Page 2 - H-BLOCKS SCANDAL Page 3 - GENOCIDE by Joe Whelon Page 4 - LABOUR CONFERENCE No. 451 SEPTEMBER 1981 Page 5 - LABOUR DROPS PARTITION Page 6 - IRISH SONGS. Page 7 - IRISH BOOKS. LABOUR TO Page 8 - DONALL MacAMHLAIGH DEBATE IRELAND IN BRIGHTON
NEW POLICY DEMANDED OIL BONANZA GET OUT, THE ONLY ANSWER IN IRELAND pROSPECTS of an oil bonanza __"J"HERE are no fewer than fifty-four resolutions on Ireland to be debated at the forthcoming set stock markets in a J Labour Party Conference in Brighton. flurry after reports of finds on the west coast of Ireland. This is a magnificent development for which (he Connolly been needed in this country for Association can claim its share of the credit without denying ytars, a rt.al Labour Party. Speculators from London others theirs. At the same time it is of vi;c.l moved in and hundreds of thou- importance that the Labour sands of pounds changed hands ATROCITY The centre of our policy for tendencies in some of the trade Party should net lose its ma.-s and big windfalls came the way twenty five years has been to unions. character. Now that the Conser- of the lucky ones. make the Irish a political force, vative Party has every prospect of being annihilated the inter- The discovery of oil in com- CONTINUES to direct that force towards con- MASSACRED national firms who suck the nercial quantities — so far it 'THE tragedy oi' Long Kesh con- vincing the Labour Party of the The odds would seem to be blood of the ordinary people has not been found in sufficient * tinues to unfold, scene by need to return to the anti- that at this conference the^e will be wondering what to turn quantities — would transform scene. One after another the the Irish economy, and we imperialist policy of sixty years will predominate. to next. The Social Democrats young republicans go on hunger are being boosted. The British might find the orangemen beg- strike against prison conditions. ago, and finally to bring such a ging to be let in. Those who stand for Irish working class are many of them reformed Labour Party into extremely backard in politics, Tory spokesmen talk merrily freedom should fight hard, but and many of them take their So far the oil that has been about suicide. They do not care a office. fight wisely. The odds are that found has been in deep arrd snap of the fingers. opinions from the television The recommendations of the there will be another conference box. stormy waters, and it would need to be present in very sub- As for the lady who resides in working party, which are dealt before the next general election, Every care should therefore stantial quantities to merit the Downing Street — not usually in- with in the middle pages of this at which we can expect the Con- articulate, words fail us! servative Party to be massacred. be taken that while sound prin- expenditure of large amounts :f issue, are not clear, complete or ciples are fought for unremit- capital in recovering it. There must be no recrimina- Is she mad? totally satisfying, but they tingly, these principles should The British "royals" daren't Set represent a step forward. tions or splits if things do not be presented in a reasonable Another important result of foot in the United States. There go our way this time. manner, and every trace of Atlantic oil would be that the are demonstrations outside embas- Whether the most forward- crankiness or extremism should international plot to foist an sies and consulates. Nobody in the looking resolutions will gain ac- What can emerge out of all be cut right out. Go ahead of atomic energy station on Ire- world supports the British Govern- ceptance is another matter. the current debate and heart-i the people, but not too far land in Co. Wexford would be ment attitude. Only the Turks and searching is something that has ahead. Don't get out of sight. foiled. South Africans have not condemned There are strong conservative it.
ILLIONS of pounds are flowing M into the coffers of the "pro- THE IRISH IN BRITAIN MUST ORGANIZE visional" IRA. Nationalist feeling qrHERE hat never been a time criminals are those who impose growing up In favour of a united It is particularly important that the Irish should be organised new is rising every day in Ireland — ' when the Irish In Britain were those conditions. Independent Ireland, ie another im- and to be frank we are not sorry portant factor. that British political parties are more united In sentiment than they about that. To us the men in Long Kesh are declaring themselves on the Irish are today. political prisoners, and that Is that. Well, what does this a!! mean? It question. But what does Mrs Thatcher hope means that the Irish in Britain to gain from it? The poiionous anti - national UT this Is only part of iL The should turn their unity of senti- It is not to asperse them to the brain-washing of the last twenty B Prevention of Terrorism Act ment into unity of organisation. If slightest degree to say that their The weak spot is that Labour years has been water off a duck's has turned the Irish In Britain Into that Is done we wHI be Invinoible. interest Is not the freedom of Ire- is afraid to come out clearly and back. second class citizens. We are com- An organisation of all the Irish land, but the position of their own say these men are political prison- pletely opposed to terrorism, gov- should be set up for purposes of organisations In the context of Bri- ers. None of their arguments are This was true before the H block ernmental as well as anti-govern- political action. tish politics. They are Englishmen convincing. It is just that they are issue came to the fore, though that mental. But opposition to terror- first, and nobody is entitled to afraid that the Tory propaganda FEW simple principles should has had an important effect. ism has not saved the hundreds blame them for It. agencies would in some way asso- A suffice. For example, the de- whose homes have been raided, or But there Is one thing that w:it ciate them with terrorism, and they mand for a complete and uncondi- The majority of the Irish do not the thousands who have been held keep them steady. That is the or- would lose votes. support or advocate the taotics of inoommunloado although only a tional withdrawal of the English from Ireland, and the eetabllshment ganisation of the million-strong the I.R.A. But they understand tiny fraotlon have been charged Irish-born and the several million They should put a simple case. very well that the reason why with any offenoe. of a united Independent republic. Plus the repeal of the Prevention of Irish descent whose sentiment is Three hundred men have got spe- young people turn to violence Is still fundamentally Irish. The faot that at long last there of Terrorism AoL Apart from that cial category status. The others that they are confronted with In- Is a sizeable English public opinion let there be free debate. What about It? should have the same. tolerable conditions and the real September 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT September 1981 3 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT MRS THATCHER LABOUR WILL H-Block relatives refute THE BLOCK FOR GET BLAME EVERAL htoired close rela- that the Provisionals would give S tive of t^.