FOUNDED 1939 BIRMINGHAM Organ of the Connolly Association CONFERENCE

SATURDAY, APRIL 12th 11 am—3 pm TRANSPORT HOU&E, 21 BROAD No. 506 APRIL 1986 STREET SPEAKERS: NOEL HARRIS DESMOND GREAVES EDDIE GLACKEN S. PRATT i Further details on request

FRANK SHORT R.I.P. THE DEATH of Mr Frank Short in Birmingham removes from the scene one of the most dedicated and -consistent of Irish nationalists in England. Though perhaps his most spectacular work was done in the Sustentation fund 1940s when he was national THE fund has been a bit down lately, treasurer of the Anti-Partition but there is a welcome improvement League, for many years since he this month. But really the minimum break-even with nothing to spare is has been one of the pillars of the £300, and the more we have to spare Federation of Irish Societies, and in the more work can be done. So keep nttiiy ways the head-centre of the up the good work and let a few more Irish movement in Birmingham. come into it. Our thanks to: The Standing Committee of the SOuth London CA £27, T. Doody Connolly Association on Saturday £2,: p. Doody £1, P. Doody £1, M. MiUch 22nd, passed a resolution of Flannery £1.46, C. Dunne £70, G. sympathy with the family. Thomson £7.35, Tottenham IJCATT £20, J. Kavanagh £9.60, T. Egan £2, His daughter, Clare Short, C. Tierney £13.25, R. Anderson £1, unsal, is Member of Parliament for M. Brennan £5, J. Farrell £3, R. Doyle Che Lady wood division of £5, R. Kelly £3, S. & D. Ashton £1.25, Birmingham and is known for her CC £2, P. Walsh £3, J. Bird £1.44, M. espousal of progressive causes. WHITEHALL mandarins had faces as red as babies* bottoms when they learned that Evelyn O'Loingsigh £27, supporters in Birmingham £1.70, in West London Glenholmes, wanted on a list of charges a mile long, has slipped through their fingers in Dublin. £2, in South London £25.39. TOTAL: £235.44. fiptte McAteer For twice running they had failed to take out a proper warrant. In one This is the commonsense way case the informations were not sworn,. In another they couldn't even spell the Dutch have regarded it, and her name right. they refused to extradite Long Kesh escaper Gerard Kelly on the RIP. One would have thought they and this time orders were made for grounds that his offences were BANNERS AND MR EDDIE McATEER, who died at would have taken special care as Miss Glenholme's arrest. But up political. There have been similar Us home in Derry City, was for a one of the allegations was that she to the time of writing shfe has not recent rulings in the USA, where number of years leader of the old tried to blow up the British cabinet been located. the proposed treaty that would Nationalist Party that was replaced by at their lijbtel in Brighton. BADGES People have been asking why introduce deportation of political the present SDLP. His brother Hugh FOR a week from St Patrick's LIBERTY Whitehall made such a mess of it. suspects from the USA has yet to McAteer was a noted republican Day, the London Borough of famous for his escape from Crumlin HomeiSecretary Douglas Hurd The most probable reason is that be ratified. This may have played Islington acted host to an Rood jail. . and others showed exasperation they still have a colonialist a part in the Hillsborough accord. exhibition of Irish Trade Union The two brothers lived almost next when they found an Irish judge attitude towards Irelahd. Any In sum it would seem that the and Labour Movement banners door to each other, and were on good treating the liberty of an Irish ould thing will do for th<3 Paddies. terms despite the difference in politics. only country anxious to deport painted by Jer O'Leary, and of citizen seriously. And if the warrant* don't measure Irish citizens to England is There can be little doubt that it was up to necessities, "it's oiily for the Irish Trade Union and political pressure from south of the border that They could not envisage the Ireland. Not a very good position badges collected by Francis led to Eddie McAteer's involvement Irish." And the Irish should bend for an Irish government to be in. storm there would have been if he their laws to suit the convenience Devine of the Irish Labour in the Orange and Green talks initiated had allowed an Irish woman to be The "Irish Democrat" has History Society. by Terence O'Neill, to misjudge the of the English police, since "they deported to England — never advocated violence and importance of the Civil Rights shouldn't have any law, anyway." Jer O'Leary has in recent years something scandalous enough in deplores it wherever it is movement and thus lose political revived the art of painting all conscience — without making As it is, the Tories have been employed, but it is remarkable support, and thus drop out of active extremely inspiring banners. His sure everything was in order. made to look foolish once again, with what vigour and diligence pubnc life. banner commemorating the so they'll need a scapegoat, and a people are pursued when they As an individual he continued to workers who lost their lives in eqjoy universal respect. As it was she was let out and disciplinary enquiry has been set endanger British soldiers or 1913, Alice Brady, Nolan and was going away, when police afoot. j politicians, when you consider Byrne is a real gem, and those pounce^, after firing shots in the DUTCH TOO how leisurely is the chase after the done for the Ancient Guild of air, and took her back. When she Meanwhile the snatch squads firers of rubber bullets and the Incorporated Brick and Stone LATE NEWS got awajjthe second time they had have not been findingthings too perpetrators of deaths in police CENTRAL London Connolly Association Layers and Allied Trade Union had enough. They did not pursue easy elsewhere. After all how stations. announces a special meeting on Nuclear her. ; , . and for the Association of Pollution of the Irish Sea. Speaker is Elaine could you say that blowing up the The first thing is to stop the Meaiiwhile the English Prime Minister was notia political Unemployed Workers are as Salter, of the Friends of the Earth, venue is primary violence. Then the good. Cramer Street Centre, basement of authorities had a third attempt, act? secondary and tertiary violence it Sandfleld Flats, Cromer Sl/Argyie St, Kh*s causes will stop of its own accord. Francis Devine's collection of Cross, 8 pm, Wednesday, April l«th. On It is hard to believe there is any hundreds of badges is fascinating. It Wednesday 30th Desmond Greaves speaks includes such historic items as the oa the Anglo-Irish Agreement and what other primary violence than that of the British government badge of Michael Davitt's next, vena« e 62 Marchmos• »t Street.• , Democratic Labour Federation, of This years being the seventieth anniversary On May 12th, the John MacStan Society occupying Irish territory. Stop the Socialist Party of Ireland (1912) Liverpool Connolly Association AGM has scheduled a march and rally*losing ruththa t and the others will follow. will be held on Thursday, May 1st, at The with Karl Marx's head on it, of the number of Connolly commemorations area festival in the Queens Hak. Speakers In the meantime another matter Swan, London Road, at 7.45 pm and will be being held, Outdoor Tax Officials, the Regular followed by a social evening at 8.45. All include Ron Brown, MP, Gaelic poet Soriey arises. What are the chances that Chimney Cleaners, the Irish Union of Mends welcome. Further meetings are Liverpool Connolly Association holds a Maclean and Hamish Henderson. » Mrs Glenholmes will get a fair Newsvendon, the shoe-shaped badge : ."" A' planed for May 21st and June 25th at the meeting oti Wednesday April 23rd at 7.30pm Finally London Connolly .Association of the National Unioli of Boot and AUEW Rooms, Moot Pleasant. trial if she is finally apprehended in the Alf$W rooms, with Bernard Morgan and deported? Shoe Operatives, the Irish Women's * * •. • whose mother was in the Post Office, as a concert by Okk Gaughan, and public I CMcranhduB toL I ax rick-boraMtckat l O'Douell Is it possible for orite that the Suffrage Federation (1912) and aHj u. n,||t.< Lni- i ,.„|.

'JLi*. Page Two IRISH DEMOCRAT APRIL 1986 APRIL 1986 IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Three NOTES & NEWS TO BEGIN with, here's a date fo LETTERS I EEC — FLUX OR CHASSIS? the diary. The Connoll BIRMINGHAM SELL-OUT OVER SELLAFIELD Association has secured a booking THE EEC , to sa\ the least, is in a state the CBI announced that seven top from Dick Gaughan when he makes JIM SAVAGE AND of flux. What are the causes of this BY British firms are to move production JAMES CONNOLLY, in his most famous work "Labour in Irish History" his southern tour towards the end of CONFERENCE condition? out of the country. Meanwhile Prime gives one example after another of th" capitalist class's selling out the One major factor is that the Rome JOHN BOYD Minister Thatcher and French May. The date will be Thursday, J HE Trade Union conference national interest for the sake of the moneybag, later he came to see that MICHAEL QUILL Treaty is to ha»e modest reforms rather President Mitterrand are dangling the May 29th, 1986, and the venue the organised by the "Campaign to (and much more) this does not necessarily apply o the class as a wnuie. I READ with great interest the than being replaced by a new Treaty of £160 for each family of four throughout "Channel fixed link" carrot and Lewisham Labour Club. Book the end interference in Irish affairs" article in the February issue of the European Union. These reforms the 12 member states. Despite Britain's simultaneously chanting "jobs." A date, full details in next month's looks like getting off to a The Fine Gael party grew out of European Treaty which commits include further erosion of the right of European Parliament are duly taken holds the Presidency of ihe Council of 'Irish Democrat', 'A Nickel or a having taken the Commission to the major objective of the tunnel is "Democrat". See map below. promising start. Cumann na nGael, child of the Ireland to support the "technologi- Union' by Gerald O'Reilly. No member states of the veto on European Court over an order to make political, the idea is to present a picture into consideration. the European Communities It is the first conference of this "treaty" and the Blueshirts of the cal and industrial conditions one is more competent to write the Community legislation; the inclusion of extra payments to an illegal Budget, a of fixing Britain to Europe, meaning (t>) Ihe Presidency shall be kind to be held in the Midlands, nineteen