REPUBLICAN PRISONERS BEING RELEASED
IRISH* 6° RESIGNS DEMOCRAT No. 220 APRIL 1963 UNIONIST PARTY EDDIE McATEER ROCKS IN CHAOS NOW JOE DOYLE MUST BE FREED BLYTHE • ORD BROOKEBOROUGH, six-county Premier for many years, has thrown ™ his hand in. His policy in ruins, his British masters indifferent to his fate, "Ho recognition of Stormont" the Protestants up in arms about unemployment, the Catholics pursuing their AT the meeting of "National Unity," held in Dublin in mid- rights as Irishmen as never before, he has decided to face the music no longer. ** March the veteran langnagpjnthusiast, Mr. Ernest Blythe, In his place he nominates Terence O'Neill, the least heavily He will nevertheless find it hard made the astonishing proposal Jm the Dublin Government compromised tf his followers, who may now try a policy of to lead the Unionist Party which should have a consul-general bkB|fast and execute warrants appeasing the working man in expectation of a General is being handed its cards by forces for political prisoners issued Hi W* Six Counties. Election. of history. He said all propaganda against fir. McAteer said, "So long as Northern Ireland should be tljere is breath in Northern PRISONERS stopped, the constitution altered Nationalists I hope that they will Before he resigned. Lord Brooke- so as not to lay claim to the co&tinue to protest against those borough's Government performed occupied part of the country and who liave assumed overlordship one of its greatest climb-downs in the Union Jack and "God save th?re." He blamed the partition recent years. the Queen" should "not be in- olsireland squarely on Britain. He suited," whatever that might explained the system of discrimi- Only about three months since mean. nation practised there and said it the great campaign (boycotted by wslE not confined to the lower all sections of the British Press) He added that the British were orators of Unionism, in Northern Ireland at the "invt- WL for the release of the republican tat ton", of 'thffi'IrtBh peopleft the minority,": prisoners swept the six counties, and that Americans should hot be iclared, "were prepared . to ^toVCTBment was compelled induced to "pass their silly reso- - forge its eplendid heritage, is agree to release them In twos lutions about partition." t anybody to simple as to think and threes. that the Unionists, Ingrained in NOT ACCEPTED evil and discrimination, would Sixteen have been released, Nationalist j leader Mr. Eddie abandon their ways? That among them David Egan of Gal- McAteer, who took part in the reasoning is altogether too child- way. The release of Jim O'Donnell debate, showed that Mr. Blythe's ish." David Egan of Coal island is daily awaited. capituiattonism will not be ac- (Above) cepted in the North where people He said it would a sorry day The releases were agreed to :n are actually suffering the effects when the Dublin Government gave Jim (fDonnell order to avert the dangers threat- of partition. full recognition to Stormont.'. (Right) ened by the release committee's St. Patrick's Day parade in Bel- fast. It is believed that the REMEMBER Government dreaded this parade DAYS OF HOPE FOR IRELAND more than anything else Since it would show how little support the EASTER 1916 Protestants would give to any pOMMEMOfUTE the past Conference ends on optimistic note proposals to ban it- PROPOSING thi policy reso- loosening of the allegiance to Ism in the "colony" by resisting by doing something for the the British Government. fhe r lution at the 18th annual Unionism on the part of the DOUBLE-CROSS future. Belfast unemployed who lobbied conference of the Connelly Protestant workers of the six Well-informed circles in Belfast counties. in London at the end of March do not expect the Government will That will be the keynote of Association held in London on might do the same without know- double-cross the committee on this Connolly Aypeletleo Easter the weekend of St. Patrick's While recognising that the fight ing it. * for work was a national struggle, occasion. They say the prisoners meetings teJgl Wg titles of Day, Mr. Desmond Greaves, Meanwhile it was the task. «f Editor of the "Irish Democrat," and must inevitably come up the Connolly Association to organ- will soon be all out. England. Details appear on said that for the first time for against the restrictive action rf ise the Irish in Britain and But organisations are ready to Page Eight, column one. many years we were living in the Government of Ireland Act, through them urge the Labour he warned that the Protestant movement to untie the hand! of aot if "thars are any signs of The Aasociation is tailing for days of hope not deferred but workers had to learn this by their btfng realised. the six-county nationalists. The hardening of the attitude of the a "Release Joseph Doyle" own experience, and miracles nationalist-minded population Were authorities. weekend, and three meetings We were seeing in front of oui' could not be expected. Swift and fighting with one hand tied behind eyes what might well prove the Molyneux had described them- Though St. Patrick's Day has will he held Hi different parts their backs. flnal step in the consolidation of selves as Englishmen, but in fact After a lengthy discussion the come and gone, the bi-centenary of London. the Irish nation, namely the they had tounded Irish national- resolution was passed with one of Wolfe Tone holds even greater abstention. dangers; for Wolfe Tone was a ECONOMIC Protestant and many Protestants Exiles' economic problems were are openly proud of the work their dealt with in resolutions calling BRITAIN COLD-SHOULDERS LEMASS for the drawing up of an "emi- forbears did in 179a The modern THE great Anglo-lriah trade tish concerns are carrying out in after another, to agree to hand grants' charted' to define? the tendency moreover is not merely talks have come and gone Ireland. over the Shannon base to N.A.T.O. rights whifth we wanted the trade to commemorate people and leave without any new develop- Britain has told Ireland she can Most people hope that on le- union movement to demand for it at that, but to link commemora- ments. have the British market on poli- turning to Irish soil Mr. Leniass Irishmen coming to Hrttain tions with the demands of today. tical conditions. One condition is will recover his courage, for the Discrimination in the matter of The public, British and Irish, the recognition of Northern Ire- people will be with him If he unemployed benefit was con- JOSEPH DOYLE land. Lemass went home and tells the British Tory party to go demned In another resolution, and lias been studiously kept in ig- The decision of the Northern norance of the real Issues. that was dutifully started. to hell. a resolution from Manchester was But Britain wants more. So While it is by no means certain passed calling for the repeal of Ireland Government to release the The issue is whether the British Just as Mr. Boames went to Dub- that Labour Is yet sufficiently ; theConunonwealth ImmigraqteAct. Republicans throws Into sharper market is still to be available to lin to order Lemass into the educated to appreciate the need resolution from Kllbuffi was relief the wickedness of further Ireland when all the. E.F.T.A. Common Market, so Mr. Sandys for giving the Irish people all they calling for an Inters!loca- detaining Joseph Ooyle. lands are done away with. will go there this summer to order want, yet it is certain that good- tion of the campaign for the re- The Irish delegates wanted to him Into E.F.T.A . or alternatively will exists in the Labour ranks lease of the RepuMioan prisoners, On other pages of this issue net some special arrangement for the Commonwealth. which Is entirely absent from the and an enquiry into the Qovern- there are reports of the work that Ireland, which would not nsed the And behind the scenes big pres- Tories. ment of Ireland Ast, 1MI. Moving is being done to get him out. British market but for the parti- sure is being exerted to get And Mr Lemass cqn afford to the resolution, Mr. T. Walsh made Notable among them is the tion enforced by Britain and the Lemass, already softened by one wait—next year the Tory Govern- reference to the campaign that petition now launched in Hamp- constant financial take-overs Bri- and political body-Mow ment will be no more. was being weged in Ha<»p»toad. stead. 