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Poge 7 - O CASEY LETTERS 53 VOTES Page 8 - DONALL MacAMHLAIGH Book this date MAY 8th P.TA END PARTITION SHADOW MINISTER RESIGNS DEMONSTRATION KEEP THE CAMPAIGN GOING PRIORS IN LONDON OLLOWING the passing of the renewal of the anti-Irish Prevention of Terrorism Act, F when 53 mostly Labour M.P.s refused to accept front bench instructions to abstain, PLAN IS and the resignation of shadow minister Clive «6oley in protest, the Connolly Association Details from has announced plans to continue the campaign they started in 1974. Robert Jones The main proposition is that pressure for repeal of this issue of Ireland. Two or three Box 353, N.W.5 4NH years ago Mr A. W. Stallard re- REJECTED obnoxious Act should be maintained with a view to preventing signed as a whip because oi the any in interest. EPORTS are current that Mr fall proposal to increase the number of — [ The 'Irish Democrat" will pub- R Prior proposes to impose his pet unionist seats at Westminster. lish material about the working scheme of devolution on the six of the Act throughout the spring, It is no small matter for an MP counties. summer and autumn, and hopes to risk, his career on a matter oi that all other Irish journals will principle and Mr Soley deserves the This is for election ol a chamber do the same- fullest support of his constituents like the European Assembly that and especially of the Irish in Ham- DECLARATION would have the right to chatter mersmith. Instead of a petition signed by but none to act. All the officers of state would be Englishmen ap- individuals, which was presented The present leadership of the pointed from Westminster. to Mr Clive Soley on February Labour Party are mercifully not the 17th, a declaration against the hatchet-men we had a few years Act will be sent out to Trade ago, but it is still remembered that The scheme has met universal Union Branches, Trades Councils, Herbert Morrison, after calling opposition Paisley has condemned Professional organisations etc, Hugh Delargy a "young pup" for It. The official Unionists have con- I and these will be Invited to give opposing the Ireland Act (which demned it. And now a joint state- their official endorsement. By this made partition permanent) told ment of Fianna Fall and the means discussion of the evils of him that he would never get a gov- S.D.L.P. has condemned it. the Act will receive wide promo- ernment post. He didn't. tion. The idea is to present these Despite the fact that the Jellicoe The trouble is that the British declarations at a lobby of Parlia- commission is a bone thrown to a Government needs something to ment on Wednesday, February snarling dog, Irish organisations wave In the faces of International 16th- 1983. are not advised to boycott it but to criticis. But there is only one submit to it the best evidence they policy with a chance of success The reason why the Labour front have available. united Ireland. bench agreed to abstain, though Mr Hattersley himself was said to favour opposition, was the Home Secretary, Mr William Whitelaw had announced a commission of enquiry into the working of the Act under the chairmanship of Lord Jellicoe. According to the "Finan- cial Times" Mr Hattersley felt it would be "churlish" not to accept a proposal that Labour had made itself last year. "Guardian" comment was that the front bench were anxious to continue a bipartisan policy in re- lation to Ireland, although this was supposed to have been abandoned last year. This is the second time there has been a Labour resignation on the r Community T.D. stages bloodless coup •i PONY Gregory is almost cer- workers and community activists Hence the Gregory Deal which tainly the best and most prom- who fought the causes of the inner promises to revitalise the heart of 18u.,t person to be elected to the city poor, campaigned for better Dublin City and reverse the dere- 23rd L>a'l. housing, opposed speculative devel- liction of the past three decades. He is a young Dublin social opment and continually needled It means this young man of 32 worker who has been active in the the Corporation bureaucracy. He already has his place in the histoiy North City Centre Community stood for the Corporation in 1979 books and will be remembered when Action Project, one of the com- and by a happy accident the bal- most of his fellow TDs are for- munity development schemes ance of the parties in the current gotten. For generations Central funded by the Combat Poverty Dail makes his vote the vital one Dublin was represented in the Dail Committee. Throughout the seven- for Charles Haughey and Fianna by some of the foremost figures in ties he was one of a group of social Fail. (Continued on Page Four) Agril 1982 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT April 1982 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 3 2

THE PROMISE I.B.R.G DRAFTS CONSTITUTION IfTTCC BY i (OULD you please give coverage SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY KAR MRS GREGORY. in the next issue of the Demo- ROY JOHNSTON m London there is a separate or- | N the aftermath of the election, ever) tended to be blocked at D It ;s al.sc> lnteirsted and con- anxious to work for a political crat to an important meeting we tal concern among the young Michael Foot has asked me t ganisation, and there is the imports in the light of the outgoing board level, as at least three mem- people. The arguments were ill- cerned about t vents in Ireland solution of the problem of pai are having in Manchester? It is thank you tor vour letter about the tition. ant Federation of Irish Societies at 7.30 pm on Thursday 13th April Government's decision to nation- bers of the consortium had to informed and specious, but they possible whipping arrangements It is neither socialist noi con- which some people might think agree, and to get the agreement carried the day, and the Republic It is strongly opposed to tin »t the Britons Protection pub. Ot. alise tiie Whitegate refinery, it is when the Prevention ol Terrorism servative in politics threatened by the new departure of their head offices. So White- was left to depend increasingly on Prevention of Terrorism Act. Bridgewater St., Manchester 1 The appropriate to outline some aspects Act come'- up for renewal in What seems to have happened is gate remained a time-capsule of imports of refined products and on l h It stands :or the preservation It holds that travel between speaker will be Pat Byrne, mem- March. I am afraid it is too early that the growing confidence of the of oil refining from the Irish point fifties technology, and its products the obsolete heavih -1< aded White- of the Irish way ot life. Britain and Ireland is being re- ber of the National Counc il of the tj discuss tactics to be used In the :;il •: • t .• i In leaI'll Irish in Britain has outgrown the of view. were increasingly ill-adapted to the gate petrol. It wants mo:c radio and Lei. - stricted by excessive fares. Labour Committee on Ireland and House of Commons This will be ; •• Iff. i.- ••-'. lui. more timid "non-political" stance of increasingly stringent quality and vision time for the Irish, also It hopes to stimulate greater he will be speaking about his days decided by the Parliamentary Com- ; <•»«! ii: :i >taU- the F.I.S In feu areas of technology i:re environmental specifications im- I don't want to go inlo the de- more Irish studies in schools and contact between British and Irish as secretary of the Irish Republi- mittee and the PLP much nearer What is surely required is that the interests of the multi-nationals posed by the markei and bv the tails of the environmental argu- i:il- limn Kick Hcn- luruier education young people. can Congress in the 1930s. The the time the F.I.S. should reconstitute itself so much in conflict with the in- State. ments that were used; suffice it to ok, .i- R..:„l Wit!! It, is opposed to the anti Irish meeting is open to Labour Party terests of small States seeking a IT is doubtful if a single Irish as the overall body to which all say that the Belfast refinery is en Meanwhile you have Mr Foots ru-host i racialism shown in anti-Irish jnembers only, and there is no road to independent economic de- ^ person will disagree with this Irish organisations, musical, cul 1)Y the mid-seventies Whitegate Belfast Lough and the Paris assurance that the policy pursued • points made are jokes. charge. velopment. The history of White- programme. On the other hand tural. local, athletic and political ''was supplying only about half market is served largely from a re- by the Parliamentary Labour ,:tr> loi t-mi>sl concern It is concerned with the mis- gate illustrates this. finery in Versailles; Whitegates it- there are organisational problems could affiliate. A political position Why is there not more cover- of the market in the Republic, and providing an instant market I'm the Patty in the House of Commons e-entation of the Irish representation of Irish affairs by self despite obsolescence has not The Manchester organisation is ob- like that Of the IBRG would surely age of LCI in the Democrat there was an increasingly pressing nas once brought ashore. will be that agreed bv Con- v ii h resrard t > at?. :r> the mass media It was set up in 1958 for strategic contributed an environmental prob- viously going to be a success. But be no risk to anybody. need for a second refinery to sup- terenee While condemning violence it is NIALL POWER reasons at the instigation of the Le- plement and eventually perhaps to lem to Cobh or Roches Point. However i In- Government has mass government, which however (See. Manchester LCI) replace it. now got Whitegate and is point, ally Yours sincerely lacked the self-confidence to go it IJEFINER1^ technology has been committed to its survival The mul- ill l.\lH LIVEN alone' with a nationalised industry (Sv,ned. to'! McCAFFREY P.S. Any of your readers who A proposal surfaced to build a * developed appropriately in le- ti-nationals say itlOOm is needed 1111 I in 11 OI 1 UK I».T. \ (like Aer Lingus or Bord na Monal, Wish to contact us can do so care new refinery in Dublin, the prime sponse to the wave of environmen- to upgrade it; Hie local engine* is there being no Irish engineers ; Of mover being an Irish entrepreneur tal legislation which followed the say perhaps itHtni. The t o em- Box 15, 164-6 Corn Exchange, trained in process engineering who had done a deal with the UN Stockholm Conference in 1 :'or brother saying that Mr X was in publicity to the doings of friendly surplus exported from the Dublin the sensible strategy would have rather than the multi-nationals, under tiie Prevention of Terrorist: four multi-nationals: this enabled been to build a new refinery in whose thni!:in:4 is doininat' ci 1> the ,. . ! U it vot-. .. ,. 2 . .'..- 00111 II. rested -maxim n. tunc- for interro- Holland penniless requesting organizations. If the LCI will see refinery, which would have sup- Act ana little or no further in the Lemass Government to point Dublin i filling the vacuum left by perc eived needs of the Europ'an .,'''• i " i -!•.<« M ; i Her la:hoi is Eng- gation withon arsis being laid monies to be forwarded so that he we get all its announcements and plied easily the rest of the needs formation was given to them to the refinery as a national the closure of the old Gouldings market. irrespective of Irish :i;i»' ite:' is Irish. He she was relea- " .it ; <> cloc!