-e H-Block hunger- anything to have the hunger- FOR BUDGET strikers ha»e c;me out unani- sttrike called off. slanders TO PROGRESS GENOCIDE ALL mously in support of their pro- HE men in Long Kesh are 1 test. This wii after attempts "We find them clear, respon- THE H-Block hunger-strike j i-'K Ci>.il't:ou s B; d*e: was a s.i. now In eflect dying for one were made lait month to divide T sible statements. We find the would have been settled by now is only a third of the cost of one ' _ i'lie It w. F lie Gaol another. They have been in ter- BY the relatue-s a^d induce some British Government guilty of Trident Nuclear Submarine. Just . : w.th l a', out t •- •«§ .ilon- rible conditions for the past five if there had been any Prime of them to b' n^ pressures on the most callous cruelty and 60 per cent of the total annual j — 11111 from d:iv t ta\ to • 11 - years. Those on hunger-strike Minister in Britain other than the H-8'0l* REN to abandon lack of responsibility, care and military expenditures is sufficient • ''ion wh.en add :<-4 know intimately those who have JOSEPH WILLAN their fait. Same well-meaning compassion In the present Mrs Thatcher, said Mr Michael to build 600.000 schools for 400 ' lit to the r.ite mianon already died, who were their but misguaei clergy were In- hunger-strike crisis. We the O'Leary, Irish Deputy Prime Minis- million children, or 30,000 hospitals Bio-engineering - il away B is i .res. postal friends and comrades. The sacri- volved in this with the tacit relatives stand in full support of ter and new leader of the Labour (NOTTINGHAM MINERS' for 18 million patients, or 50 mil- IJ EADERS may have noticed in s and ESB charges go up fice and extraordinary courage support cf »wr« politicians in the protesting prisoners and the lion modern flats for 300 million the media two new labels: ' . l •-•2b p r tent, an.: the higher of those who have died keep the Party, in a radio interview recently. Dublin. hunger-strike." GENERAL SECRETARY) people, or 20,000 factories employ- biotechnology' and genetic-engin- - are to be acconvjanied by others going and there is no ing 20 million workers. eering.' it is appropriate to con- • '.- m public spend.:u It should rj* tje absolutely lack of volunteers to replace the "The British Tory Government A LL of Humanity is concerned about the future. Especially since HE prisoners' statements re- sider what they mean, and how they l'. is the first instalment of an clear that tft® H-Block crisis Is dead. The prisoners seem to be in its attitude to this crisis shows 'PHIS comparison shows what the ferred te are conciliatory in ^ Cowboy President Reagan and the military industrial com- relate to what is going on in ire- I -a version of Thai herism and essentially iMrtween the hunger- wholly resolved to keep going T itself to be uncaring and un- -L arms race is costing. Funds the extreme. They make quite plex he speaks on behalf of, decided to produce the Neutron Bomb. land. ' - um. like Thatcher's, is to rut striking pnsort'srs and the until they get the changes in which are so badly needed by clear the relatively minor responsive to th; (".presentations of Rightly labelled by the Russians as the "Capitalist Bomb" that kills • . on public borrowing by rais- British GovBrnm^nt. Those who the prison regime which will en- people, particularly in solving many Biotechnology has been with us changes needed in the prison the Irish Government," he s&iA. people without destroying property. : taxes and cutting back on think the Provisional IRA has able them to keep their self- medical problems, are being spent for millennia, in its traditional form regime which would enable the : ic services. It is the result ol the power to order the prisoners respect. Others can only sup on preparations for mass murder. known to bakers and brewers. It crisis to be solved. These •This is their prison and thesa In the last 5.000 years, research This terrifying situation is be- . et Fit/Gerald s ' looking at the to end the
THE TOWN I LOVED SO WELL ERIN THE GREEN September 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 7
N iry memory I will always -te QH draw near each young lover, give air to my ditty, I The town that I have loved so well v That hears my sad mournful tale. Where our school played bali by the gas-yarii wall Gome join me in concert and lend to me your pity, And we lajghed through the smoke and the smeil. Whilst I my misfortune bewail, BEHIND THE POGROMS Go ng home in the rain, running up the Park lane The grief of my poor heart no tongue can disclose, Past the jail and down behind the fountain, My cheeks are now pale that once bloomed like a rose, "Class Conflict and Sectarian- Those were happy days in so many, many ways And it's all for a young man whom I do suppose, ism : The Protestant Working REVIEWED BY FLANN CAMPBELL In the town I loved so well, Is now far from sweet Erin the Green. Class of the Belfast Labour A DUBLIN Movement, 1868-1920", by the police and army. The following Catholic areas, where it was widely socialist historians owe him a debt year immediately after the 12th believed that some men had In the early morning the factory horn Ah ! when we were children we walked out together, Henry Patterson (Blackstaff, of gratitude tor his scholarship. July demonstrations, when sectar- drowned. Trams in which shipyard There is an excellent bibliography. Called