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AS we went to press the Drumcree standoff was climbdown by the British in its fifth day and the Orange Order and loyalists government. were steadily increasing their campaign of The co-ordinated and intimidation and pressure against the nationalist synchronised attack on ten Catholic churches on the night residents in Portadown and throughout the Six of July 1-2 shows that there is Counties. a guiding hand behind the For the fourth year the brought to a standstill in four loyalist protests. Mo Mowlam British government looks set to days and the Major government is fooling nobody when she acts back down in the face of Orange caved in. the innocent and seeks threats as the Tories did in 1995, The ease with which "evidence" of any loyalist death 1996 and Tony Blair and Mo Orangemen are allowed travel squad involvement. Mowlam did (even quicker) in into Drurncree from all over the Six Counties shows the The role of the 1997. constitutional nationalist complicity of the British army Once again the parties sitting in Stormont is consequences of British and RUC in the standoff. worth examining. The SDLP capitulation to Orange thuggery Similarly the Orangemen sought to convince the will have to be paid by the can man roadblocks, intimidate Garvaghy residents to allow a nationalist communities. They motorists and prevent 'token' march through their will be beaten up by British nationalists going to work or to area. This was the 1995 Crown Forces outside their the shops without interference "compromise" which resulted own homes if they protest from British policemen for in Ian Paisley and David against the forcing of Orange several hours. The Orangemen Trimble hand-in-hand dancing parades through their areas. are eventually "pushed back". triumphantly in the streets of They will be imprisoned within However, in the event of Portadown. Trimble won the their homes for lengthy periods nationalist protests at yet UUP leadership contest as a to show them who is in charge. another British capitulation to result of these antics. Seamus Mallon, the 'Deputy Minister' The issues of the Garvaghy the Orange card the kid gloves at Stormont was jostled and • Loyalist riots in Belfast's Sandy Row on July 6 — the Stormont Agreement cannot Road and all the other come off. Nationalists are baton-charged, plastic bullets jeered by Garvaghy residents bring a permanent peace. nationalist areas where Orange after trying to sell them another stay off the streets as "the are put into place - be it will draw the obvious parades are not welcome is one are aimed to kill them and armoured vehicles are driven at such "compromise" on July 7. British army and RUC can deal Sunningdale 1973 or the conclusion that all they have to of power and control. The The Provisionals proved with it". Stormont Agreement 1998 - it do is keep the squeeze on the Orange Order seeks to remind speed at crowds of people on the streets. themselves a throwback to their The nationalists are paying is still not going to bring a nationalists and they will win residents that their power permanent peace.It is still a more concessions. Also similar to the 1996 predecessors in the Officials the price of the sectarian state extends into the Garvaghy once again and all Tony Blair's sectarian statelet built on a standoff is the arrival of 1,800 who insisted in April 1969 that Road. they would "put it up to" the talk of equality will be exposed sectarian headcount and the This is the very rotten The same build-up of extra British troops (to a total if and when he backs down. Orangemen know that the foundation on which the of 18,000) with the intention British Crown Forces to defend pressure as July 12 approaches the nationalist population. In Drumcree 1998 proves that numbers always add up in their Stormont Agreement is built. of dealing with nationalist is evident as happened in 1996 July 1998 the Provisionals are it does not matter what favour. With Orangemen The sooner it collapses the when the Six Counties were protests against the fourth likewise telling nationalists to rearrangements of British rule winning once again in 1998 they better for all of us.

SlDD Jj&D draid: Sean 6 Bradaigh i7Q8CommemoRAtiop Acre. Dublin SATURDAY, (opp national Museum, JULY 18 Heuston Bridge) beside Robert Emmet Pub SAOIRSE — Iuil/July 1998 Catholic churches burned Gearrs cealta in wave of attacks Harryville pickets recommence in THE oppressed people of occupied Ireland have Ballymena been allowed the choice of voting their overseas, THE 'Spirit of Drumcree' group which has subjected Mass-goers who are looking on while pro-British death squads in Harryville, Ballymena, Co Antrim to a torrent of verbal and embark on the old divide and conquer campaign. physical abuse for 20 months is back on its intimidation track. The group, which called off its picket in May, following a decision The long-suffering Orange march away from the to allow the Apprentice Boys march through Dunloy, have elected nationalist population were Nationalist Garvaghy Road. to resume their protest outside Our Lady's church in Harryville once more put to the test when While Orange boot boys until the British Parades Commission rescind their decision to re- Catholic churches were attacked were allowed to camp in the route the Drumcree march. The 'Spirit of Drumcree' mouth-piece, in the early hours of July 2. Of grounds of Drumcree, they Joel Patton said the decision was reached at an emergency meeting the most seriously damaged could use themselves as a of the group on May 30. were St James, Aldergrove, near decoy while their fascist allies Belfast, which was reduced to in the pro-British death squads a blackened shell after a could embark on real damage. 1,800 more British troops midnight attack; St Joseph's In this burning hatred instigated church at Kilcorig near Lisburn, by British Military intelligence, sent to the Six Counties Co Antrim and the Church of St Colmcille's on the Upper the Immaculate Conception at Newtownards Road received •St Joseph's Church, Kilcorig, near Lisburn, Co Antrim, BRITAIN'S imperial government decided in Leitrim near Castlewellan, Co scorch and smoke damage; one of ten churches burned in a co-ordinated series of early June to draft 1,800 extra British troops into Down, which were completely Mary Queen of Peace, arson attacks by loyalists. Occupied Ireland in order to back up her colonial gutted. Blackscull, Dromore received Co Tyrone suffered smoke and damage. police (RUC) in their job of coralling and It is understood the north minor smoke damage ; the roof water damage, Glen Church, Intruders who broke into suppressing any nationalist protest during the Antrim LVF formulated a "tour of the church at Mullavilly Glen Road, Banbridge, Co Our Lady of Lourdes church, Orange inarching season. of destruction" policy to be put Tandragee, Co Tyrone was Down had minor damage, while Grange near Kilkeel, Co Down, The Occupation Forces "have taken a number of prudent and into effect if Britain's Parades burned; St Columba's, Killyman Church, Dungannon, are believed to have run off after responsible measures in order to ensure that we remain capable of Commission should re-route the Clanmore Road, Dungannon, Co Tyrone received scorch triggering the alarm system. providing the support required to the RUC during the marching season," the spokesman said. Meanwhile the spectre of Orange The Irish 'On the bridge ofToome.. fascism lurks happily in the shadow of Britain's gunmen in Ireland. Lurgan youths stone RUC Nation still THE nationalist Kilwilkie estate in Lurgan, Co Armagh erupted into a tense battle scene between local youths and the British colonial police (RUC) on June 28-29. Crown Forces A VERY successful launch of Dilseacht by Ruairi moved into the estate at night in what they 6 Bradaigh was held in Dundalk, Co Louth on described as an ongoing police operation in the June 9. Co Armagh area. Doors were kicked in as the combined British army/RUC More than 100 people Irish people to give service stormtroopers dragged residents from their beds and threatened packed the venue for the to the same cause. them. Throughout the day two helicopters hovered menacingly launch of the book which "The high standards set overhead while the Occupation Forces swamped the Lough Road deals with Comdt-General and maintained by people end of the estate. Searches revealed four pounds of high-powered Tom Maguire and the like Tom Maguire, Mary Semtex in a coal bunker at the rear of a house in Ennis Close. Second (All-Ireland ) Dail. MacSwiney, Count Plunkett, Later in the morning the British army recovered nine coffee- Thanking those in Brian O'Higgins and JJ jar devices containing explosives with six-inch nails and an attendance for their interest O'Kelly ('Sceilg'), Deputy improvised grenade warhead fully primed at a location in the Victoria and for buying the book, the for Louth in the First and Street area. By midday as the raiding operation continued, a number Republican Sinn Fein Second (All-Ireland) Dail of youths responded by throwing stones at the RUC. As their President then spoke about have been debased by those protest grew in number to about 50, the youths engaged the Crown the situation after the with access to power in the Forces in a sustained attack. referendums on the 26 Counties. Approximately 60 petrol bombs were launched at the British Stormont deal: "These remarkable men army/RUC force and their vehicles which continued until after "The historic Irish nation and women and those 6pm when the Occupation Forces began to withdraw. The disturbance forced the closure of the railway line between Lisburn whose homeland is the associated with them in their and Portadown. island of Ireland did not time sought only the welfare • Deagldn O Donghaile, Derry, speaking at the 1798 cease to exist on May 22. and advancement of the Bicentenary ceremony on June 20 at the Roddy McCorley History did not stop entire Irish people. They Memorial Cross, Toomebridge, Co Antrim. It was attended Stormont salaries evolving on that day and rejected personal gain, put by Republicans from Derry, Antrim and Tyrone. THE new-found constitutionalists in our midst need no longer worry Irish people will continue to their lives at stake and gave about "parity of esteem" Her Majesty's government has kindly a lifetime of service without condescended to reward the supplicants for their beggary. Newly- strive for an Ireland free of common to all nations - to He reminded those in elected members of the Stormont administration will receive generous British rule. any recompense so that resist foreign aggression will attendance of England's salaries across the board, be they Orange-sash unionists or green- "Comdt-Gen Tom Ireland might be free and remain intact." history of duplicity and ribbon unionists. Each member can expect to earn around £29,000 as Maguire gave all of his long independent. tyranny in Ireland and a basic salary and a similar amount in expenses. These figures will rise life - spanning almost the "History teaches that The launch of the book offered a hand of friendship when powers are actually transferred to the assembly. These stipends entire 20th century - to the the permanent peace we all was performed by the to that disaffected section of are in stark contrast to that allowed to the ordinary people who vote service of the Irish nation. so earnestly desire will not Donegal writer Padraig 6 the Irish people, the for them. His example, and the be achieved while foreign Baoighill who now lives in unionists, most of whom are example of so many others occupation continues in Monaghan. Dr Sean descended from the of his generation, will Ireland. As long as the Irish Maguire, Castlebar, Co dissenter tradition Pilot's Row bookings bias continue to inspire people and the historic Irish Mayo, son of General embodied in the United REPUBLICAN Sinn Fein in Derry have said that community succeeding generations of nation endure the right - Maguire, also spoke. Irishmen. facilities, including those financed by local rate payers, Irish-American and European founders, are being denied I would like to join Republican Sinn Fein OUR AIMS to themselves and others, simply because their management Ba mhaith liom bheith i mo bhall de Sinn teams disagree with fellow community workers and others Fein Poblachtach For a full British withdrawal from whom they know to embrace a differing political perspective. Ireland . . . The establishment of a They claim that some management teams are biased towards true 32-County FEDERAL "one particular, latter-day, pro-Stormont party." Ainm A statement from the organisation said: "By refusing the use of DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST public, not private premises, some of these bureaucrats are specifically REPUBLIC ... The establishment of targeting those who called for a boycott of the Stormont Assembly Seoladh a new all-Ireland parliament, elections. That we will challenge, and challenge vigorously. People completely outside the present with the same blinkered mentality tore down posters by the score which called on all nationalists and Republicans to boycott this pro- partitionist set-up, to oversee the partionist election which will reinforce the unionist/Orange veto. running of the new neutral non-aligned People have a right to see, and hear what we are saying - that's Ireland . . . democracy." The Sean Keenan / Tommy Toner Cumann of Republican Sinn OUR HISTORY Fein have instructed their secretary to make inquiries, as to letting Send to: arrangements from specific community management groups. The For a full cumann is entering into correspondence with funding agencies, Formed in 1905 ... We are the oldest including Derry City Council, the International Fund for Ireland and Teach Daithf 6 Conaill British political organisation in the country various European grant-aid agencies so that "they may be enlightened 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1 Organised throughout the 32 Counties as to embargoes being placed on the right of assembly and free speech withdrawal within this city, and particularly at Pilot's Row Community Centre". Teil: 01-872 9747; Facs: 01-872 9757. . . . We have continuously rejected the e-mail: [email protected] from failed political entities of the Six and or contact your local paper seller for 26 Counties in existence since the SAOIRSE August edition details Ireland British partitioned our country published 6/8/1998 SAOIRSE — Iuil/July 1998 Vicious attack on Republican family AT 11.20pm on Sunday, 28 June, the Provisionals sent five of its party militia to attack the Donnelly family in their home in Derry city. Michael Donnelly (49), his by the Provisional thugs. wife Martina (47), and two of "Despite the ferocity of the their children, Niamh (10) and attack, my father made it to his Caoimhe (6) arrived at the feet and was able to tackle three house at 11.10pm. Five Broy Harriers while I grabbed minutes earlier they had been the fourth's iron bar and fought stopped by members of the back. We were beating them British colonial police (RUC) out of the room towards the and interrogated at length as to front door, but one pulled a their movements that night, and revolver and fired a shot. We in particular, if they would be turned to protect the children going home soon. and as my father stood over the Michael's son Deaglan girls they beat his back. (22), described the subsequent attack to SAOIRSE. 'You cost us "My parents and sisters a seat, returned from a trip to buy milk. My other sister Una (11), you bastard' my fiancee Tina (22) and I were "We fought them out to the also at home and we were all in kitchen where they beat my the living room. Exactly ten father to the ground. One was minutes later four masked men shouting "you cost us a seat wearing combat clothing burst you bastard." I was still into the room and one shouted fighting the fourth one, but he 'IRA Provisionals'. One pulled another revolver and sprayed 'mace' tear gas into my shouted 'stop or you're shot'. • Michael Donnelly in Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry on the day after his home was attacked by five masked and armed mother's eyes and into my little "A fifth Broy Harrier, also Provisionals. sisters' faces and started to beat carrying a baseball bat, then Although my father was now on some building blocks by singled out for special torture boycott campaign was very my father. came into the kitchen. He was lying on the floor with a broken falling on them. The blocks by British police and the SAS. successful and in Derry it lost obviously the driver and was leg he wrenched a crowbar from were covered in blood. He was one of the longest the Provisionals one seat that "They had baseball bats worried that the others were one of them and kneecapped "The fascists escaped in a serving internees and the last they thought would easily be studded with nails and iron taking so long — they weren't him with it. My mother tried hijacked taxi which they of the original internees of theirs, Gerry O'Hara's, while crowbars. Niamh climbed on expecting a fight. He came after to intervene, but one of them dumped in Shantallow. Local August 9, 1971, to be released. Mary Nelis only got in on the top of the armchair and jumped me, along with the one who stuck his arm in her face and people saw the car and have told They failed to break him then. eight count. What saved her on one of the thugs to protect pulled the gun on me and said 'IRA Provisionals, fuck us that its seats and floor are seat was the fact that she was her Daddy, but he threw her to another, but I got away and oflP. Tina got to the phone and covered in blood. The Broy "The new British in the SDLP until 1983 and got the ground and clubbed her on raised the alarm. raised the alarm, the Broy Harriers' blood shows the policemen who attacked our second preferences from SDLP the leg with a nail-studded Harriers left. Provisionals' party militia have family on June 28 learned the voters. That is why they baseball bat. "They went back into the "Although five members of failed to break my father and it hard way that Michael attacked our family. "Una then jumped across kitchen and all five cease-fire the Provisionals' party militia is common knowledge in Derry Donnelly will not surrender to "The Republican Move- her father to protect him and soldiers went about beating one walked into our house two of that they will never defeat any British agent, whether that ment is beating them politically her back was badly beaten. unrepentant Republican, as he them had to be carried out. Some Michael Donnelly, neither Brit be foreign born or a native and is exposing them as the Caoimhe was still sitting on his lay on the ground, for refusing of them fell on the driveway physically or politically. imperialist. British agents and quislings that knee and she was also beaten to surrender his ideals. and one injured himself badly "In 1971 my father was "The Republican Sinn Fein they are." McGuinness confronted by Martina Donnelly

