Controlled Financial Centre of Europe

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Organ of the -y Connolly Association Ifi READERS may have noticed that the Ju:ie issue ot the Irish Democrat contained 12 pages The reason • So much was happening, so many people were anxious to use our columns there was nothing for it. The material just could not be got into eight pages. This month it is almost the same But can we manage twelve pages7 We could if it didn't put up our printing costs by 50 So this month we are back to eight, and people may see their contributions mauled and cut rather than leave important things out altogether. We II have to have twelve pages. But there's only one way of financing it We need a bigger circulation. We need mc, e annual subscribers. Above all Vve want more sellers of the paper If you feei iike volunteering ring up the Four Provinces Bookshop (244 Grays Inn Road. WC1) on 01-833-3022).

It was most important that Irish Republicans should understand the nature of the new financial feudalism that it was intended to impose. If European foreign policy and security were to be fused, then Irish neutrality would go by the board. A Labour government would not be allowed to make a declaration of intent to get out of Ireland had sold out British national without clearing the decision independence to the United States in with Brussels. return for being made the American- On the other hand, at a later stage, when the twenty-six controlled financial centre of Europe. counties had been completely assimilated it would be possible to concede a united Ireland as an administrative be a major industrial nation, in return region of the European super- for this parasitic role. For the state. But such a united Ireland accommodation of the immense would lack the one essential American and Japanese investment which would make the republic worth fighting for — the power that was expected to follow the "big to make its own national bang" this autumn, vast office blocks decisions. were being erected in London's Christine Crawley listed ten dockland, not least in the notorious items which formed part of the district of Wapping. (Continued on page 2)

I MEMBERS of Tower Hamlets ! branch of UCATT, together with members of the TGWU, took the Trades Council banner to free Trade Wharf, site of a £30 million Cubitt/Tarmac contract, to ' protest against the use and abuse of sub-contracting in the industry. | The building of the new "City" which is to house international finance following the "big btmg" due this autumn, has provtiCShtiHt^ biggest building job in Europe. I But no attempt is being num^ 'recruit the workerr into Trade j Unions, and the picketers were very disappointed when they learned | that their Union had dissociated ! itself from their actions. k Vast new projects are scheduled ' far Canary Wharf and Poplar, as part of the 'big bang" complex, mid the Tower Hamlets builders were picketing, as they said, out of Sheer frustration." When their union disowned them they discontinued in order notto be teemed of unconstitutional action. Group includes Peter < Following this they have sent a Walsh, George O'Dris- letter to the London Regional Council of UCA TT, urging them to coll, Sean Kettle, Joe launch a major campaign to Howard, Tom Finn and V • Dave Mooney. ^ (Continued on page 2, column I) - - .. • • • *.' wj^..: < s -... •... Page Two July 1986 Page Three JAMES GRALTON DEEP FEAR IN July 1986 IRISH DEMOCRAT London plotting internment? COMMEMORATION WEST CORK ATTACK ON NEUTRALITY THE latest attack on Irish into account in any future solution From a Dublin correspondent MR GERALD O'REILLY (left) neutrality comes from the London to the Irish question. based think-tank, the Institute for A NASTY plot may now be brewing complete the reactionary scenario, Charles Haughey expressed was in Ireland to attend the James by Recognising the strength of European Defence and Strategic between London and Dublin. scepticism he and Fianna Fail could Gralton commemoration when he support for neutrality amongst simultaneously pleasing the Studies. This is the British affiliate find themselves execrated around saw Peadar O'Donnell for the last JIM SAVAGE Irish people, the Report argues for Rumours are circulating in Irish Unionists and putting pressure on of the United States Heritage the Western World - which might time. Now aged 82 (pictured on left) a subtler approach: "To exert political circles that the Thatcher Fianna Fail, than a round-up of Foundation whose thinking help the Coalition in the next WE HAVE been hearing much direct pressure upon them to Government is pressing the Republicans, the most persistent he is one of the most respected of underpins much of the work of the about Chernobyl, which should develop a closer relationship with Coalition through the Inter- and intransigent opponents of election and make Fianna Fail James Connolly's followers in the Reagan administration and the illustrate the follies and dangers of NATO and the European governmental Coherence to agree anyway more co-operative with the United States. New Right in America and which is British policy ? the arms race. But what if there Community in military affairs British on Partition. financed by the Chase Manhatten to the simultaneous introduction of The Libyan connection may be James Gralton, who was born in could well prove counter- were a major submarine accident in Bank, Gulf Oil, Mobil Oil and the internment both North and South. the way to get at Fianna Fail. Drumsna, Co. Leitrim in 1886, and productive. "The report thinks that the Irish Sea or off our South-west Readers Dipest Corporation. The British would intern Several Irish businessmen with A SCENARIO like this might was thus some seven years older there is no immediate scope for coasts? republicans in the Six Counties, Fianna Fail connections are well be in the making. Other than Peadar O'Donnell, emigrated changes of a major kind in Ireland's In its latest report Irish throwing in some hard-line engaged in trade with Libya. It provocations may also be being to the USA, took out American The influential Irish Fishermen's position, as domestic acceptance of neutrality is described as "an Loyalists for good measure to show would be the easiest thing in the planned. The best way of getting citizenship, but then decided to Organisation is very concerned neutrality is too strong. essentially nationalistic symbol impartiality, while Dublin would world for Press smears to suggest Irish public opinion to tolerate the come home. over the movement of US with a persistently anti-British Things point therefore to a arrest the leaders of Sinn Fein in that they are encouraging Colonel introduction of internment for submarines off West Cork. flavour arising from its irredentist continuation of the present the Twenty-Six Counties. Republicans would be to associate The powers that be objected to claims to be a United Ireland." Ghadaffi to give support to the his socialist republican principles, Apparently a US nuclear campaign which has been led by Selective internment would IRA. And how curious it is that it them with some quite horrific Fine Gael for a series of small and he was the victim of a campaign submarine, the Nathaniel Green, politically decapitate Sinn Fein. It should be German politicians who incident - like an assassination hit the sea bed while carrying The author of the report is changes and the gradual erosion of could also be used to put pressure attempt on, say, a twenty-six GtfwU O'Reilly, John McGahm, Patrick Crthon. of opposition that ended in his pleased to note that neutrality has were allegedly told that the Colonel sixteen Poseidon nuclear missiles, an independent policy in favour of a on Fianna Fail to support the county or SD LP politician or some deportation, almost certainly ne ver acquired the status of a stable vaguely defined co-operation with wants to get at Mrs Thatcher by illegally, to the USA. and was damaged. IFO General doctrine, but is annoyed with the the EEC in matters of common Hillsborough policy. helping out the IRA - a report horrendous bomb-planting or kidnapping incident. It should Now the wheel has come full Secretary Frank Doyle commented Irish for clinging to a nostalgically security. Eventually it is hoped that At the time of the Jldey which led the Irish Foreign always be remembered that the A FRIEND'S TRIBUTE TO PEADAR O'DONNELL cycle. The right hand picture shows on the possibility of pollution that based consensus in its favour, not the democratic consensus in favour kidnapping two years ago Dublin Minister to protest to Libya, Gerald O'Reilly writes:— incident showed he was of the assigned to drive one of the cars first-ever bombs to go off in the six James Gralton's cousin, Patrick would affect the sea for many appreciating the ambiguities and of a meaningful neutrality can be was said to be quite willing to threatening German and other MY personal memories of Peadar same mould of Irish revolutionary and I took Jim Killeen, Dave anomalies in it which are so obvious counties at the start of the present Gralton, presenting a copy of the years. Close encounters had been broken down when the process has introduce internment, taking EEC sanctions if the rumours O'Donnell span over 60 years. leaders as Tone, Lalor, Davitt, Fitzgerald and Michael Clerkin to NATO "experts". gone so far that NATO-EEC troubles were planted by the UVF newly published book (obtainable legion, and the odds were getting advantage of public indignation should have substance? The Although we had met casually Connolly, Gilmore and Mellows with me to my home. shorter. agents can say that Ireland is to have them blamed on the IRA 1 have never lost touch with Peadar at the Four Provinces Bookshop, over that episode. But the British Germans with the British are earlier, l recall best his visit to my — men who saw that a rigid Rather menacingly the report neutral in name only. and develop pressures which over the intervening 60 years and my 244/246 Grays Inn Road, London) are thought to have urged restraint America's closest allies, and it is home in Co. Meath just before the nationalism, without social and The Irish Government was not states that Ulster Unionism's brought down Terence O'Neill. 