Captain O'Neill challenges Lemass for recognition of six-county puppet state 'PROGRESSIVE' UNIONIST SHOWS WE CHALLENGE HIS HORNS IRISH 9 D. CAPTAIN DEMOCRAT No. 266 November 1966 O'NEILL Angry farmers invade Dublin GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT! Britain pipes, you only dance Snubbed by Mr. Haughey THE Connolly Association has written to Captain Terence O'Neill, THE 10,800 farmers who walked through the city on October 19th were a deeply impressive gathering and the people of Dublin • the Stormont Premier, challenging statements which he made to who watched them were sympathetic. the North Antrim Unionist Association in a speech on October 19th. Hundreds- of them had been on toe road for over a week, walking In this speech he demanded that twenty-six counties all the way from their local towns alter its constitution so as to recognise die permanence and villages in a demonstration of partition. The present Leinster House Conatitulkm organised by the National Farmers Association. Weather-beaten, tough, claims legitimate jurisdiction over the thirty - two : r good-humoured, they had not come counties. up to Dublin, for tun to walk Last month the "Irish Demo- through Ireland'* capital on a cold, sleety day. The West Cork contin- crat" was the only newspaper to gent had in fact come all tte2» SECTARIAN foreshadaw the demand now be- miles from Bantry Town ing made, and this new move, ^^^^^^^^^^ out ten reported extensively in the MURDERERS "Irish PtesS," lends t<> the suggestion that a The farmers of the country, hun- • jfp^j?*. JC ,-„ . ^ dreds of thousands of the plain ...... people of Ireland, want a fair deal Government has already HE Jury rejected the j made. (Continued on Pa» Eight) T case that the kitted Belfast It will be remembered that Le- were guilty of capital murder. mass cold-shouldered Mr. Mc- Ateer's suggestion that representa- If they had been convicted of this tives of the six counties should sit Gerry Fitt they would have swung. on the committee that has been sei Bat they convicted them of non- up to wreck What little RepubHcjuo- capital murder which carries a sen- ism survives In the southern con- warns Britain tence of imprisonment for life. stitution. The judge, Lord MacDennott, told Mr. O'Neill claims that tfee lre- DUBUN THEATRE IN DANGER the men, "Ton have been frand guilty land Act of 1949 guarantees the six at Manchester county constitutional position v j Although the Gaiety has been saved by the public spirit of of the brutal, cowardly and cold- blooded murder of Pete Ward." against interference from Britain. r "IF something is not done about Eamonn Andrews, the Queen's is still up for sale by English the mlsgovernment of Northern The Association's reply refutes this estate agents. He urged that they should not be Ireland within the lifetime of this let out for twenty year*. (Continued on Page Parttament, Mien I warn the Gov eminent that there will be Irish % reedy te draw the conclu- sion that they should attempt their salvation by whatever means Is DEMOCRAT CALLS IMPORTANT CONFERENCE Wt within their power." •'la There will be no resolution unless This warning to Britain was INVITATIONS are shortly to 1 it is obvious that there is substan- issued by Mr. Gerry Pitt, MP., go out to organisations and tial agreement among all present. when he addressed a meeting called individuals to participate in FOR JANUARY While in general it is expected by the Manchester branch of the what may prove a historic con- bock, Dr. Michael Winstanley Francis, Cahir Healy (EnnishU- Connolly Association in the Chorl- that the invitations will be taken ference. It will take plate on up by the working-class movement, (Liberal), Frank Allaun, Norman len), Alex Kitson. Ethel Mannin, ton Town Hall on Sunday, October January 21ct, 1967, at the Con* Atkinson, Alan Beaney, George Professor A. G. Morton, Mm 8th. they will not be confined to Labour way Hall, Red Lion Square, organisations. The list of sponsors Oraddock, Alice Cullen, James Platts Mills, Profeesor & IHnjiai. He also warned against the wide- London, W.0.1, a Saturday Includes Members of Parliament of Dickens, Andrew Faulds, Will Elizabeth Sinclair (Belfast), spread belief that Oaptaln Terenoe afternoon to that delegates from Griffiths, Eric Heffer, Joan Lec- fessor George Thomson, Hon O'Neill was a "progressive" Union- three political parties, and indivi- the provinces can attend. duals from varied walks of life. tor, Leslie Lever, Arthur Lewis, Whitely. ist O'Neill differed In no way from Marcus Lipton, Michael McGulre,
Lief SMil 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT November 1966 November 1966 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 3 Union doubts enquiry on WORLD COMMENTARY Tailors Hall appeal launched IRISH by PAT DEVINE ^"HE "Irish Democrat" is happy "Back Lane Parliament"—an assem - Hugh Craigg,- wardens, 1784." A 'bogus self-employment' bly of 244 delegates representing the small "musicians gallery" opening DEMOCRAT r which the nineteenth-century In- to reproduce the following Catholics of each of the counties off a first-floor room has a curved " pHE National Federation of Editor : 1 BuMing Trade Operatives is dustrial Revolution never knew. We appeal from Miss Maire Comer- and 40 of the chief towns of Ireland iron railing. The staircase of Jaco- C. DESMOND GREAVES —which came together in the - bean type is built in a separate wing aailing tar a Government eMQuiry are the party of change. We seek IRELAND IS STILL THE BLUEPRINT ford :— Tailors Hall in December, 1792, to at the back and goes down to base- into the construction industry to not to conserve but to transform demand Catholic emancipation. 'ment level. It is possible that this make it more efficient and pCMUc- society.' We are taking his words Associate Editor: \ SIGNIFICANT year, indeed, trampled upon in July, and the literally and to heart. ciple of self-determination! they'd rather let Ian Smith get Tone has left us a racy account of < basement was at one time the tivtt,' staled G Mrge LoWtWan, SEAN REDMOND is 1966. Fifty years after smash-up of the Empire in August." The Tory conference shows how away with it. It has been decided to the proceedings of that "parlia- ground-floor level. On the exterior general secretary of the Amalga- "The need for a Geddes-type in- Ireland's Easter Rebellion Ireland, however, like the African history repeats itself. launch an appeal for funds and for ment" which had met in the teeth the seven dormer windows give a mated Union of Building Trade states, was too precious to be sur- It required subtlety and ingenuity quiry is desperate—the construction 374 Grays Inn Road, against imperialism, it is now to get Lord Salisbury and Duncan voluntary help to restore this his- of violent opposition from Dublin rhythm to the upper part of the ele- Workers recently. He was at rendered easily. Carson and Craigavon, the dyed- industry produced over £3,000 mil- London, W.C.1 generally recognised the world Sandys from rocking the boat by Casfcle and from vested interests vation and the four high arched Bournemouth addressing this year's in-the-wool Ulster sectarians, in toric building. The Tailors Guild of lion worth of work last year—we are over, that peoples and nations Sir Edward Carson, later to be- thvat linrit the whole country, windows with the smaller rectangu- N.F.B.T.O. annual school. 1913, were prepared to sell out to persisting on a vote. But Maudling Saint John tlse-fiapttst Idas -Insti- not dealing with an insignificant are entitled to freedom, inde- come Lord Chief Justice of Britain, and Heath managed it. No-one at otfted- to oppose the rising demand lar windows and unusual main en- contribution to our national wel- * By post 12/- a year the Kaiser in order to thwart the tuted by chart*r4n-44tt*Md m& its a notorious anti-Home Ruler, in a the conference could have been -for dtfeholic emancipation and re- trance make an interesting compo- fare, but to my mind the most im- pendence and national sover- aspirations of the Irish people for Speaking on the future of the speech to the Ulster Volunteers on fooled by the charade. They all guild hall in Back UMie stace tfce be- form Wtt'arliament. At the time of sition, portant industry in this country. eignty. That, if I may say so, independence. : N.F.B.T.O., Mr. Lowthian con- September 7th, 1913. said: — wanted their "kith and kin," the ginning of the sixteenth century, the rtfMHion of 1798 the hall -was You would expect a person in my is a qualitative advance of great With the clearing of the surround- tinued, "I see the building unions white planters, to hold on to what the present building—the -oldest re- taken crver by the military. position to say this, all I ask you, magnitude. And at the same time they ing buildings on High Street, the led by the N.F.B.T.O. becoming the "Drilling is illegal ... the Volun- they have stolen. maining guild hall in Dublin—being is to think about it—a prerequisite teers are illegal and the Govern- boasted their loyalty and devotion Tailors Hall will soon be revealed to future vehicle of change for a more But it is equally true to say that to national economic expansion and ANACHRONISM ment knows they are illegal, and to king and country as clearly seen completed in 1706. Prom time to Representatives of a great variety its full advantage, standing in an efllcient and productive construc- freedom and independence have to social welfare, is building. riTH every day that goes by the the Government dare not interfere even on gable-ends of houses in UP TO WILSON time the hall was hired for the use of other interests have held their open space in the centre of old Dub- tion Industry. The Prime Minister, be fought for, fearlessly, with both Harold Wilson said at this year's position regarding the bona fide with them . . . Don't be afraid ot the Shankhill area of Belfast. of other guilds which did not pos- meetings in the Tailors Hall during lin—close to St. Audoen's Arch, only "It has been reported that Mr. Iriswh :politica l organisations in Britain moral and physical courage, against Now comes the crunch. Mr. Wil- remaining gate of the old city walls, Labour Party Conference at Brigh- illegalities." sess halls of their own. The,barber- the 260 years since 1706. It-was let Prentice, the Minister of Public becomes more of an anachronism. the subtleties, sabotage and mailed son has sent his final terms to to Christ* Church Cathedral and to ton, 'The Scarborough programme Listen to the theme of some of to musical societies and theatrical Building and Works, said in Cardiff Basically, all have adopted the fist of imperialism. Nothing will be Smith. If these are rejected, as surgeons, the apothecaries, the the ancient church of St. Audoen. laid emphasis on change, but made policy first put out by the Connolly Carson lunched with the Kaiser the speeches at the recent Tory recently: 'The Government are con- delivered on a silver platter! seems likely, the matter goes before brewers, the smiths, the shoe- groups. Dublin Corporation held its This nWdest building enshrines change an instrument of policy. It Association. And there will be no Wilhelm of Germany, following Party conference in Blackpool. sidering an inquiry into the growing the United Nations. If the Govern- makers, the glovers, the hosiers, the meetings there from time to Time, much Of our history over the past called on Britain to mobilise the accusations of "stealing" it either. We which an inspired article in the Their theme in essence was almost put it out so that other people could At a time when the great African ment is serious in its intention to as did the Grand Lodge of Free- 260 years and it is hoped that the forces of changes which lay still practice of self-employed opera- Ulster "Irish Churchman" declared: identical to Carson's in 1913. goldsmiths, the curriers, the joiners, tives.' take it up. The more the merrier. revolutions and independence move- end the illegal Smith regime it can masons and the Williamite Society. Tailors Hall, when it has been re- unrealised in the scientific and But now that it is generally realised ments appear to be in turmoil "We have the offer of aid from the saddlers, the butchers and the a powerful Continental monarch do so by the end of the year by The Tailors Guild was dissolved in stored, will again become a centre technological abilities of our people, "My contention is not that the that there is only one way to work (Nigeria, Ghana, the Congo, and Mr. Reginald Maudling, the Tory shearmen and dyers met there. successfully in Britain, and English who, if Home Rule is forced ... is taking resolute action. 