo-Unlonism" on the right, and ttMunen living in Wales, there are the capital to put into effect Its rPALKING about education the (Dublin Wolfe Tone Society) 'he other nearly a quarter of the imperialism. They are not. The worse causes they could contribute own process. ' pundits are plumping for more House of Commons already knew in practice develops the alternative supporters of "suspension" are de- m QUAYS INN ROAD, One can imagine the position of a non-sectarian democratic to. Plaid Cymru, perhaps thanks equipment and fewer teachers. The and condemned the semi-fascist re- under "suspension" with London cent, honest people. But they are LtNBtN, W.C.I to lt« outstanding leader. Mr. north Sea gas. Everybody says slower students like "language la- Chairman : SEAN REDMOND gime In the six counties. The Civil party which can oppose Unionism taking an over-simplified view of ruling Belfast direct. "Give us our and "neo-Unionism." Owynfor Evans, has maintained n it is uncontrollable, dangerous, and boratories." The brighter ones like Rights movement may have been six counties," Dublin would say polities. standard of political principle that they don't want it. They resent the a personal teacher to whom they ADMISSION - 2/6 a oew movement, but it was a "When you come right in to the Ope of the great, opportunities The reply to suspensionism Is is to be compared with Sinn Fein fact, that the Gas Board says they can put questions not In tha book. w ^movement emerging into new con- federation," London would reply. inherent jn the present situation is 50.000 signatures on the Irish Best Stock in Town ! In Its best days. have got to have it The use of But you mustn't put questions not ¥ ditions. 81x Irish counties held as hostages that whereas imperialism mny des- petition THE IRISH DEMOCRAT April 1970 All about the Bitl of Rights YOU Petition ENTHUSIASTIC RESPONSE TO BILL OF RIGHTS CALL THE PETITION We, the undersigned, residents of Great Britain, As members of the sponsoring organisations and their supporters go into m m W ® action to take up the greatest petition in the history of the Irish m Britain, word being over 18 years of age, hereby request the Prime comes from all sides of enthusiastic response. Minister of Great Britain to secure the introduction Only a handful of forms have so far been returned _ - r K'. ' HH«|»lll| |IIIIIMI TOM M ~ i; u, < m: to the "Irish Democrat" office, but these include nine in the Westminster Parliament of a Bill of Rights M filled in by one man who has thus collected 180 signatures. Birmingham Social for Northern Ireland, which will so amend the Justice Chairman, In Birmingham. Mr. Tom McDowell has 360 signatures, all M.C,F. CONFERENCE SUPPORT coHactodby one man! SEAK REDMOND Government of Ireland Act (1920) as to write into the SCOREBOARD in att 10,000 forms have been HE petition has been officially printed, and have been distrl- •THE annual conference of all who have worked for civil 1 the Movement for Colonial rights in Northern Ireland on the constitution of Northern Ireland the guarantee of a T launched in South London buted among the Connolly As- , . • • , „ progress that has been made, but A FIEPLY c oven try and Birmingham long soolation (with branches in Freedom passed unanimously a ' ^ ^ reform pro. standard of civil liberty not lower than that obtaining enough to see results. Torn, Mo- North and South London, resolution from the Connolly gramme of the Northern Ireland Dowel* Birmingham, CONOR To M. Melly Manchester, Liverpool, Glas- Association calling for a Bill adminiStration does not include in the remainder of the United Kingdom, and through about two ' gow, Oxford, Leicester and CRUISE of Rights to amend the Gov- legislation to outlaw discrimina- Y[ R. MICH 5L MELLY,Hs an beeii taken...... elsewhere), Social Justice ernment of Ireland. tion and incitement, the repeal of intellige: and patriotic Irish- the establishment of democracy make possible peace- widely distriBut*. O'BRIEN, , ui niftiuo iicvuivii ivir. ruLloymc aciAiiiueu uu ... ,:-Jl- ,-• spect to Mr. Wly and recognis- A selection meeting of th£ possible candidates were all In pogroms. The present M.P. is the ten Convent) n, T 1116111 to Th|s letter tjs by way of clarification about the, Bill of j tr „ wwjf was launched in South Lon- behalf of the C.D.U. He said thdt introduce ^ Westminster ing the proc he has given in North Belfast Federation' frw^ ot It, add thdeed Holmes Unionist StrattWft Mills who a Biil of and Boyd a e 6 Rights Campaign which the . N.I.C.R.A. is organising in when the petition!