IRISH DEMOCRAT FOUNDED IN 1939. THE PAPER THAT SHOWS THE WAY FORWARD No. 325 AUGUST 7977 7p
How they can England, get out disengage 1 H E British Government should— (1) Renounce ail claim to Irish soil; British (2) Announce a policy of with- drawal; (3) Disarm Orange forces, rifle clubs, etc.; of Ireland" troops (4) Ban provocative parades; (5) Establish equality and de- mocracy through a Bill of Rights; are not (6) Proceed with withdrawal of trrops; (7) Conclude an agreement with Dublin based on a impartial united Irish Republic; (8) Finish withdrawal of all says Labour British administration. says M.P.
CPEAKING at a meeting ar- PRISONER J ranged in Hammersmith Town Hall by the Connolly As- sociation, Mr. Frank MacManus, RE-ELECTED M.P., said that it was not true Weekly kJLR. JOE McBRINN was re- that British troops were holding elected this year to the the line impartially between HE most definite call yet for an "absolute and uncon- Executive Council of the Irish Protestants and Catholics in the Transport and General Workers' T ditional" English disengagement from Ireland has been six counties. made in the influential Labour weekly, the "New Statesman." Union. This was despite the facl He himself had complained about that Mr. McBrinn will not be The writer, Paul Johnson, the Catholics if they knew Eng- a substantial illegal arms dump held able to carry out any of thQ says that the fact must be faced land were going and the game by the Orangemen, and had asked functions of an executive coun- that Northern Ireland is being was up. for ministerial action to remove this cil member. held as a colony just like Aden, threat to the Catholic people. He Guyana, Kenya and Cyprus. "LIIS proposal does not arise was still waiting. For Mr. McBrinn is inside from conversion to anti- prison in Britain for alleged in- They had to get out of these He expressed the opinion that the imperialism, but from a shrewd volvement in an arms deal* places and they will have to get most evil influence in the six estimate of the cost in men and counties today was that of the attempting to bring help to his out of Ireland. money of trying to hold the six Orange Order, which in some cases fellows in the North in the To the argument that "the counties indefinitely. usurped the functions of the Trade aftermath of the pogroms of people would eat each other" if But his motive does not mat- FRANK MacMANUS Unions. August, 1969. England went, he objects that ter. He offered the suggestion that Mr. McBrinn is not forgotten (in his slightly snide anti-Irish Nor does it matter that he United Nations troops might be by his fellow trade unionists, manner) the Irish would be used for peace-keeping purposes. has not worked out the exact however, nor by the general "forced to come of age." These would have to come from an series of steps that would be PROTEST secretary of his union. By this he means that the required by a government acceptable country of origin. HPHE fresh wave of terror by British At the annual conference of Protestants would probably not genuinely desirous of quitting. J- Crown forces in Belfast and other If British troops continued to be fight but come to terms with It would not be a matter of just areas of the six counties is causing used indefinitely he could not the I.T.G.W.U. in Galway last the troops. It would have to be fierce indignation. answer for the consequences that month the conference passed a were likely to result. resolution demanding the re- the total withdrawal of every It is directed solely against the English administrative institu- Catholic population, and those who T ORD BROCKWAY who was to lease of all Irish political pris- MOVING! tion. Once this comes to be ac- are being hunted are people whom ^ have attended the meeting oners in British jails. One union the authorities profess to believe may sent a message of support. He delegate, Dr. Conor Cruise O far the "Irish Democrat" and cepted as the aim, a solution of have had contact with the "official" would be re-introducing the "Bill of O'Brien, wanted to have a de- Connolly Association have failed our problems may be in sight. I.R.A. S Rights" in the autumn. He would to agree a reasonable rent for the finition of who a political pris- The Special Powers Act is being give careful consideration to the renewal of their lease at 283 Grays ^yj[ANY influential English oner was before he could sup- used, and at the time of going to creating of conciliation machinery. Inn Road. people are thinking along press the "IRISH DEMOCRAT" has port the motion. It was clear, It looks as if we will be moving the same lines. What is needed been unable to And out the names of Mr. Desmond Greaves suggested however, that the union mem- In September. now is that the Irish in Britain the dozens of men who have been that the vital first step in any bers were thinking of Mr. Mc- Even so, finding a place at a rent arrested and are being held without settlement was the disarming of the Brinn and his colleaguesi should so influence the Labour charge or trial. They can at present we can pay Is going to be difficult. 80,000 Orangemen. If this were and trade union movement that be held for only 48 hours in this way, done, there would be no excuse for They passed the resolution in There has been some response to disengagement from Ireland but British Home Office spokesmen our appeal for funds. Donations keeping the British troops there. support of the brave Belfastman becomes the official policy of have mentioned the possibility of in- will be acknowledged thitf month. ternment. At present British imperialism pos- and demanded his release and But we need to have about £250 the next Labour government. sessed two alternative forces of that of all his confreres as an The successive steps needed Protests against the wave of terror coercion. What was wanted was no essential prerequisite of the re- extra by the »nd of August. We should take the form of trade union hope our many supporters will not are suggested at the top of this resolutions, letters and telegrams to coercion at all. Mr. Sean Redmond turn of any kind of normality to delay sending their donations. page (column five). Mr. Mandling. took the chair. the North of Ireland. FROM OUR ARCHIVES HE "Irish Democrat" photo- T graphic archives contain unique historical material relating to the Irish In Britain and their move- ment. RIGHT: Larry O'Dowd piping into London the men who had carried the "Ireland One Country" banner 275 miles across England in 1962. Note the poster: "We demand equality of human rights." LEFT: A year or two later. Black flags outside the Ulster Office. The C.A. was the first organisation ever to picket it. To Judge how long ago it is, look at Peter Mulligan. He's nn old man now! August 197! THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August 1971 KOftllE<»\ DESK CELTIC WORLD THE MONTH IN THE GREAT SELL-OUT By THE NEWS Hugh MacDiarmid-Polymath Scot Why the bosses Common Market ?-No! Hypocrites NEW HOPES Pat Devine .11' i Y Michael eel man > ap- By R. MULHOLLAND pointment .•> lull-time J'HE opening of the grouse scream E EC. ffETWEEN those sections of can be raised, against the brain- and service to Scotland. Oral countries . . " and he said also aii'-iio! Hi the In -1> Council (it the shooting season in Scotland washers. Ask the doubters if JS discussions between China tion of the Arabian countries praise and adulation is heaped ol the Scots writer Lewis Clas- European Movement v. a- an- the population (the majority) and traitors WHY do the bosses all scream and the Soviet Union for from imperialist exploitation is on August 12th and is a date on Burns the Ploughman Poet nounced He v>a> >t'( omU'tl from who have kept their sanity, and they can trust Edward Heath sic Gibbon, "he showed that was on the cards. which the majority of the and much jocularity engendered ttu' Confederation o! Iri.-h Industry. for entry into Europe? the howling jackals and bumb- What about the prices that were •THE antics of the pro-Marketeers agreement on a solution of their laise internationalism so gen- people of Scotland are familiar as a result of Burns' reputed li- At the Mime tune T. V. O'Higgins Go into your butchers and ling half-wits who support en- to come down "at a stroke." • in the Labour Movement differences are about to get eral amongst Scottish, not to Imperialism was going to be with, though only a tiny minor- replaced Sean Lemi\*s President. you will find the answer. New try into the Common Market Now they are running down Traf- should be remembered. centious moments, but through- say British, Socialists which under way, we hear of the U.S. made to pay a proper price for ity (the rich) take part in the The new vice-presidents are Garret Zealand lamb at 30p a pound, because they are too stupid or ford Park, Manchester, closing When Mr. Wilson foolishly re- out the ritual there is hardly a make them very keen about President Nixon's suggestion the oil essential for its profits. proceedings. The same majority Fu/gerald and Michael O'Kennedy. English at 50p. the Clyde shipbuilding industry, fused to allow the Labour con- mention ever of Burns the revo- 'freedom —so far away as too treacherous to see through however, have little or no idea Parliamentary Secretary to the and advertising jobs in Germany ference to take a vote against for an official state visit to The Arab people at long last lutionary thinker and poet. Poland is,' but practically indif- Under E.E.C. that New Zea- it, there are many sincere con- whatever of the major impor- Ministry of Education. for the British workers they are E.E.C. it was in the belief that he Peking. were going to get the fruits of ferent to it in regard to Scot- land product would be out of fused people. tance for Scotland of the date Today in Scotland, in com- With all this Fianna Fail top putting on the dole. How can would be able to give a lead him- their very rich mineral deposits. land itself, or Wales, or Ireland brass m it. it is not surprising that the market. There would be self. preceding—August 11th. parison with Burns, the much The great brainwash being anybody trust the promises of Both of these moves are es- This false Socialism is always the Council gets £10.000 from the nothing to hold down the Eng- But the minute the conference greater intellectual figure of undertaken by the Tory Party, these men ? sential if we are to make some Always suspect among the entirely blind to the intra- Government. Irish taxpayers money lish to 50p. It would rise to was over the marketeers rushed into This date will one day, with- MacDiarmid receives similarly with the aid of top-ranking trai- Arabian peoples because of the used to persuade them to accept near £1 a pound. print, repudiating him in the name progress towards the end of war out question, be commemorated the contrary treatment of de- national problems in the Bri- tors in the Labour Party, is record of his father and other being sold to Germany. Why do of the conference they had in Vietnam. in Scotland with equal or even tish Isles. Hence the attitude of Look at all the clothing shops If they are doing these things members of his family, King cided silence towards much of they not give Mr. Coughlan £10.000 aimed at increasing the number silenced and hamstrung. greater prominence than the the Communist Partv of Great where cheap Hong Kong cot- at a time that they can be voted Hussein, a devoted friend of the his work. MacDiarmid. who has a year to put the opposing case? of the confused, and thus avoid- How hypocritical and treacherous China, despite the hostility to over-celebrated January 25th, Britain to the demand for Scot- tons are sold. They would dis- out in a General Election, what British Royal family and the oil during his lifetime done the JUI-V Bernadette Devlin, in- ing the possibility, indeed pro- can they get? her, is now so strong that she Robert Burns' birthday, because tish independence." appear. The clothing of child- will they do when the rights of imperialists, has been an ob- work of ten men, and whose terviewed by the "Irish bability, that entry into Europe The notion of a "socialist" being compels attention from the August 11th is the birthday of It can be said then that both ren and young people would the British Parliament have stacle to the advance of the work in both poetry and prose Time.