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IRISH TRADE UNIONISTS' APPEAL TO MR. TONY BENN OIX leading Irish trade unionists PUBLIC ENQUIRY DEMANDED ^ wrote to Mr Tony Benn pointing out the evils of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and urging upon Dim the need for Labour to vote Four men on •gainst it. This is the letter they FRONT BENCliiff gffatefi H SITS TIGH.... T eent.— *There is currently a growing in- WO months ago we asked if there were fifty just men in the Westminster Parliament. hunger strike terest in the Republic of Ireland in T the consequences for the Irish com- There are not. But there are forty-six. Last year the Prevention of Terrorism Act was renewed with Ian Mikardo (Bethnal Green and munity in Britain of the Prevention Bow), Michael O'Halloran (Isling- t the time of writing there an Of Terrorism Act, which was passed only twenty-eight opting it. But this year their number have A now four men on hunger been swollen by the accession of eleven backbench Labour men, ton N), Ray Powell (Ogmore), Reg come years ago in the aftermath of Race (Wood Green), Jo Richardson strike in the H-block of Long K«h the Birmingham bombings and five Liberals (including David Steel) and two Plaid Cymru. (Barking). prison. Which is coming up for its periodic Dafydd Elis Thomas (Merioneth) At a meeting of the E.C. of tha renewal by the House of Commons Moreover, although the La- and Mr Dafydd Wigley (Carnar- Ernest Ross (Dundee West), Connolly Association on March shortly. bour front bench were not pre- Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield E), pared to stand for repeal of a von). And there was also Mr 211st, It was confirmed that the As- We understand that thousands of Gerry Fitt. Jack Stallard (St Pancras N), Stan sociation is in favour of prisoners bill their own party introduced Thorne (Preston S), Michael Irish people, many of them trade The 35 Labour MPs. who voted taken up In connection of politically unionists, have been questioned or explicitly for a temporary Welsh (Don Valley). motivated offences, being given period, at least they put down against are: Joe Ashton (Basset- detained under this Act since it was law), Norman Atkinson (Harin- special category status. a motion for a public enquiry The vote and the decision to de- Introduced, even though this has gey Tottenham), Andrew Bennett mand an enquiry marks the high- Terrorism Is defined by statute led to only a few dozen prosecu- into the working of the Act. (Stockport North), Ron Brown est point yet of the campaign as a politically motivated offence. tions and an even smaller number (Edinburgh Leith), Jim Callaghan against this Act, and is regarded The Connolly Association does not Of .successful convictions, which it PRESS AHEAD i Middle ton), Dale Campbell-Savours as a tribute to the steady patient agree with It, but that doe* not Is generally agreed could have been This proposal was defeated by (Workington, Dennis Canavan work being carried on, and denied make It less politically motivated. achieved anyway under other legis- 125 to 44. But the civil liberties (West Stirlingshire). all publicity, by the Connolly As- The fact that a man Is chargcd lation. The Act is clearly an un- group of the P.L.P. decided to press sociation and supporting organisa- with this offence puts him at a necessary and clumsy weapon for ahead with the demand, and it is Bob Cryer (Keighley), Donald tions. disadvantage in defending himself dealing with the terrorism it Dixon (Jarrow), Frank Dobson and Increases the probability of understood that Mr Roy Hattersley It had been intended to present ostensibly exists to combat. What will renew the call. (Holborn and St Pancras S), Alf an Innooent man being Imprisoned!. the large-scale arrests and question- Dubs (Battersea S.), Ken Eastham a petition carrying a large number He should be compensated for this ing carried out under it have done, Six Liberals, including the (Manchester Blackley), Ted Flet- of signatures, but when the prob- disadvantage by being given a spe- however, is to intimidate consider- leader David Steel, and David cher (Darlington), George Foulkes able result became quite clear, the cial status Inside. able sections of the Irish commun- Alton who was seen by lobbyers (Ayrshire S), Reg Freeson (Brent Labour front bench recommending The Irish Sovereignty Movement ity in Britain, cause humiliation from Liverpool, voted against re- East), Stuart Holland (Vauxhall), abstention, it was decided to con- (Dublin) Issued the following state- and embarrassment to many decent newal. The two Plaid Cymru John Home Robertson (Berwick). tinue it for another year and try ment Just before the first new hun- citizens—'mostly domiciled in Bri- members had received correspond- Robert Kilroy-Silk (Ormskirk), to get a really impressive number ger strike was started. The "dirty tain but some also resident here— ence from Mr Brian Wilkinson, a James Lamond (Oldham E), Alex of signatures for February 1982. protest" has now ended, which Is and alienate significant numbers Connolly Association member resi- Lyon (York), William McKelvey There was some disappointment all to the good. from constructive political activity dent In Wales, and he had Re- (Kilmarnock), David Marshall among UCATT members that Mr and particularly the work of the minded them of the police swoops (Glasgow Shettleston), Dr Edmund Erie Heller, who had promised to STATEMENT Labour movement. in Wales which would have been Marshall (Goole), John Maxton vote against the renewal of the The Irish Sovereignty Movement impossible If the P.T.A. was not (Glasgow Cathcart), Miss Joan Act if he was in the House, was, calls on the Government to make Many people on this side of the on the statute book. They were Mr Maynard (Sheffield Brightside), unfortunately, not in the House. (Continued on Page Three) Irish Sea have welcomed your own interest in the Irish problem and in the factors bedevilling Anglo- Irish relations, of which this Act is certainly one. We gather that Was it an unholy row at Maastricht meeting? the Act is coming up for renewal in the coming weeks and that, as ^N TAOISEACH, Mr Charles people don't care two snaps the terrible villainies of his that such a thing was utterly •n previous occasions, there is a Haughey, was mighty cagey about European import, but are foreign affairs man, Brian Leni- unthinkable, and had thereby danger that it may again be let on R.T.E. when he was ques- very worried about rumours that han. taken much of the steam out of through "on the nod", without tioned by Cian O Hegartaigh. the government is about to sell, Mr Paisley's campaign. And consideration being given as to And what had he done on her? What had he been talking even give away, Ireland's neut- now Mr Lenihan does this on whether it would not be much bet- He had made a speech with about when he met Mrs That- rality. them! ter to have it expunged from the one eye on the coming election. cher ? Very hoity-toity, An Mrs Thatcher gave Mr Statute Book altogether. The speech suggested that as a Taoiseach told the radio man gO what did they talk about ? Haughey a talking to from May we, as people active in the result of the secret talks be- that he was surprised that he which he was still smarting. IriSh trade union movement, acting The answer is that they tween the British and Irish gov- should ask him about the The question is therefore not in a personal capacity, ask you to didn't. Mrs Thatcher did. Like ernments, Ireland might be Thatcher conversation when whether Mr Haughey is going join with other Labour members the true-blue imperialist (suck reunited in five or ten years. in opposing the renewal of this matters of deep European itn- up to America, kick down to to sell his country. It is whether Act and to use your influence port were being discussed. It the other brand) that she is, she MR HUMPHRY ATKINS was he is going to give it away. within the Labour Party and the did not occur to the miJUonaire, turned on Mr Haughey and read horrified. He had been as- " Somehow we feel there will (Continual on Baok Page) one presumes, that the Irish him a five-minute lecture on suring the six-county Unionists be "nothing doing".

; April 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 3 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT April 1981 Seieore and -technology NOW ITS INFORMATICS REAGAN FOR THOSE WHO SUP WITH NE ot the principal problems for tical computer applications of rele- IRELAND O small ex-colonial nations In vance to various industrial control by asserting their Independence Is the processes. There was little or ' I 'HE next move in the plot to control exercised by the muttina- nothing originating In actual de- R. H. W. JOHNSTON inveigle Ireland into the wa» tionals over advanced technology. veloping countries, except Algerta •alliance appears to be a proposal This Is particularly evident In the Itself, which had just initiated an own computer, any more than it that President Reagan, whose fju- NEED A VERY field of Information-technology, or impressive educational programme, bears are said to have come from needs an airoraft industry before "Informatics" (from a word "Infor- and from Cuba, where in Havana it can maintain a national airline. Co. Tipperary, should visit Ireland matlQue" coined by the French). University they had built their own It is ironical that this Important this summer. small computer and used it to conference should have occurred in Various efforts have been made schedule the harvesting logistics Dublin (creating spectacular oppor- The tourist lobby are already LONG SPOON the Third World oountries to on a sugar plantation. The Chilean tunities for the Irish to participate pressing for it. same to gripe with the problem of experience was at that time going in the developing network of ex- SUPPORT FUND jjjOW did Messrs Haughey and cn:i, »j: tion-alignm.-:r having Q«w best to use computers In eco- through an acute phase prior to its perience of using informatics as an But, unlike His Holiness the Pop<. who went to Ireland to talk peace. Lenihan get on with Mrs but:. a political ana economic nomic development To use them suppression by CIA subversion, so aid In assertion of independence) simply to replace clerical labour, as it did not surface at the Algiers Reagan will be talking war and Thatcher ? They look relaxed dimension this is not tie-essarilv during the very week of Haughey's DEMOCRAT shared b;. other members o: the I* the norm In the developed world, conference. There was no-one from making no bones about it. enough in the picture. Easy- disastrous adjourned debate on Non-aligned Movement, such as Is to compound the unemployment black Africa. neutrality, which places our rela- going, decent fellows you would '(•"HE immediate response to our He is anxious to stop the cam- Cuba Thus neutrality and non- problem. The alternative Is to use tionship with the Third World at Jhink them, a bit different from computers Intelligently, to plan the So much for the background. It * emergency appeal shows that paign of the Republicans in the six alignment are not the sun;-? and risk. I saw some delegates reading our friends and supporters realise counties so that everybody can get ibe iron lady with her bitter allocation of human and physical is pleasing to be able to contrast many European countries with a their Irish newspapers with puzzled together and fight Russia. resources, to monitor the economic the experience of a conference hold the importance of having a paper purse-proud lips. neutral tradition such -as Finland. expressions. in Britain which is saying what Austria and Sweden are not mem- process, to supply information at in Dublin on March 9th-l3th, spon- All the same Mr Haughey is the Democrat" is saying. bers of the Nun-aligned Movement the required level of abstraction sored by the Department of Foreign URING the same week two other a millionaire, and you can't be when needed. Afiairs, the National Board for Dnoteworthy events took place. 