2 April 1963 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRISH DEMOCRAT April 1963 LETTER FROM THE LIFFEY By ANTHONY COUGH LAN THE IRISH The Popes work LEMASSS DEMOCRAT 374 GRAYS INN ROAD NEW ACT LONDON, W.C.1! for world peace t BBEYFEALEGAELTACHT. Co. Limerick, right cn ' IN LIMERICK r the possession of the whole of Ireland and The N.F.A. is also fully in favour (f Building-land was hard to get and sui;i:i Subscription: 8/6 per year J>OME correspondent of the "Daily PHE amazing thing was that this re- the border of Kerry, is not a Gael- not of just one half. the growth of co-operative buying, selling tachi area. But a visitor to the town, plots put on the market inside the city Editor: DESMOND GREAVES Herald" Mr. Leslie Childs has an statement of the traditional stand of OF FOLLY May there be many Abbeyfeales in Ire- and credit schemes among the farmers. walking through the streets or buying fetched prices of more than £2.aOQ an Associate Editor: SEAN REDMOND interesting speculative article entitled Christianity throughout the ages was land before long! This is one way in which the larmer can acre. taken by some newspapers as a political goods in the shops, might well think :t "Closer links between Russia and the YjR. SEAN LEMASS looks like going ""PHE Common Market was seen by many strengthen himself against the large error. -''A down in Irish history as the man was. because he would hear Irish spoken Vatican." 1 IrisTrichh farmerfflrmoi'Cs aOrs . a„ means of gettin— + g businesses which produce the industrial Farms, too, especially those of 100 acres The Italian weekly magazine. "L'Ex- who could have won everything but gave all around him. The occasion is the ceremony of the a fairer price for their products from goods he buys, as well as against the or over.-were in much demand, with presso," in a leading article called "The everything away. presentation to Pope John of the Swiss- For Abbevfeale is a town where the Britain. Hence their support for the many middlemen, each taking their cut. prices ranging from £70 an acre for poor Pope goes to far left," talked about In the process of "up-dating the legal Italian-Belgian "Foundation prize" of Irish "revival" is a revival. People use Government's EEC. policy. Now that who come between him and the con- land to more than £180 an acre for top- GET UP! shocks. system" his Government, which has al- £18.000 for "his efforts to reconcile the the language there in their day-to-day this has failed, some of the farmers' sumer. class agricultural and grazing lar.d. It wrote: ready introduced gag-acts previously un- ISN'T it getting time the million world's nations and religions." affairs: even those with only a few words leaders are beginning to call for new 1 "The first shock came when it became known since the worst days ol the Union, and phrases have no inhibitions about initiatives in Irish trade policy to weaken I 1 IS Lordship Most Rev. Dr. Lucey, As yet land and house prices in Ireland Irish in Britain got up off their The significant thing is that there was clear that last autumn's Ecumenical is now proposing to recognise the six- using them; notices in most of the shops Britain's dominating influence. x * * Bishop- of Cork and Ross, paid tri- are below those in Europe—hence the backsides, shook themselves, and de- a Soviet Government representative on Council was, in contrast to tradition, county Government, to the extent cf say, "Labhartar Gaeilge annso," that is, Ireland is not without trump cards in but to the national work of the G.A.A. desire of foreigners to invest in property cided to do something to help in the the awards Committee who is reported to voicing ideas, not of crusades and invec- making police warrants from the six Irish is spoken here. This in a town her dealings with Britain on trade mat- at the annual convention of the Munster here—but the prices are gradually catch- great struggles now opening up in have said: tives, but of reconciliation, tolerance and counties enforceable in the twenty-six. ing up. "The Soviet Government and Premier fifty miles away from the Gaeltacht. ters. We are one of her best customers. G.A.A. Council in Cork recently. neutrality." A part of Ireland is being treated as occupied Ireland? Krushchev personally, highly appreciate Readers should ponder this well. The if it were a sovereign state. How has this come about? The achieve- In fact, on a per head basis, Ireland is The secret of the G.A.A.'s success was \ T last the Opera House in Cork is It is all right holding lectures and the efforts of Pope John in the cause of Italian politicians wanted crusades and This news was splashed on the front ment is largely the result of the work the highest consumer of British industrial that it had never been a mere Gaelic to rise again from its ashes. Burned singing songs about the past. But the peaee among all people." A invectives and they got tolerance and page of the "Irish Times" of March 25th, of several local people, among them Canon products. As one of Britain's best custom- Athletic Association, said His Lordship. down in 1954, some £200.000 had to be past really contains little more than Mr. Adzubei, Editor of Isvestia, the raised neutrality. What a terrible thing! together with the Northern Ireland Gov- Lynch, the parish priest, Messrs, Patrick ers we have a right to fair prices for The G.A.A. had looked beyond the games by public subscription, donations things to steer away from. Remember Soviet newspaper, together with his wife Carrol, Patrick McSweenev. P. O'Connor, what we have to sell in return. It went on: ernment's approval of it. to the people playing them and it. by all means, and honour its heroes. Mrs. Rada Adzubei. recently had a long B. Noonan and others, who formed a "If we do not get them," said Mr. the loans before the rebuilding, now "The second shock was the Papal re- Instead the'"Irish Press" devoted its people for whom they were played. But remember tradition exists for man. audience with the Holy Father and took Milder way, could begin. ception for Krushchev's son-in-law. If headlines to a "red scare" about public language committee on which every one Rickard Deasy, of the National Farmers' All nostalgic talk about "those were the him a gift from the Soviet Prime A last Mr. Krushchev himself were to be re- trials in Peking and all the rest of the of the 21 organisations in the town— Association, in Tullamore recently, "then It had helped to make them good Gaelic spurt over Christmas, in which days" is so much bunkum. These are Minister. With the gift was a letter. sporting, recreational, professional, trade we, as the national economic organisation Peop e manv Cork ceived by the Vatican it is probable that paraphernalia of hysteria. A pity some Down the years it had been a citizens, including Lord Mayor the days, the days in front of you, the Asked what the letter said. Mr. Adzubei union—are represented, all working to- of Iri6h farmers, will have to see if the 11 this psychological derailment of moderate of the boys interned in Belfast and the force for unity when political divisions S^ Casey, went collecting money in days that are starting now. said: wards the end of making Abbeyfeale an time has not come to press the Govern- were strong. It was a force for the pre- the streets, arised the amount required, opinion would be transformed into open Curragh were not given "public trials.'' It is said that armies are always ready "A true Pope can give something even confusion." But the readers of the "Irish Press" can all-lrish speaking town. ment either for some compensating re- servation of the traditions of the Irish Cork h£U, missed Hs Qpera House a!_ —. I',. . --t ^- » 1 _ " . » ..,-jv^U ... 1 vj^jLin ai" for the last war. And it has some truth to a Communist. The Pope is a man of And yet we would ask, considering the be excused for not knowing what the vv truly great simplicity. Open your eyes and Recognition of .their work came recently duction of British imports or for a shift way of Ufe m of treDds towards , the Fattier Mathew in it that patriots aire always ready for right of the plain man to live his life | Fianna Fail Government was doing—the lhougll the c ty Hall the last revolution. Well, a revolution take a good look at him, and you feel not when Abbeyfeale won the Glor na nGael in our trade, which could offer us, per- West Bntainism and internationalism. , . theatres, have out in peace providing he harms nobody issue contained plenty about Stalin and Hal and vai ious small is beginning in Ireland now. And it won't only a great respect for him but also an Kwantung, but nothing about Haughey prize as the town which had done most haps, greater security and wider oppor- Lordship said that the G.A.A. was valiantly tried to flU the gap in the city's else, considering the terrible destruction His be anything like the last one. It will immediate confidence; you feel no em- and other evils of war, who it is who and Faulkner! •for the language during the past year, tunities than at present." national organisations entertainment facilities since the burning. mle of our great have its own special features and charac- barrassment or humiliation." is confused, the Pope or the Italian news- The President, Mr. de Valera, was The present Anglo-Irish trade agree- organisation of its .kind com- Can it be Fianna Fail is using the No other The new building will be on the site ter. I .will also be the greatest of them In this discourse delivered on the re- paper? present at the prize-giving, as well as ment imposes a British desired pattern following or deserved 't Communist bogey as a smokescreen IO manded such a of the old, looking out over the river, all, and it may well be that more songs ceipt of the prize the Pope said that the PJ). hide its own folly from the people? Irish speakers from every part of Ire- on our agricultural economy, said Mr. He wished the Munster Council and the award paid recognition to the constant land. Deasy. It leads to the emphasis on store fruitful and success- and should be completed by the end of will be sung, more histories written, about HE Irish people will need to watch G A A as a whole a ,action of the Church and Papacy, and "Nothing was ever achieved,'' said the cattle, which encourages the type of next year. the great days of the nineteen-sixties future developments carefully. It President, "unless those striving intended farming least in harmony with our de- / 1UMANN na bPiarsach is the name referred to the "supra-national neutrality T 1 than were done for all J,he preceding looks as if Fianna Fail is becoming to achieve it Let lis hp surU pe nf vlcvlwnrttoryr clareoiamrdi ,al —lic' — ——'* I ; , . . of the Church and of its visible head." llft^iu nciircvZc 10. ls " ..