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FOR ALL IRISH BOOKS BRUCE KENT — Best Stock in Britain — MACHINE GUN FOR PLASTIC WARNS IRELAND IN BULLETS THERE were red faces in Whitehall after Mr Johm Hume of the SDLP revealed to the EMBASSY European Assembly that the British Army were busy developing two machineguns to DISCLAIMS FRONT LINE increase police firepower of plastic bullets. The first reaction of London was NOONAN to deny it. But Mr Hume then quoted PLEA FOR NUCLEAR FREEZE the patent numbers of a Tommy-gun, and a grenade-launcher that was STATEMENT being modified to take plastic bullets. SPEAKING at a Peace conference in Tipperary Town, Monsignor Bruce Kent, General He also said they were being JUSTICE Minister Noonan's Secretary of CND, urged that Ireland should use her position as a neutral to secure a total developed at ROF Enfield. statement on Weekend TV in London The British representative then got that under certain circumstances the "freeze" on all nuclear weapons. snooty and haughtily remarked that Irish government might be persuaded He pointed out that if nuclear war broke out, Ireland would still be in what Britain used to preserve law and to drop its demand for the return of operation carried uneasy order was a British question and the six counties, caused consternation the front fine, and would be "terminised" as well as Britain. implications for Irish neutrality. nothing to do with the Assembly. in Irish circles in Britain. In the meantime RUC representa- He praised the activity of the NO JUST WAR! A special award was presented But when Mr Noel Gordon, on tives had gone to the Belfast Greenham Common women and to Sean McBride, winner of both Telegraph to assure them that there behalf of the "Irish Democrat" In particular he questioned -said that with the exception of the the Nobel and Lenin Peace Prize, was no question of their using these telephoned the Irish Embassy he was whether there could be such a told that this was not a government miners, no section of die British in recognition of his great work weapons in the six counties. thing as a just war in this nuclear policy statement, but a man public had been so "vilified by the for peace throughout the world. age. Apparently important ARROGANT RACISM answering television questions. ri^itwing press." sections of the American Taking up their final position the Mr Noonan, unlike Mr Peter Barry, MANOEUVRES London authorities told Mr Hume He went on: hierarchy are thinking along these is on the less national wing of Fine While this was under discussion that it was true that they were indeed lines. Gael, and his anti-Republicanism if "The courage of these NATO was launching the biggest developing these weapons, but that not loudly voiced is seen in action. women has been colossal. They Senator Michael Higgins, military manoeuvres since the last they were "only for export." "The authorities do not seem to He was justice minister when Nicky have made cruise missiles and chairman of the Irish Labour war ended. The brainless Kelly and his mates were arrested and the entire nuclear issue into a Party and the only one in its be aware of the arrogant racism in braggarts of the British army that statement," said Mr Hume. beaten up in jail. And during his high profile one, much to the leadership who has a bit of recent tenure of office we have seen establishment were blowing off He also revealed that the developers the appalling practice of handing over distress of the Thatcher Gov- backbone, thought that Ireland's about what this would "show" the are the Army's school of infantry. Irishmen to the mercies of the six- ernment." neutrality should be used to Russians if they were tempted to This revelation comes as Britain's county Diplock Courts. "build die mind of peace, as move west. police forces amass huge stockpiles ol But Monsignor Kent exressed opposed to the mind of war." plastic bullets. As many as 70,00C They are extradited because of the the opinion thafCatholic teaching have been fired in the six counties, anc seriousness of what they are accused The truth is of course that on the subject of war had not He complained that the "whole fifteen British police forces are of. But when they are in six county America intends to move east, and moved with the important atmosphere" of the talks within equipped with them. custody it emerges that they are these manoeuvres were a dress The oonclusion is that the Tory charged with something else. developments of recent years. the EEC on European political co- pre-rehearsal for the real thing government knows it has so few which could happen in 1986 if that interests in common with the people of Britain that it might be a foreign old devil in the White House has government, and intends to use the his way. police forces that the British public pays for, as an army of occupation Other small countries as well as against it. j Ireland are trying to restrain the During the debate at the European madness of the monopoly arms Assembly Mr Peter Barry sup- ijnanufacturers to whom war ported Mr t Hume's demand that plastic bullets should be means profit and to hell with the banned. But the Assembly hadn't the consequences. guts. Nor could it have. It is not an assembly of the people of Europe, but The Irish United Nations in assembly against the people ol Association invited woman turope. Ambassador Maj-Britt Theorin The Labour representatives did not 'from Sweden to tell of the work of disgrace themselves and Mrs barbara the Swedish Disarmament Castle told the Tories to "come clean." Let them tell the world what (Continued on page 3) they were doing and why. SUPPORT THE MINERS Dm Laolre CND demonstrates for neutrality (Photo: Derek Speirs) IRISH DEMOCRAT IRISH DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 1984 ii IRELAND'S GREAT NOVELIST DIES HOODLUMS- HARVEST why not a coal mountain? UTTLII: morITWir.e' ihuih'in a wee. . ..k I alte,.(..-r hoodlumU J I s on th.1 e wav, thoug. h II ^^ included Mr P<*adar O'Donnell. Mr (<\; V. •:•>•••:< r,i'\L'li>t- o! the Orange hoodlums attacked a peaeelul general the Bellast variety are not i . • • k-ih i. .-.••.' • prodiK; ot the Benediv- Kiel;.. Seam us Heaney. Bryar. "troops out" demonstration in quite so VICIOUS. Thev imagine Glasgow, the Yahoos of Ibrox have HITLER'S Retch was to last a half thus reducing the demand for , .(!.•:: c: -Aivch gave us O'Casev McMahcin. Mary Lavin and many more themselves to be lighting for I heir u» n asks disgraced themselves, their cit\ and interests. The others arc total thousand years. It lasted twelve. coal. The area immediately north of ' Vj.fl'>. vv., ' .:* GLsnevin on The t'uneral was preceded by Mass at the their country in Dublin degenerates. When the EEC meets the same fate I diversity C'nurch, St Stephen's Green, Sheffield is an industrial waste v-picmhct Hi'; what will it be famous for? celebrated m the Irish language bv Father Some ol them decided to travel to JOHN BOYD land, something a Yorkshire miner ! h.u! hivii u;:v».-i! tor., while and his Efficiency and co-operation, or Dernod McC'arthv who told of Dub! in b\ Liverpool. They did not gel I'hc occasion was a football match sees on his doorstep. .' I .lihter Pegeei; srn-in-kiu Chris there. They wrecked the bar of the between Rangers and Bohemians at mountains and muddle? G f lahertv' reconciliation with the O'Stilliwm had been to see him recently Leinster. they found a priest and Dalymount. Bohemians won and that And the government has further B.. the end came suddenly when he church after long years ot strong ant:- drenched him with beer, meanwhile does not seem to have been totallv to The mountains are made of beef, plans. We have seen how the (.••Lapsed at home and was taken to clericalism. calling him a "paptsh bastard". the liking of the visitors w heat, sugar, wine, olive oil and of "sharing out" of the fish in British t. is pit a! where he died At the crematorium Ben Kiely said a few course milk - the last three are valedictory words. He reminded the I>ie passengers were terrified and Trouble llarcd at half-time when waters has all but ruined the fishing I he ;hiet mourners were hi- two Ihe captain ordered the ship about referred to as lakes. mourners that they were "celebrating the Rangers' supporters threw bottles at industry. The dairy industry is daughters Mrs Pegeen O'Sullivan and and arranged to have police waiting the Gardai. reinforcements of which odyssey" o! an islander "now on his The greater part of the EEC going the same way. Now there is Jovct Rathbone, together with his at the dockside. charged in full riot gear immortal journey." budget is spent in first producing, talk of an EEC plan to "share" out nephews the journalist Brendan () hEithir Others, however, went via Bellas! NO DECISION has yet been taken as to then storing, later destroying or Britain's coal and oil resources. If and Padraig C'oineeanain. and nieces Mrs and picked up Mime additional ATTEMPT S to shepherd them selling off cheap millions and such an energy policy were to be AKe Powell. Mrs Maureen l.lliott and where the ashes ot the great writer will be quietly away failed, and ihe fans millions of tons of produce. agreed it would pull down the last M.uread ni liithir finally interred, said a spokesman for the rioted, destroying shops, motor cars family after the cremation. As the coffin and a public house in Phibbsborough prop of Britain's industrial I HI I AOISEACH was represented b\ Britain's much publicised and arrived at the cemetery, a piece of Aran SUSTENTATION Thirty-five were injured including live economy. h.- \I)C and Fianna 1 ail b> the former Gardai. contested contribution to the EEC Hag was placed on it together with earth Minister tor the Gaeltacht. Mr Denis FUND goes to finance this process. There from the family burial plot on Inis Mor. That was not the end of it. Some of Gallagher. TD Mr Michael O'Riordan, are ritual groans at the cost, but IN 1977 the I k invested £382 Also among those present at Glasnevin UNFORTUNATELY ' the verv the Glaswegians wanted to go home million in the EEC and got back £267. Cn.urmun ot the Communist Party ot via Liverpool. Presumably at the Britain goes on paying. were Thomas Waldron of UCD and welcome donations we have received There w as a bad gap. Bui in 1981 EEC Ireland was also present request of the Liverpool Police, thev in the month oi September are not investment in Britain had dwindled to Ciaran Burke of the Dubliners. were refused access to the boat, and Why is it done? It is done to Representatives ot the literarv world sufficient to sustain us at all. £67 million while £806 millions of were packed off to the border in buses. placate the peasantry of And why should he pay? He is British capital went over to Europe. It's not a matter of living in '.he Even then they could not behave continental countries so that their luxury to which we have been themselves but left a trail of told that if he does not there will be of the starving." Indifference" is a word vote can be relied upon as a balance That's the background of the lack of accustomed, for that's not much, but destruction in the towns and villages ilitii i mps up frequently in this novel, a social upheaval Farmers, olive- demand for coat, the demdusinaiisaton of keeping going itself! they passed through, causing a "mini- against the working class. It the government is indifferent to the LIAM O'FLAHERTY, RIP growers, graziers, will leave the of Britain. riol" in Dundalk. represents a direct wealth transfer si/tiding ol the Irish and the lush However, we hope for better things land flooding into the towns to LIAM O'FLAHERTY who died on the OBITUARY BY from workers to farmers. And the In this context the miners', fight is themselves adopt an an of indifference 8th September of this year was bom in in October, and offer special thanks to IVse events should give the create heavy unemployment - it when the hunger and illness plague surpluses pile up and up " part of the call to reinvest and rebuild 1896, and was foremost among that those who dug into their pockets Glasgow Labour movement much might be added "and the them sii that they cue no longer at>le to MARY CAMPBELL during the holiday period industries in Britain Their heroic FAMINE generation of Irish writers who were at food for thought. Visitors.to Glasgow But when it comes to coal a governments will lose their votes." battle to save the coal industry must be cm. about the iniusttce of their plight the peak of their youthful strength and biography of Tim Healy, a guide to will often be told that the citv is a judged in the context of Britain 's EEC ami simph wan to die In the Our thanks to:— different tune is sung. Mrs Thatcher creative development when Ireland Ireland, two autobiographies, and an powder keg. and the only thing to do membership and the overall policy for BY L1AM O'FLAHERTY bin kgrouml. however, ew hear the W. Burke £30, M. Dugiian t'2. herself was experiencing the drama and account of a trip to Russia. is to keep quiet and hope nobodv intones "Uneconomic pits must western Europe under which Britain i.s wm els of Er. (ieelan and the man with, C.O.s £5. Anon £40. M. Brennan £5. But whereas all these primary catharsis of the War of Indepenence. slrikes a match. close." She repeats it like a • to be de-industrialised and production (Wolfhound Press, pp 448. pbk £4.95) the i ellow hair w ho believes that C. Tierney £ 1, J. Kavanagh £3.20 G producers are small capitalists the Many of those writers died young in Of O'Flaherty's fourteen novels, gramophone record. concentrated on the continental it tin pom gut together and made that struggle, thereby losing out on Ward £ I. D. Tilley £4, J. Collins! 