* to be sub- don at a well-attended meeting in in the last month there had been " Rights" Wa Northern ample measu of his deep con- of Labour Parties an opponent * * J* " main toured the U.S.A. after burnings, eland Northern Ireland. mitted to the Prime Minister, the Brixton Town Hall on Sun- no less than 18 bomb attacks. He f cern with democracy in the six of the proposed merger be- "^rpouS a^^'ated by lootings and murders to explain effect Mr. that Unionist was not really MEETING IN and when the foliow-uo will "a* March 1st. It was organised said that while he supported the - Conference also calls for counties, tween the Belfast and London The basis of the campaign is that responsibility for the a Sharkey is that of developing so bad after all. be launched by the South London branch of Bill of Rights, if one was not campaign to win support for fl) Suspensio tend to i UilUiI llbVJ JLO VJLiCvv v/A u v V uv MUU wj. vv/4 IV A A . Northern Ireland area legfilly rests with Westminster, thus the ii^suft. parties was selected t0 contest greater unity with other local Now that Labour has chosen Petition forms can be ob- th* Co""oH» Association. enacted and if the situation de- this demand in the Labour move- permanen If Labour sus- Civil Rights Movement believes that any further campaign to m^ORE than a hundred people tained from the IRISH DEMO- ment nr Kiis- the next election in the consti- progressive forces instead of al- this excellent candidate, provided The looalMember of Parlia- teriorated, a period of direct rule - pended Sormont and then extend and protect whitf has already been gained must be met at the Anson- Hall, CRAT, 283 Grays Inn Road, be .. ld tuency. ^ lowing the N.I.L.P. to become a the leaders do not disgrace them- ment, Mr, Marcus Upton, was on ^ht necessary, the Tone got in, directed at that Parliament and not at Stormont. Therefore we Cricklewood, under the auspice* of London, W.C.I y Be is Mr. Jack Sharkey, a Pro- part of the English party which, selves and nobody foolishly splits thsuppore platformt for ^ thane d petitionhe deolare. dSea hins JN itsais dofficia thalt statementhe majot thr eissue Mi s have pre^red the way for the London-based NXCitAivdC- it and a convinced socialist, despite being in power in London, the progressive vote, there, is a are collecting signatures for a Covenant of Olvil Rights which Redmond, Oeneral Secretary of with which it would be con- Powell. spite arctic weather. Ivan Cooper, the attack against the has allowed the six counties to chance the Unicgiists might lose we hope to present to Westminster just before the British the Connolly Association, ex- cerned in the future would be (2) Suspensio of Stormont Could Stormont M.P., was kept away by LATE LETTER men of Transport House, drift towards civil war. a seat. General Election. SEEff*L2 THE day we went to press came plained what was meant by a Vietnam, the near East, South be held breach 01 toe Loa,^ "Treaty" 3f 1921. ,uu 1 Asked about the Common Mar- This campaign is being organised solely INSIDE ^^ X^r^TSalS 1 » from »r- J- "Bill Rights" for Northern Ire- Africa, racialism in Britain, neo- Dublin " Ther™ e- were five contestants and ket Mr. Sharkey again stood by Of might w to be consulted, ..talked ^^L^LT^jrtdifferenfie of EnlK ^'"" * of the C.D.II."••»•"»•», presentin•••ge a» landiai>u<. kIt wis essentianHium. thamat mthoe colonialism and democratic rights Ireland. We leave the organisation of any campaign and if sh®as not might take th08C def6ated Wpr6 SUch *0C",H8t P«™»P««»- He replied ^ifn «ry similar case to that of Mr. ball should . be kept in Harold in Northern Ireland. and snf^as might take important m^e that it would be disastrous if NlGRA's two Irish emigrants and progressive minded people to groups with t,he mattf to the United Na- flgures aa V,„° but spelling out the advan-. Wilsons oourt. The conference was attended by Holmes and the prominent right- Northern Ireland wen to enter experience of organising in Great Britain. went boldly into tions. the question Of tages he considers would aoerue Also oh the platform speaking delegations from 13 national trade winger William Boyd, a former this super-oapltalist complex ore- demonstrations sent "essential Jtr that figured Sfetooat itp -|-HE Civil Rights movement has It has been called to our attention that various press re- from a period of "direct rule from In support Of the petition were unions, 30 other national organi- r: ated to obstruct the progress of W88tmlnstM so piomir maintained Its momentum de- ports would seem to indicate that the Bill of Rights tampalgn floor* Ifn liaid '-" He adds the pro- Make Martin, of the 8treatltam satiot\s, five constituency Labour Hons IS ir Jived" n «M olosely ques- socialism and he felt It should be organised by N.I.C.R.A. will be extended to Great Britain—this fchAt more demoMtoaflmT were that after, say, «*e years N.I.&JtA<*, took Henry, the well- Parties, and a number of trade spite the temporary difficulties reD |th„ rnuprr,mo„f «owd about his attitude to opposed by all socialists. 01 d,rtCt ml ,rwn caused by the split. Those who is NOT the ease and we hope that this confusion emanating ZtTLm mr R * Westminster known builders' leader) Councillor anion district and branch organic the L9IHhn needed and that London MiCJR-A A . Tin.l nc ta r ' bid, and North Belfast is a mixed con- spilt away did hot do so abso- from English newspapers is the result of a genuine mistake there should b* a constitutional Frank Quanault, a Labour member ations. There was also a good should make release of the men a new AO and h i 4 w unoomproihlslngly that stituency containing 12,000 Catho- lutely, and there is talk of pos- oonferanoe of all Intoreeted parties of Lambeth, Council, and Tom attendance of individual members, and is not the result of a deliberate easup|||ji^ wrrcsk the jailed in Leeds part of the cam- for civil hopes for what could be one of the most SMMjvM,a«M|Miigns paign. to examine the problem. We Leonard, of the Connolly Assooia- rpHE Connolly Association reso- thhA h0 evBf Mr 1 six-county Two demonstrations