-". said that she expected to is purely a RULING CLASS in favour of the Common Market is the greatest poet Scotland has hom the official Nationalist or- treble in price in many in- been extinguished and all power major powers. reflects every facet of the Scot- have a child in th(vautumn. Her affair. so ludicrous that it would make a Arabian people. ever produced, Hugh MacDiar- ganisation and from the Com- b-tn mill commenting on the furore stances. transferred to Brussels ? tish problem, has been a life- cat laugh. A Chinese-Soviet understand- mid (C. M. Grieve) who is 79 long nationalist, like Burns, munist organisation in Scotland will probably pass into history: So the pound in your pay Therefore every right-handed To join it you sign the Treaty of ing followed by a joint agree- His recent depredation is the years of age on August 11th. there is still little or insufficient "There are no such things as illegi- man, particularly every Irish who believes that independence packet would buy anything Refuse to be bamboozled by Rome. The Treaty of Rome virtual murder of hundreds of understanding of the encyclo- timate children, only illegitimate man and woman, should cam- ment with the U.S.A. would en- Every Scottish calendar gives is necessary for Scotland to re- down to half what it buys now. the brainwashers. Explain the guarantees the existence of capital- Palestinian guerillas who have pedic range and aims of Mae- parents." J paign as vigorously as he can, ism in perpetuity. If some of these sure world peace. due recognition to January 25th store her intellectual and cul- "Oh - ho ! ' says the Market- facts simply. Joining Europe is been driven out of their bases Diarmid's work ; at least very political humbugs who say "join it (Burns' nicht) at which time all tural vigour which has been 3rd .JULY It \va.> announced that pushers, "but wages in the raising his voice wherever it like walking into prison. to leave things clear for Hus- and change it after you are in" The 700 million Chinese on over Scotland there is exhibited frustrated and suppressed by w- lf an.V- from among the another factory is clos- Common Market are higher." sein's soldiers to ravage the think it can be changed, why are the mainland have clearly estab- the enforced connection with leaders of either camp have iiu m Northern - Ireland -Corfields Maybe they are. But will something of the antithetical they not demanding changes as a countryside. o. Ballymoney. Eiulity will lose lished the technological capacity dualism or contrast of extremes England. He is, none the less, shown in writing any real com- they be higher here ? The Gov- condition of going in? Why do they their jobs. This is because of the to build a great modern society. which has come to be recog- suspect as far as the official prehension far less embracing ernment is busy trying to hold all proclaim that Mr. Heath's terms King Hussein is an enemy of British Government's policy of clos- nised, at least to any objective Nationalist movement in Scot- of his vision for Scotland. The them down. Why should they are "the best that can be got"? his people. ii:.; down industry and concentrat- They have nuclear capacity stranger to Scotland, as one of land is concerned because he is tendency of each is to select and change when they go into Operation brainwash These men should be remembered. n>._ on Germany. for local industrial purposes as the puzzling psychological fea- also a Marxian Socialist. use the bits that are acceptable E.E.C. ? They talk about "wage- Nobody who supports the Common King Hassan of Morocco, an- tures which the Scot shows in to them. 4th .JULY An explosion wrecked inflation" as if it was the most ^HE great operation brain- Those who are selling then- Market should be supported in any- for the production of atomic other of the oppressors of his MacDiarmid is also an inter- Like the Burns enthusiasts the Cork office of the country can be glad they have a thing. See that their treachery is people, almost lost his throne every aspect of life ; in politics, dreadful thing in the world. . . . wash is in full swing. bombs. nationalist but is somewhat British Ministry of Pensions. country to sell. Nothing has the end of their personal career in and his head. Only an error of education, literature, language, the whole man, so far, is too Rent-inflation is apparently suspect by the Communist f>th .JULY It was announced that been seen like it since the Act public life. Although the military is by judgment on the part of the religion, etc. much for them. Yet MacDiar- Charles Haughey had harmless so the Tories have The journalists in all hut two Party of Great Britain, of which of Union, when millions of For if this supreme sell-out goes no means the major reason for mid, even more than Burns, has brought in a bill to double rents. rebels .saved his life. It is quite incredible that for been united to become official papers (the "Daily Express" through, the peoples of these islands he is a member, because he is over his lifetime fashioned the The long and short of it is pounds went across the board the new American approach, financial adviser to the Garda rep- and the "Morning Star") have will have a national liberation move- But the success of the revolt many decades now. on January a Nationalist. He said at one key which represents the un- resentative body. It is said that to extinguish the independent there can be no doubt of its im- this. The bosses want you to pay ment on their hands that will wake has only been delayed. It will 25th the Scots go through the point that "unlike Lenin him- locking of many of the intract- he is gradually creeping back into been ordered to present every- Irish Parliament. Common Market prices, while the English up to what others have portance. It is a recognition of no be long before the people highly ritualistic and often self, British Left-wing critics able and fundamental problems favour in Fianna Fail circles. they pay you English wages. In thing in favour of going into the suffered at their hands. the strength of the non- m eet up with him. maudlin performance of toast- — notoriously anti-intellectual which have beset the Scottish 6th JULY In a further attempt to that way they hope to penetrate Common Market, and suppress 'J^HE vast sums of money avail- ing, reminiscing and addressing save the shipyard on imperialist world. and most incompetent theoreti- people. The grasping of the key, the European market, and you as much as possible against it. able can be estimated by the XHassan is on the throne everything from the haggis, the which the Shankill Road workers cians: professed dialectical however, carries a heavy pen- will be the coolie labour to do it reports of champagne lunches, depend, the six-county Government today only because the generals Lassies, the Immortal Memory materialists destitute of dia- alty and responsibility ; nothing the huge advertisements filling- Irish T.U.C. V •? ^ bought another £4 million shares for them. They plan to make The traitors are being pro- blundered. Unless he is pre- and so on without, but rarely, lectic — are prone to protest less than the task of restoring whole pages of newspapers. The in Harland & Wolff. The Govern- the English the lowest scabs in mised huge bribes. There will pared for drastic reforms, he ever bringing to the forefront of against learned poetry and liter- the full consciousness and men- Europe to undermine whatever Government has plastered may be less lucky the next time the performance the matters ment holding is now 47.6 per cent. be ten-thousand-a-year jobs in condemns E.E.C. QN the above background the ary allusiveness as being only tal health to the Scottish soul every hoarding with propa- 7th JULY Dr. Hillery met Douglas the Continental workers have the new super-national civil ser- a coup erupts in Morocco," says which were the essence of for the few, and insusceptible of and to go "out of the Celtic ganda posters; Millions of lie- THE Irish Congress of Trade desperate situation in North- Home at the British won. And fill their own pockets vice for those who behave like the "Sunday Observer" (July Burns's life—his literary, lingu- appealing to the big public. This twilight and into the Gaelic • Unions' annual conference in ern Ireland does not seem so Foreign Office and told him that to bursting. good "Europeans." sheets are available free in post 18th). istic and political contribution was never the case in the Celtic the Dublin Government objected to offices. Limerick was dominated by the impossible. the Tory plans for. raising a full- E.E.C. issue, the most important time Ulster Defence regiment. They before the country. British imperialism with its also discussed the Orange walks Not a double emigrant! And to what end. That the The Congress Executive had a Stormont time-servers and gom- and Irish entry into E.E.C. The British people shall be bounced resolution down which basically been men are justly worried. Dublin Government feels that the /^LL over Britain notices Already thousands of Bri- into taking a step they will be looked for more information on the Their days are numbered. British negotiators have sold Ire- are going up urging un- tish workers are in Ger- unable to retract. If all the pro- subject from the Government but land out, as usual. employed workers to go to many. The English are to mises of Eldorado prove false : avoided expressing any view on* Irish men and women, of all ©M way or the other. Several trade (Continued on P$ge Four) • Germany. Television inter- know the emigrant ship. if Mr. Heath and his cronies are nm unions had amendments down to opinions, are thoroughly dis- 1 j views speed their way. proved the most unscrupulous 1 HE scene was Hammersmith. For the Irish in Britain, this demanding a much more criti- gusted with both the Black Rash | What Hitler couldn't do is gang of con-men in history. IT Outside the Connolly Associa- EEC. MEANS however, we have a word cal stand. In the event a very long and the evil Orange, as they tion meeting in the Town Hall