1841 and from then until 1873 the of cultural and civic activities—a but it demanded that this process Minister is wrong to have this en- Rhodesia, etc.), beset by internal leader who was in Rhodesia con- Since Dublin had few assembly halls monument to the continuity and di- of change in what is, and must be. organisations like the Campaign for prepared to send an army sufficient sulting and advising Mr. Ian Smith hall became the Tailors Endowed quiry, but to say he is most Democracy in Ulster have been rivalries, and treachery by imperi- If, however, the whole charade of any considerable size, groups versity of the history of Dublin and the most rapid and fundamental to release England of any further on tactics for subversion, at the School. A neighbouring distillery definitely wrong to limit it to started with Irish participation to alist puppets like Tshombe, it is commences all over again, "march- representing many different shades of Ireland. industrial revolution of all our his- concentrate on certain aspects of the trouble in Ireland by attaching it same time as Mr. Bowden was there was then preparing to take it over bogus self-employment.' well to remember that these ing them up to the top of the hill of opinion held their meetings tory, must be tempered by a spirit Irish question, surely there is nothing troubles are not peculiar to Africa. to his domain . . . and should our as an emissary of the British and marching them down again," as a store, when James Kennan of •dnatlons to Treasurer, Tailor's of humanity and social concern left to keep us all apart. King sign the Home Rule Bill, the Government "trying" to reach a there. "He will miss the 'opportunity of The Soviet Union, China and the there can be serious trouble. Fishamble Street intervened to se- Hall Fund, Hibernian Bank, Dublin. The ground, has been gone over Protestants of Ireland will welcome settlement, made "a powerful mov- the century' if he fails to commis- again and again. The leaders of the other contemporary socialist coun- cure a lease of the hall and he sion an enquiry into every aspect of Connolly Association, Clan na hEire- tries have had and still have their this Continental deliverer as their ing speech that united the Tory The Labour Government and During the early 1790s the Dub- placed it at the disposal of the Mis- construction, including the unions. ann and the United Ireland Associa- own problems. forefathers under similar circum- Conference on the issue,' said the Prime Minister Wilson reputations sion to the Liberties, which con- tion are known to each other person- stances did once before." Press in general. are badly tarnished over Vietnam lin Society of United Irishmen used "After considerable thought I find ally, respected by each other despite tinued to carry out its work there IRISH CHRISTMAS CARDS and their outrageous wages freeze. -it as their ordinary meeting place, that with honesty I could not be an differences of opinion—rather differ- It should be remembered that until 1949. The last tenants were ence* of emphasis than differences of IRELAND'S EXAMPLE Lord Salisbury had a strong Democratic men and women, not and when the Castle authorities active partner into any act I fundamentals—and what sense is these events took place under a rabble-rousing proposal on the only in Britain, but elesewhere, are the Legion of Mary, who used it as Why not send Irish cards this Ireland's slow and painful road government in Whitehall supposed decided to suppress the society, the thought was against the national there in not agreeing at once to work agenda demanding a clear-cut com- becoming more frustrated and- a meeting place in the 1950s. to freedom and independence had, to be friendly to the Irish aspira- interest—a limited inquiry would together, and looking for the best way mitment to oppose mandatory angry at what appears to be the "Tailors Hall was raided by the to begin. and still has, many bitter experi- tions for self-government and actu- Christmas ? 'miss-the-boat' and fail to make any sanctions against Rhodesia. Lord Government's determination to sub- /police on May 4th, 1794 while a Prom the architectural point of Even in the days when there were ences of the same sort of trouble. ally re-elected on a Home Rule fundamental change in the in- Salisbury, whose family has built scribe to a policy of white planter meeting was in progress.. The mem- view this is a building of consider- Our selection includes cards with Celtic de^is, with Irish sharp differences of opinion there was She could easily be the blueprint ticket. dustry's structure, this is not my in- ' no excuse for failing to co-operate on up great fortunes running into mil- minority rule, irrespective of the bers were dispersed and their able importance, as so little of this for Africa. and English inscriptions. tention nor the N.F.B.T.O.'s." what was agreed. Now when the area lions of pounds, is notorious for sugar coating which pays lip-service papers seized. Theobald Wolfe early date survives. The assembly generally agreed upon is so wide, to the principle of majority govern- there is less Justification than ever. In the pre-1914 era, when Home his contempt of African capacity Tone, one of the founders of the hall, which is of excellent propor- RHODESIA ment based on one man one vote. tions, has four tall arched windows Would our friends in the other or- Rule for Ireland seemed about to and support of the colour-bar. If United Irishmen, was also the sec- ganisations think us unfair if we ex- be made a reality, imperialism set the thought of majority rule on the Nineteen sixty-six must not be on the south side and contains a 5/- a packet of 8 (assorted). Includes postage. pressed a suspicion that they fear In the light of the above lesson retary of the Catholic Committee fine white marble chimney-piece iri- Irish Democrat about preparing the ground for its basis of one man one vote ever allowed to end without the first From the IRISH DEMOCRAT, 374 Grays Inn Road, London, W.C.I. that the co-operation of all Irish orga- in British democracy it is surprising decisive, clear steps having been and was, with John Keogh, one of scribed: "The gift of Christopher nisations would lead to a big increase defeat, as it has always done, every- crosses his mind it is something for '{. Cash with ortler. that in spite of all the protesta- taken to grant the people of •the chief organisers of the famous Neary, master, Alexander Bell and in the membership of the Connolly where. the dim and distant future. 11 book service Association, and that the "balance of tions to the contrary, an illegal Rhodesia their full rights for self- •mm ; power" would be upset? On August 4th, 1913, Capt. Craig, regime, headed by Mr. Ian Smith Mr. Duncan Sandys, another determination U/E offer the best range of We are^ wit? sure that co-operatiMi later to become Lord Craigavon, as spokesman for the 200,000 white dyed-in-the-wool imperialist, made Mi jk- .^MOTfc " liish books in Britain. Our would bring gains to Claim na hEire- Premier of Northern Ireland, wrote, planters, is allowed to control the quite clear at the conference that All the people of Rhodesia can ann and tha-United Ireland Associa- Government of Rhodesia by the office at 374 'Grays Inn Road, tion also, and if we are not afraid "We may look for Home Rule in they will not go one step further live and prosper together under London London, W.C.1. Is open every that they might gain more than we, May, civil war in June, the Union kind permission of a 1966 Labour with Harold Wilson down the road majority government. Support this Saturday from 11 ».«*. to 2 p.m. why need', they fear the other? Jack being hauled down and Government pledged to the prin- to ruin. Presumably they meant demand everywhere. We consider that the advantages of fpETER MULLIGAN repre- completely new relationship will /"JERRY FjfTT tells me that he for 'the sale of boohs. °Books having » much bigger and stronger sented the Connolly Asso- have come into being between em- ^ is booked to speak at no less may oiso be ordered by post Irish movement as a whole would far ployer and employee. than 47 public meetings this win- (cash with orders please). outweigh the narrow interests of any ciation at the conference of the ter, and Invitations are coming in one organisation. The United Ireland osfcs 'National Association of Tenants Commenting on Mr. Wilson's de- Association is the body most adapted every day. The venues of the meet- that the ddtfHes NEW -COLOUR STOCK:— to a large increase in membership. and Residents on October 22nd. cision to throw half a million men ELIZABETH SINCIMR ings stretch from Newcastle to -ceirttt hear the Irish case against "The Political Writings & Speeches Why should we grudge it? is THIS SOCIALISM ? He proposed the following motion out of employment he said "This And apart from that, is it impos- Swansea. In addition to this he partition and the misgovern- of Padraig Pearse, 370pp. 15/-, W,HF,N Robert Tressal, a in social services. In fact, he made profits whilst they, the bosses, live to help "the country." If that were which was carried: policy has not been decided on by has his Westminster and Stormont postage 1/6. sible to work to some sort of division it clear that there would have to the life of Reilly. true Ireland would have been on ment of the six counties of of'labour within the united front, the painter by trade, wrote "In view of the fact that many the people of this country, or even Parliamentary duties and his large be a cut-back in social services Harold Wilson and his friends the pig's back a long time ago— nteMe workers are foreed by the Cabinet, but by the big M*rthern Ireland. "Eamon De Valera," by M. J. Mc- Conaolly Association concentrating on h i s famous classic, "T h e volume of "surgery" cases in con- Manus, 400pp. 03/6, postage 1/6. organising, the political movement In from the standards created by pre- know that the vast majority of our wages and earnings have al- MNHgh necessity to use the bankers and monetary dictators of nection with his position as a Bel- Who do you think paid the rent Britain, and linking up with the Ragged Trousered Philan- vious Labour Governments, rank-and-fiile Labour members be- ways ben lower than in other inferior-type lodging house or Zurich and New York." "Lord Edward Fitzgerald," by Pat- Campaign for Democracy in Ulster fast city councillor. of the halts? Or the speakers' fares? thropist" he provided a text- He said that the workers could lieve in Socialism—they defeated capitalist countries. And the em- 'kotfat, this A.GjM. call* en the rick Byrne, 250pp (hard hack). where appropriate to do so, and the the late Hugh Gaitskell's attempt ployers and big farmers did not ,/^AMDEN Committee for Com- Y| R. MICHAEL MELLY, a Lon- Or for the handMHs and Preespub- CUan na hEireaan concentrating on book, for building workers in only look forward to redeploy- Executive Council to urge upon 5/-, postage 1/3. to wipe out Clause Pour from their save up the balance and pass it on munity Relations, to which don representative of the lloity that announced the meetings? more direct help to the national inde- ment, i.e., lose their present jobs, the Government and local "Louie Bennett, Her Life.