thirties. It is no wonder 5. The external policies of the the long term objective of economic and further £18 million has been paid into the EEC, before the country breaks necessary for security" of its responsible for initiating action and history of the Transport Workers' European Community and the monetary union; codification of EEC coffers before a decision has been loose and floats off into the Atlantic. and while catering mostly for the therefore that the same party, with European partners. For this means co-ordinating and representing the Union, and Mick Quill than policies agreed in European Political exisS ing procedures for decision making reached! The "Chunnel" is part and parcel of the Birmingham area, it is expected the aid of degenerate Labour, is Ireland is underwriting British positions of the Member States in Gerald, who was there from its on common foreign policy and a limited Co-operation must be consistent. The cost of CAP and the perpetual political and transport infrastructure of that delegates will be travelling now in the midst of the greatest sell- relations with third countries in foundation in New York in 1935. extension of the role of the European plutonium. They point out that The Presidency and the 'crisis' it causes will be seriously the Common Market. The money would from as far afield as Liverpool. respect of European Political Co- Enclosed are two letters which Assembly. It has also been agreed that out since the Act of Union. there is an "environmental time- Commission, each within its own worsened by the enlargement of the be better spent on rejuvenating Particulars are obtainable from operation activities. may be of interest to readers. I was sphere of competence, shall have there shall be an internal community industries instead of devastating areas bomb ticking away less than a It shall also be responsible for ihe Community to 320 million people and Mr B. Piper, 85 Milcote Road, Thus while Mr Haughey and special responsibility for ensuringthat in constant touch with Michael market by 1992. of Kent. hundred miles away from our management of political co-operation 12 member states with the entry of Smethwick, Birmingham. Fianna Fail are demanding the such consistency is sought and Quill over the years when he led These measures came out of the Recently there have been several and in particular for drawing up ihe mainly agrarian NATO members, A press statement issued by the closure of Windscale/Sellafield capital city." maintained. the union. I admired him because intergovernmental conference with Spain and Portugal on January Ist. calls for Britain to join the European timetable of meetings and for Britain, Denmark and Greece blocking Monetary System (EMS) emanating Campaign points out that more nuclear poison factory, the of his stand on behalf of the This makes the EEC nearly identical The text of the third section of 6. (a) The High Contracting Parties convening and organising meetings. the main thrust towards European from important sources in the City of trade unions than ever before had Spanish Republic, and his record with NATO, the exceptions being coalition government will not the treaty is published on this page, consider that closer co-operation on Union. Denmark has been in the throes London and voiced by ex-EEC here in Ireland in the Republican neutral Ireland in the EEC and Norway resolutions on Ireland last year, budge. questions of European security would (c) 1 he Political Directors shall of a debate where the parliament President Roy SDP Jenkins. This is all so that readers of the Irish Demo- meet regularly in the Political struggle for Irish freedom against which is not in the EECbut is in NATO. and the number is expected to contribute in an essential way to the rejected the new package. But, as a way part of the process of pushing Britain crat can see for themselves what Committee in order lo give the As regular readers of the DEMOCRAT increase. A statement issued by Mr Gerry development of a European identity in British Imperialism. of indicating how far things have gone, into the political, economic and necessary impeius. maintain the will know Ireland is subject to T he aim of the campaign is to Walsh, National Secretary of Irish Ireland will be committed to unless external policy matters. They are the public were told that these reforms military structure of a prospective EEC continuity of European Political Co- One letter is dated January, considerable pressure to give up her somebody at present supporting the ready to co-ordinate their positions would go ahead even if Denmark did not superstate. Ilie process, as outlined induce the British government to CND, suggests that this is because operation and prepare Ministers' 1946, and relates to one I wrote neutrality and in Spain a trick more closely on the political and agree with them! The government above, is formed of bits and pieces issue a declaration of intent to of Mr Peter Barry's signature to the coalition has the guts to revolt. discussions. that he never received. The second referendum held by the treacherous economic aspects of security. pulled out all propaganda stops and got rather than the one grand step of withdraw from Ireland and cease is dated February 6th, 1964, and "socialist" government secured a (b) The High Contracting Parties are a "yes" vote in a referendum. signing a new "Treaty of European interfering in Irish affairs. (d) The Political Committee or, if shows that we were in touch over decision to remain in NATO. w determined lo maintain the Union." Tills fragmented process The conference opens at necessary, a Ministerial meeting shall ANOTHER factor is the EEC technological and industrial conditions the years. My point is why was the Eor Britain, EEC membership is now draws little attention to the continual convene wiihin 48 hours at the request budget, money required to run the Transport House, 21 Broad TRI'.ATY Provisions on European shall constitute a point of reference letter I wrote on 28th March, 1945 working against the farmers and the erosion of national sovereignty, the real necessary for their security. They shall of at least three Member States. EEC, which is in crisis simply because A recall conference on tht Street, Birmingham at II am on Co-operation in ihe Sphere of f oreign lor the policies of the High and airmailed to New York, agricultural industry. Earmers' reasons for Britain's deindustrialisa- work to thai end both at national level there is not enough cash in the kitty. "Defence of the nation-state" will Saturday, April 12th. Policy. Contacting Parties. and where appropriate, within the handed over to the British incomes have fallen dramatically amid tion, and demise and impoverishment. (e) The European Correspondents' Most of the money goes on the be convened on Saturday, June European Co-operation in the (d) The High Contracting Parties forecasts that in future CAP subsidies Hence all the more need to expose framework of the competent Group shall be responsible, under the authorities? Who was responsible Common Agricultural Policy and it is 21st, at the Friends' House sphere of foreign policy shall be shall endeavour to avoid anv action or will go not to Britain but mainly to the whole grotesque business on a institutions and bodies. direct ion of the Political Committee for this? Would you not suspect officially admitted that expenditure on governed by the following provisions. position which impairs their Mediterranean member states instead, national and international scale, taking Euston Road, London, NWl (c) Nothing in this Title shall for monitoring the implementation of something sinister when a private propping this up is not under control effectiveness as a cohesive force in litis is despite the surpluses, especially into account the various patriotic forces Details from 244 Grays Inn Road impede closer co-operaiion in the field the European Political Co-operation letter can find its way into the because of the massive support * * * FIANNA FAlT 1. The High Contracting Parties inlernational relations or within in cereals, that attract subsidies that in various countries throughout the of security between certain of the and for studying general hands of the British when it was subsidies required for the many being members of I he European international organisations. Britain now produces. EEC and western Europe, an exercise High Contracting Parties within the organisational problems. mountains, lakes and swamps of surplus A similar conference wilt be Communities, shall endeavour jointly addressed to the USA. in internationalism to oppose the aims framework of the Western European food products. The cost of this ON ANOTHER front, deindustrial- held at the Shaftesbury Hotel CONFIDENCE lo formulate and implement a Union or the Atlantic Alliance. (0 Working Groups shall meet as JIM SAVAGE operation alone has risen a further £475 of international finance and the 3. (a) The Minisiers for Foreign isation of Britain continues apace with Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, on "EVEN (he most ardent adherents of European foreign policy. directed bv the political committee. millions since last year to £13,000 transnational corporations whose aim Affairs and a member of the 5,000 jobs in manufacturing the afternoon of Saturday, May the Anglo-Irish Agreement could not 7. (a) In international institutions millions. The total cost is equivalent to it is to have a European Union. commission shall meet at least four (g) A Secretariat based in Brussels disappearing each month. In addition 31st, the speakers including Bob say that al this point it has brought 2. (a) The High Contracting Parties and at international conferences times a year within the framework of shall assist ihe Presidency in peace to Ireland," said l-'ianna hail undertake to inform and consult each which they attend, the High Wareing, MP, and Anthony European Political Co-operation. preparing and implementing the February 6, 1964 leader ( harles Haughty in Amcrica other on any foreign policy mailers of Contracting Parties shall endeavour Coughlan from Dublin. They may also discuss foreign policy activities of European Political Co- before Patrick's Day. general interest so as to ensure that to adopt common positions on the Mr Jim Savage * * • matters within the framework of operation and in administrative their combined influence is exercised subjects covered by this Title. 