DEMOCRAT FOUNDED IN 1939f THE PAPER THAT SHOWS THE WAY FORWARD

No. 349 JULY 1973 7p NOW THEY ARE FISHERMEN HOLD DUBLIN CONFERENCE ISHERMEN from all parts of the F country met in Dublin in May 10 organise against the E.E.C. hreat to their livelihood. The secre- tary of the National Fishermen's Defence Association, Mr Jimmy 0 Conor, said that the meeting in- dicated the beginning of an aware- ness among Irish fishermen of the »ery real danger to our fishing waters caused by E.E.C. member ship. A message of solidarity was sent 10 the Icelandic fishermen engaged n the so-called "Cod War" on be- half of their stand for a 50-mile INFLATION limit to protect theirsource of live- Six girls in Armagh Jail lihood. The message stated that Irish fishermei of the EMPTIES ALL 'act that the le were H E infamies of the Heath Government in the six counties have totally depen Ns in" iustry for nd we T seemingly no end. OUR POCKETS wish to expi it «n# They have six young Irish wash for several days, and Margaret Shannon's. When she - BUT NOT THEIRS sledge our si in their women incarcerated in Armagh Stowed her hideous photographs heard the fracas she tried to reach spirited efforts their Jail without any charge o* thft of young |$ft whose bodies the other girl, bujt was seized, her main national THE rate of inflation which is were horribly ntlrtilated, imply- head banged on the wall, and • the greatest in Europe is to be The message" a trial. ing that die was responsible. kicked on an ankle by soldiers. She found In the Republic of inland. was "a small, fills is hot under the Unionist temporarily lost her sight but re- ike oursel "Special Powers Act" but under Miss Margaret Shannon (18), covered it. Only the big farmers stand to ng mass was interrogated for three days gain, and the immense rite Hi the Of Tor. fishing after arrest in March this year. Miss Marie Delaney was 17, when pricftot feodkdue te joining the sophisticated arrested m my J^-; W*>m the Common Market, minster. Me i&T rakon-vaway without leets. We wish you suooess *n British Army conducted a raid, to female escort by troops at two >1* .WCjtettiwSo • •' In priced Si> *iope that you emerge victorious Did th* NI.P.S who voted for her family home they said they in the ntorning. She complains England is only marginally less, irom this David and GotlatlWIke it realise that they wore voting would take her to the barracks to of the "no sleep" treatment. and the "Irish Democrat" has been struggle." v for the internment of women? be photographed. During interro-" ; notified of a substantial increase gation she was told that she would The secretary of the Association Worse than this, they have When allegations were made in printing oosts by our prints*. be released if she admitted respon- stated that by Joining the E.E.C. complained of being tortured, against her by a person hidden Don't, blame the poor man too sibility for various incidents,, She we have left ourselves wide open or, as the Tories prefer to say, much. He is oniypasslng on what behind a screen she pulled the refused to admit what she was not to exploitation by foreign interests, "ill-treated." is done on hint &y others. Who wins

EDITORIAL NOTE A PAGE rp||E IRISH DEMOCRAT" is This remarkable phenomenon 1 published at 283 Grays Inn Nixon show-down gets nearer Koad at 7p per month (annual l^Y the time this issue is pub- African people's desire for full TO ENCOURAGE subscription £1.14). The Editor well thank-you. They include Mr But there were crushed un- jrutal What is good for the goose is good lished Mr Nixon may stand democratic rights, one man one Duncan Sandys, former Colonial gade Bca . or;>ok press, professed um: • ho may not be successful.' We welcomes articles, letters, etc., American imperialism. Wk,*:v is this quotatmi) u •::. '.' lor the gander. naked before the people of America, vote and the end to apartheid. Secretary in a Tory Government, to believe he w.is ursine people to think the inconsistency arises from but cannot undertake to return Today the situation is trans- "ii.r.t'prndencc, the reed"!:. »»* V V V DEBATE ON accused of being a virtual mafia But he has recently found that and other prominent Tories, one vote La bo .: real historical challenge to Eng- rejected manuscripts unless a operator, faker, con man and big formed. No longer does the .1 v.\:'-:iiivt'rning nalio:; :r. 1 stamped addressed envelope is the worm is turning. African of whom is married into the Eng- csti:n;.tu>n the highest p. >i:: .'u! !>:. o .pitalism. I AKE the second question. Colour. business stooge. American dictat—the Monroe Doc- Does anybody seriously suppose enclosed. Difficulties with postal guerilla fighters are more and more lish Royal Family. iiooci. for winch any disadvar.t >i-.\ They hoped to discredit Laboui by TOPICS OF Hard words? but if he is proved trine—hold unchallenged sway. It that it will ever happen that deliveries and frequent miscar- asserting themselves and phisically A number of newspapers at the if need be. and any .-arritU'c .ire calling it 'Powellite." But they to be up to the neck in the Water- has lost much of its previous auth- merely revealed that the Tories, in people with coloured skins will all riage of mail leads us to advise attacking their white oppressors. beginning of June apologised to ,i clie:i]j pnee. registration of important mater- gate hush up they're the words The prospect is becoming more ority and power to intimidate. the pocket- of the multinational J/IRoT, if an Englishman like Mr be chased out of England and back THE DAY the Lonhro combine for suggesting "I: i< worth living lor :: i- ial. Articles published do not that will be used And one conclu- dangerous for the small minority that it had been involved in san- The Cuban revolution forced firms (who pay their advertisement 1 Powell can feel so fervently for to where they came from, or then- • il'cessarily express the views of wor.h lighting for: it -A .: li sion will be drawn—he is not fit of whites, and the planters don't ction-busting in Rhodesia. Mr Allan Washington to try to find ways of dyir-a for. bills) have no intention of heeding Eng'.i.-h independence sold by the ancestors came from? the Editor or the Connolly Asso- to govern. public opinion. Of course not. like it,they're surviving only because Ball, deputy chairman, told the holding its influence in Latin "There is not a state in Afr:ea. traitor Heath, how is it that he has ciation Standing Committee. We The Irish at least have shown Even if he survives the present of the shilly shallying of the press "this is a veyy serious alle- America by getting local forces hev. r. out of some administrative Incidentally the sycophant press no sympathy with an Irishman lished, Mr Powell must oppose like to give others a crack of horse sense in this. Our immigrants the whip occasionally. investigations, as John Gordon British Government and the trea- gation of which we are not guilty." to suppress liberation movements unr of western colonial v lie, missed an obvious corollary; anti- anxious to undo the Act of Union? everything that leads to division writes in the Sunday Express sonable activities of important Suppose, as we do suppose, that are the Scotch-Irish of the six and hatred among the different The "Sunday Observer" now The Rio Mutual Assistance which would not scorn to bargain market Tones might win Labour (June 10) "President Nixon is a sections . of big business scheming states that the apologies were the majority of the English people counties, discernible not by colour racial strands that compose modem Treaty of 1947 which covered a away its independence " votes from Labour Marketeers. spent force. Even if he survives to break through the sanctions unnecessary, as the Lonhro group want to be outside the Common but by Protestantism. England, He could learn something Desmond Donnelly lot of territory of North and South his authority is finished." barrier. was indeed engaged in breaking V V ^ Perhaps they would be entitled to Market Every Irish Republican knows from the Irish, who have some ex- America and large parts of the RIP. Congressman Paul McCluskey, a. Sir Roy Welensky a pre-U.D.I sanctions. It presents powerful them. A vote for Roy Jenkins might perfectly well that you can't chase perience of the struggle for inde- Atlantic and Pacific and even I S u from Garibaldi? Mahatma Republican from his home State Premier has been offering advice. evidence for it. be thought as good as a draught of It ;s also recognisable that the the Protestants out. It would be jnEMOLITION worker Des- Antarctica was supposed to cover ' Ghar.di? Mao Tse Tung? Or pendence. of California made an attempt at "Although Rhodesia will no doubt poison. The other would have to greatest support for entry is con- to divert from important construc- ft ft £ ^ mond Donnelly lost his life The sanctions-busting operation all of this. one of the great Irish patriots, John centrated in the south-east, which tive tasks to try to chase them out, as a result of a ninety-foot fall impeachment, but the debate was face a grim period over the next involved getting Lonhro's copper American aid was given only to Mitchel for example, or Wolfe Tone? be much worse poison. cut short on a technicality. is a Tory sea surrounding the and be a waste of time to talk A ND now back to the start. down the lift shaft of a disused few years the position is not hope- out of Rhodesia and on to world countries participating with the Certainly it could be from any During a session of the invest- less" he said "Our Prime Minister :„- £ Labour island of London. about it. + The decisive sections of Eng- warehouse in Deansgate, Man- markets and getting the dollars American forces against liberation ol them. igating committee the Republican might consider broadening the Suppose England tried to get out land's ruling class are for submerg- back into Rhodesia. The companies movements. But it is not. It is from the Stock- Mr Powell has expressed concern chester. deputy chairman Senator Howard basis of his government and per- ]\/I R POWELL is regarded as an of the E.E.C., and the E.E.C. held ence in a European super-power. involved were Lonrho's subsid- Most U.S. military aid therefore port speech of the Tory maverick about parts of Birmingham and He is a serious loss to the Irish Baker, almost lost his temper at haps, go as far as including two iaries in Rhodesia a nd South ^ * extreme "right" Tory. an election on the subject, mean- Why? The answer is not usually has gone to Brazil, Argentine. Para- Mi- Enoch Powell, and it means other places coming to have an im- community. Last year he was the excuses for perjury offered responsible Africans in his Min- Africa, a South American firm while flooding the country with the given, because it touches on the his- guay, Columbia, Nicaragua and that people must stop and think That, however, doesn't make him migrant majority. by a witness called Herbert Porter. istry. and one from Mozambique. community troops which will un- torical blindspot of the English first in Britain in the Fleadh the Dominican Republic. Between and answer the question "what does wrong on the Market issue. But Well Belfast has an immigrant The Senator wanted to know why "I am asking the Rhodesian doubtedly come into being. Suppose people—colonialism. Geol, and was to have competed It has been clear for some time 1944 and 1970 this aid added up to this phenomenon mean?" though it is the central issue of majority. The fact that the immi- Porter had lied in Court and wh^ Prime Minister to forget he is a that the Tory Government and the area between London and Dover in Ireland this year. S2,000 million, but the actual figure this part of our century, it can still gration took place some time ago Having lost their Empire, and yet he had failed to distinguish right party politician. We need a nat- Sir Alec Douglas Home in partic- was much greater. ir £ ft wanted to remain in the E.E.C. and He was the founder of the not be isolated from other issues. does not alter the principle. All still remaining the world's largest from wrong. Porter said he had ional leader at this time when we ular have been lukewarm in their Chile is the other outstanding- the rest wanted to get out, what foreign investors per head of popu- recently-established Manchester been brought up with a sense of I IE was talking about England's And unfortunately Mr Powell has it Irish Republicans take up the posi- are facing a struggle with Com- efforts to bring Ian Smith and his country to take a long step forward would Mr Powell say? lation, the English ruling class are ceili band, and a prominent loyalty to the President. 