FOUNDED 1939 j KEEP THE DATE FREE Organ of the AT a conference in June 1987, organised by the Connolly Association Connolly Association there will be a discussion on the democratic right cf the Irish people to unity and independence and the problems trade unionists face in generating support for this aim among other trade unionists. Before June there will be a number of meetings in which there will be preparatory discussions. The first of these will be on Saturday, 1st No 512 OCTOBER 1986 November, at the Marchmont Street Community Centre at 2.30 pm, chairman, Noel Harris national organiser of ACTT, main speaker C. Desmond Greaves. Many Trade Union Leaders expressed WALL STREET sympathetic interest at this year's Trades Union Congress. For further information write to or phone Connolly Association, 244, 246, Grays Inn Road, COONEYWANTS MEDDLES London, WC1. Tel: 833 3022. BIGGER LIES Teachers furious GOEBELS, Hitler's propaganda minister advocated the Big Lie. The historians have already been told to IN IRISH AFFAIRS play down the crimes of Britain in Ireland. That means the historians are already distorting history. The leaders U.S. SHOWS CONTEMPT FOR IRISH PEOPLE in'1916 must not be treated as heroes. Not content with that Mr Cooney Irish Minister for Education, wants teachers to introduce further distortion under his The cat is out of the bag good and proper guidance. In his circular he urges teachers to denounce "the evils of the IRA." THE cat is now out of the bag. Good and proper! The circular, sent to all post-primary HARRY COULDRING schools at the end of August, drew A prominent feature article in the prestigious Wall Street Journal, megaphone of the attention to the naming of 1986 by the multi-millionaires, argues that American policy towards Ireland should concentrate on one R.I.P. United Nations as the International Year of Peace. thing and one thing olone, that is getting the Republic into NATO. AN Englishman, and a real Londoner "It is envisaged," the circular says, This blatant interference in Irish affairs is advocated by military journalist Mr William Kennedy, who says when Harry married Liz Dunne fron "that a main focus of attention would that the USA should establish a "secular, all-Ireland government" within the EEC and NATO. Co Louth he became a loyal member oi he on the promotion of peace and the Connolly Association, Soutl reconciliation in Ireland, with The expression "secular" is the war to begin. They want Britain to has yet fully to come to grips with London Branch. 'Harry Boy' greatl) rtkular emphasis on the evils of the key to the divorce memorandum, undertake this responsibility. the new factors introduced into the enjoyed the CA's delegation to Dublin E A, while also taking into account which is now revealed as having But, the article explains, the overall political situation by this in 1984, and indeed he and Liz were on wider international issues such as been brought about under US equivalent of a whole division is holiday in Ireland when he so tragically disarmament, the problems of intensified American pressure. Will died from thrombosis on September developing nations and human rights." pressure with a view to the NATO deployed in the six counties, and Ireland be Cuba or Puerto Rico? 5th. All our sympathy goes out to Liz The Fianna Fail spokesperson on scenario. No doubt Garret the three and a half thousand That's a question! and the family. education, Mrs O'Rourke, said she was Fitzgerald got his orders at the million dollars spent every year amazed at the selectivity in the circular Bilderberg conference or the would equip an extra aircraft and queried why it did not list all trilateral commission. parliamentary groups who contributed carrier battle group. to violence. It was wrong she said in an The sixty million dollars being RTE interview, "to introduce into a Why do the Americans want this? given to the Anglo-Irish The poem below was written by an innocent man in history of civics class any note of Because they've got to pay for their Conference is a very small sprat for dissent which would be completely one- mission in Northern Norway from catching a mackerel like that. Wormwood Scrubs, doing life imprisonment for a sided." which they expect the third world crime he did not commit. The intense agony of his She took exception to the circular The Irish Republican movement because it breached "educational situation is conveyed through his words. The poem principles." Hie Minister, she said, had it made a tactical error in only naming the Nuclear cul-de-sac says more than a hundred political tracts. IRA. ACCORDING to an editorial in the The suggestion is that the better Father Paul Byrne of the Conference New Scientist of August 22nd, the system is that based on extracting heat of Major Religious superiors said that Chernobyl accident could be repeated by means of an inert gas such as any move to lecture students on the evils any time, anywhere, because safety helium. This was the technology EACH MORNING of the IRA would be counter productive controls have to be manually switched developed in Britain. People in the and would not prevent teenagers from off when maintenance work is Trade Union movement should be supporting republican paramilitaries. undertaken. The presence of highly asking why this was stopped. Was it By Richard Mc llkenny The president of the Amalgamated reactive steam in the vicinity of another example of Mrs Thatcher's (One of the Birmingham Six) Society for the Teachers of Ireland, Mr graphite always carries the possibility groveling to the Americans? Chemists John White also said the circular could of a water gas reaction if by any will be wondering what is wrong with be counter productive. The TUI mischance the two come together. The Argon, which is totally inert and' Each morning I awake Lord Mr Sean McCarthy said the extraction of heat by means of water is composes one per cent of the I give you thanks and praise ive been on political thus fundamentally unsound and this atmosphere. But nuclear energy may For adding yet another procedure to achieve change ratter re- on particular groups. jneans that the nuclear industry has still be saved if there is a complete To my span of days Ia reply Mr Cooney said on RTE that been ted down a disastrous cul-de-sac. think. In times of anger and frustration Lord biggest single obstacle to You have given me your peace peace in Ireland." In this approach to And filled me with your love and joy Irish politics Cooney follows In the BOOK THE DATE! That I pray will never cease footsteps of Thatcher and Fitzgerald. Through the good days r And the bad days Lord It has become unfashionable to use SATURDAY, DECEM ,^R 7th :: 11.00-4.30 You have carried me along the terms Parition, occupation forces, And put in my heart your patience or Imperialism hi certain circles. And on my lips your song. GREAT BOOK SALE Continue Lord to guide me SUSTENTATION FUND . 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Totaf: £74.21 OCTOBER 1986 IRISH DEflQpRAT Page Three Page Two IRISH DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 1986 i A threat to us all ALL TOGETHER NOW Campaign for Release of Innocent Prisoners LAGAN LIGHTS THE British Government's failure to ageing leader, whose fitness for office inform the Irish Government on the of the chief of the world's biggest ALL strands of organised Irish political favouritism, resolved at a campaign, Father Faul cited the 30,000 gallon leak from the Wifla military machine, must more and opinion in Britain are convinced that General Meeting in London on recent publication of "Error of power station in north east Anglia more be called into question. Then, of the six men now serving the twelfth September 13th to campaign on all Judgement" on the Birmingham BY S. O. DIOCHON shows contempt for the people of this course Reagan is convinced God year of their life sentences for the three cases. For a start the Federation bombings trial by British journalist country. An international ban on the speaks with an American accent and Birmingham bombings are innocent; is to book a Committee Room in the Chris Mullin. (Father Faul is himself disposal of nuclear waste has been in learned how to dispense justice on a that the three men and one woman House of Commons to brief MPs and co-author of "The Birmingham Hollywood film set. serving life for the Guildford bombing media on the evidence that Framework" published in 1976). operation for the past three years. Stil are innocent and that the Maguire miscarriages of justice have occurred. Father Faul also noted that British Britain is planning to go on dumping When the US Senate approved family are innocent of the charges for historian and TV journalist Robert nuclear waste into the Irish Sea. The ratification of Extradition Treaty which they were jailed. The Federation also resolved to call Kee is shortly to publish a book on the SECTARIANISM comment of the Bantry based aimed at making it easier for Britain As we go to press the campaign to on the Irish Government to detail one Guildford bombing trial supporting Earthwatch organisation was that the to extradite suspected IRA members, have these innocent people released, of its officials to work full-time in the contention that those jailed had no IN the years when Unionism meetings held within the Trade threat to assassinate civilians who proposal to resume dumping was President Reagan telephoned the compensated and their names cleared, support of the campaign from the connection with the bombings. Father reigned supreme in the Six Union and Labour Party branches were servicing the British Army's "typical of the arrogant attitude of the British Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher, and to have those who framed and Irish Embassy in London. Faul also remarked that many MPs of Counties Lord Craigavon once proved to be the most effective apparatus. The armed wing of the nuclear industry in Britain." with the news. Thatcher said she was mistreated them identified and all parties were convinced of the described his Stormont regime as and fruitful. At these meetings the UDA, the Ulster Freedom The barrels already dumped off the delighted with the result of the vote. punished, is being joined by Both resolutions, passed innocence of the Maguire family, and being a Protestant parliament for British workers frequently Fighters, and other Loyalist south coast of Ireland were already The Golden Boy from Ballyporeen concerned organisations and unopposed, were moved by George of Giuseppe Conlon who died in jail a Protestant people. Today the beginning to corrode and release their did not think it worth his while to get Meehan of the Haringey Irish maintaining his innocence. He questioned the role of the Trades groups responded by threatening substances into the Gulf Stream, and in touch with the Irish Government to individuals. Association. They followed an aeroplane plant of Shortscould be Unions in the Six Counties and to kill Catholics. In Shorts factory inform them of the decision. Perhaps most significantly, the address by Father Denis Faul of commended also various television described as a Protestant industry seaweed along the coast has been