19 A Popes Quay Political Co-operation on the occasion matters. It shall carry out its duties In his opinion the nav forward was as effectively as possible through co- (b) In international institutions and Cork. Ireland At this year's Bronterre O'Brien of meetings of the Council of the under the authority of the Presidency. INTERNATIONAL COMMENT I he calling of an all-party const it ut ional ordination, the convergence of their at international conferences at which commemoration, dated June 22nd, conference of the two parts of Inland European Communities. DEAR MR SAVAGE the oration will be delivered by Mr positions and the implementation of not all the High Contracting Parties WHAT was behind the murder of of course,, that sometimes the That tarted-up bag of class "to establish new constitutional joint action. (b) The Commission shall be fully participate, those who do participate 11. As regards privileges and Mr Quill had left for Tulsa, Desmond Greaves, editor of the structures for the whole of Ireland." associated with the proceedings of Swedish premier Mr Olaf Palme? injustices inflicted by imperialism hatred. President Reagan, allows (b) Consultations shall take place shall take full account of positions immunities the members of the Oklahoma when your letter "Irish Democrat". This Political Co-operation. You can bet your bottom dollar it are so severe that somebody is them to operate a war from Regarding IIS aid he thought that the before Ihe High Contracting Parties agreed in European Political Co- European Political Co-operation (c) In order to ensure the swift arrived. I read your letter to him was the dirty tricks department of drawn to resort to "progaganda Honduras territory. He has been commemoration has become a modest sum of 20 million dollars a year decide on their final position. operation. Secretariat shall be treated in the same adoption of common positions and over the telephone and he was the American CIA. by the deed." But one can bet that refused a hundred million dollars regular fixture thanks to the in the form of grants "seemed to be very way as members of the diplomatic the implementation of joint action, most delighted to hear from you, for every instance where people enterprise of Mr Chris Maguire. adequate," for in I he present state of its (c) In adopting its positions and its 8. The High Contracting Parties missions of the High Contracting You must remember that these for dirty tricks in Nicaragua. * * * the High Contracting Parties shall, as he said you were a veteran of economy Ireland is not anxious to seek national measures each High shall organise a political dialogue with Parties based in the same place as the people make no bones about "de- have been driven frantic by lar as possible, refrain from impeding But that doesn't daunt him. more loans, and most of the American Contracting Party shall take full third countries and regional Secretariat. everything that is good in Ireland. stabilising" foreign governments, oppression and resorted to Spare a dime — or a hundred the formation of a consensus and the Just as Mrs Thatcher showed aid money which people had been so account of the positions of the other groupings whenever they deem it He will answer your letter I am promoting coups, revolutions and terrorism, there are several where dollars — for "Liberation", the joint action which this could produce. euphoric about after Hillsborough was partners and shall give due necessary. 12. Five years after the entry into sure, as soon as he returns to New invasions, and pouring thousands provocateurs have set the whole American influence when she anti-imperialist organisation insuUed the Swedish people by in the form of loans. consideration to the desirability of force of this Act, Ihe High Contracting York. of dollars into places that suit the thing up to wreck a genuine whose president is veteran Fenner 9. The High Contracting Parties adopting and implementing common 4. Ihe High Contracting Parties Parties shall examine whether any movement. refusing to go to Olof Palme's lie said that he would oppose and the Commission, through mutual He asked me to thank you for American war machine. (Lord) Brockway. Their premises European positions. shall ensure that the European revision of Title III is required. funeral, so Reagan insulted Mr strongly any linking of US aid w ith the assistance and information, shall the enclosed clippings, and asked Mr Palme had just made an When Wilson became Prime have been bought over their Parliament is closely associated with Gorbachov by answering his supplementary extradition treaty intensify co-operation between their that I send you the material you international appeal against Minister in 1974 it wasannounced heads, and they've either to Fight In order to increase I heir capacity European Political Co-operation. To request for a joint embargo on between the IJS and Britain which has representations accredited to third an expensive law suit or move lor joint actions in the foreign policy thai end the Presidency shall requested in your letter, also some nuclear weapons, and had that the CIA sent 400 agents into si ill lo he ratified by the US Senate countries and to international nuclear testing by letting off a field, the High Contracting parties other things he thought you would criticised American and British Britain. At the time people quick. They've found somewhere despite Irish-American opposition. regularly inform the European organisations. bomb in Nevada. to move to, but need £4,000 shall ensure that common principles Parliament of the foreign policy issues A warning be interested in which I am war-mongering.. He had taken the thought it was to prevent Wilson On O'Ma I ley's Progressive and objectives are gradually which are being examined within the enclosing. In this material, you lead at a Vienna gathering of swinging too far to the left. But it desperately to enable them to Democrat Party he said that it was "a 10. (a) The Presidency of European And now the latest is to send 25 developed and defined. The framework of political co-operation WHILE most Irish people in will find a folder of the $42 million socialist parties.. was soon clear that the effort make the move. Send cheques to right-wing part Vv" most of whose votes Political Co-operation shall be held war-ships, three aircraft carriers, determination of common positions and shall ensure that the views of the Britain will be disgusted and gains which we have just won for After the murder there was talk would have been superfluous. them c/o Mr Tony Gilbert at 313 will come effectively, from l ine Gael. . by the High Contracting Party which appalled at the way national cruisers and heaven knows what Caledonian Road, London N7,or the subway and bus workers of about German terrorists. But What it was probably for was to else into waters claimed by Libya "My assessment is that this interests, and indeed national New York. nobody claimed the murder. A set the left at sixes and sevens, so if you like the Connolly government has lost the next election. independence, to say nothing of since 1973. The fall in public estimation is I am putting your name on our few days later a man was arrested, that when Wilson floundered the Association will forward. Make neutrality, have been abandoned irreversible. The only party who can Armaments complimentary mailing list to but was soon released, and we can reaction would be a swing to the This, says the old wind-bag, is a cheques out to "Liberation". SEIZURE OF THE SCREENS under the Hillsborough "peaceful exercise." It is the sort * * * win it is Manna fail." enable you to receive all our expect to hear little more. The right. And this happened. THE mercenary tyrants of the The plan is deadly simple. The smokescreen as Fitzgerald & Co. * * * of peaceful exercise undertaken by publications. Swedish government will have In an effort to win new members in Ireland European Commission have national broadcasting systems, abase themselves before the the Orange Order when it parades On behalf of Mr Quill, may I had its "advice." ONE IS tempted to go further. the Connolly Association has cooked up another scheme for like the BBC, ITS, RTE etc, are to moneybags, it is important that with kick-the-pope bands, FRESH evidence of the speed with wish you a very Happy New Year. It reminds you of Lord For every act of terrorism incited printed a new recruiting leaflet. destroying national sovereignty in be fused info one European their natural indignation should insulting banners and lambegs HOSPITALITY! which the Republic is being hustled Very truly yours, Mountbatten. Only Mr Enoch by the Libyan Government, and Send for copies to head office, the interests of the profit-bloated broadcasting system, run from not divert them from the main into an area exclusively inhabited into the war alliance is provided by Floris Ryers, Secretary Powell had the courage to accuse of course they are to be deplored, 244/246 Grays Inn Road, London IRISH lorrv-drivers arc victims of transnational companies. Brussels by the EEC. enemy, which is British by Catholics. In a word looking Ihe Trade Union Campaign for to Michael J. Quill, the Americans. And he took an there are several incited by the WC1, phone 833 3022. "Paddv-bashing" by the British imperialism. for trouble, and glad to get it. nuclear disarmament in their 3rd The aim is "cultural All countries must have at least International President almighty risk. Their agents are * * * authorities, according to Fianna CIA. bulletin just published in Dublin. interpenetration." This is to one channel open to advertising. everywhere. Probably the most dis- Fail ex-Minister John Wilson in The Irish leaders are not evil in reduce Europe into a hotch-potch There must be a constantly rising An ROinn poNorthern Ireland was not WHAT the republicans have done guaranteed work for years to come. powerless in face of the mass Counties have with the London the election? l it/Gerald will do it when it suits Fine Gael. Have the Labour gilt is wearing off that fast, as people see it is not bringing the peace which international affairs, a role not endangered by the Anglo-Irish is to establish beyond doubt that the There is great indignation in the intimidation that confronted government is the presence of the men got any strategy? Their parly ( mnmission examining Coalition is due has promised, while they are worried at the talk that it really copperfastens available to states fully absorbed Agreement they rejected every nationalist population of the six north of England that the newly them. Nowhere was this more increasing number of