1, T. But though this is understandable it miners are workers. The situation in which the\ find themselves, "The Informer", which he wrote in triangle. UA) HE you and I w on't live to tell the themselves into a proper arm) . literary fame, but OTiaherly liyed to Mernagh, 11, C. Bland £4, M. O'Brien misses the fundamental lact that, all government hasn't got their votes. those who are tust not quae brave 1925 remains the best known, largely tale of all that's going to happen . / m write many novels and stories that sum £2, D. Logan £4. J. O'Grady £4. P. T religion apart, as far as Ireland is enough to hattie on and those who because of the great film made by John ALL RIGHT. But why shouldn't To allow coal mountains to build up The government's policy of ah aid that something is going to the i d make short work of the tyrants up the psychological fundamentals ol Mullin £4, Anon £5, A. Nunes £4. .1. concerned the Catholics are right and simpli cannot compete with the Ford in 1935. O'Flaherty himself said uneconomic farms close? Why means transferring money not from supporting other Common Market happen in Ireland that will make our then there w ould be liberty all over the that experience. D. Bolton £15, supporters in South the Protestants are wrong. extreme odds piled up against them that this was not by any means his best members' long term and ever- ie.ee wanderers on the face of the earth wo'hi and no hunger on anybody" But London £7.85, in Central London £1. shouldn't uneconomic vineyards workers to capitalist, but from then ot course there are those who Coming of age in violent tines, book, but merely an exercise in writing increasing surpluses, while refusing to like the ancient Jews I dream of many there are too many like Dr. Hynes who South London C'.A. l! is not sufficient to hold alool and dose? Why should sugar beet be worker to worker. The break up of exploit the situation for their own ends O'Flaherty's imagination seemed to a cheap thriller. But thriller or underwrite Britain's coal surplus which things. And in mi dreams 1 see belong "to that class of timid and Total: £219.05. deplore what "they" do. The Irish and those whose efforts are partly find its energy in violence jnd masterpiece, "TTie Informer" is a grown if it is not needed? All these mining communities merely is short term, should be exposed for t! ••miction c oming Hut I dream. /<>/>. mediocre people, who lack the mora! question will not go away and if the responsible in one iui or another for melodrama. The fact that he was born compelling illustration of O'Flaherty's surpluses are paid for by the scatters the government's enemies. what it is. or a resurrection and a homecoming courage to obey by their own dynamic more responsible sfections of Labour /lie whole teniNe travedi on Inishmore in Aran is also central. He great powers of transcending lean: to love this Irish earth, as yout force the urge towards the ideal do not find a way to make common taxpayer. wrote of himself: "I was bom on a melodrama intg the artistry of Mrs Thatcher and her friends will f .titer . then U v.ill spi ak to you and fhc\ crave to belong to an army cause with the supporters of a united storm swept rock, and hate the soft psychological truth. There is no objection whatsoever shortly be at the Tory conference tell \ou deep, deep things and beautiful marching towards a distant goal Ireland, then the initiative will pass to growth of sunbaked lands where there is w rapping themselves in the Union Jack. things that are stranger than any \1M<) ktlmarttn's development .Hone, or against opposition, they are people who are not so responsible. to "une comic" operations, but no frost in men's bones." He escaped If the left knew what they were doing misfortune, listening t the wind. / // nn the beautiful new daughter-in-law helpless and prone to despair." In all his novels he works oat his own uneconomic operations which are however from the isolation and poverty they would rip off their figleaf and ibe.nn " theory of human evolution - a theory of his rock at the age of twelve, when a IRISH BOOKS advantageous to working people expose the Tories for the national which holds that man must move Manchester IT MAY well be that demonstrating What can bt ,;'»out Emm visiting priest persuaded him to leave are regarded as a dead loss by the traitors they in fact are. REVIEW BY THERESA McGING beyona the impersonal forces for troops out is not the wisest vvav to 244 GRAYS INN RD, t > Hahert i 's ma tei that has not Aran Tor a junior seminary in Cashel. THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIA- big shots. controlling him by intense action, to raise the question of partition in a citv ahead t been esp •d elsewhere'.' THE CLEVER child became an reach the freedom that exists beyond TION has members in The call to save pits and jobs is part disapproved of for distracting her Mat i Kilmartin has as her goal the like Glasgow. But until the Labour LONDON- E,:ha• (ieelan•• hen to the excellent student, and went on to personal obsession and despair. Long Manchester, which used to have and parcel of the demand for work in all husband's attention lino: Ins mirk, to white-sailed ship of her dream which movement finds its own way people i iung l)r ilytic- •/ i.' oi iiy than Blackrock College and the Dublin before existentialism became a popular the biggest branch in the Of course many things are made industries. A strong mining industry the tulh -fledged tower ot strength wint will lake her and Martin and their son will adopt the measures that are famine, the* gr.i >••/ 'die anon ot the diocesan seminary. By 1914 he was philosophy, O'Flaherty was hjeakinc country, but there is no artificially uneconomic by will be necessary for the re- i •tiiuulli takes ova the running of the to America, a.rich land with no masters, available tc them. BEST STOCK IN •y.amcss of this >:,, the magnitude beginning to doubt his vocation, and the ground for writers Tike Graham secretary. government policy. Consider the industrialisation of Britain, and a • • its them, and n tii passion with I: < in si her sell cfd w ins the respect of the tar away from Ireland where " tobeaf- had become imolved in the national Would any young person victory for the miners will he a blow Greene and Camus. BRITAIN wav the steel industry was cleft in u Inch the autinp. :. s the tragi ell iitle> > tenders her unforgettable Emm h'tc ted ii nh hunger it as considered, in movement. In this indeterminate mood, who reads the Democrat' be What is required is a concerted against the EEC, and an it' his countu and his people and 0 i oung husband engrossed tit the first thi ii orld of the rich, a crime which he left college to fight with the British prepared to undertake the long-term effort to drive the Orange- encouragement to all who want to pull /;,(•• i imporianili a ui age and /,';, \li til nun ital hh ss Martin grows to be plat eil the sufferers outside the bounds Army in France, and was at the battle of The novels may sometimes be flawed organising of the branch? If so, element into political isolation,a hard out. icalicm e tn the hie i tK encmi who one ft the lew that "had the courage to ot humanity." It is with great the Somme. Being wounded and with an excess of melodrama and a gap contact Noel Gordon at 244 job. but an inescapable dutv. '/(;;> ••nipped u( .;." powci and soil, it blow ". as Ihomsi puts it lb tenderness that O'Flaherty conveys the shellshocked, he was discharged, and between the vision and the expression, Grays Inn Road, London. The unwillingness of the Scottish ,!. i iiired our snbsh. lie has set us hunseh wishes he had such courage, degiedation and sufferingof the people after wandering abroad for some time, but the short stories of O'Flaherty must WCI, or ring Michael HALLOWE'EN PARTY movement to grasp the nettle, substi- i":; avutnsi th, o at:.! made us supporting h (rcelan's argument that ot ( ram, and their struggle to retain he returned to Dublin to fight on the hold their place amont the best of Mortimer at 051-928-2453. tuting indifference for caution, has h. /,-/.•;, • " there is nothing holier than to fight in some son of pride, even when starving, modem Irish writing. Dealing mostly detail e of I iba 11 to die It" it. lot tin with the hunger. In the beginning they he and some others occupied the with the life of peasants and their spread through the United Kingdom. 1 IRISH BANK HOLIDAY NOTICE Unit rh, II •U'n. I'/ess has tieedoin o. tin cat th that bore louuml simph cannot believe that the Rotunda for a few days, he took on the animals they have a powerful Many trade union general secretaries t' . i in It'll "I amine in th, ;• " lop of the tin happiness and prosperity of those government w ill allow them to die and reputation of being a dangerous simplicity, Wordsworthian in the must be afraid to touch the Irish ques- IMK C onnolly Association Iwcculiu MONDAY, 28th OCTOBER /• »•'• Selection' n ill hung this iiagu you love. .Let people cast stones if they tumours spread that the Queen will Communist. He could not settle or sympathy for the relationship between BRUCE tion for fear of losing members in Council meets at 2 pm on Sundav. I '•. '•'. < t" I' eland > /•>»;,-> i and thi i...