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Teacher throws paint at army A PHYSICS teacher appeared in Highbury, London, Magistrates' Court two weeks ago and admitted SAYS C.N.D. causing £1500-worth of damage at the Army Recruiting Office in Parkhurst Road, Holloway, the pre- vious Friday. He was sentenced STOP POLLUTING IRISH SEA to one month's imprisonment, sus- pended for a year. The Army asked for no compensation for the dam- age he caused. PEACE HANDS ACROSS BORDER He had spent fifteen minutes in the office, listening to the recruit- CINCE its inception over a year ago the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has ing sergeant outlining the possibili- & grown by leaps and bounds. It is one of the most hopeful developments of recent ties of an Army career. At the end of this, he told the sergeant: "You times. Western Europe's most progressive nation is playing a part in defending its own didn't mention killing." He then neutrality and contributing to the international effort for peace. got a container of red paint out of his bag and threw it over the Branches have been set up in Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, Trinity Plutonium dumping. This took PRISONERS' walls, carpet and furniture. While College, Dublin, University College, Dublin, and there is also a place in Frankfurt on May 22nd. the police were being called, he special branqh for Irish speakers. I.C.N.D. literature is regularly Irish delegate Jim Maher accused threw two more containers of translated into Irish. There are branches in the six counties as the European nuclear powers of paint around the office. well. violating Irish neutrality. He 'NOBLE CAUSE' The man, Jonathan Baker, said pointed out that Japanese waste rjTHE following statement on after his arrest, "It needed to be It will not be lost on the more drilling for Uranium all over Ire- was coming to Europe because the done." The court was told that he intelligent northerners that land and unfortunately look like Japanese people had more sense Long Kesh hunger strike toad taught in Belfast for two years joining the Republic would as finding it. The government still than to allow it to be dumped has been sent to the press and and had seen a friend killed by things stand at present ensure dreams of setting up a nuclear around Japan. Half a ton of deadly to a number of Members of power station at Wexford (very soldiers with rubber bullets. He themselves against involvement Plutonium had been dumped in the Parliament and prominent citi- profitable contracts, boys!) and considered that the armed forces in world war three, for which Irish sea. This is said to have come zens: "forced and seduced" young people C.N.D. is among the many groups from Windscale. missiles are likely very soon to supporting the protest this month. The failure of the government to Into something which he thought be stationed ;n the Belfast area. settle the H-block hunger strike is was "unjust and immoral." The danger is that international Patrick Comerford, Secretary of finance may force the government becoming an atrocity. No doubt like —Peace News. FIVE HUNDRED Irish C.N.D., attended the World all of us Mrs Thatcher is anxious to set up up this unnecessary pro- Assembly of Religious Workers for The public support won has been ject in return for loans to prop to see a setttlement of the Irish remarkable. When the film the General and Nuclear Disarmament question. But unlike a moralist a up the ailing economy. It would in Tokyo in April. On Sunday, IRISH TRADE "War Game" was shown.in Galway only make things worse. politician offers to be judged by City, the promoters expected fifty June 21st, Irish C.N.D. launched its results. or sixty people. Five hundred Action is also being taken "cruise for signatures" to the turned up. The film has been World Disarmament Campaign's She deplores the I.R.A. Her policy UNIONIST CALL against the scandal of dumping drives the nationalist youth into its shown elsewhere in Ireland. nuclear waste only three hundred petition and the International Peace Petition. ranks. She opens discussions with I A T the end of June twelve lead- The organisation has protested miles from the coast of Kerry. The the Irish government on the ing Trade Unionists in Ire- British, Belgian, Dutch and Swiss against the evil trade of Uranium Foreign visitors have been wel- "totality of Anglo-Irish relations." land addressed a letter to Mr Ron culprits don't pollute their own mining and manufacture. A picket comed. When Monsignor Bruce Her policy embitters Irish public Heywood, urging the Labour Party countries, but are too damned was placed on the officers of one Kent, secretary of British C.N.D., opinion against Britain and de- to show solidarity with the whole mean to sail further into the At- company, MAUGH, in Merrion visited Dublin on April 2nd, he was stabilises the country with which Irish people and not with any lantic with their rubbish. Square. An anti-Uranium "jam- met by Minister for Foreign Affairs she wishes to do business. Her minority ;<$tion. boree" was held in Carlow. PLUTONIUM Mr Brian Lenihan at Iveagh policy is an international disaster. That meant backing the majority, Transnational companies, the Irish C.N.D. took part in the The only two countries whose press and the letter gave evidence that pirates of modern civilisation, are Frankfurt Conference against (Continued on Pago Three) (continued oh page 8) the majority of Irish trade union- ists wished to see the end of par- tition. The signatories were Michael Mullen (ITGWU), Sean Redmond TIME FOR THE IRISH IN BRITAIN TO SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE UMETU), Brian Anderson HE Irish In Britain have got to now. There are a number of Yet a couple of years ago when voice, and act as one body. Then (ATGWU), Matt Merrigan T learn one big lesson from the reasons. But one reason is that an announcement was made that an we'll be a political force, and the (ATGWU), Seamus de Paor past few weeks, when Irish pris- governments in Dublin are bound Irish society was to be founded in most pig-headed politician will have (IPOEU), Maura Breslin (IWWU), oners are dying one after another, to Britain by a thousand commer- a London borough, five hundred to climb down. Daltun O Ceallaigh (IFUT), Kevin as Tory politicians openly gloat, cial strands and don't want their people turned up. There Is one man who might be Duffy (BWTtJ), Gerry Fleming and two Irish governments succes- countrymen in Britain rocking the We must not remain In the state 1 able to give a lead. He is the same (INPDTU), Manus D u r c a n sively throw In their hand . lucrative boat. a day longer than we have to. Far (ASTMS), Thomas Redmond from the national struggle being Mr Maol.ua, and we hope his What humiliation, to stand pow- OU can't expect exilee, new to (FWUI), Elizabeth Sinclair (former over, It is hotting up. speeches Indicate that he Is think- sec., BTUC), and Joseph Cooper, erless and watoh this happen! Y a country, to organise them ing In this direction. Why not call chairman, BTUC. Why are we power lees? It Is be- unless there IS somebody to take OW can it be done? By putting an all-in conference of Irish organ- "Hie signatories wrote in their caun though we have plenty of the Initiative. H a political element into the isations under the auspices of the personal capacities. Seven of them organisations, «• art not organised It Is time there was deep thought Federation of Irish Societies, or at Irish Post and see if we can estab- •were general secretaries. Copies as Irish people — we are County given to It: The Connolly Associa- least by getting rid of the non- lish the machinery we need? tion has been trying for year* to political plank 7 By starting a new were sent to prominent trade . men, language enthusiasts, musi- Ths old anti-partltition league cians, even demoorats and socia- organlM the politloally • minded all-ombraolng Irish organisation? unionists and Labour M.P.s. There could do It is little doubt that this interven- lists, but not simply Irish and be Irish. Its organisation Has Halted By bringing ths political Irish tion helped to bring: about the don* with It for «& years and it not ashamed of societies into ths Federation? Or And meanwhile let us put Into Labour Executive's decision to Speaking at a recent meeting Mr Its poHtioal achievements, but as by torn* other moans? ths seal* of ths fivs demands all abandon support for partition and Mao Luaasked why the Iristi oould for organising the Irish, there Is Whatever ths measures, the Irish ths energy and organisation ws break bipartisanship. organise In Darnell's day and not not much to report. must be able to speak with one although It Is dlvldsd. •TrtglMU r

August 1981 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT icirnee and TeHmoloffV I* Iniil.nMl a Uivee the need for a bit ol spunk, \\ HEN on June 7 Israeli at- Road Some of the houses were axe to the root you have to find even n ilit v haven't any of it DR AMPHLETT MICKLEWRIGHT 1 remember going into a house of repression are brought into use "Church and S >victy in England tacked the Iraqui nuclear rendered uninhabitable. And in the root. Well here it is. England All over Europe there is disorder, and seeing the householder sitting in England. Itiduy", by Dr Aniphlft! reactor site near Baghdad, a only one of them were there any occupies the six counties as part riot and terrorism. The reason? Nor is it difficult to see how such a whilst those on doctrine and ritual en the bea. Around him all the Mukti-wrigbt method will work against any clery- go to a new court, the court of new stage in the sordid history arrests. of her imperialist war-preparations. Social deprivation. According to an family's worldly possessions, slowly The first example of the use ol The results are plain to be seen. MMI of advanced political views. ecclesiastical cases reserved which of the abuse of science by the article on the Guardian of July and painfully accumulated through CS gas was in Liverpool, during But England's due economic posi- ^y HEN dealnu with the issue Occ asionally, there is a contretemps has, in fact, never met. It is need- From 1961 to 1968 the Irish Demo- the Toxteth disturbances. It is now- 13th. it is beginning to be realised militarist was initiated It is years of quiet married life, were tion. sliding ever nearer to bank- of the hunger striker*, as when the Dean of Canterbury, the less to add that all