- in the could return to London He re- press statements we will willingly of the market in the Republic. The achievement of a sort, and pro- fertiliser factory, and at much less national miensts So it apo" is ;. ' ,-ilt ill- >. • . ia-' iV,u and lhe\ morni::-- turned to London. Mrs X caina use them. The date for last copy whole deal was to be outside the The anguish and anxiety gen • vided the impetus for the univer- environmental cost) and phase out we can look lcrwurd to a modest Southern England. from her parents' home up to Lon- is the 21st of each month—Editor). magic circle of the big seven' oil Mrs X is pilept.c and rated by such actions clearly hav- sity system to begin training pro- the Whitegate refinery, concentrat- up-.'lading of Whitegate. at a price -;iO table, decent, law don to be with him. Mr X with- multi-nationals. . , V,.I.....:.. ;! est' will: '.: while in poiic. us; was refused left their mark upon all concerned cess engineers. However, the prob- ing the Cork petroleum engineer- worth pavine "hen the need for ho have never ha;; drew all their savings and leit for access io a soheiior and independ- Mr X, on release by the police, be lems soon became apparent to the An extraordinarily effective cam- ing effort into developing the petro- at least partial strategic security ...,, ; ., .:•') e t- v ;.t with, the police Northern Ireland. ent medical attenlion. They re- lie\cd himself to be a target I'm' ST. ANNE'S IS Irish staff who were recruited to paign was launched to block the chemical potential of Kinsale gas of supply is bmne in mind The assassination squads of trie IK A Whitegate. Anv development ideas turned home to '.inri then- home un- He returned from Ireland on t,he proposal on environmental grounds, i as an alternative to burning it question of the Dublin refinery, ,.,„ „•,, !• means tbal > • j.er 11usbaucl two He believed everyone was out to t that came up i to make the system using arguments which appealed to howevei. will surface again, m • nr-r attended and open to the world 30th December 1981. Mrs X came wastefully to produce electricity, ; married Oil 1 lie 14th him REBUILDING work better or at less cost or what- ^the then rising tide of environmen- this being a transitional expedient or later. After the honeymoon They lost the:: televiston. They lo London to be with him By now were in such a.: emotional. ci-.s :.••.. a'.i ana settled in ion On the morning of tiie loth De Mr X s condition had worsened. He pADDY BONO writes:— X became a sue ret. ."- to ran; d state to i! tiicj liivi- not cembe; 1981. while with h,: re! used to let her answer the door, Father Jack Donovan, the - - l-opciativ v iilit- lie. o en ab'.e to el :iit> it any other parents. Mrs X tound her husbam: trips to the shops were kept to a To items were no-, in, from tl'e.-ir on the floor of the sitting room minimum, lie refused to allow her genial Tipperaryrnan who is in ; ell e OlH'O'vt : - ,t. j 'Utined his si udies at a charge of St Anne's parish. Custom . • • ; .'. ? • '.;.;• eii'.ilc TiiC'.V both ha t huf.rv after consuming three-quarters oi . to contact her parents, his belief * House, in East London, has a lot The Irish side of Manchester bottle of vodka, unknown quanti- that was by keeping such a low pro- .:.-•'-. est iu Ireland and pa; No charge- w e , e U. -J iulil Of friends and well-wishers. And ties of tablets, clearly taken by lie: file that nobody would know he wa.3 'THE Irish are organising at long they won't have it either. This But Lena explains that without v.- i :.mii to developments igainst Mr am. Mrs X The police he needs them, having launched an Mass ill Irish every Sunday of the husband. A doctor was sent for back in London: his fears oi being * last, under their own steam and took place on Wednesday March an advanced teacher able to carry month at St Brendans where the :. N', t.t and South, but have admit, that tl.-tr miei rogation had appeal to build a new church! and a psychiatrist declared thai ii murdered were so real to him on a national basis. Fresh ex- 10th, and was a truly remarkable them forward it is difficult for choir sing in Irish. not involved in any violence nothing to do with the IRA bomb- was attempted suicide, but that he amples come every day, for ex- affair, with three fioors of Irish those who have a certain amount v, iat iO0 '. L'f. ing- campaign j ATE in January 1982. Mr X de- A benefit dance on March 6th in preferred to treat Mr X as an out- ample, we learn that an Irish song, dancing and traditional of Irish to improve themselves. She A book "Memories of Manches- ' " cided to make a break from aid of the fund, held at Bethnal Of i • No' ember. I'M! at .'> patient. Centre has opened in Glasgow. music. hopes that if anybody in the Man- ter" signed by friends and admirers sJOME o! :a. materia! cost or tiiv England, his studies and his home Green Catholic Club, was packed am in i.-: nijrning. the front doo; At the heart of the new organiza- chester area is an advanced tutor, at the IBRG social evening was k arrest and detention under tin- On the follow ug night Mrs X's and go and work in Germany. Mrs With people dancing to the music o: the'.: f.ou-ie was forcibly opened. But what of Manchester? It is tion are a number of enthusiastic he or she will come forward with subsequently posted to Mr Sean parents went to friends leaving the X went with her husband to assist Of that equally genial Tipperary- In the of crowbars 'i he area Prevention o! Terrorism Act are tin now the only big city without one. young people, for example secretary an offer of services. Hogan who returned to his native a... ..- e if.:. .., . ». couple to have some time alone. At and aid him in whatever way she man, Sean Whyte, and his group was se i j -rt by policc and Mrs X loss of earnings that Mrs X in- Why has nothing been done about Rick Hennelly and chairman There is plenty of encouragement Ennis, Co. Clare at the beginning * here made o;. Messrs :. U o'clock Mrs X rang her mother could. They went to Stuttgart and Tiie Shannon Four. was tak-f. Handcuffed to a police curred. £300 which she had paid a Centre there? One reason may Michael King. too. Father Emmet Fulham says of the month. Pai i \ l.ivcr|) >ol. j>. •' 1 Hid\ Mr i • ; acquired jobs working at an Ameri- station. S:u» was criminally pro- for a Law Course and Mr X lost in a distracted state. Mr X had be the clearance of the old Irish Jf-ierson. Mr G . Fi'.' a;, i said that he was going for a walk can Army Base. Mrs X hoping iu And there were many good V O journalist who was out to en- cesstl. ...f igraphs taken, tinger- valuable time on his course of areas, the areas where Joe Deighan 1 vain for an improvement in her friends of the Irish Democrat there joy himself would attempt to thu.aM Mr I an P ..<,»•;.•. Mr I) i^l > prints a.- i.uien studies and would be back in 30 minutes, and his supporters used to sell husband's mental state was regu- as well. When Jim Doyle and I get the names of all the permormers Hogg and M; hidon Ci.it'.: . that was two hours later. 1,500 copies of the Irish Democrat The parents of Mrs X were dis- larly beater, and threatened by him. arrived -we were greeted with warm and groups. There would not be Warmly supportc.- n: inua: am. all.; Tlie , .. . at the time sua they I ETTEL —CUTTINGS, PLEASE traught at the idea of their daugh- Rushing home to be with her smiles and even kisses from a each month? The Irish were space for them. But their calibre Mi Wlnlelaw p. .di d. w n:. i.. - were go;:-.; :o be held for prosper- daughter Mrs X's mother rang the moved to Wythenshaw and the el- ity. isic- Mr- X did not know and ter and son-in-law vanishing off the He went as far as to say that lv? host of supporters of the paper. In can be judged from the fact that pressure it will not come too pi rinsed enquir• a lile-lnii : face of the earth without anybody police at 1 o'clock in the morning would murder her and her motjier fact an enjoyable time was had derly ones avoided coming into one of them was St Wilfred's Ceili • OO many anti-Irish lies, or rather. heavily on any one individual Labour MPs who ....:,ted to e- • was not f ined ol the nature of declaring Mr X a missing person. town. the char.;? :i which she was being knowing where they were. They if she were to contact anybody by all." Band all of whose members are ^ so many anti-Republican lies, among us, and of course, we do c.eiterenee pohev. was ileal that Two days later the Irish Foreign She in effect was a prisoner of her under 14. They won the all-Eng- get printed in the British Press want to conserve our human re- arrests 1 >.i the 10th November eventually discovered that they "Vl/TELL. it looks as if things are many were unconvinced. In t. Office in Holland contacted Mr X's own husband. She tried in vain to And if any reader wants to help land competition run by Comhal- that it seems to me much greater sources and our limited energies, 1981 .'v, a .iays after being ar- were being detained by the police * ' going to move again. Their result .».! Mi s v,- . a_aiu-; ,- get him to see a doctor but his mis- Father Donovan with his new tas Ceoltoiri. The organizer are pressure should be brought to bear while using up those of the Press children have now grown up. They tinning the Act. i:> :>i i lie la: •• •<• trust of strangers was so great that church, his address is St Anne's Marian Flannery and Tony Sulli- on the gentlemen of the Press. Council. have been seized with a fear that number achieved he would not agree. Mrs X left Club, 77 Berwick Road. London van who are to be found every now that emigration has stopped So please help. 1 do not have her husband and took refuge in a E16. ' Saturday in Hulme. I. personally, know that other they are going to be absorbed, de- papers as well as "The Times.' the possibility of reading and buy- I hey w ere : — home for battered wives in Get- The immense success of this first Even the price of a brick will nationalised. And they don't printed the false declaration that ing more than one paper now and many. She is there now presently venture, which was attended by Frank Allaun, Joe Ashton. Nar- help. want it. "2,000 Protestants had been killed again. But 1 should be most grate- DECLARATION suffering from a fever. some of the C.A. stalwarts like the ful indeed for press-cuttings which man Atkinson, Tony Benn, Syd If the social evening organized by the IRA.'' Mr X has prior to the detention two Michaels and Lena Daly, and require the attention of the Press Bidwell, Ron Brown, Jim Callag- by the Irish in Britain Representa- under the Prevention of Te and so we could bring double pressure, few like-minded Irish people to- Kerr, Robert Kilroy-Silk, James nightmare and seen their daugh- Officer. Impossible to avoid a sense of she keeps the class together as well and indeed, the more of us joining gether to monitor the press and Lamond, Alexander Lyon (York), ter's happiness shattered. This regret for the waste inherent as she can, at the Lady Barn Conv in this activity, the better, because seek the right to reply? Would it As a result of that meeting, at Michael McGuire (Ince), D. Mar- couple were completely innocent, in this method of resistance to Im- munity Centre on Tuesdays from moving the Press Council is much be an idea to call a conference to MPs WHO CALLED FOR THE REPEAL OF THE whloh we briefed them on our shall (Glasgow), Jim Marshall they were discharged after being perialism.") 