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FILES BELIEVED to contain the names of the six-man loyalist death squad alleged to be responsible for the death of the prominent solicitor have been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in . This latest development in the Finucane murder case raises hopes that the truth surrounding the solicitor's death, including the exact level of collaboration between loyalist paramilitaries and British security forces, will eventually be revealed. It is understood that the evidence sent to the DPP, revealed in the Independent newspaper, confirms allegations made by two loyalists informers that RUC intelligence officers ignored a series of tip-offs indicating that Pat Finucane was to be the target of a loyalist death squad. According to one source, self- confessed police informer and Ulster Defence Association (UDA) quartermaster , police officers were in a position to prevent Finucane's murder. Stobie claims to have warned his handlers that a prominent republican, which they clearly understood to be Finucane, was about to be assassinated — including making two phone calls on the night of the murder. The demand for Justice for those killed on , 30 January 1972, remains as loud as ever. This year's march In London, on 22 January, heard Stobie, one of two men already relatives of the victims call for the new Saville Inquiry, which opens Its public hearings in March, to be monitored closely to avoid another whitewash. charged with the solicitor's murder, is on bail awaiting trial, although there are active member of the UDA. inquiry are housed in a huge fortified wm doubts that he will ever be sentenced for Nelson, who was given a ten-year jail safe situated within a restricted area set the crime because of his co-operation sentence for a series of offenses, aside for the investigation team on the to press it was confirmed that General John de with the new police investigation under including conspiracy to murder, also top floor of the RUC's Antrim offices in the Britishand Irish governments with his report Sir John Stevens. claimed to have warned his handlers of . Member of the team of paramilitary weapons, It is understood that taped evidence the threat to the solicitor's life and that either working on the case or at hotel at were not available at the time of going to corroborating Stobie's story is included his warnings were ignored. a secret location. Anyone who leaves the the General was likely to reporttha t in the evidence collected by the team of Crucial documents collected by the investigation offices does so of the Good senior police officers under Stevens and earlier investigation were destroyed in a accompanied by an armed guard. passed on to the DPP. Other 'mysterious' fire on the night of 10 Despite the lengths taken by the incriminating evidence sent to the DPP is January 1990, hours before the Stevens Stevens team the latest revelations believed to include statements of other team was to move against suspects. No human-rights campaigners such as police informers and the testimony of satisfactory answer has ever been given British Irish Rights Watch and Sinn Fein former RUC officers. as to the cause of the fire which many are continuing to call for an independent This is the third investigation headed believe was started deliberately by a inquiry. by Stevens, who is to succeed Sir Paul secret army unit in order to cover their Speaking after the recent reports in Condon as the chief constable of the connections with loyalist death gangs. the Independent Sinn F6in assembly Metropolitan Police on 1 February. Reports of the latest developments in member Gerry Kelly stressed that the Two previous investigations led by the Finucane murder case in the fact that the Stevens team was ready to Stevens into the murder and allegations Independent reveal the extraordinary go press for prosecutions over ten years of widespiead collusion between RUC lengths that the Stevens 3 team is having after the Finucane murder raised officers and loyalist paramilitaries were to employ in order to protect evidence important questions about the dogged with controversy, despite leading and to ensure the personal security of circumstances about the crime and the to the conviction of Brian Nelson who officers involved in the investigation. subsequent RUC investigation. "It is was working as an agent for a secret Key documents, including the clear that the RUC failed to pursue the intelligence unit while an charred remains of the previous Stevens killers of Pat Finucane." Page 10 Irish Democrat February/March 2000 Irish Democrat February/March 2000 Page 3

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iBish Oemociuc Loyalist rivalry takes bloody turn WORLD COMMENT Founded 1939 Volume 55, Number 1 by Politicus two loyalist paramilitary groups has west Belfast where he carried out Supreme court rules In Another day, another crisis existed ever since the LVF broke away in building work. Questions have also been Democrat reporter 19% following differences within the asked as to how a known UVF leader Break-up Britain UVF over the situation at Drumcree. could have gained security clearance to IT IS a significant historical moment WITH THE imminent publication of De Chastelain's report on FEARS THAT a bloody feud involving In December 1999 Jameson, a former carry out work in the building. when the 'English question' begins to decommissioning attention switches to the wholly artificial and members of the ultra-right-wing Loyalist RUC reservist and member of the Meanwhile, human rights groups favour of democracy assert itself. In just seven years time, in Volunteers Force (LVF) and former Orange Order, was involved in a fight continue to record scores of attacks by unnecessary crisis generated by the arbitrary deadline for the the Haughey government in the 1987 He went on to stress that the historic the year 2007, it will be the 300th comrades in with LVF members in loyalists against Catholics and REFERENDUMS VERDICT decommissioning of IRA weapons set by David Trimble and his Single European Act referendum, and verdict would not stop political party or anniversary of England's Act of Union (UVF) surfaced in January following the marking the second anniversary of the nationalists throughout the North. Democrat reporter continued until 1995. other uncontested broadcasts. with Scotland, which brought the British Ulster Unionist Party. killing in mid-January of a Richard death of the group's leader . Concerns are also being raised over The basis of Anthony Coughlan's "What it does do is require RTE to state into being as a political entity. How Jameson in Portadown. In response to Jameson's killing the following suggestions of a growing Trimble's threat to collapse the new executive and the bodies The Irish Democrat's Dublin case is that referendums are different act fairly and constitutionally in long more will it last? Despite denials by family members, UVF is reported to have put five leading alliance between the LVF and sections of associated with the workings of the Good Friday deal, thus correspondent, Anthony Coughlan, and from general elections. In an election allocating them on these occasions," he Some people think Britain will not Jameson is understood to have been the LVF members on a so-called 'death list'. the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). triggering another tortuous review, will neither enhance the overall democracy camapaigners in the republic people choose representatives, but in a said. "If political parties are divided on a continue as a state and that in time leader of UVF in mid-Ulster, a fact Concerns have also been raised about • Detailed information about loyalist of Ireland, were last month celebrating referendum the people legislate directly. referendum issue, uncontested party separate Scottish, English and Welsh process nor result in the surrender, deactivating or swiftly confirmed by the RUC following Jameson's possible access to files on attacks can be found on the Pat Finucane victory in their campaign for equal "In contested referendums political broadcastss are clearly permissible, so States will join the international his assassination. Tension between the nationalists at a social services office in Centre website: www.serve.com/pfc/ decommissioning of a single IRA bullet — a fact as well known to broadcasting rights during referendums. party members and supporters arc long as they are broadly equal between community. That is possible, though not Trimble as it is to British and Irish ministers and to every dog on The Irish Supreme Court threw out divided between Yes and No, just like both sides. inevitable. the street. an appeal by state broadcasters RTE everyone else," he argued. "Uncontested broadcasts involving In 1536 the English monarchy 1974 bombs Inquiry gets go-ahead against a previous High Court ruling that "In these circumstances, for the Irish non-party groups could be allocated to absorbed Wales. In 1603 James VI of It is accepted that the decommissioning issue is particularly the imbalance in free broadcasting time political party leaderships and machines designated umbrella groups in Scotland became James I of England and in the 1995 divorce referendum was important to unionists, however attempts to separate it from the BOMBING INQUIRY 1 J* to seek public subsidy for themselves, referendums, if such existed, as is the two countries were linked in a entire Good Friday package are both futile and extremely unconstitutional. either in cash or in publicly funded free proposed in the British government's personal union of the crowns. In 1707 Democrat reporter The appeal was supported by the broadcasting time, so as to push one side Political Parties, Elections and the Act of Union abolished the Scottish dangerous. But progress on a number of strands of the agreement is Coughlan: victory for democracy Attorney General for the government, against the other — or to remain mute Referendums Bill." r j-liament. For a time Scotland was THE DUBLIN government confirmed painfully slow, and the one with the most direct bearing on and carried the good wishes of all the McKenna judgement, which made clear while the government itself uses public The British legislation provided for laioA'n as 'North Britain' The railway to decommissioning, the publication of the British government's that there is to be an official investigation main political parties, but was rejected that it was unconstitutional for the money in a one-sided fashion — is a equal public funding and equal Scotland was the 'North British into the 1974 Dublin/Monaghan demilitarisation programme, is now a year overdue. by four of the five judges in the highest government to spend public money in a comment on the general arrogance and uncontested broadcast coverage for Railway.' bombings in which 33 people were court in the land. one-sided fashion in referendums. lack of sensitivity that a healthy umbrella groups on both sides in British Until recently the first thing you'd It should be remembered that the whole decommissioning issue killed. The ruling builds on the 1995 The practice was first introduced by democracy requires." referendums, he pointed out. see on emerging from Edinburgh's looks very different from places like south Armagh with its six Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced in * g Waverley Station was the 'North British fortified British military bases, 33 look-out posts, daily helicopter December that retiring Irish chief justice Hotel' on Prince's Street. The Empire on Liam Hamilton was to be given the task •• which the sun proverbially never set was patrols, road blocks and where new fortifications are still being of conducting a rigorous investigation Irish to get new Exhibition for a called British, not English, although it built. The return of a couple of thousand troops to bases in Britain into all aspects of the bombing and its was ruled from England's capital. and the closure of the Castlereagh interrogation centre is obviously aftermath. Hamiliton's remit also legislative right Now the Scots once again have a includes the bombing of a Dundalk pub 'lost' Fenian artist welcome, but issues such as military bases, confiscated land and the parliament of their own. English people in 1975 in which one person was killed investigations and the level of co- full public enquiry as Mr Justice remaining 15,000 British troops will remain central to the DISQUALIFICATION BILL legislature. ART AND POLITICS in London and subsequently travelled ask, justifiably, why Scottish MPs at and another 20 injured. operation afforded by the British army Hamilton will not have the powers to call "It replaces that provision with widely. As an active Fenian O'Kelly Westminster should vote on English decommissioning equation. Evidence pointing to collaboration and the RUC following the bombing. witnesses and demand access to Democrat reporter measures that will bring about a broader Democrat reporter wisely indulged in subterfuge changing matters when English MPs may not vote Yet, while there can be no denying that guns — republican ones between British intelligence agents and The Irish government's decision