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1 MARCHMONT COMMUNITY CENTRE, | i MARCHMONT STREET, 1 No 540 February 1989 LONDON, WC1 | BRICKS" REPRINTED FROM MARCH '87 GUILDFORD DEMOCRAT FOUR CASE THE importance of the conference to be held at the Marchmont Street Com- munity Centre at 2.30pm on REOPENED March 21st is thrown into A PRESS conference held in the relief by events at McCarthy House of Commons by leading and Stones in Sutton, Surrey. supporters of the four convicted of the Guildford bombing, showed This firm sacked their directly very cautious optimism at the news employed workforce and that the case had been referred back brought in 'self-employed to the Court of Appeal. Those lumpers'. present were Michael Fisher, Paul GOVERNMENT FORCED TO ACT Mil's solicitor, MPs Chris MuUins, The result was Union action. But the High Court issued an Jeremy Corbyn, and Margorie injunction against the workers Mowlam. The aunt and uncle of and compelled the TGWU and 2,000 FIRMS SHUT DOWN Panl Hill were also present. UCATT to cease backing the Under pressure for two years men's picket. THE Connolly Association Conference on the Lump in March 1987 gave a much needed from senior politicians, judges and churchmen, Mr Hurd made it clear The allegation is that safety boost to the campaign to make the construction industry safer. It is now revealed that 2,000 that their opinions were not standards have plumetted and dangerous building sites have been shut down in an 18 month safety blitz. decisive. Mr Hurd claims to have workers are lugging cement to Thatcherite monetarism encourages unsafe and dangerous industrial practices. Then when the small the site in their own cars. been moved to action by the new contractors take advantage of this prevailing philosophy and go for the quick buck they become the fall guys. medical evidence relating to Carole Conference has the support of The Health and Sa'ety Executive London Director claimed on January 12th that half of the contractors claimed Richardson's drugged condition that they had never seen a factory inspector before. Mr Eric Heffer, MP, who writes when die made her "confession". as follows: The inspectors reported that at least a third of all site agents and supervisors had a completely inadequate knowledge of health and safety. Secondly, a new witness, Ms The areas of building work posing the greatest potential danger to workers were unsafe practices in roofwork, Maura Kelly, has said that she was Dear Desmond, demolition and scaffolding. These are the areas where the newly arrived Irish emigrants are most likely to be working. with Richardson on the afternoon of Thank you for your letter and I the pub bombings. Mr Hurd said would like to say how much I A quarter of all Britain's building sites are unsafe. The revelation of "cheap, shoddy and unsafe" building practices welcome the Conference that is came during the first TUC National Health and Safety Inspection Week, called to boost the number of union safety that no jury or court has had the being organised concerning the representatives. opportunity to assess the value of Construction Industry which was "Immediate improvements of safety standards are unlikely to last unless those in charge of sites are convinced of her evidence "that during the outlined on page two of the Irish the need to plan and control work so as to reduce the risks," Mr Hinksman commented. course of the afternoon she Democrat in January. (Richardson) had no opportunity to It is vital that Irish and other make any journey to Guildford." workers, including British He makes no mention of the fact workers, should unite in their that she was too frightened to give appropriate Trade Unions, to fight for better conditions in the evidence after being detained and Construction Industry, and threatened by two Guildford police especially against the Lump. officers. \ Some years ago I attempted to Also Mr Hurd referred to a new get a Bill through Parliament which would have outlawed the witness for Hill, Mrs Yvonne Fox, Lump, but did not get enough who says she was with him on the support. Also, the Labour evening of the Woohvitch bombing. Government in 1970 was putting An interview with Mrs Fox on through a Bill which would have Yorkshire Television in March marginally helped to combat it, but it was lost when Labour lost 1987 prompted the Home Office the election. review of the case. | We need action in the country Mr Hayes, chief constable of by the unions and workers to Surrey, commenting on the combat the Lump, but we also Richardson confession being hand- need a future Labour written said: "How someone Government to introduce incapable of making a statement legislation to deal with it. does so in her own handwriting I Safety is still a vital question, don't know." But the Birmingham as are many other issues, and so I wish the Conference every Six signed confessions, in their own success. The real need is to build handwriting. The question in both the unions, get properly cases is: Was the signing done sed, defeat the Lump, under duress?. that the Working rules are d and that the laws on and Safety an not only Get weM soon but improved. TUC and building union officials visited this London construction site on January 12th tofaighlight the spiral rise SEND "get well' cards to One Timbey, Ward 5, St Pancras Hospital, St in deaths and injuries in the industry in recent years, packed by the banner of the raah and file Construction Pancras Way, Kings Cross, London, Safety Campaign are (left to right) TGWU construction secretary George Henderson, TUC representative Alan 5R,MP. NW1, after a fall in her flat she was Tuflin, UCATT leader Albert Williams and executive members Jack Rogers and George BrumweU and TUC taken to hospital where she is making deputy general secretary John Morris. Photo first published in Guardian. a satisfactory recovery. r

February 1989 February 11 Page Two THE IRISH DEMOCRAT fjggg Tjwji More light on nuclear The first Hackney HistOTy in a WORLD COMMENT nutshell HOW to prevent capitalist Big By Donal Kennedy RiSH FESTIVAL stand another such build-up. Yet submarine activity Business from destroying the "Beware the Irishman's hero. He is By the Third World where most of WE have pleasure in announcing an Friday 10th February world's natural environment may raised up to be sacrificed. The roll-call notoriously slow to consider the rights mankind lives will want to raise its BERNARD Moffatt, assistant the Celtic League to end this 7pm (doors open) 7.30pm (lecture) be the biggest issue of of Irish heroes — Emmet, O'Coaaell, of civilians. exciting programme of events living standards through indus- Secretary of the Celtic League has interference with the lawful pursuit of Hackney Town Hall. First Annual international politics over the Politicus Parnell, Pearse, is a litany of dead kings throughout the borough which trialisation, just as the First World brought down by a fetid mixture of sent more information about their their livelihood should get much In the meantime Governments Sean MacBrjde Memorial Lecture. This is part of the cover coming century. revolution began is due to the includes, Ceilis, famous musicians, has done. jeakwy, perfidy and malice." campaign to stop the dangerous wider support from MPs and political involved should be persuaded to Speaker — Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, The rape of Antartica, the Gaelic sports, cabaret, paintings, design from the book, burning of forests this century. PROFESSOR Anthony Clare, parties. a distinguished historian and destruction of the ozone layer, activity of nuclear submarines in supply all small vessels with a radio films, pub and club events, exhibitions This heats the atmosphere, melts What is needed is economic Dublin-horn and educated psychiatrist, In a conversation with the press MacBride's First Secretary at the 'Northern Ireland, The acid rain from industrial pollution the Irish Sea. instrument which could be detected lectures and plays. the polar ice-caps, increases sea balance rather than economic writer and broadcaster, recently officer of the publisher of Janes by submarines: this should be done United Nations. International Perspective,' and the rise in sea levels caused by levels as a result and threatens to growth. This means the adoption contributed a feature — "My Hero", Put the date in your diary and on • * In the December issue of our paper Fighting Ships, I discovered that the free of charge. the 'greenhouse' effect resulting of non-waste technologies, in on John Hume, to London's your wall calendar, 4-12 February, by Adrian Guelke, which will drown Pacific coral islands we showed a map which listed forty nuclear submarines can only detect from the burning of tropical which products are recycled, INDEPENDENT magazine, and The only eventual solution is to 1989. Check local press for details. Sunday 5th February nations as well as low-lying incidents of interference with fishing vessels that are moving. Fishing boats 8pm Duke of Wellington. Mise Eire - be reviewed next month. forests — all have horrendous coastal areas around the globe. waste eliminated and the conflict started it with those words. As that make the Irish Sea a non military Festival programmes also available. If magazine is primarily addressed to boats and yachts in some cases remain undetected while fishing Reflections of Ireland. Music/poetry/ - consequences which call for Tropical rainforests are also between production and the zone. So yet again get writing to your othar pubs or groups want to take part English minds I tested their effect on an causing loss of life. In an apparent because they are just drifting. It will co-operation between govern- inhabited by millions of unique environment got rid of. While local MP. Below we print the Celtic in the festival, please write to song. Presented by Peggy McCarthy. English graduate in English. effort to silence angry fishermen take sometime to alert public opinion ments to deal with them. plant and insect species, evolved industrial pollution does exist in League's letter to one of the embassies Councillor Tommy Sheppard, Tickets £3/£2 concs. She took it to mean that Emmet, officials have reportedly paid enough to force a change of route by * » • LAGAN LIGHTS Gorbachev has said these over millenia, which provide Eastern Europe, socialist societies whose Government may be sending Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street, E8 O'Connell, Parnell and Pearse had "substantial damages" without the submarines. Politicians and their issues should be at the top of the genetic material for all sorts of — where the advancement of the submarines into the area. or phone Geraldine Doyle, 01 985 By R. W. Heatley been "brought down" by Irishmen. Of admitting legal liability. The efforts of friends in the Armed Forces are Monday 6th February international agenda. But the crop and medical discoveries. general social good should the four Parnell alone was a familiar 7825 for information. 