IRISH MOCRAT FOUNDED IN 1939. MONTHLY ORGAN OF THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION

No. 359 MAY 19 74 FRESH DEMAND Abairt an lae ie Seamus 0 Cionnfalla

1. Cathoin a thiocfhaidh tu? FOR ENGLAND 2. Ni Fheadar me.

3. Ta tu choimh aosta leis an gceo.

4. Ta deire na foidhne caite agam. 5. A ohealg saite ionnat da TO GET OUT OF nibeadh se ag gaire leat.

6. Nil aoinne beirthe gan locht. 7. Tar-eis gach nidh chitear Circulation has _gach beart. IRELAND held up HOME OFFICE THE "Irish Democrat" in April • sold more copies at 10P than SUGGESTS A CHANGE THIS CRAIY POLICY it sold at 7p in March. So to all our sellers and readers COMPROMISE we say "Thank you." CRACKS are beginning to show in the imperialist front. Mr Roy Mason / The increased price is necessitated WITH PRISON has admitted that there is "strong pressure" in England for disen- by the increase in costs, and even at tenpehoe we are only just above *HE Home Secretary Has replied gagement in the six counties. The strain on the troops is one thing, the breaking even. So It Is particularly • to the complaint made by the gratifying to find that a number of Irish Democrat Book Service that dryihg-up of recruitment is another. readers are giving donations above two books purchased for trans- There are rumours that as nation, while England is all This method of approach makes the i»p, whioh can go into our mission to Mr Noel Jenkinson in development fund. part of a drastic retrenchment but broke, thanks to the possible an Irish solution of the Leicester Jail had been returned by Irish problem. the Governor. of military expenditure, there Tories. They demanded that As soon as the debts accumulated may be an attempt to "Ultter- Mr Cosgrave call for a de- Above all it makes it impossible during the later part of the seven- The reason given was that Mr ize" the conflict. Mr! Fitt flew to claration of intent to leave for anti-Irish elements to threaten penny period are made a bit more Jenkinson was only allowed visits London warning of the possi- Ireland and discussions on it the Catholic people with a blood- manageable we shall begin a drive and. communications from relatives bath unless they join in the per- bility of a bloodbath, and imme- should be begun. to Improve the paper and increase and close friends. secution of their co-religionists who circulation. diately it was denied that any The Connolly Association Confer- On many occasions the "Irish ence in Birmingham early in June are republicans. change of policy was contem- t In the meantime our best thanks Demeorat" has Supplied copies to will have before It practical reso- plated. SECURITY to: Hyde Park Wellwisher £1, M. the order of prisoners who have lutions suggesting the best way of been allowed to send money out of There is a deeply anti-Irish Rabbit sop, C. Wood £1, V. Griffin achieving this desirable aim. £1, H. c. Foreman Tip, J. Kllderry Jail to ttuy them. It is therefore BANKRUPTCY element in much of the "pull the clear that Jenkinson is being sub- The Westminster Government troops out now" lobby in England. 90p, A. Coughian £3.14, C. Cunning- ham £2, Central London Readers jected to a regime of greater a change of policy is should make a declaration of intent. Thus the "Guardian" says that Mr But £2.92, South London Readers £<42, severity than other prisoners. badly needed. The statement It should declare that it no longer Mason's object in talking with- laid claim to sovereignty in the drawal was to "encourage the West London Readers £1.09. The Home Office has now sug- made by the Connolly Associa- six counties, and that these coun- Ulster people to accept more res- gested that the book be sent to the tion to Labour M.P.s warned of ties should be controlled by the ponsibility for their own security." prison library. The Book Service the dangers of taking over the majority of the Irish people, that it What does that mean ? Join • the would like to ask the purchaser if an legacy of Tory policy, and fail- no longer offered open-ended U.D.R.? Or turn informers? PAT DEVINE FUND he agrees. In the meantime we will ing to realise its bankruptcy. guarantee of a minority's veto on asoertaln from the Governor The same paper in the same rROM New York come two more national unity. issue says "A substantial and grow- whether Mr Jenkinson would be At the Conference of the • donations to the Pat Devlne notified of the arrival of the books ing number of M.P.s is now coming Irish Sovereignty Movement IRISH ADVICE Memorial Fund, £10 from Mr and in the Prison Library. And we will round to the view that even if a Mrs Robinson, and £16 from Art in Dublin a resolution was After having made that state- continue to press for a more pull-out did lead to a bloodbath it and Esther Shields. Our best passed urging the Coalition humane and reasonable regime. The ment it should declare its willing- would be short and sharp and far thanks also to H. Foreman 35p, w. British prison system is obviously Government to take a firmer ness to take IRISH advice on the preferable to the steady stream of O'Shaughnessy 93p, T. Marrinan sadly wanting in a scrap of line with England. After all, method and timing of that with- violence which will enter its sixth sop, R. Mulholland £12, Mr Beitfn humanity. Ireland is now a wealthy drawal. year this autumn." 50p, B. Riordan 40p, Central London That means in a nutshell that Readers £s.20, West London they believe the Protestants should Readers £1, South London Readers be let loose on the Catholics, and £11.96, East London Readers £3.70. they would soon put them down. Total £28.07. But what if they didn't? What if CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE fighting spread throughout the border counties, if Dublin called in the United Nations? Where would Public Meeting 7.30 p.m., Sundoy, 2nd June it end? Have they thought about that? No. For they've no intention • Translations of pulling out; they only want to intimidate Mr Pitt, who has given 1. When will you come? TRANSPORT HOUSE, BROAD STREET hostages to blackmailers by blun- dering into Sunnlngdale. 2. I don't know. The "Guardian" goes on "Practi- cally none argue that the north 3. As old as the hills. should be handed over to the 4. The last of my patience south. The most popular corollary BIRMINGHAM of a pull-out is to give all power to has disappeared. an elected assembly, supported by 5. A sting for you, though massive grants from Britain." he mifcht hold r uniting Speakers : This is an infamous proposal. Back to stormont in effect. Back to face; tr- :»• .-« wtM ANTHONY COUGHLAN JOHN McCLELLAND the B-specials and the Unionist 6. No man born is without <> ll/l AMMOCIATIO \ THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 3 POLITICAL FORTH The end of the war and the Ireland Act RELAND'S NATIONAL WAGE AGREEMENTS CENTRAL M Y lirst t">r.' . ' • ith tin- the Connolly Association organ- LONDON C.A "Irish I).- • r. ' v. as m by May Hayes (Dublin ised boxinv. matches in the hos- I AST month's "Democrat" repor- t:..- j'j;iw:it of 1;-44 .n Uirnun.4- tels and many an Irish lad and ' led on the new National Wage Our Industrial Correspondent in Dubl in their Conciliation and Arbitration BRANCH And this <> v. it hap- girl too were encouraged by the ..^reement which is now operating schemes. They also have available m 1972, ihe 14th round. This one interpretation and adjudication REGRETTABLY we are nor«c ; -.tv, An Irish the sole pera-nJ..- ;»t journah.-m nor of these fellows, some of whom "Democrat" to attend evening ; . re m Ireland. This is the 15th guaranteed two wage agreements n.jnd, under which every worker (and the 1970 Agreement 1 ran for committees of the Employer, Labour of us in a position to give support of a wiciwed mother working in a newspaper office, had been sentenced to 17 and 20 classes which led them to suc- this year. They will come automati- the country will get two wage m- eighteen months: a first phase of Conference. the Connolly Association £200 who lived in Ireland, had died in but from one weekend to the years and since the war had cessful careers. POLICE twelve months, and a second phase cally to him in his pay packet on , rt-a.-es within a twelve-month the appropriate dates. But despite Industrial action is prohibited but by working together we :•» hostel in Oldbury. near Bir- other I -ot my jobs to da and no ended some two years before, of six months. In 1949 when the Ireland Bill 1 • nod. Nothing similar exists in this, many trade unionists oppose, under the Agreement, However, have been able to give the equi- rr.in.nham. She had acute appen- quarter was given if I failed. the need for the security of the was before the Houses of Par- Eritain. yyHEN the agreements started and a lot more have misgivings unlike the legislation in Britain, valent in labour. The time had d.ntis and the hostel authorities Pat Dooley was the hardest of state no longer existed. liament I was helping the late ACTION workers had received then- about the whole concept of National such prohibitions do not involve come when we had to re- The wage "freeze" and the later previous increases at different tailed to sjet he:' a doctor or task masters, a great teacher The "Democrat" sponsored a Captain Henry Harrison to pub- squeeze", introduced by the Tory Wage Agreements. punitive action by the State. A decorate our premises and we have her removed to hospital and a greater organiser I have well attended meeting in the lish and distribute literature times. Hence the entry dates into union which transgresses a "no- got a professional estimate to (iovernment, were products of the Agreements varied. The Em- The role of the trade- union move- and so she died i'rorn lack of yet to meet. His greatest com- Conway Hall to stimulate the CRITICISED .strike" clause of the Wage Agree- do the job for £200. Two week- condemning