has documents. His report will eventually go and closer relationship between the his name at least twice, using false travel on devolved Scottish ones. Does Tony loyalist paramilitaries has emerged over been welcomed by survivors and before a public session of the Justice, at least — are silent, and have been for some considerable time BRITISH MPs at Westminster have as a whole and the Irish DETAILED RESEARCH by a lecturer documents and frequently providing Blair's devolution project mean the end the years while questions have been relatives of the victims, although some Equality and Women's Rights voted to progress legislation allowing Republic," he told MPs. at the Irish National College for Art and inaccurate and misleading information of the UK? Will Scotland and Wales now, nationalists' communities continue to find themselves under raised about the adequacy of Garda are continuing to insist on the need for a parliamentary committee. members of the Irish Dail to sit in the The new law will allow DSil or senate Design has gone some way to restoring about his background. Despite this, his follow where Ireland led in 1921? physical attack from the more wayward — and armed — elements British House of Commons and other members to sit at Westminster and in the the artistic reputation of the painter and work was sought after by art collectors at English football crowds now commonly within loyalism. Republicans have made their intentions clear by EVENTS devolved legislatures within the UK, and Northern Ireland Assembly, the Scottish Fenian Aloysius O'Kelly, a selection of the time and admired by none other than carry the St George's flag of England vice versa. parliament and Welsh assembly, a legal whose work was recently exhibited at the Van Gogh. instead of the Union Jack. accepting the importance of decommissioning as part of the overall Republicans call for 6 March-3 April Celtic art and MPs voted in favour of the right similar to that already afforded to Hugh Lane gallery in Dublin. O'Sullivan has unearthed that Home Secretary Jack Straw showed a package, while the IRA has made contact with the independent demilitarisation moves design exhibition, Wellingborough government's Disqualification Bill on 25 former British colonies in the Lecturer Niamh O'Sulljvan, who has O'Kelly, who eventually settled in the sense of all this when he referred to decommissioning commission. Do unionists really want to give the Library, Pebble Lane, Wellingborough. January following a mammoth 26-hour Commonwealth. been researching the painter's life for USA, documented the campaigns of the England's history of imperialism. hard-line in the republican movement an opportunity to say "we Sponsored by Northampton CA, tel. debate, which caused the cancellation of The proposed change, which is not nearly a decade, believes that it was in Connemara and once asked "We've used that propensity to violence Republicans are also calling for an 01604 715793; email: [email protected] prime minister's question time. part of the , has O'Kelly's highly clandestine lifestyle Clan na Gael to supply arms to the to subjugate Ireland, Wales and Scotland told you so" by collapsing the executive? PEACE PROCESS immediate end to the harassment of 18 March A Seam of Gold: exploring The Bill will now go before the been strongly criticised by Tories and that was largely responsible for his Mahdi in Sudan to assist the Sudanese and then we used it with Europe and with Clearly, David Trimble has problems, both with his own party Democrat reporter nationalist residents in south Tyrone Ireland's past, 2.30-5pm, Showroom House of Lords where it is likely to unionists, who see it, somewhat disappearance from history books. leader in his campaign against the our empire. . . The United Kingdom is and with the logical implications of where the Good Friday deal is where high levels of security forces force Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield 1. encounter equally stiff opposition from bizarrely, as a concession to republicans. According to O'Sullivan, O' Kelly British. O'Kelly had been working in three small nations who have been for SINN FEIN leaders left Peter Mandelson activity have been in evidence since the Two lectures: The Unfilled Fields of Irish Conservatives and Ulster unionists. Sudan on an illustrated history of the war centuries under the cosh of the English." taking unionists, rather more one suspects than the republican However, concerns are being raised was bom in Dublin in 1853 into a family in no doubt as to the republican signing of the Good Friday deal and the Histor, Peter Berresford Ellis, and Speaking in favour of the Bill during in some quarters that the move is part of with strong Fenian connections, grew up for Pictorial World, People's sense of Englishness would leadership. Perhaps Trimble's biggest problem for Trimble is that dissatisfaction with the pace of return of land confiscated by British Making the Union: the Act of Union in its second reading, Home Office Minister a softening-up process by the British become more articulated, he suggested. unionism has lost its way — indeed there is a growing case to demilitarisation during a meeting forces for 'security' purposes. History, Ruan O'Donnell. Organised by of State Mike O'Brien stressed that the state aimed at gradually 'reintegrating' IN BRIEF The Daily Mirror's Brian Reade suggest that the UUP in accepting, albeit reluctantly, the terms of between party leaders and the secretary Although recent announcements of a Sheffield and S Yorks CA as part of legislation would end an anomaly created the Republic into the UK, an important agreed with Straw on Ireland: "When of state towards the end of January. 3,000 cut in British troops stationed in Sheffield Irish Festival. 0114 273 8182 in 1998 permitting a member of the Irish stage of which could hinge on attempts the Goood Friday deal has moved into a post-unionist phase. presenting the BBC's highly-praised you strip history back to the bone, the Demands made by republicans in line the six counties and the closure of a 14-15 April Friends of Senate to be a member of the Northern to persuade the 26 counties to rejoin the Assembly says No documentary on the Boer War, broadcast blame for the carnage in Ireland can be However, two things can be said with absolute certainty about with the Good Friday agreement include number of army bases, including the Ireland/Friends of the Good Friday Ireland Assembly but not any other UK Commonwealth fold. to RUC reforms last September. laid squarely at the door of the David Trimble. Firstly, he knows how to dig his party into a hole the closure of offensive surveillance hated Castlereagh interrogation centre, Agreement national conference. BBC bosses rejected the complaint, Englishman's desire to treat that island posts in nationalist areas, especially in have been welcomed, heavily-fortified Congress House, London. Details to be like virtually no-one else involved in the tortuous politics of the THE NEW Northern Ireland Assembly knowing that a ban would have been as his own and its people as his slaves." Belfast and south Armagh, the bases continue to be built in south announced shortly. voted to reject proposals for reforming difficult to enforce and would have A Daily Telegraph leader-writer said: Irish peace proctss. But secondly, when the chips are down, high, withdrawal of Britain's remaining Armagh raising questions about the Holiday in traland: BS4| the police recommended by the Patten sparked counter calls for the banning of "You do not establish your dominion unbreachable principle miraculously transforms into everyday 15,000 troops and the closure of British government's commitment to setttna. Comeraah commission. all ribbons, badges and stickers, over a quarter of the globe without some political pragmatism — following an appropriate delay — a skill remaining army checkpoints. demilitarisation. MWHHI^I WyillVlH^lll The vote of 50 to 42 backing including Remembrance Day poppies. potential for violence." opposition to the Patten proposals, taken The end of the British Empire and the which allows him to dismount from the highest of horses without JHL on January 24, was widely predicted as rush by the Westminster parliament to Kilclooney, so much as a guilty backwards glance while being able to maintain unionists are in a majority in the Nelson inquiry call replace British democracy by rule from Watertofd. Tel 00 35351 maximum pomposity. assembly. Unionists of all persuasions Brussels and Frankfort are the main website: http: THE Campaign Whether these two at times contradictory facets of Trimble's tBisti Ocmcmc are incensed by the plans to transform for Truth and Justice has called for the factors responsible for growing English the RUC into the Police Service for US congress to conduct a thorough nationalism. 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A Fenian episode EUROWATCH by JOHN BOYD DPP delivers blow to Nelson family in Cork City Moving beyond aspirations relation to truth and justice for Rosemary Irish Democrat northern correspondent Bobbie Heatley Unions key to Rosemary Nelson Campaign spokesperson Robbie and establish an independent Jim Savage I international judicial inquiry into all the recalls the I sees more rough water ahead for the Irish peace process Euro struggle McVeigh argues that the British prime minister must connection I circumstances surrounding her murder." THE POPULAR feeling against Britain between the H as a result of unionist attitudes to decommissioning and take political responsibility for the behaviour of the The British government must move joining the single currency or economic recent death I quickly to take responsibility for the and monetary union has widespread of a local I the Patten Commission proposals for policing reform RUC and criminal justice system in the wake of the behaviour of its police force and criminal support. Polls, for what they are worth, woman and I justice system in the north of Ireland. indicate support for the Euro is only 17 decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions not to the Fenian I Political responsibility in this case rests per cent. rebellion I prosecute RUC officers accused of harassing the with Tony Blair — not the RUC or the OR EIGHTEEN years the signed the Hillsborough Declaration, in EU Commission president Romano DPP. of 1867 MH^HH British government under an effort to move matters forward, only solicitor and of issuing death threats through clients Prodi stated recently that the trade The Rosemary Nelson Campaign has Thatcher and Major and to see it flung back in their faces by unions are key to winning support for the always supported the Nelson and Magee THE DEATH last year of Mrs Dawson their Northern Ireland Trimble and co. Euro. This applies to Britain, Denmark, SHORTLY AFTER Xmas and the New process of harassment suffered by families' call for an independent of Birch Hill House, Grenagh, Co. Cork, dependants refused to Estrangement seemed to be further Greece and Sweden. The attempt by Year, as most people in Britain and Rosemary Nelson and the process of investigation and inquiry into the brought to mind an earlier period when embark on a political peace developing when the two governments Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Robin Ireland were with their families and still raising concerns about this harassment circumstances surrounding Rosemary's the house was owned by Francis Wise. procesFs in the full expectation that could not satisfy the unionists with a Cook to launch a campaign for the Euro celebrating the new millennium, Paul by the Lawyers Alliance and others. murder. The role of the DPP in failing to At the time of the 1867 rising, Cork republicanism could be defeated jointly produced 'Way Forward' with former Tory ministers Michael Nelson phoned the Director of Public Names and descriptions of officers sanction officers who harassed and Fenians marched to Limerick junction, militarily and politically. document even though its terms were Heseltine, Ken Clarke and Lib-Dem Prosecutions. He was informed that the who had threatened Rosemary Nelson threatened Rosemary Nelson with death the rallying point for the new 'Army of By way of contrast, those on whom altered to provide 'fail safe' guarantees Trimble and Mandelson do not see eye to eye on RUC reform leader Charles Kennedy did not work. DPP was not going to prosecute RUC with death were included along with must form part of that inquiry. the Irish Republic', where they were to they could have applied successful for unionists. Largely because Britain in Europe officers who had been involved in detailed times and dates. A list of British We are now clearly in a situation join up in the neighbourhood of Mallow pressure, the loyalist paramilitaries, were Present developments point to any for one thing, derive from it, while not True, tinkering with the RUC will fell flat, leaders in six trade unions set abusing, harassing and threatening with Government representatives with whom similar to the family of Stephen with Fenians from Kerry and elsewhere. — and still are — only occasionally friction being nothing more than a mild being dependent upon