9am-6pm. Hackney Town Council. THE six counties enters yet another main obstacle to this happening is These species are now predominate over profit-making name, as she had touched on his The richness of Irish talent on Exhibition about deaths of Irish year with bleak prospects. Aside from the fact that most of the damaging disappearing at a rate of for the few — ought in principle to downfall and the affair of Kitty O'Shea display is impressive. It is a workers on building sites. Exhibition the political problems, official effects arise from the lust of thousands every year. be better able than capitalist ones some score and more years ago in statistics claim that unemployment CELTIC LEAGUE EMBASSY LETTER celebration of all things Irish, from open from Monday 6th February to private business to make profits in The Brazilians burn the' to adopt such an approach. For school. There's hardly need to remark now stands at 15% of the workforce. to Irish Democrat readers, nor to aware that other powers Session of the IMO the first annual Sean MacBride Friday 10th February. Represen- the present, no matter how Amazon forest and the Indian capitalism insists that nature Dear Ambassador This is expected to rise again to, at anyone who had but elementary Memorial Lecture to entertainment tatives from the campaign available harmful the consequences to reserves must be privately operate submerged sub- Assembly. best, 22%. Matters will be worse if the peasants deforest the Himalayas education in Ireland these past couple I DRAW your attention to the each evening from 5-6pm to talk to profitable. from internationally renowned Shipyard closes down (as seems likely) coming generations. Yet the because of desperate poverty. It is of centuries, that Emmet died at the marines in the Irish Sea area musicians; from paintings to Gaelic visitors. global environment is deteriorat- unrealistic to expect tnem to listen enclosed chart of incidents in (c) Does your Government and the Aircraft Factory hives off its This is why Gorbachev can bands of an English executioner, that and in particular we are aware sports, from Irish language theatre to * * • parts that are unprofitable. ing so fast that it is likely to force to preaching about environmental the Irish and Celtic Seas when submarines from the speak more plausibly than the his fame did not precede but followed video screenings; from writers' events Mainly Protestant jobs will be lost co-operation even on capitalist values from rich Western his death, that his image has been a that your own Government 7pm. Stoke Newington Town Hall. Reagans and the Thatchers about ascribed by the League to the Federal German Navy are to advice sessions; and from Irish since these two enterprises are citadels states which are ideologically countries which . have made revered ieon in Ireland since then, or the common interests of the activities of submerged has from time to time cabaret acts to ceilis. Rough Justice. A new play about The of the Protestant "aristocracy of committed to 'competition' themselves rich by means of that his fame travelled round the being deployed in areas of human family. deployed submarines through Birmingham Six performed by labour", or of what is now becoming a instead. unequal exchange relations with dviHwd world, celebrated by his poet submarines in this area. I extensive commercial sea For particular mention we Sheffield Campaign Theatre. Live Socialist thought henceforth is former Unionist ascendancy. Once The world's biggest green lung, poor Third World ones — an (and historian) friend, Thomas Moore. would point out that the list of this area and also indeed upon a time these displaced workers likely to put more emphasis on His speech from the dock was part of fishery, give warning to recommend the following items. entertainment, speakers. For details the enormous Amazon forest, is inequality ultimately rooted in other NATO countries have. I would have merely re-located in other 'eco-socialism' of this kind. It will the education of no less a man than incidents is by no means mariners via the posting in Saturday 4th February. phone 607 3781 Tickets £2/£l concs. currently being destroyed to help colonialism. expanding sectors of the economy. stress the superiority of the Abraham Lincoln, no mean figure and would therefore like to ask 10am-5pm: Hackney Urban Studies For the rest of the programme Brazil pay interest on its debts to complete in that since the appripriate journals or But this is hardly possible nowadays. What is needed are net transfers co-operative valueis typical of the no mean orator, as well as, of course, Centre. Irish Womens' Writers apply to the Four Provinces Western banks. They burn the compilation of the chart the appropriate Ministries • The Industrial Development of resources from the rich family over the competitive, devil- generations of Irishmen and women. through the relevant Conference. For details phone Bookshop, 244/6 Grays Inn Road, forests, rear cattle for a few within your countries to I Authority has lately attracted only a countries to the poor rather than, tkke-the-hindmost values of the Pearse was brought down by the rifle approximately two months Coastguards. ~ Bridget O'Connor 01 254 9632. London, WC1. " couple of trans-national companies, years to help America to purchase bullets of an English firing squad, and as at present, the other way capitalist market-place. ago, a number of additional address the following one Korean and one French. cheaper hamburgers, and then the around. The global environmental only then did his name become a The effects on Mother Nature in questions: Trusting I will receive a There could still be a large figure of soil deteriorates to a desert. catastrophe mankind"now faces household one in Ireland. His name too items have occurred which the global laboratory will more prompt reply to these queries net redundancies. The British Rainforests mean rain. Because may force the West to shift is treasured in the hearts of most Irish (a) Are you aware of the government's proposed legislation and more be seen as the surest way people, though some pigmy begrudgers will be appended on an up- TABLE TALK dark colours absorb sunlight, air resources from the arms race to I can only reiterate our will not do much — if anything — to of testing which mode of of the revisionist school would have it dated chart. concern of the International over green areas is cooler than projects reflecting a more install 'Fair Employment'... at least organising human society is the otherwise. Which leaves us with the Maritime Organisation increasing concern about the over light-coloured sandy deserts. enlightened perception of self- I am writing to you so that The Desmond Greaves Column for the foreseeable future. But it seems best. How right Engels was who more complex cases of O'Connell and number, frequency and Destroy the forests and you get interest, you can relay this corres- about these operations as I HAD no trouble meeting DeValera. so refreshed. I don't mind wasting that the workings of Mrs Thatcher's wrote 100 years ago: "Let's not Parnell. droughts in North America and regularity of incidents in I wrote him a letter saying I was time and never regard myself as 'free market forces' will result in the In the past century the world's pride ourselves too much on our It wasn't British gunfire that killed pondence to the appropriate voiced through the Resolution Protestants sharing more equally the floods in Bangladesh. About half these sea areas relating to writing the life of Mellows. Like the •wasting' it in fact. It is a refreshing productive capacity has grown victories over nature. For it takes Q'Connell, nor Irish jealousy and adopted recently by the river after all. Kutusov defeated burden of unemployment. the jcarbon discharged into the malice. He was 72 when he died in 1847 authority within your country clever man he was he said he would be almost 1,000 times over. The revenge on us for every such submarine activity of states Napolean using a strategy in space. ' Even so, as things stand at the atmosphere since the industrial and beyond contributing further to his i.e. the Defence Ministry. IMO? glad to give his point of view, which he natural environment will not victory." which include your own. knew I would be dealing with anyway. What we need to develop is a strategy moment, a Catholic youth is still three life's work for Ireland. Over a million The reason that the League (b) Would you be prepared to He sent down the presidential car to in time. times more likely to be unemployed . younger Irish men, women and children support a stiffening of this Yours faithfully Cathal MacLiam's house in Finglas, than is a Protestant equivalent. were to die that year, or in the two are contacting the Federal Twenty years after the beginning of surrounding years, in fetid famine, Resolution which is where I was staying at the time. I German Government is that, J. B. MOFFATT asked him about the Republicans. Civil Rights, this is the speed with cholera and typhus, from malign despite identifying several of Resolution A.599(15) Assistant General Secretary 'Mellows, Mary McSweeney and the I have thought of writing a history which British governments and — - A good year for tycoons English landlordism. Despite the Celtic League. others,' he said, they would have held of socialism in Ireland. It would-not more culpably — the British labour IN 1988 the continuing occupation of failings of O'Connell, enumerated in relating to the avoidance by work practices, and come to realise the incidents as being be difficult after all — in more senses movement have responded. a part of Ireland by British vain, a great Jubilee Conference was John Mitchel's Jail Journal, and their hands in the fire, I was made of that Tory policies are a threat to life submarines of fishing vessels than one! And perhaps a book;on There are still self-styled Socialists Imperialism, brought many tragedies held soon after his death. Since then Connolly's Labour in Irish History, concerned with the operation vi weaker clay.' Because he had and limb. During the year rats in city more brains, I thought to myself, the Irish Protestantism, though tiiat here in the north of Ireland who work to catholic and protestant families. the work of the Connolly Association and expanded upon by physical force of United States and British and their fishing gear, which sewers have multiplied and grown fat. has continued to expand and attract Republicans wanted a certain end, he would take a lot of time and work. Or against the McBride principles on the The security measures involved in the Republicans and Gaelic Leaguers, new recruits. submarines we are, of course, was adopted, by the 15th said, but could not see that the course something on Anglo-Irish relations, grounds that affirmative action Anglo-Irish Agreement continued to O'Connell is remembered with warmth which would deal with the curse of they were pursuing would not get if programmes are tantamount to cost the taxpayer dear in the 26 A very successful 'Time To Go' in Irish folklore and the noblest streets for them. 'When I was founding Cromwell. Do you know what the "reverse discrimination" as if Counties. The conflict in the north has By G. CUR RAN Conference was held in London under of Dublin and Limerick are named in Fianna Fail they couldn't be got to see curse of Cromwell was? It means that something like that was not continued to cause bitterness and the inspiring leadership of Clare Short his honour. I've yet to hear of any SPECIAL FUND the English revolution was aborted by necessary in the circumstances which divisions among all sections of Irish In 1988 however there were some proposals to rescind such honours. that this was a way of obtaining what setbacks for Imperialism. Mrs MP. An unprecedented 576 delegates Our thanks to: the involvement in Ireland. The curse prevail. society. Which leaves us with Parnell and his they wanted. To them I was the Thatcher failed to get Father Ryan and observers took part. H. Robson £12, M. McGuire £10, S. of Cromwell is still in operation. With no targets, time-tables or strameless compromiser.' He To get away from British extradited. The Government early downfall and death, Which is why the English working positive action programmes, when Finally, Mikhail Gorbachev Samuel £10, D. Crosher £20, P. remarked that his training was in domination, the Dublin Government assassinations in Gibraltar and the 'twas Irish humour, wet and dry, class are caught like rats in a trap. will this problem ever be resolved? achieved world recognition as the Bransfleld £10. classics and mathematics*. Hence his has become more deeply involved in subsequent attempts at cover-up did flung quicklime into Parnell's eye They cannot do anything to help Man of the Year. He continued to Total: £62. head for unemotional politics, I According to the six-county the European Community. little to enhance the Tories' wrote James Joyce, haunted by the themselves until they get out of Orange-type Socialists, Catholic Continuing resistance in the Six push the leaders of the Imperialist bitterness of the Parnellite Split. That thought. When he was showing me to reputation. 