^ Times," particular and the working Party's constitution. So now in social services to the Irish Central London branch of the Campaign for Democracy in Ulster, It was the Connolly Association. pendence movement at home? uproot their families and, like the authorities the desirability of pro- Onee co-operation begins, the prob- Mr. Crossman and group come people. Connolly Association is affiliated, hopes big things from the. meeting Because these things can't be done by R. M. Pox. The Jiie of one class generally, showing how, Arabs, move on, and, after the viding adequate hostels to oater lems of competition begin to sort along, with the aid of a 1950 Moreover the wage freeze Is not has got out a valuable form which which Paul Rose and other Mem- for nothing. of Ireland's great women trade themselves out. That is why the Con- in their pitiable state at the process of deployment, Britain for ttOt type of pamphlet, "Keeping Left," which new. It was first introduced by the any Irishman who feels he has bers of Parliament are shortly to union leaders. 2/6, postage 1/- nolly Association repeats its invitation would need an unemployed army of The Aeaootation -ean pay money end of the last century, they called for "socialised wages" and landowners in England after the T ARRY FENNELL, the irrepres- been discriminated against o n have with Home Secretary Roy Jen- (hard back). to our friends in Cfaujn na hEireann some 500,000. Wilson spoke of a out only If money oomes in. And and the United Ireland Association were the philanthropists, and tell us that the present wage freeze Great Plague—many hundreds of -*-J sible Clare man whose family racial grounds should get a copy kins. Mr. Jenkins promises to be one need to curb wages, renaged on where can it come in from hut from "Antrim's Patriot Dead, 1TO7-J953." for discussions without any prelimi- is the 1950 pamphlet put into prac- years ago—in order to prevent played a leading part in the-,Repub- of. It has spaces Where the nature of the most vigorous Home Secre- not the employers. His book re- the oftltnary Irish people whose In- edited by Seamus Steele. 3/6, nary conditions, on how united action previous promises that wages and tice. Crossman did not mention thosS farm labourers who were lican struggle in the Kilkee dis- of the complaint is filled in, and taries for many years, and I un- can bo made possible. mains a "must" for anyone .try- terests it attempt*' to serve. postage 1/-. earnings must go up with in- the other proposals in the pam- lucky enough to survive the Plague trict, tells me of a demonstration then if the complainant authorises derstand Mr. Wilson has asked An opportunity presents itself next ing to make his or her way creases in productivity and in- phlet which called for public from asking for more wages—and -tateg called by the London Build- them to do so, the Camden Com- him to discuss with the Campaign There are several ways every A SELECTION FROM OUR January when the Irish Democrat conference is heW, to air some of the through the maze of double- formed the Labour Party Con- ownership and a real Socialist plan duly put through the Parliament teg Workers' Joint Sites Commit- mittee will take up the case with the convention which prevents reader of the "Democrat" can help LARGE STOCK I— common problems that face us all. It ference, not the T.U.C., that he for Britain. of the day. Chancellor Bismarck ot -teBfon JJovember 7th. Its purpose is the Race Relations Board. This ap- Northern Ireland affairs from being ttw ftmmoes of the AssMtatMn. "A History of Ireland" by Edmund talk today. to be hspsd that all genuinely in- was bringing into action Part Pour Germany brought in similar legis- to ''say no to wage cuts, bonus plies -of coarse, only to the borough discussed at Westminster. We look First yeu ean become a member. terested will ba represented, and that / 1RQSSMAN has now called on Curtis. 12/6, postage 1/3. The British Labour Government of his Prices and Incomes Act to J PHHngtn the form ftelow and pest* the era of division in the Irish camp his "left-wing" friends — lation in 1875. The law remained in cuts and unemployment,'' and the of Caraden, where popular Lake P. forward to the result with great calls upon the workers of Britain ensure that wages would not rise. tag tt to 374 Grayt tan Bead -win "The life & Times »f Jataes Con- wiH shortly, come to an end. We are many now in the Labour Govern- force until 1805 and was the mate •weting to promote this obviously O'Connor is mayor, and where interest. and Northern Ireland to accept the INSTEAD of Clause Pour of the bring youali the information yeu nolly," by Deemottd Qrea*es. «>/-, trying to help free a people from Im- ment—to be true to themselves and economic Instrument in building op sensible object assembles at there Is a determination to stamp perialtam, and (his consideration policies and punishments in- * Labour Party Constitution need. It-will cost 25/- a year, but postage 1/3. to welcome the July 20th freeze as imperialist Germany. It was finally Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, at discrimination out. should be present to our mind* before herent in the Prices and Incomes which pledges the party to fight with it you will get a free oopy of James Connolly's Writings— all others. We have let the jubilee of a further step towards Socialist killed by the combined effort at 2 p.m. I understand that many Act—speaking louder than words for "the common ownership of the the "Irish Democrat" posted to your "Labour in Irish History," 3/6, 1M» go by without uniting. Next year society. According to Nora Beloff, the labour and trade union move- London Building sites will be stag- CPHE Campaign for Democracy in Corrections is the absence of "profits." ."The Emperor of Icecream" (21/-) postage fld. » the centenary of the Fenian rising. means of production and ex- in the "Sunday Observer" of Sep- ment of that country. lug a complete stoppage. The J- Ulster held a concert at the home. That woe Id be almost as good a year The primary object of the Act, and by Brian Moore, reviewed in the "Laboar, Nationality• A RHigforr," change," he substituted Part Pour tember 18th: "This heady stuff is VISAGE freeees were introduced Wtrtldtag workers negotiated a 3d. Kensington Town Hall towards the Or you oan join the guarantor for It. taxes imposed to the 1966 Budgets, July "Democrat," was published by 1/6, postage 6d. of his Act which would make it sending a shudder through the in Britain, with the assis- Increase a year ago. It may not be end of September. After it was all scheme which helps to pay the is to compel wage and salary 1 Andre Deutch. This was omitted. "With the I.R.A. in the Fight for impossible for the policy of the economic Ministries." And, "Chan- tance of the Mond-Tumer Agree- -paid until after May, 1967, "if over one of the members commen- salary and Office expenses. This in- earners to uphold a system in Freedom," various authors. 3?6. Labour Party ever to be carried out cellor Callaghan is reassuring visit- ment in 1929, and later, by a post- then." ted to us on the absence of any The price of "The Catholic volves undertaking to send in a which profits will be sacrosant; • postage 9d. SEAN OXASEY and which would ensure that the ing foreign businessmen and call- war Labour Government In IMS. sizeable number of Connolly Asso- Chuch and Ireland in the Age of regular amount by week or month. capital investment—wealth made T OHN MENDELSON, Labour "Michael Collins." by Rex Taylor. FIRST STEPS TO AN wealth would remain in the hands ing it twaddle'." Nora BelofT in- It was a "voluntary" restraint ol ciation supporters. We would like Rebellion," by E. R. Norman (Long- You decide the amount. out of the toll of the workers—will M.P. for Penistone, spoke at a of the enemies of the workers. The forms us that high level interven- wages and was the main reason for to have been present, but we are mans), reviewed by Simon Blake, Or, of course, you can Just pop 3/6, postage 9d. ASSESSMENT be sent abroad in order to reap -ax-county C.N.D. meeting in taxes imposed in the 1966 Budgets tion persuaded Mr. Crossman "to the defeat of Labour at the polls not, alas, clairvoyants. The way to O.P., is £3. This was omitted in down to the nearest post office and "Limerick's Fighting Story," by Col. even greater profits; to maintain Transport House, Belfast, on Fri- were designed to ensure that wages water down his Socialist wine" in in 1951. The Tories were allowed ensure that members of the Con- the October "Democrat." send us a postal order. J. M. McCarthy. 5/-, postage 1/-. A DISCUSSION Britain's role as a world power, i.e., day, October 21st. already received by the workers an earlier party political broad- to romp back into office and rule nolly Association and many thou- "For Ireland and Freedom: Ros- keep control of other peoples' The other main speaker was Dr. At the CONWAY HALL would purchase less and less—and cast. It is one thing to try and win for "13 golden years." sands of other Irish people know common's Story." 6/-, postage countries, and continue the pay- George JefTaras of Dublin, one time FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11th so bring about a sharp cut in real the Party left-wingers—but another about events, is to send notice of JOIN THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION 1/-. ment of arms bill of some £2,120 So we must accept unemploy- n frequent visitor to and close wages. kettle of fish to go preaching So- them to the "Irish Democrat." The "Here's Their Memory: Wexford's 8 p.m. millions annually. ment! If that were a help to friend of Sean O'Casey the play- notice should reach us by the 16th FILL IN THIS FORM Story." 5/-, postage 1/-. Socialism—as taught by early cialism to the uncommitted! the economy, then, again, Ira- wright. Dr. JeSares is an expert, A paper will be read by of the month to be sure of publica- "Roger Casement: The truth about GERARD CURRAN U AROLD WILSON, Labour Irish socialists and James Con- In the circles in which the Belofls land would be rich beyond her linguist knowing thoroughly lan- tion. Please send me full particulars of how I can join the the Forjftd Diaries," by Dr. H. Prime Minister, in his speech nolly in particular—is to me a move there is no ambiguity about wildest dreams. We've always guages as Unlike as Spanish and Connolly Association. Mackey. * 4/6, postage 9d. Principal Speakers: to the British Trades Union Con- relatively simple matter. Control the reasons for the wage freeze had more than our fair share of Chinese. of the productive forces of a "The freeze was not introduced unemployment and our country TVjlSS JOY RUDD. one of the "Walton's Treasury of Irish Songs RONALD AYLING gress at Blackpool, and later, to nation by, the producers of the with revolutionary (i.e. Socialist is still among the "poor W* STUART MaeKENZIE. stalwart activists of Tuairim Name and Ballads" (260 songs). 