11'HERE does Ireland st.nd in At the same time we're still badly quite sure with millionaires, Science and Technology and Trinity On March 11th the NBST launched '' all of this? We are not a in the red and neec^ another £1,500 even comparatively enlightened A bold attempt to do this on College, on the theme "Informatics a booklet aimed at the potential member o: any military alliance. as soon as possible. A number of Hunger strike national scale was initiated by and Industrial Development". On Inventor, giving guidelines on ones. We are not a member oi th-> Non- functions have been arranged for Ailende in Chile In 1971, with the this occasion the majority of par- patenting and licensing. On March (Continued from Page One) aim:. ed Movement. There are cer- fund-raising purposes and we hope He won't tell the Oail what is «ih.u- the basic democratic poli- Trinity College), an artist, Danny portunity arises. tion to the problem of avoiding the lead to deaths among those par- gest that readers find a Phila- tical and economic values with our Osbourne, and a TV cameraman, Our thanks to: — Irrationalities imposed on Western John O'Mara. It has been suppor- ticipating. which will raise the delphia lawyer to explain whe- neuhbou: - in Western Europe We B. Callaghan £5, P. Chambers £10, political temperature in the North have cer'.ain rights and duties ATTENDED a conference In society by the competing giant ted by Irish firms, financially and ther neutrality is on or off. MRS M. THATCHER MR C. HAUGHEY MR B. LENIHAN I Algiers in 1973 on this theme, multinationals of the computer in kind, to the extent of some M. O'Donnell £10, J. Sheridan £1; in the period coming up to Easter. (Continued on Page Three) We wouldn't want to jog their organised by the International world. The keynote message was: £80,000. They expect to return C. Moloney £16, C. Hall £3, F. Hook Federation of Automatic Control. "Establish centres of expertise and The failure of the British Gov- arms, but we can't help remem- next September with some scienti- 60p, A. Formoli £1, J. Picking £1.11, Tito agenda was dominated by a mutually supportive network for fic results and recorded visual ex- F. Naylor £5, J. Farrell £3.22, O. ernment to meet the relatively bering the old saying that if minor demands of the prisoners on clever people from places like Mas- exchanging experience in the use of periences derived from the explora- Cahn £5, J. Collins £5, R. J. Tol- you sup with the devil you need matters such as clothes, recreation sachusetts institute of Technology, Informatics In the solving of rele- tion of Eliesmere Island, the hurst £10, I. Linehan 50p, K. Col- THE CRACKED CRAZY WAR GAME and remission is typical of the a very long spoon. producing sophisticated solutions to vant problems".. To achieve an northernmost island of the Cana- lins £25, G. Kelleher 53p, L. McKeogh •'J'HE lawyers tell us that neutra- vJO silence the war drums. Keep' the wrong problems. Some small effective level of expertise, a small dian archipelago. We wish them bone-headed rigidity which the "I met murder on the way. k £10, J. & C. Lee £5, C. Pamment the tom-toms down. When the states like Finland had good prac- nation does not have to produce its the best of luck. British authorities have so often ' lily is a state which describes He uort? the mask of Castle- £4, J. Attfield £10, A. Nune £5, M. tiie position of states winch do not BY Russian leaders want to talk, talk showed in the past on Irish affairs. reagh." with them. I don't know how th& Hanley £5, D. Attwater £5, R. anticipate in a war; such states Search field £5, A. McNally £5.80, iu\- neutrals. This traditional legal —Shelley people who are ruling the U.S.A. There are signs that the British F. Kindley £5, M. Caflell £5, M. Foreign Office would like a settle- concept of neutrality has been mod- got where they are, unless it IS I WAS reminded of Shelley's Duggan £3.80, W. Hardy £50, N. ment of the H-Block issue, as it ified. however, in recent times, by THE EDITOR on the principle that scum floats. WITHDRAW FROM IRELAND, SAYS LABOUR rhyme when I saw a picture of But it is they who are threatening Klsch £20, A. Esterson £5, V. J. interferes with plans to subvert changes which themselves reflect President Reagan's foreign affairs irpHE withdrawal of the British Speaking to a resolution which I,""OR he seems to have an obses- stops What are the Russians to our peace. They are declaring". Butler £5, D. A. Dudley £2, M. the military neutrality of the Re- . i-lineal trends established before operator. General Haig. u: the Army and administration from condemned any attempt by the public; while the Northern Ireland ' sion. an obsession with com- make of it? their intention of attacking antt' Houlihan £5, M. Porter £25, J. since the second world war. Guardian. Northern Ireland was one ol the British Government to link nego- Office hopes that the collapse of a munism. I wouldn't say he actually (F the U.S.A. is prepared to in- plunging the world into a war Keane £1, M. Lee £1, A. Tattam In international law today, a state 1 maip. proposals earned at the an- tiations about the future of North- second hunger strike will be a I know these fellows are not ap- wears rose-coloured spectacles, but * vade their country would they which could wipe out the human at the Labour Party annual con- £5, A. Beckman £10, K. McFarlane retains its neutrality by remaining 1 nual conference of the Labour Com- ern Ireland with the possible siting critical blow to the republican pointed for their looks. B';t what he sees red everywhere, and judges race. When you see the wee three £1, D. Wedderburn £5, T. Donaghy 1 stick at destabilising Poland or mittee on Ireland held in north of atom-bomb bases in the South, ference. An important submission, • i peace with the actual belligerents a rascally face Staring schizo- year olds skipping about full Of paramilitaries. The appalling cir- everything in relation to it, and is Afghanistan? I'm not saying they JUondon last month. The confer- Flann Campbell, a National Coun- which is published in the March- £5, H. & R. Atkins £10, H. Allen in; this does not entail an obliga- phrenic eyes, tense clenched fin- fun, don't you think they are en- cumstances of the Long Kesh therefore in danger of creating it are, for I do not know. But I can ence, which was attended by about cil member, said that republican April issue of "Labour and Ireland", £5, B. Vallely £6.22, C.C. £50, M. ting to act impartially; indeed, m gers. ana that air of physical de- titled to a sporting chance'' Why prisoners seem to be incidental to where it isn't. understand how in the cold war 70 delegates from all over Britain, and democratic Ireland had had a has been made to the Party's na- Gaster £10, C. Sullivan £7.80, B. this bureaucratic rivalry and politi- onformity with the Charter of the generacy and repulsiveness you should they be blown to bits or The people of Salvador want the atmosphere the Russians could well .also carried resolutions calling for proud record of neutrality in world tional executive in reply to the Rae £5, Canton Duck £2, R. Green cal in-fighting. United Nations, under the prin- sometimes find in aged screws or roasted alive for the difference be- ciples of collective self-defence or end of a vile dictatorship. Haig believe it. :the repeal of the Prevention of affairs which was summed up in consultative paper questions on £1, Newcastle Trades Council £3, hopeness recidivists. "That man's says they must endure it for the tween capitalism and communism? ot collective security a state may Exactly the same considerations Terrorism Act, the mobilisation of the famous banner which James Northern Ireland. F.H.O. £10. TOTAL £420.58. bonkers." I said to myself -He'd sake ol the fight against com- Whichever they are brought up in. The Irish Sovereignty Movement have ail obligation to take mea- apply to dissidents. I am not by rtrade unionists in support of a Connolly had hoisted over Liberty press the nuclear button it' a munism. He'll make them into they will get used to it. calls on all those, lay and clerical, sures against another state, a bel- any means satisfied that all those .united Ireland!'and support for the Hall in 1914: "We serve neither butterfly flapped its wings ' communists, then he'll want to who sought to mediate in the last ligerent. which has unlawfully re- who have been charged with One most telling thing is the claims of the H-block prisoners. King nor Kaiser, but Ireland". nuke them. The whole world wants H-Block hunger strike to raise theijr sorted to the use of force Of course for all I know he may undermining the state had the in- fact that we never hear any hymns- Since the end of the second world an end to apartheid in South LABOUR M.P. HITS OUT voices now to urge the British Gov- be inwardly of a mild and appeal- tention of doing this. I know of of hate from the Russian side. X war the 26 counties had aligned The basic rule of the law of Africa. The U.S.A. is to bol- ernment to avoid another appalling ing nature, regular worshipper and course that some were, for when doubt if they are singing any. If themselves with the anti-colonialist M a hard-hitting speech to Formby Great Britain, a drain on the trea- neutrality remains, however, and ster South Africa for strategic pur- Irish tragedy before it is too late. excellent family man. But his they emigrated to the west they General Haig or Professor Pine'i nations of Africa and Asia, and had (Liverpool) Labour Party on suries of the United Kingdom and that is that in a war the territory poses. The blacks can go to hell. I politics seem rather to match his called for intervention just as Pro- could produce one statement from tried to pursue a policy of arms March 18th, Mr Kevin McNamara the Republic of Ireland and a con- of neutral states is inviolable and Two secret South African missions looks. fessor Pines has done. But I can them along the lines of the Profes- reduction and detente. It would be welcomed the fact that the Labour tinuous embarrassment to whatever belligerents