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Eire Sends More Food KEEP THE HOSTELS To Britain OPEN NLY swift and combined action Q by the trade unions and the By workers concerned can prevent hun- HENRY HARRISON dreds of building trade operatives being thrown on the streets as re- CIRE is expected to send more food to Britain as a sult of the threatened closing of ™ result of the negotiations which took place in London last several London hostels. Already in central London four month between the Eire Ministry of Agriculture and the British big hostels, the Ivanhoe, Thackeray, Ministry of Food. Grafton and National have been closed, and their residents dispersed, But no agreement has yet been in some cases to outlying suburbs signed, and the ultimate decision of where they are compelled to travel long distances to work. Mr. John Strachey, British Minister Anglo-Irish Food, is anxiously awaited. St. Stephen's Close, one of the of biggest hostels in St. John's Wood, Eire seeks fertilisers, basic slag, Trade Slump London, was shut last month and a super-phosphates and sulphate of am- similar fate awaits Stamford House, Stoke Newington, and the Ouchess monia, and in return hopes to be able Since pre-war days there has been an enormous drop in Eire's exports of Bedford, Kensington. One resi- to send more meat and eggs. to Britain. Here are some eompara- MR. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, whose dent from the Duchess of Bedford, allotted to Little Heath camp in The Coalition policy of enforcing low tive figures of British purchases for 90th birthday on July 26th was marked 1938 and 1945:— Essex, will be required to travel 25 prices cut Irish food exports down by by world-wide celebrations. (See Demo- miles to work each day. one-half. For the cheeseparing and poli- 1938 1945 crat's Diary, page five). tically biased methods adopted, the Bri- Live Cattle 702,200 495,546 London's hostel population of 297,440 building operatives has been com- tish consumer paid with a loss of some Sheep and Lambs 81,725 Pigs 45,000 6 pulsorily reduced from nearly 30,000 £20 million worth of good fresh food Poultry 615,000 64,000 to less than 10,000 within a few from Eire. Dead Meat (cwt.) 846,000 631,000 months though thousands are cla- That is a fact lying plain on the face Fish (cwt.) 94,700 206,830 mouring for accommodation, and Panic as "digs" remain scarce and expensive. of . the statistical record, and cannot be Shell Eggs (10 doz. boxes) .. 2,725,000 1,788,876 _ gainsaid. From Lancashire and the Mid- Butter (cwt.) 377,000 Nil Eggs are said to have been the most im- lands it is reported that the Cheese (cwt.) 20,000 Nil National Hostels Corporation is portant topic in the negotiations—the Bri- Cream (gallons) 286,000 Nil threatening to raise the prices of tish representatives asking for "eggs, eggs Dried or Condensed Bank Clerks room and food all round. and more eggs." Beef also figured in the Milk (cwt.) 122,000 204,800 discussions. Fats (cwt.) 100,000 Nil GRAFT ALLEGATIONS Large increases in production for export It is this Corporation, controlling —quick as to eggs, but necessarily slower ported in the earlier year was 37.8, and in Strike most of the modern industrial hos- as to beef—can be obtained if honest eco- the latter year only 20.1. tels in Britain, which Is noted for | Ireland than it does to far- foodstuffs produced in these islands? Does Panic is gripping Belfast and Dublin it is alleged, In maintaining barrack- mers in Irish Ireland. square discipline than they are In the Ministry of Food pay more than "hon- businessmen who find themselves unable If Mr. Strachey is a statesman and not the welfare of their residents. est economic prices" to the farmers of the to bank their cash, change cheques or a mere shortsighted trader then he will United Kingdom? Then why not pay the carry on their normal commercial routine. A serious aspect of the problem, realise that, with food shortages on all same prices to Eire farmers? If the strike is protracted it is Inevitable which requires further Investigation sides, he should offer Eire producers the that commerce in the 32 counties will be by the Labour Movement, Is the al- Elsewhere I have written that "the con- same (or adjusted or similar) conditions legation that certain high officials brought to a standstill. trast between Eire and the partitioned and prices as given to the United Kingdom in the British Ministry of Works area of Ulster stuck out like a sore thumb. producers. SWOLLEN PROFITS are more concerned about feather- In the British portion of Ulster the favour- ing their own nests by taking out Although the banks' profits have swollen able conditions and adequate prices pro- shares in private catering com- enormously since 1941 they still only pay vided by Britain increased production for panies than they are in giving good their clerks a starting wage of a little service to the residents under their export and expanded trade. In Eire .... EIRE RELIEF over £3 a week. Both minimum and maxi- charge. both production for export and the export mum wages are much lower than in Bri- trade itself were sabotaged by unfavour- The Conn Ward case in Ireland TO EUROPE tain, where an increase was recently con- able conditions and inadequate prices." shows how corruption leaks into The following are the relief supplies pro- ceded. Government circles. We must be It is a fact, too, that Eire was hard hit. posed to be sent out during the current This is the second big strike of Irish on our guard to see that similar cor- Its gross agricultural output has not yet financial year: 20,000 cattle, 5,000 draught "white-collar" workers in recent months— ruption Is not to be found In the recovered in volume to the level of 1938- horses, 10,000 tons Of sugar, 2,400 tons of the Dublin schoolteachers have been out British Ministry of Works. It is 39, which itself—owing to the 'Economic known for a fact that one of the bacon, 9,000,000 lb. of canned meat, 300 20 weeks—and shows clearly the effects of War' waged by Britain—stood at 97 per officials most concerned about the tons of dried and condensed milk, 250 tons the rise in the cost of living. cent, of the 1929-30 level. closing of London hostels policy has of cheese, 25,000 lb. of wool, 185.000 blan- Something must be stirring at home financial interests in a private com- STRACHEY'S OPPORTUNITY kets, as well as a large quantity of sup- when such normally sober and cautious pany catering for hostels—which is, plies—army clothing, textiles, bedding members of the community as teachers of course, contrary to all Civil Ser- Its money value, on the other hand, rose material and kitchenware to a total value and bank clerks are found on the picket- vice regulations. from £53 millions in 1938-39*to £104 mil- of about £163,000. line. lions in 1945 owing to the depreciated value PRICE OF SOCIALISM of the sterling pound. The percentage ex- War-time experience proved the necessity for hostels. So long as housing is short and large numbers of displaced, migratory workers are Come Off IU Dev roaming about the country, particu- larly in the building trade, then hos- EIRE TO RISH left-wing circles are Indignant at the pavement, along with their furniture, tels are the only possible guarantee I the way in which important patriotic being compelled to spend the night in the of the workers being assured of food anniversaries are being used by hypocriti- street. and lodging at reasonable prices. If cal politicians to pay lip-service to the At Avondale, Co. Wicklow, Mr. de Valera, subsidies are necessary to keep JOIN U.N.O. charges down then this is only part ideals of men such as Devitt and Parnell speaking at the celebrations to mark the of the price that must be paid for Eire has decided to apply for ad- when in fact the evils.which these patriots centenary of Parnell's birth, paid a glow- mission to the United Nations Orga- Socialism. denounced still exist In Ireland. ing tribute to the work of Parnell and the nisation. Announcing this in the It is well known that hostels vary Land League In raising the living stan- Dail last month, Mr. de Valera said At Straide, Co. Mayo, highlights of the a great deal—some are bright, cheer- they hoped to make their applica- Davitt Commemoration were the mock dards of the rural population in