1 absorption into the Common jumbled up with things that don't tion that these people who have munist trained terrorist forces. sanction-breakers to book There by the second election victory of He would say that the majority anxious to maintain "neo-colonial- member of Comhaltais Ceol- Market, which has already taken belong. adopted Ireland as their home- Baker retorted "I really expect "This situation is no longer an were powerful interests involved. the broad united front movement of the English people wanted out of ism," the essence of which is that teori. A regular performer at that the greatest disservice^ that away the power of the Westminster For example he professes to a land are Irish. economic war but a shooting war LATIN AMERICA IS RISING headed by President Allende. Europe, and that the minority must the terms of world trade shall be a man could do to a President of Parliament even to discuss import- wish that all the coloured immi- They are entitled to equal rights Socials and we have to win it!! From the days when America In the Panama zone the peoples toe the line. permanently rigged against the for- the United States would be to ant issues affecting the people of grants were back where they came with all other Irish people, but not and reader of the "Irish Demo- Some hope! used the Monroe Doctrine as a demands for the full independence mer colonies, or "third world" as it abdicate his conscience." this country. from, including their descendants Yet this precisely happened in to demand that Irish soil shall be crat", he was forty years old Following the financial scandals dictate to the rest of the world to of the canal are gaining strength who didn't come. And he wants to Ireland. The Irish Parliament in occupied by the forces of the land is sometime illogically called. and leaves a wife and four No wonder the Sunday Observer emerging from the now famous keep out of Latin America—it was in spite of American opposition. The Tory Government, led by the hold every inch of the six coun- 1800 treacherously voted its own ex- their ancestors abandoned. England lacks the strength to do children to whom our sincere ilO June) in banner headline won- Lonrho shareholders' meeting ano- an area of American influence— It is still too early to make an accursed Heath, has without con- ties. 0 tinction as the ill-fated Heath ad- If Mr Powell insists that England this alone. The European coun- ders "Can Nixon last the year out"? ther has blown up. In the first it things have changed. estimate of the victory in the sulting the people agreed to a com- sympathy Is extended. ministration has done in England. shall rule the six counties because tries were in the same boat, but SANCTIONS BREAKING came out about the perks and hand- For years after the first world Argentine elecitons of the pro-Peron plete fusion of England into Europe, Actually he contradicts himself, The Irish people had to spend 120 there is a local majority, he may weaker still. They combined forces Ian Smith Apartheid head of the outs given to Directors, who availed war there were brave efforts by movement but at least it has still so that there will not exist any sepa- as we shall show below. And if that years before there was a chance find himself finding excuses for say- and as well as squeezing the former C.A. MEETINGS Rhodesian Planters Government, outs given to Directors, who availed Latin American natives to win self further shaken American domina- rate national powers at all, by 1980, WEST LONDON: Thursday, 12th is accepted, another question arises. of reversing the decision. It is to ing that Pakistan should not con- colonies, they started to squeeze is still determined to smash the some people seem to have done very determination. tion. except for piddling local issues Does he do so from an inconsistency July, "Orangeism in Disorder"—E. be hoped that the English do not trol some part of Birmingham some England and America. England de- He is opposed to it, rightly op- in his character, or from the actual MacLaughlin; 26th July, "Irish In- have to wait so long. But they may. time in the future. cided to join them, in order to re- SCOTLAND^ posed it it, and he dropped the hint contradiction in the position of the lluence in the Trade Unions and how Would Mr Powell say their claim It is no worse, and no better, for main a squeezer, and not become a that if Labour took up the chal- small traditional capitalist interests to increase it"—C. Cunningham, 8 to independence was thereby in- England to have the children of squeezee. p.m., Hanwell Town Hall. lenge and came out against the for which he has made himself the validated? Pakistanis in the country, than it But unfortunately the terms of MANCHESTER: Social Evening, Common Market, they might win spokesman? For example the small is for Ireland to have the descend- entii' give no protection and ML C.istle Hotel, Oldham Street, 14th Tory votes at the next election. He trader who is afraid of Pakistanis; To be consistent in his demand ants of Scotchmen. July, 8 p.m. Powell seeing this only too clearly, was warning the Tories about this. or the traditional importer who will for English independence, Mr Powell But if he wants to see English "!"pHE social revolution is possible it in 1963: "The oppressed peoples know better how to deal with the far from fundamental appraisal of having more brains than his fel- The newspapers, including the rene- have to change his supplier and must support Irish independence. national independence re - estab- sooner in Scotland than in have achieved a great feat—they biggest encroaching imperialism of the political aspect of the "oil ques- low-conservatives, who have none, England. The working-class policy have smashed the colonial system all—that of oil! In 1964, the year tion" in relation to that of the grasped the essential fact that the Marxism today ought to be to break up the Empire, of imperialism. This is the main Labour was elected' to office, the "Scottish question", seems content only safeguard is national sover- to avert war and enable the workers result of the national liberation British Government granted to 22 or consciously limited to debating eignty. Without that England's Irish special to triumph in every country and struggle. . . . Over 50 pountries groups and individual oil companies points about the quantity of oil, peripheral position condemns her to ''HE document makes it clear have achieved state independence exclusive production licences cover- royalties etc. and trying to score I ,, f ...... colony. Scottish separation is ¥part become a part of a backward off- that there is very little power ^ .. . _ , ., T , and national statehood. ... It ing 35,000 square miles in blocks of points off the ."Scottish National The speech the newspapers wouldn't print 1 to b-e .t,.™,.shared, . SBVS Mr Michael« of the process "of England'? Imperial shore island. says i«r Micnaei eg ation and is a help towards would be a gross mistake to under- 100 square miles each in the British Party's claim that North Sea Oil O'Riordan in a well-reasoned and % disint r ft ft ft the ultimate triumph of the workers estimate the significance of this controlled sector of the North Sea. could be worth upwards of £3*000 STALLARDi There is one lucid account of power-sharing and victory. . . . The winning of politi- In 1965 the Labour Government in- million a year to> Scotland, which is before our eyes, and make provi- "ITTHAT is the other possibility? the new six county Assembly, pub- ' of the world." point which has not been QN the evening of June 12th Mr A. W. Stallard, M.P., told sion now, while-there is yet time, cal independence by the peoples is a vited further applications from the 50 per cent of the value of Scot- * * It is of course a complete lished in the June (Special Irish An independence policy for Scot- mentioned. As I feared that it for all the results that may await great revolutionary act of world sig- oil companies for additional areas land's current gross domestic pro- told lobbyers of the Connolly Association that he was change of Government policy. The number) issue of Marxism Today land—advocated by the Scottish would not be mentioned, I tabled upon a right or wrong decision nificance. . . . Can one close one's of the North Sea, the Irish Sea and duct. Meanwhile, the English going to move, an amendment to the centre of the alternative policy (obtainable at the Irish Democrat Marxist John Maclean in his last an amendment and a new clause of today." eyes td the fact that in many of the the northern waters around Orkney Minister for industry; is more direct Constitution Bill for deleting the statement that the six would have to be an accord with Bookshop, 283 Grays Inn Road, election address written a few days newly free countries a national and Shetland—all at ludicrously designed to ensure that all aspects That was said almost a hundred in appraising Scottish oil—North counties would remain part of the United Kingdom until Russia. This would make possible London, W.C.I). before he died in 1923: the Scottish renaissance is taking place, that the cheap financial terms. of'the problems confronting people years ago. Mr Gladstone was speak- Sea oil could be producing about the scaling down of the arms bur- Labour Movement, however, failed basis of a.national economy is being VOW the exploitative race is on in Northern Ireland would be dis- its inhabitants voted by plebiscite that it should cease to be. ing then about a united Ireland, not The article by Mr O'Riordan two-thirds of "Britain's oil" by 1980, den. With a Russian alliance Eng- to understand and instead . has built and that cultural life is flou- i.e. around -100 million tons per cussed. The aspect which has not Needless to say the Press did not report him. But we are about partition and not re-affirming contains the most important analy- ' full blast—ten exploration rigs land could sit pretty. Recognition blindly supported the British (Eng- rishing? How can one fail to see year. Scotland's oil consumption been discussed, and which never is proud to do so—in full. that the Six Counties should be sis yet published of the English are "on station" off the Scottish of the claims of Ireland and the lish) Labour Party over the years to that in the course of the struggle for last year, incidentally, totalled discussed by most Hon. Members, is managed as part of the United conception of an Ireland etill domi- coast with many more to come as emergent nations to independence such effect that, now with a Tory for independence, .the masses have a record 10,641,000 tons. that -of the border, which started Kingdom. Wtiat he saidv years at any rate, highly conserva- ment projects. pendent of the United States and ana others, Mr. Joseph Deighan, of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association and For'.