7.30 to 10 pm Eamonn MCabe is more difficult than moving discuss this important question, speolfic objections to the Preven- (Leicester. S.), John Maxton, detained for seven days, kept in tutor to the beginners' class. This mountains. By a long shot. If a now that the initial victory has tion of Terrorism Act, they sought Joan Maynard, Michael Meacher, solitary confinement and interro- James Connolly certainly had a is on Thursdays. large number of us keep up the been won'.'. EDITOR i a meeting with the Home Secre- Ian Mikardo, Austin Mitchell gated to such an extent that Mr X, profound understanding of the PREVENTION OF TERRORISM ACT as clear from the above, became tary, W. Whltelaw. He has now value of popular anti-imperialist (Grimsby), Stanley Newens, Mi- £1, I. Linehan £1. I. Pearce £4. ,1. mentally disturbed and Mrs X has agreed to meet some of those MPs culture—you seem to have no un- chael O'Halloran, Robert Parry, Robinson £4.84, .1. Bird 48p. sup- suffered a breakdown of her phy and to hear, from them, our case. derstanding at alt. Laurie Pavitt, C. Price (Lewlsham THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS porters in Central London £2.60, in W ), Reg Race, Jo Richardson, sical wellbeing. MICK BURKE BECAUSE IT IS UNFAIR TO INNOCENT PERSONS Through them we have challenged Coventry. South London £45.44. in East Lon- Allan Roberts (Bootle), Ernest Where Mr X is at the moment the Home Secretary to name one llTE'RE at Battersea over two a telephone means financial loss. don £1.80. Roberts (Hackney N.), Ernest nobody knows and Mrs X is .fear- succecful court case In which a * * months now. Every day Noel For that reason we are especially TOTAL: £304.86. We have a suspicion that Mr Ross (Dundee W ), Dennis Skin- ful of trying to make contact. This conviction was obtained which Gordon asks for a telephone to be grateful to those who have contri- Premises Appeal Donations: NAME OF ORGANISATION I Burke has not a full understand- ner, Clive Soley, A. W. Stallard, is the most up-to-date information could not have been adequately installed. Every day he is told buted to our sustentation fund. S. Fisher £f>, J. Farrell £6, N. ing of what we wrote. The Repub- Dafydd Thomas (Merioneth), I I from them as from the 23rd Febru- dealt with under normal law. •We're doing our best." Keep it up! Kisch £22, J Bean £10, Anon £100, licans chose a method of resist- Stan Thorne (Preston S.), Dafydd ary 1982, which sees their marriage J. Horan £2.50, B. Farrington ance to imperialism that cost the When the Tories split up the Our thanks to: Wigley, William Wilson (Coven- Stamp or in disarray, their studies collapsed We have also given them details lives of a number of young men. Post Office and hived off the tele- South I,ondon Jumble Sale £80, J. £13.1)0, M. Maguire £5, D. O'Con- try SE), David Winnlck, and the Seal of the experience of Mr and Mrs and their future as individuals, let including the poet Bobby Sands. communications for the benefit of King £1, D. Malloch ^£12, C.O.'s nor £10. E. O'Dowling £10, W. two tellers for the no's were (if any) X (known personally to us) for alone as a couple, seriously marred private industry the cry was "effici- £50, G. Ward £1, South London Hardy £25, C.C. £50. A. Donughy Andrew F. Bennett and Martin them to refer to, both In the meet- We would hope that every civilised by actions of the police in using person would feeel a regret at this ency.'' It makes you wonder what C.A £67.50, J. Kavanagh £3.80. C. £5, Glasgow C.A. £10. R. J. Tol- Flannery. the Prevention of Terrorism Act. ing with the Home Secretary and hurst £10, M. Keane £5, R. Balfe Send to Connolly Association, In the renewal debate In the House. loss of life, and if British policy they will do with the cable tele- Hall £3, A. Keely £1, D. Hook 60p. 177 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11 PS: The Law Society have was the cause of the waste, still a vision on which they hope to win D. O'Brladatr £1, E. Ayres 8<)p, J. £5, J. Hostettler £4. M. Gaster £7, The following day Mr Cllve offered Mrs X a place on a course THOMAS WALSH (P.R.O.) waste it was. It should not have the next election. Roy £5, P. Browne £10, M. Keane T. McElligott £5. DONATIONS GRATEFULLY RECEIVED Soley resigned hJs position as of studies starting next September. Liverpool. happened.—EDITOR). But every day that goes without £5, J. Gerghty £2, K. McFarlane TOTAL: £310.40. Labour spokesman on Ireland. April 1982 April 1982 4 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRrSH DEMOCRAT S UNWELCOME AGALLAMH BLOODLESS E. P. Thompson crams Liberty Hall VISITOR WAS IT CONSCIENCE OR FEAR ? CONTROVERSY surrounds that the motivation was not European peace movement could tained some Independence over the Y kLD Monkey-face is coming to activities are causing in the I ' P THOMPSON the famous big country In terms of cultural the arrest of numerous BEIRTE intensify the threat to Ireland, for past 30 years. Ireland's responsi- ^ Britain. Retired clown and conscience but fear. He spoke ranks of the republican or- • ' ' English CND campaigner, and political tradition. Ireland Is members of the IRA and £AIT: Cogar me seo leat, a COUP the political cost of bringing these bility to the European people is to homicidal maniac Ronald Reagan of "fear of the police who are ganisations has led to sug- M-j-t Rev Dr Dermot O'Mahony, one of the few countries that has INLA both in the six and Mhaire—ceard is cuis leis an nuclear weapons Into Europe Is now stay where you are as an actively will tell his Thatcherite puppets blackmailing them." gestions of a possible cease- From Page One Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin and maintained tome freedom of move- twentysix counties, and big raic sen iaoin bPapa'.' Italim O Ceallaigh of the Irish ment between the superpowers. De- quite likely to prove too high for neutral country. Do not opt into that your money is not good fire. Commentators in Dub- arms hauls by the police. Maire: Ce'n raic e fein. a Chait'' s e.e:eunty Movement were among tente between the superpowers is the Americans to contemplate, and NATO," he warned, "no matter enough. He wants your lives. "They are worried about lin discount this. They argue Cait: An dream seo ta ag cur I ] >!, pnlitir.s Lt'inass. Scan Mac the -|>-akers at a packed rally in desperately needed and Ireland the USA already has advanced what bribes you are oflered. It Already the Tories have promised what will happen once they that to cease hostilities after would be to exchange your birth- The RUC claim that their in aghaidh cuair! an Phapa. ta I-; ... Padilj McC'ilUs:®. Oeorge l.;ne:'.y Hall. Dublin last month in could take initiatives which could plans to put these weapons into the him to spend £750,000,000,000 boost- are released from custody. a set-back would dishearten C*.ill' -. Mu-hael O'l.earv but danii: sea. The whole of life is like that, right for a dish of nuclear ashes." ing America's arms drive. The crack-downs follow interroga- an ra 'iach ceart do teacht. ue'eiiee o: Irish neutrality lead to movement to break down They are being offered vast the republican supporters, ,1. ' done I"! it until this deput> Is it not," he asked. "One TTE quoted Wolfe Tone: Ireland rockets and missiles purchased at gation of informers who have Maire: O niuisc dream buile. Hundreds had to be turned away, the blocs. sums of money and a new whereas the time for a cease- II >in t he slums came along struggles passionately against some- '1 should not spin as a humble this cost are useless to Britain. come forward as a matter of dream nan chial, a stow. a- 'i\er 1.000 people, mostly the "But there is one big danger. It home." fire would have been after a •I'HK : •:n speeches were relayed. The And he concluded: "We are co- unending round of uncer- Maire: Mar ta eagla orthu If It Is successful In preventing the "No one should be in any doubt And the Tories are subsidising his sums of money but ad- Parliament. and Charles Haughov extraordinary attendance, as well trustees of the ecosphere, respon- tainty and violence is doubt- roimhi'. siting of the Cruise and Pershing about Ireland's strategic import- preparations for it, even by sacrific- mit that some informers are v ,i !: took ulace m their head a- Ma- equally crowded meeting sible lor the human future. The missiles — and it may well be — ance," said E. P. Thompson, "as it ing defence capability that might less true. But is that suffi- being helped to begin a "new There is no doubt however Cait: Eagla roimbo bPapa? 11 ,i! i ers a! JO Simiuiprhill Parade weeks before to hear Tony stature of a nation is not estimated could put Ireland and Ireland's is the neighbouring country to Bri- be what it pretends to be, defen- cient to make informers of life" in South Africa, Canada that republicans will be put- Cad chuige a mbeadh eagla ar I issence ol it IS HauKhey': Beiui. MP. shows that something is by counting heads, but by its self- neutrality in greater danger. Alter- tain where the whole mad plan to sive. them ? and Australia. ting on their thinking caps einnc roinih a Naofacht'.' , ,intn:! menl to rehousine people -'uring m the soul of young Ire- native sites on aircraft and sub- respect. its sense of identity. By inn [ lie inner • it\ whose resi bring about the downfall of West- Thousands of jobs are to be and considering where to go Maire: Mar ni chreidcaim siad land the-e days which is full of marines in the North Atlantic are vigilantly defending its neutrality 11• i>t .,i popul.i' ii m has halved ern civilisation is being fought out. sacrificed as the navy is run down. Fr Denis Faul has stated The disarray the informers' next. go bhltnl se naofa m aon chor. lor the tuUire already being planned to meet that Ireland will be making the greatest Hi,, uniiv ,.vi-ii though iiir "Neutrality In the form of opting British defence is being sacrificed Tuganti siad ain-Chrio: t air. eventuality. Ireland would be right contribution it can to that, as well j. .,- a lav. In expanded three What can a small country like out does not exist. But neutrality to American aggression. Cait: In the centre of all that, as the as to the cause of European and O go sabhailfidh Dia sum. ;, i' lirmumu back the residential Ireland do lor peace?" aske 1 E. P. in the form of opting In to struggle world peace.'' UT to give the dirty scheme a a Mhairc. An as a meabhair Thompson, and he put the same North Atlantic becomes of central E im.eila! Mil mean:- restoring the for peace is an extraordinary op- The packed meeting applauded good laundering the President UNIONIST BIG-SHOT BLAMES C.I.A. ata siad'.' j... the e;i and eontrollintr question at crowded meetings In strategic importance. Moves to end portunity. We must begin to is invited to address both Houses Ireland's neutrality, out of sight the presence of Peadar O'Donnell, Maire: Nar dhuirt me anois expansion ol office blocks Maynooth, Galway, where Labour break the cold war down in our aged 89. who was one of the first of Parliament. We hope a large ^JNIONIST leader Mr Moly- murder and torture. It has That this is American policy and out of earshot of the mass of beag leat gur dream buile iad? i:;• • I,,ad schemes The :'7-aere s'te Mayor Michael D. Higgins laid on a own time, force a relaxation of ad- to suggest a mass rally on neu- number of Labour MPs find pres- neux has astonished his been alleged that they had a has been pointed out in the Irish . • to the Custom House as reception for him—Derry, Coleralne ordinary Irish people, will inevit- sing constituency duties. Cail: O is iior duir gur dliuirt versary tension and security pos- trality of this kind and who has Parliamentary colleagues by as- hand in the de-stabilisation of Democrat for years. Whether 1;,: a> Stephen's Green is to be and Belfast over the ensuing week. ably be taken to meet this even- tures among the superpowers. The occasion is a test of the sin- ach ta lanlc agu - buile ami a tuality. spent his life fighting progressive serting that he has evidence Poland. And needless to say the C.I.A. is involved in this :•)!! iliseil and turned into ;> Ireland is not a small country at "This gives a unique role to na- and republican causes. cerity of Mr Foot, in particular of M haii < - .