1924 Sinn Fein Ard Feis. He had a economic goals, would be mostly last visit to him was on May 5th just to author John McGahern, during and counselled waiting for a better easy to invent substance for such informed of the incident, and fidelity to the Atlantic Alliance They proved brilliantly successful. resolution that he wanted me, as a an illusion. seven days before he died. His the commemoration Mr O'Reilly opportunity. Now it is the British rumours even if there is none learned about it from a report in the (NATO) would have to be taken So too later did the car-bombs in delegate from Co. Meath, to On a date in October I925, I eyesight, failing for years, was almost refers to. who are said to be doing the urging originally there. Remember the completely gone; a series of strokes Washington Post. The American disco-bombing of Berlin, used to Dublin in forcing through introduce. It would have a better received orders from GHQ IRA to • savages did not iitform the Irish while Dublin, with an election due chance for adoption coming from have a car and stay the night in had left him partially paralyzed and "justify" Reagan's night-time emergency legislation in the Dail. Government when Irish territorial within a year, is naturally not over- a Meath delegate he said than Peadar's home on Drumcondra unable to speak clearly. But mentally enthusiastic. bombing of Libya? It is clearly in from a delegate from Donegal, a Road. O'Donnell had helped plan • he was as alert as ever. Paisley - From page I waters were brazenly violated. SERMONS IN STONES WHA T has happened in between the interest of the CIA, MI5andall Whatever about the current county of small impoverished the famous jailbreak from I had just come from the dedication Edward Carson, whose words But this goes on all the time. Mr of course is that Britain has got the the rest of the security "spooks" of rumours there need be no doubt that farms. Mountjoy. Next afternoon of a memorial in Co. Leitrim to the uttered in the bitterness of betrayal "MY FIRST NIGHT IN THE by the EEC countries to "discover" George Gilmore drove up to memory of James Gralton. Peadar Doyle revealed that some time ago TRENCHES", said my late uncle, Anglo-Irish Agreement in the bag, the directors of intelligence services T he resolution would establish and defeat, would seem highly a trawler from Clogherheadpicked links between Ghadaffi and the in America and Britain, the co- Mountjoy jail in a van with a small was very happy to learn of the huge appropriate now, "What a fool I an old Dublin Fusilier, "I'd peep DONAL KENNEDY and with it Dublin's recognition of the principle that no small farmers up a cylindrical object "about the IRA. Peter Barry and the Iveagh ordinators of security and or shopkeepers should be evicted group inside. They were all crowd that had participated in the was? I was only a tool, and so was over the parapet, duck, then peep Partition. With that in hand it can dedication. He was a great admirer of' size of a fire extinguisher", marked over again." Yours truly, a less House people could then become "national handlers" of one kind or from being too poor to pay the dressed in Civic Guard uniforms Ulster, and so was Ireland. We cpmrnemorated by a modest plead the shenanigans of the Gralton and we both talked over the couth, Christian, and courageous the frontmen for another American rent. Count PI u n k e 11, as which misled the prison guards in were only tools in the dirty game "US navy - highly dangerous." It Celtic Cross. Unionists as reason for not making another are thinking of things like grave injustive inflicted upon him by man than he, would have and EEC - supported attack on Chairman, immediately ruled it allowing them to go inside. But that was to get the Conservative was taken into port and dealt with THE scale of the slaughter, any concessions on the ground to this these days as they look for a his summary deportation without substituted • another verb for Libya. Interning Republicans in out of order, asserting that it once inside they drew their guns Party back into office." by an army bomb disposal squad. there evident, overwhelms any Northern nationalists. Paisley is way of keeping Fianna Fail out of and led out the 19 [RA leaders, even a hearing. Peadar assured me "bless," in the same predicament, particular feeling for family, Ireland could be plausibly enough would be inadvisable to support And Paisley has been a tool in doing Thatcher's work for her office and simultaneously striking a including Sean Russell, who were that the deportation was the work of I've just come back from a short such a principle which could be another even dirtier game, the The United States has a province, or nation. The tragedy is justified behind the brouhaha and if blow at the Republicans. held there. Minister of Justice Ruttledge. tour of the killing fields of, universal. there. And what better way to used later when we achieved the undermining of. the independence submarine monitoring system Peadar was one of the great men in Flanders where he served during The British have uniform Republic, for people to evade their The prisoners were immediately and neutralitiy of the twenty six located 100 miles off the Cork the history of Ireland over the past 70 the First World War. Many of the headstones, with embossed obligations. assigned to 13 separate cars that counties, a game so filthy and coast. It spies on all ships coming in years. 1 only hope that Ireland will trenches, and the shell-holes, still regimental insignia. From a were in readiness so as to reduce contemptible that ail those who and out of the area, and Peadar never changed. As that the risk of recapture. I had been develop more like him. played along with it will stink in survive, and you could toss a fag- distance you cannot distinguish Tribute to Frank Short particularly the Wexford Coast. It end across opposing trenches. history for quite a few hundred Christian or Jew, Hindu, Moslem families many material things as a is in this area, the notorious Cemeteries abound, big and WE ARE happy to publish the spread rapidly to many places. years. We will not name them all - or non-believer, although all are result. yet. "Tuskar triangle" that the small, where identified corpses lie well represented. But the following extracts from a tribute by You can visualise the flow of in egalitarian portions of earth, Maurice Roche (Huddersfield). correspondence that must have Frank was an Ulsterman in the SUSTENTATION The complete inability of the £750,900 trawler Sharelgal wast Germans and French are mainly broadest historical sense. At a LETTER separated only by the Colours I was the youngest of the come through Frank and Joan's Unionists to halt the progress of sunk in April 1982. And recently covered with crosses, liberally party or social gathering if pressed they served. Others, unidentified, "senior citizens" who signed the letterbox at Charleville Road, I THOUGHT you might be Sussex, where the author, Sandra British imperial policy carries an West Cork fishermen had their nets interspersed with tablets for a contribution, his favourite and unidentifiable as individual last public statement of the United Birmingham. Later, however, a interested in knowing about the Freeman, lectures in French and FUND important lesson. If at any time torn by some unknown force. invariably inscribed with the Star was "The man from God knows corpses, are gathered and Ireland Association in Man- general secretary and national forthcoming play about the drama. THERE'S a slight recovery in during the past eighteen years the of David, in the case of the where", William Russell from entombed in ossuaries. One such chester on 31st January, 1981. organiser were appointed, namely Countess Markeiwicz at the Oval It was an excellent production the level of our fund, but it is still British government had declared Germans, whilst the French mid-Cork, the man with the FISH have been taken that could ossuary is said to contain 16,000 Frank Short was our national Jasper Tully and Tadg Feehan, House Theatre, for two weeks in and constructed in such a way as for civil rights, or had made a exceptions, again numerous, "strange up-country talk" who badly on the low side for what we not be sold to traders because of bodies. They must have computed treasurer, Alf Havek'n Secretary, with a central office at Chester July. The play has already been to reopen many questions for declaration of intent to get out of generally have Koranic was hanged outside Downpatrick have to do with it. And now the their deformed condition. There is a that number by weight. Sean Hogan Vice-Chairman, and Square, London. There were presented in East Anglia, and at serious debate rather than to sew Ireland, Mr Paisley would have inscriptions, for North Africans jail for his part in organising the widespread feeling that the Irish myself Chairman. The other three approximately 150 branches with the Arts Centre, University of up and close a "life" in a holiday period is upon us, with been as powerless as he is today. "mort pour La France." The United