°i, _ >- P° y of supporting the KTHE property boom in Ireland is con1- f organisation founded in Dublin ages. merely Fine Gael in a rather brighter 0 an "Such neutrality," said the Pope, —•A tinninrh.iuhwr , tinu juuginrloAe ironfV/^mi somonmoe recenit honour the memorv and pre- NOTES & NEWS shade of green paint. recentlv to For heavens sake let us get rid of this "should not be understood in a purely say the language cannot be restored. If The National Farmers' Association is reports of the auctioneering companies. It may also be necessary for the Repub- serve the teachings of the brothers Pat- worship of the past that is stifling us, passive sense as if the task of the Pope IRKENHEAD TRADES COUNCIL has such people only took part in the effort one of the best organised and most intel- English and Continental buyers continue licans to do a little rethinking. While rick and Willie Pearse. and get out and DO something for the were limited to watching events and B they were bent on decrying the victory , ligently-led bodies in the country at the to remain interested in Irish property, passed a resolution calling for the they have no representatives in Leinster present. keeping silent. It is on the contrary, a would come all the sooner." present time. Last year's campaign of particularly in town and country hotels. release of Joseph Doyle from Wakefield House the little independence the people A message of support was read from neutrality which conserves all its strength Mr. de Valera had a special word of protest against falling farm incomes led which enable them to take advantage of Senator Miss Margaret Pearse at the in- The northern Ireland working class is jail. of twenty-six counties possess may be tied of witness. Anxious to spread the prin- welcome for the 'people from the six to the biggest demonstration in Ireland Ireland's tourist trade. augural meeting. It said: "Your aim s deserting Unionism. The struggles in * * * hand and foot. Would it not be best to ciples of true peace, the Chufth does not counties present, many of them from since the Land League. The N.F.A. is to keep fresh the memory of my brothers, northern Ireland (all totally suppressed Mr. George Rogers, M.P. for North Ken- follow up their fight in the country with cease to encourage the adoption of a Dungannon, which won a consolation again discussing similar action in order Suburban dwelling-houses maintained Padraic and Liam, especially with the by the cunning propagandists of the sington, met a deputation of his consti- a ftght inside the Parliament? Is it such 1 ir 8 wllich language and the introduction of customs tuents organised by the local Connolly prize in the competition. Their presence to get better prices for the farmer, espe~»' V .P™?? ' ranged^ from £3.0Q0 younff, people, many of whom know British, press) have reached a point where a dreadful derogation of principles to go to £5 S0 r for and institutions which guarantee its Association, on Friday, March 29th. They showed, hp said, that the laqgiW was cially for his milk. ° semi-detached houses, and nothing of those who fought and died the six-county Government has had.to wherfe' th^'enemy is and fight him? stability." urged on him *th e releas* e *o f Joe Doyle. demand exceeded siipply. for Ireland and for the welfare of these release the Republican prisoners in a There are people in Ireland who are matter of months after the campaign "We have said it repeatedly; the action Investment in houses for conversion same young people." East London Connolly Association is literally thirsting for a representative in started last November. Seven Unionist of the Church is not purely negative; it into flats remained steady. In the latter The Cumann made plans for an excur- putting on a tape-recording and live song Leinster House who would tear aside the Links with past severed M.P.S have voted against the Government does not Just consist of entreating half of 1962, several English property sion to Pearses' cottage at Rosniuc m and poem recital, "Sworn to be fres," polite humbug of twenty-six-county Par- at Westminster. And the ferment over Governments to avoid recourse te armed companies expanded into the Irish mar- the Connemara Gaeltacht, for a com- on Sunday, April 2ftth, 7.30 p.m., at Naomh liamentary politics, and would speak out •HAN O'HIGGINS unemployment and Westminster's politi- force, It is an aotion aimed at the shaping GENERAL GOUGH ket. Shops too. particularly newsagents memoration concert in the Gaiety Eanna, 19 ildowan Road, Goodmayes,- for Ireland and the truth. May we not ANOTHER casualty of the unprscs- J>RC cal bankruptcy has knocked the stuffing of men of peace with peaceful thoughts, TA00NI8T Of the Curragh Mutiny, and tobacconists, fetched high prices. Theatre, for a tour, with lectures, of llford. have even one tribune of the people? dented winter is Mr. Brian O'HinitM, * M Html «ir Hubert Gough died in out of the Orange Order. hearts and minds." thejOaWMth man who kept the ifta* |.ond m in-lKwoh. The most brilliant from £3.700 to £7,800, depending on Kilmainham, and for the Easter Corn- 0' Republicanism flying in the face of MM(I r of the first world war. he was location. memoration. The time may not be far off when there alt difficulties in his famous "Wolfe Tone dismissed to save the reputation of will be a united movement of the people Annual." members of the allied command who j and kindly person in all human never went near the front tine. Gough ol the six counties demanding their free- BY .»_MV.J«P«V IW was a veritable lion in was famous as the "only General that dom. Then British imperialism will defence of his herd Wolfe Tone, and woe ... .nm lmMArill,i„ change its tune. It will say, "Dublin CONN LOIN6SS betide an "anti-national brainwasher" A Ttoperary man with long imperialist WE ACCUSE. ORANGE MOBS doesn't want them." That is the reason whTd.fSl uKthi names of the J., ^ for the fraotic efforts being made to per- compromise. And a truly remarkable Fenians of the man of I»t6. peeted of left sympathies. As The WO jeurnallsts are doirig time for oon- and a few wee broadsheets, hawked ...Edt-BUPK-Wg ^.P'tKgte8 P/oyi-ed Time." put 1t, he 'severely, congamned suade Mr. Lemass to "recognise" Stor- ability to reflect current English preju- the With its ideo- es" put 1 tempt of court. Fleet Street has Its around by those whd print them. The the Versailles, mont. Bfttain went sjow on the trade T dice. logical food, ami kept alive the- memory whiti DESECRATE CHURCHES hand on its heart and is bleating like press is the advertisers' plaything. And of many patriot* the authorities would of Homt^JrnJe rese , and notion talks to rub that in tb him. advertising is legalised lying. * * * me Rule for Ireland. For the time being, however, the move- a new-born lamb about the principle of as soon have tikd forgotten. He will be He completely revised his early Unionist U/E accuse the Unionist Party of Since the only possible beneficiary is the freedom of the press. And yet—the trouble is the men in jail \.f ANY American cities hate NO public sadly mtaM. .pwn by those who thought views on Irish independence and used ment in the north is still struggling for- transport at all. That means the his suapMin of the "fcft" a little out of ocoastonally to attend Connolly Assooia- ** deliberately setting out to stir the Unionist Party, It is reasonable to The public withers are unwrung. "Pity are the exceptions that prove the rule. ward to unity. Everything which, whether one-quarteM r of the population who have no date in the mldat of the 20th century, tion functions during the war. "The up sectarian hatred to bolster its assume that Glengall Street is respon- a few more aren't there," said the green- The Fleet Street tycoons have no prin- it is intended to or not, does in fact For In everything he carried the hall- Times" obituary says it li nonsense to crashing prestige in faoe of the fiasco sible. grocer who wrapped my cabbage in the ciples. But they are using the principles automobiles most stay at home or walk mark of integrity.