- „.i Affairs, is an impoitar.t the Germans? possession charges) were described tive in character. by In relation to the E.E.C., how- the present N.A.T.O., for Dr Fitz- formerly for ten years a member of the Manchester Trade Council warned : indi'.iv.on of the political star.ce Paddy Kennedy (Republican by a solicitor as amounting to a ever, he indicated that he was in Gerald recognises that a unified of t..- Irish Government. This is likely to change under the ANTHONY E.E.C. defence policy is the logical Labour) complained that homes "mock crucifixion.'' A constable new Minister, certainly so far as favour of increased supranational- "The British Armed forces are in danger of going the'way of the Americans outcome of unified foreign and and business premises he visited admitted that the men's physical It • 5-; preceded by a three-nay policy towards the Third World goes COUGHLAN ism and further surrender of in Vietnam. They are being demoralised by the things they are being political policy which he strongly were soon afterwards raided by the condition was "most unusual". conin-nce of all Irish overseas and in our United Nations voting sovereignty by Ireland, on the basis ordered to do." and to the creation within the favours. When the E.E.C. referen- English Army. His candidates and ambi.-sadors presided over by pattern. But it is also likely that that the big countries in the E.E.C. canvassers were being subjected to MAY 30th Community of a stable demo- dum was held this time last year, Dr F.'zgerald. No such get- the Minister, who has always been would also have to surrender HOW FAR IS THIS WARNING JUSTIFIED? constant harassment by the Army. Northern Ireland Civil Rights cratic and healthy society; one can be certain that the idea of together had ever previously one of the foremost champions of sovereignty and that this is on Election posters in Ardoyne had Association accused R.U.C. of collu- To secure Ireland's economic joining a European defence union beer. held. The new Minister is the E.E.C. in Ireland, cherishes illu- balance better for Ireland which smashed. Alleged Orange slogans been taken down by troops. sion with Army, so that when com- interests abroad, thus facili- would then be less easily exploitable was far removed from the minds of Below we give summarised letic Association requested the one of the most intelligent men sions about the character of that daubed in parish hall. plaint against Army is taken to tating economic and social by single large neighbours. the many who voted Yes. extracts from DAILY PAPERS evacuation of their field at Case- m the country. A liberal Fine organisation which may well prove R.U.C., the R.U.C. consults the dangerous to Ireland's long-term progress at home, and par- over the months of May and Republican Club officials com- ment Park by British Army, so MAY 24th Gael .r. politics, and in no sense This is one of Dr FitzGerald's The Foreign Minister in the Army before taking action, and interests. ticularly to secure our in- June, 1973:— plain that many of their members that they could resume sports, "it Protests to Mr Whitelaw at the ,3 per-on to be hemmed in by articles of faith regarding the course of his speech also suggested would seem that they are more army's demolition of derelict houses passes on identities thus opening terests in the economic, social MAY 11th including election workers have out-of-date attitudes or conser- E.E.C. It is the reason for the dedi- that Ireland should support E.E.C interested in bar facilities," What in Distillery Street area, using bull- way to further harassment. This ITTHE following are the basic ob- and regional policies of the "A woman released from Armagh been arrested since the ban was cation with which he has sought to moves towards an economic and a remark for a Minister »f the dozers and without warning. Owners was denied by R.U.C. vative precedents, as shown by jectives of Irish foreign policy E.E.C.; prison • • • was held, last night by lifted. J. Mulhearn, election worker get support for the E.E.C. in Ireland monetary union in order to better in Befast F Area, was arrested. Crown! have been prevented from securing his or.e-man trip to the Ardoyne in the view of the new Government io< To contribute to the Third Special Branch detective." (Miss JUNE 4th over the past decade, but it is a protect the Common Agricultural valuation necessary for compensa- in Ee'tast the other month. as given by Dr Fitzgerald and they World in a manner and to an Brer.da Murphy aged 18). "When Complaint that a young girl was faith totally unfounded in fact, and Policy, upon which the economic MAY 18th tion. illustrate its strong and weak extent that will meet our ob- she arrived back at the house, the MAY 21st beaten unconscious by soldiers in it could be exceedingly dangerous to case for Irish E.E.C. membership During disturbances in Derry Complaints that army arrested points:— ligations, satisfy the desire of Army assaulted her, and when her Bogside area, Derry, when she pro- the country. substantially rested. An economic troops were accused of firing CS Dominic McCann of Lisburn had five men in a funeral cortege and (1) To help maintain world peace Irish people to play a con- brother went to her assistance, he tested against arrest of two youths and monetary union, however, would gas and rubber bullets indiscrimi- three stitches in his head as a held them 2£ hours. One of them Republic and reduce tensions between structive role in this sphere Thus for example, he says that was also assaulted." No charge. who had been standing in a door- entail an even more radical and nately. A boy coming out of a result of a wound by a rifle when was a driver taking visitors to Long the super-powers, between and add to our moral autho- Ireland's attitude to the question of No trial. way. She was taken to hospital defence is one of maintaining neu- drastic surrender of sovereignty by Creggan school was hit in the face, soldiers raided the Red Hand Kesh. These were over an hour blocs and between States; rity in seeking to influence Three young boys had collected with broken arm and bruises. trality and remaining aloof from the Ireland than that involved in the and a boy on a bus was hit on G.A.A. Club at Hannahstown on the late. elects (2) To resolve, even on a pro- constructively the policies of 300 signatures to a petition asking Twenty-two-year-old "detainee" P. existing defence alliances in Europe existing Common Market. the ear. When rubber bullets were outskirts of Belfast. visional but open-ended basis, other developed countries to- locai election candidates not to J. Crawford committed suicide in —N.A.T.O. for example. "The Gov- first introduced it was pledged that MAY 25th the Northern Ireland problem wards the Third World. As the Irish Sovereignty Move- take their seats while internment In Ardoyne a woman and two Long Kesh. Found hanging in ernment proposes to continue this they would only be fired at legs. Internees at Long Kesh kept Protestant and to pursue relations with rPHESE aims sound well so far as ment stated in a document critical lasted. The army confiscated these children hit by rubber bullets. Hugh prison. Alleged by nationalist Press policy," he says, "but as occasion But women have been blinded. locked up for six hours in a can- the United Kingdom Govern- they go and in the course of of these section^ of the Foreign perfectly legal documents saying Lynch who has a 1000 per cent that conditions were intolerable. ment to achieve this purpose; his speech Dr FitzGerald was bitter arises to make more explicit the Minister's speech, most realistic ob- teen, without facilities for food or that they were illegal. MAY 19th disability British Army pension was Prisoners were refusing visitors as President (3) To contribute to the de- in his condemnation of apartheid in distinction between a possible Euro- servers accept that the Common toilet. A 17-year-old Ardoyne youth was clubbed to the ground and taken protest against humiliating condi- (Continued from Page One) velopment of the European South Africa, and indicated that it pean defence body in the more Agricultural Policy is likely to be MAY 15th to hospital. tions, e.g. having to remove shoes shot dead by the army. The army MAY 26th Communities along lines com- would not be long before Ireland distant future and the existing drastically altered in the next few A writer purporting to be an and socks when receiving visitors. refused to allow him a'priest. The "Mounting harassment of Repub- up a Labour candidate—in which patible with Irish aspirations would open diplomatic relations alliances." years and it is quite misleading to officer of the 1st Bn. Gloucester- Food alleged uneatable. Food par- priest was refused permission to MAY lican candidates and election work- case Mr O'Higgins would most suggest that it can be preserved shire Regiment stated in "News- 23rd cels rendered useless many times. attend him. ers throughout the North led to probably have been elected by through an economic and monetary week" that people in the Falls area Twenty-one-year-old Thomas Friel, Waterlogged huts. Facilities for Replying to complaints of threats pressure among delegates at Newry Labour transfers — the Labour union, which would be even more lived "like pigs" and that searching hit at point-blank range by a rub- study and recreation non-existent. by soldiers, who are alleged to to withdraw their team from the Party was making a return to Fuie DUBLIN SOCIAL SERVICES NOW dangerous to Ireland than the soldiers had found "excreta on the ber bullet, died without recovering There are periodical assaults on in- have painted slogans like "British local government elections." Paddy Gael for the original allocation of measures of economic integration floor, beds sopping with urine, consciousness. Serious disturbances ternees. capital gains to whoever owns land, Army thirteen-one", "Derry", and Kennedy M.P. said the army inter- Government positions, where Lab- the country is already committed to sanitary towels tossed casually in in Derry as a consequence. English the farming Community in the "The only good Catholic is a dead rupted a canvass at Unity Flats, our got more Ministries than was The political forces in the E.E.C the comer, and that one whole Army census-taking described as What is wanted is that a Twenty Six Counties are not re- battalion had to be deloused after one". Army H.Q. Lisburn said: and that an officer told him they proportionately their due. EXCEL BELFAST'S which seek to establish an economic "completely unwarranted, harassing, group of members of the West- quired to pay inoome tax. a big scale operation in 1969.'' But "Your readers might reflect that were going to shot him after dark. The Labour Party's effort in the and monetary union as the basis of and an unjustifiable intrusion into minster Parliament should visit AMILY allowances in the Repub- Between current and capital ex- Thus there are rich farmers in Mr Devlin M.P. points out that the the irritation of searches, arrests, Soldier threw posters and election presidential election was especially a European Superstate are in no the private affairs of citizens and the six counties and investigate F lic of Ireland are now as good penditure the Irish Government will Meath and Kildare and Kilkenny, Gloucesters did not arrive in Bel- and the like would disappear if papers on the ground. In Armagh directed at getting the trade union 1 way primarily motivated by the their families." as those in the North and Britain- be spending over £950 million in with hundreds of acres and thou- fast till December 7th, 1971, and they and all other residents in two Republican Club personation these complaints on the spot. vote out for O'Higgins. Here the desire to protect agriculture