Irishmen. Frank wanted have now gone to their eternal many areas, each having its own historically dead manner. all our enthusiastic supporters But he had his value. He coidd public are not being told the truth Near Arras, in the British record of Germany and France an Ulster in the context of a united reward. officers and committee. Scotland I am sure some of your readers about what is getting into the sea Cemetery at Cabaret Rouge, the towards Jews and North Africans sunning themselves on the threaten the nationalist hostages and Wales had their own Ireland. It would care for all its will want to see this production, and the consequences of pollution. first stone, to the left by the gate, needs no elaboration, nor that of Frank made his way by train beaches of Bermuda, or having a the imperialists were holding organised structures, as had the people, no matter from whence which is entertaining as well as against the good behaviour of We read reports of radiation being covers J. Connelly, a Private in the Britain either, towards the lesser from Birmingham to Manchester they came, provided they were Gag Acts pint in O'Neills or McDades. USA, Australia, New Zealand, though-provoking. Further Lincoins, killed May 1917, and breeds. that day. It was not a good day Dublin. Today he is not totally 25% above some mysterious and Tasmania, etc. Frank Short was in prepared to learn about and give — From page 1 information can be obtained from So remember when you stop nearby another covers J. weatherwise, and though without value. His histrionics can probably mythical "safe level". Is the thick of it. their allegiance to Ireland. Labour Party programme. Six the author at Brighton (0273) the milk and cancel the papers, be used to keep Dublin's demands Connolly, a Sergeant in the I started my tour at Arras, "chesty" as he put it, Frank's tall there any such thing f We read upright bearing belied his 76 LATER the title of the HE was part of the national of them would be illegal under 681268. there's another item to down to their irreducible minimum. Munsters. At the arrogant and where I had meant to research for about radiation levels being 400% years. organisation "Anti-partition machinery of our organisation, EEC law. Vincent Mahon But England intends, to stand no ugly triumphal arch at Thiepval, a piece on its defence, by a supplying speakers and officials, remember. Send your donation above normal. This was in Cork. In the mid 1940s, after World League" was thought too negative Anthony Coughlan des- Hove. nonsense from him. Mrs Thatcher dedicated in the 1920s by the garrison of 1500, against a siege at meetings and functions, indoor to the Irish Democrat before War II, Alf Havekin, Frank and an AGM voted to change the cribed the process by which has her orders from her toss Huge consignments of Poseidon genius of the Somme offensive, army building up from 30,000 to and outdoor, in good weather and you go. Short, Sean McGrath and others name to "United Ireland Ireland would be assimilated President Reagan, and, as gutless Earl Haig, a register of 74,000 100,000 Frenchmen, in the year bad, throughout the country. missiles pass almost daily wUhin drafted rules that created a Association." into the war-game while Our thanks to: J. Harmon £2, as she is obstinate, she will not whose bodiwere never found, 1640. The siege lasted three That included Trafalgar Square, hailing distance of the Batty Light national organisation out of pre- Much literature was issued remaining nominally neutral, O. and B. Farrington £5, K. rebel. contains three p ges of Kennedys. months, and the garrison, 400 of London, on Easter Sundays for at Howth, in transit to the HMy existing groups. Frank Short was from headquarters, areas and as Kissinger put It, the sort of The Lump Doody £2, J. Kavanagh £3.20, N. The republican movement will whom were Irish, were in the many years, to honour the I*ch on the Clyde. Some of hose first national secretary, Hugh branches. I considered David neutral you could take home to Kecgan £5, C. Moloney £2, Anon have readjustments to make in this At the site of the beginning of Spanish service. Not until the memory of the men and women of — From page 1 contain as much explosive power as Delargy, MP (Miles Platting) was O'Neill's booklet the "Partition of mother. £3.80, W. Burke £25, R. Smith £5, new situation. It is not possible to the battle, on July 1st, 1916, lie King of Spain ordered him to the 1916 Easter Rising, and other challenge the evils of the sub- rM the bombs put together that went chairman, Alf Havekin Ireland" to be tl : average John Boyd gave a devastat- S. R. S. Farrelly £5, R. Chambers be indifferent to events in Hail row upon row of Inniskillings and surrender, did his Commander, patriots, until the Square was (Manchester) was Vice-chairman, member's condensed "bible" or ing review of the de- contracting system and to make £S, D. Anderson £5, D. Burke Eireann as Euro-cosmopolitan off in the last world war. Royal Irish, mainly recruited from Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill, do so, to denied us under the Prevention of and B. J. Early (Barney to his reference guidebook. I bought a industrialisation of Britain every possible effort to organise the 50p, M. Brennan £5, T. Egan £2, forces threaten to extinguish the Carson's anti-Home Rule UVF, be complimented by the French Terrorism Act. If we are still being showered friends) from Bootle, Liverpool, copy in Shrewsbury in 1946. It thanks to the EEC. The construction industry. R. SeUors £1, E. O'Dowling £10, last traces of the semi- killed on that day, when the Commander, with the remark that with radio-activity from an was treasurer. cost me 6d then, and I still have it. Like Cuchulann of old, in the Thatcher government was They do not make the following P. Boyd £1.50, J. Wilson £2, H. independence won in 1921. Nanrfll British sustained 64,000 he (O'Neill) had beaten him in all field of games, other situations or accident a couple ef thousand miles For a start there were sixteen I write the foregoing very much actively promoting It (in return and E. Goulding £5, P. Walsh £1, it do to be insensitive to stMngs casualties, 16,000 fatal. With them but fortune. The garrison was endeavours, he was not afraid to point, bat we make it. If the elected representatives from the abridged facts to help people for the City deal) and the A. G. Morton £20, R. Doyle £2, L. amongst the Protestant middle- away, what would be the result If lie Dublin Fusiliers, of mainly allowed leave, carrying its banners stand up, to man the Bearne building trade unions had not been differer areas, mostly from understand what motivated Labour leaders were afraid to Wrixon £2.63, N. Brycc 50p, M. classes who have something to lose ione of these deadly consignments Nationalist sympathies, killed the and all its arms, and Spanish rule Baoighal. He should have his so tender towards the six county Lancasmre, Yorkshire, the Frank Short and people like him. resist and deceiving their Morrison £14, L. Daly £2, in and will some of them blew up? following November, in the same in Flandersendedaftera period of reward in Heaven. He will be economists nationalist Irish Midlands and .ondon. The four It was not 'kudos' or financial followers that there was no memory of Robin Page-Arnot accommodate to the new medus of spot, for, when the brasshats' plan 150 years. greatly missed by Joan, his wife workers would have flooded into No wonder Ike people of West national officers, plus Sean gain. They were always "out of danger. from G. and C. Findlay £5, English control, others react like of a quick breakthrough failed, The French today, an odd lot, and life-long partner, and their Cork art worried. McGrath, elected "Life member" pocket." They often had to bear Following a useful discus- their ranks and there would have supporters in South London Carson and realise what focAs they they persisted in their original are not too disposed to remember family, to whom go our deepest :'i s , as a tribute to his work for Ireland the taunts, sneers and whisperings sion it was announced that the been no such thing as the lump. The £15.46, in Central London £1.30, have been. '' tactic until they had lost half a kindly, soldiers, however gallant, sympathies. He will also be missed over the years formed the of those who should have joined relevant papers would be poison of Belfast unionism infects in Paris £6.7$. „ million men. The Ulster Division who occupied their territory for a by a host of friends and It is a situation in which one Standing Committee. them. They incurred the wrath of published. the whole body politic! Total: £160.64. has an imposing memorial, whilst foreign power, so I abandoned my acquaintances. I knew him for might wish for a new Wolfe Tone. The "League" as it was "authority" and probably denied the other provinces, whose sons researches of that siege, for battles nearly half a century. died as bravely and needlessly, are of more recent times. generally know to its membership, themselves, their spouses and July Ifft Page Four IRISH DEMOCRAT July 1966 IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Five my opinion, they are not right. The old nations will not lose their LETTER 1 "SAOIRSE" FROM THE IRISH LOW PAID WORKERS WIN VICTORY old qualities and culture; they "Island Cross-Talk", by Tomds PUBLIC opinion was with the will not set them aside. But they I HA VE long been a reader and Number 6 Summer Edition O'Crohan. Translated by Tim LAGAN LIGHTS Dublin Corporation workers can - and they are doing this - supporter of the Irish Democrat Price 70p Enright. Oxford University when ihey went on strike for enter into co-operation with the