of the officials crat was warning, "if you do not known that the canisters used were that there is a grim choice. Either appropriate to outline its impli- strewn in inextricable confusion ruptcy and chaos, is also due to her some sections of the English late Dr Hewlett Johnson, evolved of these courts must be practising change the situation in the six of the wrong kind, and people they meet American demands to cations. about the floor. The boards were imperialist war - preparations. All press have indulged in a cam- into a Marxist The efforts of Arch members of the Church of England. counties, by ending discrimination, struck by them, in some cases in- build up more and more military Firstly, the Iraqui reactor was ripped up. The fireplace was pulled Mrs Thatcher could say at the July paign of vilification against bishop Fisher to dispossess him will out. Dustbins had been -brought ending repression, democratizing nocent by-standers were taken to forces (plenty of lucrative orders still be widely recalled Comment is 1 not yet in production, so that no the police force, then there will be "summit" was "Yes. Mr President." Cardinal O'Fia.h and the Irish ' 1 HERE has been some comment aster was confined to the economia in from the yard and emptied on hospital with serious wounds. Did tor the American merchants of needless on the part which the major disaster took place. The an explosion." it came in the lat- concerning these courts. In 1921, level. the living room floor. the police realise that these cani- 'THEREFORE if you want to push death or they must face a con- bishops. Their purpose is clear higher clergy will play within the objective was to pre-empt the com- ter year. From then till now the it was felt very widely that Arch- Secondly, the reactor was rated sters were dangerous if tired on Fascism back, you've got to tinuance of civil disorder from the for they wish to portray South- social scene and in the moulding missioning. Had it been destroyed Irish Democrat has been warning deacon Wakeford should have been at 70 MW(e), or possibly one-tenth He had taken his wife and child- people? They were labelled to that support the peace movement. The deprived sections wnich will force ern Ireland as a "theocracy" and of estabhshmentarian opinion. when in production, the pressure- the English people "If you do not given the benefit of the doubt. the scale of the proposed ESB ren to the station to go to Dundalk. effect. They felt no concern at ending of the occupation of the them to spinel the mooey iinyway. under a rigid ecclesiastical coi- This is more especially the case as vessel would have exploded, scat- act to stop harassment, torture of Many people did not like the prac- reactor at Carnsore Potnt. Yet the He had been sitting on the bed what was liable to happen? No six counties only makes sense with- 1 MID all the yap about cu'-ing the two archbishops and twenty tering radioactive debris over prisoners, the use of CS gas, puni- tices concerning witnesses in the Israeli intelligence rated it as a looking at it for six hours, too doubt this will be cleared up at an in the context of stopping the arms * the armed forces in England -- four bishops sit in the House of proceedings taken against the Rev several square miles, with consid- dazed to begin to clear up, wonder- tive police raids and plastic bullets, enquiry. they are only shifting things from A> will be .apparent to anybody source of plutontum sufficient to race, or at least stopping English Lords whilst membership of the H. T. F. Davidson in 1930. There WHS erable loss of life. The debris would ing where to begin. then you will get them yourselves." one hand to another and the lor'-e villi' has studied .) H. Whyte'- constitute a threat. In this, unfor- participation in it. And one aspect Pi ivy Council is confined rpon the a great deal of criticism about the have included plutonium and a with the empty nand mu,i".s writings and similar sources, churci. tunately. they are probably correct, "Did they find any firms?" And now they've got them — the The same night the plastic bul- of the fight, for peace is the fight senior holders of episcopal office. trial of the Rev Dr Bryn Thomas whole family of fission products one tiling is clear. Unless tin- ;..bil- unci state m the Republic has un- The reactor was supplied by the "D'you think I'd be here now if lets came into use. It is known that to end the occupation of the six in 1961. But since those days, the with various liftimes, many of which lot. The chickens have come home iously expensive missile programme dergone a definite evolution since French, who have not signed the they did?" a number of people have been kil- counties. ' | 'HE Church of England possesses tendency of bishops to take legal would participate in the biochem- to roost. is cut. I lien the cost, of con! in , >i.s the pre-war days. Ireland has slice Non-Proliferation Treaty. The It was all for nothing. led with these in the six counties. * numerous endowments, some of proceedings against their clergy has istry of food production. Others, r If the war-preparations were stop- Brixtons and Toxteth:;. will h.ive to its theocratic background and Cai- ancient origin. These are admin- especially plutonium, are toxic Iraquis have been interested in rHE punitive raids at Brixton been somewhat halted. The Rev f 1 'HAT was Belfast 1970. Now it's One gets a feeling that there was ped. then there would be money to be met some wa.v dmal O'Piach has done no more ir. istered by the Church Commis- Thus the whole surrounding area, nuclear power since they were sup- were the first example of what Michael Bland, a West Country 1 Brixton 1981. The search was a desire to create a precedent for renew British industry, to clear up What does it mem? li means his approach than would be doiu sioners of England who tollow a including perhaps the city of Bagh- plied in 1968 with a 2MW reactor may become, indeed will become. vicar, was deprived in 1970. He ap- their use. The Irish Democrat also the mess in Moss Side. Brixton and that peace means work, loi cv-.mple by the Archbishop of Canterbury policy of investment. Some of the dad (depending on the wind), would by the USSR, so that they have a pealed to the Court of Arches with •warned that joining the Common Toxteth, and at the same time re- in redeveloping the ciepr.u d ai-\.s. m this country At the same time holdings are in land with the com- have been rendered uninhabitable trained work-force. They have a the result that he won his case Market could mean Fascism. That store the Health service, the tat- and that war prep.irat • one mum 11 is worth recalling that religious missioners as the freeholders of and sterile for possibly (}ecades. So policy of diversity of sources of and the Church of England found is looking a trifle more possible tered Library service, and pay pub- unemployment goes on. !:>•• . .litre minorities are without complaint leasehold property. The Second vvi1 can be thankful that the Israeli supply, which in 1974 extended to C.A. Sustentation Fund now. lic servants decent wages. ol Margaret Thatcher ).•]..• v is in Southern Ireland. The most Church Commissioner is appointed (continued on page 3) intelligence was good and the dis- France and in 1976 to Italy. T1 A! You don't know that word! Our thanks to: murderous war. That's v )•>• every important of them is the Churci; by the government and occupies I T had already been shown that a ** It was used bv Jim Larkin's Donations; L. Daly £3, V. Griffin Ill - treatment of prisoners is The intervention of the Labour other thing, including job'-., nm-1 In- ot Ireland which is in full com- a seat in the House of Commons. developing country could acquire friends when they collected money £15, N.U.M. (S. Wales) £50, M. Tay- another six county complaint that movement can achieve these things, cut to the bone. munion with Canterbury. It is also However proper may be the policies nuclear bomb technology by buying to run a campaign for his release lor £3.50, G. Lysaght £2, B. Crow- seems to have come to England. and the Irish should play their part worth recalling that the Church followed by the Church Commis- Sletet Mullityati't peep&(l EADERS of the IRISH DEMO- Northern Ireland will be brought come the protests against Cardinal right whilst the lay members and All this can only confirm the un- lished who was to blame. It is to * ^ CRAT will remember that we into line with costs in Britain. r O'Fiach the other clergy are elected. It ease with which the Irish view be hoped that the enquiry going on THE annual conference of the were the only paper to say that the Domestic electricity is at present would not be a common sight to nuclear energy. It is emerging that Irish neutrality in Manchester will be more success- "Morseyside Action for peace" aircraft "Concorde" was a cynical It is somewhat naive to raise 22 per cent higher in Northern Ire- ful. see left-wingers elected! Indeed, under present conditions of inter- took place on Saturday 11th July. waste of public money, designed as questions of tfie extent of eccles- land and commercial electricity in (Continued from Page One) the arrangements are such that decouple a nuclear programme from Mr Desmond Greaves moved the a political excuse to pay half the iastical power in Ireland when the seven per cent higher. The pre- House, where they discussed ques- Dublin at a meeting in Liberty wage-earning members of the pub- national tension it is impossible to I ^ IN ALLY, a little enquiry in Tox- following resolution on behalf of cost of a French fantasy, and intolerance of some English church- CECTION 31 of the Prevention vious Labour Government wrote oft tion of neutrality and disarma- Hall. teth brought out the real basis the Connolly Association: men is recalled. Speaking from lic might find it difficult to give the production, somewhere, of thereby persuade France to permit ^ of Terrorism Act defines £250 million of the Northern Ire- weapons-grade plutonium. In the ment. Can you imagine a British This great work for peace which of the discontent. Unemployment, Biitain to commit suicide by going personal experience, it is difficult to the time required. The Synod re- is proceeding in Ireland deserves "This conference takes cote of terrorism as "The use of vio- land Electricity Board's debit. They Irish case, the spent fuel would be Minister doing that? yes, that's important, But the thing into the Common Market. find