ULSTER' DEFENCE WISH W 1/- DEMOCRAT EGIMENT

No. 304 DECEMBER 1969

United demonstration says release prisoners Callaghan told "drop charges" ^ CAMPAIGN has been launched in Britain to assist in securing the release from Belfast Jail of Frank Card and Matachy McGurran. Both men have been imprisoned since August under the infamous Special Powers Acts. On Sunday, November 9th, a Civil Rights Association; Pat Hen- parade was organised in London by sey, Joe Deighan and Sean Red- mond, of the Connolly Association; the Connblly Association. This was and Padraig O'Sullivan, Clann - na supported by Clann na hEireann, hEireann. Tcynical fraud is being attempted. The Ulster Defence the London Branch, Northern Ire- A collection was taken up at the; Regiment of the British Army is going to be little more than the land Civil Rights Association, the end of the parade, and a stun: of Movement for Colonial Freedom, £17 was subsequently sent to the B-Specials under a new name. Northern Defence Fund. and the Socialist Charter, a Labour Soma of the Specials will become a reserve force of the Party group connected with "Tri- bune." Present also were members R.U.C. Its uniform may be changed fatttft R.I.C. green to of Birmingham Clann nahEireann London blue. The greater part wiH go ieto the Ulster Defence and Coventry Branch, Campaign Regiment lor Social Justice in Northern Ire- • • • -- •. - *"It was revealed at West- more respectable in the eyes of the land. " world, hot so much like occupoStec minster that their officers had or colonialism. And it is cheaper. After a meeting in Hyde Park, THE British Government has intimated that the Special already distributed applications the parade went to Whitehall, 1 But it won't solve the problem. Where a statement was handed in Powers Act is to go. —before the Bill establishing In the long (run only reuniting for the Home Secretary. This the force had been passed at called on him to take appropriate Why then do they refuse to answer Miss Devlin's questions Ireland will solve the problem. But Westminster. action to secure the release of the relating to the holding of two men, Card end McGurran, in we have to see to the short run too. two men, and the dropping of the Crumlki Road jail under this Act ? KHAKI Here is how to play political judo charges against them. Sir Arthur Young recently spoke In Newry. He promised that Its uniform is to be khaki. Its with the enemies of Irish independ- ence. Frank Card, a 46-year-old Belfast- the Speoial Powers Act will go. members must swear an oath of al- legiance to the Queen of England. man, and Malachy McGurran (29), But when will it go? INTERVENTION from Lurgan, are charged with the They will be allowed to keep arms We suspeet when Card and McGurran have been sent down for in their homes. Republicans will be By putting through the Bill to put possession of documents relating to a good, long stretoh. the Republican movement, and kept out. the B-men in khaki, the British That, at any rate, most people who know the Unionists think is Government have made liars of Frank Card is also charged with Members of Parliament friendly possessing arms on August 15th. the game that Is being played. every Prime Minister and Home Sec- to Irish freedom have been trying retary for fifty years. And the legal Or Is the British Cabinet not sincere in its talk of ending this to modify some of the worst fea- experts. And the horse-faced top The letter handed in at the Home notorious Aot? Office deplored the fact that any- tures. They have protested at the civil servants. ' »-- V * I '•• V, K » . one could be charged with possess- brazen appropriation of the name ing documents, a charge which is CERTAINLY people wiU want to know why it is that the British Ulster to the force of a puppet state. They all said Westminster oouldi only possible under the Special Government can take over exMUy what It like* and They are trying to keep down the not intervene in six-county affairs. Powers Acts. And on the jjuestion appoint whom It likes in the six counties, without giving the six numbers. The best thing to come out of this of the arms charge, which has not counties government any oholoe, and oan put English boys' lives at year is that now the world knows rMt Ml the Mm* basis, and ytrt Is unable to answer a question m But there has been no attempt to who rules the six counties. been proven, the point was made to conceal the fact that the purpose the Home Secretary, that in mid- the British Parliament about Injustices being done now under an Aot due for abolition. of the new force* like that of the vVery well then. They've legis- August, when Frank Card was B-men, is to preserve partitieh. lated now. They've discussed. arrested, the homes of Republicans Card and MeOurrah are among the most capable of the Republi- They've intervened. They have the in Belfast were under attack from a can leaders. U the game to keep them In jail so that the Republicans The English Government is going power. > combined force of B-Bpecials, may be deprived of the benefit of their counsel while the powers to raise a native army so that its Paisley!tes and R.U.O. that be are swagsrt m every trick they can think of to confuse, and own boys can go home. It looks Let them intervene again. AM If possible, divide the oivH rights and Republican movement*? them Introduce a Bill of Rights* The meeting In Hyde Park was it may be Ihe game But It Is a gun that must bo made to over the heads of Stormont. Lot addressed by Mr. Seamus Rhattigan, fail. Pasa milntHns M trade union branches, write to Members LEEDS T.C. who travelled from Dublin to speak of Parliament And send letters and oards and telegrams to Harold it alter the constitution and tahe on behalf of Sinn Fein; Brendan Katone'teMl am lea an an. And. what m mere, pay them away from the Unionists the McQQl and Sean McDermott, of the compensation for all they have suffered. AC TS OH POWER to imprison, ban, InthnW London Branch, Northern Ireland MJRHTOLLET Ati, gerrymander and di&Of hnlnMi. IRISHMEN OH ARMS CHARGES IN HUDDERSFIELD WEE REPUBLIC YITHAT Mr. Bowes Egan has got had been kept six weeks in their Police evidence was> that they And If Stormont refuses? There Tp OUR alleged I.RA-men '' that enabled him to interview are two alternatives. Either "ttK. pleaded not guilty to arms cells tor 28 hours a day. But bail went lato an ahns dealer's shop on people suspected of taking part in was refused. OctOber 6th and offered to spend forces impose U.K. law. Or faWng conspiracy charges when they the notorious Burn toilet ambush and that the six counties is kicked out of They were Eamonn Smullen £300,000 got by raiding Irish banks, drag the truth out of them in then- appeared in a Huddersfleld (Highgate), Thomas Doherty (Glas- to buy flame-throwers, anti-tank the United Kingdom, and lei-it own homes, requires more than one start up a wee republic on its own." A \ court handcuffed to policemen. gow), John Brankln Kerry, and .tricolour. It was embarrassing the right to dtyfoy me tricolour in thern Ireland crisis. State. 5 CEDARS AVENUE, r TALKING about sit-downs, student away to Dublin. of the end of that. It is far more uwitowttim^ lilc *kiK Town Readers lis., London Readers WALTHAM8TOW, (Tories that the tricolour could Olasgow was wdta back by persistent Also, they decided to take hp a * unrest and all the rest of it, I hasten to assure him it is :he important than moonshots and was on hunger strike again in 16s. 6d. Total £11 178. ed. LONDON, E.I7. 0 action by the Connolly Association, collection to assist the people of H« died on April 27th, 1929. I have often wondered why the En- best-situated city in Enron , its men moonshine —C4J.C. Immediately the victory backed up by tf» Irish community. Northern Ireland. December 1969 December 1969 4 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 5 YOU ONLY NEED A NOSE Civil Rights meeting in UNIONISTS NEGLECTED SOCIAL SERVICES f|tHE river Tolka is clinically dead. mingled in places with the coal —in their efforts to do .so! - announced Mr. Arthur Dew- black water, and aquatic plants and Legal powers to deal with pol- Cork City OPINION y| ANY in Northern Ireland despite this, some progress was tawst to a meeting in Dublin this fauna were almost non-existent. lution are almost nan-existent. It of the disease had been overcome, i 1) UILDINGS and equipment con- EADER, what do you accept, without question, made in the provision of Hospital Again, to portray the position at J November. Mr. Dewhurst is a pol- And so gradually Ireland too is seems the only anti-water pollution Services in N. Ireland. But, "At the A RECORD EXPOSED stitute one gauge of the needs lution expert, but he said all you becoming aware it has a pollution Act was enacted in the time of Dis- by R think? claims made by the Unionist that time: "A few of these hospitals that were extant in years gone by, Was the leader of Cork Re- Party that they, and they alone, end of the 1939-45 war, paradoxically were in buildings already more than needed to tell that the Mjltet was problem. The next year, 1970, is in raeli and is totally inadequate. The enough, the hospital services were by but which were not catered for; polluted was a sense of smell. He fact World Conservation Year and Liffey itself is becoming like the JIM SAVAGE publican Club wise to turn the have been responsible for the a century old and a substantial staff is perhaps a more vivid better off than they were at the be- portion dated from the second half had measured the amount of sus- hopefully there will be some more Tolka and this summer there was Civil Rights meeting Into an development of social services. pointer. At July 5th, 1948, there anti-Fianna Fail demonstra- ginning. During those years, in Elizabeth Sinclair of the nineteenth century." (My em- pended solids in the water at seve- attention given to countering its a big drop off in the number of A TUMULTUOUS welcome The Unionists also claim that it was a total staff in all hospitals in tion? Is the idea to hit F.F. order to enable them to cope with phasis. B.S.). N. Ireland of 7,655, including 3,730 ral points along the course, and in effects. people swimming in Dublin Bay be- was given to Northern Civil is only because of the relation- the special demands of wartime, the some places it was in fact worse cause of the obvious contamination. right and