it. cause pain to unionists who, by their up, without any reference to their death, his wife, Rosemary Nelson. Rosemary's safety had been raised was Lawrence. The 'normal' processes of law Around 200 of the assembled rebuked. lovers tiff. The decommissioning issue is Many unionists have openly admitted livid reaction, have substantiated that members, a body called Trade Unionists Rosemary was an ordinary solicitor also included. This list includes Jack have singularly failed to both protect Corkmen had no arms and were The precondition of a surrender of still with us threatening to prolong that they are seeking the collapse of the they view the force as their legal for Europe. They could not bring running a busy practice in . She Straw, Louis Blom-Cooper and Ronnie Nelson's memory lives on: what is someone when they were alive and expected to raid army barracks and republican arms (decommissioning) was unionist stalling. agreement triggering a further stalling 'paramilitary' wing. It must be themselves to be associated with was also a human-rights defender of the Flanagan, Chief Constable of the RUC. needed now is truth and justice deliver them truth and justice after they private houses for weapons. originally imposed at the very start of What has changed is the finesse of review. Outright rejectionists openly democratised nevertheless while pain for Heseltine and Clark. highest calibre — associated with high- This decision by the DPP marks yet have been murdered. The sooner we Setting off from Prayer Hill* at the attempts to get 'inclusive' negotiations Labour's spin-doctoring as it attempts to admit that they are seeking a re- nationalists lies in the fact that key Patten These moves are to counter directly profile cases like the murder of Robert another shameful episode in the failure months after her death, there is no sign of move to an independent, international top of Shanakiel in a blinding blizzard, off the ground back in the early 1970s. convince the nationalist community that, negotiation of the agreement. If they are proposals will not be implemented while the work in the labour movement of the Hamill and the residents of the Garvaghy of the criminal justice system to deliver any commitment to truth or justice for judicial inquiry into the entire they marched down Faggott Hill, out Talks of this kind usually aim to with its intentions on the Patten reforms, not persuaded otherwise we could be others are put on the long-finger. In order Campaign against Euro-federalism Road. Rosemary was also a person of truth and justice to Rosemary Nelson. If Rosemary. It is bad. of course, that police circumstances surrounding Rosemary's along the southern road to Blarney, bring warring parties together in search it will be getting more than it will in back to something worse than square to get their rights, they will be required to (CAEF) and Trade Unionists against the immense bravery, continuing to those who threatened Rosemary are not officers were involved in harassing murder the better. skirting the village, before heading up of a tolerable accommodation. Judging reality. one. ease unionist pain. Single Currency (TASC) — both of represent clients in the face of prosecuted, how can we have any Rosemary and threatening her with This is fundamental to the peace the Martin River valley past Waterloo by their behaviour, this was not what the Meanwhile, the UUP is threatening Senior IRA sources are reported as Thankful, Trimble has vowed to which have recently published continuous abuse, harassment and death confidence that the current murder death. It is much worse, however, that process, to human rights and to the rule and on to Rathduff. Tories and the unionists had in mind. to bring down the Stormont institutions having made it clear that ambush the Pattern reforms at pamphlets on the Euro. threats. investigation under Colin Port, which the DPP has colluded in allowing these of law. There has been much talk of a In the early hours of the morning they By dealing only with the SDLP, the by withdrawing from the executive if decommissioning on their part, when it Westminster — something which his The CAEF pamphlet, Euro Fallout Before she was murdered in a car will go to the DPP if it ever identifies officers to continue to serve without any new beginning for policing in the north halted near an isolated house at Birch voice of Catholic community could be their arbitrary date for IRA previous track record indicates that he is starts with the assumption that most bomb on 15 March 1999, Rosemary had responsibility for her murder, will deliver sanction. of Ireland in the wake of the Patten Hill, the residence of the brewery owner, rendered ineffectual and disregarded, as decommissioning has not occurred by highly capable of. Some calculations people do not care what they are paid in. been involved in three separate justice? "What kind of message does this Report. This new police service threatens Francis M. Wise. had been the case hitherto. the end of January, when General de suggest that it could take up to 30 years As long as they can pay their bills, have complaints against the RUC. (A further The DPP and the British government send to human rights defenders in to be fundamentally corrupted from the Recounting the events which Talks inclusive of Sinn Fein were Chastelain is due to deliver his report. debacle in the to achieve a fair balance of Protestants some money over for entertainment and case of assault by RUC on Rosemary on have failed to learn a very basic lesson: if Northern Ireland? What kind of message start if there is not swift movement followed for the benefit of the Special shunned even if the possibility of an IRA If they carry out this threat what will and Catholics in the new Police Service holidays that is all they are directly the Garvaghy Road remains with the you allow people to demonise lawyers does it send to police officers, or others, towards truth and justice for Rosemary Commission, Mr Wise told the court ceasefire could have been the dividend. Mr Mandelson do to preserve the peace summer of 1999 of Northern Ireland. interested in. Independent Commission for Police and threaten them with murder, lawyers who might be considering threatening Nelson. how he had been woken by knocking at When this ploy failed and what was process? The UUP, having thrown in the However, Mandelson's intention to What is of concern is whether EMU Complaints.) will be murdered. lawyers they do not like? the door and that shortly afterwards a dubbed a 'pan-nationalist front' of the towel in favour of unionist rejectionism, did strains appear retain, contrary to the Patten proposals. will affect jobs, pensions and the welfare One of these complaints, made on In the aftermath of the decision, Paul "This kind of impunity can only • Further details available from: man had come into his room and SDLP, SF and the Dublin government, wants him to collaborate in their stalling Special Branch and CID, rankles with state. All these are under attack from Rosemary's behalf by the US-based Nelson spoke out: corrupt the rule of law and undermine RNC, PO Box 1251, Belfast BT126DN, demanded arms, in the name of the Irish supported by American-Irish who could tactics by mothballing the institutions in the British many nationalists. Plastic bullets remain Britain being lined up for joining EMU Lawyers Alliance for Justice, "This decision by the DPP is another the protection of human rights. Tony or e-mail: Republic. influence the White House emerged, the and thereby enabling Trimble to avoid despite the mainly Catholic deaths which where the public sector has to be cut and documented in great detail both the body blow for our family. Nearly ten Blair must recognise his responsibility in www.rosemarynelsoncampaign.com The man demanding arms was 'decommissioning' implement was put having to be seen resigning as 'first government's they have caused, including children. trimmed in order to meet convergence wearing a short, dark coat, a sash around to other uses — initially to hold up an minister' on 12 February at the Ulster The new oath with its pledge relating to criteria for the single currency. accord and then to forestall its his waist and had brandished a pistol, Unionist Council meeting. patience with human rights applies only to new The single currency is to complete implementation. demonstrated in recent conflicts in explained Wise, who estimated that there entrants. The Royalist insignia change the European Single Market where there Letters to the Editor Northern Ireland and Yugoslavia, among had been around 50 to 60 men in the hall Although the Good Friday deal dates AST JUNE the UUP caused the UUP must wait until November while what is to be the 'free movement of capital, of the house with a further 500 to 600 from 1 April 1998 it was not until 30 a similar crises by boycotting will replace it is unknown. Write to: The Editor, Irish Democrat, c/o 244 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8JR others. goods, services and people (meaning While the main issue is still the outside in the avenue. November 1999 that a New Labour the new assembly. The comes, will be a voluntary act within the labour)'. That is, to move capital to any or email at: [email protected] The highly-respected Belfast-based authenticity or otherwise of the diaries, it The rewards for the raid were government, after considerable unionist SDLP's Seamus Mallon was terms of the Belfast agreement. It will Committee on the Administration of location where it will make most profit is still incumbent upon Mitchell to meagre, with the intruders securing a opposition, was able to activate the then reluctantly forced to not be done according to arbitrary Justice, while welcoming the statement and where corporate capital does not Absentee landlords action of the Duke of Devonshire in assumed by one reviewer that since explain his change of tactics and give his solitary pistol, a fowling piece, a handful 'Northern Ireland Devolution Order' and hand in his resignation as deadlines dictated unilaterally by from the Secretary of State, has have to contribute towards the welfare Youghal is a timely reminder that even as Mitchell asserted that the 'Black Diaries' evidence. of hay pikes, spades, shovels and iron get the Stormont institutions into place. 'joinLt first minister' — a situation which unionism. All the parties to the expressed disappointment that he has not state, including social protection. CONGRATULATIONS TO Jim Savage republicans win considerable advances were forged he accepted that there was John Garten bars, although they duly gave the owner Unfortunately, this did not signify an took some card-sharping to retrieve. agreement are obligated to create the addressed the need to "repeal emergency The TASC pamphlet deals with these on his excellent article on the control of which undermine unionism in the North, no evidence that Casement was Wanstead, London a receipt for what they taken. end to a British government's At the time, Mo Mowlam was political conditions which will make legislation, strengthen the accountability implications of the single currency on the Blackwater riverbed and valuable much work remains to be done to reverse homosexual. Afterwards, the insurgents headed on mollycoddling of unionism, although an frustrated in her efforts to set up the possible the decommissioning of all of policing and deal with 'bad apples' public services from the point of view of salmon fishery by the absentee landlord, the conquest. It now appears from an article in the * Two separate books dealing with to Rathduff railway station where they important step forward had been executive and move on. That particular paramilitary weapons by the target date within the RUC". trade unionists and the people they serve. the Duke of Devonshire (ID Oct/Nov Absentee landlords such as the Duke Irish edition of the Sunday Times Casement's Amazon experiences were proceeded to rip up lengths of rail, cut obtained. Ignoring the fact that for four crisis was surmounted but it required of May 2000. Unionist tactics have Clearly, there is much to be This is the basic reason for cuts in 1999). The Duke's malevolent influence of Devonshire, Lord Lucan and Lord (26.12.99.) that this was not so. Mitchell reviewed. See Not everything in black telegraph wires and - with the aid of of the past five years prolonged IRA George Mitchell's recall to conduct a achieved nothing more than prejudicing welcomed in the reforms, but as the hospital beds, low pay for skilled staff in Munster is preventing the good people Pembroke retain their Irish property is reported as saying that the British and white makes sense (ID some of the newly acquired picks and ceasefires had been in existence, the review of the Good Friday agreement's that target. prominent Dublin journalist, Frank and so on. EMU is also behind the of Youghal developing a natural resource holdings. Dublin Castle, the heart of the "knew" Casement was homosexual but, February/March 1998). shovels - sent parts of two bridges unionists have been allowed to continue non-implementation. Who will be the What the nationalist community is Connolly, has commented, much of privatisation of residential homes, for the benefit of the local economy. government administrative machine in lacking positive proof, used Casement's tumbling down on to the track. This flaunting their obstructive Good Fairy if there is a next time ? now looking for are sweeping changes in Mandelson's intentions are 'aspirational' council housing and a lot more besides. The Duke's latest 'in yer face' insult Ireland, is a leasehold property — the genuine papers, which they seized in IN BRIEF blocking of the track between Cork and decommissioning banner. It has become clear that unionists, as policing. Spin-doctoring alone will not — every bit as much so as the Good The author points out that trade union to the Youghal townsfolk is just one of a British Crown retaining ownership of the 1914, to concoct the forgeries. This Mallow - both British garrison centres - It was only after the debacle in the opposed to the Protestants, are suffice while the British government's Friday agreement. There is one major ists would not accept the dictatorial long series of confrontations with the freehold. The Lismore estate was part of Mitchell asserts was "a dirty trick". Graves vandalised was part of a prepared plan. summer of 1999 that strains appeared in increasingly uncomfortable with the stated intentions are being 'justified' on difference, the unionists are not manner in which the European Central Irish people which stretch back to the Raleigh's landholdings stolen from the If the article is accurate it appears that Some of the rebels visited Curtains the British government's patience with Good Friday agreement. the grounds that 'pain' is being offered to screaming to have the latter Bank is run if it were a trade union. 