MOCK AT FOUNDED IN 1939 MONTHLY ORGAN OF THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION Price lOp JULY 7976 No. 385
in Dubliii 'F*HE Coalition has been boosted and Fianna Fail made downcast by the results of the two Irish by-elections, in Unemployed Dublin South West and Done- gal. It was a remarkable:Tesult demonstrations in face of the worst ec?5n6m»c crisis since, the 1930s and it shows how Fianna- Fail has in completely failed to. present a vUBLI1 N Trades Council was convincing' ^termt^veHw the I) sponsor of the first major policies of the Coalition. ; march against unemployment to take place in ther city during the Fianna Fait has still got Mr current recession. The colourful HE Social Democratic and Labour Party has detided it will not support an independent Usmch.. as leader, jjjt. apart from banners of thfebigtrade unions— T six counties. him there la no new blood in its the ITGWU, the Workers' Union ol ehr MuntiM leadership ranks and—more im- Ireland, the AUEW and others- Such is the end of a period of rumour, speculation and and worthy people who are in portantly—it has no new policies. waved over the crowd as they fol- public kite-flying. the Troops Out Movement will Even though lir Blaney's candi- lowed th« ^Bran/sport Union Band reflect on the discussions that date in Donegal stood as 'lnde- from Abbey Street to Kildare In the opinion of the IRISH but it would be independence have been taking place. The pendent Fianna Pail", in n
l\ BRITAIN TODAl GERMANS STICKY FINGERS ON THE FISHERIES FRONT MERCENARIES LET CAT OUT OF BAG DISCUSS IRISH R JACK OROMEY, Secretary When there was an outcry in the why they helped the mercenaries to which I am a product" as "a mon- BY JOHN BOYD travel their bloody work in this M of Brent Trades Council, and British press about the mercenaries to ster of power seekers, status seekers TpISH is a staple part of the Current RECIPROCAL , which led to the deliber- x length and are family owned "and Chairman of the National Council a few of them were arrested by the way—work and wastemakers". SITUATION diet in Britain, but will it be slaughter many Angolans as crewed. It is here that the magic FishikjgInThe 6-12 Mile of Civil Liberties, was in Angola police, But again, after routine ate of Mr Grillo, a naturalised Ameri- HE industrial city of Halle is for much longer? Fish consump- well as the mutual murdef the wand of rationalisation is to be recently observing the trial of the questions and answers, they were can citizen, stirred the Luanda about the same sire as Bel- tion is one million tons a year or Zone Around mercenaries carried out among T waved. The E.E.C. plans to cut 13 mercenaries whose activities are smuggled out by the friendly police court with his description of fast. A centre of the chemioal and nearly 45 pounds per person; 85% being investigated by an inter- through the back door to enable themselves. America as "a place where they this class to 1% of its present engineering industries, it is situated of this consumption is supplied by number. Britain's boats would be national commission of which he is them to avoid waiting journalists How would they like it, one won- have restaurants for dogs, while m the south-western part of the British vessels, mostly from around a member. He is to speak in Dub- and their awkward questions. ders, if the Provisional IRA hired you see people on the streets dying sunk until there are 40 left! (Ire- German Democratic Republic—East the shores of Britain. However, land's would be cut from over 700 lin soon at an Angolan Solidarity All this happened while the some soldiers from Africa or Cuba of hunger and cold in New York Germany, as meet people in these next time you have fish for dinner meeting in Liberty Hall. offioial position of the British Gov- to come to Ireland and kill grange- City". ^ to 7.) The forecast, without islands know it. The 500-year-old savour it carefully, for it may be exception, by all organisations The 13 mercenaries, including the ernment was .to deplore the work men or British soldiers in Belfast? This mercenary also spoke of his university is best known for its one of the last if the E.E.C. has of the mercenaries and to regret Would they be satisfied if the guard in the prison hospital who representing various aspects of in- notorious Callan—the man who scientHio faculties, but there Is its way. Pish will disappear from shore fishing and fishermen is that sxecuted 14 of his fellows in cold that there was nothing the Gov- Cuban Government said 4h$t they was apparently a Cuban. He said also an English department, most the diet, along with beef. ernment could officially do to stop could legally do nottgog *o stop the guard told him that he had JACK DROMEY AT AN the industry will be wrecked. Bsiood—hired themselves out to the of whose students are a fine-look While the rest of the world talks them. Have you ever tried to get them coming, while aUWKihg them ileft his loved ones and his home, IfttSH MEETING Already, due to the uncertainty American and South At ricanbacked ing lot of lassies. They take a about 200 mile limits and Britain through London Airport without to travel without passports abroad? where he worked as a cane-cutter generated around the future Of in- F.W.L.A. to prevent an independent Nvely interest In- British and Irish has been playing dodgem cars in custom's checks or passports? Have Striking testimony has been "and came here prepared to fight shore fishing, there is lack of in- Angolan Government being formed politics as well as history, culture Icelandic waters, talks have been you been brought through one given by some mercenaries at the and die for others. He volunteered vestment. The other faetor is the which would pursue an anti-im- and language itself. going on in E.E.C. H Q. in Brussels of the London V.I.P. lounges trial. to work for others to fight for free- large number that will be put out perialist