a nastier and more spiteful placed the old v Church Assembly lence }or political ends. The later received £100 million to peg carried by sea to Windscale for the fullest encouragement from the which all black youngsters, and the fact that the London 'Econ- bigotry than that which marks the and it promotes a number of Irish in Britain; it can make a omist' and other periodicals have Now it is admitted that the Republican prisoners are al- industrial tariff rates for five years. reprocessing, the plutonium removed A four-member delegation from many whites as well, will tell you. more extreme low church party, measures which-have the force of powerful contribution to the recon- been urging, as a possible out- whole absurd scheme was money A group calling itself Meibion and purified by chemical means, the Soviet Peace Committee which is that the complaint is principally despite claims to a far-reaching law. Parliament can intervene but ready recognised as using vio- ciliation and reunification of the come of current talks between down the drain, as any disinteres- Glyndwr (Sons of Glyndwr) has and the residual long-lived fission police harassment. This complaint theological liberty, Unitarians can is unlikely to do so. Unless debate lence for political ends, so are had been visiting Britain at the in- Irish people, and our republican ted person could see from the start. threatened to Intensify the arson is also made in Brixton. civil servants of the United King- show a political and religious bigo- is demanded, the measures go the 39,000 trained and armed products returned to Ireland for vitation of the Society of Friends friends should think most carefully But they are keeping it on be- campaign against second homes in dom and the Irish Republic, that try of an ignorant and belligerent through on a nod of the House. A long-term safe' storage, possibly Peace Service, was received in about its political implications. cause it "would cost more to stop personnel who are enforcing Wales. The threat was made to So there it is discrimination. in return for certain concessions, type .an attitude which permeates glance at the measures dealing in Wicklow granite, away from it than to keep it going.' Why? British control on Ireland. the BBC office in Bangor. There the Republic should become a other forms of Protestantism. In- with such subjects as war damage ground-water. Irish electricity pro- Because they'd have to pay the have been over 50 attacks since the duction would thus be adding to the member of the North Atlantic French. deed. the idea that Protestants are and redundant parishes will serve DOUBLE FACED JUSTICE — Treaty Organization. Without arson campaign began in 1979. They stockpile of fissile material with So it's no money for the nurses, liberal in outlook whilst Catholics to illustrate the extent of bureau- three soldiers of the Royal Green THE RELIGIOUS STATE OF ENGLAND prejudice to any other matters are now spreading to South Wales military potential, under British no money for the railwaymen. no are oppressive ,s a mere legend, cratic control which has entered Jackets Regiment who the prosecu- we are of the opinion that no where unemployment is growing. control. (continued from page 2) ted against the adding of a modern ^O toe story could continue but money for Brixton or Southall. and certainly, since Vatican two the into the Church of England during tion stated had "an arsenal of pressure, direct or indirect, should k enough has been said to illustrate hundreds of millions to allow bloa- reverse is frequently the case The recent years. Much has been done weapons" which included two sub- The Home Office has been forced Nuclear power may possibly be- extension to the mediaeval build- be exerted on the Republic which come an acceptable safe alternative itself in debt for about £30.000 ted capitalists to Hy to and from English scene illustrates the point. to erode the parson's freehold, the machine guns, ammunition, thuti- to disclose that it has incarcerated ing. It was signed by some local that those attacking unjustly Car- would threaten its traditional to fossil fuel, but not before the costs. In another case, the prose- New York. historic bastion of liberty for the derflashes and smoke grenades people in "solitary confinement to artists who thought that they were dinal O'Fiach should look first at neutrality and thereby extend the military systems of the world 1 are .'I'HE prohibition of appeals to beneficial clergy. were found "not guilty of possess- aid the maintenance of good order cution did not get beyond the pre- the situation at home. Broadly militarisation of western Europe." dismantled, by international agree- adding their names to a mere peti- Rome by Henry VIII was the ing firearms with intent to endan- or discipline in Her Majesty's liminary stage for want of evidence speaking, there is religious tolera- ment. Even then, it will require tion. But they found to theix> hor- OUR OWN PEOPLE? birthday in 1535 of the Church of The church courts are still ger life." One of them was given a Prisons as follows: six prisoners for tion in this country and the Brad- The resolution was seconded by 'fast breeder' technology to become and. once again, the Church of ror that they had signed a legal England. Its result was that the courts of the Crown. They are pro- three months suspended sentence eight to 12 months, six for up to laugh affair of a century ago set Mr Chris White and passed un- \ f R MERLYN Rees. former reliable and widespread, if the plu- England found itself caught for J King replaced the Pope as the head for unlawful possession. Bobby two years, and two for up to three document. .its seal on the issue. But there is animously with the support of • Labour Home Secretary, asked tected from acts of contempt by the tonium produced is to be got rid of the church. The old church Queen's Bench Division and their Sands was sentenced to 12 years years." The Home Office refused about £6.000 in costs. Since then, an established church which func- the Executive. The Secretary of on Radio 4 whether he favoured to name the prisoners but it is of usefully as a non-military re- courts continued but they were now findings can be enforced by Crown by a non-injury Diplock' court for there has been a tendency to avoid It made them plaintiffs against tions on all ceremonial occasions the organisation is Mr George arming the English police with allegedly possessing arms. widely believed that they include a source. The war machine must Strattan, the President is Mr Alex royal courts and the Canon Law authority. As they now exist, their cases of this kind and to leave the vicar and churchwardens of such as coronations and royal wed- plastic bullets replied that he hoped high proportion of Irish prisoners. however be dismantled first. This Doswell. Secretary of the Trades only survived so long as it was not scope is limited. A jurisdiction in dings. It is a bureaucratic body em- it would not prove necessary to TIMES. is, increasingly, the top priority of the chancellor to deal with such Digswell in the consistory court, a Council, and the Assistant Secre- m conflict with that of the Crown. slander disappeared in 1885. They "in the ten months from January bracing within itself a consenus of fire on our own people." During of .last year, 4,096 people were picked those who are aware of the full matters as faculties. Blasphemy court of which they had never tary is Mrs Maeve Cocker, a Most of the major ecclesiastical lost their complete jurisdiction oVer COMPUTER WATCH — Social various conflicting theological opin- his period of office the army did up under the emergency powers, implications tf the nuclear threat has never been a matter for the heard, before the chancellor of the Dublin woman who is the niece appointments were made henceforth all matters of matrimony and pro- Security officials have now com- ions. Over the years, it has been fire on Belfast people. The conclu- (in Northern Ireland) but 85 per to humanity, fortunately an increas- diocese of St Albans, a gentleman of the well-known writer Jim by the Crown. It is this fact which bate in 1857 and. in 1860, all cases pleted a computer link up with 470 ecclesiastical courts but for those called "the Tory party at prayer" sion is that Mr Rees did not regard cent of them were never charged. ing number. Phelan. His autobiography is explains why. to this day, appoint- of brawling in a church or church- local social security offices so that of common law. Yet it came% a of whose existence they were un- and it certainly serves as an agent these people as "his own people." The emergency laws are, accord- Small neutral States like the Irish probably his best known work, ments to bishoprics in the Church yard were referred to the civil magi- there can be Instant checks on aware. Their only means of escape to stabilise existing society. Nor Why then did he presume to at- ing to one survey, being used for Republic have in the past contri- fihock for many to find that, when title, "The name's Phelan". of England are made through the strate. claimants contributions records with was to brief counsel, appear before should the Left be unaware or in- tempt to rule them? "screening, building up dossiers, and buted significantly to the work' of R. V. Lemmon came to be tried, the Prime Minister. Even recent legisla- the records division in Newcastle. the chancellor, apologise for their different to this issue. The time is harassment'... already 7,000 people the UN towards world peace and Church of England is alone pro- tion which permits the church to As things stand, every diocese has Sir D. Raynor (salary not known) approaching when the proper mean- have been tried under a system of nuclear disarmament. Indeed, Ire- mistake and ask him to dismiss the put forward specific names for con- its consistory court with its chan- has claimed In his report that one tected in this field. Of course, the ing of religious toleration should cellor, a barrister of seven years' justice which Is inferior to the rest land was among the initiatiors case. This process duly took place sideration still leaves the Crown in 12 of the unemployed are scroun- various appointments connected be expressed by the disestablish- Order from IRISH DEMOCRAT of Britain." S. TIMES. the Non Proliferation Treaty. The but they found themselves caught in final possession. Thus, there standing This is the court of first