// I'hc people arc ahull s right in the come to pay out money. Mary's scepti- work in that Ireland, so drifted to man and nature. Now that O'Flaherty Scotland, or seeing Scottish delegates. November 4th, at the Association's — 8 pm — i 1; hi a hi tll.arn t met to a new mass I <>/ a moment thei may be wrong cism proves correct; "Depend on your- London, where he began to write in is dead his work will no doubt be vote for right, or left, without the offices at 244/246 Grays Inn Road, 01 h • a generation A generation ts onh selves and don't mind the government. reappraised, but whatever conclusions KENT secretarv isn't. London, WC'l. g 'italion o' leaders ' famine ' earnest. IRISH CENTRE, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool it. seals a si lies ;if hornlic historical a moment in lustoi \ In the long run It's little the government cares . . . God In the fourteen years between 1923 the scholars and the pedants reach, he ntahs woven togethei in then effects on thei ate tight helps them thai help themselves." and 1937 - a period of almost manic will surely remain one of the great Yet there are in Scotland reserves of \genda includes preparations for a WARNS 1 th i ommunit i. notabli the Ktlmartin \hini people seem to heed the Mary is told that the "fight for activity, he published twelve novels, storytellers and mythmakers of modem political skill and courage enough to IRISH MUSIC IRISH FOOD £1 inclusive lull national conference early in the new family but. on a grandci scale, the clti'ii It's warnings against the influence libertymust go on in America" and that several collections of short stories, a Irish literature. ensure the solution of this problem if year, and discussion of subscription (Continued from page 1) whole nation OTlaherti's deep <•' ' agitators andphsicatforcemcn"al- her son "will grow up in the land of it were once systematically tackled. Contact JOE O'GRADY, 051-521 6527 charges, also matters remitted liv hist understanding of human nature is ili.mgh It Roache is full ot self-doubt liberty to be a soldier of liberty." A conference. awMi/nc in his nominal of characters when he realises the utter indifference mighty wish, a mighty novel. But to Delegation at the United Nations. w.'u draw shength ftom the tragic of the powers that be towards the plight what extent has the wish been fulfilled? She was welcomed by Sean Will all members kindly enter this THERESA McGING future in their diaries now. WEAR A MacBride and President Hillefy. CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION NORTHWEST CONFERENCE The war-mongers of Britain AVAILABLE NOW at the and America are also angry with "The Irish Question and World Peace" the Danes, who continue to refuse FOUR PROVINCES BOOKSHOP Cruise missiles in their country. CONNOLLY AUE ROOMS, MOUNT PLEASANT, LIVERPOOL 249/246 GRAYS INN ROAD, Britain is threatening the Danes BOLTON that if they do not increase their 1 pm 4 pm SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18th LONDON WC1. spending on arms they mayrepeat BADGE! the 1937 refusal to guarantee Socialist Club Denmark's frontiers against ALLAN ROBERTS, MP SEAN REDMOND (Dublin) WOOD STREET BEAUTIFUL attack. But the Danes are not GEORGE DAVIS unduly worried. They don't have (Campaign to end interference Desmond Greaves SHOW WHERE YOU STAND to pretend to be threatened in in.Irish Affairs) order to boost armaments orders. on IRELAND. 1985 £1 each; 10 for £9 NIALL POWER "Physical Force in Meanwhile Irish CND pushes (General Secretary, Labour ahead with its petition to enshrine Committee on Ireland) Irish Politics" CALENDAR neutrality in the Irish at Obtainable at Four Provinces Bookshop constitution. Chairman: ALEC DOSWELL (Liverpool Trades Council) 7.30 :: NOV 21st PERSONAL CALLERS £1.50 ;: By POST £1LgO 244-266 Grays Inn Road, London WC1 OCTOBER 1984 4 IRISH DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 1984 IRISH DEMOCRAT MISCELLANY DOG'S BODY'S THE WORD! SANDWICHES, DEMOGRAMS 0 RADIOACTIVITY from the FAILURES Iltt IRISH TIMES", many of OR Noonan hauls down the flag i nose ri aJers claim to detect a swing to DOG'S BODY is the word for causes the trouble. Debts to our own Leukaemia factory at Windscale/ And behind it all was the fatalistic Sellafield is now lapping the golden the riyht. is boosting Lord Henr\ politicians m the Republic just at citizens remain economically assumption that some-time there was sands of premier holiday resort and THERE uas widespread anger Nato wa> first set up. the first Mountcharles, dashing voung would-be present speaking in the family. Debts to AGITATION? going to be reunion with Britain, and conference centre, Blackpool. Forms of throughout Ireland at the statement coalition genernment gave partition catalogued by I ine (.ael Assemblyman, as a political And why' The god-awful mess foreigners are a horse of a different by Britain w ould foot the bill, if not with SPEAKING at the Patrick McGill cancer that can only be caused by by coalition Minister for Justice as a reason for not joining. The panjandrum. His speech at the Michael they've go! the country's finances in colour, for they have to be paid in the her own money with money she summer school at Glenties, Co exposure to radioactivity have been Michael Noonan that the Irish existence of partition would no longer PETER MULLIGAN ( 'illins seminar in Co. Mayo got good Ihe place is up to its neck in debt, and marks, dollars or yen in which they COLM POWER borrowed for the purpose, and at a Donegal, Father Gilmour of the Irish found there. The strong Tory local Government would be willing todrop serve as a barrier to joining Nato once James Callaghan (1967-70). mlumnage. He wanted to "cure the as the bottom of the barrel scratches, are borrowed. You can't devalue the pinch we could join NATO and the Chaplaincy in Britain made a strong administration doesn't know what to articles 2 and 3—the territorial claim articles 2 and 3 were deleted from the illness of thinking that the State must the word is cuts. Eat less, drink less, pound to a tenth of its v alue and give Noonan's remarks were attacked Sent i't troops on August 14th, country could be pocked with airfields defence of the right of the clergy to do. to the six counties—from the constitution. Since Ireland joined the prmide but we must not pay." The wear less lunless it's hair shirt) and them a tenth of their money back! by the Fianna Fail leader Mr Haughey 1969 saying, "it will be the devil of and missile launchers at fifty million a campaign for social change. * * « constitution in response to what he EEC inroads have been made into workers have no choice but to don't look for tax cuts or wage hikes. What happens is that the who said that unless the British site. called "a major new British initiative. neutrality, mainly through a job to get them out again." p,i>. The cause is ten years' ot government borrows money to pay "If 1 help the poor by handing out Unionist prisoners at Magilligan Government recognised and sandwiches, which are sometimes Many people were annoyed at the fact participation in EPC. There is a Reginald Maudling (1970-72) * * * electioneering. The rival parties the interest on past debts. The So it is not beyond the realms of prisori have abandoned their hunger acknowledged the deep-rooted feeling necessary, I am a great fellow. But that the minister made his statement danger that a further erosion of Irish Anti-apartheid was told by Mr promised a softer life under their twentysix counties is now borrowing possibility that after giving the Irish strike in expectation that Mr Hurd for a united Ireland, it would never He met Provisional IRA in when I start agitating for their rights I on London Weekend TV on neutrality will take place in the next N:.i!l Greene, chic! executive of the benign management. Better services hundreds of millions annually for this people a warning dose of austerity, the will meet them halfway in their understand how to formulate a policy London. Supported Operation am suspect." September 9th, but this seems to be six months during Ireland's null I'mployment Agency, that its and lower taxes and borrow the purpose. And of course there are cry w ill go up that the only way to get demand for segregation from for an end to the tragedy of the north. the pattern now! Coalition ministers presidency of the EEC. Irish Motorman. Alowed special status . ..eptance of the affiliation of Sinn difference. And of course some day it limits to it, and the question then the goodies back is to join NATO Father Gilmour was referring to the republican prisoners with whom thev Other Fianna Fail TDs were critical of announce major policy decisions representatives will be presiding at for political prisoners but later I jui is.i "potential cause of confusion must be paid back, and that day's arises of cuts in public services. In the modern world, with the fact that emigration had begun again don't get on. They would never have Noonan but in some cases the while the Dail is in recess (until meetings which matters such as i the membership of the movement NOW' Ireland is of course not the only international money system all but among the young unemployed. In the been placeb in the position of criticism was qualified. Mr Albert remarked "It was the worst October) when these decisions cannot common EEC foreign policy and and the public as to the movement's This is the way they went on. The country in this mess. We have alf strangled with proliferating debts, first six months of 1984, 185 boys and repudiating their own country but for Reynolds said that the government decision I ever made." there is one final recourse— the threat 55 girls called at the Irish Chaplaincy the actions of successive British be challenged. would have no right to change the "security" will be discussed. As a - ..pport for the legitimate resort to coalition of 1973-76 wanted re- heard of the astronomical debts of "European" federation enthusiast it is Francis Pym (1973-74). .:rmed struggle in South Africa." The election So they promised to take countries like Brazil, Mexico, of default. It has been used with effect Centre — more than in the whole of governments, and Britain should foot constitution as only the people of Mr Noonan was being interviewed doubtful if Dr Fitzgerald is deeply Initiated the power-sharing I xecutive promised to look into the health charges off the rates. Pooh, Argentina and Poland. What is not by South American countries. Its 1983. Only 24 of them had any skills. the bill of giving them segregated Ireland could do that. He accused Mr by Mary Holland and in reply to a committed to neutrality. ir itter. It is invited in effect to tell says Fianna Fail, that's nothing; we'll usually realised is that per head of great strength is that a default by one Job opportunities were no better in accommodation. Noonan of "showing his hand too Sunningdale Conference but did country would send all the others England than they were in Ireland, * * * question said that the government early." What did he mean by that? nothing against those who were Sinn F ein, "You can't support armed take everything off the rates, indeed population Ireland is relatively worse On the TV programme with down like a row of ninepins. and somebody should tell them that There are rumours that the NUM would not rule out dropping articles 2 Was it just the timing of the struggle in South Afric.i because you abolish household rates altogether. of''. The IMF (International Noonan was Mr Nicholas Scott. out to destroy it. Would such action be immoral'' thev were better off staying at home. may withdraw sponsorship from South and 3 in response to a major new- statement that was wrong? Are secret support it in Ireland " Would that be And away thev went election after Monetary Fund, the bankers' world- Minister of State at the Northern Merlyn Rees (1974-76). Some would argue that since the Nottinghamshire MP Mr Don British initiative. negotiations already on foot? n ire confusing or less? Feicimid. election. wide watch-dog) puts Ireland worst He said the most important thing Ireland office, who spoke of "the * * * profits the bankers lend to Concannon who has strongly criticised Capitulated to the political strike Borrowing only makes sense if the offender of thirteen developed was to agitate to bring about the Mr Seamus Brennan TD. said that possibility of some pooling of governments have been amassed by the local Union's support for the troops He went on: "If the arrangement and lock-out against the power- cash borrowed can be invested on countries. changes in Irish society that would the claim should not be taken out of sovereignty over Northern Ireland as WOOI WORTHS are pulling out the exploitation of peoples, in the last out movement. A resolution calling for between ourselves and the British lerms which bring in more than the make the resumption of emigration the constitution "except in the context a means of tackling the security sharing Executive. Fnded official of Ireland on October 6th, but staff PEOPLE KNOW there is resort the people would be justified in a British withdrawal has been passed by Government was of a major nature it interest that has to be paid out on it. impossible. He pointed to all the idle of a new constitution for a new internment and special status for have organised a sit-in at most of the something wrong But they haven't reclaiming their own. would require major constitutional situation." So. here is the Scott- But. halt Ireland's borrowings were land and called for the development of Nottingham Trades Council. Ireland." *: 'res. yet got round to ferreting out causes * * * change and one should not rule out Noonan scenario! The Irish political prisoners. Backed the used for current spending, the Irish industry as the foreign investors Government gets rid of