policy. They hired them- about six mile limits. It has been of work by such a proposal. selves out for money or adventure when you were in a hurry to get One of them, ex-Americikn Marine dom for nothing," Mr Gillip added. At thte ettd Of May the professor calculated that, with conservation, Britain catches 16% of- all fish to burn, loot and kill in a country quietly to your plane? Sergeant Gus Gritlo, denounced "This really put me to shame. I and* heir staff called a two-day con- an exclusive British zone of 200 within the E.E.C., most of it by thousands of miles from home, of the C.i.A. as "an metttuthm of mer- didn't know where to hid* The ference' on Ireland, and I was miles would yield 3.5 million tons. inshore fishermen, 70% of consump- which they knew nothing. HE British Government owes cenaries that hires other mercen- difference between this man and privileged to toe invited" to speak This is over three times the an- tion in Britain is caught in these T the wqrttfran explanation of aries" and American society "of me is like between day and night." there and to give two contributions, Eight of the 13 mercenaries on nual* consumption. Even a modest smatt family boats. The effect and trial in Luanda served with the One on the economic basis Of Par- 25 mile limit would yield nearly two ON tition and' how politics and econo- object of wrecking the inshore fish- notorious British Parachute Regi- million tons. A six mile limit ing fleet is to hand over the in- rpHE Government undertook -to mics are intertwined all the time 1 ment in Derry. One was present wouW not go. anywhere near the dustry hook, line and net, to the and in action during the Bloody do away with "the lump", but in Irish history and the present- size of catch required to feed the day situation; the other on Irish monopolies. It is they who can Sunday massacre in Perry a few its legislation is as leaky as a nation. invest in large ships to catch and 1 years ago. The notorious Callan BEWARE THE RACIALIST TRAP! history as reflected in the songs of The objective of the EE.C. is to /~WER forty years ago I made ted work. Then as the . industry ate descendants pursue their own sieve. the people, both of which seemed process the fish at sea. ready for also had connection with the Paras. have a common fishing pond for what can Be called a pilgrim- expanded Catholics and Frotestants culture and retain their old So a prominent building sh*p- Well-received* Other speakers, infrequent expensive tasteless con- 0-b.MJLE2oMf Having been encouraged to shoot all nine E.E.C. members. This is age to South Wales, which I had came in from the country. characteristics. Enclaves of non- steward told the "Irish Demo- mostly from Germany, but in- sumption. The E.E.C. commission Reserved for to kill in berry, they went back part and parcel of the projected been told was a great centre of What was to be done ' With the native population can add to the cluding One lady from Czechoslo- in Brussels are responsible only to to civilian life incapable of settling crat". common fishing policy (C.P.P.) of socialism. new men? A reverend gentleman variety of a country and contribute vakia who had attended an Irish the monopolies which include the down and anxious to continue the He said there ere lads walk- rationalising the fishing industry nicknamed Roaring jgapha told the something of permanent value. Students' Uhion Conference in food industry cartels. absolute power they had when they A one-legged ex-soldier Irishman, ing around with the pants al- in the name of efficiency. The cur- Protestants what to do. They must Witness the Asbkenazi Jews in Wexford, spoke on their special sub- '"THE act of playing* at dodgem were waving guns. They were easy Danny O'Shea, - showed me round most scared off them, for fear rent position of British inshore fish- drive the Catholics out by force. East London, the Chinese in Liver- jects, and some of the students cars in Iceland, not only dis- stooges for the brokers of death one of the valleys. There were of a tap on the shoulder from ing boats is:— who hired them to serve in Angola housing conditions worse than any- That indeed was done. And look pool, or the Greeks in Cardiff. It themselves had a go. tracted everyone^ attention away at Belfast today. is not necessary to use the word the tax man or the National Boar length (feet) NO. of boats from the real issues surrounding at £200 a week, expenses paid. thing I ever saw even in pre-war N
TWENTY-SIX COUNTIES SIX-COUNTY SCENE C A. FIXTURES WORLD MAMMON CONFERS IN TRINITY COLLEGE 1 ENTRAL London Branch of the Bill of Rights call SEPTEMBER Shipyard ( Connolly Association meet I ^EARS :>:' interference by trans- some point in the future this with private enterprise and to what THE "Irish Socialist" com- sidering doing something to protect THE Executive Council of the r 1 v?rv Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. • ' ni .:.r...l corporations in Ire- friendly - to - foreign - investors extent would this development be ments: the parliamentary democracy of I Connolly Association which which he proclaims himself such a • 283 Grays Inn Road. to close? I:aid's A'^ iirs are raised by a scoop attitude would be reversed as is compatible with the E.E.C.'s prin- Reading the questions at the at London parade met in London on June 27th de- staunch defender? Is there any Article ir. the "Irish Socialist" happening in other countries?" ciples of free competition? Also, is underground meeting in Trinity On 7th July Secretary Eddie cided to recommend the increase of HE British Government is now chance of the participants of the which describes a hush-hush meet- it considered possible that both College it is clear that whilst they Cowman will speak on the two gPEAKING at a meeting in Trade Unions. "I would like to the price of the IRISH DEMOCRAT T considering whether it should • "To force foreign companies underhand Business Internationa! ing