ging. He wants to hire 750 new Irish, also, are unusual in that thelr with the church courts are eagerly ment and disendowment of the 283 Grays Inn Road, London, W.C.I were many rumours that although instance and it deals with all mat- fraud Invertigators. TELEGRAPH. by a very large bill for legal costs. MORE UNEMPLOYMENT — expenditure on military R & D -is sought by those lawyers of Angli- Church of England, this following the church chose Bishop Hapgood ters of church moment whether of "The United States Government is British Enkalon in Antrim is to pjrp^tically nil. This gives Iretolad precedents seen in Ireland in 1869 of Durham for Canterbury. Mrs clerical misbehavour or of such close down with the loss of 1,100 preparing to invest (?) between can belief and practiee- In 1970, by refusing to allow a a good basis, together with Other and in Wales in 1917. If statistics Please post me twelve copies of the current issue of Thatcher insisted on Dr Runcie. matters as rebuilding a church, in- jobs. The Company controllers 6,000 and 7.000 million dollars in tomb to be openend. the chancellor neutral and peaceful States, for in- may be followed, the Church of troducing ornaments into an exist- asked for a further £17 million and a big chemical warfare program- Again, there was an underlying itiating international moves towards Of course, for the most part., the of the diocese of Chester prevented England represents a minority of the Irish Democrat and I will try to sell them ing building and the like. the Government said no. Courtaulds me." S. TIMES. dispute about the appointment of the re-deployment of military R Ss church courts only affect the clergy the pursuit of some Shakespearean worshippers in this country on any Appeal lies to the Court of Arches and ICI factories in Carrickfergus given Sunday. The time has arrived Dr Leonard to London. It was said NORWAY WARNED D towards peaceful applications, and such laity who fall beneath research and, once again, the un- that he was unpopular with the which is presided over by a legal have recently closed with the loss when it should no longer be per- Name of 3.000 jobs. Courtaulds factory "The United States has told Nor- generalising the approach pioneered their jurisdiction owing to holding successful applicant had to face Palace which is rumoured not to functionary, the Dean of the Arches. mitted to affect the social back- in Derry is at present closing with way i it it does not like proposals by irishman (and sometime OdB- such office as that of a churchwar- a bill of costs. The real issue is favour Anglo-Catholic views. But Under a revising measure of 19C3, nolly Association member) Mike ground of the majority, be they the IOBS of a further 900 jobs. The for a nuclear free zone in Northern den. But the power of the chan- not a debate about the powers of Address once again, it was Mrs Thatcher conduct appeals can go to the Privy- Cooley in Lucas Aerospace. Roman Catholics or atheists, Hin- man-made fibre industry in North- Europe." GUARDIAN. the chancellor so much as the wis- who insisted upon the appointment. Council or the Dean of the \rches cellor can be much wider. For ex- dus or Muslims, for England has ample, a paper was left in Digs- dom of laity when they avoid pur- become a multi-religious and multi- well church In Hertfordshire direc- posely any contact with his court. racial society.

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THE FUTURE OF NORTHERN IRELAND THE DEBATE ^y'HATEVER else can be said DUBLIN YOUTH OVER-RULED the like are "seful, but susceptible about successive British Gov- to sabotage If. however, the Bri- ON IRELAND ernments, all have tried to make BY tish and Irish Governments har- the present division of Ireland work. monise pensions, social security ^AST month we published Not vanguard but mudguard None has succeeded. It is time we REG FREESON P C.. M P payments, financial aid to in- dustry and other related legisla- an editorial introduction considered the alternative view that ON COALITION fast, nor in Dublin, but in London. the assumption that sooner or later tion, the Irish Government could to the great debate on Ire- the existing border has never wor- Failure to recognise this leads to progressively administer the pay- land now proceeding within |>Y .1 ratio ul three votes to P ...mientary Party, returned Ireland would become a united Fail, which in effect in most Mr Justin Keating swung ked, never will work, and never can false assumptions about the ability state in one form or another The ments and receive the appropriate the Labour movement. This I/O tile special Labour ;i: jimimshed numbers after the cases meant vote Fine Gael. many people's votes in favour of work. For sixty years it has been a and character of the people of lie- historically close ties between Ire- repayments from the UK. This general election, have improved month we publish the state- i'.uty Conference in Dublin ap- the Coalition. He praised the From land, both North and South. They land and the UK could be given would be difficult to sabotage and then personal positions. running sore for both Britain and ment which Mr Reg Freeson, o: ivcd Labour forming the •HOST Dublin Labour dele- idealism and dedication of the are just as capable of running their recognition by allowing dual voting citizens of Northern Ireland, Ireland alike. own affairs as the British are, but M.P. for Brent East, has sent 1 .urth coalition government gates, the young people and young delegates who passion- Anthony rights. Secondly, everyone living whether Protestants or Catholics, Not that Labour was confron- the division of Ireland has created would benefit equally. A regional to a number of Irish organ- ah Fine Gael, with Garret most of Labour's Administrative ately spoke against anther coali- in Northern Ireland would be en- ted with an easy choice, what- The major feature of successive problems that neither side can fully titled to retain their UK citizen- employment policy could help to isations, including the Con- KitzGerald as Taoiseach and Council, as well as the trade tion. But he told them that they Coughlan ever course they took, as was Governments' policy has been the solve on its own, precisely because ship. eliminate one of the major areas of nolly Association. This is A[ ichael O'Leary as Tanaiste. should have his experience evident from the earnest and union delegates, spoke strongly guarantee of a veto over constitu- the power to solve them lies in Lon- discrimination against Catholics. A i luce again, as the Dublin joke when they might see things dif- not necessarily Mr Freeson's anguished debate at the special against another coalition. In don. It seems unlikely that a unitary non-discriminatory housing policy is has it. Irish Labour has opted to ferently! tional change to a built-in Unionist final position. He has invited conference. The best course favour were most of the TDs, state could be introduced in the less easy to achieve, and may have lie the mudguard of Fine Gael would almost certainly be very- majority. The history of gerry- |rFHE problem is how to help the to be run along existing lines by a comment. Comment can be would have been for Labour to with the support of rural and f near future without immense rather than the vanguard of the PHE deal negotiated between bad for it. It is in danger more mandering, of sectarian discrimina- -L majority in the North become housing executive with representa- sent to him at the House of let Fianna Fail stay on in office. small - town branches from Unionist resistance, and anyone v. m king-class' Dr FitzGerald and Mr O'Leary than ever of being absorbed by tion and of repression exercised by a secure minority m what would be- who thinks that it could be forced tives of both communities serving Commons, Westminster, :iid deal with the mess they around the country. It was the incorporated many elements Fine Gael, which has expanded the Unionist dominated Stormont is come a United Ireland. We think upon them should remember that on it. S.W even when the House have got the public finances in. rural tail wagging the Dublin .1., The rewards are obvious. of the Labour election pro- over thirty years by absorbing now well documented. there is little evidence to suggest the power of the Unionist para- That would have begun the pro- dog, and the Dubliners did not is not in session. But he There are four Labour Ministers gramme, although to be frank smaller parties, and the new- that the Protestants in the South military groups is much greater cess of cutting Labour's links like it a bit. After all Dublin are discriminated against. Indeed, The Labour Party now needs a particularly wishes to receive I ,: Industry and Energy. this programme was in no way image Fine Gael of Garret Fitz- The time has come for a re-think than the power of the Republican uth Fine Gael, the first move was where Labour made most many Protestants occupy very high decision by Conference which states it by September 10th. If Health. Labour and Defence — adequate to deal with the Gerald — although at heart still about the situation, and this paper para-military groups. The Irish categorically that the Party intends ii building up a really indepen- dramatic advances during its positions in business, commerce and Government would be no more able readers wish comments pub- .mil three assistant Ministers. country's unemployment and in- the party of Ireland's most con- is an attempt to influence the to work closely with the Govern- dent mass Labour Party over go-it-alone period of the 1960s. politics. Nevertheless, the fear of to deal with such a problem than lished in the Irish Democrat, Three other Labour TDs get flation problems. Fine Gael was servative conservatives — poses search for a distinct Labour Party ment of Ireland in order to bring M'veral elections. But that and where it has fallen back discrimination of Northern Ireland the British. they can send the copy to us, I iterative berths in the EEC so desperate to get into office a clear threat to Labour. policy on the Anglo-Irish question. about the reunification of Ireland, course would have been difficult most drastically since. In 1969 Protestants is real and this needs a and we can send it on to Mr Parliament." taking seats vaca- that they would have agreed to To argue that building a Labour radical response by the Irish and with constitutional guarantees and to take m view of Labour's elec- Labour