were held UxbridKe Labour MJ Mr John ' * - - Molly puts the tion, and a member of the Ex ecu- lution which was passed ran ever undertaken to win complete Civil •NM^ppppicu Ire- ca 0, r! can be p nded by chaagbag In recent weeks. The one In Ryan described himself as a Re- " ** » enough for readers tive Council of the Rallwaymen's as follows:— land. a few wo: in a few sections* Armagh was to demand that the publican, and said He would add ^gj^g' jj' Union. This Conference congratulates of the pr 511 Act, something murderers of John Gallagher be With best wishes for the success of your i to the Cameron report list of vU- st Methodist College decides Parliamei could do quite brought to Justice. The one In lains Callaghan, Jenkins and Lord quickly ai easily? EnnMUIIen was to demand that Yours sincerely, Stopham who had evaded respon- to teach Gaelic (4) The fra 'Wk of the 1920 y OLUNTARY classes In the is one of Belfast's leading schools the Fermanagh council be re- sibility, though U Fi like Paul MK MICHAEL MELLY PUTS HIS Act is su: for this, as the Y Irish language are to be with nearly two thousand boys placed by a commission until eon- Kerin McNamara and him- JCeam McCwty TN your March Issue you head- willing to carry through genuine Act envi M Civil Rights offered to sixth-formers who want and girls attending as day pupils dltlons exlsted for ' democratic had time and time again British government is to suspend The possible alternative might -* lined Mr. Powell's speech which reforms. Legislation generally can and pro? b to a united Ire- to fit them Into the school curri- or boarders. The school history control. Stormont, face the immediate not sound 90 attractive to many rB n you describe as caUing for the be effective only if there is a will- land, but Unionists were al- culum at Methodist College, BeP'T>olnts out that the Methodist Fermanagh ranks with Derry aa aT.U ' Ililrl infftroplo./! Im fVta fKlnwri »V>a Write: P. Bond, N.I.Q.R.A.; Mr. Kevin Agnew, Elisabeth Sinclair of the Bel- sure there Is one." Among the fellows. the sporadic slaughter of the un- ment can Ignore the events of re- KnKlishmen T^HE Methodist College was es» to topple him. British Government now. would be 'f to 283 Grays Inn Road, chairman, and Mr. Frank Qogarty. fast Trades Council and Mr. audience there were old Republi- The suspensionists believe that defended minority. cent months and their explosive "le the six tablished in 1865, partly to cans who knowingly nodded their May their ranks grow in num- counties fctly Local Civil Rights leaders also Mr. Cooper called for unity Tom McDowell of Birmingham. Stormont is unable if Indeed not The responsible action for any potential. * 'I bout mak- train Methodist Ministers, and London, W.C.I. heads at this. ber. MICHAEL MELLY. ing a de ""'ss Of it. partly to educate boys. Today it spoke. in the Civil Rights Movement Mr. John Clarke took the chair. i April 1970 March 1970 6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 7

* ' * edited % «9 THE BATTLE OF BOGSIDEl Q&uwd Ciwcan « A« THE DYING REBEL « THE night was dark and the fight was ended, QH Derry's sons without your guns, $ The moon shone down O'Connell Street; Your fame is how world-wide, * 4 I stood alone where brave men perished, You're the boys who beat the R.U.C. Those men have gone their God to meet. The Celt between two Saxons € 35> 4 At the battle of Bogside. * THE HOLY "IRELAND AND ANGLO- 4 CHORUS: 3> policy seems to have been Republican is whether Irish revo- keepers and policy-drafters are the CHORUS: AMERICAN RELATIONS, lutionaries relied too much on makers of history. 4 My only son was shot in Dublin, » orientated towards America 1899-1921," Alan J. Ward throughout the entire period of American influence. Granted Mr. * Fighting for his country bold ; GROUND As along the roads of Ulster, A much disputed question is the « (Weidenheld & Nicolson, p.p. the Anglo-Irish war. Ward's carefully guarded conclu- He fought for Ireland, Ireland only, influence of the Irish question on 4 DIEU to you my darling, The tenders hurried through, e»» 291, £3 3s.). sions (set forth in bald, over- The harp and shamrock, the green, white and gold. simplified terms above), the answer the Washington naval agreements. 4 A Ten thousand times adieu, And on the streets around Bogside, 2? But was Lloyd George mistaken? 4 My ship will now be sailing | T was always the claim of the The character and extent of his seems to be that they did. Mr. Ward dismisses the notion that, 4 The first I met was a grey-haired Fenian, To bear me far from you. They met their Waterloo. Irish in America that their other miscalculations certainly the Irish "settlement" was designed 4 • to facilitate the agreement. He does Looking for his only son. Oh, to leave my lovely Dinah, 2= part was vital in Anglo-American render this possible. This is a carefully prepared book. 4- * not develop the alternative theory 4 I said : "Old man, there is no use searching, You're the girl I do adore, With courage bold you battled relations. Thus the I.R.B. claimed1 It contains masses of information. * Mr. Alan J. Ward has made a that the Washington agreement 4 For up to heaven your son has gone." But still I live in hopes to see that the Clann na Gael had The reader is presented with facts 4 The Holy Ground once more- From the Wells