Federation of Irish Societies, programmes which had supported a were puzzled to know why they the organised bigoted elements in contaminated. However, for I was amazed at the outburst of Dungannon. review of the three cases. for Protestant workers. Out of the were not more successful in the workforce tore up the time- fishermen from Cobh, Passage and Fine Gael TD Bernard Allen of Cork comprising community organisations 7,000 workforce there are only 400 combating discrimination and check cards of some of the Crosshaven in East Cork, who are City, who is the running mate of Peter constitutionally barred from party Saying the time was ripe for a DK Catholics and most of those have the denial of democratic rights. In Catholic workers and intimidated taking deformed and rotting pollock Barry, TD Foreign Minister attacking been taken on but recently due to asking this question they were those progressive Protestants and plaice out of their nets, the issue is the US aid package to Nicaragua, in PROUD DAY the fear of the management of thinking in terms of their own trade unionists whom they call quite simple. The number of diseased which he said that it could only mean losing contracts because of the Union movement and its "taig lovers". They called for a fish removed greatly exceeds the total the escalation of war there and blatant discrimination. While this leadership and missing the general stoppage and about a number of diseased fish taken from possible danger to the lives of many FOR TROY discrimination is a just cause for thousand walked out for half-a- other harbours in Ireland and that can Irish development workers. additional imperial content of the only mean one thing — "Con- Deputy Allen, who visited THE "collar city" of Troy, New York, complaint and resentment among problem which frustrates, and day. But jobs are very scarce and tamination." so named after its specialisation in the the Catholic population it also has even at times renders impotent, to the majority of the workers the Nicaragua during the election there in manufacture of shirt-collars, paid a disastrous consequences in the the TU movement and its priority is the pay-packet. They two-day tribute to its most celebrated TRIBUTE TO CONNOLLY IN TROY longer term tor the Protestant leadership within the Six did not want to jeopardise the one-time resident James Connolly on section of the working class. from August I6th and 17th last, and a Counties. The essence of this company's future. The obvious handsome commemorative booklet RESOLUTION ON AUGUST 17th However, on the issues of wages, imperial content is that the course for this majority, for whom has just come to hand. New York working conditions and the other religious discrimination and lack their work was more important State's A.O.H. Archivist George problems that arise in an of democracy are not incidental than bigoted reaction, would have JIM SAVAGE Foley was Master of Ceremonies at a WHEREAS, few Irish-Americans are RESOLVED, That this Legislative industrial complex the Shorts to, but are actually the basis on been to support the constructive banquet in the city's Mario's unfamiliar with the name of James Body pause in its deliberations to join workers are second to none in which British rule in Ireland was proposals of the Confederation of It is claimed that there has been a 1984, has written to Foreign Affairs Restaurant, where the Guest Speaker Connolly, one of the greatest Irish the James Connolly Commemorative their loyalty to each other and to readjusted, when the British the Shipbuilding and Engineering fifty per cent increase in leukaemia in Minister Peter Barry asking the was Sean Cronin, author of "The patriots of the Twentieth Century, a Organising Committee in paying their Trades Unions. government partitioned the Unions and thus isolate the Ireland following the atmospheric Government to express concern about Young Connolly" and musical and man who so loved his homeland of tribute to the memory of the late testing of nuclear weapons in the the aid package to the Contra Forces, Erin and her freedom that he gave his James Connolly, Irish patriot and country. The Government of fanatical loyalist minority. Nevada Desert by the United States. whose aim is to overthrow the left dancing entertainment was provided During the 1960s the Connolly Ireland Acts 1920 perpetuates the However they were not prepared by Comhaltas Ceolteoiri Eireann. life in the fight for her liberty; and one-time resident of Troy, New York; Association and the "Irish On the question of the American wing Sandistra Government. The On Sunday, August 17th a and be it further Democrat" carried out a evil of sectarianism in the society. to break out of the historical trap of submarine, The Nathaniel Green, off friends of the United States do not WHEREAS, Born in the Emerald The Protestant section of the sectarianism. The management, the west Cork coast, people cannot accept as valid the case for Contra Commemorative Parade was Isle, James Connolly came to the RESOLVED, That a copy of this campaign in Britain to expose the working class is caught in this with an anxious eye on its USA understand why there has been no military opposition against a small followed by the singing of the Irish United States in nineteen hundred two Resolution, suitably engrossed, be undemocratic nature of the Six- historial trap of sectarian bigotry. contracts, ignored the trades reaction from the Irish government. county and the continued denial of the and US National Anthems and a bust and located in Troy, New York in transmitted to the James Connolly County system of government, Normally, the Americans have to seek legitimacy of its elected government. of Connolly, sculpted by Paula nineteen hundred three, making his Commemorative Organising when British rule in Ireland was union leaders and allowed the Father Faul who spoke In Camden Irish Centre on September O'Sullivan of Tralee was unveiled in home at 96 Ingalls Avenue, and Committee. That they are caught in this trap arch-bigot Peter Robinson on to permission from the Department for 13th to the Federation of Irish Societies. the town centre. Connolly lived, being operated through is shown by the stark dilemma the plant to negotiate on behalf of Foreign Affairs if their vessels are Deputy Allen further stated that worked and engaged in union WHEREAS, He worked for the Stormont. Of the various fields of with which the workers in Shorts his die-hard followers. The irony within three miles of our coast and despite enormous diplomatic and organisation in Troy from 1903 to Metropolitan Insurance Company activity that were used to further plant were faced last month. It they are obliged to travel on the propaganda efforts, the majority of FATHER Denis Faul teaches in mouthpiece, but as he and the IRA 1905. until the recession forced him to find LAGAN LIGHTS the campaign the hundreds of of that situation was that in any surface. people in Europe and Latin America Dungannon but has been in the have publicly condemned each other work elsewhere; he relocated to was sparked off bv the Provisional major industrial dispute with the limelight since 1969 together with these past five years they've dropped The Communications Workers of (Continued trom page two) "No approach was made about the do not accept that Nicaragua could that label. America, The New York State AFL- Newark, New Jersey where his family management, the trade unionists presence of an American submarine in possibly be a security threat to the, Father Raymond Murray of Armagh. CIO, The Transport Union, the joined him in nineteen hundred five; in Shorts would not let Peter our territorial waters around that United States. He went on to state that Together they have chronicled and public sector. This non-sectarian instances of official wrongdoing and Father Faul is as quiet in his International Longshoreman's Robinson within an ass's roar of time," a Department spokesman said the World Court had established that Association, The Ancient Order of WHEREAS, Not one to turn his mix enabled the workers, both Oppose the EEC the negotiations. In the event in Dublin. Despite the terrible danger, the United States was violating have been vindicated by such bodies manner as he is forthright in his Hibernians and the Irish Transport Protestant and Catholic, to Short's management yielded to the American assurances seem to have international law by interfering in the as the European Commission on arguments. He says that the fair- back on his native land in her time of Human Rights and Amnesty minded English man or woman is and General Workers Union provided need, James Connolly returned to express their solidarity in their reaction. The settlement that the been accepted by the Irish affairs of a sovereign state. He wound speakers. Special greetings came from Ireland in nineteen hundred ten and in combined resistance against what Union Jack will be flown Government. "There is no basis for up his statement by saying that the International. Occasionally, after a excelled by nobody. He adds, sadly, the Irish-American Labour Coalition from — JOHN BOYD believing that something was done decision in August, of the US Senate lapse of years their contentions have that on Irish matters the species is not nineteen hundred fourteen, he became Mr Tom King called the fascistic permanently over the plant in too numerous, and blames the whose Chairman, Teddy Gleason is the head of the Irish Transport and threats and intimidation from the place of the paraphernalia of that requires representation to or means the United States has sacrificed even been confirmed by the British also President of the International WHAT can be done to enhance the manufactures in return. The workforce criticism of the American its own historic principle of self- media. The same media long wrongly scarcity not on general malice but General Workers' Union; and political thugs. It was a good flags, posters and slogans within determination, respect for law, labelled Father Faul as a Provo deliberate misinformation. Longshoreman's Association. portent and a ground of hope for process of extricating Britain from the in Britain needs customers and trade. the work-places, merely reinforces authorities," said an Irish Embassy Prominence in the commemorative WHEREAS, He was one of the EEC? Is it best to wait until Britain is A further example of defying spokesman in Washington. This is a commitment to international justice booklet was given the Resolution of founders and leaders of the Irish the future. outside the EEC before taking actions Brussels, which other Common Market the trap of sectarian bigotry for very strange statement in view of the and had seriously jeopardised its the Legislature of the State of New Citizen Army and initiated the lo set the country back on the path of members do all the time, concerns the Protestant workers. Sinn Fein fast that in the last four years, seven claim to be the leader and protector of York, that that Body "pause in its Labour Party in Ireland; and The British government will not development? Greek cement silo barges tied up in would do well to ponder seriously trawlers have been dragged by the world. take the