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Page 2 - HILLSBOROUGH Page 3 - IRISH STEREOTYPES Page 4 - DONAL McGRATH DECEMBER 1988 "SOp- Page 5 - TABLE TALK Page 6 - IRISH SONGS Page 7 - BOOK REVIEWS Page 8 - DONAL MacAMHLAIGH Release Irish political prisoners say Russians

DAVID Mellor Minister of Health of the Tory Goverment has recently been to Czechoslovkia where be was. reprimanding the Czechs for their "Human Rights' record. Before that Mr Mellor was lecturing the Israelis for doing on the West Bank what British has been doing in Northern Ireland for HELP END twenty years. Mrs Thatcher the most reactionary head of state in Europe has been BANKS BLAMED FOR EMIGRATION THE MISERY opposing the Soviet proposal to hold the next Human Rights Conference in WHILE Mr Hume MEP has been ranting and railing about the advantages of 1992 and Mr THE money spent in Northern Ireland Moscow, in 1991. She says that the by the British Government is wasted. Russians must conform to the Helsinki Taylor Unionist and MEP has been making hysterical attacks on the 26, Counties Bishop The way it is spent is causing more principles on Human Rights which she misery, deaths and destruction every claims they have not yet done. The Murphy of Cork and Ross has been taking a sober look at realities behind the Common Market Russians have replied by drawing ballyhoo. year. It causes young people to do attention to the lack of "Human desperate deeds in seeking remedies. Rights" in Northern Ireland. "Is our country to become merely the retiremept home for burnt-out capitalists from Europe?" the Bishop Money spent in promoting Connolly Gennady Gerasimov the Foreign aSked. "What I want in 1992 is work for Cork, for the people of Cork. I ask the MEPs now to tell us what jobs 1992 Association policy will save lives and Ministry spokesman has demanded the will hring to Cork. What consideration will be given to moral values in this new Europe? How will the dignity of end the misery. We want to create a situation in the whole of Ireland where We person be protected?" the young can lead normal happy lives the six counties. - He says urgent The Bishop of Cork and Ross, been operative in the European unemployment rate there is as high as without violence and without having to measures are required in Northern emigrate. frefaud to ro-establjsh legality and Dr Michael Muiphy attacked the Community to date." 79 per cent. constitutional law there, in keeping financial institutions for investing Witt the 1975 Helsinki Final Act abroad when anyone with the "What has been happening" he So the Christmas season has little The policy resolution published on Expressions of Soviet concern, it most "minimal patriotic went on, "is that those with economic cheer for the thousands of page four is the fruit of fifty years maintained, were not an interference in sentiment" would spend the power (eg Margaret Thatcher) get unemployed as poverty is taking its experience. You can tell by reading it, the UK internal affairs: they were money at home where it would their own way while handouts are toll. This year was the worst on record that we have the political expertise. We prompted merely "by the hope that give young people a chance to stay given to the weak to pacify them." as voluntary help organisations are Britain's policy in Ulster will have the knowledge, you have the The bishop is deeply concerned as he unable to cope with the plight of the correspond to the high-sounding in Ireland. The banks, he said, money. Our policy will help to end the underpriviledged, especially the aged statements being voiced in London in failed to react to the spiralling is perfectly entitled to be, about the yea is of misery. Help us by sending in favour of basic hnman rights and emigration crisis. fact that we are being robbed of our who are bearing the brunt of the donations. freedoms in other countries." main resource, our young people. "If deprivation. Against this sort of background with real biting chilling Unfortunately claimed Mr Gerasimov, He also fixed the blame on our young people are being A Dublin man, Bob Geldof raised there had been little sign of that so far. poverty which is the most damning successive governments for "bad encouraged and forced to go to two billion pounds in a short time to indictment of this society for many The statement accused the British management" and described Europe where does that leave us?" he help starving Africans. They needed authorities of holding more than 400 emigration as a horror story for asked indignantly. years. political prisoners in Ulster — a figure and deserved help. So do our own kith Irish people. "Governments come and kin in Ireland. We don't want two roughly twice standard western It is a fact that local authorities are and go and the people responsible billion right away. We do want £25,000 estimates of the number of prisoners of being so starved of cash by the hi prisons and psychiatric are forgotten and never asked I to help to end the misery being inflicted - Government that they are unable to I in the Soviet Union. questions/' he added. "Banks are FROM on oMr own people in England and provide even the ordinary basic : British troops went to Ulster loaded and are buying into other Ireland. We want it quickly. Part of our services essential to the day-to-day nearly 20 years ago, Mr Gerasimov countries. Banks are a power in JIM SAVAGE policy is to get all the innocent Irish said, 3,000 people have been killed running of their areas of this land. Money is power and if prisoners released from British gaols there, a further 30,000 Vounded or responsibility. Cork Corporation has you haven't money you haven't and get an amnesty for those who crippled" and about 7,000 detained had to cut back very seriously on its power." Bishop Michael Murphy, Bishop Murphy, and he was rightly claim to be political prisoners. under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1974. traditional Christmas relief work The Soviet public had "serious doubts" never one to shirk when it comes speaking for many, said that even with We Want £25,000 because that will pay scheme because it can no longer about the fairness of sentences in the to speaking out for the poor and the build-up of food mountains for an organiser for a year. province and the way prisoners were the oppressed, articulated the Europe is unable to do anything about afford to fund a little annual project treated. kind of fears, m$ny people have the needs of the Third World. which was of enormous benefit to the unemployed and their families in the This Appeal was launched at the Mr Gerasimov insisted the tatement about the Single European Act. "It is a fact of life that thousands of weeks running up to Christmas when London Desmond Greaves Memorial was not a lecture. Instead he linked it to Cork families go hungry each day in Meeting on 18th October where £350 Mr Gorbachev's current doctrine of Benefits for better-off pockets of dire poverty in the deprivation is most felt. i European home." was collected. Over a hundred people northside and southside of the city. heard tributes to Desmond Greaves, The arguments put forward in By national standards this is a very Worst hit are households headed by who gave his life in the cause of Irish favour of the Single European small scheme, yet one which is very an unemployed person and families freedom. We don't expect you to make Market relate to such things as important locally, but above all, it is with children. ,' the same sacrifice. All we expect is that BEAUTIFUL cheaper cars, lower tax, abolition an unwelcome indicator of the sort of you gjive something financially towards of custom control etc. Bishop thing that is happening because achieving the things he died for. Our IRELAND Murphy commented. "These so- insufficient funding is being ploughed Blackest of black spots cause is a worthy one. We need your called advantages seem to me to back into this area. The Cork area is help NOW. CALENDARS be of benefit only to the better-off Now we have the new poor who not looking for anything in the way of among us. None of these are likely worked in factories such as Ford and special treatment. What it is looking 1989 to bring benefits to the weaker Dunlop for most of their lives now hit for and what it is entitled to get, is MW AVAILABLE AT £1 JO sector." He went on to say that his by unemployment and unable to some level of assistance in emergency SPECIAL FUND fear of the Single European maintain even a reasonable standard situations such as that which pertains (Post £2.25) Market was that it would lead to of living, unable to pay mortgages, at the moment and which cannot be OUR thanks to: B. Riordan £19, J. From: cutbacks and greater hardships unable to provide the basic necessities coped with by an area so deprived of Mayiard £3, P. Greene £1.20, K. for the weaker sector of the for their families. Even Euro-MP, T. ordinary funding that even its smallest It £>.20, R. M. Walker £10, P. FOUR PROVINCES BOOKSHOP community. "In a healthy family J. Maher had to describe the northside schemes must be chopped. We are on ) £10, J. Morrksey £9, R. J. M. 244/246 QRAVS INN ROAD, the strong usually rally round the of Cork City as the "blackest of black the threshold of a New Year which ilrst £19, G. Flndlay £19, J. A D. WC1XBJR weak member. I cannot see a lot of spots in Europe" in relation to doe's not hold out a great deal of hope Ian £199, C. MeLiam £17.29, F. (Wkoi: 833 9022) evidence that this principle has unemployment and stated that the for the deprived. 1 £8. Total: £293.60. December 1988 THJE IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Thr«e„ December 1988 Anoni Anall By Peter Berresford Ellis Jump in radiation levels News first heard Head and shoulders above the rest on Irish radio if Ireland dropped its neutrality, there Rug-headed Kerns prescribed organisations, but if their Alan, Titley's study is on the Irish people can be 'racially f would be no problem for the Tories, views coincide with the political aims northern situation perceived in recognised' in these books. 'In a A YEAR ago, November, 1987 to be forgetting the 'loyalism' of the Leak from Irish sea sub'? of those groups. Such individuals English popular novels of 1970-80. crowd of a thousand, he would easily precise, I argued in this column for Unionists and withdrawing from would be seen as inviting support for One essential aim of these novels is the be marked as 'Irish'. The ruddy studies to be made in the way the Irish Ireland. that party or groups. THE Irish Goverment is being publicity in a Connolly Association de-humanizing of the Irish, complexion, the fair hair, the blue detected in Southport and Wigan Republican is presented in populai urged to seek immediate pamphlet Irish Sea Nuclear particularly the Irish Republicans. eyes, the uneven teeth'. English according to a spokeswoman for the English fiction. Subsequently, I was information on the cause of the Cesspool, published in 1985, these The scenario is not far-fetched at For example, if an individual spoke One way of doing this is the derision writers have, as you may have noticed, Campaign for Nuclear Disarm- delighted to hear from Alan Titley sudden rise in radiation levels on ament. vessels which apparently cannot see all. Back in August, 1984, I was the in favour of a united 32 county Irish of Irish speech. This is done by an a "thing' about the bad teeth of the the Cork-born author and lecturer in the West coast of Britain on where they are going continue to main speaker in an LBC Radio debate socialist Republic, it could be deemed uncouth, mawkish distortion of Irish. 