1 Ireland. unemployment will be resolved in Counties made the British powers nearer to a situation where split was not edifying any more than the the door he pointed to a big tree on the A meeting of European Communist some never-never land of a socialistic Government introduce increasingly wars would be only a memory and *plit over the "Treaty" of 1921, but lawn outside. It was Queen Victoria Parties in Dublin issued a joint future. When there are jobs for autocratic measures into Britain. The where the political and economic who planted that, he said. I had the statement, protesting at the loss of that's no reason why at this remove we everyone, the Catholics can get their ban which started with Sinn Fein has interference by big powers would be a impression that he thought this The socialist countries have made democracy and national sovereignty should be blinded by the quicklime. right. Question: While the working come to include anything relating to thing of the past. At the same time significant. Maybe the fact that he was so many mistakes, which has had art in the European Community. They Parnell was marked down for class remains divided on issues such as Irish History, even references to further progress was made in the now living in the Viceroy's house enormous effect in holding hack have realised that it will become a destruction by his English Tory FUND this, how is this socialistic future to be events 200 years ago. Soviet Union to involve more people where Victoria had planted a tree socialism in the West. The most Kafkaesque nightmare with great enemies. When the forger Plggott and OUR thanks to: achieved? in public life. We hope that 1989 will showed that something had really fundamental one, I think, is the.way In 1988 the destruction of the possibilities for corruption and 'the TIMES were exposed over false P. O'Connor £2.?0, J. Hourigan bring closer the day when Britain will changed after all. Perhaps he regarded they have mixed up the Party and the ' Job discrimination, it ought to be British legal system has proceeded inefficiency. allegations of inciting assassination, £8.60, R. M. £3.95, L. Daly £2, J. announce a plan for a responsible it as proof of the success of the Irish State. The Party should go in i for remembered, is a British artifice for with increased subservience of the the Tories had in reserve the hitherto Watson £5, A. Logue £ 1, J. Conneely To show that Desmond Greaves' withdrawal from Ireland, to be revolution! (1963) educating, persuasion, mailing maintaining the imposed division of judiciary to politicians. The erosion of complaisant and estranged husband of £15, J. Cosgrave £3.25, P. Quin£1.55, life of unremitting toil for Irish unity carried out in consultation with propaganda. The State should always the country. That is why they are so civil liberties has continued. The latest Parnell's mistress, Captain O'Shea. It Photo: Syd Shellon, Camerawork. Flann O'Brien's Bar in Paris £8.85, R. and independence had not been in representatives of the Irish people. act strictly according to the tiaw, reluctant to bring about its end. But it move is the use of identity cards for was then that Parnell's supposed These children are playing with toy guns now. In a few years they may dieinshoot- &M. Long£5, J. Watson£5,R.tH.£7, treating all citizens equally (1973). has also deprived the six-county area football fans which has more to do English allies, the Liberals, found that outs with British soldiers, or spend a lot of their lives is prison. The unhappy P. W. Ladkin £2, J. Noone £2, E. of a political labour movement. The with collecting the poll tax than the "Nonconformist Conscience" of situation in which they live is due to outside interference. We are working for a Johnston £2, A. Nunes £2, W. One grows and develops by action Protestant workers are led by what controlling hooliganism. The poll tax Sinn Fein looks for allies English Liberalism could not allow British withdrawal, planned in a responsible way. This has been urged by the Douglas £2, G. Beskin £17, P. rather than by thought. In the Socialists elsewhere would regard to promises to increase crime by at least political alliance with an Irish Party lee' O'Conchuir £1, supporters in South a third with the working class young majority of British people for the last ten years. beginning was the deed. Action is We should try to make a garden be their natural class enemies... the AT its January 29th conference an of the struggle was in their hands. by an adulterer. Only then, when London £11(61. primary, thought secondary. amidst the chaos of the universe. middle and upper-class pro- people evading both the electoral and almost unanimous decision was made Parnell's leadership was a political To help to bring this about the Connolly Association needs your financial "You have to be careful and careful Total: £108.01. imperialist parties of Unionism. Not the poll tax register. that Sinn Fein and the IRA cannot again . . . The morale of your liability to the Irish cause, did the Irish assistance. No amount is too large or small to give. surprisingly, the Protestant working During 1988, work practices achieve Irish unity alone. comrades in jail, your own morale, Party seek his resignation. Parnell let AAtlMjal* A*M BmkMbjkftk people have been faring no better encouraged by unbridled capitalism "This is about us formally andnhe morale of your comrades in his personal affairs cloud his judgement Life is choice. One mu°? choose in NOttingnam politically than they have been continued to take their toll in recognising that we can't win this the field can be raised or dashed by on a purely political matter and set in orancn the present so as to affect ihe future. I have never heard so many lies told economically. For three years now accidents: Clapham Junction, Kings struggle on our own," president Geny your actions. You can advance or train the bitter and vindictive campaign AS of Jmma*yl989, the Nottingham Nothing can be altered in the past. It is as at elections and funerals. Amount £100 • £50 • £25 ^ 11® E Other • they have been led by a bankrupt old- Cross, The P. & O. Ferry, Alpha Adams told delegates. "We're saying retard this struggle." against him, in which the Catholic characteristic of neurotics to live in brigade of Unionists in a campaign to Piper, the MI air crash, to name but a elitism and dogma are Finished." clergy joined. The Catholic Church, old the past andbe obsessed by it. My own Mr Martin McGuinness, the vice- CoMOly's overthrow the Anglo-Irish few. Safety and security suffer with Having had a series of discussions and wise in the ways of the world, has Name preferred element is time. Not space, president, said that an IRA unit had Agreement. workers on short contracts who have with Six County protestants, he urged been disbanded in County Donegal always given the greatest latitude in "Woman , oar next discussion meeting but time. Because it enables one to I But this was a mere euphemism for no pension rights or long term interest delegates to understand their because the IRA was clearly saying to private matters to politicians whom it Address .. . wlU take place on Thursday, Fehroiy choose continually. There is a phrase riestoring the essence of the former in jobs. In a lot of places the Union perceptions and fears. all its units that the killing of civilians regards uwfnl. I can't recall a single of Auden's which I like, though I Stormont set-up. There is still a Safetv officer has assumed a lower- Noting the "exceptional and was wrong. It was not disbanded, as instance of an Italian, French, Spanish, don't think much of him generally. (pl37). For notion abroad, apparently, that profile. regrettable" number of civilian the media suggested, because Sinn Portuguese or Latin American Time, the refreshing river.' It is how I contact Josephine The TUC and the unions have casualties at the hands of the IRA, Mr Fein faced its annual conference or politician knocked off his perch for Connolly Association Special Memorial Appeal . m A • i. . look on time. Though perhaps when . j i (Continued on Page Seven) Loean via The Fov rronnce- s intensified their drive for more safe Adams told IR A activists that the fate elections. 224/6 Grays Inn Rood, London, WC1 Bookshop (Telephone •1-S33-3W2). one gets old one does not always feel (Continued on Page Eight)

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Anonn Is Anall By Peter Berresford E!!is

HISTORIES DISTORTED FLANN CAMPBELL begins a series of portraits of Ulstermen and women who have chosen over the centuries to follow the broad path of liberalism, democracy or Irish nationalism rather TO WIPE OUT MEMORIES OF SCOTTISH RISING than lock themselves into the cul-de-sac of Toryism and Orangeism. His first subject is the Rev William S. Dickson who was both a minister in the Presbyterian church and a leader of the As SNP Councillor Jim Mitchell, Seumas spent most of his writing revivals which had taken place during been published in its original Gaelic secretary of the 1820 Society, said, it life debunking this 'two nation' the early decades of the 20th Century. and in translation half-a-dozen times United Irishmen. He will follow this with pen pictures of such patriots as James Hope, was fitting that the ashes of this ideology with carefully reasoned Language revival (in despite of since. He recalled an incident in the Hamilton Rowan, William Drennan, Samuel Neilson, the Rev Henry Montgomery, Sharman tenacious Scotsman were scattered at factual articles. He became firm in his Ireland's singular failure) can and poem in which three Scottish soldiers Crawford, John Martin, Joseph Biggar, Armour of Ballymoney, Alice Milligan, Bulmer the monument which he, more than belief that the language should be does work. It is simply a matter of and an Irish guerilla were killed. I use anyone, had worked so tirelessly to restored as the national language of attitude. Seamas 6 Coileiin's translation: Hobson and Robert Lynd. Four young Gaels TIME can pass with cruel swiftness. bring to the notice of his fellow Scotland. Writing in Scottish Seumas was an active member of ONE of the most remarkable aspects borne towards their graves AT LAST A NATION neighbour ar.d fellow-minister, the January, the month that I am writing countrymen. Vanguard in 1967, Seumas said: 'It is a the Celtic League, which he joined in of the 1798 rising was the fact that it Rev James Porter, was captured and on comrades' broad shoulders A few years later, Henry Grattan's this column, sees the second stark fact that Scotland's national 1965. As those who will have read my brought together republicans and ringing declaration that The Irish hanged at Greyabbey. and the pipes play anniversary of the death of Seumas Seumas was one of a line of Scottish language can only be saved and made column last month will have seen, the democrats from all the main religious were "at last a nation" evoked a warm one of them draped by Ireland's flag Mac a Ghobhainn, the Scottish republicans and thinkers. He was a to flourish again by its protagonists League, now in its 28th year of denominations in Ireland. In the response among many Presbyterians, INTERNED the other three by the English red rag author, essayist and propagandist —a keen admirer of the life and work of adopting a completely revolutionary existence, works for the establishment scjth many of the most famous both lay and clerical. It is not recorded Dickson was not caught red- it's still the same tale leaders — Lord Edward Fitzgerald, handed, and the government could rr.an who held firm to his belief in the the Scottish-born James Connolly. approach to the question of its revival. of conditions which will enable the whether Dickson attended the famous while the auld enemy the Emmet brothers, Arthur Dungannon convention of 1782, but not find any reliable person to swear e entual emergence of a Scottish He also affirmed the beliefs and Celtic language communities to As a result of his call for a new rub stainless hands O'Connor, Thomas Russell and he certainly took a leading part in the his life away, so, as the authorities flourish and play their rightful part in behind polished desks ITION Wolfe Tone — were members of the Presbyterian synod of that year