Ireland. ful billets In which it is a pleasure tion as soon as the time was "op- eviction of a poor farmer from his cottage But at a rival demonstration organised to live, others are the most dreary, portune." Previously he had re- and a speech by Mr. de Valera in which by the National Union of Agricultural •dismal places imaginable. jected similar suggestions on the he said that such scenes could not be seen Workers It was pointed out that forestry It is the duty of the Government, ground that other neutrals had not in Eire to-day. workers employed at Avondale by the local authorities and trade unions to yet joined UNO. The Dublin Labour Party has been quick Government were only being paid 39/- see that there are plenty of decent hostels available for those that need 8ee editorial on Page Five -we a week. to point out that only last month five them. were Right. families, evicted from their home at 9 Come off it, Dev. It Is deeds, not words, Ranelagh Road, Dublin, were thrown on that the Irish people want. THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August, 1946 August, 1946 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 3 Readers' Rostrum Dublin Newsletter by JOHN IRELAND IRISH DEMOCRAT ROOM 117, PREM1I R HOUSE, 150 SOUTHAMPTON ROW, NOW IS OUR CHANCE The 'Felons' in LONDON, W.C.I All communications tn l)o addressed REPUBLICAN PARTY to the Editor, Flann Campbell. says Our Telephone \'o.: Ter. 3<>06 Industrial Correspondent OUR Land political party, was formed in Dublin /-"LANN NA PHOBLACHTA, a new RATE—Twelve Months 4/- THE Eire Labour movement, i movement is necessary for the advance- agree thai the Irish executives of B: itish early in July. This move was a direct result of the agitation carried Six Months 2/- divided and weakened since it ment and protection of the working-class." unions should have complete control of \ | V son. Towns MacCurtain. was tried their finances and power to take strike been announced as leaders of the new was split in 1943, now has a golden Mr. Gilbert Lynch, outgoing president and sentenced by " Free State Mili- on by a number of people who have ADVISORY action if they consider it necessary. opportunity to reunite its forces—a of the T.U.C. in a speech which was tary Tribunal in June. 19-10 before which led to the death on hunger-strike of party, against the conditions which necessary first step in building a markedly conciliatory to the C.I.U., said: Surely the British executives of such he did 110l deiend liimself. He was sent BUREAU strong, dynamic movement which "No one deplores the split, or would make unions can be persuaded to give auto- to Poitlaoishis,; m the summer of 19-10 the Republican McCaughey. T^VERY week enquiries come into We Were Among the best known committee mem- a greater sacrifice for unity than I." nomy in this respect. and neither my daughters nor 1 have seen the "Irish Democrat" and Con- will attract the majority of the hish bers of the new Clann are Noel Hartnett, nolly Association seeking advice people. The Government wants unity. Similarly, the C.I.U. should be prepared him since. Sean McBride, Con Leh&nc and Peadar about travel permits, subsistence, to acknowledge that it is desirable for He spent the lirtl four years in complete Cowan i all lawyers, Sean Fitzpatrick, who billets, identity cards, Ministry of If the conference called by Mr. Sean Pine Gael wants unity. Eire to join the World T.U.C. and is abso- seiitary confinement. He had no clothes was prominently associated with the old Labour regulations and so forth. Right Lemass, Eire Minister of Industry and Both Congresses want unity. I.R.A.. and their pre-war paper "The Sen- lutely essential to maintain the links save a blanket in which he wrapped him- We wish -to remind our readers Commerce, to persuade the Irish Trade The Silver tinel," and Simon Donnelly, another old pOR years the "Irish Democrat" has which exist between the workers of the self during the day. Even his meals were that if an individual answer is re- Union Congress and the Congress of I.R.A. man. North and South of Ireland. brought to him in his cell, and still are. quired it is not sufficient to send a been a voice crying in the wilder- Irish Unions to reunite their forces is The new group is thought likely to win stamped addressed envelope—the successful then there is no reason why Republican prisoners are bare-footed ness on certain important political the support of voting people in the coun- coupon below must be filled up and the Labour movement should not greatly TACTICS AND STRATEGY from the day they enter Portlaoighise and Shilling try areas who joined Aiseirighe out of mis- a postal order for 1/- enclosed. This issues in Ireland. TO WIN strengthen its position at the next gen- In all the hard bargaining and shrewd are never allowed out of the cells. Their taken but idealistic motives, of some who small charge is made to cover our J AST month we launched our campaign eral election in the Twenty-Six Counties. "recreation room" is a cell too with tiled have hitherto thrown their weight behind expenses. Now events are proving the correct- negotiations which must take place before to raise £150 by the Connolly Associa- <"• concrete floor on which they have to Clann na Tahloran, of various unattached ness of our policy. As forecast by the "Irish Democrat" the unity is achieved every proposal must be stand in their bare f_eet during their "re- tion Conference in October. So far this Republicans, including the majority of CUT OUT THIS COUPON pressure of political and industrial-cir- considered from one aspect and one aspect those at different times interned by the and post to the Connolly Associa- LABOUR alone: will the proposed step help or hin- creation" in all months of the year. month we have raised over £30. which is On four important issues, namely cumstances is forcing all sections of the Government, and of a variety of people tion, 6th Floor, Premier House, 150 der the movement? Will it strengthen or a good start, but we have only about community to recognise the necessity for These are incontrovertible facts. Prison- 10 for one reason or another tired of Fianna Southampton Row, W.C.1. U.N.O,, food, unemployment insur- trade unions unity. weaken Labour's fight against capitalism? ers only ask for political status and treat- weeks in which to raise the remaining Fail. ance and trade union unity, we can To recognise this fundamental distinc- ment and Mr. De Valera and Mr. Boland Mr. Lemass himself has stated cate- £120. Name justifiably claim to have been pion- UNITY tion between tactics and opportunism is see fit to subject them to this torture gorically in the Dail that he wishes to I am confident we can hit our target, LABOUR'S PROGRAMME the first stage in developing the political rather than concede them their just, de- eers along a path now being followed see "one central authority" for Irish La- and when I was discussing the matter Even so it is doubted whether the new- strategy which will bring victory for La- mands. Address by increasingly large numbers of bour. with our members in Dagenham recently, Party will be able to do more than stir up The question is—what stands in way bour. EIBHLIS BEAN THOMAIS Albert Sweetman, secretary of the local a certain amount of political thought and people on both sides of the lrish~Sea. A Pine Gael spokesman says the coun- of unity? And unity on what terms? Once the general principle is accepted MacCURTAIN C.A. branch, suggested the target was too liven up some Fianna Fail organisations. try is "sick and tired of the differences "Unity" like "freedom" is a word of that Labour is an independent political It is improbable that it could win a by- Grosvenor Place, low. "The more money you raise, the Make out P.O. to Connolly Asso- Eire's participation in U.N.O. was between the two Congresses.'' many interpretations. Germany was force in Ireland aiming at the eventual election, but it might win a few seats at a Cork.. ciation and cross. advocated by the Connolly Associa- more you can help the Irish workers in general election. Senator Thomas Foran, leading figure "united" under Hitler but no sane Irish transformation of society 011 co-operative Britain," he said. tion last October. In February last, worker wants unity in that sense. lines, and not a