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Organ of the CoaaoDy Association BUY BOOKS WHILE YOU CAN! RAT The Tories are planning a 15% VAT on books so as to spread their cult of Ignorance. No 490 DECEMBER 1984 30p BUY NOW at the FOUR PROVINCES BOOKSHOP NO SALE! 244/246 GRAYS INN ROAD, WC1 Sustentation fund YOU might think that £326 is a good figure-until we tell you that it covers two months. We could paper a fair-sized wall with bills and reminders and we MRS T. WANTS IT really need £300 a month. For there are wages to be found, rest, electricity and water to be paid for, plus the materials required for political activity. If you figure that out you'll see that £300 a month is only part of what we need, the rest having to be met in other ways. FOR NOTHING However, we keep going, and our thanks to: M. Brennan £5, S. Clarke £2, C. LONDON SUMMIT FIASCO Remember O'S. £5, J. D. Bolton £15, S. S. Watts £10, G.Ward £1, J. Mavanagh £3.20, A. Noone £4, C; They'll go on chattering Republican Moloney £8, South London CA £55,1. Linehan £1, J. Harmon £3, FROM all accounts the London "summit" (other people have meetings, big shots have J. McDonald £11, R. J. Tolhurst summits) between Mr Fitzgerald and Mrs Thatcher, produced a big nothing. But they'll go on prisoners £5, Anon £50, I. Moody £5, B. Farrington £2.50, M. O'Donnell chattering, and things will go on as they are, which will suit them fine. IF you sent a prisoner a card like the one £10, E. O'Dowling £20, D. illustrated on this page, you couldn't be The only thing they are agreed on is to continue the repression of sure that he'd get it. O'Connor £1, C.C. £2.60, J. Irish people and their friends republicans. should therefore be vigilant. Kavanagh £3.20, H; Robson £5, C. But you don't need to send a political Moloney £1.50, K.C. £3.75, C. The IRISH DEMOCRAT has never advised republicans to pursue a American patience is not message. The main message is that the Qtrinn £1.08, South London CA policy of violence, which has political disadvantages a man sees clearer inexhaustible. The Thatcher prisoner is not forgotten. government kow-tows and £25, East London CA £9, M. when he gets older. But has it ever occurred to the British Tories that if The "Irish Democrat" has never recom- genuflects in or Jer to keep its Brennan £5, C. Leslie £5, T. Egan what they are doing in Ireland did not provoke violence, then human mended the offences of which republican £2, C. & G. Findlay £10, D. nature would have undergone a miraculous transformation? stewardship, but how long will prisoners have been found guilty. But for McLoughlin £6, C. Pamment this last? one thing we are not convinced that all of MERCENARY them are guilty. And for another even if £3.20, G. Sheilds £5, R. Rossiter So the two big-wigs filled their protecting England's border, the their actions were unwise their motives There are signs that some £9, P. Horgan £2.60, R. bellies and got their heads Tories would be suing for terms were not those of personal gain. Searchfield £1.20, supporters in Americans have lost faith in a together and decided to hot up within a month. Here is a list of them, got out by Soath London £9.25. British solution and are "security," though if the Republic considering the possibility of an Northampton' Connolly Association: total: £326.08. were to refuse to waste its money ABYSMAL American solution. If British William Armstrong (119085) Gartree, Mr Fitzgerald belongs to a class troops were moved to Shannon Liam Baker (464984) Hull, James Bennett which regards itself as "west the country would go mad. But if (464989) Parkhurst, Stephen Blake (507953) Wakefield, Martin Brady British," and the abysmal the, Yanks decided on a big naval performance of the present (119087) Long Lartin, Eddie Butler base at Bantry, southern shop- (338637) Leicester, Eddie Byrne (873453) government in the opinion polls keepers and chambers of Long Lartin, Bobby Campbell (B32954) arises not only from the economic commerce would be overcome Hull, Anthony Clarke (726381) Parkhurst, position, which presents with mercenary enthusiasm for Martin Coughlin (507955) Hull, Anthony difficulties outside government Cunningham (B03106) Long Lartin, Gerry the stars and stripes. Or at least we Cunningham (132016) Long Lartin, control, but from a widespread fear some of them would. Robert Cunningham (131877) Long belief that its allegiences are non- And if they were brought in on Lartin, Hugh Doherty (338636) Parkhurst, Irish. Vincent Donnelly (274064) Gartree, the discussions, some of the Brendon Dowd (758662) Leicester, Harry Republicans might accept a Duggan (338638) Parkhurat, Noel Gibson There is a feeling that Mr united Ireland under American (879295) Gartree, Richard Glenholmes Fitzgerald would sell the country tutelage, though by no means all (B32952) Long Lartin, Patrick Guilfoyle (507956) Parkhurst, Patrick Hackett if he could get a price for it, but would do so. that Mrs Thatcher wants it for (342603) Parkhurst, Sean Hayes (341418) The alternative to a British Albany, Paul Holmes (119034) Albany, nothing. solution, which is no solution, and Sean Kinsella (758661) Wormwood an American solution which is no Scrubs, Brian Keenan (B26380) Leicester, Ronnie McCartney (463799) Gartree, The present impasse presumes a beMer, is an Irish solution, a John McComb (B51715) Parkhurst, Con factor that is never discussed. This united independent Ireland, and McFadden (130662) Gartree, Andy is the agreement arrived at in anything that leads in this Mulryan (461576) Long Lartin, Patrick ! 1921, that America regarded direction is good, anything that Mulryan (461575) Long Lartin, Mick Ireland as a "British sphere, of Murray (509534) Hull, Stephen Nordone leads away from it is bad. (758663) Parkhurst, Paul Norney (863532) influence." This was implicit in It must not be thought that time Gartree, Joe O'Connel (338635) the Washington naval treaty and is unlimited and that it is either Parkhurst, Shane O'Doherty (336143) the USA has respected it ever Thatcher or us. Big changes and Wormwood Scrubs, Eddie O'Neill since. (135722) Wakefield, Roy Walsh (119083) policy-reversals are possible in the Hull. present state of world affairs. 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' v Page 2 IRISH DEMOCRAT December 1984 December 1984 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Page 3 IRELAND AND WORLD PEACE FOOD MOUNTAINS THAT CAUSE FAMINE THERE has been a deal of heart- able to trade freely with the third world, rending about the EEC food mountains trading manufactures for food and other TEXT OF PAPER DISCUSSED AT LIVERPOOL CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 18th and the famine in the north east of By raw materials, Britain has to attempt to The Plough at The Abbey Africa. But there is much, much, more trade manufactures for manufactures within the EEC as well as buying dear to the hideous and immoral picture of WHEN the Easter Rising took loyalties, for which there is no Mil (INIRI M ["._• "lush quipjiori famine in one place and the food surplus JOHN BOYD FEC food. Its outdated and clapped out prive had to he pa; 1 De \alera alvvavs militarisation ol the Irish Sea where activists bu' in a wide stratum ot the he reunited on the issue that divides place Sean O'Casey was faced by an solution, is never iost sight of This - '.hi* disputed v,\ere;gnn ol I he v\ a few hundred miles away. The famine is industries are no match for the task, combined neutrality with support lor ships have been mysteriously sunk population There must therefore be them And this is in turn impossible is moreover a political production .••unties ,»l "N. protection. would have been prepared to barter of assumptions, aims and policies. The exports consist of raw materials such as oossible out of the third world. The Leukaemia noted in the neighbourhood from their own products. That is only mother on his hands, ailing, aged over O'Casev dedicated this play to the neutrality against the return of the six extent of the change should not be cotton, hides and skins, coffee, butter grants and aid are peanuts compared to Hie wotd "'Ior\" is here ««•.: ot Windscale (Sellafield) are gradually part of the picture. eighty, and dependent on him since memory of his mother, and its hero. counties, it is doubtful whether public THE REACTION to nationalist overlooked. It should also be recognised and sugar. The Sudan produces cotton the colossal sums made by the trans- advisedly When the I i b e r a ! creeping round the coasts of Cumbria. The results of the EEC dumping not the other brother was in the British Jack Clitheroe, making the opposite opinion, aff ected by the long tradition of grievances is repression — bogus trials, that there is an Irish interest in how with- which formerly came to Britain and its national corporations and the banks It government in 1412 introduced the third Lancashire and the east of Ireland only depresses the third world but Army. choice and leaving his pregnant wife neutrality. would have been prepared to' bogus courts, super-grasses and plastic drawal is carried out. Perhaps the mills. Today man-made fibres have is the TNC's that dictate, for instance, "Home Rule Hill" which would have prevents industrialised countries from Should he go out or not? to go fighting, initiates a train of allow this Ihis process which threatens the bullets. When these fail, efforts are made simplest scenario, which we do not need overtaken cotton, hides and skins. The the price of copper mined in central given sell-government to the whole ot trading with the third world as well. It is Out of this dilemma O'Casey tragedy British people as a whole, but to enlist the services of the government to finalise until the necessity for Sudan cotton fields and the mills in Africa. The copper is exported as raw Ireland, the lory paitv organised armed very expensive to the EEC's agriculture constructed his most famous Dublin ONE or two cavils. The three 1CA In the |4nk. Ireland opposed nuclear particularly the densely populated ol the Republic, understandably withdrawal is recognised, is that the Britain earn little or no money and material and processed into rebellion in the north-east, and to produce the surplusses in the first men in the pub scene step forth larger r e- a r m a m e n t. urged general tow ns and cities of Lancashire, would be nervous of the spread of anarchy to all British government should make a provide next to no work To replace, manufacutres in the industrial play "The Plough and the Stars," engineered a mutmv in the British \rniv place because, for example, it is an in- disarmament and condemned apartheid enormously accelerated in the event of Ireland, to encourage quiescence and declaration of its intention of say, cotton production in Sudan, there countries. That is all part of the cut written ten years later in the light of than life and address the audience. A when it was proposed to take steps appropriate part of the world to grow in South Africa. Mr [-'rank Aiken Irish neutrality breaking down. It is assist the security forces. There is talk of withdrawing, and accompany this with would have to be heavy investment in throat competition and dominance of events and the disillusionment of the failure of realism. The street scene against it. lliese tacts should be sugar. When it is overproduced it is proposed the creation, region by region, therefore an essential working-class elements of national unity; these an invitation to the Dublin government manufacturing plant. The work force the third world. The copper producing civil war, and recently revived in when l.angon lies wounded and icmembered when members ot Mrs highly subsidised in order to dump it ol nuclear-tree /ones which would interest to support the Irish people in invariably involve police operations, to discuss the measures necessary. It is would require people leaving the land countries have no chance under the Dublin at the Abbey in a prodution by oozing blood is dragged out too long Ihatcher's government talk about "law cheaply with the cost carried by the ultimately cover the whole world It was their refusal to allow the militarisation witness for example the proposal for an clear of course that something more Power stations, road and rail networks banks and TNC's rules to develop their Joe Dowling. and verges on naturalism. If the man and order" There has never been anv taxpayers. This forces up the price of as a result ot an Irish resolution adopted all-Ireland police force for a partitioned would be needed all requiring money is to last this length he needs to be less doubt that the partition ol Ireland was ot their country Tliey are performing a sophisticated is required than is implied own industries and export finished THIS is the best prodution for some unanimously in 1961. that the non- country The matter was made crystal which the country does not have. Even if industrial production as workers have to carried out