—O M. say the "soldiers trusted him," but the weaken tlie hold of British imperialism of its economic and national policies. story of it. of the imprlsoned> journalists to try and to wherever they waht to go. Thus writer knows from personal experience But this time the result ts a damp squib. should be supported. Freedom of the press! "Principles" beautify themselves. The conclusion? prosperous America create® a proletariat that when Gough wsnt Inte a restaurant, The Protestant workers are not in a mood But support means more than a nod any oid soldiers among the staff would The Orange mobs were out at 5 a.mv forsooth! The newspapers right-wheel The Journalists should be let out. There beneath the proletariat. for a fight with the Catholics. They are of the head, It means spreading ideas; OOWM to bis table and P*ss the time of on March 11th, a few days before St. and form fours as smartly as you can should be no more judicial tribunals. London looks like going the same way. increasingly getting into a mood to fight speeding the true, stopping the false in (toy- Patrick's Day, defacing houses in Catholic say "Government hand-out." Anybody And nobody should buy a Fleet Street There is no doubt the Government in ORDER He was not a politician, but a soldier the Unionists. its tracks. A friendly working class in districts and scrawling scurrilous blasphe- with enough money can have his opinions paper except when supplied with a good power today hates public traheport. It well versed in military theory whloh Britain can be of decisive importance. 1 he took very seriously. And above all a mies on the walls of chapels and monas- If, as is quite possible, some Protestant proclaimed with the nearest thing to few pinches of salt. wants to get rid of the railways. The "THE IRISH In Mr. Harold Wilson the Labour Party "character."—C.O.G. teries. trade union passes a resolution condemn- complete unanimity. As for principles, * * * branch lines are going now; there are now has a leader who is not personally QUESTION ing these outrages, then the Unionist there is only one. Make more money. roads near them. Motorways are being committed to the Ireland Act of 194G. •yyHAT bit Patrick O'Donovan ("Sun- The areas in which these provocations Party wiH hnow that its trick has this The general press is not the watchdog built parallel, even running alongside, the and .the British people." occurred were Clonard and Ardoyne. In »me totally misfired. It is doubtful even So we say to the Irish in Britain: Oet ' * day Observer" columnist) on St. t of the public. That function is reserved rail trunk routes, in six years' time they from PAINTERS SAY McDonnell Street the windows of nearly tiwe Orsnge men support it. lip and do something. And the Connolly Patrick's Day? "It is a day of' neurotic )f many ac to the working-class political press that will be wanting to close down the main Gonaoily Publications Ltd., every houee were painted with Orange Association is the organisation to do it self-praise," says he, so he seemingly lines. RELEASE DOYLE does not depend on advertisements. That decided to take the Irish down a jjeg 314 Grays Inn Road, slogans. McConneli Street is the street What is the reason? Partly the'v can't rpHE London Area Committee of the where four days after the "Covenant or two. London, W.C.I denationalise so they want to destroy. J Amalgamated Society of Painters & Jubilee" Orange mobs went into shops "The English treatment of the Irish Second they want to smash organised fingle topics, by post, 3/- Decorators, has passed a resolution call-. demanding cigarette, s free, ,an . d cause. d * GOOD LUCK! CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION Republic." he goes on, "is today ex- labour. Did you ever hear of a long- ,n were talM,n ,0 h0e ing on the Home Secretary to release"* " ceptionally generous. But the Irish who Tenns for quantities 'JiHE 'Irish' Depioerat" sends its and Irish Solf-Determinatlon Learue distance lorrv-drivers' strike? These men Joseph Doyle at once. I pitalnilal . take advantage of this generosity who * most cordial good wishes to the are too isolated and spread out and over- The slogans painted on the wall of the Republican prisoners who have been come to England, are all a little marred worked to stand up fOr th^mselV^s. Con- CENTRAL LONDON CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION Clonard Monastery and the Ardoyne released from Belfast jail. They by the history put on them. ditions are unbelievable. Railway work- Cliapel were "Up the ShanklU F — the have !>eon set tree by the efforts Application for Membership ". . . There are wild nights in Kilburn ers are well organised because of the WEDNESDAYS AT HEAD OFFICE Pope Remember 1690 " No arrests were of their fellow-countrymen, and they and along the Scotland Road. There closelv-knit safety system of the rails. made. were never forgotten for a single are Trotskyites on the building sites. SO, say the Tories, to hell with safety. 374 GRAYS INN ROAD There are seedy men knocking at Give us the profit. Not one solitary British newspaper re- day when they were held in the I WISH TO JOIN THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION priests' doors ior a hand-out. There Now the London busmen ate aitking a ported these events. There was not a enemy's clutches. are men who won't keep a job and few bob more. Undoubtedly the Tories line, not a letter about it. The suppres- They return at a time when great Bion of news damaging to six-county political battles are opening up. in Name the girls that get into trouble There will try to use their demand as ah ex- Unionism was perlect and complete. which the magnificent qualities of is a disproportionate prison population cifrt* for getting ttufles off the road The and there ale all those dreadful jkibfc shOW
IRISH DEMOCRAT DOUBLE BOOK PACE REVIEWS THE NEW AND VITAL YOUR EASTER DING LITERATURE OF SPRING 1963 ; James Joyce LIAM MELLOWS AND AFfER "EXILES," by James Joyce (Four LADY GREGORY Square Books, 2/6). SELECTED PLAYS by Lady Gregory THERE WILL BE ANOTHER DAY," of the straitjacket of the past and realise IT is useful to have "Exiles" with Joyce's BRITAIN'S ULSTER COLONY how close it was to victory in 1931? "It chosen by Elizabeth Coxhead Peadar O'Donnell (Dolman Press, J- own notes ("now the property of the is much easier for men to condition them- (Putnam, 25/-). University of Buffalo") in a cheap edition. 6/-), selves for martyrdom than for leadership." ,r Padraic Colum, in his concise and help- THE IRISH QUESTION & THE BRI- land, so that people might be excused for appeal to republicans. It is that although JpHIS is a book which every young But Mr. O'Donnell does not omit to bring suggesting that it ought to be called the ADY GREGORY liked to build up her ful introduction, does not convince that there may be over £40 millions being paid J Irishman or Irish woman should get out how very nearly the I.R.A. did break TISH PEOPLE," C. Desmond Greaves "Northern Ireland Question." But the author plays around a poem or a song, and the play itself is anything more than a to Northern Ireland by the Imperial ex- J at once, and devour as quickly as pos- out of the straitjacket and how near was rejects this argument. In his view there in fact most of the ones chosen for this the chance which gave Pianna Fail the day. notebook coming between "Portrait of the (Connolly Publications, 2/6), chequer, the people are still being exploited sible. It tells of forbidden things; of the Artist" and "Ulysses." would be no Northern Ireland question, no volume by her biographer, Miss Coxhead, problem of the six counties, but for the by imperialism. The forty millions of public start from such material; sifting poems great struggles of modern Ireland, in the \| B. O'Donnell calls his book a "footnote" The notes do not increase the impact existence of the broader "Irish "Question," money are spent in order to" facilitate in Irish, songs in English, to discover period after (if the schools are to be be- to Liam Mellows's Notes from Mount- of the play, rather do they suggest that O better conception of the contents \ the question of whether Britain has any how the people of the four provinces saw lieved) Irish history had stopped in its joy Jail. He attributes a part of the dis- Joyce was restricted by the formal three of this book can be given than by robbery of the people by private interests; rights in Ireland at all^The problem of the leaders, having her characters use course, leaving only politics. orientation of the Republican movement