sectional group prepared The one thing that is quite clear is in the Irish Transport and General we published an interview with Mr. to remain perpetually as junior partner So now we are hoping to hear from that had the Labour Party been putting t^rt leS^l t£7> Workers' Union for over 30 years, speak- Jim Larkin, T.D., supporting this sug- to a gouging, greedy Irish capitalism then Unreasonable Dagenham in a big way during August forward a vigorous and constructive § § ing at the Congress of Irish Unions in AUTONOMY programme of opposition to the Gov- gestion. Galway said last month that if they compromises can take place as to ques- and September! ^ MEET YOUR IRISH FRIENDS ^ Obviously both wings of the movement APALACHY BOYLE is unreasonable. A ernment, no new party would have been had a "united, intelligent Labour move- tions of tactics and details of policy. Hostel collections were encouraging last at must make conc :rions if tl.D negotiations centenary appreciation could not be able to win sufficient support even to Now Mr. De Valera has decided ment the time would not be far off when We are confident that at this critical month—St. Stephen's Close sending us § § are to succeed; it is to be hjped that the a detailed portrait. It could give only a get launched. that Eire should apply for member- they would become the official opposi- stage when the choice is between unity 17 7. Canning Town 8 7, and Onslow extremists of both camps do not say any- net outline—which I see no reason to It is significant that Peadar Cowan, a § THE TARA CLUB § ship of U.N.O. tion in the Dail, a necessary preliminary and an almost assured resurgence of the alter. Square a useful sum. At Heathrow airport, leading member of the new Party, was thing in the present delicate position § 3S0/4 Brixton l!oad, London, S.W. § to becoming the Government of the movement and disunity and the continu- where there are several hundred Irishmen recently acting as honorary organiser for which will make the solution of the prob- If he will give me details of the evidence As for food, ours has been the only country." ance of the present disastrous position of working for Wimpey's. an enthusiastic re- the Labour Party, his membership of lem any more difficult. Belligerency or upon which he relies I will look up the journal in either Britain or Ireland dissension, rifts and weakness that our ception was given to Flann Campbell and which terminated when the affiliation of CEII.IDHE EVI RY WEDNESDAY, an "I am 100 per cent, right, you are 100 "polemic" with Davitt to which he refers. which, so far as we are aware, has leaders will rise above considerations of Patrick Clancy, when they spoke at the the Dublin Central Branch was refused SATURDAY and SUNDAY. DEPLORES SPLIT per cent, wrong" attitude will help no- My (somewhat dim) memory of the in- for this year by the Labour Party head consistently suggested that Eire personal prestige or petty sectional quar- invitation of the local branch of the Irish and Modern Dances to Frank body. cident inclines me to believe that Parnell office. might help alleviate Britain's food A resolution passed unanimously at this rels. Transport and General Workers' Union, Lee and his Radio and Recording Congress welcomes the negotiations which The Trade Union Congress, if it is wise, There is a tide in the affairs of move- condemned not Trade Unionism as such While the Dail has been discussing the Tara Ceilldhe Band. shortage. For months we have been and a collection of £2 9s. 6d. was made. took place with the T.U.C. earlier this and puts the position of the whole move- ments as well as men. Let Irish Labour but certain practices of the (Dublin) Industrial Relations Bill, which at the hammering on this point in editorials, trades unions that W. P. Ryan also con- West London Branch, Connolly Associa- time of writing still contains most dan- year and states "the unity of the Labour ment before sectional interests, should grasp the opportunities presented to it. South London's Irish Social Centre articles and news items. demns. tion. is its usual reliable self in sending gerous threats to working-class liberties, a £4, and a welcome cheque for £1 comes great variety of trade union activities &as I did not assert that Parnell was a In April, under the heading, " Ire- from Sean O'Casey in Devon. been in progress. social revolutionary. He was revolution- The new Federation of Rural Workers, land Asks a Fair Price for Her Food," ary in the Nationalist sense that he pur- of which the organising secretary is Henry Harrison wrote an article Highlights by 'Red Hugh' sued unwaringly a policy whose logical THANK YOU, SEAN ! Coun. Sean Dunne, shows likelihood of pointing out that Eire's food exports end would have been—as he quite clearly One of the most moving episodes in leading a long and useful existence. IT'S ONLY It recently issued a manifesto to all had slumped disastrously during the foresaw—the republican independence of O'Casey's play, "Red Roses for Me," is war and advocating a new food agree- Ireland. rural workers in the Twenty-Six Counties. when a striker is asked why he is pre- FAIR ment with Britain. In March, under Parnell has suffered so much from re- pared to go on the picket line for the sake the heading, "Low Prices Cripple STRIKES rriHE Manager, "Irish Democrat," wishes actionary detractors as well as sentimen- of a single shilling, and he answers that Irish Food Exports," we publicised talists that it is important to recover his for him the shilling is a symbol of a The teachers' strike is still on, and to remind all sellers to notify him the fact that it was the lower prices real significance. fuller and happier life for the workers. parents continue to organise themselves immediately of any change of address. All St. John Ervine — He's in a number of Dublin districts in support notifications must reach him before the paid to Eire as compared to U.K. pro- T. A. JACKSON. Unquestionably the greatest literary of the strikers. The Dublin cross-channel interpreter of the working-class struggle 20th of the month if papers for the follow- ducers which was the main cause of Three Bridges, dockers took a strong stand by strike in Ireland, O'Casey ing month are not to go astray. the 4rop in exports. Sussex. sees in the "Irish action for two weeks' holiday with pay, Democrat" something of the same spirit after the Gas Company's workers had won He also wishes to Impress upon sellers I RELAND Ais united—on r at Artisleast its incapable of tindividualit Aly or original l industrieRighs to the area. Thte 'so-calle d new * * * increased holidays by threats of a strike. At the European Food Conference J Press is—when the U.S.S.R. is un- ideas. industries are the type -which call for Well, naturally . . .! of crusading Socialism which inspired the necessity of paying up promptly. him when he was associated with Jim The president of the manufacturers' or- "Irish Democrat" is not a capitalist news- held in London earlier this year, an der discussion. North and South the He turns a blind eye to hard facts in cheap female labour, and the newcom- ganisation has attacked the "irresponsi- Larkin and James Connolly in building paper with big financial reserves. Printer's "Irish Democrat" representative papers are at one in denouncing the thij process, but that's a mere detail ers will be in the right spot to learn bility" of the workers, and of unions Russians at every opportunity. They are with him. For example, the Russian how to exploit woman labour. * LTHOUGH Desmond Donnelly was un- the Citizen Army. which back their demands by strike talk, bills and rent don't wait—so remember: raised this matter personally with "wilfully obstructing" the peace settle- successful in contesting Co. Down for but in view of the increasing share of the PLEASE PAY PROMPTLY. Eire and British representatives, in- stage is the most virile, adaptable and When in Co. Antrim recently I spoke Thank you, Sean! And may your pen ment. "robbing" the Italians, "plunder- Labour it was generally admitted, even by national income taken in recent years by News sellers are wanted In all parts Of cluding Mr. Lemass and Mr. Noel cosmopolitan in the world to-day. In to a 16-year-old girl who told me she long continue to shower forth those bril- ing" the Germans, turning