'Branco Kane had a broken "The wind was coming from the Irish language and literature at October 29th. cause deaths to fishermen and proposing British withdrawal from as seeking support for Sinn Fein standard English. Take Chapman tooth. It showed jagged when he west and all indications are that the Dramcondra's St Patrick's College. The increased levels were radiation came from an accident on destruction to their boats. Ireland. My opponent was T. E. because that aim is one of their Pincher's book The Eye of the grinned, as he was grinning now'. Titley is one of the 'heavyweights' of a nuclear submarine" she said. "What has caused these disap- Utley, former Official Unionist declared political objectives. It does Tornado, Sphere, 1978. Indeed, the Irish Republican must Loch (US) contemporary Irish literature. His pearances (of boats) is threatening Parliamentary candidate and deputy not matter if one disagrees with Sinn wear ill-fitting clothes, be 'booz- fat', She pointed out that an Meirscri na Treibhe, a novel set in a to become a major issue for the editor of The Daily Telegraph. Utley Fein on other aims and methods. have fleshy hands, rough nails and, American nuclear submarine the newly independent African state, took 'It's not tay we'll be wantin', 'he H0RTH USS Phoenix, had gone into the Ministry of Defence," says the was highly placed to accurately reflect not surprisingly, have a 'strong sweat- Faslane (RN) the major award for fiction in the 1977 The Tories are still trying to pretend said in a strong Southern Irish accent.' CHANNEL British nuclear submarine port at Independent. the views of the Tory leadership. He smell' also referred to as a 'zoo smell'. Oireachtras. In 1979 he caused an that this country is a democracy! (p.9). Again: 'Now, Captain Faslane three days later, and said it Eye witnesses describe fishing confessed, after some gentle prodding impact with a Gothic novel set in whatever-yer-name is,' McNally said, In view of these descriptions being was unusual for an American sub to boats being dragged backwards at from me, that it was Irish neutrality contemporary Dublin dealing with However, to return to Alan Titley. 'I want yer to be afther showin' Pat remorselessly hammered into the go there, as they usually docked at high speed, some being swamped by that was the stumbling block. The cannibalism and human sacrifice It appears that we have a concern in exactly where these warheads are.' psyche of the English people, the nearby US base. huge waves in calm seas, and others Tories did not want to see an hostile entitled Stiall Fial Feola. Titley alsc common as to how the Irish have been (p. II). And yet again: 'Didn't feel a colouring their views and attitudes being holed and sunk in unexplained state on England's western flank. If The readings peaked at about wrote a volume of short stories presented in English popular ting. It's aisier when you don't know towards the Irish, is it any wonder four times the normal background circumstances. Ireland became a NATO ally... well, entitled Eiriceachtai agus Scealta Eile literature. Unbeknown to me, he had them... Jaysus. I could do wit' drink.' why there was a furore by a certain and the CND spokeswoman said More than 40 incidents, that would be a different story! which Sean O Tuama has described as written a lengthy paper entitled (p.77). Similar examples of this can be group or Tories when newspapers they were not dangerous. We are covering everything from nets being INCIDENT the most revolutionary book of Irish 'Rough Rug-Headed Kerns: The Irish found in many other works. Andrew published a photograph of Mairead not just trying to raise a scare here snagged to ships and men being lost prose since Cre na Cille. Unfortunately, as well written as Gunman in the Popular Novel'which Lane's Forgive the Executioner, NEL, Farrell, who was publicly executed by — we just want to know what have been logged by the Celtic The Scarlett Mushroom was, and, was published in the Winter, 1980, 1978): 'Know where a Limerick man the SAS, along with Danny McCann caused it," she said. The Liverpool League. admitting that a few revisions might edition of Eire-Ireland, the journal of could be after sleepin' this night?' and Sean Savage, on March 6, this MP, Mr Alan Hughes has put down The British Navy refuses to Titley had attempted his first novel have 'tightened' the work, which Alan the Irish-American Cultural Institute. (p.42). And Harry Patterson, Cry of year in Gibralter? a parliamentary question seeking discuss the League's accusations in English. He sent me the typescript. A US Navy ballistic missile submarine: 400ft long and as high as a Titley accepted, the work had little I was delighted to be able to catch up the Hunter (Arrow, 1979): 'Ah now, is information on the incident. and denies any of its submarines The Scarlet Mushroom was built There was criticism that the three-storey building. chance of surfacing from a London on some essential reading, for it a drop of the right stuff you're going photograph of Mairead showed her as The Independent newspaper have caused loss of life. Recently, in around the war in the north but was publisher. This was not my opinion 'essential' is what this study is. to offer us?' (p. 10). the British Ministry of Defence Apply to Four Provinces head and shoulders above the normal 'too human' and 'too sympathetic'. recently drew attention to the fact an apparent effort to silence angry alone, it was the opinion of people admit the problem and do Bookshop, for a copy of the sludge associated with that theme. Indeed, the photograph of an that more than 30 people have died fishermen, officials have reportedly consulted within the business. The I have always maintained, and here Language is brought into play in something is George Foulkes, pamphlet which deals with "the The plot, fascinatingly enough, attractive, intelligent young woman, and upwards of 40 small boats have paid "substantial damages" fact is that British publishers in my views coincide with those of Claud the service of politics by denigrating CELTIC StA been damaged in the Irish Sea in the Labour MP for Garrick, Cummock polution and militarisation of the turned on an attempt by Western Bloc hardly fitted in with the stereotype without admitting legal liability. general do not wish to touch anything Cockburn (Bestseller, 1975) that the Irish. It does not matter that such past six years. Despite the A persistent campaigner to make and Doon Valley. Irish Sea," price £1, post 14p. countries to coerce the 26 county state crazed, inhuman criminal. Usually, into joining NATO, on the basis that to do with Ireland unless it be bland or 'bestsellers' (I would use the term 'language' and syntax has no basis the only 'mug-shots' ol Irish takes the correct official view. 'popular literature') 'probably rate either in Irish nor in the dialect form Republicans the public are allowed to higher in terms of the light they shed of English that replaced it in some see are touched-up police Spring shocks Irish Republicans must be painted on what people thought and why, parts of the country. photographs. The enemy must always HILLSBOROUGH: THREE YEARS ON than official archives and even the as semi-barbaric, crazed criminals. be de-humanized. diaries of individuals'. The Irish Republican is presented in THREE years after the launching of Irish Agreement it is open to Dublin to The British troops are to be depicted this novel almost as a stereotype, As Alan Titley rightly observes, the the Anglo-Irish Agreement with oodles put the British Government on the spot rank and file as heroic, peace-keepers, without By a Special Correspondent I recall, as a child, I was somewhat hardly varying between the authors. intersection of literature and politics of publicity 'hype", there is massive by inviting it to co-operate with the THERE is amazement in the Irish whom Ireland would sink into a shocked to come across a passage in He is inevitably 'ferret-faced' or has a is unavoidable. The sadness is that the disillusionment with the result. The Labour and trade union and liberal fundamental change in Unionist Irish Government in winning Unionist Labour Party that its leader Dick medley of waring gangsters. Spring should have accepted and Charles Kingsley (the English 'wary, ferrety look'. He is 'drab', bald bleat of Tory propaganda which L'nionists still moan and beef about the circles, where there is already support attitudes is likely until they have consent to the means to Irish unity. endorsed the goal of 'European LETTER I sincerely hope The Scarlet Victorian moralist, author of The 'coarse', 'cold, cruel, pallid, permeates the thrillers set in the north, Maryfield secretariat. While after the for Irish aspirations. That is where suffered a really decisive political Dublin could say to London: let us talk Union' as the next thing to aim for on Mushroom will surface from a Water Babies, Westward Ho! and expressionless'. Sometimes: 'He had demeans and brutalizes the soul of the Stalker affair, Gibraltar, the Private Time to Go comes in. And the Connolly defeat, as compared with which the about what is needed to win majority top of the EEC. WOULD you be interested in putting 'publisher, though it may, other 'stirring tales' for the young) pitiless eyes, wide apart above his reader. That is why I make no apology Thane case, the MacAnespey case and Association, the Labour Committee on 'defeat' of Hillsborough is merely consent, discuss the steps which could this piece into your forum section. unfortunately, stand a better chance which described the poor country folk ferret nose, and a thin bloodless for repeating what I said in all the other dismal 'cases' like them, Ireland, Troops Out, the IBRG and symbolic. That decisive blow would be a be taken to encourage it. That should European Union, according to This is something I feel very strongly German Chancellor Hans Kohl in a of publication in another country of Co. Mayo and Conemara as 'white mouth'. Or: 'the other man was lean, November, 1987: we cannot afford to there is not much sign of the end to the other such bodies. British Goverment change of policy flush out the British Government on recent speech, means a common about but if you cannot print it, I will which still maintains some semblance chimpanzees'! But, unfortunately, tall, sharp-faced. There was no ignore popular literature with its 'nationalist nightmare' promised at the towards supporting the rights of the whether they would really like the Britain is where the most urgent European Army, a European federal understand, thank you. of freedom of speech. Since October examining the English popular novel humour in his lines... The roving eyes prejudice-forming process. time by Dublin's Peter Barry. Irish majority rather than the minority, Northern Unionists to agree to work for a united Ireland is needed. For police force and common European 19, as readers will know, the through the ages, the image of the were peculiarly lifeless, the eyes of an a clear intimation of Britain's intention reunification or not. We believe they Mrs Thatcher does not give rights It does not look as if the 'review' of that is where the political fulcrum is. defence. It is the European NATO Government of this country can Irish which emerges hardly varies. executioner'. Again: 'His face- to bring the union with the Six Counties do not. But it might be embarrassing to disabled people so how does Hillsborough will amount to much. Only organised opinion is this country pillar under another name. In a prevent elected representatives of Reading the descriptions of the looked particularly brutal with its to an end. European Union Ireland would lose anyone else stand a chance. As a — not that it must be organised — is before international opinion to say so. perception of the Irish in English Most likely more chats between the two disabled person and a second lawful, democratic political parties coarsely textured skin and growth of strong enough on its own to determine In Britain the Government should be whatever independence and neutrality governments about 'security'. Article 1 of the Hillsborough it has and be ruled in effect by a generation Irishman, I feel that I am from giving their views on radio or literature, of 'the rough, rug-headed black stubble'. Then: 'Delaney British Government policy and turn the urged to take the practical steps Agreement is a statement by the British European Government in a quasi- involved in two fights for freedom. On television. Not only