and have always been impressed by THE current issue of the magazine Press. £3.95 stg. better wages in May and June. other nations for the good of its steadfast stand on the cause of BY S. O DIOCHON Even though rubbish piled in the "Saoirse" in ihe Irish language all... That is the best way, and Ireland and the clarity of argument AS I READ this book my mind streets and bins outside houses keeps to the same high standard in bounded back thirty or forty went uncollected, everyone knew that in my opinion is how it will that is its main characteristic. printing and presentation as the years. I recalled reading references that the Government was trying to be. At any rate we are strong Imagine my amazement then when previous issues. It is a bright and in the Irish Democrat in the fifties break the lowest grades of in our resolve that we will not confronted with your editor's reply lively production which comes from to meetings in Britain at which workers in the Corporation just fail those who have gone before to the letter from Ivor Pearce. The the Sinn Fein publishing Tim Enright spoke in Irish from department about every quarter. It VEIL OF SECRECY because they were low and could us to keep this ancient Gaelic reply is unclear and makes a very Connolly Club platforms. is lavishly illustrated in black and seemingly be easily beaten. nation alive." worrying mistake. I sincerely hope I knew Enright, a dynamic white with an attractive cover in THE SIXTH Anglo-Irish had made a bad choice from the But the Corpo men won. Sean young Kerry republican and The other statement was made by that you will not be offended by my colour. The content is made up of Ministerial conference, since the establishment's point of view. He Redmond, former Connolly socialist who was destined to work saying this but I do feel that a reply articles on current affairs, signing of the Agreement last was digging too deeply or perhaps Association general secretary, De Valera shortly after he became in England — like his friend, is necessary. republican history and a literary November, was held in Belfast on aiming too high. They had picked whose Municipal Employees Taoiseach in the first Fianna Fail George Thomson, a student and section with poems by Greagoir O the 17th June. The sparse and the wrong man. The RUC chief. Trade union organises half the Government in 1932, when he told The question at issue is the class teacher of the classics of Greece Duill and Michael O Ruairc on the flaccid statement issued Sir John Hermon, his officers and men. was able to claim a famous Dail Eireann what his social content of the struggle for national and Rome and, like him, a great death of the hunger-strikers in afterwards indicated either a men are a crucial element in the victory. So too were Eddie attitude was: liberation. Before addressing the lover of the Irish language. 1961. There is an informative bureaucratic contempt of public carrying-out of the strategy of the Glackin of the FWUl and the problem the editor gives a preamble Now retired, Mr Enright has been "I am quite willing to admit account by Nollaig O Gadhra of the opinion or insecurity on the part Anglo-Irish Agreement. Any ITGWU's Des Geraghty, whose and it is here that I think one of the spending part of his time making that during my whole time in manner in which R.T.E of both governments for the revelations at this stage in an unions organised the rest of the problems emerges. You say that available to readers of English future of the Agreement. The official report confirming the struggling for the freedom of this hypocritically operates Article 31 translations of some of the Gaelic 4.0(H) plus Corporation manual country I had only one object and on one hand there are economic communique was made up of shoot-to-kill policy would be a workers. writing which we have seen emerge in that was to get free so as to be issues and on the other there are western Kerry, at the tip of the Dingle eight short paragraphs stating major set-back for the London The Government bent over REVIEW able to order our life for the democratic issues. Surely this is peninsula, in this century. what had been discussed. Six of and Dublin governments. John backwards to negotiate with the Stalker was heading in that benefit of our own people. I never quite wrong. Firstly there are to censor Sinn Fein. The editorial The Oxford University. Press had these items were on the law and teachers, the health inspectors and economic issues. The way, or one of item on the Anglo-Irish Agreement already issued English versions from order issues — military and police direction and so he had to be others. Seven per cent and no regarded freedom as an end in the ways in which the class struggle is sound in its anti-imperialist Dr Robin Flower, Professor co-operation, how to get the stopped. more, the\ told the Corporation itself, but if I were asked what Thomson and Seamus Ennis is conducted is through politics but stance but somewhat blunted by Nationalists to love the RUC, the men, the same as better paid white- statement of Irish policy was over-emphasis on the political sins respectively of three books which are defeat of "terrorism", and collar workers, even though the most in accord with my view as to politics (ie 'democratic issues') are of Sinn Fein's electoral rival the well-known to readers of Irish, An extradition. Apart from these MEANTIME the British manual workers were not what human beings should no more than the expression of the S.D.L.P. toileanach ("The Islandman"), Fiche repressive plans two proposals Government has dissolved the irreconcilable economic conflict Blian ag Fas ("Twenty Years A- Northern Ireland Assembly which represented in the negotiations for GARDA ACTION IN struggle for, I would stand side FEAR DOCHLOITE were discussed that the British the latter. that characterises our society. To G rowing") and Machtnamh was set up by the previous consul MOORE STREET by side with James Connolly. Ta alt suimiuil dar teideal Government should give SEVEN percent is not bad if pose the two as having no link is "Eochair na Fuascailte" o recognition and support to the to this colony, James Prior. His (Acknowledgments - An Phobtacht) The thing that was most heart- you are on a decent salary. But if quite wrong. scribhneoir darbh ainm Eoghan Irish language and its culture and successor, Tom King, now puts breaking in this Dail since I came - By - the blame for the collapse of the you are on the average Corpo into it was to find the two This leads us to the central Mac Cormaic. Ta an fear seo faoi that citizens of the Twenty-six man's i I3()a week it does not help Counties, residing in the North Assembly on the intransigence of parties who should have stood problem, you say "... There is the ghlas I mBloc-H na Ceise Fada much. The manual workers agus e daoratha at feadh tearma a RISTEARD 0 GLAISNE should be allowed to vote in the the local politicians. That is a side by side trying to secure superficial and opportunistic wanted a llat-rate sum, the same Connolly tradition which (gives) shaoil. Ciorann se an staid ina Seana-Mhna ("An Old Woman's local elections. In this regard Ian for everybody, plus a percentage. Irish Studies in East Germany freedom in order that they due importance to economic issues bhfuil athbheochan na Gaeilge i Reflections") by Tomas O Cri'th'in, Paisley could be accused of some excuse to take the responsibility I his would be more advantageous might have power to order their (but) gives precedence to lathair na huaire agus na Muiris O Suilleabhain and Peig exaggeration when he said "we off the British Government. to poorly paid men. And in the own policy, divided. I am democratic interests. This I find fadhbanna a ghabhas lei. Is i an Sayers. In 1982 the OUR^sued Tim can't afford to have our electoral Basically the failure of the STUDENTS of the English on the history of Irish Enright's English translation of Is Assembly is but another defeat for event they got it. Department performed Synge's republicanism. And Hanna Masova speaking of Fianna Fail and the unaccountable. Again democratic bharuil dhaingean ata aige gur rud lists swamped by people from the But not before some no cuis pholaitiuil i an Gaeilge. Truag na Fanann an Oige ("A pity South." In the final paragraph of the British in their continuing "Shadow of the Glen" and a Town from Prague is writing a popular Labour Party. These two parties interests are no more than the youth does not last") by Peig Sayer's HALLE, HANDEL the statement the Ministers made struggle to keep a foothold in extraordinary scenes had had naturally, the same pro- expression of class (ie economic Togann se abhar a chuid son, Michael 6 Gaoithin, finishing it occurred. The Army was called Hall audience heard the premier of book on Ireland for publication in smaointeacha ar an bhundamhna the pathetic promise that they will Ireland. a work on Irish musical themes by her country. She is learning Irish gramme, and when I differed interests). In the particular case of up with selections of verse from the out in the strike's second week to sin agus eascraionn trachtas abalta poet's 1968 collection, Coinnle Corra discuss, at the next conference, local composer Thomas Reuther, AND DE VALERA but her greatest difficulty is finding from the Labour Party after the Ireland the struggle for National remove the piles of rubbish in Treaty it was because I thought Independence is at heart an as gur flu go mor staidear a ("Wild Hyacinths"). international support for the WITH THE winding-up of the Moore Street. Hundreds of during a conference on Irish decent Irish dictionaries. There is promotion of economic children's books, Sean O'Casey