THE night following the attack Michael wife, Bernie shouted "Just shut Donnelly's wife, Martina, confronted the the door on them". Martina Provisionals' leader in Derry, Martin then asked, "What about my McGuinness. Thinking that Martina had come children? You sent five masked to plead for clemency McGuinness naively men to spray gas into my invited Martina into his house but instead she children's eyes and to beat them questioned him about the fascist attack on her and their father up." family on his own doorstep, in full public view. McGuinness then declared "I'm not listening to this" and McGuinness opened his around this town for the past slammed his door violently. door but stepped back into his twelve months". Martina then addressed hallway on recognising Martina. After a slight pause him loudly through his open When she asked him why five Martina said "Oh, so that's window repeating "child- members of his party beat her why you did it". McGuinness beater", "collaborator" and children and her husband with did not deny this accusation and stated "Sure, you'll be running iron bars and baseball bats Martina said "Sure, that's all the place for them on studded with nails, you are, Martin - a traitor and Wednesday". McGuinness replied, a collaborator. On Wed-nesday On Wednesday, July 1, significantly, "I wasn't here." you'll be siding with the British three days after the He then stepped forward government in their assembly. Provisionals attacked the in what an eyewitness described In fact, you'll be part of the Donnelly family in their home, as "an absolutely threatening British government there." Martin McGuinness signed manner" and proceeded to point himself into the British his finger into Martina's face. McGuinness replied, parliament at Stormont where • Martina Donnelly with her three daughters after the attack (from left) Niamh (10), Una He then said "Your husband has "Keep your voice down. My he is now a colonial (12) and Caoimhe (6). Niamh and Caoimhe have been unable to sleep at home since the been calling me a traitor all children are inside" while his assemblyman. attack. Lower Ormeau faces martial law again Provisionals issue RESIDENTS of Belfast's Lower Ormeau Road once again enclave of the Lower Ormeau since the last Orange parade 14 face the horror of jubilant Orangemen marching through Road is a soft option for Britain's years ago. further threats their neighbourhood on July 13 while the jackboot of management enforcers The Lurgan Orange parade SINCE the Provisionals' vicious attack on the British Crown Forces keeps them under house arrest with surrounded as it is by loyalist is also permitted although the Donnellys the family has been harassed by the] the threat of violence or death should they set foot on the areas. British military personnel Parades Commission admits the British colonial police (RUC) and the Provisional and armoured cars can station potential for "public disorder" in police. This harassment includes a threatening street. decision. themselves outside people's this part of Co Armagh if the telephone call, made by a woman whose identity The decision by Britain's Patricia Breen of Dromora houses and at each entrance to Orange bands parade along the is known to Republican Sinn Fein. Parades Commission ann- Street, an aunt of 18-year-old the area to prevent nationalists mainly Nationalist William ounced on July 6, to force the Deaglan 6 Donghaile has also received threats Peter Magee who was shot dead from elsewhere coming in to join Street. one issued by two individuals from the Provisional Orange parade through, has in the 1992 UDA/UFF attack a protest. The Greencastle, Co Antrim angered locals. One man in office in Creggan. said she was "disgusted" at the A series of other decisions parade will go ahead on its They stated that if they had gone to carry p^ Artana Street explained to the Parades Commission ruling. on Orange marches was also normal route. The same is the Belfast Irish News that the streets the attack "Deaglan would not be walking nov" " Since the death squad announced by the Parades case for parades through the were closed off for 27 hours But that doesn't matter because he is ne: murders, Orange marchers Commission on July 6. No predominately nationalist towns during these periods. anyway." parading past the site of the restrictions have been imposed of Newtonbutler and A relative of one of the five Both cease-fire soldiers went on to celebrate slaughter have incensed relatives on the Orange march through Downpatrick (July 12 and 13). people killed in the British- with the five fingers sign in Crumlin village, Co Antrim, No restrictions have been placed the fact that Michael's children had been spra] backed death squad massacre at reference to the number killed. where the nationalist pop- on the Orange march in Belfast's with teargas and beaten, saying that " Sean Graham's bookie shop six ulation has grown considerably Whiterock road. deserved it for getting in the way". years ago has also slated the The small nationalist SAOIRSE — Iuil/July 1998 —i STNN FEIN POBLACHTACH IMEACHTAI BENEFIT NIGHT HISTORIC IN AID OF GRAVES RONAN TOUR NATIONAL PRIVATE MEMBERS McLOUGHLIN Free Conducted Tours of THE NOGGIN INN Glasnevin Cemetery, DUBLIN Dublin, SATURDAY, JULY 11 on all Sundays 8pm, T£ille: £5 in July DRAW • * * * and August PATRICK CANNON Meeting at the main COMMEMORATION gate at 11.30am BALGRIFFIN CEMETERY Groups week days Tickets now available from your MALAHIDEROAD on request 1st prize: DUBUN local cumann or from Ard-Oifig SUNDAY, JULY 19 Contact 01 -8321312 TWO AIRLINE TICKETS 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1 Assemble: Cemetery Organised by the gates National Graves 3pm Association * * * * * * * * Ireland/New York or New York/Ireland plus £200 LIAM LYNCH RICHARD GOSS COMMEMORATION COMMEMORATION (or£1,000) 75th ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY, AUGUST 9 SUNDAY, JULY 26 Assemble at St. Patrick's GOATENBRIDGE Cemetery, Dundalk 3pm 2nd Prize: KNOCKMEALDOWN «* * * TV and Video or £500 MOUNTAINS COTIPPERARY For1798 3rd Prize: £250. 4th Prize: Prison oraftwork Speaker: Bicentenary Ruairi 6 Br&daigh events Donations £2, or £5 for 3 tickets. 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Ardmoulin Close area of Belfast were stoned by loyalists youths from across the peaceline. Ofc WED. JULY 1: David Trimble was elected 'First Minister' of the Stormont assembly and Seamus Mallon 'Deputy Minister'. Loyalists in Ballymena, Co Antrim voted to revive the picket on the Catholic church at Harryville in Ballymena. RECORD In Belfast a one-year-old child narrowly escaped injury when a gang of youths attacked a nationalist home in Castle Gardens. TUES. JUNE 2: Robin Jackson (52), one of the British army bomb disposal experts examined most notorious of the loyalist death squad mass a suspicious object left on the Dublin/Belfast murderers, known as the 'Jackal', and who was railway line between Lake Street and William supposed to have been responsible for the Dublin Street in Lurgan, Co Armagh. A telephone call and Monaghan bombings which resulted in 34 also alleged that a bomb had been left in Banbridge, deaths, died of cancer at his home in Donacloney, Co Down. Co Down. THURS. JULY 2: The home in Curlew Way in WED. JUNE 3: A nationalist couple and their the Waterside in Deny of an elderly nationalist three children tied their home of 14 years in the couple was attacked by firebombs. Two devices Greymount Estate in north Belfast after a were also thrown at a house on Victoria Road in number of attacks, including their car being burned New buildings, outside Deny. out and threats, conveyed by the RUC, from A device exploded on the Belfast/Dublin loyalist death squads. railway line in the Carnagat area of Newry, Co THURS. JUNE 4: British army technical experts Down. Rail services between Portadown and carried out a controlled explosion on a Renault Dundalk were disrupted with passengers being car abandoned at Duncairn Parade in the New ferried by buses to their destination. Lodge area of Belfast. It was found to be a hoax. An attempt was made to burn down Several calls were made to the RUC claiming that Altnaveigh Orange hall, near Newry. Continuity IRA had planted a bomb. St Patrick's School, a nationalist school at FRI. JUNE 5: Two nationalist teenagers were Garvagh, near Coleraine in Co Derry was set on attacked and viciously beaten, sustaining head fire. and facial injuries, by two carloads of loyalists at FRI. JULY 3: Eleven Catholic churches a filling station on the upper Lisburn Road, in throughout the Occupied Six Counties were the Finaghy area of Belfast. Loyalists building barricades in Belfast during the Garvaghy Road stand-off. firebombed by loyalists. SUN. JUNE 7: The Designer Discounts clothing he went to work along an alleyway at Friendly SAT. JUNE 27: Hundreds of RUC and British SAT. JULY 4: St Peter's Church of Ireland church shop on Royal Avenue in Belfast was extensively Street in the Markets area of Belfast. Crown Forces poured into the Springfield Road in Culmore Road in Deny was set on fire and at damaged following a fire caused by an incendiary SAT. JUNE 13: Rosemount RUC barracks on area to keep nationalist protesters back from an bomb. nearby Ballyarnet a disused primary school the Creggan Road in Deny city came under a Orange Order parade as it passed through the beside a Presbyterian church was also damaged Several houses at Rosevale Street in north sustained arson and petrol bomb attack when a nationalist area. Hand-to-hand fighting broke out by fire, as was a farm building at Bligh's Lane, Belfast were badly damaged after loyalists Peugeot car which was used to ram the barracks between residents and the RUC's riot squad as also in Deny. was set alight. A number of petrol bombs were attacked them with a barrage of missiles. Some the parade passed close to the nationalist protest The British-backed loyalist death squad the of the houses had holes punched in their roofs thrown into the compound. No one was injured SUN. JUNE 28: The home of Republican Sinn but a police car was damaged. Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), which maintains and others had windows broken. Loyalists from Fein Ulster Executive chairperson Michael it is on a ceasefire, said in a statement that the across the peaceline climbed onto the top of some SUN. JUNE 14: Republican Sinn Fein held its Donnelly in Deny was attacked by four masked houses and started flinging missiles. Margaret annual commemoration at the grave of the men armed with handguns and iron bars who death of any Orangeman at the hands of British O'Neill, whose house was attacked, said that the Founder of Irish Republicanism, Theobald Wolfe claimed to be "IRA Provisionals". Michael Crown Forces at Drumcree would be considered experience had been "absolutely terrifying . . . Tone at Bodenstown, Co Kildarc Donnelly received serious injuries to his leg and "an act of war". These attacks go on from May to August. But it THURS. JUNE 18: The tribunal of inquiry set upper body and his ten-year-old daughter was SUN. JULY 5: Following the re-routing of the has been worse this year than previous years." up by the British government to re-investigate also hospitalised. Orange parade away from the Garvaghy Road, thousands of loyalists stayed outside Drumcree MON. JUNE 8: The Maghera OrangeHall at the Bloody Sunday killings in Derry by the MON. JUNE 29: After a day of searches by Corrigs Road, outside Newcastle, Co Down was Parachute regiment of the British army delayed church resulting in a stand-off. Widespread British armed forces in the nationalist Kilwilkie disturbances took place throughout the Six extensively damaged when flammableliqui d was the start of the formal hearing of evidence until estate in Lurgan, Co Armagh and in Victoria poured inside the hall. February 1999. Occupied Counties by loyalists. Barricades were Street, in which four lbs of Semtex was found in set up on main roads in Belfast and hijackings WED. JUNE 10: A nationalist family were forced TUES. JUNE 23: An explosion blew a large crater the bunker of a house at Ennis Close, nationalist in the Newry to Forkhill Road and shattered were reported as hundreds of loyalist protesters to flee after their home in the Cairngorm Drive youths clashed with Crown Forces, firing petrol gathered in parts of south and north Belfast, north area of the loyalist Craigyhill estate in Lame, Co windows in the Tree Steps bar in Dromintee, Co bombs at them. Eight improvised detonators and Antrim was subjected to an arson attack. The Armagh. a magazine containing 29 rounds of ammunition Down and Carrigfergus, Co Antrim. The RUC family had to escape through the window of the WED. JUNE 24: A 20011b car bomb exploded w^re also found. fired baton rounds as they came under attack from loyalists protesters at Havelock Bridge on ground floor flat, dressed only in their night close to the heavily-fortified RUC barracks in The British government-appointed Parades clothes and with their eight-month old baby Newtownhamilton. Co Armagh, causing the Ormeau Road in Belfast and a school in east Commission announced that they had banned Belfast was damaged after coming under attack wrapped in a blanket. The twenty-three-year old widespread damage. Two phone calls gave the Orange parade from going down the Garvaghy man said that he had received a letter about two warning of the bomb, one claimed that the INLA from firebombers. The loyalists at Drumcree Road on July 5. church have vowed to stay there until the Parades months ago, purporting to be from the LVT, was responsible. Nationalist homes in the Gortnasaor area of warning him to get out of the estate and that Commission's decision to reroute the parade THURS. JUNE 25: Elections to the new Dungannon, Co Tyrone were attacked by around away from the Garvaghy Road is reversed. Two windows had been broken in six attacks since he Stormont assembly took place in the Six Occupied 20 masked youths with stones and bricks had moved in 11 months ago. Counties. The results were: UUP, 28 seats, thousand British soldiers and RUC were on duty THURS. JUNE 11: A member of the following the decision of the Parades Commission in Portadown and heavy barricades were set up SDLP, 24; DUP, 20; Provisional 18; Alliance , to re-route the Orange parade away from the to prevent the Orangemen from getting through. Provisional' political organisation claimed that 6; UKUP, 5; PUP, 2; Women's Coalition, 2; and a lone gunman fired two or three shots at him as Garvaghy Road. other unionists, 3. TUES. JUNE 30: Nationalist homes in the SAOIRSE — Ml/July 1998 prison campaigns.. .feachtais sna pziosuin.. .prison Bomb blast in Newtownhamilton A CAR bomb said to contain 2OOlbs of home made explosives caused extensive damage to the business sector in the Co Armagh village of Newtownhamilton on June 24. The bomb, packed into a silver Opel Omega carrying false number plates was left in a hotel car park in the village square at around lunchtime. The explosion took place shortly after 2.30pm ripping the roofs off many businesses and houses. A nearby British army/ RUC base suffered damage to its perimeter fence. Among the properties which bore the brunt of the blast were the hotel, the bank and a community centre. The explosion occurred on the eve of polling for the new Stormont assembly — the community centre was to be used as a polling station. Two warnings were telephoned to Belfast newsrooms 49 minutes before the blast. The caller in the initial warning claimed the attack on behalf of the 1NLA. A 13-year-old boy, a passenger in a travelling car suffered a minor shoulder injury in the blast. New Cumann in London ON June 6, a new cumann of Republican Sinn Fein was established in central London. The new cumann, named the Daithi 6 Conaill • Pictured at the New York function for Josephine Hay den (left to right): Kathy Burke,Gina Drake, Gina Sigilitto Cumann is set up, subject to ratification by the Ard Chomhairle of (Chairperson) and Kevin O'Neill. Republican Sinn Fein, following the six-month probationary period adopted at the 1997 Ard-Fheis in Dublin. This new cumann confirms the growth of Republican Sinn Fein both in Britain and in Birthday Party for Josephine in New York City Ireland over the past twelve months. ON Sunday, June 28 last, a crowd of between 50 and 60 Gina Sigilitto addressed the crowd and thanked them for their people showed up for a 'Birthday party for Josephine generosity and support for Josephine Hayden. Live music and song Hayden' sponsored by the US support committee for the was provided by Ray Collins, and a buffet, prizes and a raffle were Bully-boys raid in Leitrim only Irish woman political prisoner in the 26 Counties. part of the program. FIVE cars and a van containing around 25 Dublin The committee led by Chairperson Gina Sigilitto and Treasurer For more information on the Save Josephine Hayden Committee Mary Murray are demanding the immediate release of IPOW Josephine in the United States, please call: 1-800-687 EIRE or write to 74-16 Special Branchmen raided the home of a Leitrim Roosevelt Avenue, Box 128 Jackson Heights, New York, 11372. woman living alone on her farm near Ballinamore, Hayden on humanitarian grounds. Co Leitrim early on July 3. Mrs Rose Curneen (52) of Derradda, five miles from Ballinamore, was ordered out of bed at 7am by the raiders who had been brought to the house by two local 26-County policemen and entered through the back door. The political police showed her a warrant and questioned her before they added "don't come back until we are finished". Her family are living in Dublin and the US. When a neighbour intervened with the Branchmen and said that Mrs Curneen's son John had died in an accident several weeks earlier he was also verbally abused and threatened with arrest. The raid went on all day, during which time the Dublin Branchmen helped themselves to the food in the house. Farm gates were knocked down and tools removed from the farm buildings. Rose Curneen's husband, Jack, died in 1996. He spent two years as a political prisoner in Portlaoise between 1984 and 1986 before being released due to bad health. • Picket of Aer Lingus office in Glasgow on June 6 in The family home has been regularly raided by the political • Republican Sinn Fein picket on the 26-County embassy support of Josephine Hayden and calling for her release. police over the years. The raiders left after 5pm and Mrs Curneen in London on June 6 calling for the release of Josephine was then told by Ballinamore police that she could return to her Hayden. Sixteen people attended including representatives of home. various groups. Launch o/Nally as Maigh Eo Embassy, Aer Lingus picketed ON Saturday June 6, Republican Sinn Fein mounted a picket of Josephine Hayden's civil rights, Ted Barrington promised IN Aras Daimhin in Croke Park on Tuesday on the 26-County Embassy in Grosvenor Place, London, to to investigate the matter. He was left in no doubt that picketing night, July 20, Seosamh Mac Donnchadha, protest against the appalling treatment being meted out to of the embassy would continue until such time as Josephine Republican prisoner, Josephine Hayden, by the authorities was released from prison. President of the GAA will launch the book Nally in Limerick. Represented on the picket were members of the Michael as Maigh Eo by Padraig O Baoighill at 6.30pm. The picket lasted two hours during which time the Dublin Flannery, Daithi 6 Conaill and John Whelan Cumainn of This is a comprehensive 400 page biography of PW Nally, the Ambassador, Ted Harrington, came out of the embassy and Republican Sinn Fein and other supporters. A similar protest famous athlete from Balla, Co Mayo after whom the Nally stand was confronted by Republican Sinn Fein members and took place in Glasgow, organised by the Francis Hughes supporters. Cumann of Republican Sinn Fein which was also well in Croke Park was called. supported. Nally from his early days at St. Jarlaith's College, Tuam was When faced with angry complaints about the violation an outstanding athlete and often won seven or eight events at Sports meetings in the west which earned him the title "Champion of the West". He was instrumental in starting the National Sports CABHAIR of Mayo in Balla in 1879 with Michael Davitt as one of his patrons. He became involved in the Land League and helped Davitt to The Central Committee of CABHAIR (Irish organise the famous Irishtown meeting which was to eventually Republican Prisoners1 Dependants Fund) and the tyranny of landlordism in the West. Like many of his are once again appealing for funds so that we contemporaries he joined the IRA and became head centre for Connacht and a member of the Supreme Council. can continue to support all our prisoners in In 1883 with the land war at its height he was arrested with six Portlaoise and Limerick jails and also others for what was called The Crossmolin Conspiracy and was support the families of the prisoners. sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Although petitions for his This time of the year is always difficult for release were made by his family and many councils in the west he was held in Mountjoy Jail and died there in suspicious fund-raising and we appeal to all Republican circumstances in 1891. Sinn Fein cumainn, our friends and His influence on the founding of the GAA, the turbulent early supporters to make a special effort during years on the association and the involvement of other members of this time for the prisoners. the family in the association is well researched by the author. Padraig 6 Baoighill has written another historical biography We would like to hear from anyone who on the War of Independence in Donegal. Oglaigh the Rosann, the would form a fund-raising committee in their life story ofNiall Plunkett O'Boyle, killed in the Wicklow mountains own area. All those interested please contact at the end of the Civil War in 1923. Write to the Republican Prisoners: CABHAIR and help and guidance will be Portlaoise Prison, Portlaoise, Co Laois/ forthcoming. Armagh draw results Josephine Hayden, Limerick Women's Prison, Anyone willing to make contributions to THE result of the recent draw held by the McKearney/ Corrigan Mulgrave Street, Limerick. CABHAIR should send them to: Cumann, Republican Sinn Fein, Ard Mhaca was as follows: First SEND them greetings, letters, etc and support CABHAIR prize: Framed Colour print of 1798: Mary A. Gear, Armagh City; — Irish Republican Prisoners Dependants Fund in its work CABHAIR, Teach Daithi 6 Conaill second prize: Harp: Bernie Martin, Moy, Co Tyrone; third prize: for political prisoners. Cuimhnigh ar iad siud uilig ata faoi Bottle of whiskey: Dearbhla McPhillips, Newtownbutler. |_ghlas ar son saoirse na hEireann. 