deaf ears to rabid dissenters from his political creed, the wealthy, few disinterested observers Ireland and Britaift. If you can contact Baker. Moscow, Leningrad and even in remote had earned the princely sum of 7/6 for liant flashes of wit and wisdom, which right-minded gentry like Bevin and that he was the ablest candidate of the will fail to sympathise with the workers. Irish workers in the factory, hostel, build- parts of the U.S.S.R. Shakespeare is winding and taking off 200 hanks of poor for 20 years have been the glory of the Besides the strikes mentioned, several Byrnes, and generally acting like four. ing site, hospitals or transport depots, To-day Mr. Strachey, British Minis- played far oftener than in London's quality yarn in one day in a well-known Irish stage. It may interest you to know others have taken place or have been savages. West End or Stratford-on-Avon. Shaw threatened. then you should be selling our papers. ter of Food, and the Eire Department linen factory. To earn this, she had to The 28,000 Labour votes recorded in a that on a recent visit to a hostel, I found and leading Western European and U.S. I think the palm for this barrage of work all out. and arrived home so ex- place where the principles of Labour had an Irish building labourer so absorbed in Write to the Manager, "Irish Democrat,'' of Agriculture, backed by the "News playwrights are household names to misrepresentation and ballyhoo should hausted that she was unable to eat. never previously been expounded, con- reading "Drums Under the Window,'' that 150 Southampton Row, London, W.C.I, for of the World" and the "Daily Mail" playgoers, though by a strange omission SOCIALIST SCHOOL be awarded io Mr. St. John Ervine, the Frequently thfe yarn is so bad that her stituted a moral victory for democracy. he could scarcely be dragged from his bed- supplies. promise to come to the agreement no plays of Mr. Ervine have even been On August 10th and 11th, Dublin wor- Ulster dramatist who earns an honest weekly wage packet amounts to only room into the canteen for the. purpose of which we suggested months ago. put on. Can it be that this riles the THOMAS FEGAN. kers will have an unusual treat, when penny or two for filling a couple of col- 25 -. forming a branch of the Connolly Asso- Prof. Farrington. originally of Cork, man? Newcastle, umns of the "Belfast Telegraph" at all ciation. famous for his Pelican ftook on "Science Regarding unemployment insurance, Many thousands of skilled shipyard Co. Down. Competition Result too regular intervals. Of our former { * * * in Ancient Greece," and Tommy Jackson, we have consistently drawn attention workers are faced with the necessity of well known to readers of "Irish Democrat," THINNER of our recent Competition is comrades in arms, and present Allies, he A Strarige Omission migrating to Britain to obtain work Miss Bernadette Young, Cower to the injustice of the position in FIGHTING FUND will conduct a week-end school in the Four has this to say: with the handicap of two homes to keep Street Hostel, Gower Street, London which Eire workers pay compulsorily Russian music by living composers Our most sincere thanks to: "Arklow," Provinces Hall, for readers and supporters up if they do go. As overtime in many Reprimand of "The Irish Review." The subjects for W.C.1. holds a very high place in the opinion 2/-; Canning Town Hostel residents, 8/7; into the fund but lose benefit when English plants is now a thing of the P.D., £1, Elsie Timbey, 5/-; St. Stephen's the school will be various aspects of the of Western critics, and Russian writers, T\EALING with the Co. Down election they return home. We have given Bolshie Ant Heap past these workers and their families Close Hostel residents, 17 7; Wimpey's theory and practice of Socialism. while it numbers men like Sholokoff, " last month you included the Com- widespread publicity to the efforts "All Bolshies are human ants, longing face a dark future, in which the wolf Camp, Heathrow, residents, £2 9s. 6d.; P. certainly do not take a back place. The munist Party among the "splinter parties" made by Capt. Henry Harrison and to lose their identity and to submerge will never be very far from both doors. J. Raftery (Chicago), £i 5s.; Birmingham Russian ballet is pre-eminent, and Rus- whom you urged to form a united front Branch, Connolly Association, 10/-; Molly PERSONAL NOTE the Commonwealth Irish Association themselves in a heap where they will In many rural areas the countryside is BRITAIN'S LABOUR sian films have provided numerous land- against the Tories. O'Leary £1 10s.; J. McDonnell, £1, Sean Old-time supporters of "Irish Democrat" < to have this matter raised in the pass unnoticed and look so like all the being rapidly emptied of young men, i O'Casey, £1; "For Tommy Jackson," £1; and the Connolly Association will be glad marks in screen history. The Communist Party of N. Ireland British Parliament. other insects that one ant will scarcely who see no future for themselves at ;! Teresa Hooley, £1; "Red Hugh," £1; Con- to know that Nancy Mclnerney, wife of "The artist is the supreme aristocrat" needs no "pressure" to persuade it to join MOVEMENT be able to distinguish itself from an- home. nolly Association Social Committee, £11 one of the founders of both (Mick is now says Ervine, who 110 doubt regards him- 3 I Euch^a front, having been the first to urge Last month a Government mission other ant." 7s. 4d.; J. McGinly, 2/6; H. McCormick, working on the "Irish Times" in Dublin i self as very blue-blooded indeed, but if it, recognising that Ireland can never A four lesson study syllabus from Eire was In London negotiating 10/-; H. T. Berry, 6/-; Per Office Fighting has made a rapid recovery from a serious And he tells his readers that "if any- he could get rid of a lot of bile and break her chains, socially or economically, Fund, £1 2s. 3d.; Ben OWens £1; West operation at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital. on this point with the British Ministry thing in this world is obvious it is that boloney by just pulling the chain on it Tail-piece until the Tories are routed. London Branch, Connolly Association, £«; of National Insurance. A.G.K.L., 5'-; Mrs. Humphries, 5/-; Ons- Knowledge of the rise, the sort of life that appeals to people he might find himself improving in both The appeal by Mr. Harry Adams, pre- If the ""Democrat" wishes to help N. who like being regulated is not the sort I0w Square Hostel residents national history and organisation Ever since the split took place in style and content. His present inky out- sident of the Building Trade Workers, Ireland, please tell the "Friends of Ire- members, Connolly Association, 19/-. that any painter, or poet, or writer, or pourings strike me as being the sort of of the movement is the Irish trade union movement, we for a united Trade Union Congress for land" to ensure that the next by-election sculptor, or composer could endure." stuff churned out by any ahti-Rufsian Ireland embracing the entire country, Ail contributions for August to the Liverpool Irish essential to all who wish have warned against the disastrous in N. Ireland is fought by a member of Mr. Ervine likes to set himself up ns hack. was well-timed. His revelation that 90 Manager, "Irish Democrat," 150, South- A NEW branch of the Connolly Associa- to play a part in build- results which would arise from divi- the Northern Ireland Labour Party. a thinker and philosopher as well as a per cent, of Irish workers in Britain are ampton Row, London, W.C.1. tion will shortly be formed in Bootle, ing up its-strength and sions in the movement. Now both BETTY SINCLAIR. writer of plays and scurrilous rantings now organised in British trade unions is Lancashire. Will those Interested from Unemployment, Bristol, 1. unity. Congresses, Fine Gael and Fianna against all forms of progressive thought. an object lesson to stay-at-home Irish- Liverpool, Birkenhead or Bootle Itself, in Fail are trying desperately to find He expects his readers to be as stupid as Sweated Labour men and women. What he did not say Send your copy of the joining this branch, please contact Mr. ,72 pp 6,1. (Slip of the pen. Miss Sinclair. We hold some formula which can end the split. himself and look upon the Russian Northern Ireland's cver-incrcaslng un- was that a large part of the credit f©r out our knuckles in a truly christian Pat McLoughlin, 109 Hornby, Bootle, Lan- people—whose superhuman efforts did cmplevment figures are not to be dis- such good recruitment figures is due to spirit. Of course your statement re IRISH DEMOCRAT home cashire. Clearly the moral seems to be— so much to bring about the defeat of g liseri by frequent Stormont back- the unremitting w rf the Connolly Communist policy regarding a united S. Maitland, National Organiser, Con- when you've read it. Lawrence & Wishart what the "Irish Democrat" thinks the Nazi degenerates—as sub-humans rl ping over success In attracting new Association and the ' ir.sh Democrat." front against the Tories is correct. In nolly Association, will visit Merseyside fatet we've written about it!