THREAT TO FENIAN
Dublin's great Salford Tories' anti-Irish ban anti-war parade QUESTIONS IN DAIL U.S. Embassy besieged A FRANTIC campaign to prevent the erection of a memorial to ^ LETTER signed by Mr. Dan Breen, former chairman of Fianna the Manchester Martyrs on the spot where they were executed, Fail, and Mr. Peadar O'Donnell was handed into the U.S. culminated on October 12th when the Planning Committee of the Embassy in Dublin on Sunday, October 22nd. Salford City Council placed a ban upon it. So frightened were the Embassy officials of the enormous crowd be- The ban could be reversed by the whole Council IF all the sieging the Embassy that they dared Liberals and all the Labour men voted together against the not open the door more than a couple pf inches. Tories. This was considered unlikely. But the Arthur Dooley metalwork may still be put on display in the City Art Gallery. The demonstration was part of m the world-wide protest against the AGAINST TORY |AN First shot in the campaign to memorial to Admiral Lord Nelson war in Vietnam. Though, the Dublin ban the memorial was ftred on in Dublin in March last year, and demonstration was, relative to the August 18th when a man who with as much gelignite to Wow the boulder back to its native size of the country, one of the REGISTRY ROOMS, signed himself m Spence posted Wlcklow. largest in Europe, the British news- a ' letter to Tom Redmond papers completely blacked it. out threatening to blow up the If any memorial is to be raised tt will bg,itaJ3$*geaat Brett, who from 'ifie British public. • • t* -HJ&- v -r. was gunned down by these f Fenian murderers. Just watch -,Xbe demonstrators came from all Speakers: The full text of the letter runs : for the public outcry as the cam- over Ireland, Dublin, Cork and Bel- paign against this memorial fast, thus by converging on Ireland's STAN ORME, M P. ARTHUR DOOLEY Sir,—Rest assured ho memorial gains grounds especially after the. capital city emphasising Ireland's TOM REDMOND, DESMOND GREAVES to police-killing Fenians is going recent police murders in London. own national unity. to be allowed in an English A. SPBNQE- JOHN BROOME (Stockport T.C.) oity. It will get the same treat- There was no public outcry. But The march from Parnell Square ment that your friends gave the it is understood that at a later date to Ballsbridge was headed by a police officials visited holders of sites in the vicinity of the scene of coffin marked "child killers." the execution, pointing out the • >•< *<•• • «-• - j' ... ! f " undesirability" of erecting this " Tbt- spirit of the demonstration plaque. But some sito-hoMers felt was not anti-American. The letter that as history could not .be contained the words:— changed, the best thing was to T)ESPITE the cleaj and commemorate, it and learn from it "History had few sxsmplos of urgent pleadings and warn- so gnat i Mtton savaging a small ings of Mr. Gerard flitt, M.P. PLANNINO people' fighting for Its national for West Belfast, the British It was at this Stack that tho Sah independence," Home Secretary Mr. Roy Jen- longer denied that the British words the Tories had his backing. Pl^j^wirBjj Contiftftt^o fMf^Stf^DSy » • .4 Parliament had the power to legis- It recognised the "mounting kins refused to alter past prac- One truth came out however. late far democracy in the six He said "the Fng1'gh had no shame" of the great American tice by interfering to insist on counties people at President Johnson's crimi- democracy in the six occupied particular talent for solving the me*'-• nal policy, and pointed out that-the counties of Northern Ireland. The campaign of the Connolly problems of Ireland." That pure town-pianattg. Americans were fighting to deny Association, ably.' backed up by To which every Irishman will siderattons were not the f|Mi Vietnam what they were themselves By this refusal be condemned other Irish organisations, has now give one answer, "Very well then, present to their minds was dkown fighting for against British Im- hundreds of thousands of Ulster established It is not a case of why not get out? Why not bring by speeches made by tho Tory Catholics to the continuance of a perialism in 1776. "cant" but a case nf "won't." out your troops, stop your sub- Alderman JobUn, who ilolaMIl flu I life of unemployment, religious sidies, and got off our backs?" its erection "oouid provoke — A tremendous force of police was discrimination and police harass- RAI80N|ffiTRE between Irishmen and English out .and there were a few scuffles on ment under the Union Jack. Mr. Jenkins wpUaigly let the WARNED 5> , people or between Ulsterattnand O'Omuell Bridge. Nobody' was A distinctive feature of the bat out' of the 1mr In an un- Mr. Jeddn's imperialistic views people from Southern Ireland" He Arrested. The great mass oi the debate in the. British Parliament guarded remark and revealed him- were not shared by a large num- thought it might be a breaefa of the Dublin people were enthusiastically daring which this refusal was self on Irish matters to be as con- ber of Labour MP.s who wire Race Act, and he totted in favour of the demonstration. made was the fact that it was no firmed an imperialist as his Tory present These cheered Mr. Pitt when he answered Mr. Chichester of wilting to thft British Howe predecessors. In admitting that Secretary mrtrtmr Mm to ttkamne. the six counties were incorporated Clarke who accused him at advo- cating violent* from the CXmnoty Other councillors thought tbo intro- in the United Kingdom he sajd duction of a six-ton boulder would "that is their raton d'etre*" This Association platform In Trafalgar dilation mmHp wonted Square last June. be "detrimental" to surrounding means in simple English that they development Yet the dawelopen are included with England to take H Mr. John Ryan said: "I was on were still not ohjeottef ttaaasotves. THE lrMi Demoerat" MUST Domoorat is bought them off Ireland, and Mr. Jenkins 1 1 the platform with him. Be did kwroaaa Ms oirrtlatlon If And tho samo goos for many a is in favour of it not advocate violence. He warned Alderman JokUn Insisted that he faotory. was not anti-Irish. And the Con- It Is to survive. He refused to extend the race against it" 1 Wo would thoroforo ask any of nolly Association, who - j wvw relations act to religious discrim- we mutt Is to ko akle to tho supporters of tho paper who Repeatedly in these exchanges the memorial, assured are In a position to do so to ination in the six counties; and he Mr. Pitt had the Who* M '-*m concerned that they had i sales on jok*. Look Mall aasnts for tho also (as Mr. Pitt pointed out) left Labour back - benchers »oo«lng against Sergeant Brett, six county electors outside the tM ifc. Thoro aro vociferous support. Undoubtedly he regretted be had been " many Irish Tveilo unlontsts who scope of the Ombudsman to whom got the best of tho debate, his the killing was, in the working on thorn. On ho* many British citizens can apply. Awuypmdy bring the "Irtsh are In a position to do so, and If plain-speaking sincerity in sharp accidental, and secondly, nsisiisry tho «Irish Oomoorat" His refusal was due to unwilling- contrast to the prejudiced thun out by Allen Larkin Or look at the will arrango forms. Writs or oall ness to interfere with "the way derings of the Unionists and the and thirdly, they had not had a mon on tho tU Oroya inn Road, London, Stormont has boen left free of polite evasions of the Home Secre- fair trial to establish their inno- W.0.1. British interference." in other tary.