articles 2 and and responsibilities. These include Gold has been discovered in Co any constitutional change in that Prevention of Terrorism Act. proverbial way to the bankruptcy only stayed as long as the tax THE SDLP deputy leader Mr 3 of the constitution in return for some membership of the EEC which Tyrone in bedrock in the Sperrin context." court concessions Seamus Mallon, said that he thought spurious concession by Britain on the Roy Mason (1976-79). Set up the I he ri CiWU has told its 320 staff decimated Irish native industry, mountains. If there are commercial In the period 1981 to 1983 eleven the nonsense about changing articles 2 North such as joint authority on disastrous De Lorean deal and lh.it things are bad. There will be no TWO FIFTHS of twentysix county w hereas the transnational companies IRISH SUPPORT quantities it will be mined by Dublin- "On the other hand, if the British and 3 of the Irish Constitution had thousand more people left Ireland security, leading to the abandonment initiated the Kitson "harass and wage hikes this year, and fifty of them taxation is consumed to service loans. who replaced them take their profits based Ennex International a company Government is not prepared 'to talk than came in. been quietly forgotten about and he of neutralitv. v. ill have to go. Strongly tipped for the The state tops the li«t of advanced out of the country FOR which had interests in Tynagh, in a major way' or is not prepared to was absolutely confident that the Irish terrorise" policy, and then i hop is the "development services and industrial countries in terms of the But at tlte bottom of it all is the Silvermines and Tara. talk about a major initiative, I don't people would never allow any IF subscribing to such a plan, claimed the IRA were beaten. i .search division" at Palmerston proportion of its national debt to its abandonment of Sinn Fein by the NICARAGUA * * * think the idea of a constitutional changes. "To do so would leave the No< >nan shows just how out-of-touch I'.iik, Rathmines. Humphrey Atkins (1979-81). total income, 119%, whereas a normal economically influential people. The G.I. SUICIDE Do you remember Luke Kelly of change would arise." What did he nationalist community in the North of he is with public opinion in Ireland. A mean when he spoke of the British Callously ignored the pleas of figure might be 40%. Debt per head of country was sold out to international THIRTEEN year old Danny Holley. the Dubliners who used to sing at Ireland even more isolated than they recent newspaper poll shows that 84% MURDER-MONGER Ronald Government talking "in a major hunger strikers as a result of which population is also the highest, so that financiers and the money wasted. who hanged himself because his Connolly Assocciation functions in are at present," he said. of the population of the republic are in Reagan has been financing way?" Mrs Thatcher speaking in a \ou'd never be sure what Paddy every man, woman and child could be National economy was looked on as family were starving, and he wanted London? Well on the motion of Tony favour of maintaining Irish neutrality. ten of them died. On one day Lord loud voice? "It would cut them off totally from Devlin would be up to, taking over a said to owe nearly £3,000 (Irish) to old hat. The European jet-set had a guerillas whose object is to to reduce the number of mouths to be Gregory. TD, the bridge over the The Irish CND Defend Neutrality Mountbatten and 18 British factory or writing a best-selling paper whale of a time. Plenty more where Tolka at Ballybough is to be called the Irish nation to which they petition is getting a great reception. In foreign bankers. overthrow the radical Sandanista fed, was the recipient of posthumous soldiers were killed. Bobby Sands the last came from! Luke Kelly Bridge. Luke Kelly made rightfully belong. The nationalist areas such as Finglass and Raheny in back, for example, though I'm told he's And it's this foreign debt that government of Nicaragua. If he is charity and his body was flown back people in the north and the vast was elected MP for Fermanagh- not a wonderful shot. His latest is a play to his mother's native Belfast. his name with the ever-popular group Dublin there has been a 90% "Strike" which opened early in returned in November many "The Dubliners". The' contrast SELL-OUT? majority of people in the south will favourable response: The purpose of Tyrone. i September at the Belfast Civic Arts people fear direct American He was the son of an American between England and Ireland could never allow any changes to articles 2 this petition campaign is to have a Theatre. It is based on an actual intervention, and some have army sergeant from Alabama. The not be more graphically shown. If a WILL there be a total sell-out when and 3 until such time as they become clause declaring Ireland neutral James Prior (1981 -84). Took the incident ci 1978. A young docker criticised his rival Mondale for father was transferred to Korea. bridge was to be named in England it Mr Fitzgerald meets Mrs Thatcher in redundant in the context of a united inserted into the constitution. job very reluctantly. Set up arrived in Liverpool to train in the use (What is the American army doing in would be after some landed aristocrat November? There are markedly Ireland." However much leading members of Northern Ireland Assembly which concentrating his fire on finance obnoxious effluvia escaping into the of overhead cranes and was pulled in Korea?) The family were sent to or member of the Royal Family. But the coalition government would like is attended only by Unionists and under the Terror Act. Why? Because instead of foreign policy. California and the bureaucrats forgot in Yorkshire, at any rate, there'll not atmosphere. On the same day, the Taoiseach Dr to remove articles 2 and 3, ihey seem serves as a legal way of giving their computer said so. ALARM Now some of the murkier facts to pay them. be many bridges called after Belfast-born Professor Kevin Boyle Garrett Fitzgerald told an interviewer to forget that a referndum would be policemen. of U.C.G. law school is calling on on RTE that his "crusade" against the required for this. If such a referendum them money. Unionist MP Robert AFTER not far off half a century's pulling the devil by the about CIA involvement in It was then that the conscience of England to treat the "two constitution was "in cold storage at were held, the overwhelming majority Bradford and Assembleyman Nicaragua are beginning to the Great American Public was * * * tail, you'd think the Connolly Association would know communities" in the six counties on the moment." of the Irish people would vote for the Talking about docks, when the touched. (Actually they are a Edgar Graham assassinated. surface. The November issue of the "Irish the basis of equality and mutual miners' pickets approached the what it was like to be short of money. retention of these articles. Thirty-eight republican prisoners generous people, though many of Democrat" will be published on rabidly Protestant cross-channel While there are four Catholic respect. In return Dublin would drop So he's keeping it for future use! Even so, this past few months, things have been them are political innocents.) November 2nd. To give the regular the claim to the six counties. escape from Long Kesh, the dockers of Belfast for strike backing, priests in the government, two of Finally, Mr Noonan should editor a break it will be edited by Mr THESE statements must be notorious Maze prison where t!v-v were told there was nothing harder than ever. And while his own solders' families Worse still Foreign Minister Peter remember that another TD in the them Jesuits, many of the bishops Gerard Curran. considered in the context of doing. The miners' strike was were starving to death President Barry, usually considered one of the Limerick area—Jim Kemmy—advo- there is electronic surveillance and There is unemployment, inflation hitting the things have ties with the landed classes, best of the Fine Gael front bench has widespread efforts to undermine political. What about the strike that Reagan was stumping the bible belt cated the abolition of articles 2 and 3. one guard to each prisoner. denounced republican fund raisers in Ireland's neutrality. In 1949 when pulled down the power-sharing that working class people buy, and holidays for those who and deplore the radicalism of the promising to bomb the Russians into He lost his seat at the last election! a speech in New York and talked Douglas Hurd (1984- ). assembly'.' Not political? No it was lower clergy. annihilation in the name of Jesus. can afford them. There is also the fact that people are about Unionists as "future partners in religious. So the miners had to Comes from Conservative Party Apart from their own direct THE COST OF a new "Ireland". approach the papishes — and got lull giving and collecting for the miners, and so they should Political Research Department. operations in Rome, they have support. A "new" Ireland. He didn't say a PARDONS FOR FREE Fourteen years international be. We wouldn't hold back a penny. been trying to use the bishops for united Ireland. Did he mean an COLONIALISM interview with Chief Constable Kenneth operations, negotiations with But while we understand there may have to be their own purposes. WARNING OF Ireland still partitioned but now a A SELF-CONFESSED agent pro- Newman. He got the choice of investigating her China and United Nations member of NATO? That would be vocateur, Anthony O'Doherty, has husband's death — or reading details about it in MID-SKPTKMBER opinion polls in casualties we don't want to be one of them. So we ask FINGER points to the huge "CHEMICAL SINCE the troops went in 1979 over "new" but no less deplorable. just been given a free pardon. We a Sunday Times Insight piece. Newman chose the lobbyists. Educated at Eton. the Republic put Fianna Fail 16% former. readers of the Democrat to come to the rescue as they transnational corporation, W. R. 2,400 people have been killed includ- reprint the extraordinary story from Claims has not plans for any ahead of the coalition. The coalition Grace & Co with its vast and ing 533 British soldiers and 200 "The Phoenix" (Dublin). BOMB" O'Doherty was trotted into court where he changes liable to upset the lost support in the towns for have before. widespread interests in the American members of the Royal Ulster Con- Al his trial, Ihe Portglenone Catholic told of bombings and shootings carried out with withdrawing food subsidies, and now O'Dohcrty claimed that he had been trained by gear seized from the IRA. In the event, the "loyalists". But widely suspected Our problem is to hold out until November, when Empire of South America. PROFESSOR Robert Blackith stabulary. Over 36,134 persons have WAR-MONGERS rumours of a land tax have lost it the ihe SAS and recruited into a "pseudo gang" judiciary (in a unique treatment of an informer in According to the New York Times, who recently set the Sizewell enquiry been injured. The prisons now contain which consisted of RUC men, British undercover of being the man who would quite countrv. If an election were held one or two wee bonuses are expected. Till then it's really TWICE on Sunday September 23rd, Northern courts) decided not to believe him, and this corporation has been channelling by the ears with his outspoken 2.453 dissidents and the number of operators and "native" Irish, ie. Catholics from Branchman McCormick was freed after serving a happily sell the Unionists in return tomorrow Mr Haughev would romp prison guards (mainly Unionist) has BBC radio 4, broadcast an account of republican areas. short period of a 20-year sentence imposed for tough, to pay our full-time workers, meet rents and large sums of money to Archbishop disclosures about the dangers of for Britain or NATO control over Hume with 90 Dail seats. increased to 2,500. The RUC has in- the Arnhem commemoration in Aong other things, O'Doherty was required to bank robbery. McCormick promptly collected Obando y Bravo of Managua, said to nuclear energy, has been commenting shoot up RUC patrols (he was part of a pseudo an enormous sum in back pay and settled in a It is considered significant that