5/fi, (O'Casey's literary executor; the British Labour Party Con- comes from Bristol. nation's wealth would ensure an end E.S.» intentions. Indeed, it was a tions" in the capitalist world. ^ secretary of the Brent Trades London, has left for Canterbury postage 9d. ference at Brighton, certainly did to private profit and the manu- frantic response to pressure from Ommrll, addressing the Central to take up a research appointment Address "Songs and Recitations of Ireland." JIM FITZGERALD not state that the object of his (Continued on Pace 4) facture of goods and services to creditors, notably those in Wash- London branch of the Conncrtly with the University of Kent. She 2/6, postage 9d. (famous aetor and producer) Government was Socialism. He increase the well-being of the com- ington. It was part of the package "Association on October 0th, said will be there for a year but will "Songs of the Irish Republic." 2/6, comes from Dublin. did not even hold out the hope mon people. It does not mean the deal to save the pound." • MIS8 SINCLAIR is, of that the first time a worker goes to retain her connertion with the Hoi postage 9d. * An Irish Democrat Symposium that, with the economic measures secretary of the Belfast Cut out and post to 374 Grays Inn Road, London, W.C.I. A complete list is available on introduced by his Government, protection of bosses who soak the So we must accept a wage freeze Jail under the wage-freeze law. a born I.abour P^rtv. ADMISSION AT DOOR 2/«d. workers in order to make huge Council, but is cxprcMinc her request. workers could expect any advance 'which means a wage reduction) sonal views.
i THE IRISH DEMOCRAT November 1966 November 1966 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 5 1 LETTER $AVE WEST' LABOUR CONFERENCE IRISH LABOUR PARTY NOW SEES HEARS IRISH VIEWS NATIONAL REPUBLICAN AS Britain's old Labour Party tires of the struggle for CONVENTION a new society, even slipping adrift from the trade also was Mr. John Keohane, secre- 11 AVING attended the T.U.C. A CHARA,—The National Repub- tary of the Hampstead Labour union interest that created it, everything is bustle and hope FILM SHOW at Blackpool in September, -i * lican Convention, sponsored Party. in the youthful vigour of Labour in Ireland. Here VISION OF POWER one would have thought a visit by Cumann Na Poblachta. The All Although the Irish resolutions to Brighton for the Labour Ireland Republican Party, will be Lemass's bid to muzzle the trade unions is sharply chal- / ^N Sunday afternoon. October committee looks to have a promis- fell, the voice of Ireland was not held in Moran's Hotel, Talbot St.. 2nd, an enthusiastic audience ing future. Party conference a pleasant silenced. In the course of a debate lenged. Socialism goes back into the party programme ENOUGH CANDIDATES TO FORM GOVERNMENT Dublin, on Sunday, November 6th, packed the Church Hall, Quex change. Brighton itself easily on electoral reform Councillor Tom after thirty-four years. More and more trade unions are Also prominent among the organ- 1966, at 2 p.m. sharp. Party, who invited the Irish Labour no branches west of the Shannon Road, Kilburn, to see the film "The puts Blackpool to shame. But Party to join them in such a Coun- isers of the meeting were Mr. and Its principal aim is to work for affiliating, and plans are afoot for sending up 100 candi- at all. Last Chance," made by the Save the Blackpool's Winter Gardens is cil. The Irish Labour Party said Mrs. Leo McVeigh, Miss Betty Mc- Irish political and economic unity West Committee about the Glen- like Buckingham Palace com- dates in the next election. This could end the secret coali- that they would if Gerry Fitt and The conference has aroused a lot Shane (herself from the Glen), Mr. based on the Proclamation of 1916, columbcille Co-operative project pared with the awful building Harry Diamond were also invited; of public interest and has to an ex- Jack Fitzgerald and other members the Declaration of Irish Independ- tion of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, and providing Republi- and the efforts made by Father Mc- but the N.I.L.P. baulked at this. tent refocused public attention on of the committee, many of whom, in Brighton, termed the Top ence and the Democratic Pro- can sentiment is catered for, change the course of Irish Dyer to arrest and reverse the de- The conference clearly liked the idea the Labour Party after it had fallen it will be recalled, gave up their Rank Entertainments Centre, gramme of 1919, and all the laws of cline of the community in the Glen. history. In this article, Anthony Coughlan touches on of Labour north and south of the out of the public eye somewhat summer holiday to work on reclaim- where the Labour Party mem- the First Dail Eireann which were Every chair was occupied and border co-ordinating its policies so when it did not contest the presi- ing an abandoned farm in Glencol- bers assembled for their con- legalised as the first Republican current hopes and problems. % there were people standing round far as practicable, and a resolution dential election. The "Irish Times," umbcille so that an emigrant family Constitution of all Ireland and en- ters outside. Although it was clear the walls by the time Father Dore, could return to live there. ference in the first week in in favour of such a Council was in a perceptive editorial, welcomed dorsed and ratified beyond all A/J EMBERS of the Irish Labour that many delegates had never chairman of the London branch of October. passed, the working out of what is the Party's adoption of "Socialism" doubt by the whole people of Ire- heard of the Socialist International the committee, came to the front The committee holds a Ceili on Party are in a state of poli- involved being left to the incoming as its official aim, as this would help I was present for four of the land in the General Election of before, and were unaware that the to announce the film. Making the the first Sunday of each month at tical euphoria after their highly Executive. give a more credible political alter- five days of the conference. The May 19th, 1921. Scandinavian Social Democratic point that the adjoining church Quex Road Church Hall in aid of successful annual conference in native to the people in their dis- "Irish Democrat" and Connolly parties are considering disaffiliating and indeed the clothes he stood in its funds, readers may like to note. Liberty Hall. Dublin, in Octo- The conference came to an end. illusionment with the political Association had decided to organise The issue on which the electors from that body at the moment be- were all thanks to the people of the however, before a large number of twins Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. a meeting on Northern Ireland for then, were asked to decide was ber. cause of its subservience to the West, he appealed to the men and resolutions could be dealt with, It was certainly better that the the purpose of explaining our case clear: "You who vote for the Re- Cold-War interests of Britain and women present, to keep faith with It was one of the best confer- and there were many complaints people should be offered socialism to the delegates. These "side publican candidates will cast your Germany, only one delegate, Mr. their forebears and their families MUSIC, HO! votes for nothing less than the ences in the history of the party, that the chairman. Deputy Tully, by the Labour Party than some - • meetings" are a feature of the Rayner Lysaght, a research worker should not have allowed so much kind of amalgam of Marxism and at home, and to have faith that the rnHERE is definitely a future for legitimacy of the Republic for all with almost 600 delegates pre- Labour Party conference and it is in history, spoke out against it. debate on relatively minor resolu- West can and must be saved and a Ireland, for Ireland against Eng- sent, vigorous debate on a num- the I.R.A. which the "Irish Times" the traditional music and not unusual to find three or four on The negotiations between the Ex-' tions. Thus the resolutions on Viet- feared might otherwise attract too decent standard of living provided land, for freedom against slavery, ber of important motions and a songs of the Irish people, said Mr. the same evening, with the more ecutive and the Socialist Inter- nam and Apartheid went by default, many disillusioned spirits! for the people in their own parishes. for right and justice against force John Hynes, lecturing on Septem- enthusiastic delegates scurrying strong feeling that the Labour national may well, however, see a to the disappointment of many, and The film itself is a deeply-moving ber 29th to South London Connolly from one to another. and wrong, here and everywhere." Party has a bright future before change of attitude. At the same time the Labour one; starting with the awful pic- several important resolutions on or- Association. New airs and songs On Monday, the opening day of There was no ambiguity about it if it improves its organisation ganisation were not dealt with. The Party has to put up with taunts ture of abandoned farms and de- were being composed in the tradi- conference we had a disappoint- the 1916 Proclamation. It stated: Telegrams of good wishes to the such as those of the Taoiseach, Mr. serted villages, and the imminent and champions the interests of MR. BARRY DESMOND conference received little clarifica- tional mode, and new musicians ment. The conference standing "We hereby Proclaim the Irish Re- conference were received by Mr. Lemass, last July, when he said in death of a community that has MICHAEL O'LEARY, T.D. the people. tion on the policy committees which and singers were coming to the orders committee ruled that the public as a Sovereign Independent MacAonghusa from the Socialist will be necessary to work out the Dail: "Someone has accused me existed for nearly 2,000 years, it Among the 600 delegates were fore. four resolutions on Northern Ire- who represented the Irish State." This was for the 32 coun- International and from Herr Willy town said that the Common Market credible policies on so many issues of saying that the Labour Party is shows in detail the work put in by- representatives of the 14 trade land had fallen. The reason given Labour Party at Brighton. ties and that Republic with its Brandt of West Berlin and the Ger- was monopoly-capitalism in Europe for the Party, and no indication going Red. I wish to dissociate my- Father McDyer and his helpers, in- At every Fleadh Ceoil the stan- unions that are now affiliated to the arriving at its logical conclusion. "Is was that Bedford Labour Party, who Leonard raised the question of guarantee of "equal rights and man Social Democrat Party. Some was given of the changes necessary self from any such suggestion. The side and outside the Glen, to set up dard grows higher, and knowledge Party, representing 70,000 organised the Ruhr Valley going to give submitted one of them, and whose Northern Ireland. He listed the equal opportunities for all its citi- suspicious spirits