the section of the legislation, enacted at Westminster ployer Labour Conference met in ment can be changed by prolonged medical attention. plaint with Irish journalists was campaign. This meeting was at- Bill which consolidated the r.nd consequently had the force of involvement in these agreements. ment, can have its actions des- ends running a merry band cj NE of the most successful con September 1973, for the purposes of cribed by Employer/ Labour The "Irish Democrat" was the that you had to read right to the tended by Eoin O'Mahony, Lord Partition of Ireland. The Con- ferences of the National Coun- law. However, the Wage Agree- drafting a new agreement, very If the worker gets his pay increased us have gone in and done the O ments here are voluntary, and nor- automatically (remembering that Conference as being contrary to cc.ly paper at that time, either end of an article before you Killanin, Geoffrey Bing and a nolly Association and the Irish cil for Civil Liberties took place wr conscious of the fact that the 1972 cleaning and painting ourselves. mally would be of little more than industries which are badly organ- the Agreement. However, the Irish i-i England or Ireland, that knew what it was about. From Westminster M.P. whose name Democrat worked very hard to Birmingham on April 6th and 7th, Agreement expired at the end of We think it is done a treat. passing interest to the British ised, on non-union plants or jobs Congress of Trade Unions can then u'ave any hearing to Irish 1974. 1973 for many thousands of Connolly and Pearse now rest Pat I learned a lot. I forget. whip up support to oppose the trade unionist. But the Labour get the increases also) there may take disciplinary action against the workers, including the building and their heads in our meeting- emigrants. It was always avail- When the Irish Anti-Partition During the war the office of Bill, meetings were held, indoor The Connolly Association Execu- Government has hinted at some develop a situation where workers Union. Thus Congress can be cast able to help in the f.ght against the "Democrat," in Premier and outdoor, continual lobbying tive Council was represented by Mr engineering trades. They came up believe trade unions to be irrele- in the role of industrial policeman. rooms on walls of the tenderest League was formed. Pat became fort of voluntary incomes policy, with a draft agreement, which was cases of victimisation such as House, in Southampton Row. Sean Kenny and Mr Desmond vant. This is emphasised when the eau-de-nil, the stairs wind up- a member. It was he who drew of M.P.s took place, numerous ..nd the Irish experience may there- rejected by the Irish Congress of Supporters of the Wage Agree- non-payment of lodging allow- was a really busy place. Letters letters were written to trade Greaves, Miss Elizabeth Sinclair iore be worthy of study by the unions are constrained in what they ment claim that they help the wards through rich lime green. up the Constitution for that attended from the Belfast Trades Trade Unions at a special congress can negotiate, as they are under ances, accident compensation came from Irish lads in the unionists, to the Friends of Ire- 'rade union movement in Britain. lower-paid worker. Certainly they But by common consent our organisation. Later when they Council, and Mr Richard Graham on 29th January, 1974. the agreements. and so on. Forces, from all sorts of places. land Group in Westminster and are weighted in his favour. How- crowning glory is the lavatory expelled him because he was a from N.I.C.R.A. We have in existence, on a per- With a promise of tax reform The "Democrat" attacked the Many boys of Irish extraction many others who were sympa- manent basis, an Employer/Labour It is extremely difficult to get any ever, all that is needed to help the pan which now gleams and glis- Communist, it was Pat himself An Executive Resolution proposed from the Government, and im- lower paid is a national minimum tens like a good deed in a hostel authorities tor allowing who made the necessary change in the American Army called thetic to^a United Ireland. by Mr John Dromey called for th« Conference, consisting of repre- provements in the cash in the more than the amounts listed above. sentatives from employer organisa- The only way it can be done is by wage, backed by legislation, and naughty world. this girl to die and helped the in the Constitution which ex- and wrote letters. I made such continuance of opposition to the agreement, a further draft was put reviewed periodically. Likewise, Many votes were cast against tions and the Irish Congress of an "anomaly claim". A worker (or campaign which the Hostel a lot of friends, interesting Emergency Provisions Act. An before another special Congress of equal pay could be the subject of cluded him. Pat merely stages of the Bill, but on the Trade Unions, under the chairman group) must prove that he has The recruiting ads say : "Join Committee, made up mainly of friends and one letter I looked amendment was moved by a gentle- I.C.T.U. on 7th March and on this special legislation, without the need chuckled. Irish organisations final night of the vote, hun- of Professor Basil Chubb, of fallen out of line with people doing Irishmen and women, organised forward to getting was from man named Kelsey which "never- occasion it was accepted. for an all-embracing wage agree- the Army and see the world." have a reputation for expelling dreds of Irish people were in Trinity College, Dublin. It i this similar work, or else that he has theless recognised the necessity of s As explained last month, every ment. We can say, "Join the Connolly to collect contributions to pay people who offer a challenge to Elizabeth Gurly Flynn — she tody which drafts the National fallen behind some other group the House and we were all very the Act during the present threat worker in the state will receive, on Association arte! find yourself the funeral expenses and. knew her Ireland better than Wage Agreements. with which he was traditionally re- their ineptitude as organisers. despondent, that the Labour to the territorial integrity of th® the expiry of the 1972 Agreement T^INALLY, the point should be doing practiccelfy anything under while I don't remember the most of us born there and for lated. No other type of claims are government, with its over- United Kingdom posed by a There have been a number of (remembering that there are dif- made that whiie wages are the sun." Our members in the figure, quite a substantial sum 'I'HE late Cahair Healy, M.P. possible while the national wage her championing of the cause of whelming majority, had be- minority of rebels." Mr Kelsey hat national wage rounds, but since ferent expiry dates), 9 per cent on easy to control and regulate, the agreement exists, apart from the Central London branch : Run a was sent to the girl's mother. for Fermanagh and Tyrone, the underdog, the Irish workers, already moved an amendment to a >963, there have been five identifi- the first £30 of basic pay; 7 per prices are much more difficult. trayed us. It is only fair to say equal pay claims mentioned already. bookshop, keep accounts, sell J^ T this time I joined the was interned under the provi- the coloured peoples, and other resolution deploring the use of able wage rounds applied to workers cent on the next £10; 6 per cent on There is here a National Prices that the Irish in London, no Thus the traditional role of the papers, speak at meetings' in- Connolly Association and sions of Order No 18B during exploited races in the United conspiracy charges against organ- m the public sector. However, in the next £10; 5 per cent on the Commission, which does its best. matter what organisation or individual trade union negotiating But its best has not been enough. doors and out-of-doors, nag went to London in the autumn the war and the "Irish Demo- States, she had served a term of isers of industrial action, wishing 3970 the Government threatened to remainder, plus 60p a week. There none, they belonged to, worked for its members has been eroded. And needless to say, there is no M:P.s, scrub and paint. Do not to their annual conference. crat" brought pressure to bear imprisonment. to add "where such action has not introduce "wage restraint" legisla- is a minimum of £2.40. every way they could to bring tion, and soon after, the 1970 Wage control on profits and dividends. mind about seeing the world, There I made the acquaintance on the British Government to caused distress or inconveniencs Six months later, he or she will Negotiations are done at national J£UT it wasn't all work in home to the leaders of the Bri- to workers, nor prevented them Agreement came into being. This come and join US. of the present Editor, Desmond allow him to have a typewriter. receive 4 per cent of basic weekly lever, by the Executive Committee The 1974 Agreement almost did Premier House. We decided tish Labour Party at that time, from exercising their right M was the 13th round. There was pay, plus 60p a week. Then in the of the Irish Congress of Trade not make it. But for the situation Greaves, Elsie Tirnbey. with And, during the bleak, black In Easter week our stalwart to produce a play for the pur- the folly of their ways and it work." another National Wage Agreement last quarter of the twelve-month Unions. Consequently there has in Britain it probably would not whom I stayed, Michael Mclner- days in Dartmoor, the I.R.A. member Ted Shields came and pose of entertaining the Irish in was the late Willie Gallacher A spirited debate took place on Agreement, there shall be a pay- been an increase in the role of have done so at alL It was voted ney, now a journalist on the prisoners received Christmas gave us a talk on the events of the hostels. The large hotels who said to me that night in the the