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* Organ of the POLITICAL STATUS Connolly Association IRISH FOR LONG KESH MCOAT PRISONERS No. 436 NOVEMBER 1980 20p JOHN BOYD ON E E C Page 2 PEADAR O'DON NELL SPEECH Page 5 SONGS Page6 CARLE TON Page 7 WITHDRAWAL GOOD DAYS IN THE FIFTIES Page 8 WOMEN AT
* NNE BOYLE and Maire O'Haire ' * were arrested at Heathrow pur- port on their way into Britain on 24th October. Miss O'Hare was released on Sun- day, but Miss Boyle is being held at the time of going to press, after a writ of habeas corpus to free her was adjourned till the following Thursday in the High Court. " Under the Prevention of Terror- • • w - - . ism Act anyone can be held for up to seven days without being charged and need not be granted campaign access to a stflcitor. Two more women, Miss Rose Mc- J^T the 300-strong meeting Tony Benn told the audience "1 was brought up to believe Allister and Miss l$a|garet Mc- very strongly from my father that the Partition of Ireland was a crime." Nulty were-; detained at H«athrow ni*ghtheir * ^ ®niida7 "I believe," he went on, "that the work of the LtoyLloyd GeorgGeorge "These factors," he said, "lead Miss McAjuitea*> member of Government et al at that time was one of the blackest episodes me to the conclusion that what the Long It^llelat^Action in British imperial history." \ -^ItlSSS Committee and came to Britain to ists ls t0 mahe a declaration of take part in a 24 hour tok&h fast in «w MUSVsay quite clearly and tion and independence." intent ... that it is our wish Downing Street to draw attention * f, thoro „ x to bring about a united Ireland." to the conditions of Republican pri- plainly that in my view there Benn drew attention to the soners in the Six counties. is no future for a policy based use 0f the, six counties as a Benn concluded by saying: "I An average of seventeen people on partition. training ground for future re- believe that the continued pre- are detained every week at Heath- INDEPENDENCE pression in Britain, sence of theBritish as a politi- row on their wa" y' to and from Ire- <'"ThereThere isis nono futurefuture forfor peacepeace HeHe referredreferred toto thetne lacklacn ofoj calcai andana militarymilitary forcejorce inin Irelandireiana The PTA has brought misery Into andJ co-operation" """ in the whole previous discussion on Ireland is themecjorbarrierthat stands thousandihds of Iristf fcomes. « - of Ireland that did not include at OtiM^Wtm, mpOmr the *py of/trojte tmiomand We must emurensure that this Fascist a clear presentation of can alter- „goverm^:y^%i0^wef, - ft „ __ 1»»at Act is not renewed 'ih Ffebruary.The native persp&dtiveonreunifica- was handled like no other issue. presence must be withdrawn.' Co. police have amp!e .ixhvers without ' -ig', !- '•>' "- •'' " 1 .'''•.."" '. '"' ''.. " ' ; * 1 It" - '"•^V:^- %/p The Connolly Association petition . will be presented befQ^ the Act is renewed,,, Send, for a copy and get Mi it filled' *u,p.. ''," .; ": IF the seven men on hunger practised against them and their 1 : regg^^P^using^. v: be the responsibility of thfe Brl- 60 pi: rf tish Government. ".' T^^ave>ot been convicted : S Si- „; • : inncnTMdcoffrtsOflaw. f^mi- rwgm m: Aiy^pe .ywni menhave fessioiis fa^ exWacted ^JS * •ootaty WhlCh ... after ihhUtean and/degrading J*^w , treatment, puppet state f ••^^V^MiiiU deriiMwtr^ion .1, MR , has been ^ authorities are which is to put »ri- mands, "NO" TO sone BWBwVfc i'suri "m [ havii •petuates the t 1 {accused of. £ I The six- p sc
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• • i November 1980 THE tRlSH DEMOCRAT November 1980 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT BRITISH LEADERS IN COVER UP BETTY Interrogators fear War Crimes Tribumri' port that the Bennett Committee SINCLAIR AVOID REFERENDUM TRAP NO RECOVERY was set up. JAMES CALLAGHAN, then a major cover-up in 1977 when THE strength and weak spots of Attorney General, Sam Silkin, A.LL this is revealed in a new Prime Minister, and Roy Ma- warned by senior officials that * the anti-market movement. and the Director of Public Pro- book "Beating the Terrorist" CELEBRATES BY son, then Secretary of State for I.R.A. suspects were being ill- secutions in Northern Ireland, (Penguin, £1.50), by Peter Taylor, What are the major questions Northern Ireland, were guilty of treated by detectives in Castle- Mr Barry Shaw, that the bruta- facing the anti-market