that t&at party was making a dheanamh air. San am ceanna is This new translation'of Allagar na Assembly the die-hard "loyalists" st rikers blocked the streets and sat Society and Culture in Halle, East work here surely for the Cultural expression• of an economic gcaillean se faobhar hlnise, pages from the diary of the development in both parts of and the Spanish Civil War, mistake and that they did not argument. The struggle for a united have now taken themselves to the on the ground before the army Germany, this May. Relations Committee of the Irish amhain den sceal a dhaingneodh go author of An tOileanadi, is based Ireland. That presumably means streets in a welter of confusion. Seamus Heaney's poetry and see what James Connolly saw, Ireland is an indispensable part of upon the original 1928 edition. lorries. The police used their Over the past decade the Halle Foreign Affairs Department. mor achuid fealsunachta. Is e sin an money from America — a Some of them call for complete the Northern troubles, and and what he told me he saw, the struggle for socialism, it is this Padraig Ua Maoileoin's edition, batons and three strikers were conferences have become the comhcheangail idir chuis na promise of live horse and you'll integration with Britain, some taken to hospital. A woman said several other topics. that to secure national freedom that gives this struggle its Gaeilge agus cogadh na n-aicme. published by An Gum in 1977, was eat grass. prinicpal East European venue for more comprehensive, but evidently propose yet another attempt to to her husband, "Look at what The Martin Luther University at The Cultural Relations was the first step in order to get legitimacy. This is not to say that Ach cibe ar bith fa sin nach abhar critical and scholarly exchanges still did not use all the material revive the Stormont parliament they are up to in South Africa," Halle has a long tradition of Committee is to be complimented the workers of Ireland the living non socialist forces cannot be dushlain duinne uilig fear croga on Ireland and things Irish. available from that diary. For the and others want to take the road pointing to a policeman battoning linguistic-philological studies and for sponsoring well-known writer they were entitled to in their own interested in the achievement of a mar seo i ngeibheann agus e ag general reader the 1928 edition will ARE WE supposed to believe to UDI. They feel they are People come from Ireland, a striker in a picture on the "Irish Doctors Kirsten and Schneider of and broadcaster Proinnsias country. Because he said, 'As United Ireland they can. But the troid ar aghaidh leis gan aon certainly suffice. It has its own unity that Tom King and Nicholas Scott surrounded by enemies — the Britain. West and East Times" front page. "Good the English Department are MacAonghusa and enabling him to long as a foreign imperial central point is that at heart it is a gheilleadh ann. and strength. on the one hand and Peter Barry British government, the Dublin Germany, Austria, Czechoslo- It has long seemed to me that heavens, it is down in Moore continuing it by developing a attend. He was a hit with everyone power holds this country, the struggle for socialism and this is S. O'D. and Alan Dukes on the other government and the Nationalists Stieet," she said when she vakia, Hungary and Poland, drawn and it is easy to see why he is one of Allagar na hlnise received less talked for five hours and never within the Six Counties. special interest in Hiberno-English, workers are the people who will why it should be supported, attention than it deserved. In part I realised. by interest in the politics, history, Unfortunately for the Catholics that is the special way we have of the most popular men in Ireland. be principally exploited.' We anything else is petty bourgeouis am referring to the sprightliness and mentioned the problem of police THE incident strengthened the literature, language and sociology chief John Stalker ? John Stalker, they are the softest and most easily speaking English in Ireland. This is His lecture on De Valera was a wanted our freedom to put an nationalism. LETTER drive of its language, in part to the solidarity of the workers. They of Ireland. It is a tribute to this all the more moving in that the remarkable contribution. Two acuity and fun of so many of its Deputy Chief Constable of available target on which this end to that." I sincerely hope that you will not THE PUBLICATION of the marched on the Dail. "Support small country that it can stimulate scholars concerned have never been quotations from De Valera's observations Mr Enright has here Greater Manchester, was frustration can be vented. Broken the Corpo worker notices be offended by my putting forward letter from Erna Bennett in the appointed with a team of six windows, petrol bombs and the such interest among people in much to Ireland and have to work entirely speeches were particularly rendered the Irish original with appeared all over Dublin. The these arguments and you can be June issue of the "Irish something of its classic restraint and detectives from Manchester to burning of houses and small bigger countries. It is a tribute also on the basis of patient study of interesting. They can bear constant Labour members of the Coalition sure that I will continue to read Democrat" could not have power. As he did with A pity youth investigate the killing of six men in business premises in the fringe to Professor Dorothea Siegmund- written texts. Dr Kirsten is of the repetition nearer home over the does not last, he introduces and were exceedingly embarrassed. your worthwhile publication. occurred at a more appropriate County Armagh where it was Catholic areas are now common Schultze of the Martin Luther view that even though the rich next few years. CONFINE TROOPS time. Her questioning of the annotates it with knowledge and skill. The Moore Street incident GERRY MYERS alleged they operated a shoot-to- occurrences. In this situation the occurred while the Labour Party University, who single-handedly imagery of Hiberno-English, based One is from an address De motives and actual benefit to the It is a social document of considerable kill policy. Stalker and his team jibe is frequently made that the got the Halle conference off the London NW5 Africans of Bob Geldof's interest, but any reader (particularly Minister for Labour, Ruairi originally on Irish, is dying out in Valera gave as President to a joint TO BARRACKS one with an interest in Irish life) will, I had been gathering evidence and Nationalist people delight in Quinn, was out of the country. On ground and has kept them going for "famine" campaign, have been facts for overfifteen months. They seeing the Protestants "faced face of the modern mass media, meeting of the Dail and Seanad in THE ITGWU, Ireland's largest think, be entertained and intrigued by his return he put pressure on his a decade now. And perhaps it is a (Mr Myers mistakes us when he answered by the conferring of the got their hands on some MI5 down" by British Government certain basic syntactical forms will 1969, on the 50th anniversary of the union, with some 140,000 paid-up it. colleagues to settle the strike, tribute to the presiding cultural identifies "democratic issues" order of Knight Commander of material in London about the forces. This is not true. Th< survive indefinitely, enriching the first meeting of the revolutionary members, voted at its recent Riste^Fd O Glaisne essentially on the workers' terms. with politics. The demand for a the British Empire by the activities of that department's Nationalists have gone through genius of this attractive Saxon kind of English people speak in Dail Eireann. He spoke about small annual conference to call on the legislative eight hour day is Thatcher government. Miners will under-cover men in Armagh. This too much of that to wish it upon "•We're pleased and we regard it town, George Frederick Handel, Ireland. In this he is surely right British Government to confine to nations and internationalism: economic, though it is sought by note that in this he is rubbing led them to enquiries about the their fellow Protestant Irishmen. a> a victory," said Sean Redmond. whose statue stands in the town barracks all military personnel and it would be foolish pedantry not "Nowadays there are some shoulders with Mr Ian involvement of some of the top They know that the unity of "The amount of extra money is square of his birthplace, and whose stationed in the North. political means. This was the LETTER not all that large, but we have to welcome it. For instance we people who think that the ideals MacGregor. men in the RUC. It was at this Catholic, Protestant and most famous work, "Messiah", as They also called on the Irish great classical issue that divided THERE is certainly plenty to read established three important would say, "He had drink taken," of nationhood which inspired the His claim that he didn't accept point that John Stalker was Dissenter cannot be promoted every Irish person knows, had its and British Governments to the socialist movement at the in this month's issue of the "Irish principles. Firstly, the right to putting the verb at the end as the leaders of fifty years ago have the KBE for himself but on behalf obstructed and stopped in his along that road. But that being negotiate for the orderly end of the last century. On the Democrat". May I draw attention negotiate for our members when first performance in Dublin. Germans would. But that is not of all who took part in his tracks. The "obstacle was a said the ultra bigoted elements become old-fashioned and out of withdrawal of the British presence other hand