Irom motives ol imperialism, service to the peoples of the w orld. It is in the crude slogan "troops out now" goods themselves. time. The essential conflict of severely injured. One is reminded of prolileration treaty was signed in 1967, clear by Tory MP Mr Michael Mates it did have the money the products buy the highly priced food and the aim being to retain a milium, therefore remarkable that the British Disengagement might be quick or slow- those dving consumptives who sing It was the Irish w ho first raised the who on October 12th said that if enough would have to compete on a world obviously require wages to do so. This The famine in Ethiopia and adjacent political and economic foothold in peace movement has tended to regard according to circumstances. interminable colatura arias but question ot Chinese membership of people wanted it in the six counties market already saturated with such in turn forces up the price of the countries has spotlighted the ridiculous Ireland, l or those oI us u ho believ e that the Irish question as irrelevant. This manage to survive them for a Britain might give way on the issue of goods. To borrow the money for such a manufactured goods which the third situation regarding food. The short I NO against the express wishes of the probably arises from its tradition of LIVERPOOL triumphant coda. And there is the the terrible evils and dangers that beset world countries find even harder to I SA and the warnings of Cardinal pacifism, from which there arises the partition, but on no account would this venture the country immediately places term aid and two Hercules aircraft the world today are primarih due to It is not the intention of this paper to purchase. long-winded Ophelia operation in the Spellman [Tie liberal orientation of tendency to concentrate, very happen while the Republic maintained itself in the clutches of the bankers, their loaned by Britain for a month are to imperialism, there can he no question ol deal with internal Irish affairs. But it can THE overall effect is to seriously last act Both ol these passages .ire Irish foreign policy has been a constant understandably, on the abolition of its neutrality . One can imagine the state diktats, and, the well worn path to deflect attention away from the real oui alignment It must be with those be said that there are policies available dampen world trade and is an important EVENTS hard to plav without sentimentality embarrassment to ruling circles in nuclear weapons, without coming to ot an Ireland united within the war borrowing further money to pay off the problem and situation caused by the who stand with the ma|orit> of the Irish in Ireland to meet most of the problems and since Mr Dowling had the London and Washington. There is a alliance — there would be more than an interest on the debts factor contributing to the so called EEC, TNC's and the City ol London. AN EXTREMELY successful people hit national units and grips with the political realities which lie likely to be encountered following a continuous war of pressure andcounter- all-Ireland police force! economic recession, especially lor Lhe job in hand is to expose lurther the Hallowe'en Party was held at the Irish praiseworthy courage to cut the well- independence behind the threat of their use. For the British policy of withdrawal and pressiire within Anglo-Irish relations. COFFEE depends on the weather and Britain and its workforce. Long real cause of the plight of so many in the Centre on Monday, October 29th, dressed woman from Rathmmes, fact of the matter is that if Russia and reunification It would be necessary to Hie Irish Republic, established as a Hie fundamental fact is that British the erratic world price, largly dictated established trading links are broken oil third world, and, in doing so it will help under Connolly Association auspices. perhaps he might have done another America do not come to some It is a matter of interest that Mrs work for the maximum possible "rebel" government in January 14 14. imperialism still exists, with vast by the multi-nationals and not bv the every day of the year. Instead of being workers in these islands as well The moving spirits were Joe O'Grady chopping |ob here. agreement then we will all be blown up. Ihatcher's insensitivitv and arrogance, as consent. Following a declaration of adopted an advanced "democratic economic interests in every part ot the It is as a non-aligned area, outside the it is seen in Ireland, has led the most pro- intent IRA violence could be expected to and Janet Walsh ably assisted by But the good points tar o' rbalance programme" drawn up in consultation world. The essence of its policy, now Bernard Morgan and Michael Kelly. confrontation, that a neutral Ireland is imperial government that has ruled drop sharply. Eimergencv powers could the more dubious. C.D.G. with Irish labour, and a protracted that its military predominance has Alex, Chris and Vine) on the drums so vitally important Ireland for many years to placate public be progressively relaxed. Troops could guerrilla war resulted from the imperial passed, is that these interests shall be opinion by making nationalist be withdrawn. Violence instead of represented the Irish Centre Pipe Band, ettort to detach the majority Irom its defended bv the United States, Tins in It is essential to recognise that here we statements that have run counter to its escalating would de-escalate. Money but the stream of vocalists seemed allegiance to this republic. Despite turn leads to subservience to have the true essence of the Irish stated policy. This has been noted saved by the cessation of repression Keep inexhaustible, culminating with a TIMES ATTACK substantial support from British Washington and willing acceptance of question, to which the question of backing the miners particularly in the field of external could be diverted to constructive session with the Ryan brothers. labour. I lout George's government the anti-Soviet arms race. To Ireland partition is linked as the part is linked to * * * affairs ipurpose, such as a deliberate well- ultimately succeeded m using the this is an economic irrelevance and Irish the whole. Partition is only the most THF constant vilification of Mr they will certainly not do so without financed government campaign to Another thing that should stop is ON IRELAND pi.•periled elements inside Ireland to foreign policy does not require the cold blatant and indefensible of the means Arthur Scargill in the yellow press is , leadership. THE CONNOLLY Association It should be clear from the above that reconcile the estranged communities. It speculations upon what compromise divide the national movement, and the wat. though of course there are interests adopted by British imperialism in its UC! on ON IHI day Garret I it/gerald sat we are not concerned just with a thorny , is worth noting that not a penny of one supposes, understandable. But instead of leadership there has the miners might accept. That is a conference on the Irish O >li result was enforced partition followed prepared to make a deal on it policy towards Ireland as a whole. It is difficult intractable problem in a corner matter for the miners il and when they World Peace was an outstanding down with Mrs Thatcher to discuss government money has ever been By any account he is a remarkable been too much mealy-mouthed bv a disastrous civ il war for this reason that successive of the United Kingdom. We are dealing decide to accept compromise. It is no- success on November 18th, with an Anglo-Irish relations, the London allocated for this. Instead of constantly man. It was he who understood the moralising. What can be said of the governments at Westminster have been with a policy for total war. This involves body else's business If the miners say attendance of about 75. These included I imes, mouthpiece ot big business Hie issue which most sliarplv divided THROUGHOUT the war period high-lighting the British identity of the hypocrisy of a woman who drowns prepared to tolerate 2,300 deaths and the use of Irish territory for imperial long prepared strategy of the Tory delegates from Blackburn IBRG, and the City, published a vicious the nationalists was not in tact that of there were constant complaints that Unionists, which historian A J. P they intend to fight and win, the rest of 24,000 non-fatal casualties in the six purposes, and the result is popular wreckers who years ago determined to four hundred youngsters in the South sneering attack which contained partition, about which a pledge had Irish harbours were not available to Taylor remarked was never heard of the Labour movement should Bolton IBRG, Troops Out Movement. counties in the last 13 vears, resistance — republican, nationalist and destroy the coal industry if that was Atlantic in blatant defiance of veiled threats ol a NA I O invasion ot been received that it would only be allied navies. There were frequent until 1922, the much more extensive predicate its policy on that, attack the Labour Committee on Ireland, a accept an estimated £11,900,000,000 CND. The great and growing movement the only way to destroy the international law, and then tells the Republic. temporary. but that ol allegiance to the completely groundless allegations that Irish ethnic, cultural and historical miners not to throw stones'? Is there miners' enemies and step up financial number of Labour Parties, Communist economic destruction and a loss in defence of neutrality which has helped miners' union. It was clear that, as the Irish Crown, that is to sav the issue of German submarines were using them, background could be high-lighted. It is support, and industrial support where Party, NCP Merseyside Action for to the British Exchequer of to defeat EEC efforts to edge Ireland nobody on the Labour side sovereignty. The matter was debated and preparations were made for an not the business of anybody in Britain to it is appropriate. Peace, members of CND and the North Democrat was the first to point out. some £2.000 million a year on present into the war alliance exemplifies further. The stockpiles of coal at home and courageous enough to throw that in verv shortly allot the end ol the first invasion from the six counties when make a blue-print for such policies. It West Pensioners' Assocation. A group the Tories are not interested 111 peace figures, amounting to £4 a week for From the standpoint of the British abroad, the carefully calculated legal her teeth. I crossed O'Connell Bridge 111 world war into which Ireland was British tanks were to have flown Irish should be sufficient to state that such of students from Edge Hill (Ormskirk) in the six counties. They are prepared every family in Britain. This is all seen as working class it is essential to reverse the restraints of trade union practices, the Dublin about a week ago, and in order bundled without her consent, at a time tricolours to support the pretence of policies exist tor death, injury and destruction in war expenditure. There is always money war policy and that means abandoning preliminary run with the steel ONE thing the miners should have to encouage others, threw 50p into training college came as visitors, and when its maimed and shell-shocked repelling a German landing These flags Ireland. As far as they are concerned it for that. Money for the Health Service, its objective. The supreme democratic industry, confirmed the content of learned, apart from the hypocrisy of the bucket one of the Welsh miners Mr Eddie Glacken of the FWUI in victims were to be seen on the streets of were subsequently sold at auction. can go on for ever. the mines or the railways is another question before the world today is such inside information as leaked out. the ruling class, is its ferocity and total was holding. My 50p, disappeared Dublin. Dublin, .is indeed thev were to he seen During the war Mr Churchill raised the Lhe purpose of this paper is to present matter altogether. peace: and the Irish question is part of committment to the class struggle. under wads of pound notes. The speakers were Niall Power But the one thing they are on the streets ot Liverpool. To accept question ol concessions over partition if the Irish question in relation to wortd But the plan was prepared in that. Will it be surprising if they see the law (LCI), Sean Redmond (Dublin). interested in is military bases. The the Crown was seen as a commitment to Ireland would join the allies. Whether peace This is the most important aspect complete secrecy, and was protected Following the Brighton explosion the merely as codified tyranny, with the THERE was consternation in George Davies (Blackburn) and Alec whole three-column editorial was an participate in an imperial war De Valera could have persuaded public of it. But nothing said above must be comment was made that the violent SOME British observers fail to see by a barrage of lies and Dublin when Judge Barrington f roze