British troops to report to their annual conference in November and it is expected that the Partition. FitzGerald sees his place in history bound up with that. Should in major political blocs or compromise solution and counties cannot be ruled by the privatised Swan and Hunter clearly demonstrated than in the in the area. The Northern Ireland ('(inference will call on the Labour Party to pull out of the government. he keep working on it for another year, or should he open up a chance for alliances. We in Ireland need to hysterically thrashed around sjambok or the knout. shipyard is being priced out of the Ballylumford Power Station. Office, which is the local agency for I he Labour Ministers now have their pensions. The National Development the odious Haughey to take over, whose attitude to the Agreement is very- remind ourselves again of these under the banner of "Ulster says The only way to keep them quiet market by the subsidised Harland Here the workers and the ( orporation. the State holding company which has been a political totem different from his own? creative possibilities of political NO". The exception that proves British administration, is remote is to bring in the twenty six county and Wolff. They thought Maggie management were completely for Labour, is now through the Dail ( an Labour find an issue on which to sovereignty and independence." the rule is that very odd English from the people. The customary influence to do it. Without this stood for privatisation against distinguish themselves from Fine Gael and justify leaving the Government These are the issues he is weighing up these days. And the issues cuckoo in the Irish nest, Enoch under the control of Paisley's defensive attitude of a bureaucracy there is no chance of bringing the nationalisation. But possibly in the public's eves? people are thinking of as they comtemplate that run up to the election. AN IDEA worth taking up, was Powell MP for South Down. With DUP and the fanatical 1986 is difficult enough to penetrate but Republic into NATO. nationalised Orangism is a that of setting up an all-party Workers' Committee. To show characteristic astuteness he when it operates from behind a So the Tories want Eine Gael aid, different matter! committee of the Oireachtas to pointed out that the Agreement their disagreement with the barricade of tight security, public and the issue becomes how to get it THE UNHOLY fuss being scrutinize foreign policy. When was a political manoeuvre and Thatcher-Fitzgerald agreement most cheaply. kicked up by the extremists is doing the Oireachtas set up its that it had no effect in law. they turned off the electricity concern, on a matter such as nuclear pollution, cannot be The Unionist extremists are a very good job for the Tories, and Fast food on the ferries "Bulwark" against unity committees foreign policy was consecutively for a few hours in helping the Tories in this task. It is the Fine Gael coalition is being "I SEE no likelihood of a United Ireland", drawled Northern Secretary DAY OF ACTION expressed as would be possible in a ignored. The result of this has each area under their control. By therefore no wonder that the main forced to back down all along the I \SI time I ventured into the T HE Irish Sea services are said Tom King on tv. "The Anglo-Irish Agreement is a bulwark against any In the week previous to the democracy. been much public ignorance of the this action they probably Orange centres, Harland and line. restaurant ol the St Columba on to be the most expensive in the such development." assumptions underlying our Loyalist Day of Action on March alienated more people from the ' aaaflu a Wolff's shipyard and the Shorts Meanwhile there lurks behind the the way I rum Holyhead to Dun world, and the service is allegedly foreign policy in recent years and 3rd, Mrs Thatcher and her objective of the lock-out than they While on another TV programme guarantee of Partition "in aircraft factory, are being given scenes a plan that might restore a I aoire. I was sick in the cai near the worst in the world. of the positions adopted by the colleagues talked to Molyneux convinced. The most significant his assistant in the North, Brian perpetuity" and implied the Irish quasi-Stormont, this time with coming into Dublin. Irish State in major international and Paisley at No. 10 Downing and traumatic action on this Day People will be well advised to Mawhinney, when asked about the Government agreed with him on Street. The Unionist leaders left DISCRIMINATION Dublin blessing and Dublin issues. of Action happened when the ANTI-CATHOLIC discrimin- Sea l ink lound it unaccount- take their own grub once the "fast possibility of suspending the that. Garret FitzGerald and Co that meeting convinced that the support, that would clamp down Protestant paramilitaries on the ation still continues in Banks in SEANCHAI able — they deny thai food is food outlets" are in lull swing. Agreement, said "To do that would denied this strongly, of course, A side-effect of this is that the constitutional status of Northern partition for another fifty years. Shankhill and Newtownards the Six Counties, according to the hotted up in micro-wave ovens. be to call in question the and said that that was not their running is made by the Royal Irish Ireland was in no danger from the One cannot help admiring the And in case you think you'll get commitment of the Irish roads took out their guns and latest report from the Fair Hut the odds aie it soon vv ill be. belief. But it clearly is King's and Academy's Committee for British Government and saying CATHRACH political astuteness of British a cheap bottle at the "duty-free Government to the Union of Great fired at the RUC. Food indeed for Employment Agency. I he ship is to be re-fitted and will the British Goverment's. International Affairs. This is a that they had "got away from the imperialism which always keeps its shops", 1 can get a cheaper at the Britain and Northern Ireland as thought for those ranting It finds that the numbers of IS IONTACH an fear e Liam be back in service oil May 12th. That is the major diplomatic private body of academics and deadlock'\ It was evident they eye on the next step, and gives no local co-op. long as that is the wish of the politicians contemplating further Catholics employed in the North's Mac Charrain. Rugadh agus According to Press reports the rc- triumph which the British their friends in the Department of had agreed to participate in a indication of what is planned for Perhaps the greatest scandal of majority." days of action. five main banks is "very togadh e i gceann de na sraideanna Iin lushing, which will also apply Government won at Hillsborough Foreign Affairs. Sean MacBride process of compromise with John afterwards. all is the refusal of British Rail to substantially below" the beaga plodaithe i gceantar Bothair to the St Brendan which works the So the Irish Government is now from the stupid and traitorous has accused it of deliberately Huftie and the SDLP which could SECOND THOUGHTS Britain's next step back to put a restaurant car on the 10 am "committed" to maintaining the FitzGerald — formal recognition seeking to undermine any indepen- lead eventually to the proportion of Catholics in the na bhFal i mBealfeirste. Ar fhagail I i sh gua rd - R ossl a re route, There are now indications that population as a whole because of Stormont is the devolved assembly from Euston. This means people Union, at least in the eyes of the of Britain's right to hold dent foreign policy for Ireland abandonment of the Agreement. na scoile do fuair se jab mar which would wipe out any powers involves the use ol "traditional reach Holyhead in a state of near the Unionist leadership has been discrimination in the past. British Government, and the sovereignty in Ireland. We did not over the past decade. It has been a However, on returning to their forced into reassessing the future. bhuachaill teileagraim in oifig an (advisory powers) possessed by the pub interiors and last lood starvation, and if they have For example in the Northern Hillsborough Agreement which hear much of it at the time, as the plaything of Taoiseach native heath the unwilling The mayhem and failure of their phoist agus indhiaidh sin caith se a Anglo-Irish conference in any area outlets, among other things." brought nothing with them are at Bank 84 per cent of staff are some foolish people think was attention of everyone was on the FitzGerald and the Eurofanatics Molyneux and the atavistic mass protest has convinced them shaol oibrithe ag seachadadh where it had jurisdiction. the mercy of Sea-Link, and don't Protestant and 16 per cent Presumably the other things arc going to end Partition is being shenanigans of the Unionists. in Iveagh House. Paisley found it impossible to that they must make a stand litreacha thart timpeall ar na Britain will stand firm against too appalling to be named. they know how to exploit it! Catholic; in the Ulster Bank 77 per trumpeted by the British as a Having got their diplomatic If there were an Oireachtas steer their diehard following along against their own rebellious teaghlaigh in iarthar Bhealfeirste. Unionist intransigence until It is time there was a bit of device for maintaining it. cent are Protestant and 23 per cent \iul apparently it is being victory in the bag the British were Committee it would consist of that road and instead declared for fanatics and seek compromise Os cionn tri scor bliain anois ta se Eitzgerald has yielded everything customer resistance. Sea-Link and Thus Tom King and his friends not making much of it in public, in a day of action. Catholic and in the Trustee necessary to send the stall to members from all the parties in with the SDLP. Even Ian Paisley amuigh ar a phinsean agus e go he. thought he had got, and the B & I are availing of their repeat the remarks which caused case the illusions of the Irish Savings Bank 80 per cent are school again to teach them how to the Dail and there could be open In the midst of the violence and has been tamed enough to say Unionists agree to a Stormont witl monopoly position. such a fuss last Christmas when he nationalists should be punctured. Protestant and 20 per cent slaintiuil briomhar. "t i cat customers." By all debate and criticism about the mayhem of the Loyalist revolt "Before this crisis is resolved, Eree State backing. Then the - TRAVELLER said Hillsborough was a But we are hearing more of it now, Catholic. Nuair a bhi se ina dheagoir piospects the customers will need assumptions of the