that, but any kerns' of William Shakespeare laughed, displaying several decaying C". J. Haughey warned when it was widespread popular sentiment for a necessary to win majority consent in the and Irish Governments that there will be federal European Superstate. the 28th of July I took part in a march individual or group may be similarly onwards, it is no wonder that the Irish teeth'. Or: 'O'Kane smiled signed that Hillsborough would draw withdrawal from Ireland into a North to the means to end Partition, no change in the North's constitutional with five hundred other disabled banned even if they are not a member racist joke is so prevalent in English unpleasantly, showing a IOW of bad the Dublin Government deeper and powerful political force. Nothing which that is, to the political, constitutional Spring endorsed European Union position without the consent of a people. The slogan on the banner that of that political party, or certain society. teeth*. deeper into a semi-policing role in the is done inside Ireland itself can do this, and financial measures necessary. The in a statement of leaders of West majority there. There is the nonsensical European socialist parties held in headed our march read "Rights not Six Counties, without Britain shifting though of course events there can either first of those steps is of course for implication that Britain does not have Berlin. Amazingly the Irish Labour one bit in her hold on the place. And that London to make Irish reunification its charity." help or hinder. Even if one had the best any positive policy of its own on Party conference or Administrative is more or less what has happened since. possible government in Dublin, or the policy goal. Which brings us back to the maintaining Partition. Also that there Council have never discussed the The media coverage that we got was BUILDING SAFETY CAMPAIGN Dest possible conjunction of organising and education work vis-a-vis matter. He refused to associate People like the SDLP and Fine Gael is such a thing as a unilateral right to near enough nil. I supposed it showed THE Construction Safety-Campaign is 4) Where a worker has been sacked for will be a broad front of people and circumstances in the North, it would not the people of this country that is the himself with an explicit reservation national delegate conferences, HQ of said the Agreement showed that Britain union, such as to justify the Unionist committed to working for an end to raising a matter of safety he has the groups united,around, and committed be enough. Political action in Britain is most crucial task needing to be done. about the reference to European up this government's policy on BEC. Parliament Labour Party. was 'neutral' over Partition. They were position, when of course there can only •death and serious injury in the statutory right in law of immediate to, an agreed policy platform and- the indispensible condition for doing the Union which British Labour leader disabled people and the dis- Conference and TUC. Demonstrations be rights or separation. construction industry, private and reinstatement. methods of organisation for safety in once more given their answer last job. Neil Kinnock insisted should be crimination and cuts in benefits that where and when necessary. Pickets of public sector. construction. The C.S.C. will be sites and workplaces where there has month when Northern Ireland attached to the declaration. we suffer under the regime. But we 5) Health and Safety Executives to organisationally independent of other been serious and wilful neglect of Secretary Tom King said he foresaw no The second possible ally for the Irish disabled people will fight on until the employ building inspectors with Veto out of order It reminds one that the extension of groups and organisations but will safety, particularly where death or circumstances in which there would be a media will have to report ourprotests. specific responsibility and authority for cause is international opinion. An Irish A Six County majority has no right the EEC by the Single European Act We Cafl For campaign within the building industry serious injury has occurred-Coroners change in the North's place in the Government worth its salt would be was never discussed by the Irish the construction industry alone. to a veto on a United Ireland as a goal 1) Death and serious injury in the and unions, the Trade Union and Courts. United Kingdom. King referred Labour Party either. The Labour I am a second generation Irishman, wooing that. And thirdly, as the and policy end. Both the British and the construction industry to be made into a 1) All construction unions to campaign Labour Movement, the legal and approvingly to those Irish politicians — leaders in the FitzGerald Coalition who feels strongly about the "troubles Northern Unionist population becomes Irish people havt the right, indeed the major political issue and dealt with in and intervene much more vigorously, medica? professions in particular and ie Charles Haughey et al —who said at Government went ahead and signed in Northern Ireland and the injustice the working class in general for support more disillusioned with the experience duty, to insist in their own interests that general and local elections. seriously and consistently on the issue the time that the Hillsborough the SEA Treaty in 1986 without of the Birmingham and Guildford of safety in construction. of the organisation and its policies. of direct rule from London and Ireland be reunited. At the same time it 2) The Labour Movement to make the Agreement in fact 'copperfastened' consulting their party. When it looked Four cases, not to mention other 1)A committee will be formed in repeated failed experiements at 'power- is undeniably desirable and expedient to matter of safety in construction a major 2) All construction workers to make the Keep death off partition. They were quite right, as if they would be repudiated by that atrocities committed by the British London to co-ordinate and oversee sharing', there should in time emerge seek to win majority consent to the year's annual conference, an excuse political issue. issue of safety at work a priority, and to implied King, who is himself about as Government on behalf of the British raise the issue continually at their place activities of initial C.S.C. potential allies among them who will means to that end — that is to the was found for not holding the 3) All concerned M.Ps to unite and raise the building sites unionst as they come. people. Mrs Thatcher, the woman the issue vigorously and consistently in of work. begin seriously to consider the political, constitutional and financial conference. 2)C.S.C. Committees should be The Irish Democrat never advantages of Irish unity. Every tiniest who will make no 'IP turn but will let the Houses of Parliament. 3) A one day strike in the public and formed where and when achievable in steps needed for reuniting Ireland, once private sector of construction in protest encouraged such illusions. It always seed of such developments should be But with Irish Labour out of men die on hunger strike, leave old 4) All Labour controlled Councils to all possible localities. that had become the policy goal of both people. Mrs Thatcher is the woman refuse to employ all contractors and sub against the appalling and ever said the British Goverment positively encouraged. government and the Left so much 3) The localities will elect delegates and Governments, and especially the British stronger, it is unlikely that Dtck pension, cut disabled benefits, and contractors who have a proven record increasing death and serious injury desires to maintain the union, mainly send them to a national meeting. The one. Spring's embracing of European order public execution of Irishmen of wilful and serious neglect in the figures in construction. Labour for strategic reasons. In Mrs Thatcher's national meeting is the only body where Unionists annoyed It only needs one-quarter of the Union will be let go by so easily. and women. matter of safety in construction. Councils and Construction Trades case also for sentiment. That is the Unions must fight to defend and expand all policy and major organisational Unionists to be added to the matters are decided. burden of the evidence. For Nationalists, the most positive Nationalists to give an anti-Partition D.L.Os and reinstate contract thing about the Hillsborough So as a second generation Irishman, compliance, uniting all Council majority in the North. Half the adult 1) Legation must be toughened to 4)Jhe London committee will initially Agreement was the annoyance it caused SUSTENTATION I will also join in any march that workere and users against the cuts. produce campaign Htorature for site, Six County- population — counting ensure that where gross negligence is : Compromise or Unionists. those in public employment and those protests against the British proven an employer can and does suffer 4) Trades Unions to be much better workplace and general distribution. FUND occupation of Northern Ireland. For Unionists the Agreement dependent on social security together a term of imprisonment. represented by safety reps and make find allies n. j "' • . - •. underlined what should have been — depend on the British Goverment for OUR thanks to: J. Watson £5, M. Because of the minority there will be full use of their legal powers. no rights while the occupation lasts. 2) In the event of death and serious Activities ' But if British policy is to maintain obvious since 1971 — that there could their incomes. Can anyone seriously Brennan £3, A. Barr £10.10, M. Burkin injury a prison sentence on the 1) Canvass support of people in the the union, what can people do xhc want be BO going back to the old days of a imagine that the two governments could £4.30, J. WyBe £1.20, P. Byrne £3.99, obployer should be mandatory. medical profession. Raising of finances. Regular production C. O'Sullivan to change that policy? As the weaker Unionist-dominated Stormont. The not win majority consent to the means K. Doody £1, R. & M. Walter £tt, M. of liters Chairman of the Slough and District 3) No sacking or blacklisting of workers WE i t party the Irish Nationalist side must Maryfield Inter-governmental to a United Ireland if they set about it Connolly Jubillee Mugs as a Brennan £6, B. J. Muiphy £2, B. Want Organisation Lobbiest of U.C.A.I.T. A T.G.W.U. Disabled Action Group and Connolly who raise issues and complain of lack of either compromise or find allies. The conference seemed to symbolise that with the resources governments can Christmas present, Price £2:50 £5.50, J. Watson £5, M Whan 12. national officcs awl meetings, local and Association Member. safety at work. The Construction Safety Committees- national, including and especially most obvious potential allies arc, Dnbtta was at last getting afoot inside command, using an appropriate mix of from Four Provinces Bookshop, supporters in Central London £1.63) in firstly, organised political opinio* the door North of the Bonier. But it carrots and atteki? 