printing costs. creased its trained staff to 8,555 in- Holland, where heads of State and the whole island. As a Cabinet be the strongest clerical opponent of on the sinking of the French nuclear brass hats mingled to make gang which ambushed an RUC patrol outside new home at Bailee. Ballymena, with the former public indignation against Fine Gael cluding 4,371 reservists who carry Ballymena, using seized IRA weapons, in which fiance of a uniformed cop who had been an Minister, Mr Hurd's salary will A lot of our money goes to help finance things we the government. cargo ship off the Belgian coast. obeisances to the god of war. Twice and Labour has not helped the guns and hold down two jobs in an a Sgt Joe McDonald was shot in the neck in a ambush victim of the pseudo gang in which he increase to £30,304 a year plus an Firm's spokesman Mr Peter Grace, little-publicised incident) and rob banks, post and O'Doherty operated. Workers' Party, which is not likely to don't agree with at all. And this goes not only for the Irish He thinks the trade unions should area that has 21 percent of its working also the BBC broadcast as its last admits to sending "effective arms item, in the most emphatic- place, a offices and shops in Catholic areas, to discredit additional £ 10,626, parliamentary increase its representation. Labour on impose a total ban on nuclear waste population unemployed. In one year the IRA The decision to free O'Doherty now, using the Democrat and the Four Provinces Bookshop. We could against communism" but says he statement by a Polish emigre that the allowance. the othi/ hand looks set to be wiped out. transportation. (1970) sixty thousand people moved Like other pseudo-gang members and royal prerogative (on the advice of Ihe Home means tens of thousands of doll irs for Secretary al Ihe request of Northern Secretary at Well, defeated armies learn well. But buy Irish more than we do, and use the Irish Centres and house in Belfast, the biggest displace- second world war was not finished redundant informers, O'Doherty found that he He has only been to the six "rosaries, bibles and religious films." It will be remembered that the until Poland was "free". Not only are was not pensioned off, but was set up to be killed. Jim Prior), is the most mysterious aspect of the whether >I has a policy for the ment of people that Europe has wit- bizarre case of [he pseudo gang which went other facilities to a greater extent. That's worth thinking It is an odd coincidence that Mr professor was brought from Trinity Instead of letting the IRA know about him, counties twice before, once in crisis. . . . they scabbing in the Nottinghamshire astray. nessed in peacetime To date £533 however, his "handlers" arranged to have him February 1978 when he met Gerry about. Philip Agee, the reformed CIA agent College Dublin to the Co Dublin pits. They're trying to launch another carry out a lone ambush on a UDR patrol. The million has been paid in compensa- Why Pnor and her majesty should worry who was unceremoniously turfed out agent provocateur was told to stand in a precise coast when there were rumours of world slaughter. And the BBC is themselves about the plight of a miserable pelt'1 Adams, now Sinn Fein MP for These are expenses that must be met NOW. You can tion for criminal injury and damage to spol under some trees and fire a number of shots of England before he could let more pollution from the Windscale/ helping them. On government criminal and self-confessed informer, at a time Ireland is to have a 20p coin. But for property. at two UDR jeeps which would pass at a given West Belfast, and Danny when there are more momentous things to help by buying your calendars and Christmas cards at local cats out of their bags, has Sellafield death factory. instructions? We suspect so. time The jeeps arrived, but O'Doherty (with the the first time it will not be a virtual occupy their thoughts, is a riddle of some Morrison, SF publicity director. identified Mr Peter Grace as a "front benefit of experience of how his masters replica of tlvj British, ll is to be round once. You'll be spending that money anyway. Also, do complexity. man for the CIA" in his book "Inside An internationally recognised operated) stood at a different firing point — and The meeting took place in a and thick. you really need to buy those lying rags, the commercial the Company". expert, he supports the Greenpeace watched as the UDR patrol, obviously O'Doherty could have been slipped off to an community centre in west Belfast. The change of policy probably demand for such a transportation forewarned, riddled his planned ambush point open prison in England from which he could THE STRONG Nicaraguan with scores of bullets. have been quietly freed (This happened to Hurd was a Conservative front derives from the fact that Irish papers? With one or two exceptions they are a waste of ban, and points out that if a nuclear SUBSCRIPTION COUPON support movement 111 Ireland played A terrified O'Doherty Ihen contacted a informer Stevenson, who claimed Paisley was bench spokesma n, but was given coinage no longer circulates in the six money. Take out a subscription to the Irish Democrat, waste ship was involved in a collision mixed up in the water-pipe bombs which led to an important part in the anti-Reagan solicitor and was soon in the relative safety of ci unties as it did. There are also to be or a fire this could be catastrophic for Crumlin Road jail having confessed to a number Terence O'Neill's downfall Stevenson was freed clearance to talk to what were and for the rest listen to Radio Eireann free. demonstrations last summer. Many of weeks after being jailed for two years, given a tun new postage stamps, a 26p Ireland. He describes the result as a of operations. On legal advice, he su'd nothing then known as the "provisionals" those participating were returned about hts involvement with the British pseudo handout and a one-way ticket to Australia, celebrating Galway's 500 years as a "chemical bomb." Please send me the "IRISH DEMOCRAT" each where he settled in the lown of Parramala.) priests and lay workers with ex- gang. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison. by none other than Roy Mason. nuyoral city, the 44p marking the POSTAGE HAS GONE UP, BUT THE But. elsewhere, the family of one of his victims month for a year. I enclose £5. The disclosure of ihe exercise of a royal pardon This was Gerry Adams's estimate perience of the country . Professor Blackith is sceptical was stirring things up. Sgt Joe Campbell, local 1.500th anniversary of the discovery not only indicates that O'Doherty was tellingthe DEMOCRAT SUBSCRIPTION STANDS about the future of the nuclear ,-op in the Glens of Antrim village of Cushendall, (>' America by Brendan the navigator. Now the Sandanista Youth truth — but that he still has some hold on those in of him: had been shot dead in a mystery killing in an area Movement has issued a world-wide industry which can only survive by authority. Whether he was the first to reach the Please post ~ie the "IRISH DEMOCRAT" Name where the IRA had not been known to operate. A "He was rather pompous and appeal for an International Brigade, "externalising" its costs, that is to say Catholic father of nine, Sgt Campbell never new world is uncertain. But his is What thai could be remains to be seen What silly, and I was just amazed at fo< a ypar. I enclose f 5. carried a gun and was a popular man in GAA certainly the first recorded not to fight, but to supply the shortage throwing them on others, by polluting seems likely, though, is that O'Doherty wanted circles — just the sort of target to discredit the of skilled labour for a period land, sea and air. to be sure that he wasn't given the same double the man's attitude. It wasn't so transatlantic voyage. It must of course IRA. His widow, aware that Joe had been Name cross treatment meted out to the Littlejohn suspicious that a pseudo gang was in his area, much that he was ignorant of be reiViembered that several Atlantic Comments have been made aboui Address. brothers and that other notorious agent The Connolly Youth Movement (43 spent almost three years talking to colleagues coastal countries have traditions of provocateur. Romper-Room killer and Dublin the situation, although he was, East Essex Street, Dublin I) is hoping the farce of a nuclear industry and came to the conclusion that at least some crossing the ocean from side to side. It bomber. Albert Baker Address to respond and needs £1,000 per supposed to be the protection of the members of the gang could be identified. One but he presumed that he had may have been more common than is was a former B Special from Fintona. Charlie person. It is hoped to send a west from Russia, sending nuclear A publfc announcement of his pardon was some right to be telling us thirigs usually believed The record of St McCormick. then serving as a detective sergeant representative contingent from materials to Russia for processing. Is in the Special Branch. what he demanded — and that's what he got Ilas t in heavily unemployed, jerry- Brendan's crossing is in the Bolleian Ireland. it all about defence, or is it all about week. Mrs Rosemary Campbell demanded an built Ballymurphy." Library at Oxford. profit? NNICKY TAMM

/ b IRISH DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 1984 OCTOBER IV84 IRISH DEMOCRAT THE MAID OF THE OLD CLADDAGH RING Edited by ANNER A CHIEF IN THE WILDERNESS De Valera's Darkest Hour. 1919- THE old Claddagh Ring, sure it was my grandmother's, Dl \-\MR\ was also u;sing continues with the Dev stoiv. ihe IRISH PATRICK 1932. By T. Ryle Dwyer. Published ,u iiliv lime lo gel out ot anything on money loi the struggle at home by the problems treated bv the "Partition She wore it a lifetime and gave it to me; tile grounds ilia; the uking away of SHE lived beside the Anner by The Mercier Press. £4.50. issue ol bunds which would be the developing tensions All through the long years, she wore it so proudly, portion ot the \i\ Counties might be BOND ppl90. repayable alter the establishment ol between Collins and De \alei.i. the \l (he foot of Slievenamon, iineconomic.i' It was made where the Claddagh rolls down to the sea. the Irish Republic He i mi into arguments about who should go to \ gentle Irish peasant girl. I lien there is an account ol a What tales it could tell of trials and hardships, opposition from the more I ondon to debate the treaty terms, the I HI SI years were not oillv a time ol meeting he addressed in funis. 