women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog, Along the green meadows so neat, £8.95). ian feelings were at their height, workers were travelling were at- ATRHAT IS lacking in this book While the men on the dole played a mother's role, STREET And although we were childish we loved one another, Sean O'Casey the Unionists in alliance with the tacked in the 'Markets' and in is an analysis of the wider role of Fed the children and then walked the dog: Whilst pulling the wild berries sweet, rPHIS book, like the proverbial curate's egg is good in parts. most bigoted Orange Labour ele- North Street. In the evening large British imperialism in Ulster. Ths And when times got tough there was just about enough It was to sweet Garvagh we were sent to school, ments in the shipyards, formented BALLAD "Sean O'Casey", by Hugh Hunt. The most valuable sections are crowds gathered in Catholic and author refers occasionally to this But they saw it through without complaining He was first in his class and correct in each rule, a program in Belfast. Gill's Irish Lives (Price £2.50). those which deal with the growth Protestant areas. There was wide- imperial market and there is a For deep inside was a burning pride sons of Dan O'Connell now And I cheerfully walked home by Kilnacoofe, spread looting and burning of Gilt & Macmillan of trade unions in Ulster before the A vivid description of how Cath- brief mention of the Tory minister * Come lend your ears to my With that flower of sweet Erin the Green. Catholic-owned shops and spirit- In the town I loved so well. first World War, and the manoeuv- olic and left-wing Protestant wor- Balfour's visit to Belfast to boost doleful ditty kers were attacked by Unionist groceries in Bellymacarrett. the Unionists in 1892. but there is ^I'HIS book is an excellent intro- rings which went on between the It's all about a sailor lad mobs Is provided by Patterson. "A very little about British investment There was music there in the Derry air Ah his head on my bosom he used to repose it, duction to the life and work of Unionist and Liberal Parties, the The next day the expulsions group, variously estimated at be- in the expanding industries of ths Like a language we all could understand Whose birthplace was in Dublin Each evening in under a shade, the world famous playwright, bio- Orange Order and the emerging spread to other factories and mills. tween three hundred and a thous- Lagan valley, and no adequate dis- I remember the day that I earned my first pay city. A song in my praises my darling composed it, grapher, polemicist — Sean O' Labour movement. Patterson em- In some cases they were initiated and . . . largely made up of appren- by groups of apprentices and rivet cussion of British strategic inter When I played in a small pickup band. And styled me the Coolederry maid, Casey. It is a considerable achieve- phasises the economic differences ment to pack all the key facts on tices and rivet boys from Workman boys from shipyards who toured ests in the north, and of how rths There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth At the time I denied him I would die for his sake, which existed between the relatively My song is meant to demonstrate this very complex Irishman into a and Clark's yard and engine works, large works, like the Sirocco engin- Tories and Ulster Unionists mutu- I was sad to leave it all behind me, It was little I thought my denial he'd take, skilled Protestant and relatively un- A story with a pious moral short book. The accent is on the marched through the yards of Har- eering factory in east Belfast. By ally sustained each other. Patter- For I learned about life and I found a wife Ah but to my sad misfortune I made a mistake, skilled Catholic workers, and how Beginning on the Carlyle Bridge many parts played by O'Casey on the lUt and Wolff ordering out all the end of the week about five son examines in detail the interns* When he left me in Erin the Green. these crucially affected their poli- known Catholic workers and a min- class forces in northern Ireland 4- In the town I loved so well. And ending midst the isles of coral. stage of the life-devout church-goer thousand workers had lost their tical attitudes. ority of Protestants who were id- the beginning of this century, but urn- •tr ft and Sunday school teacher, railway jobs and the violence had spread But when I returned how my eyes have burned Oh there's one request I crave, though my miad it's in labourer and ardent gaelic enthus- He gives a useful account of the tentified with the socialist move- into working class residential areas virtually ignores the influence of vexation, ment," he writes. "Some were that most powerful class of all — To see how a town could be brought to its knees, The ship would sail from George's iast; then the militant nationalist early history of the Irish TUC and in east and north Belfast in a spate beaten, kicked and pelted with the industrial and financial capi- By the armoured cars and the bombed-out bars quay This song should be sung everywhere, and member of the Irish Republi- Belfast trades council. There is a of looting, burning and evictions. stones and rivets: others, to escape, The 'Troubles' which were to last talists of Britain. And the gas that hangs on to every breeze; Twas on a sultry summer's And although he's abroad in some far distant nation, can brotherhood. revealing chapter on the 1919 strike sw&m to the south side of the Mus- for over two years and result in at evening. My sorrow might soon reach his ear, in Belfast which began as a strug- The arch-imperialist Bonar Law, Now the army's installed by that old gas-yard wall grave Channel. least three hundred deaths, had And on the quay a maiden stood And when that he hears for his absence I mourn, Next came the zealous leftwinger, gle against low wages and unem- himself descended from Protestant And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher— begun. And wept like one bereft of reason, I am sure that with full speed my true lover he'll return, the disciple of Jim Larkin and ployment, eventually involved T)Y mid-afternoon all Catholic planter stock, who played a crucial With their tanks and their guns. Oh my God what have workers had left the yard. ft ft And never again his kind offer will I