ONE DAY SCHOOL to «.m. and 2 p.m., SUNDAY. NOV 1»th Tutor: SEAM REDMOND Subjact Tha Irish Qnaatlon and 6m British Paopla. GRAND HOTEL. Charing Croaa, Oaagow, C.3. Faa: 5/ aMcr? .JBf -m i November 1967 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRISH Using planning' to keep usurped power DEMOCRA• T OUR FIGHT FOR LIFE THE "Irish Democrat" is fighting tutorship, and is in fair way to be- once here we faced so critical a polity is anti-imperialism. It is for the area, 6,500, has been guar- outside the Belfast boundary in Editor : for its existence. coming more British than the position as we do now, and that was became British Labour has taken Elizabeth Sinclair throws spotlight on Unionist strategy anteed. (The August percentages what some call " Greater Belfast." ; C. DESMOND GREAVES Brit sh themselves. in 1947 when we had to go down ovvi' t.ie imperialism of Toryism of unemployment for Portadown Plans costing millions of pounds far Let us make no mistake of that. to four pages. that it has betrayed the hopes of FEW weeks ago I paid a becoming a menace to their privi- the dole or national assistance. was 5.4 and Lurgan 5.0—for Derry a ring road and the re-development leged position has never been so Monthly - 9d. What a sorry state of affairs! the people of this country and of visit to a retired educa- City 17.8, and Newry 16.3.) The of the city have been prepared. Just look round at the economics conscious as it is today. Following The beauty of such a plan was Annual subscription 12/- Some people say, why do we not Ireland. It is because the members tionist and administrator and dream of the Unionist Party is that / iUTSIDE these cities and. areas, of newspaper publication and what the division of Ireland in 1920, and that public money—j»i»ed from the No wonder some excellent people succumb to the atmosphere of con- of the Labour movement in Britain his wife. They could be termed Craigavon will become a Mid-Ulster from 283 Grays Inn Road, do you see on all sides? Some in the years up to the outbreak of entire community—would be spent, the Unionist Government ap- fall by the wayside. No wonder fusion, apathy and gloom which the did not sufficiently understand the bastion for Toryism. London,' W.C.I. papers are putting their prices up as " liberal" Unionists. In- the second world war, unemploy- and one44»ird of the public would pears to have no developed inten- there is an attitude of "don't want Labour Government's appalling need to break utterly with imperial- and getting away with it and others evitably tiie yarn came round ment affected Catholic and Prates- be, as far as humanely possible, SECOND new city will arise tions. For the people of Warren- to know"; and generally speaking record has brought on the people? ism. that they let their leaders get are closing down. to community relations in tent workers alike. The Govern- permanently excluded from any of A with the linking of Coleraine, point, Strabane, Omagh, Newry, the circulation of newspapers goes away with it. And it is because they Northern Ireland. The man. ac- ment concentrated on perfecting the ensuing prosperity. Let them Portrush and Portstewart around Newcastle, Derry, Enniskfllen, Dun- up when they contain something Frankly we do not think we are allowed themselves to be charmed have ever so many children—when The "Irish Democrat" is in a that people want to read. Ours is cording to his wife, was no its machinery of control and armed the new Coleraine University and gannon, Ballymoney and Armagh, FENIANISM compelled to. We warned that by the honeyed words, and the their children left school they would where unemployment for men special position. We are banned not up sufficiently to meet the end- mean jnathematician, and it was repression—to he used against both the industrial developments that the Labour Government would NOT "business opportunities" of imperial- bame to take the boat and seek a have taken place in the area ever ranged (August, 1967) from 10.1 from the news-stands by the whole- less rise in costs which for some rea- do any more than its predecessors ism posing as a benefactor that his view that, with the alleged Catholics aoK Rratestamte, as it salers for years and years. And we WU in .October, ms, when ^Belfast livelihood 4fa»where. the past ten years. Plans for per cent to 25.1 per cent (Strabanei son or other the Government calls for Ireland or anybody else. We con- Lemass and Lynch have turned high biisth rate among Roman LIVES OH do not have advertisement revenue. its "prices and incomes policy" — r«Hef Kflrkers st^mc*. Tbe me plan of the Northern Union- roads, housing, etc., what is termed most of them border areas and centrated on the need to change the themselves into political toadies to Cathoteen, it was only a matter in modern jargon as " the infra- containing the majority of the This is the price we have to pay for that is, a rise in prices while in- POLICY of the Labour Movement.— the British big businessmen. nuifftolMW of repQMic» and the tat qo»BWMmot,' an wwUcam of THE important meeting rn the fearless advocacy of the cause of time before they were in the Special Kwsvers Acte we« available structure," are well-advanced. This nationalist political opposition- comes stay the same (except and the Labour PARTY is only one Myorts prepared for them and to Manchester ow November of the Irish working man in the capitalist incomes). majority. Then the Unionist for " general use." And tsbe Party their own sseotfications, is taking area has always been looked upon there is little else than the dole or part of the Labour Movement. A paper to defend these ideas as a Unionist stronghold. the boat. IBWr, evening of the IVtbston unfriendly, often acutely hostile en- Goweiacnejit, and Protestants held on baeame there was not a a definite patter. A new city is vironment of imperialist Britain. among the Irish in Britain is a genefSWy, Should recognise this strong united trade union and being created from the former Industries have been guided to commemoration, will probably So we are not making ends meet. We said before, and we repeat necessity. We place before our The Unionist Party is using the now, that ONLY the principles and readers our record of struggle, fit for " inevitability" and get on labour movement to bring it down. towns of Lurgan and Portadown, the Carrickfergus-Larne area on the be tha last public event of the We have to ask our readers to industrial development to perpetu- And we have got to make ends practice of James Connolly can comparison with any in journalism, with the job of " living with the After the war workers refused to and has already been christened Antrim coast-line. There have Fenian centenary year. pay the full cost of printing the meet or go under. been reports that there is a short- ate their political domination in enable the Labour Party even to and ask for financial support, swift, Catholics " as best they could. go back to the bad old conditions "Craiga»on," after the first Prime Northern Ireland, and the opp<>- paper. And all our costs, wages, ex- and something had to be done. age or workers here, and August It wiU neither be the last of survive. It has no future, literally substantial and sustained. minister of the State and (1922- nents of the party can go to hell or penses, everything are all pruned It is absolutely clear that we will I gam my opinion ana stated Whilst on the political front tbeae percentages of unemployment were Fenianism, nor of the effort to have no future, a« a poor imitation of its J640) a Strang protaganist of a Connaught—or stay on the dole or down to a figure that would make have to put up our price to a shil- that il the With rate bad been the was not the united opposition, still " Protestant Parliament for the 4.1 and 4.8 respectively. the Manchester Martyrs worthily Conservative rivals. It can only supplementary benefit (new term the average newspaperman either ling. A«d we want all our faithful determining factor, the Unionists the trade union movement united Protestant People." The " new " Belfast, having as imponder- commemorated on the spot where, disappear if it goes on like that, as would have been swamped long ago. for National Assistance). burst laughing or tatee apoplexy. regular readers to talk about it, to the Liberals virtually disappeared. all shades of opinion in demanding city is estimated to cost £140 ables the viability of the aircraft after A frame-up trial, they were explain it, to show others this The birth rate arguiaaat could have full employment and better social million. factory and, since July, 1966, the The Unionists, holding political done to death. Tijey disappeared because they be- been accepted as mild Mxr since power and controlling the purse- But • it is even worse. We are a article, and win support for the only came Tory. But Messrs. Wilson SPECIAL ccypttttone — plus an end to Belfast shipyard, still retains a political paper, the paper of a nation measure that can save us. the Northern IrelapiK flKa$e ws set pdltticifl or religious discrimination. Plans are prepared to build four strings, mock their opponents when This has been made certain by and Brown have no right, and reasonable amount of employment, the Sartford Tories who, after an and a claas. And at present the up in 1922. No, I said, the Unio- thousand new homes by 1971, a and, being the capital city of they tell them that they will help must not be allowed to pat an end The Unionists had to act to save new large hospital is to start next eatery verging on hysteria, have nation and the class we represent Indeed that alone may not be nist Party, having seized control of their position. And so, after a Northern Ireland, and largest trad- bring industries if they, their op- to a movement that belongs to the the commanding heights of indus- year, a new arrangement is being tanned the ereetlen of an artistic are reeling