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Page 7 - BOOKS PUBLISHED LANDSLIDE WIN Page 8 - DONALL MacAMHLAIGH Anti-pollution conference FIFTY delegates from eighteen organizations attended a conference FOR FF IN ELECTIONS held in Liverpool on Saturday June 15th, which may well be the start of something. The subject was the "Pollution DUBLIN LABOUR DECACLE and militarisation of the Irish Sea," and sponsors included Liverpool Labour M.P.s, Dafydd WP AND SF BUOYANT Wigley of Plaid Cymru, Messrs Brian Stowell and Alec Doswell, THE great swing against the unprincipled Fine Gael/Labour coalition should be a warning and the Merseyside County Council. shot across the bows of Garrett (we almost wrote Dermot) Fitzgerald). Speakers included Mr Dermot Nolan, General Secretary of Irish Here are some of the opportunism which must make OMINOUS CND, Mr Paul McGhee of figures. their founder James Connolly An ominous sign was the low Greenpeace (Barrow-in-Furnace), turn in his grave. turn-out in Dublin where only In Cavan, Galway, Laois, Mr Bernard Moffat of the Celtic In Galway the Labour share of 43% of the electorate went to vote. Limerick, Mayo, Meath, North League (Peel, IOM), Mrs Susan the vote was 0.2%. Can you The same was true in Cork and Tipperary, Fianna Fail had an Schafer of Merseyside Action for imagine it! A national party, and South County Dublin where only overall majority over all other Peace, Mr Victor Marshall 0.2%! Only 124 people voted 47% turned out, and Dun Laoire parties combined. The highest (Bradford) of Scientists against Labour in Galway. The figure in where only 45%.turned out. proportion won by Fine Gael was nuclear arms, and Mr Desmond Donegal was 0.7%, that in Mayo In every other constituency 38.9% in Mayo and Cork. The Greaves of the Connolly was 0.8%. there was over a 50% poll, the Fine Gael vote in Dublin City was Association. The chairman was But these are farming counties. highest being in Kerry with its FAMOUR SINGER down to 20%. Councillor Alec Doswell. What about the cities where the 74% and Monaghan with the There can be no doubt that if same. The obvious conclusion is Ample evidence was provided of workers might be expected to vote there were a general election that the working class are feeling JOINS THE CA the criminal irresponsibility of Labour? Labour's share in Dublin tomorrow Fianna Fail would go cynical about politicians and do DICK GAUGHAN, famous all government and nuclear industry. was 9%, against the Workers' in with a substantial majority, and not think it worth while bothering over Scotland, Ireland and i This was geared to war Party's 9.4%. As a result of we hope they would keep their to choose between evils. England for his singing and preparations and seemed to be transfers the Workers' Party has promises. playing with "THE BOYS OF exempt from control. The Irish sea five councillors, Labour only one. The Workers' Party did best in CONCERN THE LOUGH", has joined the was the most polluted in the world In Cork City Labour squeezed out Waterford where they got 10.3% The results should cause grave Connolly Association. Asked why and liable to get worse. 10.6%. The highest Labour of the vote, and reasonably well in concern to the Labour Party, he had taken this step at this time, ' THE conference was shown showing was 21.3% in Kildare. Cork City and Kilkenny. whose abysmal performance he replied: expertly drawn maps showing That in fact is not bad. BITTER FRUITS stems directly from the disgusting where the pollution was worst, and Sinn Fein did best in Monaghan "Although I was born and where it came from. It was noted with 12% — a higher figure than raised in Scotland, and am proud that child leukaemia, of which the the Workers' Party got anywhere of being Scots, my father's parents only known cause is radioactivity, HOW THE VETO WORKS — and reasonably well in the two were Irish and I was raised with a was increasing round the entire other Ulster counties, Cavan great love for Ireland and, as they coast of Liverpool Bay, and across THC North West region of the Why consult Belfast? Because (4.6%) and Donegal (4.8%). In were fierce Republicans, with an the sea on the coast of Ireland. TGWU was invited to affiliate to an English Union had decided to Leitrim with its old republican understanding of Ireland's history [ Mr Bernard Moffat provided the campaign to stop interference operate in Ireland and make its tradition they polled 11%. In and struggle for nationhood. in Irish affairs which had brought headquarters in the occupied information about the submarine Leitrim and Cavan the Workers' Recently, I have become over the three man delegation territory. Party offered no candidates. In concerned that Irish neutrality is activity that had caused the sinking from Ireland to tour Lancashire. So the situation was made in Monaghan where they did. they yet again under threat and that, of thirteen civil ships, mostly 1 he delegation was composed England. Just as the Tory polled 0.7% against Sinn Fein's together with the rediscovery of fishing vessels. of Mr Sean Redmond, Mr Tom Unionists are offered a veto on 12%. many of my family in Co. Mayo Redmond and Miss Anne Speed. constitutional change, so the , It is hoped to publish the and the continuing shame of the The. report is now circulating union establishes its-headquarters These results show the bitter proceedings of this conference in partition of the Six Counties, have that North West region applied to in the Unionist area, and the fruits of Labour's abandonment pamphlet form. The Connolly led me to a better understanding Association proposes to discuss Belfast for advice, and that Belfast majority of the Irish people — of the national cause. It can be possibly the majority of Irish of the special relationship between with local organizations further advised them not to affiliate. reasonably forecast that the The TGWU is of course entitled TGWU members — are not the British and Irish working work in Liverpool. The six agitation already started to return to manage its own affairs, but consulted. class. I felt that it was time to take delegates from Gwynedd are to the socialist repuplican Irish republicans will note that the Did the region do anything principles of James Connolly will a positive action in support of the meeting with a view to furthering region did not consult its local improper? Not a bit of it. Such are receive a considerable boost. struggle of the Irish working class. the campaign in North Wales. membership. It does not appear to the rules. Among organizations represen- have consulted the national office. ted were CND ( Gwynedd, It certainly did not consult Dublin GRAND IRISH MUSICAL GARDEN PARTY Chester-le-Street, Liverpool, the capital of Ireland. Cymru, Crosby, StoU, Famworth), SUNDAY, 21st JULY, 4 pm till late Merseyside Action for Peace, The the BSFS. A number of delegates Society of Friends, National Union failed to identify their 18 ASYLUM ROAD, PECKHAM, SE15 of Seamen, National Union of organizations; those who applied FREE FOOD AND Teachers, Merseyside Women for for credentials but may not have UNWAGED £1 CHILDREN £1 REFRESHMENTS Peace, Cymieithas yr iaith been present included the TGWU, cymraeg, Gwynedd CPGB, Birkenhead Labour Party, and the SOUTH LONDON CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION Connolly Association, the NCP, IBRG (Blackburn). I

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I SEHI ShX scandaXl abouSCANDAt the — led to the collapse of the powerL- Downin RE-EMERGEg Street before Mrs under the Official Secrets AcSt for I WOULD like to tell people in each week's contributions was I UK extent of Toni C urrun's disclosing everything he believes Kimora boss' home, subject of sharing executive Thatcher's then private secretary. Britain of one example of the By kept for anyone to see, clearly and commitment to progressive to be relevant. This is despite a innumerable cover-ups and The file also includes a David Barclay, replied saying that support the miners' strike got meticulously written out. personal undertaking from Mrs MURIEL SADLEAR political causes is illustrated tergiversations, has broken again. confidential army report which "there have been the most from a group of Irish women Mrs Finnigan and her Thatcher in January 1983 b\ the following extracts We reproduce the account shows that army intelligence knew thorough inquiries. . . .into the workers. colleagues are members of the No Kincora affair." granting him immunity. THE miners who used to cross I give them as an example of the "LA" AG EIRI from the speech made b> published in the "Guardian" about the homosexual abuse at Most people know that there 2 Branch of the Federated on the Holyhead boat to take up many other groups taking up newspaper of June 26th, 1985, the Kincora boys' home in East But the narrow terms of was strong support for the Workers Union of Ireland — set IS ABHAR lontais e i gconai John Boyd at her funeral: It is not clear whether the MuD early morning collections on similar collections in Dublin and under the headline "Ulster 'dirty Belfast at least as early as 1974 reference of the inquiry — into the miners' cause in Ireland, although up by Jim Larkin — and being spiorad agus danacht lucht stiurtha "We have just heard two Irish passed on the documents to the O'Connell's Bridge were amply throughout the country. In most tricks' file sent to P.M." It suggests that the Royal Ulster social welfare of the affair and the perhaps it was underestimated in part-time and few in number they an phaipier laelhula "LA". Ba airs, peacefully, poignantly and RUC or the current judicial rewarded for their long journey by cases the organising and collecting The modern "Guardian" while Constabulary — now reopening list of questions presented in Britain. Even when the strike was do not have a strong voice in the mhisniuil an cheim chun losaigh i simply expressing the sufferings inquiry into Kincora which was the generosity of ordinary was done by ordinary union perhaps not quite so prestigious as its inquiries — covered up its writing to him, suggest that Mr all over and Arthur Scargill union. But it is people like them nuair a thairg siad an chead uimhir and aspirations of a nation whose set up last year by Mr James Prior, Dubliners who probably felt members rather than supervisors when under C. P. Scott it was the extensive knowledge of the sexual Justice Hughes will not be appeared on Ireland's Late Late who are the backbone of the dun tsaol i mhi Lunasa anuraidh i history Toni took to her heart for so the then Ulster Secretary. relieved that they had found some or union officials, and in many most distinguished newspaper in assaults to protect some of the interested in the wider Show he seemed still on the Labour Movement. They know mBealfeirste. Duirt an mhorchuid lonu and expended so much enern> Guardian inquiries and a means of giving something. But cases even non-union members the world (then called the Loyalist leaders involved. implications. defensive, being unused to a what life is about. againn. na beag-uchtaigh. narbh in trying to persuade others to do parallel investigation by the Irish regular workplace collections contributed. "Manchester Guardian"), is friendly rather than hostile TV The message to be drawn from fheidir le nuachtan Gaeilge the same. THIS account directly conflicts Times have established, however, The account of the MI5 plan were slow to begin because of the prestigious enough and at any rate with the 1983 report into the interviewer. The British press and Mrs Finnigan and her 16 all this is