interpreted these in the head office of the Party if Labour Party is the most conserva- the Co-op. and band the small far- and appreciation of Irish music workers. It was not surprising as blandishments to entice the La- grants to the Gaeltacht?" he asked. resolution was the first of the four abuses in relation to the conduct zens" has been suppressed by the it is to put its organisation on a tive element in our community. mers together. It shows in a very grows with it. The standard of therefore that the conference should bour Party into outright support for "The only interest they have in printed on the agenda, had failed of elections in the area and 26 county Governments since 1922, more professional basis. Far from going Red they do not ap- real fashion the link between the performance of the pop singers and have issued a call for total opposi- Ireland's entry into the Common Ireland is the profit they can get to communicate with the other demanded that the situation be and has been replaced by a 26- pear to be going anywhere. They spiritual and practical activities of beat groups just cannot compare tion to the Government's proposals Market. For the Labour Party is out of it," a view supported bv Mr. three parties to discuss the possi- remedied. Councillor Leonard, who county State that has never been are a kindly, • respectable, docile, that remarkable priest, and quotes with that of the traditional to impose State control on the trade the only party in the Dail still to Desmond Geraghty from Crumlin Criticisms were voiced too at the harmless body of men—as harmless bility of a composite. comes from Donegal, attended con- sanctioned by the nation and which extraordinarily large representation him as saying that he wants to musicians, even when the former ference as a delegate from the unions by taking over the absolute retain a strong scepticism about the South and by others at the con- as ever graced any Parliament." establish a society 'midway between The standing orders committee has been and is being unlawfully from certain constituencies (Kil- are assisted by all the resources of National Union of Railwaymen. power to grant or withdraw nego- usefulness of that particular body ference. But the opposition was in capitalism and Communism.' Can- recording engineers. were within their rights, but some pictured and announced to the tiating licences and by severely to Ireland. These doubts were ex- a minority: the resolution was dare. for example, had over 60 dele- So between the "Irish Times" and /CONFERENCE was dominated by Mr. Lemass and the Socialist Inter- ning factories, knitwear factories— delegates thought their interpreta- J world as the Government of Ire- limiting the right to picket. This gates, over one-tenth of the total) Mr. Hynes gave a fascinating two issues: the wage freeze, in- pressed by several speakers from the passed and the delegation will go the London Committee has helped tion of the rules somewhat rigid, as land. resolution also called on the Labour and the poor tum-out from other national, it is not surprising that talk, illustrated by tapes and re- cluding prices and incomes legisla- floor of the conference during a de- on an exploratory visit. with the establishment of the lat- if grateful for the opportunity to ft ft ft T.D.s in the Dail to start a cam- areas, particularly in the West. many people in the Labour Party, cords, showing the different styles tion, and foreign affairs, which bate on whether the Labour Party ter—reclamation of hill land to drop this embarrassing subject. paign against Government inter- The conference also was enthu- There have been several new and particularly among those re- of piping and the problems of solo [TOURING the past year the Pro- should send a Party delegation to stock more sheep, no stone is being centred on Vietnam and arms ex- ference in free collective bargain- siastic about the idea of a Council branches established in the West, cently joined, want a more clear-cut versus group playing. He gave an (AN Wednesday the Irish meeting clamation of 1916 has been Brussels to investigate the implica- left unturned. penditure. The Executive Council ing in consultation with the trade of Labour in Ireland. This propo- however, this past year, which is an and specific working out of aims account of the great collectors of - took place in the Union Hall, used for party propaganda pur- tions of joining, did not have it all its own way. An unions. The Party is also to table sal was raised some months ago improvement in itself on the posi- and policies than was evident at the It is good news indeed that Irish music, from Bunting and poses bringing it into disrepute. The with Councillor Tom Leonard and emergency resolution from the a Dail motion to repeal the Elec- Mr. Jack Gannon from Walkins- by the Northern Ireland Labour tion before that, when there were 1966 conference, significant and suc- Father McDyer has now been re- Petrie to O'Neill—the Chicago only way of celebrating it properly myself speaking. Transport and General Workers' tricity (Special Provisions) Act, cessful and all as it was. leased from parochial duties to police chief who gave preference is to satisfy the aspirations of the Delegates were present from a Union, on the subject of redundan- which makes it a criminal offence travel the country full-time on be- in recruiting to 'his force to nation by allowing its Republic to number of OOOetJtuency Labour par- cies in the car industry was canie^ to strike in the E.S.B. half of the Co-operative movement. musical Irishmen! — and Carl • ties, including Kingston-on-Thames, against the advice of the Executive. function freely, without internal or Donegal's loss will be the gain of Hardebeck. The evening was all Dorking, Kirkdale (Liverpool), Nun- external aggression or interference If the trade unions are serious in Once more a land of hope I.T.G.W.U. may The Transport & General also Mayo, Gal way, Clare, Kerry and too short. eaton, and from the N.U.R. Present of any kind. The Deputies of Dail opposing being hamstrung by the Cork, all of which have co-ops in scored over the Executive Council Eireann who took a. solemn oath to Government they will have to fight back Labour process of being formed. when their resolution calling for that Republic have shamefully pre- this legislation in the Dail, and the T*HE Irish trade union world will ft ft ft the reduction of military commit- vented the elected representatives Labour Party is the only voice they We say ments East of Suez, the withdrawal and struggle be sitting up during the A FTER the film, Father Dore JIM MORTIMER ON CONNOLLY of the occupied six counties of Iie- have got there. More and more ccming months if Mr. John Conroy, from Malaysia, Singapore and the down in coalition intrigues. The some of them doing jail for it, have * * again spoke briefly, urging his land from taking their seats in trade unionists see this now. As the I AST month we reported general president of the Irish Persian Gulf by 1969/70 was carried. socialist left was barricaded in the kept the rod in pickle which is listeners to go away and talk about 11,1" EMBERS of South London and America, and quoted exten- Dail Eireann. "Oh, Liberty; What last election showed, the Dublin that the population of the Transport and General Workers' George Brown spoke against this. protection of its committee-rooms. the film and spread its ideas Connolly Association listened sively from his writings on So- crimes are committed in thy name"? workers have deserted Fianna Fail, going to beat imperialism. Union, carries out his promise to twenty-six counties was rising Republicanism was still hopelessly tliroughout the Irish community. He enthralled o n September 22nd cialism, on Irish history, and on On the question of British troops British interference in Irish and they have no alternative at The "Irish Socialist." "The go on a "whistle-stop tour" of '.he at last. and heroically sacrificing itself in announced that the committee when Jim Mortimer, editor of the the relation of religion and politics. in Singapore and Malaysia he said: affairs and the presence of her present except the Labour Party. Plough," "Trade Union Informa- union's branches to get them to Several trade union voices hit at Said the sceptical Mayo-man in an effort to reverse 1922 by repeat- would shortly be issuing badges to "Draughtmen's Union Journal" and He drew on Papal encyclicals to "When we are no longer needed or armed usurping forces on Irish soil tion" and the rest were planting the back the union's affiliation to the publicise its existence. Mr. Des- a well-known figure on trade union wanted, will be happy to go." One the Government's anti-worker poli- Kilburn. "That's no help to me. ing it. Amid the universal stag- show how ideas have changed over are a grave danger to the United seeds, as seed is always planted, Labour Party. mond Fay, secretary of the Lon- platforms, gave a lecture on James was tempted to shout out, "What cies, in particular Mr. Barry Des- I'm over here." nation the current of anti-national Nations Charter of Human Rights when the skies were still dark. Mr. Conroy has made this state- don Committee, praised the idea of Connolly, and showed that he had the last fifty years, and pointed about Northern Ireland, where the mond of the Congress of Trade Actually any improvement in brainwashing was beginning to flow. and Freedom and to world peace. And the Connolly Association in ment to his intimates. He is him- Co-operation in farming and the studied his life, Ideas and writings out what an outstanding man Con- British troops are not wanted by Unions and Mr. Griff Cashman of Irish prospects does help him in- What caused the change? They can be removed by a strong Britain has played its part. Only self a member of the Labour Party community as a whole, and asked as well as any of us and better nolly was, and how far ahead of the majority of the Irish people." the Lithographic Society. directly by raising his public status. Paradoxically, the arch-prophet united Republican movement, whose You get more respect as a citizen a few years ago in Trafalgar Square and probably the most powerful and those present who were interested than most. Mr. Mortimer dealt his time in his analysis of im- SEAN REDMOND Mr. Desmond, incidentally, is the of conservatism, Mr. Ernest Blythe, representatives when elected to Par- of a country that is doing well. we resolved to roll tack the curtain respected member of Ireland's to leave their names and addresses. comprehensively with Connolly's perialism, the keystone of the ob- liament will fulfil all the under- new vice-chairman of the Labour had a big hand in it. He it was But that's not the point. The of reaetion in the six oounties step largest union. He is retiring at the From the number who did so the life and work in Scotland, Ireland stacle to progress today. takings of the First Dail Eireann. Party, having been elected by a two who told the Fine Gael and Fianna men who put on the show of cyni- by step. Our weapon was to be the end of this year, and is of the allow the 1916 all Ireland Republic to one majority against his oppo- Fail demagogues to cease pretending Friendly majority cism are often the most passionate exposure of Unionist tyranny, to opinion that it would be a worthy HAT do Protestants in the and its institutions to rule without nent Mr. Tom Kyne, T.D.. of to be national. That was the way make It politically