Kelsey amendment which was ment based on increases in the cost Congress, with a corresponding on at a time when Britain was in "Irish Times," Nan Greene and cards as a result of requests to near Russell Square had been House, that Labour had lost overwhelmingly rejected, and thNorthern Ireland question. Des- day, April 23rd. any remaining differential by 33J pected to process claims, when they Wage Agreements in principle is per cent. years of dispatching the "Irish Guardian" and he came to Lon- Later, when the campaign for would need a Cockney and I myself personally, I have to say pite this there is still widespread cannot get satisfaction with the increasing and when the present The organisations which had employers across the table, through Agreement expires, there may well Democrat" to our postal sub- don each weekend to prepare their release started, the "Demo- well remember the retort of I learned much and can look discrimination against citizens en been associated with the calling of So on the face of it, the Agree- ment seems reasonable enough. the Labour Court, or in the case be a return to free collective bar- scribers—a truly Trojcn task. the "Democrat." During the crat" gave generous space to the Desmond Greaves who said back on my time associated with account of religion and political the Kampstead Town Hair con- A*G.M. Every worker knows that he is of the public service, through gaining. P.O'F. week I had to get ready the late Eoin O'Mahony in his "Goodness, the place is lousy it as one of the most informa- beliefs. This therefora ference of May 1073, decided to in- instructs the t.C. to urge the material. I had no previous ex- efforts to spotlight the fact that with them." Another member of tive of my life. vite Mrs Edwtna Stewart of Government (« to intraduoe the N.I.C.R.A. to address a meeting in KM • tlmii i • ji» CELI 1< WOKLft BiU of 4Uman flights which was a welT-known hair on June 20th. promised in the White Paper The organisations represented following the establishment ot were the Connolly Association, the direct rale, and to incorporate in WHEN PROPAGANDISTS' TIMES WERE HARD National Council for Civil Liberties, it measures for protecting ottn- the Communist Party of Great What do you T REMEMBER speaking at a Coo- by R. W. HEATLEY (Belfast) to stop interfering in Ireland's tfnp ^gainst unfair discrimina- A LETTER FROM LIVERPOOL nolly Association meeting in affairs just so soon as she can Britam, the National Union of tion, harassment and abuse of degree and in so doing they are on them out bag and baggage and pave Hyde Park 10 years ago. For Irish deoently extricate herself. students, Liberation (formerly the CHARA—I feel that the think? convince people was that so few that England was responsible for power % the executive, so that A article by R. Mulholland on their knees before capitalism. the- way for a Westminster Govern- propagandists times were hard. Until that happens, there will the protection anvisagod in the Movement for Colonial Freedom) comfortable - living Socialists'! ?) recent immigrants were sufficiently Ireland's misfortunes. the S.N.P. and the reminder about The people who seek Nationalism ment to follow suit. Harder than usual, that is. There continue to exist the danger that BUI of flights introduced at West and the Haldane Society. The would be mote convincing to an the interested to bother propagating the what John McLean said in 1923 is in Scotland today are doing what Socialism has nothing to fear was talk in Britain about people They were getting a living in Bri- the conflict will engulf the 26 nunstpr in 19shall bM0*M Pottttcal Committee of the London people if they set an example by truth. Nowadays, commercial jour- something that. the Labour Party I did in earlier life, they are taking from Nationalists in Scotland and bringing their own salaries more in "never having had it so good." Or tain and could, in those circum- counties as well. This is because available tor eii. in parMeuiar co-operative Society wrote expres- nalists (in pursuit of hot-selling and indeed all Socialists should their first step towards Socialism, Wales, the countries will still be maybe that was said later. No stances be slightly excused for fall- the stupid Establishment there, we the immediate repeal of sing interest but sent no representa- line with the wages of * "fac« material) have developed a veritable consider very deeply. they are rejecting Imperialism and mterpendent and industrial action worker", they themselves are sur- matter, the mood prevailed. ing for the Orangeman's myth of an which provides the governments, is the Emergency Previsions A«* tive beeause the time of the meeting industry masked by Irish "experts". this must be seen as a progressive will be even more effective against face workers and the people ot Eden in Ireland's British North. playing a devious, vacillating role and all other repressive iegisia clashed WTth its own meeting. Ulster "loyalists" who used to Millions of words have been used to Imperialism is no different in move. The Tories were quick to see a split capitalist front. These are these islands wiB be more con- and, by degrees, allowing itself to Won, together with the diftUHMive- THE Connolly Association is ar- turn up at the meetings were com- provide a superficial history and IT^EVERTHELESS, the C.A., in these islands than it is anywhere this, that is why they came up with the kind of things that the Tories vinced that Socialism Is desirable be pressurised into acting as an- raent of tbe armed forces item ' ranging a speaking tour by placent. Their wee Ulster was part origin ior the Civil Rights struggle. -L* conjunction with its Republi- else in the world and if we try to the idea of Councils in all three saw and this is why they would when they see it operating In Gov- other arm of England's "security day to day security duties, ,and Miss Elizabeth Sinclair in the of booming Britain and, even if The Press invented its own heroes can and Rationalist allies (and its build Socialism and at the same countries, a landlord in Edinburgh allow Unionist type Councils to be ernment. forces" in Ireland, their withdrawal to a reserve posi- middle of Jbn* tttd an effort will they did have to send over deputa- and then ascribed to them the friends in the British labour move- time tolerate Imperialism, then we instead of London woHld damp established. mHE Irish exiles in England, pro- tion against the possibility of be mads to de in order to jokes the other week, which PROVOCATION may also have the nanny in the words delivered Control of the profits and ultimate J. McGill activities as a major Dublin ground make prices dearer for the sparked Miss Sarah Nelson, of the ' brought to the surface in Bri- to Ulstermen by British politicians use of the wealth would thus be AITING for the bus at Pic- shoulder to shoulder. Sidewalks line of duty to keep their faces Im- landlord Seamus was organising University of Strathclyde, to write tish people the residue of racialist in recent years. left to the mining companies who HUNGER cadilly at 2 p.m. A voice other. w are crowded, mostly children at- passive. But even the football Proby's tenants. This is the lunacy of the in a perceptive letter about them. views about Irish* Instability, bar- She concludes: "Irish Catholics have manifestly failed at Tynagh greets me. Turn to see Tommy tracted by the excitement. Towards hoodlums don't mix "The Queen" " barity and political childishness, and Silvermines to establish the in- Common Market. Irish house- Miss Nelson says that what is may continue to have an accurate, Moran, an old C.A. friend, also on the rear, police intervening, are with their chants. Do I detect a In the early 1960s he was a lead- really offensive is the way in which which survives from the Victorian or indeed even exaggerated idea of dustries that should have resulted STRIKERS his way to Moston with his two groups with Union Jacks. haunted look of embarrassment in ing light in "Misneach", the organ- wives are up in arms about prejudices described in A. P. Curtis's from these mines. these sneering semi-racialist jokes what the British think of them: sons. Beautiful sunny day. Reflect "They attempted to take the flag," his eye? isation of militant Irish language what is happening and the more book, "Anglo-Saxons and Celts." •'I'HE following is a list of some of are cheerfully recounted, not by Irish Protestants are suffering the Minority participation by the that most people will take advan- says Tommy as I fall in beside him. activists grouped around Mairtin O meat is taken into intervention Miss Nelson quotes Edith Balfour * the British and Irish organisa- Away by the gates the tall figure those who like to laugh about the disillusionment of discovery'- Irish State would be better than nothing tage and hit off to the sea and "They call themselves National Cadhain, that colourful, splendid, the crosser they will get. who wrote in 1905: "They are like tions that support the demand that* of Moran can be seen. We cannot workers, but by good liberals or left- jokes demonstrate that, in British at all, but essentially it would country. Alight at the Ben Brier- Front," says someone else. Chants individualistic man who had a children listening still to old fairy forcible feeding be ended and that hear, but we observe the ceremony wingers who might blush or draw eyes, proud loyalists are as Mick as amount to political window-dress- ley, the pub that honours itself of "I.R.A .murderers, Out!" from formative influence on Seamus stories . . . like children who will the tour prisoners, Hugh Feeney, in our hearts. On him especially, back a little at a juicy Alf Garnett- the Micks and politicians' attitudes ing. Retention of public ownership with the old Lancashire dialect rear of us. Tailing away. Not