the demand for to two points? First the reference the Government has tried to standard English, they would say in campaign does not impress. Did peculiar one. Tenuous allegations now being led by Alan Wright of The conference proceedings are date. A great deal is said about in Ireland. The Conference also proportional representation is a to Mr King as "Ulster Minister". I include us in a package for other England. That would be, "He had these want to be honoured in the were made in Manchester that, in Portadown Peter Robinson and published and available to those internationalism and so on, and expressed its continual opposition democratic issue, though it is am sure it was a slip. Second, the groups of workers. Secondly, the name of the exploiters of much of his social life, he was mixing in that wild man from Glasgow, interested through libraries. Here taken drink." some people think that the to strip searching and the Diplock article "Is Geldof a wash-out?" Government acknowledged the likewise sought by political Africa? One wonders when he "bad" company. He was George Seawright, will have to be are some of the subjects on which small nations have nothing to courts, but shelved a motion Whilst agreeing with a lot of what special circumstances of our Belfastwoman Priscilla means. The discussion arose makes his next visit to the Sudan suspended from his post. It would "faced down" if any progress is to which would have condemned the is in the article, I must ask why be members as low-paid, something papers were read this year. Metscher was at Halle. She teaches look forward to except to be from Mr Pearce's enquiring and Somalia will he want to flash seem that whoever selected be made to a more democratic Anglo-Irish Agreement, calling so negative? What about such we hope to build on in the future, Irish neutrality during World at the university of Oldenburg, brushed aside or absorbed by about the status of the demand his medal at them? It shows where Stalker to head the investigation system. instead for the Irish Government agencies as UNICEF, Gorta, and thirdly we obtained an War 2, Eamon de Valera, the West Germany, and brought with great powers. I do not at all for national unity and his deepest loyalties must be. Oxfam, etc? agree with that opinion. We to withdraw from it. increase in the flat-rate rather British Army and 1916, Ter- her a big tome she has written on independence for Ireland. Our Brian Wilkinson Do people really have to wait than on percentage terms." rorism and 'the Fenian Move- Republicanism and Socialism in ought to be more confident than Mr John Carroll, the union'? general president and the reply, which we standby, is that Aberdeenshire. for a revolution until something The workers also got £250 per ment, the political evolution of Ireland. It traces the ideological the people of fifty years ago it is a democratic issue. It tends happens to better their lot? The Ethiopia had its revolution; that the nation will live. The incoming president of the Irish man as a lump sum for cleaning up the Provisionals, Chartism and roots of radical Irish nationalism Congress of Trade Unions, urged to the end-point of a democratic economic issues ("economists") above-mentioned make sure that nevertheless there was famine in the backlog of rubbish around the the Irish, James Connolly and back to the United Irishmen and leaders of Easter Week believed the annual conference not to pass republic. It is classical socialist do not see the importance of their funds do not go to corrupt the Ethiopia of Selassie and also in city. Within a week O'Connell World War I, Brian Friel, will run rings round the pro-British that the Rising would ensure that judgement on the agreement at doctrine that the best starting off governments, but for specific that of Mengiston. So I would Stieet looked no dirtier than reaching the point from which respectfully suggest that a more Images of peace in the poetry of imperialist, so-called revisionist this nation would live I do not this stage. point for a transition to socialism can "take off. And projects designed to help the usual. And the binmen going people improve their situation. serious analysis is called for than Yeats, Jonathan Swift's atti- historians. Margarita Orlova came think they are many, those socialism is a democratic who are these? No prizes. We round the garbage runs walked tude to Irish "brogue", Gulli- from Moscow and got new ideas for people who think that our What are we to make of "It is the that proposed by Erna Bennett. with a jauntier tread and with republic. Therefore "socialists" have in mind the Irish Labour ver's Travels as presented in the book she was writing in Russian nationhood will be set aside. In rich who rule the countries in > Larry Wrixon their heads held higher. who confine themselves to Party. - Editor). which the poor die of famine.:.?" Paris. July 1986 IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Seven

July 1986 Peter Mulligan's Page Six IRISH DEMOCRAT THATCHER — FITZGERALD ANGLO-IRISH u peep show AGREEMENT THE JACKETS GREEN IRISH HENRY JOY McCRACKEN f PACT TAKEN APART ANALYSED (Hanged July 17th. 1798) \\ HKN I «as a maiden fair and young on the pleasant banks of Lee, Fooled Again? The Anglo- whatever its limitations and course these groups, as elsewhere in Treaty the reader is given a definitive No bird that in the greenwood sung was half so blithe and free, the world, also interfere in British Air: The Lincolnshire Poacher (in slow tempo) Irish Agreement and After, problems, is the only possible locus of and useful picture of the trends in M\ heart ne'er beat with flying feet, no love sang me his queen SONGS political democracy in the modern internal politics. This increasing current Irish politics. The author's I ill down the glen rode Narsfield's men, and they wore the jackets green. 'TWAS on the Belfast mountains I heard a maid complain, by Anthony Coughlan. The world. It is the nation state alone dependence and loss of sovereignty by style is trenchant and earthy, Britain to the USA is a particular And she vexed the sweet June evening with her heartbroken strain. which can impose controls on capital indicative of the fact that he himself is \ tiung Donal sat on his gallant grey like a king on a royal seat, Mercier Press. 88 pp. feature to be noticed in the prioi Saying, "Woe is me! Life's anguish is more than 1 can dree in the social interest. Not only right in there in the middle of the And m> heart leaped out on his regal way to worship at his feel. £4.95. socialists, but enlightened capitalists, negotiations to the Anglo-Irish treaty. Since Henry Joy McCracken died on the gallows tree. struggle he is describing. His Oh! I ou, had >ou tome in those colours dressed and wooed with a see the need for such controls. Yet the justifiably satirical comments on the soldier's mien "At Donegore he proudly rode and wore a suit of green, whole thrust of the EEC is to abolish It is well-known that knowledge of banal excesses of sectarian politicians EMPIRE OF THE MIND - "Six them for transnational firms, most of Irish histoiy and politics within the I'd hau' laid m\ head on \our throbbing breast for the sake of your jacket And brave though vain at Antrim his sword flashing lightning keen and the slavishness of the hack media foot four Sergeant 'Tiny' G*t*r*r, which are run from a handful of big Trades Union and Labour movement are at once sharp and entertaining. green. And when by spies surrounded his band to Slemish fled, DCM, was perhaps the bravest man companies and see the nation states, in Britain is not of a very high order. "Fooled Again?' was written No hoarded wealth did m> lo\e own, save the good sword that he bore; He came on to the Cave Hill for to rest a wearv head. his Colonel ever knew. But now, where there subsidiaries operate, and In this book Anthony Coughlan takes immediately after the signing of the Hut I loud him for himself alone and the colour that he wore. after seeing service in Aden, after the attachment of their peoples to each political party and gives its Anglo-Irish Agreement last I or had he come in I ngland's red, to make me England's queen. "I watched for him each night as in our cot he slept, reaction to the Agreement. In being booby-trapped and ambushed national sovereignty as the principle November. So far the events and At daybreak to the heather, to MacArt's Fort, we crept. obstacle of the unimpeded search for discussing this he relates the class Id rove the high green hills, instead for the sake of the Irish green. in Northern Ireland, Sergeant consequences that have arisen out of When the news came from Greencastle of a good ship standing by maximum growth and profit." position of these parties to Irish that treaty over the past eight months 'Tiny' cannot bear to turn a corner. When William stormed with shot and shell at the walls of Garryowen And down by yon wee fountain we met to say goodbye. It is this ability of the author to society. He is particularly perceptive indicate that the author's analysis of I n tlu breach of death my Donal fell and he sleeps near the Treaty Stone. For fear of what is on the other focus current Irish politics (and on the Labour movement. Thus apart the situation is true and valid. Saying, "Death shall never part us, my love, for evermore.' I hat breath the loemen ne\er erossed when he swung his broad-sword Edited by side." Ex-Services Mental Welfare Britain's role in them) within the from the immediate issue of the S. O D. "He says, 'My love be cheerful, for tears and fears are vain.' keen, PATRICK BOND Society. context of a world-wide view that \nd I do not weep m> darling lost, for he fell in his jacket green. He