left, knock them out liament, any advance in the social The N. Ireland Government was nursing staff. At September 30th, "OUT the fate of the Tolka is Rights speakers when they ad- of the Government of the ship with Great Britain that it Government made substantial allowed by the British Treasury to 1969, the figures had risen to 21,181 than an average city sewer. ' only the latest example of a Years ago there was an Inter- services which were to be paid for dressed a monster meeting at twenty-six counties and than has been possible to have such grants towards improvements " out of the public purse and by way undertake a substantial investment (or nearly three times), and in- Banks of sludge had been laid rape of the Irish environment Departmental Committee which re- Were there no special demands commended that there be more the Cork City Hall. have a Government that will services. On both counts, the of taxation. programme to improve a "standard cluded 9,506 nursing staff. down along its lower course; at which is taking place in this gene- do something about partition before the war? of service (which) still fell below the several points there was no dis- ration, permitted by a philistine effective pollution-prevention legis- The theme of the meeting was Unionists claim credit for them- The poor couldn't afford taxes and lation. None has been forthcoming. and its consequences therefore, they said, the rich should general level prevailing in Great Let those who wish to, or feel the solved oxygen in the water at all, Government and carried out by "Civil Rights—Where do we go selves and British governments There were many special de- Britain" . . . and "as a means of need, praise the Unionists for the And that is just pollution of the Or is the idea to force tne (mostly Tory) to which neither mands. And the reason given for not be taxed to help the poor. If which means fish hadn't a hope of individuals and companies who from here?" and prior to the meet- existing Government to take creating employment." progress made. Those who know the surviving. Septic conditions pre- want to make the maximum of water. What about pollution of the ing the Lord Mayor and representa- are entitled. One has only to not catering for those demands in there was any money in the Govern- some kind of action now, so ment purse, then it should be used full story will not join in any such vailed in .several places and at the money as quickly and as'easily as air? And the visual pollution which tives of all parties in the Corpora- look down the long pages of the years between 1921 and 1939 is Because there- was high unem- chorus. One can only look back to assaults the eyes m town and that we have some of the ad- "financial stringency." This is face for the benefit of the aristocracy, ployment, we were given permission Merville Weir in Dublin a thick they can. The devil take what tion met the speakers in the Lord vantages of a progressive history to learn the brutal truth. the neglect of the people before 1921, scum had formed on top of the country? And the insistent and of the fact that the Government of the landlords, the millowners and to spend money on building hos- costs they impose on the com- Mayor's room, where they were Government even though it Is We will take one example, for others of like kidney and not for the the continued neglect which was water; brightly coloured effluent munity—and on future generations rising assaults on the ear? In fact given an account of the sympathy Ireland Act, 1920, stated that the pitals! And because of the pres- sanctioned and agreed to by suc- all the human senses are coming not established yet? a start. people of N. Ireland were to have likes of us. And what they had sure exerted for better services, the and support which the events of This Is an Issue of tactics. practised in the British Parliament, cessives Governments in N. Ireland under attack, particularly in urban Hospital Services: Facts and parity with the people of the rest Unionists had to pocket their pride and realise that, in terms of suffer- Ireland, as a result of "progress," the past year in the North had Think it over. they brought to perfection at Stor- aroused in the people of Cork gene- Figures, October, 1969, published by of the U.K. in social services. and ask "for more." ing and reduced life expectancy "affluence" and "economic growth." the N. Ireland Government Informa- mont. Four thousand NEW WOMENS' rally. By 1968, there were 17,386 beds the people here were badly done by. And while many people feel a vague tion Service states: "In 1921 when What prevented the Unionist ft ft ft In fact, they were robbed. pounds a man RIGHTS PROBE and grumbling discontent it is only After the welcome the speakers ing that any attempt to water' down N. Ireland became a separate politi- rulers seeing to it that they did have f HOWARDS the end of the last in hospitals in N. Ireland—or 11.54 the uncommon few who speak out, proceeded to the platform where the Hunt Report would be met by cal unit ... It inherited health ser- parity? Nothing other than that war, the people in Britain and per 1,000 of the population. (This QEMH5K1T is the name of a big THE Government Is setting up though their numbers are beginn- Ivan Cooper, the Independent MP. every weapon at the command of vices which were in general in- they were more interested in balanc- N. Ireland were demanding more figure is expected to fall to 16,889 The Unionist Party and Govern- ^^ new tyre - factory recently 1 ing to increase. for Mid-Derry, issued a stern warn- the Civil Rights Movement. ferior to the services in the rest of ing their Exchequer accounts so that and better social services. Again the by 1977, when the re-planning and ment would wish to appear, and be a Commission to examine there would be a substantial Im- re-grouping of hospitals, including thought of, as the inspirator and opened in BaUyfermot. It will pro- the question of Womens' Rights Warning Major Chichester-Clarke, the United Kingdom." Thus, before Unionist representatives at West- perial Contribution. They were per- minster lent aid to their Tory blood some current buildings, e.g., the new progenitor of what has been done. duce 4,000 tyres a day, which will be in Ireland. This is the result he went on to say—"And I mean 1921, when the whole of Ireland was City Hospital Complex costing some exported to Britain. The firm is every weapon at our command." He part of the U.K., successive British mitted to provide for services here and class brothers to hold up legis- They were not. They had to be of a long period of lobbying by for the people on the same scale lation that was going to usher in £15 million and expected to be com- kicked into line by an aroused Austrian-owned and the plant cost revealed that near the town of Cur- Governments looked after our pleted in 10 years, extensions of £8 million; £2 million of this comes a dozen or so Irish worn ens' Why they leave the land ran in Co. Derry, several armed health needs so well (sic) that, in as existed in Britain. the Welfare State. It was their people—as they were on the question organisations. It is a significant existing hospitals in some areas, in- of Civil Rights—who were fed up from the Irish taxpayer in the form that emigration from the land is men were witnessed doing rifle 1921, the people here were left with If they had done so, there would wish to prevent N. Ireland being in- cluding more specialist services, step forward in the struggle for cluded in legislation affecting social with taking less than they were of a grant; and as well, the State- J^DITOR of the "United Irish- a world phenomenon. practice. The question must be services that were in general "in- have been no Contribution and this have been completed.) entitled to. sponsored Industrial Credit Corpora- women*' rights In the country asked: "Is the Government aware ferior" to those that the British was not to the liking or inclination services and they did succeed in man," Mr. Seamus O Tuat- So it is, but not on the scale at tion subscribed loans and stock to and is a recognition by the poli- * that some of their backbenchers are Government thought necessary for of the lackeys of imperialism. Let doing so in some cases, so that the the amount of another £2 million. which it happens in Ireland. On associating with this particular the people in Great Britain. This their own people suffer, rather than people of Northern Ireland had to tical Establishment here that hail, addressed the Cork Univer- thiols going to be an important the question of rural population, grouping?" was a measure of their regard for their reputations with their bosses wait years before some pieces of Total employment should come to the Dublin Civil Service "conven- legislation were adopted by the political issue in the coming sity Philosophical Society on Was it a fact, he asked, that many the needs of the people here, at the British Treasury. 