-. i;. of housiim. businesses ami they are up to their necks in El way will doubtless emerge if ill. he answered. "Ireland Is a "Thus the very success of the tions like Ireland which have main- Radio Telefis Eireann reported a the genuineness of his promise of that some of the killings in the Maire: Ta i ndomhnach agus Salvador. and when the Unionist leader c: nimiinit v leisure comnlev. meeting at which the auxiliary unilateral disarmament. And, be- six counties that have been as- sen buile creulimh an ceann is , is to he a lug new com Bishop had spoken, but did not jay, he abstained on the Prevention disclores his evidence. jii.a,:;v school in Marlboro Street cribed to the I.R.A. or the measa amuigh. mention E. P. Thompson's name. of Terrorism Act. Why not abstain But why would they want to nundreds of flats are to haw U.V.F. have really been carried Cait: Ni fohur no gurb ea. a How's that for censorship? What on President Reagan? to keep the six counties de- There is a real danger that v: uvers installed, the Corporation's WHO GETS THE GERMAN MONEY? Mhairc. ma thugann siad rud out by a Washington-controlled stabilized. According to Mr pursuing the anti-imperialist !i and maintenance budset is price neutrality? mar .-in ai an bPapa. an fear it'FSI Gwman.v is spending litical and propaganda causes silent on the subject. Even the C.I.A. hit force. Molvneux it is because they struggle in the way the republi- • i). ureally expanded There is to bocht ci iir. ' larg> amounts of money in the Federal Republic supports. It "Guardian" has maintained a sur- want to get the Republic into cans are doing at present could !,.. ., lee programme of investment prising silence. For example when COLERAINE FOR Maire: () mrnse. a stoir. liar Ireland to push its propaganda raises the question too as to who That dirty tricks are a N.A.T.O. so that they can use result in a reactionary deal and in new jobs and in special education point o: view. This is shown by has been in receipt of this money. a conference to instigate a national cheas siad Mac De na bac Labour elected speciality of that agency is well its territory for war purposes, possibly this was what Haughey s< hemes and the giant Eastern by- a rtnealmg answer which was THE reply to the parliamentary campaign against the "Berufsver- leis an bPapa. pa-. road, which threatened sev- THE CHOP and the more trouble there i»j went to America about. It jiv.-u m the Bundestag to a ones- ' question claimed some success bote" in Britain was held in Lon- R CHRISTY KIRWAN was known. They destabilised Chile r .1 old communities, is to be Cait: Ach siad na Gmdaigh a r turn alxe.it the amount West Ger- by the German authorities in com- don in 1978 the "Guardian" sent recently elected Vice-President HE report of the Chilver com- and brought down the left in the six counties the more happened before, in 1921 for in- -eel died The private motor-ear rinne e sin. a Mhaire. agus ni na main spent in EEC States in batting what they called "nega- one of the leading reporters. He of the Irish Transport and General T mittee has been pigeon-holed. Government of Allende, an Britain will wish to get rid of stance. \uthin tlie canals is to be con- Protastuin . . . tive" attitudes m the countries lis- was clearly interested. But noth- Workers' Union, following the death As was reported In the "Irish event followed by orgies of them. trolled. Numerous reforms In the countering criticism of the so- Maire: Mar a cheile uihg iad, a e ilisv Berufsverbote " ted including Ireland This was ing appeared in the paper. of Mr Tom O'Brien after a six- Democrat" last month, it proposed The ideal position would be s.ieial welfare system are promised, month period in that office Mr to do away with an important stoir. Nil ach creideamh ceart I . . Berufsverbote" is the law done by diplomatic and other rep- I'jiHE BBC did break the official one where there was a Labour and t.he CurraKh detention camp is Kirwan was formerly in charge of Catholic teachers' training college. amham ami . . . to lie closed. There is to 1m1 a tax wim n says that no comintuust can resentatives abroad who -organ- ' silence on the matter once by a Movement in Britain dedicated the transport, power and com- Obviously this would be helpful to D. MAC A. on derelict sites be employed in the West German ised conferences, had discussions features programme on television to restoring Ireland's national munications sections of the union the Unionists, but It would never OXFORD MARMALADE public service and which has led individually with journalists and dealing with the Berufsverbote. The territory without strings, and Both Haughev and Garret Fit/- and has been 37 years a union get the twentysix counties Into the ^FTER the disgraceful scenes at to the wholeseale persecution of with representatives of television programme expressed no opinion lodge is Bedford exactly fifty miles Labour-Republican unity in Cieiald came down to Summerhill member, having risen through all war alliance, the supreme object of left-wing teachers and civil ser- and radio and held meetings in but, gave "both sides" an equal St Nicholas's Church, Liver- away. Parade to see Gregory and his grades from shop-steward up. He British and American policy in Ireland campaigning for strict POLISH REPLY servants, many of whom have lost trade union, schools, technical col- amount of time in the traditional friends. Michael O'L.eary who rep- now joins Mi- John Carroll, Union Ireland. pool, when Orangemen (some from How's that for stirring the neutrality. Could we all work resents the same constituency and their jobs as a result. leges and universities." BBC style. Most viewers saw through the rather obnoxious President, and Mr Michael Mullen, So the New University of Ulster Glasgow) shouted down the Arch- marmalade? towards that? who was elected behind Gregory The written answer reveals that Left-wing papers like "Tribune" TO BRITAIN spokesman for the "official view" General Secretary, on the top floor is to get the chop. It Is to be without reaching the quota, would in 1976 the German Government and the "New Statesman" have bishop of Canterbury, the same and appreciated the obvious good of Liberty Hall in running Ireland's amalgamated with the Polytechnic. I >OLAND has counter - attacked not come. Pit/Gerald was pessi- spent £40,000 for this purpose alone given details on the crude and bla- boys have been stirring it up in Ox- Britain in response to British r qualities of the victims. The head largest union. It is pointed out that the N.U.U. mistic about everything, thev said, in Ireland, in 1977 £, i0.000 and in tant ways in which political dis- of the German body responsible situated at Coleralne, has been un- ford. What's worse, they're making accusations of repression at the obsessed with the figures for the 1978 £60,000, If so much money is crimination is practised in West The election generated a certain for enforcing the purge of left- able to attract more than 2,ooo stu- European Security Conference in budget deficit and unprepared for admitted to have been spent for Germany, but these do not have a amount of excitement and public a habit of it, and the "Oxford Mail" FRESH EVIDENCE IN wingers was interviewed and he so dents. Madrid. the discussion on specific reforms just this one item, how much has mass circulation, but the Establish- interest, mainly because of an distressed one very unpolitical lady doesn't like It. The British delegates had claimed in the Dublin citv area which they been spent for the many other po- ment press has been virtually article in the "Sunday Press" al- It would also fee at well to rer wanted. Hauuhey was professional. that she cried out, "You can al- leging an attempted takeover-bid mind people that It failed to attract that the imposition of martial law He took away their proposals and most see his Brown Shirt." for the Union by members of Sinn students beoause It was put in the It writes: "Once again questions CONLON CASE in Poland broke the Helsinki agreeement and that Polish autho- came back with more of his own There has been no evidence of Fein the Workers Party. This was wrong place. The proper place was are being asked about the cost to QIUSEPPE CONLON was Clyde University, says he has For much of the time, they felt based on an anonymous circular Derry, the second biggest city In rities should open negotiations with any particular debate on this found new evidence which they were "pushing an open door" SOME ELECTION COMMENTS distributed among the delegates the six counties, but Derry was re- the ratepayers of Oxford of the Belfastman who was Solidarity. question in Ireland, but the money calls the earlier findings into The Poles replied that Britain with Haughey. He too seemed to le DEPLORE the gullibility of the shocking reversal of orinciple. It has admittedly been spent, so the drawing attention to the consider- fused a University for sectarian rea- policing a demonstration they convicted for 12 years in 1976 gripped by a yision of making a was responsible for torture in I Irish people. For them to for- was a very big mistake."