impossible for climax to his work for the Labour Twenty-six Counties think of patriots to whom anything short of W interruption and permit the Parlia- Waterford. He succeeds Mr. Proin- to a deal with the Unionists. Westminster to countenanoe It. Now movement if he could swing the —continued from page 3 their Roman Catholic neighbours? sias MacAonghusa in this position perfection is an affront. Highly, according to one authoritative mentary elected representatives of They began to take his advice, a Unionist M.P. is calling for the union to affiliate to the Labour IS THIS SOCIALISM? Mr. Michael O'Leary, who had Rising population is very impor- spokesman, and that an Ulsterman, the occupied six counties to take and were lost. They stripped ofl sponge to be thrown in. "Give the Party anij commit itself in the poli- earlier decided to contest the vice- tant. The more irishmen in Ire- the Rt. Rev. Dr. Alfred Martin, their seats in Dail Eireann without their revolutionary haloes and were Catholics equality, or we'll be tical field. So we must accept "redeploy- tion is the plaything of home hanced income for a privileged Moderator of the Presbyterian Church chairmanship, having withdrawn on land, the better the prospects for any strings attached. revealed as vulgar money-grubbers. ruined!" he cries. Very good. This would be an event of major ment"! Since the crushing of and foreign bankers and who de- few and re-inforces their deter- in Ireland, preaching recently in his appointment as Party spokes- liberation. That is why we say to We request the assistance of all And the opposition took heart, importance in the development of Ireland's industries after the Act mand their pound of flesh in mination to hold on to Britain Raphoe, Co. Donegal. man on industrial relations. Mr. the Irish In Britain that on no Those who stood In Trafalgar those who believe In true freedom ft ft ft Irish Labour and Mr. Conroy is cer- of Union in 1800, the great famine high interest rates. and her armed forces to protect Dr. Martin said that he knew that Desmond is one of the most popu- account should they cross the ocean, Square that day wrought better by their daily work and conduct, to attend the Convention and par- tainly a man who could do it. of 1845-47 and the artificial divi- their ill-gotten gains. lar members of the Labour Party. whatever their disillusionment with T3UT the Unionists fared no bet- than many of them knew, or dared Socialists are totally opposed Presbyterians in the Republic had ticipate in a national movement to It will be remembered that the sion of the nation in 1920, the earned golden opinions from all sorts He is the very active secretary of British Labour. Stay here till they * * ter. Encouraged by Britain to to hope. Only a thousand of them, to the continuation of Empire— V # # keep faith with the men and women union has shilly-shallied about Irish workers, in town and \,\7"AGE freezing, with or without of people and that their presence and the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, are wanted at home. The call will waggle a juicv bait to draw the some of them belonged to the Re- now delightfully called "t h e who died for Irish Freedom in every affiliating to the Labour Party for country, have had more "redeploy- the aid of legislation, is not contribution were appreciated. is industrial officer of the Congress come. outlawed south back into a new publican movement, others were on Commonwealth" — In which generation, and to make the Irish years and It Is well-known that ment' "than was good for them. Socialism. Trade unionists should He went on to speak of the Roman and his election is widely welcomed. United Kingdom, they alarmed their the Labour side millions of men. women and Catholics: nation today worthy of their sacri- 4 4 4 many Influential people in the Ireland never recovered her in- consult their Rule Books, the own supporters. children — not excepting the "Honour to whom it is due, and fices—truly free politically and The Party Leader, Mr. Brendan ft ft ft Union support Fianna .fall. At the dustries or her population. answer is there in the stated aims UUBTLE changes proceeding over The Paisley crescendo began. In people of Northern Ireland—are let me say a word of thanks to the economically with government of Corish got a standing ovation on last annual oonferenoe of the union and objects of all unions to secure kindly, friendly majority among * • ten years in Ireland have the resulting charge and counter- "V\J"E say the political situation in So we must save the pound! ruled at the behest of a country the people, by the people, for the his opening address. He sees the this summer, a proposal that the for the workers the fruits of their whom you live your lives and whose brought about a situation that, charge the honest man began to ' ' Ireland is the healthiest since Whose pound? Certainly not the thousands of miles away whose people. Labour Party displacing the other union affiliate was remitted to .the labour by hand and by brain. So- fellowship helps you to make your would have been impossible to en- get an inkling of the truth. So 1921. In many ways it resembles pounds that the workers earn. only interest Is to steal their days." two main parties, concerned as they executive and It was decided to cialism means freedom for the Signed: visage ten years ago. another opposition took heart and that between 1910 and 1913 when These buy less and less each wealth and leave them poor When will a Catholic dignitary of have been in the past with the make a definite decision next year. workers to work for, and win, an 8EAMU8 RAFFERTY, set about the sensible practical Larkin's "Irish Worker" contributed week. The Government does not James Connolly, and all the equal standing be able to pav tribute issues arising from the Civil War Look at the change of atmos- ever increasing standard of life for in the North to the "kindly, friendly THOMAS WOODS. business of uniting its forces. to by Connolly, and Hobson's "Irish Since then the Fianna Fall Party call for direct wage cuts—the at- early Irish socialists, never ac- "Politics today is about social and phere. Ten years ago all was silence themselves and succeeding genera- majority" among whom the Catholics Dundalk, Freedom" raised every Issue of pro- has issued a circular to its mem- tack is carried out in a more cepted the right of imperial economic Issues," said Mr. Corish, and obscurantism. Conformity was So the spirit of radicalism In the bers and supporters in the union's tions. Wage freeze means an end live and whose fellowship they enjov? Co. Louth gramme and tactics for the "Irish subtle fashion. The cost of goods Britain to dominate Ireland, or "priorities not personalities." The taken for granted. The slightest north Is stronger and sounder than to such freedom for the workers branches urging them to fight this and services are increased with any other nation. Labour Party was a party "with a deviation and you were an atheistic for generations. And the sense of Revolution ' they knew was coming and unlimited freedom to the move tooth and nail. This is not the aid of Government imposed coherent socialist philosophy" al- communist "one-lrelandness" is firmer and To the young Republicans Labour enemies of Socialism. surprising, considering the power of taxes, the value of the workers' We must accept overseas In- though socialism was something Now everything is alert question- more pervasive than ever. men and Socialists. Ireland is once the union, its strength in numbers pounds are diminished and, bob's vestment! If such investment Workers in Britain, and especi- C.N.D BANNED which "meant different things to ing. Young priests are discussing ft ft ft again a land of hope. Recruits are and the fact that it has a political your uncle, we have a wage cut was of assistance to the eco- ally Irish workers, must fight as rpHE Six County Government's Americans in the Vietnam War different people." There was no socialism, even Marxism. Political IT is not really a paradox that coming in. Everything Is expand- fund -almost entirely unused -of But the bankers of the ten nomy, then Ireland would be In never before for a repeal of the three months' ban on parades They have been forbidden to demon- doubt that the delegates, in an en- organisations are questioning the * when the accustomed leaders of ing. But there is no hope without £90.000. which would be at the dis- nations, including Britain, to an ideal position. At least £400 Prices and Incomes Act and for and demonstrations within 30 miles strate or picket—even on the anni- thusiastic and fighting mood, felt very foundations of their policy. a people are compelled to change struggle. Nothing is going to be posal of the Labour Party In the whom the economy is in pawn, million sweated out of genera- a change to Socialist policies by of Belfast -ostensibly passed to con- versary of Hiroshima, when vigils proud to regard themselves as a People who wouldn't be seen dead course in response to outside pres- handed out on a plate. event of affiliation. will make more and more pounds tions of Irish men and women the Labour Government. If this trol the Paisleyltes—has been used were held all over the world Yet •socialist party. together are locked in earnest de- sure the people began to see the If our friends carry on their So the coming year will see quite out of the misery of the workers. in Northern Ireland, Is Invested struggle Is not waged, the workers to hit several progressive organisa- the Orange Order, the Black Precep- It was not surprising, therefore, bate. Nothing at any rate is too alternatives. determination to unite, and hold a battle on this issue within the abroad Tills has not, and does will face a return of the British tions. tory and the Hibernians have been that the conference recommended sacred to be talked about ! But they \voi»ld never have seen fast to their knowledge that only union branches, leading up to a So Britain must keep up her not. help the economy of Tories armed with legislation One is the Northern Ireland Cam- allowed to hold their usual parades to the Executive that the Labour ft ft ft them if the faithful and the few struggle will bring suooess, from the decision at the next annual con- WHS r world role as banker and im- Northern Ireland (I am sure the against them and which intro- paign for Peace and Nuclear Dis- on the grounds that It is "custom- Party should affiliate to the Socialist PHE changed atmosphere is had not been consistently present- present ferment of Ideas and re- ference In summer 1967. If Mr. perial power! But socialists are same story could be told of the duced by a right-wing Labour 1 armament which wants to campaign ary" for them to do so International. though this was * ltnked to the changed politics. ing them year in and out. The men grouping of national forces will Conroy throws his weight on the totally opposed to a systeilj Irish Republic). Not on your life Government This must ncv.r in Belfast against the support the something which has caused raised Ten years ago Fianna Fail bestrode who have been producing the come a decisive change, far more side of affiliation, It, Is difficult not wherein the currency of the na- Such investment secures an en- happen Paisley has helped reaction in British Government is giving to the more ways than one pvebrows in the most diverse qunr- like a Colossu] Labour was Ixigged United Irishman all these years. quickly