17th century and beyond. Irish during Queen Elizabeth I's Munster Mitchell is now playing his own dirty DISGRUNTLED RUC officers are public house in Rathduff before going on the UUP. London and Dublin had co- They know that the Patten proposals, 'both sides'. implemented. # Euro Fallout is available for £1.20 (or The Irish National Library and the plantation. These land passed to the trick for he had led us all in the Roger widely thought to have been involved in to raid Ballyknockane constabulary 6x19p stamps) post free from CAEF, 57 Northern Ireland Records Office have Boyle family and subsequently into the Casement Foundation to believe that he vandalising republican graves in barracks, located between Rathduff and Then the Vikings came from Green Lane, Merseyside CH45 8JQ. published guides to certain of the Duke's control of the Devonshire family. did not accept Casement's Belfast's Milltown cemetery towards the Mourneabbey and just a short distance Scandinavia, followed by the Normans O'Neill inquiry opens Trade Unions, Public Services and the Lismore Castle estate records. These I have compiled a list of Lismore homosexuality. As the London end of January. from the farm where Tomls McCurtain Who are the Irish? EURO is available for £2.50 post free and English. In the 16th and 17th AFTER A delay of three years, the from LHE Ltd, Unit 6, Ivebury Court, indexes chronicle, from the standpoint of Estate records relevant to the disputed representative of the Foundation I would The attack, which resulted in would be bom in 1884. THE ROYAL Irish Academy expects to sub-group of the Indo-European family centuries Ireland saw further English and inquest into the killing of Diarmuid 325 Latimer Road, London W10 6RA the landlord, the many challenges ownership of the Blackwater river and ask Mitchell a question: thousands of pounds worth of damage, Although the barracks were partially complete its genetic map of Ireland's of languages, spread from south Scottish plantations. O'Neill by the Metropolitan Police mounted by the local people to the would welcome an opportunity to work Why, if the British knew of his came within 48 hours of the British destroyed in the attack, the building was population next year. Thousands of DNA Germany and central Europe to both The English language became finally got underway on 31 January. Devonshire's control of the rich salmon with fellow separatists towards a 're- homosexuality, did they not use due secretary of state's announcement that later renovated as a private house and in samples will be taken from people in Ireland and Britain in the six centuries or predominant in both islands, but again O'Neill, an IRA volunteer, was shot fishery and a pattern of disturbances on conquest' of the McCarthy lands process of law to discredit him? There the government was planning to go ahead 1967 a plaque was unveiled different parts of the country and so before Christ and the century or so we do not know what was the relative and killed while attempting to surrender They say... the estate as the people struggled to roll occupied by the Devonshires. had been no hesitation in so attacking with most of the reforms recommended commemorating the capture of the police analysed and compared v.ith those of after. population ratio of English-speakers and to a special armed police combat unit on "We must now face the difficult task of back the Penal Laws and win basic Frank Small Oscar Wilde or in driving the gallant Sir by the Patten commission. barracks on 6 March 1867 by Fenians skeletons found by archaeo.ogists. But Ireland and Britain had been their descendants to the non-English 23 September 19%. moving towards a single economy, a tenant rights in the 19th century Irish 38 Park Ave, Barking, Essex Hector MacDonald, the Boer War hero, Among the graves vandalised was under the command of J.F. O'Brien and Modern Irish genes will also be inhabited for 7000 years before that, the people there before them. The inquiry, which is expected to last single political entity... For the first time Land League campaigns. to commit suicide. What scruples that of IRA hunger striker Bobbie Sands captain Mackey. compared with samples in other last 3000 years of that time by the pre- A genetic map should throw light on a month, will be presided over by since the fall of the Roman empire we Separatists are rightly now persuaded them against charging and those of Mair6ad Farrell, Se4n Tomas McCurtain went on to become countries to show how the Irish are Celtic people who built New Grange and the relative contribution of pre-Celts, Hammersmith coroner Dr John Burton. have the opportunity to unite Europe.' concentrating their best efforts on Author questioned Casement with what in those Savage and Danny McCann, the three the Lord Mayor of Cork only to be related to other populations. Stonehenge. Celts, Vikings and English to the Last year Dr Burton, who has postponed (EU Commission president Romano ensuring the implementation of the WHEN ANGUS Mitchell's Amazon unenlightened days was a criminal republicans gunned down by the SAS in murdered in his home by members of the The fact that Ireland is an island While the Celtic languages — Irish, population-mix of modern Ireland. retirement to conduct what he sees as a Prodi, October 1999) provisions of the Good Friday agreement Journal (Anaconda Press 1997) was offence? Gibraltar in March 1988. royal Irish Constabulaiy. means that the people living there are Scots Gallic, Welsh, Cornish etc. — Politically of course it does not matter a highly complex case, wrote to the Home 'Transforming the European Union which will break the impasse of the published two reviews appeared in the Since the days of Walsingham, the Local Sinn F6in councillor Tom * During the time of the Penal Laws descended from those who once came became the predominant languages in whit. Secretary supporting the setting up of a into a single state with one army, one imposed 1921 Treaty settlement and Irish Democrat*. English spy service and bureau of Hartley has pointed out that the attack Catholic priests were outlawed. Unable across the sea from outside. both islands in the centuries around the People's nationality is the national full judicial inquiry. constitution and one foreign policy is the advance the democratic struggle in This was sensible since the misinformation has been the most took place within the range of CCTV to attend mass local Catholics would The same goes for the inhabitants of birth of Christ, no one knows for certain community with which people identify The O'Neill family is being critical challenge of the age." (German Ireland. controversy about the authenticity of the efficient in the world and still performs cameras at the Andersonstown RUC gather each Sunday on the hill at Britain. The people known as Celts, what the relative numbers of Celts and in the here-and-now, irrespective of past represented by solicitor Gareth Pierce Foreign Minister Joschka Fischcr, However, the recent reprehensible 'Black Diaries' still rages. It was effectively, as has been amply station. Shanakiel to pray. whose language constituted the Celtic pre-Celts were. ethnic contributions to their genetic pool. and barrister Michael Mansfield. November 19%) Page 10 Irish Democrat February/March 2000 Irish Democrat February/March 2000 Page 7

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Connolly column were a hot issue, though coercion was also on the agenda after the murder of In the Workers' Republic Concern grows over the new chief secretary to Ireland in of 12 February 1916 Phoenix Park, Dublin in May. They fired Lord Carlingford, a former cabinet Connolly warned that the extension of draconian colleague of Gladstone gave the address promised introduction of in which he made special and prolonged reference to the 'great' man's sympathy Home Rule, delayed by 'anti-terrorism' laws for, and commitment to. the people of Ireland. the outbreak of the inter- the flame Gladstone's apparent popularity on John Wadham, director of the civil-rights group Liberty, imperialist conflict To enforce the new offences the the street in no way diminishes the outlines his organisation's grave concern over Home British authorities will have to rely on possibility of there having been sharp generally known as the co-operation and integrity of antagonism among Bryant's employees Secretary Jack Straw's proposals to extend Britain's overseas governments and agencies to the behaviour of their Liberal World War I, should not without proper safeguards. The UK employer. failed and discredited 'anti-terrorist' legislation be confused with the could become tainted by the practice and Then there is John Denvir's account conduct of investigative bodies overseas of freedom of the Hyde Park demonstrations: establishment of a free which fall far short of our own standards. "Indeed the Irish may be seen to be It will also be very difficult to ensure that the backbone of... popular movements and sovereign Ireland HERE CAN you be A new book by socialist historian JOHN sentenced to ten the trials are fair if the witnesses and in London... Not only do you find them years in prison for evidence are from another country. CHARLTON recounts how the struggle of in the ranks of the purely Catholic and speaking at a Those who support struggles for Irish societies with their bands, banners What is a free nation? (part one) meeting? The human rights and democracy in other and patriotic emblems, but in connection answer, I am afraid, countries may find themselves under over 1,000 mainly young Irish women for with other political and temperance WE ARE moved to ask this question because of the extraordinary confusion of iWs this country and the proposal is investigation by the police and those that organisations — if one may judge from thought upon the subject which prevails in this country, due principally to the contained in clause ll(3)(b) of the have fled from repressive regimes to the improved working conditions and the right the handsome banners on which you pernicious and misleading newspaper garbage upon which the Irish public has been Terrorism Bill which entered its safety of this country will become a often see depicted such subjects as fed for the past 25 years. committee stage in the House of legitimate target of the police merely to form a trade union gave birth to an era 'Sarsfield', 'The Irish Parliament house', Our Irish daily newspapers have done all that human agencies could do to confuse Commons on Wednesday 19 January. because they support the overthrow of and 'O'Connell'; with quotations from the public mind upon the question of what the essentials of a free nation are, what a The Bill gives the government the that regime, even when they themselves of militancy and inspired the burgeoning Tom Moore and harps and shamrocks free nation must be, and what a nation cannot submit to lose without losing its title to power to 'proscribe' organisations. are opposed to violence. galore." be free. Membership of a proscribed In one clause anyone who was found labour movement of the late 19th century. Finally, just three months before the It is because of this extraordinary newspaper-created ignorance that we find so organisation would not be the only in possession of, say, a list of cabinet strike a mass demonstration took place many young people enlisting in the British army under the belief that Ireland has at offence created. To speak at a meeting ministers' addresses, (who might be Below we publish