Iveagh House against the setting up of the indeed if it is to be resolved, the yankeedoodle subsidies will flow in and we are likely to hear more of it The position has improved chuaigh se isteach i gConradh na "ncatment". civil servants. That would be far Anglo-Irish Agreement it needed Ulster people will have to swallow and, it is hoped, the republicans will as time goes on, as the British since 1970 and there has been a healthier than the present quite a conscious effort to keep a dose of highly unpleasant Gaeilge. Ni leor e a ra gur be outflanked. I he exercise is being sold as a frantically try and reassure the fairer balance in staff recruitment position, where an elite caucus of reminding oneself that in fact the medicine. The painful truth is that fhoghlaim se an teanga, mar go It has the air of a dream ticket. plan to "up-grade" the company's Unionist hardliners that their since then, but these figures show Thatcher backs Partition civil servants and government purpose of the Agreement was not Mrs Thatcher has not bought the deimhin d'ailp se agus shuigh se i. IT IS unlikely however that a sci\ices on the Irish Sea. political position is stronger than that there is still a long way to go. ministers decide things. It was aimed against the Unionists. The unionist diagnosis of the problem Ba ghnathach leis a chuid laethe devolved government would solve the MORE plain talking on the it ever was, if only they will buckle Government no longer had any such a body that concocted the main objective of the London and and will not prescribe a purely saoire uile a chaitheamh i political, let alone the economic down to "power-share" with John I HI 'l need it. But somehow we Hillsborough Agreement, as the interest in maintaining the North as Anglo-Irish Agreement on the Dublin governments was to unionist panacea. I don't expect ngaeltacht Dun na nGall i problems of the six counties. Hume and Co, who are only too To do the latter it would need to have ate sceptical. 1 ry a tripon that vile British Government frantically part of the UK? It has been the Irish side and we are likely to be procure a device to re-establish everyone in the unionist bhfochair a chairde Mici Sheain tub the "St David." You will pa\ glad to work the Six County community to like that message. I fiscal powers. But if it had fiscal powers tries to win back the I'nionist constant belief of that foolish man suffering the adverse consequen- control over the Nationalist Neill agus Joe Johnny Sheamaisin 15 lor a "meal ticket" (shades ol system if they get the chance. ces of this for quite a long time. don't particularly like it myself, it would not be a devolved assembly. support they have alienated. that Britain would only be too glad population, within the Six- emerge would be a nasty, For Britain has no fiscal powers to New York in the thirties!) Then nach maireann anois. Nuair a Mrs Thatcher took up her pen in to gel out of there if it could. Yet the County boundaries. The British but their is no salvation in self- reactionary and impoverished devolve. These have been transferred to you go in and help yourself to eistim le Liam Feictear dom go a letter to the Archbishop of Government "wants Northern Government had failed to do this deception." For the other main state without friends or the Common Market. things no sensible person could wing of unionism Ffank Millar, bhfuil an Ghaeilge chomh Armagh, Dr Fames, following a Ireland to remain part of the United by its own efforts during the past recognition in Britain or around If Britain were to withdraw from conceivably want. But that's all Archer and his target general secretary of the OUP and fluirseach, forbartha agus nadurtha Kingdom." That's from the horse's fifteen years of turmoil. the world." the Common Market, then, of course there is, and you've bought a pig visit he made to Downing Street to convenor of its policy committee, aige is a bhi ag aon chain teoir PETER Archer is the British favour of it - Tony Benn and a The Unionists suffered a defeat The pattern is clear. Frank fiscal powers could be devolved. But no in a poke — no bill of fare outside put the concerns of his flock. mouth. said: "Failure to agree new terms duchais ariamh. Ta tri leabhairin major political party in Britain has any Labour Party's principal handful of his colleagues only in their attempted lock-out on Millar's "new terms" for the the eating mom to warn vou. Here is her opening sentence: It could not be plainer. But the for ,the Union, mutually such policy. Mr Roy Hattersley has spokesman on the North. His is the excepted? Because the Unionists March 3rd. They brought about a Union with Britain presupposes a foilsithe aige. Cnuasacht deghearr- You used to be able to sit down "The Government wants blundering FitzGerald then gives de party which is supposed to be ifi were the ones he considered gained acceptable to the Northern scealta greannmhara faio na daoine announced his intention of taking no mass dislocation, rioting and compliant nationalist population notice of Labour Party conference and have a meal with a drink. Now Northern Ireland to remain part of jure recognition to Partition, favour of a United Ireland "with Ireland and Westminster, pointed most from the Agreement? consequent suffering within their fobbed off with enough a casadh air, ar an lead ceanna a decisions in this regard. you must take your food to a the United Kingdom. The Anglo- despite the Constitution he had f»nsent." Most of these politicians let the inescapably towards separation. concessions to entice them back bhiodh ag sean Phadraig o Conaire. own ghetto areas, while the day Before we proceed down that path On the other hand a united Ireland of table, and then, while it is going Irish Agreement in no way sworn on oath to uphold. Here he is giving out about the cat out of the bag if only you wait again to a new devolved pushing up to six million people would passed peacefully within the let it be understood that Ba e Niall O Donaill, eagarthoir cold, queue up for a drink, that is undermines the Union. In fact People are saying that if there way the Unionists carried on during long enough and have some Stormont. The realistic be strong enough to stand on its own. Nationalist districts. 90% of the independence for this Province is an foclora Gaeilge-Bearla, aduirt II the drinks hatch is open, which Article 1 strengthens the Union, by were provision for it in the Irish their one-day strike, with its memory for their speeches. Peter public sector employees, civil interpretation of the Anglo-Irish Spokesmen like Mr King have made neither realistic nor desirable. It maidir le athbheochan na teanga go it sometimes is and sometimes reinforcing the guarantee that the Constitution he would be laying thuggery and mayhem. Archer in Labour echoes Tom King servants, teachers, hospital staff Agreement is that it is another no concealment of the fact that their isn't. "The irony is that it is the people among the Tories, in seeing would be the occasion for civil war effort to stabilise a partitioned dtiocfadh an Ghaeilge arais tre aim is to underpin partition. Their next status of Northern Ireland cannot himself open to impeachment for a!nd social service workers and repartition and I need hardly I asked a waiter whom 1 have who have gained most from the Hillsborough as a victory for reported for work in spite of the Ireland and in the process to bhailte mora na tire agus ni on step is to try to get all parties except change unless a majority of the treason. For that, literally and tell you that the County of Sinn Fein into an assembly, which known for years why they adopted Anglo-Irish Agreement who are Unionism. That is what both of weaken the desire of the majority ghaeltacht. Nifeasach me an fior e people there so wish ..." factually, is what his actions have road barricades and intimidation. Armagh would be unlikely to fall would be unionist dominated but this barbarous and outrageous striking against it." them intended all along, although Many were the tales told of the Irish people towards sin ach d'fheadfadh an Donallach Do you remember Garret amounted to by giving formal on the right side of the new border survive with Dublin Blessing. method of supplying food. He So was that why Peter Archer the Unionists are too silly to work it afterwards of how the loyalist national independence and Liam Mac Charrain a lua mar FitzGerald saying after recognition to Partition, for the which might emerge. What would This is the measure of Fitzgerald's replied shortly: "They make more supported the Agreement and voted as their British masters want then squads manning the road blocks separation from Britain. chruthu ar a theoiric. capitulation. - Fir bolg. money this way." Hillsborough that the British first time. with most of his colleagues in to. Page Seven APRIL 1986 IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Six si IRISH DEMOCRAT APRIL 1986 GELDOF WEE HUGHIE Larkin leads Belfast VERSUS HE'S gone to school, wee Hughie, and him not four, Sure I saw the fright was on him when he left the door, But he took the hand of Dinny and he took the hand of Dan, POWELL With Joe's oul' coat upon him, och the poor wee man! With Geldof in Africa Confronting He cut the quarest figure, more stout nor thin, Dockers and Carters THE MURDER OF THE And trotted right and steady with his toes turned in. the Famine Crisis. By David I watched him in the corner of the oul' turf stack, City in Revolt. James Larkin and workers whether in Belfast, Dublin When the strike ended in defeat Blundy and Paul Vallely And the more his feet went forrit, still his head turned back. the Belfast Dock Strike of 1907. or Cork. This is hard to understand and bitterness the Belfast Photographs by I rank Telegraph and the Ulster Echo MACMAHONS (1922) By John Gray. Price: £6.95. pp as he brings out very well the Herrmann. £5.95. ppl 59. Times He was lookin' would I call him, och me heart was woe, tried to stir up sectarian hatred by Oil,l ather dear, I oft times hear you speak of Krin's Isle, 225. Blackstaff Press. failings of the English based unions Edited by 'Tis lost I am without him, but he be to go. BULLIES' falsely accusing the strike leaders Books. With the sturdy men from Dublin to defend her all (he while, I followed to the turning' when he passed it by, as far as the strike was concerned. I HAD misgivings about John Indeed the bitter disagreements of paying Catholic strikers more Hut what about old Belfast where some awful sights were seen God help him, he was cryin' and