244/6 Grays Inn Road, London South London £11.06, In Birmiagham within Britain itself, especially in would be unwise to think that any In this period of review of the Anglo- WC1. £2.55. Total £75.64. December 1988 Page Four THE IRISH DEMOCRAT ••ember 19Ba THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Five GLASGOW: London Scene By DONAL MacCRAITH Colm Power DESMOND TIME TO GO FRIENDS of Colm Power, a former staunch Connolly Association member, GREAVES MEETING TABLE TALK living back in Ireland for some 15 MORE IRISH 'SEEKING' HELP years, will be sorry to learn he has "MARXISM To-day's "What's ARCHIVE THF: number of people according to an Irish priest in the The Desmond Greaves Column recently been very ill. He underwent a Directory RTE left?" meeting on Ireland in Glasgow approaching Brent Irish Advisory field of emigrants' welfare. quadruple heart by-pass operation in Dear Editor, AN urgent call for information on November 4th was a long Excerpts from the table-talk of our late Editor, C. Desmond Greaves (1913-1988). Dates are Service for help has increased London-based Father John BOTH Sides Now, the RTE October. MAY I invite any readers of the Irish from Irish groups across Britain discussion in which little was said. dramatically since the organ- 'Bobby' Gilmore, director of the Radio's hour-long programme added where helpful in giving the context. Colm is now recovering slowly; we Democrat who may have received has been put out by Kilburn aimed at Irish youth in Britain — About 80 people listened to Jimmy letters from the late C. Desmond isation opened a new centre in Irish Chaplaincy Scheme in Stewart (Communist Party of hope he continues to do so and will be TG WU member Geraldine Vesey, broadcast live from Dublin each ' The claim that common law is one think at all that youth is what it is Greaves and still have them in their VYillesden Green, according to its Britain — which sends priests and Ireland), Dessie O'Hagan (Workers' Epicureanism is the basis of all sound fully fit again. Anyone who wishes to editor of the Irish in Britain of the prides of England. But on housing worker, Belfast-born nuns to assist Irish communities weekday evening at 10pm — came Party), Jimmy Wray M.P., George cracked up to be. I grant that young philosophy. For after all what does it write a line to him can do so care of this possession to get in touch with me. Directory which is published and balance it strikes me as reactionary; a TGWl member Jim Glackin. here — was speaking at the to north-west London recently. Galloway M.P., Fergal Doherty people are decorative, but the say? That the majority of people should office. I am sorting out Desmond situation where judges can make up Patrick MacGill Summer School printed in Brent, north-west (Campaign for Democratic Rights in opinions of young people do no count enjoy their lives. What could be more Greaves's papers and literary London. The radio programme reflects laws as they go along and can "We are not surprised by this, in Co. Donegal. Northern Ireland) and local church for much until they are 30 at least. For obvious that the good sense of that? remains, as he requested, with a view the interests of the younger Irish people. overthrow the expressed will of most of the time until they they believe Contrast the Stoics and all supposed as we are now more centrally The Directory is being Photos wanted to arranging them for deposit in the migrants, particularly in the Using a "Question Time" format Parliament. Nowhere is this shown that the most important events in the asceticism. Such views are at bottom located for people in Brent, with Fr. Gilmore told the school, compliled for H. people visiting WE had a request from a reader that we National Library of Ireland, which London area, and deals with the the meeting opened up with the more clearly than in labour law, where world are what is going on inside their imperialist. When I heard this easier access by public transport which was discussing emigration, or resident in Britain, and for should not repeat the same photographs was his wish, and at the same time issues affecting them. question. "What is your estimation of judges time and again have bent own heads! Even the best of them only philosophy student say he was against from all parts of the borough, that many of these young Irish those who wish to make contact too often. compiling as much material as the political strategy of Sinn Fein and statutes in a reactionary direction. A speak on the basis of books. They do Epicurus, I knew he was a bum especially Cricklewood, people are finding emigration to with Irish community, cultural Presenter Aonghus McAnally their view of the armed struggle?" As According to a commercial possible for prospective biographers. written constitution is undoubtledly not speak from experience. philosplier. Of course Lucretius had to Harlesden and Willesden" Britain a 'traumatic experience' and business organisations in and producer Peter Browne met the meeting's organisers had not superior, for it puts a straightjacket on photographer photography is the 2nd Desmond was a prolific letter-writer All around one the spontaneous be careful. He had to pretend to ascribe because of their lack of Britain. with two local TGWU members invited Sinn Fein for fear of Sectarian the government and the more biggest money making hobby in throughout his life and corresponded generation of daft ideas! his views to Memmius, in case they got preparedness for life in a new — Clare-born London Irish arts protests, this question began the straightjackets on governments the Britain. with people all over Britain and disintegration of the discussion. The, at him. country. "Information relevant to festival director Brendan Mulkere better. So I know you have all got cameras Ireland as well as further afield. His Band Workers Party representative excited History is always a selection. There people across the age range — f> and Galway-born housing lying in some corner unused most of the letters would be very relevant to the numerous ultra-lefts in the is no such thing as impartial or It is nonsense for people to moan The shortage of accom- from under-five groups with Irish association secretary Padraic time. Very few people think of taking understanding his political and JACKET Potatoes, popular with audience. From then on contributions Last year I gave a talk on "The Irish objective history. Napoleon said it was about what they cannot do. They modation, with 60,000 on the members to pensioners' luncheon Kenna. films of Irish interest. You don't need historical work, as well as the many- Irish audiences throughout north- were applauded, interupted, and Tradition" in Blackburn. It was the best 'a fable agreed upon' I would say rather should concentrate on what they can housing list in London and the clubs — will be included in this, denounced as the platform disagreed an expensive camera. Use black and sided character of the man. west London, are showing just received I ever gave. The table could not 'a fable disagreed on' History is always do. It is necessary for many people to high cost of living n the capital, the most comprehensive guide for They interviewed the residents with each other and George Galloway white film because the Democrat how popular they are with their be seen for the brandies and whiskeys from the point of view of standpoint of pass from sentiment to policy in order I should very much appreciate estimated at £93 a week, were Irish people across Britain", says of Catherine Coleman House, a attacked Marxism to-day. cannot afford colour yet. gig schedule filling up as new on it afterwards! I began by saying that the person writing it. In the case of to make a movement. Depression is a receiving any such letters, either in the causing stress amongst young Geraldine, who was born in hostel for single Irish people in No mention was made of the audiences take to their brand of biography, as in my life of Connolly, reflex protecting against inactivity. If you send us your prints then we will original form or copies. If sent Irish immigrants, he said, Manchester of Irish parents. Cricklewood named after a Gibralter Inquest, the Birmingham the most important event in Irish one seeks to look at history from the The only sensible thing to do when not have to repeat the old photographs originals I should be happy to tlowery folk music. resulting in high rates of Waterford-born Labour activist Six, Guildford Four or Winchester history was the one which never standpoint of the person being written you are depressed is to find out the and we can reduce the size of the ones photocopy them myself and return alcoholism and mental hospital who had been at the forefront of Three, Strip Searching, Plastic bullets, happened — the Romans never came For further information about. reason and act to get rid of it. The best we publish regularly. What about some them to their owners. All such letters The band, formed less than two admissions. local working-class struggles for Irish Neutrality or the Single there. So there was nothing of their contact Geraldine Vesey at BIAS, instant remedy for depression is pictures of building sites where there years ago, have got a cohesive fifty years before her death some European Act. There were some high rotten imperialism from the start. Then will in due time be deposited in the 296 Willesden Lane, London physical activity. have been or are likely to have sound - fiddle, guitar, melodeon years ago. (Continued on Page Six) there was no aristocracy because of the National Library, along with Fr. Gilmore added that there NW2 5HW (459 6286). Flight of the Earls and so on. Mind you accidents? Don't let the boss catch you. Desmond Greaves's journal-which and whistles combine with three were false expectations about I do not blame them for fleeing; but it The impossibility of good satire covers a span of over fifty years voices to encompass the range of wages in London, that many of meant there were no native models for nowadays. There are so may things to activity in the Irish National and traditional and contemporary the jobs in the service and an upper-class left. The landlords were criticise. Yet there are libel laws. What LETTER British Labour movements — the Irish music. unskilled sectors paid low wages THE MANIFESTO THAT WILL different in language and in religion. So would be needed to do justice to the Dear Editor, research materials on which he based and that there were 40,000 to this day if an Irishman wants to monstrousness of today — the pens of CONGRATULATIONS on the his books on Connolly, Mellows, The Jacket Potatoes have unemployed in the capital. sound 'la-de-dah' he has to pretend to Swift, Voltair and Shaw combined? The November issue of the Irish O'Casey and the ITGWU and various played numerous fund-raising be an Englishman. And then there is the NOT BE AMENDED principal feature of the human species Democrat. I particularly liked the lay- unpublished articles, poems and notes events for Irish related and worthy Recent surveys had shown that people's respect for the clergy. For the — and let me tell you that the older I get out and headline of the front page. on various subjects. causes, and have produced a many Irish immigrants had less clergy stayed with the people when they THE policy resolution passed at the Jubilee Conference of the Connolly the less enthusiastic I am for it — is Also there are lots of interesting twelve track cassette. They are than £100 on arrival; 57 per cent were down. So that the Irish tradition is Also, if any of your readers had first greed, then fear and then stupidity. things in the paper. also writing original songs and had made no definite arrange- Association printed below. The delay in publication was due to urgent news items essentially plebian. I do not say interesting personal reminiscences or Of course the fear modifies the greed Niall Martin stories about Desmond which they tunes for a second recording. And ments for accommodation and Svorking-class', for there are various and the stupidity exaggerates the fear. taking precedence. would be willing to share, I should be true to their roots, they place a 17.5 per cent had spent their first classes, but 'plebian.' It was And one might throw in laziness as well. BE IT RESOLVED that the very glad to hear them and add a note strong emphasis on the songs of night sleeping rough. Whereas Whereas tremendously received. (1988). « The impossibility of man really British government and European Association, meeting on the fiftieth Desmond Greaves - . One of the things I have thought or record of them to the same archive. Ireland's historic fight for the claim of successive British anniversary of its foundation. changing for centuries to come. It took Community agencies have sought to §omeone asked me whether there about a lot over the years and not yet national independence. Fr Gilmore's concerns about governments to sovereignty over six CONTINUE its work in defence of the capitalism centuries to develop. Why counties in the north-east of Ireland, undermine support for