an edited extract on Tower Hill, near to Limehouse, long last attained to the status of a free nation, and that therefore the relations between where a member of that organisation was considered a teiTorist target) will find Poplar and Bow. The issue was the Ireland and England, they have been told, are now sister nations, joined in the bond speaking would also be a crime — even that they, rather the prosecution, would imprisonment of three nationalists: Straw: insists bill complies with of empire, but each enjoying equal liberties — the equal liberties of nations equally if your speech opposed terrorism, the use have the duty to prove that their N AN early July afternoon out for a fresh 'frame' she is fined 3d, Mrs Besant for libel." "There was to be witnessed... human-rights convention free. of violence, or of any criminal action. possession of these lists was innocent. in 1888 a crowd of 200, and in some departments a fine of 3d is 'Mrs Besant would not be The employers procession after procession marching How many recruits this idea sent into the British army in the first flush of war it Whilst the only organisations When these same offences were mainly teenaged girls, deducted for talking." (The Link 23 June, intimidated. The next issue of The Link from every street and road emerging would be difficult to estimate, but they were assuredly numbered by the thousand. currently proscribed are those associated supporters of Nelson Mandela who introduced in 1994, Lord Williams of arrived outside a 1888) invited Bryant to sue. Much better, she could not onto the hill, their banners flying gaily The Irish Parliamentary Party, which at every stage of the Home Rule game has with Northern Ireland, the bill gives the publicly supported the armed struggle in Mostyn QC, the Labour Home Affairs newspaper office in From the crowd of 200 women at the asserted, to sue her than to sack and their bands playing... Green was been outwitted by Carson and the unionists, which had surrendered every point and Secretary of State the power to add to South Africa would be classified as spokesman in the House of Lords and Bouverie Street, off Fleet door, Besant brought a small group into defenceless poor women. She followed comprehend the without doubt the favourite colour of the yielded every advantage to the skilful campaign of the aristocratic Orange military these. If direct action organisations are terrorist. now the Attorney General described the StreeOt in the City of London. They had her office where they set up an that up with a viciously sarcastic letter to day... The speeches at all the platforms clique in times of peace, behaved in equally as cowardly and treacherous manner in being targeted as potential 'terrorists', offences as "alarming". He said that the come from their factory at Bow in the organising committee. They had a tough shareholders. degree to which were vigorous and earnest; but those of the crisis of war. then proscription is the next logical step. offences were "far too harsh and East End. They had run along the Mile task ahead. The sense of injustice had With no facilities provided, the the two East End Irish delegates were There are few men in whom the blast of bugles of war do not arose the fighting The Prevention of Terrorism Act is draconian" and would bring the law into End Road, through Whitechapel and by pushed the workers out of the factory workers would eat their dinner at their the workers could received with special enthusiasm, instinct, do not excite some chivalrous impulses if only for a moment. But the Irish currently restricted to those suspected of Anti-terrorism disrepute and that they would "bring us the Aldgate pump, along Leadenhall and fired their march to town. But, on benches. "They eat disease as seasoning dealing as they did with their recent experiences in Ireland." (East London Parliamentary Party must be reckoned amongst that few. involvement in international terrorism or into serious conflict with the European Street near the Stock Exchange and the strike, they would have to face the to their bread." The result was the help themselves Advertiser, 25 February 1888) In them the bugles of war only awakened the impulse to sell the bodies of their terrorism connected with Northern laws have led to Convention on Human Rights". The Bank of England, through the crowds of powerful hostility of the Bryant and May debilitating and disfiguring phossy jaw. countrymen as cannon fodder in exchange for the gracious smiles of the rulers of Ireland. The government wants some of Lord Chief Justice in the Divisional black-coated City workers, down On fines she wrote, "A system of The Match Girls stayed out for three England. In them the call of war sounded only as a call to emulate in prostitution. these special provisions to apply to any some of the worst Court on 30 March this year decided that Cheapside, through St Paul's churchyard devilish ingenuity catches them in communities of Irish immigrants shared weeks. The London Trades Council, at They heard the call of war — and set out to prove that the nationalists of Ireland were kind of 'terrorism'. People suspected of these same provisions in a "blatant and up Ludgate Hill and into Fleet Street. endless traps and robs them even of part a strong identity and were ready to the strike committee's invitation, obvious way undermined the more slavish than the Orangemen of such 'terrorist' offences would also have human-rights Their charge of over two miles was of the poor wages they nominally earn." defend it fiercely. Charles Booth in his interceded. George Shipton, its secretary, presumption of innocence". Our Ireland, would more readily kill and be fewer rights than other criminals. Surely fuelled with outraged anger. They had She finished by writing, "I hold you monumental survey of east London met Frederick Bryant and set up a killed at the bidding of an empire that it is wrong in principle to have a twin- abuses in this Home Secretary Jack Straw believes left their work at the Bryant and May up to the public opprobrium you deserve, pointed to a particular area as being meeting between him and a group of parliamentarians despised them both. track criminal justice system. that this bill complies with the European match factory in protest when three of and brand you with the shame that is noted for sending more police to hospital strikers. The young women had to face The Orangemen had at least the There is a diversity of views about country Convention on Human Rights. We would their colleagues had been fired. your rightful doom." than any other block in London. Known humiliation while Bryant cross- satisfaction that they were called upon to the morality of damaging property to have to disagree. It risks infringing the Management had accused them of She took 50 workers to parliament. as the Fenian Barracks, its men would examined them, tricking them into treat Ireland as an not allow one of their number to be taken fight abroad in order to save an empire prevent a new road scheme or making rights to a fair trial, to freedom from telling lies about their working The women catalogued their grievances giving answers which suited his and would keep out 'invaders' with particular view of events. Shipton they had been prepared to fight to retain threats of violence to try and halt The offence of 'incitement' may be unlawful detention, to freedom of speech conditions to a left-wing journalist, before a group of MPs and, afterwards, old prostitute barricades. concurred with him in diminishing the unaltered at home; but the nationalists experimentation on animals. But there is committed by mere words and there will and freedom of association. Annie Besant. They had come to her for "outside the House they linked arms and force of the workers' grievances and were called upon to fight abroad to save no logic to a system that assumes that be clashes with the right to freedom of Yet the powers in the Police and help. marched three abreast along the At least 23 match workers lived in the selling her soul for sought to help him to effect a public an empire whose rulers in their most those suspected of such offences should expression. Investigation of such Criminal Evidence Act, are more than In the middle and upper-class Embankment..." (Justice, 14 July 1888) 'Fenian Barracks', five in Fem Street face-saving compromise which gave the generous moments had refused to grant have fewer rights than a person who offences will often be brought about by sufficient to deal with the criminal London of the 1880s there was a Besant addressed the problem of adjoining them and another 24 in Sophia the promise of strikers very little but did enable them to their country the essentials of freedom in assaults another for revenge or for greed. political forces such as overseas activities described under in the bill. growing interest in the working and finance. An appeal was launched in The Street and Rook Street, Poplar — all establish a trade union, the very first in nationhood. The anti-terrorism laws have led to governments complaining about the Draconian anti-terrorist laws should be living conditions of the poor of the East Link. Large marches and rallies were predominantly 'Irish' streets according favours to come the new movement for the unionisation Fighting abroad the Orangeman some of the worst human rights abuses in tactics of pressure groups and abolished and not extended: such laws End. Polite ladies and gentlemen visited organised in Regents Park in the West to the 1891 Census. The strike register of the unskilled. This in itself was no knows that he fights to preserve the this country over the last 25 years, government opponents based in this have a far greater impact on human the district to observe, to sympathise, to End as well as Park and Mile compiled by the strike committee lists mean achievement. power of the aristocratic rulers whom he followed at home; fighting abroad the contributed to miscarriages of justice and country. rights then they ever will on crime. hand out charity and to agitate and End Waste in the east. over 600 workers by name and address. Large numbers have obviously Irish nationalist soldier is fighting to maintain unimpaired the power of those who have led to the unnecessary detention of organise. Annie Besant belonged to the Yet the element the middle classes The Match Girls deservedly became names. The Irish had also built a network conspired to shoot him down at home when he asked for a small instalment of thousands of innocent people, most of War, war, war. Greed, greed, reporting, agitating and organising Mrs Besant would and especially the employers could not the heroines of the labour movement. of cultural, religious and political freedom. them Irish. Only a tiny percentage of faction. comprehend was the degree to which the They would probably have been Money, money, money. organisations keeping identity and The Orangeman says: "We will fight for the Empire abroad if its rulers will those detained have ever been charged She had recently founded a weekly not be intimidated. workers could help themselves. delighted to know that they continued to Royalty, royalty, royalty. contact alive. promise not to force us to submit to Home Rule." And the rulers say heartily: "It is and almost without exception they could agitational paper, The Link, in which she There is no doubt that extreme rattle Bryant and May right up to the unthinkable that we should coerce Ulster for any such purpose". have been detained under ordinary Advert, advert, advert. Capital, wrote up her story of life in the match The next issue of poverty was debilitating, nor that the It is also the case that the 1880s were time of closure. The Irish Parliamentary Party and its press said: "We will prove ourselves fit to be criminal laws. capital, capital. War, war, war. factory. It was entitled 'White Slavery in vagaries of the market could wreak a decade in which Irish affairs were For documentation of this we have to in the British Empire by fighting for it, in the hopes that after the war is over we will This Bill will create a duty to report Greed, greed, greed. Money, London'. She noted that the women The Link invited havoc upon individuals and families. But extremely high profile. From famine to thank an obsessive managing director get Home Rule." suffered an eleven and a half hour day in there was also resistance and mutuality evictions, to coercion, to terrorism, to and his company secretary. They people to the police in certain money, money. Royalty, royalty, And the rulers of the British Empire say: "Well, you know what we have promised circumstances. If during the course of winter and a 13 and a half hour day in Bryant to sue. Match workers' open struggles went Land Reform and to Home Rule, Irish collected for over 50 years, from all over Carson, but send out the Irish rabble to fight for us, and we will, ahem, consider your your work you find information about, or royalty. Advert, advert, advert. summer, standing all the time, apart from back to at least 1871. matters were never far from the top of the world, the tiniest fragments of application after the war." Whereat, all the Parliamentary leaders and their press