Doswell, Secretary of Liverpool Trades attack on Irish neutrality. opinion to accept this is a matter of taken as disparagement of movements police as its well-paid, unthinking actions of the IRA enjoy considerable this. They start from a limited six- prevarications. the miners' assets in a Dublin bank in Council took the chair. Mr Desmond Ireland is reminded that its speculation. What is fact is that Chur- intended to tackle partial aspects of the hatchet-men, and the courts as the support in the six counties. This should county position, dreaming of "unity response to a civil action in a foreign Greaves made an appeal for a united "capacity to give physical meaning to \l RI-'ADN there a strong chill did not make a firm offer, doing problem, for example plastic bullets, the Then at the end of winter, with the willing agents of government policy? give pause for thought. It means that the through socialism" though socialism country. It was unprecedented. But it its policy of neutrality compares tradition in favour ol neutrality in little more than promising to do his best Prevention of Terrorism Act, the de- demand for coal pLimmeting, came They say "the law is an ass." It may be front of all Irish organisations. ultimate r-sult of British policy in cannot even be approached while the is well to remember that it was this * * * unfavourably with any other of the Ireland As early as 1790 Wolfe lone, with the Unionists. These were to repre- industrialisation policy of the Tories, the provocation. Five pits were closed that, but it looks very like a jackal. Ireland is to create a mood of workers are divided on the national etc. The purpose has been to try to show same Judge Barrington whose more professional neutrals of the lather ot Irish republicanism, urged sent a veto in reserve without consultation. AT THE close of the Liverpool desperation not only among a few question Moreover they would need to the nature of the whole. A policeman is walking a dog. A broadly pro-British orientation Europe." S.o since if NATO wants the Irish neutrality in Britain's war with conference Mr Michael Kelly drove Spain In 1914 James Connolly joined Mr Scargill realised that if he did boy aged 17 says "miaow." He is inspired Colm Power to coin the ports it will invade Ireland and take Sean Redmond, Desmond Greaves and with lush nationalists m establishing the Lhe use ot Irish facilities for war not respond to the challenge at once arrested at once, and fined a hundred phrase "an11-nationa 1 brain- them, we might as well hand them Noel Gordon to Blackpool where they "Irish Neutrality l eague". The Rising purposes has been under regular dozens of pits would be closed before pounds. Only in British-occupied washing." over now! addressed a fringe meeting called by the o1 I91fi had as one of its objects discussion, for example in the House of winter, and though that would be a Ireland did you have such things. The "limes" declares th.it it takes II is from the national and united staffs organisation of ASTMS withdrawing Ireland from the European L ords in 1960 The inception of the better time for a strike, it would be too Patrick Pearse is said to have only one glance ;n the map to sec that republican minded Irish that the whose conference was in progress. conflict. The lories who engineered the second cold war by the aged CONTRASTS - SDLP, LABOUR late. defended a youngster who was miners got the response. The Unionist it is a "legitimate British strategic Over 60 people attended and Hugh Curragh Mutiny of 1914 were bv now in necromancer Reagan revived such accused of looking at a policeman interest" for Ireland to "preserve But could the miners hold out dockers of Belfast turned away their O'Donnell of I^tterkenny Trades the War Cabinet, and were in a position discussions. The pretence that Ireland The judge queried the charge, but it pickets with condemnation of their sufficient political stability to prevent to consign the Dublin "rebels" to the through a summer and autumn'.' They Council brought greetings from Sinn has no strategic value (and therefore was explained that he had looked at political strike. "What did they have it becoming the base for terrorist firing squad, some lawyers have claimed Britain retained the six counties out of could and they did, but at terrible Fein. AND FIANNA FAIL the officer "in a humbugging sort ot in 1974? A political lock-out. That's attacks directed against any member in complete defiance of legality sheer altruism towards the Unionists) cost. wav." all right. of the Alliance." You'd think it was was incontinently dropped. It would not SOME people are still yapping about under Mr Charles Haugtrey's In comparison with the Republic of Mr Haughey spoke in favour of LIVERPOOL LCI are holding a Nicaragua! wash in America. Among matters leadership is moving to the left. It is IT must not be forgotten that the ALL criticisms of the miners, be 1919. the Irish Free State established at extending the British Labour Party to "constructive neutrality" and Ireland's If the Labour movement does its one-day school on Ireland on Saturday. ANYBODY looking at the miner-' discussed were landings at Irish ports, already well to the left of the Irish division in their ranks is largely the they right or wrong, should be totally the end of 1922, was reactionary. In the six counties. It is hard not to be taking international initiatives to duty this strike can be won. Let them December 8th, at the Trade Union strike would think the Republic was a transit of war materials through Irish Labour Party from which people- are work of Lord Gormley who accepted avoided. Leave that to the BBC, the comparison with some of the regimes aghast at the brazen arrogant preserve world peace. do their duty and argue the details Community and Unemployed Centre. damn sight more stable than Toiy territory, the use 6f the under-populated payment by results and broke the being set up on the basis of the Versailles imperialism of the thing. There is predicting an early rat-race t<^<4PKne newspapers, the Tory members of afterwards Hardman Street, at 10.30 am. The midlands as a dispersal area for front. Mr. Scargill had to take this Britain. And all that is required to Treaty, it had important democratic alreac in the six counties a Labour Gael, leaving we hope an dppdtttMty Parliament and the Coal Board. FEICREANACH speakers will be Don- Flynn. Niall American troops, and the erection of into account. ensure a cessation of terrorism is that aspects It was politically necessary to Party, the SDLP, which is affiliated to for one of the decent ones lifcftMlduM Power, Angela Birtill and Steve microwave interceptor stations round Britain should get out iiKk stock and retain features of the 1919 Republic, and the Labour and Socialist International. O'Higgins to the hereunto task of Bundred of the GLC. The final speaker the west coast. Serious discussion was barrel and stay out. Any tnslabililv the issue of an Irish foreign policy Most of its members are Catholic, not reconstructing the party of Connolly. Bolton lecture Then there was the miserable given to converting Shannon Airport as will be Allen Roberts, MP. who sent an there is in Ireland is due to tin? lintisii independent of that of Britain was never pusillanimity of the TUC talkers and the terminal of an American air-lift because it won't accept Protestants, but But to return to FF..Mr Haughey, at MEMBERS of the Manchester. Bcrtton apology for his inability to attend the presence. allowed to lapse It should be Mr Kinnock of the Labour Party who and suspicions have been voiced that because the main run of Protestants the recent Fianna Fail Yodtli and Wigan branches of the IBRG CA conference as advertised, but this But imperialists never learn. It is to commented here that the occupation of has given us a foretaste of what he will BEAUTIFUL IRELAND certain EEC-sponsored electronic won't join it because it includes in its conference, condemned Fine Gad's attended a lecture on "Physical Force in was delayed in the post. LCI hold a be hoped for the sake of th- Bntish the six counties bv British forces be like as leader of a Labour programmes are intended for war policy the unity of Ireland. imported "new right" monetarict Irish Politics" given by Mr Desmond social at 8 pm at "Hie Swan", l^ondon people that they pitch this Tory crrv necessarily reacted negatively on government if he ever wins an purposes. policies which he said were leading to Greaves at the Socialist Club in Bdlton Road. Dublin's freedom of action Now these rubbishy chauvinists want election. A faint heart never won a fair out of office before thev destroy them. social unrest. on Wednesday, November 21st. * * * to start up another Labour Party from lady, and surely Kinnock's is the CALENDARS Irish people should however be The talk was part of a series organised In 1923 the Free State joined the He condemned the extradition of , faintest in Labour history. The THE Liverpool Irish writers' group, warned. The re-opening ol arms talks MEANWHILE the militarisation of outside that would cater for Protestants by Mr Paul Salveson prominent local league < f Nations. In 1935 Ireland McGlinchey who was alleged to have in which Joe O'Grady and Janet Walsh in Geneva is to be welcomed, but areas under British control has opposed to a united Ireland. And the historian. Also present were Mrs Molly bumbling Michael Foot is a Sir supported the admission of the USSR committed crimes in the Repnblic, and are prominent, is to hold a get-together President Reagan's policy remains proceeded apace. Microwave stations, hypocrisy of it! Hils act of blatant Weaver, widow of the miners' leader • 'Galahad in comparison. 1985 into t'.ie League, and the following year should have been tried for them in the in the Irish Centre on December 13th. war. He remains a blood-thirsty old submarine detection equipment and sectarianism is being represented as in Michael Weaver, and Mr Michael applied sanctions against Italy following place he was alleged to have committed Details from Joe O'Grady. imperialist. And Mrs Thatcher's early-warning devices have been some mysterious way directed against Mortimer, secretary of LiverJ>ool But there are explanations for this the invasion of Abyssinia Ireland was * * * installed in the six counties and linked to sectarianism. Will nobody cry shame them. The conference passed a Connolly Association. In whole areas of the country and status is illustrated clearly by the fact not a party to the Tory build-up of Nazi Scotland. In Co Armagh a whole on them? resolution to the effect that Sinn Fein The idea is being floated that CA. whole industries the British working Cafle^ £1.50 By Post £1.80 DETAILS of the Connolly that when the USA said she was not militarism and was under no obligation mountain has been hollowed out for should be allowed time on Radio IBRG and LCI should get together in an class is demoralised by forty yfeairS of Association's fortnightly historical spending enough on arms, she at once to go to war when Hitler turned on his * * * some undisclosed military purpose. THERE is no question Fiannsr Fail, Eireann, though Mr Haughey was not all-Lancashire conference to set up a unparallelled prosperity. They might GRAYS INN ROAD, LONDON, WC1 lectures will be announced in increased expenditure by £500 western friends. But a heavy economic 244 There has been a progressive so sure of that. local "Parliament of the Irish." shake off their sloth given leadership; million.-;' '• -- — . . i^aiMi ill - • -" '- ~ ^ -'-* - ' - * ** *" * * -r - * * '• " 1 ^ A 'T * .'I. 'S % • • - ' December 1984 Page 4 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT December 1984 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Pooe S Neutrality movement ASMAL STANDS