movement in INSIDE MARKET a well-known B.B.C. journalist. reagh, the notorious interroga- lity at Gastlereagh should be in- Britain? What is the best way for- It is also revealed that even IN LONDON JOHN BOYD tion eentre in Belfast. vestigated they refused to set ward and what will the pro-market annihilation. This cannot be done the Castdereagh interrogators IJERE are some of the benefits Instead of heeding the advice up a special inquiry. It was camp be up to? " to Britain of pulling out of the while she is an EEC member. THE POISON have no faith in the stability ISS BETTY • of such important men as their only after a critieal Amnesty re- There are of course other major Common Market. of the British system, or the M SI NIC LAIR, Undoubtedly in the current policies on the agenda with some in 1971 Heath's White paper Government's ability to protect veteran Trade (1) A burden of £4,000 million NOBODY period all anti-marketeers should in the final stages of discussion. backing British membership of the them from prosecution. They Unionist who was would be lifted from Britain's bal- EEC said that "the Government l» for years that feel ten feet tall. The signs from These include a common fisheries have kept all their own notes all sorts of quarters are that the policy (CFP) and directives under ance of payments — that Is £4,000 confident that the effect on the JUST A FRIENDLY CALL seem countless in case there is a "war crimes majority of people have come to the Steel Treaty on restructuring million which must be paid out balance of trade will be positive and HE Gornlshman, printed in Pen- secretary of the over what Britain earns. substantial." In fact a trade sur- MEDIA CENSORS NEWS ON SA6 RAID tribunal". realise that Britain's membership steel production throughout the T zance carried the following Belfast Trades of the EEC has been disastrous and EEC. Both these policies will be plus with the EEC Six in 1970 hftd ,f Council celebrates (2) Food prices will fall because ,news item in its October 9 th |F the passage (from THE GU-Aft- Gastlereagh is political dyna- will continue to get even worse. bad for Britain and have already deteriorated to a deficit of £R$M tioned in Northern Ireland . . ." h er seventieth Australia, New Zealand, Canada issue:— mite—a powder-keg if ever the nearly wrecked the fishing industry and the USA are alkwaiting te sell trriMon by 1979. If even half of DIAN 51 October) is re-read under the heading "There's more birthday on De- The TUC Congress in September and helped to carve the steel in- Britain feed at abeut half the this Hs dm to EEC membership and "Balloons released from three omitting any reference to the SAS, news in the EXPRESS." Just so! lid is removed," one of them is cember 3rd. found an anti-market resolution di- dustry to a fraction its size a few EEC. price. Also, outside, Britain one'adds in the*net contribution te sites in Cornwall, any of which may things ean be seen ,somewhat from The SUN, DAILY MSRROR and quoted as saying. - years ago. : • the EEC budget and the higher-cost 'be chosen as the site of a nuclear DAILY MAIL carried not a word. verted by an amendment into the could buy the subsidised EEC food tfce>4Mfnt (Of wew ef the members This book will be reviewed at "£T could be said that with this red herring area of another referen- of buying food from the EEC, then power station, have been returned If she wished even more cheaply as of the Relatives Action -Committed This self'censorship was also dis- event that the doyenne of Bel- dum. The proriaatketeers instead a balance of payments deficit ef from as far away as Eire and length in our next issue. ""I1HE pro-camp • will claim that the Russians do. who were subjected to this act of played by British radio and tele- of running against the tide of £4,000 ratMbN" caw fairly be sug- •Beading." Cornwall Anti-Nuclear fast Trade Unionism attains the life. Often, the symptoms of Bri- these effects along with the (3> A -mile exclusive fishing terrorism:— vision wtth no mention by BBC1 opinion and isolating themselves 200 gested. Alliance set off the balloons offer- "age of indiscretion." Not that her tain's rapidly deteriorating position alarming and mounting trade ("Nine O'clock News" and have resorted to deflection1 taetics. zone would be attained automati- ing £5 reward for those returned. 