organised by Business Inter- participation and the competition are formulated in a polite business- Irish by-elections in Dublin and Montagu Place, London, Mr congratulate our colleagues in to 15 pence with effect from the further run down Harland and investing in Ireland to bring in Roundtable being hauled before the national Trinity College, Dublin, it will engender may be detrimental like manner they yet contain a Donegal. The following week on Ken Malony of the Connolly October issue. A special an- Wolff's shipyard in Belfast, and more foreign currency, will there be Special Criminal Court for holding Northern Ireland who have m May to the need to attract foreign ven- threat. They are of the type, "If the 14th Eamonn MacLaughlin Youth Movement, Dublin, called nouncement will be made. possibly close down the ship-build- any restrictions on their domestic ture capital?" a "secret and unlawful assembly?" taken this step," he declared. Mr Irish pound borrowings?" you are not doing this—like join- speaks on the history of Unionism. for the introduction of a Bill of Nicholson declared his support ing sector altogether. Business International is a top- The transnational firms are Meanwhile keep the support fund • "At what point do you think * "It is part of your Ministry's ing NATO—why not?" and "If you On the 21st Pat Bond talks on the Rights at Westminster to guar- One reason is the large amount rank organisation which links to- stronger than many governments for a Bill of Rights and con- up. It is needed till September, that Irish sovereignty would be ad- policy (the question addressed to are thinking of imposing any history of the Irish Democrat, and of public money whioh the yard gether banks, huge corporations They throw their weight about like antee the liberty and equality of demned the Prevention of Ter- and will be needed after that. Our versely affected if the present large Justin Keating, Minister for In- limitation on us, well, think on the 28th Maeve Lawlor speaks costs. In the past decade it has and client Governments in many governments do and interfere in all citizens in the six counties. rorism Act which should be re- best thanks to: element of foreign investment con- dustry and Commerce) to encourage again." on Women in Irish History. absorbed £137 million, or half the countries. It acts as a kind of the internal affairs of countries, in- He said that though it would pealed. tinues? Are you in favour of poli- foreign investors to hand over part Newcastle C.A. Social £10, B. Wil- total public subsidy given to the international lobby for the trans- The Irish public ~ deserves to fluencing politicians and ensuring be unthinkable to return to tical limitations in this field?" of their equity of their Irish sub- Mr Ken Brinson welcomed the kinson 15p, J. Guilfoyle £3, H. Cas- whole U.K. ship-building industry. national companies, charging them know who was actually present at that policies are adopted which sidiaries to indigenous persons, be Stormont, there was needed sidy 50p, P. McCarron 40p, F.H.O The British are wondering whether fees for its services and holding • "Some key industries are State this meeting. Especially what Gov- serve their interests. They are the increased interest in the Irish they IDA or Irish investors? Could some kind of devolved Parlia- £5, J. P. O'Connor £1, M.O.M. it is worth that much to keep owned. There is talk of more State ernment Ministers were present? economic rulers of this late-capital- situation in the British working- conferences at which the policies such a step become statutory in the Law is merciful ment for the immediate period £1.70, J. McGill £4, Anon. £2, 10,000 Belfast workers in business, participation and nationalisation If there were none, who spoke on ist world and a menace to the in- class movement but said that of the transnational are co-ordin- near future?" South London C.A. £13.90, Anon. even if the vast majority of them outside the fields already covered, terests of ordinary people every- 4head. understanding was not spread- ated and links established with their behalf? What answers were UR RELF of Leamington wanted £15, J. McBride £5, F. Kindley 40p, are strong Unionists, continually and very recently the establishment where. The Trinity College con- Mr Molony referred to the suitable local politicians. * "Will the oil-gas discoveries be- given to the multinational com- to sell his house, but only to ing quickly enough. Mr Brinson South London Jumble Sale £30, J. protesting their loyalty to the of a State Trading Company. How ference is a warning of what they Republican ceremony at Bodens- come the panacea of the Irish panies faceless inquisitors? Is Mr an English family. He put up a is a Welshman who lived in Robinson £7.50, West London Crown and asserting how British are interested in in Ireland. That they should decide to hold far will the State be competing economy in the eighties?" Coones, Minister for Justice, con- sign to this effect. town which was taking place Dublin. Readers £1.30, Central London they are, while supporting the a conference in Ireland in the first while the London meeting was right-wing of the Unionist Party Mr Desmond Greaves said Readers £4.57, South London place is significant. Significant too Told to take it down as contra- being held, and stigmatised re- Readers £4.05, East London and providing the basis for the was the confidential atmosphere— vening the Race Relations Act, he ligious, sectarianism as the great that if the Irish people were Readers £2.40. TOTAL: £111.85. Ulster Workers' Council's famous not a word in the press and no pub- GOVERNMENT HAS TO PAY ZINC MEN TWICE refused to do so, defying a Court divider of the Irish people. He united they would be invincible. "strike" in 1974. licity until the "Irish Socialist" order, and so landing himself in was sorry to say that the estab- That was why so much effort blew the gaff after! the