1924 With mild eyes like the dawn conservative elements among the negotiations themselves and tliecrisis SONGS And of grand happy days when the whole world could sing- dilliculty and crisis lor De Valera but he emphasised he was still Her iips were dewy rosebuds. Irish-Americans, led b. ludge created bv the signing of the treatv So away with your sorrow, it will bring love tomorrow, WAR HORSE also lor the Irish people, when their pursuing the same amis as in 19 r an J Daniel Cohalan Her teeth of pearl so rare, enemies succeeded in causing tragie In the author's view De VaJera's thereafter I hose aims, he said Everyone loves it, the Old Claddagh Ring. A study in pragmatism, Ernie divisions among those fighting lor and a snowdrift 'neath a In tlie forty odd pjges the uuthoi Document No. 2 differed little from precluded, 'very definitely' first o! all Trory, Crabtree Press Ltd., Hove, national Ireedom. bringing about the givesa veiv lii-id account ot theevents the terms ol the treat v W hat seems to •in\ possible assent by us to the beachen bough partition ol the country with all the With the crown and the crest to remind me of honour, Sussex. in tile US This includes the issue of be missing from this account is the dismemberment of oui country \ ou Her neck and nut-brown hair. tragic consequences that entailed ll is And clasping the heart that God's blessing would bring, I HIS BOOK should be essential America joining the League ol question that perhaps should have cannot have a sovereign Ireland il von reading loi the younger generation, a contemporary fashion to write Nations and the question of whether been in the author's mind: Could have an Ireland cut in two " THE THREE FLOWERS The circle of gold always kept us contented, history as biography and. ol course, How pleasant 'twas to meet her and contains useful reminders lot the Constitution of the League would things have been otherwise'.' lHLRf ARI many interesting lliis gets it more vvidelv read. On Sundays, when the bell Twas true love entwined in the Old Claddagh Ring. those who remember the events it i-ivour Ireland's struggle tor quotations from letters and AS I was walking down a lane when night was drawing nigh, On page nine the author describes As she knelt at her prayers and thought of her dear ones, records independence or would bemused by statements of Mary MacSw iivy about \\a> filling with its mellow I he book oegins with De Valera's Dail Lireann as a revolutionary I met a cail'n with three flowers and she more young than I, Her soft, gentle smile would charm a king: Britain to keep her colonial empire the contradictions m De Valera's tones ll IS the stor\ ol the early da\s ol the election to the position ol Priomli assembly. bat to be trulv revolutmarv "St Patrick, bless you dear," said I, "I pray you to me tell intact. position about this period And on her worn hand as she told me the story, atom bomb, and serves to dispel the Aire ol Dail Lireann in 1919. Then the Sinn Fein would have to mobilise ail l one wood and grassy dell! Ilie quotation from a speech in The place that you did find these flowers - I seem to know them well." You could see the bright glint of the Old Claddagh Ring. mythology that has been buili up author goes hrielly over the previous \Mien the author comes to his the organisations ol the Irish people in \nd when at eve young 1926 shows the new F lanna fail around it events in De Valera's life, the 1916 account ot Dev's return to Ireland, he the struggle against British maidens policy emerging " it would be It is clearly written, tactual, Rebellion, imprisonment and his gives a good summing up o! what the imperialism This would have She took and kissed the first flower once and sweetly said to me, possible to advance the national cause Strayed (he river-bank along. It was her gift to me and it made me so happy. unemotional and excellently involvement in the struggle against Irish leader had achieved included the Irish labour movement "This flower I found on the Wicklow Hills, dew-wet and pure and free, Conscription. "He had not achieved his pnmarv by 'cutting the bonds ot foreign The widow's brown - eyed With this on my finger my heart it would sing; documented. It needs to be lead and its name is Michael Dwyer, the strongest flower of all. thought about. It explains the origin aim ol diplomatic recognition, noi IN AUGUST. 1920. when De interference one by one until the full daughter No king on his throne could be half so happy, Valera spoke at the annual meeting ol internal sovereignty ol the Twetitv-Six And I'll keep it fresh within my breast, though all the world should fall." ol what mans people regard a> I he great issue alter (he war was the had he helped to end the developing Was the loveliest of the throng. As I am when I'm wearing my Old Ciaddagh Ring. Russian sensitiveness and suspicion ol struggle to get Ireland's right to split among Irish-Americans, but lie- the Irish Laboin Partv and TUG he Counties was established bevond missed a great opportunity to ask the question' " When the angels above call me up to heaven "western" policv. Ireedom represented at the Peace did leave behind a v iable organisation She took and kissed the next flower twice and sweetly said to me, Oh brave, brave Irish girls- Conference at Versailles and included that was primarily dedicated towards Labour movement to join in the The account carries on till the In the heart of the Claddagh their voices will sing, Churchill, like most ol his class, was "This flower I culled on the old Cave Hill, outside Belfast City, in the peace settlement. This was serving the Irish cause, rather than national struggle This incident does triumph of Lianna f ail in 1932. f- ery We well may call you brave! a shocking old hypocrite and during Saying, "Away with your sorrow, you'll be with us tomorrow - taking the imperialist powers at their using the Irish situation to serve not occur in Ryle Dwyer's account page has matters of interest to the The name I call it is Wolfe Tone, the bravest flower of all; Sure the least of your perils the time he was making patriotic Be sure and bring with you the Old Claddagh Ring." word in their claim to be fighting for American ends An important point brought out bv serious student of Irish politics. This And I'll keep it fresh within my breast, though all the world should fall." speeches praising the dauntless heroes Is the stormy ocean wave; "the f reedom ol small nations" in the the author is the fact that neither the book will undoubtedly be recognised ol the Red Army, was figuring out "In addition, lie collected over five When you leave your quiet first World War. million dollars and secured invaluable pro nor anti-treaty group realised the as the best popular, outline account of She took and kissed the third flower thrice, and softly said to me, how he could do them down the lull significance of the Boundary the period 1919 to 1932. valleys minute Hitler was defeated. publicity for the movement at home. "This flower 1 found in Thomas Street, in Dublin Town," said she. De Valera's trip to to the United Commission clause at the time of the The author can hardly be blamed And cross the Atlantic foam By his clever exploitation ol the "It's name is Robert Emmet, the youngest flower of all; THE WOODLANDS OF Mi 1 rorv depicts him at the end ol States followed logically from the opportunities afforded loi treaty. lor the convention in Irish academic Fo hoard your hard-won earnings the war. like the clown Punchinello It was not until De Valera was And I'll keep it freah within my breast, though all the world should fall." issue ol the Peace Conference. De propaganda, he managed to exert circles which encourages the labour For the helpless ones at home. putting on a great public act. Valera wanted to get recognition from enormous pressure on the British to released from prison in 192.1 that he movement expert to leave out the LOUGHGLYNN ackowlodging the praisesand plaudits the US Government for the Irish negotiate an Irish settlement, if only publicly attacked the idea of the national question and the expert on ''Then Emmet, Dwyer and Tone I'll keep, for I do love them all, Write word to my own dear and cheering crowds, with a heart Republic To do . this he had to to avoid Anglo-American diffi- Boundary Commission. Here is the nationalism to make no reference to (Tune: My Old Fenian Gun) And I'll keep them fresh within my breast, though all (he world should mother. heavy with the thought that he had generate massive support among the culties." relevant quotation the labour movement. won the wrong war. and about to be inass ol Americans who were of Irish "The Clause about the Boundaiy Mercier Press is to be congratulated fall." Say we'll meet with God In the same lucid style, which is a dumped by a grateful nation because descent Commission was a ridiculous clause on this series THE summer sun was sinking low behind the western sea, pleasure to read. Mr Ryle Dwver above; ol his party's responsibility for there It was meant to fool and could be used G G DONALL OG And tell my little brothers The lark's love song was pealing sweet, but it brought no joy to me. being any war at all. I send them all my love. For the one I love is far away, he left this tyrant's den. WI IHIN a lew years the network A DHONAILL OIG, mar their thar tarraige, May the angels ever guard them He fought till death, and then he left, the woodlands of Loughglynn. ol ramshackle alliances was cobbled together. But until 1949 when the {k'ir me fein leat, 's na dean mo dhearmad, Is their dying sister's prayer. A GANG TOO HEAVY BY HALF Russians tested their first bomb Beidh agat feirin la aona's marga And folded in the letter Churchill's aim was to get anothei Round up the usual suspects. The kept up the charade for eight years, THE NOTORIOUS "heavy gang" in Portlaoise. from which, after a Agus in'on Ri Ghreige mar cheile leapan leat. Was a braid of nut-brown hair. A noble Irishman was he, John Bergin was his name, war started while the Russians were when their last victim was released systemically beat the prisoners up and hunger strike, he was released because He belonged to Tipperary, and from Nenagh town he came; del enceless. He had tried the same Cosgrave coalition and Nicky Kelly trick alter the first wat, and alien -DerqkJOunne and Gene Kerrigan. NQA. forced them to incriminate one ol the pressure of public opinion Is a ghiollia na finne d-thag m'intion buartha, Ah. told and well-nigh callous But now thank God that he is gone, he's free from harm and sin. provoking mutinies m the army, had another, even though there seems to It should not be allowed to rest at San am le gouimrimiar bhean dha lua leat, And he let them have his parting shot, in the woodlands of Loughglynn. Magill. pp 272, pbk, £4.95. have been no real evidence to connect This weary heart has grown to be stopped by Llovd George. And The facts are in this book. that,and this book will provide plenty them with the crime. Titeann bun d'om agus barr na gruaige. For thy helpless fate, dear in the event public opinion could not In the small hours of Wednesday, of ammunition. Members of the THE PUBLIC scandal surrounding Ireland, be worked round against the war-time s .March 3st, 1976, unknown men held Asked how the men got their Labour Party would do well to reflect the detention and release of Nicky Agus deir siad lion - sa bhfuil me mailiseach. McDermott too, was brave and true, from the plains of Barnageer. all\ before the Russians had the up the Cork-Dublin mail train and got injuries the police replied that they thai their own ministers are forced And for sorrows of my own; bomb Kelly obviously merits a book into complicity with the Fine Gael Agus go bhfuil mo stoirin in aice baile agam, He's missed from many a fireside in the homes both far and near, away with £200,000. For some unex- had beaten each other up, and it seems Vet a tear my eye will moisten culprits by participation in the Mr I lory rightly insists that the plained reason it was assumed that the that they had been provided with an Lucht na mbreagai, nar chuiridh Dia rath orthu, When Anner side I stray. He's missed at home by all he'd known, by his own dear kith and kin, coalition Russian bomb was a genuine It also meritsa publicenquiry.forit military wing of the IRSP. known as opportunity to do this by being Ach beidh me ag oi mo stor is gan maith aou. And his comrades true shall miss him too in the woodlands of For the lily of the mountain foot deterrent.in the sense that it deterred, a quarter of what these authors record IN LA, were responsible. It was illegally placed two to a cell. FIANNA FAIL promised an That withered far away. Loughglynn. lor Churchill became an advocate ol as fact is true, then the wrong men resolved to round some of them up. They were all sentenced, but Nicky enquiry into allegations of Agus deir siad lionsa go bhfuil mo phleata ag ardu detente, like that blood-thirsty old were jailed, and quite a few in high and Nicky Kelly's parents' home at Kelly had skipped to the USA. When irregularities by the "heavy Agus ni on bhfiodoir e na on dtailliuru, , CHARLES J. KIRKHAM humbug Bertrand Russell who places ought to be compelled to Arklow was searched "for firearms." the other men were released on the gang"—but went back 011 their When our heroes brave were dying there, they sent for a clergyman. explain themselves. Ni o ghreasai na salai arda e wanted to start bombing in five From then on irregularity followed grounds that their confessions had undertaking. Even in the worst days, Let none think that they feared to face the English black and tan, minutes, but was later found sitting irregularity. So consistently indeed been obtained by the use of improper of the Cosgrave reaction the Ach on ngiolla beag eile udan a bhfuil an biabin ban ar. What is alleged is. in sum. that The clergy came and were in time, tor love they said "Amen". down in the street lor peace, [veil an were the