11.55 voice was ever muted when it was in the Community are incorrectly deficit with the. original six in the News Headlines), BBC2 news Although this position of the TUC cally on withdrawal. Facts like these need to be put "Masked SAS men, wearing plain (7.10 interpreted and the rampant EEC EEC are not the fault of, the Com- One came back from Reading the and "Newsnight"), ITV ("Mews at a matter of speaking up for the has been overshadowed by a (4) Withdrawal would enable the before tte country by the Labour clothes, wielding sledgehammers disease remains undetected. In the munity but "our" fault. They will other from Dunnamaggan in the Ten"), BBC Radio 3 late news and working class and for democracy. Labour Party Conference decision Government to restrain the import Movement In a campaign for current period it is paramount for cry out that industry in Britain is Co Kilkenny. According to the Cor- and carrying weapons Including BBC Radio 4's "The World. To- the idea of the referendum is still of cars, steel and other manufac- Britaln's.withdrawal from., the EEC, all anti-marketeers to^ work on two unable to compete with its EEC nlshman "CANA says that the Arraelite rifles . . . smashed into night," on 21st October. We tend to glorify Countess Mar- there to be used. The referendum tured goods from the continent and which offerethe ott* hop*of econo- aims side by side. These aims are competitors because of long appar- Central Electricity Generating two hemes on the Twin brook estate fpHE SDLP will not take part in kiwicz and Maud Gonne _asi the will be used within the Labour and thus save British Industry from mic and*peli«
wm L-iofciwH feiii November 1980 November 1980 4 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 5 WE NEED YOU TO OPT IN DONT CATER FOR BACKWARD ELEMENTS SAYS PEADAR O'DONNELL We print below the Executive resolution on the Move- "THE government formed after the Treaty was Challenge on Ireland 1 founded on the defeat of the independence ment in Britain for the Connolly Association Annual Conference. movement, not on its victory." So said that perennial young Irishman, Peadar LESSONS FOR LABOUR We need to get it discussed by you—the Irish and the friends O'Donnell, aged 88, who stood upright as a post of Ireland. Only with your active interest and help can we speed Treaty was that of Saklatvala, com- be done with the slogan 'The Re- their orders from their priests, he while he spoke for one and a quarter hours with- By Labour rank and file up the political action towards the aim of Irish Unity and Inde- munist M.P. for Battersea at the public'. The divisions over that told them of the Tipperary men out notes, at the first of a series of lectures under time. . . . When the English work- pendence. question ruined things." who decided to throw in their lot 1 r the auspices of the "Irish Socialist" in Dublin ing class discards its trappings of " |'rir . Labour Committee on Ire- Mr Tony Benn, who emerged as those who are involved and provides He recalled Dev phoning him with Sean Moylan. Their parish The venue of the Conference will be Liverpool on 29th and royalism and decides not to keep ' land was not discouraged by the leader of the left-wing at the for the British security service in October. privately at the time to complain priest had begged and commanded 30th November in the A.U.E.W. Rooms, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool. a special family to breed kings and that Peadar was unfair in saying ttv- debate and vote on British Conference, and who topped the something which, it is hard not to to remove the remnants of a them not to go and threatened hell RESOLUTION ON THE IS theme was the achievements policy for you. And so it was with queens, the Orangemen will have he was not a republican. "Well, withdrawal from the six counties at vote in the election for Constituency believe, is not in some sense a "ghetto" mentality, wage the and damnation if they joined the MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN H and failures of the Irish revo- Labour at that time," said O'Don- no symbols to uphold. The freeing under your republic," said Peadar, last month's conference in Black- members on the party executive, training ground in their minds for strongest possible campaign for republicans. He then appeared be- Whereas conference notes with lution. Here are some of the other nell. of Ireland and the demolition of "nearly a million people have had pool The committee