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1 SAO1RSE — luil/July 1998 1798-1998 September/Medn Fomhair Three sentenced in Paris AN Irishman and two Frenchmen were given BICENTENAE2Y 1 SEPTEMBER, TUESDAY, 8pm suspended sentences by a French court on June OF THE General Humbert and the Year of the French 30 for their alleged part in assisting a Provisional (Illustrated Lecture) squad who were said to be planning bomb at- UNITED IEIcSHMEN Community Centre, Drumshanbo, Co Leitrim. tacks in Britain two years ago. 6 SEPTEMBER, SUNDAY Belfastman, Paul McGarrigle (41), who had been arrested in IMEAOHTAf Ceremonies at United Irishmen Memorial, Granard July 1996 was given a seven month sentence with another 11 and Croppies Acre, Ballinalee, Co Longford. months suspended for associating with the Provisional and hav- July/I uil 12 SEPTEMBER, SATURDAY, 3PM ing a pistol. The prosecution had recommended a four-year term Assemble Acres Church, march to Napper Tandy on charges of criminal conspiracy. 11 JULY, SATURDAY, 4.39pm monument, Burtonport, Co Donegal for ceremony Jean-Louis Becker (48) was given a one-year sentence with Commemoration to celebrate the another two years suspended. Becker was arrested in March last bi-centennial of the 1798 Rising Ceremony at Wilson's Hospital Gate, Multyfamham- year "on information" from the British police. The prosecution St Paul's Churchyard, Fulton Street and Broadway, Bunbrosna, Co Westmeath. had recommended a five-year sentence. New York, USA Taxi driver Frank Lebret-Richer (45) was sentenced to three 18 JULY, SATURDAY, 2pm October/Deireadh Fomhair months and 15 months suspended. Lebret-Richer was accused of Ceremony, Croppies Acre, Wolfe Tone Quay, Ceremony, Roslea, Co Fermanagh, in memory of the hiding two Provisional members at his home. The prosecutor had recommended a suspended sentence of 18 months to two years for Dublin (opposite Heuston Station). Roslea Martyrs, Patrick Smith, John Connolly, Brian Lebret-Richer. 19 JULY, SUNDAY, 3pm McMahon, United Irishmen executed October 12, Ceremony at 1798 Memorial, Main Street, Thurles, 1797. Co Tipperary. Tom Maguire ceremony Ceremony at Burtonport Pier, Co Donegal, at plaque THE annual wreath-laying ceremony at the grave Ceremony, grave of United Irish leader Henry Joy to United Irish General James Napper Tandy. McCracken, Antrim Road Cemetery, Belfast. of Comdt-Gen Tom Maguire took place at his grave in Cross cemetery, Co Mayo on Sunday Commemoration, Downpatrick, Co Down, in memory evening, July 5. Augiic5t/LunaTralee, Co Kerry November/Samhain Death of Michael Horgan 30 AUGUST, SUNDAY, 3pm AS we went to press we learned of the death in Springfield, Commemoration at memorial to United Irishman Ceremony at Deny jail, Deny city, where Wolfe Tone Massachusetts, USA, of Michael Horgan, Tralee, a life long Re- Bartholomew Teeling, Collooney, Co Sligo. was held prisoner, November 1798. publican. He was aged 52. Sincere sympathy is expressed to his wife Margaret and family. 1798 insurgents 'died in the cornfields of Meath' £6,719 continuously harassed and A chairde go leir — Clonard '98 Ceremony fighting, clothes threadbare, hungry, burdened with non- The pockets of our great coats full of barley — combatants, dependants and As you can see by the above figure the No kitchens on the run, no striking camp — the wounded. Despite the debt on Teach Daithi 6 Conaill remains We moved quickly and sudden in our country. expected support from some of substantially high. We therefore appeal once their neighbouring counties The priest lay behind the ditches with the tramp again to loyal members and supporters to A people hardly marching — on the hike — they met with hostility. We found new tactics happening every day: help us in our task of clearing the outstanding We 'd cut through reins and rider with the pike "They had travelled debt And stampede cattle into infantry, through Wicklow, Carlow, Every little helps so we welcome all Kilkenny, Offaly, Laois, Then retreat through hedges where cavalry must be thrown. contributions which will be gratefully received Until at I "inegar Hill, the fatal conclave. Kildare, before they arrived in and acknowledged. Our sincere thanks to all Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes against cannon. Meath where they travelled almost to the Co Cavan The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave. who have contributed in the past. borders. The remnants were CATHLEEN KNOWLES They buried us without shroud or coffin finally dispersed in And in August the barley grew up out of the grave. Ballybroughil, Co Dublin on Cisteoir, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1 July 14 after almost seven THESE are the words of Irish poet Seamus weeks of non-stop fighting." DAiTHi 6 CONAILL MEMORIAL Heaney quoted by Seamus Mac Suain of Wexford Propaganda. A plethora of at Clonard , Co Meath on Sunday July 5. A large books and they contain some BUILDING FUND crowd from many parts of Leinster were led by a dubious accounts by loyalists Fianna Eireann colour party and thirty pike men and British soldiers. However, we can obtain some very in a parade from Clonard village to the burial site interesting facts from official of so many of the United Irish Revolutionaries reports regarding trials, courts who fell there on July 11, 1798. martial, compensation paid though many of the exhausted and wounded were killed on the John Horan, Dublin, He outlined the evci spot, as were many innocent officiated us Chief Marshal, Clonard 200 years ago. "The people. Lack of sources makes while Niall Fagan, Co Meath, fortified house of John Tyrell it difficult to do justice to the chaired the proceedings at the stood al 1.cmster bridge, with a insurgents. memorial tower commanding the area. "When people talk about Wreaths were laid on behalf Both were surrounded by a Tone's wish to unite people of Republican Sinn Fein stone wall At 9am on July 1 1, under the title Irish they choose Wexford, on behalf of Mcath 1798 he got word that the to ignore that he was a firm North-cast by Jerome Fagan I iniicd Irishmen were coming. believer in force of anus. and on behalf of HK- local The 40-man garrison controlled Republican Sinn Fein etimann the bridge over which the 1 [e sought and got no less by Niall Fagan. In his oration, United Irishmen would have to than four expeditions from Seamus Mac Suain referred to pass. The position was France. He was captured on the strength of heroism impregnable unless attacked by the last one and fought bravely embodied by the Women of'98. artillery • Waiting to march in Clonard on the 200th against the British enemy. Need •'Here in Clonard today I The road gates were closed I remind you that the aims of recall that great Meath patriot and locked when 2,000-2,500 anniversary. Tone and the United Irishmen Brian O hUiginn, of our own United Irishmen, mostly floor of the tower. The fire from of 1798 have still to be century. I also call to mind the Wexford men led by Anthony above was so deadly that 27 achieved? noble Molly Weston, heroine Perry and Mogue Kerins United Irishmen were killed arrived. However as they had "The burning of Catholic of the battle of Tara in the year inside the tower. Straw fired. chapels by government forces which we are commemorating only pike and some light 2 Brits killed, 4 jumped to firearms their numbers counted was a feature of the war in today. A native of safety, 6 hours fighting. 160 Wexford. Sadly it is still going Worganstown she and her five for very little in the insurgents killed, 60 wounded. circumstances. Indeed, they on today in the occupied brothers went out to fight for Whiteehurch flag lost. At 5pm territory by pro-British thugs freedom and never returned to presented a bigger target as they as Wexford began an orderly advanced over open ground. with the mentality of the Ku the home they left so bravely, retreat British reinforcements Klux Klan." as did tens of thousands others, TyrelPs best marksmen held arrived. The Brits fired 100 Republican Scouts are being commanding positions from Fie concluded with a quote to take on the might of England. rounds a man. reorganised and we would behind slit in the wall and from from the Protestant patriot "When a cannon, one of the upstairs windows. The Wexford men who died Thomas Davis: "From the wild like to hear from past and few in Irish hands, was about in Co Meath were a shadow of burst with which ye triumphed present scouts who are to be captured it was Molly "Maxwell, states that 'In the original Wexford army at Oulart Hill, down to the faint who applied the match to it full the first two attempts the which began fighting on May gasp where with the last of your interested in the progress of this reorganisation. in the face of the advancing insurgents were heavily 23. Reduced in numbers, short column died in the cornfields Please apply to: repulsed - but defeat seemed Fencibles. She and her five of ammo, worn out from weeks of Meath, there is nothing to Secretary c/o 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1 brothers are buried on Tara only to exasperate them.' constantly on the move, shame your valour, your faith, Hill," he said. Eventually broke into the lower sleeping under the stars. or your patriotism." and all enquiries will be dealt with immediately. SAOIRSE - Ml/July 1998 Television in the Free State they were agreed on was that they schemes were proposed. The open praise of England and defence of Neo-Colonial Ireland disliked all those features of Irish European Broadcasting Union England's policies were no longer society that had not originated in arranged a conference of all the West practical and it was time to fall back to Britain. The main targets were: damage limitation. Part twenty-two of a series of articles dealing with the European P+T bodies as to which a Catholicism, the Irish language, the standard colour television technology So, RTE cameramen were realities of Ireland's position in the world. It is our 1937 Constitution, the GAA and would be adopted. forbidden to cross the border: in future Fianna Fail. (At the time the contention that, while the Six-County area is obviously a There were two main proposals all material from within the Six Republican movement had been on the table. The French SECAM, Counties was to be taken from London. colonial possession of England, the 26-County 'Republic' rendered ineffectual by Stalinist which had the support of Belgium, Severe censorship was imposed at meddlers and was not taken seriously.) Montrose: nobody opposed to British is also still in large measure a colonial society, despite the Italy, Spain and Portugal and the The RTE studios at Montrose German PAL, supported by the Dutch policies towards Ireland could be removal of many of the physical colonising institutions. became the focal point of a new and and the Scandinavian countries. (It was quoted or interviewed. In contrast pro- powerful force within the Saorstat. noted that the division was between British elements were allowed free IN the early years of the Saorstat a government radio Leinster House had hoped to use the Catholic countries and the rein. station, called TWO-RN was established in Dublin. Like so television as a tool to promote its own Protestant ones.) The British put up a Over-exposure on RTE probably many state bodies at the time it was controlled by the policies, but was soon outflanked and system of their own called NTSC. It did those elements more harm than Department of Finance and was starved of funds. Also, lost control. However, since those was widely accepted that SECAM was good. Supercilious upper-crust English because only the wealthier elements in society could afford calling the tune at Montrose were the best of the three, with PAL a close politicians and officers were unable to radios, content of transmissions were geared to their tastes basically not interested in the internal second. The British NTSC was rated conceal their contempt for the Irish, politics of the Saorstat, clashes were a very poor third (it was an engineers' while most Unionists came across as and tended to be distanced from the interests and concerns rare. The British Embassy carefully raving lunatics. The SDLP, itself of most people. joke that NTSC meant Never Twice monitored RTE though it seems their the Same Colour) but the British were largely a media invention, was allowed main concern was that no disparaging unlimited air-time and emerged from a From this base Radio Eireann convinced that because they were line' and '625-line', and in Ireland remarks about the British monarchy proposing it, it would win. Of course virtual reality propelled by nothing but evolved. Apart from the news and some of the receiving sets used one be permitted. In the foyer of Montrose wind-power. Then people were to weather forecasts very little of the real objective of the conference was standard and some used the other. itself there stood a kiosk manned by not to select the best system: it was witness a mad-eyed Margaret importance was broadcast. Long dreary Rather than adopt one standard and the Special Branch from which all Thatcher imperiously calling Saorstat plays written by the Abbey Theatre more to do with patents and licensing leave dealers stuck with unsaleable sets comings and goings were monitored. and grubby matters like that. politicians to heel. element were a constant feature. For tuned to the other, it was decided to The Irish language was the first In current affairs programmes, many years there was a vocal pressure In practice only the Saorstat cover the entire state with broadcasts target attacked. When Eamon backed the British proposal and it England ceased to be held up as an group calling for the establishment of on both standards: thus doubling the Andrews, first chairman of the RTE example. Instead some third country a symphony orchestra by the station looked like the French would win. So, cost of setting up the service. It was a Authority, resigned in 1966 in order London and Dublin switched support in which practices happened to be and bewailing the lack of it as a sign of classic example of the way being a neo- to resume his career in Britain he gave similar to those current in Britain cultural backwardness. to the German PAL, which was colonial entity wastes resources: the the excessive number of Irish-language adopted. The British did this purely (usually either Holland or Denmark) Radio was heavily censored and Saorstat got one television service for programmes being broadcast as the would be mentioned as a place where the station did not dare offend the to spite the French who were blocking the price of two. formal reason for his leaving. This their entry to the Common Market. things were done 'properly'. British in any way. During the 1939- excuse was greeted with derision: there Leinster House retained overall 1945 war censorship was increased It is said that RTE had already invested THE MISSIONARIES were almost no programmes in Irish heavily in NTSC technology, and Irish control of RTE but did not interfere dramatically. Archbishop McQuaid on RTE. much as long as hatred of was not allowed to broadcast an appeal When RTE was set up, native retailers had warehouses full of NTSC expertise in television was of course Around that time a well-funded sets. Republicanism was at the top of the for funds to support the families of organisation called the Language agenda. On one occasion the entire RTE those interned by Stormont, and lacking and so needed to be imported. Naturally enough it was decided to Freedom Movement appeared on the Authority was dismissed by the announcers covering sporting events THE THIRD WAVE government, because a programme recruit, where possible, Irish people scene, dedicated to the complete In the late 1960's a Third Wave were strictly forbidden to make any judged to be pro-Republican was who had been successful in the field banishment of Irish from the airwaves, hit RTE, and was to prove the most mention of the state of the weather or the schools and the country at large. screened. The lowest point was the direction of the wind or anything elsewhere. In practice this meant influential, enduring and harmful of the seeking out persons who had gone to Though its membership is believed three because unlike the previous two reached during the rule of the Cosgrave like that in case it would supply never to have exceeded 20 people it coalition, when Conor Cruise O'Brien weather information to the Germans. Britain and got into the medium there. it was organised and disciplined and With RTE unable to offer the was allowed almost unlimited had well-chosen objectives. This wave was in charge of broadcasting. After the war ended, tight government broadcast time to propagate its views control was maintained. salaries and opportunities available in was made up of Stalinists. They too Britain, it turned out that there were and it soon emerged that it had a had returned from England filled with THE SITUATION NOW secondary agenda: to promote loyalty missionary zeal and crackpot ideas. At THE ADVENT OF only two types of person interested. RTE has become a major factor Firstly there were those whose careers to England and in particular to the first they infiltrated trade unions, in the evolution of neo-colonialism in TELEVISION had not progressed as well as they British monarchy. On one occasion various voluntary bodies and the the Saorstat. For example almost all In 1947 the Department of Posts thought merited by their abilities, and RTE broadcast an Italian film with Republican Movement: in all cases the recent amendments to the 1937 and Telegraphs (P+T) and the Irish sub-titles and the LFM kicked doing immense damage. Then they Constitution were engineered from secondly there were those who saw in indentified RTE as a potential power members of the European RTE an opportunity to re-model Irish up such a fuss that the experiment was Montrose. Broadcasting Union held a meeting in never repeated. source and pushed their way in. They Efforts to use RTE to modify society in some way. targeted the 'Current Affairs' aspect Copenhagen to share out television Irish society have varied from the Of the latter, there were two of RTE, seized control of it and used it band-space. The Saorstat did not even waves. The First Wave consisted LABOUR TAKES A HIT obscene to the ridiculous. At one end bother to attend and the British took to propagate their agendas for Ireland, mainly of persons of impoverished Neither wave was originally and that aspect of RTE has been of the scale there was a campaign to up the channels that had been reserved background who had gone to England much interested in Leinster House get Irish children to call their mothers for it. controlled by them, or at least by and had there happened to get into politics, which they found difficult to persons groomed by them, ever since. 