4M nwv which makes Semperit tional wisdom" has been quite out ft ft ft Stormont Government. (Two Springboks in Ireland? decade. Friday, October 31st. unionist constituency organisations This attitude only followed the quite a sizeable factory by Irish of touch with the realities of the l^INANCIAL stringency, we are examples: The Legal Aid and Ad- "PEOPLE all over the world have the largest one in the country. standards. But divide the number were praying "That a show of 1 pattern of conduct, from the early His subject, "Land ownership in European economic scene. told, created difficulties be- vice Act—a wait of 17 years. The been shocked by racial dis- Dublin Trades Council has also of into the size of the tax- For Irish women are beginning blood would end any talk of im- days of Unionism, of working, and mm Ireland," with its close reference to tween 1921 and 1939 and that, Youth Employment Service Act— crimination in sport in South opposed the tour, as has the Dub- payers' grant and it woriu out at to waken up the many anomalies In Denmark, Sweden, Norway, mediate reforms in the Six Coun- voting against, in the British Par- the subject of emigration, will be of Section 2, dealing with training of Africa. It is the only country in lin regional council of the Labour Mjm V* |ob, wbUo loans ami pre- and injustices they suffer from, and Switzerland, the rural population ties?" youth and re-training of adult—five- interest to Irish exiles, and extracts the world where the official State Party, the Workers' Party and Sinn ference stock come to a similar they are demanding that things be has increased in the last hundred six years). changed There are signs of a re- are reproduced below:— TI/TANY leading unionists, he said policy is to discriminate on grounds Fein. amount per man. _ years: in England and Wales it has But the people here were insist- of colour, and this policy has the vival of the great feminist spirit held steady while in Ireland and were prepared to pay lip ser- which animated the generation oi vice to the Hunt report and to the Hybrids on the Shankill ent: They wanted the same benefits support of the overwhelming maj- In the Six Counties Mr. John This is an awfully large amount History shows that the victory of Scotland it has declined. The and services as the people of of capital to tie up in giving one Countess Markievicz and Helena the Land League in the last century findings of Cameron but he warned ority of the white people there. Hume, M P., without any prompting policy of "get the people off the J^AST August, after eleven dazed at the turn of events .... Britain. They stated that they were Irish public opinion is now be- from any organisation asked the man employment, at least in a coun- Moloney. was an interim victory. It altered land" is quite ignorant and doctri- that the civil rights Movement were not prepared to trust Unionist years in England, I re- if only O'Neill had not been so paying the same taxation and were ginning to swing strongly against Stormont Government for a state- try at Ireland's stage of develop- the quality of ownership in land, naire and is unrelated to the eco- turned to my native Belfast. soft .... if only they had a leader entitled to benefit from those taxes. ment that the rugby team would ment. There must be many a smaU The terms of reference of the promises. "We will judge by their the proposed tour of the All-White transferring it from, landlords who nomic needs of Irish agriculture. If I was to say there is no place instead of Chi Chi .... surely no- The pressures were too great and not be welcome. The Government industry or farm in the country Commission have not yet been would follow niarm tfedds abruptly actions." Ivan Cooper drew a pic- Springboks under the auspices, of Our rural population density, at'97 quite like Belfast, who would dis- body-would touch the B-specials the N.L Hospitals Authority was set the Irish Rugby Football Union. refused and Mr. Joe Burns, the where grants of much less than this given, but the womens' organisa- and in a manner spelling disaster ture of the North of Ireland Protest- per square mile, Is now the lowest agree? It is a great industrial city .... didn't they have a special up on July 5th, 1948. (But no pro- In an unprecedented move, Mr. right-wing Unionist M.P. for Deny caOA-.git* a much bigger tions are asking that they be made for thousands of tenant farmers. ant as a very frightened and con- as wide as possible and not just in Europe and is clearly not ade- fused man. He was as frightened surrounded by mountains and position within the United King- vision was made to facilitate the Michael Mullen, General Secretary who was just back from a tour of return in employment. be confined to legal disabilities. Ownership by the masses stultified quate to support the necessary edu- pleasant countryside, famous for dom .... hadn't Craigavon and Catholic Mater Hospital and, to this of the Irish Transport and General South Africa, made it clear that he such drastic changes but did as a rabbit on a highway. He was Brookeborough told them they cational and social superstructure. a man who had always given alleg- linen, shipbuilding and bigotry. day, because of political considera- Workers' Union, has issued a state- had no particular criticism to make is not as if Semperit's activi- nothing to alter the system of were a special people with their tions, the services of the hospital of the South African apartheid T? QUAL pay for work of equal iance to England, to union with Though I had kept close touch ment opposing the tour on the J ownership in principle. One result of this policy is now own Parliament?; Resentful that have not been paid for as has been system. Fties will give much side employ- value and equal opportunities Westminster and now Westminster with home while In England, and grounds that the Springbok rugby ment in other firms, for most of its apparent but little remarked on. I knew that the bulk of the Pro- the Shankill Road should be in- done in Britain in the case of volun- of employment and advancement This failure prdved the Achilles had told him he must implement vaded by the British Army, their team denies one of the basic prin- raw material will be imported any- Rural Ireland, agricultural Ireland, testant people were uneasy and tary hospitals similarly situated.) ciples of trade unionism, the Belfast Trades Council has come are, of course, among the foremost heel of the Land League victory, a is losing its political power as it the Hunt Report. home searched and they made to way. Bat it is in accordance with He also expressed regret that confused, and that this was being N July, 1948, 59 general and men- brotherhood of man. "The Irish out against the tour, as have the of the womens' demands. For flaw which left the if&y open to a loses its people. Since the recent stand against a wall while British T tal hospitals with about 13,000 the Government's policy of concen- years the Trade Union Movement Radio Telefls Eireann was not seen made use of by such people as Transport and General Workers' students at Queen's University who return to the era whfcn 8,000 people referendum, four Dail seats have Paisley, I was surprised at the soldiers examined them for wea- beds were transferred from volun- played such a role in the Civil trating on capital-intensive rather has formally subscribed to these in the fforth, so that the people pons. Union not only opposes this Jtour," than labour-intensive industry, owned the land of Ireland, i.e., the been transferred from rural to ur- suddenness of the crisis, and speed tary bodies and local authorities and Rights Movement over the past principles, but now many of the principle which ailctars for the there coifld realise that Protestants he said, "but calls on its members Which inevitably follows from the ban areas. In the context of urban of events—the justification for all A ND one particular thing they five chest hospitals containing 624 to see that there Is no welcome in year. Cork Anti-Apartheid Commit- women trade unionists are saying amassing of vast" estates for the rural needs this represents a real and Catholics in the South met to- those who had been campaigning tee is planning to go to Limerick Government's enthusiasm for free gether, played together, and worked didn't relish They were called beds vested in the N.I. Tuberculosis this country or hospitality afforded it is time they were enforced. few and the operation of a free voting difference of eight seats. for civil rights over the years. Authority. (Tuberculosis was the when and if the Springboks show trade with some of the most de- market set the tide for a return together so that Ireland would be a "Irish bastards." Not British bas- to a team which represents racial- Why should women have to leave Nine thousand people are sufficient r "killer" in N. Ireland for many years up there. They will Join the Lime- veloped countries in the world. to the point of departtu'e. The posi- better place for them to live In. PHE world was shocked at the vio- tards, mark you, or Protestant ism." i the civil scrvloo oh marriage, for to elect a Dail deputy to the top bastards, or Ulster bastards. Irish before and after the war and these * V V rick people in showing the South For if Ireland is in free trade with tion today is that we have now re- of the poll in any constituency. If lence, but in retrospect it might Africans they are not welcome in Instance? Why should there bo a^HEN the bubble burst when be said that it was inevitable. Mili- bastards. beds were not released to the gene- r\THER trade unions in Ireland England she must, try to have indus- different retirement ages for the turned full circle to the point of an- 36,000 are to leave the land by 1971, J- Patrick Murphy, Chairman of ral sector until 1959 when the worst Ireland. tries as equally capital intensive so tagonism existing between the big then at least four more seats will tant orangeism was bound to react The people of the Shankill have will surely follow the lead of sexes In many employments? the Republican Club of Queens Uni- savagely to any reforms likely to up- that they may compete on the same Should not the married woman, and small landowners. leave rural Ireland in the next five versity, Belfast, attacked the had their first taste of a physical market. Industries which take years. Therefore, by the end of the set the status quo and the forces of tussle with British imperialism and whether working in the home or Twenty-six County Government, law and order would use all avail- £4^00 capital per man may be able outside, have the same tax allow- decade a real difference of 16 seats experience is a good teacher. The key statistic to remember is clearly referring to the "Offences able resources to maintain Unionist A loyalist friend of mine whose to do this, but tfhat of all the less ance as the man? 8houW not men that of the 400,000 people engaged will have stripped rural Ireland of against the State Act." normality. EMIGRATING BACK TO MAYO its power. husband, an ex-serviceman, Orange- capitalised industries in the coun- and women have equal legal rights in agriculture in Ireland, there are He stated that civil rights did not tsrv. In marriage and in custody and Clashes between nationalists and man, black man and mason, was / jF the many thousands of men tween urban and rural-based about 30,000 who own and control exist here, that the public should the authorities are not unusual, and given the treatment on his way to workers, but the bad aspect of this Thinking in official quarters would oarc of the children? Should not ^ " and women who are forced for BY holdings of 100 acres and over, and take to the streets and demand perhaps even the burnings could