which usually did in such circumstances, they the modern world, and which will far from the fray. Anglican Church, and the vast decided to intern him without trial. In YOU are asked to send in a caption saying what Mr enthusiastically approved resolutions restore those languages to a viable This month I have finished working majority of the rank-and-file, calling for more religious freedom and March 1799 he was imprisoned in a position once more. In effect, this on what I hope will be a memorial Gorbachev is &aying to Mrs Thatcher. It should including many priests, were political freedom for Catholics. fortress in Scotland, along with means campaigning for as much consist of only one sentence and have a reference to Catholics. In Ulster the most Dickson was prominent among the sixteen other prominent United volume to the life and work of this advanced thinkers were generally autonomy as is necessary in social, I Britain's role in Ireland. | 30,000 Volunteers who enrolled in Irishmen, including Samuel Neilson, formidable 20th Century Gael. Presbyterians, while the Defenders, Arthur O'Connor, Thomas Russell, economic and political fields to Ulster, and became one of the Sometime later this year Frang H The best caption will be rewarded with a £10 book 1 mostly labourers and small farmers, province's most noted intellectuals. and Thomas Emmet. Four of these guarantee Celtic cultural freedom. MacThomas, the Scottish author and token useable in The Four Provinces Bookshop. Send were all Catholics. It was this broad internees were Catholics, three were When the Volunteers declined in The League aims at fostering co- agreement of political purpose, Presbyterians and nine were members editor, and I, hope to produce a caption to: Irish Democrat, 244/6 Grays Inn Road, the late 1780s he was temporarily combined with the coming together of of the Church of Ireland. operation between the Celtic peoples volume Keepers of the Word which = London, WC1. | disheartened, but his spirits, along forces from the south and north, and developing the consciousness of will include a biographical study of with those of many other dissenters, The government hoped that when nlitiitviiiciiflisiiffliiiitflf mitf iiiiiiiiiiifiiiniii 1111111111 iitiii ibi i inn m lit •tcimtiiiiiuif imiiiiitiiif iiminiiiiii ifwhic ir^ h inspired the name of United the special relationships between Seumas and his work, together with a revived with the outbreak of the he was released from Fort George in Irishmen. It was also^ this alliance of French Revolution. The ideas of January, 1802, he would be so broken them. bibliography of his books, essays and democratic and anti-imperialist men liberty, equality and fraternity seemed physically and morally that he would It was Seumas who pointed out that poems. In addition, there will be a and women from the different peculiarly attractive to democrats either retire into harmless obscurity or there is an alternative history to that biographical study of Edward D welly, Letter churches which persuaded Wolfe FAME IN THREE [ who were striving to throw off the rule else emigrate to America. He was then issued by the imperialists to divide the compiler of the most famous Scottish Tone to coin his famous phrase about of a decaying monarchy, a corrupt nearly 60 years of age, suffering from Dear Editor, the Irish nation being built on a union Celtic communities from each other. Gaelic dictionary. At the time of his aristocracy, and a reactionary church. ill-health, and penniless. His old Martin Moriarty's analytical approach of "Catholic, Protestant and The massacre of unarmed Dublin death Seumas was working on the If the common people of America or friends and comrades were mostly EASY LESSONS to a subject which is generally bedevilled Dissenter". civilians in Bachelors Walk, 1914, by study and we have tried to bring his BELIEVE it or not, the present policy of with nationalistic rhetoric, is to be France could set up a republic why dead, forced to live in exile, or else the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, can labour to a conclusion. The book will the Irish Democrat is to have shorter welcomed. Nevertheless there are points Among the thirty or so should not the same be done in kept under close surveillance. be offset by the activities of the 73rd also include one of Seumas' most articles, more photographs, cartoons and which I think he should clarify. He writes Presbyterian minsters in Ulster who Ireland. Dickson chose, however, to stay in Foot (a Scottish-Gaelic speaking powerful historical essays 'A' even comic strips if we can get them. So we that the broadcasting ban on Sinn Fein "is were actively involved in the anti- Ulster, and fight on as best he could want to hear from photographers, and an attempt to silence the majority for Ascendancy movement which swept Dickson joined the United against the prevailing Unionst tide. In regiment) which helped O'Connor's Gh&idhlig — The Scottish Language' Irishmen soon after the organisation artists who want to achieve fame withdrawal". And that "It has everything through Ireland during the last decade 1803, after much pressure by Fenian troops in Kerry in 1867. Or by which is surely the last word on the was founded in Belfast in the autumn overnight. Would those brave souls who to do with trying to close down popular of the 18th century, the outstanding conservative Presbyterians to prevent the Scots who fought for Irish Scottish 'Highland/Lowland' myth. of 1791, and before long had become send us reviews or articles please make the protest in the year of Time To Go". Quite figure was that of the Rev William him becoming a preacher again, he one of its most trusted leaders in independence such as lain Mackenzie It would be a more fitting supreme sacrifice and make them a little frankly this is nonsensical both in its Steel Dickson (1744-1824). was given a tiny living at Keady in Co Ulster. His fame as a preacher, Kennedy, who was killed in Cork in monument if a selection of some of his Armagh where he still had a few Shorter. To those millionaires with word reference to the Government's intention Dickson was bom in the village of combined with his enthusiasm for the 1922, fighting for the republic. major 55 articles and essays (Seumas processors and typewriters, please type in behind the ban and its reference to Carnmoney, Co Antrim, an area friends. There he remained for nearly ideas of the French Revolution as ten years teaching the gospel in hostile Even back in 1314, when the Irish also wrote 300 'minor' pieces) could double space, leave an inch margin oh the "popular protest". There is no popular noted for its strong dissenting and applied to Ireland — that is circumstances. His political appealed to the Scots to help them left and a margin at the top and bottom. protest. As a topic of conservation anti-landlord traditions. be collected into volume form one democratic rights for the common opponents made sure that he was throw off the English yoke, the Celtic day. His clear and incisive vision is This leaves space for instructions to the amongst the British public, Ireland is a non It was a centre of Steelboy people, regardless of their religious printer who has to struggle with the issue.,, agitation. As, was, qjistogiary for a isolated as far as possible, and he was connection was recognised when " needed in Scotland, and indeed, the background; reform of the Irish/ refused the regium donum or typescript. To those who make a habit of gifted young Presbyterian youth who Robert Bruce told them 'our people parliament; the overthrow of the government grant which was paid to larger Celtic world more than ever. underlining parts of their manuscript. I I assume that by his "majority for sought an education in those days, and your people, free since ancient Ascendancy; and freedom from "loyal" ministers. His total income Stamas Mac AGhobhainn opposed the use of Scottish Troops in Ireland . The photo comes It is sad that his early death has so say: Beg, borrow or steal a copy of the withdrawal which has to be silenced" he Dickson was sent to Glagow times, share the same national means those balloted in the public opinion foreign rule — gave him strong collected from parishioners was then robbed the Celtic world of a sincere Guardian, Independent or Morning Star University. He was ordained in 1771, influence among the advanced from •'Camerawork" available from The Four Provinces Bookshop, 224/6 Grays Inn Road, polls to which he refers. That majority is said to about £50 a year. In 1811 he ancestry and are urged to come and passionate man; a man who and try to find text in small print which is and then licensed to preach at thinkers of the north. already silent. I would agree with him was attacked by a gang who resented London, WC1. together more eagerly and joyfully in wanted the best for all his fellow men; underlined. You will not find any. Portaferry, Co Down where he when he writes "the point is to weld that the fact that he had been visiting some friendship by a common language and a socialist who hoped that one day his Sometimes headlines are underlined, 8and' remained for much of his life. VIOLENT AND SEDITIOUS socialist republic and worked writings of John MacLean; of language movement to be established majority into a political force for change". Catholic neighbours. The local by common custom'. Throughout own country of Scotland would once 10 point print never. We can make the MIDDLE GROUP In July, 1793 this radical, violent magistrates, most of whom were throughout his life for that end. He Ruaraidh Arascain Is Mhairr and his on the lines of Cymdeithas yr Iaith It would then become articulate. history, Seumas showed the common more take its place among the whole thing 'Bold'. Sometimes if the editor The Presbyterians of Ulster, who as and seditious clergyman took Orangemen, turned a blind eye. In v->i fifty-seven years of age when he own mentor, Seumas Mac Garaidh. Gymraeg (the Welsh Language is feeling magnanimous, he will make the Celtic links between all the Celtic independent nations of the world. He But how it is to be changed, and into tenant farmers, merchants, a prominent part in the 1812 he was involved in further on January 21, 1987. It seems Seumas, during his years of Society) Comunn na Canain odd word or phrase 'Bold' in contrast to what it is to be changed, are the important peoples, rejecting the spurious once wrote: 'We owe it to the people manufacturers and professional celebrations which were held to controversy when he published his only a few days ago that he and I were historical research, came to realise Albannaich (Scottish Language the rest but don't bank on it. He's got very questions that have to be answered, and I celebrate the fall of the Bastille. It was memoirs — a document which could division which imperial propaganda of the world, no less than to our own people, formed a middle group half- ci.scussing the problems of the Celts in that Gaelic had once been the Society) was formed by Glasgow high blood pressure and gnashes teeth all would like to pursue that line of thought. way between the ruling Ascendancy about this time that Lord have been of great historical had created. people, to set up a Celtic socialist University students in October, 1969, the time. and the impoverished mass of Londonderry, father of Lord importance but was weakened by the general. Time can pass with cruel language of all-Scotland. The Firstly, the majority for withdrawal with Seumas as president. For ten He denounced the use of Scottish state, in order to purge ourselves of Catholics, were then divided into Castlereagh, described him as one of fact that the author was under intense swiftness, indeed. recession towards the 'Highlands' had shown by public opinion polls are for troops in Ireland, just as he had our nation's complicity in continuing opposing religious sects. The New "the most violent and seditious pressure to avoid further incrimination In March, Pluto Press will be not begun until the 14th Century. years CNCA achieved various straightforward withdrawal. But that is denounced their use in Aden in 1964. English imperial aggression