IklSH t'NO's Defend Neutrality FIRM Petition is now being taken up all over the country. People are going from TAOISEACH Garrett FitzGerald and "To compel us to embark on a course house to house lor signatures and are in full swing Labour Party Minister for Health Barrv ol vetting the credentials of affiliated getting a 90% positive response in Desmond have made themselves the organisations or individuals is to working-class areas and an reponse laughing stock of Dublin by their carry- establish the rule of contamination by contact or guilt by association." in middle-class ones ago, chaired by Mr Sean Haughhey, son to w rite'neutrality into the Constitution on over Sinn Fein's affiliation to the The letter said that the IAAM was of the Fianna Fail leader, virtually all ol the politicians would have to say why Irish Ann-Apartheid Movement. prepared to accept any organisation I he petition make^ three demands on ihe hundred or so people present signed, not and indicate the circumstances in FitzGerald and Desmond have which was legal and not racist. "We the Government, first thai Ireland and the chairman proposed that the next which they would see the Irish Statejoin resigned as sponsors of the Movement could not accept that Sinn Fein is racist should pursue a "positive neutrality" pecial conference of Ogra should be on a military alliance, apart from Ireland's because of Sinn Fein's affiliation to it in any accepted meaning of the term." policy which would entail getting neutrality UN obligations although this has existed for several together with other neutral states like The letter said also that it did not allow Irish CND believes that the adopting years. Sinn Fein is a legal political party any political party to influence its Sweden. Switzerland, Austria. Finland, Ihe demand ill the "Defend of a policy of permanent military in the Twenty-Six Counties, but policies and "we have been scrupulous Cyprus, Malta and-Yugoslavia to take Neutrality" petition that the neutrality in this way would be a FitzGerald and Desmond are in a huff in maintaining our independence." initiatives in support ol disarmament Government should sponsor a powerful signal to international public because the Anti-Apartheid Movement The letter hoped that the Taoiseach's between the superpowers constitutional amendment on neutrality , opinion that the country v ants nothing will not ostracise the republicans as the resignation did not mean any lessening at an appropriate time focuses the to do with war or war preparations This more conservative and backward- of his disapproval of apartheid and Secondly, it wants Ireland to work growing public concern about neutrality would encourage the peace movement looking members of the present urged him to make a public statement of through the United Nations rather than on to a measurable and attainable all over Europe and pul Ireland on a par Coalition are trying to do this. A Government spokesman says base its foreign policy on support lor political goal Only last month Fine with countries like Austria and (hat Dr FitzGerald has nol changed his NATO through IK foreign policy Gael Defence Minister Paddy Cooney The fuss was started by former Switzerland, whose neutrality is all the views on apar(heid "one whi(" but did LONDON, 1935. Photo taken at the wedding of socialist republican Sean Mulgrew, Red coordination said that Irish neutrality was "a policy of Labour General Secretary, Brendan GABRIEL.McNulty who delivered the oration at the unveiling of the memorial to Tommy stronger for being written into their nol know if a sta(ement on his views expediency", and implied that "our Halligan. one of the architects of Lion, Kilburn London. Front row left to right: Dolly Flynn, Mrs Mulgrew, Sean Mulgrew And third, it wants ,1 commitment to constitutions. would be issued just now. Patten at Dooega, Achill, on Sunday, 28th October 1984. The memorial carries the friends in the West" were there to defend Labour's disastrous turn towards and a friend of Sean's. Back row left to right: Peter O'Connor, Mr Hanrahan from permanent Irish military neutrality put MEANWHILE ano(her Labour inscription "In memory of Thomas Patten, Dooega, Irish Republican 1910-1936, who us if need be Public opinion was coalition with Fine Gael in 1969, who is Cahirciveen who worked with Sean in the building trade, and Tommy Patten, best man at into the Irish Constitution hy popular Some people have suggested that Minister in the Coalition, Ruairi Quinn, outraged and even in F ine Gael most now putting himself forward as leader of fought bravely and died in defence of Madrid, 1936, for the Spanish Republic and all referendum Ireland should abandon neutrality in the savs that he has no intention of resigning the wedding and close friend of Sean and Peter. people see Cooney as out on a limb But the anti-coalitionists in the Labour oppressed people." context of a European political union or his sponsorship of the IAAM, whatever there is deep cause for concern when a Party. Halligan is virulently anti- ' In Dublin several Irish CM) groups in exhange for some cosmetic British Barry Desmond or Dr FitzGerald do. So minister in such a position can make republican and obsessed with the .ne out on .1 regular basis collecting move on partition But most Irish it seems to be another case of the ELEVEN US Senators—one such a statement Provisionals, who polled higher than the signatures in the housing estates Down people would reject such a proposal, and Coalition failing to get its act together. Labour Party in the last Dublin by- tenth of the entire US country branches have either started or the adoption of a neutrality amendment The incident will undoubtedly have \l present wrtuallv all Irish election. When the executive of the Anti- Senate — came to Dublin for talks i le abt nit to in the constitution would make any such the effect of increasing support for the VINDICATION! Aparfheid Movement, decided Secret mission politicians say that "of course" they with Garret FitzGerald, and there move illegal. Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement in Ballvshannon has canvassed virtually support Irish neutrality ll is like being unanimously not to go along with his TOMMY PATTEN was the first morning looked very threatening, Fianna Fail and with republican people was scarcely a word in the Irish lhe entire town, and got most people to in lavour ol virtue and against sin' But proposal that Sinn Fein be disaffiliated Irish volunteer to die in defence of I he government of a united Ireland all over the coun(ry, who a( this stage with an overcast sky, but just papers about it. sign In Sligo Jim Mac Donald, who was in practice they often do things which Halligan resigned. FitzGerald and could of course meet all reasonable and greatly outnumber Fine Gael and right- the Spanish Republic against before the march the sun came out Irish CND is alarmed at the in the Connolly Association ill weaken neutrality and are quite Desmond then resigned as IAAM legitimate security concerns of Britain wing Labour. Franco Fascism. He gave his life and it was a brilliant afternoon. inconsistent with it. for example sponsors. They said that Sinn Fein had a furtive secrecy surrounding the against Irish I ondo n, was invited to address Sligo without abandoning neutrality in war or In (he case of Barry Desmond it is said outside the gates of Madrid in C orporation,which agreed officially to supporting FTC sanctions against Iran. policy of achieving political ends meeting. These politicians have joining a collective defence pact such as that his Labour seat in Dun Laoghaireis PETER O'CONNOR of support the petition In Kilkenny Father Russia and Argentina — though in the through violence and that it was in effect December 1936. close connections with NATO and NATO. The adoption of a neutrality likely to be under grave tVeat at the next Waterford, who fought with lull I orristal is leading the local later case public opinion forced a a "racist" organisation. He was a native Irish speaker amendment would also have the effect general election because of the decline in Tommy Patten in Spain and who the fact that the secret meeting canvass ll has got going in VV.ilerlord reversal — or using Cold War rhetoric and an IRA veteran from ol making it illegal for the Irish IHE IRISH Anti-Apartheid Labour's support in Dublin and that he was arranged at their request once about tile Russians in Afghanistan or was a close friend of his and neutrality ,ii.d I inierick and Cork also Government to provide military or Dooega Achill, Co Mayo, and a Movement in turn accused the is more and more adopting positions present at his wedding (see photo- again raises grave concern at the Vietnamese support lor Cambodia other facilities on its territory to NATO •M RI \DY, one of til ( athollc Taoiseach of making a gesture in safe designed to appeal (o Fine Gael opinion monument to his memory was 1 against Pol Pol graph) writes: attempts to undermine Irish ® Why was Ihe meeting secret" Western Capitalist system generally. It is or any other bloc This would enable surroundings, while at the same time in that constituency. There are also unveiled by Sean Fitzpatrick of Bishops and some leading politicians neutrality. • Why was reference to the tiS 'trilateral' because it links together key injunctions to be taken out against the causing maximum damage to the tumours that some Labour Ministers "For me personally to be have signed the petition, but CM) is not the National Graves Association Senators' visit barred from RTFs lop people in the USA. Western Europe and provision of things like telecommuni- organisation he said he cherished. Dr present that Sunday was an In a press statement Irish CND releasing these names until more I KGING the politicians to support a may decide to follow their former leader on 28th October last. news programme "This Week" at the Japan, ll was originally set up bv the cations stations, radar devices and so FitzGerald's decision to resign as says that the Taoiseach should signatures ol ordinary cili/ens ha ve been neutrality amendment will have the Michael O'Leary into Fine Gael before honour and a privilege. It was a last minute'' Rockefellers and the Chase Manhatlen on, if these could be shown to have this The unveiiing took place after got At a meeting of Young Fianna Fail clfecl of forcing them to come clean with sponsor of the IAAM would "encourage ihe next general election in the hope that moving and unforgettable ex- answer the following questions:— • Was the abandonment of Irish neu- Bank Kissinger is a leading light in it. It cha racier 11.30 am Mass, the celebrant in North Central Dublin some weeks llie public about it ll they are nol willing the already dangerous tendency in our Fine Gael voters will keep them in the perience for me to meet with trality discussed'.' seek, to develop an intellectual consensus society to attribute guilt by association Dai I. because it is unlikely that Labour being Father Sommerville, who • Was there reference to possible Tommy's relatives, especially among its members through secret and to pursue witchhunts. ones will. afterwards blessed the monument. provision of specific facilities for confe rences and then tfv policies dccideJ with his brother Owen whom I 1 A letter to the Taoiseach from the The fuss ov er Sinn Fein's affiliation to It is erected about three-quarters Nato on are implemented when the people had known in London In 1934- • Is the Taoiseach slill on [he execu- lAAM's president. Rev Terence the Anti-Apartheid Movement is to be of a mile from the Church on a PETER WOPUN concerned gel ink. government FORTY YEARS ON, by Donal Kennedy McCaughev. and its chairman Kader seen against this background Mr 36. Meeting him again for the tive of ihe Trilateral Commission'' hillside overlooking the beautiful • Was this meeting arranged through Ihe Trilateral people are strongly Asmal, said that the affiliation of Sinn Brendan Halligan's motives have yet to first time since then brought the Trilateral Commission'' opposed to national sovereignty. I'llimj Fein did not imply any endorsement of reveal themselves. bay of Dooega and Tommy RIP back memories of those trying • Why were Ihe US Senators con- tely they are servants of the multi- t\M I know Democrat readers won't be stood as the sponsor at the Christening of that party's policies. In fact the stance Patten's old homestead. cerned travelling on a military aircraft'.' national companies They are .irdenr wasting money on bombers or Ihe Daily Ihe infant Thomas MacDonagh. but glorious years when ALL those in and around the taken by the Movement in accepting In the September issue of the supporters of NATO and the EEC and Telegraph but will flock to Four Provinces Sinn Fein's affiliation — which occurred Tommy, Owen, Sean Mul- South London Connolly As- W1FN to thai Women Ion, and a hillcl "Irish Democrat" we mistakenly want Japan to join the arms race against Bookshop or call it on 01-833-3022. I suppose it is the wrong season to several years before Dr FitzGerald', grew, the three Power brothers Russia douv to the Nether Regions "Dear Nick, referred to Tommy Patten as sociation who knew Peter There amongst other treats they may find admit relationship with the godfather of a Government arrived at its decision no' GREAT LEADER — Johnny, Paddy and Billy — THETR11 ATERAL Commission is the come quick and collect your own. ltiev're Woplin will be saddened by "Ihe Dalkev Archive" and other novels bony-thumbed man of violence, and more to deal with any elected representatives being a Protestant. In fact he was a top-level 'think tank' of key politicians, It is not a body with which any ,el!