positive action that is submarines which fouled their nets. deliberations to join the James WHEREAS,> James Connolly's At the present time sovereignty is Liverpool and Southampton. Tljese are on that outcome. These were strong words coming as Connolly Commemorative Organ- impact on the world labour necessary to counter sectarianism being handed over to Brussels and the acting as a cheap source of cement Due to many blunders committed they did from a conservative Fine ising Committee in paying tribute to movement and the struggle for an or to punish political thuggery. undermining the cement industry in worldwide by President Reagan, an Gael TD. the memory of the late James The British presence itself is so-called renamed European Britain with knock on effects in building When the Ulster Freedom Connolly, Irish patriot and one-time independent Ireland was interna- Parliament at an accelerating rate. and contraction. Is it not time for, say, Fighters issued their public tional and long lasting; and dependent on the divide in society Britain and its industries are Four Provinces resident of Troy." WHEREAS, As Commander of the which gives rise to these evils. increasingly subject to EEC diktats. relev&nt local authorities to pass threats against Catholic workers A message from Scotland's TUC, Whitehall and the Northern regulations or bye-laws prohibiting this in the public services, the housing recalling that Connolly was born in Dublin Garrison, James Connolly The powers of Westminster and elected method of transferring such a product. played a key role in the "Easter Ireland Office are manoeuvring to representatives are diminishing. executive, public health branches Edinburgh in 1868 and lived there till Rising" which began April twenty- bring about a new form of internal Foreign politicians are now addressing A hundred and one bureaucratic and the DHSS the answer they got 1896 prayed that the Tory Tribute to reasons could be dreamt up to stop this Bookshop James Connolly would lead to greater fourth, nineteen hundred sixteen and settlement within the Six Counties and telling MPS, within the very was far from the pavlovian though it was defeated, the rising under which they hope the Houses of Parliament, how Britian practice. response of the Shorts wc rkers. 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Raymond Crotty, What's more he would repudiate believes this would be a legitimate expropriated for the benefit of the suf jestive. mannerisms and essentially the same Brandon (Dingle, Co. Derry), the entire national debt which he says exercise of national sovereignty. industrialists and the marginal benefit Eairburn, pp280. Wolfhound substantial funding, to peddle a certain By way of life. Pb, pp 296, £12.50. (rightly) is bound to be repudiated in of the workers. One imagines he misses that the Press, £3.95. Kelly by Michael nasty, sectarian notion, the purpose of the end as the principal can never be Now his case is a trifle more One could almost hear him suggest specific differentia of modern Mullen, ppl92, Wolfhound which is clearly to deprecate Irish JACK BENNETT SIMILAR THIS is an important and far-ranging paid off and the interest payments are sophisticated than the above run- an alliance of Labour and Fianna capitalism is its derivation from Press, £3.95. aspirations to sovereignty and self- book by an important and far-ranging eating at the gross national product down would suggest. But even as he Fail! But would this be sufficient, in money. And there is something determination - and thereby to reduce will be naturally in conflict; not only falsehood where simple distortion is not BEHAVIOUR author. Dr Crotty has lectured in like mice eating cheese. There would presents it, there are many who will view of the fact that the wages perhaps physiocratic in trying to take IRISH heroes tend to be larger than any potential support for that Wales and Sussex, where, one be no more state borrowing to finance consider it Utopian. What is mechanism guarantees a disparity of the general category back 5,000 years. democratic objective, especially from does it magnify the religious differences sufficient to serve his purpose. There is not a single characteristic of suspects he was regarded as a species public capital formation. interest between employer and But the book is full of ideas, including life. The White Seahorse is a found in the North to the mystical human behaviour that could be picked of economic Fred Hoyle, but after a daft ideas, bloody good daft ideas, fictionalised account of just such a abroad. status of "nationality", but it also Priced at £26 for 280 pages, it will upon to distinguish Catholic from worker? Dr Crotty disavows Marxism character and one that I was very The salesmen of the notion grace it hardly be widely read at home, where career as a farmer in Co Kilkenny Having got all these financial and socialism, as he is quite entitled to and other things that are just bang on. pleased to be introduced to. exaggerates the supposed "national" Protestant, although bigots sometimes travelled extensively in the so-called resources into his hands he would get Reviewed by do. But some will wonder whether the It is the work of a man of brains and with the title of a "theory" and call it differences to such an extent that we're the native Irishry would be astonished pretend to see some ("1 knew he was a third world (ie the neo-colonial rid of the existing taxes on labour, worthy purpose of doing down the originality. Granuaile (or Grace O'Malley) was "the two nations theory." It holds that invited to conclude that there must be a at its contents. But is is designed to do Taig by his shifty eyes"). In a empires of western imperialism) income tax PA YE, and PRSI which D. GREAVES land-barons and the gold-barons a real-life heroine of the 16th century. Ulster Protestants constitute a separate permanent stale border between them. its damage abroad, especially in community so thoroughly intermingled where he acted as economic adviser or absorb 30% of wages and salaries. He might not require that the working It's a pity that in these ungalleyed Daughter of the O'Malley chieftain in nation unto themselves. And all the university circles, where unfamiliarity days the page-proofs couldn't be ( onnaught, she inherited her father's over centuries, common shared consultant to about twenty distinct would get rid of VAT which absorbs a class should actually take power. given another run-through to get rid sea-faring skills and at a time when troubles are to be explained by their The absurdity of the two-nations with the actual picture could lead to this characteristics have developed. There governments. Well, he must know further 15%. He would be enabled, important is to grasp its class content. Well, we're a long way off either and of the literals, for example, dryest, resistance to attempts by the other notion could perhaps best be illustrated gross caricature being easily accepted. are few Protestant families who have something about it. moreover, to pay every resident The ranchers are to be done in the eye. can discuss this at our leisure. Ireland was under constant attack from "nation" - the Catholics - to swallow The author admits that his first citizen a national dividend of £80 a The financiers likewise. It is not quite alphabeth, licenses (n.pl.), the English, Granuaile came to by supposing the absurdity to be true. not, somewhere in their near or distant week, out of which he would have to obvious that the wage-earners would The above is only the practical bare superceded, Bosphorus, tumultous, prominence as a skilled sea-captain and them up. If, suppose, the two main religious objective in writing the book was "to relations, members of the "other He predicates the neo-colonial provide his own health care and definitely gain, but let us suppose it is bones of a extremely varied and metamorphised, hierarchal — or is rebel leader. Now, if the belief, say, that the island groupings in the north of Ireland did in provide an historical introduction to the nation" - Catholics - related to them. relation on the contrast between children'" education. the intention that they would gain. discursive text. Dr Crotty has a view this last a vogue word like societal? On of Britain is inhabitated by the ten lost fact constitute two nations, it would Irish national question for readers in development and "undevelopment." of world history that, though eclectic, the whole however, the book is well-, Eleanor Fairburn doesn't avoid all One of the members of the so-called He launches this conceptual vessel on The class that would gain most would would probably most satisfy the pitfalls of historical novel writing tribes of Israel could be described as a have to be conceded at once that they other countries." God protect them loyalist Ulster Workers' Council which He appreciates that such a be the manufacturers, and if they gain, produced, and lies as flat when and we have to swallow one too many "theory", then, perhaps, the two- are two very similar nations, in all their from it. a slipway of living standard programme would involve the then there is development and more geographers. His comments on the opened as most paper-backs to. staged the fortnight's lockout in 1974 comparison, but it soon becomes influence of congenital lactose C.D.G. eleventh hour escapes from death, and nations notion might also qualify for "native characteristics", in their roared with laughter when I asked him apparent that "undevelopment" is a an annoying insistence on bringing that status. Tor that is about as much as accents, in their social behaviour SUBJECTIVE what he thought of the idea that the system with specific characteristics. It Granuaile into contact with every it amounts to. patterns, and that they live inextricably major historical figure who happened to Pringle takes up a quasi-marxist Catholic and Protestant workers varies from country to country, but be in Ireland at that time. ABSURD NOTION intermingled on a common territory, understanding of the emergence of constituted two nations. The idea was everywhere it exhibits the and share identical material interests. modern nations, but, cutely enough, just ludicrous to that Belfast man. characteristics of low productivity, French lessons? Despite that we have here an That being so, the requirements of high unemployment and a staggering Tragedies—made absorbing picture of this extraordinary The notion itself is so manifestly opts for subjective "definition" of a The notion that the northern level of public debt. And it is to be IN the Autumn a young man's fancy woman and the society that shaped her. democracy must therefore demand nation, based upon whether a group Protestants are not Irish is very recent come up from my grandmother's, some absurd, especially at ground level in that, in order to control and direct their found wherever "capitalist gravely turns to thoughts of self- sixty years later, led to the discovery of As the English slowly but surely Belfast and elsewhere in the North believes themselves to be one or not. So indeed, and may be seen as a loyalist- colonialism" has been. improvement. A young woman's too. a postcard, bearing