—Editor.] to-day, the rest of Ireland thinks towards the end of August. to-morrow. August, 1946 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 5 Analysing the Origins of Ulster Unionism, 5. Maitland says- Calls for Mediation in DEMOCRATS DIARY STORMONT TORIES RULE In Praise of an trike is Mew§ from Irish Prophet J ET us join the world in paying ^ CALL for mediation i n the strike of Dublin school tcachers —now in § BY FORCE AND FRAUD tribute to a great Irishman, a great European, and a great dramatist- its twentieth week was made at the annual Irish Trade Union Home r DAGENHAM § riIE County Down by-election, in Scottish Presbyterians and Episcopalians George Bernard Shaw, who cele- Congress meeting in Dub! in last month. RISHMEN and women of Britain which the standard bearer of were settled on the land formerly owned brated his 90th birthday last month. by the native Catholic Irish, They were In his opinion the pretext under which IORDS factory at Dagenham is I Ulster Unionism polled some 50,000 A resolution, moved - -who wish to get regular news driven into Donegal and the less fertile Scorned throughout'the greater part some unions hud broken away from the F a notorious sweat-shop. Wages from home written from a progres- votes against the 28,000 of a Labour by Miss Louie Ben- T.U.C.—that membership of 'the World regions of Ulster. Those who did remain are higher than the average, but sive viewpoint, should read: candidate enjoying the support of of h is life, Shaw has lived to see nett,, Irish Women T.U.C. violated Eire's neutrality—was after the exodus were only permitted to the last ounce of energy is got out "The Irish People," weekly organ the British Government, seems to in- many of the ideas fie propagated Workers' Union, said ludicrous and dishonest. of the workers by the conveyor-belt become "hewers of wood and drawers of of the Irish Labour Party, 12 - per dicate on the surface the rejection by become part of the social conscious- the Government He was proud of the fact that he had system of assembly. year post free, from 21 Molesworth water" for the new masters. the electorate of the "planned ness of our time. No man has done must take the re- been present at the birth of the World After the "Irish Democrat's" Street, Dublin. economy'' policy of the British About this time the ancestors of Sir more to teach that form of Social- sponsibility for see- T.U.C. attention had been drawn to the "Unity," weekly Belfast Commu- Basil Brooke got a huge estate in Fer- Labour Movement. ism in which he believes. ing that the strike The question of Irish workers in Britain shocking conditions in the Ford nist paper, 13 - per year pest free, managh for "distinguished service to the was raised by Coun. James Larkin. senior, foundry, in which the majority of from 20 Church Lane, Belfast. was ended satisfac- Indeed, the "Belfast Telegraph," chief English Crown," and when Sir Basil who said the British Government was re- workers are Irish, a reporter paid a torily. "I r i s h Review," independent Unionist newspaper, commenting on the babbles to-day at Orange demonstrations sponsible for the position that Irish wor- special visit to Ford's and will de- Socialist monthly, post free from result, says "Northern Ireland d:d not go about not employing Catholics on his The teachers had kers got no benefits under unemployment scribe his impressions of the plant New Books, 16a Pearse Street, in our next issue. A "vision of hell" Socialist at the General Election, and estate, no doubt his mind still lives in the J^ VERY weapon in his armoury of shown tolerance in insurance when they returned to Ireland, Dublin. 1 and Mr. J. Beattie. M.P., urged Congress is his description of that section of judging by the result sees no reason why days when his family won fame and riches genius has been employed in the the strike and upheld "Northern Star," Socialist-Repub- to send a deputation to London on the the foundry known as "the shake- it should." The Stormont gang claim by driving out and enslaving the native battle; a golden voice heard on a the dignity of their matter. Mr. Geo. Isaacs, he said, would out." lican monthly, 3/- per year post Ulster Catholics. J. LARKIN free, from 34 Berry Street, Belfast. the result as the victory of private enter- thousand platforms; a wit which in profession, said Mr. consider such a deputation sympathetic- prise over "irksome and annoying state ally. Of course, we must confess that the turn has stunned and startled us; Sam Kyle, Amalgamated and General "Labour Progress," Northern Ire- controls." Workers' Union. land Labour monthly, 4'- per year ancestors of Lord Carson did not partici- prose of such crispness and beauty post free from 106 Royal Avenue, In order to view the election in its true pate in _this iniquitous work. They were that has no equal since Swift: and In a stirring speech. Mr. D. Kelleher, Belfast. perspective, and indeed, to see clearly the still living in sunny Italy, under the name plays which exposed the banalities Irish National Teachers' Organisation, "The Bell," Ireland's best literary political situation in Northern Ireland, we of Carsoni. It was many years later that of drawing room comedies of his said they were prepared to submit their EDITORS NOTEBOOK magazine. 1 6 monthly from Cahill must view the campaign not as between they came to Dublin and dropped the "i," contemporaries and made the stage and Co., Parkgate Street, Dublin. private enterprise and the law of the and gave Ulster the number one "patriot" case to arbitration, but there was one a source of intellectual pleasure jungle on one hand, and a planned Social- S. E. MAITLAND and organiser of the first "storm troops" thing they were not prepared to do and 1 (^i c^n (, while being a platform for the dis- that was "submit to injustice or tyranny." ist economy on the other, but against the in Europe. cussion of urgent social problems. £> background of the historical development Ulster, and the illustrous O'Neill, sup- The revolt of 1641 was undoubtedly a A welcome feature of the Congress this Eire's Sterling Assets of the North East corner of Ireland and ported by his kerns and gallowglasses Catholic rising against the new Protestant year was the emphasis on the importance Tardily, Dublin now honours her the traditional policy of British Imperial- proved more than a match for the court ascendency. of organising agricultural workers. SPAIN TO-DAY ism to plant a privileged garrison there favourite, Essex. ablest citizen, bestowing upon him AND and consequently hold the entire country Religious battle cries and slogans were the Freedom of the City while Development of the new Federation of VOLUNTEER FOR LIBERTY in bondage. raised on both sides, but fundamentally denying to its inhabitants the free- Rural Workers on a national basis was Exceed £400 Million it was a struggle between the dispossessed The Rise of Protestantism dom to read one of his best known urged by Mr. James Larkin, T.D. Catholic Ulster clansmen trying to regain EVELATIONS in the "Statist" that either Pianna Pail or its opposite number Inside Information on the Guerrilla Religious Differences works—"Black Girl in Search of In England at this time the rising class their own land, and the Protestant Co. Dublin agricultural workers had Eire's external sterling assets now ex- in the Six Counties, the Nationalist Party, War in Spain. of merchants and small manufacturers God." E Exploited settlers, determined to hold it. socured annual holidays, higher pay, a