—Labour question remains who got it? And able number of SFWP members sons, and the N.U.U. was built In never wanted in the first place." for allegedly handling explo- doubt. worthwhile impact on inner Dublin give Fianna Fail for what that TD Sean Treacy. who have obtained official jobs in the wilds. Northern Ireland and had no right how much else has been spent in sives and who died shortly Mr. Fitt had given Giuseppe to throw stones. He asked how Bri- After lie was elected Taoiseach party has done between 1977 and "The Fianna Fail Party has the union over the past few years promoting political causes strongly Apparently there is a memorial tain would react if other countries with the help of Gregory's vote he 1981 appalls and disappoints me" changed in three ways. It has lost and criticising the policies of the afterwards still protesting Conlon a death-bed promise supported by West Germany. in Oxford to two Protestant insisted on dialogue between the came back to Summerhill to make —former Minister for Industry and its national purpose. It has be- SFWP as "anti-national". to help clear his name. The NEWS BRIEFS martyrs who were executed in 1553. his innocence. authorities in the North and repre- clear that he was not going to Commerce Justin Keating. come the party of big business. The It is doubtful if these regrettable HE well-breeched electors of Home Office will be reluctant sentatives of the Catholic Church, renege on the document "You 'men of no property' don't count tactics had much effect on the out- Six months ago Mr Ian Paisley don't mind if Fianna Fail takes "It is a pity that Labour in Gov- T Hillhead, Glasgow's west-end Now Gerry Fitt has gone to allow this to happen, for Protestant leaders and the IRA. any more, and it has'renounced the LATE NEWS come of the election, which saw Mr cooked up the idea of using the some credit for this document." he ernment did not support my posi- snob town, elected Mr Roy Jenkins high moral standards which Mr De OUR Kirwan win comfortably over Mr memorial as a centre from which to the Home Office along it would open up the whole The British delegation dismissed said. He went with them to Bel- tion and take their stand when it their M.P. He got Britain into the the suggestion as hypothetical, but Valera always insisted on. Some Desmond Geraghty, former editor w) foment opposition to the Pope's with other MPs to submit affair of the Guildford bomb- ton's pub on Sumnierhill Parade would have counted for something. TELEPHONE EEC by revolting against Labour it seems to us the Poles had a to have a drink afterwards. Had they been prepared to push time before he died my father said of the union's magazine "Liberty", policy. He Introduced the anti- visit later this year. That time Ox- new evidence in the case. The ings, which was exposed in to me 'The tree we have planted is NUMBER who was the other main contender point! rpONY Gregory is not only a the position, threatening if neces- Irish Prevention of Terrorism Act. ford had to pay £6,200. prosecution case which led the "New Statesman" some ' social worker: he is also a sary to withdraw their support, it is rotten; the only thing to do is to IS and a member of SFWP and who • • * cut it down '—former Fianna Fail generally got the support of the to Mr. Conlon's conviction months ago and which stinks socialist and republican He unlikely that as a partner in Coali- 01 228-1512 On this occasion he imported tion they could have been ignored, Minister Kevin Boland. political Left within the Union. At the annual conference of was based on forensic tests. to high heaven as an almost "Liberation" (president Lord Brock- Orangemen from the six counties, used to be in the Official Re- as it was mistakenly felt that 1 LL these general officers of the Now a tpp forensic expert, certain act of gross injustice E.E.C. NO HELP way) two Connolly Association Liverpool and Glasgow. The near- publican movement in the early could be."—Mr Jim Kemmy, TD. . A ITGWU are members of the Dr. Brian Caddy, senior lec- to the people convicted of resolutions were passed unanimous- 1970s. when he was an admirer and Labour Party, to which the union is est place to Oxford with anything friend of the lale Seanius Costello. "It seems to me natural that any SOME ELECTION WITTICISMS ly. One proposed by Noel Gordon turer in forensics at Strath- them. affiliated; although it is probably remotely resembling an Orange TO IRISH UNITY He left the Officials when Costcllo outsider looking at the two parties, r condemned Tory efforts to subvert i |iHE general election, as inevit- formed by the fall of the Govern- true to say that most rank-and-file did and after the shooting and Fianna Fail and Labour, would see the neutrality of Ireland and * PEW years ago the Irish able in Ireland, gave birth to ment from being the "Mercs and members of the union vote Fianna 1 bitterness which led to Costellos that In a large number of areas welcomed antl-partitionlst senti- * people were bamboozled into various witticisms and political perks party" to being "the Mer- Fail in general elections. There is assassination, he vowed he would there Is more common ground be- ment in the Labour Party. Roger voting themselves into the Com- jokes. curials", and he thinks we are now considerable disgruntlement with not join another partv again hut tween them than there would be Kelly proposed the other which de- mon Market by assurances that the Mr Michael O'Leary acidly ob- entering the reign of Gregory the the Labour Party's pro-Coalition KEMMY STARTS NEW PARTY would remain independent. between Labour and Fine Gael."— manded the repeal of the Preven- "economic border would disappear", served of the SFWP members, as Great! stand in Liberty Hall these days His vote has not been bought by Mr Charles Haughey, TO. tion of Terrorism Act. rrWO-NATIONIST indepedent beat the Republic with. There the implication being that this they tore through the distinguished While an unknown grafflti-wnter and Mr John Carroll was one of Kemmy indicating that he Fianna Fail. He has said he will "Now that the Coalition is drawing • • • socialist T. D. Jim Kemmy will be no campaign that might be prepared to come in. would lead to the end of the politi- vote on the issues as tliey arise He strangers' gallery and vaulted over in Limerick, having watched Mr the leading influences in getting cal border. to an end and we will look to a pos- the balcony into the Dail cham- of Limerick has started his own women should be allowed to feels stronglv about Irish neutra- Jim Kemmy vote against Garret the Labour Party Administrative Charles Haughay, biess him, Now a report written by two sible future coalition which could ber when they were locked out in party. It is called the "Demo- join the Orange Older. Church Mr. Kemmy is anxious to have lity There is a rule in the Dail FitzGerald to bring down the gov- Council to overrule the Labour TDs tried a neat trick that didn't work Irishmen and sponsored ty the include the SFWP and Fine Gael. the vote for Toiseach, that "their cratic Socialist" party. and State is another issue cal- an electoral pact with Sinn that everyone must wear a tie TDs ernment and then try and vote him on this issue prior to the formation when he appointed Fine Gael ex- European Commission hp- estab- Labour and SFWP have much in mode of entry was somewhat un- culated to drive a wedge be- Fein the Workers' Party, and it have lieen refused admission if back in again to no avail, in order of the new Government. The trade commissioner Burke back to the lished that „ since entn into the common, only their strategies are orthodox, but there could be no to keep Charlie Haughey out, was unions have been taken for granted It will campaign on women's tween sections of the Irish is said that the new party they came in polo-neck sweaters or different. The Taoiseach's ploy of E.E.C. Burke accepted, and this E.E.C. the two parts of -i-eland have doubting their eagerness." moved to urge local people to "Join by the parliamentary Labour Party rights, unemployment, "church people. might chal'enge their candi- cravats No one dared deny Tony including my name on Fine Gael would have meant a by-election not integrated but crept apart. Gregory access when he turned For Mr Oliver Flanagan the the Kemmy-kaze Party"! in recent years. The unions provide and state" and the north. dates if they decline. We do not election material in the con- which Fianna Fall might have won, The writers are Mr Pat Cox of up on the first dav in the Dail to media and the press had demeaned And radio listeners who heard the Labour Party with facilities and think S.F.W.P. can be lost to all stituency won me some votes. It ending their dependence on Tony The northern policy is set out TyiTH Mr. Kemmy are the Limerick's National Institute of put Fianna Fail into office "I ien- themselves so low in their attacks the first public interview with new money through affiliation fees, yet sense of integrity or realism. appealed to people who are Coali- Gregory. But there was such a thus : an end to our constitu- tiny Irish Socialist Party Higher Education and Mr Alastuir resent, lots of people who don't on parliamentarians in general and have negligible influence on policy. Fianna Fail Tanaiste and Minister rumpus at the ensuing Fine Gael and the British and Irish Com- We forecast that they will re- McCullough of Jordanstown Poly- have ties", he said tion by nature."—Labour TD Rualrl Mr Chaales Haughey in particular That is one of the reasons Irish tional claim to jurisdiction over for Finance, Ray MacSharry, will meeting that Mr Burke withdrew munist Organisation. fuse. technic. A new voice, and a very wel- Quinn. during the election campaign that labour politics are in the mess they the north, and the right of the have heard him announce that the his acceptance. The report records the better eco- come one. has come into Irish "Food subsidies have always been "they could go between the legs of coalition era of gloom and doom are and it will be interesting to see northern majority to stay part STOP PRESS: After much arm- The first person of promin- Who said that "Ireland is the nomic performance of the twenty- politics We are surp all readers one of Labour's fundamental prin- a duck." was over and that Ireland was now whether the changes at Liberty of Britain fofever if they wish. twisting, Mr Burke has accepted, ence to consider joining the country where the expected six counties, and blames part of of the "Irish Democrat" will wish ciples and Labour's supporting of For "Irish Times" columnist John entering a time of boom and Hall will make any difference in the the post of commissioner and re- The selection of "women's new party was Conor Cruise never happens and the unex- the failure in the north to the him well their removal in the Budget was a Healy, Labour has been trans- period ahead. bloom! One only wishes it were! signed from Fine Gael. rights" is to pick up a stick toO'Brien who has written to Mr. pected always does"? troubles and part to the recession. 4 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT April 1982 April 1982 THE IRrSH DEMOCRAT S THE THE REASON I LEFT THE GLENS THREE-COLOURED RIBBON LETTERS YOU WANT TO READ (A ballad of Easter Week) "The Letters of O'Casey. Volume 1 1910-1941". Edited by David Krause. (Macmillan Publishing Co Inc. New \ •;.) i'tii L25 MULLINGAR I HAD a true love, if ever a girl had one, Re-issued OF SWEET 1 I had a true love, a brave lad was he; ^AVID Krause is to be congrat- you feel more in the presence of not to be so belligerent' referring In one part of the book Or I WALKED through the city a stranger One fine Easter Monday all with his gallant comrades ulated for collecting the letters an extraordinary personality. to the particular controversy that Krause says that 0 Casey won In the land I can never call home He started away for to set old Ireland free happened to be raging at the time. many battles but lost many wars" i cast a sad notion across me MAYO of this Irish dramatist of genius. Through the letters 0 Casey grows At another time the playwright ad- On reflection, however. I am con- Sn search of my fortune to roam. CHORUS O'Casey corresponded mainly with on the reader. mitted he was 1 too vehement" and vinced that 0 Casey s Intervention 3'm weary of working and drinking IT was late last night I heard the people living in Ireland, Britain, news All around my hat I wear a three-coloured ribbon-o ULSTER POEMS THE letters are of many different that he was not calm enough to in controversy did influence eventl And a week's wages left in the bar the U.S.A., Germany and the And God, it's a shame tor to use a friend's name That nearly broke my heart; All around my hat until death comes to me; "Mosaic", by John Hewitt types. There are the letters to make a good critic. Yet another in the long run. I think the con the U.S.S.R In many cases Dr Just to beg for the price of a jar. A soldier boy came to our door And if anybody's asking me why do I