to Creggan Heights, » careful study of the documents re- and references, and he need not made possible the hardening of 4 Fine girl you are! several times prevented an lating to Anglo-American relations Lloyd George's attitude to the pleni- The old man cried out broken-hearted, To defend your homes and loved ones » necessarily come to the same con- 4 CHORUS: f Anglo-American alliance. Cer- in the crucial period of the matur- clusion as the author. potentiaries and his threat of "im- « "Oh God," he cried, going on His knees, For three long days and nights. mediate and terrible war" once the M You're the girl I do adore, * taihly Lloyd George seems to ing of the Irish revolution. The im- "I knew my son was too kind-hearted, naval agreement was "in the bag." « But still I live in hopes to see » have thought this possible. portance of the Irish in America is, A number of questions come to I knew my son would never yield." The Holy Ground once more- As the August sun was setting low, mm. * of course not denied. Nor the im- mind. If there was an Irish lobby 4 Fine girl you are! It is hardly to be denied, for Nor does he link the Irish and And Orangemen "loyal" and true" * portance of the Irish question for in the United States there was an The next I met was a fair young maiden his hysterical outbursts to Red- American policy. There are nearly infinitely better organised and more American settlements with the Vital » 1ft Kneeling by her lover's side, Oh now I'm salt sea sailing Marched along to fife and drum mond and others after 1916 are 300 pages if condensed information powerful English lobby, as the in- question of England's European Praying to God Ills soul to guide, And you are far behind, At the square at Waterloo. s» GERARD CURRAN strong evidence of it. His devious without padding as evidence of this. trigues which brought America into policy. For the Washington and 14 Kind letters I will write to you * 4 Praying to God His soul to guide. the world war well show. The opera- London agreements were in effect With the secrets of my mind. the completion of the system of 4 With heavy tanks and armour But was American policy deci- tions of this lobby have been in- With the secrets of my mind— sively swayed by Irish affairs? Versailles. And a very poor system 4 The last 1 met waft* dying rebel; adequately brought to light. 4 You're the girl I do adore, And tear-gas by the ton, » Swayed, yes, but not decisively, it proved. 4 KneeliHg Um-I Heard him cry: But still I live in hopes to see * There was sad defeat in Rossville Street » seems to be the-verdict. Was British Second, there is the feeling which 4 "Ged Men wy Homo in Tipperary, The Holy Ground once more- MULLS AND DAMS OF ULSTER everybody who has himself partici- There are also minor points where 2= policy affected decisively by the in- s 4 God bless theMuse for which I die." Fine girl you are! For the Specials and the bums. one would disagree, for example, Wh 2> human life to be of compelling in- fluence of Irish affairs on America, pated in historical events, or has "THE HISTORY OF WATER over the famous meeting addressed 2= terest. The author has made one or more accurately, the possible in- heard them related first hand, must Now I hear a storm arising * POWCK IN ULSTER," H. D. by Cardinal O'Connell on December Your names will live in history convert. His wide reading has fluence? Here the answer seems experience at seeing the "revela- iff I can see it coming soon; Gribeen (David & Charles, 10th, 1918. Surely the main initia- And through the long decades, t ranged over the early Celtic monas- "more so." tions" of those in high places. The The night is dark and dreary, 2> 50/-). tive was that of the Friends of Lrteh » tic system, the Norse influences, the drawers-up of Cabinet papers and I can scarcely see the moon. You're the boys who answered Derry's call ( < EEAT credit is due to Dr. A question Mr. Ward does not international communications are, Freedom who had launched their THE S> Norman manorial economy, the And our poor old ship is tossing ^ ' G ribbon and the Institute of ask, but which is vital to the Irish of course, diplomats. Thus history "Irish self-determination week" and about At the Bogside Barricades. effect of plantations and rebellions Give me the flog of Ireland, boys, Irish Studies of Queen's University, is filtered through diplomacy. not of the United Irish Societies. And the rigging is ail tore, * and the peculiar, late impact of the m Let Irish breezes blow, Belfast, for a work of research When everybody who had to do with But still I live in hopes to see at* industrial revolution on Ireland. And is it quite certain that De Around its fold where'er it flies, with a theme so typical, in its blend the highland clearances is dead, the The Holy Ground once more- of the rustic and the technical, of The interest of a notable book is Valera was not the equal of the ir Defiance to the foe. i intentions of the Government are Fine girl you are! enhanced for both general reader "guiding genius" Daniel Cohalan? n* the Northern half of Ireland. MEN OF THE proved to have been quite worthy— Let no man weep where true men fought and . specialist by photographs, maps, Mr. Ward is able to recognise the BALLYSHANNON Every important agricultural and from official sources. To make their country