maybe so was I! IN THE house in Ireland where Gray's book when I read the between Larkin, the leader in the than Protestant ones. Naturally the we stayed after Christmas i because her men would not deny their I'lay of emerald green. PATRICK BOND TRIBUNAL following three sentences in the thick of the struggle and Sexton the strike organisers publicly denied noticed the book about the Geldof introduction. this. "My Story" by Joanne Hayes. visiting General Secretary of the trip to Africa. I picked it up and It happend in our country not very long ago. National Union of Dock Labourers While the strikers had been started reading. It was so moving Published by Brandon. Price "It was a time when the unskilled When the blood of gallant Irishmen down Dublin streets dkl flow, The Castle of Drumboe workers of the city were no mere eventually led Larkin to start the united in struggle neither and informative that I was three Iwas in Faster Week rebellion when the men did strike a blow - £3.95. ppl 92. THE QUEEN OF THE midnight hags are shrieking round the castle of Drumboe, expendable extras in the armies of Irish Transport and General employers nor newspapers dared quarters way through it in a I or the cause of Irish freedom the shattered (he GPO. IT IS well known fact that the Workers' Union. "play the Orange card." While patriot blood is flowing red in the crimson soil below, others, but created a crisis on their couple of hours. struggle in the Six counties against The strike and its aftermath own terms, and in doing so revealed Tribute however, must be paid to I discussed it with an Irish from Dublin up to Belfast in that good old Irish way Their crime that they had left their homes for to fight a foreign foe, British repression in the seventies showed the bankruptcy of William jn full array social tensions the author for his detailed history of farming expert, who insisted that And by Irish hands they were murdered in the casle of Drumboe. Walker's reformist labour < ami' orders for all Irish men to take part in the fray; CONNEMARA and eighties has tended to normally well concealed beneath Belfast industry with the exposure Band Aid had saved the lives of ideology. "Walkerites" were Hot a murder was committed, and we were driven to despair, destablise the Twenty-Six the twin shrouds of Unionism and of the appalling social conditions of many thousands of starving From Cork and Kerry homes they came, from Munster green and fair, among the "rotten prods" attacked I or a band of Orange 'B' Specials had murdered Willie Kerr. OH! my boat can swiftly float in the Counties. There were many bank Nationalism. They demonstrated the unskilled an<} unemployed. people. This was borne out by the teeth of wind and weather To fight the bloodstained Black and Tans and do what men may dare, and post office raids and the possibilities of united working alongside the Catholics in the book's contents. And outsail the fastest hooker The stage is very well set for the I hey took him from his humble home and from his young bride's Black treachery has betrayed them, the informers wrought their woe, class action and the dramatic threat pograms of 1912. One Tory MP referred to Between Galway and Kinsale. kidnappings to raise funds for the story of the heroic struggle of the side Oh, Erin, you have murdered them in the castle of Drumboe. struggle in the north. that any such development dock labourers and carters for a Gray does not forget to give a Geldof as a failed pop star from But when the white rim of the good account of the ideas and Inside a ( rossley tender lay halfpenny and McBride; immediately presented to a more small increase in their wages and Dublin who was helping Marxist ocean To deal with this "menace" the activities of Lindsay Crawford and And the wild waves rush together, Vou sold the past for England's gold, sold many a pass and gorge, barren status quo in northern for trade union rights. Ethiopia. Enoch Powell called all I he three were taken to a field just at the break of day. guards became tougher and more politics. However briefly, their his short-lived Independent Orange She rides in her pride You have cringed to Orange Carson, you have knelt to English George, The many lively incidents in the Western aid "Crypto-Imperial- Next morning when we found them their souls had passed away. action raised the question whether Order. Like a seabird on the gale. Even borrowed the English armoury your country to overthrow, ruthless in their activities. Some of battles against imported scabs ism", Geldof in the book said this their methods began to resemble there was a viable alternative for Despite minor blemishes this about Powell's remarks. \nolhcr of our Irish crimes which filled the world with scorn, And you've murdered Ireland's fighting men in the castle of Drumboe. make exciting reading. CHORUS: the working class to the traditional scholarly book is a major those of the RUC over the border. The meanness and stupidity of "If Powell confuses imperialism \oung Kevin Barry had to die on a still November morn. Oh, she's neat, oh, she's sweet, rivalries for which the city was contribution to the literature on the This was highlighted in the famous the employers and the authorities in — which is the strong country Iwas not long after Barry's death when the gong rang through She's a beauty every line. already notorious." Irish working class struggle. It is a Nick Kelly case when he and his their treatment of the police exploiting a weak one — with the t.ael, She's the Queen of Connemara, must for all serious students of Irish friends were beaten up till they brought on the famous police helping people in need, then This bounding barque of mine. HOME affairs. I hat the great l.ord Mayor McSwincy had died in Brixton <;aol. confessed to an armed raid on a It is the bad habit which many mutiny. The next stage came with what price his much vaunted G.C. intellectualism? Powell says we When she's loaded down with fish, I'M back in Glenties and the autumn wind is blowing, train which they had not writers on North East Ireland have the banishment of many of the Hut the worst of all the Irish crimes is one we won't forget, Till the water leaves the gunwale The silver-sandalled evening skips across the mountains high, of ignoring the general history of police to rural areas and the should let them go to hell in committted. their own way. So we sit and let lo go and shoot a family, that murder was well set. Not a drop she'll take aboard her But the bogland flowers are fading where of old I watched them Ireland, which explains why Gray bringing in of troops on a big scale. That would wash a fly away; What the Joanne Hayes story them die. It's shameful, I he murderers came at break of da>, each one was armed with growing. fails to consider Connolly's Next came the confrontation in From the fleet she speeds out AFTER THE guns, shows is that the tough methods of the republican socialism as the "viable shameful." quickly And the lean leaves of Lammas tide are whirling thro' the sky. the Falls Road area between troops lo commit a wholesale slaughter of McMahon and his sons. police are being applied to non- lternative" to Home Rule and demonstators - so like recent It is interesting to notice in the Like a greyhound from her kennel political suspects. Joanne Hayes ationalism and Unionism. book that the famine in the Sudan Till she lands her silvery store the The bogland flowers are fading, and I mark them as a token Ii events - when eventually the troops RECKONING and her family were treated like was greatly aggravated by the I he mother saw the murdering of her dear beloved ones, first Of the early hopes I cherished to my sorrow and regret; The other conclusion which the opened Are. The provocation She cried: "Oh (iod have mercy on my husband and my sons." On old Kinvara Quay- suspected terrorists. against the Catholics was a destruction of the railways by The silver cord is loosened, and the golden bowl is broken, author failed to reach was the one Muddled perspective Nimeiry, then President. He set I he murderers bid the men come down, there was nothing for to But because the Garda and the tljat Irish based unions were desperate attempt to split the There's a light shines out afar And another heart is wearisome and longing to forget. "Ireland After Britain". Martin about destroying the railways dread. Army stand between the essential for organising the Irish strikers. And it keeps me from dismaying Collins. (Ed) Pluto Press. £3.95 172 because he favoured private road When suddenly some shots rang out - all five of them were dead. Government and the IRA they have When the clouds are black above us The slender threads of gossamer are shining on the heather. pp. transport and he wanted to And the sea runs white with foam The little brooks are tumbling as they hurry to and fro, to be appeased. Hence the destroy the railway workers I think this ends my storv that I have told to you, In a cot in Connemara I tramp along the boreen that we tramped of old together, incredible tribunal which continued IRISH THIS book produced for the union. Perhaps he had been lor the murders of McMahons there will come a day to rue. There's a wife and wee ones praying the bullying and rude questioning of Labour Committee on Ireland reading the manifesto of the To the One who walked the waters My love and I together in the days of long ago. So all vou Belfast Catholics don't revenge this crime with guns, the Hayes family which had been (the anti-partition Labour British Conservative Party. Not once pressure group) is a disap- surprisingly Nimeiry was I A'ave (,od to judge the murderers of McMahon and his sons. To bring us safely home. The road across the moorland sure it's twisting an' it's turning begun in Tralee Police Station. EXOTICISM Round the braes of old Strasala and the heights of Carrigdoun, Even when they brought a "super Bailegangaire. By Tom Murphy. pointing collection of short overthrown by a coup in 1985. articles. Its contributors are a But in the mellow autumn dusk one lamp has passed from burning, fecundity expert" from England Donmar Warehouse Theatre, The US sent a lot of food aid to »he curious selection and include who in the event refused to support Covent Garden. London. Sudan partly with the idea of keeping And a hearth is cold and cheerless on the way to Glenties town. leaders of Sinn Fein, Christine Russian influence to the minimum. their fantastic theory that Joanne BY THE time this review appears, Crawley MEP, Irish trade The Americans tried