a ha'penny stamp tightened their grip on the turbulent isle among the very people it purports to own affairs in their own common that, one may suppose, they could be a unionist propaganda ploy to emphasise Indeed, that of all ages and genders, depicting His Brittanic Majesty in England — most determinedly under the reign of classify, anil is so transparently interests, they should unite to achieve nation yesterday but not tomorrow sectarian differences. Protestants for this is the time that evening classes Edward VII, franked at 8.45pm on that other legendary women Elizabeth contrived to serve an ulterior motive, joint political sovereignty over the according to how they might change always regarded themselves as Irith I remember well the late Mr Palme are heavily subscribed and firm October 27th, 1904, at Fermoy, and 1 — warring Irish tribes were forced country which they both occupy. The their minds. without the slightest question up until Dutt's remark to me that after resolutions made to master subjects showing the bridge over the The Irish Hunger Strike, Tom would quite possibly have settled for a into an uneasy union that spelt an end to that it could well be ignored as nutty Czechs and Slovaks and many other political independence there was a from Abstract Art to Zoology. compromise. centuries of tradition. were it not for a couple of dangerous But his eclectic net is cast even wider recent times when Unionist propaganda unholy social tangle wherever British Blackwater in that pleasant town. The Collins, White Island Book closely related nationalities have Perhaps then, it's not unseasonable to English-translation is my own work Company. (Dublin and Belfast) pp In pursuit of this possibility the factors. and into more doubtful waters. He began to emphasise the "Ulster" thing. imperialism had been. He was the tell a story, of encouragement or but the following text is exactly "what According to Kelly, the outrageous The first danger is that it could arrangements like that. draws heavily on writers like E. Gellner But the adoption of "Ulster" as a inventor of the term "neo- warning, to those of you embarking 626, pb, £6.95. Cardinal came to London and met hero of Michael Mullen's rollicking But no. The Two Nuts crowd are not Unionist tag has its drawbacks, too, colonialism." on such voyages of discovery. it says on the card." Cardinal Hume and Mrs Thatcher. saga, Grace O'Malley 'was no beauty readily cause confusion in important and others who have been redefining THIS is an interesting and valuable He got courtesy and sympathy from but a large horse of a woman, six feet political circles abroad which would in pursuit of the democratic resolution nationality and nationalism as a sort of since Catholics form half of the Particularly if you are taking Irish or Eibhfin Ni Cineidigh of national questions - but quite the population of that province. another language. ag an Ard Sgoil book and super value for money. It is the prelate, but no sign of two in her stockings and like a barrel of normally tend to be sympathetic to the opposite. psychological aberration or an Now Dr Crotty ranges the world written by an Irish-American understanding. Cardinal Hume saw lard'! But then, all the familiar Irish cause of Irish democracy and self- ideological "invention" of German and Even the existence of two sharply providing data on an encyclopaedic It was Paris, during the Belle Epoch i gCill Choinnigh journalist who publishes his own the hunger strike as immoral. Yet the heroes who turn up in this book are determination. Even as it is, it may be Italian philosophers, which gradually differing "traditions" - the theme of so scale, but the subject of his book, for some, and the worst of times for Kilkenny ; f (republican) magazine in Dublin. immorality of sending hundreds of rather less grand than we'd prefer to said that in some of those places there is IMPERIALISM "caught on" in other countries. much guff at seminars and forums - centrally at any rate, is Ireland. And others. The Can-Can was scandalising Ta suit agam a Eibhfin go bhfuilir sailors to the bottom of the Atlantic imagine. something less than a clear It is now of course "outmoded". It may be seriously questioned. A Ireland, he says, though in a sense a delighted Europe. Toulouse Lautrec ag He had the idea of recording the for the purpose of keeping a war going FAVOURED straddling the first and third worlds, was paying for his suppers by painting foghluim Gaedhilg anois go life-story of each of the young men had never even struck him. The In the Halls of the Dead, Oisin has understanding of the phenomenon of has become "historically obsolete". It refreshing breath of plain common suffers from undevelopment — low on restaurant walls. And a young man maith. Ma who died on hunger strike in Long author regards him as ideologically become a muttering religious maniac, Belfast working class "loyalism." And They may adopt a pose of lofty no longer has "any real material sense was brought to that subject last productivity, unemployment, massive from Cloughjordan in the County ta tu is gearr go mbeidh neart Kesh in 1981. The result is a living, establishmentarian. calling himself to vespers; Finn and his that is understandable enough. Those detachment and affect to view "both" basis," etc, etc. But, as always, it is the month by Dr Anthony Buckley of the public debt to which is added Tipperary was studying for the focal moving picture of individuals within a bloated Fenians boast 'like retired movement. politicians' and the Children of Lir remote from the realities of Irish the alleged nationalist ideologies with small nation nationality that is Ulster Folk Museum when he spoke at emigration. Priesthood. agat, agus annsin beidhir ag From Mrs Thatcher there was waddle about, 'never having got the politics could easily prove vulnerable to the same critical eye. But the entire disparaged. Imperialistic chauvinism is The British Association for the He couldn't compete with Lautrec labhairt Gaedhilg I am not sure I would advise the hectoring but no listening. The any plausible "explanation" of the thrust of their argument, and, we must only in the imagination of little Advancement of Science. Now what is the explanation of the at the painting. For all I know he go luath. Bhfuil moran Gaedhilg ordinary reader to read it right account of this long interview, in swan out of their nature". peculiarities of Irish politics. suppose, the ulterior purpose behind it, nations. One wonders where Nigaragua continuance of "undevelopment" never met the artist. For that matter ag which Humphrey Atkins sat like a He stated bluntly that it was after political independence. The he may never even have set foot in the Caitfin agus ag Briain? Sgriobh through at a sitting. As with little boy, shut up whenever he tried to Kelly is the newest in a long line of The second danger arises from a is in favour of imperialism - ie, in fits in with this theory. misleading to argue that there are two materialist would assume that the Moulin Rouge. But, presumably to chugham descriptions of Nazi concentration open his mouth, shows what a whited Irish heroes and with his two unlikely deception practised by the purveyors of favour of continued British political So there we see how the two-nations traditions in Ulster. Many supposedly imperialists had left something help meet the cost of food and books, o ham go ham. camps, one's first reaction is shock. sepulchre that woman is. If she companions, a super-Intelligent midget the notion. Although the two-nations control over north-east Ireland. notion, while disparaging nationalism sectarian differences were better seen Then the thing sickens. It is only and a large fool, he rides across Ireland behind, vested interests, restrictive he took to giving French lessons to Is mise do chara possible to stomach a limited amount allowed one act of generosity or in the approved manner, on a magic idea was first bandied about as part of Their propaganda has been widely as an "outmoded ideology", fits in as either regional variations or as agreements, a privileged ruling class, English-speakers. Tomas MacDonchadha. of sadism and sordid brutality. Read compunction to stain her political horse (who's also past his best). the Unionist anti-Home Rule used to enhance the Unionist position, nicely to a new, modern ideology, with variations between social classes. external financial dictatorship, Among his pupils was a young (Miss Eileen Kennedy, the life-stories one at a time, and career, one is yet to hear of it. " propaganda before the first world war, and has even been adapted by the its own doctrines conceived to conform "Such differences have been penalising terms of trade. And it novice nun from the County Leitrim, The High School, otherwise use the excellent index. No reader with the slightest By parodying the style of the great and although it was never taken Unionists when it suits them, while on with the mercenary interests of the new popularly translated into sectarian or would be possible from the contents one Mary Ellen Murphy. Perhaps it Kilkenny. imagination could fail to draw the Irish epics, Mullen both debunks and seriously and became generally the other hand the only "outmoded imperialism - the submerrence of all political terms in a manner which does of Dr Crotty's book to produce was the Old Magic of Paris. Or maybe When Sir Henry Wilson was shot evidence of all these. Indeed one of the French, like the Spanish, "is a lovin' I hope Eileen that you are now learning by Dunne and Sullivan, a press conclusion from the detail amassed by pays tribute to all Irish heroes in this forgotten, the revived version of recent nationalism" which it really rejects is national distinctiveness to the rule of not correspond to the facts," he said. principal virtues of the book is the Irish well. If so you should soon have reporter asked De Valera to Mr Collins that the violence of the funny and fantastical tale, and years has been emerging from the demand for Irish independence. the trans-national corporations. On the one hand, a great deal of tongue." Anyhow, the upshot was a good stock of words, and then be republicans is a necessary historical incidentally gives us much to think universities clothed in a quasi-marxist breadth of knowledge and experience that when Patrick Joseph Kennedy comment. "I do not approve," he about regarding Irish legend and They are capable of mixing their cultural fusion had taken place, while of these things that it shows. The next arrived in Cloughjordan, it speaking it (fluently) soon. Have Kitty replied, "but I cannot pretend not to result of imperial oppression and heroism. garb. phoney marxism with all sorts of ultra- on the other "within each region is to be author can relate things which are wasn't as a Priest, but to introduce his and Barry much Irish? understand." In these biographies however much it is argued against, no CP. Indeed, it has even been offered as a leftist nonsense, such as the statement BRUSSELS found a culture in which all of the usually thought to have little or no bemused parents and siblings to Mary Write me from time to time. told in effect by friends and relatives