scorn, active organiser of the Irish Citi- 60,000 workers, and was then broken The author's research in all these part in stirring up opposition to tho they done by a combination of scab labour, Rumour and speculation spread in fields has been very thorough, and But I'll wed him in Erin the Green. zens Army. third Home Rule Bill before the first To the town I loved so well. The captain turned, the sails World War, does not appear on th» unfurled, Oh come all yow maids of our dear Irish nation, rpKEN came the playwright at 43, scene until 1919, and then only in- Now the music's gone but they carry on, The ship it started down the Liffey Sean, the "blaster and blighter" cidentally. Lord Salisbury and I pray you be steady and wise, For their spirit's been bruised but never broken ; The maiden gave a piercing wail of religious bigotry! the castigator HOW TO GET OUT OF THE MESS Joseph Chamberlain, who used the They will not forget, but their hearts are set She was a mother in a jiffy, Likewise lend an ear to my kind assertation of capitalism, the champion of Ulster issue to defeat Gladstone, "The Road From Thatcherism", by Sam Aaronovitch. (Paperback, £2.95). Lawrence & Wishart. On tomorrow and peace once again. ft A And never your true love despise. sexual freedom, the emancipator of are disregarded. . For such foolish folly distracted I rave, For what's gone is gone, and what's done is done, youth from middle-class morality. IRISH people who have been growth rate of about 4 per cent / iN the EEC the author says it There is a chapter devoted to And what's lost is lost and gone forever— The boat had crossed the harbour There is no place for me but the dark silent grave, To quote the author: active in trying to get support as possible and desirable. The pro- "has reinforced the relative de- Belfast during the period 1885-1897, I can only pray for a bright grand new day bar. And when all hopes deny me I will then take the leave, * for the H-Block Hunger Strikers posals the author makes for ex- cline of U.K. industry." Withdrawal but it contains no mention of the In the town I loved so well. Its course was .set for foreign Of the flower of sweet Erin the Green. "In these latter roles he appeared and those who have been working panding industry and financing from the Common Market is essen- visit there by Lord Randolph waters in the scarlet robe of a somewhat in Britain for unity and indepen- the public sector would reduce un- tial for carrying out the new Churchill in 1886, and the decision To China where they're very wise unorthodox but highly enthusiastic dence of Ireland are as much aware employment to 500,000 by 1985 One economic strategy. to play the Orange card. The rols And drown at birth their surplus as anyone in Britain of the need of the British army and the British- Communist." of the features in the alternative These are a few of the aspects daughters. to defeat the present Tory Govern- controlled police in supporting tha THE MEN BEHIND THE WIRE economic strategy would be of the economic problems faced ft ft The stress is also on the struggles ment. Its intransigence and arro- Unionists, and the intimate person- THE HILLS OF DONEGAL flexible price control. by Britain dealt with comprehen- of Sean and his wife with financial gance has to date caused the al links between such junkers THROUGH the little streets of Belfast in the dark of early dawn sively by the author. He is very Now years and years had come and QH, Donegal, the pride of all, my heart still turns to thee, problems and illness. It is a ter- deaths of nine young men in Bel- Sir Henry Wilson and the British Mt Aaronovitch explains that knowledgeable and at the same British so'diers came mauracfing, wrecking litile homes with gone My cottage home, where oft I've roamed when I was young and rible reflection on the system we live fast ' and its record against the military establishment are glossed worries about inflation are justified time absolutely lucid. The oppo- s;orn, And Mary's child is self-supporting, free, under that one of the greatest play- people in Britain is consistent with over. Indeed, one gets an overall but he warns against looking for sition to his set of proposals comes Heedless of the crying children, dragging fathers from their beds, And Mary's heart is fit to break wrights of the twentieth century its vindictive inflexibility in Ire- impression that Ulster was then sun Big houses grand in a foreign land cannot compare at al(, a prime cause of inflation as the from the right wing of the Labour Beating some while helpless mothers watched the blood flow from When that young buck goes out and his wife were under threat of land. The Tories have two key almost self-contained political unit To my cottage bright on a winter's night on the hills of Donegal. Monetarists do. The following Party, the Social Democrats and. their heacli. a-courting. eviction from the house they rented hatreds—anyone who believes in sentence in chapter four is more in which various political and reli- .iust before he died of course, the Tories. The reasons * ft Ireland's right to govern itself, and gious groups struggled with each Right well I mind the harvest time that doleful dreary day, helpful than blaming everything on for this are obvious. But there are the ordinary working people of other without reference to the pre- CHORUS: When I left all in Donegal to wander far away, the unions. also those on the extreme left who The author throughout the book Britain who feel they are entitled dominant British imperial interests And then she said on one fine day object to the proposals on the Near Cresslough town my friends stood round ; I bid farewell to all acknowleges his debt to the to jobs, security, efficient health Armoured cars and tanks and guns He's left me lone and melancholy "The proposition that inflation grounds that they are too reform- It may be, as Patterson asserts, And from the van I waved my hand to the hills of Donegal. Greaves book. "Sean O'Casey, services and education. Came to take away our sons, I'll dress myself in man s attire Politics and Art." But he disagrees arises where workers, capitalists ist. The author gives considerable that some Irish republicans hava And scour the seven seas for and governments try to satisfy con- made the mistake