was only set was the leading speaker at a well- what might happen in the United the repeal of the Prevention of fore them with a crucifix and held satisfaction the increasing things he said:— What were Connolly's views on capitalism in England are bound to emigrate to England." up last spring, and the time was filled fringe meeting at Blackpool. Kingdom. Terrorism Act, in particular by it up before them as they came awareness on the part of the Bri- the North in 1916? Connolly did to come, although one does not short to achieve any major change Other speakers included Mr Dal- means of a petition and a lobby The fight to set up a really in- "Ah, be fair now, Peadar," said out of a meeting and shouted: "T BELIEVE that the continued tish people of the importance of the not put his views on paper, but have to wait for socialism in Bri- ir. Labour Party policy. The right- ton O'Kelly, Irish Sovereignty Move- of Parliament, the campaign dependent Republic failed because De Valera, "if you had been in "You are choosing now, men, be- presence of the British as a Irish question, and their willing- Labour had not learned the key what he thought could be gathered tain before acting politically against charge don't tell me there would tween Christ and that man Moy- wing Labour leaders were deter- political and military force in ment, Mr Jock Stallard, Labour MP not to cease until the Act is ness to take action lesson of James Connolly. The from his words to Billy McCullough, imperialism in Ireland." not have been emigration too." lan," But their leader brushed past mined to continue the bi-partisan Northern Ireland is the major for St Pancras North, Mr Paddy repealed, and whereas the campaigns of the trade unions and Labour Party who was the man in charge of the "Maybe," replied Peadar, "but it and riposted: "In the name of (which really means Tory) policy, barrier that stands in the way of Byrne, Campaign for Democracy in The Republican Congress failed Committee for With- (3) conduct a campaign of educa- Volunteers there. would have been different people Christ, men, let us go with Moy- and the influential leaders of the trade union and labour co-operation Ulster, and Mr Ray Buckton, gene- opted out organisationally from the because it divided over The Repub- drawal from Ireland, established on tion on Irish affairs and the "What shall we do about Ulster?" who were going!" lan!" big trade unions, who wielded a in Ireland and the sooner we ral secretary of the locomotive struggle and handed the leadership lic and The Workers' Republic. Our the initiative of the Young Liberals, actions most likely to assist the said McCullough. "There will not ifiNE achievement of the Repub- powerful block vote, were confused withdraw the better," said Mr Benn. drivers' trade union. of the independence movement to side stood for the Republic, said of the Troops Out Movement and Irish people in attaining a oe a shot fired in Ulster," answered " can Congress had been to bring "There have always been groups in their policy towards Ireland. The growing interest in this pro-,- finally of the Labour Committee on De Valera on the one hand, and Peadar. "Our quarrel with De of socialists in the North," said Delegates were also swayed by the "I have never varied from my gressive approach by Labour's left- united independent republic, the conservative Griffith on the Connolly. Connolly knew the Valera was not that he was not a two bus-loads of Shankill Road Pro- view that there is no future for a Ireland,t^iias resulted in a trans- among the British public, and North well and knew the dangers testants down to the Bodenstown Peadar, "who whisper their social- appeal which had great weight wing was shown in the widespread formed situation, other. Labour made a disastrous socialist, which he never claimed ism in such a way as not to disturb among the waverers to refer the policy based on Partition and no coverage of these events by the particularly in the Labour mistake in 1918 in leaving the elec- of arousing sectarian animosities. to be, but that he was not a real Commemoration of 1934. They future for peace and cooperation and whereas the Connolly Associa- movement, Perhaps some people can read marched with the Congress contin- the prejudices of those around motion for withdrawal, recognition mass media. Television, radio, and toral field entirely to Sinn Fein. republican and did not