and on many others. type wog joke. Indeed, one of the not grow up. But, like children too, are clearly that all the inhabitants Man m Price, Gerald Kelly and poet's name. Quite a crowd as- falls the full burden of the day. He of the Navan Mine is the only policy taken up by general public. We He also edited the "United Irish- LAUNCHED richest sources of these jokes at they appeal to the love and pity of of Ireland are political children. Dolores Prices be returned to jails sembled, with a lot more police in knows the stewards can't be every- which will maximise the wealth for march in silence, as usual. Now man" before the Republican split. present an student rag magazines; all . . . but the task is difficult, and Both are a source of humiliation to in No:them Ireland. evidence than usual. The tricolour where. It only needs one hot- the Irish people. If the Government approaching, we swing to the right Although he was always, of course, Liberal principles don't apply to if you give children complete free- all Ulstermen at the present time. Antrim Men's Association; is flying, and away to one side see head, one person unable to bear the fails to insist on this it will be towards the gates. Double row of republican in outlook he has never GAELIC Paddies; although Paddies must, of dom they will certainly stray." No wonder the children are unkind Armagh Association; Carlow Asso- a group holding'three Union Jack insults any longer, and the hood- committing a real crime against police stand in front of them. We lums have won. We long to be been organisationally affiliated to course, follow liberal principles! to nanny!" ciation; Celtic League; Clann na flags. A restless air pervades. If the British people are still the Irish people. halt. Nobody breaks ranks. At able to say, "Don't worry, Seamais, either wing of the Republican move- hEire.iun; Clare Association; Com- People coming and going. No sign RECORD It has been said that these jokes our head, James Moran, chairman we won't let you down. We all ment and was one of those most munist Party of Great Britain; of starting yet. The press, God are similar to Polish ones of other of the committee is speaking with know what's needed." And we don't. bitterly upset by the split. During I»ILLY McBURNEY, of Belfast, Communist Party, Crouch End save us, out in force. times, and Miss Nelson suggests police. Cannot hear what is said. Everyone has instinctively felt the his editorship the "United Irish- ' ' has scored a new first with the Branch; Communist Party of Ire- that sociologists might fruitfully So, the Bishop's ban in mind, Looks like impasse. A singing of same. We keep cool. When the man" made a remarkable jump in latest record put out by his firm, land. Dun Laoghaire Branch; Con- examine how, why and when cer- RUSSIAN EMBASSY OPENS IN DUBLIN Tom," says I, "I'm off to the gates "Land of Hope and Glory" by word is eventually passed to dis- circulation and Seamus's talents as Outlet Records, which has sent so nolly Association; Conrad h na tain national or ethnic groups to see what the position is." Walk National Front element as they perse, we do. Police move around a first-class investigative journalist many songs about the Northern USSIA'S first Ambassador to Russia to a country which was the appointment and for the ending of Gaeilge; Cumann arann agus come to take on this joke function quietly down Moston Lane. Parked press in. advising us to remove our Easter won numerous scoops for the paper, struggle around the world in recent R Ireland, Mr Anatole Kaplin, first in the world to cast off the the ridiculous situation whereby rinnc." Gaeilge; Feminist Collective in the wider society. discreetly see police cars and Black lilies. Sound advice. Those that as It did also for the "Irish People" years. will be moving into the new Russian colonial yoke. He referred to the Ireland had no diplomatic relations i Spare Rib»; Gaelic Athletic Asso- Have time to note them now. All Embassy in Orwell Road, Rathgar, growing interest about Irish affairs Marias. Am walking with ghosts remove them j would not fault; subsequently. This is a long-playing record of OWEVER, she suggests that with the Soviet Union until now. It ciation, London County Board; males. Have seen you before, think children.and veterans are with us. Dublin, in the next couple of which now existed in Russia and now. Back to my first youthful pil- speeches and interviews by the late H the major shift in Irish jokes is well known that the British Gov- Ford Foundry Workers Group, I. Different faces, same expres- Baffled N.F. boyos not succeeded. He was interned by Brian Faulk- months. The embassy has just been mentioned the statement of recog- grimage in 1937. Walking behind Mairtin O Cadhain, the outstand- from the "rascal," "fantasy" or ernment particularly was hostile to Dagetiham; Internees Release As- sion, though. Then it comes: that's They'll look for marked straggler. ner when he Introduced internment. bought—from the Irish Manage- the veteran Fenian, Seamus Bar- ing Irish prose writer of the cen- "quaintness" type to the "stupidity" nition of the Soviet State made by the idea that Russia should have an sociation (West Germany); Ireland it, London, late 'fifties, C.A. plat- Have observed number with heavy It was purely by accident O Tua- ment institute no less—whose head- the Dail in 1920, and also the fact ratt, my friend Jackie Griffiths by tury, who was Professor of Irish type common at present does seem embassy in Ireland and used what- Grou-\ Turku, Finland; Irish my side. Jackie, shot to death form in Hyde Park. The same rings. Useful for a spot of Paddy- thail was passing through Belfast quarters it previously was, repor- that when the new Russian State for a holiday and stayed overnight at Trinity College, Dublin, until his hard to explain unless the current ever influence it could over the Centre. London; Irish Civil Rights these thirty years gone in Dub- bullyboy tactics going on for weeks. bashing. tedly for £500,000. It is a large Vic- was founded after the Revolution, in Liam MacMillan's (jouse in Ton death a few years ago. In the Northern unrest is considered as an years to discourage Ireland from Association (N.I.C.R.A.); Irish Pri- lin. And Eddie Lenihan. Big Love- Have a vision ol Desmond Greaves torian building, away from the one of its first acts in foreign policy Street when the police hauled him 1940s in the Curragh Internment influence. First, the jokes may pro- opening diplomatic relations. soners Aid Committee (North Lon- able Ned, whose music and songs speaking one night while Liam On the bus, later, going back, Camp, Malrtin's Irish lessons intro- vide a rare opportunity of "getting other embassies in the oity, which was to propose a treaty of friend- don Polytechnic); Kerry Associa- Kelly,, Sean Hurley and myself have time to think. The Martyr's out of bed early in the morning. are mostly sited in the Batlsbridge ship with the Irish Republic, which The opening of formal relations made thousands happy. You sleep Faulkner was interning more than duced a whole generation of politi- back at the Irish" for their various with the 8oviet Union was wel- tion; Northern Minority Defence quietly now near the Martyrs you hold platform firm. It failed then. Committee did absolutely the right cal people to the language and won forms of anti-British activity in the area. The high price was due to the would have imposed the obligation Association; Plaid Cymru. London; It'll fail here. Ordinary people thing; and marchers responded. he bargained for, however, and Sea- comed publicly by Deputy Oliver loved so well. Arrive now and find mus's brilliantly written accounts of him a place in the affections of past few years. Secondly, they may cost of the several acres of ground on the Soviet side to work for the Prisoners Aid Committee ion behalf think their own thoughts, be they They have grown in stature today. around the building—land prices in recognition of Ireland as a Flanagan, T.D., the Fine Gael mem- the main cemetery gates are the first weeks In Long Kesh, inen in high and Iqw position reflect the widespread view that the mer of the Dail for Laois-Offaly— of Political Prisoners in British and locked. Two uniformed policemen right or wrong. They won't be bul- Local people not taken in by that throughout Ireland today. Northern Ireland conflict Is Rathgar being anything but low sovereign State by all other coun- Irish jailsi; Scottish Nationalist smuggled out to the "Irish Times", who has generally been considered stand stolidly in front. Side lied into them. Singing stops and gang's actions. Something un- were compulsive reading for all "irrational" and Irish behaviour in- these days- tries. 