or ad- better in some cases. So are various the coming year, the highest sands of pounds' annual income, had only arrived in Derry on De- Ngrthejjn Ireland were actively to agents were arrested. They were Already three London trade position of the Irish Transport and vance the poorer and peripheral Clearly census-taking is merely an other social security beenfits. For amount ever and a huge increase whose incomes are not taxed, while regions such as Ireland. cember 2nd. 1969. discourage terrorists." excuse for 1ntruST6n, and the not released in time to sign th^ir unionists have been there and General Workers' Union was criti- on the year preceding. The social example, a man, wife «id two chil- their employees on £15 £20 a week Five nurses expressed fears for Indignation at Mr William White- statement from Lisburn H.Q. seems forms and thus were uable to take according to their report there cal and there was a remarkable dren will get £14.50 per week sick- welfare improvements were wel- do pay tax. The trade union move- I \R FITZGERALD is also allow- health of Long Kesh internees. law's jibe, when the Gaelic Ath- to indicate that army policy is to part in the election. No charges. a case to answer. delegation to Liberty Hall, a few ness or unemployment benefit in come, but they had been long ex- ment pressed the Government ^ ing his personal enthusiasm MAY 16th weeks before the election, consist- the Republic from July, compared pected, and as has also been pro- strongly before the election to im- for Europeanism to run away with Despite the fact that on May ing of the Taoiseach, Mr Cosgrave, with £14.20 in the U.K. mised by Fianna Fail in the last pose tax on the larger farmers. But him when he says that the answer 14th the Westminster Parliament the Foreign Minister, Dr Fitz- General Election. the Government refused, almost cer- This is due to the Republic's to the lack of democracy in the removed from the list of banned Gerald and the Minister of Labour, HAT was not expected was the tainly due to traditional Fine Gael "social welfare" Budget in May, European Community is to demo- organisations the name of the Re- Mr O'Leary—himself a member of W kid-glove manner in which solicitude for its strongest sup- which gave the biggest boost in cratise the E.E.C. institutions and publican Clubs, Republican Club THE ELECTION THAT DECIDED NOTHING the I.T&G.W.U.—to sohcit the years to the country's social security the Coalition Government handled porters. that Ireland "should concentrate its election agent Seamus Lynch was / \F the twenty-three parties and Unionist faction. . It is strongly is no clear majority things are There are 13 S.D.L.P. men and two support of the union executive and benefits. As a result the welfare large farmers and other property NOTHER regressive taxation efforts on, pressure for increased arrested and held at Castlereach groups that went up in the six tipped that in many places Un- queerer still. If they go moderate Republicans (Club). To secure a the general officers. gap between North and South has owners. For, despite the fact that move was the decision of the A power for the European Parliament interrogation centre. Army who county locai elections, thirteen were official and official Unionists will they may get the support of eight majority will not be that easy, for This was given in the form of a been substantially closed and in farm incomes are rising rapidly be- Coalition to lift rates substantially and direct elections to it." arrested him told his friends he partitionist, six were anti-partition combine to share the fruits of Alliance men. If they go extreme there is little to choose from, four letter from the general officers to several important respects—child al- cause of the booming cattle trade, on all property, including business all the union members urging them had been released, but in reality he (though the degree to which they office. they may call on eight Paisleyites. Unionists, 3 Alliance men, seven lowances, for example—it no longer and land prices are increasing so and commercial property, which For have people thought what The official Unionists will want to to vote for the National Coalition had been handed over to the R.U.C. stressed the issues of border or On the anti-partitionist side the Independents and one no party. exists. quickly that they bring substantial brings windfall gains to some very this can really mean? The' phrase go moderate, the unofficial will pos- candidate. Also, the final rally for for further interrogation. even civil rights varies considerably) S.D.L.P. won four-fifths of the seats Whereas under the old system there well-on people indeed. Legacy and "democratise the E.E.C." is also fre- sibly want to go extreme. And to were nationalist-controlled councils, O'Higgins took place in Liberty quently used in Britain. Any A soldier, L/cpl. Wills, denied and one (the N.I.L.P.) was neutral. with 82. It emerges as the suc- succession duties were also much persuade them to the former course now there are none. The position Hall, at which some people won- elected European Parliament must breaking the arm of a schoolboy The number of partitionist repre- cessor of the old Nationalist Party, HOW UNION DUES ARE PAID reduced, which also helps the rich, are seven S.D.L.P. men, two N.IJLP. has .gone back, and the question is dered what the shade of Connolly necessarily have a predominance of in the uper Falls (Stephen sentatives elected was 413, against from which in essentials it differs 'TUIE term "check-off system" rantee of the union's independence and there was no mention of a and two Republicans. Unionism is why. might be thinking. But in the event British, German and French MP.s O'Reilly), but said he "cut his hair 102 anti-partitionist, and four very little, except that a Labour refers to the arrangement and forms a valuable point of con- capital gains or wealth tax to deal going to have a rough ride in Bel- this effort went for naught and Because they are directly elected and threatened to throw him out neutral. orientation has become necessary whereby employers collect union tact with members. There is the with the fantastic increases in fast. First note the very unequal size there is much disgruntlement in and because they have actual in a Protestant area to get infor- in these latter days. Second dues from the pay of the workers fear that if the union no longer re- value going to property owners as of the Councils. Belfast has 51 Labour and trade union circles powers of decision-making it does mation from him." The boy said The virtual annihilation of the strongest, but miles behind, were In Ballymena there are 21 seats. and pay them over to the trade tains direct responsibility for their a result of inflatiop. Wage and councillors, Antrim and Strabane about the wisdom of it all. not in any way mean that they he was beaten up and his arm Northern Ireland Labour Party The Unionists have nine, and thus union. It has been spreading dues, they could become as abstract salary earners, on the other hand, the Republican Clubs with 7 seats, only fifteen. In the west the With the public as a whole it would be more considerate of Ire- broken. shows the piteous absurdity of try- require two votes. There are si* widely in both Britain and Ireland and remote as an insurance com- got no increase in allowances, but Unity (the Bernadette Devlin generally Unionist countryside has land's interests than the present ing to fight elections on bread and Paisleyites, one alliance (not was said that the presidential elec- in the past few years, having been pany. face higher taxes and soaring food Catholic workers in a Clonard Party) with six. Nationalists 4, and been brought in to balance the institutional arrangement. Ireland's butter issues, when the system of enough!) and five independents. In tion is the end of the honeymoon originally copied from America. prices—gone up 16 per cent in the factory (said Republican Labour unclassified Republicans 3. nationalism of the towns. Every far The main reason for the change voice in such a Parliament must democracy, which alone provides Carrick (15) the six Unionists are period for the National Coalition. past year alone. candidate Joseph Marron), 600 out The number of constituencies was sighted person wanted P.R. intro- In 1971 the British T.U.C. carried in attitude by trade unions seems always be a minority one and in the the means of dealing with bread confronted by six Paisleyites and The real difficulties and problems of a total 6,000 were being lined up twenty-six, and with one result to duced into the previously existing out a survey which showed that to be the realisation that there is So the Budget was anything but name of "democracy" Ireland and and butter issues, is in the balance. three Alliance men. ' of government now crowd in— and searched every day by soldiers, be declared because of a second poll, Councils, but . the new ones were more than one in three British risk of loss of substantial revenue a radical one. It redistributes in- Irish interests could be continually One can only say, when, oh whdn, violence in the North, the continual so that they were prevented from there are clear majorities In twelve At Craigavon (25) the Union- created as a gerrymander to meet trade unionists were covered by the due to membership turnover and ar- come from the middle olasses to the overridden. will people learn. Some people high inflation and the increasingly working and lost wages. only, less than half. And these ists with ten councillors lack three the inevitability of one man one system compared with about one in rears of contribution if they rely poor and from single and ohitdless seemingly never — meanwhile we adverse effects of E.E.C. member- MAY 17th majorities are only there on the votes which they must get from vote; they were not drawn up with five in 1981. Unions in the public on the principle of independent pay- people to people with children, but It is not democracy if laws for can forget for a while about the ship. It will be surprising if these A 29-year-old woman, with less assumption that official and un- eight loyalists, or from the four Al- a view to P.R. or things would have sector had the most extensive check- ment. The handling of small sums it leaves the rich and the property Ireland are made by British, Ger- N.I.L.P. factors do not put a strain on the than a fortnight to go before the official Unionists pull together. The liance men, the anti-partitionists been worse. off coverage and the vast majority by numerous collectors week by week owners substantially better off and mans, Italians or i Dutch, whether unity of the Coalition partners. birth of her child, was arrested Now it Is known that about 30 Councils with clear majorities are having only two S.D.L.P. Council- of unions approved of the check-off. poses an accounting problem. Fail- in-tltis respect is much more a Fine elected to a Parliament or In retrospect It was foolish of the while protesting at the arrest of per cent of the electorate is opposed all partitionist. These are Antrim lors. In Fermanagh (20) there are In August last year the Irish ure to collect dues exaggerates Gael than a Labour package. nominated to a Council or Commis- Coalition to make the presidential to partition. Why then is the anti- (U), Armagh (U>, Ballymoy (U), ten Unionists, faced by four I^VEN in Belfast the areas (cor- Congress of Trade Unions Research problems of membership turnover sion. No more than It is democracy her husband, who was dragged J election into a vote of confidence. partitionist vote only 20 per cent. Castlereagh (U), Coleraine (U), S.D.L.P., four Unity Party, and two * responding to wards in Eng- Service, under Mr Donal Nevin, car- and