wear it, 'Blackstaff. £3.50). friends like Gabriel Fallon, George time he declared that statements troversies over the language and It's all for my true love I never more shall see, Krause had to go and see those Nathan, and Brooks Atkinson, that were "too peaceable were worth- the use of liturgy in The Silver And said, You now must part, IOHN Hewitt's first poem was less. The combination of shyness Tassie strengthened the hands of CHORUS All from your darling Johnny '' published in 1929 when he was still alive who had exchanged let- Lady Gregory etc. There are the His bandolier around him, his bright bayonet shining, and bad eyesight may have made those who wanted a more liberal Lremember that bright April morning Whom you loved long years ago twenty-two As he approaches his ters with the dramatist. This must letters to Macmillan about the His short Service rifle, a beauty to see, It difficult for him to get on well theatre in Ireland. In his book on WhPn I left home to travel afar And who now lies deadly wounded seventy-fifth birthday this four- have taken many years and have publication of plays, articles and There was joy in his eyes, though he left me behind him with people In public. Also like the English theatre called The But to work till you're dead In the Glens of Sweet Mayo." teenth collection exhibits the vir- short stories and one learns And started away for to set old Ireland free. tues he has acquired since then- involved a great deal of time, For one room and a bed through these about all the books many shy people when he man- Stinging Wasp' It can be conceded fastidiousness in language, meter— money and energy. Students of O'Casey read, for he had an ar- aged to put his feelings into words that he wrote with unnecessary That's not the reason I left Mullingar. My love he was a rebel boy, He whispered : "Goodbye, love, old Ireland is calling," and stanza, reserve, avoidance of drama and Irish politics will ever rangement with the publisher to he tended to express himself with ferocity, but 1 am convinced he He loved sweet liberty, High over Dublin the tricolour flies ; display, strong sense of place and Ah, this London's a city of heartbreak be in David Krause's debt for his supply him with any books he re- too much vigour. Hence the row pontributed towards making the In nineteen and sixteen he fought In the streets of the city the foemen are falling, concern for the past. His gravitas On a Friday there's friends by the score quired. Then there are the let- over the Countess Marklevicz's be- English theatre less trivial and pre- To set old Ireland free. And the wee birds are singing ' Old Ireland arise." was there from the start. He has immense work. Ah, but when the pay's finished on Monday defined himself as an Irishman of ters about Royalties, charges for the longing to the Volunteers and the occupied with the commonplace. In When the Black and Tans were A friend's not a friend anymore. In praying and watching the dark days passed over, Protestant stock, by profession an hire of halls, overheads, and de- Irish Citizen Army. his polemics with James Agate raging x With the exception of dipping in- The working day seems never ending, The roar of the guns brought no message to me; art-gallery man, politically a man tails about suggested changes in O'Casey correctly predicted that From a shovel and pick there's no break, He never feared the foe; of the Left. He early chose a to the correspondence of Marx and I prayed for old Ireland, I prayed for my lover, parts of the plays or autobiograph- ^F course it could be said that a a National Theatre would en- And when you're not working you're spending It was Free State guns that shot slow voice' and an audience of my Engels I have never been very That he might be saved and old Ireland be free. ies. In these O'Casey is revealed as ^ writer is like a violinist and courage something more profound That fortune you left home to make. my (eve. own kind.' t. keen on reading the letters of a very astute businessman with a has to keep in practice and that than Not;! Coward and J. 8 In the Glens ol Sweet Mayo. The struggle was ended, they brought me the story, Several poems in Mosaic reas- writers, politicians or scientists. I keen knowledge of the le^ai as- the controversies 0 Casey engaged Priestley And for every man here that finds fortune The last whispered message he sent back to me: sert this complex identity. Style And goes home to tell of the tale, tried those ot Shaw and 0. H. Law- pects of publishing. Finally there in between plays enabled him to "I was true to my land, love, I fought for her glory, anrl For stonecutters' embody a Most import,-ntly. the letters cor- Each morning the Broadway is crowded Oh never mind your rebel boy, rence recently but found them te- ace the letters published in news- keep his writing pen in trim. With And gave up my life for to set old Ireland free." puritan faith in hard-won sincerity rect the; »iew ttiut 0 Casey was ever With man's the thousand who failed, But come along with me; papers, ail of which provoked a personality as complex as and self-disciplme, while their dious, My experience with antHriih. His an^er at A. E. re- So young men of Ireland take warning Money I have and plenty lyiv.-al brevity recalls those verses fierce controversy. 0 Casey's all attempts at explana- So all around my hat I'll wear a three-coloured ribbon-o 0 Casey's letters has been pro- garding tiie latler's art policy In tne In London you never will find And married we will be. All around my hat I'll wear the green, white and gold jotted in margins by mediaeval tion fall short of the whole truth. foundly different. As you read let- "Irish Statesman ' is amazing in its That gold at the end of the rainbow For what's the use in mourning And if anybody's asking me why do I wear it, copyists—Planter virtues linked to In one letter from Charlotte Shaw The only thing Is to get the letters intensity. One suspects, however Vou might just have left it behind. For a lad that now lies low It's all for my true love I'll never more behold. a Gaelic tradition: one remembers tar aner letter with effortless ease to O'Casey she urges him to try and see for yourself. that 0 Casey lumped A.F. to- how he found ,1 personal symbol With the worms crawling round his gether with those Directors of tne P. COOKSEY (Copyright Banshee Music) in the round tow 1 discovered with- PEADAR O'CEARNAIGH. Abbey Thea'^e who opposed The eyes in the Planters Gothic of his ail- Silver Tassie' and regarded them In the Glens of Sweet Mayo." centra! church at Kilmore. County all as a nest of vipers." O'Casay Armagh. In 'The Covenanter's UNIQUE SWING OF OUR SPEECH seemed to feel passionately that grave' he regrets any weakening of JAMES LARKIN If you had all the money death' a small tragedy o: v.,st im- Protestant, tradition, while in 'Oc- "Collected Plays I: The Flats : his per anai intervention In irisii The French and Germans own plication Vet a genial h incur cultural anti political matters IN Dublin city in nineteen thirteen BANTRY BAY tober sonnets he writes of Popes, The Farm ; Guests," by John Or If you had all the glittering gold approvingly of 'good John' < XXIII' tempers the exploration or t :e ten- could radically alter the course 0' The boss was rich and the poor were slaves, Boyd (Blackstaft, C6.95) The King has on his throne, but with nonconformist disdain of sions that beset a family v.iuui its NEXT MONTH events. There is no doubt that his The women working and the children starving Interest jn things Irish never Or if you owned all the little boats • S I'm sitting all alone in the gloaming, his latest successor: survival is threatened • Along came Larkin like a mighty wave. ** It might have been but yesterday, KITING editorially in Lagan wavered. There was no book by a That are sailing here below, on coloured box we've watched That we watched the fisher sails all homing. w j many years ago John Boyd major Irish writer that was not The workmen cringed when the bossman told us I would rather have my rebel boy reaction bent J N TUe Farm the 'tic dies are r Till the little herring fleet at anohor lay. to kiss numb tarmac on each urged that the northern Irish read by the dramatist soon a!te; Seventy hours was our week chore, In the Glens of Sweet Mayo. piesent only as echoes, mainly publication. Then the fisher girls with baskets swinging, brisk descent. writer should 'train his ears to Desmond We asked for little and less was granted of Limbeg drums. The»tfStmily is Greaves Came running down the old stone way, This lack of sympathy for Cath- less getting little we asked for more. catch the unique swing of our now a protestant one. with a black The reissue ol these letters will "But there is one request I have Every lassie to her sailor lad was singing, olicism, it must be said, is a matter speech: train his eyes to note the sheep in the person 0: Mac, a re- Reviews * undoubtedly renew an interest in The month of August the bossman told us A welcome back to Bantry Bay. of temperament and not of poli- And grant it If you please, natural beauty of our hills and the the plays of OCasey. It is to be tics. Where his notions of seem- dundant shipyard worker with so- No Union man for him could work, it is not much I have to ask hoped that producers at both pro- liness are engaged, for example in unnatural ugliness oi' our towns: cialist tendencies. Tin- family's Dr. Krause's We stood by Larkin and told the bossnian Then we heard the piper's sweet note tuning, fessional and amateur level will But 'twill set my heart at ease. 'A great headmaster and 'Memorial above all, he must study the subtle We'd fight or die, but we would not shirk. And all the lassies turned to hear: house and four fields have been consider showing them more fre- Have pity on a poor fair maid service,' he is even more ironical psychology of our people.' The ad- As they mingled with a soft voice crooning, willed away from Mac m favour of Second Volume quently. Eight months we fought and eight months we starved, Who knows not where to go and iconoclastic towards offending vice was largely lost on his con- Till the music floated down the wooden pier. his son, a man more interested in GERARD CURRAN. We stood by Larkin through thick and thin Come along with me and seek my dignitaries of his own side "Save you kindly colleens all," said the piper, temporaries—it was the mid-forties hard cash than in his country heri- But foodless homes and the cry of children love "Hands across and trip it while I play." fPHE poetic sequence has long — most of whom (Robert Greacen, tage. In contrast, Mac longs to It broke our hearts and we could not win. In the Glens of Sweet Mayo.'' And a tender sound of song and merry dancing -*- been a preferred vehicle for Roy McFadden and Louise Mc- leave the city and end his days as Then Larkin left us, we seemed defeated, Stole softly over Bantry Bay. John Hewitt s subtly interconnec- Neice for example) had their eye a farmer. Other tensions emerge. IT ALL ENDED IN 1954 ted thought and feeling In The night was black for the working man, fixed on the London market. Since Mac's daughter wants to forget 'Variations on a theme' he reflects "Belfast Corporation Tram- the deliberations of the Depart- Along came Connolly with new hope and counsel As I'm sitting all alone in the gloaming, then John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney. her native area while her