'Mummy' rather than 'Mammy'. At Television transmissions began in television and made moderately comprehend in terms of the domestic The three waves had little in another level, the RTE Guide was the Britain soon afterwards and by about successful careers for themselves. politics of England, with which they common with each other as to what first non-frivolous publication in the 1950 most parts of Britain were They were mostly presenters, so their were familiar. they were for, but they were in State to have an astrology page, and covered, as was the six counties. faces were familiar to the public, which Members of the First Wave agreement as to what they were now runs an astrology help-line, and British stations radiated into the tended to attach importance to their tended to identify with Fine Gael, against. In programme after programme the stage has been reached where territory' of the Saorstat: not, as many utterances and opinions. many of whose leading lights were the defects of Irish society were astrologers are seriously consulted on Republicans thought for propaganda The first chairman of the RTE closet monarchists, but did not move exposed in sombre colours and tut- television on matters like the outcome reasons, but rather to maximise the sale Authority, Mr. Eamon Andrews, was directly into politics. The attention of tutted over and then compared with of elections. In the wider society this of television sets. Since the Saorstat's a notable example while the the Second Wave eventually lighted on the parallel situation in England: trend has been reflected by the population is concentrated along the indestructible Mr Gay Byrne is a lone the moribund Labour Party. Labour always shown in the best possible light appearance throughout the State of and discussed with suitable reverence. east coast, about half the population survivor. This group naturally enough had degenerated into a neo-colonial shops selling Tarot cards, 'magic of the State soon had access to British felt that Ireland would be a better place offshoot of the British Labour Party, stones' and similar garbage. television broadcasts. if it were more like England, but the which was in and out of power at the THE GREAT DIVIDE In the Dublin 4 environment Before long a demand arose that England that was their model was time, and was in some degree RTE passed under the control of original objectives have faded into the the Saorstat have a television service England as it had been when they left comprehensible to the Second Wave an insolent elite, based in the area past. The British monarchy has long of its own. The chief impetus came it in the late 1950's in the calm autumn people; who however for the most part around the studios at Montrose. the been a laughing-stock, Swinging from the retailers, who had discovered of an already fading Empire: the had little interest in Socialism. Dublin 4 suburb. An elite which London crumbled under Thatcherism that the sale of television equipment country of Royal Occasions, Poppy considers the mass of the Irish people and the Soviet Union is gone and could be very profitable, and it was Day, the aristocracy, the Boat Race, (The fact that the party received to be debased almost beyond discredited. The only thing that largely prodding from commercial and the rest. regular funding through a compulsory redemption but which nevertheless remains to prop up ageing egos is the interests that led to the establishment The Second Wave was made up levy on trades union members may also must, through payment of the feeling of still being superior to the of RTE. mostly of people involved in the have been an attraction.) Offers to television licence, support the elite that rest of the citizenship. Increasingly production side of television. They stand as candidates for the party were despises it. This has been equated with attention is being turned towards the TECHNICAL tended to be better educated and many eagerly accepted. It didn't quite work the pre-1869 situation, when the entire black-and-white world of the 1950's, DIFFICULTIES had been through the UCD history out as expected: after the next Leinster population had to pay a tithe to the setting of innumerable RTE plays and About half the territory of the department in the era of the Dudleys House election (1969) Labour actually Anglican church. documentares: a time when England Saorstat was covered by signal from and the Edwardses. They too wanted was down four seats. The political and social eruption was still powerful and confident and various British transmitters. The to make Ireland resemble England more Within Labour the leadership was in the six counties took the pundits of the Saorstat backward and supine. channels used were thus not available closely, but their model was England soon elbowed aside by the newcomers, RTE completely by surprise. In theory Producers in RTE constantly to RTF! On top of this, there were as it had been in the 1960s when they who diverted the party to pursuit of it just could not happen: under trawl through the past, hunting for other British stations which did not left it. They looked back to the London their own agendas. In their favourite Stormont the minority community evidence of Irish sins, for anti- transmit a signal strong enough to of the 'swinging sixties', of Carnaby metaphor they were going "...to drag was supposed to be perfectly happy, Semitism, or racism or sexual provide a service but which through Street and the Beatles, of the Ireland kicking and screaming into the enjoying the benefits of England's misdemeanours. sporadic interference made a channel 'permissive society' and The Pill and 20th century!" welfare state generosity: the envy the Hatred of Republicanism remains unusable. The planning and allocation a porn-shop on the corner. rest of the country. a prime motivator, even to the extent of transmission channels became a Thus there were two pressure THE COLOUR The dividing line came on 30th of re-transmitting British anti- major technical headache. groups in RTE from the beginning: TELEVISION FIASCO January 1972: Bloody Sunday. With Republican propaganda manufactured There was a further complication. both ambitious to use television to By the mid 1960's television the British Embassy in Dublin for home consumption often produced attacked and burned by an infuriated There were two picture standards in change Irish society, but with quite broadcasting in colour became in total ignorance of Ireland and Irish crowd, the penny finally dropped that use in different areas of Britain, '405- different end-products in mind. What technically feasible and a variety of conditions. 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returned and tried to turn Wolfe Tone beyond the sad pathetic betrayal of pass as the New Stormont fails to ideals and methods on their head. many rebels, comrades who sought deliver and non-sectarian only to protect their own hides. The Republicanism will come into its own IGNORE irony of all this of course is that even again as the last hope for Liberty, REVISIONIST those Irish Republicans who betrayed Equality and Fraternity with the HISTORIANS their own for whatever price usually "breaking of the connection with Let us therefore ignore the did not get an opportunity to benefit England". Republican Sinn Fein will revisionist historians, the spin- from the deal. Paddy was Paddy and work and prepare for that day and be doctors, the various media and political remained Paddy! readv once more to give the lead. Is mor ar fad an phribhleid do to the fact that we are. always have attempts to turn Tone and '98 upside Even the Catholic bishops who dhuine ar bith deis a fhail labhairt anseo been, and are proud to proclaim down and explain it away in terms of backed the Act of Union in the hope ag uaigh Wolfe Tone, bunaitheoir an REPUBLICAN Sinn Fein. What clear- current political necessity. True that they would then see Catholic Phoblachtais in Eirinn. Ni ga a ra mar thinking foresight had those loyal Republicans, but also honest people Emancipation and parity of esteem, sin gur pribhleid fior-speisialta domsa Republican activists who decided after who may not be Republican at all and were as disappointed as Cathal Daly, a bheith i lathairi mbliain seo '98 nuair the decision to recognise Leinster may even to opposed be our views no doubt, will be, when having failed ata 200 bliain cothrom an ama nuair a House in 1986 to stress our also know that it is not possible to to get the picket on Mass-goers in Co rinneadh an chead eiri amach ar son Republican claim at that stage! believe Adams, Trimble, Hume and Antrim withdrawn over the past two phrionsbail an Phoblachtais. Is mor We said at that time what we say Ahern at the same time. years dared to join the Head of the Parachute Regiment, Charles, when the agam i mar phribhleid, mar bhean, mar still. That Adams and McGuinness Honest people, be they historians, Crown Prince opened the Corrymeela Eireannach, mar Phoblachtach agus go and company had already set their politicians, students or just ordinary building in the predominately hairithe mar Leas-Uachtaran ar Shinn minds on becoming some sort of folk, all know that to omit the Tone Nationalist Ballycastle, without even Fein Phoblachtach — an t-aon eagras Northern Fianna Fail party, that would dictat "to break the connection with polaituil ata gniomhach ar bhonn 32 continue to claim to be representative as much as a whimper of protest about • Peig Galligan, National Graves England" makes an insulting mockery this denial of basic religious liberty. chontae a raibh feachtas leaniinach acu of a 32-county revolutionary aisling of Tone's gospel. All those loaded chat Association. in aghaidh an da "Ta" san da reifreann but in fact is now confined to a shows that continue to feature John A The New Stormont will be a le deanai, ce nach dtuigfea e b'fheidir declining form of resentful populism Murphy, Conor Cruise O'Brien and REPRESSION barrier administration between the 6 chlair chiirsai reatha RTE. that may currently be strong in some all the same old tired suspects, while In summary, British policy in British government and the Irish "We come to the holiest place in urban ghettos but in no way represents ignoring scholars; who have in fact 1798 was one of repression. Those people. It will be a self-perpetuating Ireland, holier to us even than the place the broader Republican family even • Wexford pikemen in the Bodenstown parade, to mark the Bicentenary of 1798. researched, updated and sought to set on top stayed on top and made some power bloc dispensing patronage to where Patrick sleeps in Down. Patrick throughout the six of the nine counties suggest like Fianna Fail in the 1920s 1798 in context for this the 200th begrudging concessions in the its supporters. brought us life, but this man died for of Ulster that are still ruled by Britain. that they were going another route anniversary are evidence of this. aftermath of the French revolution — As such it will have to be taken us. And though many before him and For make no mistake about it, towards the same or admit like the In that regard can I recommend the but only to the extent that was out of the way on the road to a free some since have died in testimony of those six north-eastern counties of Officials did in the 1970s that they excellent job of editorship done by our necessary to try and bind a certain and independent Ireland. the truth of Ireland's claim to Ulster, which even RTE and the Irish had changed their minds altogether and Cathaoirleach Sean 6 Bradaigh. His segment of the non-establishment An entirely artificial means has nationhood, Wolfe Tone was the News not to mention the wider pro- proceeded to adopt a classical pro- Songs of '98 is exactly the type of population, Presbyterians and later on been devised to administer under greatest of all that have made that British media increasingly refer to as unionist position themselves albeit popular but informative booklet in two the growing Catholic middle class —in British rule an artificial area carved out testimony the greatest of all that have "the province" are still ruled by, with, with some pseudo Socialist trappings languages (le beagain den bhFraincis submission, in a form that would of Ireland. It cannot endure, no more died for Ireland, whether in old times and from Westminster. The latest Blair that were swept away some years later. involve Catholic leaders from than did the Sunningdale agreement nor or in new. trick simply confuses people with It was left to this generation • Mary Ward, Vice-President, Republican Sinn Fein, the main speaker O Conneil through Maynooth to the original Stormont. "He was the greatest of Irish abuse of language in a manner that hides however for the revisionists and at Bodenstown. Redmond, in keeping the rest in their Regardless of the outcome of the nationalists, I believe he was the the reality but distorts terms like counter-revolutionaries to confuse place. referendums in two geographical greatest of Irish men. And if I am right "Ulster" etc. in such a way as to people further by not only defying the For since, through Famine, land fragments in Ireland, Republican Sinn in saying this I am right in saying that remove the perceived international constitution of Sinn Fein as it had been wars, Home Rule struggle, even the Fein is continuing to campaign for we stand in the holiest place in Ireland, "blame" for the situation from the door since Griffith's original "political Treaty negotiations that arose from the British disengagement from Ireland and for it must be that the holiest sod of a of No 10 Downing Street, in a manner organisation" embraced the Republic rebellion of 1916 and the Declaration for a new four-province federation nation's soil is the sod where the that was never possible up to this. declared in arms in 1916, at the historic of the Republican First Dail Eireann, with maximum devolution to local level greatest of her dead lies buried." We in Republican Sinn Fein drew 1917 Ard Fheis, but by holding on to British policy always has been in broad as the best guarantee of a permanent Those were the words spoken by attention over the past year or two to the title of the organisation itself in terms, to concede a minimum, mainly peace in Ireland. Patrick Pearse in his oration at this this strategy that was aimed in our view spite of the clear change of direction. that which she could no longer pursue Do not make the task more very spot in June 1913. We in Sinn at making a re-constructed British rule in the light of international attention, difficult. Do not cement British rule in Fein Poblachtach in common with in Ireland more benign, and because CLEAR DIFFERENCES but at the same time to frustrate the place. Do not strengthen the New Pearse acknow ledge the grave of Wolfe others would be sucked into co- But even those who remember the growth and development of Irish trade Stormont. Do not vote in the elections Tone as the shrine of revolutionary operating in it would be all the more clear differences in ideology which and commerce, employment and to the New Stormont on June 25. Republicanism, the place where the difficult to end. But even those of us were spelled out by my late husband industry, arts and culture, native Boycott them and weaken British rule founding father of Republican idealism who have read the lessons of the past, when he spoke here in 1987, could education and language, even simply in Ireland. is buried. We come here today not feared another dishonest "'fix-it" pro hardly have imagined some of the Alice democracy and equal social and The Republican Movement today j us! as an act of faith, we come to restate tern could hardly have suspected that in Wonderland brands of constitutional rights. is a modern, enlightened and our programme. Tone has stated it for British imperial policy could have Republicanism that have now taken Of course in recent times, the progressive movement as can be seen us when he said: been more successful in so short a place. approach has become somewhat more from our policy documents EIRE "To break the connection with period. And what of suggestions that if sophisticated. Clearly, a "spin" must NUA. SAOL NUA, and Towards a England the never failing source of all I am not saying that all is lost or you cannot get rid of the RUC you be part of the root cause of the Peaceful Ireland; just as Tone and the our political evils, and to assert the that there were not darker days even can at least work towards "reforming" problem, because America is worried. United Irishmen were in their day. independence of my country, these in our own lifetime for the Republican them — by offering jobs as RUC Britain, which retains the straight vote They were the foremost thinkers of were my objects. To unite the whole cause The saddest and most amazing informants to some former IRA for Westminster and ignored the their age as were the leaders of the people of Ireland and to substitute the thing about this current sell-out prisoners, whose release will depend massive institutionalised 1916 Rising when they addressed their common name of Irishmen in place of however, is not only that it has been on (ierry and Martin remaining good gerrymandering ways of Stormont for Proclamation to "Irishmen and the denominations of Protestant, so well camouflaged, but is in fact being boys We all know that when Dev got 50 years, must pretend to be on the Irishwomen" at a time when women Catholic and dissenter these were my sold" by some of our former comrades • Joe Dillon, Boston, spoke on behalf of the Irish Freedom Committee into office in 1932 he released the in the VS. side of "democracy" now. did not even have a vote. Today we means. It is to that definition of Ireland not just as a .stepping stone a la Collins, Republican prisoners then being held Even though her main contribution are in the world vanguard of liberation as a Nation and to that programme we but in fact a victory. by Cosgrave and the others who had any Irish representative doing in who even in 1972 was suggesting, to "democracy" in this country , as struggles and forward