to push all the THE RED FLAG - ORIGINAL VERSION I'll leave my home again and I'll bid goodbye tomorrow, Hayes had had twins - each child by this play will have been running unionists and Senator Mary other relief agencies aside and as a And I'll pass the little churchyard and the tomb a-near the wall, a different man, the defence lawyer for a few weeks, and you will, no Robinson! (who recently resigned result got themselves into a mess. A NUMBER OF READERS EXPRESSED INTEREST IN OUR PUBLICATION OF I have lived so much for love I can hardly live for sorrow of the police was overheard saying doubt, have read many of the from the Irish Labour Party The US Government was also THE RED FLAG TO THE TUNE OF THE WHITE COCKADE. THE ORIGINAL By the grave that holds my colleen in a glen of Donegal. "The bastard shot us down." Exile poets comments in the English papers. because the Anglo-Irish hoping that the food aid to Ethiopia Agreement was unacceptable to would weaken the socialist PATRICK McGILL The Tribunal did a very good job Beyond the Shore. . . The Irish They have beeri mixed, for the government. Fortunately this has not VERSION. REPRODUCED BELOW, WAS SENT TO US BY MR DERRY KELLEHER Unionists). white-washing the guards at the end Within Us. Compiled by Per strangeness and exoticism of this happened. play must seem very alien to OF GREYSTONES, CO. WICKLOW. of the tribunal. They were "naughty Mulligan. Northampton The articles were collected from Bob Geldof will always be English critics, but they could not boys" for exaggerating while Connolly Association. £3. pp 80. transcripts of interviews with the remembered with affection for having but be impressed by the poetry "told off' Mrs Thatcher because she Mch Time. Joanne Hayes and her family were participants, and almost THIS anthology was advertised in and strength of the writing and the inevitably, each piece rambles was not keen on using the EEC food branded as liars. THE BANKS OF last month's Irish Democrat. I powerful acting. I think it needs over much ground; arguments are mountains to feed the starving. He Fortunately ordinary people, have since had the pleasure of ears used to the cadences of the constructed on the basis of repeated the same forthright journalists and womens organ- handling it, and reading the Irish voice. condemnation at the EEC anecdote, speculation and Commission meeting in Brussells. isations rallied to the defence and contents. It's subtitle, "The Irish THE ROSES Some of the critics were not distorted historical perspectives. The book does not pull its punches support of the Hayes family, story Within Us" gives a clear moved to tears by Siobhan For example, Ken Livingstone's when dealing with the legacy of the On the banks of the Ro^es my love and I sat indication of its theme, for it is down, of which is very well told in "A McKenna's great Galway oboe- twelve pages cover everthing from European imperialist powers who And I took out my violin to play my love a Woman to Blame" by Nell directed not only at the Irish — like utterances, but I was; the set, why he joined the Labour Party to drew the boundaries of African tune; McCafferty, published by Attic millions of them, who live in with a huge bed dominating the the nature of 'good' leadership. countries in straight lines to suit themselves irrespective of nations or In the middle of the tune oh, she sighed and Press. Price £3.95. MS. Britain and further afield, and can stage, just as Mommo, its inmate Important themes are raised claim some sort of Irish natural boundaries. she said, McCafferty is very good at holding dominates the play, makes one throughout the book including CHORUS "Young Johnny, lovely Johnny, would you connection but also at the affinity think that this is the traditional the effects partition has had on the I do not recall the book mentioning I In' :d' |1 :d' :i |n .f I s :n Id* :n la 8 :-.!(• :n |d' :t.J'|r' :r |r : .d the male judiciary and lawyers up the enormous debts owed by African leave me?" with Ireland that exists, old Abbey peasant play, but it is social and political life North and to ridicule and in this case they sometimes deeply buried, in all of countries to Western banks, making Oh, when I was a young lad I heard my father modern Ireland, with references South, the effect on civil liberties the famine problem more difficult to deserved it. us who have Irish roots. to the Japaneses computer factory ^ w w • ^ say, in all Ireland and Britain, the solve. heart'o blood dyed its pv' iy fold. Then raise the scar - let stand ard hiK|». With n its sliadt we'll live and die; Though "I'd sooner see you dead and buried in the All the books on the Hayes Who could not, whether living in where some of the off-stage issues of womens' rights. Irish The photographs in the book are clay, "Story" go to prove that there is deepest Luton or furthest Kilbum, fail characters work. neutrality, and trade unions. Yet magnificent and very moving. All Rather than be married to any runaway, still much more civil liberty in the to be moved by such a poem as Brian It is the story of three women, few (save perhaps Sarah Spcncer profits on the book go to feed the By the lovely sweet banks of the Roses." Twenty-Six Counties than there is Farrington's 'The Emigrant of a one completely submerged in her of the National Council for Civil starving in Africa. The book is worth Hundred Towns', remembering in liberties) tackle the issues raised in reading even if you have reservations And if 1 get married 'twill be in the month of in the six or in Britain. So that is Aberdeen a hundred townland names own old age and the past, and her two grandaughters struggling to a coherent and prescriptive way. about Band Aid. May, something. iA Ireland, from whence we all, or our G.C. And the leaves they are green and the G.C. fathers and mothers, came. This is a break the spell that she has wound The book is premised on the m meadows they are gay poem of exile in the great Irish about them with her interminable notion that if you genuflect in ) jn :n In :r.d n :9 Id' : .r' | n' :d' |1 :d' | s :n In : U For me and my true love will sit and sport and tradition celebrating small places; the stories. It can be seen as direction of autonomous and The Labour Committee on play, other poems in this collection whether allegorical, it can be seen as single issue movements, you Ireland has an important role in By the lovely sweet banks of the Roses. from London, Paris, Yorkshire or realistic, but it is full of truth and thereby have a plan for action and the British Labour P&rty to state Alexandria are not necessarily 1 cow - ards flinchan d trailers sneer, We'll keep the Jtcd l-l.-i^ flv - in^ liero. On the banks of the Roses my love and I sat in its own bleak way, funny, as life a "movement for withdrawal." the case and win support for down, concerned with nostalgia, but give an is. The Druid Theatre is to be The book is concluded by the British withdrawal from Ireland. extraordinarily vital and modern And 1 took out my violin to play my love a cherished and supported editor in a frenetic revolutionary Unfortunately, this book ifc not a picture of the Irish making poetry out tune, V whenever we get the chance to see fervour that has no sense of serious contribution in the puwuit In the middle or the tune, oft, she sighed and of what conies thok way, wherever they find themselves. it in London. proportion and little basis in of this objective. she said, 2 M reality. TIM WALSHE 'Young Johnny, lovely JoMmy - would you M.e. .e. leave me?" »*.-;- '-ilrw : .. Page Eight IRISH DEMOCRAT APRIL 1986 Anne Devlin EVERY Irish person should see this film, and urge their friends to see it FURSEY THE too; and above all, every Irish woman should see it - a film that CA N you re-read the books of your then left in peace but the Devil has treats seriously of a real Irish youth with the same enjoyment BY further need of him and so Fursey heroine, a twenty-two-year-old girl now? 1 loved P. G. Wodehouse when sets off for Cashel accompanied by of ordinary farming people. 1 was young but somehow I can't the monstrous crew, goblins, fiends The film is showing at the get much enjoyment from his work DONALL MacAMHLAIGH (of the sniffling and cinder chewing Everyman Cinema, Hampstead, now apart, that is, from the clarity kind) incubi, succubi and what have and may be extended if there is and excellence of his English - THE tone and elegant style of the I think 1 will take you out you; it is the beginning of a demand for it. With beautiful 'performing flea of English book is set in the opening of the brewery and pui you hilariously funny book, perhaps photography, great direction by literature' or not old P. G. wrote paragraph which runs: "It is related in charge of the poultry, indeed the most guffaw-packed Patricia Murphy and fantastic in the Annals that for the first four where you will find the work novel I have ever read. acting by Brid Brennan, the film well, which is more than you can say for many a writer nowadays. centuries after itsfoundation by the more agreeable to your present blessed Kieran the monastic nervous state." FILM REVIEW Francis McManus has never palled And then there is the sequel, The for me and I could re-read Jaroslav settlement of Clonmacnoise BUT to begin with, at least, the Return of Fursey (from Britain, Hasek's The Good Soldier enjoyed a singular freedom from tells the story of Anne Devlin who forces of darkness found their where else?). The Devil is neverfar Schweik any time at all. (That the visitations of imps and ghouls, agreed to play the part of match in the brave monks who from Fursey in the course of his housekeeper at Robert Emmet's classic of comic literature is being night fiends, goblins, and all sorts armed with holy water and the wanderings and at one point it is headquarters in Rathfarnham and serialised brilliantly in Irish now on of hellish phantoms which not requisite prayers kept the demons almost possible to feel some who, when captured defeated all the RTE by the way, Breandan O unseldom appear to men. Wi'hin at bay . . . sympathy with an fear mor: ill-treatment, tricks and lies of her hEithir having adapted itfor radio). the sound of its bells the aark "On the couple of occasions jailors and of Major Sirr and The English translation of Myles na operations of magic were unknown, refused to give any information on "About the hour of sunset Gopaleen's An Beal Bocht did not for no witch, sorcerer or charmer on which the Enemy of Mankind the conspirators, even after a sudden shower