that we are fighting the mairstin ach ar feadh scathimh "My own family is just one that Wallace's report on Kincora against Harold Wilson is belief that, at every turn, the strike cannot be accused of being Irish scandal by Mr George Terry, the TV have certainly done a good job colleagues contributed regularly one enemy and not one another. bheag de seachtaini. Si raibh an example of the success of her and Tara at least, has been sent to contained in a 17-page report must be settled. propaganda. former chief constable of Sussex, in dividing the workers of the two each week out of their £50 a week Even if lots of people learned only ctart againn. Tre mhor-shaotharan endeavours in this direction, but the Belfast through other channels. which Mr Wallace prepared for But it wasn't, as we all know, "Ihe Prime Minister has been who said that he was satisfied that islands. average take home pay, on which this one thing from the miners' cagarthora, Gearoid O C'carralain. members of the Connolly The RUC received the report in his solicitor in 1982, after his and this led Mrs Eileen Finnigan sent a detailed file on an MI5dirty some of them support families and strike, it was worth it. agus a chuid scribhncoiri bhi an Association who have come today army intelligence had no March from the Essex Special At the start there was some tricks campaign in Northern conviction. and her 16 colleagues — female husbands on invalidity benefit. paipear ar fail go nulla on chead will wish to acknowledge her knowledge of the allegations. Branch, which had been given it confusion about organising Ireland in the mid-l970s which He says he was asked by an part-time cleaners at Trinity They collected an average of £10 a uimhir go dti an la atu inniu aim. tireless fortitude devoted to the He said the RUC was not to by a former military intelligence collections for the strike in included a rightwing plan to officer in MI5 to write accounts of College, Dublin, to start the "Tea week, keeping this up over the blame for not following up "vague officer in Northern Ireland. Ireland. Collections were cause which first met her attention homosexual experiences involving Room" weekly collections last Christmas and on to March 1985 Ach tharla timpiste uafasach do discredit and embarrass the information" becausc of the organised centrally by the Irish WHEN you 're in trouble you during her student days at Trinity THIS officer, Captain Fred Loyalist and London politicians November. when the strike ended. A record of Wilson government during the trades unions and the Dublin can look to us in the same way," dream mhisniuil sco ar na mallaibh. College, Dublin and remained for pressure of anti-terrorist work Holroyd, had befriended Wallace and based on intelligence reports. Ulster Workers' Council strike of said Arthur Scargill on RTE's C huaighfoirgneamh na hArdscoile. the rest of her life. Toni quickly Mrs Thatcher received the file Trades Council, but there were 1974. as both men claim to have been The intention was to discredit ina raibh a n-Oifig agus a galid last November from Mr Colin many once-off collections and "Late Late Show" at the end grew to love Irish culture and took a wrongly dismissed from the Loyalist leaders in the eyes of the inneallra, tri thine agus scriosadh The success of the strike — the Wallace, the former senior civilian collections on special occasions, of his visit to thank the Irish deep interest in Celtic history. This service. paramilitaries organising the gach r.ud a bhi acu. Ba c frcagra nadir of British policy in the north officer at army headquarters in as when Ann Scargill and some Mr George Gilmore, R.I.P. people for the support they gave led to her joining the Connolly The RUC has confirmed that it UWC strike. But the MIS officer foirne "LA" don tubaistc sco, ni Lisburn. other women came over and were the miners. Association back in Britain and she is reopening its own investigations decided to postpone the project, GEORGE GILMORE, who died last finally convinced that they could his grandfather was land-steward. This amhain gur choinnigh siad an served for many years as Executive He also worked for the army's as a result of seeing the document codenamed Clockwork Orange 2. Thursday morning at the age of 87, was was the estate of the Blacker family, talk to journalists here and not be nuachtan ar siul, ach go bhfuil siad Committee member and Secretary secret black propaganda agency and the inquiry, headed by Mr one of the most outstanding Irish which had always been prominent in witnessed her in action and reaped republicans of his time. Has it a \ictory or a defeat? fa lathair ar thoir an oiread sin to Connolly Publications. the Information Policy Unit, until ACCORDING to Wallace; the misrepresented. Orangeism. But the area also contained the benefit and assistance she Justice William Hughes, has He was active in the War of several Protestant families whose He was asked. ' The biggest vic- daome le sciarannai a glacadh i 1975. officer toid him: "London had a "The Association, and its journal unfailingly provided. invited Wallace to be interviewed. Independence from 1916 onwards, political traditions went back to the tory of all was the struggle it- gcomlacht "l.A" sa doigh is go change of mind and now wanted the 'Irish Democrat' campaigns in "Toni's direction of Ealing He was the author of the Mr Wallace is in other mainly in the South County Dublin republicanism of 1798. self, " he replied, "and especially mbeidh siad i ndan an nuachtan a battalion of the IRA. Along with his Gilmore always judged Irish politics November 1974 confidential dif ficulties. He is serving a 10-year the strike to succeed." Britain among The Irish and others Campaign for Comprehensive brothers, Charlie and Harry, he took the from the perspective of Wolfe Tone the emergence of the many splen- Jheabh.su agus a dhiol ar fud na tire report on Kincora which had been Wallace said he later discovered to win the British labour movement Education, which fought numerous sentence in Lewes prison for anti-Treaty side after the IRA split. republicanism, in which the Protestant did women's support groups. By uilig. that this was part of an MI5 NORTHAMPTON and government for a united proposals from the Local Authority commissioned by the unit to manslaughter — an offence which He was secretary to Sean Lemass in people were to the fore, and abhorred taking on the miners Mrs son. strategy to unhinge the newly- ihe mid-1920s, when the latter was anything that savoured of sectarianism Ireland and currently to defend to smash so much that was analyse the links between occurred in England after he left Thatcher unleashed a force homosexuals and a paramilitary elected Wilson government. CA NOTES titular Minister for Defence before the or Hibernianism. He saw the socialist Irish neutrality. As a member of the established for our childrens' the army and which he claims he founding of Fianna Fail. In the late which will continue to hound her. BEYOND THE SHORE - the republicanism of Connolly, with its view East London branch, Toni played educational future, drew the loyalist group called Tara. did not commit. The authenticity of Wallace's 1920s and early 1930s George Gilmore of the labourand trade union movement Irish within us - this anthology of her full part in meetings, admiration of parents from almost In 1981 the leader of Tara, Mr claims is being treated with some took part with Peadar O'Donnell in the and those who were socialists in politics poetry by the later generations will leftward movement of the IRA towards being to the fore in the struggle for full demonstrations and campaigns, as William McGrath, who was a AS WITH similar requests over scepticism by the RUC but other "Labour's lead in the opinion every Secondary school in the politics and involvement with the national independence and self- the past three years from the RUC military sources have confirmed be published on 12th July - it well as selling hundreds of Borough - and most important, housefather at the home, was sent Labour movement. After leaving the development, as offering the most polls is not in spite of, but be- includes the work of Samuel 'Democrats' around Irish pubs on taught many people from different to prison with two other Kincora and the Terry investigation, he has that Tara and the homosexuality IRA he was one of the leading figures of hopeful political vision for modern cause of, the miners' strike,'' said Beckett, Tom Paulin, Richard Kell, Saturday evenings. This activity aspects of our society the necessity employees for sexual assaults. declined to talk to the inquiry of some Loyalist leaders were the the Republican Congress of 1934 and Ireland. Arthur Scargill. "Ordinary Roger McGough, Thomas Kinsella, along with Frank Ryan was joint- He wrote several pamphlets was continued when Toni became of maintaining a calm, reasoned, WALLACE'S file was shown to until he has a written assurance subject of other intelligence people now see for the first time Ewart Milne, Shaun Traynor to secretary of the Congress for a time. expressing this view. In recent years he Secretary of West London branch, detailed argument in the face of the Ministry of Defence by 10 that he will not be prosecuted inquiries at that time. Perhaps the happiest political saw the peace movement and such that there are some who will name but a few. It will be published the culmination of whose work UNreasonable authoritarian memory of his life was the occasion organisations as Irish CND as offering fight Thatcher and it has given in a limited edition. We wish to when the Congress succeeded in what he regarded as one of the few hopes included the organisation of two decisions which affect our lives and them new courage. In this longest bringing a few busloads of Belfast of transcending politico-religious express our appreciation and major strike in the world the extremely successful Irish concerts those of our children. A POLITICISATION PROCESS Protestants, including one bus from the sectarianism in the North, and bringing thanks to East Midlands Arts for which filled the Acton Town Hall. Shankill Road to the 1934 Wolfe Tone both parts of the country together in young people of the mining com- Toni's analysis of the outcome of SOME writers are very sceptical been comtemplated, then it must be Union as aimed against Irish financial assistance. comemoration at Bodenstown. recognition of their common interest in munities have shown they can "To illustrate her deep concern this campaign is today a stark about the claims of the British the work of some unofficial group. neutrality. 