1320 Club; {Jinn Fein, Ard Com- Professor David Greene said at to be on the conservative wing of wicket gate also locked, but elderly now obscenities commence. "You healthy. They could sense it. Their political people. He had the satis- comprehensible — just because It hairi-; Sinn Fein Cobh Cumann; i > the launching reception that the his party. Mr Flanagan, however, is attendant inside opens and relocks I . . . ing Irish c . . . ts, get back eyes and ears were judges of events. faction recently of calling Faulkner Mr Kaplin is a former historian, R KAPLAN mentioned the In- Workers Fight; Workers Party of i| icoord was timely in view of the runs against all the cherished one of the very few Fine Gael T.D.s this as people wishing to attend to to Ireland!" A steward comes down Wonder what pressure was brought a "war criminal" to his face on who has written a study of Lenin's creasing number of books on 'Scotland (Marxist Leninist); Work- current attacks on the Irish lan- British political values, moderation, M who has publicly critioised Ireland's graves, or leave, approach. our ranks, nice and easy. "Remem- to bear on the Bishop ol Salford. television because of the misdeeds tolerance, compromise, and British influence on Russian diplomacy Ireland and Irish problems now ers Revolutionary Party; .loc guage being made by people in high membership of the Common Mar- Suddenly a policeman goes over ber Terence MacSwiney," says he, And by whom? A sorry decision. and horror he presided over at that apathy about religion. As Francis which sold 100,000 oopies In his own appearing In Russia. A collection of McCiau cumann, Kilburn, Clann places. He also paid tribute to the ket. He sees the new link with the and says something. Attendant is "quiet and firm lads." And quiet He will be embarrassed by these un- time. "revolutionary theme" implicit in Pym and Merlyn Rees have sternly country. He is aged 54, is married plays by Maria Edgeworth Is cur- and firm it is despite the screaming welcome supporters hi ban has U.S.S.R. as a counterbalance, how- II i r'.Eireann; Markievicz cumann. now keeping this gate locked. s the speeches and talk of O Cad- pointed out when they lecture on and has a son who is a journalist, rently being prepared and work Is obscenities. Now "God Save the called forth. Well, have seen the ever modest, to the dominance of f'lai n tia hEireann; London Regio- "Sorry," says ho, "I am onlv obey- Seamus O Tuathail's Journalistic hain. TV and public platforms, British and a daughter who works in a also under way on a Russian study Queon" is struck up by them. They worst side of man's nature today; the E.E.C. and regards it as one nal Committee, Clann na hEireann. ing instructions." He is polite and talents will always be in high de- people just do not behave like that! Moscow factory. of Irish arohiteoture. Sean O'Casey seem oblivious to the incongruity and its best. Would not have been Quests at the reception included of the more progressive things Dr UniW Ireland Association, Lon- apologetic. Realise the parade mand and his many friends will in particular is published in Russia of it with what they had previously anywhere else. A fine spirit there. Cathal Goulding, Michael O Rior- But then, of course, they have no In a statement to the press the Garret FltzQerald has done as 'lon; Stafford Irish Society; Tippe- must have started and hasten back. wish him well in whatever future & in large editions. been mouthing. I glance at a Steadfast, mature. They'll be sorry dain, B re an dan O hElthir, Aindrias cause to, and Miss Nelson suggests new Ambassador said that he re- Foreign Minister, in oontrast to Dr. rary Association; Offaly Associa- Meet It Just before the Bluebell. See work he undertakes. The "Irish nearby policeman. They had been people years to come who can't say Seamus O Tuathail that Irish behaviour is perfectly garded It as a great honour to be There has been widespread wel- FftzGerald's fervent personal com- '">n, Womens Committee for Justice the tricolour is flying on broken People" is published at 6p from 30 McAonghusa rational in the context of a politi- mitment to "Europe." _ _ III through all this before. It's In the quietly "I marched that day." Gardener Place. the first offioiai representative from come in Ireland for Mr Kaplans No-them Ireland. staff, and colour party is'close in, May 1974 t THE IRISH DEMOCRAT May 1974 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT

1K1N1I, SO\(.S BOOKS JAMES CONNOLLY Bean Phaidin Journalists NEW HISTORY OF IRELAND A FIFTH COLUMN E an trua i;hear nach mise, nach UP AND AWAY A GREAT crowd had gathered outside of Kilmainham, "Ireland in the Later Middle the rise to almost absolute power "The Ulster Unionist Party, S mise. history of tionalist and loyalist. The Sinn Fein ^^ With heads all uncovered they knelt on the ground, Ages" by James l.ydon; "The of the eighth Earl of Kildare. victory in 1918 was the culmination 1M2-1973", by John F. Har For inside that prison lay a brave Irish soldier Se an trua s.hear nach mise bean (The Helicopter Song) Modernisation of Ireland of a process of national self-asser- bmson (Blackstaff, hardba His lite lor his country about to lay down. P h a Hi i n: \WITHIN a chronological frame- EARLY one morning as the branchmen they were steeping 1848-1913", by Joseph Lee " work space is found for details tion carried through by land re- L5, softback £2). Se an trua ghear nach mise, nach Ireland A little helicopter flew across the sk$, ry-book. one that chronicles been presented before in book form, Unionist Party and its offshoots. "Sure it must have been a bird that Hew into the prison period which has until recently fication of social progress with Twas the voice of James Connolly, the Irish Rebel, which makes this single small Or one of these new ministers", says the warder from . i. and explains nothing. been all but impenetrable to the national independence. The author Due emphasis is given to th» Rachainn go hAonach an Chlochain volume a landmark in publishing. also admits the corollary that pro- identity, both in structure and to. He went to his death like a true son of Ireland, Mountjoy. . .uinies, for example, have been general reader. Volumes 3, 4 and 5 ts siar go Beat Atha na Baighe, The theme of Joseph Lee's lively British traditions in the north de- purpose, between the party and the The firing party he bravely did face; . :uen in recent years attempting dealt respectively with the early Nor- v account of the period in which rive much more more from econo- Orange Institution. The party lias Then the order rang out: "Present Arms, Fire!" Bhreathnoinn isteach trid an man colonisation, the consequential Down in the yard through the pushing and the shoving, answer the many questions changes in Gaelic Ireland and the Irish Catholics dwindled from a mic self-interest than from the sort been ah ovo the Institution's poli- And James Connolly fell into a ready-made grave. lotofuinneog tical arm just as the 'B' Specials Three of the prisoners they climbed upon the bird, • in the sentence ip.27): ecclesiastical aggiornamento which quarter to one-fourtheenth of the of ethnic atavism implied in the Le suit is go bhfeicfinn bean And up and away they flew into the grey skies was part cause, part effect of the population of the British Isles two-nations theory. tand, some would say, the R.U.C.t The black flag they hoisted, the cruel deed was over, Phaidin, . ' .'•a Derniot died the following colonisation. Professor Lydon's book could be abridged as the triumph became its military arm in succes- Gone was the man who loved Ireland so well. "I think someone's escaping" says the warder in Mountjoy. - :::a Strongbow became the king is concerned chiefly with England's of Irish despair over English stolid- Yet he equates Orangeism with sion to the rifle-toting Unionist There was many a sad heart in Dublin that morning Go mbrtstear efo chosa, do chesa, sporadic and generally unsuccessful ity. What became of the triumph racism, citing the bravery of the clubs of the 'nineties and the weU- When they murdered James Connolly, the Irish Rebel. Over in the Dail they were drinking gin and brandy ijMnster. Under Irish law Strong- once the spur of despair was with- 36th (Ulster) Division in the drilled, financed and publicist Go mbristear do chosa, 'bhean efforts to control the Irish colony : could not be king because he drawn must be the subject of the slaughter of the Somme in 1916 as . Ulster Volunteers of 1912-1914. Phaidin, The Minister for Justice was soaking up the sun, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A curse on you England, you black-hearted monster, When came this little message that some prisoners had v - not of Dermot's derhfine, while final volume, due soon. evidence of a distinctive "Scotch- While Mr Harbinson acknow- Your deeds they would shame alt the devils in Hell; Go mbristear do chosa, do chosa, Irish" consciousness. On this single ledges these facts with great cau escaped them, L:..3!ish law regarded him as a sub- It summarises in 180 pages the •pHE election of the Fenian pri- There are no flowers blowing, but the shamrock is growing Go mbristear do chosa 's do point I am not with the author, dour he nevertheless finds it "I think it's three of the Provos" says the warder from Mountjoy. decisive events between Edward • soner O'Oonovan Rossa as M.P. On the grave of James Connolly, the Irish Rebel. chrtamha. i of Henry II." unless he can also explain what possible to praise the party for Bruce's invasion in 1315 and Poyn- for Tipperary in 1969 is seen as a ing's parliament of 1494, including inference is to be drawn from the reasons that seem insufficient. A "Search every hole, search every nook and cranny, Tin- narrative is filled out with watershed in the politicisation of valour of the 15,000 men of the ease in point is his account of Lord the Black Death, the rivalries of the people of Ireland; henceforth Let no man rest until these men are found, • . alphabetically-arranged roster such dynasties as the Ormonds and 16th (Irish) Division who fell at Craigavon's early years as Prim- THE STATION the division is no longer between St, Quentin in 1918. For this cannot happen to a law-and-order government ..." notabilities which brings B. Talbots, the wars of the roses and Minister of the six counties. The Liberal and Tory but between na- appointment of two Catholics to THE GALWAY SHAWL "I think you'll never find them," says the warder in the 'Joy. SEAMUS TREACY OF KNOCKLONG £•-•:".;. I- Butt and E. Carson into senior posts in the Civil Service AT Oranmore in the County Galway, :•: nliguity, and with a topographi- hardly warrants credit for broad- One pleasant evening in the month of May, This ever-popular ballad deals chapter based on the Shell mindedness, Also, Craigavon's pact with one of the most daring with the Orange brethren in 1923 I spied a damsel, she was young and handsome— C-.iae to