of treating th» But every man will stand behind Gazing back through the blossoms gay on my own native hill, with one of the key ideas in the space to refuting the arguments Johnnie.' The new moves in the Labour flicting aims in conditions in which of the leftists. Orange Order as though it *as The men behind the wire. I thought no shame (oh, who could blame) 'twas there I cried my latter book about the relationship ft £ Party to change party policy on the credit expands well ahead of out- a monolithic organisation witkon between socialism and nationalism, All those who wish to play an 't fill, question of Irish unity and inde- put offers a more useful frame- internal social differences or idea- and therefore takes up a similar active part in getting rid of the Not for them a judge and jury, nor indeed a crime at all— She shipped on board of a pirate My parents kind ran in my mind, my friends and comrades all, position to O'Casey himself on pendence of Ireland help to draw work." logical tensions, but this is a smal- boat menace of Thatcherism should buy ler error than that made by re- Being Irish means they're guilty, so we're guilty one and all; My heart did ache, I thought 'twould break in leaving Donegal. those issues. The controversial re- Irish people into the urgent fight That raided on the hot equator, NE of the first tasks of a gov- or borrow a copy of this book. It formist academics who try to #lay Round the world the truth will echo, Cromwell's men are here ference occurs on page thirty-four to defeat the Tories. But hatred And with those liairy buccaneers From Derry Quay we steamed away, the waters calm and still, O ernment operating the new is cheap at the price. down Britain's responsibility for again, when referring to the 1916 rebel- of the Tories and what they are There sailed this gentle, virtuous Down Lough Foyle our tug did toil to the big ship at Moville, doing in Ireland and Britain is not economic strategy would be to get G. CURRAN. the evolution of Ulster Unionism. England's name again is sullied in the eyes of honest men. lion. creature. Some love to see each tower and tree, each ancient lordly hall, sufficient to win the arguments in a vigorous building programme Proudly march behind our banner, firmly stand behind our men, ft But my thoughts that day were far away on the hills of Donegal. "His (O'Casey's) fears were justi- factories, in offices, on building going again. All the materials for We will have them free to help us build a nation once again ; , , fled. The reapproachment between sites or in the dole queues. We need the industry are available in large On the people step together, proudly, firmly on our way, The captain thought her name was Round Tory Isle we steamed in style, the mainland we could see, Connolly and Pearse in January to be armed with facts on "infla- quantities in the country. In 1975 THE CLIMATE'S TO BLAME building accounted for one fifth Never fear and never falter till our boys are home to stay. Jack, Till Muckish grand, with glistening sand, smiled over Cruskatee; 1916 that preceded the abortive tion," "overmanning," "the value His reputation was nefarious of total industrial output and em- "Ireland: Land of Troubles", by AS a collection of anti-Irish Elagh, much more brighter still, looked proudly over all, Easter Rising, in which both men of the pound," "North Sea oil," This bullae! by Ban.i v MfCmu.in illustrates the feelings of many Belfast Consortin' with this heinous beast were to sacrifice their lives, resulted "import controls" and all the other ployed Paul Johnson. Published by ^ * quotations the book has a cer- I heaved a sigh and bid goodbye to the hills of Donegal. Nationalists toixhr Her situation was precariou*. in the almost total disappearance terms which come up daily in such Eyre Metheun (Price £6.95). tain fascination. From Edmund of the labour movement in Ireland arguments. The author explains how the Spencer, the Elizabethan poet, Amongst those hills St. Columbkille left miracles and cures, "Oh Irishmen forget the past addressing his "Faerie Queene" on Amid streams and dells and holy wells his power it still endures; for many years to come." activities of the multi-nationals Twas in the hot Sargasso sea can to some extent be brought And think on the day that i* the subject of the barbarous Irish, Green Gartan cell and old Doone Well where St. Finian's waters MX) win arguments on these coming fast. it lists the complaints of numerous THE GREEN GLENS OF ANTRIM Where rakish barques were idly rpHERE are two serious mistakes under the control of government. fall. J- questions and to prove there is When we shall all be civilised. disillusioned adventurers whose rollin' here. Connolly and Pearse were The multi-nationals would have to Neat and clean and well advised. A simple shrine unchanged by time on the hilfs of Donegal. a practical alternative to present hopes of military glory or political CAR across yonder blue lies a true fairyland, And Mary in the middle watch shot by the British after the Rising. sign planning agreements which Oh! won't Mother England be Tory policies, you need confidence advancement had foundered in Ire- • With the sea rippling over the shingle and sand, The quarter deck she was patrollin'. Secondly the labour movement did would include sanctions and aid. A surprised." Where the gay honeysuckle is luding the bee, A ft and knowledge. Don't let anyone beginning of this policy was made land. Even the climate u as blamed, liot disappear from Irish life after- tell you that economic problems rpHE tune of Peader Kearney's And the green glens of Antrim are calling to me. under Tony Benn in the last Lab- the island being described as "un- wards. are too difficult for working people -L satirical ballad kept running Sure if only you knew how the lamp of the moon, She calmly watched a neighbouring our government until pressure from even, mountainous, soft, watery, ship to master. Problems of the the right got him removed from through my head as I read this woody, and open to wind and floocU Turns a blue Irish lake to a silver lagoon, UNA BHAN Important leaders in the Irish Then suddenly became exclaimant— Labour movement today would say economy of a country are too im- the job of Minister of Industry. book. Paul Johnson's premise