and to Light or Unitarian wing of the church characters in the country." Three of himself or still living friends. publishing a new edition, in Indeed, Gaelic had survived in some successes in obtaining some degree of not what the socialist and Republican He expressed the hope that one day serve as an example of what a humane was liberal in politics and did not years later the authorities, who had paperback, of one of the books that parts of the 'Lowlands', such as recognition for the Scottish language. Letter movement in Ireland want, as Martin When his health broke down the Scottish regiments of the English socialist state should really be like'. subscribe to the Westminster failed to find any direct evidence of his Sramas and 1 wrote together. The Galloway, until the late 18th Century. correctly observes. Secondly, these sedition, tried to bribe members of his completely a few years later, some army would one day be disbanded. In Dear Editor, Confession of 1643. In 1971 Seumas and I co-authored Seumas has handed to his fellow majorities are not based upon political congregation to incriminate him. The colleagues gave him a minute pension :> ottish Insurrection of 1820, first A 'two-nation' concept had been Army Action in West Belfast It was anti-establishment, rejected 1971 his most famous poem Am Mart, Scots, indeed, his fellow Celts, a torch understanding. They are a popular effort failed in spite of a substantial on which he lived in a cottage in p jblished by Victor Gollancz Ltd., in artifically created in Scotland and another book together — The Problem In the weeks leading up to last Christmas the harsh doctrine of predestination and 1971, was first published in the June 5 reaction to the years of killings by the reward. Poor health forced him to lie Belfast until his death at the age of 80 I •>70, with a foreword by Hugh used to good effect in the time of Language Revival (Club Leabhar) in which, mayhap, may one day set 'the there was a massive escalation in house favoured some degree erf tolerance toward issue of the Stornoway Gazette. It has Provisional IRA and the Unionist para- low in 1797, but he was involved again in 1824. He was buried in a pauper's MacDiarmid. honoured 'divide and rule' policy of which we examined the cases of bracken ablaze'. searches and road blocks in nationalist Catholics. "Good men might think militaries. As we all know, the popular the following year when among other grave in Cliftonville cemetery, and twenty successful European language areas of Belfast. These have affected the differently" was one of their beliefs. It was the first study of the uprising the conqueror. reaction here is "Why should British activities he tried to organise the there his body rested, forgotten and lives of every individual in these areas. In The Old Lights, in contrast, were which was both radical and national soldiers be killed? Bring them home. Let United societies in Scotland. ignored, until at the beginning of this many instances wanton destruction has Calvinists and followers of the in its intent and which, in spite of its the Irish kill each other if they want to. At century the antiquarian, F. J. Bigger, LETTER been caused during these searches, and harsher views of John Knox. They result in 85 trials for high treason, the same time British taxpayers' money It is not known precisely where he had a headstone erected to mark the Dear Editor, people have been assaulted, abused and attacked all Papists on principle, and was or what he was doing during the spot where lay the body of this once followed by executions, imprison- can be saved". "Does it matter to most of us that the development that has taken place in ma&» threatened. A number of peaceful were ardent supporters of the crown critical months of May and June when famous Protestant dissenter and Irish ments and transportations, was Donal MacAmhlaigh, thinking since the formation of the community groups in West Belfast have and Protestant constitution. Republican Bush becomes US president and If that opinion is welded into a "political plans for the 1798 rebellion were nationalist. somehow carefully pruned from the Democrat Dukakis was defeated?" asks 'Rainbow Coalition' in '84. Tliere is now a been targets of the army/police action. force for change" without first changing Dickson sympathised with the coming to maturity, and his memoirs ' Scottish history books until the 'Geopoliticus' (World Comment — Irish progressive section of the Democratic Party Ninety-two community organisations the British public's perceptions, it will put theological views of the New Lighters published many years later say publication of our work — which, R.I.P. Democrat, January '89). Given the headed by Jackson, which is prepared to do in Belfast have signed a declaration against pressure on the-Government for a policy of as he did with the anti-landlord tantalisingly: "I may have been a GLASGOW NEWS incidentally, became the most thousands of ties between Irish families and • battle with the pro-big-busiaess party these raids. immediate withdrawal. And that would be agitation of the Steelboys in the early general for aught that appears to the THE Glasgow Branch of the Connolly reviewed book of its year. WE regret to announce the sudden his two novels, The Navvy and the US and the substantial contributions by establishment, to become a vehicle for The raids appear to be part of a contrary to the wishes of Irish socialists 1770s. contrary, and I may not have been a Association hopes to make the most of death of Donal Mac Amhlaigh. He Irish workers to the economy and the labour progress in the absence of a third party deliberate policy to intimidate, brutalise and Republicans, as Martin has pointed Then in 1776 the American general, though people said I was". Today, there is an active 1820 Schnitzer O'Shea. He wrote many the city's forthcoming status as began his column on the back page articles for the Irish Times and movement of that country, 1 would say that independent of the two old parties of and punish the nationalist community. out. At present the British public see the colonists declared their independence Such hard historical evidence as exists European City of Culture 1990, by Society. The year before Seumas' capitalism. — and some of it comes from the of the Irish Democrat in about some of his stories were broadcast. it most certainly does matter, and not only to They are part of the continuing nightmare cause of the violence as religion, with the from British rule, and this quickly joining with other Irish organisations to death, a monument to the executed Irish people, but to peoples everywhere who facing the nationalist community in the British in the middle. How is that became a rallying cause for all the tainted source of informers — suggests 1976. His death comes as a great Some writers rely on their writing It has been estimated that the Democrats sponsor a month long cultural festival leaders of '1820' at Sighthill are struggling for a better life, and for would have needed SO million votes to win north of Ireland. The government's perception of the problem to be changed? democratic forces in Ireland. In spite that he was moving around Belfast shock to relatives and friends. for self-expression, but Donal was in October 1990. Cemetery, Glasgow (put up by the freedom and independence from the presidency. The party establishment's broadcasting ban has resulted in a wall of If they are persuaded that the cause of the of opposition from some of his and north Down, and that he was Chartists) was renovated at a cost of a fluent speaker both in Irish and Imperialism. own polling data showed that the Jacksoa silence over these actions. violence is the British presence in Ireland, parishioners, Dickson came out given a high command in the United The association hopes to involve His racy humorous style of other members of the Irish Community i ,000 by voluntary subscription in English. His novels were first The 'World Comment' column has I constituency could account for 15-M We, as concerned community workers in the 'solution' remains the same. British strongly in favour of the colonists, forces when other more hesitant 10 writing had come to be one of the in negotiations with the City of Culture published in Irish. As we go to believe drawn the wrong conclusions from million. To have secured that vote required a Greater Manchester, wish to express our" withdrawal. and preached regularly on the rights leaders held back. He was a resolute and the then Secretary of State for most popular features of the paper. organising committee which could press, the funeral has been the '88 elections, and has missed the most Dukakis-Jackson ticket, with an estimated abhorrence of these actions and ask other of oppressed peoples to rebel against republican, and had gained military Scotland recognised the monument as He was sixty-one when he died. He If they are to come to a different experience while serving as an officer result in the establishment of a Glasgow announced tentatively for Monday important developments arising out of the combined base vote of 35-40 milUon. people in Britain to raise their voices political oppression and foreign rule. a "listed historical site'. conclusion to that one, it will be necessary in the Volunteers fifteen years Irish Centre as well as an annual Irish was that unusual type of writer, 6th February. No more details are contest: the emergence of Jesse Jackson to The party establishment preferred to against this sort of intimidation. He reminded his listeners that it was a '1820' sought to sever the Scottish for the British left and Irish Republicans printer from Strabane who had previously. Dickson was arrested near Centre, to mark the particularly vital who never lost touch with the centre stage as an advocate of the interests gamble on Bensten as mnning mate rather Signed: available at present. A fuller and socialists to do something about their printed the actual proclamation, that Ballynahinch on June Sth only a few links between Glasgow and Ireland. union with England and establish a people he wrote about. He was a af the working class and the people. than adopt any of Jackson's policies, which Manchester Black People's Action Group appreciation of Donal's life and own divisions, both as to ends and means. eight out of 56 signatories were of days before the rebel army took the Scottish Republic based on the private in the Irish Army during Jackson won seven million votes, came would have meant opposing the interest* of and Donna Bradshaw, Margaret Downs, In bis address to the Glasgow Branch on work will be given in the March Irish background, and that one-third field. His excuse for being in the principles of the Rights of Man. the military industrial complex. Chris Drinkwater, Robin Estill, John An excellent contribution towards that the night before he died, Desmond Greaves the emergency. He worked mostly issue of the Democrat. We offer first or second in over 40 primaries and of the population of Pennsylvania, neighbourhood was that he was trying It is at the Sighthill monument that Nicholson, Roy Parkes, Cathy Puu, Steve objective would be a pamphlet along the emphasised the Importance of Irish in the building trade. caucuses, won 13 states, almost 100 One thing is certain. US politics and the where the new congress had its to buy horses, but it is more likely that sympathy to his wife, son and lines of Peter Berresford Ellis' speech at cultural activities aad he commended to us the ashes of Seumas were scattered in congressional districts, and most of the Democratic party will never be the same Randall, Judy Robinson, Paul Salveson, headquarters, were of Irish, mostly he was moving in to take a local daughter. the Time To Go conference. the aim of establishing an Irish Centre in the a special ceremony on February 11, The building trade featured in nation's big cities outright. again after 'Jackson '88*. Eleanor Toutountzi, Henry West. Presbyterian, descent. command. A fortnight later his 1987. More important than cold statistics, is the Dave Anderton Manchester. Bert Ward city as a focus for Irish consciousness.