national Have you noticed how being a non- has been a general failure by the Left come to final conclusions on is Anthony Coughlan, Social Studies alcohol abuse and mental ill- , right of the Irish people to the should we expect socialism to come Department, Trinitv College . and the consequent maintenance of the independence and national culture, not health ring hollow when in almost reunification of their country and in imperialist country can improve the to defend democracy and whether this quickly, or at least so-called 'socialist laughter. I met a young man on a Dublin 2. ' enforced partition of the country by in order to foster genuine whole temper of a people? In Dublin I was the explanation of the Left's train, a young scentist, who said he Emigration every Irish community in Britain internationalism, but to attenuate the defence of the interests of the Irish in man'? (1969). means of authoritarian regimes Britain. saw a conductor helping an old man off collapse before the Right. I would say was wondering what area of science to contains a church social club, wielding emergency powers and public perception that democracy is SUPPORT Clare Short's Time To go a bus and cross the road with the it was the failure to press the case for concentrate on. I will give you a subject, I MANY young Irish immigrants to more often than not controlled by engaging in repressive practices has: based on community, and The courtesy and politeness of the charter, the most significant attempt to approbation of all the passengers. socialism. Of course there are many said, which will make your reputation LETTER London arc ending up in a "booze the parish priest, offering little high-up bourgeosie. When Betty 1. hindered healthy economic Whereas articulate the majority sentiment for Contrast London busmen and the reasons. The underlying reason is and is very important. Study laughter. Dear Editor, culture" because the pub is their more than a 'booze culture' to those behind the European Community Sinclair appeared before the Cameron development in the island as a whole. British withdrawal since the Anti- general indifference of people there. economic. The long capitalist What is needed is a physiology of CONGRATULATIONS on the. point of social and leisure contact. local youth. are seeking to turn it into a political and Partition League of the early post-war Commision it was "Miss Sinclair this" 2. weakened the ability of the Irish prosperity and the deficiencies of the laughter, not a psychology. Laughter November paper. It was a real gem. military union - in effect, a West years, placing it at the centre of the The most reactionary professions are and "Miss Sinclair that." And "Could nation to resist attacks on its socialist countries. If you tell an must indicate a release of tension of Jim Savage. European federation — with, as the Association's political work in the doctors, journalists and univeristy we trouble you to come again if we independence and neutrality, European Commission president unemployed man he would be better some kind. Of course everything Seen and heard in Ireland coming year, with branches initiating professors. Lawyers, on the other have any further questions?" Of causes tensions and hence there has to 3. fostered divisions among Irish recently stated, 80 percent of economic off in Russia he won't believe you. all forms of political activity under the hand, I have always found intelligent course they employ different people be continual resolution of tension. citizens by favouring some and decision-making taken at the European rubric of the charter, and participating Also things like television and the Family grave and honest — as long as you were no for taking down minutes of evidence • Laughter is the only reflex uniquely discriminating against others, rather than the national level within 10 in the events planned in the Year of motor car have turned people inwards an obvious fool yourself. Have you to those who are given the job of ROSEMARY Bell, Barney years — so turning the nation states Action associated with the Charter, and helped reduce the sense of their peculiar to man and this is surely an 4. led to many years of continued heard about the so-called 'merit banging you on the head! Morgan, Muriel Saidlear and Joe affected into mere provinces and keeping to the forefront the demand for being a communal interest. Another important fact. It must be a function violence and the destruction of life, awards' which the National Health O'Grady were at the family grave Patrick Bond destroying much of what is left of a British declaration of intent to thing is that the working-class of the higher part of the brain and health and property, popular democracy, national Service permits doctors to hand out to Revolution is always 'out of date' for in Bebington Cemetery, withdraw. movement is weakened when possibly played quite a crucial role in 5. given comfort to all reactionary independence and the ability to impose themselves? The main advantage the intellectual bourgeois. It is never 'in evolution. It is a function of Birkenhead, where the remains of A RECENT trip home enabled me to On one recent flight to Luton, an Irish DO ALL IT CAN in the coming period capitalism goes into recession. Its forces and weakened those of social controls on transnational capital, doctors have is experience. They have date.' It is always either in the past or in communication as well. No one the late Desmond Greaves were renew the old roots and note just a few nun was the only person stopped and to win the British trade union bargaining power is strongest when democracy, and seen so many examples of the same the future, but never now. For it is they laughs by themselves. And there is the recently interred. For those significant events and developments. searched — could it just be that she movement to a policy of supporting the there is a boom. Yet a boom is the time had visited her brother, a well-known Whereas ending of partition and British conditions before. Nurses are v.ho would be revolted against. question of the different kinds of wishing to visit it, the grave is in Many of the thousands who have 6. maintained misunderstanding and when capitalism is improving things Republican, in Mayo? embryonic structures of a single disengagement from Ireland, as the key generally more honest and often know laughter. The laugh of a fool is the corner on the left when one- heard Mary White singing The Irish antagonism between the British and In Galway I met a charming lady Western European state cannot end the to winning the labour movement as a and most workers do not see the Rebel and other Irish songs will be Irish peoples, and introduced more than doctors. I always wear Anyone who thinks there can be a different from that of a wise man or a enters the cemetery gate. A poet, Rita Ann Higgins, who recently rivalries between the dominant national whole for this end and in time of making need for socialism then. (1986). glad to know that she and her discriminatory legal practices against good clothes and a suit when I go to revolution in Ireland without a child. There is humouress laughter, suitably inscribed memorial slab visited England on a poetry reading imperialisms of Britain, France and it policy of a progressive British husband John are now happy as larks the Irish in Britain, and the hospital. For doctors are very The EEC is based on removing all the revolution also occurring in Europe is hearty laughter, sardonic laughter. I will be erected in due course. tour. Alas, the book published by her West Germany and indeed heighten the government, living in Bettystown in Mary's native Whereas class-conscious and it means they wishful thinking. In the past all Irish think laughter has a most important and her colleagues, 'God Is On The possibility of trade wars and armed SUPPORT all efforts to obtain the controls which have been put on County Meath. the British government is now using its treat you better! revolutions were accompanied by or function in mental health. Mervue Bus!' had just sold out. I look conflicts between the US, Japanese and release of the Birmingham Six and capitalism and letting it rip. It seeks to foothold in the six counties to entoil the forward to their next. Western European blocs, and intensify Guildford Four, destroy overnight social safeguards preceded by a revolution in Europe. Pat O'Doherty (formerly White) Republic in the economic and military and husband Cahir are battling away Galway Action on Poverty are busy the exploitation of the majority of GIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION TO I remember in primary school being which in some cases have taken So it must be in the future. (1969). TIME TO GO plans of transnational monopoly humanity in the developing countries, asked by our teacher — a remarkable in their plant and shrub nursery near leafleting the privately rented estates the work of organising the many young centuries to build. It will generate English chauvinism. Have you heard capital through the machinery of the and woman — to write a few paragraphs on Carrickmacross. The rains in July and with leaflets exposing the activities of Single European Act, a process which is Irish immigrants coming to Britain resistance, mark you. All things pass, What always amazes me is the about the 19th century Grand Dame CONFERENCE local landlords, demanding that the today by showing them the importance what we would like to be when we grew August spoiled June's good business, being spiritedly resisted by such Irish Whereas and that will happen with the Common cowardice of the British Left. They who visited Turkey? The hotel-manager but they have great stocks ready for Government and Corporation use the of joining their appropriate trade op. I said I would like to be a great national organisations as the Irish perestroika in the Soviet Union has Market too. Where is the British abandon their policy on losing an said to her: 'We always take special FIVE hundred and seventy delegates next year, mud permitting. powers they have to curb the rent unions to defend their economic novelist, a scientist and a doctor of Sovereignty Movement and Campaign brought about a relaxation in world Empire now? Or the Roman Empire? election, instead of holding on to the care with food for foreigners, My Lady. attended the first briefing Conference Passing through Ballybay I was increases and ensure decent tension and the Cold War, a quest for interests, and of joining the Connolly music. I had an aunt who was a novelist, for Nuclear Disarmament (among policy until the people are convinced it "But my dear good man", she replied. of the Time to Go campaign in the suddenly confronted by some ten standards. others) which have conducted ridding the world of nuclear weapons Association and the political an uncle a scientist and my parents were The basis of the Connolly Camden Centre, King's Cross, In Dublin I heard newsofEuroalert, organisations of the Labour and is right and elect them. What is Don't yon understand. It is you who are young girls in silvery space-invader campaigns on this issue, on which the presents an opportunity to end the musicians, my mother having a degree Association is internationalism. Not London on November 19th. uniforms who fanned out in who are busily campaigning to warn occupation of Northern Ireland for democratic movements in this country happening is the dismantling of the the foreigners." Connolly Association has congrat- inmu '.c, though my father hadn't. So I that there should be a jelly-bowl of The speakers were Peter Beresford disciplined fashion across the road people of the dangers of 1991 and the strategic purposes and for Ireland to to advance those of their interests which Welfare State and other protections ulated them, and wanted to do what they did, only better. nations but that each nation should with a placard saying 'Please Stop'as unified Common Market. And of the retain her neutrality. are political, against socialism which the bourgeoise Ellis, historian. Bob Rowthorn, their