thinkers - in declare ourselves anew here today." liven younger Republicans in our abandoned the Republican path ten Westminster in the first place, or in indirectly of course, that once he had soon as it became clear that she could keeping with those who have gone Speaking in New York on the midst are well aware that sell-outs are years earlier. But we also recall that England for that matter. Except of gained a Stormont seat at the expense no longer hold most of the island even before us on this path. March 2, 1914 Pearse said and I quote nothing new- not just of ideals and many of those released were offered course as a member of a militant of former Nationalist Party leader •Cathaoirleach Sean 6 Bradaigh with the group who presented the music and songs of 1798 in Sallins by brute force and official terrorism. In May 1795 Wolfe Tone visited us not pledge ourselves unless principled positions but in the honest positions within a few years in the Republican delegation that wants to Eddie McAteer, it was time for all the Village, flanked by pikemen and women from Wexford. HMG then drew a line on the map of Belfast for the last time, as he we mean to pledge, we pledge ourselves use of language and in open and honest Broy Harriers and the legacy of these talk to HMG about the one and only boys to seek political jobs, even in that Ulster that had nothing to do with expressed it himself. "I remember to follow in the steps of Tone, never discussion of the issues themselves. gentlemen with their "specialist inside real issue in this context. Arrangements corrupt distortion of Irish democracy we have on the table now is Blueshirts. He had fewer problems it trid freisin) that should have been geography, or with anything else in particularly two days that we passed to rest either by day or night until his This while Gerry Adams says he is on knowledge" of Republicanism in the for ending British rule in Ireland. that was Stormont, and which cost all considerably less than Sunningdale, seems with this than he had with produced by the Department of fact, except a naked sectarian head on Cave Hill. On the first, Russell, work be accomplished, deeming it the the road to the Republic for which he 1930s and '40s. Gerry Adams was released from of us including my late husband such a negotiated by Liam Cosgrave, Garrett appointing Burke to Cabinet! Education and distributed through the count. Neilson, Simms, McCracken and one proudest of all privileges to fight for once fought and encouraged others to Those who went along with the internment in 1972, at the insistence huge price in blood, sweat and tears Fitzgerald and Conor Cruise O'Brien The late John Joe Rice, Sinn Fein national school system. That is if we Not even a cultural event of the or two more of us on the summit of freedom, to fight not in despondency sacrifice their all, David Trimble and Leinster House compromise in 1986 of some of the founders of Republican before it was brought down in March in December 1973. TD for South Kerry, used to recall how still can refer to our school system as magnitude of Blueshirt Bono joining MacArt's fort, took a solemn but in great joy, hoping for the victory his Orange Order bullyboys have must be worried with the recent Sinn Fein, living and dead, to form part 1972. And whatever else one may think Fionan Lynch once advised his Sinn being in any way national. John Hume and David Trimble on stage obligation which, I think I may say I in our day, but fighting on whether asserted that the Union is safe, indeed attempts by Adams and Britain's right of such a delegation to the British Tory In that regard, it may be worth about Liam Cosgrave and his Fein followers at the 1918 General Can I also mention Patrick C can hide the legacy of this the original have, on my part, endeavoured to fulfil victory seem near or far, never lowering that union of 1800, forced through by to rule in Ireland by suggesting that Government of the time, with one main asking Mr Hume, Mr Adams and government they did NOT sell out Election that "there will be some who Powers Irish Historical Press denial of normal democracy in this — never to desist in our efforts until our ideal, never bartering one jot a tittle bribery and corruption in the aftermath even elected constitutional MP's stay issue only. Negotiations aimed at indeed all those political and Article 2 and Article 3 of the 1937 may come back here in later years and publication on the Courts Martial in land. We in Republican Sinn Fein will we have subverted the authority of of our birthright holding faith to the of the Republican challenge to British at home in Ireland and get on with idling getting a British declaration of intent establishment figures who have thrown preach a doctrine other than the basic the various parts of the country in 1798 continue to highlight these basic issues England over our country, and asserted memory and inspiration of Tone. Only rule in 1798, was safer than ever. Constitution at that time, just as Garret up the Dail in Ireland. The point needs to leave Ireland in a phased and orderly themselves behind the new Stormont Fitzgerald —in spite of his Sinn Fein position and they will tell and 1799. Here the sheer injustice and in spite of all the thoughtless hype our independence. we in Sinn Fein Poblachtach and we Both men cannot be right. You to be made perhaps, that the issue manner of course. agreement on the anniversary of the you this is now Sinn Fein policy." cruel follow-up of "British justice" is and ballyhoo! That bedrock link prevails to the alone can stand here today and say protestations about a life-long know that, I know that and Adams about going to Westminster or 1798 Rising, in what way the current, Given Lynch's role a few years revealed in a fashion which still shocks On the bicentenary of the 1798 present day in this Movement. yes we have kept our faith. campaign to scrap these articles his knows that! At least in the past when recognising any British right to govern DISTINCTION basically dishonest deal is better than government wrote the 1985 agreement later as a Cumann na nGael TD and as even in the context of the time. Rising we answer those commentators Having kept our Republican faith It is indeed sad to note that in the some former comrades, who used to any part of Ireland is not really the But a clear distinction was and had Sunningdale, for example? specifically so that no change in Article a Free State Army "Chief in Kerry in The bigoted racialist bias of their who state that Irish Republicanism has let us who have come here today to path, as the Provisionals now De age of mass media soundbite it is assemble here with us in Bodenstown, to made at all times by people like the Austin Currie once a nationalist, 2 and Article 3 would be required. the lead-up to the Ballyseedy period, lordships and the ruling elite in general run its 200-year course and is at an this holiest place renew the pledge of changed their tactics or even their aims, Valera-like protest. necessary to distinguish which branch late Daithi 6 Conaill, who knew what then SDLP and now a Fine Gael TD in But Bertie, it seems, had no it may be worth noting that Fionan is clear. As is the on-going treachery end. Tone. they had the honesty to admit that, to of Sinn Fein we belong to by recourse The real issue is what the hell is Tone was all about, and John Hume Dublin is telling everybody that what problem at all in outbidding the himself was one of the ones who of some Castle Agents — above and In due course the euphoria will An Phoblacht Abu! JO SAOIRSE - luil/July 1998 Vinegar Hill 2OO years later ABOUT 20,000 people thronged the town of Cork sent representatives who Enniscorthy for the Bicentenary of the Battle of marched. Preparations for this Vinegar Hill. It was Sunday, June 21 the exact county-wide, community- date of that historic event based commemoration were begun ten years ago in 1988. Vinegar Ijill Day Contingents of pikemen crowd marched to the summit A souvenir booklet was on and pikewomen totalling 2,000 of Vinegar Hill, where the poet sale and included a photo of a in all marched. All were in Anthony Cronin — a native of contingent to the 1948 period dress and some carried the town — read a poem he commemoration from Fr. muskets. (These latter have composed specially for the Murphy's native parish of obviously not been occasion. Ferns. Their banner read: decommissioned!) All nine baronies of Co "Cave Hill Shall Yet be Ours", Local bands played "The Wexford were represented; Ruairi 6 Bradaigh, Boys of Wexford", "Kelly the Forth, Bargy, Shelinalier East Uachtaran, Sinn Fein Boy from Kilane" and other and West, Scarawalsh, Bantry, Poblachtach led a party of appropriate music. However Shelbourne, Gorey and participants who climbed the 26-County police band, a Ballaghkeen. Vinegar Hill for the ceremonies. Free State Army Band and Eighty parishes in all sent Wexford has done itself strange to relate the Artane contingents as well as the Co proud and deserves heartiest Boys' Band played other than Wexford Associations of New congratulations on this most suitable marching tunes for this York and Manchester. inspiring culmination of a series great event. Counties Carlow, Wicklow, of 1798 Bicentenary events The parade and a huge Laois, Longford, Dublin and county-wide. Blacksmith of 1798 remembered in Urnai THE ancient graveyard at Urnai in the town-land revolutionary France and of Dungooley, Kilcurry, County Louth, just a short the inspiration that its distance south of Forkhill, south Armagh, was the principles of Equality, venue for a 200th anniversary commemoration Liberty and Fraternity give of the 1798 United Irish Rebellion, organised by to the United Irishmen. Republican Sinn Fein in Louth and south Armagh, Green foliage and on Sunday 28 June. Tricolour ribbon • Cover of the Enniscorthy '98 Bicentenary Committee souvenir record Eamon Larkin chaired come into contact with symbolised the uniquely Society. As we stand here England, were deeply people, Protestant, Catholic the proceedings at the grave leading members of the Irish and Republican today we also remember the imbued with the and Dissenter. of the blacksmith Tomas 6 United Irish society. Patrick aspects of the United countless others who gave revolutionary spirit that was "It was their sacrifice La pa in was betrayed to the was one of a number from Irishmen's struggle and its their all for their country sweeping through France two hundred years ago English authorities and was the locality who went to the significance for against the forces of and America in the latter part which awakened the Irish arrested by redcoats and battlefield at Ballynahinch. Republicans today. England in Ireland in battle of the eighteenth century. nation to the possibilities of taken to Bellmount Barracks He survived the battle only The oration was given at Saintfield, Ballynahinch They were fascinated by a unity and freedom which at Shanroe, near Forkhill, to be killed the next day after by Mick Donegan who in and Antrim in the North, in the great possibilities for the British government has where he was beaten and an encounter with the Scorra the course of his address Wexford to the south, and the achievement of human tirelessly schemed to tortured for three days Yeomanry between said: those who fought alongside rights and justice and the prevent ever since. before being hanged. A Banbridge and Donora. He "Today we mark the the brave French preservation of basic human patriot true to his United lies in an unknown grave in 200th anniversary of the revolutionary troops of dignity against arbitrary "It was their stand in Irish oath, Tom Lappin never county Down. 1798 Rebellion in our district General Humbert in arrest and despotic 1798 which ensured that revealed the names his and we gather here at Urnai Connacht. monarchies which were Ireland and the Irish nation tortures wanted to know. The commemoration at by the grave of Tomas 6 "Men like Tom Lappin, prevalent at that time, and were not swallowed whole Also remembered was Urnai continued with the Lapain, the blacksmith and Patrick Locke and Fr James they were determined that by England and two Tom's comrade Patrick laying of a wreath of blue, pike maker from Carrive, who 6 Coigly (or Quigley) of what was won for the hundred years later we owe Locke, a linen weaver who red and white flowers in suffered a cruel death for his Dundalk, who was hanged freedom loving people of them a dear debt of gratitude through his travels to linen honour of the valiant commitment to the ideals of and beheaded at France and America was for their defence of liberty", fairs in County Down had support received from his beloved United Irish Maidstone, in Kent, equally the nght of the Irish he concluded. I

Only a Cross of Shame, Two stark crosses between. All in the April evening, April airs were abroad; I saw the sheep with their lambs. And thought of the Lamb of God. Part 21 — Katherine Tynan The blackbird he's mocking from the apple-bow: Sure, why would you trouble to be coming now When them that sore missed you are past fear and fret? Quiet eyes (CATHERINE Tynan was born into a nationalist Ah, don't you remember? and could you forget? family deeply involved in the Land League. However in 1883 she married a 'Resident There's not a flower in Ireland, there isn't a hill. The boys came home, came home from war, Magistrate" called Hinkson and more or less went Nor yet a breath of the Four Winds but keeps reminding still, With quiet eyes for quiet things — over to the Unionist camp. She died in London in Till my poor heart is troubled and my eyes are wet A child, a lamb, a flower, a star, 1931. For don't you remember? and could you forget? A bird that softly sings. Katherine Tynan was a gifted poet and showed great promise as a writer of patriotic verse, but after her marriage she confined Young faces war-worn and deep-lined, herself to hymn-writing.Her daughter Pamela Hinkson (1900-1982) Sheep and lambs The satin smoothness past recall: became a prominent 'Anglo-Irish' novelist. In the 1939-1945 period Yet out of sight is out of mind she toured the United States for the British 'Ministry of All in the April evening, For the worst wrong of all. Information' speaking against the Indian independence movement. April airs were abroad; The sheep with their little lambs As nightmare dreams that pass with sleep, Passed me by on the road. The horror and grief intolerable, The old land The sheep with their little lambs The unremembering young eyes keep Passes me by on the road; Their innocence. All is well! When 1 came back to Ireland the leaves were on the tree, All in an April evening, The birds on the branches would keep reminding me, And I thought of the Lamb of God. The worldling's eyes are dusty dim, With don't you remember? and could you forget? The eyes of sin are weary and cold, Till I'm living and walking in the old times yet. The lambs were weary, and crying The fighting boy brings home with him With a weak and human cry, The unsullied eyes of old. The wind from the mountains it blows fresh and strong; I thought on the Lamb of God Ah, don't you remember? is still the wind's song. Going meekly to die. The war has furrowed the young face, With don't you remember? and could you forget? Up in the blue, blue mountains Oh, there's no all-heal, no wound-wort! As I went out walking 'twas the dead that I met. Dewy pastures are sweet; The soul looks from its hidden place Rest for the little bodies. Unharmed, unflawed, unhurt. There's a road runs to Wicklow: it goes past the door. Rest for the little feet. The dust of it's holy for feet it once bore. They've all travelled Westward where the sun doesn't set But for the Lamb of God (Written after her sons were sent home shell-shocked from the Ah, don't you remember? and could you forget? Upon the hilltop green, Somme) SAOIRSE — Iuil/July 1998 11 NOVJ available from Irish Freedom Press

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Cowardly AOH the spirit of a young soldier is As I originally stated, it is in every word. the centenary year of Ernie Attack Outrage O'Malley's commitment O'Malley's birth in Castlebar; A chara A chara to the struggle, like so many is any type of event planned, This letter is one of I wish to express rny young men and women of his perhaps not to commemorate, condemnation directed towards outrage, and the outrage of the generation wasn't based on the as that has too many the Provos and their cowardly membership of the Arizona hope of financial gain or fame, connotations with defeat and attack on a true Derry Ancient Order of Hibernians, but on the very essence of their death, but to celebrate the life Republican, Micky Donnelly. whose support of the being been devoured by a cause of a young man who was a Although most Repub- Republican Movement has much larger than individual committed Irish soldier and licans appear to have been Republican? duped by the Provo leadership, 1 A GALWAY READER there still exists a significant number who have remained New York committed to the Republican cause and Micky Donnelly is Easter one of that number. Since the Provos began their treacherous Breakfast crusade towards accepting the A chara northern State, Micky has This letter is in regard to worked vigorously in an the article (SAOIRSE, May attempt to make Republicans 1998) describing the New York realise that Provo involvement Easter Commemoration Mass in the so-called 'peace process' and Communion breakfast is nothing but a complete sell- which was held in Gaelic Park out. on April 12th. The Provo attack on There were three errors in Micky and his family was a the article. First, and most disgusting attempt to silence important is your statement the truth. Once again, history that NY State Assemblyman has been shown to repeat itself: Joseph Crowley was the Collins talked about a Chairman. That is just not so. 