ap- of rain." You'd imagine a picture of heaven it could be, A Una bhan, a bhlath na ndlaoi omra portant to leave to specialists. for there upon the gilded poop that the Irish Citizen Army was pears to be that Ireland's troubles Where the green glens of Antrim are calling to me. Ata tar eis do bhais de bharr droch-chomhairle, The author appears to harbour Btood Johnnie Doyle in gorgeous right to participate in the Rising In the new plan local authori- through the centuries have been Feaclv a ghra, narbh fhearr na an t-olagon seo, Here is a book which will help due to her obstinate resistance to a particular dislike for the Gaelic raiment. and that many of the tragedies of ties would play an important part tradition and he never misses aa Soon I hope to return to my own Cushendall, Aon ghlas amhain 's me in Ath na Donoige. you to understand all the compli- in reviving industry, particularly in the civilising influence ot her A ft the post 1916 period would have opportunity to snipe at it. «Tlius 'Tis the one place for me than can outshine them all, cated jargon of the economists. alliance with small businesses. The neighbour. been avoided if the Labour move- he gives disproportionate coverage Sure I know every stone, I recall every tree, And now they're back in sweet A Una bhan, d'fag tu me i mbron casta, Sam Aaronovitch, the author of author stresses the importance of ment had been able to participate Starting in 1155 when Henry II to the flowering of 18th centft • Where the green glens of Antrim are calling to me. Ringsend. Agus ce b'ail leat bheith ag tracht air go deo feasta, more fully in all aspects of national "The Road from Thatcherism" has local authorities getting back their been supplying facts to the British was asked by an English born pope Anglo-Irish culture, producing as "it I would halt at a cabin close down by the shore, The gem that sparkles on the Cuilin fainneach ar ar fhas suas an t-or leachta, life, including the struggle against independence from central govern- labour movement on "British Im- to reform the "corrupt and vice did, Georgian Dublin, great country And I'd knock with my heart at that wee cabin door, Dodder the partition of Ireland. ment. 'S go mb'fhearr liom ar laimh leat na an ghloir Fhlaitheas perialism" for many years. The ridden Irish Church," up to 1969 houses, and writers such as Gold- While the sun showered gold in the lap of the sea, He leads a peaceful merchant's life But many interested in O'Casey present book shows he has learned Mr Aaronovitch makes an im- when British troops moved in force smith, Burke. Tom Moore. Charles And the green g'ens of Antrim were smiling on me. And does a trade in oats and fodder. A Una bhan, ros i ngairdin tu would argue that understanding the from the experiences the country portant contribution to the "import into Northern Ireland to restore Lever, and later, Yeats. He ft ft "'S ba chftinnleoir oir ar bhord na banriona tu true relationship between labour has gone through in the last ten controls' controversy. He stresses order, the Irish have been intransi- chooses totally to disregard the cul- Ba cheililir's ba cheolmhar a' gabhail an bhealaigh seo romham 'Tis alone my concern if the grandest surprise, They're happy now in sweet and nationalism is not crucial to years, and understands the big that foreign trade has got to be gent and ungrateful. ture of the majority of the popula- Would be shining at me out of somebody's eyes, tu planned and it is better to use tion. It was as if Gaelic music, Ringsend, taking a keen interest in the play- problems the labour movement One wonders for whom this book 'Tis my private affair what my feelings would be, They'll sail no more in foreign 'S e mo chreach mhaid'ne bronach nar posadh le do dhughra tu. wright. They might with some truth faces in the present difficult situa- foreign currency on technology poetry and song did not exist. which industry badly needs than is intended. It is very much a While the green glens of Antrim were welcoming me. waters; say that it is only stressing what tion. All In all a biased and selective on foreign cars, when Britain is journalist's rather than a histor- But I'd be where the people are simple and kind, For Johnnie Doyle his hands are A Una bhan, is tu a mhearaigh mo chiall, O'Casey might have been rather well able to produce enough cars ian's view of history. Thus "Ire- history, and perhaps intended as And among them the one who's been aye in my mind, full A Una, is tu chuaigh go dluth idir me agus Dia, than what he was. In his. persuasive style Mr Aaro- for her own needs. Regarding the land, It was agreed, had to be held an antidote to those British me«lia Sure I'd pray that the worhfwouM in peace let me be, With five strong sons and five A Una, a chraobh chumhra, a luibin chasta na goiabh, novitch explains how it is possible people who have been making a Despite these reservations I to change from the present crisis Third World the book suggests for reasons of National security." Where the green glens of Antrim are heaven to me. lovely daughters. Narbh fhearr domsa beith gan suile na d'fheireail riamh. genuine attempt to understand the would recommend this work as one to an expanding economy with planned trade, which would help That was during the reign of Eliza- of the key books on Sean O'Casey. rising productivity and without their economies and domestic beth I not that of the present Irish problem. markets. queen. NJ> G. Curran. rising inflation. He regards a a THE IRISH DEMOCRAT September 1981 MONTH BY MONTH | y,\R JOHNNY, battle; nine dead to date and Well things haven't changed more to come no doubt, no skin by i. '.