got 28'< of the first- Mr Kavanagh, the Labour A FEDERAL state would stand a institutional structures to protect Freeson. ieii by the newly appointed almost anything. The resultant Party in the six counties would British Governments. The Irish toral stance of urging its sup- preference vote in Dublin. Last Party Minister for Labour, now better chance of success. The es- the rights of the minorities. Ministers; so that half the fif- somehow replace sectarian politics have already indicated their willing- porters to vote against Fianna ; economic hotchpotch has no has the job of telling the trade sence of such an approach would month^it was down to 12' <. with Labour / Tory politics is to mis- ness to make radical changes to the teen members of the Labour realistic chance of working, as unions that they cannot have be to give safeguards to the North' read and misunderstand the history constitution. Ministers discovered when they wage increases and enforcing a which would be seen as sufficient of the problem, and the bi-partisan to allay the fears, real or imagin- began to "look at the books" pay freeze in the public service. approach to that problem. Talk of "... The people who regard ary, which trouble the Unionist par- during their first weeks in office. Labour's Mrs Desmond has the Disappointment A HAIR SHIRT BUDGET the non-sectarian nature of trade their tradition as being far re- ties and prevent progress. The LABOUR EC. BACKS r For there are simultaneous pro- job of telling the health auth- moved from ours would be sur- THERE is to be a massive review union and Labour politics in the six structure would necessarily have to .'I'HE working man in Dublin will mises to cut Government spend- orities around the country that prised at the length to which we with Haughey ' of public spending on the That- counties, must be considered in the be negotiated and proferably ' now have an opportunity to ing and to expand it, to shift they must cut back drastically would be prepared to go ... to assess the results of having a cher model, and an immediate total light of the historical situation directly with the major existing from direct to indirect taxation on spending: It is not an en- accommodate them, to give gua- A UNITED IRELAND t SHEEP in wolf's clothing," is Labour Party that enters into coali- ban on the creating of new jobs in whereby the working class has been political parties in the North. In while keeping average prises viable position for Labour Mini- rantees and undertakings, to pro- the absence of willingness to nego- • * how one disillusioned Pianna tion with their worst enemies. the public service divided by sectarian discrimination A FTER thirty-two years it looks a memorandum which was sent to down, to inflate the economy sters to be in — enforcing on tect and safeguard their interests tiate, it would be necessary for the I- nil member called his leader, Mr -which enabled the Unionist em- as if the Labour Party may re- influential Labour figures showing and tradition ..." British and Irish Governments to Haughey. the other day. It is a A pint of stout will go up by 6p. The result will inevitably be to and simultaneously to deflate it. Irish workers the rules of the turn to its traditional policy of how the inclusion of this proviso ployers and landlords to win the —Charles Haughey set up the initial structure, and, by measure of the disenchantment There will be 8p extra on a packet increase unemployment now run- capitalist system. Many people ending partition. would make nonsense of an anti- The Government's majority is allegiance of the Protestant majo- close co-operation and support, many Haughey supporters feel ot 2tl cigarettes, and one assumes ning at 10.5% of the work force. think the Government cannot "... Any new arrangement shall partition policy, as the Tories, are paper-thin and depends on the rity community in return for prefer- make it increasingly difficult for the This was abandoned in 1949 when il)imt his performance while he was that people foolish enough to go The only remotely work-creating last long in office. A lot would guarantee the legitimate interests having a referendum anyway in votes of the handful of indepen- ential treatment in the allocation of North to remain aloof. The main the Republic was declared and the Taoiseach, especially his handling an smoking them will look a little measure Is that of putting an extra depend on how by-elections and identity of the unionist com- 1983. Fortunately Mr Eric Hetter jobs, homes, education, social ser- pressure would come from the eco- twenty-six counties left the Com- • 1 Six County affairs ruefully at the columns of blue penny on income tax to raise funds dents. Even Mr Jim Kemmy, might go but the new Coalition munity in Northern Ireland from persuaded the E.C. to drop it. vices, civil rights, etc. nomic aspect of the federation, and monwealth. smoke. Spirits go up by 9p a nip. for setting up a youth employment probably the most reliable of any fear for its future in the i'INHERE are more than fifty reso- might last longer than people particularly by creating an inter- II Haughey had spoken out more Basic VAT goes up from 10''i to agency. them, has made clear that his think. The mood of the anti- island of Ireland." A last minute spanner was lutions on Ireland to be de- strongly on the H-Rlocks he would l,y;. Petrol which runs at £1.65 support is strictly conditional, rpHE continuing discrepancy in —Garrett Fitzgerald dependence in such things as thrown in the works by Alec Kit- bated at Brighton in September. Coalitionists in the Labour * employment prospects, con- energy supplies, transport, social almost certainly have won some i sterling i goes up to £1.75. But Who's really to blame for all this? son, possibly influenced by Scot- But it looks as if debate will now J ABOUR is now, even more Party is at present to fight on finned by the recent report showing security benefits and similar key extra seats in the general election bread and milk will be subsidised. The man who in 1955 persuaded An additional safeguard could be tish considerations, who wanted to centre on an Executive resolution and hope to see their views no change in the position whereby areas. and might well have been able to Mr Lemass that the country could than before the prisoner provided by an Appeal Court in make a final decision dependent on calling for reunification by consent. remain m government of events and circumstances vindicated by events. It is un- Catholics are two and a half times the form of an Anglo-Irish Council. a referendum. borrow itself into prosperity without Physical cross-border links in the Ever since 1949 the Connolly As- doubtedly the most sensible more likely to be unemployed than Discussion could then proceed on ever having to face the debt-collec- outside its control. Another form of pipelines, power cables and The Connolly Association drafted sociation has worked to bring .Inst before lie lost office he said course in the circumsttnces. Protestants, is further witness to RUCTIONS tor. election in the near future about the restoration ol Labour's tiie primary responsibility for re- the discrimination which is a struc- traditional policy. If the con- solving the crisis lay with the Brit- tural feature of the six counties. ference passes the resolution, then ish Government. This was no more The strike called by the Ulster a big step forward will have been than the truth, but. as the H-block IN DUBLIN IS IT PAISLEY'S PREROGATIVE? Workers' Council in 1974 which TIfHY does the British Govern- allow ourselves to be killed and mur- Cover-up in brought about the downfall of the LABOUR IN BLACK BELFAST made. What will then be neces- Committee said, it came four I ) AM AGE estimated at close sary is to ensure that the decision months and tour deaths too late. " liient allow Ian Paisley to dered by the IRA or shall we go out power-sharing Executive is another l WER many years the Belfast A commission of enquiry blamed irpKE slump of the 'eighties lifted on a million pounds was example of the real situation in is included in the election mani- make statements which in effect and kill the killers?" To which Trades Council has been an the Orangemen for the riots and in 1889. That was a boom year And what ot the famous done on July 18th when a festo. After that Labour must be amount to pl&in incitement to mur- there were shouts of "Yes" from his brutality Northern Ireland. Attempts to oasis of working class principle in said of the twelfth of July festi- with plenty of work and conse- Haughey-Thatcher talks, what did returned to power. And then it march in support of the H-block der in the Six Counties? Why do audience. build solidarity amongst workers a desert of sectarianism. val that it led to "violence, out- quently many wage demands. they lead to? What of the unique will be necessary to press for ways hunger-strikers drew near to the they not enforce the law against THE Alliance Party and the SDLP will fail so long as Unionist dom- rage. religious animosities, hatred Lightermen, joiners, blacksmiths, relationship between Ireland and It was founded on October 29th. of implementing the policy. There British Embassy in Dublin, and this man whose career has grown have called for Mr Paisley's ination continues to enjoy perma- between classes, and too often shipwrights, railwaymen and linen Britain, the study-groups of civil allegations 1881. and will be a hundred years is thus a good deal more to be fat on the diet of hatred, prejudice prosecution on grounds of incite- nent guarantees. bloodshed and loss of life." It con- lappers all made claims, and were servants and all the rest of it? a riot developed. old in a couple of months' time. done. and lies he spreads about Catholics ment to violence and hatred. As 'THE Northern Ireland Office is cluded "It is well to consider assisted by the Trades Council. Doubtless the study groups are still At the same time the decision is The Gardai came under a hail among the Northern Protestant John Hume put it: "If someone conniving at another "cover- Recent reports of the Dublin Is it the oldest Trades Council whether there is any controlling Another important issue was that -studying, going over the papers and necessity to keep it alive." A quarter historic, and the Labour Party is of missiles and there seems to people? suggests that they are »oing to up" in the Six Counties by failing talks, between the Irish Prime