of fish, which work too well in my view and could abide the sanctified air. had previously appeared to Emmet's death. Kept uncharged in Other religious settlements were fell from the heavens like him, seeking to purchase his prison for three years, she lived on perhaps it was not possible to sadly plagued by disembodied hail, occasioned the Abbot immortal soul, Satan had man- in poverty in Dublin, finally transfer the fun of the original; spirits, demons, lemuses and fauns certain disquiet. During the ifested himself as a suave, discovered in the 1840's by Dr Private Chonkin, translated from night hoarse coughs and deep Madden, historian of the United the original Russian is another snorting and snuffling most debonair personage, dressed in fiendishly in the darker corners of sighs were heard in the passages, the latest fashion and Irishmen, to whom she told her comic work that won't date or lose followed by the barking and story shortly before she died. its worth and where would we leave the corridors and cells, and it was irradiating good fellowship and not unusual for a monk to be baying of giant dogs. On the bonhomie. Fursey recognised One word of advice, read the Don Quixote, the daddy of them following morning an oct- story of Emmet's rising before you seriously injured or lamed as a the lineaments of the Prince all? But / have just re-read for the ogenarian monk made his way go to the cinema. The more you result of their mischiefs and of Darkness but it was fourth or fifth time another comic into the Abbot's presence with know, the more you'll understand devilments." with difficulty; for the dark- novel which I think must rate the help of two sticks to and appreciate the film. complexioned fiend represented among the four or five funniest complain of the presence in his P.B. This happy state of affairs was the appearance of a very books lever had the good fortune to eel! during the night of an destined to cease, however - the decayed gentleman indeed. His read - Mervyn Wall's The evil spirit in the form of Unfortunate Fursey and The hosts of darkness, led by rather countenance seemed tarnished plausible devil, make their a beautiful harlot, bravely THE IRISH Return of Fursey, two novels I dressed, who with mincing with malignant vapours, his should say between the covers of onslaught on the monastic black cloak was singed and settlement much to the terror of the gait and lewd gestures htid one fine, fat and very funny book. tempted him to fornication. smelt abominably of brimstone. BOOK FAIR good monks and the Abbot Marcus. In fact the Archfiend was a The Unfortunate Fursey first This sequence of inexplicable THE coloured banners of the arms ol .. Father Killian was the first to be hideous piece of wreckage, appeared forty years ago and it events forced the Afrhot Ireland's four provinces. Connacht, approached by a caco-demon (an very rickety as to his Leinster, Munster and Ulster, were seems it raised a few clerical to the conclusion that the unpleasant specimen of satanic life legs, and generally very much much admired at the GLC sponsored hackles in those good old days of that has its head fixed on wrong monastery was badly haunted." Irish Bookfair in London on March censorship, official and otherwise. in need of repair. Fursey gazed 14th and 15th. They formed the way round and munches red hot at him in amazement. A melan- Why you may ask - was it cinders with the same relish as a Action was called for and for a backdrop to the Four Provinces choly smile played about Bookshop stall, and are veterans ol pornographic, subversive or what? child muching crisps) who, failing time it seemed as if the unwelcome the Devil's aristocratic many a historic march and Well it certainly wasn't the former to entice the good monk to visitors were on the run but they demonstration. features; then he emitted a though it may well, in a sense, have blasphemy, grabs him by the were in truth merely re-grouping A number of leading publishers ol sigh that seemed laden with been the latter. What it was - is, I throat and unceremoniously hurls for further assaults - having found Irish books had stalls at the show, as the heartbreak of history. should say - is a gloriously comic him to the base of the famed round sanctuary, if that's the appropriate did A1S, the distributors of Irish 'Nay,' he said gently, 'do not language books. Four Provinces was send up of one of our most cherished tower a mere forty yards away. The expression, in the cell cf Brother enquire solicitously about my by arrangement only able to sell the myths (if it is a myth) namely the good Father K is shattered, Fursey, a humble and ageing 'odds and ends' of books not Golden Age when Ireland was a emotionally if not altogether cleric so abundantly endowed with health or as to whether things published by those exhibiting; but the beacon that shone through the spiritually, by the encounter and to the virtue of holy simplicity that he are not going right in Hell. It odds and ends filled four tables, and is true that things are we had to bring in two consignments pagan darkness of Europe and we add insult to injury the Abbot is was deemed unfit for all but the of extra books from our shop. So we earned for our country the title of inclined to ascribe his experience to most menial tasks in the rather disturbed below. We 5pent two hectic days meeting old and The Island of Saints and Scholars. another matter: "Hm!" said the monastery. Fursey suffers the have had our first Irish new friends and dealing with We may have been that perfect but Abbot, "how can you be certain handicap of a bad stutter which ecclesiastical contingent and numerous enquiries. The bookshop it seems to be too good to be true - means that, in his natural state oj they are making things hot manager expresses grateful thanks to that it was not the false impression the volunteers who helped part-time entirely - and at any rate some of of a timid and fretful imagination?" terror, he is unable to force the for the whole of us.' on the stall. the hierarchy in the 32 counties saw Father Killian assured him that it words out that would send the P.B. in the work something more than a was not, and showed his bruises and demons packing; consequently they PUBLISHED by Wolfhound wonderful frolic of laughter and the mark of the fiend's nails upon make themselves at home in Press, 68 Mounjoy Square, Dublin, whimsy set in far distant days; it his thoat. Fursey's cell and there plan their in hardback at £15 and in campaign. NEW BOOKS was seen to be a tilt at the paperback at £7.50, this is a narrowness and the puritanical THE following are titles to be "I still don't believe it," handsomely produced book, cover nature of mid 20th century Ireland. published in the coming months. said the Abbot; but seeing the When eventually the wretched illustrations print and presentation Dr McQuaid is reported to have put Order now from The Four indignation in the monk's face, Fursey plucks up enough courage to generally, and good value for of word round the Dublin bookshops Provinces Bookshop, 244 Grays he added charitably: "You are approach the Abbot and tell him course it is two books not one, close that he'd rather it wasn't stocked Inn Road, London WC 1 the best brewer we have ever had the score, it is Fursey himself who is on five hundred pages of the (the author, Mervyn Wall, doubts if May: in Clonmacnoise, but I have deemed to be the cause of all the funniest reading you are likely to he did so bestir himself) but others trouble and who is sent on his way, Error of Judgement, The truth thought of late that from excess enjoy for many a year. The Four did; Fursey however was not cast out in the cold cruel world from about the Birmingham bombing of zeal you are inclined to over- Provinces Bookshop in Grays Inn banned and this must be the third or the only way of life he has known. by Chris Mullin, £10.95. Cinema work. That might perhaps Road will have it, for certain. Ask fourth reprinting. That would be bad enough if he was and Ireland, by K. Rockell, account for your hallucination. for The Complete Fursey. Luke Gibbons and J. Hill, / £16.95. Building Democracy in ^eague), Kesva an Tavas Kernewek tainment from the rich store of Ireland, £25, J. Prager. March. (Cornish Language Board and Celtic traditional music at times to CELTIC BOOK FAIR Kuzul ar Brezhoneg (Breton Celtic Network, Iain Bain, £8.95. be announced SCRIF-CELT, the annual Celtic (Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Language Council). All the leading March. The Faber Book of Chairman of this year's SCRIF- languages book fair, will be held at Welsh, Breton and Cornish). Celtic language publishers are CELT is historian and novelist Political Verse, Ed Tom Paulin. the London Welsh Centre, 157-163 This year's book fair is supported represented. £8.95. May. Parnell and the First Peter Berresford Ellis, whose books Grays Inn Road, London WC1 on by nearly 70 Celtic language Books, newspapers and include A History of the Irish Home Rule Episode, Alan Friday, April 4th (noon to 7 pm) publishers and organisations periodicals in the Celtic languages Working Class, Celtic Inheritance, O 'Day, £25. April. An Intro- and Saturday, April Sth (10 am — 7 representing all six languages. will be on sale from nearly 40 The Liberty Tree, and The Celtic duction to Irish Literature, by pm). This is, in fact, the second time Among them are Cyngor Llyfrau stands in the main exhibition hall. Revolution etc. Mr Berresford Seamus Deane, £15 or £6.95. the book fair has been held and the Cymraeg (Welsh Books Council); As the theme of the book fair will be Ellis was also chairman of Serif- organisers, the London Branch of An Comanh Leabbraichean concerning contemporary poetry, a Celt '85. " April: the Celtic League, hope to repeat (Scottish Gaelic Books Council); programme of lectures and poetry fll i I i "ii 'ill' k Ireland and All Her Sons, J. P. the astonishing success of last Ais (Irish Books Distribution) and readings will be held in a secondary Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd Donleavy, £10.95, April. New year's event. Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic haH concurrent with the book fair Nottingham Road, Ripley, Oxfore Book of Irish Verse, Some four millions speak one or League of Ireland); Yn Cheshaght Itself. In addition, traditional and published by Connolly £9.95. other of the six Celtic languages Gh.tilckagh (Manx Gaelic musicians will provide enter- cations Ltd, 244 Grays Inn Road, London WC1. Telephone: 01-833-3022.