encourages non-membership. for England If Germans, French from their shop at Clonard. Her Indeed, Fianna Fail beforehand had This is presumably because the Dungannon (U), Larne (UU>. Lis- independents. One guesses the land) are very unequal. The larg- ried out a survey of Irish trade The checkt-off system can mean that men—and even a few Irishmen- husband and another man were been anxious to have an agreed all- second strongest anti-partitionist burn (U), Newtown Abbey (UU), Independents will support the est (B) returns 39,227 for 7 council- unions to find out the position re- membership is stabilised, even if it IRELAND MAY have a say in making laws for the beaten up in front of neighbours. party candidate for the presidency. grouping, the provisional Sinn Fein, Banbridge (UU). Unionists. lors (5,604 per man), the smallest garding the check-ofT in Ireland. It is not Increased. There is less English. She is stated to have been beaten The election showed that the «p and thrown downstairs by a urged its supporters to boycott the (F) holds 27,067 electors, to return appears that about 30 per cent of office work and book-keeping to be In Derry a different situation pre- six councillors, or 4,511 a man. So majority of voters preferred Mr USE SEA BED This standing of truth and logic soldier. Eye-witnesses said one of election. But it has also been tINHERE are great variations in the all trade union members in the Re- done. alleged that there was widespread vails. There are no Unionists, electors in hApy 'F' area need a Childers's quiet, and dignified style on their heads is characteristic ot the soldiers attacked a priest proportion of official to un- public are on the check-off system IRISH scientists from the Geo- much Common Market propaganda intimidation and personation. unless the one "no party" man can thousand voteftpes for a councillor to Mr O'Higgins's robust bonhomie. L and had to be removed fror^the official Unionists. In Antrim it is and that it is spreading rapidly as TITHE dispute, however, is whether logical Survey wil be taking an —a form of "Eurospeak", to use an be so classified. There are 27 than the inhabitants of B'. It fitted in better with the public's the Irish trade unions request em- the check-off results in loss of premises by an officer. For a long 7/2 and no Alliance. In Armagh councillors, ten of whom are idea of what the titular Head of active part in the United Nations Orwellian term. The Irish Foreign ployers to introduce it and as they contact with members. Many people Sea Bed Committee meeting in time past the family (name Mc- rpHE official Unionists won only it is 10/1 with five Alliances and an S.D.L.P. They need four votes for The conclusion? That no party State, the President, should be. Minister promises to become a Cottei ) have been subjected to daily except the S.D.L.P. seems likely to generally get a favourable response. think the loss of money is worth Geneva next month, where draft noted practitioner—all the more 110 seats, less than 25 per cent S.D.L.P. In Ballymoy it is 7/2 with a clear majority. There are only Many people also voted for him censuses by the army. This means be able to co-ordinate local Govern- Most companies do not make any putting up with if trade union Treaty articles will be drawn up for ominous because he believes much of the partitionist vote. Unofficial one Alliance and 2 SD.L.P4 In two Nationalists, so they still lack because he was a Protestant, as a a visit from soldiers who ask in- ment policy throughout the six charge to the unions for operating members feel in some way more the Law of the Sea Conference of what he says. Unionists won 100. And smaller Banbridge it is 1/10. with two Inde- two, and one Republican Club man deliberate gesture to show the re- the check-off, but the Government closely involved with the union. terminable questions, mostly absurd. (mostly more extreme) partitionist pendents and an S.D.L.P. At —so they still lack one. Thp only counties, and they sit pretty only ligious tolerance of the electorate scheduled for Chile in 1974. These ls because they are in opposition Departments and State Companies They think that the check-off makes articles are particularly vital for Ireland and England are as yet " a regular form of harassment groups won 81. In fourth place Castlereagh it is 5 5, and if the Al- place to get it is from the fdur Al- in view of the sectarian lunacy in impose a commission charge rang- only a few months within the almost everywhere. the union more bureaucratic, less Ireland as they will involve inter- and takes place throughout nation- came the "moderate" Alliance liance with 5 can attract Labour liance Party men—instead of Union- the North ing from 2| - 71 per cent. Is the E.E.C., but the political and defence ists the partitionist camp consists political and more remote from the national legislation on the amount alist areas, though not of course party on which the English estab- and Independent support old The result is likely to be the fur- check-off a good Idea? implications of membership are of nine "loyalist"!" (extremer members. Others deny this. of sea bed which will come under always every day. lishment had lavished such praise fashioned Unionism will rule with ther fragmentation of the Unionist slowly becoming clearer. It is be Partroops accused of an "orgy of and founded such hopes, with a only one vote, a ricketty majority. Protestants than even the Unofficial rpRADITIONALLY trade unions What is the (experience of our the jurisdiction of the coastal State party, on a geographical as well as IRISH BOOKS coming clearer also that the issues destruction" in New Lodge Road, miserable 63. There were 27 inde- In Dungannon eleven Unionists face Unionists). So Derry looks like * have been rather wary of the trade union readers in the matter? for the exploitation of minerals. a political basts, and apart from this raised by membership are funda wrecking homes and damaging the five S.D.L.P., two Unity Party and being the first case of power sharing check-off system. They have argued Have they any views on whether the pendents and thirty-two without the Councils will do what the cen- Ireland has a very large contin- mentally those of democracy and Parochial Hall at Gracehill Street. one Republican Club councillor. —if there is any power to share. 283 Grays Inn Rd., that the collection of dues, either check-off is on balance a good or party label (whatever Is the dif- tral Government tells them, as the ental shelf and there are increas- sovereignty, what these term.s Gallons of gloss paint - splashed Larne and Newtownabbey are at the branch meeting or by shop- a bad thing for the trade union ference) but those without party easiest way out, and this is what London, WC1 ing hopes that it will provide con- mean and who is for democracy and across furniture of 4 Ardilea Street. dominated by unofficial Unionists. rpHE other anti-partitionist strong- stewards in the workplace, Ls a gua- movement? label are construed as Unionists Mr Whitelaw probably calculated (Continued on Page Eight) sovereignty and who against. Windows and doors of No. 30 not sporting the colours of any In the fifteen councils where there hold, Newry, has 30 councillors. on. ufy 1973 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July 1973 7 HtlSII so\«§ BOOK* SULLIVAN S JOHN BEETHOVEN TO MY ORANGE COUNTRYMEN fH£ GLENS OF '.he Age of Revolu- ^HALL we stand up and spar and fight Sullivan's John to the road you've gone F::d.. Knight. Lawrence and PRINTER pp 205. £2.50. JONATHAN SWIFT'S Far away from your native home, As to which creed is wrong and right, Prince of Dublin Printers, by Robert SWEET MAYO You've gone with a tinker's daughter — HIS is an extremely useful book, work. He was from 172-3 :o 1773 Journal" reported his lordship, a imperialism of the "Protestant While foreign knaves with stealthy hand I which raises important ques- E. Ward (The University Press of proprietor and editor of the • Dublin IT was late last night I heard the Far along the road to roam. .supporter of the patriots, as having nation" and the earliest stirrings •s of history and musicology, and Kentucky, £3)- 10 pt italic Journal," Ireland's most successful Still draw the life-blood from our Land ? " news Oh, Sullivan's John, you won't stick it long drunk the lord lieutenant's health among upper-class Catholics of re- ils a long felt want. It is the ('THE American Robert E. Ward newspaper, and at the same time That nearly broke my heart; Till your belly will soon get slack, I 1 IS extraordinary success in sentment against their legal disa- attempt to look at Beethoven describe? George Faulkner as the country's foremos: printer, 1 A A soldier boy came to our door You'll be roaming the road with a mighty business evidently owed some- bilities. It is a loss that Samuel No ! for our Land there is no hope i Mis work specifically in the con- Anglo-Irish, thereby adopting the bookseller and publisher. And said, "You now must part And a toolbox on your back. thing to a lack of scruple. It was Johnson's reply is not extant to ;., 0f the social and political common English confusion between Jonathan Swift who first conferred If you for King and I for Pope Ad from your darling Johnny In those days the trade of print O'Conor's request that the lexico- , ;nts of the very stirring times in nationality and religion. The pre- prestige on the young printer by ap- Whom you loved long years ago was a hazardous one financially, grapher should write pamphlets on Will fritter precious time away I met Katie Coffey with her neat baby •„n ch he lived." fix means simply that Faulkner was pointing him sole custodian of all And who now lies deadly wounded legally and even physically. Two commission to publicise the Catho- Disputing what the band will play. Behind on her back strapped on ; There was of course no lack of a Protestant. In every respect, his writings. After the dean's death In the Glens of Sweet Mayo." hundred and sixty-four printers and lic grievances. iterial. The American diplomat birth, education, residence and sym- his protege published Lord Orrery's She'd an oul' ashplant all in her hand booksellers set up shop in Dublin Oakboy and Whiteboy activities, For to drive her donkey on, -nayer was an indefatigable re- pathy, he was as Irish as his friend attack on the great satirist's mem- the rising cost' of living and the So now, in spite of James or Bill, My love he was a rebel boy, during Faulkner's working years, ,:ircher in the last century. More Charles O'Conor of Belanagare who, ory. Yet he must have possessed prevalence of bankruptcies as a re- He loved sweet liberty, Enquiring at every farmer's house dozens of newspapers mushroomed, Let you and me a bumper fill, r -:ently the famous conversation being Catholic, receives no prefix. other virtues besides his large hos- sult of the land enclosures, the per- Kn nineteen and sixteen he fought Along the road she'd pass rarely surviving the initial guaran- |K:ks in which the deaf com- A large part of this book is taken pitality and his tact, to have en- formances at Thomas Sheridan's Our hearts for one great purpose join To set old Ireland free. Oh, where would she get an oul' pot to menrii teed subscriptions, but Faulkner pter's visitors wrote what they up by the correspondence between joyed the confidence of men such theatre in Smock Alley and the citi- When the Black and Tans were Or where would she swop an ass. ploughed steadily ahead until he Forgetting Limerick and the Boyne. * ;hed to convey to him, have been these two friends. It begins however as Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, zens' concern for the amenities of raging enjoyed a near monopoly of circu- rediscovered. They are a daily with a sketch of