'stepping-stone' and Adams Mrs Philomena McCloskey, a talks about a 'phase'. What's long time member of our the difference? Just as the organisation was Chairlady and British used ex-Republicans to did an excellent job. This year's crush resistance after the sell- breakfast was one of the finest out Treaty in 1921, they can ever held. Joe Crowley was our now rely on Provo help to Master of Ceremonies. implement the sell-out Subsequently, Philomena agreement of 1998. McCloskey has received The British army, the RUC, numerous telephone calls the Free State forces and the alleging that the article was a Provos are formidable deliberate attempt to discredit opponents. But true her. Republicans, such as Micky Your second error is that Donnelly, will continue the the Mass and Breakfast is struggle against British rule in sponsored by six, not five Ireland no matter what methods organisations. The New York are used by Britain and her •••••••••• County Tipperary Association allies. • Michael Donnelly, Derry, Chairperson ofComhairle Uladh (Ulster Executive) of Republican Sinn F&in, recovering has been with us for two years in hospital after the Provisional attack on June 28. YOUNG DERRY been lengthy and steadfast, at the atrocious conditions of the 4. Is she being personalities. Most of these and we do not want them to REPUBLICAN the recent attack on Michael Women's Wing in Limerick discriminated against because fighters accepted the feel slighted either. Thirdly, Donnelly and his family. The prison. Dr O'DonnelPs letter of her sex? probability of death as their Mrs Helen Crogan (not Austrian only thing more disgusting than called, on behalf of the Irish 5. She was charged under reward. Cregan, your spelling) read the the attack on Michael Donnelly Penal Reform Trust, for the the Offences Against the State One of the things I learnt Proclamation in Irish and also Solidarity himself was its location. It immediate closure of this wing Act and sentenced by the from reading his books, sang the Irish National Anthem A chara brings back memories of Billy in Limerick prison (built 1821). Special (non-jury) Court with especially the first one, On Since souvenir programs I first learned from the Wright's murderous attack on The women in Limerick are others who are now in Another Man s Wound, perhaps were given to all present on terrible and shameful attack on Kathleen O'Hagan at her home, under health threats because of Portlaoise prison. This makes surprisingly was his sheer Easter morning, we do not Michael Donnelly and his and in front of the children. overcrowding and "slopping" her a political prisoner, where honesty when describing the know how you received all this family by the Irish News and Such behavior has never out at the end of the 1900s. is her status? Why is she effects that fear would have on mis-information. In the interest Irish Times in the Internet. I been surprising from the British' Josephine Hayden, the sole treated as a criminal in filthy him. It is often too easy for of accuracy for the public wrote a short article highlighting Unionist/loyalist bigots who Republican woman prisoner in conditions in Limerick. people who proclaim record, we respectfully request the attack for a new, still small populate that area, but to the 26 Counties is being held Taking all these into themselves, or who are that you publish (late as it is) a Austrian daily, Early bird, that observe the same from those there for the past two years and account I would say it is a case proclaimed as heroes to correction of your mis- is delivered to "opinion leaders" who allegedly share the same two heart attacks and of political and sexual discount fear in retrospect; to information about the New or people who really can goals of justice and equality is continuous visits to hospital discrimination. Her health pretend they were fearless. The York Breakfast. influence public opinion. unacceptable to the have not moved the authorities condition points to a release on honesty in O'Malley's works JE ANNIE MCLOUGHLLN I also sent news about this membership of the Arizona one little bit to give her humanitarian grounds. Her gives those of us with a less National Secretary, FOIF attack to several left-wing AOH. At a time when our humanitarian release. doctor in Limerick General heroic persona knowledge that parties and individuals here in support is needed more than This woman has no political Flospital agrees. to fear is human; but it is The Austria, asking them to send ever, such acts will cause a status whatever in spite of the CABHAIR wants an possible to overcome fear and solidarity adresses to reassessment to be made. fact those sentenced with her answer from the Governor of still be a good soldier not Real Republican Sinn Fein and to If any group should by the Special Courts are in the Limerick prison and the Dublin despite, but perhaps because of demand "SF" to condemn (a) understand the need to give all political wing in Portlaoise Minister for Justice to the letter it. Electoral this savage attack and (b) to voices the right to speak Prison. sent by registered post to Mr Whilst reading O' clearly explain whether they without fear of repression, it is Her one-hour separate Lallan. Malley's books, I really began Count? defend or reject violence against the nationalist community of exercise period has been cut. CABHAIR seeks political to question and resent the A chara Irish Republicans and socialists. Northern Ireland. The hopes I Icr welfare visits have been status now, pending the release notoriety and publicity given Anyone with a keen Please accept the and prayers of our membership cancelled in so far as the that should have been acted to Michael Collins, at the knowledge of maths, knows expression of my deepest go out to the Donnelly family, CABHAIR (Republican upon before now. expense of so many young that one is unlikely to come to solidarity with comrade and we wish them a complete Prisoners Dependants' Fund) PEIGKING people of that fighting the right answer by considering Donnelly and with Republican and rapid recovery. representatives cannot have a Cathaoirleach generation; How is it that no only the whole numbers. In this Sinn Fein, now in the centre of JTMDLXON separate visit in order to talk CABHAIR film has ever been made about neck-of-the-woods we would Free State and Provisional President business. Her visits depend on Ernie O'Malley, Liam Lynch, be well advised to focus rather repression. Please tell the Wolfe Tone Division the disposition of the governor O'Malley Liam Mellows, Tom Barry to on the factions, fractions and family of Michael Donnelly AOH and her visitors are left waiting name but a few? percentages that are really that even in remote Austria Phoenix, Arizona, USA until everyone else has been Centenary I hope that this short and involved in working out all our people are concerned with their seen to. inadequate review of important political sums. To condition and their grief. Isn't Political CA BHAIR sent a registered To be O'Malley's work might inspire leave it to a diversity of well- it a very symbolic act that the letter to the governor Mr. some of the younger readers to heeled and partisan spin- present "Pro-Treaty-Forces" Status for Laffan on May 28 last asking Marked? read his books, and digest the singled out as victim an for answers to a number of A chara cont on page 13 outstanding Republican who Josephine questions, including the In the centenary year of Letters to the Editor should be as was not broken by British following: his birth, it is a privilege for torture?Is there already such a short as possible and written or Haydthe Irish Times (June 18) cancelled? seriousness towards the cause Postal address: 223 Parnell Street\ not achieve? reminded me of an earlier letter 3. Why political status has of Irish freedom is present in Dublin 1. Letters may also be in the Irish Times of March 26 been withdrawn from every sentence, every nuance faxed to Dublin 872 9757 or by KURTLHOTZKY from Dr Ian O'Donnell bringing Josephine Hayden, little as it written in the books. On some Vienna, Austria the attention of the public to was? level the tone and texture of his e-mail to [email protected] SAOIRSE — Ml/July 1998 13 Life of service recalled

ON Sunday, 28 June last, a contingent of out of hand by Tony, and he Movement with them and soldier, a father figure and a Republicans from Carlow, Dublin and Kildare continued the fight. His replied that not only was he moral guide and example to all assembled at the gates of Carlow cemetery and, Republicanism brought him to staying with Sinn Fein but his who remain true to a 32-County following the instruction of the Chairperson Tom the attention of the British intention was to work full-time Federal Democratic Socialist Concannon, fell in behind the National Flag, held forces and, in 1926, at the age for the Movement; he rejected Republic. by Paddy Smyth, and marched to the grave of the of 19, Tony fled to the United the well-dressed and politically "For our part, we in late honorary Vice-President of Sinn Fein, Tony States, where he immediately confused renegades who sought Republican Sinn Fein remain Ruane on the seventh anniversary of his death. joined Clan na nGael. his assistance in turning the committed to obtaining Tony "Tony threw himself in at Republican Movement into a Ruane's goal — a British Amongst those present were family members of political party in 1986 and, Tony Ruane. the deep end in the United political and military States, and worked in Irish when those misfits left the withdrawal from Ireland. And Republican circles alongside Movement in November that people, dedicated Republicans The National Flag was outlined Tony Ruane's history Pete Kearney of the West Cork year, Tony Ruane, for the fifth like Tony, have shown us how dipped for The Last Post, in the Republican Movement. Flying Column, Mick time in his life, stayed with the to do that, and do it we shall", following which a wreath was "Seven years ago, on 13th McLoughlin of the Third Movement. he concluded. laid on behalf of the Republican June, the man commemorated Western Division Staff, North "And we in that Movement will continue to Following a successful Movement by Maureen Kelly here today, Tony Ruane, died Roscommon, Mayo-man Frank • Tony Ruane and a decade of the rosary, in in Dublin's Mater Hospital — remember Tony Ruane, East commemoration, the Ruane Colgan, John Snee, Michael National Treasurer of Sinn Fein Irish, was said by Kitty Tony was 84 years of age. He Mayo Brigade IRA Veteran, family invited those present to Flannery and Michael Crowley and, in 1970, following his Hawkins. was born in Bohola, Co Mayo, Honorary Life Vice-President a local public house where — a formidable and dedicated retirement from the South of The Commemoration in 1907 and, in 1918, at only of Republican Sinn Fein, a refreshments were available. team. Ireland Asphalt Company, he Chairperson, Tom Concannon, eleven years of age, he worked "In the United States, worked full-time for Sinn Fein, a personal friend of Tony for Sinn Fein in the historic Tony joined the National Guard firstly in Kevin Street and later Harney moves to distract public from Ruane, said, "Tony Ruane's General Election of that year. to continue his military training in Parnell Square. name is joined to the illustrious For Tony, that campaign was and rose to the rank of sergeant. "In 1980, Tony Ruane list of Ireland's immortals from to be his first experience of political corruption In 1936, aged 29, he returned retired from his position as Tone down to this very day, Republican activity in a AN attack on the most vulnerable of the commu- to Dublin and joined the Dublin National Treasurer, at the age his unselfish service with IRA, remarkable career to which he nity is how Republican Sinn Fein in Limerick has Brigade of the IRA. Five years of 73. But he did not retire from his great courage, his splendid devoted the next 70 years of described plans by the leader of the Progressive later, in 1941, at the age of 34, his Sinn Fein work, and, for the character, and like all the other his life. Democrats to force people on social welfare into he was sentenced to two years following eleven years of his great men who gave their service "Before he was to reach in the Special Military Courts life, he was a regular, constant FAS schemes in September. down through the years, can his 14th birthday, Tony was in Collins Barracks and served and appreciated sight at Limerick spokesperson Joe Lynch says that the Dublin ad- only be an inspiration to the militarily active in Mayo - he that term in Arbour Hill Prison. Republican Sinn Fein functions. ministration should go after the high profile tax evaders who are young men of today. took part in the burning of the On his release in 1943 he was "Tony Ruane rejected costing the country huge amounts of lost revenue rather than the RIC barracks in Bohola, the "So from this graveside let taken to the Curragh Camp and compromise with the British poorest section of society. capture of the RIC barracks at us spread the word to all the interned there until 1945. and Free Staters in 1922, at "The fact is that the Fianna Fail/PD administration is now Ballyvarry and the taking of all young men of Ireland the "On his release, at the age which time he was on active tainted by the image of cash payments in brown envelopes. At a the arms and ammunition there struggle is not over and it will of 38, in 1945, Tony service in England; he rejected time when there are numerous tribunals conducting probes into by the East Mayo Brigade of go one until the elimination of concentrated on political work compromise in 1926 when the political corruption, this move by Mary Harney serves to distract the then ERA. every trace British authority in and helped to start-up the Liam Fianna Fail group left the attention from the real scandals in Irish Life. Ireland and the maintenance of Before he was 15 years of Mellows Cumann of Sinn Fein, Republican Movement; he "People on social welfare are easy targets. They are the most the Republic established and age, he volunteered for active in Dublin Central, working with rejected the compromisers again disadvantaged people in the community. The Dublin administra- sacrificed by so much suffering service in England and was sent Jack Guiney and Dinny Casey in 1946 and fought back by tion has not shown the same determination to go after high profile by Irishmen down through the to the St. Helen's area, near and, by 1947, the cumann was helping to establish the Liam tax evaders. Until Mary Harney displays an equal commitment to years," Tom Concannon said. Liverpool — whilst he was up and running. Mellows Cumann; he rejected tackling the huge tax evasion problem then her latest outburst The oration was given by there, the Treaty of Surrender "In 1966, at 59 years of the turncoats in 1969 who cannot be taken seriously and must be seen as yet another attack John Horan, Dublin who was signed, but was rejected age, Tony was elected as the beckoned with him to leave the on the poorest and most vulnerable in society," he said. cont from page 12 long since deserted him. As at such an electoral result. human and civil rights which particular Josephine Hayden in and negative" political agenda. recent events show, the right- Only insane Republicans would be automatic and taken Limerick prison and Michael As a former local doctors is to insult one's own wing Tories are now in-tow would agree to implement the for granted in any civilised, Hegarty in Portlaoise were government candidate for the intelligence. with Jeffrey Donaldson's Good Friday agreement in its democratic society. especially welcome. SNP I can assure anyone that We are told that the bandwagon, while the entirety, for within that much Our family "Acknow- there is nothing diverse or 1 Unionist 'No camp needed 30 Republican prisoners have heralded two-year time span, Republican Sinn Fein will ledgement" in the Fermanagh parochial or dark and negative seats to allegedly wreck the become but one of their political it may itself be totally not recognise the new Herald contained a sentence about the ultimate goal of that Stormont Assembly, and they footballs. decommissioned. Thus before Stormont, nor any other thanking the RUC for their help party namely independence of got only 25 i.e. DUP 20 plus Such a dangerous game the Millennium dawns it could Partitionist assembly. For that at the funeral. No such English control. UKUP 5. We are further coupled with other anticipated well be a case of 'Back to the reason we campaigned for a No sentiment was discussed or Scotland has more than assured that they have decided goals such as 'decomm- Future'. vote in the recent referendum agreed by the family. This enough home-bred Neanderthal to merely 'police' the issioning', collectively amount FIONNBARRAO but contrary to media embarrassing sentence in a bigots without the likes of Assembly, rather than wreck it, to an age-old strategy of DOCHAKTAIGH speculation — we were not nationalist newspaper occurred Trimble interfering in our and that therefore, strangely, "Croppies Lie Down". There's Deny involved with any other groups due to a malign influence on a affairs. His presence and their numbers do not matter. no 'new dawn' being promised with a view to mounting a "joint vulnerable member of our comments will be condemned Such is putting a very brave by the Blue and Orange Tories, Irish campaign" on the referendum family. by all right thinking people, and false face on things. The and we should not be fooled question. At best the RUC ignore both Protestant and Catholic reality is that many of into thinking there is. People A recent opinion poll in the nationalist funerals and at worst alike, in Scotland and Trimble's elected colleagues can Donaldson knows he will Irish World newspaper in attack or insult mourners. elsewhere. rightly be described as 'soft have support in establishing a Stampeded England revealed that 80% of The RUC were not asked Perhaps his repugnant Yes-men'. When push comes new brand of Orangeism and A chara their readers wanted a re-united by the Leonard family to help, ideals will help kick-start those to shove, and it will come who will ably assist him in The Stormont Agreement Ireland. That option was or in any way insert themselves in Scotland with Irish roots to within days or weeks, Trimble bringing down the Unionist and subsequent referendums denied the Irish people in the into our bereavement. support the SNP. is hardly likely to be First Caesar. The knives have long were certainly historic events, stage-managed referendums on Whatever PR advantage An independent Scotland Minister for any longer than since been sharpened, and the not since the time of the 22 May. accrued to the RUC by such will help slacken England's grip Brian Faulkner was during the sash will offer little protection. Austrian 'Anschluss' has a Only a full British shady tactics only serves to on Ireland. power-sharing executive of The younger 'Jeff has nation been induced and disengagement and an All- reinforce the contempt felt for Saor ALBA! Saor EIRE! 1974. already struck a near mortal coerced into surrendering its Ireland constitutional them in nationalist communities JAMES BURNS I would contend that while blow. Within the Palace of historic homeland to a foreign conference will provide the in the Six Counties. England 25 is the sum of the whole Westminster the current leader power; in this case, Six conditions for a just and lasting SEAMUS LEONARD numbers, this figure is not the is staggering, but the final Counties to Britain and the peace. Ederney, Co Fermanagh & true answer, for when the extra slashes will be inflicted within other 26 to a faceless European p MCDONNELL Tallaght, Co Dublin NGAto potential 'wreckers/police- the privacy of Glengall Street. bureaucracy. On the false PRO, Republican Sinn persons' are added they will No doubt some astute premise that a Yes vote was a Fein, England Unveil number many more. They journalists are already vote for peace and a No vote Trimble would be unlikely, considering researching the current Orange one for bloodshed, the Irish Shady Plaque their fat pay cheques and Caesar's obituary, and his very people have been stampeded Not A chara expense accounts, to want to public dance, hand in hand with into this political cul-de-sac. Tactics The National Graves wreck the Assembly. Why Paisley, is unlikely to be At a public meeting in Welcome in Association of Ireland will erect should they — they are already forgotten. Liverpool on March 29, 1998, of RUC a plaque to honour ERA Captain an undeclared faction that aims Jeffery sees himself as the a Provisional councillor — in A chara Scotland Murphy murdered by Free to frustrate nationalist next Caesar, and foolishly response to a direct question May I express the deep A chara Staters at Iveagh Road in 1923. aspirations by cherry-picking thinks he can obtain the loyalty — stated emphatically that her appreciation of my family and Arch Orange bigot David The plaque will be erected at every day, until, yet again, the of the Loyal Orders and the organisation would not take myself for the messages of Trimble UUP MP, was in Iveagh Road, Killorglin. It is British tax-payer becomes political machines they created, seats in a new Stormont. sympathy published in Scotland (30 May) recently at the intention of our association bored and, as in the past, their and that loyalty to him will be Already, this position has SAOIRSE on the death of our the invite of fellow