Min- in Ireland or not? Both Dublin of "half-timers." Children were proposals that were put on the shelf L of a century later the controlling unlikely to have occasion to regret form a private army, if ,hey sug- to insist that there be a tribunal of ister and the UK Prime Minister, and Cork claim greater antiquity. allowed to work in the linen mills after Sunningdale; but does anyone be evidence that people went necessity became clear — resistance it. Look at what Paisley said at Six- gest it is somehow legitimate to enquiry into the 15 cases of alleged would seem to indicate that the But Belfast supporters point out from the age of ten, provided that think seriously that Maggie That- there armed with offensive to Home Rule. milebridge last month: "We are kill people outside the law. no mat- RUC brutality listed in the 1979 Tories here might have been mak- that while these cities undoubtedly they went to school for half of the "I RISH people must not be disap- cher was doing anything except weapons with the intention of going to meet openly and start ter for what reason they kill '; ein. Bennett Report. ing vague promises about some pro- had Trades Councils, they changed Apart from its orientation to local day. Many of them were too tired pointed if the resolution falls leading the Irish on in the hope attacking them. If this is so a public recruiting drive of Pro- that seems to me to a major incite- gress towards support for unity in their names, and underwent amal- industry, there was another im- to learn anything, and James Con- short of perfection. It is the duty they might be tricked into shifting one would suspect agents pro- testants united in the defence of ment to violence and to m rdcr Mr Jack Hassard is the protest- return for Ireland's firm involve- gamations, whereas the Belfast portant feature of the Belfast nolly was of the opinion that this of English politicians to consider on neutrality? vocateurs. possibly from sec- their homes and heritage. Shall we and totally to undermine the secur- ant Dungannon councillor who re- ment in NATO's Western defence organisation is absolutely continu- Trades Council which marked it off system was the reason why there first what is good lor England. tions who think they would ity forces that Mr Paisldey claims ous under the one name all the was relatively speaking so much They will not approach it in the Mr Haughey is an intelligent man signed from the Northern Ireland strategy. This represents the exact from its surroundings, namely 'ts gain advantage from the "de- he supports fully.'' time, without a break. connection with the early socialists. illiteracy in Belfast. The Council and may learn from his experience. police authority some time ago in opposite of any right of the Irish same way as an Irish person would. stabilization" of the Republic. Whereas socialism flourished in agitated for raising . the minimum It does not do to bend national prin- TWO BOOKS A a row over failure to investigate people to self-determination, let It was founded in a period of The important thing will be the Is it that Atkins!Thatche^!nc! Dublin as an adjunct of Fenianism. age of half-timers to twelve years. ciple when it comes to dealing with allegations of ill-treatment by the alone to build socialism. slump and distress, and for quite establishment of the principle. It is to be hoped that the MONTH the other Tories welcome the work RUC at Omagh barracks. He said moreover on a somewhat sectish the British Government on Ireland. a few years the meetings were The importance of the year 1890 And as for the "by consent", it violence was not started mis- that Paisley does and do not want that the decision of the Northern basis, in Belfast it was from the He will be able to show in opposi- ,4 N example of the way the The Labour Party must now try sparsely attended. Unlike Dublin was that it saw the beginning of will not be good enough passively takenly by genuine Irish people. barriers between Protestants and llreland Police Authority not to first closely linked to the working tion for a while what he thinks the Northern Ireland Office, acting Catholics broken down? new policies; and should give an which had a multiplicity of local the organisation of the unskilled to wait until that consent pops up. There must never be anything follow-up the Bennett Report was trades stretching back hundreds of class. As early as 1891 the ques- It will be necessary to work actively new Government should do about on behalf of the British Govern- immediate commitment to work for tion of independent Labour repre- workers. done to disgrace the part of Ire- "another cover-up." years, Belfast always had a high to get it. the North. It will help to keep the ment. treats the Irish Republican the re-unification of Ireland which sentation in Parliament was raised. Coalition from contracting "Cos- land ruled by the Irish. prisoners in Long Kesh: FRENCH COMMENT would allow the Irish people as a proportion of export industry. The This work was begun in London The decision constitutes a defeat graveitis." All in all, it is probably The Police Authority has ruled whole to determine their future. Of main local business was textiles, 'I''HE sort of issues the Council by the early socialists in the mid- for the "Militant" group who have That said, it is hard to avoid the r eighties. There followed the famous no bad tiling to have a Government Under pressure from Strasbourg • J TIE French Foreign Minister, M. that a special inquiry into the alle- course, there are dangers and diffi- and the engineering workers were L took up in its early years were been working for a decision that conclusion that the Gardai over- East End match-girls' strike, fol- in office with a small majority they allowed the Blanket men two Cheyyson. spoke of "the pro- gations would not be appropriate culties but the Labour Party must cross-channel orientated and did the employment of Tradesmen in the English Labour Party should or- reacted. It is of course very trying lowed by the struggle for the these days books per month from relatives, but found emotion of the French Gov- and the Director of Public Prosecu- face these if we are to end the not see the need to affiliate to the skillfld work, the provision of ganise in the six counties. to stand under a hail of missiles, "dockers' tanner." This triggered they must be novels. No Irish book ernment and people in face of the tions has said that no action should Trades Council "until well into the workmen's trams, opposition to But it's not in the bag. The bloodshed and suffering of all the off developments in the north-west and nobody can blame men for de- on Irish history, art. music, language sacrifices and bereavements in be taken against any officer involved twentieth century, except, of course, fortnightly payment of wages, em- Trade Union vote has to be won. people of Northern Ireland. where the National Union of Dock fending themselves. But to belabour or culture is allowed. The prisoners Northern Ireland." when referring in complaints. for an odd branch. ployers' liability for workmen's It would be no harm if Irish mem- Labourers was founded with head- No, to wedding a man when he is on the ground is are in effect denied their national compensation, provision of free bers of British Trade Unions let to the death of the H-block hunger- The next Labour Government SPHERE was also the problem of quarters in Glasgow. This Union too much. The Gardai are supposed identity. public libraries, and in co-operation 'IHIE outgoing Fixnna Fail Govern- strikers in the French National Mr Michael Canavan of the SDLP must initiate regular discussions A sectarianism. This was no nat- started organising in Belfast and their executives be in no doubt as to be a trained force, and they with the Dublin Trades Council, the • men t recommended to Presi- Assembly. said that the British Government with the Irish Government and ural growth but deliberatey fos- on July 5th. the docks came to a to their views. dent Hillerv that he should not at- should never let themselves go. Father Denis Faul of Dungannon itself should set up a tribunal of setting up of an all-Ireland T.U.C. "The present efforts of the Gov- with those political parties in the tered, shortly after the establish- standstill. The organiser was a tend the British loyal wedding be- writes to the Irish Times" to say inquiry into the Bennett Report's It was afterwards admitted that ernment of the Republic of Ireland North who are willing to talk. It ment of the shipyards. The year It was, however, in the great young man called McKeown who cause il would be inappropriate for that he and his colleagues are try- allegations. The signs are, though, perfectly innocent people were to halt the infernal cycle of hatred should indicate a willingness to dis- 1857 saw widespread riots, and it struggles at the end of its decade became a nationalist city council- him to be there "in view of 1 lie ing to get the new Irish Bible into that the Northern Ireland Police strained situation in tlie North and beaten up, and press men carrying and violence must be backed up by cuss a federal, confederal or total was at this time that the largely of formation that the Belfast lor and later stood for Labour. every cell and urges people to watch Authority knows the British will the H-Block problem." out the duties for which they are the French people, its parliament unity approach, and ultimately must intermingled Catholic and Protest- Trades Council became a real IRISH out for a big row from the authori- not take any action. They want no At this time it was customary to and, if the diplomatic opportunity •be prepared to legislate in the in- ant populations separated out into power in the land. These struggles The decision not to go accorded in paid, were treated with no more ties. further bad news getting out about pay wages in public houses and it respect. arises, by its Government," he said. terest of all the people of Ireland exclusive districts. A fair example are now largely forgotten, and any case with President Hilleiy's own This, incidentally, is what some the Six County police. was usually thought politic to buy and of Great Britain. The problem of incitement was the Rev Hanna's people talk as if Irish Trade BOOKS inclinations and it is very probable visitors escorted carefully around He said that no purpose would be a drink or two for the ganger. The that the new Coalition administra- So