event. rPHE latest report of Tara Ex- Coalition Government lists as one have been allowed to call a "busi- size would be the biggest in jail for contempt. British Government Ministers lishment even in the twenty-six was put into dividing them. He Significant also was the character ploration gives some interest- of its success stories the fact that ness method" since the Irish State Europe, the greater part of the ore urged the British Labour move- are particularly angry at the re- In jail he went on hunger strike. counties, instead of making cent decision of the Unionist Meitf of the participants—foreign big ing facts on Ireland's mining they took a 25% share in the mining was established—making charges from Navan would be exported in a ment to take a lesson from sec- THIS WITTY businesses in Ireland, leading affairs. of the ore-body at Navan. They against an "Irish" company so that raw state. The official solicitor appeared on known the views of Wolfe Tone bers of Parliament at Westminster the scene and tried to get him re- tarianism in Belfast and to make to vote against the Shipbuilding members of the Opposition such as Tara Exploration owns Tara had previously given the ore-body it never shows a taxable return. about the need to unite the Irish The lead and zinc ore at Navan leased. Finally he was released, sure racialism did not perform CLOWNING Industry Nationalisation Bill in Messrs George Colley and Des Mines. The Government of the to Tara Mines for nothing at all. The latest refinement of this people, was engage4 in denigrat- should be taken out at a rate of without undertaking to remove the the same function here. Britain—which Was only passed by O'Malley, Government Ministers— Republic owned the ore-body at The State must now repay 3.7 mil- practice is to bill the Irish State ing the principles of Republican- extraction which keeps pace with sign, the judge remarking "The "True Life Love Stories", by a Government majority of one- though it is not clear at the time Navan, the largest zinc mine in lion dollars of the loan which Tara for money "loaned" to an "Irish" the building of factories to manu- ism. of writing which Ministers were Mines got from its parent company company. Law is merciful." JiHE meeting was held after a Michael Foley (Blackstaff, while supporting the continuance Europe, before it gave ownership facture goods from the smelted ore JfR BRIAN NICHOLSON of of State ownership in the North. concerned—representatives of Irish of it to Tara Mines. Tara Exploration. parade from Hyde Park, or- £1.25). THE latest news item concerning —a relatively small number of jobs It is a pity the law was not the Transport and General The Labour Administration, State Companies such as the I.D.A. Tara Mines borrowed 17 million The mining companies are now ganised by the Central London the Navan mine is that the would be created by the building merciful in some other cases. Workers' Union Executive, ex- "This witty clowning verse" is troubled by Its inability to get a and Coras Trachtala. dollars from Tara Exploration in using the sort of practice the branch of the Connolly Associa- company intends to increase its ex- of a smelter alone. plained his Union's support for how Michael Foley refers to his majority in divisions, had been ex- order to develop the mine. The Anglo - American Oil Companies ploitation of the mine from the The policy being followed by the tion. This was the first Wolfe booklet of lyrics. For its prevailing the "Better Life for All" cam- Tone Commemoration to be held pecting tome support for the Bill •'PHE pre-meeting documentation first figure of 400,000 tonnes a year present Irish Government, sup- tone of self-mockery it relies greatly which, it maintains, would benefit to 500,000 tonnes each year. paign of the Irish Congress of in London for several years, and elaborates on who was invited ported by Fianna Fail, on the Navan on wicked puns—"I think/therefore the shipbuilding Industry on both If Mr Justin Keating's promised one of very few purely Irish I ham", "Give us our daily dread", to this top-secret conclave. It mine shows that they are willingly Six Counties sides of the Irish Sea. states: IRISH FISHERMEN UPSET 129,000 tonne lead and zinc smel- helping the giant mining companies demonstrations in the last and even worse—and on oblique These oorfslderatione seem to ter were to be working in the morn- to rob the Irish people and future (Continue from Page One) U.C.A.T.T. BACKS period of time. Members of the allusions to Yeats, Whitman, Rim- worry the Unionists little, for they ing, even though a smelter of that baud and Dylan Thomas. He is "The business executives partici- TRISH fishermen are strongly The IFO said it was more con- generations. British Labour movement were always tassume that the British pating in this round-table represent pressing the Government to cerned than ever that Irish fisher- pendent was a clever piece of IRIS^CALL invited to address the meeting, fluent and, as in "Soundings", an Government, If it.wanta to hold on excellent parodist. But his imagi-. multinational corporations or banks oppose the Qommo4£*3parket's plan men's rights and requirements camouflage intended to.' invest to. the; North, cannot afford the O^IED toy Mr Andy Higgins, but on this occasion were not whose headquarters are located- in to grab most of an extended 200 would be completely ignored in any By it with a democratic character nation, to which the poems re- political costs of massive redundan- s $#e Tottenham Branch reso- invited to walk. the world's leading industrialised mile fishing zone around the Irish review (X- the EEC common fisheries • D., J. Cunningham it could not possibly- possess, to M peatedly refer, rarely gets to grips cies in tb# Belfast Shipyard.; T 0-< lution was carried unanimously at countries. These corporations, re-y coasts for the fishing fleets of policy. A The organisation - has It was an