one j being done by Edward DOES MATTER. The rat will By of advice. It is the same resolution was passed after hours of the wee, cranky, breakaway be in the trap. The country will say. Heath. The whole of Bri- advice we give the Irish at and hours of compositing. This Is groups was selling its literature. A LONDON DIARY Killeshandra be in the Common Market. It PERMANENT ; tish industry north of the home. Stay put. Make the therefore the present official position They want unity—a united Selling, did I say? Well handing suffers from the same trouble of the Congress. j Trent is to he run down powers that be keep you. Ireland for themselves. out leaflets attacking the organisa- PARTITION and the workers transferred Refuse to move. And if you as heaven. Once you are in. The annual conference resolution tion that was holding the meeting. j to Germany by economic are already in Britain, don't YOU CANT GET OUT. And requires a special Conference on the Such a glorious project should This group professed the "two man and driving him away feeling sociation meeting in Paddington, But instead of making amends, "p.E.C. Solution for Irish Troubles" E.E.C. issue at an early date and in very dissatisfied. and sat and applauded. ' pressure. be a double emigrant. A the Conservative Government be the aim of all Irishmen of nations in Ireland" theory, thus ex- what did he do next? When he said a heading in "The Times" will no longer be answerable to the meanwhile "places on record its cusing partition. The leaflet at- "No wonder we're in the mess we The London N.I.C.R.A. had Com- published part of the C.A. letter he of London the other week. Those who feared an in- single one is bad enough. whatever politics or creed. the people. The country will be considered view that having regard tacked the "Irish Democrat" for are," commented the "Irish Times" munists marching on July 11th, and accompanied it by a letter from a This old organ of imperialism, j flux from the Continent are Get rid of the Tories, not ruled by an unelected junta in to the circumstances set out in the picturing the yahoo-like expressions reporter. Birmingham Social Justice had man in Birmingham who asserted which is reaohing a propagandist j going to see the opposite. the people. resolution it is not in a position at It is in line with world I^OR what was happening? The one of the Apthekers of the release that the Connolly Association itself Brussels. of Belfast Orange fanatics at a low in plugging the Common Mar- the present time to express any opinion. football match. This, said they, attacker was a Belfast man be- Angela Davies Campaign. After all was Communist-inspired and had ket these days, sees the E.E.C. as a support for the proposed entry of was sectarianism. lieved to be a member of an do you want the Communists been condemned by the English and solution to the Irish problem as of Ireland to the E.E.C." The resolu- fi W ft extreme Leftist sect, but of against you? Welsh bishops. But alas, the leaflet suppressed a everything else. tion also called on the Executive the nationalist community. That It is easy to make enemies. vital fact which made mincemeat of Did the editor of the "Irish Post" Their "Home Affairs correspond- Council to ensure that Ireland's pro- community is being tortured, yes The Connolly Association replied the "two nation" case. The football ring up Cardinal Heenan's office to ent" tells of a recent study brought Transport Union chief opposes entry posed entry into the E.E.C. be put ARAB TREACHERY tortured, by British imperialism. on the day of publication. Two match was in Dublin, and the check up? out by the "Runnymede Trust" to a referendum of the people in a The resentment is burning d^per weeks later part of the reply was H R MICHAEL MULLEN, gene- crats in Brussels and to a Council gates for their reception. This in- fHE Middle East has long been Orangemen had brought Union whioh suggests that the Treaty of clear-cut fashion. and deeper, the desire for libeBtipn published. The reply was directed If he did he did not publish the vasion will be more pernicious arid the hot spot of struggle be- Jacks from Belfast to flaunt in the reply. For he would have been told Rome offers "one possible way out ral secretary of the Irish of Ministers dominated by the big The next three or four morlths in mingling with the desire ^for against Mr. Callaghan but might, more subtle and, therefore, more capital of their country. They had there was no record of it. The of a divided Ireland." For in the Transport Union, which organises powers, who have either an im- the trade union movement, there- tween the Arabian peoples and revenge. And all that understand- with greater justice, have been dangerous. by their own actions proved that Catholic Church in Britain is E.E.C. "Northern Ireland would not nearly half of Ireland's workers, perialist past, which they wanted to fore, will be conoerned very much the oil imperialists, supported able cold fury suddenly burst its directed against the Editor of the have cause to fear that it would be the issue is political, not religious; rightly extremely scrupulous about expressed himself as strongly op- revive, or are at present important "Slowly but surely, the Trade with preparation of this sp*oial bounds at the sight of a fellow- "Irish Post." governed from the South. This was by the sultans and puppet kings the issue is who is to rule Ireland, interfering in politics. and powerful imperialist countries. Union Movement, to judge by Conference and the important de- Irishman unintentionally making For over the letter he had placed because both North and South posed to full EEC. membership at appointed by the imperialists. English imperialism or (he Irish So on top of the ill-considered union resolutions and the spirit of cisions to be mad* there. Pro- an* England's job easier. a preposterous caption to which he the Common Market Defence Cam- people smear on the Connolly Association, would look more te Brussels than to anti-marketeers In the Irish tratf* It shouldn t be done. The anger cannot have given half a moment's ^UR present Government has the delegates at last week's Irish I he stake has been the major But stay. The super-theorist did we have the possibility of clumsily each other." paign's inaugural rally in the Man- union movement will be organising and resentment should be kept for thought. It said: "They are all given up the struggle to put Congress of Trade Unions' annual not last long. Suddenly another embroiling the Catholic Church in There you have it. It is remarks sion House. He was speaking in his in preparation for it. supply of oil, so essential when English imperialism, and not jumping on the bandwagon." The the interests of this country first. conference, is becoming aware of young man Hung himself on him the politics of right and left, a like these that let the cat out of personal capacity, but there is no A straw In th« wind indicating the imperialists have no local vented on poor sillies who concoct Connolly Association! Who started By temperament, by disposition, the Implications- of the most im- He gave him as good a pounding as thing that should never be done in the bag as to what Britain is up to the Government's conoom it the an- absurd theories and give themselves the bandvvagpn? doubt that the views he expresses by lack of intellectual ability and. portant single step which thus supply. I saw in many a day. Though a country like England. in Ireland these days. Unity under State has taken since its founda- nouncement of the sotting up of a a sense of importance. t i i are widely shared within the trade most important of all, by give him his due, it. was clean What way is the "Irish Post" Brussels, with both parts of Ireland tion in 1922. The recognition that spoolal trade union group within When President Nasser was £ -u -u ^ ^N the front "page of this issue is tied up together for fleecing. The union movement. They are an in- ideology, they have become the fighting. I've seen dirty. He moving? Not, in the direction of this step, once taken, would be Fianna Fail and the Irish trad* (dive it looked as if the libera- a photograph taken during the people wilt be told, now we are in dictment of the Government in new Dermot MacMorroughs of ended by spitting on the two-nation VOW to divisions in a more witch-hunting, we hope. The Irish irreversible, has added greater unions." Its chairman is Mr 1 longest, march ever made in con- our time. They have surrendered ^ sophisticated venue. have suffered plenty from "impar- the Common Market we must be Dublin in its attitude to the E E C. urgency to those of us who are op- Charles Haughey, T.D., possibly the nection with the Irish question. It to the new economic forces which On July 9th the London "Irish tial" editors who print their protests European and not bother about par- posed to this State joining the so- ol*v*mt man in th* Party. left Liverpool on Good Friday, 1962. dominate Europe-^the big cor- Post," a newcomer to London's alongside the statements of their tition; while Ireland will be united called European Economic Com- H* is out of offlo* at the moment and did 275 miles touching Man- "In the final analysis.' said Mr porations and monopolies which JOIN THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION crowded Irish journalistic- scene, slanderers. If is a contemptible in a common subservience, bound munity. in th* aftarmath of th* arms triah chester. the Potteries, the Midlands. Mullen, "the arguments for entry find the constrictions of national published a letter from Bill Cal- technique when it, is done de- together in dereltetlon. but he it exp*ot*d to b* baek In FILL IN THIS FORM Oxford, Heading and London. frontiers too much and who have laghan attacking the Connolly As- liberately. T shows very elearly that people into the E.E.C. were not a book "The basic question is not whAt Governm*nt before too long. Please send me full particulars of how I can join the The "Ireland one country ban- exploited the sentiments of sociation for allowing the Com- If the "Irish Post," wishes to keep I who want a united Ireland keeper's argument, not an economic- terms we might get, but whether In or out of offlo*, however, he Is Connolly Association. ner," which still exists, was clirried ordinary people for European munists to walk in a demonstration a reputation for representing the whioh is genuinely free should fight argument at all, but a political one. we wanted to enter such a com- d*flntt*ly a man who knows what (s Also Civil Rights posters-years unity in their own economic in- Name on June 20t.h whole of the Irish community and tooth and naN against the Common It is whether we wish to give up munity at all." important for th* Fianna Fall before the Civil Rights movement terests. There was not much in the let- not just, some of thetn, the editor Market plans. If these are de- Party, and It It not surprising that Address or the "Irish Post' were heard of. what little power and authority we ter, and Mr. Callaghan was prob- should think again. We sincerely feated, it will make a solution to These are important words from he It th* man who has been put In Perhaps the editor of the "Irish