free, Now we are safe at anchor, manufacturing activity practised in tables of statistics and an exhaustive "attraction of alternative hypo- The flag that Padraig Pearse loved And soon well be on shore; pAREWELL, Coolmore, Bundoran, and your summer crowds that run the nine counties of Ulster from the bibliography. Hm. On page ill the "senseless theses" and that is fair enough, m • Is good enough for me. We will drink a health to the Holy C.B. WEST and this is where they attract From inland homes to see with Joy the golden setting sun, earliest times down to the present killing" (not "murder", note you) Ground. is i elated to the region's abundant "The Hungry Grass", by Richard of Francis Skeffington is referred strongly. And the girls we do adore. Give me the flag of Dublin, boys, * To watoh the flowing, ebbing tide, the boats, the crabs, the fish, resources of river, lake and fall. Power (Bodley Head, 30/-). to. The name of the killer, feowen- We'll drink strong ale and porter He has written a book that should Yowtg men and maids that meet and smile and form a tender wish. And for those who know the Ulster •j Colthurst, is not given, but it is It flies its sword of light And we'll'make the taproom roar; be in every Irish library. It is fully countryside there is many a fascin- rpHIS is undoubtedly an interest- stated that he was "later adjudged m Of fearless sons who smiled at death ; And when our money is all spent On the run annotated and even if you contest Along the riverside they go, where I have often been, ating reference to the history of J- ing book, with subtle delinea- insane." It is not stated that within When buckled to the fight, We will go to sea once more- the conclusions, you know what mined mill buildings and to the tion of character. The story is a couple of years he was adjudged I met brave James Connolly there, Fine girl yotff»re!, 0 never shall see again the dayt^khat J have seen, they are based on. There are just remains of weirs, watercourses, in centred around a West of Ireland cured and given back his commis- "How goes t&e North ?" says he, baek '98 one or two solecisms in a text which A thousand chances are to one I never may return, dams and sluices. priest, Father Conroy, who is pur- sion. This fact was reported in the I told him Padraig Pearse's flag 'THE TWO REBELS," by Meta sued by his own particular furies. American Press. while somewhat humdrum, is gen- Ah, farewell to Ballyshannon and the winding banks ef Erne! Only a small part of the book erally readable. Was good enough for me. concerns itself with the mechanics Mayne Reid (published by Mr. Power reproduces perfectly the m Bowen-Colthurst is treated kindly. SWEDEN TO Adieu to evening dancing, where merry neighbours meet, of water power. It has considerable Faber & Faber). claustrophobic atmosphere of a Thus on page 116 there is the But Casement is dismissed as an Give me the flag of Munster, boys, literary merit because of its lucidity small country village from which spelling "compromize" . . . soon we IP And the fiddler says to boys and girls, "Get up and shake your feet!'' ESS and Andrew Mcliroy, living "unsuccessful eccentric." The, word To victory lead us on; and its insight into the inter- the lifeblood is flowing. will be having "analyze", "revtze" The mournful song of exile is now for me to learn, B on a County Derry farm in "unsuccessful" is the most damn- Of Rebel Cork and Kerry boys, STOP ALL relationships of the region's econ- 1798, shelter two rebels after the This novel is depressing owing to and my lady's bright blue "ize." The To my native Ballyshannon and the winding Mnks of Erne. omy, geography, politics and indus- the half-heartedness portrayed in ing in the Anglo-Saxon vocabulary. "ise" in promise.is not from "izare." „ Of Clare aad Garryowen. battle of Antrim. One is their It is a poor evoker of the passion try. it—the priest with his half-hearted All the same—this book is import- spy.: Tell them in Tipperary, boys, young Uncle James, and the other and the drama which communicated The North will yet be free, POLLUTION Industrial archaeology has hither- an aristocrat, Fitzhugh, who has a vocation, the farmers with their ant and timely. to seemed to me too remote from itself to the masses. But then, to The flag that Munster heroes loved, price on his head. When the sol- sense of inevitability. It is also HILE Cork is debating whether highly entertaining, thanks to such the academic historian, the minute- C.V.G. Is good enough for me. Wthere should be a foul-smelling BUACHAILL. ON EIRNE diers come searching the farm- house and the hay-barns for the characters as "Watch and Pray", the ere smelter on little Island, Just old man who, at 'the appearance Give me the flag of Connacht, boys, outside the city, and while Clare (UACHAILL on Eirne me's bhreagfaim cailin deas eg, two rebels the suspense is almost B' A USEFUL unbearable. anywhere of Father Conroy, breaks And westward let it go, and Galway are reported as being Ni iarrfainn bo spre lei, ta me fein saibhir go leer; into sanctimonious mutterings and SWEETER THAN ANTICIPATED To meet the Flying Column that considered for pollution Instead, the 's Horn Cercaigh da mheid e dha thaobh a Ghleanna i dTir Eoghain But the story ends happily with becomes one of the priest's in- From Longford swept the