in confusion and anger sufficient to save us. We MUST people. THANKS ing port (so far)) has a "rough- ponents, can " make proposals." number of years and when " plan- made for children to enter gram- memorial designed by the Liver- at the most shocking series of be- hold or increase our circulation try, commerce, central and local ning " had ceased to be a dirty ness " of jobs that no other area They insult their intelligence when SPECWtL THANKS to V. gevemment, were able to so order mar school at a second age level paoi-lrish sculptor Mr. Dooley. trayals in the long history of the when the price goes up. And we word, plans were drawn up to pro- has, despite the August percentage they state that they cannot force imperialist penetration of popular We therefore believe that what the IVtahdn SI-, P. Bond £14, P. Mul- matters in the absence of unity of after sitting a 14-plus examination foreign industrialists to go as far MUST have a bridging fund. If we "Irish Democrat" has got to say vide profits for the monopolists of 5.1 per cent unemployed—a big When the Manchester Connolly movements. put up the price before our readers ligan £1/2/9, J. O'Connor 1ft/-, the opposition forces, that even if (at present 11- and if the child is proportion of whom are unskilled as Newry and Derry—a mere 70 sad Association proposed this little act should be said, needs to oe said, and (and their lackeys) and Jobs in lucky, 13-plus) examination. know why, we shall lose circulation. J. WJieian £3, J. McLaughlin the birth rate was three or four the areas where the Unionist Party male workers. 38 miles respectively—hi these days Of posthumous recompense to is entitled to the support of every times as lar'ge, the Catholic In England, a Labour Government Therefore we have to ask all who 10/-, T. Watte rs £2, A. Bush would hope to receive the maxi- A West German firm manufacturing But unfortunately its political of apeedy transport. The Unionists Afton, Larkin and O'Brien, they tore up its election promises after forward-thinking Irish man and £10, B. Wilkinson 10/-, A. G. people will never be able to "take reveal their cruelty when they were encouraged by the favourable know the reason to pay the shilling woman in England, quite apart from mum political support. If the plan plastic injecting moulding machines future is not secure. It returns a weeks in office and is now more Tory voluntarily at once. Morton £2/2/6, A PettH £1/1fr/-, oyer" with the aid of such a did not bring work to the other speak of "local jealousies" over response ef the former City Council those at home. What is needed now wteapon. has gone into production. The number of Opposition Members of than the Tories, striking blow on Vt. H. Jones £1, G. Murphy 10/-, areas, where the majority were op- the siting of the new University to believe that the Rowling anti- blow at the working people who is a reassemblement of the Left, Goodyear factory and St. Joe Paper Parliament and could, given unity Hrish mobs were a thing of the for- And once more we must issue ai B. R. Atkins £2, W.W. £10, A ND this detenuuaatioa of the ponents of the Unionist Party, that Corporation factories in the areas (at Coleraine instead of Derry) elected it, and bewildering the many and a strenuous effort to bring back of the opposition movement, return gotten past, and that Manchester appeal for the biggest possible F.N.®. £1, Anon. £1/10/-, G. & Ulster Unionists to prevent the was just too bad. Such people will soon begin producing. Almost more. New industries that have and the new Michelin factory (at honest men who support it in and donations list we have ever had. the Labour movement on to the Catholic, or any other section, ever Ballymena instead of Newry or people, whatever their racial lines its founders (of whom James T. Shields £1, J. Deere 10/-, J. could always emigrate or live on half of the new jobs target for 1971 and are coming, tend to be sited origins, could take common pride in out of Parliament. Derry). (Brian Faulkner, Minister The present editor has been ir Connolly was one of the greatest) D. LaTor £1, Dee Martin £1, W. all the component strands of their mapped out for it, and which have of Commerce, addressing the an- great city's radical tradition. In Ireland, the party founded by charge of the paper continuously Parker £2, J. McCarthy 10/-,.C. nual meeting of Spa and Dunmore men who withstood British military since January 1948, and was on the been abandoned by lesser men. Kelley, T. O'Byrne, L. Fennel) ENGLISH DELEGATE LECTURES IRISH ON THEIR Branch of East Down Unionist as- The Tories have shown, however, intervention, Pjarma Pail, has editorial committee and edited a few 10/-; total £53/13/3. sociation in the 6pa Orange Hall, that at least one dog is unchanged. capitulated to British economic dic- issues away back to 1940 . . . ortf$ We believe the heart of a Left October 12th.) NE-THIRD of the population in In this they may have done the "NATIONALISM" AT DUBLIN ' Northern Ireland are faced Irish an unintended service. They with political, economic and social have shown clearly that whatever World Commentary by Pat Devine the revulsion against Labour's woe- apartheid. A policy if industrial ful record, the solution does not -BUT GERRY FfTT REPLIES! and economic genocide is being lie in a return to the old party of planned, and it carries within it wealth and privilege, but in a Irish labour Party Con- membership. The composite itself ket weren't really known and that Labour Party. She said that the seeds of economic and political cleaning up of labour's own house. ference in liberty Hall, was rather confused, however, call- CHE GUEVARA-A REVOLUTIONARY DIES the Labour Party intended sending socialism, however, whatever it disorder. It must be defeated. The Dublin, this October, wj&one of ing for participation in a United a delegation to Brussels to find was, wasn't nationalistic; it knew political parties in opposition to the Why wore the Satford Tories so ipHE GUEVARA has been Over four million Rhodesians are the essential question of national Soviet men and women, peasants, the meet exciting and important Socialist -States off Europe—which out. no borders and was tine unity of Unionists and the trade union fooMsh as to provide this I it Me piece murdered. Bolivia's Fascist held in thrall by this small white equality in Africa—demands that industrial workers and workers of for years. pCbere werp jneariy seems rather like looking for pie in the workers throughout the world. movement must come together'and, of political education? What a Rhodesian gang. It would be true she does something to aid the Rho- the world, forged ahead from In the event this advice was President, Barrientos, swore he desian people to defeat their mino- 800 delegates and they were in the sky! It gave rise to the most But Mr. Gerry Fitt, fraternal in unity, fight for full employment thing to do when Tod Hoath and to say that if the four million success to success. taken and the resolution was re- would get him, and evidently, rity government. TTiey overcame incredible difficul- a rathe aaaontinl Tho Liberals have a good radical dence of newly-liberated peoples thing which now differentiated it The E.ESC., bewlC dM'nat r«*e- The .conference was addressed by wore presented with copies of the tradition, but are entirely English. there have been so many loopholes, influx of Fascists to the Tory Party. Fidel Castro and the Cuban gov- That is not surprising because the throughout the world. fr&m the other Irish parties. He sent Europe, but European capita- Mr. Fintan Kennedy of the works of James Connolly after they { IfTTClT^ There were thus sound local ernment have declared a three days via Portugal and South Africa, not had given their addresses, by Mr. to mention the British firms, send- Tory M.P.s Maudling and Sandys, MIJIMI "(hat there was much lism. It was a system designed to I.T4S.W.U., who said that there masons for raising the ant I-Irish national mourning for this great END VIETNAM WAR • a. - . lii n fill'. . I I„. ' make the rich richer and the poor should be a strong delegation from James Tully, chairman of the boggy, and the Tortes did not hesl- ing goods under flags of conveni- as well as Biggs Davison ctf Chlg- TT is good to learn that large revolutionary who ranks with the weil and Jenkin of Wanstead and mom iw aHtpate aaout auxercut poorer, which would cause mass un- bis union at the time of the next Labour Party. * numbers of Irishmen in Wales, tattr to raise K, as they raised the greats' of the past—Garibaldi, ence to Rhodesia, that the full As President Johnson drives for- employment in Ireland and rule out conference, when the I.T.G.W.U. At the and .of the