in acts: as he considers his character Bertha, [uoting the author's preface : the subsidies are the cost of holding the Northern Ireland is merely the sharpest ex- these songs to win over a fellow-country- the early 'twenties to the "atmosphere of he expands in time and place. The people down while it is done. Mr. Peadar O'Donnell's volume of remi- pression of the question of British interfer- man, pass on the message within earshot innocence" in which its struggles had been "Portrait" and "Ulysses," whatever our "To many an Englishman," he says. iscences of the struggle against the payment ence in Ireland. of the invader. conducted since 1916. How far the leaders final judgment, do build up a rich, full • Ireland is still a nearby country of which A devastating picture is painted of the of land annuities, and its influence in bring- of Labour were responsible for this ne canvas of people doing, feeling and react-,, he knows nothing ... All sorts; of ideas economic consequences of detaching a small ing Mr. de Valera to power in 1932 fills a are entertained about it, among them that In a lengthy chapter this idea is developed This is but one example of the way in touches on but does not dogmatise. The j, ing, depending on each other, in and I in the economic field, and a number of con- part of Ireland and fixing it artificially on which she responded to the necessity cf badly-needed gap, and is moreover well, and movement wished to appear before the world around the city, and we can at least11 it is useless to try and understand it." at times, brilliantly written. clusions are drawn which may be new to to the end of the U.K. bayonet. The six her times, heightening that necessity and as actuated only by "lofty ideals," and the bggin to come to terms. They are in | He goes on, "Ireland is primarily a many readers. It is insisted on the British counties is compelled to be a part of the striving to make people more fully con- Where else, for example, would we find needs of the common people, the workers fact more theatrical, and it is interesting such epigrammatic summation of the failure matter for the Irish people. The Irish imperialism has one policy towards Irel&nd, United Kingdom, but it is as far from its scious of it. Poems to be sung and songs and farmers, were not lofty enough for men to note that recent adaptations from that were poems: this was, due to the of the Republican movement to break out qjflfcstion, on the contrary, is of common not two. That one policy is exploitation, and heartbeat as the Highlands of Scotland. The like Griffith or even, Mr. O'Donnell suggests, them have been more successful on the partition and the various consequent historical conditions, the main form taken concern to the British and Irish peoples." effect of partition is to drain the country to for Mr. de Valera. He recalls the great stage than "Exiles" itself. It has been arrangements are merely the means by by our living culture when she began to ON "moment of truth" when Mellows, whose said that "Rosmersholm," perhaps Ib- The author argues, that a comprehension which this is done. In the twenty-six Belfast, and then drain Belfast to England. write. sympathies were always with the poor and sen's best, should have been a novel: James Connolly 1 the Irish question is an essential part counties there is a real attempt to dominate "There will never be prosperity for the Bel- G.B.S. MUSIC oppressed, realised that this had lost the "Exiles" is certainly sub-Ibsen, in a f the mental equipment of any politically the State economically, and the means of fast workers except in building up a new The National Theatre movement was a Republicans the support of the mass of product of the Fenian struggles and its strict sense. ducated Englishman, and that in his own doing this are described under the various united Ireland," and the author uses the the Dublin workers. leaders were fired by the stand of Par- (Penguin, 3/6) Maybe we could accept the merciless iterests. labels of "neo-imperialism," "neo-colonialism" last chapter in order to show just what self-portrayal the play is if Joyce had | nell, the man from the big house like and so on, although the author admits that could be done if instead of the present ,/~mrriCTSMS of half a century ago, whe- Who was to blame? Well, who on earth made a truly dramatic tragedy of it. The What is the Irish question? these phrases do not really hit off the matter themselves. (Lady Gregory used the story CLASSIC RE-ISSUED "British-centred" policy there was to be pur- of Moses to make her play about him ^ ther of musio-or drama, generally exude could be to blame? The first time a thing emotional entanglements are real enough, The author says, "It is the question of to perfection. The truth is too complicated. goes wrong history is to blame. But not sued an "Irish-centred" policy. too, "The Deliverer"). By this time we an atmosphere of dust and cobwebs and playing themselves out against the faded > hether the sovereignty of that country is But he does not accept that the twenty-six the second. needed to have our own dramatic expres- bring to mind the paradox that, though the green plush of the southern suburbs in "LABOUR, NATIONALITY AND RELI- ested in the Irish people or the British county state is merely a puppet administra- spiritual content of great works of art seems 1912. There is a tragic situation, but tion. Rather he sees a constant struggle sion in English as well as Irish. "I began Mr. O'Donnell sketches the story of the GION," James Connolly (New Books, Irown." ^THROUGHOUT the book it is insisted that to grow with the passage of time, styles of going on in which the Leinster House admini- by writing bits of dialogue when wanted": Republican revival in the mid-'twenties when no deyelopment, only argument in circles -*- the Protestant workers of' the north are performances and social attitudes towards 1/6). The issue is joined, he says, between stration, one time pliable to British interests, this was indeed Lady Gregory's great the great names were Frank Ryan, Moss (in "Ulysses" the realities of life break Irish, and have as much to gain from the artists go out of date very quickly. Gener- ritish aristocracy and Irish democracy, and at other times resists them. The existence technical contribution; she showed Yeats Twomey, Sean Russell, George Gilmore and through the Swiss psychology); no-one is establishment of a United Republic as they ally the old forgotten celebrities, their "TITANY people write about James Connolly le only thing to decide is which of them of any native administration in Ireland at how to do it, did it herself, and paved others—not forgetting Peadar OTKmnell really responsible and so there is no have to lose from remaining part ••of the eccentricities and petty rivalries are ae dead often things he would scarcely recog- iritish democracy is going to support. In the all he regards as an advance on the days the way for Synge. And this contribu- himself who as editor of "An Phofflacht" tragic drama, it all peters but dispiritedly United Kingdom. He regards Stormont as a as mutton to the contemporary reader. nize himself in, but few trouble to read what pinion of the author the ties between the of the Union. tion was JJ9 meee .formal one, her dialogue made it the most redoubtable repuBJican at the end, Richard "stretches himself oyt \ [ regime "ripe for abolition, but considers it Connolly wrote himself. If they did there emocracies of the two (Countries over-ride Is shot through with real meaning, as "G3.S. on Mudic," recenfcy ifcuefc by paper ever published in Ireland, a generation wearily along the lounge," Bertha yearns possible that a coalition of Nationalist and would be much woolly thinking about the ny common interest between the ordinary here in "The White Cockade"— Penguin Books, is no ordinary collection of ahead of "Irish Freedom" or even Connolly's softly. In his opinion the weakness of the posi- Labour forces might capture it first and teachings of the great socialist hero of Iritish people and their ruling class. The musical essays. Written before Shaw be- "Worker's Republic." I know. I have read Human relationships are presented as tion in the six counties is that British set up a kind of "Grattan's Parliament" Easter week. hole method of the book develops as a "Lady: Is it nothing to you, Mary came world-famous, it is of great Interest through the files of all of them. tragic in themselves, not frustrated Dy finance can ride roughshod because firstly there which would fight Westminster for the Kelleher, that the broken altars of the both to the musically-minded and to students •suit of this important conclusion. given tragic circumstances which can be Messrs. New BOOKS Ltd, Dublin, therefore there is no native administration to resist right to escape from the trammels and so Faith will be built up again? of literature. In the preface, Written In 1935, Along with