matter how logically, until that full-blown "marxist theory" - all that "Nationalism is an ideology which, people participate whatever their connection. But his view seems to be Ellen, his wife. My father was one of Your friend who spoke to Mr Collins, the nature oppression ceases it will continue to neatly wrapped up and packaged in that wherever it occurs, is opposed to the NEW ORDER politics or their religion." that the cuckoos in the nests are ideal. ten blessing of the marriage. Thomas MacDonagh). of life in the nationalist community is have the same effect. sort of rigid, scholastic "marxism" that interests of the working class" - a view Eileen was then nine years old and illustrated in a vivid and unforgettable This is, of course, a journalist'; It is an ideology which, in recent Indeed some readers will get the Cloughjordan's most celebrated MacDonagh twenty-six. The card way. It would be something if British book. It is therefore loosely seems to be "taught" at universities which is as non-marxist as you could times, might just as well have fitted in FAMILY LIFE feeling that in some way he blames the son is of course Thomas illustrates the warmth and gentleness Labour MPs would read this book. organised, pays scant attention to nowadays on the principle that, if it possibly get. Any examination of their with the Japanese South-East Asia Co- Dr Buckley also noted: "There are no undeveloped countries. They have MacDonaugh. Teacher, poet, of MacDonagh's personality, Then they also might begin to chronology, though dates are given, can't be ignored, it can be laundered literature shows it to be riddled with Prosperity Sphere as it does today with distincly Protestant or Catholic misused their independence. Such university lecturer and signatory of remarked by all his contemporaries. understand. has flash-backs and an occasional and mangled. contradictions. the Proclamation of Independence, the New Order in Europe based on dialects, nor agriculatural practices, readers may reply: "They never had MacDonagh was shot by a British My late father, Barry in the card, For the role of Messrs Masorf and flash-forward. There are no Something Undoubtedly, of course, a marxist It was interesting, therefore, to look Brussels. nor housetypes, nor pottery techniques, their independence." But Dr Crotty firing-squad on 3rd May, 1916, recalled MacDonagh, whom he Concannon was that of imperialists, references, and one imagines the approach to the problems of nationality at one of the latest contributions to the On the main issue of the "two nor styles for cooking. Family life is accepts their independence as Collins together with Patrick Pearse and the always referred to with the familiar completely uncomprehending. What conversations while not inaccurate in will provde a fairly broad Two Nations propaganda effort. It is a nations" in Ireland, Pringle's long much the same on both sides, as indeed and Griffith thought they had it in old Fenian Dynamitard Tom Clarke. "Tommy", giving him a half-crown. is one to say of an opposition leader content have sometimes been ghosted. to read understanding of what may constitute recent book which, being compact and essay does not stand up to close is the broader social morality." 1921. And by the same token he My grandfather was MacDonagh's That was a big sum to a small boy in who invades the cell of a man dying on Some readers may possibly detect a a nation. Whether there can be such a concise, appears to encapsulate neatly, scrutiny. But before taking that closer speaks of the "failure" of Irish Godfather, and, being only fourteen those days, and a not inconsiderable hunger strike to tell him why the touch of romanticism. The thing as a "marxist definition" of a and we may assume fairly thoroughly, This is the demographic foundation, governments to break out of the years his senior, probably something one for a teacher, I suppose about ten Government he opposes can't release psychological insights are sound but HERE are some popular look at it in another article, it would be showing a culturally integrated economic straight-jacket. pounds in today's monev. him? not deep, and the same can be said of titles selling well at The Four nation to apply in all circumstances is. the burden of the argument. as well to state categorically, especially population sharing most things but like an elder brother to him. Certainly the political analysis. But the book Provinces Bookshop, 244 however, another question. It is entitled One Island, Two for the benefit of readers in distant What have they done wrong, then? they were close friends. Though Eileen specialised in maths, One of the most interesting contains what its author was able to But it would be a curious sort of Nations? and bears the sub-title: A differing only in religious They have been guilty of "incorrect Like my grandfather, MacDonagh which she taught to several chapters is that which tells of the Gray's Inn Road, London, places, a few unassailable truths about denomination, upon which the fantasy factor pricing." If Ireland could price was a "spoiled Priest" who had generations in England, it's good to efforts of Cardinal O Fiaich to bring find out and this is set out fairly and in WC1. "marxism" that held that your political geographical analysis of the the nature of the Irish population in dreamers of the two-nations crowd recall that she persevered with the about a settlement and save lives. The great detail But I wish he would not nationality, and the nationality of your national conflict in Ireland. It is written Ulster. its factors right it could cease to studied for "the Cloth" in Paris. In spell Liam Mellows' name Mellowes. The IRA at War, 1916 to the would like to build their big lie. The "undevelop" and start to develop. Ireland both had been taught by the Irish, teaching Gaelic League classes hunger strikers were asking nothing There was no second e. present by Eamonn O'Doherty. wife, husband, uncle or neighbour is to by D. G. Pringle, a geography teacher The people of Ulster, like the Irish two-nations notion is in effect nothing And in pursuit of this transformation Holy Ghost Fathers, grandfather at in London in the 'teens and early that had not been given before. They (A priceless collection of be determined by the differing in Maynooth, and is published by people as a whole and like most peoples other than a new and elaborate excuse he issues a quite remarkable Blackrock and MacDonagh at nineteen-twenties. She survived C.D.G. historic photographs) £12.50. interpretations each might put upon Research Studies Press Ltd. everywhere, have certain regional for Ould Bigotry writ large. programme of social changes, the Rockwell. And they both taught seventy-six years from the date of the Milestones in Irish History, passages from the Christian scriptures. differences in speech and manners. content of which makes clear why he together at St Kieran's College in card. Kitty, also a teacher, remains of There are other historical alert mind, with a voice as clear as a Liam de Paor £6.50. Ireland: There is a Belfast accent, a Tyrone explanations for the development of the was never offered a chair at UCD. Kilkenny. It's not unlikely that ENQUIRY COUPON Social and Cultural History, * MAGNIFYING accent, a Deny accent, etc, with He would tax land, urban and rural grandfather, being the older, taught bell, and her Irish accent undiluted £4.95 by Terence Brown. (It FALSEHOOD peculiarity known as Ulster "up to the point where property in there first and introduced the brilliant after 72 years in England. She was 90 Please send me particulars of membership of the Connolly Association takes the reader right up to the DIFFERENCES numerous variations; country manners "loyalism", which will be traced in a land . . . ceases to have value." He young teacher and the college to each last February. eighties). The Real Chief, by The question mark in the title is and town manners; and differing social future article. But first of all, next would tax b»nk deposits "at a rate other. In hopes of better providing for So you see both the perils and Name Meda Ryan. The story of Liam Boiled down to essentials, the two- dishonest to start with, for the author behaviour patterns determined largely month, we'll look at the strange, approximately'equal to the difference a growing family, grandfather left St opportunities of studying tongues by Address Lynch, Chief of Staff of the nations notion tries to prove precisely makes no question about it from the by class. convoluted logic which enabled D. G. between the rite paid by the banks on Kieran's and set up his own school, night. Also the treasures you might IRA until he was shot in 1923, that. It constitutes the absolute ultra in start. He begins from the premise that Few English people can distinguish Pringle to stand reality on its head. deposits andvthe rate charged by the The High School, in Kilkenny, and unearth amongst the most humble about that time MacDonagh left St heir-looms; particularly if one of your Cut out and post to: <.. price £6.95. The Celtic Dawn, pure, distilled sectarianism. 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Page Six IRISH DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 1986 )CTOBER 1966 IRISH DEMOCRAT THE SECRET OF KERRY IRISH De Luain, De Mairt Page Sews* WHAT is the secret of Kerry? Lightly the question comes. BHI D6nall bocht Cam, go raibh dronn ar a dhrom, Up for a new All-Ireland, timing the pipes and drums; Ag gabhail trid in ngleann ins an oiche, Marching shoulder to shoulder, others as gallantly go - SONGS Nuair a chuala se ceol bog binn na siog BRINGING THE POETS TO But the secret of Kerry is older than anyone here may know? Ag teacht chuige 'r leirigh na gaoithe - De Luain, De Mairt, De Luain, D6 Miirt, Wales: The Imagined Na^z... Out from their high hills faring, fifteen men and a dream, De Luain, De Mairt. . . Essays in Cultural and Woven in the colours they're wearing, inherited team by team; Do stad se 'gus d'eist go ciuin le gach seis, National Identity. Edited Heirs to the great Laune rangers, seared in a sterner code - Is i ngeibheann an ghl£-bhinnis bhi se; by Tony Curtis. Poetry THE PEOPLE SATIRE For the columns that harried the stranger were fashioned in Ach a chroi 'stig do breodhadh, mar theip ar an gceol, Jones' Road. Wales Press. £5.95. everyone who has NOT heard of him. submission was rejected for Is nior cuireadh crioch coir leis an line. The same number of hands up both ublication, not on the grounds of The Last Election. Pete D6 Luain, D6 M4irt, De Luain, De Mairt, LIGHTNING THE twelve contributors to this book times, I shouldn't wonder. There you C Danes. Andre Deutsch. Then the boots and the ball were mildewed and the goalposts D£ Luain, De Mdirt . . . are either university graduates or have it. Dylan Thomas is important tck of literary merit, but because the weathered away, CONDUCTORS lecturers — and it shows. The outside Wales only because few other The Daily Worker had a policy of not 234pp, h/b £8.95. Do ghlac Donall Cam, go raibh dronn ar a dhrom, perception of the "imagined nation" Welsh writers are known. Do they printing poetry, other than as part of a For the game of war was