call become suspicious of, someone who you Capital, capital, capital. War, war, a miserly one and a half hour break in the agenda. The Irish in Britain were information about the Match Girls and the world to witness that they have won a wonderful victory! suspect may be using money or property total. management and there would be over PPARANTLY HIDDEN continuously engaged with these issues, their strike. Their files contain numerous war. Greed, greed, greed. Money, nowhere more prominently than in letters from schoolchildren and their James Fintan Lalor spoke and conceived of Ireland as a "discrowned queen, taking to contribute to the causes of terrorism, For this a typical worker earned 4/- a 1,000 mouths to feed. from the view of most money, money. Royalty, royalty, London. Mass demonstrations were teachers asking for help in projects on back her own with an armed hand". Our parliamentarians treat Ireland, their country, you must report them. Failure to do so week from which 'splendid salary' she The managing director, Frederick historians is the fact that the almost a commonplace. Tens of the strike. Every single one assumes that as an old prostitute selling her soul for the promise of favours to come, and in the will make you liable to a five year prison royalty. Advert, advert, advert. had to eat, clothe and house herself. To Bryant, was already using his influence Match Girls were largely thousands of the London Irish the workers were right. spirit . that conception of their country they are conducting their political campaign. sentence. This could have a serious effect Capital, capital, capital. War, war, war. add insult her pay was subject to a on the press. "His (sic) employees were Irish or of Irish origin, participated and it is extremely likely That they should be able to do so with even the partial success that for a while on journalistic investigations. system of fines: "If the feet are dirty, or liars. Relations with them were very though a director Greed, greed, greed. that the communities which housed the attended their apostasy was possible only because so few in Ireland really understood The definition of terrorism in the Bill if the ground under the bench is left friendly until they had been duped by Ainterviewed in 1893 for the Girls' Own e 'It Just Went IJke Tinder', the mass You want something different? Paper noted that all our hands, men and Match Girls had played their part. the answer to the question that stands at the head of this article. needs to be more, rather than less untidy, a fine of 3d is inflicted, for socialist outsiders. He paid wages above movement and New Unionism in Britain women, hail from the Emerald Isle by What is a free nation? A free nation is one which possesses absolute control over focused. The Government proposes to Then try the 50p daily putting 'burnts' — matches that have the level of his competitors. He did not There was sometimes a show of 1889 by John Charlton is published by birth or lineage'. This may have added its own internal resources and powers, and which has no restriction upon its widen the definition and include from your caught fire during the work on the bench use fines. Working conditions were affection and support for Gladstone for Redwords, price £6.99 pbk. A further an important ingredient to their chapter in the book deals with the intercourse with all other similarly circumscribed except the restrictions placed upon motivation other than the overthrow of a 'Morning Star newsagents Is has been forfeited, and one unhappy excellent. That deductions from pay had some of his Irish policies. At the time of mutuality and maybe even to their general contribution of the Irish to the it by nature. state, particularly for 'political, religious girl was once fined 2/6 for some been made to finance the erection of a the unveiling of a statue to the Liberal readiness to fight at that time. prime minister on Bow Road in 1882 the labour-movement struggles of this Is that the case of Ireland? If the Home Rule Bill were in operation would that be or ideological ends'. unknown crime. If a girl leaves four or statue to Mr Gladstone was a government's Irish land reform promises period. the case of Ireland? To both questions the answer is: no, most emphatically, NO! Furthermore, under this bill exiled five matches on her bench when she goes preposterous suggestion. He would sue It is well known and recorded that Page 8 Irish Democrat February/March Irish Democrat February/March 2000 Page 9 Book reviews Book reviews

campaign in the early 1930s to get small farmers to stop paying the land annuities were over-emphasised in one part for a A great man owed to Britain under the 1921 Anglo- 'God's Englishman' time — only recently receding — while A sane voice In the wilderness in the UK part they were deliberately Irish Treaty. The effect of pressurising a reluctant De Valera into taking up this installed and are as virulent as ever. but Ireland's bane and perplexity. Had they been able to have been called: "March 21, 1914, If anyone wishes to understand better issue was to widen the support-base of Classics of Irish History off the people Bobbie Heatley reviews Civil War in peruse JJ's book at the time when it was (will be) an epoch-making turning point, the complexities, and perplexities, nascent Fianna Fail, speeding its path Rudn O'Donnell reviews Cromwell Ulster by Joseph Johnston, University written, this would probably not have the day when the noble landlords of surrounding the issue of into office. in Ireland by James Scott Wheeler, Anthony Coughlan reviews Peadar happened. They would have had a better Britain smashed the British constitution 'decommissioning' in Northern Ireland O'Donnell's attempt in the same College Dublin Press, £13.95 pbk Gill and Macmillan, £19.99 hbk understanding of what their rabble- and British law to bits and gave an and the wilful politicking of the O'Donnell by Peter Hegartx. Mercier decade to lead the IRA away from OF PROTESTANT background from rousing leaders, under the Orange banner excellent lesson in class struggle", he hypocritical unreformed unionists in Press, £12.99 pbk physical force and towards politics, with Castlecaulfield, Co. Tyrone, Joseph of anti-Catholicism, really were on noted. respect of it, a reading of this book will a view to establishing a political THE PUBLICATION of Cromwell in Johnston wrote this book in 1913, aged about. perhaps assist THIS SPLENDID book will surely republican force — not a socialist one — Ireland, as with many other books on the The Tories had suborned the King 23, mainly for the benefit of his co- Carson's 'tearing-up of the British become the standard biography of that to the left of Fianna Fail that would make subject, was timed to coincide with the and the landlord-linked top brass of the The defensive psychology of the religionists who were being swept up constitution' had three main aims: to great Irishman and extraordinary human it more difficult for the mainstream party 400th anniversary of the birth of 'God's military and, being only half-hearted in nationalist community has its deep into, or coerced into, Carson and Craig's protect landlord interest in Ireland, to being. Peadar O'Donnell (1893-1986). to sell-out to imperialism and Englishman' in April 1599 and the 350th rectifying Ireland's grievances and origin in the history therein described as crusade against the Liberal government's preserve the British Empire and to Incidentally, although the book does multinational capitalism, as has anniversary of his arrival in Ireland in fearful of calling upon the British people well as, of course, in more recent events Home Rule Bill. It is a remarkable remove the Liberals from governmental not mention it, Peadar O'Donnell happened since, will remain of perennial August 1649. for support, the Liberals capitulated to The present phase of nationalist achievement. office. Although JJ himself was of a left- Toryism and, in so doing, eclipsed armament happened in 1969 when three thought highly of the work of the political interest. Wheeler's assessment of Cromwell, With considerable foresight he leaning Liberal inclination, his analysis themselves, leaving a political space in Northern MPs had to rush to Dublin in Connolly Association, its newspaper the PEADAR O'DONNELL This reviewer got the impression that however, differs from all but a handful realised that if the British Tories and runs along much the same lines as Lenin, which the Labour Party could emerge. order to supplicate for guns in the face of Irish Democrat, and its late editor C. the author is not entirely certain what by concentrating on the conquest of their Ulster unionist appendage the Russian revolutionary leader. Dealing with other topics JJ's book RUC, B-Special and loyalist pc jroms Desmond Greaves, as one would expect Peadar O' Donnell, George Gilmore, Ireland in 1649-52. His intention is to succeeded in their threatened armed In the early part of his book JJ scoffs shows, using unionist sources, that the against their community. Ultimat :ly the from someone who supported all Frank Ryan and the rest were really build upon Denis Murphy's pioneering revolt against the constitutionally- at the emptiness of the Tory bluster about Act of Union, 1801 was a disaster for community had to rely on its own progressive causes he came in contact seeking to achieve through the 1934 1883 work of the same name by elected Liberal government the rebellion, but footnotes provided by his Ireland and of limited benefit to England resources. with during his 93 years of life. Republican Congress. His treatment of incorporating recent scholarship with his consequences would be disastrous for bequeathed to successive generations son Roy Johnston explain that the plot to herself. Drawing on European and Irish It is a bit late in the day for The book's author, Derryman Peter that episode lacks a certain sureness of own work with primary sources. The most original and insightful part those who were most ardently in support was 70 years of 'troubles' which have employ the UVF to import guns from the examples, he also demonstrates that in Protestants to be reading this book, but Hegarty, knows adjacent County touch. At the same time, it is fair enough In keeping with current of the book deals with the final phase of of it — the Protestant working-people of not, as yet, been finally resolved Kaiser at Larne in 1914 was not then the conditions of the early 20th century not too late. There is no doubt that it Donegal well where O'Donnell was of him to imply that if other tactics had historiographical trends, Wheeler places the war after Cromwell's return to the North. There were to be grievous JJ's son, Roy, has done everyone a known to JJ. the mere fact of a predominantly would help those of a unionist bent to see born. His account of O'Donnell's 1940s and early 1950s of The Bell been adopted, the Congress might have Cromwell's crucial, if not decisive, England in May 1650 and the early costs for the British people too. service because, in many of its insights, Some 'British' patriots were those Catholic population did not their way out of their present activity in the First Northern Division of magazine, founded by O'Donnell. left a more lasting legacy, although as personal role in the Irish campaign in the months of 1653. Such was the tenacity The aristocrats, landlords and most this book enables a clearer boys, introducing the gun into modern automatically translate into a Rome-led predicament. Civil War in Ulster ought the IRA during the War of Independence A real pleasure of Hegarty's book is with all historical might-have-beens one context of the various interlocked wars shown by Irish 'tory' guerrillas that reactionary elements of the legal understanding of present-day problems. Irish politics and triggering a reactive theocracy. to be on the reading list of students from is a real contribution to the local history that he lets the many people he can never be really sure. which gripped England, Scotland and Henry Ireton, Cromwell's son in law, felt profession succeeded without having to For instance, after the signing of the response from the Irish Volunteers. When the Tories and compliant post-primary level upwards. of that event. interviewed who knew Peadar Altogether this is a great human Ireland between 1641 and 1652. The compelled to classify large portions of actually carry out their threat — the Good Friday accord, a great many While the Tory threat of insurrection Liberals partitioned Ireland they set up No student of politics, economics, He shows his literary sensitivity in personally speak for themselves, so that story, well written and full of interesting background of the Irish theatre into the country as what were referred to as Home Rule Bill was truncated and members of the Protestant family in the in Ulster now appeared credible, Lenin, one state and a segment of another state history, sociology or anthropology ought his discussion of P.adar O'Donnell's six the story is full of sparkling vignettes, new information on Peadar O'Donnell which Cromwell entered in 1649 is well 'free fire zones' during the Vietnam War. Ireland partitioned. What they North have been thrown