rules broken that it is hard to force, he thought he was safe and Labour Party, through Tom Johnson, senior officials of the Gardai cooked believe that there was no political McDermott's soul departing through, the woodlands of Loughglynn. aristocrat can learn sense came home. used to protest against the violations Ghrall tu dhamhsa agus rinne tu breag liom up a monstrous conspiracy to directive from on high, and indeed the Ireland, Mother Ol course, this does not mean that He lived quite openly for a while. of civil liberties. Where is Connolly's "frame" perfectly innocent men, and authors occasionally hint at this Go mbeithea romham ag cro na gcaorach, the British bombs are a deterrent, ll But suddenly he was arrested and held parly today'.' Lia ma fe»d agus dha ghlyaoigh dheag ort, didn't even deter the Argentines. It Take a message to our own brave boys and tell them we are dead, This is a book that had to be Ach ni bh'uiar me romham ach no h-uain ag meileach. Ireland simply makes Britain a gratuituous Tell them to be of utmost cheer, and hold no drooping head; written But it could have been written target. better. Was it very hurried? Was there To keep their brains a-using and to fight and not give in. Physical force in Irish politics Bhain tu thoir agus bhain tu thiar diom, 17 IS widely believed that the illegal no time to grace it with the slightest Bhaim luan bhealach agus bhain tu an ghrian elom, And be proud to die 'neath an Irish sky, in the woodlands of Loughglynn. and criminal bombing of Hiroshma wit or elegance? Instead of wit there is DEAR land of love and beauty and Nagasaki was undertaken so as to THE CONSULTATIVE con- defined the situation which would endeavour to secure political action trendiness; instead of elegance there is Bhain tu an croi seao istigh my chliabh diom Fo you our hearts are well, finish the war. Mr Trorv makes clear ference on "Ireland and world be regarded as victory, though they in Britain to right the wrongs that the desire to surprise. What is Agus is ri-mhor e m'eagla gur bhain tu Dia dhiont. that on May 18th. 1945.'the Russians lb you in loving duty peace", held in London on March promise more discussion. have caused it. "happenstance", and how does a man promised the western allies that thev 31st, has sparked off controversy "psych himself up"? American Agus ma thagann tu choiche teara san oiche. l)o we ever bow our head. IRELAND LIVE ON! would invade Japan on August 18th. Another side takes up a near- writing can be good, but among some of those who attended, In other words when the IRA Buail ar an doras nach ndeanann giosga, Oh perfect loving mother, which they did. A Russian conquest ol pacifist position and is prepared to Americanisms used to spice up tame Japan was not to American liking, though they have carried it on in blow something up the movement English are like curry of convenience. Fiafroidh mo mhaithrin ce dhar diogh thu. Your exile children all lecture the provisionals as if Irish especially since the Japanese had their own press. Agus deardadh me lei gur siolla den ghaoth thu. Across the thundering seas to you My song is for Ireland's glory, should should say to Mrs Thatcher, There are also mis-spellings like approached the Russians to negotiate history did not exist, and as if they "practiced" (not derived from the In fond devotion call. Her hopes of the future bright, "There ! Look at that! Look what peace terms. The explosions were a were a few young fellows who had noun), and the Latin "habeas" is The issue is how the British you've made them do!" Indeed the At the end of a weary service warning to the Russians, thev were a decided to start up an "angry unaccountably translated "produce." precedent, and they were intended lo Labour movement should respond same position could be taken up if TREAT MY DAUGHTER KINDLY The dawning of truth and light. brigade." CHORUS: So we'll sing our song for the dawning influence the position in China. to the violence of the IRA. ever the Russians are accused of Tire material is not well organised I very body concerned with the Perhaps a journalist cannot resist the ONCE there was a farmer, a good old soul was he, The night has passed away, Obviously there are many stages misbehaving. This is not to justify episode should have been prosecuted' temptation to drag something I used to work upon his farm down in the country, When we sigh, we hear you! possible between these two extreme misbehaviour but to highlight that Let's say a prayer for a warrior's death as a war criminal: but vou have to lose One side takes the view that the arresting to the beginning, even if this He had one only daughter and her 1 chanced to win. When you weep, we weep. positions, and it is impossible to set two can play at it. That died for Ireland's sake. lor that. IRA should be certified a "national is not its natural place. The authors And when I asked him for her hand these words he did begin: In your hours of gladness up a computer which will give repeatedly break chronology by using This is an extremely interesting and liberation movement" and that they How our pulses leap! instant solutions to all the lazy man's "past future" ("he usvlul bo^ik; once more we are put in CHORUS: should be supported till they win This position is thefruit of nearly would", meaning that at the stage Ireland. Mother Ireland, the debt of the loner ol Sussex. problematical situations. Oh treat my daughter kindly and shade her from all harm. Chorus: victory. This side have not so far under discussion the event about to be Let what may befall. — CDC. fifty years of experience. We first Ireland live on, thy soldier sons shall guard thee, told had not yet happened). You can Before I die I'll will to you my little house and farm, Ever shall we hold you THE CONNOLLY Association began discussing the question in have,flash-backs, though I don't like My home, my dog, my cow, my bonny sheep and barn No foreign land shall hold thee in its thrall. position is however centred on the 1939. Dearest, best of all. them; you can't have flash-forwards And all the little chickens in the garden. For all thy praise thy freedoms flag flies o'er thee, fact that the British Labour Finally, though they are criticising Ireland we hail thee, victor aver all. JUMBLE SALE movement can support the the establishment the writers are at But to encourage clarity on this Oh, I loved this pretty girl and she loved me just the same. Dear land far o'er the ocean, objectives of the Republicans while pains to proclaim their own subject, the Association is And when my daily work was done, with her I would remain, Beloved lahd of ours. offering no support to their conformist credentials by sneers There's joy on the hills of Ireland, arranging a seminar on "Physical against the opponents of partition Fo watch her milk her father's cow, and shade her from all harm May your days be sunny methods. They will do what they A joy that can ease our pain, 11am OCTOBER 6th force in Irish politics" throughtthe TTiis is a book about a miscarriage of And many's the glass of milk 1 had before 1 left the farm. And your ways a way of love. want anyway. Every time British The light shines down from Heaven agency of its Central London justice. It is gratuitous to talk about Meanwhile, though we are imperialism had gone into "whinging anti-partitionism" and For Ireland is free again. branch. It will take place on Now that we are married and settled down for life scattered MARCHMONT COMMUNITY CENTRE somebody else's country it has "caterwauling over the fourth green So the song we'll sing of the dawning Sunday, November 28th from 2 pm field." Do the gentlemen of the Press I often think of her old man and of his good advice & O'er alien vale and hill. provoked violence. But it is not the Heard seldom in days of yore to 5.30. The discussion will be never indulge in caterwauling? To treat his daughter kindly and shade her from all harm. All the love you gave to us. Marchmont Street WC1 responsibility of the British Labour Is sounding through the dear old land opened by Desmond Greaves and Still, a tale can be more tellingfrom And many's the glass of milk I had before I left the farm. We'll keep and cherish still. movement to consider the rights the artlessness with which it is told In thunderous tones once more. the fee is £1. The venue is the - ADMISSION 5p - and wrongs of that violence, but ot We'll leave it at that. Marchmont Community Centre. FEICREANACH IRISH DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 1984 ILLETTERJ ATT HE N E w I WOULD like to thank the Democrat for its support for the miners in their fight for the right to work and also to recount a recent A L O O K example of police brutality in my own pit village near Doncaster. where my /\ \/L. the longest running Irish IRISH WEEKLY late father, a native of Co Mayo, (Gaelic) newspaper ceased worked as a miner for over 40 years. publication m the last week in weekly paper is that there will not In our area the strike has been solid August; for over fort) \ ears it filled by DONALL MacAMHLAIGH be a regular Editorial; instead the since the outset, it was therefore with a desperate need, with what degree some surprise that we obser\ed the all the rest-while at the same time very heartening (and to me, I must space will be thrown open each of success may be debated. The arrival of hundreds of para-military wishing every success to the new say, almost unbelievable) signs that week to representative sections of police early in the morning To show hard work and devotion of those people in the most unprivileged of the public whom, it is felt, will be they meant business they fir? beat up like the late Ciaran O Nuallain, venture and pledging his help and working class areas have begun to able to comment more succinctly on a local miner whose crime was to Tarlach O hi id and Proinsias Mac support in any way that it might be refuse to take himself and his bicycle demand all-Irish schools for their the various issues, of the day than a Bheatha (to name only three) who given. There is a danger here I out of the miners' club car park He kids; Ballymun is a prime example any member of staff would do. heroically kept it going ensured think, a tendency to imagine maybe intended to leave his bike there while and you have evidence of the same Thus: "We plan to ask Irish he had a drink, the police intended to that INNIU would exist aslong as it that there is a wide readership kind of thing, I believe, in places speakers who are trade-unionists, occupy the car park themselves as it is did and it was only Government for the kind of material which like Belfast and Coleraine. So what business people, those in the re- strategically placed at the entrance to penny-pinching that killed it in the would fill a popular Sunday the mine. I am trying to say in a perhaps ligious life and so forth to put their Hid. AMARACH-a Gaeltacht- newspaper-such as the Sunday When word got around the ullage roundabout fashion is that it is ideas to us each week-andof course miented weekly that began as a H orld.for example, but without the that two scabs had entered the pit that unlikely there is a very wide pop- readers' response will be morning, pickets began to arrive, in monthly in 1956 managed to last salaciousness that characterises so readership (if I may use that loose welcomed." Another unusual many cases with wives and children, tor more than tw enty years again in much of that publication-among term) for a weekly Irish feature about the paper is that there together they sat peacefully in the part due to the Herculean labour of Irish speakers. And no doubt if we road blocking the exit to the pit paper-there may be a fair deal of it will be a regular ' Who-dunnit' Peadar O Beallaigh who single- had what I might venture to call a awaiting the departure of the scabs but a weekly like ANOIS will have puzzler set by Cathal O Sandair, handed it may be said kept' Guth na desirable linguistic situation there and chanting "the miners united will to cater also for the type of reader creator of the very popular never be defeated." As the scabs' bus Gaeltachta alive until it was taken would be-in the same way that if who supported INNIU over all detective-character Reics Carlo