Ireland. As this is Mr exploits of the North Tipperary Wallace's thu-d book on Ireland to place the Protestant clergy ia Her beauty fairly took my breath away. control of public education is Brigade, l.R.A., on May 13th, FREEDOM'S PIONEERS j'. r- the boom began, some allow- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 1919. glossed over. Mr Harbinson is a. - is due for haste; the vein CHORUS : (Air: The Boys of Wexford. This song was written by "A Good Man Fallen Among which Shaw wrote before commit- talist, for he is only an animal wrong in claiming that the graut HE news has spread through •/ .'A be nearly worked out already." Fabians", a study of George ting himself to the middle-class obeying his instincts." Evidently given to Catholic schools in Eng- She wore no jewels, nor costly diamonds, Ireland Connolly during the foundryworkers' strike in Wexford land is lower than in Northern T Bernard Shaw by Alick West reformism of the Fabian Society. only capitalists have instincts, for No paint or powder, no none at aM. And sprung from shore to shore in 1912.) Cormac's Cathedral'' is unknown It is further argued that the un- if the workers rebel against them Ireland; it is exactly the same. But she wore a bonnet with the shamrock on it, -i. CiShel. If Mr Wallace means (Lawrence & Wishart, £1). conscious metaphysical will which, Shaw the realist must condemn I'PHE real source of Orange power Of such a deed no living man And round her shoulder was a Galway shawl. QUR feet upon the upward path C v enae's Chapel, it is by no means according to Shaw in "The Quin- them as romantics, is not mentioned in the J ENIN'S epigrammatic ver- book, namely England's need of a Has ever heard before; v Are set where none may tread, Ui>'; ruin he states it to be (p.121). tessence of Ibsenism" < 1891 >, dict on Shaw, quoted in the guarantees ultimate emancipation fifth column in Ireland. It is We kept on walking, she kept on talking, From out those guarded carriages Save those who to the rich man's wrath X - Gothic ruin on the Rock is Alick West as critic stands in title of this book (which first to the exploited is a rationalisation much the same relation to G.B.S. curious, too, that the author, writ- Till her father's cottage came into view. Mid a panic-stricken throng Dare turn rebellious head, v.other church altogether, built by ing just after the British White appeared in 1950 just before of the dream; it represents Shaw's as G.B.S. did to Shakespeare: he Says she: "Come in, sir, and meet my father, And hearts as brave, no cringing slave v., O'Brien a century after Cor- attempt to envisage progress to- Paper of March 1973, still seems to Sean Hogan he was rescued Shaw's death is made the basis delimits the scope of the play- And ptay to please him 'The Foggy Dew'." In all our ranks appears; n...-c's death. wards freedom without contributory wright's social ideas while paying think that the Unionist Party caa At the Station of Knocklong. f. a-*critical analysis of the Our proudest boast, in Labour's host: 0 action by the common man, with tribute to his dramatic skill. Of purify itself by weakening the Unit: whom the polemicist finds It diffi- with Orangeism. The impossibility She sat me down beaide the hearthstone, We're Freedom's Pioneers. THE treatment of the period 1968- playwright's ideas and art. Put all creative writers no more than With a guard of four policemen cult to identify himself. of this happening is evident from I could see her father, he was six feet tall. * 1973 is elliptical and slightly simply, the thesis is that G.B.S. than Shaw merits subjection to And their prisoner minded well, bused in favour of the legend of rigorous analysis from the Marxist his own demonstration of the al- And soon her mother had the kettle singing- CHORUS: accepted the reality of class most one-to-one correspondence be- G N'eill the Good. It is as amaz- I \ETESTATION of the cruelty of point of view. Whatever the rea- All I could think of was the Galway shawl. As that fatal train sped o'er the struggle on reading "Capital" in tween the membership of party and. ii g as anything else in the history capitalism is a constant theme son, whether an impoverished rails Oh, slaves may beg and cowards whine, 1882, but began to dilute his institution at all levels. oi Orange rule that the Prime from the first play, "Widowers' middle-class background, or the Conveying him to his cell; We scorn their foolish fears; —Chorus. Minister who placed Wm. Craig in conviction on joining the Houses" (1892). But Shaw's rebels, narrow vision of the contemporary The truth which has eluded this The prisoner then could scarce Be this our plan, to lead the van control of the police and nimbly Fabians in 1884. Although the Trench, Sergius, Morell, Fr. Keegan, English theatre, or Shaw's despair historian is that Britain has I played "The Blackbird", and "The Stack of Barley", foretell With Freedom's Pioneers. sidestepped all reform should so dilution never became outright Captain Brassbound, are all in one at working-class apathy in the dropped the hot potato of Orange- ism. The Unionist Party grew out "Rodney's Glory" and "The Foggy Dew", Of hearts both brave and strong soon be celebrated (and not only rejection of revolutionary soc- way or another reduced to compro- 'nineties, his plays are phases of a mise with the established order, a retreat from the socialism he pro- of an alliance of classes united by She sang each note like an Irish linnet, That were planning for his rescue Too long upon our toil were built l>; Mr Wallace) as a man of ialism, it was rooted in Shaw's surrender which the author in his fessed. Yet, as Alick West shows the myth that prosperity is -a Whilst the tears stood in her eyes of blue. The palaces of power, moderation. At the Station of Knocklong. lifelong dream of himself as a prefaces insists on seeing as real- from many instances, his heart was Protestant virtue which would wilt When at a touch these forts of guilt ." would like to commend this in- man destined to change society Ism. never in the retreat. The rebel is in an independent Ireland. 'Twas early, early, all in the morning, 'Twas on a gloomy evening Would crumble in an hour; dustrious journalist's latest product from without. often the most authentic person in But the meaning of Sunningdale Now each day brings on swiftest wings the play. "John Bull's Other is that henceforth Britain intends When I hit the road for old Donegal. When at last the train pulled in bv am at a complete loss to think "It is senseless," he writes, "to She said: "Goodbye, sir", she cried and kissed me, To their unwilling ears w would benefit from reading it. The isolating effect of this dream play the Old Testament prophet, Island" may give victory to Tom to secure her interest in Ireland It was halted without warning And my heart remained with that Galway shawl. The shouts that greet^ur marching feet, S.T. is traced through the five novels like Marx, and condemn the capi- Broadbent's economic imperialism, by an entirely new kind of alliance, By a few courageous men. "'Tis Freedom's Pioneers". but it is Fr. Keegan's faith in the one based not on a myth but on common people which haunts the the real middle-class solidarity of Springing to the carriages, imagination. those parties, Catholic and Protes- It did not take them long— The rich man's hate, the rich man's pride tant, northern and southern, which WRAP THE GREEN FLAG "Hands up or die!" was the warning Have held us long in awe, JACK BENNETT ON THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION As Shavian criticism the book support power-sharing. Our right to life is still denied, fails to be conclusive only by stop- Meanwhile the spirit of Saunder- cry y^NY time I ewer look back on know Ireland—the real Ireland- returned home, but it was a politi- And wealth still rules the law. ping short in the early 'twenties son, Carson, Cralgavon and Brooke- At the Station of Knocklong. ROUND ME, BOYS But man shall bow no longer now, my connection with the Con- her people. In London, Liverpool cal schooling wholly free from with "Saint Joan". The tension it borough lives on in the policies of Paisley, West and Craig. This book But welcome with his oheers nolly Association in the late 'forties and Manchester I met and worked dogmatism. reveals between Shaw's theories and WRAP the Green Flag round me, boys, King George's pampered hirelings his dramatic instinct provides the would have greater value if it had v The ringing stroke, to break our yoke, and oarly 'fifties, it is always with with people who, in my memory, To die were far more sweet, They shrivelled up with fear, There is nothing dogmatic in the best explanation yet offered of the concentrated on the appalling Of Freedom's Pioneers. social evils that have taken root With Erin's noble emblem, boys, When they thought of how they'd a sense of personal indebtedness I can recall only as admirable and puzzlement so often induced in his consistency with which the associa- audiences. during the ninety years of the To be my winding sheet. placed in cells both to the Association itself and splendid men and women from the In life I longed to see it wave, tion has adhered to the conviction Unionist Party's sway. Full many a Volunteer. to the very many fine men and West, from Cork and Kerry, from EVANN CONOR And follow where it led, that only in unity and indepen- FIONNUALA MURPHY women with whom I worked in it. Dublin and all parts of the four But now my eyes grow dim — my hand » Now face to faoe with armed men, I DON'T MIND IF I DO dence can the Irish people even- Would grasp its last bright shred. To escape how they did long, provinces. For what little 1 contributed to tually find their feet- and a demo- But two of them met traitors' QH, my name in Dan Murphy, a farmer am I; the Association's