the poison spreads out in all must be recognised as an Anglo- declaration that "Your blood- Unionism began in the twentieth Long Kesh by the British, have served by a formal statement from It is one of their ways of winning socialist clergymen, Rev Bruce 283 GRAYS INN ROAD tion would have made a similar directions from the festering sore Irish problem and not a Northern bought cherished rights have been century as a sort of belated conse- said is one of the best prisons in his Government, as "it would only the confidence of the nationalist Wallace, who had debated Henry recommendation i! ihey had not been of the six counties. It is not time Ireland one. The political power to imperilled by the audacious and quence of developments in Eng- LONDON W.C.I Europe! make matters worse". community, one supposes! pre-empted by Fianna Fail, the abscess was lanced? resolve the problem lies not in Bel- savage outrages of a Romish mob." land. (Continued on Page Eight) August 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 7 6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August 1981 THE FELONS OF OUR LAND A REBEL THE MEMORY OF GOGARTY-THE ALL ROUND GENIUS CILL up once more, we'll drink a toast to comrades far away ; No nation upon earth can boast ot braver hearts than they. HEART "Oliver St John Gogarty", by bauchery with James Joyce sported a life style of con- tain ambiguity to say the , And tho' they sleep in dungeons deep or flee, outlawed and banned THE DEAD Alick O'Connor (Granada, in which role he was to be spicuous consumption from least, certainly he was often immortalized as portly Buck arbitrary and bitter, but he We love them yet, we can't forget the felons of our land. pROM rebel veins my life I HO fears to speak of Ninety- £1.95). the start; it was, at least, The dust of some Is Irish earth, had clear convictions coura- drew eight? [ HAVE passed my entire life Mulligan. His mfin interest always shared and always W Among their own they rest; during his protracted univer- geously held. In rebel arms i lay, in the legend of Gogarty's graced with a life enhancing In boyhood's bloom and manhood's pride, foredoomed by alien laws Who blushes at the name? And that same land that gave sity years was what can only From rebel lips the lessons drew wit. I knew he was a fine gaiety. Some on the scaffold bravely died tor Ireland's holy cause. When cowards mock the patriots' them birth be considered his classical ( JOGARTY'S two self-im- And brothers, say, shall we today unmoved, like cowards, stand That led me day by day fate AGAINST THE surgeon and a writer, but posed exiles make sad Has caught them to her breast; education. To readers of the Irish that is only the half of it. reading. Away from the na- While traitors shame and foes defame the felons of our land. And rocked to rest on rebel Who hangs his head for 6hame? Democrat I imagine the most And we will pray that from their This very comprehensive bio- It was during the great tive sod he became uncom- breast, He's all a knave, or half a slave interesting aspect of the book clay TERROR ACT graphy gives us a full por- days of Mahaffy. noted for fortably close to being a per- Some in the convicts' dreary cell have found a living tomb ; Nursed on a rebel knee, will be, as it was to me, the Who slights his country thus Full many a race may start "The Prevention of Terrorism trait of one of the supreme all hellenic scholarship and forming stage Irishman. And one unseen, unfriended, fell within the dungeon's gloom. There woke and grew for weal study of Gogarty's political But true men, like you men, Of true men, like you, men, Act. The Case for Repeal", rounders of our century. royal toadyism, and Gogarty, Ulick O'Connor left me But what care we, although it be trod by a ruffian band— development. As has already or rue by Catherine Scorer and He was born into an afflu- at all times highly competi- feeling that Yeats very much Ged bless the clay where rest today the felons of our land. Will till your glass with us. To play as brave a part. been noted even at Trinity A rebel heart in me. Patricia Hewitt (£1.75), pub- ent and cultured Catholic tive, loved to exceed others overpraised Gogarty as a Gogarty was a courageous lished by National Council for family. He survived Stoney- in his facility with classically poet. He wrote many charm- They rose in dark and evil days supporter of Sinn Fein. He Lei cowards mock and tyrants frown, ah, little do we care ! CHORUS: We drink the memory of the brave, Civil Liberties. hurst, the English Jesuit structured verse and the ap- ing lyrics but on the whole To free their native land had a profound love and A felon's cap's the noblest crown an Irish head can wear, T ECTURERS, journalists and school, which he described propriateness of his classical his poetry is too facile to hit A rebel heart, a rebel heart The faithful and the few, homage for Arthur Griffiths. And every Gael in Inisfail who scorns the serf's vile brand, And kindled then a living blaze ' J politicians are for ever telling as a "religious jail," the Irish quotations. It says much for the reader at a deep level. I Some lie far off beyond the —, _. Both Gogarty and Ulick From Lee to Boyne would gladly join the felons of our land. From taint of thralldom free That nothing shall withstand; us about the lack of freedom in Gogarty that in this Unionist was glad to read about the Jesuit Clongowes, which he O'Connor take the Free State God prosper still for good or Some sleep in Ireland, too; the Sonet Union. stronghold he was an out- writing and original'staging Alas, that might should conciuer subsequently attended, was side in the Treaty negotia ill All, all are gone, but still lives on spoken supporter of Sinn of his three plays, it would right, Many of them choose to ignore an amelioration. tions and the subsequent Fein. be eood to see them perfor- This rebel heart in me. The fame of those who died, They fell and passed away the history of repression in Nor- || E spent 10 years qualify- struggles. This book gives an thern Ireland since 1920 and seem med again. And true men, like you, men, But true men, like you, r.ien, ing as a doctor at Trin- Q-OGARTY'S character im- admittedly partisan, but ad- PETER CROWLEY to lie blissfully unaware of the in- Th is is a good biography, I read my country's checkered Remember them with pride. ity College. This was not due proved a great deal after mirably clear, exposition of Are plenty here today. roads into civil liberty in this well researched and detailed. page, country and made by the Preven- to any lack of brilliance, but he qualified as a doctor. He the Free State position. As AS I roved one e-'esiinfi in the holy month ot June r It was slightly marred for Then here's their memory, let It be tion of Terrorism Act. simply that until the last w as truly appalled by the Gogarty took an active part I sang her deathless songs, me by what I can only de- I stroikd inlo an o d churchyard to view a new-built tomb; Some on the shores of distant lands year, when he was a married Dublin slums and wrote a in the Free State being, like I learned her woes trom age to To us a guiding light This complacency is dangerous scribe as a "joke book" te- I overheard ail oi l mr.n say as the tears rolled from his eyes: Their weary hearts have laid, but it is not new to Irish organ- man and anxious to earn an very funny and hard hitting Yeats, a senator, it does make » ' M's underneath t,'!;;t tod green sod brave Peter Crowiey lies. age, To cheer our fight for Liberty very interesting, if tragic, j|| dium, but only slightly. And by the stranger's headless isations that have been trying to honest penny, all his bril- play called "Blight" to ex- I burned to right the wrongs hands And teach us to unite! impress on English people that they liance was going into other press his enraged compas- reading. It is hard for us now P. O'F. And when I saw that to alien Though good and ill be Ireland s ought to solve the Irish crisis be- channels. He was, surpris- to realize how British the Vien tell me, Peter Crowley, come tell me, tell me true, Their lonely graves were made; sion. He ran his practice on law still fore the emergency powers and re- Free State still was and how Who stepped in.o Knclooney Wood that day along with you? ingly to me, an ardent sports- a Robin Hood basis, rooking But though their day be far away, pression spread to Britain. bitter was the polarization of Who stood beh ml that broad oak tree and fired that signal gun ? She never bent Her knee, Though sad as theirs your fate, man, a fine swimmer — even the rich to subsidize the poor. To alert people to the dangerous the country. No-one can say An Irish Who fjuul'.t am! died lor Ireland's rights? Twas you. my darling Then prouder yet for Ireland Beyond the Atlantic foam, saving the life of a weaker It is not at all clear if the Yet true men, be you, men, state of civil liberties this booklet that Gogarty's politics were son." beat In true men, like you, men, swimmer — and competed in rich paid through the nose Like those of Ninety-eight. should be sold at all Labour move- at all times logical, his rela- bicycle racing at national so willingly because of his This rebel heart in trie. Their spirits still at home. ment meetings. tions with Lord Dunsay and wasteland J. K. INGRAM The pamphlet gives a detailed level. He was also living a professional excellence or his 1 he man who fired that signal gun went to his own abode, 11 it was decided to set up a wouldn't call her a GIRL any- of course, wouldn't I know ? always think English pubs are tainly won't, 1 wouldn't call >;ng)< union for women workers, more ? Well perhaps not, per- ilic plan adopted m 1890 was to try Yes, 1 suppose so, yes to be sure so much nicer than our own. anyone that! Now if you can You don't ? No? A gang of haps not Michael . . . And, Mi- just let me have the greeting, u organise the women by trades. . . . Now your name, Caller, So six separate women's unions zombies ? O, scarcely, Mr Mac, chael, did you and your wife Michael, we'll have to move on you never told me your name. were planned. The only one to get I'm sure you don't mean that ! meet in Manchester ? You did to other callers . . About the Michael John Mac — Mac iff the -round was Miss Galway's I've met some lovely people in — WORSE LUCK? Oh really land, the message is about the WHAT, Caller . . . They'll know textile Operatives' Society." It England, I was in Stratford that's not very nice is it now, land ? The garrybeag and the will e.e appreciated that its mem- who it is, your friends at home Upon Avon last year, do you Michael John, that's not very low meadow . . . they were left bers were recruited from the better in Ballybi annigan . . . DON'T BE know Stratford, Mr Mac ? Never complimentary to Mrs Mac . . . to you, it doesn't matter how paid sections who moreover would SO NOSEY ? Oh really, Mr Mac heard of it ? 