<,! since my lout letter — or off Maggie's nose, it would call \ours either — except, it seems, for a lot more than that to make DONALL MacAMHLAIGH for the worse. It looks as if her sit up and take notice. She Garrett and Co are all out to may well as was pointed out in i:..flemcr.t a Thatcherian policy the "Irish Post" lately, be doing that most of us find too horrible Windsor Castle as Deputy Keeper of the King's Pictures. Peter IWuUigans Co inflict. I should say '.) on poor the IRA a service and ensuring to contemplate. On four of those days parlour old Mary Horan and the long- that they stay in business but I pccpshow anyway, Johnny, on to games were played after dinner suffering public. can't help wondering to what happier thingsthings! ! I'mI'm sorry and the Queen (now Queen " I ? an end to British rule here end they will stay in business. to hear that even in your quiet Mother) chose her favourite ually is inevitable. how will they We Irish seem to have a game. I wouldn't think that by any corner of Munster there was no i ,«•:• justify to themselves the way knack of picking up the worst escaping the Royal Wedding; I 'lit. behaved in their closing years stretch of the imagination they s.u't of things British and often, managed not to see even a blank The master of ceremonies 1 are bringing a united Ireland of :n Ireland' Internment doesn't look a.- in :l:c present instance, when television screen that day and to took all the male guests outside any sort c:n inch nearer and the too good .Iter ten years have pas- II,'. v art- going out of date, for avert my eyes from all the and provided them with brass H Block position is anything but pokers, shovels, etc. After ten sed In another ten, people will talk of course Maggie is making an offending portions of the daily (i internment as they talked of clear to a lot of us. minutes practice they were then awful homes of it and even her paper but the Workingmen's lhe Highland Clearances or Peter- made to parade as a squad, with (j.t.-t cronies are on the verge Club was a riot of red white loo. A Belfast Protestant Worker. It's not political status that's and blue and why wouldn't it, the shovels and pokers on their of a revolt. SUNDAY TIMES. required now to make the men it's their day and as behoves shoulders, in slow goose step come off the fast but something resident foreigners (for that down the long drawing room 'Ien years ago the British Govern- ;I e r special relationship past the King, the Queen and less which would include all must be the logic of it if we do ment ordered that over 400 Irish \\ith the Cowboy beyond the Princesses, who found it ex- prisoners . . . well, according to in fact come from an independ- dissidents be interned without in Washington puts her, it ent Republic) we mustn't pre- quisite fun seeing Sir Stafford the late Bobby Sands' Diary it charge or trial in specially built would seem, in much the same sume to criticise the ceremonies Cripps, Lord Ismay and Anthony prisons. Tile new high-security pri- position that her other special was all about political status of the host-state. Eden doing "Eyes Right". son at Maghaverry. live miles from relationship put Charlie H. in — and nothing else so what are we !l«> Ma/e is nearly completed. to think ? And if it's anything Like a lot (but not all) of Nicolson said that he hadn't vi rv much the kiddie with the seen anything like Stafford If I had been living in Ferman- begging bowl! Only Reagan else it surely is hardly worth Irish people I find it a bit diffi- cult to understand this adula- Cripps who had been forced at agh I would have been working for isn't giving her much, the bank- losing your life for. tion of Royalty and if I was two hours' notice to spend a Sands' election. The IRA are fight- rate is up with what effects we weekend at Windsor and who Old Maggie T. can be hard English I'd be going about ing for their national independence humbly obeyed the Royal Com- know ou the pound and if Rea- and unyielding all right — up shouting "Scrap the Throne!" and freedom and they are as much mand but suffered the full hu- gan isn't anxious to oblige Gar- to a point, she's no fool either but that, of course, is the pre- prisoners of war as our soldiers in miliation which Royalty seemed ret; or anyone else in Dublin in and knows who to take on and rogative of a native and not of Germany in the war. If we want determined to extract from its the matter oj the H Blocks nei- who to leave alone — but I an immigrant ... I knew a man to see an end to violence we should Commoner guests. (December !her is he over - keen to do think it's stretching things a bit in Kilkenny many years ago get out.'' Ken Livingstone, Labour who was firmly convinced he 3rd, 1957.)" wvthing for Maggie T. Anti- to call her a murderer, in just leader of the GLC. NEW STATES- the same way that I wouldn't could trace his lineage back to Bvri-'i propaganda is growing Treating one's guests in that MAN. call fasting to death for a prin- the last King of Leinster but he manner seems hardly a courte- hkt a crop oj weeds over there ciple suicide. wasn't distinguished by any of ous thing to do and you'll >ESTDENT. .ere ci>t' close to ues- The po:,i.\ir papers, of course, * # we read about in the popular :.po ina an unofficial curfew fiom the giant-circulation "Sun" / say "supposedly" because - V press. But sure the latchicoes . Tne paranoic army is now (favourite reading of most Irish- the qualities of generosity and who allowed themselves to be •.looting shadows," and alter a re- men over here it would seem !) magnanimity which some his- • :t "i ngagemcn; with the enemy'' h»nitiii though iand so humiliated were worse — f to the waspish "Daily Mail" torians would have us believe a t o .v was found dead. Paddy H what about the dignity of public he wrong :/ old excel one another in their hypo- were the characterises of t'isort, Chairman of the Civil office, the fact that they were Maggie inning the li Blocks crisy > *.-2 the suicide thing but I Kings and Queens he. < been Rights Association has had his chosen representatives of the can't ret. all much talk of suicide markedly absent from >,".-•( of property raked with gtailire in the people ? It seems to me that some years ago when the brave the monarchs. < , r)y hours. T he arii'y refu: eS to the Royals were expressing their p..y eompensaiion and local citi- proximately 15 feet away from the Jan Pa loch burned himself to contempt for Democracy or — ".'tr.s no *. ..!c;t '.enuue ou: after boy when he fired.'' To date the death in protest at the Soviet The Stuarts in pare!'