than their enemies believe. to see It going through November 1966 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT November 1966 7 BOOKS IRISH SONGS Edited by A MEMORABLE BOOK THE GATES FLEW tion. As lie says himself, "I hate that could stand any strain and was match the absence of sentimen- them enthusiastically at the odd beyond words." tality. Referring to the tight con- Gerard Curran OPEN moments when I am aware of The bark of a dog at night, a trol lie exercises over his feelings he KEVIN BARRY them." For the petty tyrants of glimpse of a cyclist from the cell writes; "I know what it is to empty (repeated once more in response THE BLUE HILLS OF ANTRIM DANNY BOY Peadar O'Donnell (Merrier prison and camp he shows con- window, or. once, the laughter of an the oil of an absorbed experience to many requests) Paperback, 5/-). tempt. tinged sometimes with invisible child were enough to bring over the rage and hiss of one in compassion. The ogres wear the TN Mountjoy Jail, one Monday "|*HE blue hills of Antrim, I see in my dreams, H Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling this prisoner back into warm con- boil." Haunted by memories of his morning. O From glen to glen and down the mountainside, J T is good to see a cheap edi- clothes of buffoons. Stupidity and tact with life. He knew the dan- home in Dungloe he can exercise cruelty arouse his wonder more High upon the gallows tree, The high hills of Antrim, the glens and the streams; The summer's gone, and all the roses falling— IRELAND TO tion of this memorable book. ger of personal hatred and exerted hysteria by imaginative recall: often than his anger. himself to check it amongst the Kevin Barry gave his young life In sunlight and shadow, in weal and in woe, Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide First published within ten "And there I suddenly became other prisoners, as the toll of execu- For the cause of Liberty. But come you back when summer's in the meadow, years of the events recorded, it TN "Adrigoole" and "Islanders" aware of life outside the range of The sweet vision haunts me wherever I go. describes Peadar O'Donnell's Peadar O'Donnell shows affec- tions mounted. As O/C prisoners the fever: waves breaking on the Just a lad of eighteen summers, Or when the fields are hushed and white with snow, INDIA BY in the Curragh he appreciated the Yet there's no-one can deny experiences as a prisoner of the tionate concern for people as dis- cliffs of Arranmore, the whirl of It's I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow, therapeutic value of tunnelling. eddies round Innisfree; the hearty As ho walked to death that morning O'er lone Lurigethan the dim shadows creep, Irish Free State during the 21 tinct from the strokes they get up Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you s». When certain prisoners were re- bustle of the flood tide. I got brine Ho proudly held his head on high. months from the Republican to in unravelling their problems. And Cooishavandalla is silent in sleep : BICYCLE "The Gates Flew Open" shows this leased to join the civic guards they in my face from white horses and surrender in the Four Courts to kept the secret of the tunnel and 73 But if you come, and all the flowers are dying, JJERVLA MURPHY achieved tenderness in the process of develop- heard the curlew cry at night time." "Shoot me like an Irish soldier, As night's on the mountain, as sleep's on the stream, March, 1924. men escaped. Its chief director of Do not hang me like a dog, If I am dead, and dead I well may be, fame with her first book ing. It appears that sympathy with The humour is sometimes wry. My heart is in darkness, my soul is a dream. operations was then far away in For I fought to fro* old Ireland, You'll come and find the place where I am lying, "Full Tilt," which gave an ac- human frailty results from the The prisoner was uneasy on his first The events are grim enough. It effort to sound the depths of one's Fenner. On that bright September morn. And kneel and say an Ave there for me; count of her astonishing was during the civil war that im- morning on Kilmainham when AH around that little bakery own nature. Detachment can be rPHERE are no heroics in this nar- given a breakfast of rashers and Red dawn is at breaking, and Slemish is glad, And I shall hear, though soft; you tread above me, journey from Ireland to India perialism came closest to throttling achieved only by relentless self- -*- rative. The author never saw Whore we fought them hand to the spirit of republicanism in Ire- eggs. Punishment, he reflected, In smiles to the green fields and fallows of Brad; And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be, with a bicycle. probing. himself as a martyr. He felt im- hand* land. In Mountjoy and the Cur- that started with a hearty break- And you will bend and tell me that you love me mediate sympathy, for example, for fast, could end with anything. He Why not shoot me lika a soldier, Garrigbilly is waking from the night's dewy sleep, "Tibetan Foothold"* is the con- ragh, in Finner Camp, Arbour Hill Here we see a man struggling And I shall rest in peace until you come to me. those prisoners who failed the was relieved to see the normal For t fought to free Ireland?" tinuation of the story and tells of and Kilmainham agonies were en- throughout his imprisonment to as- And Kella's young streams with my new pulses leap. ordeal of the mass hunger strike hairy porridge on the second morn- how this courageous young woman dured that changed the character of sert his own personal integrity. that began in October 1923. He goes ing. Once he tried to lend the Just before he faced the hangman If I should live, and you should die for Ireland (and her bicycle Rozinante), be- the national movement. En- Fearlessly he faced the fact that he further and admits that the strike works of Tagore to his jailers, In his lonely prison cell, come involved in work for the lightened by their ordeal survivors was capable of fear. Numbed with Meek eve calms the rough brow of mighty Benoon, Let net your dying prayer be all for me, should have been abandoned once it hoping that the pernicious sophis- British soldiers tortured Barry, Tibetan refugees—more specifically, knew henceforward that im- horror when his dearest friends. But say a prayer to God for our dear sireland became sectional. This is mag- try of that writer's thinking would Just because he would not tell And Divis for sorrow looks out to the moon; the young Tiblets, in a camp at perialism is a canker of the body Mellows, McKelvey, Barrett and And He witl hear, and surely set her free; nanimity from a man who lived for undermine their characters. Hav- All the namas of his companions* Dharamsala, run by the Save the politic, deeply-rooted and requiring O'Connor were taken out and shot, As day setson Shankill and Doonmore MacArt And I will take your pike and place, my dearest, 41 days on Lough Derg soup. ing frightened a Free State officer Other things they, wished to know. Children's Fund. more drastic surgery than the mere Peadar O'Donnell knew he lived in "Turn informer and we'll free you." The sweet light of memory is quenched in my heart. I'll strike a blow, though weak that blow may be withdrawal of British forces. hourly peril of the same fate. But Once Peadar O'Donnell was trap- by promising to come back and Miss Murphy expresses her dis- he schooled himself not to give way ped in a subsiding tunnel. Often he haunt him if he were executed he Kevin Barry answered "No!" ToTaid the cause which to our hearts is nearest like of India, and the enormous And I shall sleep in peace when Ireland's free. Those agonies and that enlighten- to his dread of a painful death. was escorted from his cell in the went on to speculate on the chance problems confronting the expand- During five months of solitary con- of doing the same thing to a firing Calmly standing to attention As fleet as the changes on mountain and vale ment form the theme of this book. middle of the night, convinced he ing population of that Continent, finement in Fenner Camp he squad. While he bade his last farewell Its excellence lies in the large was to be shot. After an attempt So fleet are my moods, and so many their tale; but feels an instant affection for searched in his own subconscious To his broken-hearted mother, humanity of its outlook. The to storm the gates of Mountjoy, in When Peadar O'Donnell escaped, I sigh with the shadow* I laugh with the shine, the people of Tibet, the reason for signs of decay. At the worst Whoso sad grief no-one can tell. author has two hatreds only, im- which a guard was killed, the pri- an old friend in Tirconaill gave the being, no doubt, that their out- moments he counted the 2,175 heads soners were paraded in the yard For the cause he proudly cherished And with joy in the hills' heart, there's gladness in mine% RISING OF THE MOON perialism and humbug. Indeed the credit to St. Columcille for opening standing characteristics of genero- of tacks in the sheeting round the This sad- parting had to be; two appear to be inseparable in facing muzzles fingered by nervous the gates and to St. Brigid for put- (Air: The wearing of the Green) sity, intelligence and courage, are walls of his cell. He found strength Then to death walked, softly smiling, his mind. He rarely indulges in jailers. Experiences like these arc ting out the lights, he has himself mirrored in the writer of this book. in the recognition of his own weak- That old Ireland might be free. spleen against individuals, being recorded with stark economy that illuminated a sombre picture with JH, then. teH me, Sean O'Farrell, tell me why hurry so?" Perhaps the most' reassuring content for the most part to deliver ness. "I came to look on my mind startles the imagination. the brilliant light of his mind. as a stout, closely-woven texture Another martyr for old Ireland, O"Hush, a bhuacaill, hush and listen," and his cheeks were all aglow; characteristic of the Tibetans is a hot blast of scorn in their direc- The prose has a sharpness to SEAMUS TREACY Another murder for the Crown, "I boar orders from the Captain, get you ready quick and soon, their mental generosity. Can it be Whote cruel laws may kill the Irish LOVELY LEE For the pikes must be together at the rising of the moon." that their respect for all animal life takes in also the human But cannot keep their spirit down. animal? Thus, for instance, The Volunteers were a thoroughly UN* like Barry art no cowards, "Oh, then, tell me, Sean O'FarreU, where the gathering i9 to be?" polyandry is still an accepted undemocratic body. They showed From the foe they will not fly; /VH, often my thoughts and my fancies take flight "In the old spot by the river, right well known to you and me. custom among the Tibetans, al- little enthusiasm for the repeal of Lads like Barry will free Ireland, To the homo of my childhood away, One word more — for signal token, whistle up the marching, tune, Bound alike to London though the husbands are normally the Penal laws. Their president For her sake we'll Hue or die. With your pike upon your shoulder at the rising of the moon." by Maurice R. O'Conneli (Univ. England's right to legislate for of rotten boroughs argued valiantly And- the day when my patriot fervour shone bright, brothers, the eldest brother taking against their own clear interests. the Duke of Leinster, fathered In Ireland. 