into confusion for one, saw it as a bluff that ought to in which sectarian-religious politics to be without it. novels, two of which, Islanders (1928) rich images and phrases that linger in the and his times. And absolutely essential covered, as is the subsequent strategic From 10 April 1652 the inhabitants and The Rig Windows (1955), are mind. reading for anyone seeking to and logistic factors which shaped the of ten of Ireland's most productive hegemony, counter-hegemony and civil classics, and in his account of the O'Donnell's most important understand modern slow conquest which ensued. southern counties were deemed to be Restricted view of society to revisit these age-old dilemmas An imperialist centrality to Irish cultural life in the historical contribution was probably his and the Irish political left. This is a fairly objective account, "excluded from the protection of the regarding the state's exercise of power albeit one which is bound to irritate Parliament and Commonwealth of and social control. The question of policing model many Irish readers with his comment England". All who failed to relocate community activism whether community can replace class as that "brutality" was shown "by all uncompensated to English controlled Essential guide to the using the theory of Gramsci, the Italian a motor of political change is re-stated, participants... reflecting the religious zones or resisted the accompanying Frank Small reviews The Irish H marxist, to look at the relationship alongside an examination of the role of bitterness and prejudices on both sides". scorched earth tactics were liable to be Constabularies 1822-1922 by conflict In the North between community action and the state. state control in community development. The motives underlying the war's killed. Donal J. O'Sullivan, Brandon Books, THE IRISH He begins by setting out a lengthy He concludes that community David Granville reviews Northern The final section written by media atrocities will always be debated and Moreover, as Wheeler shows, those £30 hbk discussion of the theoretical perspectives development can never be more than a CONSTABULARIES lecturer and investigative journalist John Wheeler's religious attribution is who accepted this upheaval were Ireland, a political directory involving the community movement pawn of the state. 1822-1922 Coulter takes the form of an addendum controversial, but the scale and effect of rendered vulnerable to the diseases and 1968 — 1999 by Sydney Elliot, W.D today followed by three case studies Instead of bringing the theoretical THIS BOOK, which includes an A century

Reviews/culture kwn-om Gerard Curran's songs page Sources said... Seamus 6 Cionnfhaola THE INS and outs of Insh politics must The Meeting of the Waters And my mother left all lonesome — and myself to work You're the foxy devil when you like PETER MULLIGAN'S regular appear to many to have been scripted by Eamonn an chonic and fight; You set my mind at easy and then you strike. trawl through the pages of Monty Python with help from Robert Drawn into the spotlight This song by Thomas Moore is reprinted in response to So with Jimfn MOT McCarthy and young Donal Rua You set my mind a reeling, the British press Maxwell and the Krays. Edmund of the Hill a request from a Ludlow reader who sees in the last O'Shea, You make me shout and sing, In short, there's plenty of scope for EDWARD RYAN, better known as verse a picture of people who appeared to have I came across to England then to earn an honest pay." My memory flees, I get no ease, The King George Cross - There is satire and sarcasm, both of which feature MM, MY ffl somv a ma Eamonn Chnoi (Edmund of the Hill) was irreconcilable views starting to work together — as in Till I have a little drink. indeed something valedictory about in abundance in Culture Vultures, born before the wars of 1691 in Northern Ireland, today. "I promised my mother that I'd soon be home again, giving a police force such an award, as if political cartoons 1991— 1999 by Ian mm TALK to Pi mw row Shanbohy in the parish of Temple Beg, But the curse of drink came on me and enslaved me in its You're the crafty rogue, and that's for sure. the British empire is thanking its colonial Knox (Blackstaff Press. £5.99 pbk) You if You'll Tipperary. There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet chains; For your company there is no cure. constabulary for its long service — and Taken almost exclusively from his ma SHOULD His father was descended from the As the vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet And I haven't seen my mother now this twenty years or I've squandered all my money then preparing to bid it farewell. This contributions to the voice of middle- S6NP HMlONt warlike O Ryans, many of whom lost Oh the last rays of feeling and life must depart more And the best years of my life may be Mandelson's way of sending the class in the North, the HAVE ROOM m their lives and property in the obstinate Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart She's still beyond there waitin' for my footsteps at the All on your charms, in spite of harm, RUC a P45 — in a perfumed envelope... Irish News, republicans, unionists, the m! but ineffectual struggle for independence door." In spite of peace and strife. This award has a smack of old empire Orange Order and key British political m mor? led by the Earl of Desmond in the reign Yet it was not that nature had shed o'er the scene about it. Sinn Fein's response might have figures are all subjected to Knox's pen. of Elizabeth I. His mother was of the The purest of crystal and brightest of green Then someone started singing "See Amid The Winter Whiskey in the morning Or at night been much more vehement had the peace Having made a seamless transition ancient family of O Dwyers, lords of T'was not her soft magic of streamlet or hill Snow", Gives strength to sing and dance, to love process lately recharged by Senator from ultra-leftism to liberalism — Knox Kilnemanagh. Oh no, it was something more exquisite still. It was like an old bell ringing far away and long ago And fight, Mitchell not been in such a delicate once contributed regularly to Red Weekly An affair on his return from the And as Moriarty' listened, he pushed his glass away, And so despite misfortune, condition." (The Guardian) and Socialist Challenge — his take on continent forced Edmund to abandon his Sweet vale of Avoca!, how calm could I rest And he made a solemn promise he'd be home for I'll take you as you are — six-county politics dovetails neatly with ambition of becoming a priest. He was In thy bosom of shade, with the friend I love best Christmas Day. The best of friends and enemies, Loss Of empire — "Thatcher had tried the SDLP's, which escapes largely eventually arrested and hanged for Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should The best I've known by far. unsuccessfully to define Britain's unscathed. offences against the state. cease He scraped up every penny he could get into his hand, relationship to Europe and the rest of the Frustrating and annoying though this And our hearts, like thy waters be mingled in peace. And coming up to Christmas, he sailed for Ireland; world. 'I believe that search can now sometimes is, Knox nevertheless C6 h-e sin amuigh His heart was singing softly and he felt content and Only Our Rivers Run Free end. We have got over our imperial past manages to hit the mark on a surprising 'Na bhfuil faobhar ar a ghuth, blessed. As pointed out by our Cork correspondent in the last — and the withdrawal symptoms. No number of occasions. DG Ag reabadh mo dhorais dunta? The Homecoming As the train rolled through the Midlands and brought him issue, parts of Irish rivers are still owned by English longer do we want to be taken seriously Mise Eamon a' Chnoic This song depicts an exile's dilemma. Because he is to the West landowners. So there's still a fight on for access to and just for our history but for what we are."' Ata baite fuar fluich homesick he drinks too much. Then he is ashamed to go to prevent the big corporations from taking out patents (report of Tony Blair's speech at the City each song is accompanied by an revival of traditional instrumentation and was influenced by fiddle players and 6 shforshiul slebhte is gleannta! home, even on holiday, because the effects of drink are In the village of Kilsheela, that night upon the shore, on our trees and flowers. The words and music are by of London Lord Mayor's banquet, Daily A Northern heritage explanatory text. this publication goes far to help redress playing experiences in all those places. A laol dhil is a chuid, so obvious in his empty pockets and red face. He saw across the water dark, his island home once more; Michael McConnell. Telegraph) The titles and lyrics for over half of the balance for vocal music. If nothing This is evident in his bowing style, Cad a dhenfainnse duit, In the sky the stars were shining and the brightest in the Derek Humphries reviews the songs originate in the Irish language. else, it will have captured this absorbing which is smoother than is typical of Muna gcuirfinn ort binn dem ghuna, In a little pub in London, Moriarty drank his beer, dome, When apples grow in November, Prejudice — "There remains a seam of Traditional Songs of the O Conchubhair's encyclopaedic study of northern Irish tradition for Donegal players. Is go bhfuil pudar go tiubh And recited wondrous stories of his exploits far and near; Seemed to hang above the island calling Moriarty home' When blossoms grow from each tree, latent prejudice in this country against North Of Ireland by Derek Bell & knowledge of Gaelic provides the posterity. These recordings, now issued by Da shfrsheideadh leat, "Now an Irish song!" said Kelly, "Best of order one and When leaves are still green in December the Irish, which has its roots in the English reader with superb translations, all!" "'Us a grand night for the crossin', said the boatman, It's then that our land will be free, Reformation and Britain's imperial past, Liam 0 Conchuhhair, Wolfhound Press. RTE in conjunction with Raidio na Is go mbeirrus araon muchta. which seem to retain the original beauty Gaeltachta, were made in 1977. And Moriarty sang for them "The Hills Of Donegal". Thomas Bawn, I wander the hills and the valleys and it regularly rears its ugly head in the £9.99 phk of the native verse. The song titles Fiddler on the hoof Here are 18 tracks of reels, Is fada mise amuigh Moriarty didn't know him — 'Us a lifetime I am gone!"; And still through my sorrow I see, tabloid press, though interestingly more include English phonetic spelling, hornpipes, jigs and one highland fling, Fe shneachta is fe shioc There was cheering at the finish and they called "Encore! And they climbed into the baideen, Then the boatman A land that has never known freedom, in the middle-market, middle-brow Mail LIAM O CONCHUBHAIR and Derek allowing many of us the important Ken Keable reviews On tSean-Am all beautifully played, with great skill but Is gan danacht agam ar einne; Encore!" heard him say: And only her rivers run free. and Express than the Sun and the opportunity at least the name of the song Bell s book features 60 traditional songs Anall, Danny O'Donnell, RTE Music no showiness, and with a supportive but Mo sheisreach gan scur, But Moriarty told them, "Lads, I can't sing any more." "Glory! Glory! God of Heaven! I'll be home for Mirror." (Irish Post editorial) correctly. from a rich heritage from all over the Ltd, CD and cassette IR£12.99/IR£8.99) unobtrusive guitar accompaniment. Mo bhranar gan cur, Then he stood there, sad and silent, gazing down into his Christmas Day!" I drink to the death of her manhood north of Ireland. The authors, a respected Great pains have also been exercised What a pity there are no slow airs, Is gan iad agam in aon chor! beer, Those men who'd rather have died Blair's Britain — "Last year 44,000 sean-nos singer and a musician best by Derek Bell who has meticulously slip-jigs or set-dance tunes. Nfl caraid agam, And in his eyes there glistened just the starting of a tear. Than to live in the cold chains of bondage people died of cold-related illnesses, known as the Chieftan's harpist, have notated the music directly from Liam O ALTHOUGH DANNY O'Donnell (now Nevertheless, highly recommended for Is danafd liom san, To bring back their rights were denied. many because they could not afford successfully compiled a treasure of Conchubhair's renditions. 90) was born in Co. Donegal he rejects lovers of fine fiddle playing. The sleeve Do ghlacadh me moch na d6anach, "Are you going home for Christmas?" the friendly The Foxy Devil Oh where are you now that we need you, heating. For half Britain's pensioners, words, musical notation and translation The musical scores are written in a the description "Donegal fiddler" notes are all in Irish, with only the tides Is go gcaithfidh me dul barmaid said, One of the founder members of Sweeney's men, Joe What bums where the flame used to be state benefit constitutes 75 per cent or for every mood and occasion. variety of keys, down to demi-semi- because his style has been subject to so also in English. Thar farraige soir, Moriarty fixed his gaze on her and slowly shook his head; Dolan from Galway, wrote this song about the Are ye gone like the snows of last winter, more of their income. One third of all The ii.aterial featured forms part of O quaver accuracy, thereby capturing, as many other influences. Available from music shops in 6s ann nach bhfuil mo ghaolta. "Sure 1 haven't been to Ireland now this twenty years or hardships of constant whiskey indulgence. The words And will only our rivers run free? children, some 4.5 million, live in Conchubhair's vast personal repertoire near as possible, the nuances of each Born in Dungloe in 1910 he has lived Ireland or by mail order from, RTE, more, could also apply to heroin, cocaine and ecstasy. The poverty, three times the number in 1979, and the reader is presented with a myriad piece. in Killybegs, England, New Jersey, San Dublin 4 (phone +353 1208 2721). A chuil alainn deas. My mother'd hardly know me if I walked up to the door." music structure is a simple CFC, CSG, CFC, FG, CFG, How sweet is life but we're crying, while one fifth of children live in of largely unknown northern culture and Much has been achieved in the Francisco, Dublin, and Glasgow, and Catalogue no. RTE 233 CD/MC. Na bhfainm gcas, FC. The song can be found in The Christy Moore How mellow, the wine, but we're dry, households where no one works, twice Is bred agus is glas do shuile! "I was bom," said Moriarty, "on an island in the west, Songbook. How fragrant the rose,bu t its dying. the 1979 levels." (The Times) insinuation for which he provides no reformation religion on the Orange side Go bhfuil mo chroi