opportunity for the with an important emotkpi. The pretend it existed by decision of the Annual .Conference of building WENTY years ago there were gardless of origin or industrial sec-' Britain, Prance and Germany. always maintained that Ireland, fclGO became th* first Provincial ster championship Longford cruised Irish to show they were not long autobiographical sequence 1 its own people, and involve the workers Union UCATT. It ran: T MJM tnen employed in Har- tor, possess extensive operations The Irish Fishermen's - Organisa- being a small nation, would be champions to lose their crown to victory., over Kilkenny, while intimidated and about eighty which supplies the title occasionally S whole outside world m recog- "This Rational delegate con- land and Wolff. Today there Ire throughout the world and are the tion, the principal body represent- pushed aside by our larger and when they were defeated at home Wexford and Laois accounted for walked. There was strong feel- reaches up to epigram, but seldom nising it and defending its ference calls- for a meeting at I0#ifc4 Large-scale unemployment world's most active and largest im- ing Irish fishermen, has written to more influential "partners" in the by Roscommon in the Connaught Westmeath and Carlow respectively. higher. The second part of the ccl- the earliest possible moment of ing expressed that the Govern- among this skilled work-force would porters and exporters as well as Foreign Minister Garret FitzGerald EEC unless the Government more semi-final. The £ame Roscommon spurious independence. lection, "Through the Gateless the T.U.C. and the Irish Con- ment should be urged to reopen be • tip • tarfclitir !t&i'-wme»l employers."' requesting the adoption of much courageously defended our in- had earlier beaten London N(n the N the Munster football cham- Gate", includes imitations of two gress of Trade Unions inspired by Trafalgar Square for Irish meet- trouble. It MUM oertataly drive stronger action to safeguard and terests. first round of the competition Far I pionship Clan overcame Lime- ( )F course while the Republi- French poets, and more autobiog- rick and Waterford rather sur- the Northern Ireland Committee's ings, and it is understood that, raphy. "The Dance of Thought" the -.mimi^nM^'-. nt* t^tiMifr- Most significant of all perhaps extend the country's exclusive and away the biggest surprise waft- can movement is so sadly prisingly beat Tipperary. The 'Better life for all campaign'." the police would prefer it. stands almost alone here in con- ern Ireland to tt-tt^ or mors. For were the questions addressed to fishery limit*. "The IFO believes that any caused by lowly Leitrim who Munster hurling championships divided, while Fianna Fail is veying an Interesting reflection it these. top Irish politicians, State promises made by the EEC with re- eliminated Mayo after a replay. started with two thrilling games, following, a policy no different musically. directly employed who would be Company executives and business- gard to safeguarding the interests This was the first championship in tHo first of these, Clare, despite from that of Fine Gael, while kffeele& The yarn gives massive men. They show what Business of each country are useless. The win for Leitrim since 1MT. losing full-forward hero Noel Casey the miserable coalition is afraid (Continued from Page Two) Prosaic subject matter and met- saHmtnuU to other firms. The International and the transnational FISH FINGERS argument that the Community However, they were rudely in the early seoonds of the second of the most elementary national rical laxity (except in the first few wages fa • companies are interested in. They must act as a unit has already been As a candidate for the E.C.R.C. (Continued from Page Three) brought down to earth on the fol- hatf. Stm managed to beat Water expressed by many individual pages, where the poet .submits to were pyt before discussion groups of put forward in discussion on limits. demands, while the" British Executive Committee Una Milner lowing Sunday at Carrfck-on-flhan- ford by thrMpolnt*.Onthe fol- representatives at the Meeting, the discipline of rhyme and participants. cal fishing rights, along with a At the same time, when the occa- Labour movement is for the tb^w^pw^pw! lowing Vtufli^'-o^/tw^ty • thou- and t&e.mass media were criticised polled nearly 100 votes which repre- rhythm) ensure that few of these sion suits, unilateral action is taken non, where visitors most part totally ignorant of art 11 system of quotas and conservation for theJr P i inflaming and pro- sented a popular vote and she will throughout ttM Northern economy. by most of the original members. trounced them by,-a massive 23 sand people gathered at the Gaelic versus either soothe or excite. Here are some examples:— ensure that Britain's fish stocks are the rights and wrongs of the voking hatred by allocating time to therefore serve as an EC member Closure of the yard would be a Insofar as fisheries are concerned, points. Galway and Roscommon Grounds at Ltmerick to witness the maintained. With the E.E.C. plans Irish question, while the Labour racialist leaders and programmes for the period 1976/78. SEAMU8 TRACEY massive poHtfrrf and economic ' i "Do you expect a united Ire- the attitude of the main EEC will now contest the Connaught clash of agfrtoid rivals Cork and for a free for all both quotas and Government promotes divisions including the recent television re- Mow. TM British elvll servants land this century? If so, under conservation would disappear. At countries is quite clearly one of self- final at Or Hyde Park, Roscom- Tipperary. After a titanic struggle mon, In early July. Cork emerged victorious by the instead of reconciliation be- port on Southall. want to close It to save Mbfey. It what conditions might this be best they would be placed in the interest. will kf taterecting to,M*:«f they brought about and, in your opinion, narrowest