have to organise our lives -- ably sorry after he had written it. hope the whole thing was merely a what "The Times" calls the "Irish "This is the new imperialism the general secretary of a key sec- oharg* of heading off th* d*f*otion Post" did not know this? Even so, sovereignty if you want to call it Cut nut and post to 283 Grays Inn Road, London, W.C.I After all it is not two months since mistaken attempt to boost circula- troubles" much mere likely to be a of our time and our leaders, like tion of Ireland's trade union move- of Fianna Fall trad* unionists from the caption was gratuitously hostile he himself attended a Connollv As- tion through controversy. favourable one for the Irish interest. to an impersonal body of bureau MacMurrough. are opening the ment. th* Party on the E.E.C. issue. and unnecessary. * V' • THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August 1971 August 1971 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT six COUNTY SCENE MONTH IN THE NEWS I Continued from Pat;e Two) Lab ur ,i .JULY An I'.'i-!i Colore • o! THE CASE FOR AMNESTY OLIVE BRANCH HAS WITHERED ° peace Trade - I'lli-.s; HI- ••ti'iR Limerick heard -til appeal ft on: sentences out of all proportion U for example, with Eanion Smullen Why should the condition? of all Il,: |'HERE ari' over a thousand \ country trade UI.HIIII-I " their alleged offence, particularly and Conor Lynch. be the same? The pretence that is mon in jail for Ireland in FROM OUR BELFAST CORRESPONDENT group on ude union imivenu'iil •-Mould de considering the .situation thai made by dear old do-gooding ladies ..in- war oil bmotr.v the six counties, and 14 in existed. One imagines the excuse given is is that the object of imprisonment probably that they might escape. have declared their intention of Britain. £ £ * is reform. Why then should there \ MONTH ago the olive ACCORDING to the S.D.L.P.. to Orange headquarters in Lut- I'he A I'.EAV. •Briti>h-b;iM'(l. and But the true reason is more likely be only one regime of reformation? ' branch of Unionism was ex- staying away from Stormont N.I crux Who is responsible for this'; ''THE essence of Tory policy is to the breaking-point in their gan to give guarantees that the • ngland's second largest trade to be the puipose of breaking their tended to the main Stormont altogether. The new thin * seek a military solution of the spirit in hopes that they will not be f: ft -ft relations with Stormont came Orange marches would not be nun i was suspended from mem- The man responsible is Edward opposition party., the Social veneer of respectability has ^HE influential "Labour six-county problem. This will not good for much when they come when the British Government diverted too far away from i .•;•>]iip of lhe I.C.T.U. for staging Heath. They are his prisoners. / \F course the Irish boys ob- been wiped away and once Action for Peace" group, come in years and years, and the out. And make no mistake, prison Democratic and Labour Patry. refuse an enquiry into the Catholic districts. transport strike m Dublin which They are m jail because of his " " viously require no reform, nor more Northern Ireland's sec- British people could expect a run- can do that. And for a moment it seemed shooting of Seamus Cusack and of which popular Manchester r ie Congress held contravened the policy. It is a fierce indictment of are the authorities likely to achieve ning sore off their north-west coasts that Gerry Fitt's men were tarian sores are exposed for all Desmond Beattie by the British A parallel could be drawn M.P. Fi 'ank Allaun is chairman, rational wage agreement The the policy of any government that it. for the foreseeable future. It is therefore necessary for the about to give Stormont the first to see. Not only have the Army in Derry. It is claimed between the events in Derry has issued a model resolution on - ispension is likely to w eaken Con- ll can only be carried through by progressive movement to demand What are they inside for, then? As punishment? If so where is the touch of respectability in ex- S.D.L.P. decided to give up that both these young men, this week with the curfew on the subject of the crisis in the .e.-s m the six counties, where the mass arrests and jailings. It is inevitable that there should not only a relaxation of the prison basis for the much-advertised en- change for the chairmanship of Stormont for a bad job but the while they were in a riot area, the Lower Falls a week before six counties. hulk of the 35.000 A.U.EW inom- be steadily-increasing demands for regime, but also the introduction of That indictment must be made. lightened penology of the twentieth Nationalist and Republican La- the Battle of the Boyne cele- ivi'S reside. a political solution. something which English law does a couple of meaningless parlia- were unarmed. Local residents, The Tory Government stands con- century? bour Parties have also decided brations last year which resul- This statement shows the en- What is meant by that? It means not at present properly provide for mentary committees. Wily Brian particularly in the case Of demned before the world for its Or is it to keep them from shoot- to quit. This leaves only a ormous fund of goodwill for •'I: .JULY British troops and that the objectives of British policy —that is political prisoner treat- Faulkner (under Westminster Cusack, who was shot down at ted in at least three deaths. policy in the six counties. ing British soldiers, on the supposi- Ireland which exists in the Bri- crowds clash on Creg- in Ireland must change, and the ment. guidance?) had almost caught Northern Ireland Labour Party almost point-blank range, are tion that this is what they w'ould tish Labour movement, and estate in Derry City. Two men The first task is to make this course of action be adapted to the wish to do if released? his biggest fish since bringing M.P. who is certain to lose his insistent that these deaths were yARIOUS groups have been seat at the next election. gathering information on should be a stimulus to all Irish _.iu>rally believed to be peaceable known, to tell the general public the new objectives. rrHERE would be a case for re- If the sole purpose is to restrain Harry West and David Bleakley cold-blooded murders. It is ;,:id inoffensive citizens had been the deaths. These include the people who are working to truth, and to demand action from Those new objectives must in- I garding these men as prisoners their activities, why must it be ac- together. Now all has changed. claimed by witnesses that an iol by soldiers. r make some such policy the the British people, not only for the clude a United Ireland. The release of war. After all the British army companied by what is in effect a J^HE withdrawal of the oppo- officer was heard to give the Northern Ireland Civil Rights regime of torture? Instead of participating, the majority policy of the Labour sake of Ireland, but for the pre- of the prisoners would serve as a is in action in the six counties. sition simply underlines the order to shoot Cusack which, if Association and the National Mil.JULY British taxpayers will Poison gas that has been outlawed S.D.L.P. members of parliament movement. servation of their own democracy. public proclamation that there was We must demand the release of structure of Stormont over the true, rules out any case for "loss Council for Civil Liberties who shortly be billed for the to be a new approach. Accom- internationally even in full-scale these men. But while we are de- sent a representative from Eng- •ji 1.000 security forccs mobilised to manding it we must also demand years and its role of a "Protes- of nerve" on the part of some The July. 1971 Bulletin of panied with it there should be the war, has been brazenly and land. These two organisations -usurp that the Orangemen could that while they remain inside, all tant Parliament for a Protestant soldier. Labour Action for Peace pub- I ) UT having told the fact.-, and proposals set forth by Mr. Con blatantly resorted to. had hoped that, failing an offi- nisult their Catholic fellow-citizens specially penalising treatments people." It emphasises, too, that • that is a big job in itself, what Lehane at the great Trafalgar OIL GRAB lished a letter from the Con- Can the Tories really be sur- must be abolished, and that they very little has changed since cial Government-sponsored en- • ith impunity. Square meeting of June 20th—the The suspicion in Derry is that nolly Association suggesting action do we want taken? prised if war is met with war? They should be given preferential treat- quiry being set up, to organise disarming of the Orange hordes, ment as men whose offences arise the arrival of Jim Callaghan slight alterations in the draft, profess to be so. And it may be too it was British Army policy to a broadly-based enquiry which i '.ill JULY At long last Jack Lynch Obviously we want these men let the enactment of a BUI of Rights, from patriotism, which even in the with his package deal almost while indicating its acceptabi- much to expect that under any cir- IS COMING teach the locals a lesson in could be seen to be neutral. was moved to tackle out. the withdrawal of British troops England that is threatening to pitch two years ago and despite the lity in principle. cumstances they would face the headlong into a continental tyranny, order to appease the hard line England. He called for the insti- and discussions with Dublin on how J'HE international oil compa- Some, it is alleged, were framed international consequences of pri- is still professedly regarded as a losses in lives and property. Orange leaders over the July tution of measures to end partition. to carry out the reunification of Since then, however, Beina- It was urged that the contents up. Others were in the position of virtue. nies are getting more and ;,nd said that the Government of soner of war status. Unfortunately none of the 12th period. The Derry people dette Devlin announced her men driven distracted by the threat Ireland. more interested in exploration of the Bill of Rights needed to Ireland Act encomages outrageous opposition parties seems to have recall how the Orange leaders enquiry and the Derry Citizens' to their families and friends, and The position of the prisoners is But political prisoner status is a be more fully spelled out, or a behaviour of the Unionists of the off the Irish coast. Last month worked out clearly where they ordered one of their members. who took the only action that thus a test of the nature of British different thing. In the olden days Central Council in conjunction reference to Lord Brockway's north. it was .announced, that 14 inter- Prime Minister Faulkner, to- seemed available to them. policy. English prisons used to have three are going from here, and if with John Hume also announced Bill be made, and that the last A THOUSAND national companies have been answers are not provided soon gether with Harry West and Co. ir i: i: divisions. If a Peer embezzled the an investigation. paragraph should make it clear tJi.ii JULY Nationalist M.P.s. in- Others acted on the conscious funds of a company he was Chair- promised two-year exploration to the question being raised, \ ATURALLY it is not