are forbidden to move have visited the U.S.A. in March, see how in the cold war atmosphere sor's, would they hesitate to do so? a most dangerous and sinister de- Party no longer regarded the Irish British Government (influence?) we troops or supplies across that terri- and embarrassed the administra- the Russian leadership might say We'd never be let forget it. velopment, which would only bring question as taboo, but complained may have in the councils of the LONG SPOON tory; nor can the territory of a tion when the news leaked out. that the recent document (see last "we must take no chances; listen Y\TE have entered the most dan1- back imperialism under another world-" (Continued from Page Two) neutral state be used as a base for THE TORY PLAN When there's a wild man in guise, if Ireland under the pretext month's "Democrat") "begs too to the threats they are making. If * ' gerous decade in world history. Mr McNamara said the reunifica- hostilities. charge the under-suckers have to : of abolishing partition, was pres- many questions, states too many under the UN Charter. We have they are prepared to invade us. The survival of the human race is tion of Ireland was in the "long- Neutrality in this strictly defined T^HE plan that the Tories are serve up hot curry. So make the surised into allowing NATO bases halfetruths and does not address it- our own views on developments in would they hesitate' at stirring up at issue. Haig and Reagan, like" term interests" of the U.K. and sense should not be confused with working to in their talks with acquaintance of the sick fantasy o: support fund on its territory. self to the fundamental question of many parts of the world and do trouble?" their galloper Margaret Thatcher, Ireland. On the contrary the offi- neutrality in the political sense, the Irish civil servants was fore- Professor Pipes. What this gentle- what should be the future of the not hesitate to state them. Joining are embodiments of a dying class: TT is a melancholy fact that while cial document supports the Unionist, which is a more recent notion. shadowed in the Guardian of man said formed the subject of a Indeed this is why I think that T~\QN FLYNN, L.C.I. general sec- six counties. The whole drift of the European Community does not They are like wasps in September we are making a special effort the Integrationlst, the Powelllte i'lVf EUTRALITY in the political August 16, 1979. Guardian editorial. This is it. :<— socialists in western countries retary, reported that since its its argument Is in favour of Inte- involve us in any military or de- ready to sting on sight. to secure the future of the "Irish argument. ' sense is not so easy to define, It is known as IONA "Detente is dead. The Soviet should be very hesitant about foundation a year ago the commit- gration of the six counties within fence obligations, nor is it likely Therefore the people must re- Democrat", we still have to keep even for international lawyers, and This is what the newspaper said, Union will have to choose be- taking up the cases of these dissi- tee had recruited nearly two hundred the United Kingdom as a whole, a He concluded: "Let us start with to do so in the foreseeable future. dents, even if some of them are strain them,' and it is good that the organisation running it has assumed many meanings. in an article which rejected a mili- tween peacefully changing its 4 members, and that applications recipe for continuing death and the concent of the Island of Ire- However, it has been recognised by well-meaning. It is in an atmos- the youngsters are flocking info Among the range of meanings it tary solution in the six counties, system In the direction followed It is thanks to the steady un- were coming in at the rate of 30 tragedy in Northern Ireland, a fur- land and work from that rather successive governments that in the phere of detente, when the fear of such organisations as the C.N.D' can have are non-participation in based on reintroducing internment by the west, or going to war." spectacular work of the Connolly a moptb. Their target for the next ther corruption of our civil liber- than looking at the six counties context of political union in Europe, external conflict is reduced, that There are also signs that even' alliances; exclusion of foreign and arresting all known and un- This is a declaration that the Association, particularly that done 1? months should be about a thou- ties, a threat to public security in Ireland, as a member of the Com- Governments are less concerned within the ruling class there are (Continued on Page Five) armed forces from the state s^erri- known "provisionals", and which United States administration is by Noel Gordon and Phillip Rendle sand- At least 20 RlP.s were sym- munity. would be prepared to par- with the possible enemy within. At some sensible enough to see that tory; a policy of even-handroness also rejected the Daily Mirror considering aggressive war. And tbat y»£ have succeeded In ending pathetic to their aims. They now ticipate in arrangements for its what for? To force on the Russians best it is counter-productive and hiding in underground bunkern iu relations with all states; even 1 bi-partisanship on the question of had about fifty branches or groups defence, if called upon to do so * policy of "get out and let them at worst it means helping to coin while all the existing means of pro a lack of discrimination in such Stock Exchanges, Labour Ex- the Prevention of Terrorism Act. operating in London, Glasgow. fight it out"— the slogans the third world war duction are obliterated cannot pos- spheres as foreign trade; or combi- changes, hire purchase, woman pur- Tjfiere wfis not a single member of Edinburgh Birmingham, Manches- will be fought under. For remem- sibly save them. And that is how MICHAEL O'RIORDAN nation of all of these. "Third, the political leaders of chase, credit cards, tickets of leave; APy party but the Tory Party who ter, Croydon, Wembley, Richmond, ber, if war breaks out, the threats I interpret some of the strange Th^gjJisputes and tensions gener- the four parties concerned, Britain, unemployment, pornography and •Voted for Its renewal. With any Kernel Hempstead and the south- of Professor Pines will go into "leaks" we are seeing these days THE TORY PLAN ated by\he East-West conflict after the Irish Republic aad the two for all we know paedophilia? AWk ne*t year well have the front west of England. speaks limbo and be replaced with the Ireland is in this. Until last (Continued from Page Two) the second world war have played communities of the north, can con- Now General Haig tried to back- Jwich officially opposing, so keep most Impeccable war aims, such as December there was reason to think The large number of applications NvU.F.T.O. HALL, a particular role in the manner in template the wreckage of ten years track on the professor's statement. Jt up. Our thanks to:— democracy and the freedom of the Irish neutrality secure. But now for speakers to local Labour and The idea is that by bringing the Which various states to a lesser or and determine that there shall be And it may well be that the real human spirit. It will not be to we are not so certain. The pres- trade union branches indicated bow Jockey Fields, Holborn, W.C.1 Republic nearer to England, NATO greater degree have or have not no more. TheJ can do this by re- object of American aggression is South London social £15, J. Gull- introduce stock-exchailges but to sures being brought on Mr Hauffr widespread was public Interest in or the EEC would get military fa- attempted to affect the outcome of casting the constitutional rela- the oil-rich middle east, and that teyle £C, Central London jumble THURSDAY, APRIL 24th 7 30 pm bring1 back God that the'bombs will hey must be all but insupportable Ireland. The committee had colla- cilities in the twentysix counties. conflicts. Indeed. the"heutrality of tions between the two islands, the thousand million arms plan is sale £80, per C. Sullivan «IMO, J. There might be sufficient conces- drop. It is only necessary to' listen W borated with the ConneUy Associa- certain states can be said to owe bringing England and Ireland closer intended to frighten off Soviet Horan £2.50, J. Kavanagh £&«0, G. sions on the part of the Repuhlic The fact is that it is very diffi- R.T.E. to see that the Irish at home tion, Troops Out Movement, Char- SOCIAL EVENING much to their strategic position or together, putting England and intervention if for example the *Mft M* ft. CoflOfW «l, South to quieten or split the Unionists. cult to do anything about Russian are alive to the danger. ter 80, the Campaign for Democracy I>otential in the East-West balance. Ulster further apart, and allowing U.S.A. threatened to seize Iran. London C-A. £«», Bertha of Tooting THE YORKSHIRE GRAY But these would not be enough to Ulster a return to self-government dissidents without helping Hetig The best contribution the Irish' -in Uteter and other organteatioos "Non-alignment" has emerged as But thats hot what Professor 1 .«> D. M*ll«h ,«!«. frlMMfc. I*. 8outh THEOBALDS ROAD, HOLBORN. WCl outrage popular opinion in the and Thatcher to roast the lot of in Britain can make is to join "With' .on wejh iseueeaatheJfrblacka. &s*t yet another post-war concept whose within a framework embracing all Pipes said. He said the U.S.A. tmem mm, in Central London south. These are the niceties the us alive. You cannot promote the British workers in bringing" autumn a successful meeting ari- content and practical implications parts Of these two islands of the would attack the U.S.Sit., in order in E*t London MP- FRIDAY, APRIL 24th 8 pm civil servants are currently discus- democracy in the east by helping down this government of fanatics, .dressed M Tony Benn, MfcP. and are no less easy to define. While north Atlantic." to restore capitalism. And this is si«g. This is the meaning of "in- tHese people to destroy It in the resuming detente, getting rid W TOTAL: Jock Stallard, J&P. had been held EASTER 1916 COMMEMORATION certain member states of the Non- "Islands of the North Atlantic" — aecompanied with non-stop hymns £21141. stitutional" changes. west. That lesson ought to be re- nuclear arms replacing the arntt aligned Movement, sue;-, as Yugo- IONA. of hate, orchestrated With trumpet, membered from 1914. race by disarmament. slavia, have formulated a specific (Continued on Page Three) fife and drum, -indeed it never THE IRISH DEMOCRAT April 1981 April 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 4 5 THE BORDER How do we stand in relation to OPPOSITION TO RUGBY TOUR THATS THE WAY^THTMONEY CUTS THIS CO UNTIE ' 3H public opinion oeen able to defy the views of an Irish 'I'HE Government could impound HOUSE I N the 1960s events began to stir -*- in Ireland. Civil Rights verwhi'lnnngly behind the Government and are instinctively the passports of the players, COMES POP GOES THE WEASEL IN TWO on the side of people like the but this raises civil liberties issues Movement won massive support for asks Aparth' d