work, I (eel I was With eagerness and pleasure I cratic basis from which to advance A NOT UNCRITICAL deaths I courted a wee lass and I was rather shy. CHORUS: towards Connolly's greater dream. At the Station of Knocklong. When she asked me in for a moment or two, rewarded by its contribution to me pursued the discovery with them 0, wrap the Green Flag round me, boys. Oh bedad, then, says I, I don't mind if I do! of a formative influence which I of our common interests and com- Over those years since my own GUEST To die were far more sweet, With Erin's noble emblem, boys, From Solohead to Limerick, still count as having been entirely mon identity as Irish people. days in the Association, I have "Holiday Cruising in Ireland", ways in 1969. While some of it To be my winding sheet.. Such deeds as these were seen, I entered the kitchen, 'twas cosy and bright, beinefloial. politically, ol course, the influ- watched the gradual accumulation by P. J. G. Ransom (David will be out of date, it gives toe And a fine hearty supper I put out of sight; & Charles, 95p). prospective boatman detailed in- •> And the devil a tear was ever shed ence ol the Connolly Association of the facts of its patient, steady Then she said, have a drop of the old mountain dew— As a young man out of Belfast, \I/"HEN he admits to a more apt structions on the routes to be tal- And I had hoped to meet you, boys For Wailaeo er Rosegreen; Oh bedad, then, says I, I don't mind if I do! was as significant then as it is slogging for the Irish cause. Its " title being "Irish Waterways lowed, with the inherent rfang^ On many a well-fought field, •t was in the Connolly Association, for English Visitors", Irishmen will (and pleasures) to be encountered. They did »M England's dirty work today, it was "on the Left" at a influence, its standing and its When to our sacred banner, boys I baiieve, that I finally cut the know what to expect from an Eng- But they did that work too long stature with many broad sections The most extensive netwotk The traitorous foe would yield When supper was over I put on my hat, time when it was not as popular lish author. If, however, the Irish- For the renegades' days were umbilical cord with the darker and covers the Shannon Navigation and But now, alas! I am denied Oh darling, cried she, never leave me like that, to be Left-wing as it Is today, and of the British labour movement is man should wish to explore the the connecting Grand Canal numbered narrower aspects of the traditions My dearest earthly prayer, Com« and lie down beside me for a moment or two— greater than ever. loughs and canals of his native Barrow lines. It came as a surprise throughout the years it has main- country, he will find this book very- You'll follow and you'll meet the foe At the Station of Knocklong. OH bedad, then, says I, I don't mind if I do! which that city binds so many to learn that tt is still possible to of tained a balanoe and consistency useful. But I shall not be there. its ohildren in mind-forged I have no doubt that some day visit Dublin, Waterford, Limerick Although I suggest he skips the Now rise up. Mother Erin, manacles, and discarded the last in its political approaoh in the the goodwill and understanding and Leitrim on Inland waterways Early next morning to the church to get wed, introductory chapter, as remarks midst of herds of political mave- whioh the Connolly Association ha6 without once having to take toe And though my body moulders, boys And always bo of ohoer, The priest stood before us with a smile and he said: remnants of that sectarian preju- such as ". . . . the Irishman on an boat out of the water. My spirit will be free, You ne'er dto while by your side Now you will take Mary and Mary take you— dici which still Infeots so many of ricks. laboured to cultivate among en- English building site being a poor Other cruise araas described am And every comrade's honour, boys, Oh hedod, then, says I, I don't mind if I do! advert for his native countrymen' There stand 6uoh Volunteers; those wrtio have never lightened opinion in England will Lough Oorrib, Upper and Lower seen the Membership of the Connolly As- might lead him to consign the book Will still be dear to me, be counted as a major contribution Lough One and imgh From Dinglo Bay to Gerryowen '•or 1 tons beyond their ghettoes. sociation provided a good schooling to the nearest dustbin. And in the thick and Moody Aght, Now we've been married a year, two or three, its attendant bow* Tho cheers will Mho long, to the eventual achievement of a The cruising information is based tlon. "*•-'- v Nor let your courage lag, An* we've got five ohHdren to dance en our knee, 't was In tho Connolly Associa- for many dedicated young Irish free and democratic Ireland. on a tour of the navigable water- . Pgr IH Be there or hovering near, For the mow of 8ean Hogan tio BRIAN WILKINSON AN* It's MR ambition to aavo twenty-two- "-, indeed, that I first got to people, many of whom have since Around the dear old Flag. At the Station of. KnooMwtg. Oh ietfatf, then, says I, I don't mind If I do! 8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT May 1974 J111 Nil l\ BRITAIN

Now all this is A.U.E.W. Resolution YJR J. O'BRIEN, of the Ealmg ' ^ Labour Party, sends u.s thi admitted text of a resolution passed by the T a recent meeting a Connolly Ealing No. 15 EE branch of the A Association spokesman said yH/{ Electricity Board twangs SERIAL STORY deal of truth in all the unkind Amalgamated Union of Engineer- that in many ways the Association averaged about jive men ex- things the other man was say- ing Workers. It runs: was one of the greatest success cept when there was a big stretch by ing about him. "This Branch calls for the re- stories of the century in terms of turn of the Price sisters to complete the education of opinion. of work to do and we were all JPOR the most part the gang their sentences in Ireland, the Every single contention it has lumped in together. As a rule DONALL Emergency Provisions Act not to be made had at first been hooted as I found myself working with bore with Paddy from Tow- renewed in July, a Bill of Human absurdity, and while few who now the same team, two of whom MacAMHLAIGH cester remarkably well, being Rights to be passed in place of the accepted its opinions were prepared Emergency Provisions Act, and an bore the nicknames of Loppy- easy-going tolerant fellows at to admit where they learned them, heart. Eggy—whose nickname imaginative new effort to secure it was truly remarkable what a lugs and Eggy, a third who was "Janet—Janet Munroe," Dave peace on the basis of the accept- change there had been. known as Paddy from Towces- improvised gamely. derived, by the way, from a ance of the principle of British Everybody who seriously sought ter and a fourth man called part-time activity, poultry-rear- withdrawal so that Republicans the freedom of Ireland now realised and others can work constructively Dave. "Davy boy, you ain't 'alf a ing—was a man who believed that there had to be some objective towards the establishment of a new that money was far too precious for which freedom was to be used, bleedin' liar, you sure can tell Ireland." and that meant socialism. That Dave was an inveterate if 'em ! That girl's my sister and to squander on things like drink was once hotly denied and the As- unconvincing liar with an ima- I never heard her called Janet, and cigarettes and Paddy's sociation wrote a pamphlet about it gination which made Walter never mind Munroe." profligacy was an unfailing POLICE ACTIONS in 1948. Mitty seem like a poor relation source of pained wonder to him. Everybody, except a few cranks, CRITICISED in comparison. One day during now agreed that independence was But the setback for Dave was (Continued from Page Two) the morning break I had an only momentary; he soon re- necessary in order to clear the way "Can't understand it at all, for socialism. That also used to "Amdrach", the Irish language gained his composure and be- methods. It is further concerned frittering away hard - earned be denied and there was a big weekly, spread out before me as fore we landed back at the at the growing police practice ol polemic about it in the "Irish I was drinking my tea, and depot he had managed another money on booze like that. I visiting premises where Irish Democrat" in 1951. Dave, who was coming back lie or two. don't say a man can't have a meetings are customarily held, as It was now universally accepted from the communal kettle with drop of beer once or twice a this is believed to be the reason why some Irish organisations that the fight for democracy in his own brew, stopped to look Loppylugs, as the nickname week, but EVERY day ! Don't have been unable to meet and the six counties could shatter implied, had a pair of rather make sense to me, it dont." in over my shoulder. transact their legitimate business. Unionism. Yet when this was large ears and he was one of proclaimed by the C.A. in 1958 it There have been disturbing re- was considered gross heresy. "Crikey," he exclaimed, "Ama- the most easy-going men I have Dave was the youngest mem- ports of the irregular treatment When the Association said that rack ! The times I've seen the ever worked with. He was easy- ber of the gang, scarcely thirty, of Irish persons arrested and the key arena was England, there shipyard workers in Belfast pick working, too, and on occasion I imagine, at the time, but some taken into custody on suspicion, were those who thought this was winners out of that!" Paddy from Towcester, who of the men computed that he and of excessive pressure being exercised for the purpose of per- nonsense. Yet it is being realised liked to make a real bust at least must have lived nigh on a hun- now. suading them to undergo finger- Apart altogether from the for the first half-day, would