bigots from to request a comrade of Captain government decide not to pick even more enduring. He is crumbled. The principal task beloved mother Annie. Thanks the Orange Order in Scotland. Murphy, Dan Keating of up the tab. merely a mouthpiece and of the new Stormont will be to also to all who sent wreaths, Trimble backed the speech by Castlemaine to unveil the David Trimble can no spearhead, while the old-guard barter political prisoner Mass cards and letters of Kenny Blair, leading Scottish plaque. longer claim to be the genuine rallies and prepares its storm- releases in exchange for arms, support. Orange bigot, in which he leader of Unionism at troops to take centre stage. just as the talks themselves were attacked the Scottish National JOHN HOULIHAN Westminster, because the Only very foolish nationalists used to barter away Irish Messages from the Party as "divisive and Kerry Representative majority of his colleagues have would congratulate themselves national rights in exchange for Republican prisoners, and in parochial" and having a "dark NGA 14 SAOIRSE — Iuil/July 1998 MARGARET BUCKLEY. PRESIDENT OF SINN FEIN IT would be v« :a::«:u:::K:u«ix»tmKrnn::uu«in«W« from A-Wing, Kilmainham she remarked that no one seemed to get ill in B-Wing. inappropriate in a tt, Republican Woman's With a wink and a nod in the direction of series such as this THE JANGLE the O/C, a prisoner commented "Sure we're not to advert to fail Journal afraid to get ill here." In the midst of all the the role played privation and suffering Margaret Buckley during the 1940s OF THE KEYS maintained discipline and saw to it that the by the President time on their hands was used to improve of Sinn Fein, •ht themselves. Margaret *»- In her dealings with people she showed Buckley. Qi. he her insight into situations, eg the following: A most dedicated Republican, Id "Strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless Mrs Buckley — or Bean Ui -d- on true that women have an almost uncanny Bhuachalla as she was widely known of faculty of seeing into men's minds and some, — made her most valuable •h d- anyhow, of those prisoners (Mountjoy 1921) contribution to the Movement in u did not feel a bit happy as to the outcome of holding the fort and keeping the d- the negotiations then in progress; Sinn Fein organisation a "going "Compromise was in the air and I think it concern" during those lean years. MARGARET will be generally admitted that women are During her period as President (1937- id. less prone to compromise than men; one or 1950) Sinn Fein was not supported by the 14 BUCKLEY two of our friends were very angry with Irish Republican Army. Eithne (Coyle) when she expressed her fear The IRA from the late 1920s was id that the Republic would be let down by the completely separated from Sinn Fein and • Cover of The Jangle of the Keys negotiators." during the 1930s it launched two successive published in 1938. There is a moving account of the Hon Albina political wings which did not strike roots Brodrick's arrival in the North Dublin Union on MRS. MLAKOARET BUCKLEY, a stretcher. Known as Gobnait Ui Bhruadair she and grow. These were Saor Eire 1931 -32 and M BLACK FLAG whoM book, Tbe Jhuifle of Key*," was a sister of Lord Midleton, a leading unionist, Cumann Poblachta na h-Eireann 1936-7. 1* bring published by Jmme% Duffy On December 29, 24 days after her and had been wounded and arrested while However Sinn Fein and Cumann na and Co. Tfcta will b« tbe Ural election as head of Sinn Fein, Mrs Buckley woman's Jail Journal to bn written attending wounded Volunteers in Kerry. Poblachta did co-operate in two In this country. Mr*. Buckley la a had a black flag flown from the first floor parliamentary' by-elections in 1936 when lifr-lonf Republican and wu Un- balcony of Head Office on Parnell Square. It prteoned In Mount Joy, North Dublin HUNGER STRIKE they campaigned together for Count Plunkett In ion. and Kllmaiohaxn during was the date of the coming into force of de She immediately went on hunger-strike for in Galway and Stephen Hayes in Wexford. 1922-23. Sho U an official of th* Valera's new constitution and at a public release. After 14 days she was freed, still on a Womrn Workers' Union, and meeting in the capital's Cathal Brugha Street No account of the career of Margaret dotU of Sinn twin. stretcher as "she passed between our formed files. Buckley, the first woman to lead an Irish the new President of Sinn Fein described Our OC called out the command 'Eyes Right' political organisation, is included in books the document as "a bogus constitution." and we saluted Gobnait Ni Bhruadair as she on famous Irish women. There had been 116,194 (or 8.75% ) opened her eyes and smiled at us." We are indebted to her nephew, Seamus spoiled votes — on the direction of the As the stretcher reached the wicket gate the 6 Goilidhe in his contribution to The IRA in Back in Dublin in 1920 she became a judge Movement — in the referendum in the 26 prisoners' feelings gave way and they sent cheer the Twilight Years 1923-48 by Uinseann in the North city circuit of the Republican Counties on that constitution the previous upon cheer after her. Mac Eoin for several pages of material courts, appointed by Austin Stack, the 32- July. But the attendance at the protest was Both in Margaret Buckley's own account and relating to his remarkable aunt. County Minister for Home Affairs. She was small. in Mary Mac Swiney's introduction there is now in her early 40s. Next year de Valera secured the return of conscientious concern for the ordinary women She was the sister of his father, Patrick 6 Goilidhe goes on: "What an experience the Treaty ports from the British but ran into prisoners they came in contact with. Joseph Goulding of Cork city and when his it must have seemed, post-Bastille, to preside a stone wall when the question of Partition Mary Mac Swiney writes: "It could be that mother died in 1925 he was "fostered" to his at all those new-founded functions of a was raised by him. When Margaret Buckley when we have won and are putting our aunt in Dublin, now Mrs Buckley. seemingly independent Ireland. But, alas, was re-elected President at the Ard-Fheis Republican house in order, Mrs Buckley and Born in 1879 she married in 1906 Patrick this breakaway into independence and with on November 13 the delegates attending those who like her have seen the degrading and Buckley, "a typical rugby-playing British it the creation of new non-imperial structures numbered 60. degraded conditions of those .. . will be given the civil servant". After Patrick's death she was not to continue. task of devising a more humane and Christian She certainly had her work cut out for method of dealing with them ... we are not moved into a house in Marguerite Road, '"With the collapse into Civil War, her. Glasnevin. fighting for a Republic which will continue or Margaret as a marked figure was interned, Cumainn now were centred mainly in tolerate such a system." Seamus describes his new home as first in Mountjoy and then in Kilmainham Dublin and Cork with one still faithful abroad "comfortable and book-lined". Margaret Margaret Buckley taught Protestant hymns until October 1923. The 10-year old boy — in Glasgow. to her "flock" and they sang "Nearer My God to Buckley was very much a woman in her own came to live with her then in the brick terraced The woman who was active as a member Thee" and "Abide With Me" at Mass, creating a right, working as an organiser for the Irish suburb of Glasnevin. while she was Vice- of the Women Prisoner's Defence League, "mild sensation". Women Workers' Union. (The IWWU was President, and ever active, giving lectures founded by Maud Gonne and Charlotte These are only some of her most interesting amalgamated with another trade union in and keeping the spirit alive. Despard in 1922 and who participated in the accounts of time in prison which undoubtedly recent years.) "She was a very powerful personality and great hunger strike in the autumn of 1923 helped to prepare her for the most adverse of Seamus says that Cork city where his I, being a close relative, probably did not now wxote her Jail Journal. It was published circumstances. aunt grew up was "a hot-bed in her time appreciate her as I should have done." in 1938. Right through the 1940s Mrs Buckley would which was pre-1900." Her father was a Another source (p. 714 of the Twilight give leadership with her small grouping of strong supporter of Parnell and she was "a Years) indicates that she was involved in THE JANGLE OF THE KEYS comrades, never bending the knee, always very young follower" of him. (She was anti-British-Royal-Visit protests in 1903 and Entitled The Jangle of the Keys it runs to asserting Ireland's rights until she handed over to twelve years old when "The Chief died.) 1907 and that she was among the group that 116 pages and sets out her experiences in a Padraig Mac Logain in 1950 an organisation intact founded An Dun in Cork city in 1910. most interesting manner. She was well in every aspect and back once more in a cordial INGHINIDHE NA hEIREANN This account states that she was arrested known to her captors and she tells her story relationship with the ERA. Margaret immersed herself in amateur after 1916, released in the amnesty of June without bitterness, just as one would expect. Her nephew says she had a "refreshing operatic societies and was deeply involved 1917 and played a prominent role in the At last a woman political prisoner had set command of wit and repartee" which stood her in music and choral work. She joined reorganisation aftermath. Arrested again as down her tale of prison life. well in those trying years. Her last Presidential Inghinidhe na h-Eireann which was founded a Sinn Fein courts judge she was freed during Address was published as a pamphlet and indeed The publishers were James Duffy and was the basis for her "Short History of Sinn in 1900 by Maude Gonne, Helena Moloncy the Truce. Co Ltd. Dublin who had been publishers to and Buhner Hobson and later (in 1914) was Three years after the formation of Fianna Fein" published in 1956 and used in educational the Young Ireland movement. Their last classes in the organisation for many years. absorbed into Cumann na niBan. Fail in 1926, a body known as Comhairle na office in the capital was 21 Shaw Street, Ard 6 Goilidhe continues: "Now in the first In 1950 she reverted to Vice-President, a Poblachta was set up to find, in Mary Oifig for Republican Sinn Fein from 1987 to position she held until her death. When the entire decade of the Celtic Dawn, the nation, yes, MacSwiney's words, "agreement and co- '89. the Nation of Davis, Tone, Lalor and Mitchcl. Ard-Chomhairle was arrested at a meeting of that operation between the civil and military arms Margaret Buckley was a formidable body in July 1957 and later interned without called; and the cudgels then taken up were of the Republic." figure, much taller than the average woman trial, she was not held. She made her way to the not lobe laid aside until July 24. 1962 when Margaret Buckley was a member along and built accordingly. She emerges in these Sunday Press offices and as sole Ard-Chomhairle she passed on." with Mary Mac Swiney, Maud Gonne, pages as a woman to be reckoned with. member free to do so she made a public statement He believes that Margaret returned to Count Plunkett, Frank Ryan, Peadar When the women prisoners refused to to the Irish people. She was then 78. Cork from Dublin to attend her ill father and O'Donnell, Brian O'Higgins, Mick Fitzpatrick be searched on transfer from Kilmainham to The account of her efforts to recover the that "she was welcomed by the Mac and others. The Comhairle was not the North Dublin Union, many were badly funds of Sinn Fein seized in 1922 will be told Swineys, the Mac Curtains and everybody successful. beaten. Mrs Buckley was put into the another day. She was buried in St. Finbarr's who was anybody in the excitement of the At the Ard-Fheis of Sinn Fein in October surgery by the three searchers, she drew cemetery in her native Cork and John Joe Rice, Tan struggle". 1934 Margaret Buckley became one of its herself up to her full height and glared at former Sinn Fein TD for South Kerry and Ruairi Earlier, of course, she engaged in militant Vice-Presidents. Fr O'Flanagan was now them. O Driscoil, NT spoke at her graveside. anti-British activities in her native city as President and Mrs Buckley had been "I became a cave woman" she writes, Of all people it was due to Margaret Buckley she describes in a series of articles in An t- prominently associated with him and those and the searchers did not touch her. She that Sinn Fein survived as a vibrant Republican Eireannach Aontaithe (The United who opposed de Valera's scheme in 1926. was then 44 years and a comfort to the other political organisation. Let us salute a valiant Irishmen) in the early 1950s. She wrote under prisoners. They elected her O/C in Irishwoman! the pen name Margaret Lee and in one Cathal 6 Murchadha became President Mountjoy, Q/M in the North Dublin Union (More next month. Refs. The Jangle of the episode tells how she and other young in 1935 and two years later at the age of 59 and O/C B-Wing in Kilmainham. women pelted with rotten fruit a British Army Keys, by Margaret Buckley, 1938; The IRA in Margaret herself stepped into the breech. She organised courses for the prisoners band playing in the Cork Opera House while the Twilight Years 1923-48 by Uinseann Mac The organisation was slowly sinking and and ran a "tight ship". When a medical dressed in full and glittering regimentals. Eoin, 1997, and Guns and Chiffon 1916-1923 only 40 delegates were present. doctor who was also a prisoner came over by Sinead Mac Coole, 1997.) SAOIRSE — Ml/July 1998 15

separate and distinct refercndums of sympathise with freedom-fighters like 1998 did. Pat McManus and support them; if Fenian Notes Two rather than one referendum we are not prepared to lobby here for were imposed by the decision of the the same; if we will not help political By our Washington Correspondent British Government in deference to the prisoners, then we have lost our soul Unionists and partition. and obliterated our conscience. HE Partition of Ireland has been is a permanent dead end. The AIAC The McManus letter is all about O one should be coerced into copperfastened by Treaty II of is a part of this and ultimately is the judgement and its overall tone is taking up arms to rid Ireland malicious. The British Foreign Office of the British, but no one 1998. Coercion and threats guarantee of the union which is N T would not go as far as he did, but they should be condemned for choosing to brought Treaty I, but it was a more guarantor by the Treaty. always appreciate when an Irishman do so. subtle threat that culminated in Treaty These are the facts and they will attacks his own to their obvious There is too much revisionism II, and a far more sinister result. not change, however a massive benefit. today that would make all Irish Irish Americans played a propaganda campaign is under way to In the text, McManus denies the patriots pacifists. Since we are living significant role in Treaty II, but let it convince borderline Republicans that mayhem, it is about challenging struggle is between Republicans and in the States, we might as well condemn be said Treaty II has partitioned the this is the only choice. tyranny. the British and states it is a sectarian American rebels who were "vicious and Irish people in the United States. If it is, and if it was the right Not only do Treaty II supporters feud, which has always been the far more violent" than Irish rebels. Henceforth, those who still choice, there would be no need for the like McManus accept Partition, but British and Free State party line. William Pitt, a member of the support uncompromised true propaganda campaign which has with it they embrace the British For years Sean McManus stated British parliament, was sympathetic Republicanism will be known as the enlisted former Irish Republicans, and conqueror, which only unqualified that the conflict was one between the to the American terrorists of 1776 and Irish American Community (LAC) and others who have consciously Sold Out resistance can menace. Resistance to Republican Movement and the British said: "Were I am American, as I am an those who support Treaty II should to assist the British and Free Staters a conqueror is an exercise in legitimacy Government and their allies and those Englishman, I would never lay down be referred to as the Anglo-Irish in selling Treaty II as a viable and legitimacy initiates its own means. who speak otherwise are distorting the my arms. Never, Never, Never!" American Community (AJAC) so that alternative to unity and freedom. Treaties draw boundaries both facts. Rebellion against tyranny; allegiances are clearly reflected in HAT is shocking are those physical and tactical, too often A united and free Ireland has been Rebellion against a conqueror is totally designations. who are on the British Free unnatural boundaries, the the goal of the active of the Irish in justifiable under natural law. What is configuration of the conqueror and The ultimate design of the AIAC State bandwagon, one Fr Ireland and America for well over one unnatural is to think that if you ask a W local denizens too quick to embrace hundred years and no sincere person tyrant will comply. Until the tyrant is to destroy Irish Republicanism, by Sean McManus, is particularly power. People are only conquered has ever stood in judgement of the leaves, the Irish Republican Movement redirecting Irish Americans into shocking. In a letter dated May 26, when they accept the state of being means utilised by those on the ground, must never lay down its arms. Never! believing the "peace process" can bring 1998, Rev McManus excoriates true subjugated and do not rebel and resist. except those who parrot the British Never! Never! about a United and Free Ireland which Republicans for remaining faithful to The McManus appeal to line. Here we go again, the British divide is the ultimate big lie. The lie was their principles and their conscience. Republican dissidents is a misnomer Fr McManus should know that the Irish and they reconquer us. When solidified in the last hours before Before dissecting the letter, we despite being a document that reeks of violence in the form of physical force we unite and focus on the national Treaty II was agreed upon. must remind ourselves that whenever a self-deprecating mentality reserved or its immediate threat is the only issue, we are solid, but when we In a series of phone calls, President the British want to berate the Irish, for those who try to exist with the option that works against the British. philosophise on means and methods Bill Clinton talked to those needed to they absolve themselves and convert conqueror and accept their hand-outs. If the Treaty is considered a success, and options, then we help and benefit guarantee the Treaty as essential them to their will. The letter is an embarrassment to then failure is preferable and the British. participants without whom the Treaty So with Treaty n, London scans any Irish man or woman who has a honourable. There is no honour in The British government and was doomed. the political horizon and find Irishmen conscience about rebelling against surrender and continued Partition and especially the British Foreign Office To get Trimble, Clinton had to tell in Ireland and America ready to give tyranny that this Treaty will British rule. must have framed copies of the him the Union was guaranteed by the willing assistance. institutionalise. McManus sell-out letter, pride and British and American Governments True Republicans