stand for a them. Socialism in the North can or political status for those sen- in the whole of Ireland that does the more serious papers such as the tion has been deeply (4) and finally to use the columns Labour failed again in 1922 when present-day lessons in that? truly independent republic. We gent bearing a banner carrying the involved in all these movements, only get anywhere when they get tenced in Diplock courts, and the not include a clear presentation of Times, Guardian and Telegraph all of the Irish Democrat for the it sided wth the pro-Treaty party TRELAND then, like Ireland now, said that if the Congress said it legend "Break the: connection with an alternative perspective of re- particularly in relation to the trade purpose of encouraging a proper ^ was a victim of the backward- capitalism". Tragically, the IRA back to the socialism of Connolly, abolition of the Prevention of Ter- carried reports, and there was some against the real republicans. La- stood for a Workers' Republic, De which was republican in essence and rorism Act, to the special Labour unification and independence." editorial comment. Mr Benn in unions, in accordance with its understanding of the Irish ques- bour's motive was to avoid a split ness of the English working-class, Valera would be able to say that had ordered that no-one should policy of participating in and en- opposed the superstition of royalty." Party sub-committee which is due Mr Benn said he sat in the Cabi- particular was extensively quoted in tion, and substantially increas- in the Britsh-based, Orange-influ- said O'Donnell. Ireland had to Peadar O'Donnell's republic was carry banners except themselves couraging all actions which in its But there was plenty of radical to report next year. net when the troops were sent into the Irish newspapers, and this ing the circulation of that enced trade unions of the North. fight alone against imperialism and different from his and he would be and they decided to attack the opinion contribute to the attain- periodical. it was not strong enough to win. Congress contingent. That was the potential there, he thought. Even Northern Ireland and he remem- evoked the usual angry response "But if you seek to cater for the off the hook. Our idea was to ex- Paisley appealed to it when he The committee's main achieve- bered the anguished discussions as from Unionists. ment of a united independent Irish "The only voice raised in the pose De Valera and to push Fianna first, and probably the last, time republic living infriendship with its most backward elements, you are gave out about "belted earls". ment was to open up discussion in- to whether it was right for a Mr Harold McCusker, MP for British Parliament against the Fail to the left; but it could only that the cry "Up the Shankill Road, British neighbours, in effect allowing them to dictate "The workers., of Dublin see more side the party and T.U. branches on British Labour government to get Armagh, wondered why so many boys!" was to be heard at Bodens- and whereas the objective of with- republicanism in Fianna Pail than the alternative policy of British involved in that way. people in Northern Ireland were "so town. , drawal from Ireland 'S they do in Labour," said Peadar, withdrawal and the re-unification of There were a lot of people who keen to get rid of Margaret That- JUDI JUNO In his talk Peadar recalled many has now become the recognised "and while that is let happen they Ireland. Right-wing leaders such now recognised the failure of that cher". The choicest epithets came, Orangemen he had known. He alternative to existing bipartisan ryCASEY'S "Juno and the Pay- will never follow Labour." as Callaghan, Mason, Rees and policy, he said. He identified some according to the Irish Times, from once spoke to a crowd of Orange- policies, ^ cock" at the Aldwych Theatre TECHNOLOGY AND IRELAND Johns, who for a decade have ideas in which he said that failure the Rev Ian Paisley, who described men in a Presbyterian church hall During question-time someone is a great production of a great asked him what he thought of Sinn allowed themselves to be dominated had become apparent to him per- Mr Benn as "an I.R.A. fellow- BE IT the rising movement play. IN attempting to assess the role pattern of small Irish-based and told them that the only real by the British military and civil sonally. traveller", and the Rev Robert I of