Movement 1:1 call- f I ANN A FAIL has recently been collecting money from rich Northern nationalists and Catholics partition ? Afrikaaners. Twice the Foreign and may not be so easy to enforce American businessmen towards its general election fund. It is re- in tin- Iiij.1i Hugby Football among British public opinion. It Merlyn Rees, whose Tory-oriented Minister has spoken to them and in practice. The trade union move- ported that around £300,000 has been collected so far and that divided the Unionists between Anthony a to cull off its planned tour line has traditionally dominated asked them to change their minds, ment will refuse to co-operate with as a result there has been a significant drop in money going to moderates and Paisleyites. It won the British Labour Party. It is • 'I'M Afnm but without success. planes or boats taking the players Noraid, which collects money for prisoners' dependants in the significant democratic reform inside Coughlan men who are left of centre In tha out of Ireland, but if they really North. the Six Counties. It laid the basis Labour Party — the likes of Tony • GoM-tnment. the 'THE president of the South want to go they will be able to get Rich American businessmen who have hitherto supported for a mass popular movement, sup- Benn and Jock Stallard for political parties, the trade African Bishops' Conference. around this by leaving secretly or Noraid are now being appealed to by Fianna Fail, acting through ported by opinion in the Twenty- cessions on the Six Counties, some example — who wish to break with Six Counties and in Britain, which revamped Sunningdale. by Cold Dr Denis Hurley, has said that he individually. one former member of their National Executive who is himself the policies of bipartisanship with and organisation? o: all could have isolated the Paisleyites Warrior Margaret Thatcher. the Tories on the Irish question was appalled that any group of a rich businessman and who controls all details of. the funds, being up and down the country There is still time for the IRFU and pushed forward in favourable There can be no solution to par- just as they do on the EEC, nuclear responsible directly to Mr Haughey. It is to be wondered whether .aged the IRFU t think Irishmen would propose to do what to listen to the voice of conscience conditions over time towards tition acceptable to democratic disarmament, the economy and a the IRFU intended. "Be quite there will be strings attached to money such as this. Of course, British disengagement and the re- whole range of issues. Several leading rugby- and reason. Let us hope that Irish opinion on the basis of the clear about it, Bishop Hurley said, Labour gets money from the German Social Democrats and Fine unification of the country. they will do so and not disgrace Twenty-Six Counties joining a war- Within Ireland the greatest have refused to serve the both the white South Africans and themselves and let down their Gael from the European Christian Democrats — mostly German bloc. In 1914 Carsons unionist What did the 1970s achieve? The weakness is the abysmal attitude of . and ordinary rugby players country by persisting in the shame- too — so that it is not for any of them to throw stones! Ulster Volunteers and Redmond's the oppressed majority of the paramilitaries, Republican and political Labour on the national ud the country are whole- people of South Africa clearly inter- ful course they have decided. National Volunteers were slaught- question. Cruise O'Brienism dom- Loyalist, came to the centre of the ered together for the cause of i dly against the tour. In TCD, pret the tour as an acceptance of stage, where they became en- inates official Labour thinking Britain at the Somme, even although, to give credit where it is instance, the club members the policy of apartheid. tangled with the British Army. though they were politically op- Civil rights were pushed to one due, Labour has lately spoken out two to one against the tour, posed to one another within Ire- with a clear voice in defence of The Irish Anti-Apartheid Move- Government backs authors side in the North and mass politi- land. •/.'.e committee was eight to one ment are urging the Taoiseach, Mr cal activity became impossible. Irish neutrality. The result of Toscairi, to be elected by the Haughey, to call in the IRFU ^ NOVEL scheme for encour- Aosdana, an old Gaelic term Stormont was replaced by direct Does the Provisional IRA, which course is that working class people executive and make a personal ap- aging art and artists has referring to the poets and artists 150 Aosdana, two to be writers, British rule, which looks as stable occasionally kills British soldiers, in the Twenty Six Counties look to Fianna Fail for leadership and they . peal to them not to go on the tour. been announced by the Irish of the tribe and meaning "the two artists, two composers and and immovable as Stormont ever seriously think that that will move get the ambiguities of Messrs • irit.li Rugby Establishment The Government certainly does not Government. Up to 150 Irish gifted ones''. The Arts Council the remaining four in any cate- no better off Mrs Thatcher, when she and her was. Unionism is more and more Lynch, Lenihan and Haughey. >ts mainly of elderly and reac- wish the tour to go ahead. It is artists will henceforth be given will process the initial applica- gory. The first Aosdana mem- A NTI-CATHOLIC discrimination ments, clerk's, deputy clerk's and united behind Paisley, who careers Government are preparing for a •y fuddy-duddies who have aware that throughout Black Africa non-taxable pensions of £4,000 tions for the grants but, once bers will meet in general assem- — Ms still rife in the Six Counties, finance, there are no Catholics. around wearing the mantle of Lord nuclear war in which millions of 1N the coming period in the people would be slaughtered? Isn't in charge of the politics of opinion will not distinguish between by the Government. Half of established, the Aosdana will bly in 1983. In addition^ to the according to information from the Four of them are in the baths Carson. Twenty Six Counties it is nec- Fair Employment Agency recently it about time that they rethought rugby since the days when it a private rugby team from Ireland them will be writers and poets become a self-administering in- main scheme there will 'be an department. essary to develop a broad masa carried in the "Sunday Times." The violence in the North has where they are going and adopted r.i elitist game played by fee- and the official position of the Irish and the other half painters and dependent body, electing its own additional one whereby five in- Things have improved in Belfast alienated much British popular movement which will force the Government. As a member of the Indeed the Agency's activities in a new Departure like the Fenians Irish Government to adopt a forth- u private schoolboys. T/.ese sculptors. There will be built-in dividual artists will be conferred and Derry, where non-Unionist support from the cause of the Security Council, for which Ireland replacements for members when exposing discrimination have so of old? right anti-partition policy that does with special honours by the parties have substantial represen- Northern minority. In the Twenty :..'!uen are still a bastion of con- got Black African support, the Gov- social welfare and pension pro- seats fall vacant. It will also angered 15 Protestant controlled A "SOLUTION" to Partition on not entail abandoning Irish neu- visions. make the 150 artists into a rep- President of Ireland, together tation, but in councils like Armagh Six Counties, especially during the .ism. racism and anti-national ernment will be gravely embar- councils that they have demanded and Cookstown and Craigavon, the basis of an Anglo-Irish war trality, but which is based on look- with a special gold collar. These Coalition period, public opinion be- ides 'I'hey are pleased to be rassed if the tour proceeds. The 150 will be known as the resentative body able to speak that the Agency be disbanded. Here where Unionists have straight pact — miscalled a defence alliance ing lor support among the British came increasingly confused and 1 for their own interests and five will be elected from the are soiik examples of what goes majorities, things don't change — would be an illusion and a most public and international opinion. The oil: indifferent to what was happen- neutrality of the South is one of artistic matters generally. Aosdana. very much. ing there. reactionary development. What is 1) A Catholic applied for the most urgently needed now is a the aspects of the Irish State which Michael Holroyd, the biogra- As a recent survey of Northern The scheme has been adopted job of wages clerk operating a Ireland published by the Cobden rPHE violence, the deaths, the mass movement in defence of Irish must appeal to any thinking North- pher of Lytton Strachey and because of Mr Haughey's own new computer wages system for Trust commented, drawing atten- atrocities, the long prison sen- neutrality. The proper position erner. It must not be bartered How the Tories love the arts! Bernard Shaw, said the scheme personal interest in the arts. He Armagh council. Her qualification tion to the fact that the unemploy- tences, the young lives shattered for the Irish Government on the under the guise of anti-partitionism. included 10 'O'-levels, 2 'A'-levels HILE Ireland's Fianna Fall In public library budgets. The Northumberland 11.8%, Gwynedd would give the British Govern- has been advised on its details ment rate among Catholics was and wasted, made hundreds of Partition issue is that it should As Lord Dunsany said recently in and a degree in statistics and look for support and allies where W' Government Is, despite the effect will be to stop publication 11.7%, Sunderland 11.5%, Birming- ment something to think about by Mr Anthony Cronin, the poet double that among Protestants: thousands wonder what was it all a letter to the "Irish Times", "If business administration. Her "In comparison with Protestants, about. At the end of ten years pro- they are genuinely to be got — we really wish Ulster to join South- s'jnip, launching an Imaginative of many hard back titles — and ham 11.3%, Angus 11.2%, North and learn from. The scheme and writer. As the secretary of main rival, a Protestant, had perhaps force their writers to emi- Tyneside 10.8%, West Glamorgan would release large numbers of working-class Catholics in Northern visional military campaigning among the best elements of the ern Ireland the aegis of the Irish r j expensive scheme to foster and the Arts Council told the "Irish worked as a wages clerk six Ireland are no better off under there is a Government in Dublin ordinary British people, and par- neutral umbrella is the best in- grate to Ireland? 