Conference, ootanr bogey hi SmethwfcK and effect of sanctions has been lost. Woodford, are strongly supporting ward with his murderous war of definitions of secuflism, hut he saw England and Scotland are now Budenny, Bolivar, Ltam Lynch, Wat the rebellious Ian Smith regime, ft «k a system in which the in- the possibility of the country ever affiliation to the Labour Party Mr. Barry ©esmond was eleeted goring up supporting the English elsewhere In the past. Tyler and others. Faced with this obvious weaken- extermination against the Viet- should have gone through. Miss which by any standard of measure- namese people, the world erupts in terests of the community were put maintaining real Independence. He chairman to succeed Mr. Tully. Mr. LaHsour Party, and are anxious to And what will they achieve? Ex- He was Castro's right-hand man ing of action by imperialism to pointed out that if delegates were Margaret Herbison was ttiere as a ment is a fascist regime. protest. Inula r, *j jprtifr of a mmertty, Desmond is an official of the Irish help and join the Freedom or Self- actly what they didn't want They in the victorious struggle against bring Rhodesia to heel, the African to take socialism seriously, then fraternal delegate from the British In practically every country in in aihteb aaaial Justus «MU Congress of Trade Unions, and government or National parties in wiH bring to thousands ef British the United States of America people, like the Irish during British WORLD CHANGES id fee «at« aten*- they couldn't take the easy path Labour Party, and welcomed the secretary of the Irish Anti- Wales and Scotland. citizens a olearer knowledge of the occupation, have been organising the world Ireland, Britain, Canada, in the debate, and fail to pass the affiliation of the trade unions to -the military and multi-millionaire oli- Fifty years ago in 1917 when the Japan, the Netherlands, Africa, i the «nd, tor Me «*11 Apartbeid Movement. Even very many Irishmen living C^rtleai ruffianism of the British garchy. guerrilla action against the invad- resolution. Our attitude to the BsCaMtshmont of a hundred years first world war was at its height, France. Spain, etc., hundreds of in England are now contacting Against unbelievable odds, Castro ers of their country. Common Majfeat „ Plaid Cyjneu, « Queen determined as ever to fight on te fascist government has warned Messrs. Lynch, Haughey and Le- on Irish nationalists in a part of establish the Republic, one and in- dence, and still have it. tuals from H. G Wells onwards testant, Mohammedan, Hindu, Jew- Labour Party too* .part in .the de- could easily become anti-English Street, Caerdydd UFrank Allaun, has come for- base of Rochefort and a vice- {Hide in his Irish ancestry. After are now . . . fighting for you and has a special memorial at St. stock and barrel to the completely '"THE new "Irish Democrat" and Cromwellian and WBllamlte wars, ward courageously, to speak. Yet last year only 2,000 houses admiral in the mid-18th century. a dramatic career as a boy in the against European tyrants. ... I Pierre, a worthy representative of ^uncontrolled arbitrary power of Connolly Association premises many were seamen. Most of these The plaque, designed by the were provided In Dublin, 896 by the REPUBLICAN Charles de la Touche MacCarthy Napoleonic navy, he became cap- am myself soon Joining a French the great Irish democratic tradition t the Unionists, and the British were officially opened on the last settled in Britanny. Some quickly Liverpool-Irish sculptor Arthur Corporation was commander of Quebec naval tain of a frigate in which he made warship, where I shall have an in the maritime services of France. Parliament, while prepared to have Sunday of September, when the became ship-owners. By the end Dooley, will be on display, together base in 1745, Lieutenant O'Connor, the first official report to the the Union Jack flying over Belfast General Secretary, Sean Redmond, Its proposals include:— of the first decade of the 18th-een- with a picture of the whole memo- CLUBS—N.U.R. several other officers and a number French government on conditions was not prepared to protect the was presented with a book signed tury one of these, Joyce, owned rial, including the ancient Irish (1) That the Corporation declare T is mainly to the credit of Joe of seamen were in French ships in Latin America, in revolt against citizens it had proclaimed to be by the members as a gesture of several ships at Nantes, trading shields, and metalwork. The meet- a housing emergency; fighting the English at Trafalgar. the Spanish Empire. British? congratulation on his recent mar- I O'Connor the Kerryman and his with many ports in Western Vice - Admiral Joseph Gregory ing is on November 28th at 8 p.m. friends among the Irish railwaymen The lobbyers brought out quite riage. (2) The requisition-of 200 old large Europe. He employed only Irish O'Casey was a deputy in the revo- He supported the revolution of MY FIRST FAREWELL In Dublin on Thursday, October that the N.U.R. executive has now a number of M.P.s. houses for immediate conver- seamen. lutionary parliament of 1848; Vlce- 1830 which prevented the royalists 26th, Mr. Erskine Childers was Amongst those who had by volun- passed a resolution demanding that undoing in France the gains of By P. J. NOLAN sion into flats. Admiral Eugene McGuckin com- asked in the Dail whether he had LL these were Labour, although tary work renovated the premises the ban on the Republican clubs By the middle of the 18th cen- the great Revolution, and In 1843, 4 manded ships against Germany in made representations to the British special efforts had been made and made them habitable were: P. (3) A clamp-down on speculative imposed by the Stormont junta tury at least five sizeable merchant as Minister of Marine, initiated a ,QFTEN whilst walking Dim friendly hills and the church A the Franco-Prussian War, and in Government to insist that the Sal- to bring out the Liberals who at Bond,.J. Gallivan, Jim Costello, P. office building; shall be lifted. ships of Nantes were captained by systematic and successful campaign steeples. They were people fading J. Cunningham, Charles Cunning- 1916 Lieutenant O'Byrne in the Laoire pier I saw the majl- ford ban was lifted- r their conference last month had Irishmen—Tobie Clarke, Nicholas to wipe out the negro slave trade • into the mist, looking back staring Curie carried out one of the most boat sail away across the Irish He refilled that he had not done pledged themselves to action ham, Joseph DeigSan, Dorothy (4) A ceiling price for building land The general secretary, Mr. Murphy, Denis Macnamara, Patrice from West.Africa to America. at the' people on promenade and daring submarine raids in the first Sea to Holyhead, the place that so. But It was clear that there was regarding the six counties. A Deighan, Desmond Greaves, Sean related to its agricultural value; Greene, had told the Earls Court Rice, and a Captain Macarthy. TN recent years France has been pier after evening Mass. Redmond, Mabel Donovan, Eddie rails branch that this was a matter world war, penetrating into the was then only a name to considerable Indignation at what Is special letter has since been sent (5) Requisition of vacant houses Irish seamen from Nantes and in the forefront of mankind's Never had I thought of the pain Ferguson, Jack Henry, Pat Hensey, for the Northern Ireland Govern- heart of the Austrian naval base at me, where wandering souls dis- felt to be an anti-Irish ban. The the Liberals asking them to meet and other possible accommoda- Lorient took a big part in building great battle to develop and apply of parting until one evening I too Alf Kearney, Des Kellett, C. Kelly, ment; *4£spite the fact that his up French trade with Asia, others Pula, and so influencing the course embarked, a tiny stepping-stone Salford Tories have net helped Mr. an Irish deputation. tion; of the naval struggle in the Adria- the science of oceanography. Much joined the throng, and sailed too. Jim Kelly, Pat Kelly, Rolf Long- union was by conference resolution from Bordeaux in developing .the to greater places. The unknown Wilson In his plan to coax the The points urged by the lobby, tic. research has been carried out by I left not for want or need, but Republic baok into the Empire. den, James McLoughlin, Peter on record for intervention by West- wipe trade of that city, also a deep-diving bathyscaphs. One of wandering souls were standing organised by the Connolly Assoc- Mulligan, Susan Redmond, Robert (6) Temporarily convert new houses for experience. I stood on the deck iation, included repeal of the into flats; minster. great centre for Irish refugees. Scientific and humanitarian