the State agencies (such as A high-technology firms is emer- BY allies the Treaty had at first were Fein, the Workers' Party. "To my NOTED THAT faces obstacles and Judi Dench has struck just the mind," he replied, "there is need service establishment, were for the One is the nature and character Bradford, official Unionist MP for suffers from defi- right note as the Dublin working- the Industrial Development Autho- ging j it pre-dates the IDA "change the bishops and the Orangemen. first time seriously challenged by of the repression which is insepa- South Belfast, who regarded him as rity) In promoting employment In of heart" and may well be rein- When one of them protested that for only two parties on the left in 1 ciencies which ought to be removed, class woman trying to contend with ROY JOHNSTON the Labour rank-and-file. Although rable from the policy that is pur- a "Communist". The Rev Brad- for example :— a work-shy husband, a deserted the Republic, it Is necessary to forced by it Typical of the pattern the republicans in the South took (Continued on Page Eight) the conference vote was lost, there sued — that there should be young ford's real fear seemed to be that (1) the limitation of trade union pregnant daughter, a son broken in make allowance for the multina- is Btocon Ltd* a small Irish-based was clearly widespread support men and women sent over from by attacking the House of Lords Mr participation owing to fears of mind and body who has got on the tional-dominated environment in "multinational" started by an among constituency members for a Britain, who became absorbed in a Benn was undermining the British offending the susceptibilties of wrong side of the Republicans. which the Irish economy is attemp- unemployed brewer of Scottish ori- decisive break with the sterile bi- whole pattern of security opera- monarchy which he regarded as a six-county memebrs, Norman Rodway is brilliant as ting to oarve out a role for itself gin who had been sacked from a ii partisan policy of the last ten years. tions which is degrading for all bulwark Of the N.I. constitution. (2) the failure of the Irish commu- Captain Boyle. In the undergrowth. One of the brewery in Canada in some ration- nity to take political action to Judo is so real we think of her positive factors emerging from this alisation. Having no job, he pro- ••\> >.. a degree commensurate -with* alongside , the gceat nationalist assessment is the increasing: reali- ceeded to invent one, and began their numbers, and their ten- women Maude Donne and Maire sation of the importance of siting compounding and later manufac- Haughey dency to a defensive attitude as Comer ford. She has become a not only manufacturing but also turing enzyme preparations for the In the steps of Mellows and Larkin a result of harassment under prototype for the anonymous marketing and R&D (research brewing-market; (Enzymes are bio- the Prevention of Terrorism working-class mother bearing the and development). chemicalcatalysts that can convert The Taoiseach, Mr Haughey, Act, burden of the family through years spsoffio subetamee Into derivatives condemned Partition whan Intense interest still alive in young and old I This realisation dates from (3) he comparative ignorance of of crisis—the General Strike of with little or no energy, using "cun- launching the Fianna Fail cam- Irish affairs which characterises 1913, the 1916 Rising, revolution about five or six years ago. Prior ning" rather than "brute force." QN Sunday, September 28th, tion of the posts can be guessed cemetery. And finally at Ford paign in the Donegal by-elec- many sincere young English and tragic Civil war brought about to that the emphasis was on large- There are about, 13 enzyme-oata- Liverpool Connolly Associa- from marks in the ground. tion. cemetery Mr Monaghan played people new to the movement, as by British Imperialism. scale highly automated production lysed. steps in the conversion of "aj ERE in Oonsgal, the most nor- tion and friends to a total of Then past one of Dr Rey- a lament beside the Fenian a result of which they seek When first performed in 1924 it units, at rather high capital cost sugar to alcohol). industrial enzymes, and to help thirty made a coach tour of nolds's pike stores, and the site monument, alongside which is over-simplified solutions, acted as a catharsis for people per job, with most of the produce estabHMi. small firms suoh as one •UttMi exported In bulk. New Inoreaslngly The market in Ireland for brewing prodiielfig purified enzymee from Ireland, places of Irish interest in the of Terence Bellew MacManus's the grave of Peter Murphy. (4) the absence oof adequate theor- made confused and bitter by the erpzymef jbripjL nrlhkcuis, Bioooh divisive terms of the Anglo-Irish the emphasis la on Integrated 1H™» flih wh|eh Is just rrow setting up m Border between city. warehouse, to Scotland Road, to etical clarity on the part of