all this is the turf smoke and ' changed, as they are in Chekhov and! i do a public service in keeping his best known it, and secondly because the six counties is join the all-Ireland Republic as a final re- Shaw, as he lived so long, had the opportu- neighbourliness of the small farm country- Ibsen. Self-pitying irony is the only reac- works in print. The new edition of "Labour held down fettered and chained by the sult. But he is not dogmatic about this. Mrs. Kelleher: God grant it! Though, nity, not open to many, of- excusing some c f ATER it is explained that in a sense the indeed, myself I am no great bigot. I side, and the dry penetrating wit of a man i tion to a cosmopolitan view of culture Nationality and Religion" which they have J book is a reply to the "Northern Ireland Government of Ireland Act while its riches his youthful literary excesses; his fierce en- The book is therefore also a reply to Mr. would always like to go to a Protestant of the people. A very fine piece of wprk. at the historical moment when the Just issued differs from the last one only in 'roblem," written by Messrs. Barritt and are shamelessly looted. thusiasm for Wagner, his dislike of Brahms, national struggle is crystallising ("These one respect, a much njore attractive cover Ernest Blythe. Nobody who reads it can funeral. You see so many well-dressed and his neglect of Sibelius, Hindemith, C. DESMOND GREAVES. arter. It is indeed concerned almost entirely doubt that Mr. Blythe with his constant people at ,it." cigars Europeanise me"). It should sell well. F very great interest is the attempt, Richard Strauss, etc. ith the six counties of northeastern Ire- appeals to the Dublin Government to O whether economists will be prepared to "recognise" the six-county Government, is So, while Yeats and the others It is easy for us to be wise since history go along with it or not, to construct a theorised, she provided barmbracks for has placed Shaw's early contemporary com- whether he thinks so or not, in fact strik- "balance of payments" for the six counties. the tea, showed them how their charac- posers in perspective for us. For example, ing a terrible blow at the Protestant workers The argument which the author puts up is ters should speak, and went her nightly he violently defended Wagner, because the in the six counties, equally with the of great importance and will undoubtedly rounds after the play was over to beg latter was successfully breaking away from Penguin Books Catholics. the cliche-ridden music of the nineteenth the papers to slip in some sort of a Several chapters are given over to a truly notice. century. Wagner's revolutionary treatments OF OSCAR 4'- to two years' imprisonment with hard labour. of harmony and orchestration have since damning exposure of the lack of democracy This involved solitary confinement, laborious in the six counties, the gerrymandering, But to criticise this as a shortcoming become a part of musical language, while "FAMOUS TRIALS-OSCAR WILDE, interesting reading. Montgomery Hyde, a alongside the Judge on the bench. Sir nd books were withdrawn, however, and he work on the treadmill and picking oakum on special powers, harrying of Republicans, and is another thing. The small number of he himself is relegated to the rank of a Montgomery Hyde. former M.P. at Westminster for Belfast is Edward Clarke appeared for Wilde and • as soon penniless. a very inadequate diet. characters and the simplicity of construc- second-rate composer. refusal to recognise the official trade union undoubtedly an expert on Oscar Wilde, and Edward Carson (later Lord Carson), who tion and setting arose, not out of any QSCAR WILDE is one of many Irish- Although Sir Edward Clarke had been a Wilde found it all a "fiendish nightmare- centre. The most interesting approach is In contrast to his Wagnerian craze was his has had the advantage of speaking to many had been at Trinity College, Dublin, with leisured theorising at Coole, but from the ittle reluctant to act for Oscar Wilde in the more terrible than anything I had ever probably that of discrimination. It has often devotion to Mozart—Wagner's complete men, great and small, who have of Wilde's friends, including Lord Alfred Wilde, appeared for the Marquess of very real restrictions placed on the stage irst trial, he volunteered to defend him in dreamed of" and anyone reading his account been held that the antagonism between opposite. ' Here we are in complete sympathy suffered at the hands of the English Douglas before his death in 1945. Queensberry. 1 and company for which she wrote, what he second trial without fee. of the barbaric conditions can well believe it. Protestant and Catholic derives from obscure with him as he strives to raise standards to legal system. Like Parnell and Sir Roger Oscar Wilde wis born on the 16th Both counsel were at the height of their political, economic or historial causes, and she has left behind are mainly short the purity of style so necessary to Mozart. Wilde undoubtedly found the whole pro- Casement, he had charges of immorality October. 1854, at 21 Westmorland Row, Dub- careers, and for a good part of the trial In The Ballad of Reading Gaol he wrote: that this antagonism is then used for the comedies, for, as she said, "I had been It is difficult to understand his attitude thrown in his face to cause public emo- lin, and was educated at Trinity College, Oscar Wilde and Carson scored thrush '•dmgs a great shock, which was to start forced to write comedy because it was Each narrow cell in which we dwell purpose of discrimination. The author of toward Brahms. No-one will deny even tion and prejudice in an endeavour to Dublin, and Oxford. At the age of 40 he was against each other with equal effect in a he gradual breakdown of his health, results wanted for our theatre, to put on at Is a foul and dark latrine, this book rejects this current view and today, that Brahms is, at times, a bit of well-known as a poet, a writer ("The Por- cross-examination noted for wit and repartee ill in his early death. Frank Harris was to the end of the verse plays." destroy him. And the fetid breath of living Death argues that the antagonism is caused by the a bombast, and that his orchestral texture trait of Dorian Gray"), and a playwright on both sides. rite later, "His arrest was a signal for an discrimination and not the other way round. Furthermore, like the others, and like ,r And all, but Lust, Is turned to Dust "A part of the new national movement is frequently over-thick (as indeed was "The Importance of Being Earnest" already Such was the evidence against Oscar -'v of philistine rancour such as even In other words the Government wants Wagner's), but he is unquestionably one of Ireland herself through her long, turbulent having had successful seasons In London. midon had never known before." In humanity's machine. had been, and rightly, an attack on the history, he suffered unexpected and unde- Wilde, however, that he lost ground Protestants to hate Catholics, and has intro- the great and it is surprising that this fact These works, and those which he wrote stage Irishman, the vulgar and unnatural served ill-luck. Although how far such ill- seriously when Carson turned to his private W. B. Yeats, who was living in London In fact within three years of his release duced a system of discrimination over a long should have eluded Shaw's brilliant percep- later, have lived long after his death, and butt given on the English stage," she fortune affected the final outcome of his life. Carson's brilliant questioning became the time, added, "The rage against Wilde Wilde died in Paris to the silence of the period which encourages them to do so. This tion. some of his plays have been shown to wrote In "Our Irish Theatre." case is hard to say. There can be no doubt one of the most damaging cross-examina- as complicated by the Britisher's Jealousy British press.. But on the 16th October, 1954, system, he argues, is merely the survival of audiences of millions on television during When he started to lacerate Brahms, he he committed at least some of the acts tions ever known in an English court. I( '1 art and the artist, which is generally a plaque to his memory was erected by the the penal laws in a modern form. Miss Coxhead provides, most effectively, the past year. found it difficult to stop. He describes him alleged against him. makes compelling reading to this day. lormant but is called into activity when the London County Council. It was unveiled by the gist of her earlier biography as an as "a sentimental voluptuary. with a won- Qscar Wilde certainly had his fill of the tist has got outside his field into publicity Sir Compton Mackenzie, who said: "When lntroductloh to this volume, showing Lady derful ear." Comparing his symphonies with A 8 a result, Sir Edward Clark abandoned T7HNALLY there Is a chapter on the English legal system, with three separate TTOWEVER, he