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February 1989 Page Six THE IRISH DEMOCRAT February 1x9 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Sevan FELONS OF OUR LAND IRISH THE BIG TURF FIRE LAGAN LIGHTS O, the big turf fire and the hearth swept clean, - Continued from Pago Throe Can language be degenerate? FILL up once more, we'll drink a toast to comrades far away; Sure there's no one half so happy as myself, Paddy Keane! A Chara, No nation upon earth can boast of braver hearts than they. Protestant unemployment can be just won't do. They are only different or them as members of a degenerate culture ) culture that is degenerate, mawkish, To the baby in the cradle you can hear the good wife say: tackled satisfactorily by a return to I hesitated to comment on the substance And tho' they sleep in dungeons deep, or flee outlawed and banned. deviant from standard English which is in a The words Berresford Ellis uses to describe uncouth. Words that describe precisely the SONGS "Wouldn't you go to sleep, a leanbh, till I wet your daddy's lay!" the statu* quo ante. A men delusion. of the Peter Berresford BH>column in the the language put into the mouths of Irish We love them yet, we can't forget the felons of our land. December "DEMOCRAT" and only do so state of constant change. Something caricatured nature of Irish culture. If it Talks along these lines with the British else must make them degenerate. Republicans by English novelists, O, the man that I work for is a richer man than me, have ultimately broken down and, in because I believe that some of his were the case that such usage wat In boyhood's bloom and manhood's pride, foredoomed by alien laws. Edited by "uncouth, mawkish (distortion of mawkish, and uncouth then its user should And sure in this wide world we never can agree. the due oourse of events, the observations of the "derision of Irish 2. Certain forms of usage are regarded in a standard English)" are in fact the words Some on the scaffold bravely died for Ireland's holy cause. Protestant working people will be; speech" in the popular novel coukl have be ashamed of itand try to change it . Many Patrick Bond He has big towering mansions and castles over all, society as deviant from standard but not that describe the caricature of Irish culture Irish haw been culturally bludgeoned into And brothers, say, shall we today, unmoved, like cowards, stand to understand that they had been the opposite effect to that which he But I wouldn't exchange for them my little marble hall. every form that is deviant is regarded as presented by the English. thinking it so and have changed While traitors shame and foes defame the felons of our land. into a hopeless blind-alley. intends. Whilst I wholeheartedly agree degenerate. In England the forms of usage I've a nice little house and a tidy bit of land, with his project of highlighting the 5. In the same article ftter Berresford Ellis 8. The object of this campaign is to make. The Anglo-Irish Agreement is a known as Irish and the form known as complains of the stereotypical descriptions Irish people ash» med of their Irish ness and Some in the convicts' dreary cell have found a living tomb; Sure you wouldn't see the finer on the side of Knocknagran. descriptive treatment Of the Irish in the Creole are deviant and degenerate. The device whereby the British will popular novel when they are representeda s of the Irish Republicans in the same novels. wish to hide it or escape from it. It is And some unseen, unfriended, fell within the dungeon's gloom. I've no piano in the corner and no pictures on the wall, manipulate unemployment in form known as Sloane which is used by the However I contend that the same can be noticeable that many middle class Irish being in political opposition to British English upper class is deviant but not But what care we, although it be trod by a ruffian band - But I'm somehow quite contented in my little marble halli northern Ireland in pursuance of their imperialism, I fear that in concentrating said of the treatment of physical people adopt accents and forms of speech own all-Ireland and international degenerate. It would follow from the God bless the clay where rest today the felons of our land. upon language rather than politics he is in descriptions by these English Novelists as that approximate to those of their English O, the big turf fire and the hearth swept clean, objectives. The Unionists have a too above, if it couid be shown that if the Irish can be said of Language; it does not matter counterparts. When tbey do this it is their error. and Sloane groups swapped usages and Let cowards mock and tyrants frown, ah, little do we care! Sure there's no one half so happy as myself, Paddy Keane; narrow, self-interested, vision of the how the Republican looks, they are still Irishness, of which they are ashamed, that matter. What Mr John Taylor, MEP, The enemies of the Republic could their original status within the language A felon's cap's t..e noblest crown an Irish head can wear, To the baby in the cradle you can hear the good wife say: represent his argument as support forthei r evil and degenerate. Take for instance the they disguise and escape from. Others calls the British "absentee rulers" community status was unchanged, that the descriptions of William Joyce (Lord Haw assimilate themselves to the Anglo-Irish And every Gael in Inisfail who scorns the serfs vile brand. "Wouldn't you go to sleep, a leanbh, till I wet your daddy's fay!" position that there is ao real "political'' have other things to think about, like attribution of degeneracy to a cultural Haw — who was nota Republican)and his tradition in England which specifically From Lee to Bovne would gladly join the felons of our land. how to further ensnare the Irish issue between the Peoples of Ireland and group within the users of a language is not England and that the issues that Beresford brother Quentin. Joyce broadcast on opposes Republicanism and see the way government and get it to join NATO because of their use of particular ways of behalf of Nazi Germany during the last forward for the Irish in Britain as I AND etc. Ellis complains of are merely issues of speaking, idioms, etc., but that their breach of good manners between war. He was guilty, not of treason for contributing in letters and other cultural particular usage serves to pick them out as which he was hanged, since he was not a areas to the Anglo-Irish achievement ANTI-Cathoiic job discrimination will neighbours — such matters as could well a group already regarded as degenerate. I British subject, but of the same crime as These latter are now being supported by DICEY RILEY PANGUR BAN have to be handled delicately from now on be put right by application of Race clearly can not establish that die above Republicans; he was a political enemy of the governments of both Britain and the and that is a too sophisticated task to be Relations Legislation. I am sure that this is AH, poor old Dicey Kilty she has taken to the sup. (This famous poem was written in would be the case but offer it as a Britain. The descriptions are from "The Free State and are in control of the new Irish by a monk in a monastery in left to the "Ulster" Uaionists. not what Beresford Ellis wants. reasonable probability that the Irish And poor old Dicey Kile> she will never give it up. Meaning of Treason" by Dame Rebecca Irish Studies movement. They explicidy Switzerland in the 9th Century. It has As a means for tackling unemployment, culture would still be regarded as' wish to dis-associate from any It's off each morning to the pop A SHAWL OF GALWAY GREY I would like to comment as follows: West, "...rumour had been current that been beautifully translated by Dr campaigns against the Anglo-Irish degenerate and the Sloane culture as not manifestation of Irishness dangerous to 1. Language forms can not be per se Joyce was Irish, but they had never been And then she's in for another little drop. Robin Flower). Agreement FOR ANTI-DEMOCRATIC degenerate. England and are being funded by both TWAS short the night we parted, too quickly came the day degenerate. No linguistic constructions, officially confirmed, and his accent was Ah, the heart of the row I is Dicey Riley. I and Pangur Ban my cat REASONS are unproductive or any good 4. Allowing for the probability in 3above it governments to further their brand of When silent, broken-hearted, I went from you away; however much they differ from the difficult to identify. But there was little 'Tis a like task we are at: for anybody. follows that it is cultures that are Irishness. At the founding conference in She walks down I it/gibbon Street with an independent air, standard, can in themselves be mawkish or doubt about it when one saw him in the Hunting mice is his delight, The dawn was bright'ning o're Glenrue, as stole the stars away, designated as degenerate and the forms of Oxford attended by such educational But since they are in the ridiculous uncouth as Beresford Ellis seems to be dock. He had the real Donnybrook air. And then it's down to Summerhill, at her the people stare, Hunting words 1 sit all night. The last fond look I caught of you in your shawl of Galway grey. language they use identify their members. luminaries as Keith Joseph and Gemma situation of having taken their political saying. Certain forms of speech are He was a not very fortunate example of the She says "It's nearly hall-past one (If this is so then it is mistaken to Hussey, the leading Professor said "we are Better far than praise of men lead from the Dinosaurs of Unionism the considered uncouth etc. because of their small, nippy, jig-dancing type of Irish Oh, I've seen the silks and laces, and well they look and show, concentrate on the language put into the not the shamrocked and round tower So I'll nip in for another little one," 'Tis to sit with book and pen; kick-back against privatisations and association with activities that are peasant, and the appearance of his Beneath the pretty faces of gentle girls I know; mouth of Irish Republicans by English Irish" In so saying he specifically accepted Ah, the heart of the rowl is Dicey Riley. Pangur bears me no ill-will, closures from the Protestant dominated considered uncouth or their use is brother... was proof of the family's He too plies his simple skill. novelists and to see this as the means of de- origin... He was much better-looking, with the caricatured degenerate nature of Irish But this - a secret I'll confide - I'd leave them all today trade:unions is bound, despite the presence associated with classes or groups She owns a little sweetshop at the corner of the street humanizing them rather than identifying culture created by the English as part of the 'Tis a merry thing to see of enlightened people within them, to have considered uncouth. The degenerate forms a stutdy body, a fresh colour, thick and To meet you on a green hillside in your shawl of Galway grey. terror campaign and dis-associated the And every evening after school 1 go to wash her feet. At our tasks how glad are we, taken the form of "economism" ... that is, have got to be degenerate with respect to lustrous brown hair, and the soft eyes of a new Irish Studies Movement from that She leaves me there to mind the shop When at home we sit and find The well is sparkling as of yore, the sky still grey and blue, it has been devoid of any progressive some standard. If the argument is, that it is cow. Nobody in his senses could mistake him for anything but an Irishman from the culture. While she nips in for another little drop, Entertainment to our mind. The dog outside your father's door keeps watch and ward for you. political outcome or direction, AS YET. with respect to standard English that the But, then again, these are early days. degenerate forms ARE degenerate then it provinces." There is no escaping from the 9. Clearly the two pathways outlined \h, the heart of the row I is Dicey Rilev. Often times a mouse will stray And all this picture now I see, but ah! so far away - plight of being Irish here. Ugty or above represent death for the Gaelic roots In the hero Pangur's way; Is brightened by your grace so free in your shawl of Galway grey. handsome, well built or emaciated, all are of our culture, for it is there that the Often times my keen thought set seen as either signs of Irishness or achievements of generations of our Takes a meaning in its net. Let others love some prouder dame with frills and flowers bedecked I. perversions of the natural order of things. forebears lie. And of course without the DOWN BY THE LIFFEY SIDE 'Gainst the wall he sets his eye Your power o'er me is still the s;ame, its play remains unchecked. It is senseless to analyse this type of writing Gaelic language their whole achievement is Full and fierce and sharp and sly; And all I wish for is Glenrue, my homeland far away, "Has Ireland a Future?"by Paedar Order in Britain and Ireland, the in terms of rationality. They are irrational unknown to the majority of the Irish 'Gainst the wall of knowledge I Broederbood in South Africa. unless seen in the context of the English . people at home and abroad. Those who 'TWAS down by Anna l.iffey my love and I did stray And life and love beside you in your shawl of Galway grey. Kirby. Mercier Press, Cork and All my little wisdom try. Dublin. Paperback £5.95. In this book there is an unusual fear of the Irish whose land and culture and cleave to the Anglo/Irish variant are Where down among the slush and muck the seagulls sport and play. hypothesis, that the USA might not tolerate economy they have systematically equally cut off from their roots as those When a mouse darts from its den PEADAR Kirby has lived and worked in We got a whiff of ray and chips and Mary softly sighed O how glad is Pangur then! on independent and neutral