November 1'980' THE IRISH DEMOCRAT AMHRAN na BHFIANN THE MAID OF Kelly the boy from Ktflane VWHAT'S the news, wlsat's the news, 0 my dwld Shelmalier, many cases the originals. The new CEO daoibh, a chairde, duan oglatgh, With your long-barrelled gun from the sea ? interest in these early writerav w&e Caithreimeach, briomhar, ceolmhar, presented the ordinary poopie of Say what wind from the South blows his messenger here Ar dtinte cnamh go buacach taid, ANNER Ireland fictionally for the. first time With a hymn of the dawn for the free ? 'S an speir go rain realtogach. in English has led to this present HE lived beside the Anner "Goodly news, goodly news, shall I hear, youth of Forth, Is fonnmhar fabhrach sinn Chun gleo study by Robert Lee Wolff. The At the foot of Sllevenamon, Goodly news shall you hear, Bargy man ; THE NOVELJST AS HISTORIAN 'S go tiunmhar gle roimh tbiocht don lo S author has gone back as far as pos- A gentle Irish peasant girl, For the .hoys march at dawn from the South to the North, sible to the first periodical appear- Faoi chiunas caomh na hoicbe ar seol TT'OR some time now there has 'With mrfd -eyes -like the dawn ; Led*hy Kelly, the boy from Killane." stricken cabins. He was the beloved he had to conform to the Church ances of the stories through their Seo libh, canaig' Amhran na bbFiann. Her Hps wera dewy rosebuds, been a modern school of his- and favoured son of Catholic Irish of Ireland, and to complete the con- later publication in book form, 'Her teeth of pearl so rare, torians, rewriting Irish history in speaking parents whose name version married a Protestant girl examining the changes Carleton "Tell me who is that giant with the gold curling hair- an attempt to demythologise it, Sinne Laochra fail, ata faoi gheall ag Eirmn, And a snowdrift 'neath a derived from O'Carolan, and who with Government connections. In made at each stage, and trying- 4* beoahen bough He who rides at the head of your band ? FENIAN NOVEL and unravel the knots and snarls claimed kinship with Carolan, the 1825 he met Caesar Otwa-y, editor unravel his enigmas and his Buion dar stua. thar toinn do thafnig chugainn; Seven feet is his height, with some inches >to spare, that still confuse and make parti- celebrated blind harper. His father of the fiercely sectarian Christian Faoi nrhold bheith saor, seantir ar sinsear feasta Her neck and nut-brown hair. motives. But Benedict Kirty in his And he lodks like a ktng in command." san the desired objective view. And was a great story teller, and his Examiner, who encouraged him to study of Carleton, / Poor Sotratar, Ni fhagfar faoin tioran na faoin trail, How pleasant 'twas to meet her "Ah, my lads, that's the pride of the bold Sh6lmdlfers now another different school of mother a renowned local singer of write, and printed him as long as written in 1947 seems to have study has found a rich source of Anocht a theam sa bhearna baoil On eundays, when tfce-*etl 'Mong our greatest of heroes, a Man : the old ballads. In all his work he played the ex-papist anxious to already summed up his signific- Le gean ar Ghaeil chun bais.so saail, historical research in the work of this old Ireland, with its fairs atui expose the lurid superstitions of ance: "His own character mirrored Was 'Ailing with its meUew tones Fling your beavers aloft and give three ringing cheers the early novelists of the nine- Le gunna-screach, faoi lamhaeh««a»fepilear Lone^wood and grassy dell! wakes, its haymaking and faction Rome. Now the contradictions tend - much of the contradiction and For dohn Kelly, the hoy from Killane." SONG WiajER teenth century, For unlike the in- fighting, is remembered with a pas- paradoxes of Carleton's reputation in i: Seo libh, canaig' Amhran nad&hFiann. And of 1 «w feM for HMMd and later Jotnatf a world war sheeting party.? "0. Telegraph". "Iri*»o. many • nued in next oolumn) frisk alike, UP iTS-T . S,'. W.