12th Screen Printing Workshop Unfortunately, the Congress contingent countering the drift towards a third fight well as their fathers did. for community affairs, some reality for our children - those police to have discovered a plot to was attacked by some elements from the world war, which he felt threatened. MR PAUL GILHOOLY FOR it cannot have escaped - this will be held on Sunday, 14th comment must be made on those teachers and parents who fought injure holtdaymakers with anti- IRA who tried to take their banners off George Gilmore was a person of them that indignation among the The ITGWU is of course July from 2 pm to 5 pm for and at them. As he used to say: "It will be a incisive intellect, powerful character and activities which won for Toni the hard and long, only to face defeat, personnel bombs, a plot they Scargill visited the striking British public at the Brighton hotel officially opposed to partition, but the Thorplands Adventure long time before 'Come on the Shankill' great kindness. He had a strong artistic respect and admiration of hundreds will never forget her determination ascribe to the I.R.A. will be heard at Bondenstown again. Dunne's stores workers while bombing was negligible when at its recent conference it also Playground, Waterpump Court, sensibility and loved beautiful things. ORGANISER of people living in the Ealing area. at the time, some fourteen years Paul Johnson has suggested that In the 1930s he was also to the fore in He used to try to go to France and Italy he was here-the young women compared with that in relation to passed a resolution condemning the Thorplands. This workshop is organising support in Ireland for the "Her clear political under- ago, and be proud the protest was this w ould conflict with the I.R.A. whenever he could, especially to revisit who refused to touch South Af- Harrods. Your average working treachery at present being specifically for the age group 5 to Spanish Republic under assault from the glories of Chartres Cathedral. The APPOINTED sta«ding enabled her to direct a made. policy which is taking a course rican goods. He also spoke to man won't be in a posh hotel. contemplated by the Fitzgerald 16 years. fascism, and in setting up tenant cottage in the fields above the cliff walk successful campaign of local IT WAS Tom's wish thai an> of her more favourable to political action. leagues to improve the lot of Dublin's at Howth where he lived for the past 25 packed meetings organised hy coalition, and in particular THE ConnolK Association Executive friends who wished to p.iy tribute to her We intend to follow this up with a slum-dwellers. In his work his close years was set in a place of natural peace opposition to a road-widening Would the leaders risk their The increase in interest in the Dublin, Drogheda and Belfast Council has appointed Mr Paul Spinelli's unsavoury proposals. workshop on the Spencer Estate - companion was Cora Hughes, the and beauty, in the part of Howth memory should do so by making Trade Union movement on both Trades Councils, thanking Ciilhoolev lis national organiser to scheme which would have destroyed relations with the six county "gold-haired girl" of one of Yeats's donations to progressive causes. date and venue to be arranged. preserved from "development" by An replace Mr Noel Gordon who recently community atmosphere and electorate or their influence with sides of the water should reinforce poems, to whom he was engaged. Cora Taisce and from it he could see the people for the estimated The "Irish Democrat" acknowledges On Saturday, 27th July we are resigned. facilities as it exists todav in with gratitude the receipt of the following the left of the Labour Party? such calculations. There are many who believe that Hughes was Eamon de Valera's god- Mourne Mountains of his beloved £250,000 donated to the miners taking ten children aged 8 to 18 out Pitshanger Lane. donations: G. & C. Findlay £20; M Crowe isolated acts of violence are the daughter, and although Gilmore and de North. during their year-long strike. The speculation is that if this The week-long delegation to Valera were politically at odds they had Mr Gilhooly, who is of Arigna stock £20; P. and G. O'Donohoe £ 10; Jane Tate result of frustration and that if the for a day on the canal longboat. As Peadar O'Donnell said after "Her horror at London bomb campaign were really to have Lancashire by Sean Redmond, Tom a personal link in their common visiting him recently in the nursing home will first concentrate on building up four £5; Gerard C'urran £10; P. & G. Mulligan Transport has been arranged. Labour movement were politically affection for her. Sadly, she caught TB where he was during his brief illness: properly functioning branches in Transport's proposal to introduce £10; J. & M. Comer £10; H.Clarke £10; J. Redmond and Anne Speed resulted 'active in an anti-imperialist sense Pickup is 8.30 am then to the and died and George Gilmore never "We had four glorious years and George London, and has a number of events totally unsuitable, one-man and M Boyd £5; Chas Cunningham £20. .1 in meetings of a most varied Among the other mourners were Mr Longboat for breakfast and married. was one of those who really made them planned lor July and August. and D Deighan £50. Marion Johnston Republicanism could be a giant Ciaran Kelly, the sculptor; Proinsias operated buses to serve the character, in Blackburn, Of Protestant background, his great." £20. Total £200 MEETINGS force for social emancipation: individual/group photographs. - Mac An Beatha, the founder of Inniu, On July 16th Central London branch community raised the vision of Manchester and Bolton. The father's family came from the parish of A.C. This is a free event. If you wish to Mr Paddy Lynch, the former chairman will be discussing the Irish Democrat, CENTRAL London Connolly Seago near Portadown, "one of the most mothers with babies and shopping, delegates addressed the North of Aer Lingus; Mr Ruairi Quinn, and the meeting will be held at Association are calling a public help or submit names of children Orange parts of Ireland" as he used to Mr Gilmore was buried on Saturday, pensioners and disabled citizens, West T.U.C. and the Lancashire Minister for Labour; Mr Tomas Marchmont Street Community Centre, CORRECTION meeting on the subject of the then contact Kevin Murphy. call it. In his youth he used to spend part June 22nd in St Fintan's (old) cemetery, clambering onto vehicles with steps MacGiolla, the Workers Party leader; London, W.C.I. Time 8.00 pm. Owing to the extreme haste with which Prevention of Terrorism Act which Association of Trades Councils. LETTER of each year at Carrickblacker, where Sutton, after a funeral service in St - Peter Mulligan Mary's Parish Church, Howth . Prayers Mr Matt Merrigan, president of the Irish too high, insufficient seating, lack the obituary notice of Toni Curran had will be addressed by Mrs Lia Dover of At the conference of the TGWU FULL marks to the Federation in Irish were led by Canon Frank Congress of Trade Unions; Mr Peadar On July 30th the subject for dicussion of conductor to help, galvanised to be written for last month's issue, a the National Council for Civil in Bournemouth there were more Internaionale des Football Blennerhassett, Rector of Howth. O'Donnell; Dr Noel Browne, the former will be "Civil Rights, Bloody Sunday, serious error was made Liberties and Mr Tom Durkin of Toni once again into action. The resolutions on Ireland than ever The chief mourners were Mr Minister for Health; Mr Michael and the 18th August demonstration " Because she had worked for the Brent Trades Council. It takes place at Associations for making it clear battle against the 'cattle trucks' TO JOIN THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION Gilmore's brother, Charlie and his O'Riordan of the Communist Party of Time 8.00 pm. Democrat for so many years she was still the Red Lion Gub. before, those from the London that its ban on English soccer clubs Ireland; the Rev Terence McCaughey of remains firmly implanted in the branches wanting withdrawal while nieces, Anne and Susan, and the oration known to many people as Mrs Curran It takes place at 7.30 pm on playing abroad included visits to was delivered by Mr Anthony Coughlan Trinity College; Mr Justin Keating, the In South London on Thursday, July memories of hundreds of Ealing — FILL IN THIS FORM - But in fact, she and Gerard had been Thursday, July 23rd and^ the those from the six counties harked Wales, Scotland and the North of who said that George Gilmore looked at former Minister for Industry and 11th, there will be a talk by Dr Flann divorced for some years, and he was no admission charge is £1 (concession- Commerce; Mr Tony Meade of Campbell on "The Nature of residents who never met Toni, since back to the defunct 'Better life for Ireland. Here is one international every political question from the longer her husband as was stated in the aries 50p). Trocaire; Mr Paul McLiam of the Orangeism". The meeting is at the the campaign received plenty of all" campaign, which will be Name standpoint of Wolfe Tone Republi- obituary. organisation that recognises that ITGWU; and a number of former Jeffreys Library. Jeffrey's Road, publicity in the local press and * » * canism. She was in fact happily married to> difficult to revive. Engltind is England and not the comrades of Mr Gilmore, including Mr Stockwell, S.W.4. Time 8.30 pm. B.RENT Labour Party and Con Casey, Mr Hughie Doyle and Mr culminated in her appearance in a Bob Wynn who devoted much carcto> IRISH Trade Unionism too is "UnitedKingdom." Nationalists in Address "Information on Ireland" announce a Packie Earley. West London Branch is holding a television debate with a smug, self- her in her great fight against cancer. joint meeting to be held in the becoming mceasingly politicised. these countries should take Also present were Ms Maircad lecture and social evening at the West satisfied London Transport Our sincere apologies to Bob, Cricklewood Hotel, Cricklewood, At the Congress of Irish Unions advantage of this to press for Reynolds, representing the National London Trades Union Club, 33/35 members of her family and friends, for spokesman. At no time did Toni lose N.W. 2, at 8.00 pm on July 8th annuaI meeting, resolutions from independent recognition in other Museum; the Rev Canon Moynan of High Street, Acton, W.3. The lecture the distress and embarrassment caused. (Monday), Swords, Co Dublin; Aodagan will be given by Desmond Greaves, that breath-taking calm and TASS and the Waterford Council international bodies. Enclose £6 (£3 half year) and send to: confidence which draws relief and The funeral service was arranged by' The speakers will be Dr Maire O'Rahilly; Mr Sean Nolan; Mr Lino whose subject will be "Marx and Engels John Boyd and Pat O'Donohoe, and not O'Shea and Mr Ken Livingstone. Hiis ofTtadtmions opposedlHe Dovge- BRIAN WILKINSON THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION, Sidoli; Deasun Breatnach; Mrs Michael on Ireland." The date is Satarday, July admiration from all of us who have as stated in the obituary. should be an interesting'evening. Spmelfi proposal* fbr European (Pontypridd). 244/246 GRAYS INN ROAO, LONDON, WC1 Price; Mr James Connolly Jnr; Peter 20th, and the time 7.30 pm, admission O'Connor and Sean O'Rouke. £1.