going to that action by the British Gov- eluding Mr. John Hune conviction that they belonged to the man of, he did his time it the com- licences by the Irish Govern- then the general confusion majority of the Irish nation, and - * be easy to secure their release. ARE IN JAIL ernment is necessary for the re- arid Mr. Gerry Fitt. announced that fortable second division. No hard ment. which could ultimately lead to that England had no right in their unification of Ireland, since it is they would leave Stormont, and set British Toryism would regard it labour for him. VER 1,000 people are in prison civil war will be increased. up their own assembly if the Bri- territory. Yet others were given as a severe reverse if public opinion O Exploring for oil under the C.S. GAS IS A KILLER a British Act that partitions it. tish Government did not institute The present arrangement is that in the six counties on offences sea is an expensive business The quick change-over from were to compel such a step. THE STATEMENT immediate enquiries into the shoot- all are treated alike, except for the and these companies are not acceptance of particpation in It is not going lo be achieved just of a political character. They range STARTLING new evidence of der certain conditions (for ing by the forces of the* Crown of length of time they serve. Though ^HE National Council of Labour by stating that it is desirable. What from the unfortunate Belfastman going to invest millions in ex- the machinery of government the extreme toxicity of CS example use in confined space) the boys in Derry. sometimes an educated man will be I Action for Peace believes that RELEASE CARD is needed is a united campaign of sentenced to one year by Judge ploration unless they believe to abstention from parliament poison gas which was used by CS can be lethal. They hold given work in the prison library. Topping for shouting: "Up the the policy of relying on tough mea- all Irish organisations, together there is a good chance of find- by the S.D.L.P. members has Crown forces and police in the that it is a poison gas under the 13th JULY E.E.C. failed to agree I.R.A.," to men who have been ar- sures carried out by the British with the British Labour and Trade ing something. not added to the credibility of six counties appears in the re- terms of the Geneva conven- on terms to offer Bri- AND McKEE rested by police and troops while Army is not the solution to the Union movement. This could their motives and until they port of an international confer- tion. tain and Ireland on fisheries and defending their homes against at- Last year Marathon Oil Com- problem of Northern Ireland. The force the Government's hand clarify their idea of an alterna- ence of scientists on chemical decided to leave the matter in RANK CARD and Billie McKee tacks by sectarian Orangemen. pany, one of the biggest in the Army intimidation, the massive LEGITIMATE tive assembly to Stormont they A number of scientists have been abeyance till autumn. The game F are two prominent Belfast Re- 1*: ft 6 Each month brings its rising world, found traces of oil and warfare in Vietnam. house-to-house searches and use of testing the effects of CS gas on ts to get the British Parliament to publicans who have been sentenced total, sometimes detailed in replies will not convince their electors CS gas will exacerbate tensions. UT while the forces for such a natural gas about 28 miles south experimental animal. It has been vote for entry while the fisheries to five years' imprisonment for to Stormont Parliamentary ques- that this is not just a piece of The use of this gas (actually B campaign are being mobilised POLITICAL of the Old Head of Kinsale and established that concentration of We deplore the increase in vio- question is undecided. Then when allegedly being found in possession tions. Take the month of May, for political gimmickry nor will a solid substance, ortho-chloro- there are certain even more im- proved the existence of a major the gas can kill. lence. including the death of Bri- the people have been trapped, the of a gun. example. they win the support from benzal-malononitrile which is tish troops in Northern Ireland. A mediate questions. sedimentary basin there, hither- terms will be the harshest possible. Here is the reply of John Taylor other parties, necessary to make policy of violence by one side in- Most people in the know in Some of the prisoners are being VIEWPOINT distributed as a fine dust) is It is suspected that the gas may to a Parliamentary question about to not believed to exist at all. evitably encourages others to use Belfast believe that they have been subjected to very rigorous confine- such an assembly a success. steadily extending. help to cause cancer, but there is operations carried out during the The companies are required violence. The demands of Right- 14th JULY Neil Chambers, a 45- framed and that the British and ment. Such is said to be the case. \j RS. MARIE DRUMM is wife to no proof as yet. Also it may con- month: to submit the results of their wing Tories for the dispatch of year - old farmer, of Northern Ireland authorities have Jimmy Drumm, whom Con- J^ NY assembly that did not The International Centre of tribute to the birth of deformed Shraom, Newport, Co. Mayo, "The operations carried out by more British troops must be op- gone out of their way to incarce- nolly Association readers will re- researches to the Government have representatives from Inquiry into War Crimes, in children. That again is not yet the security forces during May posed. So must the rearming of charged with illegal possession of rate two of the most prominent member was one of the principal before they can get a licence to certain. But that it greatly in- were many and varied, and it the Protestant majority would Paris, has established that un- the Royal Ulster Constabulary and arms at Castlebar Circuit Court, members of the "Provisional" I.R.A. internees in Crumlin Road Prison, develop whatever they find. creases the danger of bronchial EXCESSIVE would not be practicable to give simply be a Catholic corollary internment without trial. was acquitted by a jury after an Belfast, during the 'fifties. Mr. This is some control, to enable trouble is already well established It will be remembered that Frank full details in answer to a Parlia- to Stormont. And while it absence of 35 minutes. Pickets out- Drumm in his time has been in- by the experiments made. We believe that a solution, In mentary question. They included the Government to know what would highlight the deep differ- side the court cheered when he was Card was arrested with Malachy SENTENCES terned on two occasions for a total the short term, demands urgent McGurran, of the Official I.R.A., in routine patrols, including Border they are selling. released. of 11 years, while she herself ences existing in the six coun- ONLY ANSWER political and economic measures by August 1969, when the police patrols, guard duties and the pre- / 1ENERAL TOM BARRY has suffered imprisonment in Armagh There is still no guarantee, ties after fifty years of continu- the British Government. These in- swooped on Card's house in Kane servation^ the peace generally. 15th JULY In London the Na- ^ spoken out several times in the Jail. however, that the information ous and absolute Unionist rule, clude:— Street, Belfast, in the aftermath of -- "Arising out of all security END BORDER tional Council for Civil past six months demanding the submitted will be fair and ac- it would have the effect of forc- Unemployment (a) The enactment of a Bill of Liberties issued a statement de- the attack on the Falls. release of Irishmen held in prison Both Mr. and Mrs. Drumm are operations during May 1971, charges were preferred against curate, as the Government has ing Westminster to intervene. Rights to outlaw- religious dis- manding an enquiry into the shoot- MoGikrran and Card were both in Britain and the six counties. leading Belfast Republicans. Mrs. y^lSE words on Ireland were 222 persons. Twenty of these no means of checking itself. The logical conclusion of inter- going up crimination; ing by Crown forces of Seamus charged with possession of weapons Drumm is a member of the execu- spoken by Ian Mikardo, The great freedom fighter had charges have been withdrawn; of There is great need for a proper vention at this juncture would i b i Provision of Jobs and a crash Cusack of Derry. The N.C.C.L. has and sentenced to six months in the tive of Sinn Fein (Kevin Street). this to say at Kilmichael. West the remainder, convictions have be direct rule from Westmin- M.P. for Poplar and chairman ''^HERE lias been a large jump in house-building programme. sent a special investigator to Derry Crumlin Road. The Connolly As- On Sunday, July 11th, she took part oceanographic vessel which Cork, during the annual com- been obtained in 63 cases, 12 have of the British Labour Party, on the number of redundancies in We believe that Catholic-Protes- who formed the opinion that Mr. sociation helped in the campaign in a protest meeting against the could compile data without ster through, perhaps, some memoration of the famous ambush been dismissed and 127 are still Irish industry during the early part tan rivalries are stimulated by- Cusack could not have been armed. for their release. behaviour of British troops in the having to depend on the infor- form of commission. a visit to Dublin in July to open recently: Bogside, Belfast. She spoke her pending. of 1971. The total notified to the Ulster's high rate ol unemployment Nothing would be better than that mation provided by outside ex- new offices for his union, the On their release both these "To the men and women m six- mind at that meeting and expressed "In all these respects, particu- This is not the democracy the Department of Labour amounted to (the highest in the U.K.) and bad an acknowledgedly impartial body ploration companies. staunch Republicans went separate county jails, we greet you as the feelings of the people of the larly the number of charges pre- Civil Rights Movement sought Association of Technical, Mana- 3,092. almost double the figure for housing conditions. For the cost like the N.C.C.L. should undertake the same period of 1970 and close of present activities of the British ways politically, McGurran iden- successors of the long lines of Bogside that British troops should ferred against persons, I consider As greedy eyes are turned and surely this is not the objec- gerial and Scientific Staffs. an independent investigation. tifying the "Officials" and Card to the figure of 3,096, which is the Army many economic measures to patriots who have suffered for be withdrawn from the six coun-> these to be some of the most irrv- more and more on the huge tive of the S.D.L.P. or any other with the "Provisionals." The Ireland. To the six arrested, ties, and that until this was done pressive accounts of security ope- figure for whole of last year. This aid Northern Ireland could be got 16th JULY Mr. Gerard Fitt's Social Irish continental shelf area, it opposition party. If the S.D.L.P. "In the long run there is no Government authorities have been sentenced. Republican Irishmen there could be no