Faulkner's life and Alexander Pope and Samuel their city all find an echo in these He never feared the foe; lation and advertisements. r;: )rd such as we have of no other Richardson. And with a stripe of Lily white K was Free State guns that shot There's a hairy ass-fair in the County Clare hitherto unpublished letters. n ;torical character. Add to that Vague libel laws, the absence of my love In a place they call Spancel Hill, The correspondence with O'Conor, With such interesting material it The Orange and the Green unite, tn mountain of critical writing and legal copyright in Ireland and an In the Glens of Sweet Mayo. Where my brother James got a rap of a names a landowner, antiquarian and propa- is regrettable that Mr Ward has t--. iical analysis; valuable minerals DON'S DELIGHT English embargo on Irish books Then side by side upon the plain And poor Pecker they tried to kill; gandist against the penal laws, is skimped the chores of research. His a-:>ng much dross. "Irish University Review, Spring were some of the obstacles he found brought together with that between notes are superficial and riddled We'll rend the despot's galling chain. They loaded him up in an ass and car "Oh, never mind your rebel boy, 3orn in 1770, Beethoven came of 1971" (£1.25). in his path. Although he steered Faulkner and Samuel Derrick, the with mis-spellings. References to But come along with me; While Mary and Katie looked on— in the midst of the French TPHIS issue contains critical a cautious course between the emer- Irish poet who succeeded Beau Nash Latin and French titles and phrases Oh, bad luck to the day that I went away r;, -jution. As Wolfe Tone recorded 1 Ah ! that has been the tyrant's dread Money I have and plenty - - writing of high quality on gent patriot party and the court as master of ceremonies at Bath. often contain schoolboy errors. One And married we will be. For to join with a tinker's clan ! reland, that revolution became Joyce, Yeats, Synge. O'Casey and faction of the Irish parliament this THE letters give fascinating hopes the edition will sell quickly The Orange and Green instead of red For what's the use in mourning tr; test of every man's politics. Like Beckett, four poems by Seamus was not enough to save him from glimpses of the life of the and make way for a more careful Should float above a gallant band For a lad that now lies low ire Beethoven was a revolutionist Deane and Eilis Dillon's translation imprisonment in Dublin's foul jails; privileged minority of the period, of one. trthe first. And it is the nor did his lack of a leg secure him With the worms crawling round his of Eileen O'Connell's "Lament for the capital's pinchbeck glamour, its CORMAC FITZJAMES Whom Saxon might could not withstand ! :/tor's contention that the history eyes Art O'Leary," a pair of essays bear- against the threat of a beating from Philistinism, its corruption and its he European upheaval which the the Earl of Kildare when the In the Glens of Sweet Mayo." ing on nineteenth century English inhumanity, of the growing anti- re-i iiution occasioned, provides the Our country free they long have taught EAMON AN CHNOIC nativism and its significance in -e nral framework in which Beet- GEOGRAPHER lit you had all the money contemporary Northern Ireland, a To you would be with danger fraught; hmen's work can best be under- The French and Germans own "£E h-e sin amuigh go bhfuil faobhar ar a gliuth si'K.d.' fascinating article on archaeological They taught you that the Pope of Rome Or if you had all the glittering gold Ag reabadh mo dhorais dhunta ?" detection, and several book reviews. NOTHING DULL ABOUT THESE ON IRELAND Would rule the land from Peter's dome. The King has on his throne, "Mise Eamonn an chnoic ata baite fuar fliuch ANY have speculated on the Its preoccupation with letters to "Winter's Tales from Ireland 2," HE collection is the fruit of two "Ireland", by T. W. Freeman Or if you owned all the little boats 0 shiorshiul sleibhte is gleannta !" M significance of the "three the exclusion of the other arts must edited by Kevin Casey (Gill T successful quests. The O'Fao- (Methuen, £3). That are sailing here below, "A lae dhil is a chuid cad a dheanfainnse duit Idin story brings together a disused What if upon the Sabbath day per ods." Personal problems, ad- reflect an imbalance in Irish higher and Macmillan, £1.95). I'PHIS re-issue of an encyclopedic I would rather have my rebel boy Muna gcuirfinn ort beann dem ghuna K5.-:ing deafness doubtless played railway carriage, a retired clerk, a work which has gone through In the Glens of Sweet Mayo. education for which the review can- We kneel at different shrines to pray ! Is go bhfuil pudar go tiubh da shiorsheideatilfi leaf th;ii r part, even the logic of musical not be held responsible. The A MONG the six contributions to lady Chatterly love affair and the four editions since "1950 contains There's but one God for you and me, Is go mbeimis araon muchta." lenhnique and the evolution of har- essay on J. A. Froude has appeared this anthology by writers of travel business in a piece of sur- trade and population figures as realist crime fiction. Eithne Strong's There's but one Lord we'll die to free. "But there is one request I have munic practice which have a his- simultaneously in Historical Studies, repute (excerpts from work in pro- recent in some cases as 1971, yet "Red Jelly" is a powerful evocation And grant it if you please, "Is fada mise amuigh fe shneachta is fe shioc tc.y in their own right. But to this which is disconcerting when publi- gress by Kate O'Brien, stories by the social and economic profile of of the rumbling hysteria underlying It is not much I have to ask Is gan danacht agam ar einne, re,i ewer at least the Knight case cations are so costly. Seat) O'FaolAin, William Trevor, Ireland wears an anachronistic air. Wolfe Tone and Emmet gave their blood, Have pity on a poor fair maid is 'nade out. Terlnce de Vere White, Patrick family life in cramped housing. Its most pronounced feature is de* Mo sheisreach gan scur, mo bhranar gan chur I enjoyed everything in this But 'twill set my heart at ease. Boyle and John McGahern) and Inner tensions are explored in population and the kind of decay re- McCracken with Lord Edward stood, Is gan iad agam ar aon chor ! - rst we have the reforming Em- issue, from the learned^ whimsicality Who knows not where to go pen-r killing social revolution with eight from promising beginners, almost every story. William/Trevor's ported in even greater detail in Nil caraid agam, isdanaid liom san, of Donald T. Torchiana's recon- And Orr the scaffold did ascend : Come along with me and seek my only one—Trevor's "The Distant characters work off their guilt on a studies like Hugh Brody's on the • kindness. Then his successor is ter- sideration of Joyce's "The Sisters" love Do ghtachfadh me moch na deanach, Past"—touches on the war in the pair of harmless eccentrics: in Donegal island of Gola or on the • All died their country to defend rified into extreme reaction by through Donal McCartney's pro- Is go gcaithftdh me dul thar farraige soir north. White this is in its way as "Ashes" (Kate Cruise O'Brien) a sociological model of a western vil- In the Glens of Sweet Mayo." ewrts in France. But the revolu- vocative views on nineteenth cen- Os ann nach bhfuil mo ghaolta." remarkable as Jane Austen's girl's sensitivity is at war with her lage which he has called "Inishkil- ucr is followed by the expansionist tury nationalism to Michael Shall we forget those heroes slain obliviousness to the Napoleonic intellect, Bernard McLaverty's lane", war. The feeling for revolutionary Herity's scientific account of pre- war, it is in keeping with K«vin story shows charity triumph over But as long ago as 1967 John And still as bigot slaves remain "Beir sceala uaim soir go h-ainnir chiuin an tsuilt fmce is conducted into the (per- historic fields. James Mays, Casey's prejudice, as he calls it, and loss of both faith and balance. In Healy, himself a chronicler of de»\ To make a foreign horde secure THE ROWER OF Gur chailleadar a nid na h-eanlaith, fectly legitimate) channels of Aus- writing on Beckett's "Lessness," also with the aptitude _of the short John McGahern's moving "The cline in Irish life and author of Gur areir do thit an sneachta ar na cnoic trian nationalism. But the old aris- seems to me to have produced the In wringing profits from the poor ? story for private rather than public Swallow," the tension is between the "Death of an Irish Town," was Amach ar fud na h-Eireann ! tocracy still stands. As soon as the definitive key to a very difficult SWEET experience. actual and the might-have-been in a pointing out that the economic tide 5 Da maireadh liom rith go seachtain o inniu franch threat is gone opens the age prose work. His review and the man's self-awareness. Patriok Boyle's had already turned; and improve- Swear by Ihe^ Mood that Emmet 9hed: of Vletternich. original should be read , together. Racainnse ar mire a dfheachaint, The editor has sought out themes "Pastorale" is, predictably, a ments since then in education, ~ne glamorous products of the Seamus Deane's poetry expresses an Swear by the heroes that are dead, STRAB'ANE Is go mb'fhearr liom anois a bheith baite sa mhuir hitherto untouched, avoiding the masterly study of the Incongruous: agriculture, fishing and marketing - hemic style of the era of national enigmatic lyricism, a brooding, in- familiar as well as the trite. And Na a radh go mbeithea reidh liom ! liberation (to my ears I confess his overlay of irony on a base of have added impetus to the change. That, we shall hence united be .|F I were king of Ireland, and trospective intellectuality which what is more familiar in Ireland, or naturalism might be a definition of some of it slightly pompous and Although evidence of this hopeful In spite of Saxon plot or plea ! ' all things at my will, makes skilful use of the familiar any other country harbouring a humour. even sentimental) when Beethoven change may be glimpsed in Free- I would roam -through groves "A chul alainn deas na bhfainni gcas, sound and image, but leaving much foreign army, than violence? The F humour there is less in this man's statistics there is no reference Is brea agus is glas do shuHe! was a popular national figure, gives to puzzle over. second desideratum was obviously Oh may God speed'the coming day and valleys to combat to my book than in most colleetiens to it in the .text. Go bhfuil mo chroi da shlad mar do shniomfai gad P'ar.e to something more sparing good writing. O fill. GIARAN DESMOND of short stories, Irish or otherwise. When I can grasp your hand and say: L&bliain mtaor fbada agtnuth leat. anrt condensed. At the transition It is nevertheless a most useful But ttoe combat I would like the It may be a sign of the times. Ift compendium of facts. The treat- Da bhfatghinnse Je ceart cead imeachta leat, stand the ninth symphony and the Farewell to feud, you fought with me, 'bestas you-would understand. Mass in D, of which the authorities as the editor points out, • there is ment of the six counties is sum- rlseadtrom4s is deasdo shiulfainn, "We're welt repaid, our Land is free!" IS to win the-heart of Martha— to prevent the performance. little experimentation with the mary by comparison with the rest: Go reifinn gach soairt ag ealo lent shearc Anatomy of unionism th« Flower of Sweet Strabane. •t is the merit of Frida Knight's form by the newer writers there is there is for example no mention of JOSEPH McGARRITY Fe choillte ag spealadh an dhruchta." "Irish Unionism Two", by Pat- heroism of the Ulster division at the an austerity, a conscientious con- the large new towns planned* book that it is possible to see pre- Somme saved the province from cisely why