. :,'c.r must RUC have not questioned any wit- equally bad, perhaps — they (:. rk. '1 : i..:"N h" invasion of his country . . . have been a greedy era pioflig- ness. In May, 12 year old Carol were so insensitive as not to on the cntrary they were high ate lot, forever arguina about V. ; niesiuiie that "he British Ann Kelly was killed by a plastic know that what they were doing bullet fired from a passing army in praise of his bravery a.d their allowances, and I wouldn't f \ eminent has some right to ad- r was insulting and offensive. uncate in the affairs of Ireland. personnel carrier. Again no Inquiry. though 1 cannot pinpoint the think the present lot c e very The questions that should not be lost source now there was a sug- far behind when it eotr.es to ught of are: does the sovereignty COMPUTER WATCH — "Over 22 gestion that the IRA could do making demands . . . die many T^l'T enough of that, I'll have of Ireland rest with the people of million people are now on Police with a bit of that sort of (real) thousands of people who waxed to sign off for the moment. "r eland or with the British Govern- files. The police have access to courage. so lyrical about the young lovers I see the old petrol is £2.25 a other data banks, including health ment" Gerry Adams, Provisional (young? Charlie Boy is thirty gallon back yonder now and the Sein Fein. SUNDAY TIMES. records, military records, tax re- turns, bank statements, phone bills, Well there's been plenty of it three!) and their fairy tale wed- pint can be as high as eighty this year from Sands to Mcllwee ding never seem to reflect that pence in some places — where What happens in Londonderry and "an trace our purchases and they have millions and millions will it all end? I have a feel- is very relevant to what can happen movements through credit card re- and I'm afraid more to come in London, and if we lose in Bel- cords." GUARDIAN. but there hasn't been the slight- of unearned wealth — of course ing that the public won't take fast. we may have to fight in est suggestion in any British I'm writing from Spencer coun- the Thatcher medicine in the Brixton or Birmingham. Just as i LL federal employees of the source that I'm aware of that try, and everyone knows how same docile manner that so Spain in the thirties was a re- - * United States Government are here was courage of the highest much loot they have. . . . many have accepted it here, hearsal for a wider European con- forbidden by law to strike. The Act order. What we have had is the logic of it seems to be that flirt so perhaps what is happening under which the US flight control- the somewhat ludicrous sugges- There seems to be a genuine the only way for things to work in Northern Ireland is a rehearsal lers are now being jailed was de- tion that the "Godfathers" out- and widespread affection for the is for working class people to for urban guerilla war more widely signed "to prohibit the employment side can put the squeeze on the Royals and though a lot of it make all the sacrifices, do with n Europe, particularly in Britain." by the Government of the US of fasters to carry on to the bitter must surely be the result of in- lower wages and generally let .1. Briggs Davidson, Con. MP. persons who are disloyal or who tensive media propaganda much themselves be kicked around. believe in the right to strike against end . . . 1 wonder what pressure / vNE day the British Army is the Government of the US." Federal they have in mind: "Fast to of it seems to be very deep- going to be used against us in employees are required to sign a death or we'll kill you ?" A bit rooted and sincere. It is all Meanwhile the big companies Britain when we declare war on statement that they will never self-defeating, wouldn't you very much a matter of image, make sure that their profits keep racism, unemployment and police strike or join a political party that say ? of course, because by its very abreast of things — never more harassment. So brothers and sisters does not believe in capitalism. nature the Royalty must remain petrol than now, nevef at so don't help them win that war." GUARDIAN. Meantime there's a lot of aloof from ordinary people and high a price ! The old fashioned loyd Ilayes, former black soldier other people being killed and by though every Tom, Dick and capitalist idea seemed to be that in Belfast. THE FIRST? A man In North- God it takes some justifying — Harry may LIKE to think that a glut meant a fall in prices but ampton has been sentenced to 30 he knows them I'm certain the The Association for Legal Justice days In prison for not paying his I wouldn't want to be called on they have gone one better today reality must be very different In Belfast Is to set up an Indepen- rates. Mr Arthur told the Judge — to do it, Johnny boy, "No way!" and it's heads I win and tails you dent Inquiry into the deaths and "I've done my best, but I've been as the modern saying goes. It from the image. Last year the lose. Ah well, let them get on serious Injuries caused by the plas- out of work for nearly 18 months." must be time for a drastic re- "Sunday Times" ran excerpts with it, we never died a winter tic and rubber bullet. There have think, I believe, because all this from the Crossman Diaries yet and we're here to Drove it as been reports that the troops have Following the election of Bobby killing is getting the cause of which contained the following the old navvies.' •'. ^ say. used batteries Instead of the plastlo Sands a bill has been rushed — a real piece of Willie Hamil- bullet. An eye witness to the death either "Brits Out!" or a 32 through Parliament to amend the County Ireland nowhere. Even ton ammo. Drop us a line soon, of Paul Withers, aged 15 said — Representation of the People Act. The head polloeman has a plastlo Jailed dissidents will no longer be if it achieved the former, it do chara, Ambrose. bullet gun with him, he ran to- allowed to stand for Parliament and seems to me, there is no sign at J WOULD say: "After dinner ward the boy and fired directly at this will also apply to citizens of all that it would bring about the on Sunday, Ben Nicolson, his head; the plastic bullet hit the the Irish Republic. It Is not known latter; not even, I imagine, at Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd (TU), son of Harold Nicolson and an Nottingham Road, Ripley, Derbya boy In the face and he fell imme- if the Irish Government have made the cost of thousands and thou- diately. The Policeman was ap- artist, told an interesting stoiy and published by Connolly Publi- any protest. sands dead which is a prospect cations Ltd, at 283 Grays Inn about the ten days he spent at Road, London WCi.