_ Page Four THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July 1985 July 1985 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Five LAGAN LIGHTS Drive to Euro-Union POLLUTION MYSTERY IN DONEGAL ™ FOLLOWING on from the 40th bringing national fiscal systems into Anniversary of the end of the 2nd by line. ! )l \R Mi Greaves, be woken up to support the peace BY S. O. DIOCHON World War there is a revival, through \ uhi arc going to meet members movements. If the Churches want association of ideas, of Churchill's JOHN BOYD SPINELLI To get around the fact that the EEC <•! the Celtic League on the subject SISTER JEAN-MARIE to retain any credibility at all, they call for a United States of Europe. WE WANT nothing to do with The decision makers, ideas has no military treaty the West i 1 the Irish Sea pollution I should should not leave Bruce Kent and economic and military union, an European Union (WEU) comprises (Convent of St Ethelmede) the Dooge-Spinelli plans for EEC propagators and invested interests like to Mibmit to you the following the Greenham Women out on a have been at work in every possible integral common market, and the leading NATO members of the I" )ints limb. Their talk and bluster about Political Union, say two of way to bring about a "significant majority voting at Council of EEC. The WEU is where the aim of a has sent this alarming letter to Ireland's biggest unions, the Religion step" from the present state of Ministers meetings (summits). military union is us sole object That Friends of the Earth have morality and their going on about Despite West Germany's insistence is, to overcome objections of Ireland birth control is irrelevant if they ITGWU and the Federated integration towards political union. i-idicated in one ol their recent and pressure there is still considerable giving up its neutrality, Denmark's the Irish Democrat Workers Union of Ireland in The ideas for European Union are I ,diets that the lush Sea is now are not aware of the fact that as a presented as the solution to reluctance to abandon the veto, the reservations to the military union and resolutions adopted at their recent the most radio-active stretch ot result of nuclear saturation of the and stagnation in the EEC's competition major step in abandoning democracy Greece's objections to Turkey's water in the world. Naturally this environment the mothers in the annual delegate conferences. with Japan and USA, and, in keeping and sovereignty for each member involvement with NATO. grazing lands. The islanders Geneva Convention If an area is state. bodes ill for the Welsh and the Pacific islands are giving birth to the peace in Europe. There are four attected are all Gaelic speakers not densely populated that should major areas where decisions are being Forty yea.s have elapsed since Irish jelly babies without bones and Closer political union in the signs of a branch of Shorts being who have always depended on not devalue the lives of such EEC would throw Irish neutrality organised to provide the promised taken, all with the objective of On June 21st, for the first time ever, Churchill's Zurich speech. Several The islands of! County crablike creatures which cannot jobs forming a European Union. reports and other draft treaties have raising some livestock and doing people as do populate it. In other jobs. West Germany used the veto against a survive. What relevance has birth out the window. It would mean been passed by, for it is not so easy to Donegal are being affected by cut in cereal prices. Cereals are part-time fishing. Now their land words the Celtic Heartlands are of the end of any possibility of replace nation states with a British pollution of some kind. control or non-control in such a Sister Genevieve is headmistress The powerless European currently the largest obscene food i mysteriously destroyed, and of no value and can be destroyed for superstate. Conflicting national situation. If the Celtic League independence in foreign policy. IT is a matter of debate and dispute of St Louise's Comprehensive Assembly, misnamed Parliament, mountain whilst North Africa starves! Oilcan Dooev (Dubhaigh) which interests come to the forefront as well course their fishing grounds the benefit of nuclear experi- There would also be serious adopted, in February 1984, the This action defends Germany's is very close to the inhabited could give publicity to these as to whether investment by the College on the Falls Road. It is no as age old imperialist competition cannot have escaped nuclear menters. Human lives, human Spinelli Draft Treaty for European economic interests of largely right points I think it would help economic dangers, for the USA monopoly companies in other exaggeration to say that she has between Sterling, the Franc and island of Inisbofin has been Union. This proposes to give the wing voting farmers that keeps that overflow from the Scottish cultures no object. Brussels people and the Deutch Mark. poisoned in some way. The land towards reducing the arrogance of countries is to the advantage of won international appreciation and Assembly, misnamed Parliament, reactionary government in office. A leaetors and the Irish Sea. 1 know this is taking you away transnational companies they on this island used to be very the nuclear fuels people who have those countries in the long term. In respect for her creative and more powers taken from na- Week later the Commission from the topic of the Irish Sea, but serve want to take the remaining tional parliaments and govern- convenient tor the grazing of too much power over the lives of the Twenty-six counties there is sterling work in education within announced that the cereal price European Union requires the oceans and other bodies of economic powers of government ments and that its decisions be reduction would be carried out unavoidable political compromises stock, but for some years back it INISBOl IN itself, which has a others, and who, only too growing concern about the the difficult social conditions of this binding on the Commission. despite the veto. The commission is Much has now been placed in the good population during the water cannot be segregated. The obviously, consider the Celtic away from national States and electronic industries which have part of Ireland. In May 1984 two of has been poisoned in some way so Currently it can only throw out the apparently abiding by the majority proverbial melting pot. May the outbreak of infantile paralysis transfer them to the super- that no live creature can survive summer months, has suffered peoples highly expendable. been set up by the US companies. her top girls were successful in their Budget, which it does regularly, and decision and ignoring the veto, and, at arguments and procrastination after the last war was seriously bureaucrats of the EEC. The on it anymore. This is something from the nuclear accidents of the There is increasing evidence that applications for posts in Shorts. throw out the Commission, which it the same time Germany can find a continue and come to light and expose scheme would in effect make has never done. Recently an Assemblv the grand plan. This will give those which the Celtic League might litnes in that the elderly part of the considered by the oceanographers Wishing great and resounding these subsidaries are being used to They are still waiting for loophole in the mountain of EEC delegation toured all the parliaments defending the nation state a better community was carried away by as the effect of the contamination Ireland a mere province in a new produce gadgetry for the notification to start work. In regulations to ignore the look into, and obtain compen- success to the deliberations of the and governments selling the Draft chance to rally the opposition to of the waters by the Hiroshima- European superstate, say the two Commission. sation for poor people who have the so-called "Asian Liu", more League. sophisticated military arsenal of response to an invitation from Treaty to the very people who would those seeking a new superpower status Nagasaki fallout and waste. unions, and they go or. to urge the Pentagon war machine. This have to pass their own powers over to been deprived of their rightful correctly speaking, the Windscale Shorts, Sister Genevieve sent thirty A package of counter proposals to for the EEC. their respective executives to take the Assembly. 11 u. caused by nuclear bears on the question of Ireland's girls to them on work experience Dooge has been put forward by Sonas go h-eag. Beir buaidh experiments in the nineteen- ANOTHER point 1 want to up the matter with the Irish neutrality. courses. None of these girls were Britain that includes a swifter and agus beannacht. Congress of Trade Unions and filties. More recently, the healthy make is that the Churches should In the Six Counties, United taken on the permanent staff. Their Commissioners are claiming that more streamlined extension of maj- Jean Marie. run a national campaign against because the Assembly is directly ority voting to replace decisions that LIVERPOOL colon> of rabbits which always States companies employ 12,000 headmistress does not believe there WITHDRAWAL them if necesary. elected the Draft Treaty has a required unanimity. Also included is a lived on the island, and which was workers which is about 11% of have been no vacancies in the particular "legitimacy and weight". proposal for commitment by member MEETINGS at one time a small business basis, those lucky enough to have jobs in company over the past twelve The Draft has "set a standard against states to consult each other over A BRITISH Labour Party delegation, Trade Union CND in Dublin has begun to succumb to a an area of mass unemployment. months. She thinks it is very cruel which subsequent attempts to foreign policies. which included Clive Soley and Claire AT THE monthly meeting of the has written tp the Labour Party horrible illness which drove them APARTHEID CRUMBLING These companies are being to tfreat six-formers in this way. The formulate a new treaty" or revision of Short, came to gelfast last month and Liverpool Connolly Association it the O'Sunne's Stores strikers TDs and Ministers drawing the the "present one would necessarily be had discussions with various parties to run down among the dwelling confronted with a particular same cynical and cruel procedure was reported that the Merseyside THINGS are at last starting to whose nine-month stoppage of resolutions to their attention and compared". ON BEHALF of the Commission and organisations. During their houses, a thing they had never problem which arises from the fact was repeated in the other schools in meeting with Sinn Fein leaders they County Council had agreed to change in South Africa. 1985 work against having to handle urging them to give no support to Lord Cockfield, a reputed Thatcher done before. There is a hypothesis that Catholics are discriminated West Belfast. loyalist, has proposed a fully asked what would be the Sinn Fein lund the campaign against looks like being the year when the South African goods has been DISLIKING certain aspects of Garret FitzGerald's EEC Union integrated Common Market by 1992. response if a future Labour" that they were trying to escape against when they seek ACTION NEEDED power grabbing in the Spinelli Draft the pollution and militarisation of horrible Apartheid regime is for broadcast around the world. John schemes. This would ". . .fundamentally alter Government adopted a policy of from a field of radiation. The employment. The New York City the heads of EEC states formed their the Irish Sea, and that as a the first time having to go on the Carroll of the ITGWU spoke of Mr Goldin met the Secretary of the face of Europe for the rest of our withdrawal from Ireland without islanders tend to think that the Although the Germans, the own constitutional committee. This consequence it was likely to be defensive. Authority has declared it will not State Mr Hurd, the Fair lifetimes." Included are the aims of specifying a final date for disengage- how American trades unionists French and the British are year old Dooge commitee has sickness was carried to the island invest its pension funds in US firms removing technical barriers and ment. Sinn Fein replied that unless it possible to publish the results of a were now beginning to organise Employment Agency and the produced far reaching proposals for bv the seagulls. Naturally, as the quarrelling and the more was a genuine commitment to recent conference on that subject which tolerate discrimination executives of the US companies Nearly 600 people have been US public opinion against grandiose versions of the Dooge- withdraw with practical signs of seacoasts of Britain are affected against Catholics in their NI sub- here. He also had discussions