1 see . . . She's not very nice, either ? I'm many years you're out of the <>< largely Protestant. She lned I wasn't being nosey, we always sure you don't mean that now, country ? to have bruywith James Con- ask our callers their name and nolly when ne organised the less And tell me, Mr Mac — is Michael, you're just having me I'm not too clear on what you occupation, but it doesn't mat- -killed girls. there a Mrs Mac ? There is ? on. mean, Michael . . . you're telling ter, your friends will know . . . Good ! And could we have Mrs Mm . . . Tell me, Michael — them to keep their greedy hands They're NOT your friends ? I 4 NOTHE'K union established on Mac on the line for a moment on a topical note — were you off what? Off the two fields? • ^ Trades Council initiative was don't understand, Mr Mae, if ... no ? She's down the pub ? near the recent riots ? No? I Oh I see! They're not to try i he F' 'Highers' and Spinners they're not your friends why are Blotto . . . ? Oh really, Mr Mac see, they were dreadful, weren't and dispose of them in any Society. All unorganised labourers you calling them. . . . You HAVE a sense of hu- v ere advised to jo n the G.W.G.L.U. they ? You don't think so, you shape or form . . . ? A ton of which expanded to Deny and . . . Oh I see, they listen to mour ! Well now tell us—what don't think so at all . . . let them bricks ? WHAT ton of bricks ? Newrv. This was the union whose HEARTS ACROSS THE SEA do you do for a living ? A riot all they want, no skin off I think your mouth must be too Executive included Karl Marx's every week — what ? They WHAT ? A muckshifter ? What- your nose ? I suppose not, Mr close to the phone, Michael . . . youngest daughter whose life has have nothing better to do ? Oh ever is a muckshifter, Mr Mac ? Mac, I suppose not, fust the I see, you'll be down on them been brilliantly written by Yvonne really, Mr Mac! I hope you're We've had all sorts of occupa- same it was terrible, I think . . . like a ton of bricks if they touch Kapp. joking now . . . Not a bit of it ? tions on the programme before You what ? Don't mind the either of the two fields . . . but we never had a muckshifter Oh, Mr Mac! Well anyway, bleddy riots you have a message They belong to you and you'll Unfortunately, however, the trade — whatever that is! A man boom did not last. Bv the end of how are you, Mr Mac ! You for the gang in Ballybrannigan be home to claim them . . . Does who shifts muck, you say ? I 1890 the employers were able to find were often better ? M'm I see, . . . WHAT? Oh now Michael this mean you'll be coming to don't understand, Mr Mac. A blackleg labour once again. The I see Mr Mac . . . well now tell you can't expect me to repeat Ireland to live, Michael ? After heavy digger . . . Oh 1 see you strike at the Belfast gasworks us, how long have you beer\ in that over the air, I'm sure you all those years ? Yes, well operate a mechanical excava- which took place in the autumn was Manchester ? I beg your par- realise that now. No, Mr Mac I there's a lot of people coming defeated largely as a result of the importation of countrymen. The home these days . . . yes, with great wave of working class organ- the riots and all. You're not isation ebbed. Neither the N.U.D.L. Long Kesh prisoners noble cause bothered about the riots? Oh nor the G.W.G.L.U. long survived I see, you did say that , . . yes, in Belfast, though organisation (contlnued from page 1) and some think similarly about the under the "special category status" well, no matter! No, I CAN'T was not entirely lost. The new Shrewsbury pickets and the Grun- agreed by Mr Whitelaw, with no applauds it are South Africa and repeat that Michael John, no unions established at this period wick arrestees. apparent effect on the stability of Turkey. way ! carried on. and the result of in- the sky over Belfast, As a scientist she should know I N a letter to the Guardian earlier Now tell me, are you looking dustrial defeat was to stimulate the ' this year. Lord Noel Baker desire for political action. The that as well as pounds and ounces I > Y changing course the govern- forward to returning home to there are irrational and imaginary stressed the need to take into ment would no doubt lose some Ireland after all these years — Belfast Electoral Committee was account motive and character. formed in 1892, and the first muni- quantities which do not respond to of the "face" that has survived I imagine it must be a wonder- rule of thumb. Take the question Granting the folly and wickedness Warrington. But they should con- cipal Labour candidates went up of much that is alleged against ful feeling, I always think of in 1894. In 1898 six Labour candi- of the political prisoner. There is sider the future of Anglo-Irish re- that poem by John Locke . . , no such thing in law, but in public them, he pointed out that the re- lations. It was George Bernard dates were returned. Bowman, You're NOT ? Well why are you esteem political prisoners do exist, publican prisoners are dedicated to Shaw, who after the leaders of the Gageby, Taylor, Davies, Mclnnes the "noble cause" of a united Ire- coming back, then? So that and Liddell. and can attract thirty thousand 1916 rising had been executed with- votes. There is no need to go to land. The end does not justify the out undue ceremony, warned that those other greedy ... I see, 1 Next month: Lorkin and Con- Ireland for them. We have all means, but if there is nobility is it "the shot Irishmen will now take see Michael John, well now our siolly. heard about the Tolpuddle Martrys, not the part of society to reach out their place beside Emmet and the time is nearly up and I want to towards it rather than regard it as Manchester Martrys . . . and noth- of no account? ask you what request, what ing on h_„.en and earth can pre- piece of music or song you'd vent it." Must it be true that the There has been little attempt to like ? Leave it to myself ? You only thing learned from history is AGALLAMH BEIRTE understand the outlook and moti- don't know any songs ? But vation of people whose behaviour is that nobody ever learns anything really, Michael, you must know Nora: Bhi tu thiar le gairid a Cait: Tabhair garbh air! Shil- by any standard remarkable. There from history? SOME songs . . . You never had Chait? fea gur mo fonn dioltais na a is no suggestion of personal gain. The challenge to statesmanship no time — ANY time — for dhath eile a bhi ar na Gardai — Here are people prepared to starve Cait: Tar cis teacht at a is ta to death for what a common is this, and it faces the Labour singing ? me. ag ciceail is ag greadadh daoine Party as well as the government. criminal would regard as a trivia^ Well you can't have been that Nora: Cen bhail a bhi ar an ait a bhi ina lui ar an mbothar. lity. The "dirty" protest may have There is a necessity to come to busy, Michael . . . Pardon ? Not thiar? Nora: Diabhal ar togtha seemed repulsive, but it did not terms with the abiding sentiment of the majority of the Irish people a question of being busy, you orthue ar bhealach! Nar chai- conduce to bodily comfort. Cait: Bhi si doar. a chailin! in favour of a united independent just don't like music ? Oh well, theadh clocha agus oirneis eile The explanation lies deep in Nlora: O. is nach bhfuil chuile republic. Blocked in the diplomatic Michael I hope you don't mean leo? Irish history and the consciousness ait dhaor anois? of Irish people. These men see the or political fields it will break that, you know what Shakes- Cait: Caitheadh gan dabht ach through at other levels. British Cait: Ta daor agus daor arm criminalisation of their persons as peare says about men who don't bhi a chuma orthu go mba an attempt to criminalise their public opinion is ready for an at- ach sharaigh an ait thiar an like music. Humph. Shakes- cause. The paradigm of criminal tempt to end the quarrel. There is chuma leo ce a bhuailfidis. Am-- peare. Oh now Michael, that's diabhal. law does not fit. If society will not no instantaneous solution, but the huiseacha chearta a bhi i gcuid acceptance by a British govern- enough. We'll really have to Nora: Raibh an aimsir go recognise the distinction between acu. ment of the objective of a united maith? a "freedom fighter" and an em- move on now . . . Yes, I see Nora: Diabhal ar mnolta don bezzler or rapist then they are pre- Ireland, bound to Britain only by Well if they listen in every week Cait: Bhi si measartha. lucht ionsai ach oiread. pared to attest it with their lives. ties of self-interest, would provide in Ballybrannigan I'm sure Nora: Ni fhaca tu an raic i One is reminded of the ancient Irish nationalists with a political Cait: Fior duit! B'fhearr doibh they'll have got the message. inBlea Cliath? practice of "troscad" in which the perspective. A compromise on the sineadh ar an mbothar fein na H-block issue would be a welcome Tell you what, Michael — I'll Cait: Chonaic ar an teili e. aggrieved party "fasted on" his an rud a rinneadar. signal that this was in mind. choose a rerord msn/f for yOU Nora: Bhi se garbh, nach aggriever. ' Nora: Is ait an saol anois e a How about WHEN IRISH EYES raibh? Government spokesmen draw pic- dhriofuir, ta chuile ait ina tures of anarchy^in which the pris- Flann Campbell, C. Des- ARE SMILING? Anything 1 dhiabhail. oners "run the >11." Maybe, but mond Greaves, A. Havekin, like? Well you ARE a case, Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd (TU), Sean Hogan, MaoMurrough Nottingham Road, Ripley, Derbys. Cait: Is baolach go bhfuil, a they can't get otti. And three hun- Michael I Still it's been nice and published by Connolly Publi- Nora, is baolach go bhfuil . . . dred prisoners jm actually enjoy- Kavanagh, Donall Macamh- talking to you, all the best now cations Ltd, at 283 Grays Inn ing the veff facilities the laigh, Harry MoHugh, » . . Bye-EEE! BYE, Mr Mac I" Road, London WCl. DONALL MacAMHLAIGH hunger strikers are demanding, Frank Short, Tom Walsh. Brr-Brr! Brr-brr! Brr-brr

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