ceed the staggering sum of £400 millions, would suggest. News of Prominent Irish Fighters for had embraced Protestantism, the phi- Fearful outrages were committed by the weekly half-day and overtime rates of should stimulate the brain cells of our Mr. Harry Diamond and the Socialist- Spanish Freedom. For twenty-six years a narrow circle of losophy of the rising bourgeoisie. They native Irish. All the pent-up bitterness pay; conditions, he thought, unequalled Left Wing economists^if such a species Republicans have proved that Six County families, the Barbours, Craigs, Brookes, were desirous therefore of cutting Ireland and hatred of a people forcibly driven gHAW is grateful for the honour. in Western Europe. exist in Ireland. Catholics are sick to death of capitalism, Bates, Dixons, Londonderry's, etc. have off from the continent, where the main 6d. monthly from the International from their homes and land was unleashed Green as well as Orange. held undisputed sway. forces of Catholicism and feudal aristocra- But the honour would be greater If Anglo-Irish trade is to be developed Brigade Association, 14 Red Lion Sq., against the new possessors. Their worst FOOD CRISIS London, W.C.I. tic reaction were concentrated in Spain if accompanied by the implementa- on a really big scale, then it is clear that Surely it is time for all progressive This hard core of Tory reaction, re- excesses, however, pale into puny insigni- and France. tion of Shaw's socialist teachings in Mr. James Larkin, senior, said many tire present food negotiations must be ex- Catholics in Ireland to unite behind the presenting all that is evil in Irish poli- ficance when compared with the. repres- skilled workers in rural areas were not panded to cover a much wider and more Labour Movement instead of trying to tics, without one single progressive idea Also they wanted to own and exploit the sive measures used by the settlers, sup- Ireland, the land of his birth. getting their trade rates of pay because comprehensive commercial agreement to organise along narrow sectarian lines. or tradition, and allied to the vilest arable Irish, land and reduce the Irish to ported by the armed forces of the Crown. Ireland's seers, prophets and martyrs they were not organised. The new organ- the mutual advantage of both countries section of monopoly capitalism in Bri- servitude. Organised on a purely nationalist basis, have been honoured before — in isation should cover the 32 counties, em- tain, has in the past fostered and The clan communal system still pre- Labour should press for an agreement the anti-Partition League cannot hope to Heritage of Violence words. Tone, Davis, Davitt and bracing 120.000 workers in Eire alone. Pro- which will not merely balance eggs against appeal to the broad masses of the Protes- British Militarism exploited for their own ends the reli- vailed in Ireland, and as restrictions were Connolly are examples where the vincial, political and religious differences machinery or cattle against fertilisers, but tant workers—and it is as clear as day- § gious difference between our people. imposed on Irish commerce and industry, The Irish were branded as rebels and 8 plaudits have drowned the voice of would have to be broken down. It was an also cover all outstanding political ques- light that no progress can be made on the As I Have Known It So have they prevented the establish- retarding the development of bourgeois traitors, who in fighting for their land, opportunity—the first in 100 years—for tions between the Eire and British Gov- subject of Partition until the Protestant ment of an Irish progressive Republic, ideas, the native Irish clung to the old- and resisting British domination violated the player. By Hanna Sheehy Skeffington p united Irishmen to get together. ernments, particularly the question of workers want to see it removed. and have left the injustice and humilia- religion, and as oppression and persecu- divine law, and the Bible was often quoted \ FACTUAL account by the late • bringing pressure to bear on the Northern tion of Partition to estrange future Anglo- tion sharpened, so did their religious faith by the Crown. Support for the new Federation was ex- ^ Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington of the ^ Ireland Government to cease its persecu- Irish relations. strengthen. The savage attitude of the settlers and pressed by two Northern delegates, Mr. murder of Francis Sheehy Skeffing- jg lyrUST the teachings of Shaw suffer tion—and we choose the word deliberately the Crown is summed up in this order Robert Getgood, M.P., and Mr. W. H. ton in Dublin in 1916, and the sub- M In their little six-county "statelet," un- if we can see the religious difference J the fate of those of so many of —of Republican and Left Wing groups in Censorship Protest from Dublin Castle: "To wound, kill, slay McCullough, Belfast Trades Council. sequent efforts of British military || naturally carved out of the life of a in Ireland as the outward philosophical our prophets, being ignored when the Six Counties. Mr. Frank O'Connor, whose translation and political machines to protect jffi nation, the chiefs of Ulster Toryism have reflection of the economic struggle be- and destroy by all the ways and means Warning Congress about the seriousness you may, all the rebels and adherents and they are not suppressed ? Whether Eire's sterling assets will act of Merryman's classic, "The Midnight the culprits and suppress the facts. ^ reigned supreme, not because the average tween the rising English capitalist class of the food crisis, Mr. McCullough sug- relievers; and burn, spoil, waste, consume as a- link binding the country ever more Court," was recently banned in Eire, has An incident in Britain's "Slack Northern Protestant is at heart an un- —determined to crush rival Irish indus- Dare Ireland face the implications of gested a conference of Irish agricultural and demolish all places, towns and houses closely to British monopoly capital and written to the "Irish Times," sharply pro- Record." democratic and embittered sectarian, but tries and grab the land—and the native workers at which British agricultural where the said rebels are or have been the Socialist philosophy of the man imperialism, or as a pipe through which testing against the functions of the new because the Unionist Party has posed as Irish determined to hold their land and -workers should attend in an advisory Included are a full-page portrait relieved and harboured, and all hay and she honours to-day ? His demand progressive British Labour ideas will be Eire Censorship Board. the custodians of the link with Britain maintain their own peculiar system of capacity. and, as an appendix, a contem- corn there, and kill and destroy all the for freedom for the spirit of en- funnelled into Eire, depends largely on porary letter from the late Major and a higher standard of life than that communal ownership—then we see the A secret tribunal was set up under the men inhabiting, able to bear arms." quiry; his exposure of all forms of Highlight of the Congress was the pre- the strength of the British Labour Move- Sir Francis Vane. enjoyed in Eire. answer to Carsonism. Cosgrave regime, he says, which deprived That was tire attitude of the ancestors pretentiousness and hypocrisy; his sidential address by Mr. Gilbert Lynch ment and how resolutely the British Gov- The Kerryman - - 6d. Irish writers of their livelihood, destroyed They have tried to create their own phi- of our leading Ulster Tories then, and in- scorching criticism of the moribund A.T.G.W.U. ernment pushes forward to Socialism. their good name and seized their property. losophy, and indeed, the Rosenberg of Order through your bookseller or Plantation of Ulster deed, some of the more rabid would like economic system which our rulers "I believe there is no real division from Eason's, Dublin, at 7d. post Ulster Unionism, Ronald McNeill (Lord "Murderers, abortionists, bookies and to-day to commit similar excesses. do their best to implant in Ireland, among the common people, but divisions free. Cushendun), has attempted to justify After the death of Elizabeth the policy publicans, continued to retain the protec- In the next issue we will see the de- and, finally, his lifelong advocacy of are created and kept alive