peace in the rations for some time." indicates a doubling of the rate of under way. We urge a diversion of Democratic and Labour becomes vitally necessary for have a creditable plan for an other solution but the reunifica- redundancy since last year and out to "get" Card for a long time in English jails, we add our good North. Impressive may be John Tay- resources from arms to jobs and Party quit Stormont in protest at the Government in Dublin alternative assembly to Stor- shows the effects of the Anglo-Irish and now they have succeeded. wishes for your early release. lor's word, but the people of Bel- tion of Ireland," but he doubted homes.. We believe that the econo- the refusal of the Unionists in c On the Monday night Mrs. to pull up its socks about mont it will be welcomed by Free Trade Agreement. mic problems can only be solved The "evidence" on which Card "The trial and sentences of fast and the six counties gene- if this could be done immedi- Belfast and the Tories at Westmin- Drumm was arrested in her Belfast marine and ocean floor research, all progressives on both sides of by bold socialist planning ster to hgld an enquiry into the was convicted is widely believed to eight years on four of the men rally are less than impressed. ately without a civil war. He home, in the presence of her five They believe that a good propor- hitherto extraordinarily neg- the religious divide, but they Footwear and textiles have been death of Seamus Cusack have been cooked and most people and seven years on Lynch and Sooner or later the division of children, and taken into custody. tion of these people have been lected in this island country. could not conceive of a peaceful, particularly hard hit. Short time think he has been locked up to get O'Sullivan of Cork were a dis- must produce it without delay. Ireland must be ended Labour She was later charged that on July framed and there is story after progressive and prosperous Ire- is widespread in the textile indus- 17th JULY Mr. John Taylor threa- him out of the way. grace to British justice and Action for Peace calls upon the 4th in Belfast, she "did an act with story about false evidence, biased try. tened to resign from Frank Card is a splendid Irish- reminiscent of British sentences land, North and South except British Labour and trade union a view to promoting the object of Judges and one-sided action by Mr. Faulkner's Government if man, gay-hearted and dedicated to of the past, when a hungry child on the basis of reunification, but movement to actively encourage all an unlawful organisation—to wit, the authorities in their supposed Tariffs under the Anglo-Irish tougher measures were not taken the cause of a united Ireland, for was sentenced' to 12 years for C. DESMOND GREAVES the forces*in both North and South, the Irish Republican Army, in that pursuit of impartial "Justice." this unity could not be brought Free Trade Agreement came down against "the I.R.A." In an aston- which he has spent years in prison stealing a loaf of bread, and men she encouraged persons to join the working for a united Ireland, par- In May alone some 63 convic- about by blowing up drapery another 10 per cent on July 1st ishing speech he said that "it may in the course of his life. That a were deported for life for stealing I.R.A." ticularly the Irish trade unions, tions. Most sentences are at The British Government agreed to be necessary to shoot even more in man like him should be put behind one sheep. All Irish people 'Should LIAM MELLOWS stores or assassinating sentries. from which a united Labour Party least six months and some are up the Irish Government's request to the forthcoming months In North- bars, whatever the circumstances of demand their immediate release." Plain-clothes detectives conducted may arise. to five years and more. At a rate allow a postponement of the next ern Ireland." It is woeful to think the trial, shows the wholly unstable Conor Lynch and Pat Sullivan a minute examination of the Asked about the withdrawal of 60 or so a month, these figures cut in the tariff on imported foot- -Statement issued by the nature of the six-county situation. are two Irishmen from Barry's Drumms' home in Andersontown, anil the that Mr. Heath's Government mean nearly 800 convictions a of the S.D.L.P. from Stormont, wear. but this is "only an interim National Council. April should be putting English young- own city of Cork. Conor Lynch's which was surrounded by British measure Irish people in Britain were to year. Small wonder that the six- Mr. Mikardo said that Gerry 26th, 1971 father, Jack Lynch, as fine an troops in uniform the while. R.U.C. sters' lives at the disposal of men the fore in the campaign to release County prisons are ft I led to over- Irishman and Republican as one and plain-clothes men took away Fitt had asked him in the House who can talk like this. Frank Card and McGurran when flowing and that there is rumour IR1SH REVOLUTIO X could meet on a day's journey— papers and documents, including If you would like to have the "DEMOCRAT" posted to they were imprisoned In winter, that Rathlin Island will be of Commons for his opinion. is foremost in upholding the re- the telephone directory This book studies the crucial events from the Easter Rising 1 Hth JULY The Ulster Fleadh ceoil 1969. They must now take up a turned Into a concentration cam- "Do you think we should go you, send this coupon with your subscription to : in Monaghan was the similar campaign again. Release publican banner in the southern lo the establishment of the "Free State," by tracing the Protesting against the detention paign to accommodate politicals. out ?" said Mr. Fitt. "Yes," re- The IRISH DEMOCRAT, 283 Grays Inn Road, London, W.C.1 quietest in years. There were only Frank Cferd and Billy McKee must capital. activities of one of Connolly's principal surviving lieutenants, of Mrs. Drumm, the president of Full information on these plied Mr. Mikardo, "but watch about fifty people arrived on Sun- be the cry that Is heard throughout Let us heed Tom Barry's call Sinn Fein (Kevin Street), Mr. prisoners still needs to be com- Liam Mellows. with £14or a year 50p for six months day afternoon the land. Whatever their political and work in the coming months Ruairi O Bradaigh, said. "Mr. plied and publicised throughout where it is leading you. People Name views, they are brave and honour- in a mighty campaign to demand Faulkner has said that 'Republican- Britain and the world. Every- should not create a revolution- 19th JULY S.D.L.P. members of able Irishmen. We must not rest £4 the release of all these prisoners ism Is a legitimate political view- where people need to be wakened ary situation unless they are Address Stormont called for the until they are able to work freely as essential before there can be point,' but this apparently does not up to what Britain and her I prepared to go where it takes dismissal of Mr. John Taylor on and openly for their country once any moves towards a progressive apply when one engages in political minions are up to in the six LAWRENCE & WISHART account of his provocative speech. again. solution of the Irish question activity in support of it" oounties. them." THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August 11971 August 1971 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT IRISH SONGS
KEVIN BARRY OLD IRELAND FREE ONCE MORE AN CAISDEACH BAN I AST night I had a happy dream, though restless where I be : fcN Mountjoy jail, one Monday HUG me an ruaig udai o mhullach na Chruaiche I thought again brave Irishmen had set old Ireland free, SZZ irelands mystery man • morning T Chugad anuas chun an tSleibhe Bhain, And how excited I became when I heard the cannon's roar— Ar thuairisc mo chailin d'fhag m'intinn buart.ha "Michael Collins, the lost lea- High upon the gallows tree, - riperism : Myth or Reality ?" it surpasses Frank O'Connor's light- intuitively imagined him. better shadowy Chartres whom Griffith Agus rinn si gual dubt do mo chroi i mo lar. Keuin Barry gave his young lite 0 gradli mo chroidhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more. ny Desmond Bowel (Mercier, der", by Margery Forester weight effort in every wav imagin- than previous writers, she is pre- is said to have included in the 0 d'at mo ghuailli go sniumh mo chluasai For the cause ot Liberty. 12.25). Sidgwick & Jackson, £3.50). able. pared to admit he might have one London delegation. Agus fuair me fuagradh glan gear on mbas Just a lad ol eighteen summers, It's true we had brave Irishmen as everyone must own, i T seems to me that in this book Miss Forester has had two advan- or two faults, and she states them It is quite clear that Collins's 's dheamhan an duine dha chuala mo sceal an itair sin "THIS is a good workmanlike Yet there's no one can deny, O'Neill, O'Donnell, Sarsfield true, Lord Edward and Wolfe Tone, I oesmond Bowen has been very tages denied her predecessors, with just the right emphasis. connections in England were much Nar dhuirt go mba trua bocht an Caisdeach Ban, biography of Michael Col- namely access to the papers held As he walked to death that morning And also Robert Emmet who till death did not give o'er— successful in confirming a belief HERHAPS excusably she believes more substantial than has hitherto He proudly held his head on high. lins, and for general purposes by the Collins' family, and the co- 1 that if Collins had lived, all 0 gradh mo chroidhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more. which he set out to discredit, been believed. That Collins had Agus ar cheann an staighre to plur gach maighdean namely that proselytlsm was widely easily the most serviceable that operation of the Llewelyn Davies would have come right in the end. a strong attachment to London has Is i siud meidhreog an bhrollaigh bhain. practised in parts of Connaught has appeared. It is worth hav- family. But one ventures to doubt it. been recorded by Robert Brennan. Now we can't forget the former years, they're kept in memory still "Shoot me liUe an Irish soldier, 'Se an trua nach liom i gan buaibh na punt t during the famine period. No-one ing on one's bookshelf for re- She has thus been able to include One interesting statement that One almost gets the impression, Do not hang me like a dog, Of the Wexford men of '98 who fought on Vinegar Hill, 's i bheaith gan cuntas liom ar laimh. will be very shocked to discover ference, and should be in every valuable fresh material regarding she makes is that the famous reading between the lines in Miss Ifor I fought to free old Ireland, With Father Murphy by their side and the green flag waving o'er— 0 dheanfainn teach mor dhi ar shiul an bhotbair that clergymen with so much time public library. Collins's early life and family back- "Chartres oath" was drafted by Forester's book, that its fascination On that bright September morn; 0 gradh mo chroidhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more. Agus chuirfinn choisti faoina clann on their hands sometimes allowed ground. as well as of his stay in Llewelyn Davies. Here she whets returned when he visited it as one AM around that little bakery, Is a chuilin omra, dha mblitea bo dhom missionary zeal to constrict their It is not so long as Beaslai's. But London. our appetite. She does not unfor- of the "plenipotentiaries." Could Where we fought them hand to In do cheangal fomhair ni chuirfinn suim. mimanity. And it must be said it is free from the bitter Free State While, as is natural in a bio- tunately fully spell out Collins's this have influenced his decision on Allen, O'Brien and Larkin died, their country to set free, bias which marred his book and hand immediately that on the evidence grapher. she is sympathetic to Col- relationship with the Llewelyn the "treaty"? And someday yet brave irishmen will make the Saxon flee ; led him into occasional shameless Why not shoot me like a soldier. 