of margins. tween the divided communities devious hands of E.E.C. H.Q., who The extent to which OUaly's star TURINl G the discussion of the what difference, if any, would it in the six counties, we cannot BEWARE OF RACE TRAP .hip- will use the pretext of protecting "To date, several Important has faded In recent years was em- However classio that game proved " police Liaison Committee Re- make to foreign-owned companies expect the majority of the Irish D building at present throughout the stocks as a reason for cutting the coastal states, including the U.S.A. phasised by Meath with 9 points to be, I feel I must give pride of port, Una Milner spoke of the (Continued from Page Two) capitalist world. The Belfast Ship- now established in Ireland?" number of boats. One other sug- and Canada, have declared uni- people very quickly to obtain to spare over the "O'Connor County" place in this report to the un- plight of the Irish community as a "refuse heaps mount, the foxes mul- It rings a bell when somebody ywliip* ^--itiMiMwli' * gestion Is that a satellite will be lateral extensions of limits. The men, who had most sf/^'Mftss heralded hurlers of Kfldare who their rights, nor do we see any "Ireland is a pronounced anti- result of continued harassment by tiply and rabies spreads inexorably. says,: "There you are* Our country employed to police the seas. Let Irish Fishermen's Organisation now from their all-Ireland douWO win- won'', their first-ever Senior Cham- means by which they can im- hoping that the capitalist eoonemy Communist country. What reasons the police under {he Prevention of Traditional features of national is being taken over by the fellows will plek up -In the early MMs Mpt us hope that the Commissioner sees no reason why the Irish Gov- ning team of the earlier years of pionship match when they Heat a mediately press them. They are there for not joining NATO Terrorism Act. She commented on life go by the board. There is no with the dark skin. Let's go packie- that enMv will then flow in anfti responsible for the Common Fish- ernment cannot follow suit since this decade, TOSS* veterans proved have nOt the means necessary iwimm* the Jtttqtton which had worsened longer roast beef In old England. bashing and they'll all go home.",, fer more ships. What it is looking now?" V" ing Policy, whose turn it is to sit the . whole principle of community to be no mateh for yswfttsii^aiHl very credit ably in the NationaS to decide" the issue -4*1 their Since aja^last--^report at the 1975 Soon there will be no fish and for are subventions to tide the yard in. the satellite, has enough fingers solidarity has been clearly shown more entbuslastieeppon*ir)tsIn a Yet if any sizeable section of the * "Ireland more than any other LsagtuThey then: went, Ai to favour. A.G.M. Addressing the Black and chips. The currency is debased. over until then. country is attempting to attract to count the fish! to be non-existent." very poor game. Also In the Lein- The units of measurement are British working class falls for that oontMt^'^Jhft Lainptpr ssml-finai Asian communities she pointed out fgyTflw MftjMx is that when foreign; investments. Do you see disappearing. English industry is seductive but lying argument, then against the experienced -Wexford- But there is such a thing as the. similarity to the burden of suf- Y lite Marathon OH Company— run down as all investable profits they will render themselves utterly in this any ultimate, threat to your men, pf&^imMWs^thsinseives trying to. create the means. It fering *hi ooast of Coik theee dayt-plaoed K lumbering public, utilities treat their the changes that are taking place favourofany political limitations Ireland seeks new energy sources •• i-p^mareiitH •m' rfwto, - "" to distressing prejudice and biased an fits million oontmet for an off- top of a completed building. customers as less than a hole in a in their country. They will have now? Could jtou conceive that at darill Ifthls means tha^sslcoiw legislation. "The Irish are equaUy shore produetien platform, Har- A N Irish Sblar Energy Society now it would not be on the scale the sun's rays Into electrical But you have to start at the computer card, overgrown local locked themselves in prison and emergence of a new power in the persecuted. The Prevention of Ter- land and Wolff made no serioue has been formed in order to on which we would need it. energy, could be manufactured foundations. authorities are completely indif- thrown the key through the win- fii^lwvJMMi.': how delighted ail rorism Act has brought police ter- effort to tender. Was this another • irjfww*. foster the use of energy from the A big issue in applying solar cheaply enough. ferent to their electors, and all dow. , - V i m
THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July 197® Jul/ 1976 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT IRISH SOMpS THE LOW-BACKED CAR OLD BOG ON THE ONE ROAD MfHEN first I saw sweet Peggy, 'twas on a market day ROAD IRISH WORKING CLASS HISTORY labouring ^HOUGH we've had our quarrels now and then, ^ ' A low-backed car she drove, anil sal upon a truss of hay ; |u|Y feet are here on Broadway NOw is-the time to make them up again- "Labour in Irish Politics, 1890- If Mr Mitchell had seized that few! when the hay was blooming grass, ami decked with flowers This blessed harvest morn, for Sligo, failed to .appear in the as bad then as they are Sure aren't we all Irish anyhow ? 