the greatest experts in the use of on the deck, sailing to emigra- and watched the familiar homeland Rossiter, Chris Sullivan, Jane Tate Other Irish seamen and ship- ideas began at last to become re- these, and for a time holder of the Special Powers Acts, one man and Peter Woplin Our best Mr. O'Connor did not allow mat- tion. fade into the twilight. Overhead one vote at election, legislation to (7) Withhold the £4,000,000 due as owners—OTiegarty, Warren—were spectable with the welling-up in the world record for the deepest dive, Never had I been able to see a white-winged gulls played about thanks to these—please forgive us interest on loans and devote ters to rest there, but pursued the established at St. Malo and Dun- 18th century of the ideas that has- is Lieutenant O'Byrne, grandson of outlaw discrimination and incite- if we have left anybody out. issue actively in his branch. As a single face filled with sorrow among the ship, but as we drew further ment, removal of the ban on this to housing. kirk, and at one time the Kilkenny tened the outbreak of the great the Curie hero, with whom his dis- from shore they began to return result Cork man Tom Aherne raised tant cousins in Co. Wicklow are that throng, only countless eyes Republican Clubs, lifting of the Walshes, settled at Nantes, were the French Revolution. Great voyages straining back to the rolling, in small groups till they became BOOKSHOP the whole issue on the executive • ban on the United Irishman, and council, and as a result a resolution . tiny white shapes fading into the the discontinuing of economic dis- darkness. Restore lost Derry line was passed with only one dissen- 283 GRAYS INN ROAD crimination based on political tient demanding that the, British grounds, depriving nationalist I glanced around at the other Open CALL for the reopening of Labour says that there should be Prime Minister use his power to faces and thought we were children areas of industrial development. A LONDON WEDNESDAY NIGHTS A 4.th1 e TJ-.1Belfast-DerrX 4. TV y railwa-i y aa singlsinflep publirmhlirc< authoritn11H-inr-ifty t responraovtAn-. compel Stormont to lift the ban. suddenly grown old; staring back sible for operating services in the ONE ON ME MONG the Members of Parlia- line through Omagh and the The N.U.R. is one of the "big at childhood. Soon we were at SATURDAY AFTERNOON Belfast area, from Lisburn to ment who met the deputation abandonment of the wrecking '' UNIDENTIFIED flying Ob- The most curious phenomena in The managing director of General DIARY Holyhead standing in lengthy A Carrickfergus. five' trade unions in Britain. broad daylight are the parhelia, queues, hauling baggage to and fro, and normal hours. were Mr. Sid Bidwell (Southall), proposals to reduce the Belfast- jects sighted over Belfast." Electric gets only £15,000. He is Mr. A. H. MacDonald (Chislehurst) It was bound to happen: Did arising from large haloes due to the a "low salary" man Sir Billy answering the customs men's ques- Dublin line in the interests of the R.U.C. see them? The filtering of the sun's light through Butlin gets £15,000 too. Sir MaUrice By tions put in Welsh or some other the big road freight monopolists thin cloud. Some of it is concen- Bridgman of British Petroleum gets strange accent. Then the train for close to the Unionist Party, was CORK Ulster police are good at iden- trated into bright spots called London. IRISH LABOUR tification. £50,000 a year, Mr. Arthur Drake Killeshandra made by the Northern Ireland "mock suns." Bright stars and on the same board gets £35,000. At Hyde Pork LIVERPOOL Labour Party. Of course it is all a lot of child- even planets when they are low It is silent as we sit, thinking Courtaulds Sir Frank Kearman of friends and families left behind. SEAN REDMOND . A- • UNITY TALKS ish nonsense written up by Ignorant in the sky undergo "horizon en- The statement proposes that the gets £22,500 and Mr. Herbert Now he has put out a statement Some, optimistic for the future, Meetings BY-ELECTION journalists. Let a credulous city largement" and look exaggeratedly Speaks Government not only subsidise the Mathys gets £25,000. together with the Irishman who is however, are dwelling on thoughts •THE all-Ireland link-up of Lab- man loose on the country sky, big and can twinkle so furiously SUNDAYS, 3 p.m. • maintenance of the present railway NE of Ireland's most colourful and At the publishing group that secretary of the Myton strike com- J- our, the N.I.L.P., Mr. Fitt's where he can actually see what is that they appear almost to "go out" of employment in well-paid jobs. NOVEMBER, 1997 system but also of its expansion. ' popular personalities, Mr. Boin owns the "Daily Mirror" Cecil King mittee—Michael Houlihan Republican Labour Party and the O in it, and the conclusions he draws between the twinkles. Others are woiTied about facilities THE MITRE It points out that every country O'Mahony, is intending to stand in gets £35,000 a year—£700 a week, It points out that the basic rate to practise their religion, maybe re- 5th—8. Redmond, B. Heatley, Irish Labour Party which has been are bizarre indeed. R. Rossi ter. in the world today maintains its the Cork by-election in mid-November And then there are optical illu- £100 a day, £4 every hour of the in the building trade is only £15 membering sfftne extract from a Dale Street discussed in discreet negotiations Most of these "flying saucers" or sions like the famous "green flash" day or night, Is. 4d. a minute, or 12th—J. Deifhan, P. Hensey. railway system through subsidies. is understood to be a strong possi- on an anti-Common Market platform. a week, and that every year over sermon by the mlssiOner at their (Tunnel entrance) He has just returned from the United flying sewing-machines are per- which appears to Jump out of the just over a farthing every time the O. Cumin. bility in the near future. fectly well-known simple pheno- 500 workers are killed and 9,000 are last retreat, a- sermon warning 19th—P. Mollifan. Hewley, SUBSIDIES States and is going up as a candidate sun Just as it is setting. Apart from clock ticks. injured in accidents. The bitter opposition of a small mena. The most spectacular is the about the paganism of London, Jim Kelly. Thursday, Nov. 23rd It adds that an examination tor Clann na Saoirse, a new political this there is the load of junk These fabulous salaries are paid 26th—P. Hensey, R. Rossiter, partitionist minority in the N.I.L.P. aurora (northern lights) that can It declares that It is not the men metropolis of immorality. Most are 8 p.m. should be made of the "com- grouping which is strongly opposed to various "space powers" have un- to quite a number of Britain's busi- O. Curran. is said to be weakening. paint the sky rod for hours on end, loaded Into the sky and the activi- on strike but the union that re- half asleep. There is a nightmare muter" lines and particularly of the E.E.C. and the Anglo-Irish Trade ness tycoons. fused to back them up that is un- quality in this Journey, with the This minority had enjoyed con- Agreement. and move pale lantern-like objects ties of military aircraft, to say The question is how far these the possibility of reinstating the across It with great speed. I have representative. English countryside flying by In Belfast Central line. The railways siderable encouragement from par- nothing of the distorting effects of people have anything in common titionists in the British Labour The mam points of his platform are often watched it In northern Scot- pre-breathalyser windscreens. This puts one in mind of the Impenetrable darkness — Bangor, should be responsible to the Min- that he will, if elected, demand the with the interests of the working position in Liverpool where the em- Party, but it is understood that it land. Once I saw it in London. In the age of piety anything you Chester, Crewe, Alexandra. UNITED IRELAND CONFERENCE istry of Development. repudiation of the Anglo-Irish Trade man. Another interesting thing is ployers, the trade union official of is now felt to be contrary to Mr. The Londoners thought it was the didn't understand was due to the Euston—grim and unwelcoming Agreement, oppose full membership of how a single one of them can have one of the unions, the Prime Mini- The absurd division of the rail- Wilson's policy of coaxing back the glow of a distant fire. It is due to devil. Now that man can shoot in the early morning, with its the Common Market and stand for the the effrontery to tell the London ster's trouble-shooter (known to ADOPTS FORWARD POLICY ways into four regions for 200 twenty-six counties into the United radiation from the sun trapped in things into space, any novelty a coloured porters pushing