hus- LOVELY on mini-skirts, nudity in classical ways", by J M. Maybin ment of Transport and appro- His motto was that we'd rise again. The shadows of the past draw near, Seamus Deane. Derek Mahon. band is studying Irish in order to art, Europeon galleries and shffts priate government minister And I see the loving faces round me John Montague, James Simmons, identify himself with it: the city- (Light Rail Transit Associa- In nineteen sixteen in Dublin city of artistic taste, to end character- That used to glad the old brown pier. istically with an avowal of faitll Brian Friel, Brian Moore and before the first piece of rail The English soldiers, they burnt our town, SHANNON bred generation is uneasy in the tion, 13a The Precinct, Brox- Some are gone up on their last lov'd homing. in aesthetic absolutes: many others have lent a variety of could be ordered. They shot our leaders, they shelled our buildings, presence of rustic bigotry; Mac's bourne, Herts, £1.50). Some are left, but they are old and grey Only when earth spins, bare, voices to that northern distinctive- urban, mercenary son is cuckolded The harp was buried beneath the crown. ''THIS book traces the history RIVER And we're waiting for the tide in the gloaming, unmanned, ness. Yet it has been a rare thing by the local squire. This is a ''^HE electric trams served a shrinking or exploding sphere, of the tram services (... n They shot MacDermotf and hearse and Plunkett, To sail up on the Great High-way lowed the breakdown of sectarian drama of traditional and conven- Belfast for almost a half- rROM high on Cavans Cuilcagh To the land of rest unending, will Art's last values disappear. their inauguration until the They shot MacDonagh and Clarke the Brave ly the awful realities that have fol- tional rather than political antag- century. Belfast Corporation From bleak Kilniainham they took their bodies Mountains All peacefully from Bantry Bay. Characteristically again Mosaic final run in February, 1954, by includes, in 'The ruins answer,' a lowed the breakdown of sectarian onisms. Yet it illuminates many took over the assets oi the To Arbour Hill to a quicklime grave. There runs a clear crystal stream, government. With a few excep- which time motor and trolley- long poem in Spenserian stanzas of crannies of northern life. horse-drawn tram company on buses had taken over their But last of all of the seven leaders The source of health and happiness general metaphysical and moral in- tions—Friel's play The Freedom of January 1st, 1905 and. before functions. Details are given ol I'll sing the praise of James Connolly, And fields of pastures green. tent. It is not Hewitt at his best, the City, some poems by Deane and The third play. Guests, is cen- the thought being too abstract and the end of the year, had con- The voice of justice, the voice of freedom, The hand of man could ne'er Simmons, little else—the tendency tred on a real event, the casual all trams in service, routes, GENERAL GUINNESS not at ease in the verse. Another He gave his life that men might be free. compete has been to burrow beneath the verted the thirty-three miles of fares and finances of transport sequence, The Curfew Tower,' tells bombing of a widow's home. The With the gifts that she bestows; VOU'VE heard of General Wellington, who won at Waterloo, violence in search of atavistic track to electric traction. Apart department. Belfast being what a great deal about its author. characters belong to the professional But there's a good old Irishman I'll mention unto you, from the installation of the The birds sing out their praises Stoically confronting age and lone- causes Heaney and Hewitt have class, living in the university area it is. it should surprise no-one to He comes from dear old Dublin, he's a man we all applaud, Where the lovely Shannon flows. liness he looks back to holidays he unearthed quite different ones and of Belfast. Tenderness, lust, an- electric catenary, one hundred discover how the tram routes For he always finds a corkscrew far more handy than a sword, AN SCEILPIN DRAIGHNEACH spent in this village of Cushendall have expressed them in some fine ger, frustration, charity, resigna- and seventy new trams were illustrate the sectarian pattern He's good old General Guinness, >*e's a soldier strong and 'stout'. with his 'dark spouse,' now dead. poetry. tion and despair are brought into received from the builders, of population distribution. Who &*AIDIN chiuin dar eirios arnach faoi bharrai coillte Flowing gently through the land Found on every 'bottle-front' and he can't be done without, His memories crystallize into the focus against a background of des- wouldn't have guessed that in Queen of all that she surveys His noble name has world wide fame from every heart he cheers. fifty horse-trams converted to Cinnte caitheadh saighead liom 's mo leigheas ni raibh le fail story of another lonely man, the truction and panic. All this is skill- Chidren's cries light up the skies Good old General Guinness of the Dublin 'booseliers'. electric propulsion, six depots the inter-war years the workers' No gur dhearcas an bhruinneal mheidhreach ar bhruach na sceilpe Francis Turnly (not Turnley as he When John Boyd himself, at the fully managed, with the widow's On her pleasant waterways spells it) who raised a curious edi- services between Queen's Island draighne age of about sixty, turned to husband presiding sardonically rebuilt or adapted and one new Ambling on by lush green banks This hale and hearty warrior is worshipped in the ranks, fice here about 1810. By touching and the Shankill and Windsor Gheit 1110 chroi le meidhir ach nior eirigh liom i fhail, drama he kept to his own prescrip- over a cocktail party commemor- depot built Where fern and wild flowers grow He does his task inside the cask as well as in the tanks, up a few known facts John Hew- Road areas stretched the capa- tion. The Flats, his first play ating the anniversary of his Tratlinoinin ag teacht on gceol dom sea dhearc me aris, mo stoirin And he bears the brunt on every front, north, south, east and west itt makes of Turnly a mask city of the trams to their The white thorn hedges sway with draws its strength from working- death. From this era of "advanced" Bhi an faoina huachtar a chludodh muirt araon And he wears about ten thousand canteen medals on his chest, through which to voice admira- pride class Belfast speech, ! com the wit limits ? Bhi a folt an dhatli an oir blui chuirfeadh slacht ar mhna Chrioch He's good old General Guinness, he's won the world's applause, tion of the Protestant virtues of capitalism, one can only look Where the lovely Shannon flows. zeal, success, thoroughness, individ- of the city's streets, the rhetoric of It is easy to accept, on reading Fodhia For it's he who kept our spirits up in the midst of all the wars, back and admire the speed with However, the trams have Ion;? uality. its partisans. It is not necessary these plays, that Boyd has learnt 's mara bhfaighe me i le posadh is e mo loistin seal i gcill. Who was the first to flirt with Mademoiselle from Armentiers ? which decisions were taken and since gone and Belfast is th* Oh bounteous river, gracious friend to accept Boyd's belief (conveyed by from Chekhov, Brecht, Mollere, Mil- 's e'n trua gan rue mo smoilin agus leanfainn trid an goeo i Why, good old General Guinness of the Dublin boosrliers. John Hewitt will not be slotted ler and O'Casey, as the introducer brought to fruition in the early worse for it. This well-illus- May you ever fertile be, Gerard Donellan in the play) that into any phase or school. He is claims. At this time, when drama trated paper-back of eighty-four Blieinn ag seinm chcoil di go n-eireodh an la ban, Let none despoil you on your way years of the century. A British All over Bonnie Scotland too the General is seen, what he has aspired to be, a 'local jobs and housing are the real is- in English has generally retreated Dha bhfaighinnse seonbhean chrionna 'mbeadh bo aici no caora To the arms of the Sea. city authority contemplating pages is good value at today's They've given him the freedom of the town of Aberdeen, poet,' achieving in Mosaic a calm sues. The political cause of the from public life, praise is due to Thiomanfainn chun nr'gh i le go mbainfinn aisti greann. Soon by your shore I will reside book prices for those who want From Inverness to Galashiels he keeps them warm and bright, but energetic expression for his conflict that ha,s led to the catho- the Belfast playwright who has building a mile of tramway to- To rest In sweet repose to refresh their memories or Ta mna na leanna ag caineadli 's nar fhoire orthu losa They love to gather roon' him och on every moonlit night, lifelong preoccupation, the fitting of lic Donellan family being under guided it back to its proper place day would have to wait at least For my heart lies there just win a bet on the route Nuair a bhionn an sparan spionta 's ar mo chroi a bhionn an bron He's good old General Guinness, he's as good as Scottish broth, his detached, elegiac perception of at the centre of society's debate In the scented air siege in their flat is almost irrele- two years for the report of the number of the trams which ran Is e me shuil go bhfailghinnse aris i ach mo lean ni bhfaighead na 'Twas he who turned the Firth of Forth into the Firth of Froth, reality into the mosaic of the Irish about itself. Where the lovely Shannon flows. vant. There is little plot; the sub- obligatory "consultants" and along Cliftonville Road. choiche i. All Scotsmen dance the Highland Fling and shout when he appears and Ulster experience. ject is 'one family, one day, one SEAMUS TREACY. probably another year or so for BRIAN WILKINSON 's gur gheall le saighcad na spile i 's nacli cloite an galar e an gra. SEAN DOYLE. Hurrah for General Guinness and the Dublin booseliers! SEAMU8 TREACY. 9 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT April 1982