work, remarked, "I never thought hard economic reasons to leave their situation is not gaining any ground. deem to bo reconciled to many of women be liable for jury service on them and that he "saw no difference the same tcrmo as men? that these large farmers constitute have been budgeted for, but it,would I would hate the British Army." homes, some never manage to see There is an increased under- tJteae folding up in free trade con- the leadership of the-principal far- Labour deputies between James Chichester Clarke have taken more than a crystal ball Well I never thought I would ever dttioos, while the few highly effici- the old homestead again. JOHN MEEHAN standing by the urban worker of There are many other such mers' organisation, the N.F.A. and Jack Chichester Lynch." to have forecast on the 12th July hear her say it. "rural problems." And mutual un- ent, highly-capitalised ones flourish. oppose apartheid At this point a Dail Deputy, A. A They are caught up in the rapid questions one could ask. They are that the loyalists of the Shankill The Catholics who have suffered turning, of the wheel of life and derstanding between the two groups H is a roolpo for economic do- now being asked more insistently The third prograftime sets no tar- j | \E3GRACEFUL collaboration is Healy, the Cork City Fianna Fail Koad would have taken on the so much during these post few is the key to progress in the West, * taking place between the Irish T.D. and Sean O'Shea, Fianna Fail B.U.C. and then the British Army must be content with the memories ! • kind, but It wttl not than ever before in Ireland. It is get for agricultural production ex- months cannot be expected to have ft ft it State Export Board, Coras Trach- member of the Corporation with within a few months. they took with them or what can a sign of the times and a healthy cept the one set for cattle: and much sympathy for her and others be gleaned from local papers. 1HEF.RY red-faced John Meehan it blandly accepts that 9,000 are to tala, the Irish Exporters' Associa- Seamus Fitzgerald, H.D., who is a THE worker or small farmer who length one. Satisfactory answers to them Much has been said and written like her on the Shankill. But It However, some, like myself, do ' was a well-known and popular has had experience in Britain of tnedds at the Exchange*. cannot be withheld for too long. leave the land each yenr, pleading tion and South Africa, with the aim former T.D. for Cork City left the about the recent developments in must be remembered that though figure in the building trade In Lon- of boosting trade between the two hall with jeers and stamping from the -Protestant population has ,not manage to start life again where it can be of great value in building Northern Ireland, but when a little was begun. To do this, especially don for many yearn. After most forces for change. With experience countries. It is in accordance with the audience. time has elapsed and the period been deprived materially to the people must have thought he waa In the Dublin Government's policy of same degree as the Catholic (and in moving from a Metropolitan life gained in trade union or political 'rPHE three who walked out are all evaluated, the ructions of the to a rural environment, can be very England to stay, he decided that be organisations he oan give a neces- More student rebellions in Dublin? boosting exports to the exclusion of Shankill may prove to be as sig- the difference is not so great as is would have a go at fanning back in every' other consideration. It is associated with the Govern- nificant as anything else. often supposed) they have lost interesting (if at times frustrating). his native district of BalUnrobe. sary lead in exposing the negative ILL University College Dublin rooms, but no proper library facili- able limitation of activity within the doubly hypocritical when the Gov- ment party, and others of opposite much more In other ways. For a whole family to do this policies of the main political parties, ''I^WICE mobs on the Shankill W have another rebellion on its ties, so that they have to come four university context, more willing to ernment Involved makes periodical party affiliations did not record can be financially very difficult and Here he tells his manv friend* In and putting forward constructive miles into town to borrow a book. co-operate with political organisa- mealy-mouthed condemnations of their disapproval. attempted to destroy a large 1 TOBY have been robbed of their requires a lot of forethought, Ixmdon what It Is like for the wild policies to benefit a greater number. hands this year? Or rather will block of flats containing mainly nationality and the culture last year's unfinished rebellion break The College administration has tions outside. apartheid. The meeting was a great success ft ft ft geese when they wing back home. Needless to say, any returned set its face against giving represen- from the point of view of the people Catholic families, and they were which has sustained the Catholic exiles who engage in such work out again? Student opinion in the This seems to be part of the cur- ropulsed first by a reluctant R.U.C. people. And it ls adding salt to the NE of the biggest problems on country's largest College seems to tation to the students on boards rent mood of opinion among politi- However, when the Commercial of this city, because they now know O the smallholding In the West are not the recipients of any slice the real problems of their Northern 'this was followed by widespread wound to tell them in the crude from the fatted calf. This ls, of tWnk so, a* over 9,000 young people and committees, and the great cally-minded students: generally in Counsellor of the South African Em- looting) and on the secdnd oc- language of the British soldier that can be housing. To live decently in •cram into the overcrowded buildings majority of U.CX). staff have no the West, a reaction perhaps to the bassy in LondVp turned up In Dub- brothers. The conflict in Northern 1969 It It necessary to provide all course, to be expected, and is similar Ireland has been erroneously de- casion by a more forceful British they were not only illegitimate but and start to study under the most proper representation either. Thus excitements of the past three years. lin to address the exporters, the Army. Irish as well I modern amenities (water and so hurt so much. But with the large in most profit-conscious countries. conservative university administra- a conservative academic oligarchy Students are more sceptical now of An ti-Apartheid Movement had a scribed as a religious war or a clash on) which can co6t far more than capital available to the monopolies, By hard work and activity on the tion la the country, perpetuates Itself. the possibility of building instant picket on the meeting. Three Lab- of Irrational ideologies. In fact it Not all residents of -the Shan- The Protestant worker has been In urban areas where mains are laid the small producers cannot hope to issues of the day this can be over- POLITICAL activity is growing political Utopias from bases In the our Party Deputies were on it, Dr. is a class struggle, social and poii- kill are thugs, In fact the vast disillusioned and ls likely to be dis- on. As can . and the other theology. This ls seen very clearly ing class people who have been Ulster unfolds. He will be open to remember the great experience they iUfl fpotni over several square miles There Is more willingness for self- David Thornley. Questions were used to maintain a corrupt regime. reason for the first time in years. of the valuation officer — surely a are, it should be a warning ci vhat Irish colleges. Student bodies like criticism amongst the student acti- asked in the Dall by Messrs. John by Catholic workers, particularly in throwback to the days of the land- awaits us if we enter E.E.C. can gain by appropriate trade union •of Dublin, some in Earlsfort Ter- the Bogside, the Catholic industrial From James Craig to William The Labour and Republican move- race, some In Belfleld, some as far the Republican Clubs and Socialist vists at the present time, a greater Bruton and Barry Desmond. lords! activity in Britain, as well as the slum in Derry where the major Cral* they have been told they ments therefore have a heavy res- 1 aw%f as Otasnevin on the city's Societies are making many converts willingness to study and think upon The protest seems to have had are superior to Fenians. Now after ponsibility to see that the right With a rate of over £5 in the The only alternative left lor the force they can be for political this year among the newer students. political problems. This represents fighting erupted. pound in Co. Mayo, this causes returned smallholder is to :o I) toe change in the country where they Nottb side. some effect as the Oeneral Manager Time and again observers were the looting and shooting they are suggestions are made, for without The many who have already The student political societies gener- a deeper and more serious political of Coras Trachtal has now agreed shimivl dnred and resentful. the support of the Protestant heavy burdens. local Employment Exchange and are living. By forcing a change of ally seem to have a more adult, commitment among the thinking told. "We are not fighting Protest- Were It possible to balance finan- swell the ranks of job-severs from policy on the British Government, moved to Belfleld, where the new to receive a deputation from Irish ants: some of them are as biidly 'T Ashnnvod that residents oi the workP> the rtMll.>ut.ion ol a pciuT- U.CJD. buildings are going up, find mature approach to political activity students and it argues well for the Anti-Apartheid to discuss the mat- I i lkliJ >~too|>ed tower than the ijr ful prosperous unite) Trr-lun.l u cial difficulty with increased produc- urban areas. This sometimes leads they will be doing the spadework this year, more aware of the inevit- future. as we are. Wi> tire fighting mi imagination or the Bonders; tivity, the extra costs would not to a certain amount of friction be- for their own eventual return. they have splendid, g teeming class- ter. fascist state.'' gt.'