1930", by Arthur Mitchell theme and carried it through lobby. Some said he was en- of spring, But oh, the ache that's in my heart {Irish University Press, 317 consistently he could have writ- today. Why should the expected the legpuM And we've got to step together now. ticed into a hotel and well oiled. No newer was there that coufd compare with the blooming girt I! For the spot where I was born. pp., £3.75). ten a more valuable book. But "happen" and the unexpected My weary hands are blistered Alexander McCabe once told me "The Irish", by Thomas J. srng. JHERE can be no doubt of the it is only fair to say that it "occur" ? Arid what does this Through toil in cold and heat CHORUS: that he, a fellow Sligo man, sentence mean ? "No more than O'Hanlon (Andre Deutsch, But olv to swing a scythe again usefulness of this book which derives from a university thesis, assisted in the process. As she sat in the low-backed car were the British workers, the £3.95). Through a field of Irish wheat. should be on the shelf of every and it is not for a young man On the one road, sharing the one lead, But Mr Mitchell thinks, no workers of Ireland were oblivi- The man at the turnpike bar Matf I the chance to wander back. Irish worker interested in the to reflect on the experiences of >2pHE key to this hook .pcobafely Never asked for a toll On the read to God knows where; doubt rightly, that whatever ous to the message of the foun- br own a king's abbde history of his-class and its place other people's lifetimes. He re- lies in the author'^ revela- Ob the long road, it may be the wrong chad, about external blandishments, ders of scientific socialism." As But just rubbed his old poll it's soon I'd see the hawthorn tree in national affairs. Socialism cords and he quotes. Some more tion that his home life in Wex- Mr Jinks would have made his it stands it seems to mean that And looked after the low-backed car. By the Old Bog head. But we're together now, who cares? existed in Ireland throughout passionate writer must tell the ford—up to his departure foe way into the lobby if he had neither were oblivious. But that Northmen, Sbuttimen, comrades all, the greater part of the 49th tale with a view to telling Irish the States at the age of 24—was mien I was young and restless possessed the necessary politi- only tells us what they were tn-battle'* wild commotion, the proud and mighty Mars, Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Donegal, century, but not the mass La- Labour haw to get out of the bitter and violent. WittKhostfle scythes, demands bis tithes Of death in war-like cars. My mind was III at ease cal conviction. As it was there not. On the one road, swinging along, bour movement. The great strait jacket. Peggy* peaceful goddess, has darts in her bright eye Through dreaming of America was a tie, and the Ceann Com- ftOT but what the man can't Is "The Irish" his revenge and the gold beyond the seas. Singing a Soldier's Song. watershed in Irish politics was However, with the facts pro- those years, Alternatively, itanay Tbstbboofc men down in the market town, as left and right they fly. of course V89Q when the Parnell hairle had a casting vote. It be a stickler himself. On Oft sorrow take their money! vided the reader can do a fair Page 24 he has "In 1906 Nanetti be a laboured legpull, the attMapt split marked the beginning of was given for the Government Tie hard to And the same Tinker, tailor* every mother's son job for himself. He can give a told the delegates 'The Irish of a pubhoity-hungry journalist «to While she sHs in the lew-backed car, the end of the Parliamentary and the failings and persecutions And what's the world to any man Butcher, baker, shouldering his gun, shrewd guess as to why Labour Parliamentary Party were (sic) put himself at the centre of -o Thdti battte mwe dangerous far— Where no one speak* his name? went on for another flue years. party and enabled the parties retreated from signing the Sinn the Labour Party . . ." Why controversy. In either case For the doctor's art I'vo had" my day and here I am Rich man, poor man, every man in line, which still dominate the scene solipsistic, spiteful essay is a failure. Cannot cure the heart Fein pledge in 1918, why in THE new Ftanna Fail admini- the contemptuous sic ? Has Mr A-buHdtng bricks per load All together* Just like Old Lang Syne. to throw up tiny shoots. And effect it accepted the Treaty stration of 1932 was depen- Mr O'Hanlon is no Solzhenit^oi. That is hit from that low-backed car. A long three thousand miles away Mitchell never heard of a collec- he is dismissible not for being criti- Mr Mitchell is right to begin with its "Plague on both your v frrotn the Old Bog Road. dent on Labour for support and tive noun? cal, but for being uncritieal. Night is darkest just before dawn, his introduction here. But his houses" in 1922, and why in- Sweet Peggy, round her car, sir, has strings of ducks and geese Labour gave it loyally, in 1933 And it goes on all the way witnesses are most often an«ny- From dissension Ireland is retarn, real starting-point is 1907. stead of taking a political stand MMMMIMK of hearts she slaughters by far outnumbers these ; My mother died last springtime Fianna Fail betrayed its allies. through. Supporters do not maus informants and not the Cen- Now let us *H, United Irishmen, in the run-up to the civil war, tthff&sfceamong herpotiltKysite Just like a tut tie dove, When Ireland's fields are green Old Tom Johnson, with whose Mr De Valera went to the coun- exist. They are "proponents". tral Bank reports, Oaib speeebng. it confined itself to anathema- «MMMrt1tthe cage, I do engage, of the Mdotfting god of love! And the neighbours said her waking Make our land a Nation Once Again. widow Mr Mitchell had exten- try to disembarrass himself of On Page 50 there is "Liritithgar" government publications and Mtoifti&iVTiiidhii 8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT July 1976 SERIAL STORY BY B'RAV DONAL MacAMHLAIGH THE IIACT Cf A PEACETIME $€11)111 J MET my old butty Matt Con- call for another couple of pints. Matt gave a tug at my elbow converse and sing songs, and hearts, but it is quite common nolly as we had arranged, at One of the best things for me and told me in Irish not to go no-one is sent home hungry. for the residents of places like the corner of Eyre Square or the about joining the army, apart broadcasting our business. This is to some