foe. papers carry an item telling us how Fitzhugh safely on the high seas "MRS. EGKDORF IN rpREVOR'8 characters appear as a 's mura n-athrai me beasa 's me an t-oidhir ar Chendae Mhuigheo. PRESENT sufferable burdens. God keep you, ancient Golway, Sweden deals with smelters. aboard a French frigate, and James O'NEILL'S HOTEL," by Wil- set of caricatures, unloved. Un- is away to Enniskillen to marry his An American-owned smelter plant Umbrella Thursday" (Hamish Into all this breezes the driving liam Trevor (The Botfley lovable, unloving; some nauseating Let her sons stiU faithful be, Rachaidh me amarach ag deanamh leanna fan choill, Annio. Boss and Andrew are left io South-East Sweden has been Hamilton, «/-.) force of Father McBvilly as he tries Head, 30/-). all compelling. But through it all The flag that volunteers have loved with Fitzhugh's square leather box, given a maximum of five years by Gan coite, gan bad, gan grainin brach at bith liom; [VI ARY goes to her great-aunt to light a fresh spark of ambition Ivy Eckdorf bestraddles the scone Is good enough for me. which holds enough golden guineas the Swedish Government in which Aoh dIHlur na gcraobh mar eideadh leapa os mo chionn, ^ ' Emily every Thursday after in this complacency. He is like a VyiLLIAM TREVOR'S grim and like a gigantic efflgy in a carnival to eduoate Andrew in law, and a to eliminate smelter smoke or be school. But this Thursday is dif- fresh wind into the rot left by emi- ** humourless story tells of the. procession, a mirthless, grinning s mo sheacht manam deag is tu ag feachaint tharam snail. brooch of starry diamonds, with a Give me the flag of Ulster, boys, oiesed down for pollluting the air. ferent. Great-aunt Emily has a cold, gration, with his proposals for re- gat-toothed and ebullient Mrs. Ivy figure dwarfing the rest. About fter ruby heart, for Bess, to remind her It's Ireland's flag also ; and Mary offers to go shopping for newing Ireland's life blood. Eckdorf and her insatiable camera. the lengthening shadows of her We love them yet and won't forget Seemingly when the air blows Buachailleacht leo, mo leo, nar chleacht me ariamh her It starts to rain and reluctantly of the handsome Fitzhugh. Fired by her intense professional from the West the nearby town The novel paints a true picture of deprived childhood, her doubt-fllled Red Hugh and Owen Roe. Ach ag imirt is a ol s le H-ogmhna dheasa fan shliabh; M ry takes an old umbrella With How well the authoress oaptures curiosity, her indomitable search adolescence and her two uncon- of Vargon almost disappears in her but a very unusual umbrella, the Irish situation where the youth for the bizarre and perhaps above For still there breathes on Irish soil dirty smoke; motorists must use Ma chaill me mo stor ni do gur ehaill me mo chiall the atmosphere of this troubled summated and disastrous marriages wi'h a duck-head handle, it turns is left no alternative but to lpave. all by a ceaseless longing to The soul of liberty— their headlights in the middle of period, and how poignantly she can leap and dance through her hslf- s ni mo liom do phog na bhrog ata ar chaitheamh le bliain. oui to be. But at the same time one winders assemble the pieces of her own The flag that Ireland's martyrs loved the day; cyclists and pedestrians describe a country scene:— sanity as she levels her camera how familiar Richard Power is with grimy, grey past, Ivy Eckdorf de- Is good enough for me. complain of running eyes and irri- At the grocer's it nips her arm with indiscriminate ferocity. The A ohuisle s a stor na pos an sean-duine liath, "The only sound was the the West of Ireland mainland. I tects in the story told to her by tated throats; and housewives must to help her choose the right brand puppets in the drama go thnmgh Aoh pos an lear og, mo leo, mur maire se ach blian, of butter, it squeezes the soft hubble-bubble of the black pot have yet to meet a parish priest the barman on an ocean liner, a often wait several days for the wind wfnfih swung over the generous who possesses bullocks and it also their small motions and non-eveHU, te ohange before hanging out their No beidh tu go loill gan e no mac os do chionn tomatoes to warn her against tak- family skeleton, long since buried. but Mrs. Sinott, the aged deaf-n*»te ing t hem, and when she is in dan- fire. A goose-wing was laid surprises me that Father Conroy is •jgtm V&m TANKER washing. A shilfeadh aon deor trathnona no ar maidin go trom. neatly on one side, aB a hearth neglected as he is. owner of O'Neill's sits at her upper Re: of dropping a letter in a puddle From her home in Munich she window, serene, unmoved, «n- brush ... he smelled the warm flies into Dublin intent on finding The trees, grass and bushes for th< cluck catches it neatly in its The book is brilliantly written, touched by the raving and turtraient YANKS TO PAY UP miles around are a blackish-grey bit: breath of the newly baked potato O'Neill's Hotel, where she hopes to farls, heaped on the dresser." but its central character is not in- Ivy. 11 exhume the saga of the Sinott and the place is described as frightens away a troublesome teresting enough. He is too "ordi- rjpHE people of Bantry, West water harbour, is of inestimable Sweden's dirtiest town. family; a tale which her fertile and when Mary is left to look The book brings to