says, "My love, be hopeful, our land shall rise again.' PRICE OF EMPIRE — A makes this book an exceptional He kissed me over fondly, he kissed me three times o'er. British army major and two contribution to help vs to understand When Sarslield sailed awa\ I wept as I heard the wild ochone, the extraordinary interest and The Struggle for Freedom "That night I climbed the Cave Hill, and watched till morning blazed, officers of the Royal Ulster I felt, then, dead as the men who slept 'neath the fields of Garryowen, Constabulary were killed by a involvement of powerful external And when its fires had kindled across the lough I pazed - forces in the Anglo-Irish Agreement. While Ireland held my l)on;il blessed, no wild sea rolled between, landmine near Crossmaglen. I ill I would fold him to my breast all robed in his jacket green. THE OLD 1 saw an English tender at anchor off Garmoyle, Gone now are the days when the on Picture Post Cards But alas! No good ship bore him away - to France's soil. Since 1969 when additional British could present the conflict in John Bull's Famous Circus. The mischievious humour, which was M\ soul has sobbed like the waves of woe that sad o'er tombstones break, "peace keeping" troops were sent the Six Counties of north-east Ireland "And twice that night a trampling came from the Old Shore Road, in, over 466 British soldiers have PRESUMABLY most of the real always more to the fore in nationalist lor I buried my heart in his grave below for his and Ireland's sake. BOG ROAD democrats in Britain, as distinct from as a mere parochial squabble between By John KUlen. Published been killed defending this fag end propaganda, is particularly evident in And I cr\: "Make way for the soldier's bride in your halls of death, sad 'Twas Ellis and his yeoman, false Niblock with them strode. the lip-servers, are to be found in the Protestant and Catholic tribes with by The O'Brien Press. MY feet are here on Broadway My father home returning the doleful story told - of empire. A total of 151 Royal their Government as the fair-minded the work of Donald McGiU. One of his queen," Trades Union and Labour movement cartoons shows that an Orangeman This blessed harvest morn, Ulster Constabulary officers and referee. In the chapter titled "The Price £11.95. pp 160. lor I long to rest by m> true love's side, and wrapped in the folds of green. 'Alas!' he says, 'young Harry Joy for fifty pounds is sold'." and in organisations such as the CND. under Home Rule has been transformed But oh, the ache that's in my heart Snow Job" we have a graphic THIS is a remarkable collection of 80 reservists, as well as 1,225 Activists in these fields of struggle are into a seller of organges. One feels that For the spot where 1 was born. "And is it true?" 1 asked her. "Yes it is true," she said. description of the enormous picture postcards with a brief history of I saw the Shannon's purple tide roll down by the Irish Town civilians have been killed. resisting onslaughts from Govern- this is a much more sensible activity My weary hands are blistered 'For to this heart that loved him I pressed his gory head. brouhaha publicity campaign which events which inspired the pictures, from As I stood in the breach by Donal's side when England's flag went down; THE TORY STATE — As ment and big business to restrict the than ranting and raving about "Home Through toil in cold and heat was mounted to sell the Agreement to 1905 to 1985. About half the cards were And now it glowers as it seeks the skies like a blood-red curse between - And every night, pale, bleeding, his ghost comes to my side - democratic rights of citizens to Rule". McGill later became famous for But oh, to swing a scythe again unemployment continues to rise the world. It involved all the EEC and photographs and the other half the work My Harry, my dead Harry, comes to his promised bride." organise, assemble and demonstrate his saucy seaside postcards, still on I weep, but 'tis not women's sighs will raise the Irish Green. Through a field of Irish wheat. the police arm themselves for NATO countries and with the USA of artists. The book was inspired by an against laws and policies with which display in English seaside resorts. Had I the chance to wander back, Now on the Belfast mountains this fair maid's voice is still, battle. The official jobless rate playing a leading role. To a large exhibition of Ulster postcards held in Oh Ireland, sad is thy lonely soul, and loud beats the winter sea, they disagree. So far the authorities Or own a king's abode For in a grave they laid her on high Carnmoney hill; stands at 13.7 per cent or 3.3 extent this role was carried out the Linen Hall Library in June 1979. Another very talented artist who IHut sadder and higher the wild waves roll from the hearts that break for have contained this challenge to their contributed to the cards was John P. It's soon I'd see the hawthorn tree The sad waves beneath a requiem for the dead, million registered. An extra 3,500 through USA funded organisations. The term Ulster is misleading as many thee; methods of ruling by dealing with Campbell, brother of the poet, Joseph By the Old Bog Road. But a rebel wind shrieks freedom above her wearv head. are to be laid off by British each manifestation of resistance as a Coughian cites the following bodies of the cards were produced in Dublin \ et grief shall come to our heartless foes, and (heir thrones in the dust be Campell. One of the best is Shipbuilders and British separate issue be it Trade Union, — the Bilderberg group, the Trilateral and in cities in England as well as in seen, When I was young and restless Commission, the Endowment for Belfast. The majority of the cards are "Devolution Pie." The one labelled 'The My mind was ill at ease Caledonian Airways are to lay off CND, racial disturbance or whatever. Wild Geese" by Robert Lynd showed So Irish maids, love none but those who wear the jackets green. 1,000. British Rail are to cut 4,000 The ruling class always has the fear Deomcracy, the National Democratic about the rival claims of Unionists, Through dreaming of America Institute, the Heritage Foundation Home Rulers, and Republicans. that Irishmen who attended the British jobs next month. However, the that these disparate elements of MICHAEL SCANLON And the gold beyond the seas. and the Institute for European The pro-unionists material tends on parliament in 1907 were not held in very Oh sorrow take their money! Tories have claimed a victory by, dissatisfaction could coalesce into a high regard. mass movement demanding a more Defence and Strategic Studies. Of the whole to originate from commerical 'Tis hard to find the same announcing that the numberjrf firms in Belfast -and England. The The was little publicity material of And what's the world to any man

mmmmm m I EffiM Page Eight IRISH DEMOCRAT July 1986 Festive! > go leor HEARING THE THERE is an old story lhai runs of Irish opens up all sorts of avenues THERE must be more Irish something like this: clergyman By of understanding to us and the activity in Britain than ever in meets a down-at-heel tramp one people of the Falls, attending their history, though the misfortune is snowy winter's day; tramp taps DONALL MacAMHLAIGH Irish classes three times a week that u has come a generation too seemed to understand this very clergyman for the price of a feed well be imagined that a lot of the The full power of state and late. Thirty years ago when the well. Those attending the classes, and in distaste clergyman asks folk for whom he instals these little wealth would seem to be drawn up emigrants came swarming into you gathered, would give an awful tramp, "My good man don't you luxuries have lots of bread indeed. against the hippies as indeed it was Manchester and Birmingham the lot to be fully conversant with the wish you could hear the word of Some of them as the famed Damon against the miners during their Irish could have become a Gaeilge as indeed I know would a God?" To which tramp replies, "1 Runyon might have put it, have all heroic strike, but the depressing formidable political force for lot of people all over Ireland. progress, but the British left were wish to God 1 could hear the the bread in the world with just thing is that it is not just the blind to their potentialities and cuckoo!" enough left over tofeed the starving landowners or even the unfortunate But there are an awful lot of the now their children try to make up millions in Africa or where have small farmers like Leslie Atwell Irish, too, who wouldn't give a dud foi their loss with cultural The settled and the itinerant you . . . whose hay crop was ruined by the penny for their ancestral language activities. communities (or individuals) have itinerants who are so vocal in - who are actively and sometimes And good on them, too. always stood in a peculiar condemnation of the 'brigands' - bitterly opposed to it, infact! There Pictured here is the Mayor ol relationship to each other. The Now me man is something of an ordinary working men, too, with are young fathers and mothersin all Bolton opening what proved to be Jootloose tramp may be despised by amateur philosopher (his nothing between them and penury the Gaeltacht areas, native Irish a most successful event inglorious the settled community but he (or professionalism is admittedly but a precariously-held job seem to speakers themselves, who are not summer weather. Tribute was paid she) is also secretly envied; rank confined to his swimming pools) be venting their outrage on the speaking Irish to their children lo the dedicated work ol organiser and possessions can a prison make anymore. Why, you may ask: is it .loc Mullarky (right). Mr