Peter Berresford Ellis welcomes a new book and self-reliance, Lalor did not hesitate in pronouncing his support for them. He began to write to the editor of The focusing on the life and work of James Fintan Lalor, Nation, the mouthpiece of movement founded by . the much-neglected Irish revolutionary intellectual His letters were circulated among the Young Ireland leaders and then Gavan Duffy sought whose teachings inspired and permission to publish them. They attracted support from the militant wing of the countless other Irish socialists and republicans movement, including , the Ulster Presbyterian republican. Against the background of the AMES FINTAN Lalor? Who was he?' biography of Ernie O'Malley. infamous 'Great Hunger', the most The question arose during a conversation I cannot recommend this volume highly enough. devastating of the artificial famines induced with a socialist from Co. Laois'(of all Its basic structure is in three parts: a short critical in Ireland by the ascendancy landlord system, places!! a few weeks ago. 1 was torn biography of Lalor; his philosophies and writings Lalor declared that Irish tenants should start between pointing out that there should be and, finally, what Irish leaders have said of Lalor withholding their rents. This proposal was too little excuse for a follower of James and his ideas over the years. radical even for Gavan Duffy and fellow Young JConnolly to be in ignorance and the acceptance of Lalor was bom at Tinakill, Co. Laois (then Ireland leader, O'Brien. It savoured the fact that, so far as the Irish state and its education Queen's County) on March 10, 1807. His father, too much of an instigation for peasant revolution. system is concerned, Lalor is generally a Patrick, was a pioneer of the anti- and in Lalor was soon openly declaring his policy not (purposefully) forgotten man. 1832 was returned as a radical Member of merely to 'reform' but to 'undo the conquest'. Even back in 1897, James Connolly, in an Parliament for the county. Opposed to the landlord Realising the negative attitude of the introduction to some of Lalor's writings published ascendancy he became a supporter of Daniel Young Ireland leaders, Lalor, as frail and ill by his Socialist Party of Ireland, observed: O'Connell, believing in his Repeal of the Union as he was, went to Tipperary and with the- "He died as he had lived, a revolutionist and a movement to be the way forward. But in 1847, the help of , a barrister who rebel against all forms of political and social year of O'Connell's death, Patrick realised that he was eventually to help form the IRB, set up injustice, and for nearly fifty years the middle-class was no friend of the Irish poor nor, indeed, of a truly the League of Tenants as a separate patriots' who write Ireland's history have honoured independent Ireland, and so he withdrew his support organisation. Lalor's programme, announced at his memory by boycotting his writings and slurring 'in disgust'. the first meeting at Holycross, was radical in the over his name. May the labours of our Irish James Fintan was the eldest of Patrick's eleven extreme. democracy inscribe on the pages of their country's children. His brothers Richard and Peter were "That the people of Ireland have for ages been history a more fitting tribute to his genius." forced to emigrate to Australia where deprived of their natural right of property in their We are still awaiting that event. When my led insurgent miners at the famous Eureka Stockade own soil, that their right has been in practical effect It was no coincidence History of the Irish Working Class first appeared in in 1854. Peter eventually became Speaker of the utterly defeated and diverted, and that it now 1972, I had no hesitation in following Connolly's legislative assembly of Victoria. requires to be asserted, enforced and established." that the proclamation of lead in recognising the enormous intellectual John Mitchell launched the United Irishman and contribution that Lalor made in developing the took over the revolutionary sections of Lalor's the Irish Republic of radicalism of the Irish movement. Indeed, anyone social programme. Lalor did not contribute to the who writes about the mid-19th century in Ireland, journal but when Mitchel was arrested he joined 1916 should carry words let alone the history of the working class and the with John Martin to co-edit The Irish Felon which Irish struggle for social democracy, ignores Lalor at continued the United Irishman editorial strategy. that are but an echo their peril. Martin was soon arrested as well and Lalor Even Eamon de Valera was compelled to continued to produce the newspaper single handed of Lalor recognise his contribution and claim Lalor's until it was suppressed on July 29, 1848. The last political objectives were his own. lines Lalor had written in the journal were: "Who Of course, cynic that I am, I would point out that strikes the first blow for Ireland? Who draws first two, Lalor died. de Valera conjured the ghost of Lalor to his banner blood or Ireland? Who wins a wreath that will be The London Times admitted that "Mr Lalor was in 1925 before gaining power. De Valera used these green for ever?" undoubtedly one of the (if not the) ablest as well as words of Lalor to outline what he claim was his own The next day in Tipperary the Young Irelander's most dangerous of those men who perverted objective: attempted insurrection moved into its last chaotic abilities of a very high order to the worst of "Ireland her own... the entire ownership of stages. Lalor, who was in Templederry at the time, purposes". It was high praise from his enemies. Ireland, moral and material, up to the sun down to was arrested under the Suspension of the Habeas Lalor rests in Glasnevin. the centre, is vested of right in the people of Ireland; Corpus Act and sent to Nenagh Jail. He was then His texts should be read by everyone who that they, none but they are the land owners and law transferred to Newgate in Dublin. His ill heath follows the teachings of James Connolly who hailed makers of this island." increased under the appalling conditions and he was Lalor as "the keenest intellect in Ireland in his day". Cynically I recall how many post 1916 released, the authorities thinking that were releasing Let Connolly sum him up for us. ".. .the palm of nationalist politicians flocked to hail James a dying man. honour for the clearest exposition of the doctrine of Connolly as their inspiration and quite neglected to Yet Lalor threw himself back into the revolution, social and political, must be given to observe his teachings. Therefore, something which Even de Valera was revolution. In spite of the disastrous failure of the James Fintan Lalor of Tenakill, Queen's County has been sadly lacking to the general Irish reader Young Ireland insurrection; in spite of the fact that (Co. Laois). Lalor, unfortunately, suffered from a since the inception of the Irish state has been an compelled to recognise Mitchel and Martin, his close supporters, had been slight physical disability, which incapacitated him easily available guide to Lalor's political teachings. deported to Australia while Doheny had fled to New from attaining to any leadership other than In 1918 there was a volume introduced by the conbtribution and York, and other leaders had been imprisoned or intellectual, a fact that in such a time and amidst Nathaniel Marlow as James Fintan Lalor — deported, Lalor went on a tour of the south, such a people was fatal to his immediate influence. collected writings but this was by no means all his claim Lalor's political organising a new secret revolutionary movement. Yet in his writings, as we study them today, we find writings nor were Lalor's letters, also of great He was joined in this new movement by Thomas principles of action and of society which have importance in any presentation of his views, objectives were his own Clarke Luby, John O'Leary, Charles J. Kickham and within them not only the best plan of campaign included. Many letters were actually published in Michael Joseph Brenan. On November 16, 1849, suited for the needs of a country seeking its freedom 1921 when Arthur Griffith, who heaped Lalor with Lalor issued the call for insurrection. The centre was through insurrection against a dominant nation, but faint praise, dismissing him merely as a 'land James Fintan suffered chronic ill-health. He was to be at Cashel, Co. Tipperary. However, it was not also held the seeds of the more perfect social peace reformer', introduced a volume of his work. tubercular and he also had a physical handicap — he in Cashel but in Co. that the 1849 rising of the future." It is sad, as I say, that there has been so little was a hunchback. John O'Leary, the Fenian leader, had its only affect. There was an attack on the police In the 144 pages of this new volume on Lalor are written on Lalor. It is significant that the last study would later record that his humour was bitter and barracks at Cappoquin in which a policeman and the key philosophies whose influence have been was from the Belfast Republican Press Centre sardonic. one of the insurgents were killed. enormous on subsequent generations of socialists which, in 1975, issued a booklet entitled Readings At school, excluded from sports, he and republicans. fmm Fintan Lalor. concentrated on his studies, excelling in Greek and N CASHEL, only 150 men turned out, and It was no coincidence that Connolly decided to Well, I am now please to welcome a little book. Latin and admiring, in particular, the French writers these were poorly armed. Lalor realised reprint Lalor's Faith of a Felon in 1897 nor that the Collected Writings by and about James Fintan and philosophers. He went to live in France for a insurrection was hopeless and, sensibly, he Proclamation of the Irish Republic of 1916 should Lalor, which everyone interested in Irish political while in spite of his ill health and immersed himself sent them home until such time that a better carry words that are but an echo of Lalor: "We history ought to make sure they have a copy of. Its in a study of the French revolutionary literature of response would be forthcoming. One of the declare the right of tjie people of Ireland to the compilers are Eva Guarino and Judith Tumbull of the day. curiosities pf Irish historiography is that this ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. When he returned to Ireland he began to see the 184I9 insurrection generally goes unmentioned by of Irish destinies to be sovereign and indefeasible". Professor Guarino is an associated professor of suffering of the rural population. Like his father, he Irish historians of the period. • Collected Writings by and about James Fintan economics but her interest in Ireland was first realised that Daniel O'Connell's Lalor returned to Dublin determined to carry on Lalor is published (in English) by Edizione il aroused by reading Desmond Greaves' The Life and was not really interested in the struggle for social building up his oiganisation. But his imprisonment Pontesonoro, Rome, and is distributed by Argenta Times of James Connolly. Since then she was and national freedom. So when, in 1846, the Young had taken its toll on this very ill man. He was Publications in Dublin, price IR£5 (Copies of the travelled widely in Ireland and became fascinated Ireland movement broke with O'Connell and suffering from recurring bouts of his bronchial book are also available from the Four Provinces by its history. She hopes soon to undertake a new proclaimed the right of Ireland to self-government problems. 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