.ng to 1)0 very hard to mine r. 6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT December 1S69 December 1969 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 7 THE BOYS OF THE GREEN GLENS OF ANTRIM KfLMICHAEL PAR across yonder blue, lies a true fairyland, (Air: The Men of the West) Where the seas' ripple over the shingle and sand, %WHEN you honour in song and THE SONG OF BERNADETTE in story Where the gay honeysuckle is luring the bee The memory of Pearee and McBride "THIS book consists of three "THE PRICE OF MY SOUL" issues, housing, unemployment, na- MAIDIN I mBEARRA And the green Glens of Antrim are calling to me. Whose names are illumined in glory types of writing, (1) the tional health, civil liberties and civil With martyrs who long since have the story element, (2) descrip- Bernadette Devlin rights have all got to be fought for |S e mo chai gan mise maidin aerach If only you knew how the lamp of the moon died, tions of electoral meetings, (3) Andre Deutsch. pp. 206, 25/- ; nd won on the road to a United Amuigh j mBearra im sheasamh ar an cttra, Turns a blue Irish bay to a silver lagoon; Forget not the boys of Kilmichael, excursions into Irish history and Ireland. The question of Socialism Is guth na n-ean o m'tharraing thar na sleibhte cois no tarraige Those brave lads so gallant and discussions of the theory of will not be on the Agenda until .tust imagine a picture of heaven it would be true, socialism, problems of P.D. and REVIEWED there is a free and United Ireland Co ceim an aitinn mar a mbionn mo ghra. Who fought neath the green flat Where the green Glens of Antrim are calling to me. the relations with the Civil Is obann aoibhinn aiteasach do leimfinn of Erin Rights Movement. Each aspect A FTER Burntollett, Peoples' Soon I hope to return to my own Cushendall And defeated the Red, White and ^ Democracy, according to the Do rithfinn saor o anabhroid an tiais, Blue. invites separate consideration. 'Tis the one place for me that can outshine them alt, author, moves sharply to the left Do thahharfainn drolm le scamallaibti an tsaoil sea CHORUSr GERARD CURRAN Bernadette expresses alarm that the Sure I know every stone, I recall every tree, Then here's to the boys ot Miss Devlin's account of her early complete lack of sentimentality, jects. It has always been a feature Da bhfaiginn me leirdhothain d'amharc ar mo chaoimhshearc ban. life in Cookstown conveys very well Civil Rights Movement is an all - Kilmichael humour and considerable high of the movements fighting for pro- class movement and is aiming at Where the green Glens of Antrim are calling to me. how partition of Ireland has Who feared not the might of the spirits. Political action, the sit- gress and social justice that they what she calls Catholic power. Sines Is e mo dhltti bheith ceangailte go faonlag foe poisoned relations in a small com- downs in Belfast, marches and the were never afraid to discuss the it is not a Socialist party why I would halt at the cabin, close down by the shore, munity. Her father's employment Is mitts briomhar leatharbhog an t-aer ann The day that they went into battle details of the march to Derry, bring theoretical problems involved. shouldn't C.R.A. have all classes Nfi And I'd. knock with my heart, on the wee cabin doer. And laid all the BISck and Tans card was marked 'Political Suspect" out the best in Miss Devlin. She it? Since discrimination has kept An ftiad ta reim na habhann agus gaoth glan na farraige low. because of his republican sym- conveys the enjoyment, excitement, Can you imagine Enoch Powell them out of jobs, houses and Coun- While the sun showered gold, on the lap of the sea, MISS BERNADETTE DEVLIN Ag glaoch is gairm ar an gcroi seo im iar. pathies. At Easter he always wore good humour, determination of the writing a book about his terrible cils, the first step is obviously to Andithe green Glens of Antrim were smiling on me. On the twenty-eighth day ol an Easter Lily to celebrate the 1916 marchers with considerable skill. problem of how to split the British win power in those areas where they la mills briomhar ieatharbhog an t-aer ann November, rebellion. This always caused an working-class movement on the are a majority. basis of Racialism? The tactics and IS gile on ngreim go fairsing ar an mban, 'Tis alone my conoern, if the grandest surprise, The Tans left the town of argument with her mother because She obviously possesses the in- Macroom, stinct and mental ability of leader- strategy of Craig and the Paisleyites Is milfs briomhar leathanhog an t-aer ann her mother was afraid he would pro- Discussing her election, Berno • Would be shining on me, out of somebody's eyes, They came in two Crossley tenders voke the local Orangemen. ship in actual physical conflict with are discussed behind locked doors. Is ochon, a ribhean bhanuil na gcraoMifltoit, 'Tis my private affair, what my feelings would be, And swiftly they sped to their VIEW OF (0. DOWN the police or Paisleyites. Even when dette accuses the Republicans of dis- doom; Having been hounded out of work she "is laid into" by about six Quite early in the book Berna- honesty because they supported her Gan sinne araon i mease an aitinn mar do bhimis trath. While the green Glens of Antrim were welcoming me. She thinks their support is dis- They set off on the road to the father spent most of his life Paisleyites she instinctively curls up dette inadvertently puts her finger "The Ring of Mourne," by W. honest because she does not sup- Kilmichael in England and died at the early age into a ball like a hedgehog on the on the weakness of Peoples' Demo- Haughton Crowe (The Dun- ground. Her activities in the Bog- cracy. On page 13. referring to the port all their policies. Of course But the lads they were there on the of 45. From then onwards Berna- they supported her to keep out the spot. dalgan Press, 25/-). dette remembers her mother fre- side show her considerable abilities I.R.A. she says:— of leadership, and physical courage. Unionist. Without meaning any dis- THE VALLEY OF KNOCKAtttfRE The Irish Republican Army quently putting lilies on the father's "... Ten years ago the I.R.A. respect to Miss Devlin they rightly Made a clean sweep of the lot. |>R. CROWE is a retired school- grave. " master and farmer who knows Her impressions of "The Mother was the stronger, campaigning ex- considered her the very least of OU may sing and speak about Easter Week and the heroes of CHORU6: County Down like the back of his The life of poverty and struggle of Parliaments" and her dealings plosively to 'free the Six Counties' several "evils." from English overlordship and plan- (Desecrated by Orange morons, November 1969) Y 'Ninety-Eight, The sun in the West it was sinking, hand. This account of one region of the family brought out those with the ever-pursuing journalists Of the Fenian men who roamed the glen, in victory or defeat; 'Twas the eve of • cold winter day of it, a kidney-shaped sector of qualities of toughness, strength of is highly entertaining. ning to work for Socialism when the Where you are dealing with a Their names on history's pag are told, their memory will endure- When the 'Tans we were eagerly about square miles with Ban- character and a tendency towards / link with Britain had been cut. To- ruthless, powerful, cunning enemy, day the political side has the upper Bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave, Not a song was sung of our darting sons in the Valley of Knockanure. waiting bridge, Newrry, Warrenpoint, Ros- inflexibility which are noticeable in "1VTHEN Bernadette ventures into you ought not to consider friends on hand, and tries to preach a peace- rAnd wildly around it the winter winds rave; Sailed into the trap where we lay; trevor, Kilkeel, Newcastle, Hilltowjr her public life. the choppy waters of history, the same side as being dishonest Small shelter I wean are the ruined walls there, There was Walsh and Lyons and Dalton, boys, they were young and in And over the hills went the echo and Katesbridge on the periphery relations with other groups, like the ful, political path to reunification You might as well say that it was WJiea the storm sweeps down on the plains of Kiidare. their prime, The peai of the rifle and gun, and the granite Mournes at its hub, This story element of the book de- republicans and C.R.A., and Social- through socialism." dishonest of Anne Frank to hide They made their way to a lonely spot where the Black-and-Tans did hide; And the flames frem the lorries takes indefatigable note of the spite marks of having been written ist theory she begins to lose her This is putting the cart before the from the Nazis in Holland when Raw I lay on that sod, it lies over Wolfe Tone, The Republic bold they did uphold though outlawed on the moor. gave tidings geology, the fauna and flora, the in some haste shows no mean bearings. This is not so say that horse. Sinn Fein in the south and they were rounding up the Jews. AM I thought how he perished in prison alone, And side by side they fought and died in the Valley of Knockanure. That the boys of the Column had megalithic remains, the churches literary talent. There is objectivity, she should have kept off these sub- north recognise that immediate Me friends unavenged, and his country unfreed— won. and large houses, and fishing and VIISS DEVLIN'S romp through "Oh, Utter," I said, "is the patriot's meed." 