rougher by far for any who dared to play. Edited by is theirs, not, I suggest, one which deserve to be known? Carl Tighe sums book review. And to think that Hugh And that is the secret of Kerry, though glamoured or grim the Misneacb, is do chan go deas seimh caoin - "Coalition" by Derry would find acceptance among the up the situation in a discourse on MacDiarmid was a member of the MR DA VIES is 27 and possessed 1 game PATRICK BOND De Luain, De Mairt, De Luain, De MAirt, KeUagher. £1.50. Justice general populace of Wales, be they in "Under Milkwood":— Communist Party at that time! of an alarming imagination, a At home or away it is theirs to play, and the reason is just the De Luain, De Mairt is De Ceadaoin. Books. Newport pubs or Caernarfon chapels. brisk prose style and the anger of a same. De Luain, D6 M£irt, De Luain, De M£irt, Some of the articles read like How fair would it be if we were to The "Irish Democrat" recognised latter-day Jonathan Swift. THE IRISH De Luain, De Mairt is De Ceadaoin. DERRY Kellegher rightly thinks the university theses, aimed at receiving judge Irish Theatre and culture, if the the problem long ago and provided commendations from a professor for only play to have emerged from that the solution. If the working class The Kerrymen came to Dublin, once in the year of years, Irish Labour Party should have country was "The Playboy of the won't go to the poets, then bring the The Last Election is set in SOLDIER BOY Nuair a chuala 'n slua sidhe an chrioch gheal fhirbhinn remembered Connolly's advice when their literary value in the purest sense, Western World"? Synge's play is one poets to the working class. For as long London, under the regime of The Keeping their tryst with Freedom, Stack and his Volunteers; Nach orthu bhi an rimead's an t-athas; he said: "A working man who wishes but of little relevance to the ordinary as I can remember, and that is quite a Money Party, led by a shrill, Blank files and no replacements, Keating dead in the Laune, to safeguard the interests of his class person in Wales seeking under- among many fine plays. Thomas's AT a cottage bright on wintry night, Do bhain siad an dronn de Dgonall bocht Cam must withdraw from all capitalist standing of the cultural malaise which play stands almost alone, and in the long time, the "Irish Democrat" has megalomaniac Prime MinisuL Banna lonely for Casement, shackled in London Town. Is d'imigh se abhaile gan mhacail. afflicts the monoglot English absence of a rapidly developing had a 'song' page, bringing the best of called Nanny. The Northern "Red As the snow lay on the ground, political affiliation." As result of writing tradition it has become THE Irish lyrics and verses to its readers. Towns" are cut off under police Stood a youthful Irish soldier boy, De Luain, De M£irt, De Luain, De M&irt, ignoring this advice Labour speakers. Welsh play to which all others must be Am I right in thinking that it is alone Ashe and his weary Fingallians, fire and flame in their eyes, De Luain, De Mairt is De Ceadaoin. representatives "were absorbed occupation. The general public is To the mountains he was bound. within a few years by other political If this seems a harsh judgement, I compared." among British-based left-wing papers unemployed. Except for the Meeting the broken battalions as the brave O'Rahilly dies. His mother stood beside him saying parties and repudiated by the make no apologies. The basic in rendering this important service? In armed and ubiquitous police and The dead men homing to Kerry, shrouded men on the piers, "You'll win, my boy, don't fear" workers." problem with most English-language There are some good writers in Wales, the Welsh Committee of the And with loving arms around his waist, writers in Wales, be they novelists, Wales today, who can and do address Communist Party once had a very the revenge-swallowing military, Sprinkled with wild saltwater, mingled with exiles' tears. BALLINDERRY The "Trojan Horse" theory means poets or playwrights, is that they good bilingual publication, "Cyffro", public services are a shambles. She tied his bandolier. the socialist in coalition gets spend most of their time writing for which did this. Death alone shortens the NHS The women praying to Heaven for the kindly Kerryman's soul, "Goodbye, God bless you, mother dear, 'TIS pretty to be in Ballinderry, experience in Government and gets an each other. They write about, but not queues whilst the rich are As Fingallians fire at Glasnevin a volley for Ashe of Lispole; opportunity to make speeches putting for the working class. Having said cossetted by private medicine. I hope your heart wont pain, 'Tis pretty to be in Aghalee, forward socialist principles. Anyone that, I know that it is not entirely their By Unfortunately, "Cyffro" was And the football fields were empty where the Rangers' ghosts are But pray to God you soon will see 'Tis prettier to be in bonny Ram's Island who has followed the careers of Justin fault. BRIAN WILKINSON victim of the Eurocommunist anti- seen, Your soldier boy again. Trysting under an ivy tree. Keating and Michael O'Leary can see cultural revolution. Plaid Cymru's The Money Party controls the For the graves were hallowed for those who followed the coffins to And when I'm out in the firing line, Ochone O! ochone! ochone! ochone! that this will not work out in practice. Writers in the Welsh language, newly established monthly, "Radical media, through Bingo Barons and Cahirciveen. It will be a source of joy As Lenin said (quoted in this although having a potential audience Wales', includes poetry, but not to the Nanny's image-makers, the of less than a fifth of their English- extent of the "Irish Democrat". The advertising agency Crinkly, Crisp To know that you're remembering still Oft times I'd sail to bonny Ram's Island, pamphlet), "That is why it always language counterparts, at least have the 'man in the street' in sentences and Welsh Labour Party, for all its The banshee wail th„i quivers, shrieking across the moor Your Irish soldier boy." Side by side with Pbelim my diamond; happens, under all sorts of 'coalition' no competition from Anglo- verses he can understand. The likes of electoral support, does not publish a and Greenback. When not And often he'd court me, and I'd be coy- cabinets that include Socialists, even American literary and semi-literate Gwyn Alf Williams, Harri Webb and periodical for Wales. pushing overt Money Party Is the cry of a blackshawled woman for the slaughter at When the fighting it was over when individuals amongst them are circles. propaganda, the media churn Knockamore, In my heart, how I loved him, my darling boy. perfectly honest, in reality they turn Nigel Jenkins receive more than the And the flag of truce was raised; Of the articles in this book, the one occasional mention in this book. It is, So what of the book under review? out non-stop snooker, pop-music And the cry is echoed by mothers, filled with the new despair The leaders ordered fire to cease, Ochone O! ochone! ochone! ochone! out to be a useless ornment of, or a however, noteworthy that none of and porn. Government-subsidised Old Ireland stood amazed. screen for the bourgeois government, that impressed me the most was by Is it really as valueless as i have As the Kerrymen gaze at their brothers, coming to kill them there. 'I'm going,' he said, 'from bonny Ram's Island. a sort of lightning conductor to divert Carl Tighe on "Theatre (or Not) in them was asked to contribute to it. implied? I suggest that readers of the "Dance Barns" regiment the feet His comrades came to the cottage door Wales." — not because I find the "Irish Democrat" obtain a copy and of the idle young, while cheap With a note from her pride and joy, Out and across the stormy sea, the people's indignation from the The lorries leap through Duhallow, the foe at the Shannon's And if in your heart you love me, Mary, government — to deceive the people." theatre a more interesting subject than Of course, the other constraint on judge for themselves. Who knows, drugs and booze dull their wits. mouth, And ait aching heart cried, "God be Justin Keating used the same poetry, film or painting, but because communicating with the people you perhaps the literary editor would good Open your arms at last to me.' phrase as Lenin in an Irish Times he addresses me in a way to which I want to influence is the lack of welcome a "counter-review", if The action, violent and spiced Moylan broken at Mallow, Barry crushed in the South; To my Irish soldier boy." Ochone O! ochone! ochone! interview when the 1973 coalition had can relate. His bibliography records suitable vehicles to get the message someone feels strongly enough to with the sex without which no The cries of the stabbed Republic echo around Tralee, been routed by Fianna Fail. "I didn't that he has taught in Poland, which across. Just under thirty years ago I write one. modern thriller is complete, arises Keening for Ballyseedy, moaning for Monaree. "Goodbye, God bless you, mother dear I opened my arms, ah, well he knew me! try to defend myself against the mayfexplain ho w he acquired the skill sent a poem to the "Daily Worker", in from the self-loathing of the I'm dying a death so grand I opened my arms and took him to me; accusation of being "Minister of to write for an audience which the form of a letter for publication. I principal characters. Despising From wounds received in action And under the shade of the moaning mast, Prices". I felt that somebody had to be consists of more than pretentious make no claims to being a poet but White-limbed bodies a-quiver on the mountainy barricades, Trying to fee my native land, the lightning conductor for public cultural introverts. Nanny and the Money Party, they Till the black Reeks shake and shiver for the shock of three We kissed our first and we kissed our last. There is a whole article devoted to there are occasions when it seems that have prostituted their creative But I hope we'll meet in Heaven above, Ochone O! ochone! ochone! irritation and I was the relevant a point of view can be expressed best , brigades In the land beyond the sky, minister, but I felt at the same time Dylan Thomas. Hands up everyone in poetical form. (I wish some poets talents to become key strategists Who count their litanied losses, when the terrible deeds have done, Where you'll always be in company I wish I were the weeping willow, that the people ought to have who has heard of him. There is would realise that (here are things that in her re-election campaign. They perceived that. . ." etc. another on R. S. Thomas. Hands up can be said better in prose!) My QUIET MAN drown their self-disgust in drink By the pitiful roadside crosses flashing their fame to the sun. with I'd wander along by the lonesome sea. As Kellagher points out, their and cocaine until Nanny's most And the Kerrymen came to Dublin prisoned within the ships, Your Irish soldier boy." And cry to him over the cruel sea; presence in the government led to the ' MAURICE Walsh, storyteller, cynical "stroke" triggers their While their women walked to the gravesides with rosaries to their Ah, Phelim my diamond, Come home to me. sanctioning such legislation as the by Steve Matheson. Brandon determination to redeem 1 lips. Ochone O! ochone! ochone! Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act Book Publishers 1985. 168pp. themselves and their country. limiting national sovereignty and the £4.95 pbk. £8.95 hbk. Twas pretty to be in Ballinderry, Criminal Justice Act which enabled An Alien Ideology (revised reverse the present tide of betrayal Somebody up in Tintown fashions a ragged ball THE OLD the garda to hold suspects for seven on the national question with MAURICE Walsh is one of Ireland's All characters, real and And somebody scrawls Up Kerry! on Mountjoy's prison wall. But now 'tis sad as sad can be; days without charge or trial. This edition). By Derry particular reference to the issues of "forgotten" writers of this century. imaginary, are fictitious. But Then the gates of Ballymullen open wide on Tralee - FENIAN GUN For the ship that sailed with Phelim my diamond. legislation encouraged the garda to Kellagher. Justice Books. sovereignty and neutrality." Most will only be able >to place h im don't let this stop you acquiring Faded and old is the green and gold, but the Kerrymen are free. Is sunk forever beneath the sea. extract 'confessions' from the Price £2. pp25. when told that his best-remembered the book. I look forward to suspects. In the last part of the pamphlet story is 'Quiet Man', and then only IT hung above the kitchen fire Ochone O! ochone! ochone! there is a reprint of "Alien because of the extraordinary success reading more of Mr Davies. m Out from their high hills faring, fifteen men and a dream, It's barrel long and brown, "Clearly," says the author in the IN the pamphlet called "The Ideology" 1st Edition. This is the Unless, of course, he should fall Woven in the colours they're wearing, inherited team by team; second last paragraph, "the Labour Coalition" Derry Kellagher dealth of the John Ford film starring John And one day with a boy's desire, Party must get out of coalition, put its text of the lecture given by Derry Wayne and Maureen O'Hara which under a privatised bus. Marching shoulder to shoulder with the stalwart men of the Pale, I climbed and took it down. house in order and in practical terms with the decline of the Irish Labour Kellagher, then President of Sinn was based on Walsh's short story. D.K. For the secret of Kerry is older than the glory of Granuaile. My father's eyes with anger flashed CARRAIG DONN seek support for a broadly based mass Party over the years. In the above Fein, 1972. This was given at a This book is primarily a biography He cried: "What have you done? movement across party political pamphlet he turns his searching Conference organised by The Irish and has little pretension to providing For bait the goal of a nation's soul, or a goal in the grand old game I wish you'd left it where it was - boundaries, of republicans and scrutiny on the Workers Party and Humanist Association and Irish a critical assessment of Walsh's They both are a part of a Kerryman's heart, and the reason . . . ON Carraig Donn, the heath is brown, socialists dedicated to the fulfillment analyses their deterioration since members of the Teifliard Centre for writing. His stories have become That's my old Fenian gun." The clouds are dark over Ard na Laoi, the days of the Civil Rights marches unfasnionable — they present The reason is just the same! of national aspirations." in Northern Inland. the Future of Man. characters no longer to be found and M. A. GRANVILLE I fondled it with love and pride. And many a stream comes rushing down Kellagher is one of about a dozen The lecture contains a criticism the plot and rich descriptions of the And looked it o'er and o'er; To swell the angry Abha na Bui. progressive Irish political writers Having dropped die national of the social philosophy of Teilhard countryside don't suit modern tastes. I placed it on my shoulder The moaning blast is sweeping fast whose pamphlets and articles are question in its traditionalfonnthe de Chardin, when compared with Born in County Kerry in 1879, And I marched across the floor. always worth careful study. Workers Party has given the Through many a leafless tree, G.C. that of Connolly and Marx. Maurice Walsh worked as a Customs I• THE CASTLE OF DROMORE My father's anguish softened, But I'm alone, for he is gone, Unionists the status of the 2nd Teilharfs inability to understand and Excise Officer for the British Civil And he shared my boyish fun - nation, following the heresies of the imperialist nature of the First Service in Ireland and Scotland before NEWS FtASH "Ah well," he said, "'tis in your breed My hawk has flown, och6n, mo chroi. Conor Cruise O'Brien. They see World War is commented on. returning to work for the newly OCTOBER winds lament around the castle of Dromore, Like that old Fenian gun." the only forward is to open up the established Free State in Dublin. He MRS Thatcher has been to Norway I Yet peace is in her lofty halls a phaiste bheag a stor. The heath was green on Carraig Donn country to foreign firms which take In the appendix there is an became president of the Comhaltas telling the people that NATO loves 1 Though autumn leaves may droop and die, "I remember '67 well," Bright shone the sun on Ard na Laoi out profits to spend ebewhere and interesting anayiysis of TeUkanfr Cana, the Irish excise officers' them and will look after them. She A bud of spring are you. Singing He said, "when lads like me The dark green trees bent trembling down, nmsFum philosophy, taken from the Russian association. Later in life, after he had was met by hostile demonstrations THE degree to which the Fine Gael- to little to solve unemployment. Philosophical encyclopaedia. become a best-selling author with demanding sanctions against South Hushabn lu-'o-lan, sing hushab;t-iu-lu-lo. All thought we'd strike another blow To kiss the slumbering Abha na Bui. Labour coalition has sold out Kellagfrw sees tap* hi the "On the basis of the titles like The Key Above the Door', Africa, and end to acid rain, and To set old Ireland free. That happy day, 'twas but last May, Ireland's national independence is "reshuffling oltte political cards" achievements of contemporary 'While Rivers Ran' and 'The Road to withdrawal from Ireland. Pi May no ill winds hinder us. my helpless babe and me, But broken were our golden hopes, 'Tis like a dream to me, illustrated by the discussions about whkh>has gone on recently. Ftamm To ease-her passage she had ordered Dread spirit of the Blackwater, Clan Owen's wild banshee; I was long months on the run, apartheid at the EEC. Wait Germany science Teilhard attempted to Nowhere', he was president of the '1 When Donal swore, aye o'er and o'er, refused to operate an embargo on Fail has been improved by the loss create an entire "Weltanschaung" Irish branch of PEN, the international three power stations to stop pushing And holy Mary pitying us in Heaven for grace doth sue. Singing But it did good work for Ireland then, We'd part no more, a stor mo chroi. South A&icafi coal. This i» because of reactionary elements to the new ie, a scientific phenomenology, in writers' association. out sulphur dioxiu* into the • Hushaba lula lu-lo-lSn, sing hushaba-lu-la-16. Did that old Fenian gun. cheap coal «|nd by se^i^lave Progressive Democrats. Voters which the antithesis between Walsh has done his biographer the atmosphere. Up to no;v the Soft April showers and bright May flowers, labour j? at the heart of the plan to have become disenchanted with disservice of being "a decent fellow" government had sworn cw»3l A Rois mo cfiroi, a shlaitln oir "1 was down then in Killmallock - science and religion would be — then is no scandal here — and combustion was nothing to do with 'Twas the hottest fight of all, Will bring the summer back again, destroxBuiQpMQ coalipdustriettnd both Fine Gael and the Workers abolished. His chief methodieal acid rain. What had happened? As gardha drom an oir But will they bring those happier hours, operate on Imports. But the reran Party. The Labour Party may yet howewsr much one hopest o meet men B1 a fas go mbeidh gach cltite bhea» And you see (he raised his arm) doesn't matter to Ireland. The principle is the concept of of this caUbm in everyday Hfc, to fiad The United States had raised the There's the mark still of the ball. I spent with my brave D6nal then? pfiBitini^ fftaf fhf Tilth pf"p*f IMBHt receive outside the Coalition.".. .* evolution." about them is hardly gripping. For question of an American tutelage for Mar sciathan iolra mhoir; I hope the young lads growing now 'Tis but a chance, for he's gone to France, there is pressing and imperative Kellarter brings an encyclo- those who remember Maurice Ireland, with England taking Is leim annsan ar fud an tsaoil, to oppose apartheid, and are prepared need for a new common political Webb's stones with affection, this responsibility for M0twa» Nice how Will hold the ground we won To wear the Fleur-de-Lis to apply spoons. Why not apply initiative embracing all other paedic knowledge and a greet book wiH surely .be of interest; for they parcel out Oibri is saori clu. Seinam And not disgrace the cause in which But I'll follow you my D6nal Dubh, tbem then? Wc need Qarmeny's relevant parties and gronps intensity to his analysts of theIrfch thaaa to whoa he is a new nam* a countries. And thai Husbaba lula lu-16-lan, seinam hushaba-lu-la-16. I held that Fenian gun." For still I'm true to you, mo chroi. ' I auoly to political scene — bom of yean ef willing, Nothing is i vith flMfclh^it indkpensihly, the Idsh nafifiionftte involvfinsiit people because ofu Sovereignty Movement) to halt and 1 UN- C4». as a move in thaic sas )