10.8%, Rochdale 10.6%, Croydon Irish artists from the paralysing Times": "It could never have years earlier, had no 'O'-levels P'iJect the arts, here is what Is 10.5%, Merton 10.3% Hertfordshire direct rule from Westminster than which is under heavy pressure to ticularly the British Labour Move- ducement that we have." It is an necessity of not knowing how been achieved without Anthony and was currently working as a they were under the Unionist sell out Irish neutrality and join ment, among those who are fight- angle on the North-South debate t-iapenlng in England. Barking & Dagenham 41.3%, Traf- 10.2%, Staffordshire 9.3%, Newham clerk in a chemist's shop. The ford 32.4%, Edinburgh 31.6%, North- 8.5%, Falkirk 8.5%, Clwyd 8.4%, they will live next week. Cronin; it was a case of the regime. Many are worse off, in both the Anglo-American war bloc, in ing for a break with the policies of about which more should be heard We fear it will not prevent same fHE actual grants will in due right people being in the right Protestant-controlled council gave relative and absolute terms." Wilson, Callaghan. Roy Mason and during the coming period. amptonshire 28.1%, Greenwich Dundee 8.2%, Bury 8.0%, Lanark the Protestant the job. return for some image-making con- a tnem from making Illiterate antl- 25.1%, Durham 23.9%, Doncaster 7.7%, Cleveland 7.2%, Argyll & course be awarded by ten place at the right time." I ih jokes which try to represent (2) The Catholic head of a new 23.4%, Mid Glamorgan 22.2%, Bute 6.9%, Knowsley 6.3%, Enfield town recreation department lost t ) Irish as stupid or Ignorant Cheshire 21.9%, Gloucestershire 6.3%, Solihull 6.1%, Shropshire his job when a Protestant 19.7%, Westminster 19.4%, Somer- 6.0%, Waltham Forest 5.6%. majority took over responsibility Already writers In Ireland have set 19.2%, Clackmannan 16.2%, Cun- Liverpool 5.5%, Sheffield 5.4%, CRUISER WOOS S.F.W.P for his department. He was re- Unity, independence and world peace hiii freed from taxes. ningham 18.1%, Hampshire 17.9%, placed by his deputy—a Pro- Devon 17.2%, Kent 16.7%, Suffolk Hammersmith 5.3%, Surrey 5.2%, R CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN finger, had required quite a change testant. [QIGNS are increasing that the which had been voiced by pro- ministration. the possibility of a reactionary well here Is an account of what 16.5%, Bolton 16.1%, Powys 16.0%, Hereford & Worcester 4.9%, East- D has praised the political stand on their part, he said. He was Eland's Conservatives are doing wood 4.8%, Humberside 4.7%, Cum- 3) A skilled Catholic recreation Irish question is entering a gressive-minded people since deal which would do this, and i Derbyshire 15.8%, Norfolk 15.7%, of Sinn Fein the Workers' Party in proud of the influence he had ill officer with undoubtedly superior But now the time has come fur writers. The percentages given Hillingdon 15.6%, East Sussex bria 4.7%, Oldham 4.5%, Moray an interview given on the eve of their circles and proud that they new phase. 1921. But it set it in somewhat when the British want to change we got much abuse for it. Now 3.9%, North Yorkshire 3.9%, Stock- qualifications failed to win a it has been revealed that Sean b^iow represent the amount of cuts 15.6%, Lancashire 15.4%, Wakefield his return to Ireland after ceasing had changed from the militarism council recreation management The fundamental reason is changed surroundings. the position. The attempt of port 3.7%, Kingston on Thames 15.9%, Hackney 15.1%, Kirkcaldy to be editor of the "Observer". of earlier years. "I debated Repub- post. Craigavon's all-Protestant that as part of the drive to "yyHEN the British closed any essentially conservative MacBride went to America to 15.4%, Shetland 15.4%, Newcastle 3.7%, City of London 3.6%, Cynon licanism with Tomas MacGiolla In appointments panel chose a Pro- down Stormont that government to bring about a offer a separate individual Valley 3.6%, Bromley 3.2%, Leeds His influence was perhaps greater world war three, the British, Upon Tyne 15.4%, Western Isles 1972", said Dr O'Brien, "and I think testant gardener instead. period ended. It was no longer change is always fraught with alliance between Ireland and 2.9%, Nottinghamshire 2.5%, Sef- among supporters of Sinn Fein the I have won the debate." backed or edged on by the EUROPAGNE 15.3%, Cambridgeshire 14.9%, Sal- Workers' Party at the moment, he 4) A Catholic chief recreation Americans, are anxious to revise possible to expect the popula- dangers to itself which may the U.S.A. that would leave Bri- ford 14.5%>, Dumfries 14.4%, East ton 2.5%, Cornwall 2.2%, Southwark tain out because of her refusal j i] AVE you heard the latest said, than in his own Labour officer was passed over for a rec- the settlement they reluctantly tion of the six counties to solve provide opportunities to its op- Lothian 14.3%, Highland 13.8%. 2.0%, Bedfordshire 1«%, Harrow He wondered during the inter- reation Job by Armagh council to return the six counties. So scandal about the so-called 1.5%, Buckinghamshire 1.1%, Cal- Party, because SFWP had moved view whether the tie was wholly came to in 1922, and take back their own problems as they had ponents. As it has been put to the position where they accepted in favour of a Protestant "senior no administration to do it with. elsewhere the inability of a the issue came up during the 5 ropean Parliament"? Wirral 13.6%, Llanelli 13.4%, derdale 1.1%, Monklands 1.1%, West broken between SFWP and the designer". part of the independence they South Glamorgan 13.3%, Glasgow Lothian 1.1%, Walsall 0.9%, Rhond- much of his own analysis of secret armies of the North. "If I were then forced to concede. Hence the test of a radical was ruling class to rule in the old first cold war, as it has come up E" seems that in the cellars of 13.1%, St Helens 12.9%, Havering da 0.8%, Hounslow 0.6%, Camden Northern Ireland. could be convinced it was broken, I N Armagh, for instance, only 7 whether he would support what way only requires to be met by again in the second cold war. I of, the Council's 33 salaried staff They have held six counties p]VERY June the Connolly tuo "European Parliament" in 12,8%, Sandwell 12.6%, Richmond 0.5%, Cumnock & Doon 0.4%, Mid- Their present Northern policy, would be drawn towards them," he all these years fundamentally is perhaps a trifle crudely called a demand of the ruled to be 12.4%, Upper Norwood 12.2%, Kyle lothian 0.4%, East Stirling 0.4%, accepting majority rule and putting said. He did not want to leave the are Catholics and at least 4 of these "a declaration of intent to with- ruled in the way that suits Association holds a confer- Luxemburg there are at least 35,000 are on the lowest rung of the for their strategic value in re- and Marrick 12.2%, Dyfed 12.0%, Aberdeen 0.2%. a united Ireland on the very long Labour Party, but if he could be draw from Ireland." It would them, for the way to be opened ence, and on June 7th two gene- bottles of champagne — enough for ladder. In the three key depart- lation to the northwest ap- sure that SFWP had broken any not work as simply as that, but to substantial progress. ral secretaries of Irish Trade U bottles per member and this is paramilitary ties, he would favour proaches. the essence of the demand was Unions are coming to Britain to ouiy the tip of the ice-bucket, for an alliance between them and the Now they are anxious to ex- Could such a situation develop sound. place before such a conference no figures will be released in either BISHOP CASEY ATTACKS REAGAN Labour Party. tend their military operations in Ireland? the views of those who stand Brussels or Strasbourg. WHY NOT HEED into the Republic. The result is Now both these demands as- (JERTAINLY there is a new for a united Ireland and a "JF President Reagan's envoys the adding of a new dimension. sumed that British policy was it is not just an investment. At test to which anybody pro- united working class, on current get a cold welcome as they THE PEOPLE In the Sixties the test of a. to keep things as they were, to fessing to be- a radical must sub- problems of Irish unity, indepen- 0 parliamentary reception the other OVER EL SALVADOR P.L.O. FOR urge the EEC to back the US "THE majority of British radical politician was his belief accept the independence of the scribe. He must stand for Irish dence and world peace. They are ror for the continuation of its Bishop Casey said that accor- 1 month to welcome poor Greece into voters are In favour of a that the British Government Republic (while limiting it as neutrality. And since the pur- Mr Daltun O Ceallaigh who line on El Salvador, I hope that ding to the Human Rights Office DUBLIN t a? EEC, one waiter boasted he mandate. united Ireland, according to should compel its puppet gov- much as was possible by econo- pose of neutrality is to keep out made such an impression at they freeze in it," said Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salva- mHE Palestine Liberation Orgaa- boa emptied 60 bottles in an hour- "Ireland's name is mud in the a recent opinion poll organ- ernment at Stormont to offer to mic and other means) and on of war, and the greatest danger last year's Labour Party Con- dor, 80 per cent of the 13,000 ' isation is opening an office ia 3 ad-a-half, as the Eurocrats got Eamon Casey of Galway at the Third World as a result, as many ised by the British paper, all citizens civil rights and liber- the other hand to retreat not to neutrality would be the ac- ference (University Teachers) murders in El Salvador in the Dublin shortly, with the approval soiiled on champagne. launching of the Trocaire Lenten people in the poor countries had of the Irish Government. •The Sun". ties equal to those enjoyed in an inch on the north. The de- tions of belligerents, then he and Mr Sean Redmond (well past 15 months were carried out Britain. campaign to raise money for the been counting on Ireland and Asked whether the British mand for civil rights still stood, must stand for peace. known in London) of the Irish The scandal has been exposed by by the security forces there. The A spokesman for the PLO, Mr other better-off countries to in- This in no way superseded but it was set in the surround- This new test in no way in- Municipal Workers. Invitations "iisgow Labourite Mrs Janey Third World. country was ruled by an appal- Ramlawl, said that the Irish GOT- Army should pull out of the crease official aid." the demand for ending partition ings of straight colonial ad- validates the old. Radical policy are being sent out. Book the 3 .chan, who is herself an anti- ling tyranny, which had no re- ernment's "positive" attitude on the North, 57 per cent answered E3C member of the Assembly. She "Yes" and 40 per oent said has always been for "a united, date. "President Reagan has done a [jAST year Trocaire, the Irish spect for human life. Palestinian question and the right* h;v3 also disclosed that Euro-MPs of his people was more advanced "No". A majority of 61 per independent Irish Republic." most unprincipled thing," he charitable body supported cm purchase EEC champagne at than that of any other EEXJ cent were In favour of the Neutrality is an aspect of inde- r by the Catholic Church sent The Irish Government should : >% below the official price and