'Twas on a neighbouring hillside, we listened with dismay, CHORUS: the bird life, and of such local lore Irish history reminds me of In every house in the whole townland a maiden knelt to pray; The lorries were ours before as the author finds interesting. the humorous book "1066 and all For in him the heart of a woman combined They're closing in around them now with rifle fire so sure, twilight that" except that the latter was in- And high o'er Dunmanway town With a heroio life and a governing mind— And Lyon$ is dead and Dalton's down in the Valley of Knockanure. It is a pleasant book, written in tended to be humorous. Dismissing Our banners in triumph were A- martyr for Ireland—his grave has no stone— a style which varies between Brawn drain and brain drain 1916 as "one bungle after another." waving His name^ seldom named, and his virtues unknown. They took them then beside a fence to where the furze did bloom, sprightly and euphoric. Yet for she ignores the fierce Anglo-Irish Like brothers so they faced the foe to meet their dreadful doom; To show that the Tans had gone anyone fortunate enough to live or "Some Irish Population Problems Reconsidered," by Brendan M. Walsh; "The Irish Brain Drain war which it generated, and never down ; When Dalton spoke his voice it broke with a passion proud and pure spend holidays in that lovely part mentions that the British adminis- I was woke from my dream by the voices and tread We gathered our rifles and by Richard Lynn (Papers 42 and 43 The Economic & Social Research Institute, 5/- each). OT a band who came into the home of the dead; "For our land we die as we face the sky in the Valley of Knockanure." of Ireland it has serious limitations tration was completely broken down bayonets, as a vade mecum. IN the first of these papers rates, a decline which nullified the state or by private entrepeneurs, by the Irish forces. They oarried no coffin, they carried no stone, And soon left the glen so obscure Brendant M. Walsh examines people's high fertility, while in- will have to be so directed as to v AIM they stopped when they came to the grave of Wolfe Tone. But e'er the guns could seal his fate Con •. had broken through, And never drew rein till we halted With a prayer to God he spurned the sod as against the hill he flew; For the writer, though a- con- data from the census of 1961, creased emigration accelerated still create maximum employment in the The Free State is described as At the far away camp of Gtenure. scientious, observant devotee, the result of personal animosity'be- They were students and peasants, the wise and the brave, Till the bullets tore his flesh in two he surprised the Tans I'm sure the reports of the Emigration further the population shrinkage. face "of British competition for CHORUS: suffefs -from a mild Infection of the tween De Valera and Collins. -Re- And an old man who knew him from cradle to grave, As he made his dash for liberty in the Valley of Knockanure. Commission (1954), and compa- Since the 1930s, however, earlier labour. Anglo-Jrish myopia, an affliction marriage and rarer celibacy, even Another important conclusion is garding the Six Counties she says And'children who thought us hard-hearted: for they rative demographic 'surveys of The evening sun is setting now behind the Feale and Lea, whioh prsvsnts its victim from though accompanied by lower fer- that the strain and consequent men- the "South" was glad to let it ,go On that sanactified sod were forbidden to play. WORTHY seeing things he does not under- the United Nations. The pale, pale moon is rising far out beyond Tralee, tility, have resulted in a rising rate tal illness associated with the pros- This completely ignores the tortuous stand >sr sympathise with. In its Agrarian conditions favoured a negotiations, the Treaty, the Bound- But the old man who saw I was mourning there said, The dismal stars and clouds afar are darkening o'er the moor, of natural increase* which would pect of large families has not so ANTHOLOGY extrsms form the disorder is known sharp rise in population in the last mean an expanding population were ary Clause, the treachery of Lloyd "We came, sir, to weep where young Wolfe Tone is laid, And the Banshee cried where our heroes died in the Valley of Knockanure. POEMS OF REVOLT. An anthology much vanished from Irish society as tin Orange dementia, the symp- quarter of the eighteenth century. it not for the factor of emigration. as shifted lower down the income- George and his threat "of im- AMI we're going to raise him a monument too— chosen by Joan Beauchamp. toms of which are wall known to While Walsh anfl Lyons and Dalton are resting in the clay (Labour Research Dept., 7/6). By 1820, in the aftermath of the From a sophisticated statistical scale. Wages must rise and produc- mediate and terrible war." A plain one yet fit for the simple and true!" tslsviswwa. Napoleonic war, the falling demand We have true men yet in Ireland to man the gap today; HEN this selection was made by analysis Brendan Walsh draws the tivity must be increased if the flow There is also the extraordinary lor labour checked the -trend for While grass is green in Ireland your memory will endure W Joan Beauchamp in 1924 she conclusion that emigration will in- of emigration is to be stemmed. statement that the South was Myr heart overflowed, and I clasped his old hand, was already, at $4, » veteran cam- In Or. Crowe's case the malady early marriage and the .large family. God guard and Itssp the place you sleep in the Valley of Knockanure. crease with the rising birth-rate Professor Lynn's paper, in con- hostile to the North before Parti- AIM' I Mewed him and blessed every one of his band: paigner in the snffracetts and trade shows itself in a lack of balance in The famines of the '40s ac- unless .profound changes are union movements, a member of the trast with the rigorously mathe- tion. AH this of course is not so "fBWtt, sweet 'tis to find that such faith oan remain the ssisettsn of matsrW. Thus, he centuated an already well- brought about in the country's eco- TV- the cause and the man so long vanquished and slain." recently-formed British xWimunist matical presentation in the one Just much history as a mental attitude Party and an ex-prfewKr for her tells a great deal about Patrick established decline in marriage nomy. Investment, whether by the of notions of the nationalist popu- anti-war propaganda. She still had Bronte Tttn fattier of Charlotte, considered, is discursive and specu- h» •odenstown churchyard there is a green grave, 40 years of life ahead of her, 20 of lative. It examines an important lation In the North, expressing a Emily and Anne), who hailed from feeling that they have been let down And freely around it let winter winds rave- ORAL TRADITION PRESERVED them under the handicap of severe Lougfabricfcland, but not a word section Of the emigration problem, injuries received in an air-raid, but namely the stark fact that as much by the Republic. They feel rather Par better they suit him the ruin and the gloom— "Folktales of Ireland," edited & talented people in the Commission all devoted in one way or another to about his contemporary in the same TIN Ireland, a nation, can build him a tomb. as 00 per cent of Irish university like troops who have been sent into translated by Sean O'Sulli- to evaluate the material collected, endeavour on behalf of the under- village, the United Irishman Wil- mm JOYCE TO TUfCHAN a dangerous forward position in privileged. liam Magss who was hanged there graduates work permanently outside van (Routledge and Kegan and to fit it into the general pat- "A Literary History of Ire- cal poetry which had hitherto Ireland. enemy territory and then left with- tern of European Folklore. Her two sons have decided not to after the -battle of Battynahinch. been eoncerned almost exclu- out provisions, reinforcements or Paul,, 20/-). alter her original choice of poems for land," by Patrick C For some reason only male gradu- But Irish oral tradition is this reissue, presumably because they Power (Mercier paper- sively with the sweetness of ates are referred to in his estimates further instructions. | F one takes into account felt that Joan found in them through- Due honour is paid to Captain back, 12/.&). outdoor nature. especially valuable because of its Crorier of Sanferidgs, discoverer of though it is probable that the num- THE GREEN UTILE SHAMROCK the painstaking work, that remoteness from the mainstream of out her lite an expression of her deep- IN an earlier book ("Anglo- M R POWER also shows how ber of female religious teaching in The Civil Rights movement and est convictions. the North wast Passage, and to 1 Irish Poetry. 1800-1922"), the financial help from the south over many years must have European thought, and the imagina- They are poems of compassion as the scholars and posts of south the upheavals of the schools and working as doctors in been done by a band of dedi- tion of a people, which could ig- Mr. Power traced Gaelic in- seventeenth century, followed missionary countries makes a sig- helps -to break down the bridgehead OF IRELAND much as ppems of revolt; of compas- Down, ths Waddelts and the outlook so well depressed by Miss cated and talented people to as- nore the harsh present by re- sion for tl* poor, the overworked, the fluences in the style, themes m the eighteenth by the divi- nificant addition to the total. A homeless, the old, the young, the re- Mayne-Rsids, Percy French and W. Devlin. The movement «f the Irish tenants of this book, surely it telling the wonderful tales of a and prosody of Irish poets' sion of the country into two recent American commentator on •••HERE'S a dear little plant that grows in our isle, jected, the unprotected, the frightened H. Rod gars, but what of the pat- writing in English. The in Britain is also particularly im- must be considered the bargain great past. This oral tradition did and the ignorant. riots? The pages contain a minl- distinct nations, determined Irish life refers to this outflow of much to give a feeling of nation- present one covers a much the decline of native literature gsadustes as "a classic case of a portant. 