are not fools and First of all, Rev McManus should ULTIMATE SACRIFICE place, on their office walls. They with the assent of Dublin. realise what is in the best interests of realise that Republican dissidents are Rev McManus should be apprised would never dare put out such a letter not those who still oppose and forever themselves. To get Adams, he had to guarantee Ireland and need no foreign cleric or that there are some things worth will oppose, British presence in McManus has accepted the enough access to power and money to Englishmen to dictate terms to them. fighting for and the ideal of a united Ireland, but those who dissent from and free Ireland is worth it and many Treaty; McManus has therefore keep Gerry and his colleagues from British interests, partition, the true Republicanism and opt for a imbibed Partition by such acceptance, hard-line critics. Treaty is one side, and Irish interests, choose to make the ultimate sacrifice Treaty which has as its cornerstone in firefights, on hunger strike, or on so should we look for his name in the unity, and resistance (any means — division, disunity and Partition. missions such as that of his own heroic Honour's List next year. UNION GUARANTEED acceptable) is the right side. Sean McManus attempts a brother, Pat McManus, 40 years ago I pity anyone who calls himself Adams was to be allowed to talk Former Republicans on both sides convoluted appeal to true conscience- this month. Sean McManus need not Irish and writes such a letter as he did. of unity, but he was told bluntly that of the Atlantic are attempting to sell enhanced Republicans to stop ficht. but it is a discrace to condemn He could take a lesson from the older Trimble was guaranteed the Union. the British Treaty as a stepping stone physical resistance and log on to the those willing to do so. leaders he references who maintain What Clinton informed Trimble was, to Irish unity and Freedom as did their Treaty. He claims the people of It seems the custom these days to dignity, honour, and conscience and no percentage figure of majority would Free State predecessors in 1922. Ireland have spoken freely and tell rebels, revolutionaries and their who have heavy hearts for every life allow nationalists to vote for unity by Perhaps there will be a succession democratically invalidating the supporters the parameters and bounds that was lost by their command consent, since to opt out of the UK of Treaties to submerge our thinking Republican Cause by inference. within which they might operate. including that of Patrick McManus. necessitated enhancing legislation by into a series of stepping-stones that Those bounds have been set by Father McManus has the right to the British parliament which would lead down a path to nowhere. UNDEMOCRATIC the enemy, Britain, and are now condemn violence, but he should not not do so without Unionist assent. The McManus letter, previously A people speaks freely when it reinforced by collaborators who condemn and threaten freedom- fighters. It is he and other promoters Let this sink in, because no one in noted calls for unilateral peace at any speaks as one unitary force as the Irish threaten us. Who do the threats price and condemns the physical force people did in 1918, not speaking benefit? They benefit and bolster of the Treaty who should receive no Dublin, the SDLP or Provos can say sympathy or support. there might be unity down the road efforts of Republicans. Physical force through the voice of Partition (an Britain and Partition. Whose side are because the road has been closed and is not about random violence and undemocratic practice) as the dual, we on? If we are not prepared to — Peadar Mac Fhinin

HEGARTY, Deepest sympathy Comhbhron is extended to the Hegarty Beannachtai Paul O'Dwyer BYRNES, Deepest sympathy is family, Clarecastle, Co Clare on the death of their mother. From CALLAGHAN, Jack (The lad!) Listen, Jack, if you didn't want to IN Memoriam — Paul O'Dwyer, Bohola, County extended to Niall and Patricia go to Bodenstown, you could have just said so — no need to throw a Byrnes, Patrickswell, on theGeraldine and Bobby McNamara Mayo 1907 — New York City, June 26, 1998. and family, Tipperary town. 'sevener' and end up in James' Street Hospital!. From the "Second tragic death of their son Ciaran. Sunday Rafflers! and the 'Christmas Crew' . You can't keep an old All of us who were From the Republican Movement, HEGARTY, Deepest sympathy our brief and inadequate salute is extended to the Hegarty (?) war horse down . . . privileged to know and work to you and I strongly feel that Limerick. BYRNES, Deepest sympathy to family, Clarecastle, Co Clare on with and under Paul's advice this is your response to us: the death of their mother. From DONNELLY, To Derry's own Braveheart, Micky Donnelly. From Niall and Patricia Byrnes and Caoimhe, Niamh, Una, Tina, Deaglan, Ruairi and your wife Martina. over decades of long and Do not stand at my grave family on the sad death of their Des Cox, Armagh city. sometimes difficult times were WALSH, Deepest sympathy is To fight is to win and we won. and weep son Ciaran. From Republican "To carry on, no matter what odds are against you, to carry on emotionally saddened when he Sinn Fein, Limerick extended to Margaret and Saoirse I am not there Walsh on the death of Elizabeth no matter what torments are inflicted on you. The road to freedom was called away on the 23rd of I do not sleep. BYRNES, Deepest sympathy is is paved with suffering, hardships and torture, carry on my gallant extended to the Byrnes family Walsh. From the Ard June. He was the rock we all Chomhairle, Republican Sinn and brave comrades until that certain day." I am a thousand winds that on the death of their son Ciaran. — Tom Williams, executed 1942, Belfast prison. leaned on in good times and bad. From Na Fianna Eireann, Fein. Like many of his comrades in blow WALSH, Deepest sympathy is DONNELLY, The Ard Chomhairle of Republican Sinn Fein sends Limerick. solidarity greetings to Michael Donnelly, Derry and best wishes for a the world-wide anti-imperialist 1 am the diamond glints on BYRNES, Deepest sympathy to extended to Margaret and Saoirse Walsh on the death of Elizabeth full and speedy recovery. struggle and in the centuries old snow Niall and Patricia Byrnes on the DONNELLY, Michael, Wishing you a very good and quick recovery. sad death of their son Ciaran. Walsh. From Josephine, Mick, fight to rid his beloved Ireland I am the sunlight on ripened Roisin and Brian. Best wishes from your comrades in the Keenan/Toner Cumann, of British rule, he had From Joe and Nora Lynch, Republican Sinn Fein, Derry city. grain Limerick. WALSH, Deepest sympathy is developed into a legend, an extended to Margaret and Saoirse DONNELLY, Michael, Wishing you a very quick recovery. From I am the gentle autumn s BYRNES, Deepest sympathy is Comhairle Uladh. almost god-like figure. extended to Niall and Tricia Walsh on the death of Elizabeth rain. Walsh. From CABHAIR DONNELLY, Michael, Get well soon. The croppies will not lie down. The law firm which he Byrnes on the tragic death of From the Connolly/O'Neill Cumann, Republican Sinn Fein, The When you awake in the their son Ciaran. From Mick WALSH, Deepest sympathy is founded in 1935 was a second morning's hush extended to Margaret and Saoirse Liberties, Dublin. Han ley, Limerick. DONNELLY, Michael, Wishing you a good and speedy recovery. home for many of us and grew I am the swift uplifting rush BYRNES, Deepest sympathy is Walsh on the death of Elizabeth into an institution that fought Walsh. From Cumann na mBan From CABHAIR (Irish Republian Prisoners' Dependants Fund). of quiet birds in circled flight extended to Niall and Patricia DONNELLY, Michael, Solidarity greetings and wishing you a fast imperialism either British or Byrnes on the tragic death of WALSH, Deepest sympathy is I am the soft stars that shine expressed to Margaret and and good recovery. From all the staff of SAOIRSE. American—whenever it at night. their son Ciaran. From Des DONNELLY, Michael, Solidarity greetings and best wishes for a full Long, Limerick. Saoirse Walsh on the death of showed its ugly head. He Elizabeth Walsh. From Ann and speedy recovery. From Cumann na mBan. personally saw that those who Do not stand at my grave DRISCOLL, Deepest DONNELLY, Get well soon to Michael, beaten by thugs. From all his sympathy is extended to John Devlin Cumann, Dublin. became its targets had proper and cry WALSH, Deepest sympathy is friends in the Corrigan/Kearney Cumann, Republican Sinn Fein, Driscoll of Cahirciveen and Armagh city. legal defence and always I am not there Kildare and his family on the extended to Margaret and Saoirse without fee. I did not die. Walsh on the death of Elizabeth DONNELLY, Get well soon Michael, best wishes for a quick recovery. recent death of his wife in Walsh. From Lita. From the 1798 Commemoration Committee. He has now joined Michael Kildare. From John Houlihan, WALSH, Deepest sympathy is DONNELLY', Michael, Get well soon. Wishing you a fast recovery. To all his accomplished and Droumrus Currow, Killarney, Co From Na Fianna Eireann (Dublin). Flannery, Tom Maguire, Daithi Kerry. extended to Margaret and Saoirse O Conaill, Tom Falvey, Michael able family, I offer my Walsh on the death of Elizabeth DONNELLY, Michael, Wishing you a speedy recovery. Best wishes DRISCOLL, Deepest from Josephine Hayden, Limerick prison. J Quill in the Valhalla of Irish sympathy and condolence. Let sympathy is extended to John Walsh. From Comhairle Atha us carry on until all he Cliath. DONNELLY', Michael, Solidarity greetings and best wishes for a fast heroism and I know that they Driscoll, Cahirciveen and Kildare recovery. From the Wolfe Tone Cumann, Republican Sinn have saluted and welcomed him desperately fought for becomes on the recent death of his wife. WALSH, Deepest sympathy is extended to Margaret and Saoirse Fein,Tallaght, Dublin. in the Great Beyond. Keep an a reality of life, not only for the From Jim O'Shea, St Joseph's DONNELLY, Michael, Wishing a full recovery' to the man who did Tee, Cahirciveen, Co Kerry. Walsh on the death of Elizabeth eye on us, Comrade people of the land of his Walsh. From Wolfe Tone not fear to speak. From Comhairle Ceantair Atha Cliath, Republican HEGARTY, Deepest sympathy Sinn Fein. Commander, we would not be nativity but for all the people is extended to Michael Hegarty Cumann, Tallaght. where we are without you. of his world whether black, WALSH, Deepest sympathy is DONNELLY, Michael, Get well soon and best wishes for a full recovery'. and family, Clarecastle, Co Clare From the Patrick Cannon Cumann, Republican Sinn Fein, Raheny As in the past, I will say white, yellow or brown. on the death of their mother. extended to Margaret and Saoirse From Peig and Paddy King, on the death of Elizabeth Walsh. DONNELLY', Michael, Wishing you a very speedy and full recovery. no good-byes, just a very Raheny, Dublin. From Peig and Paddy King. From Kerry Comhairle Ceantair, Republican Sinn F6in. reluctant so long, Paul! That is — George Harrison 16 SAOIRSE — Ml/July 1998 (SOME BATTLE) THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME working-class Orangemen are IXTH of July 1916. Orangemen, handful of local against the troublesome all of this the presence of a Drumcree. At Drumcree he planning to take time off work Willie stepped up onto residents who haven't any 'natives'? British colonial army is explained the Orange Order to defend their 'right' to march. the parapet. A white guns. All the officers busy Up in Belfast Kevin forgotten. The British were doing what they wanted. S government's role is obscured Not what the British were Working-class nationalists are horse painted on the back of planning next year's McQuillan, prominent IRSP being forced to take time off his uniform signalled all present capitulation up at Stormont. member, lies partly blinded, his behind this recent 'sectarian' telling them. The principle of work by the road blocks all over he was the one to follow. Willie stands below the church skull smashed by the summer madness. The Orange tame Irishmen was being breached and that could not be the Six Counties. Willie and Nearby the Rev Walker at Drumcree beating a lambeg 'Enforcers'. While down in Order plays its traditional role allowed. God knows where it James will be in 'talks' for the walked up and down, not drum. In the wee houses on the Derry Michael Donnelly, and all 'is back to normal'. Garvaghy Road people wait for Ulster chairperson of Alistair Graham, boss man could end, he explained. foreseeable future ... mind you knowing whether to pray or at £44,000 a year who cares if stay or run away. The lads down events to unfold. Is it to be Republican Sinn Fein lies in of the 'Parades Commission' ACK in France 1916 1690 or 1916? Or will 1998 be hospital after a similar beating. gave some of the game away has passed and gone but it's about 1690 or 1916 or in the trenches were singing The whether Holland can beat Sash and writing short notes to a totally new departure in the It seems the 'new police force' when making a statement about Bthe Dutch team in their history of unionism. is already flexing its muscles. w hy the British were allowing orange shirts are doing Croatia . . . the important thing their bank managers before the is to keep talking, dialogue, Upon reaching Dublin all Nationalist 'dissidents' on the an Orange march go down the amazingly well in the World oflf. It was like 1690 all over communication . . . again The anticipation was that those years ago King James said Garvaghy Road, Ormeau Road Ormeau Road. He said that the Cup. Sitting in front of his TV the outcome would be broadly "My Irish troops have all and all the other roads where Orange Order had been good set Willie is looking forward to And the British similar. Willie charges, the rest deserted me . . ." Some wit the 'Croppy' will not lie down. obedient Irishmen for a year or the prospect of a final between government? Well, they gave the follow, Walker stops walking. reminded him they must be Take note. two and had done what they Holland and Croatia. Croatia he orders to charge at the Battle of On the 6th of July 1916 things particularly slow runners as the F course it is all a were told at Ormeau. As a perceives as a Catholic country the Somme ... if Willie could turned ugly. bold James had reached Dublin smokescreen. We must reward they would be allowed and . . . remember that he'd know who Fifth ' of July 1998. ahead of them. O of course address this walk over nationalists again. Well, it's all relevant, isn't the real enemy is ... Drumcree, things are looking Are we this year to witness problem, but it is clearly a There was no trade-off between it? Perhaps next year . . . slightly brighter. Five thousand James and Willie join together manufactured Stormont con. In the Ormeau Road and Down at Drumcree — Mac Cool

1998. Cionnaith, July 7, 1998. From an Irish Those in power write the perspective it is worth history, those who suffer WHAT write the songs. This is the noting that, far from unwritten history of our SEANKEENAN healing the divisions between Belgium's two people. THEY communities, a process of — Irish ballad singer institutionalised power- Frank Harte, RTE Radio sharing not unlike that One, July 7, 1998. Memorial Fund Draw SAID adopted for the North may Catholic Unionist, No well have served in this sell-out. The loyalist assass- country to perpetuate them. Local residents DRAW RESULTS ination campaign was being — Patrick Smyth, addressing Stormont First prize: £1,000, Aidan O'Kane, Swatragh, Co Derry run by affluent and well- European Diary, the Irish 'Deputy Minister' Se'amus £500, Willy Hampson, Slaughtneil, Maghera, Co Derry connected individuals, Times, June 19, 1998. Mallon after his meeting including a baker, a lawyer, There's no need to say with Garvaghy Road £300, Mark Grieve, Claudy, Co Derry an accountant, a clergyman the war is over. People are nationalists, Irish Times, and owners of the some of intelligent, they don't need July 8, 1998. £200, Mrs K Donegan, Newry, Co Down the largest businesses . . . words put into mouths. The clock is ticking Five prizes of £100; Pearse McKenna, Maghera, Co Derry, — Sean McPhilemy, — Mary Nelis of the towards the weekend and Ray Moore, Omagh, Co Tyrone, Joanne Heaney, author of The Committee'. Provisionals, Sunday towards confrontation Twenty-eight members of Tribune, June 21, 1998. between the [British] Garvagh, Co Derry, John Kealey, Dun given, Co Derry and the loyalist death squad Breandan Mac security forces and the Thomas McBride, Dungiven, Co Derry. control group are named in Cionnaith, of the Garvaghy Orangemen. the book. Road Residents Coalition, — Orangeman David The organisers wish to thank all those who contributed by The Republicans who has branded British Prime Jones, Portadown, as buying and selling tickets for the above draw. espoused the anti-sectarian Minister Tony Blair's reported on RTE Radio politics which inspired me, comments that the activities One, July 8, 1998. are now at the forefront of of the Orange Order have demanding laws and been a 'responsible' attempt institutions that celebrate to resolve the situation as difference. What were United Irishman remembered being a calculated insult to 200 years ago today. Wolfe not far from where we stand. He presented as artificially the residents of the REPUBLICAN Sinn Fein held a 1798 created identities are now Tone, the father of Irish played his part in the struggle lor Garvaghy Road. commemoration on Pennenden Heath, near Republicanism, on hearing of held up as natural, historical Irish freedom and that struggle is Garvaghy Road Maidstone, Kent, England on Sunday, June 7. the death of James Quigley still alive today, despite all setbacks. traditions which deserve Residents press release, wrote in his journal: 'Quigley "So, comrades and friends, let 'parity of esteem' and The commemoration was "Taimid anseo inniu in July 7, 1998. held on the site of the execution onoir an t-Athair Seamus 6 has been executed and died like us go from here today with a new "mutual respect". Britain, a hero. If ever I reach Ireland Is Tony Blair going to of I r. James Quigley who took C'oigligh, a rugadh i gContae Aid determination to continue that which used to be the force and we establish our liberty I capitulate to the Orange part in the 1798 Rebellion and Mhacha in Eireann. Fuair se has fight until all our objectives have for division, is now looked was captured and executed by the ar son na h-Eireann. will be the first to propose a been finally met." Order every time they up monument to his memory and on as the neutral arbiter and English on the heath. "Comrades and friends, we their ante? If his meeting his conduct.' invited to stay to mediate are gathered here at this place to Solidarity greetings were read with Orange Order leaders Michael Holden of between the conflicting Republican Sinn Fein spoke: "A commemorate the death of "James Quigley had been by Pat McDonnell, and included a aspirations. is not to review the decision chair do go leir, ta athas mhor James (.hiiglev. a member of the sent to France to organise message from the CIRA prisoners of the Parades Commission, orm bheith anseo inniu, agus ta United Irishmen, who was support for the 1798 Rising in Portlaoise Prison and a message Kevin Rooney, writer, what is its purpose? lYiilte roimh go leir go executed by Iiis enemies on the and. on his return, he was from West Hertfordshire Irish Fortnight magazine June — Breandan Mac Pennenden Heath. seventh of June 1798 — exactly arrested at the port of Dover, Cultural Society. Don't sell out to LEINSTER British HOUSE. agents in 26 Cos. 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