with in pamphlet form. It was decided killed by the South African forces apartheid. Jesse Jackson's Spinelli scheme look like falling disengagement that it would change bv nuclear spillage the seagulls sidiaries. In this the New York City the SDLP, the Alliance Party and to launch a "Clean Sea" in the past six months as strikes candidature for the Democratic- apart for now, the Eurocrats — nothing. must be highly contaminated and Council was carrying out its de- the Sinn Fein Party. Predictably campaign. passive resistance and demon- Presidential nomination had will carry the contamination all with Ireland's Garret FitzGerald cision of last January to adopt the Irish shrines in Chester The material available has strations . in black townships the Unionists refused to talk to him The Labour people then asked what over the British isles and made Black Americans conscious shamefully to the fore among "McBride Principles". This was may have been the large number never been assembled before, spread across South Africa. Quite officially. He said he would like to LIVERPOOL Connolly Associa- would be the response if a definite anywhere to which they happen to of their moral links with black them — are hell-bent on saving an anti-discrimination document of Irishmen in the armed forces. and the raw material consists clearly the African resistance see increased investment but tion on June 23rd organised a date was set for withdrawal. Sinn Fein migrate. The people there among South Africans and the movement something of their reactionary drawn up by Mr Sean McBride, One plan was to ha^e one of these considered that this would be ol preliminary inform- movement, led by the African pointed out that before this could be successful outing to Chester where the islands can give a heart- (Continued on page eight) dreams. Senator John Robb, Inez McCor- open a side door to the Castle to welcomed as an honest and genuine ation and three hours ot National Congress, has reached a encouraged the companies would the members were guests of the rending account of the sufferings mick, and Fr. John Brady. let the Fenians in. attempt to resolve the Anglo-Irish tape. The editing is to be carried new level of confidence and have to be satisfied that there would Chester Irish Society. conflict They said that the Labour of the rabbits. An indication of Canon Murphy, for many years out by Michael Mortimer and maturity from which great things INQUIRY be nondiscrimination in Party's present policy of unity by what human beings can expect to They were met at the station by Desmond Greaves. There are thirteen US employment. This stipulation does Parish Priest at St Werburghs, consent amounted to support for the will come. Arrogant! its three prinicpal officials, Mr suffer. monopolies which have subsidiaries not seem to have bothered the where the body of Daniel Unionist veto. The Loyalist bluff Mr Bernard Morgan repotcd J. McCarthy (President), Mr would have to be called and the THE Six County security forces in the Six Counties. Mr Harrison American-owned Citibank which O'Connell had lain on its last on the establishment ol the In mid-June on the anniversary arrogance. It was said to be due to a British Government which had armed Gerry O'Hanlon (Treasurer) and journey to Ireland, then gave a Having visited Inisbofin and of Soweto Day, hundreds of are "arrogant" in their dealings Goldin, the New York Comptroller, opened a branch here in 1968. It is a section of the Loyalists must now Liverpool Irish local historv "map-reading error". Yet these Mr John Kenyon (Secretary). having talked with the with their counterparts in the reaping in profit from its position as spirited talk about Irish disarm them. group, established the initia- young Dublin people marched map-reading errors were occurring is responsible for the investment of Republic, says Fianna Fail leader lead manager of a financial deal nationalism, with much wit and tive of himself and Miss Joan inhabitants, 1 went up the across the city to a rally outside all the time. There was a stream the City's pension funds. He came Mr Kenyon, who is a local Charles Haughey. designed to assist sales of Shorts racy anecdote. Inglis a teacher. A meeting "mullach" and saw for myself the the Department of Foreign which made a clear line of division to Belfast to examine how the historian, took the party on a aircraft in the USA. Mr Norman He was brought up near consisting of teachers and bodies of the rabbits, and the Affairs in support of South The British Army's response to between North and South in the decision of his City Council conducted tour, first to Steam : Sturrock local head of the bank said Midleton in Co" Cork among academics had been held, and a tracks of the seagulls in the sand. Africa. Rev Terence McCaughey the recent cross border incursion area in question, and for the British could be implemented. A central Mill Road, which was the heart of that they aimed for a twenty per people who believed that the only WARNING programme of activity was being So the circumstantial evidence did spoke of the splendid gesture of they made at Hackballscross was to suggest that it was the point of his inquiries was the Shorts the Irish area in Fenian times. cent return on equity but they were thing the English would take any worked out. point to the seagulls. indicative of this general Provisional IRA which released the Brothers plant of the Belfast plane makers. Shorts have received a ahead of that target in the UK and The three or four streets in this notice of was force. A NUMBER of contributors sent in It was decided to inv ite Mr Paul In other parts of the Donegal thousands of gallons of diesel oil £115 million order for aircraft to even more ahead of it in Northern district contained several hundred He referred to the denigration their copy late this month. No doubt Ciilhooiey to come to Liverpool mainland, grass and foliage were from a local farm-tank was absurd the US Airforce. It is not that the Ireland. houses and many of the F enians of the Irish, for example through they had excellent reasons, but they and meet the members at the next blackened and shrivelled by some MUST HAVE IT * in view of the fact that the place was New York Comptroller would be who came for the raid on Chester anti-Irish jokes. It was the habit of should note that when this happens meeting on Wednesday July 24th. immigrant toxins from the British YOU crawling with British troops at the At the Gallaghers Tobacco asking if there was discrimination Castle "lay low" in this area. imperialists to justify the the publication date can only be met The branch would then plan a land mass. Anyone wanting * Clf cautte ifau mu&t! time this incident happened. factory and Hughes Tool company firsthand information on these in the selection of Shorts The party proceeded along the occupation of other people's bv skimping the editorial work. programme of expansion the aim The diesel-oil release meant that Mr Goldin was put off from points would be well advised to workforce. He would know already city walls to the site of the old countries on the grounds that they of which would be vastly to Dundalk had to have its water inspecting the employment make- consult Miss Bessie McGee of Have the IRISH DEMOCRAT posted each month to that of the six thousand employees Cockpit, which in the last century were too stupid to govern There is only one person working increase the membership and il supply interfered with for two days, up of the staffs on spurious grounds. Inisbofin who spends the winter in in the East Belfast complex nearly held smail arms. The Fenians were themselves. on the Irish Democrat. It is possible next year to set up an your home. Fill in the coupon below and send to as the oil ultimately went into the Both these large firms have almost I alcarragh, and the summer on 100% of them are drawn from the anxious to raid thii armoury and impossible to prepare eight pages at office in the city. town's water-main. r a one hundred per cent Protestant He urged the exiles to impress the island. 244/246 Grays Inn Road, London WC1 with the rotestant population. He would use the arms so gained to raid the once. If material comes late or its Three Labour Party organiza- payroll. Thereupon the dissatisfied on their children that the history appropriate sum. Tick the period required. This arrogance by the British ant to know, in accordance with Castle. Mr Kenyon led the party arrival is uncertain, then the pages tions, including one Co-operative THE Scottish reactors are New Yorker cancelled a meeting he and tradition of Ireland was as security-forces was quite in line is mandate, what the firm is doing down the route it was intended to must be made up from what is Party had requested speakers and destroying the seas around Ulster had arranged with Mr Rhodes good as any in the world. He was with the recent assumption by the about this patently unfair and follow after which the Castle available. So you will find a story these were to be Mr Joe O'Grady, and the Scottish islands. It has Boyson the Economic Development glad to meet the Liverpool Irish One year Six months Northern Ireland Chief Constable unacceptable situation. Two years itself was given a thorough about an earthquake in Nicaragua Mr Patrick O'Doherty, and Mr been recorded that Dounreay • Minister. He packed his bags and and reminded them that if a dog is • that his southern opposite number ago the chairman of Shorts, Sir inspection. alongside one about the mating of Desmond Greaves. Hie branch accidents tripled in the years 1977- returned home. born in a stable that doesn't make should arrange a meeting with him Philip Foreman, when he was tittlebats in Hampstead ponds. quota of the "Irish Democrat" 19X2. There were 70 accidents in We shall see in the coming THE Irish Society had laid on a it a horse. Name while there were still some seeking the American order had been sold out. 1977 and 222 in 1982. With my months what worth they put in the handsome buffet in the annexe to The rest of the evening was important complaints from the promised to locate some of the work A statue of James Larkin was own ears I heard a supporter of "McBride Principles" and with the Catholic Club, where Mr spent in the Catholic Club where Please note that date for last Address South which the Northern police in the ill-fated De Lorean plant in to be erected in Liverpool, but it nuclear policy state that what results. Meantime the only Desmond Greaves said a few Andy O'Higgins entertained with copy to reach the editor is July 17th chief had never cleared up. West Belfast. He said it would Dounreay is the best place for a songs. Publication of material arriving was noted that the sponsors The Dublin Government has real resistance to the continuing words about the events of 1867, PWR reactor because it is an area provide initially two hundred jobs. after that date cannot be belived he was born in 1876. This protested to the British blatant discrimination is the refusal suggesting that the reason why the There was great praise for the of low population. Surely this He landed the American contract guaranteed, unless a special date, on the Dublin statue, is Government about the Hackballs- of the Croppies of the North to lie Fenians were allowed to disperse splendid hospitality of the Chester attitQde must be in breach of the (enclose £5) (enclose £2.50) but to date there are no physical arrangement is made by telephone. incorrect. The correct date is 1874. cross incident. down under it. without any arrests being made Irish. July 1985 