this was. For Beethoven rick Buckland (Gill & Mac- cern for oraftsmanship whioh is around Port&down, Ballymena and J home rule. He has already shown Her cheeks are like the roses, "A chumann is a shearc, raghaimidne seal a republican stiH: millan, £3.50). also noticeable in some reoent Irish Coleraine. And the author makes and her hair a lovely brown, U" AVING already detailed the that the exclusion of all or part of poetry. As a measure of. this one the surprising, unsupported claim Fe ohoilltetia measa gMimhra Particularly important is her Ulster from Dublin jurisdiction had And o'er her milk-white examination of the changes brought J' fabian tactics of southern might contrast the concentration of that Northern Ireland forms a - Mar bhfaighimid an breac is an Ion ar a nead been agreed three years before the shoulder it carelessly hangs »y the Napoieonio upheaval in the unionists between 1886 and 1922 in "Ocoupatlenal Hazard" by Martin natural .economic unit. Here he is . COME TO THE BOWER An fia agus an pocag buithreadh; "Irish Unionism One," Dr Buckland Somme. down; class basis of musical patronage. A Collins with the expanslveness of apparently misled by the same naive Na h-einini Wane ar gheighini ag seinm A LTHOUGH the weak case for ILL you come to the bower o'er the free boundless ocean, - counter-revolution can re-estab- now applies the same method of "Compassionate Grounds," by Bryan unionism which causes him to over- She is one of the finest creatures ^ unionism is presented with W Where the stupendous waves move in thundering motion, Is an chuaiehin ar bharr an iuir ghlais lish the old state system, but It can close research to the more signifi- MaoMahon, whioh was one of the look the part played by imperialism in the whole of Ireland's great skill a favourable verdict is Where the mermaids are seen the fierce tempest gathers Go brach brach ni thiocfaid an bas in ar ngoire never breathe life into classes the cant events of the same period in most delightful stories in "Winter's in his account of Irish historical plain, out of the question. We are asked To lov'd Erin the Green, the dear land of our fathers. 1 lar na coille cumhra." revolution has killed. From then the north. He does not conceal that Tales from Ireland t" only two development. And my heart rs captivated by to believe in a Protestant population Will you conte, will you, will you, will you come to the Bower? on the bourgeoisie supplanted the for him historiography is a years ago. Quaintly, his one literary, quota- the Flower of Sweet Strabane. branch of politics; writers who which cringed in abject fear of the aristocracy. The process had of There are no uninteresting stories tion is from Lennox Robinson's "Ne Temere" decree and yet was Will you come to the land of O'Neill and O'Donnell, course afleoted Mozart, but after interpret the period differently from here. Taken as a whole they make nostalgic lament for the passing of himself, though as diverse in out- ready to make war against an em- Of Lord Luoan of old and the immortal O'Connell, I wish I had my darling away in Napoleon all was ohanged. a memorable reading experience. the Brits from Kinsale. look as Dorothy Macardle and Liam pire which it loved. The author Where Brian drove the Danes and St Patrick the vermin Innisltowen, 8.T. CORMAC MURPHY ^UfHAT one wants now from de Paor, are lumped together as further believes that a possibility And whose valleys remain still most beautiful and charming Or in some pleasant valley in YOUNG EMMET Will you come, will you, will you, will you come to the Bower? Frida Knight is a more de- nationalists. existed in 1921 that the triumphant the County of Tyrone, IN Green Street courthouse in Eighteen and Three lailed six-county unionists would adopt examination of the evolution Although it would be less than I'd do my best endeavour, and non-sectarian policies, although the You can visit Benburb and the storied Blackwater Stood Young Emmet, a hero true and brave ; it Beethoven's musical style In the fair to dismiss this book as mere establishment of the special con- BOOK BARGAIN Where Owen Roe met Mtmroe and his chieftains did slaughter, I'd work my newest plan, For fighting the tyrant, his country to free '"Rht of the researches she has propaganda, one has always to be stabulary before partition ensured SEND FOR nwm OmWWLJ»AIWFHfcETS: Where the lambs skip and play on the mossey all over, To win the heart of Martha— And to tear from her brow the bond of stave. brought to suoh a suocessful con- on guard against the author's prac- Protestant ascendancy in practice, From those bright golden views to enchanting Rostrevor, the Flower of Sweet Strabane. cision. There are things one ques- tice of admitting Orange folklore to • "Northern Conflict and British Power."— whatever theoretical protection the Will you come, will you, will you, will you come to the Bower? "°ns. Thus on page 47 we are told the status of evidence whether he Chorus: ,h 1920 Act gave to Catholics. Jack Bennett at as early as 1800 (or so one is dealing with an alleged massacre But since I cannot win her love, I FIS acceptance of the classic ex- You can see Dublin city and the fine groves of Blarney, understands from the text) Beet- in 1641 or an ugly riot at Castledaw- • "Why Worker FightsWbrker in Belfast."— no rest there is for me, There are still men in Ireland both loyal and It je ' ' planation that the tactics of The Bann, Boyne, the Llffey and the Lakes of Killarney; hoven was "drawing on the best in son in 1914. It sails closest to propa- Then I must see* forgetfulness Who remember her patriots with pride, gerrymander and special powers A Belfast Trade Unionist. You may ride on the tide o'er the broad majestic Shannon, Handel, Haydn, Bach." I thought I ganda, and even to nonsense, with in a land beyond the sea, And with God's help, Young Emmet, we'll soon give to you were a purely defensive reaction to You may sail round Lough Neagh and see storied Dungannon. "ad read somewhere that Baoh was the statement (p. 104) that the • Northern Ireland Bill of Rights — Full text and The epitaph unwritten since you died. J republican designs to subvert the Will you come, will you, will you, will you come to the Bower? But if you would to follow me, comparatively late influence as state commits Dr Burkland to the explanetion. I swear by my right hand, Beethoven lacked the scores. Here the freedom of the performer. logic of laying the blame for the That no McGillagan's face you Alone and defiant he stood in the dock want illustrations from the The last chapter will arouse dis- All three delivered to your home, post free. Fill in You oan visit New Rosa, gallant Wexford and Gorey, anti-Catholic progroms of early Where the Qreen was last seen 6y proud Saxon and Tory, e'er will see, my Flower of While Lord Norbury, the hanging judge, looked down ; ""sic. And also was it the "best", cussion. The author permits her- this coupon and send It «mt 30p to Irish Democrat ur 1922 on the head of the victims. Sweet Strabane. Against his false charges he stood firm as a rock, had Beethoven his own personal self some usually very sensible ob- Where the soil it sanettftwtby the Mood of each true man :>r| Brian Faulkner has ruined the mar- Book Centre. 283 Ofeyr Mm Road, London. W.C.I. Another Irish martyr to the crown. ncipie of selection? servations on the state of music to- Where they died MtMMMIielr enemies they would not run from. ket for this kind of logic. Please send me the three pamphlets included In Will you come, will you* Will you, will you come to the Bower? the same page there is a day and In the future. So I'll go o'er the Lagan and by Chorus: ^•>ual roferenoe to "romantlo free- There are only ten stylistic sole- This carefully written and fastidi- your bargain offer. I enclose 30p. d0 the steamship tall, '" What I am afraid of here cisms In the whole book, and if these ously documented apologia leaves Will you come and awake- our lest land from its slumber, s And her fetters witt break that our limbs did long enoumber, I 4m sailing for America what- The verdict was gailty, the sentence was death, ' that Frida Knight who has surprise (e.g. "cultural bonanzas") me unconvinced that unionism has ever may befall ; plight suoh fine orltloal faoultles they do not shock. And printing ever been, ab ovo, other than the Name And the air will raeeuntf with hoeannas to greet you, And in Connor Street tbe tyrant's work was alone, r On the there will ba 4oumt gallant Irishmen to meet you, Our boat is bound for Liverpool "oar on the historical, has some- and production is of a high stan- Protestant supremacism which the But YotMff Emmet smiled as be drew Ms last breath I inies Address Witt you come, wHt yotur wHI you, will you come to the Bower? accepted copybook opinions on dard.- A book that every music spokesmen for Vanguard, the> DUP right'fty-ttie Jgle of Man, For he knew Me light for freedom would be won. the (This song is an Invitation to the exiled Fenians in America: So terowell, my lovely Martha, musical aspects. Romantic free- lover should possess. and the UDA now proclaim It to be. 'lo/rt vvas built on the restriction of C.D.G. EAVANN CONOR Lord Lucan is better known as Patrick SargfleW .) MtPMfWet 8trabane. Chorus: 8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July 1973

IRISH IX BRITAIN

bye to Spud and set off for Mr. Stallard s Alconbury Hill, going as far at Redcar (I think it was) by bus speech and hitch-hiking from thert (Continued from Pa^e Two) awi^m^ mm down to Huntingdonshire. lion of British sovereignty should be I AST month an unfortunate haziest recollection now; there QN a Saturday morning i accompanied by an explanation that typist's error had me des- SERIAL STORY u-a.s one, I recall, known as t is continued with the object of arrived at the camp, only to cribing my friend and workmate Bulgarian Tom and another bringing the Unionist minority to a be informed that there were no chap, a Corkman 1 think, who mosition where it will accept the Spud as a "smasher" and so to by vacancies at all, nor likely to be majority rights of the majority. forestall the raising of eyebrows every morning pushed away his for some time. But what about in some quarters, let me hasten fine plate of bacon and egg with MR McMASTER: Does the Hon. DONALL the weekly advertisement, ! to say that the word 1 used was a martyred expression. Having Gentleman say that if the majority asked ? What was the point in "masher" which, even without had my share of digs where you n North America is in favour of the advertising for men if they were lucky to see a rasher of unification of Canada and the the benefit of the O.E.D.. I take MacAMHLAIGH weren't wanted ? This, the agent bacon once a week I could only United States that is what should to mean a very well dressed told me blandly, was none of his believe that my man had had a happen, or does he allow the people person. concern—he had no control over n Canada the right to self-deter- newly acquainted. So I turned to very good going on indeed. what the people at head office mination? That is a good parallel. Doncaster (which I must con- the bar to get myself a last pint The contract we were work- did. And so, forgetting about my MR STALLARD: If I were to de- fess is the only part of York- before the towel went up and velop that line of argument I am ing on wad completed in good hopes of a few months of camp shire which I've been to) dif- (as I hoped) to give Mabel a T sure you would rule me out of order, time and then, as often happens, life, I hit out for the main road fered in many ways, or so it chance to get rid of the Indian Mr Crawshaw. there was a lull in the work; again, where, by one of those seemed to me, from the Mid- so that 1 might escort her home for a