undoubtedly was a literary 'f an undesirable kind." he wrote his Ballad of Reading Gaol he not Gregory caught in youth and early thoee of Beethoven or Mozart, Shaw becomes the prosecution and although Wilde was I Mallon-Talbot and other trials of re- trials at the Old Bailey. And the offence poseur, and his friendship with Lord only gave the world a beautiful poem, but a womanhood between the "well-dressed coDtdous "that he is the most wanton of fciven adequate time to go to the Continent THE trial at the Old Bailey which was now puMicans, and a discussion of the recent of Indecency between males In private for Douglas and the lattor's father, the Marquess much-needed lesson of goodwill, pity, par- peoples" her landlord family, and their compears, that he is only ingenious In his and avoid prosecution by the Crown he did ^ to commence saw Wilde charged Jointly Common Market discussions in which the which he vpa finally imprisoned for two of queensberry, In uncontrollable fits of don and understanding for the down-and- Irish-speaking servants. It w&s through wantonness, and that when his ambition not do so and was soon arrested and brought 'ith another accused against whom the reason why Mr. Lemass and others took years had become law for the first time only absolute rage. out." fcfuds him to turn his industry, in any other for a preliminary hearing at Bow Street, vidence was much stronger than that stands they did are fully and on the whole to this Irish world that the break was ten years before, as an undiscussed and direction his charm does not turn with it, Finally, on the 18th February, 1885, the where he Was later committed for trial at •gainst Wilde, and this also acted to his convincingly explained. finally made in middle jfe, via- soma apparently insignificant section of a contro- Mr. Montgomery-Hyde's book Is a fascinat- and he comes the most superficial and irre- Marquess of Queensberry left for Wilde at the Old Bailey. li-sadvantage. Although Wilde's Counsel tried papers left by one of her husband's family versial Bill, in circumstances which made It the Albemarle Club in London a misspelt 0 ing study of the trials of a man of whom This book will be terrific ammunition for who had been Under-Secretary for Ire- levant of formalists." By this time, the press was in a frenzy separate the two cases he was not able Sir Edward Clarke asked a London jury to exceedingly likely that Parliament did not libellous card reading, "To Oncar Wilde, pos- 0 Irish workers in Britain who want to con- land, and her study of the language for- about Wilde, and with the exception of the do so, but he did succeed in discrediting say by an acquittal that he was a "distin- There are many entertaining sections in realise the offence was being created at all. ing as a somdomlte." According do Mont- vince their British workmates. The centre bidden to her In her youth. Sean "Dally Chronicle" and "Reynolds Newspaper • evidence of some prosecution witnesses, guished man of letters and a brilliant Irish- the book wherein this cheeky Irishman has The section was not even Introduced until gomery Hyde, the most experienced society towards which the whole thing tends Is the O'Casey's foreword returns the compli- completely prejudiced him in the eyes of the obtaining sympathy from the Judge, and man" who should be able to "live among some sharp Jaba at the pompous concert- the Bill had almost completed its passage lawyer In London of that day subsequently need to repeal the Government of Ireland ment of warm appreciation paid to him goers and concert vendors of the time. He public, from whom the Jury were later to be 1 causing the jury to disagree. us a life of honour and repute and to give through Parliament. advised Wilde that, had he been consulted, Act which Imposed partition. And the at the start of his career and Included constantly pressed for improvements in the drawn. In the maturity of his genius gifts to our Certainly In the 1880s there was no re- he would have torn the card up and left ,'ULL tribute must also be paid to Wilde's Unionist bluff that it is not the duty of the here In the extract® from the "Journals." standard of orchestral playing and called for The magistrate at Bow Street, Sir John literature of which he has given only the search or public discussion on such offences, things as they were. Instead Oscar Wilde, own evidence, in the course of which he pro- British workers to Insist on this Is well and greater opportunity for the public to hear Bridge, Joined in the chorus and refused bail promise In his early youth." "Spreading the News" Is the most and both Ibsen and 8haw had plays banned encouraged by Lord Alfred Douglas, started ved spontaneous applause from the public truly called. new works to replace the routine presenta- stating that he knew of no graver offence generally admired of the plays we have by the Lord Chamberlain or hissed off the a prosecution for criminal libel of the eccen- than that with which Wilde was charged 'd must have made tin unforgettable lm- This was not to be and the law under tions of the few hackneyed favourites. stage which today raise not an eyebrow. tric Marquess of Queensberry, and to that r It Is printed on newsprint and conse- in the volume, though surely Its brilli- As Lord Alfred Douglas pointed out in a l "ssion on the Jury. Again his evidence was which Wilde was prosecuted remains in the ance is more purely formal than that This book is a must for all shavians and .H. Montgomery Hyde's book, "Famous extent was the author of his own misfortune. '1111 of the wit for which he was renowned. quently, though 36,000 words long, as long public protest, this -was flagrant prejudice Statute Book, although more fiercely debated of "The Gaol Gate" and "The Rising for anyone interested In the musical scene Trials—Oscar Wilde" (PenguTn Books 4/-), This was undoubtedly a cause calibre. indeed as would make a 12/6 book. It Is as Wilde was In fact, charged with a mis- As a result of the Jury's verdict In the today than ever before. of the Moon." which are the greater for at the turn of the century. gives a very full acount of these trials and Each day the courtroom was filled to capacity n selling for, half-a-crown. I would find It hard demeanor punishable by two years' Imprison- *' »nd trial Wilde was arraigned again at their content. PATRICK O'BRIEN. their background and makes extremely with members of the public even sitting ment as a maximum penalty. Wilde's plays t1"' Old Bailey, found guilty and sentenced JOHN HOSTETTLER. to recommend a better half-crown's worth. THE IRISH DEMOCRAT April 1963 April 1963 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT The Three-coloured Ribbon 7 (A Ballad of Easter Week)
I HAD a true love, if ever a girl had on*, 1 I had a true love, a brave lad was he? HISTORY OF RAIL UNIONS Lament for Roger Casement One fine Easter Monday all with his gallant comrades He started away for to set old Ireland free.' A LONELY wave is beating on the rocky Antrim shore, CHORUS: ** And the sighing wind is keening o'er the waters' sullen roar, All around my hat I wear a three-coloured ribbon-o The seabirds sweep to Heaven with a loud and piercing wail— All around my hat until death comes to me; N.U.R. JUBILEE ARTICLE Tis the passing knell for one who died in a gloomy English jail. And if anybody's, asking me, why do I wear it, IN IRELAND It's all for my true love I never more shall see. Along the sweltering Congp swamps a ghastly silence falls, by Tom Leonard The jungle trees hang heavy like a thousand funeral palls ; His bandolier around him* his bright bayonet shining, And dark-skinned men are heavy with a fear they cannot name His short service rifle, a beauty to see, 'ITIE 29th of last month marked the A PROUD RECORD RECALLED Wtiile