Ireland. My despoiled over eight hundred years, who seek to hide and deny them for they Lima, Peru, and clearly sees the analogy millions of whom they have murdered by •' Won't you come along, John, for a wan and wan down by the Liffeyside 0 what gladness do I prove personal comment on this is that the nailed still have their legacy of shame that they try GLEANN NA SM0L between the situation of the oppressed in starvation and war, millions of whom they When I solve the doubts I love! intelligence of UK and USA should be' to abandon. In any case the cultural Then down along by George's Street the loving pairs to view, South America, and the oppressed in sufficient to let them understand that have driven into exile directly by their achievements of Anglo/Ireland are While May swanked it like a queen in a skirt of royal blue. So in peace our tasks we ply, 1 nGleann na Smol cluinfidh tu gair san ngaoith, r Ireland, the oppressed in Ire bad are, Ireland, exploited and divided, will always activities in Ireland. They fear the enmity achievements of English culture and are Pangur Ban my cat and I; principally, the unemployed. It was a Her hat was lately turned and her blouse was newly dyed 1 nGleann na Smol braithfidh tu saimhe croi, be an enemy, whereas Ireland free, united that lingers on in the culture of the Irish for increasingly less connected with Gaelic In our arts we find our bliss, sacrifice for Kirity to return to his own nod secure, would be a frieod.Thatshould be these past and continuing wrongs. If they civilization. Oh vou could nol match her round the block down by the Liffeyside Sa tir ud romhat maireann gach failte fial, 1 have mine and he has his. country, but he points oat that here the nn advantage to the Alles. Ona moral basis, could extinguish that culture they would If it is accepted that it is the Gaelic roots ALTHOUGH it is unduly long And 011 her old melodeon how sweetlv could she play: Practice every day has made Gleann geal na Smol - is ann ba choir duit dul ag trial). challenges are bigger, and more remainst o I should not Hke Ireland to be the friend of release themselves from these fears and of our race's achievements that must be be done. and somewhat involved, I have "GoodIn-ee" and "Don't sigh-ee" and "Rule Britannia", Pangur perfect in his trade; An aille fein - daileann si stor a maoine the Great Predators, but l ean see that it guilt. So they lash out savagely at built on, then there is a mountain of work I get wisdom day and night Loinnir shiorai ar bhlath, ar speir, ar dhaoine; The greatest obstacle he sees is the apathy would be inevitable. It becomes more and published the letter on the right in everything they see as manifestations of to do in recovering documents, writing But when she turned Sinn Feiner me heart near burst with pride this Irish culture with its vast reservoir of Turning darkness into light. Suit i ngach suil, is seimh an uile mheon - and hopelessness of most Irish people. In his more evident that the morality of today is full because it contains many histories, writing novels, restoring the To hear her sinj; the soldiers' Song down by the Liffeyside. book, every chapter indicates a lesson which dictated to God by the Great Predators and important points which arise out resentment. They represent Irish culture as Gaelic language to its proper place as the, Faoi mar bhi sa chruinne roimh an mbron, it suits the occasion as mawkish, savage, On Sunday morning to Meath Street together we will go we may learn from the Latin-American the moral dicta come with the missiles. of the Peter Berresford Ellis article spoken language of the Irish and as the 1 nGleann ba Smol sileann na srutha gra experience, from the infections hope and the Another reservation I have is that, while fey, etc. But there is no rational thread repository of its values. Part of that And to good old I ather Murphy we both will make our vow, THE MAID OF of last month. I would urge Ag cur do bhuaireamh croi chun fain o la go la. abiding straggle that goes on there. there may be honour among petty thieves, readers not to be put off by some running through these characterizations. endeavour must be to lay bare the political He'll join our hands in wedlock's bands and then we'll go outside there is less chance of It between big powers. Analysed, they show up full of irrationality nature of the denigration ofIrish culture The Irish economy, he finds, is Uke a thin) of the academic terms in the letter. For a whole afternoon on our honeymoon down by the Liffeyside. O shliabh go sliabh leathann a sceal sa cheol: And the oowerful thieves, like the nettv ants. and contradiction. They are the symptom by the English that has taken place over the ANNER world economy, in fcthg chiefly After a couple of readings you will "Cuir uait an dithneas agus fan go foill, not the sickness. centuries. It must be made clear to the Irish agricnhwal,in hati* acripplhv oathmil ace what Leon < OBroin is getting SHE lived beside the Anner Cur uait an dibhneas - that when their ways of speaking are At the foot of Slievenamon, debt, in being exploited by multi- at. 6. The odium with which the Irish usage of Glac leis an iontas - ridiculed it is an offensive political act, a A gentle Irish peasant girl, Kirby also draws an aunlogy between the Hie ensuing controversy is English is treated is the direct cultural direct parallel to legal murder and CARROLL BAN With mild eyes like the dawn; Cuir fut san aoibhneas" - by the Irish Government for robbing the cultural alienation of the Gaeltacht people parallel of the political campaign of terror incarceration of the Irish who dare to Irish people. So, in Ireland, as in the third likely to be lively and to go on for Her lips were dewy rosebuds, Fan i nGleann na Smol. and that of the Mitkito Indians in a number of issues so it is best if waged on the legal front against any oppose British Imperialism in Ireland. The 'TWAS in the town of Wexford they sentenced him to die, Her teeth of pearl so rare, world, there Is a long-term failure of Nicaragua. The Sandinistas were able to everyone follows it from the manifestation of Irishness that poses a cultural sandbagging consists in being 'Twas in the town of Wexford they built the gallows high, And a snowdrift 'neath a beechen bough. economic policy. direct threat to England. It is a cultural implement self-improvement programmes beginning. The above picture reminded that they are members of a And there one summer morning when beamed the gentle dawn, Her neck and nut-brown hair. In terms of political violence, the north among the Indians when they successfully sandbagging to remind the Irish that culture whose members are essentially from Punch Magazine of last Upon that cursed gallows they hung my Carroll Ban. How pleasant 'twas to meet her, east part of Ireland is like parts of South carried through a cultural revival among association with Irishness that poses such a irrational. They may be endearing and century, is relevant to the subject On Sundays, when the bell America. Archbishop Romero has classified them. Rny Hooker sold: "We are talking threat will be severely dealt with. In the childlike but fundamentally unfit to make Oh! he was true and loyal, oh! he was true and fair, Was fdling with its mellow tones three forms of violence. about establishing nn environment in which in the letter. In fiction and field of criminal law the Birmingham Six political judgements. At the level of And only nineteen summers shone on his golden hair; Lone wood and grassy dell! 1. Institutionalised violence of the State. oor Afferent Indian peoples can be prond of cartoons the Irish were depicted are a direct parallel. They are imprisoned political action it consists in murdering And when his gallant brothers had grasped the pike to hand, And when at eve young maidens 2. Revolt against the institutionalised their own identity." either as monsters, evil villains or not because of an Error of Judgement on them on suspicion of political activity and violence. idiots. Please bring your friends the part of the legal system, but because of incarcerating them on suspicion of Where the green flag streamed the fairest, he stood for native land. Strayed the river-bank along, He also said; "In meaningful social The widow's brown-eyes daughter 3. Repressive action of the Unjust State to transformation, self-pride plays a very into the discussion and persuade their association with Republicanism. In association with Republicanism. the fieldo f popular culture the novelist acts 1 saw him cross the heather with his bold companie, Was the loveliest of the throng. sapport unjust structures. This is exactly important role." them to bectjme readers of our It is no good appealing to the English as an agent of state terror which is Oh brave, brave Irish girls - what we have in the Northeast of Ireland. It All in Kirby is not gloom. He is prond of paper. legal system for redress for it is as much And from the rising hillside he waved his hand to me; endorsed and implemented by the We well may call you brave! LIMERICK IS BEAUTIFUL gives riset o a cycle of revoltsa d repression, the work of Mairtia O'Cndhain, and of the complicit in the campaign as any other Then on my wild heart settled a load of woe and pain: generality of English society indicating to Sure the least of your perils creating a contindng vicious circle which is nccets of Ratio ns Gaeitashta. But he agency. Nor is it helpful to appeal to the (Air: "Irish Molly O") the generality of the Irish the odium and Mo bhron! its throbbing told me we'd never meet again. Is the stormy ocean wave; perpetaated by the tu^nst ftdministratio n hopes for much more, To him, the cultural English sense of fair play because that only 'Observing' contempt with which they will be treated if When you leave your quiet valleys OH, Limerick is beautiful, as ev'rybody knows, that is the brainchild of the artificial revival is absolutely essential to any social operates when they are not at war, which They fought the Saxon foemen by Slaney's glancing wave, "majority". change, as it was fatth e case of the Miskito they associate with this Irishness. they have been with the Irish for centuries. And cross the Atlantic foam And by that city of my heart how proud old Shannon flows! But brutal strength o'erpowered the gallant and the brave. To hoard your hard-won earnings TWs is clearly illustrated in every cycle by Yeats 7. The danger in concentrating on the form It is only by reclaiming our heritage, our It sweeps down by the brave old town as pure in depth and tone events that are widely known, from of language and questioning its And in the fight which followed that day of misery For the helpless ones at home. IMs book is of small sise, bat dense la WITH Mr H .rd breathing down your Gaelic heritage, that the soul of the each of the three categories of violence, b authenticity as Irish usage as Beresfotd Sore wounded, he was taken, young Carroll Ban mo chroidhe. As when Sarsfield swept the Sax HIS from the walls of Garryowen. material. It should provide almost unlimited neck it is difficult to review a book about a nation can be saved. If this can be done Write word to my own dear mother the long ran it is the Britilh Amy and its Ellis appears to do is that it acknowledges scope for study groups, debates and great Irish poet who wrote about 1916 with then the English gutter press and novelist Say we'll meet with God above; 'Tis not for Limerick that I - though I love her in my soul! many allies who came the continuing the degeneracy of the language and hence Oh, fairior geur! that ever I saw the dreadful sight - workshops. Most of all, It Should provide n the words "A terrible beauty is born." can characterize the culture of Ireland in And tell my little brothers Though times will change a' J friends will die and man will not control; rebirth of the IRA. The IRA and of the associated culture. Some of the stimulus for action, Some of the author's How do we get over it? How can we admit any way they like. We will not even notice. His locks all damply hanging, his checks so deadly white. I send them all ny love No, not for friends long passed away, or days for ever flown, the oppressed generally, represent constructions quoted by Beresford Ellis Inspiration has come from Paolo fteire. he was a great poet if he supported Irish If it cannot be done then the soul of What wonder if my ringlets were changed from dark to grey May the angels ever guard them such as "to beafther..." are genuine forms But that the maiden 1 adore is sad in Garryowen. There Is a compelling ngmnial for nationalism? Ireland is lost and we would do well to Or if the blessed hand of God had ta'en my life away. Is their dying sister's prayer - eliminated until the other two cntecories ~reventing the despoiintiooef the country by of speech of the Irish and arise directiy conform to English ways, make sure all And folded in the letter Oh, she I love is beautiful, and world-wide is her fame, haw been removed. j» taoM-MttaMs, and far dsmanding Simple. Concentrate on his weaknesses. from the nature of the Irish language Irish youth is taught standard English and 'Twas in the Town of Wexford they sentenced him to die, Was a braid of nut-brown hair. She dwells down by the rushing tide, and Eire is her home: Paedar Miby devotes a section to the the He was excessively artistic and "what a translated into English. (I would is ignorant of their Gaelic past and well ™ 1 'Twas in the Town of Wexford they built the gallows high. Ah, cold and well-nigh callous And dearer than my very life her glances are to me, artificial majority in the North, Hi wakes an poseur?" and he believed in the occult. He respectfully refer him to "English as we vereed in the "objective History" of The This weary heart has grow a for even attended seances. How unmanly! speak it" by