said. "He had the audacity to t country. He was grateful for the province leaving the United pendence. We are still for civil £59,000 to El Salvador, most of break off diplomatic relations LABOUR and that when they recently moved send an envoy to the capitals support and solidarity shown to the Kingdom and being united rights. We are still for a de- (ContlniMd from Pag* Three) it emergency relief for refugees. with the USA if President Rea- 1 nto a new office block in Brussels, of the EEC seeking the cutting- cause of the displaced Arabs la with the Republic, with 32 EASTER 1916-81 claration of intent to restore to as soma sort of Imperial relic whose There are eight Irish mission- gan continues to bolster up this the champagne preceded most of Palestine by the Irish people. He per cent opposed. The re- the Irish people as a whole the economy Is tenuously connected off of humanitarian aid, includ- aries there—four nuns and four undemocratic government in the was speaking at a meeting setting the furniture! maining 7 per oent did not government of the whole of with that of the United Kingdom, ing that channelled through way it had now embarked upon, up a new organisation, the Irish MICHAEL O'RIORDAN and now as we have pneumonia priests. know what they thought. their national territory. But Mrs Buchan's attack on the voluntary agencies. the Bishop said. Friends of Palestine. their economlo Illness Is terminal, cUampagne scandal has reminded More Labour than Censerva- now we must take care that In its Lenten campaign Tro- (Dublin) In complete dl- -iray, crashing be- Israel does not have an embassy tivo voters wanted British troops people of a remark of former EEC caire expects to raise £2 million The Irish Missionary Union the unity of the country is not fore our eyee." "The United States has re- in Dublin, although it would like withdrawn—84 m oent of Lab* President Roy Jenkins—now leader for relief and development pro- also called on the Irish Govern- bartered against its independ- This speech which we have re- very much to open one. The Irish our voters sir sorted withdrawal A.U.E.W. ROOMS, MOUNT PLEASANT, LIVERPOOL of the Gang of Pour—who when commenced arms shipments to ment to protest to the United ence. ceived in duplicated form le one jects in developing countries. Government has cited security while 82 per oent of Conservative asked what he would like to drink a government which represents In the period of the first coali- of the best reasoned presentation* Last year Trocaire received States about its action in El problems, cost and lack of trade as voters wanted the British Army WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22nd aifcer a Labour Party meeting, re- tion, 1948-51, the Irish Democrat of the Irish oase to have keen pro- no-one, has the loyalty of very £250,000 for Kampuchean refu- Salvador, as did the Irish branch the reasons for not having full to remain In the six oountlee. plied: "Do you have a half-decent at 7.30 pm duced In the recent period. bottle of Chablis?" few and depends on naked ter- gees. of Amnesty International. diplomatic relations with Israel. was constantly warning against April 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT ® BRIAN BOY MARY FROM DUNGLO MY ONLY SON WAS SHOT April 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT MAGEE r\ THEN tare thee well sweet Donegal, the Rosses and Gweedore, IN DUBLIN ^ I'm crossing the main ocean where the foaming billows roar. 11 AM Brian Buy .\lagee— It breaks my heart from you to part, where I spent many happy THE night was dark and the fight was endtd 1 A book of revolutionaries My lather was Eoghan Ban days- I stood alone where brave men fell, "Survivors", by Uinseann MacEoin. portaits by Colman Doyle (A rgenta Publications, 20 Marlborough Road, Dublin. 4. 466pp. £10) ] -a as w akened from happy Farewell to kind relations, for I'm bound for Americay. I stood alone where brave men perished dreams For now they sit on God's right hand. REMEMBEft«> about fifteen have been written, Mr Uin- from Sean O'Faolain in the pre- pervades republican thinking a £> the shouts o! my startled years ago visiting Mrs seann MacEoin has therefore face : Oh, my Love is tall and handsome and her age is scarce eighteen. sense of the importance of the dan ; Frank Fahy to get her recollec- made an important contribution She far excels all other fair maids when she trips o'er the green; small man. The revolution of .And I saw through the leaping CHORUS: tions of Liam Mellows. One of in this book, for he has gone "We Republicans are not Her lovely neck and shoulders are fairer than the snow- 1912-23 was a fight for national glare My only son was shot in Dublin her remarks stuck in my mind. round the survivors with note- interested primarily in the Till the day I die I'll ne'er deny my Mary from Dungloe. independence, but within it was That marked where our Fighting for his country bold; "They 'were great people in book and tape-recorder and has modes and forms of Govern- the determination to drive out homestead stood, He fought for Ireland and Ireland only those days. You don't meet produced a lively living record. ment. We are interested, not only institutions but the M\ mother swing by her hair. If I was at home in sweet Dungloe a letter I would write, The harp and shamrock, green, white and gold. them now." He gives their recollections and sensible, in the form of life, plutocracy they were there to And my brothers lie in their Kind thoughts would fill my bosom for Mary me delight; impressions and reveals their the kind of society that we protect. blood. Tis in her father's garden the fairest violets grow, Now why was this? A revo- characters. have always, without ever The first I met was a grey-haired Fenian lution stamps itself on the minds closely defining it, associated And 'twas there I came to court the maid, my Mary from Dungloe. One would hope that this emergence into Irish politics «f Looking for his only son, and characters of those who THEY are all but one republi- with the ideas of Tone, Lalor, Jjri the creeping cold of the night book would get into the hands the mysterious Charters and I said, "Old man, there's no us-j searching take part in it. The qualities it cans. Most of them de- Mitchel, Davis, Connolly and The pitiless wolves came of young people, the generation Mrs Llewelyn Davies. Why did Ah then, Mary, you're my heart's delight, my pride and only care, For straight to heaven your son has gone." sails forth of courage, loyalty serve a biography to them- Pearse, centred about such of modern plutocrats are so Arthur Griffith lean on Charters down— It was your cruel father would not let me stray there, and determination linked to a selves. One need only mention fairly clear principles as the busily trying to corrupt. It is and spurn Erskine Childers? Scotch troops from that Castle But absence makes the heart grow fond and when I'm o'er the main CHORUS: realistic assessment of oppor- John Swift, Nora Connolly- rights of man, personal free- possible that some of them Was it Mrs Llewelyn Davies'i grim May the Lord protect my darling girl till I return again. tunity, and the capacity for O'Brien, Maire Comerford or dom, equal rights and equal Guarding Knockfergus Town ; sustained work, were acquired Sighle Humphries, and the opportunities for all citizens, would not think these old job to soften up Collins ready "Oh God," he cried, "I'm brokenhearted. And they hacked and lashed during the course of the struggle towering intellectual giant Pea- and a government representa- people interesting until they for the kill. The "dirty trick* and hewed And I wish I was in sweet Dungloe and seated on the grass, Oh God," he cried, going to his knees, and so these people were made dar O'Donnell. Their names are tive of every section of the started reading the book. department" has been operative With musket and rope and And by my side a bottle of wine and on my knee a lass. "I knew my son was too kind-hearted at Westminster for a very kms different. for the most part synonymous community, including espe- A pleasant feature is the in- sword. I'd call for liquor of the best and I'd pay before I'd go, I knew my son would never yield." with the radical tradition of cially Tone's best friends time. And I'd roll my Mary in my arms in the town of sweet Dungloe. clusion of people of whom I do Till my murdered kin lay thick Now most of the revolution- Irish politics which comes to 'that numerous and respect- CHORUS: not think reminiscences have This is a book that should lbs ]n pools by the Slaughter ary generation have passed the fore whenever there is a able class, the men of no been published anywhere else, on every Irish Republican's Ford. away, and too few biographies crisis. And even in those who property'." The next I met was a fair young maiden for example Frank Edwards, bookshelf, and would also re* are not overtly radical there is Pax Whelan and Tony Woods. AN CLAR BOG DEIL Kneeling low by her lover's side, something radical about them. pay study by social theorists j fought by my lather's side. Praying to God, her heavenly Father, THIS means democracy. But anxious to put human flesh om And when we were fighting D ghlaciainn tu gan ba, gan point, gan alreamh spre, Praying to God his soul to guide. to have democracy it is THERE are useful appendices, the bones of economic and poli- Perhaps this quality is best sore D A chuld 'en tsaol, le toll do mhuinntre, da mb'all I eat me. necessary to tame the blatant the most interesting of tical theory. Se mo ghalar duch gan me gus tu a dhlan-ghra mo ohlelbh, CHORUS: Old illustrated by the quotation We saw a line of their steel beast, big business. Thus there which relate to the sudden COG. With our shrieking women I gCalseal Mumhan s gan do leabaidh fulnn aoh an clar dog dell! before. The last I met was a dying rebel. Ireland Stuil, a chogair, is tar a chodla Horn fain don ghleann, Kneeling down I heard him cry: Gheo tu tosca, leabaidh fhlooais Is aer coi? abhann; The redcoats drove them on "God bless my home in Tipperary, "Early Ireland: A Field Guide", Beldh na srotha a gabhall thoralnn faol gheagaibh crann, To the verge of the Gobbins God bless the cause for which I die." by Anthonv Weir (Black- A FAECAL SOCIETY grey. B«l0. tall were the Gobbins cliffs Neolithic to the Romanesque, from rest and disturbance, often Ireland might be remedied. that interrogation practices be BELIEVE ME, IF ALL .. it must be fust, and based on And sharp were the rocks, my the tumuli at the Bend of the breaking out into open violence. changed, and prisons be made oia Domhnalgh nualr a chinn ag an dtaampoll I Boyne to Gormac's chapel at sound morality; it must be woe ! BELIEVE me, if all those endearing young oliarms Two thousand people have been This last, and mainly political, more humane. They are politi- Fallalng rlabhach Is rlbln ualthne ulrthl anun mar ghnaoi, Cashel. To have described and ° Which I gaze on so fondly today, fairly administered; and it must killed, and 20,000 injured. In a