in the trade Bank Clerks tion of the Law, while literary men- Partition as the logical outcome of ideo- of colonisation or "planting" was adopted, velopment of class differences between logical and cultural differences between and as the strongest resistance of the Irish Socialism to replace it ? union movement by vested interests," he Tire strike of bank clerks is a remark- like Mr. Shaw, the glory of their country the Ulster Protestants and Britain; how North and South. was concentrated in Ulster, it was here said, referring to the split between the able example of the pay scales ruling in —were outlawed." at times they were not "King's men"; that the main efforts were made, with their progressive role in the Volunteer T.U.C- and C.I.U. the Six Counties. Describing the functioning of the new most lasting results. Movement and United Irishmen, and Describing the new Industrial Relations Women clerks are paid as low as £100 Censorship Board under the DeValera re- King's Men and Old Ladies ET us praise Dublin for the honour After the "Flight of the Earls," when finally, how they sabotaged the formation J Bill—which proposes to set up Arbitration a year for highly skilled work, and after gime, Mr. O'Connor, who is himself one EMIGRATION "We have always been King's men," she bestows upon Shaw. But let AYO and Dublin were the counties of a progressive Republic and their role Courts and ban the strike weapon in cer- of the greatest short story writers in the the five leading Ulster chieftains took boat 14 years' service all they can hope to get M which sent most emigrants to Bri- raves Brooke; and Warnock, Minister of to-day. us also teach our people that he is tain circumstances—as containing much English language, condemns the Board as from the Swilly to France, a colony of is £200. The scale proposed for men by tain, according to a report made by the Home Affairs, rushing like the witch on not the bearded buffoon, living on that was "repugnant to the trade union a "group of amiable busybodies." He the strikers was modest eiwugh—starting Irish Trade Journal. Together these two her broomstick from one Women's Union- leeks, as typified by so many of movement," Mr.' Lynch said that in his challenges the qualifications of the Board opinion it was "vitally necessary to keep salary of £160, rising after 15 years' ser- counties accounted for 31 per cent, of the ist Association to another, tells the "dear those who now gather to praise him, to sit in judgment on literary works, and the strike weapon." vice to £490. emigrants. old ladies" that they cannot let the Em- points out that when the publisher of his CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION ' but a man who subjected many of High figures were also returned front pire down. It is worth noting, that a few months translation of "The Midnight Court" ap- the theories they regard as immut- Donegal and Cork. Labourers, clerks, farm IRISH IN BRITAIN ago bank clerks in Britain, male and pealed against the ban, the appeal was What is our answer? Quite clearly able to the searching scrutiny of werkers, building workers, metal workers Paying tribute to the Socialist and Trade female, were given a new wage charter dismissed without translator, publisher, the Unionist Party cannot be broken in Socialist analysis, and, when find- and wood workers were the main male oc- Union Movements in Britain, Mr. Lynch which meant very substantial salary in- counsel, witnesses or Press being present. the Falls Road or South Down, but only ing them wanting, worked the cupational groups of emigrants. Nurses, said that the overwhelming majority of creases—in some cases several pounds He rightly enquires whether Mr. Justice by driving a wedgo between the narrow Meetings Irish men and women, both in the Forces domestic servants, clerical workers topped whole of his life to change them. more per week. It is. of course, a fact Haugh, who sits on the Board, considers reactionary leadership and the mass of and civilian war workers, had voted the female occupational group o£ emi- will be held in that the Northern Ireland banks are all such action to be in the best traditions Protestant rank and file who support it. Labour. linked up with the big British banks, but grants. He contrasted the way in which the Gov- of the Law. We must blast their arguments and ex- P.D. local boards of directors refused to march ernment paid lip service to the principle pose their ideology, and see wherein lies DAGENHAM : BIRMINGHAM : of mediation, as expressed in the Indus- step by step in the matter of giving their their strength and their weakness. Wonder Bar Cafe, New Road, Bull Ring, trial Relations Bill, but refused mediation staffs a fair deal. CUT THIS OUT to the teachers, though this had been Shaw's Birthday Therefore let us look at their back- 4 p.m., August 11th. 3 p.m., August 11th. IN BRIEF: urged by no less a person than Dr. ground—how they were planted in Ulster, Speakers: S. Maitland, Speakers: I wish to join the CONNOLLY Penguin books have recently published McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin. "So far as I am aware," writes Mr. their reactionary role throughout history, P. Clancy, A. Swectman. Flann Campbell, P. O'Brien. Anti-Partition League O'Connor, "no member of either the Cen- ASSOCIATION. (I enclose a P.O. events leading up to Partition, and the Shaw's plays at 1each. Readers should sorship Board or Appeal Board has suffi- for 1/-) maintenance of their power through un- rush to buy these ).lays as they will pro- I see that the anti-Partition League has cient knowledge of Irish to be able to read democratic practices, terrorism, graft and bably sell out quickly. been holding a meeting in Birmingham WOOLWICH : WOLVERH'PTON : PRISONERS' AID Merryrrfan's work in the original, or de- blatant demagogy. * * * Name Beresford Square, addressed by Mr. McAteer, M.P., Mr. cide where, if at all, I have departed from Vine Hotel, 7.45 p.m., Aug. 11th. pLAGS will be sold at the hurling James McSparran, MP., and other Each period of English history, from the 4 p.m., August 18th. The Arts Tteatre, London, honoured it." first Norman Invasion, led by Strongbow, Speakers: match at Mitcham Starlum, worthies from the Northern Ireland Address « Speaker: P. Earley. Shaw's birthday la.;t month wit'.i a produc- Nationalist Party. He concludes with an appeal for the produced fresh efforts to conquer Ireland Flann Campbell, C. E. Bray. tion of "Don Juan in Hell." London, on August Bank Holiday, Tor the British Crown. These met with withdrawal of the ban on "The Black Girl * * * to raise money for the Irish League speakers appear to believe that in Search of God" as part of the cele- little success until the so-called Virgin Partition is something which can be LIVERPOOL & BOOTLE The Freedom of Dublin was offered to Prisoners' Aid Society. Patrons are bration of Bernard Shaw's birthday. (Write In Block Capitals) Queen made determined efforts to exter- settled by a stroke of the pen. In fact, S. Maftland will speak on August 18th. Shaw on the moi.on of Councillor Jamet asked to give generously. minate the rebellious Irish. The main the problem of how to achieve Ireland's Po«t this t»: Secretary, Connolly Association, resistance to British power came from (sec local papers for details). 