lilt a unique nary". He is neither tragic nor As he endeavours to halt her in- Cork, are demanding the value as the most suitable place in af; imagination has clothed in mystery Sweden has just passed an En- lant is reported Get the Democrat pasted te yeu Most of the time Mary refuses to MStt# the wealthy landowning and strangers. Is Ivy's relentless search a fantastic bargain in Bantry. to be going to spend over £1 m. oammorcial interests, predominantly effect of her avenging camera on Island. When the Whiddy site was being •tdmit that there is anything un- for one to whom she matters re- to develop machinery to convert the •pisoopaHan. the puzzled Sinnotts and their asso- Dues of up to £250.000 a year constructed the town had a minor If you would like to have the "DEMOCRAT" petted to usual about the umbrella, and is Nil mise ar dhuine de na warded by the finding of a god of Wk*1 ? smoke into powder, which could ciates, together with the startling WWild be payable by Gulf Oil at boom But now the people are dis- annoyed at its antics, but when If this alliance had been main- daoine ud a chreideann go her own? As he considers Iter wurds then be used for something else or and lasting impressions uncon- current rates if there was a harbour illusioned. for the construction you, send this cut-out with your subscription to : Great-aunt Emily arrives some days tained, the effects of the defeat of gcaithflmid athghealu na hEire- he wonders whether the redoubtable destroyed. sciously but indelibly engraved on authority at Bantry. Gulf Oil and crews are gone and the permanent 'atei with a birthday present, Mary 17M would have been greatly mini- ann a chur ar athchlo go mbidh Mrs. Eckdorf may have became ttie the Government argue that since in the meantime, the Environ- The IRISH DEMOCRAT, 283 Grays Inn RdH London, W.C.I k Ivy Eckdorf's own life, unfolds like employment at the terminal is for 'i<«vs that the duck-umbrella has mised, and the whole subsequent saoirse naxsiunta' againn, ach itching conscience to torment fcis the company built its own faculties a kaleidoscopic pattern. only a few dozen men. There is ment Conservation Law forbids the with 16/- for a year 8/- for six months helped in choosing the watch she history of tfte country would have latter years. at Whiddy it would be improper to setting-up of any1 new smelter in measaim nar chair duinn aon also the ever-present danger of ha iK>en longing for. tmn oh an ged for the better ®ut Thaddeus Street, the sordid set- charge any harbour dues. 8weden until a means of eliminat- Name ghne den choimharit naislunta a This intense story defies a smile, disastrous oil pollution in the har- Umbrella Thursday" is a story the next 3« yean was to bring a ting for her dramn, is faithfully Not that Gulf Oil would be un- ing smelter smoke completely has iobairt ar son athbheochana na yet in spite of its almost unrelieved bour The Bantry people now think 'or i he younger reader. Simply 11- tragio split between Cot hollo and portrayed, and the run-down drab- able to any. It is one of the seven been Invented. Address Gaeilge. gloom, leaves a sweeter taste than the Government should get some- hi.i'rate* hy Carolyn Dinnn, It is MMenter, with results which wore ness of O'Neill's Hotel assumes a largest companies in the world, and About time there was a similar Vr one anticipated. thing more out of Gulf and have "

LETTERS FROM THE LIFFEY By ANTHONY COUGHLAN FARMERS AV0CA M,NE VICTORY ENGLAND SENDS WORKS AGAIN Wilson ANOTHER ONE rJ^HE copper mine at Avoca is FOR A.A. A NEW British Ambassador, Mr. AND E.E.C now being worked again, dispels ^ John Hain, is arriving in Dub- eight years after it closed in HE Irish Anti-Apartheid Move- lin next month. With events in RISH farmers are becoming morer 1962. There are now 250 workers T ment has won a major victory Ireland pausing Britain more ana and more alarmed about the: I tunnelling for copper beneath in its "No Collaboration with South more headaches, it is important to Common Market. This is a change,' Africa" campaign, in that Coras have a first class man looking after for up to now the farmers have^ the Wicklow hills, many of them illusions Trachtala's proposed trade mission the Dublin Embassy. So the pre- expected to get better food prices- Canadians and Swedes. to South Africa, which was due to R. HAROLD WILSON was sent ambassador, Sir Andrew Gil- in the N.E.C., and the National] In 1962 copper prices had fal- go off there this month, is now not asked about partition in an christ—the man who had a kilted Farmers' Association has been len to £192 a ton, and the mine M to go. "Irish Press" interview on March soldier play the bagpipes to distract strongly in favour of Ireland's was no longer profitable. Cop- 2nd. The interviewers wanted to the crowd which was burning down entry. Pressure against the mission has per is now £675 & ton and the know had the British Prime Minis- the British Embassy in Jakarta is been building up ever since the visit Canadian company which has ter any particular formula f were slapped on a secret seminar Winston Churchill at the Potsdam work in the mine, bringing up Northern Ireland will not cease to cut from 10 million to five million being run by Coras Trachtala and Conference which divided Germany be a part of the United Kingdom between 1970 and 