time it looked as if we little quirks of fortune the first Although everyone may not agree lands. The people were more to supper and mother. with the view put forward by the might have been transferred to lorry to stop was driven by a open and friendly, I would say, Nationalists, the Republicans and Alas for my plans ! Mabel, her a job over in Derry and this I man I had worked with before, and many of the public houses people like me who have long lady friend and the Indian did would have liked very much, but a Kerryman called Curiey, who seemed to have a more male respected their point of view, that a disappearing trick while I was unfortunately it did not worked for John and Joe character than those further view nevertheless exists. It is based still trying to attract the bar- materialise, and so reading the Murphy, of Archway. So it was south. No doubt the place has on logical reasoning and in the end man's eye, leaving me to rue- ads. in the "Labour News" as it to be the "Smoke" for another it will be accepted by more and changed greatly since the early fully admit that I had been then was, I decided to try my spell, and a couple of hours later more people as the only basis for a 'fifties but at that time there taken for a sucker as the Ameri- luck on the Wilson Lovatt work we were having a jar in the permanent ultimate solution. seemed to be many pubs where cans are wont to say. It may on the American Air Base down women never entered. Nag's Head in Holloway Road. During the past few years we have well have been all for the best, in Alconbury Hill, Huntingdon- tried to maintain the link with (Continued next month) however, for before I had got shire. Britain and my Hon. Friend the In one of them, The Bay half way down through the pint Member for Erith and Crayford (Mr Horse Inn down near the West a huge broken-nosed miner There seemed to be a stand- Wellbeloved) has spelled the cost Bridge and Tennant's (or was it TALK ON THE nut. It is fast becoming the opinion burst into the bar demanding to ing shortage of labourers on that Tarrant's ?). Model Lodging ®f many people in Great Britain know if anyone had seen his so- contract and the camp accom- {hat the cost of trying to maintain House a morose old Irishman and-so wife, Mabel! LANGUAGE modation was an additional lure. \ EWCASTLE and Durham ihe link is too high. Despite its use to sit nightly over his ale Two years previously I ' had " Branch meets on the first Sun- cost, we are told by the people who never speaking much to any- What this miner wasn't going stayed for seven and six a week day in the month at 7.30 p.m. ;n have been most vociferous in their one ; then there was The Three to do to his erring wife—to- in a Higgs and Hill camp in the Bridge Hotel (Paddy Foley's I demand that the link should remain Legs and The Duke of York. In gether with any man having the Stanford in the Vale, Berks, Newcastle upon T.yne. and that it must be the kind of link this latter establishment I had a misfortune to be in company (you bought your meals as re- Next meeting: Sunday. 1st July. they want and not the kind we somewhat unnerving experience with her—wasn't worth men- quired in the canteen) and the Aine Chadwick on the Irish Lan- want. one night. Spud had gone on the tioning and on balance I con- life appealed to me greatly, the guage. They say that they will wreck the "tack"—that is, in army par- sidered that I had come out very "crack" being invariably good. Aine comes from Tipperary. Snc Assembly and attempt to set up a lance, on the dry—and so one luckily from the encounter. Spud had other ideas, however, studied Irish and archeology in separate state if the union is not night I found myself sitting on for even though he took the Dublin and now teaches in New- as they want it, despite all the my own over a pint in the public biggin. She has been an active affirmations, resolutions and all the I)ONCASTER market and the building work in his stride I bar; after a little while a smart, member of the Association :or rest of it. horse fair whiled away think he missed much of the attractive looking wo man began many years. many a Saturday morning for orderliness and routine of the I promised that I would be brief, a conversation with me and Spud and myself. I could never army and so one day he an- and I conclude on this note. I be- when, flattered, I offered to get lieve that the point of view held by quite get over the massive size nounced he was taking a job as her a drink she said no, thanks thousands of people here and in thie of the great shire horses on dis- a conductor on the Doncaster MORE TRADE all the same, but she would like North and South of Ireland— play there, never, I believe, hav- town bus service. namely, that the only ultimate solu- to talk. ing seen them in real life before. UNION VISITS tion is the reunification of the 32 Of the lads in the digs in Christ- So we drew our last pay from counties—should have been dis- A T a meeting in Luton convened church Road I have only the Kleine Floors and I bade good- cussed in terms of positive and con- gHE had not been in the best by the Connolly Association, structive ways of assisting in that of health for some time and attended by representatives ol reunification. The argument can back, it seemed, and it did her the Trades Council and others, be developed and I hope on this good to get out and meet people. arrangements were made for the sending of a delegation of local topic to take part in the debate on Her^jnother, too, had been ill, THE LOBBY OF JUNE 12th the new Clause 5. citizens to Belfast for investigatory putting an added burden on her : rrHE lobby of Parliament lege of getting a mention at all. purposes. all in all she had been having a called by the Connolly Asso- What they should be doing is A meeting in Manchester on June rough tune. Well, we chatted SEA BED ciation on June 12th told over boosting the alternative Press, the 14th. attended by representatives of away and after a time she de- the A.U.E.W., Trades Council, Con- (Continued from Page Four) 20 M Ps aboijt the persecution daily "Morning Star," the weekly cided that she might just man- nolly Association and Manchester of Nationalist? and Republicans "Tribune," and the monthly "Irish siderable amounts of natural re- age a half of beer and this I was Democrat." The simians of Fleet Peace Committee, plans were made which is proceeding' in the six sources, including gas and oil. The glad to provide. Street will only allow a word in for a similar visit and a big public Santiago Conference next year, and counties. The list of incidents edgeways to the promoter of a pro- meeting in October. the series of Committee meetings published in this month's "Irish But next time round she gressive cause under insulting Both Manchester and Luton leading up to it, are of interest to Democrat" was drawn to their graduated to Guinness and from cross-examination. The process is Trades Councils have already every country in the world—for they attention, and it was requested especially painful to hear on the agreed to send representatives in there to shorts and then, throw- could result in laws which will help that full enquiry should be B.B.C. whose interviewers seem to principle. ing all reticence to the wind, she to regulate the peaceful use of made. find difficulty in prounouncing any As part of a campaign of educa- about two-thirds of the globe. asked if I'd mind buying a English word of above two syllables. tion the Connolly Association iTHE big worry at the moment is whisky for her friend, another The M.P.s (all Labour) But despite the Fleet Street boy- brought over Mr Anthony Coughlan that technology is threatening lady who had just come in. At showed a real concern at the cott there was plenty done. Apart of the Irish Sovereignty Society, to to make possible wholesale exploita- this stage she had given me an turn of events, especially when from the Connolly Association mem- speak on the fight made by Wolle tion of the sea, and the resources invitation to come home for it was pointed out that many bers and friends, there was a large Tone against religious sectarianism. under it, before adequate controls supper and meet her mother and Nationalists will refuse to recog- delegation from the British Peace Mr Coughlan addressed a meeting can be drawn up. so I didn't feel 1 could refuse to nise the results of an election Committee who were guests of Mr in Liverpool on June 20th, Man- Stallard and Stan Orme, who ex- chester June 21st, Birmingham June Already, some countries possess include her friend in the round, held under such conditions. plained the fight that was going 22nd, and spoke at a social evening the "know-how" to carry out the reluctant and all as I might have They were astonished that the on during the committee stages of organised by Oxford Branch and at- equivalent of "open cast" mining on been to see the hard-earned shil- Press did not report the facts. But the Emergency Provisions and Con- tended by members from London. the deep ocean floor. In some of lings squandered like that. we were not. That afternoon one stitution Bills. these deep areas nodules of man- Press man telephoned the Connolly ganese, copper and nickel lie on the Some of the good people from Things rested so as the inimit- Association. "Will tonight's lobby the B.P.C. showed a worthy but in sea bed, and are there for the pick- able Din-Joe used to say and be fairly peaceful?" Absolutely INTERNING ing—technology permitting. Already our opinion misplaced impatience then towards closing time com- peaceful. "Do you anticipate any with the smallness of the conces- equipment is being devised to trouble with the police?" Not the ing back from the gents I found sions that had been won. Labour WOMEN harvest" these deep sea riches. slightest. "Will you be carrying I had a rival for Mabel's (as has no majority in Parliament. The (Continued from Page One) Deep sea mining for gas and oil posters?" "It is illegal to take only attitude to take up is that If may soon be possible if technology we'll call her) affection—a posters into the Houses of Parlia- It is not for the "Irish Democrat' continues to advance at its present young Indian gentleman who ment, so you can take it we will so much as a single person in the to add its own opinion,but if only a rate, and the demand for energy was deep in conversation with not." That was that. He was not six counties has the slightest extra tentti part of what is alleged were from gas and oil rises faster than her, so much so that it was ob- there. breath of freedom thanks to a small true, then there should be some new fields can be found. vious they were anything but amendment, that amendment is severe disciplinary action. Perhaps The last thing the hack misrepre- worth fighting for. Members of Parliament would visit senters of the English Press would Our friends In Clann na hEireann these girls in Armagh Jail, checK JOIN THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION ask is "what are you lobbying chose not to be represented at the their complaints, judge their vera- about?" If there was a chance of a lobby, on the grounds that the Par- FILL IN THIS FORM city, and then move a vote of cen- disturbance they'd be there on the liamentary struggle was a waste of sure on the worst Government in I agree with the aims and policy of the Connolly Association spot, •'and get busy blackening your time. We respect their opinion, British history, if they are con- and enclose £1.50 for a year's membership or 75p for 6 months. cause with allegations of "irrespon- which they are entitled to, but we vinced that their stories are well- sibility and violence." hope to publish in an early edition founded. 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