came into sight the police, wielding over by Comharchumann Cois everyone in Ireland spoke Irish (who solves the crimes each batons and wearing full riot gear those years. And the question is how Fharraige who did a very good job there would be a thriving market chose this moment to charge the well can the new paper do this and week)-all in all a very lively kind of until financial difficulties forced for rubbishy Mills and Boon-type pickets, they ploughed into the crowd retain a readership numerous production, I think, and certainly if hitting anyone in sight, men. women them, too, to give up. (A novelettes in the Irish language. enough to justify the venture? the advertisers continue to rally and children most of whom fled in Government-suggested merger A situation which though not round as they have done in the first panic. Encouraged by their success, between the two papers, INNIU and the police continued to chase the desirable from the point of view of THE answer it seems to me is edition it should make for "reidh- crowd, in some cases as far as the AMARACH, it seems was never literature, perhaps, would be very very well indeed; I was very taken an-achair" for those engaged in the other side of the village, entering really acceptable to either group acceptable to all of us who would with ANOIS. Let us look at that task of making a success of houses by force on the pretext of and of course the answer would like to see Irish restored as the first first edition, however briefly. A ANOIS. looking for pickets. have been to subsidise each one or even second language of the fine, fat tabloid of 48 pages with THERE is a danger when Two of their victims had to be sufficiently in order that they could hospitalised, one of them being the people of Ireland again! The fact of colour pictures galore, a heavy em- someone of my age who has lived in their separate ways work man w ho refused to leave the miners' the matter is however that by the phasis on sport and pop-music, most of his life outside of Ireland towards the preservation of the club car park, I heard later he was in very nature of things those Irish numerous brief but lively articles by sets out to comment on a new Irish the intensive care unit at Doncaster Irish language). speakers who were born and grew seasoned journalists like Breanden paper like ANOIS that a lot of what Hospital though I cannot as yet up outside the Gaeltacht areas do confirm this. The following day ANOIS, for the benefit of those O hEithir, Proinsias Mac I have to say may be wildly offi similar scenes of police violence could without Irish means NOW, app- tend to be rather better educated Aonghusa, Cathal Poirter and beam-.nere is the generation gap, be seen in the neighbouring v illage of eared for the first time on the first than the generality of people-to others. More a 'newspaper' than which is inevitable, and the other Armthorpe and the pattern has been Sunday of September and it is that lessen the risk of being INNIU in the sense of a greater gap which is caused by being out of repeated throughout the region misunderstood let me put it like wherever the NCB has managed to issue I would like to talk about attention to current affairs and with touch even when you take a run bribe scabs to stnkebreak aided and here. As always there was a good this: it is only those who have had an immeasurably better home a couple of times a year. For abetted by thousands of riot police deal of speculation about the new the benefits to a greater or lesser photography, both coloured and example, when glancing through However, there is a happy sequel to paper, its role and nature and the degree of extra education who are monochrome (if that's the correct the Rock (music) section of ANOIS the events in my village because one of expectancy it aroused; in a very likely to have a reasonable term for lama bit vague about the the scabs declared himself to be so I had to enquire whether .'Heavy moving article in the September command of a second language like technicalities of journalism, the Metal' was a group or a type of sickened by what he saw that he won't Irish, or French or whatever it may. scab again and that he w ould now join edition of COMHAR, one of the layout of papers etc.) ANOIS music-ignorance, of course, though the picket line himself. Theotherscab, three or four Irish language be. might perhaps benefit from keeping not perhaps quite as bad as that like others has never been identified monthly magazines, Tarlach O And if you say to me that the a few back copies of INNIU handy displayed by the learned judge who and could well be the colliery manager hUid, who edited INNIU up to its to gauge what proportion of that for all anyone knows, the NCB being Irish language has become the once asked in court, ' Who ARE the ready to try any tactic if it thinks it w ill sad demise, warned against the property of the more privileged readership it may be in danger of Beatles?" And in any case the first help to break the strike. But whatever danger of neglecting the kind of classes in lreland-or of that section neglecting-and if this borders issue of a publication is not rtiey do it will be in vain, ask the readership which INNIU had of the middle classes who felt dangerously on the presumptuous I necessarily a very good indication miners in South Yorkshire, most of catered for over forty-odd years, in inclined towards Irish-then all I can only plead that the suggestion is of how that paper will progress and them tell you the same thing, "the well-intentioned. miners united will never be defeated.'' the interests of 'modernity', can say is that this is a regrettable develop-how lively will be the Paris FRANK RUSHE excessive brevity, superficiality and fact of life. Except that there are An interesting aspect of the new letters page of ANOIS be, what will the book reveiws be like, how will the Gaeltacht respond and to what degree contribute to the PAIPEAR THE SAGA OF OUR IRISH BOOKSHOP NUA? We must wait and see as As- IT all began at Hyde Park where the though they gave the barrow-boys a carpenter and a good one at that, put for we had to keep the shop in quith would say and meantime 1 Connolly Association held an open rough time. But some did, and if one up the shelves in what seemed Battersea going as month by month think it behoves all of us who care at air meeting each week from 1938 of them was on duty Joe would start minutes, and we moved in. we put Grays Inn Road in order. all about the fate of the Irish when it vfras founded to when gathering the books up as he passed, We were there over fifteen years. Now it wouldn't be fair to say that Speakers' Corner became a much and get them down again when the The Deighans went home. Sean this was the only Irish bookshop ever language to support the new boosted international tourist coast was clear. Redmond went home. Peter Mulligan to operate in England. There was the weekly-it may well be, if it does not attraction, for Euroes bored with One Sunday he did it once too often moved to Northampton. Eddie '98 Bookshop in Liverpool, and the succeed, the last ever commercial Soho. and found himself in Marylebone Cow man became organiser, then went little shop Joseph Fowler ran in St venture of this sort in an Ireland Magistrates' Court where he was Outside the park, especially before home. Through all these vicissitudes Giles's High Street, Tottenham Court where 30per cent of newspapers are the Marble Arch was moved, there fined. In my opinion he should have the bookshop was carried on by Road; he went back to Dublin and would be a row of Irish Democrat been defended. But the others didn't voluntary labour. started the "Shanachie Bookshop" on of VAT-free British piiblications want to "waste money." It was one of sellers. For many years the Irish During the summer people from all one of the quays. But he did a certain with preference given, Tm sorry to Jim Larkin's principles that every Democrat was the only Irish paper over the world used to come in, amount of publishing when he was in say, to rags like the STAR and the member under threat of the law available in Britain. especially from Germany and Japan. London, rather along the Brian unspeakable SUN. should be legally represented. I hope Among the indefatigable sellers, The Irish Democrat bookshop was O'Higgins lines. we paid his fine. one can mention Jack Judge and Pat the only place in Britain where you Then for a number of years there Well soon after this we were ANOIS costs 40 (Irish)p-good Kearney on whose untimely death could walk in and buy Irish grammars was the "Irish Book Centre" near looking for new premises and value in my opinion-and anyone Robbie Rossiter took over. and text-books, and most of the Victoria. But the Irish Democrat determined that if possible we would interested in subscribing on a Later when we published London tutors took their supplies Bookshop, now re-christened the have a bookshop. One day I saw "to pamphlets we would sell them along from us. "Four Provinces Bookshop" and quarterly, half-yearly or yearly with the paper. And often if we'd had let" signs on No 283, and we went to situated at 244/246 Grays Inn Road, We had three five-year leases but basis could write to ANOIS, 27 a rough meeting, and everybody see it. There was a front office, a back had held the fort for the past eighteen finally the blow struck. We had to Merrion Square, Dublin 2. didn't agree with us, for the Irish were meeting room, and a smaller room in years. At all times anybody who move out to Battersea where the "Lacaiste" witl be given I am not so united as they are today, some between which we resolved to turn wanted books in Irish, books about Labour Party housed the shop at their of our interrupters would buy a into a bookshop. Ireland, novels, poems or certain, in the case of Sterling. premises in Lavender Hill. Naturally a pamphlet or a paper. PETER Mulligan had been in topographies, knew where to go. And in conclusion may I add great deal of our passing trade was I remember one man also bought a charge of second hand science books And most remarkable is the record lost, but it was surprising how much my voice to that of the many paper from Bill Burke and added: at a huge technical bookshop in of dedicated voluntary work. Nobody of it was retained. others who would ask the Irish "It's only to wipe my arse on." Bill Gower Street. So it was to him we has ever received a penny piece for Government to do the decent thing was back in a flash: "Oh. Be careful," turned for management purposes, IT WAS more than a year before working in that bookshop. Nor has he said, "There's sharp words on it." though others helped, in particular Jane Tate, walking along Grays Inn there unfortunately been any funding by the regular staff of INNIU and iT WAS Joe and Dorothy Deighan the Deighans, Brian Crowley, Tonii Road, spotted No 244. This was a except from the Irish themselves and to pay them a living pension in w ho started selling books there. They Curran, to say nothing of the full-time lucky break, especially as it was not their friends jn England who have respect of all their years of hard and Ulied to collect them from 374 Grays organiser Sean Redmond. far for Helen McMurray who had dipped into their pockets to get the selfless work? Bin Road in duffle bags and lay them I'll never forget the three months or taken over in the last days at 374. So place straight and keep it going. out on newspapers during the fine more of joinery, painting, floor- we took it, and there followed another Therefore we want every reader of Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd (TU), weather. laying, with the Deighans and Charlie period of painting, papering, shelf- the Irish Democrat to tell everybody Nottingham Road, Ripley, Oerbys. There were two dangers to be Cunningham at it hammer and tongs erecting of which the heroes were where we are now, and that we are and published by Connolly Pub- guarded against — the rain and the night after night, after which Bobby Tadg Egan, Charlie Cunningham and open every weekday (except Monday) lications Ltd. 244 Grays Inn Road police. Some ol these didn't bother, Heatley, who was a qualified Noel Gordon. It was hard work too, from 10 am till 6 pm. London WC1.