schoolfellows came out of school Sixtyeight Committee, who are Whereas Whereas SEEK to inculcate a progressive Doubtless my effort stood out among have its place in the world and express had tolerated for decades. But it will economist, Kevin McGory, solicitor in the afternoon. I was most seeking to remind peoi .e of the start the Anglo-Irish Agreement, as much a political content into Irish Studies in all the accounts of aspiring train- itself. Here in Liverpool it's only a few (Campaign for Democracy), Clare two important centennials, that of the ttiake them more politically vulnerable impressed! I understand they have of the Civil Rights Ca.npaign and the military as a political strategy, has Britain and to counter the attempt drivers and policemen. But I remember miles from the borders of Wales. But Short MP, Peter Hain, chair, and Ken French Revolution which inspired in doe time. competitions with other schools! lessons for the Irish people today. sought not to bring peace in Ireland but being made by conservative British and her comment as she wagged her finger: Wales can only express itself through Wolfe Tone, and that of the Battle of IMPORTANT Livingstone, MP. But the real Sickener for me was to to ensnare the Dublin government in the Irish interests to turn these into a form the British Goverment. Inter- /„ In Sligo the Unemployed Workers the Boyne which heralded the penal Jack of all trades and master of none! Protestantism is the progressive There were many speakers from the see in the Irish People, organ of the military control of Northern Ireland of anti-n*' nal brainwashing, nationalism says that she should IT is proposed to publish the January Movement, based approporiatdy in laws and consolidated landlordism, will religion in England, Catholicism in floor some of whom were critical of Workers Party, the headline 'Provos through: subversive ol the Irish people's most issue of the Irish Democrat on Countess Markievicz House, has shortly fall due, with consequent When people are young they think speak for herself. The CA's view is Ireland. That is one reason the Left in the platform. Summing up Clare started its own little paper. Jail Three More', referring to the progressive traditions, and SEEK all December 29th. This means the paper 1. co-ordination of the policing oi the opportunities for public enlightenment, other people are interested in them. It that the Irish would best solve their England find Ireland hard to Short explained the plans for the next Unemployment is an appalling Winchester Three, implying that the border, ways and means to de>eion solidarity will have to be prepared well before takes time to understand that people problems through organisation. The understand. They think Protestants year and tne conference ended on a scourge all over the country, causing Provisionals, and not the British 2. extradition of citizens of the Republic further at local and national levels, with very first issue of the paper fifty years Christmas. are only interested in themselves. and Catholics stand for the same Consequently the last date for the note of optimism and unity. A the high rate of emigration. State, had railroaded these three to British or British-occupied territory, Whereas organisations working for peace and ago said tnat tne Irish shouldorganise young people into jail for 25 years. the general sentiment of the majority of those who oi MOM the drive to European Youth is such a troublesome time and things as here. Whereas Irishmen can editor to receive copy is Monday,. detailed account or the Conference In Mayo local Republicans are 3. Joint 32-county military operations by joining their appropriate trade being repeatedly harassed — to no And this at a time when the case is the British people is for a policy of Union by defending democracy and the around .16 . or 17 is the' most understand this country because so December 12th. will appear in the January issue of the against all opposition to British unions. great effect — by the Special Branch. awaiting appeal. domination of Ireland, and withdrawal, and all that implies, nation state. troublesome of all. In short I don't many of them come here to live. Democrat. Page Six THE IRISH DEMOCRAT December 1988 ROSES IN HER HAIR WOODLANDS OF December 1988 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Seven BY SEAN HEALY IRISH ABOVE the noise and the dust-filled air, LOUGHLYNN above the sweat and the mid-day glare, (Tune: My Old Fenian Gun) - the crash of shovels on broken stone, SONGS THE summer sun was sinking low behind the western sea, VHt TEN YEARS NOW THE the pain in the sinew, the ache in the bone, The lark's love song was pealing sweet, but it brought no joy to me, above each curse, above each swear, Edited by For the one I love is far away, he left this tyrant's den, jbove the hell the navvies bear Patrick Bond He fought till death, and then he left, the woodlands of Loughlynn. - a gruff voice sang. - A noble Irishman was he, John Bergin was his name, POLLS SAY: "GET OUT" "there was a girl from God knows where, He belonged to Tipperary, and from Nenagh town he came; Northern Ireland: The many injured and countless shoot-to-kill — but they haven't persuade a future government to spotlight off some very dark deeds but she wore roses in her hair," But now thank God that he is gone, he's free from harm and siri, thousand more now bear the tried disengagement. break the connection. of repression. Political Economy of Con- mental scars of the conflict — all Some would laugh at a mate's coarse joke, THE OLD And he let them have his parting shot, in the woodlands of Loughlynn. Rowthorn — a Cambridge English and Welsh trade Reservations apart, in the flict. By Bob Rowthorn "acceptable levels" with "a matter University economist — and unionists won't have the right to the rest too tired hardly ever spoke, McDermott too, was brave and true, from the plains of Barnageer of strategic importance". struggle over the next few months and Naomi Wayne, Polity Wayne — a trade union officer remain silent next year when between Time To Go's attempt to but little by little each one of us thrilled BOG ROAD He's missed from many a fireside in the homes both far and near, Press. Price £8.95 PbK. In economic, let alone human, they're picked up on the picket open up the debate on the British He's missed at home by all he'd known, by his own dear kith and kin, terms, this "importance" deserves to the words of the song, and our hearts were filled; MY feet are here on Broadway By Martin Moriarty line. Neither will protesters presence and the British And his comrades true shall miss him too, in the woodlands of Loughlynn. FORTY years ago, the British serious examination — and with an old man heaved his heart with a sigh, This blessed harvest morn, outside nuclear bases, nor government's attempts to close it civil service told the Labour the growing momentum of the with a record of work against dreaming of lost loves long gone by, But oh, the ache that's in my heart When our heroes brave were dying there, they sent for a clergyman, government that the Six Counties demonstrators for a better health down, this book will be a very Let none think that they feared to face the English black and tan, Time To Go initiative, even more discrimination in the North itself service — because the British useful guide. but l was young and my heart was wild, For the spot where I was born. should remain in British hands as so. — argue that withdrawal is a' The clergy came and were in time, for love they said "Amen," "a matter of strategic government is intent on and love was the play of the adult child; My weary hands are blistered Written in clear, dispassionate desirable and practical use of continuing to prosecute its Through toil in cold and heat McDermott's soul departing through, the woodlands of Loughlynn. importance." DUBLIN LIVES I thought of a colleen I met at Puck Fair, language, Northern Ireland: The Britain's economic clout in the military campaign against the But oh, to swing a scythe again Take a message to our own brave boys and tell them we are dead, Aware of opposition to the 1949 Political Economy of Conflict is North. who had wistful brown eyes and the darkest of hair; republican movement. Dublin Belles, by Mairin Johnston. Through a field of Irish wheat. Tell them to be of utmost cheer, and hold no drooping head; Ireland Act on the Labour an anatomy of the economics of HB £12.95 Punts. PB £5.95. I looked at the face of the ganger then, Had I the chance to wander back, To keep their brains a-using and to fight and not give in, benches, the servants of the crown partition versus the economics of warned: "So far as it can be "DUBLIN Belles" is Mai'r'in the face of a rat, a rat amongst men, And be proud to die, 'neath an Irish sky, in the woodlands of Loughlynn. withdrawal. Or own a king's abode foreseen, it will never be to Great Johnston in conversation with twenty - and forgot my hate for his narrow eyes, It's soon I'd see the hawthorn tree "A central theme Of this book" four women giving their impressions Britain's advantage that Northern authors Bob Rowthorn and as I lifted up mine to the sunlight skies; By the Old Bog Road. of growing up in Dublin. Within its Ireland should form a territory Naomi Wayne say, "is that brightly illustrated cover we meet a we forgot the work and the heat in our dreams When I was young and restless AN MAIDRIN RUA outside his majesty's jurisdic- Ireland is a British problem. Solicitor, four Community Workers, and the sweat that poured down our backs in streams; My mind was ill at ease tion." Britain is responsible for the three artists, an entertainer, a Through dreaming of America AG g'bhall o thualdh dom thar Silabh Luachra And they put their own unique present situation there and only Librarian, a Politician, two singers, a it was all so vague but oh, so sweet Trade Union Activist, and Senator And the gold beyond the seas. 'Gus mise 'cur tuarisc 'mo gheanna gloss on the formula of "unity by Britain can find a solution." the words that were sung in the blazing heat. consent." According to them, "it and a comedienne. From June Levine Oh sorrow take th^ir money! Ar mo chasadh a-duaidh sea 'fuair me a dtuarisc It's not a thesis that will win the writer we get a glimpse of Go ralbh maidrin rua a n-aolreacht! would seem unlikely that Great them any new friends among 'Tis hard to find the same Britain would ever be able to agree childhood from the Jewish point of And what's the world to any man leftists on the one hand and two- view. POOLING SOVEREIGNTY Curfa: An maidrin rua, rua, rua, rua rua to this even if the people of nationists on the other. But the Where no one speaks his name? Northern Ireland desired it." Between these pages you will get the I've had my day and here I am An maidrin rua 'ta granna book has already won golden lovely aroma of Bewleys coffee, see Forty years on they might have opinions for its sober engagement the man patting butter in Findlaters, JOHN BOYD An maufa-in rua 'na lul sa luachalr Martin Moriarty, Peter Mulligan and John Boyd's hand at the Jubilee A-building bricks per load added: "and even if the people of with the arguments most often visit Merrion Square when the big A long three thousand miles away 'Gus barr a dha chluas in airde. Britain desired it, too." Connolly Association Conference. Photo Conor Kelly, London Irish News. A FRIENDLY sounding phase has key areas of economic life in these trundled out against withdrawal houses were family homes with From the Old Bog Road. "Good morrow, fox!" "Good morrow, sir!" Opinion polls have been hoards of servants to haul bath water been coined — "pooling sovereignty'. islands. in Britain. "Pray what is that you're ating?" registering majorities for British In economic and political Already, this particularly upstairs several times a day, and see Sir Geoffrey Howe, British Foreign In other words there is nothing new My mother died last springtime It's aimed very much at the sort disengagement for the last 15 terms, disengagement makes vicious government is trying to