trains of maintenance of full sovereignty and busmen they shouldn't ask for an some as the Scamp) and finally the was represented by Senator B. miles of track should be scrapped. Kingdom. the odter air. city man sees in a country sky is carts, or sweeping mountains of HE annual conference of the neutrality for Ireland. extra pound a week, or to tell the Prime Minister himself, all met in" Among other possibilities envisaged The effect of the unification of taken to be something shot into dirty paper from snack canteens. United Ireland Association Honan, and the Nationalist Then there are the faint rain- raliwaymen, dockers and others the plush Adelphl hotel, and "nego- T was a merger with C.I.E., or a" Irish Labour, following that of the The Cork by-election is caused by bows thrown by the moon in space. that they shouldn't have a few Cold, ugly waiting-rooms—poor re- was held on Ootobcr 7th, when Party by Cllr. J. Doherty of tiated a settlement" which they Derry. There were letters of take-over by the Scottish region of traade unions, will of course be to the death of Sean Casey, T.D., and showery weather, called "wind more shillings. fuge for tired an^hungry travellers, the following officers were British Rail. set all Irish Labour men thinking the two main parties will be havtng a it it it then told the men about. A high the "emigrants." This is the tim? support and apologies for inabi- dogs" in the south of Ireland. The explanation? simple. These proportion of the men belonged to elected : Chairman, Frank Short nationally, and there is no reason vigorous fight. The Labour Party is Lunar haloes can play strange to dream of the previous evening, lity to attend from three Mem- It is pointed out that, notwith- rPHE disclosure of the salaries of enormous salaries are paid out of another union, and the only people (Birmingham); vice-chairman, standing the rertn-ence to British whatever why the united party putting up Mr. Kerrigan, a local trade tricks; they are due to the filtering the "top men" of industry the wages that the workers don't families, friends promenading after bers of Parliament, Messrs. Fitt, should not be the strongest union official. None of these candi- not represented at the meeting were Mass along the pier, the towering Miohacl Casey (London); hono- Rail, these proposals are in direct of the moonlight through thin makes one wonder why they are get. i the actual men who had the Rosa and Leslie Lever. obstacle In the path of the "inte- dates are opposed to the Common cloud. And in the late dusk and church steeples, and the angelus rary secretary, Alt Havakln conflict with Mr. Terence O'Neill's all so keen on the wage-freeze. Or grievances! Resolution four shows the for- policy of squeezing the nationalist gration! sts." Market, though Mr. Kerrigan may be early dawn, according to whether bells—all Wat as if in another (Manchester); hon. organising expected to be critical. maybe it doesn't. it it it ward policy adopted. It was de- areas, and show that the N.I.L.P. This is what is worrying the it is spring or utumn, there is the Lord Beeching gets £40,000 a Talk about giving the trade world. secretary, Frank McCabe (Lon- "T1/"E consider the expulsion of union officials powers to control cide* to call a conference of all is getting away from its old nar- extreme rights, and though pro- Mr. O'Mahony's candidature should zodiacal light" thrown by thous- year. Other directors of I.C.I, get Some will now make new homes don) ; hon. treasurer, Dr. W. gress is reported, the unity of sands of tiny moons outside the ' Mr. Lou Lewis from the Join- their members. What sprite will the Irish organisations in Britain to rowly Unionist position and becom- be expected to rouse some interest £38,000, and £30,000. Sir Paul ers' union as quite a deplorable and find new happiness here. Some Donnelly (Sheffield). ing a national party. Irish Labour is not yet "In the and debate on these Important ques- earth's atmosphere. glftle gle us to control our own will return. And I will be one of discuss matters of mutual In- Chambers is believed to get £50,000. piece of work elected representatives? On road passenger services. bag" though probable tions. them, much wiser for having come. At the cnnference Fianna Fail terest. 6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT November T967 November 1967 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 7 ALLEN, LARKIN THE SMASHING OF flEBHEBZEBn A NO O'BRIEN THE VAN BOOKS UPON THE GALLOWS TREE i^OO rest the dead of Ireland 4 TTEND, you gallant Irishmen, and listen for a while: edited COD SAVE IRELAND V Who sleep in Irish clay! I'll sing to you the praises of the sons of Erin's Isle. Anthony Glynn. Publisher: Anvil Books. Price: Five Shillings. God rest the dead of Ireland It's of those gallant heroes who voluntarily ran • riGIt upon the gallows tree swung the noble-haarted three Whose graves are far away! To release two Irish Fenians from an English prison van. By the vengeful tyrant stricken in tfieir bloom; Sod rest the noble Martyred Three Review by AINE CHADWICK Whose names like a beacon shine CHORUS: But they met him face to face, with the courage of their race, 7a lead us on till the goal is won— Hurrah, my lads, for freedom, let all join heart and hand! And they went with soul undaunted to their doom. AWen, Larkin and O'Brien, May the Lord have mercy on the boys that helped to smash the van! "High upon the Gallows Tree," by A few quotations from Paul, Car- and of the Manchester Martyrs m " The Manchester Irish would Anthony Glynn (Anvil Books. 5/-) dinal Cullen's more critical direc- particular. On the Eighteenth of September, it was a dreadful year. give the Catholic Church com- 4JTUDENTS of Irish history have tives to his clergy in 1865 might From Parnell to Sean South, men panies of zealous and learned CHORUS: Because they loved their Mother- When sorrow and excitement ran all through Lancashire. have lent greater point to this part At a gathering of the Irish boys they volunteered each man. long felt the need for a defi- have lived and died in the Fenian priests and devoted brothers and " God save Ireland," said the heroes; land of the book. faith. nuns as well as battalions of exem- And. strove to set her freet To release those Irish prisoners from out of the prison van. nitive work on the Fenian Move- " God/ save Ireland," said they- alt. ment. This centenary year in Man- irrvHE main body of the work deals John O'Mahony had chosen the plary laity." Battalions, one sup- The lash of England's hate came Kelly and Deasy were their names, I suppose ypti know them well; name of his company well. Allen, poses, which fought and died for " Whether on the scaffold- high or on battlefield we die down- chester offered at least a starting with the arrest and rescue of Remanded for a week they were in Belle Viie Gaol to dwell. point for such a book. A vast Colonel Kelly and Captain Deasy Larkin and O'Brien probably never the "Freedom of small nations in O what matter when far Erin dear we fall." On the brave undaunted three. When taMng of the prisoners back, their trial for to stand, heard and would not have under- 1914 (in France) and against par- Andr comrades all in Ireland** cause amount of material exists, easily in September, 1867, the rounding To make a safe deliverance they conveyed them in a van. stood the Gaelic words in which tition in 1939 (in Poland). The The task- i» yeurs and' mine accessible, freely available, in news- up and examinations of a great Girt around with cruel foes, still their courage proudly rose, William Deasy was a man of good aHd noted fame papers, pamphlets and tracts. The number of " Manchester Irish " as were codified the beliefs of the format is pleasing, the illustrations Tn break one' day the hand that Fianna. But dying, they personi- good and interesting. For they thought of hearts that loved them far Mid near; smote Likewise Michael Larkin, we'll ne'er forget his name; HI historian's dream, one might ima- well as a few Englishmen, the trials fied them Ot the millions- true and bravo e'er the ocean's swelling wove Allen, Larkin and O'Brien. With young Allen and O'Brien they took a part, so grand gine. When, however, one begins to and the executions in October and Fenianism and the Martyrs In that glorious liberation and the smashing of the van. assemble the material, it becomes November of 1867. T>UT all said, I was disappointed And the friends in holy Ireland ever dear. " in this book. It is the work of await the coming of a second John They,beasd no call of, pi|K or drum, In Manchester one morning these heroes did agree clear that here is much that is This incident in Manchester dis- O'Mahoney. contradictory, difficult