'Twas St. Patrick himself, sure, that set it; of the year. Poems by Siegfried Sassoon and W. Dabrstt of Moendancy landowners, hood and unity, when such powerful wider Held, -being a survey of and the simultaneous emer- foreign aid programme in reverse,'' And the sun on his labour with pleasure did smile Running to 321 pages, it con- W. Gibson, Padraic CoJuiu. Patrick several tearing family mums— forces were ranged on the other MacGill, Harold Monro and Susan the literature of Ireland in gence of Anglo-Irish literature with the developing country ship- TU3T as children often feel highly tains an interesting foreword by R. Miles express the anger of the caring Mssdham, Nugent, HHI, for ex- critical of their parents until And with dew from his eye often wet it. side. ample—which are not widely either language from -the fifth with Swift, Berkeley, Steele ping out its most skilled young M. Dorson, an introduction by the minority during the years that led up century down to the present people to wealthy countries. they in turn have to tackle the corn- It thrives through the bog, through the brake and the mireland editor, Sean O'Sullivan, a wonderful to the General Strike, their disgust honoured In Mourne, a strongly and Sheridan. But this collection is not by any day. pie* problems of chfld-rearing, so collection of Irish Folktales and at the horror of war, the melancholy Republican area since the .time of , There is, according to Mr. Professor Lynn believes that uni- ' And they call it the dear little shamrock of Ireland. means reserved for the expert in of unemployment, the desolation of the yoothful movements like complete glossary, notes and Wolfe Tom. No-one could accuse him of Power, a ray, no more, of versity entrance should be Mantted The sweet little shamrock, the dear little shamrock, this field. The reader will get en- poverty, the bleakness of Hfe for the Peoples' Democracy and the LS.E indices, which are invaluable in working class. •» wide-eyed admiration of the hope that a worthy modern to such numbers as the country has joyment and satisfaction from the students In London are highly criti- The sweet little, green little shamrock of Ireland. enabling the reader to understand ail credit to the Rev. -Henry Boyd earliest prose and poetry. literature in the Irish language occupations for after graduation, old stories. Perhaps some boy of G. K. Chesterton's urbanity and cal of the "Parents" of the move the symbolic meanings of the tales, Osbert Sitwell's raillery admirably re- of Rathfritand whs, according to Indeed it would be fair to say is in the process of being that grants should be abolished in Irish parents, growing up abroad, ment, and unfortunately reject the This dear little plant still grows in our land many of which at first glance may flect the anthologist's contempt for Or. Ciews, translated Wants In that he regards it as a bright created. And he believes that favour of loans, and that curricula will have his interest aroused in the pomposity and hypocrisy, while three 179S. Was this event more Jlgnlfi' tried and tested theories of the past. .seem mistakenly simple. but unfulfilled promise. His a new renascence of poetry and should be diversified to include busi- Fresh and fair as the daughters of Erin, land of his forefathers and by read- poems of Padraig Pear* suggest sym- cant than ths hanging, alas -in 47M, < drama in the other language is ness studies, hotel management and Had PJD. realised -early on that It was fortunate that the Irish pathy with tin desperate courage of of andmsr RMtf»Nan« minister, mam couosrn here is to show Whose smiles can bewitch, whose eyes can command ing this book, will come to realise the Irish rebels. As well as anger, already in sight Since his fashion design. These seem reason- the HO per cent British Investment Folklore Commission (which took the Rev. Samuel Barbsr? Any Re- the relationship Between let- In each oUmats that they may appear in; that, though lacking the wealth of there is a recurring theme of inner period ends at 1950 it would be able proposals, but some of his argu- in Northern Ireland gives them and over the work of the Folklore of tranquility, as in "The Plougher." by publican in County Down could ters and the socio-political con- Empires, these were no mean people. admitted by rilftet that the ments rest on questionable assump- their alUss the key to who the real And shine through the bog, through the brake and the mireland Ireland Society) was founded in 1935 Colum and "leisure" by Davies. have told the author of the town's dition of the country at dif- JACK 80MER8 twenty years he does not cover tions. Is it proven fact that stu- enemy fe they would net haste made by the Government. If the work it — -'V. ordeal In 'that yeai. ft had nothing tecent periods. Just like their own dear little shamrook of Ireland. have, in the work of Seamus dent grants foster irresponsibility? the mistake of cutting themselves carried out then, had been post- to do with -Oante. For example, the aristocratic The sweet little shamrook, etc. poned, much of the traditional structure of society both before Heaney, John Montague, J. B. What rational grounds exist for from the Belfast Trades Council. Keane find Brian Friel—to the suggestion that youths of the stories would have died with the old JOIN THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION in short, tMt book, charming and and after the coming of the The gateway to the Protestant name only a lew—provided working class are out of plaoe at a This dear little plant that springs from our soil storytellers, and Irish and European •nformatlvs 'though R is, misrepre- Normans favoured sua institu- WMfclng class is through the trade FILL IN THIS FORM evidence in plenty to support university? Why should surtax be scholarship would have been sents ths people of ths area by its tional sort of literature, culti- unions. When its three little leaves are extended, infinitely the poorer. Please send me full particulars of how I can join the his optimism. abolished in order to give incentive Connolly Association. Was towards ths establishment. vated by hereditary dignitaries Denotes on one stalk we together should toil It is instructive to read n to businessman while the level of One of the great virtues of yosth But happily the collectors were This Is unfortunate, hut inevitable who never quite lost their Name book which attempts to relate indirect taxation, which falls most however and this particularly true And ourselves by oureeivee be befriended. able to capture, either by recordings when sns notes, msrwelMnc, that pristine priestly character. heavily en the psor, seaatns high? or Bernadette (Devlin is the rapidity its author oswtd write in ths sum- the work of Jamts Joyce or And still through the bog, through the brake and the mireland or script, the unique treasures of Address The BrtermhTgltng of Gaelic The Economic and Bedsl Re- with which they learn to reject mer of im, "Ths Orange TwsHth' Maria Edge worth to the per- oral tradition, which stretch back and Norman cultures during search Institute is serving the pub- ideas when thar turn out to be fal- From one root should branoh, like the shamrock of Ireland. is bsosminc moss a tsadtttanal spective of Irish history. Mr. two thousand years or more. We the Middle Ages Introduced the lic wstl -by these publications Which lacious. and the speed with whick holiday Isstlvwl than a fasMaerent Power's has the merit at clarity The sweet little shamrook, etc. I were also fortunate to have such Cut out and post to 283 Grays Inn Road. London, W.C.I spirit of the troubadours, clarify important issues or at least they learn to oooupy a new jftwitian political sssnt" ia dealing with exceedingly notably the convention of provoke disnmston. when the old one tends to b« un- "amour courtois." into a lyri- complex subject-matter. S.T. 3EAMU8 TWEACY C.D. tenable. THE" ikiSH DEMOCRAT December 1969

O'Neill will CORRESPONDENTS, not speak Irish campaign in Britain PLEASE NOTE • / 1APTAIN TERENCE O'NEILL, SEND YOUR REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS TO THIS PAGE ^ ex-Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, sent his regrets to Oxford TYPE IF YOU CAN! Conservatives last Friday night and • cancelled his speech, which was to have been held in private. CLUB RAISES CASH FOR RELIEF Members of the Oxford University OVENTRY boasts one of the in Coventry has been going for the most experienced of the younger Type DOUBLE SPACING Conservative Association who turned C most vigorous and enterprising best part of a year. Driving forces trade unionists in the motor in- up at the venue were told thaf Cap- of the many committees set up all are two young men, Frank Conway dustry. IF YOU DO! tain O'Neill had cancelled all speak- over England to give support to the and Patrick Torley, of Newry. Pat ing engagements to "avoid any risk movement for democracy in the six is related to the famous republican The relief fund was collected as a THANK YOU! of aggravating the present situation counties. Loy family in that South Down result of an appeal issued by Rev. in Northern Ireland." centre of nationalism. P. A. Berry, of Coventry Cathe- It is not the city of universal top- dral; Very Rev. Canon A. P. Dia- notch wages it is reported to be. HE treasurer is Terry Shields, mond; Mr. Edward McCluskey, OXFORD Though it is far from the bottom T of Derry City, and the vice- president of the Trades Council; RELEASE THE of the prosperity league. There are chairman is Patrick Powell, of.Gal- Dr. M. Sharpe, J.P. Its hon. trea- about 10,000 Irish in Coventry. They way. Pat Powell is one of the four surer is Mr. Joe McCarthy, of St. PRISONERS But Captain O'Neill must not ex- certainly gave generously to the senior shop stewards in the Rootes Finbarr's Club, 369 Stoney Stanton pect the "present situation" to last relief fund, and not only in money factory at Ruyton, and one of the Road. rpHE Coventry branch of the Cam- very long, as he has agreed to hold but in time. paign for Social Justice in Nor- the "cancelled" meeting next term. thern Ireland has called for the It might have been mere coinci- EVERAL thousand belong to the COVENTRY release of Frank Card and Malachy dence, but the Northern Ireland S St. Finbarr's Club in Stoney • Civil Rights Oxford Campaign, run- Stanton Road. On October 8th the McGurran, and the branch is organ- ning a Refugee Holiday Plan—for club gave its dance hall free for a ising activity on this issue in Coven- mothers and children from Northern function at which several hundred try. Ireland, originally intended to bring pounds were raised. Gerry Fitt in good form their first group to Oxford at the The bands also gave their ser- The branch holds meetings every beginning of November. However, vices, Pat Gissane's Showband, and PEAKING at a meeting called by plained the background of the Thursday in the Coventry Cross, they the now bringing their first the Western Showband. S the Coventry Campaign for civil rights struggle, and pointed out The Burges, at 7.30 p.m. group very soon and they may ar- It is said that there never was Social Justice in Northern Ireland, that Chichester-Clarke was a direct rive next weekend. such an evening, what with the big Mr. Gerard Fitt expressed the descendant of the Elizabethan Derry Defence Committee member crowd and the music. opinion that the present Labour planter, Chichester. Mr. McCIusky, Edward Campbell was the main The Campaign for Social Justice Government had done more for president of the Trades Council, sat EDUCATE TO speaker at a public meeting in Ox- li-eland than its predecessors. on the platform. ford on November 13th, on "Life He emphasised, however, that the Behind the Barricades." Mr. Camp- fight for civil liberties in the six EMIGRATE? bell is a student at Plater Hall, Ox- Pat White talks counties was "only beginning." ford, studying politics and econo- FEDERATION /AN Saturday, November 8th, Dr. mics. The meeting to be held at to the chippies " Mr. Fitt was addressing about 200 John O'Malley, of Liverpool the Northgate Hall is organised by stly young people in the lecture University, addressed a meeting at The Northern Ireland Civil Rights niTRS. PAT WHITE, of South theatre of the technical college. REJECTED IN About half the audience was com- the Exchange Hotel, Liverpool, on Oxford Campaign. London Connolly Association,.