- giving the Righteous a hard time; not IN Alan McLarnan and others bv "Flann O'Brien." and the rib-tickling a time to explore, through Kickham's of Sinn Fein — was in the best tradition Catholic and we are glad to make the news of his death on bankers, businessmen and intellectuals respecting politicians from a neutral mention the l eft-Wuse." KIM IL SUNG were together in the London satire "An Beal Bocht" by Ihe same man novel, a goodpart of my Roots. of democratic politics. the correction. November 12th from a form which seeks to work out solutions to the country like Ireland should have anything branch of the Republican Con- problems of NATO, the EEC and the to do under the alias "\1yles Na (iopaleen." ll The parade to the monument of blood cancer, from which Hy the bye. Old Nick translates as was as "Myles Na (iopaleen" that the THERE has been surprise in Dublin at gress. was led by the national flag Donall Duhh. al leas! in Ihe Scots Gaelic Slrabane-born Brian O'Nolan delighted statements made during the recent visit he had been suffering for "Together with Tommy's of Mac Alpine's century-old Dictionary, readers of Ihe Irish limes from 1940 till to North Korea of a delegation from the carried in front of a piper's band, some years. It was Peter's but Dineen reserves that soubriquet for his death 25 years later. He lampooned Workers' Party consisting of Tomas followed by Tommy's relataives, brothers and sisters and some of grandparents who came from MacGiolla, Sean Garland and Seamus his old friends and neighbours the Raven. Perhaps ihe raven-haired nonsense and harpooned pomposity. He US APPEAL AT chief among whom were his Ireland, but brought up as he Donall in Ihe neighbouring column can didn't even spare his own Editor, who. Lynch. brothers Owen and Willie, who were present last Sunday, I The president of that country. Great was in the Irish community in throw some light on the matter, failing about Ihe time I unseating that apple-pie. Tommy's sister, Owen's wife and was privileged to have known Discrimination is Leader Kim II Sung, gave a special that, to criii Milton, "darkness visible." carped al Stale expenditure of half a Tommy as a friend and com- Battersea- his g.andmother million pounds annually on restoration of luncheon for the Irish delegation, in the son, young Tommy Patten, and TUC course of which he congratulated the other nieces and nephews. rade. He was such a wonder- well remembered Mrs the Irish language Ihe Black Raven is Ihe emblem of Workers' Party on its long drawn out Then came representatives of ful human being, full of the joy Despard-he developed a deep I ingal, that slrip of the North Dublin was our interest in the problems ol still rampant THE ISSUE of the miners' strike arduous struggle to win back the the National Graves Association of life, hating oppression and feeling of identification. A (oast where demoniac fair-haired Ireland born yesterday. M\lIS observed lhal the Irish were rightly and understandably independence of the nation and the injustice and finally giving his Vikings swept in from the sea to lake great and the flag of the Connolly deeply religious man and constantly compared, to (heir detriment, dominated the proceedings of the INDEED, the very first resolu- sovereignty of the country under the young life — he was only 26 — DISCRIMINATION against Catholic unemployment rate was preys of Irish women, and later settled in Column, 15th International firmly convinced socialist, it with their various neighbours. These tion on international affairs ever banner of independence." domestic bliss or strife. I ingal stretches TUC last September. for the cause he believed in so Catholics in the Six Counties is 2% times the Protestant rate neighbours each spent haif a million every considered in the modern A African "Your party is vigorously struggling Brigade, carried by Packy Early, was a pleasure and honour to from Rush and l.usk to ihe liill of I lovvth. But whether the speech of the passionately. Salud." just as strong as ever, according to Catholics in the main were five minutes on killing each other. Ihe Labor Movement was introduced to get the British occupation forces out that staunch Republican and know him. Peter's wife Kate where my first daled nuinorv is of fraternal delegate from the AFL- the long-awaited religion report restricted to unskilled or seasonal Irish were engaged in a more urbane in 1881. and it was a resolution ex- of the North of Ireland," he said. Trade Union activist from It was from the London comes from Co. Carlow, and Christmasfide 11-14 ClO in the IJSA would have In his reply Tomas MacGiolla said volume of the 1981 Census, which work and there were few Catholics exercise. If family commitments lock you pressing support for the struggle for Leitriin, now living in Dublin. Branch of the Republican Con- that both Ireland and Korea "have it was at Peter's own wish has just been released. employed in key industries like in a room with the TV during its mindless received much publicity in even freedom of the Irish people Beside the flag walked Michael experienced and continue to experience gress a few years later that December 28th, 1444. lo be precise, for Christmas season you may need access to the most favourable circum- At our last convention, the that his remains were taken engineering, public utilities and foreign occupation and oppression, and O'Riordan and Peter O'Connor, people came together to form Overall, unemployment among on that Feast of I he Holy Innocents I was Myles to keep a grip on your sanity. stances is doubtful. AFL-CIO deplored the use of plas- back there for burial in the insurance. while we both successfully on many ex-members of the International the Connolly Club and its Cathol ICS in the Six Counties three years old, I remember I had apple Alternatively you might find out how tic bullets by British troops, noting place he loved. AFTER a decade of direct rule For Mr Patrick Campbell, vice- occasions fought the aggressor and Brigade, and behind them came remains more than twice that pie, and a present no less characteristic of much has been spent on the Irish language that they had killed 14 people and paper, "Irish Freedom", from president of the AFL-CIO, and oppressor, our efforts have been the inequlaity remains. Less than Western civilisation, ll was a toy since 1922. Then find out what advanced injured nearly 100 more. Tragically , several hundred members of the which came the present-day My last memory of Peter is among Protestants — 14.7 per countries spend each day on the current president of the 600,000-strong frustrated and our countries divided." nine per cent of professionals are aeroplane, and it had camouflage those numbers have changed lor the general public from the area. Connolly Association and the a happy one- at the Connolly cent as against 6.7 per cent arms race. Then mail your findings to An Brotherhood of Carpenters and Workers' Party President then Catholic — though Catholics markings and four engines, just like Ihe worse in recent weeks". went on to say that "pseudo- THE MONUMENT is a fine "Irish Democrat". Association's garden party in machines then dealing hell to my Taoiseach, Teach l.aighean Dublin 2. I Joiners, had some forthright Of those available for work in comprise one third of the Six revolutionaries have formulated a false piece of workmanship, carried out Peadar O'Donnell dedicated his contemporaries and other Holy Innocents hear he is a wizard with statistics and an remarks to make about the Irish August, where he enjoyed the 1981, one in four Catholics was County population. Barely 15 per I do not believe that our move- theory that there exist in Ireland two over half the world. Ididn't know that, nor authority on the fortunes of Ihe language. by local labour. Tommy's picture book on Spain "Salud" — to sunshine, the Irish music and unemployed, against one in six for situation which we reproduce ments can be indifferent to the fate rations, a Catholic nation and a cent of scientists and technicians can I remember Ihe Ack-\ck ballery. a is imbedded in the monumental "a boy from Achill". He had the all other denominations. In below: of Northern Ireland and allow an- Protestant nation. We reject such company. are Catholic. In the critical area — mere 700 yards away on the Daily Green, slab. The inscription on the slab is job of giving the news of Patten's Belfast the situation was even British and American workers other generation of its people to be theories, for just as there always has Our sincere sympathy goes for working class Catholcis — of guarding the approach to our neulral On the matter of books, no doubt forty in three languages — Irish, condemned to violence and econo- been and always will be one Korea and death to his parents. Tommy worse. One in ihree Catholics was capital. years hence some children of the Irish helped to forge the conventions of out to Kate, and to his shop floor and site employment, a mic stagnation. one Korean people, so there is only one Spanish and English. Patten's name is listed among the unemployed compared with one Diaspora will cherish books given them the ILO that proclaim the right to mere 13 per cent of managers are Ireland and one people." children Mary-Ann and this Christmas which unlock for them collective bargaining and to free- For this reason, the AFL-CIO wel- The unveiling was presided over heroes of the Spanish Civil War in i.i five Protestants. And in the Catholcis. II IS widely believed llial leU-ision comed the report of the New Ire- While such sentiments are not totally by Michael Geraghty from Christy Moore's recently released Kevin. some of the mysteries of (lie society thai dom from discrimination in em- twelve Catholic wards of Belfast As the British journal "New pictures of war led to American public moulded (heir parents. Older people in ployment. and other rights ct land Forum and its call for a foreign to the leaders of the Workers' Swinford, Co Mayo, who song, "Viva La Quince Brigada." PA TRICK BOND the unemployment rate varied Party, they have certainly not been Society" says: "The key finding opinion turning against I S involvement iheir exile will welcome renewed workers united Ireland Of the three options introduced Michael O'Riordan from a lew of 19 per cent in heard from them for quite a long time from the preliminary analysis of in V ietnam. I saw a revealing comment on acquaintance with books lliev loved in If is aga inst fins background that indicated by the report for achiev- who spoke on behalf of the And Kim II Sung's remarks would Ladybrook to a high of 51 percent this recently hy Daily Telegraph their youth, or new ones evoking happy I would make it know n to this con- ing this goal, the AFL-CIO sup- the Census is that after almost ten columnist Peter Simple. He said the suggest that he may have thought he was International Brigade and laid a in Whiterock. The Protestant rate memories. gress the concern of the AFL-CIO ports a unitary state. years of 'impartial management' North Vietnamese made darn sare nol to speaking to the Provisionals. wreath at the foot of the varied from nine per cent in East for the future of Ireland But whatever is chosen, the prob- Knowledge tax the inferior position of Catholics show such pictures. By the same token you According to the "Sunday Tribune" monument. Wreaths were also Belfast to a high of 32 per cent in This concern is not limited to lems of Northern Ireland must be remains essentially the same. The mav wonder how Ixuidoners and FOR myself I resolve this Christmas, the public relations officer of the laid by Owen Patten on behalf of those of us in the American Labor addressed on an urgent basis by the AS part of its campaign to This is likely to increase cover Court Ward Hamburgers knew of the bombing of as I have resolved for the past ten years, to Workers' Party, Mr Tony Hefferman, Northern Ireland Office may have Movement who happen to be of British Government, and I hope the relatives anu by a young lady produce an ignorant a.id prices by 25% at least as prints go The 1981 figures show that link- THF.IK cities, without any help from the read Charles Kickham's "Knockagow." It warned that translations from Korean become more sophisticated at that the TUC and the AFL-CIO can on behalf of the Republican coitipiiany population available down, and further restrict goggle-box. Fh?y say Homo Sapiens is is subtitled "The Homes Of Tipperarv". Irish extraction—any more than into English often obscure the flavour of has changed since the last Census defending the status quo, but the work together towards that end. Movement. The main oration was distinguished from oiher animals hy being Mv eopv dates from Ihe earlv 1880s when our concern for Solidarnosc is a speech But seemingly the full text may for atom-bomb fodder, the libraries whose funds have been in 1971, the year before the sectarian landscape of the my paternal grandfather was living in that limited to Polish-Americans, or For, in this instance, the enemies of delivered by a young Achill man, moral and rational. Could Homo be found in the "Pyongyang Times" of barbarous Tory government cut by rate-capping. There might introduction of direct rule from province remains, in employment Telegraphirus he a hitherto unidentified ancestral county, in the village of than our distaste for