's bhi me I gcolaiste go ham mo bhearrtha Df this carefully researched book lins, and moreover seems to have Davies family. Nor does she ex- What is made admiraoly clear is Both day and night they'll always fight, until death they'll ne'er mis-statements. On the other hand For I fought to free Ireland." Agus ins an ardscoil ar feadh cuig mblian, the great majority of anglican recaptured him. or shall we say, plain the connection with the how hard the British worked for give o'er No go bhfair me oideachas agus comhairle on Eaglais ministers devoted themselves im- that "treaty." Lords and Ladies 0 gradh mo chroidhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more. Ach faraor craite, a bhris me thrid. oartialiy to the succour of the circled round the delegation, to- Just before he faced the hangman, Is ri-mhor m'fhaitios roimh Ri na nGrasta starving during the terrible years gether with the inevitable Mr. In his dreary prison cell, Nach bfuil se i ndan dom go dtiocfad saor, 1815-1848. The Georgian face of Dublin Cope. British soldiers tortured Barry Mar is mo mo pheaca na leath Chruach Phadratg But there were exceptions and There is little doubt that Collins Just beoause he would not tell In ngeall ar an ghra thug me dho inion maoir. these were influenced from two "A Guided Tour of Dublin," by the reader is at fault in expecting enthusiasm for and knowledge of committed himself to civil war with All the names of his companions, THE BONNY BOY sources, from the London-based, Charlotte Bielenburg, illus- a "Guided Tour of Dublin" to be a her subject would then have had the greatest reluctance. Miss And other things they wished to ultra-protestant Irish Society and trated by Roland Pym (Mer- "Guide to Dublin." The Castle is full opportunity to be displayed. Forester gives many examples of know F AT HER, dear father, you've done what's very wrong many kindred bodies, and from the cier Press, paperback, 63p). deliberately omitted, on the grounds But let us not carp too much. his desire for accommodation with r "Turn informer or we'll kill you!" OTo marry me to this bonny boy, he being so very young: landed aristocracy. The most " I 'HIS was never my town, I was that there are other guide-books Within its terms of reference, this the opponents of the Free State. Kevin Barry answered "No!" For he is only fifteen years and I am twenty-one— I LOVE OLD IRELAND STILL notorious examples of erastianism * not born nor bred nor schooled that deal with it—but is that a is a delightful production, full of The tragedy was that the terms Oh the bonny boy is young and still growing." were those associated with two suc- here. . . . This quotation from good enough reason? We visit the detail in both textual information imposed by England deprived him cessive bishops of Tuam, Trench Louis MacNeice opens Charlotte James Joyce Museum, but not Kil- (did you know that the architec- of the necessary freedom of action. Calmly standing to attention, Oh daughter, dear daughter, I did not do you wrong ll/HERE is the man who does not love the land where he was born, and Plunket, both of whom were Bielenberg's "Guided Tour of Dub- mainham; St. Michan's, but not tural urns on the roof of the A much more subtle man would While he bade his last farewell To marry you to this bonny boy although he is so young, »» Who does not look on it with pride, no matter how forlorn? members of the wealthiest land- lin" in a very appropriate manner, Glasnevin; Messrs. Ferrier. Pollock Marino Casino were also chim- have been required, one perhaps To his broken-hearted mother, For he will be a match for you when I am dead and gone- I only know that I love mine, and long again to see owning families in the west. for the author is German-born, & Co. Ltd.'s offices, but not Liberty neys?). and in Roland Pym's deli- without the touch of egotism, and Whose sad grief no one can tell. Oh the bonny boy is young, but he's growing.'' Oppression from it banished and old Ireland once more free. The book is well worth reading although she now lives in Co. Kil- Hall! cate line drawings. better versed in political theory. lor its picture of life in the broad For the cause h» proudly cherished dare. She has been an official guide / \NE especial aspect of the book THE guide to Dublin that will VT ISS FORESTER'S approach t,f»< peninsula between Clew Bay and 4 This sad parting had to be; "Oh father, dear father, I tell you what we'll do to the city, and now takes us on that contributes to both its the Republicans is on the CHORUS: Killala Bay in the middle of the deal with its archaeology, archi- Then to death walked, softly We II send my love to college for another year or two, a two-dav tour of the highlights of strength and weakness is the con- whole sympathetic enough. One' 19th century. As for its sectarian tecture and history—imperial, social smiling, And all around his bonnet we will tie a ribbon blue Let friends all turn against me, let foes say what they will its history and architecture, from centration on buildings of the 18tli comment however is revealing. Of content and the author's pro- and rebel—has yet to be written; That old Ireland might be free. To show the ladies that he is married." For my heart is with my country, and I love old Ireland still. its cathedrals to the Abbey Theatre, century. Dublin is, of course, one Childers, Lynch and Brugha she testant bias is not concealed—it too and yet is so sadly needed, as any- from gothic to skyscraper. of the finest Georgian cities created, one who has been on a C.I.E. tour remarks: "In the natural world Oh a year it went by and I passed the college wall You will find no greater land than ours, if you search the wide world o'er is of interest as showing clearly the those who cannot adapt themselves A general survey of the city and and Mrs. Bielenberg introduces us except in 1966 when all the drivers Another martyr for old Ireland, And saw the young collegians a-playing at the ball, Although she's laughed at and despised because her offspring's poor; political and British origin of reli- to revolutionary changes die." This of its history introduce the book to a number of houses and other re-learnt their history for a few Another murder for the crown; I saw my love amongst them, the fairest of them all But if her sons could only get the wealth that lies beneath her soil, gious contention in one region of bland assumption that counter- But the men who murdered Barry Ireland. in a fairly adequate manner, al- buildings of the period that are months!) will vouch. Oh the bonny boy was young and still growing. She would once more prosper and her sons could live by honest toil. not generally known to be open to revolution is a law of nature is Cannot keep old Ireland down, EAVANN CONOR. though her resume of the last fifty Dublin fortunately has an his- interested visitors, including Tai- breath-taking in its unthinking kads like Barry are no cowards, years of history raises a number of torian capable of such a task. Here Oh at the age of fifteen he was a married man, There's not an Irishman today would ever wish to roam, lor's Hall, and the Marino Casino. optimism. "God's in his heaven, From the foe they will not fly; questions. We then visit 24 Dub- is a plea to Eamonn MacThomais And at the age of sixteen the father of a son Into a foreign land to live if he could work at home; (Details of times of admission, etc. all's right with the world." On the Lads like Barry will free Ireland, lin buildings, and five places out- to leave for a while his extremely And at the age of seventeen o'er his grave the grass grew green So give to us our liberty, with the Sinn Fein flag unfurled, are given for all places mentioned.) whole the philosophy of this book For her sake they'll live and die. Cruel death had put an end to his growing. CONFUSING side the city boundaries. It is the interesting but rather rambling is that "what is. is right," and the Then Ireland and her sons would prove a credit to the world. s choice of these two dozen interest Perhaps the author would have causeries on Dublin history, and underlying theoretical assumptions ERUDITION spots, to the exclusion of so many written a more satisfactory book if give us a systematic guide to his are therefore imperialist. At the others, that leaves one with a feel- she had made it a "Guided Tour beloved city and its revolutionary same time Miss Forester rises a "The Social Contract," by Robert ing of disappointment—but perhaps of Georgian Dublin"—her sparkling history! L.G.S, moon above the level of most Eng- Ardrey (Collins, £2.50). lish writing on Ireland. A New 'j'HlS book claims to be an in- Zealander, she has acquired a real THE WATERFORD BOYS GLEN SWILLY THE BLACKBIRD OF quiry into the sources of order Unusual tragedy at Armagh knowledge as well as a deep sym- :K! disorder in human society. In SOCIAL HISTORY pathy with the country. "The Runaway Train, Armagh equipped them with automatic
< V 8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August 1971 IKISn IIV BRITAIN