- the subject "The Irish in Britain— recently addressed the Battersea No. posed of young English people. SUNDERLAND 2 Branch of the Amalgamated Other speakers included Mr Wil- What is their Future?" The meeting Society of Woodworkers on the liam Wilson, M.I5., in whose con- U PEAKING in the Town Hall, was organised by the St. Patrick's situation in Northern Ireland. The stituency the meeting was taking Sunderland, Co. Durham, Mr. Day Committee of Liverpool Irish M.P.s act on interest was such that the meeting place, who made a glowing tribute Desmond Greaves, asked about the Centre. was the biggest the branch has had to Mr. Fltt's work at Westminster. attitude of the Connolly Association some some time. Mr. Bill Warman, of the Sheet to Mr. Craig's proposals for a fede- Dr. O'Malley, who is a lecturer in detainees sociology, and a brother of the late The branch decided to send a Metal Workers' Union, gave an in- ration of a partitioned Ireland with fTBE Connolly Association has resolution to the British Govern- spiring address. The meeting was Britain, said that this was simply Donough O'Malley, said that the sent details of the Card—Mc- ment calling for action in support also addressed by Mr. Desmond a dishonest attempt to Induce the main problem facing the Irish in Gurran case to a number of M.P.S of civil rights. Copies would be sent Greaves, Editor of the "Irish Irish people to accept the Home Britain was that of cultural identity. and Lords. As a result Fenner to local M.P.S. They also decided to Democrat," and Mr. Patrick Rule Act of 1920 which they had fought a revolution to reject , Brock way and Mr. Marcus Lipton, make a donation of £1 to the Con- Powell, on behalf of the campaign. To some extent, the Irish in Ire- M.P. have raised the matter with nolly Association to help its work in Mr. Sean MacDermott, of the The fact that these proposals land still had some choice as to the Home Secretary. In addition this country for civil rights. London branch of N.I.C.R.A., ex- came from a Unionist extremist what sort of society they wanted Mr. John Ryan, MJP, has tabled a like Mr. Craig should make clear to since Ireland was just beginning to question to the Prime Minister. everybody what their significance become industrialised. He thought was. Mr. Greaves also addressed a that this choice was no longer pos- Tory Councils ban on meeting in the town of Stockton-on- sible in Britain. Dr. O'Malley dis- PARLIAMENT Tees. cussed the difficulties which many- Irish people faced when they arrived Mr. Peter Mulligan of Central meetings about Ireland in Britain and met a highly Indus- trialised society for the first time. London Branch, Connolly Associa- JN the most blatant piece of experience when I was a Councillor HEATH CHALLENGED tion communicated details of the political censorship attempted in the worst place in Northern Ire- U PEAKING to members of the case to his M.P., Mr. Ben Whitaker, land for discrimination," he said, ^ Connolly Association in the who also contacted the Home Sec- in this century, Manchester City Council have forbidden the let- "I did not expect to find it in Crown and Anchor Hotel, Manches- retary. While this work has been Manchester." ter, Mr. Sean Redmond said it was JVERPOOL valuable, it Is vital that more M.P.S ting of their hall for meetings Manchester Irish paraded to %he disgraceful that the local Tory be asked to intervene. Resolutions on the subject of Northern Ire- Council should try to suppress free He could see no end to emigration should also be sent to the Home city hall carrying a coffin after the land. traditional Manchester Martyrs speech in Manchester. He had from Ireland, and went so far as to Secretary from trade unions, The council is Tory-dominated. say that Ireland seemed to "work' Labour Parties, and similar Labour Commemoration on Sunday, Novem- raised it with the National Council The debate lasted over an hour with ber 23rd. for-Civil Liberties and had written on an "emigration economy"! He and progressive organisations. the gaggers winning by 55 votes called for recognition hy the Dublin But the Campaign Is not going personally to Mr. Heath asking if to 44. this was national Tory policy. Government that the problem of T^RANK CARD and Malachy Mc- to allow itself to be silenced. Early emigration existed, and, to the Gurran will be up on trial on in the new year it will book a pri- Mr. Redmond also addressed a puzzlement and annoyance of some December 4th, In Belfast: Readers vate hall. meeting in Leicester. of the audience, advocated that will recall that both men are MANCHESTER And the muzzle-merchants of the On Monday, November 17th, Mr. charged with possessing documents city hall are going to regret their Irish youth should be educated to relating to the Republican move- action, as it is possible it may be Patrick Bond, of the South London prepare them for emigration. As a result a meeting scheduled Connolly Association, spoke about ment, and Frank Card is also repudiated by the Conservative Dr. O'Malley also considered that charged with possessing arms. The for November 23rd by the Campaign Party in London. the situation in Northern Ireland to for Social Justice had to be aban- the West Lewisham Branch of the the battle for the native language Connolly Association and the Lon- There is poor Edward Heath try- was lost, a statement which puzzled don Branch, Northern Ireland doned. The organisers were given Labour Party Young Socialists. They ing to give an essentially dictatorial one visitor who declared later that Civil Rights Association are ptann- too short notice to transfer it else- party a democratic look, while the decided to get in touch with the tag activities in London on Decem- where. MJ?., Mr. Dickens, in order to urge he had heard more Irish spoken minnows of Manchester give them- that evening in the Exchange Hotel ber 4th. Proposals Include pickets Yet it was to have been addressed selves the airs of whales, and give more vigorous action. than he had heard for many years. on both the Ulster Office and the by Miss Elizabeth Sinclair, Stan the show away. Mr. Sean Redmond addressed the Home Office, and lobbying of M.P.S. Orme, a Manchester MP., Mr. Ivan He nearly went wild when Enoch Southgate Civil Branch of the It was evident from the remarks Further details can fee obtained Cooper, MP., and Wallace Lawler Powell attacked the Irish in Bir- United Nations Association, and of the lecturer that lie regarded from the organisations concerned. the pro-Irish Liberal M.P. for Lady- mingham and gave six marginal Mr. Desmond Greaves spoke to Gaelic culture as just one facet of The release of Frank Card and wood. seats back to Labour. Now Man- the Marylebone Constituency Labour what he called "Irish Culture" and Malachy McGurr^n, and opposition It Is doubted if even the Tory chester Labour men are rubbing Party. not as the most important element. to the new Ulster Defence Regi- Party ever resorted to such tactics their hands. Psephologists are busy ment were the immediate cam- before. working out how many marginals paigning issues before Irish groups Here is a subject of intense pub- that Wilson's flabbiness had lost are in Britain. This was the view ex- lic Interest which gets repeated being handed back to him by Tory DUBLIN AGAINST VIETNAM WAR pressed by Mr. Sean Redmond, coverage in press, radio and tele- intransigence. 1 \UBLIN played its part In the Embassy a message of protest was General Secretary, Connolly Asso- vision. If this happens again Labour may world - wide demonstrations handed In signed by Peadar OTk>n- ciation, when he spoke at a meet- There Is intense indignation even get back. against the Vietnam war on Novem- nell, chairman of the organisation ing organised by London N.LC.RA. among the Irish in Manchester, The power of the Irish vote is ber 15th, when the biggest march at the Hammersmith Town Hall on Social Justice chairman, Dungan- only being slowly realised. A few ever against the war in Ireland A mooting at tha Embassy »»s November 18th. At the same meet- non-born John Madden told the years ago on Connolly Association moved from Pamell Square to the Uiiwrt . fey Qaorg* Jallaras, ing Miss Bernadette Devlin re- "Irish Democrat." advice the Irish of Hampstead put American Embassy. Several thou- TootM Mod tolls and Mrs. Maire ported on the campaign within the "It is the sort of thing I used to out Henry Brooke, the Home Sec- sand were on it and all the pro- Cruise 0'Brian. House of Commons against the retary, who refused to release the gressive and radical organisations Ulster Defence Regiment. True to form, the "Bundny Inde- DO YOl! LIVE IN Republican prisoners. And the in the city carried their banners. pendent" admonished the demon- BOOTH LONDON T . . . Irish of Birmingham put in Mr. Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd., C.A. Branch meeU 8.M every Lawler for Ladywood because of his Oalway sent several hundred stu- strators for not adequately ap- (T.U.), Nottingham Rood, Ripley, Than, at Jeffrey's Road Library, own and his wife's long friendship dents to the capital to take part, preciating America's tremendous Derbyshire, and published by StockwcU. for Ireland. and there was also a contingent effort for peace to Vietnam, but Connolly Publications Ltd., at Doc. 4: Bowes Efan: "The B-Men" from Cork. Irish public opinion Is more and Dec. 11; Joe Deighan: 'Federation' Now the Irish In Manchester may more moving the other way, in line 283 Grays Inn Road, London, be saying "be off with you" to the The march was organised by the W.C.I. Dec. II: Christmas Social. with decent men and women every- Tory dictatorship in that city. Irish Voice on Vietnam, and at the where.