section is the weakest part of cally naive, however, if they be- And tender the limbs that met fcgus guna do sguabfadh sgubfadh no gieannta fraoich, even roughly enumerated In 80-odd Such terrible death below. Were to change by tomorrow, and fleet in my arms, be acceptable to the great majo- total population of about one the book because it does not lieve that these desirable aims Gch se mo bhualre mar do luadh liom 'n-a malghdln I! pages, including 75 diagrams and rity of citizetts. None of these and a half million there are no face up to the reality that the Mother and babe and maid, Like fairy gifts fading away. photographs, the extant masonry jf can be achieved under present criteria have been applied to less than 12,000 troops and law has failed in N.l. because They clutched at the empty Ta ur-phiob ab mo mhulrnln, Is a braid mar aol, Thou would'st still be adored, as this moment thou art, nearly four thousand years — mega- constitutional structures, or that Northern Ireland. Since the 19,000 heavily-armed police in air A cullin casta buclaidheach a' fas go fear; Let thy loveliness fade as it will, tithic tombs, standing stones, circles, the state has failed, and this there can be any long-term solu- state was founded the main ob- 'With eyeballs widened in fright S® mo chumha nlmhe nach san ulr slos do fagadh me And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart cashels, forts, corbelled clochans, operation. Local government failure is the root cause of tion to Northern Ireland's prob<- jective of the Unionist govern- That hour of despair. Sara stiulriodh me I geulglbh is mo ghra thar m'els! Would entwine itself verdantly still. crosses, round towers, sweathouses has been suspended, and Stor- violence, injustice and repres- lems, legal or otherwise, so long and churches—is an achievement in ment was to maintain at all mont is an empty shell. The sion. The authors are right to as the country is partitioned. itself. Mr Weir has further es- costs the old Protestant Ascend- most flourishing industry in the (Sleep soft in your heaving bed, press (in the short term) for FLANN CAMPBELL It is not while beauty and youth are thine own, sayed an interpretation of this mat- ancy, and to achieve this end a state is the building of prisons. 0 little fair love of my heart! And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear, erial as a record of the societies it series of Special Powers and The Secretary of State, army The bitter oath I have sworn MY LITTLE SON That the fervour and faith of a soul can fee known, represents. Emergency Powers Acts have generals and police chiefs have Shall be of my life a part; To which time will but make thee move dear ! been passed. These took away dictatorial powers. Powerful And for every piteous prayer OME, my little son, and I will tell you what we'll do, The second and much longer part No; the heart that has truly loved never forgets, the normal freedoms which a para-military armies multiply You praved on vour wav to C Undress yourself and get Into bed and a tale I'll tell to you. lists, with illustrations, the best- women well But as truly loves on to the close; known or most spectacular artefacts democracy should possess. and gain strength. The voices die. ' tit's all about your Daddy, he's a man you'll seldom see, For he's had to roam far away from home, away from you and me. As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets, in stone—earthwork such as sou- of reason are drowned by bigots "We Always Treat Women Too the "rebels", and ends with hep (Vlay 1 hear an enemy plead Remember laddie, he's still your Dad, though he's working far away The same look which she turned when he rose! terrains and raths are omitted—by Secondly, from the beginning and sectarians. And all the time Well", by Raymond Queneau outwitting them all, leaving them While I laugh and deny). very beastly dead. tn the cold and heat, all hours of the week on England's motorway. counties alphabetically from Antrim the police were organised on sec- the economy decays, and unem- (John Calder, £8.95) to Wicklow. Following the direc- tarian, semi-militarist lines ('B' ployment grows. No wonder The brutality is presented with tions and using the O.S. map (new "A Living Dog", by Peter Som- ,ln the dawn that was gold and Now when you fall and hurt yourself and get a feeling bad, Specials, U.D.R., etc.), and in that a recent commentator de- such flippancy as to be almost red. series, scale 1:50,000) I had no diffi- erville Large (Gollancz De- meaningless. Heads are blown otf It isn't any good to go running for your Dad. scribed Northern Ireland as "a 1 NANCY HOGAN S GOOSE culty, apart from leg-strain, in spite of certain reforms have tection, £5.95). and entrails spilled out as though Aye. red as the blood-choked For the only time since you were born he's had to spend with you, finding Altagore cashel, Bonamargy never really lost these charac- faecal society". ir it were a Punch and Judy show. stream, He was out of a |ob, and he hadn't a bob—he was signing on. the 'broo.' pHE most Interesting and curi- (Air: Portlairge) friary, Carnanmore passage - tomb teristics. In a political crisis 1 Anyone familiar with Dublin wUi J crept to the perilous brink— Remember laddie, he's still your Dad, though he's working far away - - ous thing about this book Is and the Ballyvennaght portal-tombs, the Catholic minority could not This breakdown in normal find that the pastiche does not stop Great Christ! was the night a in the oold and heat, all hours of the week, on England's motorway. AH, I was doing no0 XDomiine'* intend moftt regime, and' some were which the amy and police are their main occupation, and mur- crave There are reports that an all- other palp novel exetctSes in sadtt- their blood Stay away from Nancy HogaaVgaosst" MM*'thr mrnMM, which is in- prepared to efvenfirow it fry organised. der Is MgHtly undertaken in the' A blue-bright blade of Spain, And my mother swung by her party Irish delegation is going to foree if necessary. Yhe conse- erflticism. course of earning a fast buck. the U S.A. It is to tx hoped they cluded in Mr Weir's select biblio- In the ranks of his soldiers hair. The scene is a Post Office some- All the characters are seedy MMf are not going to offer Irish bases. graphy. quent violence anefxdose There are a/so chapters which brave. But when I get b»ok to Grpgan's store to'tHe government to reinforce wi\l be invaluable for reference where in the certtVe of Dublin unimportant, and there is no one where a' beautiful young woman And God gr^nt me the strength For the story behind this ballad Among the speakers were Bruce I'll fill myself with and ««a«s •the part, however, eclipses the to Identify or sympathise with, but their uttfremodmic legislation. purposes, on the courts, prisons clerk happened to bfe in "the to wield see. the .article on the islsmd- Kent and Colin Barnett of the And I'll flog Nancy HqfNHri* IMS* whole. As a fleW^guide the book is they at least move about a rear an efficient {Ml,, a Key to much and Methods of crimirmb imr- ladies" When the IJTA. defcupWd city, and there Is Dublin Bay, «wt That shifting avenger well Magee Massacre. See Page Eight Northwest T.U.C. And Nancy Hogan can kUemy am. ; pleasure and wonder. Since the Civil Rights struggle rogation. The book conclutfes the bonding: The whole of the Kllliny Hill, and it is all rattoe began in the mid-1960s the legal wttfi a series iff possible alterna- novel is taken up with the ex- invigorating. SEAM US TREACY situation has, in some respects, tives (or "models", in fashion- ploits of Miss Gertie Girdle against MARY CAMPBELL

A.- April 1981 8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT MONTH BY MONTH THE PERMANENT EXILES BY • |'Hit .'". iv.r. I celebrate (.if that I T sometimes appears to me that (or anywhere else, like as not, for ; :.t appropriate word) English folk might reasonably that matter) Ireland would always DONALL feel a mite annoyed at Irish friends be home. This would not blind thirty >ei..-i Hung m England, that me for a moment to the many good ji\ jttii more than I have lived or acquaintances who are always MacAMHLAIGH going on about "home" for surely points of life here in Britain nor m my en country. In a sense it this implies a certain measure of to many advantages that accrued must to...'.: icr more because up to discontent or disenchantment with from being here at a time when a , e:*.a:r. apt — tne theological use the country to which they have you could have a new job every • •I rtato:: ,\.Ueh used to be fixed at come in search of a living and week if you felt so inclined, but t ND the host comvnunity, ^o use seven if 1 .tmember my Catechism where, like as not, they have as it says in the old song "The ^ a perhaps slightly tongue-ta- correctly— • i u are not really aware prospered well enough without Emigrant's Lament" the native eheek phrase, would be well en- of having c ountry at all. Your sense hindrance. "Home?" An English- land has the strongest pull on titled to ask such as me, "Well if of belong.j.g doesn't extend very far man might be pardoned for asking one's affections, no matter where you're all that keen on the old sod, [jevor.d y.u own immediate en- you may live and "be it fifty times "But is this not home?" why don t you go back there 1 J)etcr TUulligan's \ irons a had been taken to live as fair." There's no barbed wire round Holy- in England <".t such an early age I The question was asked of Sean head." pccpshow doubt very much if I would now be O Faolain many years ago, on rpHE word "trauma" is often Agreed there's not, but anymore afflicted ty that recurring longing the boat coming across from France used nowadays — excessively, I than most of us came willingly to for home wh.ch is the common ex- to England; as the White Cliffs of think —when describing the experi- rNOl-E QUEUE GROWS — 400 at Britain rt Brass, Lisburn. Following a yean- n. v inch you become that him. "Well", the Englishman re- and it seepis to me that perhaps the securing of accommodation — minded him with — and perhaps that latter one does fill the bill rationalisation study" 2,000 civil winch ;. itr.iain, by and large, for a great number of domestic or : \ .r life. I have known justifiable huffiness —lots of your pretty well. What I am trying servants are to join the queue In 'he rest marital ties, or circumstances old nit:: ••.'. 'tocam e over here to countrymen are glad to call it to say is this: one's whole persona- which require us to soldier on (not !he next three years. work vt ry tender age — one home!" lity to an extent has been changed unthankfully, I hope) and to accept and shaped by the experience of was a> <.