apartheid is social justice are indifference and Septetpb er 29th last, for those who Gabriel McNulty. intends to introduce 15% VAT on be a ease for buying all the books London and the abolition of as in other terms, as hostile as species of Urate lleast? ( loughjordan. and about the time he limited to Afro-Americans. Nor neglect. know Korean books. lite weather that. Sunday you think you might want NOW. Stormont. At that time the ever." December 1984 Page 6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT I December 1984 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Page 7 The Moon Behind the Hill More thoughts from Boland I watched last night the rising moon, Upon a foreign strand, Fine Gael: British or Irish? Kevin had smashed in the Civil War gave rise When Fianna Fail abolished the oath land's parliamentary Labour Party is Till mem'ries came like (lowers of June, Boland, Mercier Press £2.85 to a determination to reassert of allegience to the king disappearing, head first down the Fine Of home and fatherland; themselves as the State's natural masters and when they drafted the Gael tiger's throat It would be a pity 99pp (P/B) 1 dreamt 1 was a child once more, and to restore their historic credibility I937 Constitution vesting authority in though to leave you contemplating onlv Beside the rippling rill, by returning to a Constitutional the Irish people, Fine Gael stood for the smile of the tiger.Mr Boland may KEVIN BOLAND'S Republican Crown and Commonwealth. Where the When first I saw, in days of yore position aproximating that of 1931 never fill the Gaiety with his humour but lineage stretches back to the Whilst Fine Gael awaits new constitution claimed jurisdiction one of his stories deserves repetition The moon behind the hill. over all Ireland Fine Gael harked back United Irishmen. His uncle, Harry Freudian analysis the infer- wherever men meet with jars- of porter Ok ail the stars that ever shone ence Mr Boland draws from its political to their Boundary Agreement of 1925 over a turf fire Boland, might in the GAA's formalising ihe surrender of the Six record is probably the best available. In 1949, without altering a word or a Not one does twinkle like your pale blue eves, Counties to British Rule. By the 1960s Centenary Year be remembered as comma of the Constitution. Costello LISDOON It brought me back the visions grand they were doing this by stealth when l ike gulden corn at harvest time, your hair Witty the source of some of the Boland traces the record back to the declared the State a Republic and That purpled boyhood's dreams, their most sophisticated lawyers Sailing in my boat the wind gently blows and fills my sail. Dail Debate on the Treaty in January departed the Commonwealth, perhaps Its youthful loves, its happy land, modern rules of Gaelic Foot- 1922 when no speaker was enthusiastic dominated an all-party commission on Your sweet scented breath is everywhere. VARNA turning his coat according to his cloth ball, but he was also for the document and when the bes' hat the Constitution where Fianna Fail As bright as morning beams: play In Britain Attlee passed the Ireland Act, HOW'S n goin'. everybody. could be claimed for it was that it fielded an inexperienced and none-too- It brought me back my own sweet Nore. one of the key figures in the an absurdity pretending to vest Daylight peeping through the curtains of From Cork, New York, Dundalk, provided a stepping stone to the brilliant team. That Commission "felt it The castle and the mill, sovereignty over Northern Ireland at Gortahork and Glenamaddy? 1916 to 1922 phase of the struggle Republican goal that they all shared appropriate" to replace the The passing night time is your smile. Tea in a China Cup by Christina Stormont's disposal. All parties and Here we are in the County Clare, $Jntil my eyes could see no more for independence. Sinn Fein's When the National movement divided, Constitutional statement of Ireland's The sun in the sky is like your laugh. Reid. At the Riverside Theatre, every Independent in the Dail rejected It's a long long way from here to there. The moon behind the hill. the Free Staters needed all the allies they right to her territory by a pious October lOth-lst November. candidates in the 1918 General Britain's claim to any say in Ireland and < ome back to me Nancy linger for just a little while. There's the Burren and the Oifl* of could find and co-opted all the aspiration to have it restored her. Election were selected jointly by called on the British Government .to Moher, conservative and anti-national elements Surrender to Britain's impertinent claim Since you left these shores I know no peace nor joy. embark on disengagement from the Die Tulla and the Kilfenora. Michael Collins and Harry in the country. The Republic, instead of is the core, indeed the only substance, of THF last five or six years have brought forth country. A huge meeting in Dublin was Chorus: Mtko Russell, l)r Bill, It brought me back a mother's love, being the goal to be pursued by in- Garrett Fitzgerald's ballyhooed a plethora of plays about that "green field" Boland. When De Valera toured addressed by Costello denouncing Willy Clancy, Noel Mill. direct means, became the object of des- constitutional charade. Until, in accents wild, which still bleeds under Its neighbour's America for the Republic, Harry No matter where I wander I'm still haunted by your name. truction and execration, Britain and promising to hit the British,, I lutes .Mid fiddles everywhere. 1 prayed her from her home above heel Most have been honourable attempts She portrait of your beauty stays the same. was with htm, and wrote back to and the half - way house How, you may well ask, did such a "in their pride, their prestige and their II it's music yoti want To guard her lonely child; to portray the cost in human agony, to proclaimed the final political destiny of party not only survive adult suffrage but pocket." Throogh the windows of the Standing by the ocean, wondering where you've gone. Then g> in Clare. tease out a solution. Few have been Collins in a correspondence that It brought me one across the wave- the Irish nation. His Majesty's recover to its present strength under it? Gresham Hotel the voice of Fine Gael's without any merit Few, one must add. had the warmth of a brother's, but If you'll return again. To love in mem'ry still; Governor General was installed in Partly because Fianna Fail was never Taoiseach caught the ears of Colonel have been very good plays. "Tea in a China Where is the ring I gave to Nancy Spain? ( horus: Harry Boland died at the hand Phoenix Park and when he visited the perfect and partly because parties more Fit/Maurice, the airman who pioneered It brought me back my Kathleen's grave. Cup" belongs to the large majority—it is Oh I isdoonvarna. I isdoon. I sdoon, emotionally Republican and more Fast-West Atlantic llight. Glass in hand The moon behind the hill. honest reporting of a field that has hitherto Collin's troops in the fifth week of Royal Dublin Society Horse Show I isdoon. 1.isdoonvarna Socialistic than Fianna Fail ignored the he waved in counterpoint to each On the day in soring when the snow starts to melt and streams received too little attention, as creative the Civil War which claimed Gentlemen who had worn their moral of the limerick about the young declamation, saying. "Good old Dev". lo flow. writing il is low on drama. caubeens back-to-front with the Flying Collins himself in the eighth. His Columns attended in top hat and spats lady from Niger. In I948 Fianna Fail got "Give 'em Hell'" With the birds I'll sing to you a song. Everybody needs a break. brother Gerry, Kevin's father, as a mark of respect and rubbed 46 per cent of Dail seats, Fine Gael 21 DONAE KENNEDY This play has much to commend it. We In the while I'll wander down by bluebell grove Climb a mountain. |ump in a lake and there, beneath the silv'ry sky shoulders with the real "gintry." The old per cent. Clann na Poblachta took part live with a Protestant working-elass family never forgave Collins, although as Some head off lo exotic places, I lived life o'er again; had their pensions cut as tightfistedness of Fianna Fail's Republican vote and Where wild flowers grow from 1939 to 1972—or to be more precise Others go to the Galwav races. 1 counted all it's hopes gone by, Fianna Fail Justice Minister he complemented the attack on two warring factions of Labour And I'll hope that lovely Nancy will return. with the women of this family—the men, Mattie goes to the South of France. Republicans, and Finance Minister represented the left. There were other LONDON I wept at all it's pain; when they do surface, are all total non- was himself responsible for Patrick MacGilligan declared that parties which are now footnotes to Barnev Rush Jim to the dogs, Peter to the dance. entities who can be relied upon lo cop out And when I'm gone, oh! may some tongue. hanging IRA men in the 1940s; people might starve but he would history but even then Fianna Fail had EVENTS A cousin ol nune goes pothohn', of any difficulty, to duck, usually, into the The minstrel's wish fulfil. and Kevin as Minister for Defence balance his budget. over 50 per cent of party seats, as nine We list below a number ol A cousin of hers loves Joe Dolan. pub. This I am sure is not a barren anti- assorted Independents had been elected. events coming up in London As the summer tomes around each year And still remember him who sang, male feminism but a true insight—slavery interned them in 1957, the year A shared wish to keep Fianna Fail out of Saturday, December 8th - (.rami We go there and they come here. "The Moon Behind the Hill" (which is the real state of this family) is BOLAND'S expertise as a former incidentally that this reviewer power and to warm their backsides on Xmas Bazaar at the Marchmont Some head off lo I rijillana more corroding to men than Director of Elections and as Local government benches resulted in a Fine MASTER McGRATH But always go lo I.isdoonvarna. women—women are saved by their started his seven-year stint in the Community Centre, 62 March- Government Minister responsible for Gael-led Coalition. Fine Gael's leader, commitment to their children, men are Sunday-soldiering FCA under his redrawing electoral boundaries mont Street, WCl, II am-.3pm. General Mulcahy, as the hard man of (Iord I.urgan's famous greyhound, which won the Waterloo Cup denied any meaningful role. "Tea in a within Constitutional limits Admission I Op. I always leave on a I hursday night regime. the Civil War took the Education China Cup" is also of value in depicting the finds expression in some lengthy Friday, 14th December in 1X6X. IX6V and 1X71; ur note his name is now on tins of pet With nn lent anil groundsheet rolled up portfolio, never too important in Protestant urban working class from and repetitive passages. These hammer Christmas Social at the food!) tight, Throughout all the zigzagging of poli- Government thinking. John A. within. They are shown as being materially home the fact that the Fine Gael party Marquis of Cornuallis, March- I always like to hit I isdoon tical expediency Gerry Boland and his Costello, a barrister unsullied by any Limerick, You're a Lady scarcely less poor than the Catholics but never won the love or trust of the people mont Street, WCl, 8pm. Music, IK. 11II IN SIXTY-1 K.IH being the date of the year In or around a Friday afternoon son carried the torch of the old ideal, bandoliers, became Taoiseach. He had culturally far poorer. Fenced in by stunting In 1923, starting from its base in refreshments & Christmas S hose Waterloo sportsmen did grandly appear 1 his gives me time to get me gear until.with the 1960s and Fianna Fail's once promised that as the Brownshirts superstitions, they experience their identity Government, it won a 41 percent of Dail Raffle. by means of a framework of prohibitions. Mohair Generation, Kevin looked like had got power in Germany and the !o gain the great prizes and bear them away together Chorus: seats that steadily declined to 21 percent Sunday, December 16th - Their idol, the china cabinet, epitomises the boy standing on the burning deck Blackshirts in Italy, so too would the Never counting on Ireland or Master McGrath. 