P. W. Joyce published 1910 With form erect and manly, and look of scornful pride, The light that guides my weary soul across life's stormy sea. analysis of their ethos and their ritostion, ThU honk Is an Dudley-Edwards,and their likes so that For the helpless fate, dear Ireland, J t__- ^.._ i. iL. •!JI.HI1Mhi fc••»IMnit• That's the thing to dwell on. Get a cartoon and recently re-issued by Wolfhound Press For Ireland's faith and freedom my true love nobly died. n when they come to England they can be Andfor sorrows of my own; I loved her in my boyhood, and now in manhood's noon, avowing nnvwnon to awsHwanty oeiwoen which makes him look as absurd as 1988). These forms are not degenerate.To readily assimilated into society at a level Yet a tear my eye will moisten them and the Orange Flee State Of South possible, and here's just the headline, accept that they are "uncouth, mawkish The meadow path is lonely , the hearth is cold and dim, The vision of my life is still to dry the tears, aroon; polemic, please get a copy of KhbyrsMy It appropriate to them. Then and then only When by Anner side I stray - Africa. The Ulster Orangemen aad the "Great Irish Silly Billy." See, we haven't distortions of Standard English" achieves I'd sing unto the tomb or dance beneath the gallows tree that yon hnve will the English campaign of villification And the silent churchyard blossoms bloom softly over him; For the lily of the mountain fool Sooth African sample consider themselves to needed to explain his greatness as a poet. the cad that the author of the novel cease. God's thonen people. Both haw And my heart is ever yearning for the calm rest coming on, That withered far away. To see her on the hills once more, proud, passionate and free. atabtta And Who would over think of palling the intended that is than Irish forms of spotuli, •d Aparthrfd. Both have their own Le meas - * When its weary pulse lies sleeping beside my Carroll Ban. CHARLES J. KICKHAM M. MdGUINN Observer ami-Irish? cvon caricatures of' Irish speech, reflect a MICHAEL SCANLON aaataadoM, mmtky, Ihn Orange Leon (MMa

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Jieefi&Aow MILLSVILLE - POETS AND POTTINESS WOOL sorters in the Greenvale which of course it was not at all. But I The fishermen with patient rod and line but nothing impeded, the speed-hog Woollen Mills where 1 left my readers, suppose that kind of intolerance must be Along the darkling riverbank await continued all records to break... last month enjoyed considerable the natural outcome of cultural deprivation The ripple, tug or well-interpre'd sign (A bonamh for the benefit of anyone status and they were forever telling the — among those sensitive enough to be Rewarding a judicious choice of bait. who may not know is the Irish word rest of us how much in demand they aware of their cultural deprivation for a piglet), Poets, be they the real McCoy or — or rather their skills — were in anyway — because there is no need for deluded poor rhymers, are a very Australia; not that any of them had it where people do not feel I was not the only 'poet' in the mills, jealous breed and though we the slightest intention of going there! culturally threatened. I have always though: there was a challenge to my sometimes praised each other's work And for all that they were on piece found more anti-Britishness among position from a chap who worked in to each other's faces we never believed rates and worked with deft speed they the more anglicised townsfolk of the dye pots, a sturdy youngster the kind words that we spoke and never had any of what is called 'hassle' Kilkenny than in Irish-speaking who I think later died in Korea, and indeed we sometimes attacked each nowadays about their wages, whereas' Connemara... (had begun at this time he was even more lacking in gumption other quite intemperately in print. GAMES OF EMPIRE - "Several of. the weavers were forever beseiging the to acquire something of a reputation than myself, if such a thing was One chap had what I considered the the injured described his visit (Neil office, irate and indignant because as a local poet, God help us! There possible. Ricky, as I'll call him, Kinnock) as a publicity stunt,' temerity to attack my verses, but they had been underpaid. No doubt it were a number of such in every Irish conceived the notion of writing a objecting to his party's policy of Irish anonymously, in the Kilkenny People was more difficult to work out the town and maybe parish at the time, poem about our place of work and unity by consent and calling for and I immediately responded with the having written it he marched from his stronger security measures. Some weavers' output but they too were chaps and girls who got their following charming lines: workplace straight up to the office — families have moved back into their' highly valued and on occasion they outpourings printed in the local paper You village wit, you tap-room poet, homes after the bombings, while others displayed a degree of militancy which (but not of course paid for, no editor rather in the manner of Mad you feeble-minded creature, Why sir have sought accommodation few of us unskilled hands would would be that daft!) and who enjoyed McGonagle the Scots poet when he you dare not pen your name to that ill- elswhere. Army families in Northern attempt. quite a high regard in consequence. called to see Queen Victoria, unasked Ireland may number several favoured feature! at Balmoral or wherever it was —and thousand: some on Army estates asked if he could speak with the Boss! outside uases and some are mixed There was plenty of banter and The editor may have been a very The boss, a formidable character, a with the community, generally in backchat in the wool sorting area, a tolerant and patient man but needless real eccentric given to the most Protestant areas." INDEPENDENT. constant slagging competition to say he drew the line at publishing unwarranted expressions of favour between the drummer whom it was that kind of vitriol! The odd thing and ill-favour, quite despotic in some my job to wake in the afternoon if he though is that however facile and ways and very benevolent in others, had been playing at a dance worthless the kind of verse I wrote MR TONY BENN (Chesterfield, Lab) granted an interview and asked Ricky somewhere the night before; the then, was I think that I'd have my said that like any war, this one ha new Ireland. Looking back at it now it. might not come amiss here and those dock the appropriate amount of records for speed and recklessness, "THE NATION THAT OPPRESSES amazes me how much opposition who know that immortal poem Grays wages in respect of the time spent causing considerable havoc on the ANOTHER ..." "Today, in relation there was to what was loosely termed Elegy in a Country Churchyard will away from his work! This show of to Northern Ireland, Mrs Thatcher way: 'jazz' in those days; when I was at note some faint and ludicrous echoes Philistinism didn't deter Ricky, acts very much as Balfour did over school some teacher or other was of it in the following which I was though, and he continued to compose South Africa. It's a war when, and only forever denigrating 'jungle music' A bonamh, a duck and a sheepdog when, it suits her, to excuse security inordinately proud of at the time. lay stretched in our Harry's wild wake poems for quite some time after..; forces abuses, justify secrecy or imply/- that critics of her anti-terroris". policy are traitors. Time and again the Northern Ireland conflict has been the cutting-edge of extending state power DRASTIC ACTION NEEDED" IN CORK and diminishing civil liberties." NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETY. CORK, City of the so called Merchant construction industry in 1985 has country there are wasted assets, while our economic difficulties remains vast and Princes and later the home of many large continued unabated into last year. people who are in desperate need of is the result of the ineptitude of successive and prosperous industries today stands Nationally, there were still 48,000 housing cannot obtain it and are forced to governments since the foundation of the ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT - aloof from its glorious past. The City and construction workers without jobs. In live in poor conditions at very high rents, state. "With more than 9,000 men and County have become an industrial Cork 5,000 workers remain in the dole which they cannot afford. It must now be acknowledged that the women, it is the largest regiment in the graveyard. Blow after blow has been struck queue. That figure has remained steady not poor and disadvantaged have taken a British army. But because of its at this buoyant city while the building and because of an improvement in the fortunes In terms of Central Government they severe battering in the face of public predominantly Protestant comp- construction industry, which has been the of the industry, but because of a huge and tell us that the economy is stable. It expenditure cuts. Any further reduction in osition it cannot be deployed in mixed background of much employment in the growing emigration. certainly is for them and their rich the quality of health, housing, education or Catholic areas in the larger towns Munster area, has been brought to its So many building workers were now supporters who include the so-called and social services would put the reigning and cities. Much of its energy is spent knees. leaving Cork that a number of local opposition party Fine Gael. This policy is politicians among the criminal classes. protecting its own personnel off called "Financial Rectitude". The scale of Jim Savage duty." NB: Over half of the, Over 4,000 construction workers, fifty builders began new projects ill South DDR are part time and hold down percent of the total building workforce in London using 'homegrown' labour. Cork two jobs. So far 16 members have Cork city and county, are currently out of City's housing crisis has almost 1,250 been convicted of sectarian murders, work, according to the latest figures. Some people now waiting for a home and City most with state issued weapons. thousands of local building workers Hall has revealed that only eight new History in a nutshell TELEGRAPH. emigrated over the last twelve months, houses will be built in 1989. The City mainly to southeast London and whole Manager, Tom Rice stated that it will be a - Continued from Page Three companies have successfully moved their grim year for Cork. According to his operations to the U.K. It is often said the annual estimates, he predicts thai the fornication or adultery. But English companies, and modern guns are test of an economy is the state of the level of public service will be hit right speaking and traditionally Protestant carried by living Englishmen. Given THE IRISH BUDGET - "Progress on building industry. This has shown no sign across the board as a result of cuts and England and the USA are less Liberal these facts "paranoia" is hardly the tackling Ireland's d^bt has been of recovery. redundancies. in these matters. word to describe the concern with impressive, leading to some renewal Unemployment in Cork City and England, of the suae city's (and of confidence in the ecomomy. But As we have been saying for several years County continues to increase dramatically, The emphasis here on English Ireland's) Nationalist majority. The that renewal is still fragile: Irish public the best way to generate economic growth is to have more building and other with almost one thousand people being involvement in the destruction;of the Loyalist minority ia Derry's Waterside debt now stands at $24bn £21.6bn. added to the live register in the five weeks have a road called "Sandriftfriuia That is more than £25,000 for every construction work done. The opposite lives or fortunes of Irish heroes is to January 2nd. As the economic cutbacks Avenue" in honour of a royal holiday householder. FINANCIAL TIMES. seems to have happened with the result necessary, for elsewhere in the article that even the most highly skilled people in begin to really bite, housing schemes had Professor Clare declares of Hame — place in Norfolk. England's presence the industry are now emigrating bccause to be abandoned because of the shortage of "His voice has consistently pleaded the in Ireland will always invite the there is no employment for them locally. It cash. East Cork is a case in point, where in cause of an Ireland in which Hie two response of kicking the Ipperinl is tragic that we should be losing people. It the larger urban areas no building is taking main cultural traditions would be posterior from the vertibrate natives, is worse that we are losing skills that will be place and there are no plans to improve the partners, not opponents, and wbere the and kissing it by the spineless crawlers. needed in the years ahead, for the situation. paranoid obsession with Britain would a- >•>' Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd (TU), betterment of the whoie community. Every other local authority can point to be replacedb y a positive commitment • s Nottingham Road, Ripley, Derbys, If some of the present restrictions on work left undone, even the refurbishment to Europe." But tt is the British who 1 Professor Clare pramta n tdeyisi and published by Connolly Publi- building could be lifted or alleviated, the of existing hooting, to the extent that many insist on speaking of Londonderry. series "Irish in Miad" on IflEJIfopt it cations Ltd, 244 Grays Inn Road, industry would have some chance of dwelling cannot be occupied became of Derry's walls carry old guns inscribed doesn't drag Ireland, b London WC1. Telephone: 01-833-3022. partial recovery. The decline which hit the their present condition. Throughout the fcy their donors, the London liver into the aext century.