-ung as fourteen when And not so long ago I was in a the fact that we're in permanent As fai? as 1 can make out the emigration. If I — and my equals he lei: 3 .nr.a jn the Lily, a tramp rather similar position myself exile now. -oyernment just doesn't care any as the Kerryman says —had never .strains i -.vfcich took two days, when I was chatting with an Eng- The very proximity of Britain to .ore. It's all right for Mrs malnng ...hi at various ports, to emigrated we would be substan- lish workmate of many years stand- tially different people. Ireland and the ease with which Thatcher to have her grand reach :ne Broomielaw in Scotland. ing; telling him about my feelings we could make a visit home when on leaving home that dreary March economic plans. She doesn't have He dies ;.n old man and he had For there is no doubt at all that the longing became too strong has day in 1951, the journey across affd to worry about where the next bag never uen back to Mary Horan's the experience of leaving and con- meant that we often as not failed my misgivings as the train drew < I coal is coming from. Now I see Land he called Ireland but tinually missing the homeplace to work up the purpose and deter- near the end of my journey; he though ':.< had worked all over affects one's whole life and out- mination that would enable us to fhe's hired some man at £1,000 a listened sympathetically, nodded, Britain ana spent twenty-one years look; you become obsessed, to a make a clean and final break with neek to advise her on new ways and then he said: "And if you had in the Bntish Army (nine of them degree with home, with your native our adopted country. of crucifying the people." Sandy only known it you were coming in India he never regarded him- country, its history and its institu- Thirty years ago I left a home." Corrigan aged 40 who used to work self as anything but Irish. I have tions. It becomes, more than any- depressed and demoralised Ireland lor Courtaulds in Carrigfergus. known youngsters on the other It appeared quite reasonable to thing else, perhaps, the theme of with a cheap suitcase and a weekly- hand who came here at school age him, no doubt; my home was here conversation and the subject of payments topcoat (a half crown a There are 83.549 fire arms certi- and within a very few years had now, bought and paid for and I thought; and very often it results week to be precise !) ; I did not ficates held by civilians in N. Ire- ceased to think of themselves as had been out of Ireland much in narrowed, rather than widened want to go and I did not intend to land—this excludes all members of Irish at all. One such made me longer than I'd been in it; on my horizons. The man or woman who stay gone, and I was not conscious the security forces who are allowed look up in astonishment some years own admission I knew more people must spend every annual holiday of doing anything exciting or ad- to keep a gun for personal protec- back when he expressed sympathy here than I did at home; I had at home in Ireland (because not to venturous. And almost from ' the tion. There is one legally held gun for "our lads" because of the ham- voted in several general elections do so would be unthinkable) is moment I got off the boat in Holy- for every 14 people in the area. mering they %vere taking in Nor- here and never at home in Ireland, disadvantaged by comparison with head I became a different kinii ol Bernadette McAliskey, who was re- thern Ireland — by "our lads" he and my children had been bom and the person at home in Ireland who person to what I had been up to cently shot 14 times while the army meant not Irishmen of any shade reared here — even if one of them can go as far as his money will then, I began to share that obses- waited outside her house to eStoh or persuasion ranging from IRA elected to." to live in Ireland on take huu when *U«a "*IC*lrolidays sion with Ireland which is the hall- the assassin, has announced she to UDA. but, believe it or not, the reaching the age when such deci- come round. I know many men mark of so many Irish who have will again apply for a gun licence. British Army ! This kind of turn- sions may be made and acted upon. like myself who would love to visit spent their lives outside it. The N. Ireland police have refused about would be unthinkable, I be- But it was from not wishing to a European country, or the States, Speculation on what life would her three previous applications. lieve, in cue who had stayed in hurt his feelings that I refrained but who, monetary considerations have been like for me if I had Ireland until the age of sixteen, from saying to my friend what was apart, find that the year would never left has all the fascination Five hundred men of the 5th even if he had no scrap of sym- in my mind all the while—that if not be tolerable if they did not take for me now that I imagine the Royal Inniskillin Dragoon Guards pathy at all with any faction. I'd been here for a hundred years the annual run home. cards or tea leaves or the crystal are to be transferred to N. Ireland. ball have for some women, and I It is the first "Irish" regiment to be find myself more and more going fient to the colony. The Irish back over the final year I spent at Guards, Royal Irish Rangers and home and wondering if it could ••the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars THE MASSACRE THAT WASNT-ANO have ever been otherwise, if there -are now to take their turn in quell- is any real choice at all or if we ing Irish dissidents. The 6th Field ATCHERS of Mr Robert Kee's are as helpless as a ball ox\ the Force, also known as the UK Mobile w roulette table ... Force, will now be made available vision History" will have been left THAT WAS to NATO command. with the impression that there was I a mass slaughter of Protestants at from Dublin n on Cromwell wanted to inflame the Tony Marlow, Conservative M.P. the beginning of the Rising of 1641. October 25th, Isovcu-ijei Nov- public and his soldiers against the PAISLEY IS. for Northampton North, asks us to Reproductions of old prints show- ember 27th and December 23rd of "papists", for whom no abuse and iuppose that Britain had been ing their torture and dismember- that year, and in NONE of them merciless treatment were strong DISAPPOINTED is there any mention of such a enough. It was Milton, a fine poet colonised by the Chinese or French. ment, drowning of women, etc were r shown and left an effect of horror massacre, though there were plenty but a hack propagandist of Crom- < pHE facts about Ian Parley's "While I don't advocate terrorism," on the viewers. Mr Kee referred of reports of "turbulence", seizure well, who stated that 600,000 protes- Stormont flop were published on he states, "what do you think we particularly to the incident in of arms and other rebellious acts. tants had been slaughtered — this March 30th. * would have done. Sat on our his interview with a Belfast Catho- Lord Chichester, writing from when there were only 220,000 in the The pro-Unionist press stated behlnds ? — I rather hope not." lic family in the final episode of Ulster to King Charles, reported whole of Ireland. And now for the that he had 31,000 people assembled No comment. the series. that on the night of the Rising real massacre. outside Stormont, when he- made the absurd statement that- the and during the six days that fol- Three thousand Irish men, British Government intended- to The big banks have announced But Mr Kee has been misled, like lowed, although the Irish had cap- women and children, seeking safety, shoot him. their annual profits — Barclays thousands of others, by a piece of tured "four considerable towns", as they thought, from the various £523.3 million. National Westmin- black propaganda that Dr Goeb- only one man was killed. The armies, fled to Islandmagee, the The facts are, however, that he ster £410 million. Lloyds £289.1 bels would have envied. THE English historians Warner and Le- long peninsular that projects at had only 10,000 'people, and Irish million. These figures exclude some MASSACRE NEVER TOOK PI ACE. land confirmed that it was the the south-east corner of Antrim. republicans should take no notice £400 million held back for antici- policy of the insurgents to shed as But a Scottish garrison from Car- of attempts to make Paisley the big pated bad debts. TT was supposed to have done so little blood as possible. rickfergus Castle, under the orders bogeyman to scare them off their legitimate demands. on the night of October 23rd, The atrocity stories did not ap- of Charles 1st, cut them off there Following the defeat of Donal 1641. Official despatches were sent pear until eight years later, when and drove them at the point of Stewart's Gaelic Bill in the House sword and pike over the grim Gob- of Commons, the Tory Government bins cliffs to drown or be dashed IRISH TRADE have turned on the small Gaelic to pieces by the waves below. "This communities in the Highlands and WELCOME. EAST END NEWS was the first massacre committed Islands of Scotland. Comhairle Na in Ireland on either side! wrote UNIONISTS . Eilean have been forced to with- AST month saw the welcome Interview on "Nationwide" Mike Leland, the English historian. A (Continued from Page One) draw their £16,650 grant to Fir birth of a new weekly paper was seen discussing photographs pity Mr Kee and his team of re- Chlis the Gaelic repertory com- L wider Labour movement to seek to In East London^ where a number of with photographer Nick Mann, search assistants did not dig a bit pany. Likewise the grant aid for have it abandoned, as a signifies whose Connolly badge was a cheer- deeper I They might have brought the excellent Cinima Sgire will monopoly-owned papers had re- and neoeesary step in encou out the facts instead of reproducing cease and Radio na Eilean which cently closed down. The EAST END ing sight to tee on TV. a more positive climate in NEWS Is owned and run by a co- Orange mythology. Irish relations. , served the gaelic-speaking com- The East End Newt completely operative and promises to fee both -Mr Brian Antre^jg^isto^^cr,. munities will only get £7,000 this sold out Ita Drat Issue, and we We publish on page-si* the fine lively In style and progressive In tary, AUEW (TAflsFlKr Seafl Red- year instead of the usual £14,200. hope the Irish community In Eaat poem "Brian Boy Magae*' content — a hard combination to mond, General Secretary, Irish An Comunn Gaidhealach has pro- London wlH help to aae It growe by Ethna Carbery aohleve! Municipal Employees Trade Union; tested to the central Government. and flourlahes. islandmagee maasacre. . £ There is not even an Editor — Mr Matt Merrigan, Republic of National Census — There I* an Connolly Association member Mike --Mr Ireland Organiser, Transport and Jempsen, an experienced Journalist, Mr Phillip damn* was refuted 1 1 additional question for resident* of • •' • "•.'. • General Workers' Union; Is the Editorial Co-ordlnator. K» admission ta the Strangers' Gallery Nolan, Secretary, Dublin Council fli N. Ireland on religion. Obviously Printed by Ripley promises a fair crack of the whip at the Heuaa of Commons until ha Nottingham Road, Trade Unions; Mr Daltun o Ow the British Government consider It for the Irish point of view. had taken dawn hit Jamae Connolly laigh, General Secretary, IrUi very relevant. In a pre-publication publicity badge. Road. London WCl. Federation of University Teachers.*