1 don't need to worry about the weather in 1948 and next topped 40 per cent in Showing of the historic film Limerick, you're a lady. their sense of superiority ovei their when all but he had fled. He even Blueshirts do for Ireland. Certainly they Ramble in lor a pint of stout, 1982 with 42percent. Since I932 Fianna "The Dawn" at 6.30 pm in the Your Shannon water's tears of joy have flown- Catholic neighbours, it epitomises their presented the Annual Report and "did for" their Coalition partners in On the 12th of December, th;ii day of renown, You'd never know who'd be hangm' Fail's share bottomed at 44 per cent and Marchmont Communitv Centre gentility Estimates for his Department to An their few terms of office and today Ire- McGrath and his trainer they left Lurgan Town; about The beauty that surounds you peaked at 57 per cent. WCl. Admission £1. I take it with me, love, where'er I go. Dail in Irish! When .lack Lynch, on John Walsh was the trainer, and soon they got o'er. l ook there's ,i Dutchman playin' a information received from British For the very next day they reached England's shore. ma ndolin While waking in the arms of distant waters Intelligence via Fine Gael's Liam THE AUTHOR portrays very lovingly A new day finds me far away from home; Cosgrove, fired Charles Haughey and And a German lookin' lor l.iatn Og the warnMh and care tor each other that And when they arived there in great London town. Neil Blaney and had them O'l loinn. Then Limerick you're my lady. exists between the women of the family, il unsuccessfully prosecuted for arms Those great English sportsmen they all gathered round, I here's Adam, Bono and Gairett The one true love that I have ever known. shows us, too, that however scornfully they And one of the gentlemen gave a "Ha! Ha! lit/Gerald may speak of Catholics, when actually smuggling in 1970, Boland quit the Cabinet and Fianna Fail. His "Riseand Is that the great dog you call Master McGrath?" Gettin' their photo taken for the Sunday confronted by a member of the species, World. they are basically kind and human. Decline of Fianna Fail" was reviewed From Red scare to neutrality As children you and 1 spent endless days of fur. Then lord Lurgan steps forward and says: "Gentlemen, And there's l inbar, Charlie and Jim here in November 1983. He brings to his In winter snow or summer's golden sun; study of Fine Gael an informed and Hand Christina Reid has given us a play thai DE VALERA AND HIS TIMES: simply seen as a play for the power whi ji Is there any among ye has money to spend? sincere love of Ireland, together with And they're itrinkin' pmls to bate the We fished in silver streams — the fabric of my dreams says much that is revealing about Belfast's had slipped away from him during his Tor ye nobles of England I don't give a straw- two generations of loathing that party Edited by J. P. O'Carroll and Reviewed by band Was fashioned by your loveliness, and so I had to say- poor Protestants, she is witty, she is absence in America John A. Murphy. Published by Here's five thousand to one on my Master McGrath." Isn't ii grand. human. But only at one point did I find Cork University Press. Hard- true drama. That was when the son in the IT IS Boland's contention that the NORAH DILLON Brian Farrell portrays him, not as a l'hen the slips were let loose, and amid a great roar Army died. The way in which this news was back, £15, ppl94. I he multitudes they Hocked in throngs Chorus: mainspring of Fine Gael is a belief thai dictator, but as a patient chairman, able to The greyhounds swept on like the waves to the shore given by a robust automoton of a soldier, lecture hall, can go sour when translated to harves' the loyalty and maintain the unity lo hear the music and the songs the electorate were misguided in 1932 To a dead even break, for old Erin-go-bragh in fixed phrases and with reference the written word of a remarkable generation of senior On motorbikes and Hiace vans 1933, 1937, 1938, 1943, 1944, 1951 and LOVE him or hate him, Eamon De Valera numbers, to three women who would never is the most significant figure in the political political leaders Sure they tore round the course, led by Master McGrath. With bottles, barrels, flagons, cans. A gift that time has made to travellers on their way 1957 and on the five other occasions that totally recover from the blow truly enraged history of modern Ireland. LikeO'Connell Mighty crack and loads of frolics. Seeking out the beauty of our land; they returned Fianna Fail to office; on and moved me Baically, that is whit and Parnell before him, he has lent his John A. Murphy in his very interesting We've seen many grey hounds that filled us with pride Pioneers and alcoholics, five other occasions since 1932 that Fine Both Cummann nc nGaedeal and the A shrine where children pray and bells ring out to say drama is, a kick in the gut. Christina Reid name and personality to the age in which and far-ranging lecture maintains that In the days that are gone, but it can't be denied. PI AC. SPt't and the FCA. Gael trailed behind Fianna Fail but IRA failed to understand Dev's Thank God we're living just for you, the freedom of each day. should either dig deeper into her pitv and he lived. neutrality was De Valera's greatest Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA, managed to come out smiling at the commitment to the "rule of order" and That the greatest and gamest the world ever saw anger and write plays that hit us at an achievement, and that he used it to shape Hairy chests and milk white thighs, head of a Coalition. As founders and both were equally surprised when he Was the champion of champions, old Master McGrath. equally deep level, or do something which When he died in 1975 at an advanced and stabilise the state "It became the iron-fisted rulers of the Free State in the cracked down on dissidents, according to Mickey dodgers in disguise, is equally useful and honourable: give us age, he seemed almost an irrelevant figure supreme expression of Mgtional Chorus: Ronan Fanning McGraths, O'Briens Pippins, Cox's, good journalism in the form of journalism years 1922-32 the shock of being rejected from a byegonc age, the centenary of his Sovereignty." At the same time De Valera Massage parlours in horse boxes, P.O'F. by the poeple in favour of those they birth in 1982, saw a revival of interest, with emphasised that a free Ireland would have Amhrans. bodhrans, amadans. television coverage and numerous studies. many interests in common with Britain, Other contributions include M A G Arab sheikhs, Hindu sikhs Jesus freaks, and would never allow itself to be used by O'Tuathaigh on the link between National R I I makin' tapes, takin' breaks, This volume, edited by Professor John any aggressor against its neighbour. Freedom and economic prosperity as seen ROISIN DUBH throwin' shapes. A. Murphy and J. P. O'Carroll. is a through history, Dermot Keogh on the I Ins is heaven, this is hell. collection of lectures delivered at a Red Scare in 1931-32 and Dev's clever use Join the conference in Cork University. As with all Professor Murphy also discussed De Who cares'.' Who can tell? of it to rehabilitate himself with the clergy POOR OLD GRANUAILE similar collections, some transfer more Valera's attitude towards the Church, and Anyone for the last few choc ices'1 and at the same time to discredit the A ROISIN. nu hiodh broil ort na cas anois, successfully to the printed page than argues that in spite of his personal piety, in Cosgrave's Government. CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION others. The gibe, which raises a laugh in a OH, dreams they do tc some come true, and they come with grief spite of the controversial constitution and la do phardun on Roimh is on bPapa agat. A 747 lor laekson Browne, the tact that his speeches tended to be l a na braithrc ag teacht thar saile 's ag triall thar rnuir, A special runway to get him down. to more, secular sermons, he stood up to the bishops T. Ryle Dwyer in dealing with the parti- 'S in ccallar lion Spainneach ar mo Roisin Dubh. Bel ore the Chieftains began to play As they did to me, my countrymen, round Erin's lovely shore, I wish to join the Connolly Association on many issues. De Valera's Fianna Fail tion question, as it used to be called, pon - Seven creamy pints came out on a tray I dreamt I was upon a hill beside a lovely vale differed from the O'Connell and Parnell ders on how small a part partition played la gia agam im lar dun It' bliain anois Sean Cannon did the backstage cookin', eras in that there was no place for clergy in in the objections to the treaty. Later De And it's there 1 spied a comely maid, her name was Granuaile. Valera believed that a prosperous Twenty- Cira craite. gra casmhar, gra ciapaithe, Shergar was ridden by Lord L.ucan. the organisation and in fact politics had SPLENDID become a secular matter. six Counties would entice the North to (ira d'lag me gan slainte gan rian gan rith, ( lannad playin' 'Harry's Game', Name join. He also believed that the Catholics 'S go hiath. brath, gan aon fhaghail agani ar mo Roisin Dubh Christy singin' 'Nancy Spain'. Professor Murphy concludes that De with their higher birth-rate woul*- Her golden hair hung down her back and she was dressed in green, SONG BOOK eventually outnumber the Protestants. Mary O'Hara and Brush Shields Valera left Irish society much as he foujid Bcidh an fharraigena tuilte dcarga 's an speir 'na fuil, I thought she was the fairest maid my eyes had ever seen; Sadly, while he concentrated on other Together singin' 'The Four Green CHRISTY MOORE. Ireland's favourite ballad it. In spite of lip service to Connolly's As I drew near I then could hear on the pleasant morning gale. matters, unemployment, the oath of Beidh an saol 'na chogadh chraoragh 'gus reabfar cnuic. Fields' Address singer, has at last published a collection. The ideals "he had no burning passion to As she strolled along she sang a song, saying "I'm poor old Granuaile." redress social inequities. He had none of allegiance, the land annuities, every Bcidh gacli gleann slcibhe ar fud Eireann 's mointc ar cnth, Van the Man and Fmmy l.ou, Christy Moore Songbook (Brandon. £3 95). of songs he has recorded, including many of his own the rage that characterised Connolly, and passing year was consolidating the border I a c-igin sul a n-cagfaidh mo Roisin Dubh. Movin' Hearts and Planxty too. composition Appealing to the republican, even Pearse." socialist. internationalist, folksong tradi- John Bowman rounds off the lectures tionalist, peace campaigner and poet. this.is d I veivbody needs a break, In her hand she held a splendid harp, by her side she let it fall. collection for everybody. And the music is J. P. Carroll in his lecture points to the with an assessment of seven biographies Climb a mountain, jump in lake. And the tunes she played were Brian Boru, Garryowen and Tara's Hill; printed as well way in which De Valera ensured the published during the subject's lifetime? Dc Oliver J Flanagan goes swimmin' in the Then God Save Ireland was the next, and Our Martyrs Who Died in Jail- survival of the new state by moulding Valera was concerned with the verdlet of Holy Sea, Oh, you needn't fret, we'll have Home Rule yet, says poor old Granuaile. Subscriptions: £6 par annum Christy has not pui in traditional rebel songs political culture and poltical structures in a history. His sensitivity to criticism PURCHASE CHRISTY MOORE'S NEW period of typical post-colonial instability. Scan Doherty goes down for the Roseol (Concessions for couplm and unwaged) of Ireland—perhaps he thinks we should know portrayed self-doubt about his behaviour them already! — but there are samples of just during the treaty period. The definitive Tralee. about everything else, from songs about H-Block Maryann Gialanella Valiulis biography which still remains tobe written SONGBOOK AT FOUR PROVINCES BOOKSHOP, But I like my music in the open air to the cheeky ballad of Knock Airport, from El When I awoke from my slumber I was in an awful fright, must await release of his personal papers in So every summer I go to Clare. Salvador to the Little Musgrove, from a touching contribution is entitled "The man they I looked around and could not see altboagh it was daylight. Send to: 244 Grays Inn Road, London WC1 1985. Meanwhile, this volume adds much 244 246 GRAYS INN ROAD, WC1 Woodstock, Knock nor the Feast of tribute to Seamus Ennis to ... oh! I could go on could never forgive," and deals with De Cana I thought I saw her shadow by the walb of a lonely jail, Bury it yourself! The Four Provinces Bookshop Valera as viewed by his many enemies. For to our knowledge of the man and his has it in stock.