be- dred years to have done and Finally only Tast year some of rate him for a lazy, useless printing. The baggage and be- fact that "Amdrach" has never seen all that he claimed to have longings of persons travelling to our republican friends w6 re object. This was usually after sceptical of the C.A. insistence on catered for horsey men the seen and done. Korea, the Ireland have been searched, and Paddy from Towcester had been the key role of the British Trade thought of the Laganside loyal- Middle East, Borneo. Kenya— some passengers have been re- Unions. Few would dispute it now. ists poring over the Gaeltach away to the pub for his dinner Dave had seen action in them duced to a nervous condition as Obviously when an organisation weekly was mind-boggling to break; all morning Paddy from all in one capacity or another a result of questioning. A situa- has been so consistently right in anyone who had even the hazi- Towcester worked steadily away if you could believe him. Some- tion is arising where the power of the police has increased, is in- the past, it has a right to invite est knowledge of Ireland. If picking and shovelling with times when Paddy from Tow- creasing and ought to be dimin- confidence that it will probably be only it could have been true ! mechanical neatness and eco- cester was more than usually right in the future, and to ask the nomy of movement and with ished, and we instruct the cantankerous Dave would mut- Executive that they might con- Irish in Britain and friends of never a word from his mouth) Ireland to ]oin. ter darkly about his prowess at sider the possibility of drafting J£UT Dave never allowed his over and above what was abso- unarmed combat, making chop- legislation that would have the Michael O'Riprden imagination to be restricted lutely necessary. After his mid- ping movements with his hand effect of affording the citizen by mundane facts, his fantasy day visit to whatever pub hap- like a karate expert, but that adequate protection." speaks in London warldwas proof against all such pened t&b&iwar at hand Paddy was as ftir cLVit Wgrft*/-* V Ttte N May 12th to commemorate limitations; one day as we drove from Towcester was a changed Connolly Association resolutions O the execution of James Con- up through the town a pretty man however. are, of course, not the fault of the nolly for his part in the Easter young mother wheeling a pram One day a newcomer, a Connolly Association draughtsmen, Rising, the Connolly Association is across the zebra crossing caught At best he was humorously bumptious and rather unplea- but arise from the N.C.C.L. Execu- holding a public meeting in the his eye : he looked after her for sarcastic, faulting the rest of sant kind of a young fellow, tive's advice that under rules a Euston Hall, Birkenhead Street, a moment and then sighed the gang for a shower of in- made fun of Dave, drawing at- resolution must "instruct" the E.C. and not "suggest." The C.A. agreed London, W.C.I. dramatically, "Gosh, Janet, how valids who wouldn't break egg- tention to a bald patch on his to the change of wording, but found Birkenhead Street is right oppo- you have changed !" When he shells with their picks, hooting head; Dave's reaction was to site Kings Cross Station, and the when the resolutions were printed, knew her—the relationship was in derision at poor Loppy and sigh with apparent• tolerance Hall is the most central in Lon- that the consequential amendments pretty intimate he gave us to suggesting that he apply for a and remark loftily to no-one in had not been given effect. don, being only 100 yards from the job as doorman somewhere particular: Connolly Association offices. understand without putting it The Central London Branch reso- since he was obviously gone The commemoration will take the into so many words—she was lution faced two amendments, one form of a lecture by Mr Michael fresher and prettier. Married past real work; at worst he was "Yes, I suppose that if other from the late General Secretary O'Riordan, of Dublin. Mr O'Riordan life must not have agreed with sullen and bad-tempered, an people had disarmed a crazy of N.C.C.L., Mr Anthony Smythe, is the General Secretary of the her, Dave said. impossible man to pull with. Jap in a foxhole with a live and one from the Executive. The Communist Party of Ireland, and grenade rolling about between Connolly Association would have Loppylugs, a sweet-tempered accepted any reasonable composit- his subject will be "James Con- his feet ... 7 expect it just nolly and the significance of his "What did you say her name person, would listen patiently ing, but since this was not pos- MIGHT cause a little premature teachings in Ireland today." was, Dave ?" asked one of the as Paddy berated him, almost as sible decided to press the resolution. baldness." The meeting is scheduled to begin lads—a jointer's mate who did if he were willing to consider Mr Smythe withdrew his amend- at 3.15 p.m. not often travel in our lorry. whether there might not be a (To be continued) ment 1ft favour of the Executive Amendment, which was proposed by Mr jack Dromey. Mr Dromey explained that the Connolly Asso- ciation's office was only a hundred yard6 from that of the N.C.C.L. and NEW TYPE OF IMMIGRANT, SAYS PRIEST that the two organisations worked THERE was a new type of people with no industrial train- accommodation. In March last tured form of education which closely together in cordiality and ' Irish immigrant coming to ning from its own towns and the Camden Centre opened a had developed in Ireland in harmony. Britain in the last few years, cities. They came in growing hostel to cater for 80 young recent years and who would be His amendment would have the said Father Patrick Mee, direc- numbers from Dublin, Cork and men. The number of people particularly deprived if they effect of drastioally shortening the tor of the Irish Centre in Cam- Limerick and were not strong seeking aid from the centre in- went to seek work in Britain. resolution. den Town, at a Press conference enough for heavy physical creased slightly in 1973, he said, There was also need for more THERS, including Miss Sinclair in Dublin recently organised by work. and one of the interesting O of the Belfast Trades Council, welfare officers, he said, to look expressed the view that the process the Irish Bishops' Commission aspects of this was that it was "Their general approach to after emigrants' needs. of condensation had removed from for Emigrants. mainly accounted for by young life is pathetic," said Father Bishop Casey announced that the resolution important matters women, of national or primary the Bishops1 Commission in- which required spelling out. "A This was not the man nor Mee. "They are indeed of a poor education in the 18 to 35 age tended producing a career book- little description does no harm," woman from the country, so general education. There are group. let later this year for young she declared. A very lively discus- many parts of which had been many slow learners who are not Bishop Eamon Casey, of Iritfl girls going to Britain to sion followed and after Mr Greaves bled dry over the years. It was adequately catered for in Irish was Kerry, who has himself done study nursing. A survey had had replied, the amendment a new type of urban emigrant schools. The average London lost and the Connolly Association such sterling work among Irish who did not have the physical landlady will not take in these shown that about 15 per cent motion was oarried unanimously. people in Britain in the past, of Irish girls would like to strength of the countryman, youths and young men from the The final fling of Mr Kelsey was said that it was intended to in- was physically incapable of Irish towns because of their enter nursing after leaving yet to come. He proposed a resolu- crease the number of priests labouring and who often had long hair and weird clothes." school, but because of the few tion asking the E.C. to lobby going on pastoral and social not got the basic skills needed Single men were sometimes training places available in the Members of Parliament "requesting work from Ireland to England. for a job in industry. While affected by the political situa- Irish hospitals, many of them them to Introduce a Bill removing Many of the problems encoun- all restrictions on oonsentlng adult the Irish Centre in London tion in Britain, he said, especi- would go to Britain to train. tered in Britain had their sexual behaviour In private in the heard of lots of skilled jobs ally if they were inexperienced The booklet would contain in- source in Ireland, he said, There formation on the types of hos- U.K." and dealing (among other which were available in Ireland, and new to the country, as they things) with "the running ol was more need In Ireland for pital and training availabls in the country was still exporting were automatically suspected of brothels." Not unnaturally there pre-school education and reme- being members of the Lft.A. and various medical fields and was opposition from the women pre- dial teaching for example, found it difficult as a result to would also draw attention to sent whpse sex would presumably he Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd. whioh would help disadvan- (TrU.), Nottingham Road, Riplev, get work or accommodation. the legal rights of nums to expected to man these establish- Derbyshire, 'and published by taged children or slow learners, refuse to participate in opera- ments, and an amendment was Cttmolly Pobllcations Ltd., at One of the main problems many of whom were inoapable tions or treatments oonoerned oarried to remove some of the sug- 388 Grays Inn Rd., London. W.C.I. now facing new emigrants was of benefiting from the struc- with abortion or allied matters. gestions.

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