small extent Salthill and other new suburbs Big Green as they call it in from the pay and accommoda- the case with the poorer people to scorn the Connemara girls "The army ?" one of the sis- Irish and we straightway ad- tion, will be the chance to get in Galway and it is the same in they have working for them just ters said with interest. "Sure adjourned across the road to used to speaking in Irish again most towns I imagine: when because of their poor command 'tis as good as anything going Walsh's for a couple of pints. for since we moved to Kilkenny they are able to afford it they of English. nowadays. Will ye be above seven years ago I have been are every bit as generous and "We can't join up above in in Renmore ?" losing my fluency and it is only hospitable as the old-time gentry Renmore," was Matt's first J*HE steam and the noise of the since coming back here to Gal- were. It is the "pride and salute for me, "the M.O. is away "We will," I couldn't/resist laundry put me in mind at way to work that I have got poverty people" or those who and he won't be back for a day telling them, "because "we're once of the woollen mills 1 into the hang of using Irish struggle to keep up appearances or two, I'm told, so we'd do Irish speakers. We'll be in the worked in for three years below again. that I have no time for, though better to go on down to Athlone First Irish Speaking Battalion." in Kilkenny—the clouds of to be sure I do feel some sym- this evening and join up from Matt can speak English al- steam and moisture where they "I know," the first lady said pathy for them: they live tight there." most as well as he does Irish scoured the wool; the cutting a mite dolefully, "sure we get little lives in their terraced because he has been left home smell of ammonia and the thun- Matt gave a term in the Con- them in here all the time." houses with their plants and a long time now and has tra- dering, rumbling sound of the struction Corps which is almost "The drink is awful," the sec- their family albums and like as velled round quite a bit. Mat milling machines like the head- like being a proper soldier ex- ond one said, shaking her head. not an old print or two of the thinks it a little strange that I less coach bearing down on you cept that they issue them with And for anyone not well versed British Royal Family, and all the should be so pushed about in a fog. The steam lifted for picks and shovels instead of in the idiom of Galway let me time they dream of advancing fluency in Irish for the way he a moment and we could see with guns. I'm lucky to have hasten to explain that she was themselves farther away from sees it is: what difference does three or four of the Annagha- him along with me for he knows in no way finding fault with their origins. it make what language you use vane girls elbow-deep in a big all the ropes and I'm as well to either the Arthur Guinness of as long as you can make your- tank of suds; we waved to them be guided by what he says. Dublin or the Smithwick's "na- self understood ? And of course ANYWAY, we set off for the and beckoned them over but "Athlone it is so, Matt," I tural" ale which is brewed in there are not many people left "Central" and as we crossed they only laughed and held up agree, "and I suppose they'll my home town of Kilkenny: in Connemara now who cannot the Salmon Weir Bridge I ah old torn pair of long drawers send us on down to the Curragh what the good woman had in speak English tolerably well. looked away up the Corrib to- and Other items of underwear in for our training? 'Twill be all mind was that far too many of wards Menlo and I felt suddenly mockery of us. of six months before we're back . Matt tells me to drink up and us have a fatal liking for the very lonely for the next few in Galway again." we'll have one for the road but stuff. You might think that months would be ones of exile They knew us, of course, and "Wait till you see will they the lady behind the bar seems this was strange—or even below in Kildare. Galway has they knew that we wished to take us first," Matt replies to think that we've had enough: wrong—coming from people not quite' the same attraction for speak to Julie and Margaret wisely. "Sure we didn't get they are very conscientious who live by the sale of drink, Matt as it has for me, for 1 grew and, after a coupfa of minutes of examined by the doctor at all people in Walsh's and will never but, to be fair about it, if all up here and I love every stone pretending to ignore us, one of yet, did we?" serve drink to anyone who is publicans were like the Walshes of the ptoce, and it has so many them wint off into the MUow- either already under the influ- there might be a lot less un- memories and associations for ing clouds of steam to tell them ence or whom they think should happiness in Ireland. And so I me that I couldn't get them dtf JN my enthusiasm to be a we were Here. And next thing soldier I had almost , over- not have above a couple. They didn't want to make too much foofew are j^jculariv ^wan? of wild m WMmf^mi or itoyabouts^frpm "* tir worry about being tdme aprons and took- Matt might be all right "for j the town, and leave it atone to every town, had been accepted before yoang fellows starting off — btfi least for the Construction Co they'd as lief not serve them at Jvdy has bat if I didn't get taken on I'd all for fear of having it on their gO wi m for the Ventral own: have nothing before me but conscience. la the Hospital where the two girls hanging about the town allrday heard people ^ "Enough, is it?" I protest workiM'^mimm^^m^ with no hopes of work. The a day of hotly. "Sure we only had two same' wh^wU^1^^ '' of factory I had worked in after ptiSf^G sjpaxJi i pints!" Juty W • leaving school was on short time ftife and nibs goingWN^m^ twoprls, now that all the wartime Con- But the barlady is politely who had gpven Julie ffiMm&fcL • Matt mew Margaret tracts for army material