Page Eight IRISH DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 1986 Peter Mulligan's peep show RETURN TO DUBLIN country boys and girls largely escaped I GULPED slightly when the booking the influence - but culturally we were clerk said 'Seventy one pounds, please!' not anything like so much akin to the - Rugby to Dublin return rail and By young people of the sister island (many Sealink, that is. Going midweek and in the Republic today would say the returning ditto you could save thirteen DONALL MacAMHLAIGH Mainland!) as the young are today. If as quid which isn't to be sneezed at but we appears to be the case the youth of can't always regulate our journeys with as the Continental ones but it seems to the many causes for the failure of Ireland are retreating into a kind of new a view to taking advantage of the me that some travellers enjoy having our economy, emigration and the provincialism what hope is therefor the cheaper rates. Oddly enough the a gripe ... in the bar of the Saint general helplessness all round is a lack country as a whole? booking clerk referred to my seventy Columba, a hefty, middle-aged of the kind of idealism that we once had. one pound ticket as a 'high-saver' - a Laoisman returning from a holiday in Sinn Fein would appear to be the only But if one thing more than anything misnomer if ever there was one! The England was comparing the Sealink party with much of that commodity left else that I saw in the course of my brief ANOTHER BORDER .375 Supabus service must be taking a lot of boat unfavourably with the B & lone he today - the Irish language has been visit to Mary Horan's Land (as the custom off British Rail and CIE these had gone over on a week previously; we abandoned to them by the other oldtimers here called Ireland) summed MAGNUMS AND TEAR days but unless you live in one of the were in a long queue, necessarily so, political parties - but in view of what I up for me much of what was wrong with GAS - The US Federal Border patrol departure points - Liverpool, and the busy bar staff was doing its best see as the prevailing realities I don't the place it was the sight of a great reported that 1.2 million "South Birmingham or London to name three - I thought - but your man kept on and think Sinn Fein are the people to get the hulking - he was hulking - Gdrda American Aliens" were returned to there isn't all that much to be gained on, everything was better B& I, the bar country right. Siochana leaning with one shoulder Mexico last year. Over twice that against the wall of the historic GPO, his number were able to dodge the patrols. and anyway give me the comfort of the staff more friendly, the fittings more train, you can stretch your legs and luxurious and so on and so forth. Igot a There would seem a dearth of shirt clearly visible through the sag in relieve your bladder, if you'll pardon little tired of it all and, since most of his common or garden, practical his tunic, his whole attitude the expression. And on the Caer Gybi tirade was directed at my earhole I patriotism in the Republic now and unmistakably one of sour boredom and, THE QUEEN, KING (Holyhead) run if you travel day-time remarked mildly enough that it was a many of the young it seems to me are as barring I am maligning the poor man, as / did the scenery is very well worth helluva sight better than the old much at home in the mental climate of thinly-veiled truculence. BILLY AND THE UNION watching from Chester onwards. The Princess Maude (or is it Maud? - lean Britain or America as that of their If this was a sight so rare as to JACK — The loyalist workers of Sealink vessel Columbahashadabitof never remember!). The Laoisman homeland; rambling round Henry occasion surprised comment I wouldn't Short Brothers the missile and plane a facelift since privatisation, those however wasn't in the least consoled by Street one morning I saw young folk worry at all - but I have seen Gdrdai manufacturers in Belfast, have been horrid sticky rexine seats have been instructed by management to remove that reflection, in fact he was rather everywhere buying the English tabloids, singly and in pairs lounging at that right wing political banners from the stripped and covered in some kind of incensed: not the far superior Irish national same spot before with that selfsame air workshops. Sammy Wilson the Lord tweedy material which is a big " Well isn't that it, now! Anything at dailies - they are cheaper (the tabloids) that brought so much adverse comment Mayor of Belfast said: "If everyone advantage, the bar lounges renovated all is good enough for Paddy! Put up to be sure; why wouldn't they when on the oldtime cornerboys who, stands firm then the management and other things, too, improved like the with any bleddy thing some of ye unlike our Irish papers they are exempt whatever their faults, weren't being cannot pick off individuals. People duty free shopping area. The help- would!" from VAT! The young share a common paid-out of the public purse to hold up should have the right to display their yourself carver lunch for £4.50 would It reminded me briefly of the night culture (if you can call it that!), too with the walls. emblems especially if it is the flag of seem to be reasonable though I can't the young people here in Britain in a I don't know what the sight of a their country." Incensed loyalists say first hand as I didn't sample their when four of us, myself and three way that my generation did not. Oh yes workers have brought in the Rev Ian fare - eating out, especially in Ireland, Errismen, were making our way home slovenly Gdrda Siochdna lounging Paisley to negotiate with management through the then sleepy little town of I know, in the 1940'sand'50'swe were against the walls of the GPO in the and the Masonic Orange Order has has become such a rip-off now that I Diss in Norfolk; we had more than a brainwashed by Hollywood - at least principal street of our capital city does issued a statement on behalf of the prefer to bring a bit of grub in a plastic drop in and one of the lads in a playful those of us who lived in towns and cities to tourists or foreigners - but I know it workforce stating that strikes cannot be bag, a rake of old sandwiches, a hunk of mood stooped down to pick up a dish of were to a considerable extent; the scares the hell out of me I ruled out. The company employs over cold chicken, and sup a pint or two as I water that had been left on a doorstep 7,000 of which less than 200 are from dip unobtrusively into my bag. 'Atin' for a cat; the dish had the cat's name the Nationalist community. THIS yer own' in pubs or ships bars is British Government owned firm will decidedly infra-dig these days though I painted on it - Tommykins - and me shortly receive £30 million from the can remember, and not long ago at all, man took a great exception to this. McGUCKIANS IN ARABIA European Investment Bank for new when no publican would raise an "Isn't that it, now?" he said (like the projects. eyebrow if you brought out your Laoisman on the Columba). "A drink SOON the Arabian desert may supermarkets. Milk production is 'sawnies' in his premises ... it is all a left out for the cat - they think more of blossom like the rose, thanks to 75% above the European average, part of the steady brainwashing of cats and dogs in this country than they Irish technology. and the same system is extended to working class people so that they adopt do of Paddy!" With which, as the the production of onions, ENGLISH TO BUILD middle class ways and attitudes. Not scribes used to say, he threw the dish of .Whereas all that successive cabbages, maize, and strawberries IRISH PRISONS - Following a but a lot of our working class attitudes water asfar as he could and, fearing the English governments ever thought warning by the IRA that contractors could do with a bit of changing but it is consequences, we took to our heels... on an all the year round .basis. repairing police stations and building All is gloom and doom in Ireland of selling the Arabs were weapons getting to the point now where nobody of destruction, the Irish are The brothers believe that with prisons would now be legitimate wants to cater for a working man in now. The country is banjaxed, no hope teaching them to feed themselves. targets; many workers have walked off dusty overalls or muddy trousers. at all, edging up for a quarter of a the introduction of high sites in Northern Ireland. THE DAILY million registered unemployed and ^TELEGRAPH tell us that "Yesterday What's the secret? The use of technology farming the African both Mr King and his deputy Mr N. emigration reckoned to be as bad as it food problem could be solved in a Scott pledged that building and repair Overcrowding is the most persistent was in the worst days of the Fifties. I water. In the boiling heat of the breif period and Zambia, work would go on there is technical complaint we hear of the Holyhead- spoke to people who might be said to tropical sun grass can actually be Zimbabwe and other under- expertise available in the army, and Dublin run; week after week we see know what they are talking about, seen growing, provided ample civilian contractors could be brought in letters in the Irish Post about weary people in the media and communication water supplies are piped to it. It cultivated areas could become from the mainland under proper tra vellers sitting on the stairs of the ship world who have to know how things are can be mown every day and fed self-sufficient. protection and could remain (which a conveniently-located notice going and they were almost as one in fresh to cattle. anonymous." The British Government tells us is verboten!), because there is their belief that there was no They accuse the European have announced that over two billion not enough seating accommodation; Thatcherian light at the end of the capitalist countries of blocking pounds is reserved for building there was plenty of room on the way tunnel (or should I say no light at the But won't the sun scorch the progress in this direction by their programmes in Belfast and other over to Ireland even though (orperhaps unnamed parts of Northern Ireland. We end of the Thatcherian tunnel?) . . . cattle to death? Not if they are policies of dumping food take it for granted that this includes the because) each passenger had to secure a Garret Fitzgerald and Fine Gael are a kept in specially constructed sheds surpluses. They argue that the cost of building new prisons and police kind of boarding ticket before he was washout, Labour a sick joke, the new and sprayer with fine sprinkles of entire food requirements of the stations. issued with the one you pay for, but on PeeDees a (thankfully small) gang of water from time to time. the way back it was very overcrowded fascists, and though most folk would African continent could be indeed. Genuine complaints about poor welcome Flama Fail back there isn't supplies from a comparatively travelling conditions are to be a lot of hope that things can get This system has been small area adequately farmed, and MORE PROFES- welcomed and it would seem that the appreciably better under Charlie H. introduced into Saudi Arabia by that the temperate regions would SIONALS — An extra battalion of Britain-Ireland services are not as good the Irish-based farming company cease to be the granaries of the 550 British troops is being sent to Why has the Left failed in Ireland so "Masstock", founded by the world. • Northern Ireland. According to THE signally? You could debate that one till Antrim-born brothers Mc- TIMES - "The extra troops are being (Continued from column one) the proverbial cows came home and Fm sent in to provide a defensive screen not even going to try and answer it here. Guckian, who now supply milk to behind which the rebuilding and repair DAILY MIRROR HOAX- It does seem to me though that among 8,000 Saudi shops and of Royal Ulster Constabulary stations (ED) - The Daily Mirror reported APOLOGIES demolished or damaged in the recent tnat a gun and explosives had been APOLOGIES to M. J. Walsh for attacks can begin." smuggled into Parkhurst Prison in an omitting to put his initials under Us attempt to free Patrick MaGee an IRA SUBSCRIPTION COUPON excellent review of "Top Cat" by Gerry prisoner. When all the other eager O NeiU, in the August issue of the Irish reporters rushed to write up this Post to 244/246 GRAYS INN ROAD, WC1 TO BE BRITISH AND sensation they found, a) MaGee has Democrat TO DIE IN ULSTER - "The never been in Parkhurst and, b) there Please send me the "IRISH DEMOCRAT" eadh heart of Ulster has been shattered by were no guns or explosives to be found. betrayal. We are British and British we GUARDIAN. month for a year. 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