| EASTER 7963 | AIRCRAFT FACTORY TORIES SHAMELESSLY BREAK PLEDGES RELEASE ESSRS. SHORT & HARLAND'S magnificent aircraft factory on Queen's Island, Belfast, is M in an even more precarious position than ever. JOE DOYLE Favoured by the finest geographical in8 placed to tender. Instead they are let price they must pay for Union with site the most modern lavout and the out contract. Extensive modernisation Britain. cV .wiw Z fS.™.nH has taken place in Belfast, but further But they are beginning to ask questions, MEETINGS mos skilled Staff of technicians and redundancle^ are now expected daily. and it is only a matter of time before workers in Western Europe, this Irish The majority of Protestant workers in some Protestant leader arises who will factory is to be sacrificed to the these mdustries do not know that the give them the lead that is needed—Ire- LONDON narrow-minded parochialism and cause of these threats to their livelihood land one country. Let's run the place stupidity of the British Tory party. is the British connection, that it is the ourselves! Clapham Common, 3 p.m. This" is the team that produced the first vertical take-off aircraft. This is the ROBERT ROSSITER team that turned out the "Belfast" TERRY KENNEDY freighter, so advanced and ahead of its SEVEN UNIONIST Connolly time that the London nincompoops Finsbury Park, 3.30 p.m. coudn't see the advantage of it. M.P.s ABSENT The design staff in Belfast has produced Association GERARD GURRAN one idea after another, some of them ISTORY was made on March 5th DESMOND GREAVES good, some very good, some revolutionary. H when more than half the Ulster Unionist M.P.s defied a Conservative PLEDGES appeal to three-line whip and abstained from vot- They have-been pigeon-holed in London. Hyde Park, 3.30 p.m. ing on the Government's defence white Procrastination, delay, mixed-up proposals PATRICK HENSEY paper. save shorts and lost opportunities. This is the record 'HE following "Save Shorts" statement R. H. W. JOHNSTON of the Tory bureaucracy. The only reason they did not vote was sent by the Standing Committee SEAN REDMOND Firm pledges were given, and renewed against the Government was that they of the Connolly Association to Members time and again that Short and Harlaud's were foolish enough to support the de- of Parliament who have shown them- MANCHESTER part-financed by public money, would be fence policy which was at least in part selves sympathetic to Irish causes;— retained as a "balanced design and pro- responsible for the economic crisis they duction unit." These pledges have now. jvere protesting against. "We are writing to ask your support Plait Fields, 3 p.m. ; for the purposes of the hundred Belfast been shamelessly torn up. And not e -'&mong the rebels was Mrs. Patricia worktJrs Who are coming to Westminster TOM REDMOND the tears and blandishments of Cap! JMacLaughlin of West Belfast. OSEPH DEIGHAN Terence O'Neill could weep the barest f on Tuesday next, March 26th. concession into his begging bowl when he "While it is our view that the only went to London in March. ' Speculation was rife as to whether LIVERPOOL yfchey would be thrown out of the Tory way to eliminate unemployment in what The closure of Short and Harlands is now Northern Ireland, especially m would be a body blow to Belfast. Shops, Party for their act of defiance. But the Pier Head, 8 p.m. ^Conservatives were too cute for that. such border areas as Newry where already having a thin time, would close nearly one-quarter of the population s all over the city. There would be mass It would have meant the end of the JOSEPH DEIGHAN tegular Tory Twelve from the six coun- unemployed, is to re-unite Ireland and GATH MACLAUGHLIN emigration of skilled workers, mostly to afford the re-united country economic Canada and Australia. ties. They left things where they were. Now aid and assistance to get on its feet, DISCRIMINATION the constituents of these Members should there is an immediate need for less British Government policy seems also press them to take their bravery a little radical action as a matter of urgency. to be to discriminate against Harland "The case of Short and Harland's LIVERPOOL and Wolff's shipyard. Orders are not be- further and get out of the Tory Party ANTI-PARTION WEEK without waiting to be pushed out. aircraft factory is particularly pressing Here is one of the most up-to-date lay- April 21 - 28 outs In Europe, with a highly skilled Mass lobby at Westminster research and design staff experienced PIERHEAD MEETINGS in working together for a number of (EvanHigt) TNTO London on Tuesday, March Secretary and various Ministers and years, which has pioneered important SUBJECTS)— J 26th flew eighty unemployed men Members of Parliament. developments, for example in vertical take-off, and large freighter aircraft. Sun. 21—The legal position and women from Northern Ireland. This pointed out that "Unemployment Time without number pledges have Mon. 22—Daylight robbery A special plane brought them to take in N. Ireland is not of recent origin; it been given that this balanced design 16 a part in the greatest demonstration chronic and persistent social evil," and production unit woul^ be main- Tues. 23— Keeping it dark and that whilst against unemployment Britain has f Northern Ireland has tained. But novi the Conservative . , * a separate government, the powers ol Wed. 24—Discrimination seen since pre-war days. that Government are very limited Party is going back on its pledges. Thur. 25—Gerrymandering Through the streets" of London the economy Is therefore "largely dependent "Prom a social point of view the demonstrators marched, men and women, 0n the policies being pursued by the U.K. closure of Short and Harlands would Fri. 26—Police State? from all over Britain, including a man Government." The memorandum made be a disaster to Ireland. JNot only is Sun. 2ft—United Ireland from Jarrow who had taken part in the proposals which included— it an important provider of employ- SPEAKCR8:— famous "Hunger March;' 25 years ago (1| The ai>pointment 0f a Junior Mini- ment, but maintains in Belfast a The march was followed by a lobby of Ktpr ^Westminster responsible for specially skilled and qualified type ol Desmonpl Greaves, Sean raniament Nothern Ireland affairs; worker and technician with great en- Redmond, Pat Hensey, Outside the House of Commons fights , richment to the life of the city. It :s (2) A dr dock notable that in this factory religious sec- Oath Maclaugtiin and others. broke out between police and demonstra- y should be built at Belfast, tors. Helmets rolled in the dust. Demon-' financed Jointly by Stormont and tarianism is entirely unknown and the strators fell to the ground. One woman Westminster; workers have themselves built and was injured. Nine men were arrested.. <3> The Government should accept re- manage one of the finest social clubs DISCRIMINATION Reporters of the "popular'' Press had a sponslbility for retaining Short & complete with playing-fields and other field-day. But, as one demonstrator said, Harlands as a balanced design, deve- facilities for the youth. CONDEMNED "Wheo men are unemployed for months lopment and production unit; "We'do not wish to anticipate the and their wives and children are hungry, (4) The Minister of Aviation should con- representations which will be made next Speaking in Trafalgar Square, London, naturally they come to London in an sider the development of civil airports week, and will not therefore go into on March 17th, Mr. Harold Wilson, leader angry mood." at Newtownards, Ennlskillen and details, but would wish to urge you of the British Labour Party, declared that riiHl six-county delegation was led by Derry. with the greatest respect, to see tlv In the event of his party coming to power Mr. W. Blease, of the Irish Congress The memorandum also proposed that Irish delegation If you possibly can at th© next election. Mr. Penner Brock- of Trade Unons (the body the Unionist the U.K. Government seek to set up as way's Bill lllegalising racial and religious Government refuses to recognise) and Council of Ministers representing the "It is not yet fully appreciated In this discrimination, would passed as a Mr. A Barr, president of the Northern Westminster. N.I. and Republic Ireland country what a precedent is being set Government measure. Ireland Confederation of Shipbuilding & governments to "co-ordinate economic in Northern Ireland. What the Con Now is the time for all those In the Engineering Unions, who were accom- co-operation within these Islands." servatlve Party seems to be doing s six counties who want to see an end to panied by shop-stewards from Short & Some people feel, however, that while to carry out the 'murder of Belfast discrimination to agitate for the earliest Harland's aircraft factory and Harland forcing the Stormont Government to co- Already we remember Jarrow. If they possible application of this measure. It & Wolff s shipyards; Mr. S McGonagle. operate with the Republic is a sound are permitted to do this In Belfast, wlm will apply to Northern Ireland unless an secretary of the Derry blanch of the policy, it would bfc most mistaken to urge is to know that they may not try then express clause is embodied In it excluding Transport & General Workers' Union; this in such a way as to place the whole next experiment on Glasgow, Liverpool it. But unless there Is some expression Mr. J. Lannigan, secretary of Omagh of Ireland under the tutelage of British fir th^Nortft-east Coast?" of support for the Bill from Northern Ire- Trades Council, and Mr. Tom McGrath. imperialism. Let the two parts of Ireland land, the Unionists will have a clear field secretary of Newry Trades Council. come together to discuss the future of Printed tjy Ripley Printers Ltd. (T.U.). representing that the Irish do not want A memorandum on unemployment in the country, and let Britain give the Nottingham Road. Ripley, Derby*., and to end discrimination. the six counties was given to the Home project her blessing. published by Connolly Publications Ltd.. at 374 Orayi inn Rood. London. W.C.I.