THREAT TO FENIAN

Dublin's great 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 , 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 . 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 U

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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. 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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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