to assess, a journalist not of a scholar. The ONmbed they up tlw rugged stair, rang their voice* out: in prayer, N® oomradfes naralMfr aheaift. Their leaders, Kelly an* Deasy, should have their liberty; plays in microcos* all it be weak- subject matter is grand tragedy and But roofttf them the spfrft They drank at health to Ireland, and soon made up the plan. biased, repetitive and perjured. The ness that beset Fenianism, and it is Then with England's fatal cord around them cast, historian's nightmare. moving, and completely over- hosts To meet the prisoners on the road and take and smash the van. MESSRS. NEW BOOKS one of the strengths of this book shadows Anthony Glynn's treat- Of Ireland's martyred dead. that the roots of failure are laid Close beside the gallows tree, they kissed lika brothers* lovingly, WSth courage bold those heroes went, and soon the van did PUBLICATIONS are to be Mr. Anthony Glynn has sifted ment of it. This makes 4or serious Come-all-ye True to home and- faittr amt IreeUum to ttrer l*st. With heads erect and hearts aglow stop; congratulated on producing a bare. weakness in the text, and it is dis- They jwnedthat sainted line, some of the evidence and given us They cleared the guards from back and front, and then Those .factors inherent in the heartening to consider that the' Dear Ireland's name on their dying new edition of James Connolly's this book which he calls " High N«Mr fir tfe latest shall' ft* pismojy away smashed in the top; Movement s/hiah -ecntributed to its publication of this paperback for a outward Hps * classic of this title. Upon fttve '©allows Tree," and there But when blowing open of the lock they chanced to kill a man is muoh to recommend in it. He power and longevity are also mani- limited reading public possibly pre- [ Of the gallant lives thus given for our land; Larkin and O'Brien. S& three must die on. the scaffold high for smashing of the van. It is of particular importance has honestly tried "to give a fully fest in desperate bravery of eludes a more thoughtful account. But o,* tNH cause i«M| m a*|d JM or *«l #ME - ALL - YE OUTWARD not on sentimsntalisms and pane- tion after 1829 and of the outside $>athos of LerHin. thorough if not exhaustive bibli- V q T. Ot SUt-k.lv/tNi "God save Ireland!" was their cry, all through the crowd it ran. BOVBRg and listen to-my tale: The fires tiny Iff: of low and hat*, gyrics, but on making known what influences which contributed to the Bright, bright and warm thay The Lord have mercy on the boys that helped to smash the van! The sacrifice was consummated ography appended. The lack of an two books they are new-published, Connolly stood for. growth of the military/political index is a serious omission. glow; So now kind friends, I will conclude; I think it would be right in 1946 in Gierke's bullat-torn body. that should meet a ready sale. rtnovement which came to be called "Mr. Glynn's study of the evidence The language of the more maud- They are: "Old Irish Street Ballads" And where their flame lights up That all true-hearted Irishmen together should unite; There is no better way -than re- Fenianism. the sky offered, the witnesses who pre- lin type of journal obtrudes far and "Irish Ballads and Songs of the DOWN BY THE GLENUDE Together should unite, my friends, and do the best we can producing Connolly's own words. too often. The squalid airlessness • u We read the blood*** sign To keep the memory ever green of the boys that smashed The province of the Fenian ideal sented it and the way in which it Sea," beth by that well-known Cork- That tells of vengeance for our While, sinoe he is now a histori- is examined and Mr. Glynn does was used, is quite thorough. One of the "two-up-two-down" back-to- man James N. Healy and published •WAS down by the glenside I met an old woman, the van. back house is not conveyed in cal figure, books about Connolly give it its place in the social .pat- wonders why .politicians on world by Mercier Press at 18/- and 7/6d. phrases like the " humble home" A-plucKing young nettles, she. ne'er heard* me coming, Allen,. Larkin and> O'Brien. are -essential, they can never be a tours today see fit to laud British respectively. And very fine collec- tern of the day, in England, in " modest little Eliza Street." substitute for the ready availability America and Ireland. justice as though it were a British tions they are, too. And* r listened a while to the song she was humming— BRIAN NA BANBAN " He remembered the next move of his own writings, and certainly jpyPBQBJJFIQN to the Penians idea and retrospective to good King The first contains ballads mainly Gloiy*, glwy^o ts tile bold Fenian men! A BUCKET OF this wise " is jargon—" modest six- but for Messrs. New Books, it ^ .existed in certain quarters in Henry. from the middle of the last cen- IRISH IN BRITAIN would be virtually impassible to get lr pences and shillings " might just as tury, ballads patriotic, sentimental, 'Tis fifty long years since I saw the moon beaming Ireland. 'It simply happened that TWE description of the public well be immodest. /"kN Wednesday, October 18th, a copy of Connolly's greatest work, at the moment when a thoroughly ^ executions outside the New ludicrous and moralising, ballads on MOUNTAIN DEW There is a " tortured " hearing- the American Civil War, Labour Party conference -L'J- literally, and then reconstructs To sat old: Ireland free. And grease your throat glanoe, obviously demands a technique, principally by the we of outdaar Me .and fenftsnape. maikable collection, and tbaae who as- airing. John Ellis (Bristol), Reg Freeson were not discussed. Tea few of us in English verse 28 .poems of the But- broken werer oar goldbn hopes, •saonaoce and ftMtjm Thyme, ftis think "The Jfoly Ground" is the only (WiHesden East), John Ryan (Ox- With the real old mountain dew. were working in this field, conse- thorough perusal. period "between the eighth and bridge) , and Kevin McNamara I war long, months on the runt summs may «be imawured by read- Love poetry ceased to be written Irish song .about the sea will gat a On, the third day of the con- quently them were not enough reso- This Is a handy paper-back, ex-» twelfth centuries. The shortest is (Hull). But it did good work, for Ireland ing aloud rthe orfeiMtl «Bd then in Jmaitmi mm Abe fepIWi lang- surprise. ference, ?rtme Minister Wilson Oh pecMra ah, from Donegal, lutions. csilently printed and produced, and a thirteen-word satire, the longest moved the Parliamentary Report. than, the author's version. Ttae literal uage *aa -tepbwad *m. » re- It gives nobody the excuse for be- eighteen quatrains -from a legend rtranslaMiti enw an idea of ithe He had no sooner finished and Mr. Rose said that the more Did that old Fenian gun. And likewise gaugers too, appeared with -the litehtry revival, TN the discussion, Sean Redmond. ing without It, it is selling at the of the Cuchullaln Cycle. About weruaiating diffloulWes of tootji resumed his. seat when Mr. Tom pressure exerted on the British May all ring the bell when the souk of Abe traMtatars *• General Secretary of the Con- phenomenally low price of 8s. «d. half of the extracts are from the language and style raised its' the Leonard strode to> the nostrum. He Government to take action the " I was dawn then in Kilmallock— Inspired Ygate, Synge, .Stephens, tmental literature .« hundred pears If they ever get a smell nolly Association, said that he fctp* of pwhepe o»nt*ries. said that he-wanted to speak about better. He rejected the argument TWas the hotteet fight of aH, agreed that- w® should* try to unite Padraig Colum ahd Justin -Clarke later. what was missing from the report, that: Westminster should not inter- And you saa—ha bared his arm— Or a drop of the mountain dew. the Irish organisation: We should mtii *he tumm *nm 'the t£*g«*do express s .themselves in www 4hat The art they pcaottsed was an not what it contained. fere. Two years ago the Northern There's the mark stlM of th» ball. also urge the Irish to join the trade •he 4e cenoenMd jetfeer with re- were new to .English literature. academic one, aiming at refine- Ireland Minister for Home Affeirs I hope the young lads growing new Let grasses grow and waters flow unions. Ttll* weul«? give them a ereaMag the wfcit of -Europe's By including jtfeote like jUwis ment .uather than novelty, flpan MR Wilson said that the Ooven> promised that the Special Powers §@«€»FT§ i Will hold the ground wa won Jn their good aM IHsh way; sense of stability and teach them oldest vernacular -Utvature; -theme "MCNflice's BOlyltur ACris JSjems OUS&O? was the -last to use 4ta* ment had restored the dignity of Acts would be repealed after the And not disgrace the cause in organisation We should seek to tutti Imnawgr aw Mflh, the versi- (alter Horace), and old Uteew|r language of the bacds, Easter 1916 Commemoration But Just give ma> enough ORDER FORM titer- ]6W paid workers, the » unem- wHIch improve t&e sodal status of the fication English- Me. Megan if eels each .of Jqyqge juiw — p but even Jam Jwuad .it nrwsgwr ito ployed, the needy and the old age in fact, this year they were used I held that Fenian gun.'' Of the goad- old stutt Irish. People living uader bad con- Justified this <<**rHire jnim which «e poetry in .all tat nkandnn 4fc*ir wilnhy metMB In pWirisnnrn Bat when Mr. Leonard against the Republican clubs. , the literal .text «r«K> feet Mnt the arrangement — as well as jugples P. O'NEILL. That is made beside Gaiway Bpy. ditions tended to become defeated If you camrot g*t to the IRISH BOOKSHOP, _ asked: " Are they going to restore and did not assert themselves. 