young boys pushing handcarts Minister, used this phrase several about the idea of pooling soverignty "A fine fat goose I stole from you, of British audience that the Time When Ireland's fields are green years or so and yet successive sense, they say. shut down popular protest about through the streets in Winter, their times in a recent debate with the West which has been in place since the And will you come and taste it?" To Go movement is trying to And the neighbours said her waking governments have still refused to And they back up their the British presence by keeping bare feet bleeding. German elder statesman Helmut Rome Treaty was signed in 1957 and reach, some of those strands of the Wns the finest ever seen. "Oh, no indeed, nl ail lom I, negotiate on withdrawal. arguments with an impressive not just republicans off the radio Elaine Crowley, best-selling Schmidt on BBC Radio. Nodoubt the was extended by the Single European Snowdrops and primroses Nl bhlaisfead ploc di ar aon chor, majority sentiment for British archive of material, from the and television but campaigners author, says that though she has inventors of this phrase i_an be lound Act. What is new is the discovery by They have paid a high price. withdrawal that are tired of travelled extensively, nowhere else has Piled up beside her bed But I vow and swear you'll dearly pay abuse of civil liberties to the like Paul Hill's uncle Errol residing in the most pro-Common some that national parliaments no Partition costs the British the killings and want to see "their the immediacy of Dublin. Where else, And Ferns church was crowded For my fine fat goose you're ating!" exchequer around £20 billion statistics of employment Smalley. she asks, would you meet an assistant Market institution in these islands — longer have the sovereign powers of boys" "back home", those who discrimination. the British f oreign Office. former years. With the impending When the funeral Mass was "Nl bhlaisfead ploc is ni losfad gldb pounds every year, and the having been told that the British Small wonder the measures in a shoeshop, who — on noticing that However, they have sacrificed her bunion was sore — rushed next Internal Market being assembled by said - Republic another £250 million government have tried everything, were so enthusiastically welcomed This broadcast was part of a w ider Is nl rachaldh aon smut Lm'bheal de any perspective on why a future door to the chemists where she bought And here was I on Broadway more. i i in Pretoria: the Botha regime propaganda exercise which includes the day, and not at the stroke of But I vow and swear you'll dearly pay "can see ho solution. progressive British government plasters and put one on her foot? knows just how effective so-called Mrs Thatcher's speech about midnight at the end of 1992, many A-building bricks per load For my fine fat goose you're ating!" And since British troops were But British governments might declare that its intention is A rich, entertaining, poignant, things are suddenly becoming crystal "reporting restrictions" are at European Union. The exercise has When they carried out her coffin Greadh croi craite ort, a mhaidrin ghranna sent back onto the streets of haven't tried everything. They to withdraw and set about funny and well illustrated book. Buy two major aims. To opponents ol clear Down the Old Bog Road. Belfast and Deny 20 years ago keeping the international it. Joan Sotners A rug ualm m'al brea geanna have tried internment, Diplock negotiating reunification with the forming a European Union or Federal The loss of sovereignty is even next year, over 2,500 people have courts, plastic bullets, discrim- Ah, life's a weary puzzle Mo choillgh mhora bhreatha's mo chearca 'bhl go halalnn Dublin government. Europe, make out that sovereignty worrying Conservative MPs at been killed, almost ten times as ination in jobs and housing, The use of the single word Past finding out by man, Is mo lachain bheaga ab fhearr a bhl In Eirinn! was not being given over to Brussels, Westminster. One story goes that a ""Britain" as a sort of shorthand Ireland, Scotland, Sardinia but was only being put together and Tory MP read an EC publication I'll take each day for what it's worth sentence and kept quiet but instead he Curfa dirldh: Tally ho lena bhonn! Tally ho lena bhonn!! penned this anti-hanging ballad which for the British ruling class blurs The letters Gramsci wrote from shared in a pool. I he idea conveyed is pointing out the EuroParliament had And do the best I can; Gramsci's Prison Letters: Tally ho lena bhonn a choilealnin! describes so well the agony of the man the difference between the British prison, the only expression of hi^ that sovereignty is under joint control taken over certain minor powers from Since no one cares a rush for me Lettere dal Carcere, Tally ho lena bhonn! Tally ho lena bhonn! awaiting execution and effect on civil servants who make the developing ideas, until the prison by all member governments and the House of Commons. He became What point is there to moan? Agus barr a dha chlaas in airde! fellow prisoners. The words and _ establishment case for occupation translated and edited by regime relaxed to allow him to ..Rational parliaments still had the last very worried and asked the Deputy I'll go my way and draw my pay woodcuts show the misery, the and the British working people write his notebooks, are an word. At the same time interested Speaker if he could raise objections to loneliness, the claustrophobia of Hamish Henderson, Zwan And smoke my pipe alone. who will never achieve much of education. From his political circles were assured Britain was still this state of affairs. The Deputy prison life. In the pictures even the Each human heart must bear its significance until they manage to Books, 290pp, £16.50. ideas, to his thoughts on his native going along with the plan to form a Speaker advised the MP his best RAGLAN ROAD bricks in the cell wall seem aware of grief - ANTONIO Gramsci (1891-1937) Sardinia, its folk-life and European Union but would be course of action was to write and raise the regimentation all round. Though heavy be the load, has been described by Eric education, are a testimony to the playing hard to get. It was a question the objection with his own MfcP. ON Raglan Road of an Autumn day, Brendan Behan in the "Quare So God be with you, Ireland I saw her first and knew, that her dark hair would weave a snare that I Fellow" was obviously influenced by Irish women's Guide-diary Hobsbawn as 'an extraordinary or finality of his thought. of tactics and who could get most out Organisations and political parties of the situation. And the Old Bog Road. might one day rue, Wilde's ballad. The poem was also a IRISH Women's Guide Book philosopher, perhaps a genius, in the labour and trade union major influence on Bobby Sands. I saw the danger and I passed, along the enchanted way, probably the most original For all the talk about a Community movement are being seduced into Compare these two verses from Wilde Diary, 1989. Price £3.95. In this volume Dr Hamish And I said let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day. communist thinker of the and Union the EC still consists of supporting the drive to European and Sands. Published by Attic Press. twentieth century in Western Henderson, the Scottish socialist, BECAUSE of the women's movement bitterly competing interests. Dog eats Union. Phrases like pooling On Grafton street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge It is sweet to dance to violins Europe'. Gramsci died as a republican poet, translates and dog is the rule which still applies. Big sovereignty, Europeanisation, and When Love and Life are fair: in Ireland women now have their own edits over 200 of the letters and, by Of a deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion play. lawyers, doctors, TDs, advice centres, prisoner of Mussolini, having transnational corporations eat social dimensions are invented for the THE PARTING To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes doing so throws new light on The Queen of Hearts still making tarts, and I not making hay. co-operatives, publishers and their own spent nearly eleven years in jail. smaller corporations in a market unwary and those who have no is delicate and rare: Gramsci's ideas and thoughts. Oh, I loved too much and by such and such But it is not sweet with nimble feet diaries. Soon no doubt, they will have place where there are no reigns on conception of what is entailed. GLASS To dance upon the air! their own priests and bishops. They Grainsci's influence on 20th capital Big farmers buy up small Experience of pooling sovereignty Is happiness thrown away. * * * Naturally, Hamish Henderson OH, all the money e'er I had have sued Mr John Hermon, Chief Century Left thinking has been farms aided by such things as the milk over shipbuilding, steel and capital I gave her gifts of the mind, I gave her the secret signs Constable of the R.U.C. Maybe next (who describes his own self as 'a I spent it in good company. profound. He clashed with the quota system within the Common has shown it Is not in the interests of That's known to the artists who have known the true gods of sound and 'Sergeant, there seems to be some they will sue the Reverend Paisley for political myopia of those who Scottish working-class intellectual Agricultural Policy. The City of the economy, jobs or national And all the harm I've ever done claim not letting them preach in his church? — a stubborn survivor in Alas, it was to none but me, stone. hero-worshipped Stalin and London wants to be top financial dog democracy. That you forced him to confess, As well as a good space for each day Thatcher's Britain') uses the And all I've done for want of wit And her words and tint without stint, I gave her poems to say. And that you walked upon his spine resisted rigid compartmentalising. in the EC controlling transnational The whole object ot the of I9»9 the diary has Information about parallel of Scotland's position to To mem'ry now I can't recall With her own name there and her own dark hair, And beat him up no less?' He understood the importance of capital movements. Mrs Thatcher and transnational corporation! and banks where women can go for advice, for England to illustrated that of So nil to me the parting glass Like clouds over fields of May. 'No! No! My Lord, that was his culture and was one of the first Mr Lawson are its spokesmen. is to remove any restrictions to their instance The Well Woman Centre. Marxist thinkers to understand Gramsci's Sardinia to Italy. But, Good night and God be with you all. own Another advert directs women to a he admits, 'Sardinia and Scotland The key question to ask is, "who aims and objectives. This means they On a quiet street where old ghosts meet. I see her walking now the importance of studying Self-inflicted mess!' group called Women Together which is might not seem very plausible controls the pool?" Take steel, want an end to the nation state and Oh, all the comrades e'er I had, Away from me so hurriedly, my reason must allow. Notice in both there are six lines popular culture in the battle to also based in Dublin. Silver Moon, the yoke-fellows — a much closer shipbuilding and agriculture which any vestige of democracy. Pooling They're sorry for my going away, That I had loved not as I should, a creature made of clay. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By and the second, fourth and sixth lines create a revolutionary con- vscar trade, the Journeyman excknhely women's bookshop is in parallel might seem that between are subject to common EC policies. In sovereignty is only in the interests of And all the sweethearts e'er I had, When the angel woos the clay he'll lose rhyme. Charing Cross Road, London. They run sciousness. They'd wished me one more day to stay, Press. Price £2.95. pps. 64. We must show our appreciation to Sardinia and Ireland,both victims, each case the Commission and concentrating capital where it makes his wings at the dawn of day. a mail order service for their sisters Gramsci's ideas provide much But since it falls unto my lot AS it says on the back cover, "this is a The Journeyman Press by buying a of centennial foreign domination Council of Ministers, acting with most profit which must mean fewer PATRICK KAVANAGH abroad. They have over 7,«M books food for thought for Ireland That I should rise and you should not, heartfelt cry against Man's copy of this great ballad. about and for women, The Four — but a closer examination •Srommission advice, controls the jobs. Pooling sovereignty in order to inhumanity to man. The legal violence today. He warned: 'When a 'race' common policy. Rules and concentrate capital means removing I gently rise and softly call. Provinces Bookshop, 224/* Grays Inn suggests there are similarities...' of the hangman's rope, the denial of Road, London WC1 has * women's has forgotten its native tongue, it regulations according to EC wide law national controls. This in turn means Goodnight and joy be with you all. Time To Go Meeting everything to the condemned except section also. Also the diary has a means that it has already lost the Indeed, in his closely written removing any national democratic are used to see these policies are If I had money enough to spend, (Continued From Page Four) death, the coldness and terror as the selection of recommended reading for major part of its inheritance, of its introduction, Hamish Henderson <. arried out. This is all backed up by a con'rols exercised through parliament And leisure time to sit awhile, final unspoken act takes place. The points however. Jimmy Stewart British peoples' lack of understanding of women. The vast majority of Attic own original conception of the goes on to explain what those Court of Justice that can and does and national government. There is a fair maid in this town, starkness of Masereel's woodcuts add Books listed are by Irish women. They world, and has absorbed the similarities are. explained the link between Irish self- Irish politics is an obstacle to developing a sad and lonely dimension to this order national governments what to It is time to reverse the drive to That sorely has my heart beguiled, their knowledge by conventional political culture (togetfrer with the determination and class struggle and famous poem." This is an important book. do. The case of shipyards being clOTed European Union by defending what Her rosy cheeks and ruby lips, called for full support for "Time To forms. In the next years of activity of There is a haiMMttae language) of a conquering The poem, is the first work of Wilde Important for anyone interested down because subsidies were national democracy still remains and I own, she has my heart in thrall, Go". "Time To Go", we need to "ind new ways " Daly, Head of people.' Here, Gramsci was which is about ordinary working class in the political situation disallowed by EC rules is a very recent call a halt to pooling any more Then fill to me the parting glass, of getting our message across. ResMMfcoT Powrty'-j people and also aimed at a popular echoing the idea of the Irish developing in the Celtic countries instance of how far the EC controls Good night and joy be with you all. All in all the meeting showed that the John Foley, Glasgow. sovereignty. audience. For that reason it is revolutionary Thomas Davis in for Gramsci's work is as relevant •No language, no described as WHde's most remarkable Britain. It Is i today as ever if was. work. WUdb could have just done his Mwr Berresford Ellis. Page Eight THE IRISH DEMOCRAT

TAPED FOR A SERIES - NOW CANCELLED 'KEEPyer hat on, they're sackin' the yet been invaded, not since the Nor- Britain might be the singing of a British characteristic . anyway and old 'uns!' — that's what the oldtimers mans defeated poor Harold almost a ballad that commemorated the even today, after almost twenty years used to say hereabouts, the men who thousand years ago... if, I said, Britain execution of the Manchester Martyrs, of fairly intensive television exposure came through the Twenties and were ever to be invaded the people The Smashing of the Van, some eighty you will find people here in Britain Thirties when it wasn't a case of here would fight like the very devil, or ninety years before; songs like The who will ask you in all seriousness jacking your job in for the hell of it, they'd never accept defeat. Well, the Valley of Knockanure and others like it whether a town like Wexford is Aware Of The Irish — "The fact that but a case of being lucky to be able to boss-man seemed quite touched at about either the War of Independence 'North* or 'South' or as I well know they are Irish is, by itself, a perfectly hold on to a job at all. I knew an old this and says he to me in all sincerity: or the Irish civil war that followed it, myself, if you tell them that you're neutral piece of evidence, but when brickie who often told how the gaffers 'That's right, Danny, we've never these were a regular thing. Much of it going to Kilkenny they may ask you if you place it with the evidence in the would sometimes sack a good worker been invaded — and nor has of course was emotional pub that's where the trouble is! Not many case, the picture assumes a — just to put the fear of God in the Ireland! And', says he with great patriotism, a surface thing... I people in Ireland could display that significance of which you must be rest! You heard a lot of that kind of remember when poor Sean South died degree of vagueness about Britain... aware." Alan Rawley Q.C. for the resolution, 'If ever anyone tried to invade prosecution. Winchester Crown talk when I started working on the Ireland we'd be down on them like a ' in an ambush in the late 1950's, there English journalists writing about Court. INDEPENDENT. building and civil engineering in 1952, ton of bricks!' That man had been was a song called Sein South of Ireland have long been intrigued or Then And Now — "The election of I think it created something of a bond dealing in the course of his work with Garryowen and you'd see them amused maybe by what the regard as hunger striker Mr Bobby Sands to between Irishmen like myself and the Irishmen on and off for years but he waltzing to it and singing it the peculiarly Irish capacity for being Westminster in 1981 came as a shock indigenous workers, a class interest in was blissfully unaware that English enthusiastically in Irish dance halls in anti-British in a general way and at the » to most of the British media. This common, most Irishmen you met here dominion over Ireland has been the London and other places, but there same time in going out of their way to newspaper remarked that his death- if they'd had employment at home course of friction between the two was never any serious thought given be nice to the visiting Briton: 'Oh but bed victory had thrown years of myths were pretty scathing about their countries for several hundred years... there's nothing personal in it,' they out of the window — and the biggest — except, among the politically- employers, especially if they worked quote their Irish sources as saying myth is that the IRA in its violent I would say, though, that there is a minded, the very few — to what it was for the farmers. A lot of ordinary phase represents only a tiny minority degree of acquaintance between the that Sean South and Fergal O'Hanlon with what is generally thought of as of the population." Mr Gerry Adams, English working chaps were more two nations now that you hadn't at all and others like them were trying to do typical Irish inconsistency or the president of Sinn Fein said: 'Eight radical, somehow, just after the war back in the post-war era — there is of — initiate a war against Britain in the illogicality. But this was precisely years ago Mrs Thatcher claimed that than they are today, there was a great course the common pop-culture that Six Counties of Northern Ireland. what I found about the men I worked the Republican movement had no sense of independence among them the younger people of both countries with — the local people I mean — support. Now they are directly and a willingness to be dubious about share to a degree they didn't thirty or By when I came here first. They censoring a legal political party which some of their own institutions; for forty years ago. Television is surely constantly expressed what you might has an electoral mandate. If they had example you very rarely hear anyone the biggest single cause of that but the call xenophobic sentiments, they had an argument to counter the Sinn Fein criticising the British Royal Family volume of Irish emigration to Britain Bonail denigratory nicknames for almost view then they should be putting it today, not in my experience anyway, instead of censoring us.' must also have had the effect of every nation in the world... the French GUARDIAN. NB the BBC later but when I worked among making us better acquainted, MatArnh were frogs, th^'Germans 'krauts' and issued a statement — "We could Englishmen on the railway or on mutually, though I would claim that black people were either 'wogs' or report Gerry Adams attacking the building jobs back in the Fifties there the Irish have always understood the No one discussed the feasibility or 'jungle bunnies'... ex-soldiers who had Government, but not if he says was almost always moaning about the English better than vice versa — for otherwise of it and when in later years been to India or the Arab countries something in support of Sinn Fein. Mr Royals and the cost of keeping them obvious reasons. repressive legislation like the a'ways spoke scathingly about the Hurd has invoked powers under all... as an Irishman it surprised and Prevention of Terrorism Act came to natives in those countries — but for section 29 of the Broadcasting Act, almost embarrassed me at times and I Britain for centuries loomed large all that, on a personal everyday level which regulates the Independent inhibit political discussion and the tended to keep my views to myself, it in the Irish consciousness as the they were tolerant and friendly Broadcasting Authority. The BBC open expression of dissident views the wasn't my place after all to criticise enough towards any such outsiders will be restricted under its charter conqueror must always loom large in majority of us acted as the majority of the institutions of the host country! drawn up in 1927. the mind of the conquered. I don't people would in any country by who might happen to work with them... I'd knock things like capitalism doubt that such terms will seem keeping our thoughts to ourselves and Censoring Sinn Fein — "We have hurtful — gratuitiously so, perhaps — adopting what is described as the low certain opinions which inclun cuts confirmed this government as "who is to do the cutting, by how much, Survey for Ireland. Subsidiaries of the International Financial Services The Greedy. — There are now 23 UK die best since the 1960V' .and where;." Under the Fianna Fail foreign monopolies produce 80% of Centre last September. Sited in the old directors who receive salaries and This is some change of heart by the administration, government borrowing Eire's non-food manufactured exports. Custom House docks in Dublin the dividends in excess of one million mouthpiece of British finance capital. has fallen from 13% to 6% of the Gross These monopolies, as the OECD survey centre offers 10£ corporation tax, no pounds. There are an additional 25 National product. But these debts to who receive over 500,000. The recent Before the February 1987 general notes ". . . .have been attracted by commercial property tax for tea years foreign finance capital have been paid Tory budget increased their take election that brought Haughey's generous capital grants and virtual and no capital gains tax. But of all the home pay by an additional 93,000pa. Fianna Fail party to government in for by the workers aid small farmers exemption of profits from taxation." statistics that phase the flasace LABOUR RESEARCH DEP- Ireland, the Economist had said of a and not big business. 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