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Seven July 1 &85 Page Six THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE SOLDIERS' SONG THE WESTS A NOT SO TURBULENT PRIEST Daniel Mannix. A Biography, by O'Hickey when the issue became took up the cause of Irish MOST peopie know the words of the first verse of our national B. A. Santamaria. Melbourne public and all attempts of independence, in which, like the anthem, but many, and especially those out of Ireland a long University Press, 308pp. Price O'Hickey to get a fair hearing social question, he had not show n from the Irish bishops and from an> great interest previously, he Remember time, don't know the others. At the suggestion of a reader who £25. WHEN all beside a vigil keep. Rome were frustrated. became once more a centre of If any of the books on this page The West's asleep, the West's pointed this out to us, we publish all three verses below. ONE of the few great attention. Lloyd George made the strike your fancy and you think asleep — MANNIX went to Melbourne you'd like to buy it, you can order it Alas! And well may Erin weep achievements of Daniel Mannix, blunder of judging him more \\ I LI sing a song, a soldier's song as co-adjutor in 1913 and soon When Connacht lies in slumber deep. Archbishop of Melbourne from dangerous than he really was and from the Four Provinces Bookshop. \\ ith cheering, rousing chorus There lake and plain smile fair and 1913 to 1963 was his ability to took over as archbishop. He was made him world-famous by 244/46, Grays Inn Road, London, •\s round OUT bla/ing fires ,U' throng free. outlive his critics and enemies. He not known to have any interest in sending two British destroyers to W.C.I. I lie starry heavens o'er us; Mid rocks their guardian chivalry. Prison poet hung on to the archbishopric till social problems but immediately kidnap him on the high seas. Some books are expensive and In.patient lor the coming fight. Sing. Oh! let man learn liberty set himself to break the From crashing wind and lashing sea. "Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song". his hundredth year of life, thereby Popular fame rests on such trifles. you might think of buying one but And as we wait the morning's light. connection between the Catholic Ik-re in the silence of the night An Anthology of the Writings of frustrating his co-adjutor and a The next thirty years he spent wonder whether it was really worth Irish and the Australian Labour the money. We'll chant a soldier's song: That chainless wave and lovely land Bobby Sands. Published by The host of others who had hoped for feuding with the Vatican Party. He found he had misjudged Freedom amd nationhood demand: Mercier Press Limiied. £4.95. years to see him replaced. With representatives who wanted to If you're in two minds like this, C MORI S: the strength of anti-British and Be sure the great God never planned pps 173. the help of his present biographer reduce the Irish influence in the just pop into the Four Provinces, Soldiers arc we anti-ascendancy feelingamonghis For slumb'ring slaves a home so IN power and sincerity these poems he built himself into a legend. For Australian hierarchy as and have a word with the manager Whose lives are pledged to Ireland: grand. flock and withdrew to bide his and prose writings of Bobby a short time during the Troubles manifested in the person of Paddy Bond. The bookshop offers Some have come And long a brave and haughty race time. The outbreak of war in 1914 Honoured and sentinelled the place. Sands stand level with the greatest he became something of a Mannix and with his fellow an advisory service. We can get hold From a land beyond the wave. gave him a chance to exercise Sworn to be free. Sing Oh! not even their sons'disgrace political writings which have come national hero and he rested for a bishops who just wanted to get rid of the writer of the review to supply leadership. No more our ancient mi eland Can quite destroy their glory's trace. out of prison. They have the stark long time on his laurels. But Irish of Mannix. He made the mistake of more information about the book Shall shelter the despot or the slave. simplicity of Oscar Wilde's ballad folk-memory is longer than that of The voice of the Australian thinking that Australia was in the and we have a panel of three special I oniglit we man the be.irna bhaoill. I or often, in O'Connor's van. of Reading Gaol. his biographers and the times and Labour party was silenced by centre of the world stage and acted advisors, Siobhan O'Neill on books In Inn's cause come woe or weal lo triumph dashed each Connacht They have that intense tides which seemed to be on his threats of prosecution for treason accordingly. Sadly for him not in the Irish language, Mary Mid cannons' roar and rifles' peal. clan. appreciation of the simple things of side have turned against him. in the hysteria and war mania of many people were watching the Campbell on literature a.-jJ We'll chant a soldier's song. And fleet as deer the Normans ran everyday life, when the writer performance. Desmond Greaves on history. Thro' Corrsliabh Pass and Ardrahan: the first two years. When the HIS final shot at fame came in If you deal with the Four In valley green, on towering crag. And later times saw deeds as brave. knows that death is near at hand. In He first came to prominence as casualties at Gallipoli and other Our lathers fought before us. And glory guards Clanricarde's grave. their poetic intensity Sands's prison an authoritarian President of places began to mount fervour in the fifties in the wake of the anti- Provinces you've no need to buy a And conquered neath the same old Hag Sing. Oh! they died their land to save writings remind one of the Maynooth with the reputation of the cause of the Empire began to communist reaction after the pig in a poke. I hat's proudly floating o'er us. At Aughrim's slopes and Shannon's Rosenberg letters. ^ Jjeing pro-English. He was wane. Mannix became the voice of second world war. Using his We're children of a fighting race. wave. When writing of the Rosenberg perhaps unique for having been the working class and the faithful friend, ally and I hat never yet has known disgrace. booed and jeered at by his own biographer, B. A. Santamaria he LIMERICK IS BEAUTIFUL And as vvc march, the foe to lace. letters the English gutter press unofficial leader of the And if. when all a vigil keep. clerical students. He led the attack managed at |ast to split the Irish studies (Air " insh Molls O") We'll chant a soldier's song. commented that they were too opposition. He revelled in the The West's asleep! The West's Asleep' moving to have been written on Fr Michael O'Hickey during position and found himself Australian Labour Party and Alas! And well may Erin weep OH. l imerick i<> beautiful, as e\'r\bod> knows. Suns ol the Gael! Men o! the Pale' without help. With Sands they did the controversy over Irish as a surging to the crest of the popular draw off a portion of the right- I lie long watched day is breaking That Connacht lies in slumber deep. wing Irish vote into the short-lived initiative And bv that cit> of m> heart how proud old Shannon flows! But. hark! A voice like thunder spake. not even pay this backhanded compulsory subject in the new wave. It was his Finest hour. In I he serried ranks of Innisfail It sweeps down h> the brave old town as pure in depth and tone The West's awake! The West'sawake! compliment. More than anything National University. There were opposing conscription in Democtatic Labour Party. By Shall set the tyrant quaking. AT a meeting in Liverpool Irish As when Sarsfield swept the S:i\ons from the walls of Garryowen. Sing. Oh! Hurrah! Let England public meetings inside and outside then his following inside or Our camp fires now are burning low. the British media are afraid that the Australia he expressed the doubts Centre attended by educationists quake. Maynooth, a strike of five weeks outside the Church was confined lis not for Limerick thai I si^h - though I love her in my soul! See in the east a silvery glow. common people of England would and fears of millions, he gave for and others, it was decided to hold We'll watch till death for Erin's sake' to his own archdiocese. Though times will change and friends will die and man will not control; Out vonder waits the Sa\on toe feel sympathy and compassion for in the college but in the end the first time real hope of a conference on "Irish Studies, He died before his manner and No. not for friends long passed away, or days for ever flown. So chant a soldier's song. THOMAS DAVIS Irish republican prisoners. O'Hickey was dismissed on advancement to the downtrodden historical, sociological and style of rule were swept away by Hut that the maiden I adore is sad in Garryowen. In the introduction Ulick grounds of discipline. Fr Walter Irish and united many in a desire cultural" around November 10th. McDonald, the prefect of the the reforms of the Vatican Oh. she I love is beautiful, and world-wide is her fame, O'Connor draws the parallel with to put Australia first. But even his Chairman was Mr Brian Dunboyne establishment who Council. He is assured of a place She dwells down by the rrshing tide, and Fire is her home: Terence MacSwiney. biographer admits that if he had Stowell, leading Gaelic tutor. took O'Hickey's side throughout in the footnotes of history if not in And dearer than m> vers life her glances are to me, THE IRISH RAPPAREES "Through MacSwiney's' been accepted by the ascendancy Among those present were stated that the conflict between the affections of the Irish people. I he light that guides m> weary soul across life's stormy sea. sacrifice, millions of people in it might have been a different "secretary Tony Birtill, and Mrs R1GH Shemus he has gone to France, and left his crown behind; His biography makes interesting different countries perceived the Mannix and O'Hickey over the story. Joan Inglis who in co-operation I loved her in m\ boyhood. and now in manhood's noon, III luck be theirs, both day and night, put running in his mind. teaching of Irish was of some reading but the interpretations of I he vision of m> life is -.till to dry thy tears, aroon; wrong that Britain was doing in NATURALLY he was with Mr Bernard Morgan years standing. Mannix took the his actions are suspect, coming as I d sing unto the tomb or dance beneath the gallows tree Lord Lucan followed after, with his Slashers brave and true, Ireland. This was a major unpopular with both British and conducted a series of meetings opportunity of getting rid of they do from such a source. ).