•'-P B Could hold a match to Lisdoonvarna. But her mantle green was the last I seen of poor old Grannaile. example, his opposition to the treaty was period. r Page 8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT December 1984 Peter Mulligan's PATRICK peepshow THE NAVVY POET McGILL TWENTY odd years ago you could BY Birmingham I spoke to a strapping still meet oldtimers - old long big Co. Galway man who often digs distance men and tramp navvies -1 DONALL MacAMHLAIGH 100 metres a day, on cable-laying mean who could reel off great jobs, and even a little rough hunks of the poetry of Donegalman arithmetic will show you that this is When you'd give your soul in Patrick Mac Gill for you, no belonged rather to the Robert a fairly prodigious feat of bother. Admittedly such men Service tradition, the kind of barter for a single mouldy labour-in an age when all kinds of belonged to an age when poetry simple, moving poetry that spoke chop? technological junk is flying about in was learnt by heart and enjoyed in a directly to the poor and the down- Have you sought through half space! Well might Pat Mac Gill call a kingdom for the job you TAXPAYERS' MONEY-giving it way that poetry is no longer trodden everywhere. Let us look at the shovel 'first of the tools and out - The Belfast-based Lear Fan enjoyed by ordinary non-literary what I would count as one of his could not get? last.' aircraft company, which has received finest war poems (Mac Gill went Have you eyed the city gutters people. It was the same with the But I suspect there will be as •lore than £50 million of UK taxpayers' through the Great War with the for a stump of cigarette? poetry of Rudyard Kipling and many if not more readers interested money has finally received a certificate Robert W. Service, much of what London Irish Rifles). This poem is Have you dossed in drear of approval from the US Federal in the portion of this fine book that called s.mply The Cross: December on a couch of Aviation Administration. It is now they wrote lent itself to the deals with the poet's homeland - possible that some of the 320 workers entertainment of the party or the virgin snow iNsmissed in August will be taken back. With a quilt of frost above you Songs of Donegal. in this pub.. I suppose more workingmen collection Mac Gill poured fourth The British Government holds only a could quote you verses from The The cross is twined with and a sheet of ice below? five per cent equity holding in San gossamer all the longing he felt for his native Holdings, the Delewere-based parent Cremation of Sam McGee or The county, where, alas, clerical and Little Yellow Idol - along with The cross that some hand shaped company of Lear Fan. The holding was That is the opening verse of a gombeen bigotry prevented him purchased for £25 million in 1982. Two other favourites like Adieu to Bela- with care. ooem sub-titled On the Road to from making his home even when he members of the Saudi Arabian royal shanny - than almost any other And by his grave the grasses stir Kinlochleven 1998. Mac Gill could well have afforded to remain family put up 60 million dollars and poetical compositions you could But he is sleeping silent there. hold 85 per cent of the equity. A further worked on the waterworks scheme there after the success of CHILD- mention, barring maybe the poems The guns speak loud: he hears 7 million of public funds is due to be in Kinlockleven as successive REN OF THE DEAD END ...the of Pat Mac Gill whom incidentally them not paid to the company in the next few generations of Irishmen have petty powers that were did not months. some of the old timers even claimed The night goes by; he does not worked on hydro-electric schemes forget, nor did they forgive, the to have worked with! (Incorrectly, know down to the present day, almost but bitter condemnation that Mac Gill since not many of them would have A lone white cross stands on the PAYING IT BACK—with it would appear from the various made of them in his powerful been old enough to have navvied in spot, interest—"The strain of servicing biographical gleanings that have novels. For all his hard-headed (if Ireland's eight million-dollar foreign the pre-Great War days when Mac And tells of one who sleeps been made available to us over the sometimes sentimentally debt has been exacerbated by the rise Gill wielded the pick and shovel by below. past few years that he did not in expressed) perception of life Pat of both the US dollar and the interest the day and the pen by night) I The brooding night is hushed and rates. The Government (Irish) fact navvy for more than six or Mac Gill must have been something knew an old navvy who arrived in still estimate that repayments will cost seven years in ail-but of course so of a romantic and the wee folk Britain a good ten years before Pat The crooning breeze draws quiet almost 10 per cent of Gross National brutally hard was the work in those figure largely in his Songs of Product annually between now and Mac Gill but he had never heard of breath days this might well represent a Donegal: 1987"—Financial Times. the author of Children of the Dead A star-shell flares upon the hill lifetime's labour in terms of modern End, much less met him - and, And lights the lowly house of performance! PUBLIC spending (hospitals, interestingly, Mac Gill was known death. At night when I be sitting in welfare, roads, etc.), accounts for 60 among his contemporaries and the corner of the house per cent of Irish G.N.P. With 16 per fellow-navvies less as a writer than And oh! so close and quiet that Ihere is a war poem, too called An even more popular poem of cent unemployed and the highest taxes a wrestler! Peadar O'Donnell was I wouldn't scare a mouse in Europe it is expected that cut-backs A.D. 1916 which for a moment I Mac Gill's often quoted by a good surprised to discover this when he With the wind above the in public spending will be enforced to thought might have had to do with friend of my own, a Tyroneman by pay the international bankers. spoke to men here in Britain who the Easter Rebellion but is of course chimney top and it's me * * * the name of Eddie McNeilis, was had worked with Mac Gill). about the misery of war.. .it is an can hear its song: "The Song of the Shovel": Go to bed, you sleepy heifd, WOULD YOU believe it? The interesting thing about Mac Gill, a Apart from his great prose Down on creation's muckpile, you're staying up too Times reports the IRA: "The IRA has man with a deep abiding love of where the sinful swelter announced that the next bomb to be works, classics like THE RAT PIT long! Ireland and particularly his native and sweat planted by. them will merely be to test and CHILDREN OF THE DEAD Then Mawmy up and looks at Donegal, that - unless lam greatly Where the scum of the earth the British bomb squads, and not END, Pat Mac Gill wrote and mistaken and I think I have read me and says: "It's now. to designed to hurt anybody. This foregather, rough and published three collections of verse bed technique, believed to be French in most of his works - there is little or untutored yet. origin, has not been tried by them - Songs of Donegal, Songs of the no reference to Anglo-Irish conflict Or else 'twill be the Fellow before. 'We have already planted the Dead End and Soldiers Songs and Where they swear in six-foot or to the Irish struggle for self- spaces, or toil in the with the Wee Red Head!" " bomb, in fact,'—said a spokesman, now all three have been bought out determination. I may be wrong in THAT MAC GILL for all the 'and it is now up to you to find it. You barrow squad attractively in one book by the this but I get the impression from conservatism of his verse (I niton have about a month, starting from enterprising Co. Kerry publishing The men of unshaven faces, the now. No, clues. We're not too sure Mac Gill's work that separatism or the conservatism of form, of ourselves where it is, as we got a firm of Brandon; the hardback nationhood as aspired to by so ranks of the very bad course) he did experiment quite a Frenchman to do it for us and we can't edition which would make a many generations of Irishmen, did Where the brute is more than bit and though most of the poems understand a word he's saying'." beautiful Christmas present, costs the human, the muscle * * * not loom large in his conciousness have the traditional form there are £12.00 (Irish) but I believe there is a at all. His novels do not reflect it, I more than the mind some, like the following, more Where their gods are loud- . THE EFFECT of colonialism. The soft-covered edition, too, at less believe, and very often there is no modern in execution: case of a young RUC officer who than £5.00. Brandon has also indication as to what nationality a mouthed gaffers, rugged, Tirconaill! recently raped a young woman at brought out the best known of Mac uncouth, unkind. character had ... I have heard On the.hem of the royal Hill, gunpoint, shot her mother and took two Gill's novels in paperback as Where the rough of the road Irishmen and Englishmen alike the hill of Aileach, other women hostage before shooting visitors to the Connolly are roosting, where the himself with a gun issued to him by the claiming Moleskin Joe! I stood- State is typical of the moral trauma Association bookshop well know.. failed and the faljgp be. there have we met in the ditch- And the Past, and the Present that the Royal Ulster Constabulary is HOW DOES Patrick Mac Gill PA T MA C GILL may never have going through. Gary Dickson was the way, there have I plighted and the Future rate as a poet in an age when joined a political party but his 1 third member of the security forces to .v" ' with thee Were in my eyes kill himself in a ten-day period and the poetry seems to have little to say socialism is implicit in his work, As nothing- The wage-slave troth of our ninth this year. The suicide rate in to the ordinary man, is more often much of which is reminiscent of union, and found thee The light foot in a forgotten Northern Ireland has risen than not an expression of clever- Jack London in its bitter dance. dramatically from 93 in 1982 to 142 in ness than anything else and would condemnation of the status quo. Let true to fny trust 1983. This year 54 persons have A spark in the air . . . certainly seem to be composed for us look at a few excerpts from the Stoic in loveless labour, committed suicide including nine \ companion with beggered It is not possible within the scope members of the security forces. Sir J. the printed page rather than for the Songs of the Dead End section, of of a piece like this to suggest the Harmon, the RUC chief, has instructed human ear? Well the answer must the book - the following, for when beggered and burst Wonderful navvy shovel, last range and breadth of these, the col- (bat his officers should be be that Mac Gill's range is so wide example, I often heard quoted,'by lected poetical works of Patrick psychologically screened , for every that some of his poetry-especially of the tools and first. .. RUC officer is armed at all times, and Donegal and Tyrone men . in Mac Gill; I would just say that it is his war poetry-could rank particular, on building sites or civil the kind of book you could return to is given sophisticated Firearms training. alongside the work of Joyce Kilmer * * * engineering jobs: I REjAD enough poetry reviews in again and again, the kind of book /- or Wilfrid Owen-while more of it ? wish had been available a couple of THE BRITISH war machine in the literary pages of various papers Ireland—"Since 1968, no British Have you tramped about\ in and periodicals to know very well decades ago so that I might present soldier, no RUC man has served a day Winter, when your boots that many modern critics wouldn't it to Eddie McNeilis who so often • in jail for killing innocent persons strike. Nothing would undermine the were minus soles rate that kind of versifying very quoted Mac Gill-Eddie himself with legally-held weapons or brutally Provos and the INLA violence Have you wandered sick and highly-and this I think is a very big being a dab hand with shovel and ill-treating people even though we can quicker than the release of prisoners sorry with your pockets give a list of 140 innocents killed and in a steady stream; the only power that 'but'-where else can you find the pen alike. , over 2,000 cases of ill-treatment in can stop the Provos is the families. full of holes? authentic expression of such / recommend it wholeheartedly interrogation centres. It is the absence Each prisoner links to 100 people; Have you wondered which was feelings, where else will any poetry to readers and if you're within any of justice and fair play that helps 2,000 prisoners means over 100,000 better when your capital describe what it is like to tramp sort of reach in the London atw Tm violence. Remember the part played persons with a sense of injustice. If was light hungrily about the land in search of 1 by the families at the end of the hunger there was a bit of hope the families sure you'll find it, in hardback and would quell most of the violence by A plate of fish and taters or a a job or to 'swelter and sweat' in a soft, in the Connolly Association's Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd (TU), their disapproval. Silly, stupid British, hammock for the night? narrow cutting? It is fashionable to bookshop in Gray's Inn Rpqd. . Nottingham Road, Ripley, Derbys, their military victory is not possible! Have you smelt the dainty say nowadays that machinery has THE NAVVY POET (The and published by Connolly Pub- Do they want an alternative or odour of some swell done tfway with navvying but at the not?"—statement issued by Fr. Denis collected poetry of Patrick Mac lications Ltd. 244 Grays Inn Road, refreshment shop? recent CKAC festval fn London WC1 Paul. GUI) books • mfmmmmmmm^mmmmm«m

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