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|/h iviv.UAbuiMK y is an occult an: r religion ami is as dangerous A surfeit of facts »s bla< k nia'-': said ilie Rev 1) I U 'OULDN'T lay a bet on i nach", for I learned that Mr Corrigan was the intrepid avia- 1 ugg Vii-.ii "I St Pauls Church. but I feel pretty sure tha t Martiali. ;n a speech against "the Rodgers & Hummerstein's ever by tor who flew from New York in mi e\ ils in MM) 'lety' D Telegraph pit pulur musical "Oklahoma' 1938 in a rickety old flying ma- chine without adequate naviga- I he orange Older is a masonic was first produced in 1945; ye t Donal MacAmhlaigh grouping Two months ago the it wasn't until two years later, tional aids and with a leaking Orange Oroer m Northern Ireland in the back-end of 1947, that 1 petrol tank — not cross conti- ottered .lames Prior 10,000 volun- nent to land in sunny California heard any of the songs from it unremitting flood of information cess nowadays to the events of teers trained m the use of arms as was his intention, but trans- —the occasion being an ama- and counter information, of con- the past fifty years or so in the and population control. They Atlantic to land in Baldonnell teur production of it in the flicting views and opinions, of form of newsreels, micro-film, would have been B-Speeials by an- Airport in Co Dublin ! other name (ieneral Training Depot of the argument and speculation nowa- printed matter and what have This occurred in 1938 and so As Paisley stands like a stub- Curragh Camp where 1 was days that the mind can't but you that we need never be born o\ in the path of the British undergoing my basic training. recoil from it all occasionally under the same kind of misap- 1 should indeed have known of it even without the advantage of Government, it is a not unreason- It would he inconceivable to- and long for some quiet oasis of prehension about major events able assumption that the British the wireless and papers which I day that so popular a musical innocence or ignorance or may- of fairly recent history as were Security Services have contem- referred to earlier in the page ! show could he in existence for be both. people of earlier times about plated his demise. The suggestion events before their day. Another event — a disaster as is naturallv ridiculed by official two years without everyone 1 know a man who is so ad- is fitting in an almanac! — .sources they could hardly do being aware of it and even dicted to the reading of news- It is not too hard to be chronicled in this book was the otherwise." TIMES. willy-nilly having picked up papers that he can scarcely pass tempted to believe that if some- terrible bogslide in Co Kerry to- The European Commission ha.s most of the tunes ; there would a street stand or a newsagents how we could rid ourselves of wards the end of the last cen- submitted its report on Northern he no escaping it, what without buying some paper over the whole horrible burthen of tury which claimed the lives of Ireland social services. The re- with radio, television, records — and above the ones which he the past that we could begin all but one of a family of seven port states that standards are ex- most forms of music, but espe- would normally buy—or for that anew and make a better fist of tremely low and criticised the Brit- — a young girl who was spend- cially the popular, are so perva- matter rummaging in a refuge things—not that we would, of ish "there is wide-spread poverty ing the night with her grand- sive today that there is no re- bin if he sees some likely bit of mid uniquely high levels of depriv- course, but you could almost mother and who dreamed of maining in total ignorance of ation A quarter of the children newsprint sticking up. believe it. . . . the deaths of her parents and them although a very few surveyed who are entitled to free This man quite freely admits AN IRISH ALMANAC brothers and sisters. The bog people do manage to preserve meals do not get them and only 50 that he has lost the power of If you can believe the yarn, moved a distance of 14 miles, some kind of ivory-tower aloof- per cent of those entitled to rent retention he once had and that when the Almanac man, Old incredible as this may seem. irbales receive them. Less than ness ... I am thinking of the it is an effort to remember a Moore, was dying, one of his 6.) per cent ot those entitled to re- learned judge who asked, in the Two other memorable disas- fraction of the mass of informa- sons — or it may be his only ceive redundancy payment receive period when they were at the ters recalled are the drowning tion he waded through the pre- son — asked him how he'd go them and less than 80 per cent of height of their fame in the mid- of the Scotland-bound tatie vious day, but that he still feels on about maintaining the Alma- those eligible for fuel discount get 1960s, "Who are these Beatles ?" hokers from Achill and the their entitlement. The report he is missing out if he doesn't nac, what kind of predictions he burning to death of another tound Belfast "grotesquely lacking The reason I suppose that I make the effort. could make and so forth. And group of workers from that ii- amenities" and the population hadn't become aware of Rod- Another, and perhaps wiser Old Moore gave him the follow- island in a bothy in Kirkintilloch demoralised by worklessness." gers Hammerstein's tuneful man 1 know gave up reading ing bit of advice which, to judge in 1937. By an odd and sad In Strabane, 48 per cent of men numbers in thai first two years newspapers altogether some from the continuing popularity quirk of fate the first and last are without work, ami 19.7 per cent nf their existence was quite years ago and confines himself of that publication, has stood train on the Achill run brought t.'S women (many women do not simply that we did not possess now to literature of more last- the corpses of both disasters register as unemployed >. That is the test of time. "Forecast any- a radio at home—neither for ing nature, an altogether more 'i .>!i<) adult males and 146 under- thing you like, son," said the home ! oghteens; 628 women and 71 un- that matter did the majority of worthwhile form of reading, he old man, "but not snow in This, it was popularly be- der eighteens. The total 3..>55 working-class families. maintains. July!" lieved, had been forecast a gives Strabane tile sad title of I'm sure-—and that in the six That there is an insatiable Predictions are very much in couple of hundred years before having the highest unemployment months period or so when I thirst for truth and knowledge is people's minds these days with by a Mayo Nostradamus by ;n Northern Ireland. In fifty worked as a farm labourer, not in doubt hut 1 wonder if the parallels between the looming the name of Brian Rua O'Cearh- vi ;. i s hi i'oiv-t'iuonist rule, says :» hotel boots and finally waiter pursuit o;>v' i.ait' become so ob- nuclear holocaust and sc rie of hain and a very impressive piece Kt r.ibano Councillor "Stonnont before enlisting, as they used to sessive us to be a burthen to the the more horrifying prophecies of prophecy it would seem to cm.i ins! two factories here. And say, in the Irish Army, 1 can't mind and the spirit of Man . . . cue of them was vacant for seven of Nostradamus but the task of be, too—but for the fact that \e.,rs before they tried to till it.'' honestly remember hearing a versions of truth or perception the Almanac publisher must still research shows that it grew into NEW STATESMAN. radio at all! Neither, for that can often be delivered better in be a difficult one 1 suppose for folklore AFTER and not Strabane has in I net got tlie matter, I must admit, can I re- a work of art of fiction and I the course of human affairs BEFORE the events in question. highest unemployment of any one member seriously reading a remember reading a Science Fic- can't be predicted with the same As one who always accepted place m Europe There are 5.500 newspaper; every workingman tion story many years ago certainty reserved for high tides and marvelled at the old Gaelic supplementary benefit cases. In buys a paper today and some- which told of a civilisation en- and the phases of the moon. prophecy which ran "Beidh the last year over 2.000 exceptional times two daily, but thirty years cumbered to suffocation point What brought all this on, teach ar gach ardan, beidh brog needs payments have been made to ago not many did. with the luggage of the past however, is an intriguing and ar gach tachran agus beidh sceal iamilies requiring extra bedding, For instance in the three and —data and statistics and history highly diversing book in Irish, i mbarr bata," (There will be a clothing and the like. a half years I spent working in and news items preserved in house on every hill, a boot on The Border is absolutely non- "Almanag Eireannach" by Tip- print, on micro-film and audio every child and a story on a M'lisical m the context of the whole a woollen mill in the early 1940s peraryman Diarmuid Breath- record to the point that these Irish economy If some signs I never saw any paper at all nach, which was sent to me for stick, or telegraphy — it must don't come fairly soon about how being read with the exception people in the future wearied of review recently. he remembered that the ancient they ithe unionistsi are going to of William O Brien's trade union it all and hungered to wipe the But unlike Old Moore Diar- Irish did not build their homes operate together with the Repub- organ the name of which I can't slate clean, to begin all over muid Breathnach's task was on a hill, that most children lic. then sooner or later one British remember (was it the Irish again in a fresh start as Man did simplified to some extent by the went barefoot and of course Government or another will have Worker ?) which was sold in the in the Garden of Eden or in fact that instead of trying to that telegraphy would have to impose a solution." Lord Gowrie factory on an irregular basis. whatever less hallowed circum- peer into the future he ranges been unimaginable in earlier ot the Northern Ireland Office. stances we may have begun. So times) — I was forced to accept TIMES. By comparison with today's back and forth over the past all the data and 'info' was des- that this, too, may have been The Police Federation have surfeit of communication — thousand years or so of Irish troyed quite deliberately, the nothing more than a bogus piece launched a €30.000 advertising radio, telly, papers of all history to dredge up a great and whole oppressive weight of campaign to win support for a re- descriptions, debate and what very varied collection of odd of forecasting. things dead and gone, and the lurn to capital punishment for all have you—this would seem to facts. Writing in the "Irish But for those of you who have populace heaved a sigh of types of murder. The South Afri- have been a woeful state of ig- Times" some years ago (or it a good enough grasp of the relief. can Government have started an norance and unawareness and may have been talking on Sun- Gaeilge to enjoy a book like this expensive advertising campaign in yet I often look back on it quite Aldous Huxley in "Point day Miscellaney) Benedict Kiely let me say that it is beautifully the Tory press to win support for fondly. Counterpoint" which was one expressed sad surprise that their type of Government. produced and a dead snip at Furthermore — because the of his most complex novels, a some of the youth of Ireland to- £3.00 (in case the Connolly As- VIONEY AND POWER there mind was less cluttered, per- masterpiece of construction, has day did not know who Wrong- sociation Bookshop can't supply is no recession for the ban- haps, or maybe simply because one character talk of the dead way Corrigan was and 1 must it you could get it direct from kers who recently announced great it was fresher and younger, I lumber of recollections we drug confess that even though 1 could Foilseachain Rialtais, Stuara increases in annual profits. Bar- find that generally speaking I about with us—words to that lay no claim to number among Ard Oifig an Phoist, B.A.C. 1. clays Bank £566.6 million. National the youth any longer I too was Westminster £494 million. Lloyds remember most of what I effect anyway for it is years EIRE and three quid Sterling in ignorance of the gentleman Bank £385.6 million. Poland has learned or was told in those since I read the book—and it is should cover the cost of recently paid £30 million back times whereas nowadays I have not too hard to see what he in question. postage. dated interest to merchant ban- a job keeping memory of yester- means. Not so now, however, since Another worthwhile book, kers in capitalist countries. day's news. There is such an There is such a mass of ac- reading the "Almanag Eirean- just available, is the Poolbeg "RUC Special Branch officer Press publication of the short Sergeant C. 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