is a strong Trade Union Movement m Britain today it is due in no small measure to the labours of the Irish CON LEHANES SPEECH IN FULL emigrant men and women who - helped to build it in the period be- II the coming months bring tween the 70s of the last century ^JANY of those who are and the present day. gathered here are men This remarkable speech, putting in about the loss of further Irish lives in Britain's Six-County en- To those lately come from Ire- and women of Irish birth and clave, the responsibility for the land, to those of Irish birth, who are blood. It is natural that I the clearest way possible the attitude lives lost must rest primarily on listening to me today, I would ask should address myself in a the Heath Government in Lon- them to unite themselves in spirit special way to you. of Irish Republicanism to the issues don and all those who opposed the to their comrades at home who on But there are others in this sane and statesmanlike proposals this day, at this time, are pledging leathering to whom we bring a mes- of Mr. Latham, M.P., and Lord themselves at Tone's grave in sage. They are people with no confronting Britain and Ireland today, Brockway, for the introduction Bodenstown, to the achievement of Tone's aims. direct connection with Ireland, who of the Bill of Rights. arc here as members of the British was delivered at the great meeting Responsibility must rest also Trade Union and Working Class upon Mr. Faulkner, Six-County movement. organised by the Connolly Association Premier, and the armed unionist They are people who realise that extremists whom he is afraid or IMPORTANT •hey are engaged in a struggle unwilling to disarm, and, lastly, against the same forces which seek in Trafalgar Square on June 20th. upon Mr. Lynch and his am- ;o exploit the Irish people as a bivalent attitude, "not standing CONFERENCE whole, and the Irish working-class idly by" one day, cringing sub- in particular. speak within some well-defined other than that which is theirs of servience to Faulkner and Heath IN SEPTEMBER They are British workers who limits. I have no right or desire to right. All we demand is that the next. realise that the interests which tell the working class and Trade Britain cease her interference in seek to exploit them are funda- Union movement in Britain how Ireland's affairs, that she evacuate Immediate demands which we THE Connolly Association's mentally the same interests as they should direct their affairs, nor all her troops from every part of ask you to endorse are:— annual conference will meet ihose who seek to exploit the Irish do I think I am entitled to tell Ireland, that she cease exercising a (1) the disarming of the Unionist at the A.E.U.F. Boardroom in people both north and south of the them how in my opinion they might neo-colonialist domination of our extremists, Salford on Saturday and Sun- British-created border. best help us in Ireland. economy, that she end her policy of (2) no new B-Special force under day, September 4th and 5th. Those who, in every age and in What I do feel entitled to say to stirring up discord and dissention a new name, The last occasion when the every generation, have spoken with them is to tell them what our im- among our people, that she realise (3) enactment of the Bill of Rights, conference was held in Man- the authentic voice of the Irish and accept that all of Ireland be- mediate objectives are, and to ask (4) the withdrawal of the British chester was in November, 1953. Republican and Separatist Tradi- for their help in achieving these ob- longs to all the Irish people, be- forces, Manchester has been chosen tion have always realised that Ire- jectives. How they can best give cause, until Britain clears out of (5) the release of republican on account of its central posi- land's quarrel was not with the that help or the extent to which Ireland lock, stock and barrel and prisoners held in Belfast and in tion and it is hoped that there British people, but with British they should give it. is a matter for discontinues her efforts to build a Britain. imperialism. themselves. British enclave in the north-eastern I do not presume to dictate to will be exceptionally large at- Ireland's struggle for freedom ; My purpose is achieved if I can part of our country, there can be no British workers as to how they tendance from branches in the tor unity, and for the right of the get acceptance from them of the real or lasting peace. should help us in achieving these north of England and Scotland, Irish people to be masters in their idea that there is a discernable link That the Lynchs or the Hillerys demands. I ask them to consider who find London, the usual own house has always been in its between both our struggles, in that think that Ireland's ultimate de- them and to endorse them if they venue, too distant. essentials—a struggle of the dis- we both face the same opposing mands can be negotiated, whittled- can. This will be an epoch-making- possessed and of the men of no forces. down, or bargained for, prove I believe it is not unfair to say conference without a doubt. The property against Landlordism, capi- nothing except their incapacity to that the working class and Trade three sessions will be devoted talism and imperialism. '"l^HE Irish people have no designs understand the Irish people or Irish Union movement in Britain owe a in the main to the themes of : It in no way invalidates the truth -1- on or ambitions for anything history. debt to the Irish people. If there of this proposition to show that at (1) The situation in Ireland times the leadership of the move- and what should be done about ment for Irish freedom fell into the it. hands of bourgeois opportunists. (2) The Common Market and Whenever that happened they di- GREAT CIVIL RIGHTS DAY MEETINGS the fight against the new euro- verted the movement from its real tyranny. rpHE nearest Sunday to July 12th burn and Sunderland. The demon- tended indoor meeting at which Mr. objectives. Although this happened (3) The Irish Community and many times, and although the is now becoming established as stration that was held had the sup- Jock Stallard, M.P., Mr. Prank the role of the Connolly Asso- movement for the liberation of ALL "Civil Rights Day," and demonstra- port of the Manchester Irish Civil MacManus, M.P., and Mr. Tom the Irish people has been led into tions were held in four important Rights Association, and the main McDowell spoke. ciation. many cul-de-sacs by weak or venal centres. speaker was Mr. Joseph Deighan, Branches of the Association leadership, the real separatist and the secretary of the Civil Rights There was also a well-attended who wish to send in resolutions republican movement has always It is confidently predicted that Movement in Belfast. demonstration in London, in which should meet and remit them as broken out of the cul-de-sacs and next year there will be many more, many Irish and other organisations soon as possible. A part of the reorganised itself on the main high and the Connolly Association is CONTINGENT from Leeds participated. These included the time of each session will be set consisting of C.A. and Clann road. already laying plans for a nation- A Connolly Association, Clann na aside for these and other items wide demonstration in 1972. na hEireann members, was pre- Much of the past fifty years have hEireann, and a number of county of business. vented from attending because of organisations, together with the been spent by the republican move- As the numbers of delegates a First to be held was the Connolly a road accident which occurred Young Communist League. The ment fighting its way out of the branch is entitled to send is de- cul-de-sacs into which it had been Association demonstration in Car- while they were on their way. Mr. auspices were the London N.LC.R.A. termined by its paid-up mem- led. diff, which was addressed by Mr. Michael Rooney, who was to have and the speakers included Miss HE real enemies of Irish free- Sean Redmond and by leading spoken at the meeting following the Bernadette Devlin, Mr. Bowes Egan bership, branches of the Asso- T dom and independence who members of Plaid Cymni. demonstration, was hurt in the and Mr. Desmond O'Hagan. ciation are urged to speed up accident but is now mending. the re-enrolment of their mem- seek to block the march of the In Manchester, contingents of HpHE Manchester demonstration bers before the qualifying date people to liberation and to freedom C.A. members and supporters came In Birmingham, a large demon- was marred by the attachment are the same people who try to block into the city from Liverpool, Black- stration was followed by a well-at- and thus ensure the maximum the advance of the British workers of a bunch of political parasites representation. towards their goals of democracy, with a red banner. They had socialism and justice. travelled specially to Manchester Speaking on an occasion such as Liam Mellows LONDON VIGIL and were equipped with copies of this however, I feel that I must the 'United Irishman' and 'An Pho- blacht' (neither of which is in any T ONDON Clann na hEireann held COACH TRIP way objected to at Connolly de- biography ^ an all-night vigil outside the monstrations) together with a col- to British Home Office on Saturday, lection of ultra-leftist rubbish. They Lancashire reception well July 3rd and 4th, to demand the were displeased at being compelled PLAW HATCH release of the 15 prisoners held in to tag behind the demonstration, COUNTRY CLUB attended British jails. and contented themselves with lectures shouting slogans at the top of on On the invitation of Clann na somewhat raucous voices, which hEireann members of the Central SUNDAY, SEPT. 12th FOLLOWING a suggestion AT a reception at the Kenil- were designed to deceive the Man- M worth Hotel, London, to London branch of the Connolly As- chester public as to the purpose of made by Mr. Fred Lyons, at sociation participated in the picket. mark the publication of Mr. the march. There may have been the last meeting of the Liver- some Irishmen among them, but pool Connolly Association, a Desmond Greaves's new book, Details from "Liam Mellows and the Irish they were not noticeable. One who series of three "background" was selling the 'United Irishman' SOUTH LONDON C.A., Revolution," the author gave a lectures is being delivered by was asked did he belong to Clann 283 GRAYS INN ROAD. the editor of the "Irish Demo- lecture entitled "In Search of LONDON C.A. na hEireann. He admitted that he crat", Mr. Desmond Greaves. Mellows." The reception, which did not. Irish organisations might W.C.I took place on July 13th was ar- care to take note that certain Eng- The first of these, entitled ranged by Mr. Patrick Bond. REORGANISES lish groupings are busy "stirring it or phone: "The History of Sinn Fein", Among those attending were up" and should take care to check PATRICK BOND being given at the Wellington IT the annual general meeting Mr. Marcus Lipton, M.P., Mr. anything they hear said against Hotel, High Street (Nicholas ^ of the Central London branch each other. 01-850 0283. Jock Stallard, M.P., Mr. Patrick Croft), Manchester, on Monday,- Clancy, one-time general secre- of the Connolly Association, Mr. July 26th, at 8 p.m., and at the tary of the Connolly Associa- Sean Redmond agreed to accept the Free Church Centre, Tarleton tion ; Mr. Alec Digges, and Mr. position of hon. secretary. The Street, Liverpool, the following P. Quinlan, of Clann na hEire- previous seoretary, Mr. Pat Hensey, day. ann. Literary figures present in- becomes treasurer. Chairman Is GRAND IRISH The second, entitled "James cluded Mr. D o m h n a 1 Mac Mr. Charles Cunningham, circula- Connolly, the working class Amhlaigh who had come spe- tion manager of the "Irish Demo- SOCIAL EVENING answer", is to be given at the cially from Northampton. There crat." New committee member Is to be held on Wheatsheaf, High Street, Man- was a large attendance of Con- Mr. William Crimes of OuMln. SATURDAY. AUGUST 14th chester, on Monday, August 9th nolly Association members and Miss Pegeen O'Flahrerty and Miss (Tuesday, 10th, in Liverpool, at 8 p.m. supporters. Malre Caiman remain on the com- same venue) and the third on at the mittee. "Partition, recipe for counter- Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd., "CROWN & ANCHOR" revolution" at the same places, (T.U.), Nottingham Road, Ripley, A resolution was passed expres- Hilton Street on Monday, August 23rd in Derbyshire, and published by sinjg warm appreciation of Mr. Pat Manchester and Tuesday, Aug. Connolly Publications Ltd., at Hensey's long and capable services MANCHESTER C.A. 24th in Liverpool. 283 Grays Inn Rd, London, W.O.I. as secretary of the Branch.