<> see her on (he hills mice more, proud, passionate and free. contribution - the revelation that Australian governments. When he And now the doleful keen is raised - "What will poor Ireland do? TIMOTHY DARLING designed to interest Liverpool MICHAEL SCANLON by a unique form of self-sacrifice ' children in their Irish roots. What must poor Ireland do?" you could reach out to multitudes "Our luck" they say "has gone to France - what can poor Ireland do?" Apart from Mr Brian Stowell, who have never heard of your cause. the Connolly Association was BEAN AN FHIR RUAIDH Oh! never fear for Ireland, for she has soldiers still; "Bobby Sands, like MacSwiney, represented by Mr Joseph . has by his non-violent sacrifice TWO FACES OF ONE CITY O'Grady and Mr Desmond (V-os) I ail I iu r ou aeuch me deanamh eadaigh i dtoigh an fhir ruaidh For Rory's boys are in the wood, and Remy's on the hill; brought the truth of his people's Greaves. A leading part in the A^us thug mo chroi spei>. .Ion isibhean ba bhinne na an chuach, And never had poor Ireland more loyal hearts than these - predicament before the world." The House of Leland Bardwell. peels a way the layers of veneer and we LIKE The House, Nigh. Shift gives discussion, which took place see deeper into these characters. How a concrete and vivid sense of the Agus thug mo chroi speis da beilin meala gan ghruaim. WITH amazing objectivity, wit Pub. Brandon Book Publishers against the background of a pipe (). \ charaul mo ehlcibh. da n-ealofa liom on fhear rua! May God be kind and good to them, the faithful Rapparees. perfectly she understands the class Dublin in which it is set, if the Dublin and even humour Sands here des- Ltd. 157pp. Price £3.95. band in the rest room was taken The fearless Rapparees! structure of Ireland, the subtle of Night Shift is poorer, thinner, less O.'s a bhruinneal gan mikiI 'bhfuil na dealraiocha deasa i do ghruaiah cribes the brutality, bestiality, and Night Shift by Dermot Bolger. Pub. cultural difference between Catholic by Mr Greg Quiery and Mr John han oganacli bhan ata craite le fada in do dheoidh, The jewel were you, Rory, with your Irish Rapparees! vindictiveness of what must be the Brandon Book Publishers Ltd. and Protestant. How well, too, she (Continued on page eight) McGork. K in chedimse ar amnncach caide 'n lath a bhfuil ormsa gruaim. lowest form of life on the planet - 144 pp. Price £3.95. understand the value of the things that D'amncom I aglais is Hraithre is i gra mo chroi bean an thir rnaidh. have surrounded us in childhood: the Oh, black's your heart, Clan Oliver, and colder than the clay! the screws in Long Kesii, and As Towns with Fire by Anthony C. familiar house with its furniture, the (). rachaidh me sins veal ;niosa no coicine ar cuairt Oh, high's your head, Clan England, since Sarsfield's gone away! Castlereagh. They even blocked up West. Pub. Blackstaff Press Ltd. garden, even the local railway station. K in phillfidh me anios no go smtear mo chaolchorp sail uaigh, the windows in case the prisoners 573pp. Price £5.95. Only twice, in matters not essential to <). \ dochuiin n tsaoil is ni leigheasfadn siad nnse ar an uaigh It's little love you bear to us, for the sake of long ago iii FOURPROVinC€S Boolcsftop; should look through them to see a the story, did the concentration of her Aili aon amharc anihain is a Chail ar bhean an fhir ruaidh. But hold your hand, for Ireland still can strike a deadly blow - bird on a tree outside. BRANDON Book Publishers are imagination weaken—she failed to la crann ins an gharrai a bhfasann air an blath bui. make me believe that her hero had ever Can strike a mortal blow - It is all here in poetic prose and indeed to be congratulated. They have S nuair a leagaim mo lamh air is laidir nach scoilteann mo chroi. given us two remarkable books: The been in any sense left wing and nor did S ni larrtainn aon spas ar an Aird-Ri ta l bhFlaithis na naomh Och, dar-a-Criost 'tis she that still could strike a deadly blow. rhyme, the resistance of the brave, House by Leland Bardwell and his interest in Chinese artefacts HERE'S a way you can help the "Irish Democrat" and the Aili aon phog amgain is a tail o bhean an fhir ruaidh. the capitulation of the morally Nightshift by Dermot Bolger. On the convince me—all else I know is true. Connolly Association, and help yourself at the same time. The Master's bawn, the Master's seat, a surly bodagh fills; weak, the farce of the Diplock face of it these two books could not be I FOUND this an endlessly Nar fhaga me an saol seo ihoiche's nar chaille me an greann more dissimilar, the two Dublins in What do you do with your books when you've read (io raibh me is mo mhian gos lseal faoi bharra na mbeann. The Master's son, an outlawed man, is riding on the hills. Courts, the torturers in surprising book. Its hero and heroine which they are set ate unrecognizable will long haunt me. It is the work of a S gan aoinneach bheith ar na gaobhair ach Brid i mease dhuilliur na gcrann. Castlereagh, the thuggery against them? Some books are kept for reference, others for some But God be praised that round him throng, as thick as summer bees, as being the same city. Leland master, perfectly controlled, as An liar rua bheaith sinte i gCill Bhride agus leac cos a cheano the "Blanket Men" and Anally the special interest in case you want to read them again. The swords that guarded Limerick wall - his faithful Rapparees! Bard well's novel is a .masterpiece. It is memorable as a lyric. suffering of the Hunger Strikers. set in air Anglo-Jrish Protestant Night Shift is that rare thing a novel But many people have books they don't really want to His loving Rapparees! If an interrogator in Castlereagh family. Not for nothing have the about Irish working class people Anglo-Irish hogged Irish literature keep, occupy space, gather dust and raise the question ever came to a sudden end, it would actually living and workingia Ireland, Who dare say "no" to Rory Oge, with all his Rapparees? during the last centut^. What field not surprise anybody. Some of in Dublin to be precise. The first "Why don VI throw those things out?" And yet it's a pity to MY IRISH JAUNTING CAR could be more, interesting to a writer chapter nearly lost me as a reader, it Black Billy Grimes of Latnamard, he racked us long and sore - them walked on the prisoners' than a deposed class, a class that has I AM an Irish carman and old I iland is my home. was so bleak and the factory life it throw out a good book. lost its position, lost the power to There's not a spot in all ihe f ..ih, from it I'd like to roam; naked spines to make them talk. described so ugly. But I stuck with it God rest the faithful hearts he broke! - we'll never see them more, protect its inadequate members from Well, here's the solution. Give them to the Four I'd like to treat the stranger jnd drive him near and far 'Sergeant, there seems to be and was rewarded. Everyone is up But I'll go bail he'll break no more, while Truagh has gallows trees; the realization that they are just against difficulties and disappoint- Provinces Bookshop for its second-hand shelves. To view the sights and scenery from my Irish jaunting car. some claim For why? - he met one lonely night, the fearless Rapparees. that—inadequate to stand on their ments. Alcohol and. drugs, CHORUS: that you forced him to confess. own merits As private incomes romiscuity and rotten housing, You'll have done the spring cleaning, You'll be When riding on mv jaunting car, from Roscommon to kildare. The angry Rapparees! And that you walked upon his dwindle, as sinecures disappear, oring old jobs and bad industrial thinking of holidays. So this is the time. Bring, unwanted naked truths emerge. P From Dublin down to Castlebar and home by County Clare; spine relations stack thi cards against the f rom Cork to Limerick and Athlone, and home by Mullingar, They never sin no more, my boys, whv cross the Rapparees. Leland Bftrdweirs novel is about Irish books, or books of Irish interest into the Four AmMraat hfim upnno less? characters. In the end .all the ruuural You can view the l^kes of Killarney from my Irish jaunting car. just such an Anglo-Irish family living goodness in people is not enough .to Provinces Bookshop, 244 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1 Now, Englishmen and Cromwellers, take heed of what I say - 'No! No! Mfc lord; that was his in a Dublin houwr over ther middle save them and calamities of one sort Some people now for scenery, go far across the main, Keep down your black and angry looks, that scorn us night and day; own pert of this century. At first the and another befall all the main and if we get enough we may try a special Irish book sale at To view the sights and wonders of Italy and Spain; Self-inflicted mess!" picture is, one of. constriction. characters. In case this sounds the end of the month. But if nature's beauties could command, they would not go so far For there's a just and wrathful Judge, that every action sees, Gradually one becomes aware of the depressing, I assure you it is not, But (hey'tLsta''iLst y at home and have a ride on my Irish jaunting car. There is na literary self- quality of taw wtrich they seldom And He'll make strong, to right our wrong, the faithful Rapparees! truth does not depress, and If.you can't get down ring 833.3022 and we'll try to express as o»e teams the idiom of this Night Shift is a fearlessly truthful and Old IrelarJtaritl now for scenes to view, commands the poet's pen. dying family, Gradually the author arrange collection. And Ireland on the battlefield can produce the best of men! The fearless Rapparees! (Continued on page eight) tender book. For nature and humanity are Ireland's guiding star, The men that rode by Sarsfield's side, the roving Rapparees! So slay at home and drive with me on my Irish jaunting ear. Page Eight THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July 1985

Peter Mulligan's "ANDREWS?" asked the chap in kite undulating at the end of several the torn wooly hat and the tattered hundred yards of string came into view peepshow raincoat. "Eamonn bloody beyond the tallest trees at the far side of Andrews you mean? I'll tell PARK SCENE the bandstand. The punks were watch- you something mate: if he ing its movements and attempting to appoached me with his little "What you said amounts to Bloomin' weird, they're like summat reproduce them-a strangely theatrical red book and his bloody mike that," the superior one interrupted Dracula's been at, the white faces of scene. "Their stimulus would appear to I'd send him packing-double rudely. ' By what feat of them!" "The extravagances of be less powerful than either drugs or quick".! imagination did you envisage fashion," the snooty one suggested with religion," the superior fellow "An unlikely eventuality," yourself as being approached by only mild interest. "Each generation remarked. And if the illiterate one did murmured the man wearing the Eamonn Andrews with his indulges its own little follies and not appreciate the finer points of his blue knitted balaclava and the microphone and his red book? vanities, it goes back to earliest times.'' companion's mouthful he could see for mitts. You's be as likely to be asked to join "Oh yes?" queried the woolly-hatted himself that the punks were imitating a space mission!" the kite. "Whaddya mean?" his one dubiously. "How do you know?" companion - the man in The unkindness of this dismissal "One of the benefits of literacy." the "Bloody daft," he commented. the wooly hat and the ragged wasn't lost on the wooly-hatted one and man in the balaclava informed the other "They've got about as much sense as raincoat - asked a mite he sulked for a moment or two before in a somewhat chilly tone of voice, "is some of the silly gits you see on telly, I truculenty. "Can't you speak plain resuming his defence. Across the way that it enables you to know something could just imagine them on This Is Your CAPITALIST HANDOUTS — English?" on the little stretch of green two punks of life in other times than your own. Life got up in all that bleedin' clobber following the De Lorean scandal, The other one apparently couldn't with bleached faces and tortured hair- You, I take it. do not enjoy the benefit like a pair of rag dolls, they'd go down a which cost the British taxpayer (or perhaps it was that he wouldn't) styles, long black undertakers coats of literacy?" treat with Eamonn bloody Andrews almost £100 million, the Lear Fan for he indulged himself in even and vermillion coloured scarves, were "The benefit of what?" the woolly- they