6M«wt m8 «f tnpin are qf the jKork of jamal jwung -then heard Jn the gugwiar aeags. the dignity of the haU-million "l^TR. PITT said that he rejected 283 Qrajjoi .Inn Road diirlBfl lh» themselves "edited" <«tntoas of a writers of .the sixUm, U* aUttor ihs inwrnsBBS, tew In teueh «*h peepta In Northern Ireland who are the Liberals, at their conference, On Tuesday, October 17th, Mr. literature already manr awtturies -L" the argument that Captain Sean Redmond, General Secretary suggests a Tr%yii"ly tftmralMn sim- the past, wrote in the dented votes, deprived cf houses and O'Neill should be let get on with had demanded specific reforms, but teMWEB 26 OEPCUREB 2D -.old. ilarity in Abe treatment ©f £ove Mwvter rit"'fw t Joint simply because they, are of the Connolly Association, ap- the job of reforming Northern Ire- Labour would not even call for an •selections ampK Illustrate by the most dlvaue Irish welters. opponents of the Northern Ireland Central London peared on the Ulster Television pro- land. They were up against the enquiry. We must face the fact the range, rtcfcmes end strength iposiry, 4a whteh ttm spirit W die- Government? " There was no reply gramme "Flashpoint." .use .this pastel owler term. Write .cilearAy the nanaae >©f Each of these nrithnhprfu in- fact that the Unionists feel that that not enough work had been of IrMh -poetry. Vhft •first -section land assumes .the torn of a beau- to the question. He was asked about the position cludes a version at EUaon Duv they rule by right. He spoke of a done. It was therefore important C.A. Meetings the books -you f these chair, and the speakers were Gerry J. Delffhan. and encouraged the Irish in Britain British Government refused. Once reform the area. It was also with- and seventeenth centuries. About Bardic Schools and later ttaaugh three beete is that they reveal a Pitt, M.P., Paul Rose. M.P., and NOV. '49th— to join trade unions. We had co- again the Labour Party conference in their competence to make the half of there are in Hie form given .courts of jEtaetty Jn oatote parts common strain in the poems they Sean Redmond, General Secretary "Scottish Nationalism" operated with the trade union had failed to discuss the resolutions Pope a Freeman of Belfast, he them by'the late Prank OCennor, Of the country. The works of deal with, whether written in of the Connolly Association, who on the agenda. A short time before added. —-Win Brown. movement toward* achieving this end. where geftfeie •has preserved their Egan O'Rahllly. Oaten JRoe O'sul- Irish or English. "The Hidden subtle sephhltlcatien of content as lhtan and Brian Mesriman — to Ireland" argues eloquently that this well as ttwlr epigrammatic sim- name only tho.se whose pee try is fit rain w88 ohci'lshcd by plicity of Image and term. extant In any lane measure—have tions of beggar-poete through the Two of them, Muirough a pre-Renalssance quality that was horror of the penal age. (MJaly's to characterise English and Con- SEAMUS TREACY. ®n the Death of tils Wife Otwflfth century), and Eileen Duv O'Con- 8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT November 1967 BOOKS
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Central London Secretary, P. Mulligan does a bit of quiet browsing. OTHING pleases better than an IRISH gift. And N what batter to give yoar friends at Christmas than an Irish book. The "IRISH DEMOCRAT" BOOK FAIR lasts a whole week, In plenty of time before POLITICS AND HISTORY Christmas; Aid you can atsftgft IRISH CHRISTMAS CARDS and IRISH 1968 CALENDARS. Bring your MAINLY PAPER-BACKS friends to this exciting evmt ! To order by post use order fornt overleaf (page 7) and TTERE are some suggestions Scenes and people come to life as send price plus postage — OTHERWISE COME TO for those who would like in few other publications. For any THE FAIR. to give someone $ decent pre- Irish person it is fascinating, but sent this year. They range in it can also prove a source of by Marcus Bourke, 5/-, postage the Jail and all the prisoners who tremendous enlightenment of Eng- went through ifc 1/6, postage 6d. price from 15/- to 35/-. lish people who (you must remem- 9d. First THE POLITICAL WRIT- ber) are not taught that Ireland IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRISH AT WAR — the major THE STORY OF KEVIN BARRY INGS of PATRICK PEARSE. This has a history in the imperialist battles of Ireland, Clontarf, Ben- by Sean Cronln, with a forward costs only ISA and contains 372 schools of this country. BOOKSHOP burg, Aughrim, 1916 etc., by G. A. by ComdL General Tom Barry, pages of first class paper, nicely 3/6, postage Sd, THE LIFE AND TIMES OP Hayes-McCoy, s/-, postage 6d. bound in green and gold with dust FIRST FLOOR JAMES CONNOLLY by Desmond GRAVEYARD OF THE 8PANISH HERE'S THEIR MEMORY — a . jacket bearing Pearse's picture. Greaves is the most detailed life ARMADA — the Story of the sink- tribute to the Fallen of the Re- This is more than interesting 283 GRAYS INN ROf D. of Connolly ever published, and ing of 24 Spanish ships off the , publican Wexford, by Rlehard reading. It is a work of reference. (One minute from remains the standard work on the west ooast of inland, by T. P. Roche, 8/-, postage 9d. How many times have you wanted • subject. This is particularly suit- Kings Cross Station). Kilfeather, 8/-, postage Sd. that quotation f r o m Pearse's THE HIDDEN IRELAND—a study able to give to somebody at the "Sovereign People." Educationists? DE VALERAi the revolutionary of Gaelio Munster In the 18th opening of the Connolly centenary would be fascinated by his pamph- who beoame President of par- Century, by Daniel Corkery, 16/6, year, 1968. Another work of refer- let on schootoThe Murder Mach- FREEMAHTLE MISSION — the titioned. Ireland, by Mary C. 11: : • ence, though at times as readable ine* showing him as the great • dramatic story of the daring Bromage, 8/-, postage 9d. JEMMY HOPE: A MAN OF THE as a novel. This is 35/- plus 1/6 afljattinnal pioneer he was. This Fenian rescue In Australia, by PEOPLE—the United Irishman postage. ARMY WITHOUT BAHNER8 (bet- is certainly a book present to be Sean O'Lutng, 3/6d, postage 6d. ter known as On Another Man's who was to 1798 and 1803 what cherished. Finally another book at 35/- — LIMERICK'S FIGHTING STORY- Wound) by Ernie O'Malley. The Jonas Flntan Lalor was to 1S48 THE CIVIL WAR IN IRELAND froro 1916 to the Truce, by Colonel dramatic story of the, Easter and Jamais ConnoHy was to 1916, The Story of Easter Week, 1916, by Bo^n Neeson—postage 1/0 tf you J. M. MaoCarthy, »/-, postage 9d. Rising by the Commandant- tty Ssan Cronln, 1/6, postage Mi. is told in a practical workmanlike want $ sent to j^ouT hoine. This WHERE IjiOUNTAIHY MEN HAVE General of the I.R.A, 6/-, postage OUR OWN RED BLOOD —the way toy Desmond Ryan in "The is a tale anil'a half. It & packed 9d. story of the 1916 Rising, by Sean Rising." Desmond Ryan was con- SOWN — war and peace In rebel with excitement on every page, BLOODY SUNDAY—This was the Grinfe,««, poataga ML nected with the Irisfcf Democrat Cock In the turbulent years 1916- but nevertheless has great histor- day on whloh. Irish patriots prac- HENRY JOY MoCRACKEN AND when he was in London just before 1921, by Michael O'SullleaMialn, ical solidity, and is not a biassed tically Wiped out British seoret HIS TIMES, by Fred Heattey, is- the war. His historical Works are 3/6d., postage 9 V- for the hardback edition at otaMta by Brendan Behan, s/-, in the Free State Government 7/e, postage i/-. tOh Ai4 really marvellous book— 1922-27. Hi* eventful llte SM LEADERS ANDWORKERS-Radlo ROBERT EMMET'S SPCEOH THE COURSE OP HUSH HIS- mysterious violent death. By Elreann lecture* on nine UfcMir FROM THE DOCK, 1896, 1/-! DEIRORE—the complete, tragic leaders. 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