1980. Half the; 14,000 tons a week. the Irish Exporters' Association at without the consent of the people after the war. He has never been five million are to be pensioned off' which a South African embassy to Ireland before, but is clearly one of Northern Ireland. Our policy and the rest can work for wages official was speaker. T.D.S and must, therefore, be to maintain par- of the top men at the Foreign in industry if they find the jobs. Anti-Apartheid members picketed tition as long as the people wish it. Office, and he is clearly being well Twelve million acres of f arm-Hand 50p.c. slaves the hotel, and questions were asked briefed on the present situation in Partition is something only, the in Europe are to go out of product in the Dail. Ireland. tion and the typical farm is to be' Irish people themselves—norths and the large unit, with 200 cows and of the gall After this event a delegation went south of the border—can resolve. I In an interview with an Irish 100 acres, highly effioient, with lots, T the rate takeovers and amal- to speak to the managing director hope, however, that ways will be magazine recently the new Ambas- : of capital equipment and very few A gamations are occurring there of Coras Trachtala. Strong em- found to increase co-operation be- sador said he understood that Irish people employed. would be only 500 companies of any phasis was placed on the demands tween the two countries." people were now somewhat less en- great significance in Western of the South African people that Mr. Wilson has never said, how- thusiastic about the Common Mar- There is no hone here of a better, Europe at the end of the decade. those in sympathy with their ever, that Northern Ireland will ket than they had been, and the deal for the man of Irish farmers. There might not be more than a struggle outside should reject cease to be part of the United politicians were ahead of the people To long for the high-price common few dozen companies of any size all links with the apartheid system, Kingdom if the majority of the in the matter. He was very inter- Market food policy, « some Irish, left in Ireland—"a very salutary whether those links be economic, people there want that. He speaks ested in these trends, and also ot farmers do, It to MM castles in thought for all of us." sporting or cultural. The trading as if Britain has no responsibility course, in the policy of civil the air. Everyone knows that if the At least, so says Mr. Abbott, of plans were also of course in contra- in the matter, although the main- various Britain negotiates Common Market rights movement and its Associated Industrial Consultants, diction, to Ireland's voting on tenance of partition is entirely de- membership, one «f Iter main aim* in a recent message to Irish indus- United Nations resolutions. pendent on British support. will be to get the expensive Com- trialists and managers, telling them He does not think at all though— An astute man, who will have a mon Market agricultural policy that it was up to them to keep any It tt to tjhe credit of Coras Trach- unlike some foolish optimists in critical rAle to play in relations be- abandoned. Onoe enough of thf bit of independence for the country. tala thai: K h$s recognised these Ireland—that the E.E.C. would end ween Ireland and Britain in the farmers are oleared from the lam) He estimates that by 1980 foreign foot* though there is still a danger partition. "There is no reason why coming period. and It becomes politically possible controlled industry in Ireland would that tot private exporters them- the Border should be called into to Ignore them, the other Conum* employ over half the Irish indus- selves tnigitt organise a mission, for question in any way if both the Market countries will agree, fiflf "Is e comhrac-in-aghaidh an trial work-force. it is very clear that South Africa United Kingdom and the Irish Re- sciath chosanta ar ansmacht." cheap food benefits both industrial is tatinmehr, anxious to promote ; this situation, says this pro- public joined the E.E.C.", says Mr. rr-Thomas Davis, tats and 0i& workers—it keeps |av trade with Ireland. t bour oosts lower than they wouM phet of woe, "industrial influences Wilson. •jjf ifljip ' are likely to. heavily outweigh poli- tical action, due to the enormous in itself^ economically valuable to scale of industry, and because of NEWS OF THE IRISH it Ireland wen to; Join the Com- South Africa, Current trade indeed this responsibility for the preserva- ? mon runs In IfeoutH Africa's favour and tion of a substantial degree of self- we would 'Bod there Mould pa no point from an determination for Ireland depended SEE ecMHWriUo point of view in en- mainly on the performance of Irish pup, as theIfc*«lnh imports to South » » »» » »» «• industry, and particularly its man- policy to suit their industrial In- Africa. The reason for the encour- iBllili " ; agement, and not on the efforts of politicians." agement is a,political one, in that Concorde will wreck Ulster South Africans becoming increas- in toe meanwhile, The Irish people may have a say ingly isolate* in all fields, and Is in the matter, of course, though monuments E.EX. agricultural therefore delljierately embarking on Mr. Abbott does not mention them. The Church of Ireland Diocesan rocket toe housewife's a policy of promoting contact of