Donall and he tells me that it almost a sure hippies. I work for a smallfirm and to paraphrase the poet and though cert (his words!) that the richer the my fellow workers, as men of little because they are anti-national, MacAnihlaigh gave a lecture on would it even possibly be because Patrick McGill. it is indisputably a very desirable man the more miserable and the substance (materially I mean - they they would like to be back in the UK LONDON is almost crowded commodity, money is no guarantor more illiberal in his views. Some of are fine blokes in many ways!) out with festivals. The Connolly of happiness - if it was then all the the very rich, he tells me, can only might be thought to be fairly as an integral part of a British Association "Connolly festival" monied people would be leaping be compared to an extraordinarily neutral - if not slightly supportive - family of nations (a status which 1 began with a concert in south about ecstatically all day and every grudging dog with a bone - they as regards the hippies. But not a bit feel would instinctively appeal to London where the star attraction day, would they not?But as anyone seem to think that there is a wide of it, quite the reverse in fact: they some members of Dail Eireann as was singer Nick Gaughan from who has ever come across them, world of scroungers out there, are as one in condemning them and long as they still held their seats, Glasgow, a member of the especially in a menial capacity, will totally dedicated to getting all they in believing that they should be that it is!)... No, I don't think it's Association. know, monied folk can be the most can for nothing and succeeding, subjected to a variety of that at all, in fact I am sure that A week later there was a miserable buggers alive. A friend of too. All their money, in short, punishments ranging in severity those native Irish speakers who are musical and dramatic representa- mine is engaged in an enterprise hasn't contributed much to their from castration or imprisonment to failing to pass along their heritage tion of the life of James Connolly, that brings him in touch with a wide happiness and with all the recent withholding of whatever social to their families are in the main directed by Leitrim-born Doris range of monied people, from the totally disinterested in politics; 1 Daly to a script written by Patrick hysteria about the hippies I wonder security benefits they enjoy. The very rich by most standards to the if the rich don't secretly envy the illiberality of so many working folk think it is a combination of things, Bond, produced by Paul the obvious contradiction between a Gilhooly. Alex Parrel played rich enough - he builds swimming merry band of 'brigands' most of is something that has depressed Connolly, Sarah Mahon his wife, pools and since the cheapest of whom, for all the alleged squalor of me for long - you can accept it and stated policy of support for the Lillie, and other performers these sets you back something in their living conditions, seem expect it from the rich - but when language and the pathetic record of included Dennis O'Dwyer as the region of ten grand then it may happier than the rich. bricklayers and labourers who successive governments - all that Padraig Pearse and Terry O'Brien themselves could become and an understandable feeling that stepping in at the last moment. unemployed and near- _ Stage direction was bv Tone Daly. in the any moment the way thingfare 26 qovnty Irish Republic we have A repeat performance .is today, regularly give vent to promised. today; there is, too, the total sentiments that would not have immersion in non-Irish culture A series of lectures on the been out of place in a Hitler youth significance of Connolly today beamed into every Irish home now was arranged, with John Hoffman camp you begin to realise how in Gaeltacht and Galltacht. There in West London, Anthony successful the British establishment is no longer even the excuse that Coughlan in Breni (with Tom and media have been in fostering native Irish speakers must arm Durkin, president of local Trades and perpetuating intolerance. It themselves with a knowledge of Council) in the chair) and would be so refreshing to hear just English (which seems to imply Desmond Greaves in Hackney. one voice occasionally say, apropos losing their Irish) - no one in any On June 22nd. Mr Chris the hippies or any other such non- part of Ireland today can fail to be Maguire organised the second conforming group, "Aw, leave the conversant with the English tongue annual commemoration of the poor bastards alone!" great Irish chartist Bronterre and there is no reason at all why everyone in the Gaeltacht should O'Brien. The proceedings were UP THE FALLS! not be fully conversant with both opened by the Mayor, Councillor A recent BBC 2 (or was it languages. Jim Holland, and the oration was Channel 4?) programme about the given by Desmond Greaves. people of the Falls Road in Belfast So why are people in places like Other speakers included the Falls Road striving to learn Councillor Gery Lawless who has set me thinking about cultural values. The Falls like most working what others in an independent Irish been active with Chris Maguire in state are only too willing to throw planning the commemoration and class areas would seem to have been renovating the memorial a model of neighbourliness and away? Is it just a reaction against gravestone, local MP Ernie friendliness until the present occupation, against the hostility of Roberts and historian Stan conflict in Northern Ireland did Unionists? If we had a 32 county Shipley who has unearthed Mayor of Bolton, Cllr Poulson, opening the 3rd Annual much to make people withdraw into republic in Ireland tomorrow and records of an O'Brienite pantiso- themselves. The Falls, its there was no longer any cracy in the state of Kansas, USA. Irish Festival, with Jim King (IBRG) and Irish Cultural inhabitants seem to agree, is still a discrimination in any part of the Among those present were Messrs Attache Justin Hirman. friendlier place than most but it was country (there still is in the Andy Higgins. Peter Walsh, Jack the interest in their cultural identity Republic, against Irish and Irish Kennedy, and Patrick Bond. 1 that struck me in the course of the speakers) against the Gaeilge AMONG forthcoming events LATE NEWS AND COMMENT would the 'language enthusiasts' of Irish people will be interested in programme, so many people taking THE Irish electorate by a three to sell-out people refused. Nothing the trouble to learn Irish in order the Six Counties gradually cool in ihe 50th anniversary commemo- two majority in a 50% poll that came from Fitzgerald could ration of the Spanish civil war, to that they might be able to their ardour as so many in the 26 rejected the coalition proposal to be good. And as for the talk that have done? be held from August 9th to 15th at introduce divorce into Ireland. the Unionists wouldn't come into appreciate what true Irishness is. Wedgwood Memorial College, a United Ireland without it, if they One man made the point that The Irish Democrat is not the Barlaston, near Stoke-on-Trent. It was an open secret that this was part of the Bilderberg plot had come in and voted in this without the Irish language you proper place, I know, for the This takes the form of a WEA (Fitzgerald and Thatcher met at referendum they would have could not even understand the dissemination of pessimistic views summer school, and the Gleneagles) to "Europeanise" carried the day. The Unionists origins of your local place names but I sometimes can't help feeling programme includes a visit to the Ireland as quickly as possible. themselves prevented divorce and ... the Falls Road, he mused-there that Sedn 6 Faoldin was right national garden festival. Tutors Fitzgerald cared nothing for the then moaned about it. are no fa lis anywhere near the place many years ago when he said that include Mr Bill Alexander, unfortunate people who found * » * as the name might lead one to think; Irish independence had come a commander of the British themselves in "holy deadlock," The International Brigade it is of course merely a corruption Battalion of the International couple of hundred years too late for but was anxious to follow up with Association announce a ceremony of the original meaningful Irish Brigade, and Dave Goodman, an by the memorial in Jubilee it to achieve that fulfilment it might a referendum deleting articles two name "Bothar na bhFdl, the Road then have been capable of, had it International Brigader who was and three of the constitution, thus Gardens, London, at 12 noon on captured with Frank Ryan. The July 19th' to commemorate to of the Hedges. There are myriad come earlier. giving up the last claim to the six. examples of this sort of thing - Irish contribution will not be counties, the basis of Irish' Spanish Civil War. Donall Mac Amhlaigh forgotten. neutrality. | * i/jf;*' * * Killamcy is meaningless as if . Details can be obtained from . At the memorial meeting to the stands though it has universally If divorce had been introduced Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd (TU), the Secretary, Wedgwood Labour veteran Robin Page supplanted the meaningful, original-. Nottingham Road, Ripley, Derbys, Memorial College, Barlaston, as part of a national resurgence Amot, the Connolly Association Gil Airne, the Church of the Sloe and published by Connolly Publi- Stoke-on-Trent, telephone 078- people would have voted for it. As was represented by Miss Jane Bushes. But of course a knowledge cations Ltd, 244 Grays Inn Road, 139-2105. part of a reactionary anti-national Tate. London WC1. Telephone: 01-833-3022.