would, they'd just suit hin down to aircraft company has collapsed greater circumlocution this time. staring vacantly at the sky while two hatted one demanded and the other the ground!" with the loss of £57 million of "I make so bold as to suggest empty cans of Export rolled gently to smirked unpleasantly. The woolly-hatted one having thus public money and 2,800 projected that the likelihood of Friend and fro in the alternating breeze. "Precisely. I see you don't! There's delivered himself, breathed a sigh of jobs. Mr John McAllister, deputy Eamonn wishing to feature you in "I never brought bloody Eamonn no point in speaking to you about satisfaction and spread himself chief executive of the Northern his This is Your Life series is to say Andrews up at all, so Ididn't-it was you Regency bucks-their obession with comfortably on the bench. And for once Ireland Industrial Development the least remote!" brought him up, not me!" the wooly- style and fashion or anything like thai, his companion was stumped, bowled Board, and one of the "Remote?" hatted one accused the superior one. is there?" I don't imgagine you'd know over, flabbergasted, utterly speechless Governments' two nominee "AS Ursa Major. With all the "Irrefutable." the latter conceded the difference between a cravat and a ... all he could do was to stare at his directors on the Lear Fan board is myriads of celebrities he has to snootily. cummerbund?" The other's silence companion in bafflement, mouth looking for a refund from the head choose from why should he ask hanging. . . "It u as you that said what a great seemed to confirm his ignorance in this office in Reno, USA. It is not you?" man he was, how you admired him, the respect and the conversation languished DONAL MAC AMHLAIGH. known if members of the Saudi ' 7 never said he should ask me," good manners of him and all that I for a moment. Across on the grassy royal family have also lost their countered the woolie hatted one never said nothing at all!" patch the two punks-both of investment. defensively. "Double negative, "chided the snooty intermediate gender to judge from dress PRISON POET "What I said wa.r—" one, rubbing his mittened hands and and adornment-had begun to make (Continued from page two) lugging at the balaclava. "You should some odd movements now, weaving and HANDING IT OUT - the consciousness about Sands. He try to be more precise when you posturing like figures in one of those Northern Ireland Industrial does not strive after the obscure or speak!" slow-motion advertisements you see on Development Board has a flexible A WORD TO original. The images come from "Precise?" echoed the other. telly. And their behaviour gave the pair range of "investment incentives" everyday life: "rat in porter vat", "You're all preciseness—" on the park bench an excuse to resume which include 50 per cent for YOU "blind man in a storm" "Time ran "Precision, "corrected the first man talking. research and development projects, out . . ./Like screeching blackbird THE SUSTENTATION fund is a in a pained tone of voice. " Precision." "They're bats!" commented the with a limit on any one venture of flew". bil low this month, and we'd like to "—precision," the wooly-hatted woolly-hatted chap with an expression £250,000. Rental of government say a serious word to our readers. Look at the easy flow of the one amended, "and where did it get of disgust. "That or drugged up to their factories can be waived for five The Association has just committed following: a substantial act of faith in the Labour you?" eyeballs." years. A quarter of the cost of My dancing eyes bore no industrial building, including movement and the Irish community, "It's not a question of where the "A feasible supposition," ngre--4the by appointing a man who has all the disguise. government grants, can be written ability to express oneself gets one-the one in the balaclava and the mitts. "On appearances of being a "live wire" to They leapt like flames of fire, off in the first year. Likewise, the thing is reward enough in itself, not a the other hand they may belong to some the post of national organiser. When Christ I stares as at me cost of machinery and equipment means towards an end." odd religious cult they may be We are confident that he will raise glared can be 50 per cent written off in the the necessary finance to keep him "I make myself understood," the experiencing some kind of emotional The death name of Maguire' first year and 25 per cent going. But he can't do it in two wooly-hatted fellow declared. "When uplift." minutes. We therefore need a subsidy thereafter. The system is a boon to we go along to the convent or the "Drugged." insisted the other one In another verse Sands is critical of £100 a week, and it takes some presbytery door for a bit of grub they flatly. "High as kites!" of writers, artists and painters who business men who want to make a getting. quick fortune and run. Only 40 per We trust our regular donors will don't give you any more than they give The remark was an oddly fortuitous ignore the sufferings of republicans cent of the working population of continue to do the best they can, but me, do they?" one for at that moment a wind-borne in jail. Northern Ireland work in the we need to extend the field. "Not that I've noticed," the • The Men of Art have lost their If you haven't donated before, just balaclava-clad one admitted regret- private sector. think of this. The Connolly heart, fully. Association is one of the great centres RESOLUTION They dream within their dreams. of stability in the Irish and Labour "You get a hunk of bread and cheese PONTYPRIDD Branch of the Their magic sold for price of NO JURY COURTS — Mr D. movements. You never see "split in and a bowl of soup same as me, don't National Union of Railwaymen gold Hurd, Secretary of State for the Connolly Association" on any of you?" the papers. The atmosphere in the has submitted the following Amidst a people's screams. Northern Ireland, has informed "Don't labour the point, please," the C.A. is friendly and relaxed, as you resolution to the union's annual They sketch the moon and the House of Commons that the can see yourself by dropping into other chap beg% ?d wearily, "it is agreed conference: capture bloom no jury Diplock courts will the Four Provinces Bookshop. that we both get the same. There is a "That this AGM congratulates the With genius, so they say. Its policy is clear and logical. It continue for the forseeablc future. difference, though!" Labour Party on the espousal of the But n'er they sketch the quaking never deviates from the principle that HANSARD "Oh yes? and what's that?" The principle of the reunification of Ireland, relations between Britain and Ireland wretch and urges the discussions with the can only be satisfactory when Britain woolly hat and the tattered raincoat Who lies in Castlereagh. Government of the Irish Republic with a recognises all I re land as an was genuinely interested in whatever RL ACTION A NO COUNTER- view to ascertaining what would be the The sacrifices of Bobby Sands independent state. the difference might be. REACTION — Sir J. Harmon, chief most appropriate steps to take for the IT DOES not advocate the use of and his friends will have been in constable of the Royal Ulster "The difference is that lean express attainment of this objective, it being volence to achieve this position but vain if we are not inspired to make a Constabulary has issued his annual report. adequately my gratitude-that's one of understood that while every effort should Last year 528 people were charged with understands how patriotic young political contribution to ending the advantages of a decent be taken to secure reconciliation and terrorist type offences compared vwth 613 people can be led into folly and even consent, the Unionists of Northern Ireland British rule in Ireland. The spirit of in 1983. 187 weapons and 3.8 tonnes of wickedness by the atrocities that are vocabularly-while you, to say the least, cannot be allowed a permanent veto on Bobby Sands's Epitaph was the explosives were uncovered, compared with practised against them. cannot." constitutional change." (GS/815). same as that of Joe Hill - "Don't 199 weapons and 1.7 tonnes the previous It adopts the same attitude to "Ain't no need for a lot of palaver year According to the report, there were socialist countries which despite any Mourn. Organise." about a bowl of soup or a mug of chaw, 64 deaths, 334 shootings, 248 bombs and errors they have committed thanks G.C. 10 incendiary devices used by civilians to to the provocations of a hostile is there. Cor, stone the crows they don't APARTHEID oppose the state. The bombs and bullets environment, remain the hope of the expect us to get down on our knees and (Continued from page four) used by the professionals are not listed. So world. grovel, do they?" of American public opinion TWO FACES far this year 13 members of the RUC have While it is hostile to the British been killed. "That," agreed the superior one, against the Reagan Govern- ruling class and the arrogant Tory (Continued from page two) imperialists, it is one hundred percent "would be a trifle excessive." ment's support for the South THE MASONIC CONNECTION - "The in favour of the British working "So I tell them 'Cheers' and they Africans racists could yet rock the beautiful than the Dublin of the Masons are an ancient and honoured society people, as it supported the miners know what I mean, don't they?" foundations of apartheid. House this should not surprise us: that enjoys the traditional patronage of the throughout their struggle. Might Shift is about the "One imagines so," the other agreed The South Africans are now Royal Family. The Duke or Kent is Grand If you think this is worth while, that underprivileged and poverty loftily. Over on the grass patch Master, the Queen is Grant Patroness. And this is a contribution, and that this trying to reform the surface impoverishes. for policemen in particular, whose job work should be expanded, then we ask the punks had become rather objectionable features of their "As Towns with Fire" is a very inevitably isolates them from the people they you to put your hand in your pocket. animated now, staring upwards system. For a reactionary regime different kind of book—a highly serve, it provides a friendly, ready made Our thanks to: A. Higgins £10, P. but with an air that suggested personal blockbuster of nearly 600 social club." DAILY MAIL. that is the most dangerous time. McLaughlin £4, E. O'Dowling £20, some kind of unearthly visitation was pages, a novel that leads you through South London C.A. £25, G. Ward £1, Remember what happened when the rigours of an Irish childhood and imminent. Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd (TU). J. Kavanagh £3.20, B. Deere £2, C. Terence O'Neill tried to 'reform* the rigours of a European war. Apart Nottingham Road, Ripley, Derbys, Moloney £2, J. Nolan £5, N. Green £4, "Look at those daft buggers, the git- Stormont Unionism. The whole from the pleasure of living a life that is and published by Connolly Pub- C. Sullivan £20, M. Brennan £5, O. up of them!" snorted the chap with the not your own, Anthony C. West will lications Ltd, 244 Grays Inn Road, place blew up in his face. The same Cahn £14, J. Kennedy 88p, supporters restricted vocabulary. "I don't know enrich you with his vision of the world London WC1. Telephone: 01-833- in South London £3.38. Total: thing is likely to happen in the he has passed through. • 3022. £119.46. what they want to dress up like that for. next few years in South Africa. P.O'F.