1780 a Combinations Act designed Ere I thought that those days would decay. Out from many a mud-watted cabin eyes were watching through that night specific responsibility for the of Pennsylvania Press, £3). However, trade is a great uniter. to discipline the artisan class. Many a manly breast was beating for the blessed warning light. family. It was an Alice-through-the- By 1779 the opposition, under the For my heart was as light as the wild winds that blow ^T*HIS study in depth of a short looking-glass situation. An uncer- brilliant if eccentric leadership of ALLEN, LARKIN Murmurs passed along tha valley Hke the banshee's lonely croon, "The first thing to impress me Prof. O'Connells account of the Down the Mardyke through eaoh elm tree critical period of Irish tain section of both houses was Henry Grattan, and supported in And a thousand blades were flashing at the rising of the moon, when I arrived here was the com- "Journeymen Combinations" that history lays bare the irrational known collectively as the ""Pat- England by the Whig opposition Where I sported ant*-flayed in the green leafy shade plete equality between the sexes, a existed in Ireland before the In- riots." Their often considerable had wrested free trade from Lord AND O'BRIEN There beaide the singing river that dark mass of men was seen, phenomenon which seems all the character imposed on Irish dustrial Revolution is of special On the banks of my own lovely Lee. talents were devoted to the de- North's Government. rest the dead of Ireland Par above the shining weapons hung their own beloved green. more remarkable when one has politics by the connection with interest. These embryonic trade fence of the "Protestant Nations" Who sleep ia Irish clay I "Death to every foe and traitor! Forward! Strike the marching tune, just spent six months in Muslim England. The book has ap- unions found few supporters in the and the principle of the Glorious npHE real significance of this God rest the dttd of Ireland And hurrig?, my boys for freedom! Tis the rising of the mean" and Hindu sooieties. Watching the ranks of the volunteers. In the peared at a time when the un- Revolution. Not infrequently a pro- achievement lies in the part Whose graves are far away I Twas a beautiful land and! the green Isle of song Tibetans together X could easily parliamentary enquiry that pre- reason underlying the "Irish minent patriot changed sides on played by the volunteers. These 6od rest the noble Martyred Three 'Ere her gems shed their light o'er the world, Well they fought for poor old Ireland, and full bitter was their fate— believe that I was in a modern ceded the act of 1780 not one -of Question" is attracting wider being offered a post In the govern- were corps of middle-class Protes- (Oht what glorious pride and sorrow fills the name of Ninety-Eight)— Western community and it is salu- their members was called to give Whose names Hke a beacon shine When wrathful dogs came bearing ages of wrong notice than ever. In Northern ment. Henry Grattan did this In tant farmers, merchants and Yet, thank God, e'en still are beating hearts in manhood's burning noon tary to remember that this evidence. Now that the merchant To lead us on tHI the goal is won— 1775 returning to the fold in 1783 lawyers. They were enrolled for To the standard St. Patrick unfurled. equality, so new to our society, has Ireland one Orange leader class had won free trade, one of Allen, Larkin and O'Brien. We would follow in their footsteps at the rising of the moon! to lead the movement for reform the defence of Ireland against a always been taken for granted in holds his rival in gaol. In the their earliest concerns was to en- Oh, would I were there with the friend I love best JOHN KEEGAN CASEY. of the franchise. ,French invasion. The Irish re- Because they loved their Motherland Tibet." 26 Counties two conservative sure that the anticipated prosperity And strove to set- her free, And my bosom fond partner with me. venue could not afford to raise a should not be shared by the work- parties compete for -power militia additional to the 12,000 The lash of England's hate came Although one questions the wis- rpHE terms "Nation" and "Pat- ing class. I would roam o'er that shore and when weary would rest while the needs of urban men demanded for the English down dom of segregating young children riot" need a gloss. The former On the banks of my own lovely Lee. workers and small farmers go army. England was in no position On the brave undaunted three. from their parents, (not as harm- denoted Anglican property-owners. rpHE title of the book links BOYCOTT CREATES PROBLEM to refuse help from whatever And, comrades ail in Ireland's cause, ful as the one-sex boarding-school), unattended. As it was in the Catholics did not exist politically, events in Ireland with those source. Within months they had The task is yours and mine this appears to have been the period under review so is it being excluded by law from the in America. The two peoples faced developed into a quasi-national To break one day the hand that Oh, how oft in the springtime of laughter and song easiest way for the Refugee Or- now. Dublin and Belfast, bound franchise and from the right to the same tyranny, but the Ameri- The need to cut grows urgent political force. In Grattan's great smote Shall I ever forgat those sweet hours ganisations to function. alike to London, the one by an own property or to educate their cans because of their remoteness speech of October 1779 demanding With the boys of my youth I rambled along THE management of the "Irish children. Dissenters ranked as were able to proceed logically. They Allen, Larkin and O'Brien. But we need more than that We One of the most amusing epi- economic, the other by a politi- freedom for Irish exports and im- Through banks, of lovely green flowers, second-class citizens, debarred from unilaterally repudiated England's Democrat" would liko to draw need a circulation boost of from sodes in the book occurs when Miss cal tether, are in no position ports he significantly praised the They heard no c?.'l of p'pe or drum, And then whorv the evening sun sinking to rest parliament and from official posi- claims to tax them, took up arms onoe more to the attention of two to three thousand. This Murphy decides to join the Pun- to face the country's real pro- volunteers as a bulwark against No comrades marched ahead, Shed her golden light over the sea tions. The Rhodesian white and allied themselves with readers and supporters the serious sounds easy When you have the cir- jabi election agent, and his two blem. English tyranny. A few days later But round them were the spirit Tha maid with her lover the wHd daisies caressed 1 settlers of today enjoy roughly England's enemy, France. In Ire- financial position the paper will face culation of national dallies in mind. escorts, plus a friend, thrown in to a mass parade of armed men was hosts On the banks of my own lovely Lee. Prof. O'Connell, an American similar privileges to those of the land the ruling class dared not in the New Year. It isn't easy for the "Irish Demo- make a foursome at cards and organised In Dublin. The English Of Ireland's martyred dead. historian of Irish birth, has made Irish "nation" of 1780. acknowledge that England was the crat" It means that every little dice, on their sortie to the Malanis, cabinet capitulated and Irish trade With heads erect and hearts agiow The rent is going to be slightly a minute study of the Irish news- fertile mother of all the country's helps. Every extra postal sub- who refused either to read the was henceforth free. They joined that sainted line, more than doubled and on top of papers of the years 1775-1783 and The "Patriots" were the opposi- woes. The strength of the Volun- Dear Ireland's name cn their dying Oh, what joys would be mine ere life would decline scriber, every extra copy sold to a election placards or to vote. The teers and the political astuteness of Like sand on the sea-beaten shore, that there are the expenses of friend or coHeague on the job, is journey entaUed amongst other of the correspondence between the tion. Political debate was between Hps, moving, new office- furniture and English cabinet and successive the paid agents of England on the The volunteers were now the the Patriots were alike dissipated Allen, Larkin and O'Brien. If the steel-feathered eagle, oter-spreading the line well worth the trouble. Above all hazards, «uoh as being attacked by dominant influence in the country. in the notable but non-basic Brought tidings of freedom once more. equipment, and (wa hope) the we need fresh setters* Our peren- wild animals, the scaling of a viceroys. He has also had access one hand, and on the other those Their cause is Ireland's cause today, salary of a further full-time worker. to a great variety of unpublished men of Whiggish sentiment who The role they played demonstrated achievements of free trade and But now what remains, for this poor strength to cravc nial headaoh* si nee the wholesalers 3,000 foot high cliff, and crossing Their toe is Ireland's foe. family papers. An exhaustive bibli- begrudged the ruinous price ex- the absurdity of tha ramshackle legislative independence. When the But that my last crimson drop be for thee. put their boyoott en us a few years a ravine on a practically non-ex- The fires they lit of love and hate, This is a problem of expansion ography and an accurate index at- acted by England for her protec- system of government. This middle class went further and sup- To sprinkle the grass o'er my forefather*' grave, ago has been that there are thou- istent hand-bridge made of cow- •right, bright and warm they to some extent of course. If we test his scholarly approach to his tion. It has to be remembered scrupulously documented book (evi- ported an extended franchise it On the banks of my own lovely Lee. sands of people who WANT this hair rope. Blow; were to reduce the size of the material. that the protestant settlement in dently based on a doctoral thesis) looked as if they had reaHy pap8r, and would buy It every presents a bizarre picture of a diagnosed the national sickness. And where their flame lights up the paper back to what it was a year Presumably, this combination of Ireland had been established in month If we could get it to them. N astonishing picture emerges Ruritanlan society. The volunteers, But the landed proprietors swung sky ago, forego the extra worker, and incalculable physical hardship and the time of Cromwell and of If we had the extra few thousand of the day-to-day proceedings usually officered by members of away to the government side and We read the blood-red sign find some poky basement from magnificent mountain scenery A •William III by English arms. circulation now, we would not be ap- of the Irish parliament. For all what Joyce has called "Ireland's in the reaction that followed Ire- That tells of vengeance for our whioh to turn out the paper, we have given to these upland races 'Having bestowed the confiscated pealing for donations. Its pomp and circumstance this ignoble patricians," sported pic- land sank into a state of degrada- dead- could solve our fir.aneial problems the characteristics of independence property of the native Irish on HOW MANY RICH MEH IN was In 1775 a body unrepresenta- turesque uniforms, paraded ubiqui- tion that eventuated in the In- Allen, Larkin and O'Brien. all right. But it wouldn't be the and respect for the individual, of ambitious undertakers England Then there is