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HBHR3 August, 1946 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August, 1946 7 Boxing by James Doyle PAMPHLET, BOOK AMD VERSE Gaelic Frenchman 1 c Y IN RUSTIC 11 iBeats In °' *ii comes alivv with movement of travel - Famine to Fenians Gal WE ling belts and turning wheels in a DEVON "LAND," by Liarn O'Flaherty Tiler" are. however, dozens who could JIMMY INGLE, the Irish ei uis, : - blaze of colour, but this in a momi nt have wiittun "Hollywood Cemetery" and yrilETHER or not Hatherlei^h can (Victor Goilancz, 9 -) pOLLOWiNG the success of the recent Cavsn-Cork football match at weight, was well and ;n::v dies and again in a vague twilight even "The Land." This is not a young be said to represent Britain, or the shadowy dancers dance, and the ^ N artist's responsibility is to re- Mitcham Stadium, the G.A.A. have decided to invite Galway and beaten by Robert Charron, ti man being insolent to an established ••veil be representative of an English scent of lavender meaning death is main true to his art. lie has most French boxer, at Dalymount Pa; writer, it i.s but a book reviewer taking his Tipperary to play a hurling match in London on August Bank Holiday. household during the Battle of Bri- over all. certainly other public and private re- work seriously; it may even be one artist last month. The end came in th< tain in 1940, Sean O'Casey's portrayal Sean O'Casev has presented the talking turkey to another. In the repub- This same should be a least of " " sponsibilities as a voter and as a ninth round, when Ingle's second- : English character is for the most dramatic critics with a difficult prob- friend, but this is a book review, not lic of letters one doesn't have to be wear- thrills, says The Al'-Ircland semi-tinal pairings are: ing a laurel round one's head in order to "GAEL OG," our Gaelic threw in the towel. part more Irish than the Irish ; in his lem. and it will be interesting to see a handbook to citizenship or a be heard. Correspondent. If games such as HURLING - latest play hardly any of his English what is made of it when Oak Leaves catechism of human behaviour. ^ N enthu- Up to the fifth round Ingle was Cork v. Galway haracters ring true. and Lavender reaches the footlights. "Land" is good and very easy reading. these were promoted regularly in dif- ' siastic shaping well and piling up the points Here, therefore, we must rivet our con- when a terrific left to the body put him Dame Hatherleigh, who dominates cern to the responsibilities of an artist to There is always a certain Villon-like qual- ferent centres in Britain then the Kilkenny v. Antrim or Armagh Gaelic down for a count of nine. In going down Oukieaves and Lavender as Juno his work. Not only the Greeks, but also ity about anything that Liam O F.aherty spor tsman writes, that makes his wild urge tor l;v r.g G.A.A. would flourish as it never flou- FOOTBALL— Ingle gave the impression that he had dominates Juno and the Paycock, the Irish have a word lor it. Because of is Mr. Jim almost jump off the page. This book, Laoighis v. Roscommon or Mayo been hit low. sometimes uses a turn of expression EWART MILNE "Famine." "Two Years.' "Black Spring" rished before. Hogan of how ever, might ha,ve been written with and a number of short stories, Liam j Kerry or Waterford v. Cavan or An- Birming- Charron was showing his style, nne vhich derives more from the House reviews Sean O'Casey's new a sword and a cloak instead of with O"Flaherty is not only a serious Irish trim. ham, who, put Ingle down again for a count of nine of Usna than an English county words. It is a story of the Land League, rj^HE race for 194G All-Ireland Hurling play, writer, but also an important major con- with Mr. in the eighth round. Ingle, showing his manor, although since the Dame is but Liarn O'Flaherty has used in the ;:nd Football honours has become less Of all these Antrim is the only county temporary artist in the English language. FrankShort, great fighting spirit, struggled to his feel also symbolic of a decaying aristo- telling of it, none of the great human congested but none the less hectic as the whose name does not figure on the All- "Oakleaves and Lavender" In Ireland he is spoken of in the same has been only to be put down again for further cracy perhaps this is not altogether (Maemillan. 6: - > simplicity that he brought to his novel contenders fall by the wayside week after Ireland lists. sentence as Sean O'Casey. one of the counts of seven, nine and nine. out of focus. on the famine. It is not really a story week. key men in Yet his current book and also "Holly- about the landless peasants' dream "of The fight was now obviously over, b;;'. But as with Dame Hatherleigh so Roger McHugh's Play wood Cemetery" might have been written over the hedge to Heaven." but about two The provincial final stage has been maintaining Ingle came out for the ninth round, onh with the other English characters: ex- by Donn Byrne. lovable old eccentrics and a company of the G.A.A. It is in some ways a relief to turn reached by Ulster. Minister and Connacht, WELCOME FOR to go down again, and at the count of cept where they are merely lay melodramatic he-men. and of women, in the Mid- to the straight melodrama of Roger while Leinster. as usual, lead the run seven, his seconds threw in the towel. figures lifted of! the Elizabethan more likely to reside in 42nd Street now lands dur- McHugh's "Trial at Green Street Socialist Humanism in presenting their all-Ireland representa- JIM HOGAN stage, like the constables Sillery and than in a late 19tli Century Mayo village. 'REYNOLDS' ing the war. Courthouse." (Browne and Nolan, tives at both hurling and football. O'CONNOR ON TOP Dillery. Drishogue, Feelim's anti-Fas- O'Flaherty, in an earlier book, "Two It's lovely to read, but so also is Sabatini I jNDER the heading. "10,000 copies of A native of Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, 3s. 6d.) The play here is the Years," spoke of my country, Canada, as and Marion Crawford. The scrap between Pat O'Connor and cist son who has joined the R.A.F. ' British Papers Now Reach Eire Daily," he has played for various hurling thing, and though the people con- a whore, from whom men eventually re- Ben Valentine, the Fiji Islander, was good says he has no love for England ; he KILKENNY HONOURS the story of leading British daily and teams in Ireland and has been a cerned have ideas that dominate their turn to their own real loves. The fate entertainment for the fans. O'Connor is fighting for the people everywhere, Celtic Twilight Kilkenny carries the honour of Leinster Sunday newspapers' growing e fforts to member of the Warwickshire hur- lives, their ideas are never allowed of his own muse is proof that there are capture Eire markets was recently fea- proved superior. This was a really good for those who died at Guernica no temptations of the flesh other than those To be able to write about the poor, with on its broad and capable shoulders in ling team. In 1942 he was elected fight, both boxers giving their best to dominate the play. Moreover, if tured in "World's Press News," leading less than those who were to die at to be enjoyed behind doors over which that sense of being of them; to take the provincial treasurer of the G.A.A. Roger McHugh's vision goes further hurling and should qualify for another British newspaper trade organ. O'Connor took a couple of counts in the Coventry. In reply, Monica, his Cor- a red light is burning. The walls against simple longings of ordinary' people along in Britain. first round, and rolled around the rmi- than is to be found here, and the Old All-Ireland final at the expense of the Reasons given for increased circulation nish sweetheart says: "But Jennie which these ensueing remarks will echo the mountain roads of the raining west giving the impression that he could not Fiddler Man and the Freeman jour- Ulster champions, Antrim or Armagh. drive vary from "the prestige aspect, satis- Jim has always been interested in Frame's English, Drishogue, and you is the fact that Liam O'Flaherty's real and to make of them, an art equal to the continue. nalist Ryan in their speeches suggest greatest in any literature, is given to few fying the demands of foreign tourists in national affairs and is a keen trade like her well." Drishogue (doubt- work, is of a degree of such real literary Laoighis rather unexpectedly won a that it goes a good deal further, he men, but it was given to Liam O'Flaherty. Eire" to the more convincing necessity of unioist. During the war he was But he came back and had his man fully)—"I don't know. You search achievement that it forces both literary well-earned victory in the Leinster cham- largely responsible for introducing down for a count of seven in the third never allows his vision to obtrude critic and book reviewer to recognise in The last great aristocratic literature in "soundness of keeping open a market for back far enough, and you'll find some pionship—a victory which will recall to possible future exploitation. Pre-war sales trade unionism into the engineering round, and counts of six, eight and eight upon or to outstrip the reality of the it one of the important expressions of Europe, that of Yeats and Synge and the Kymric, Scottish or Irish ancestor many G.A.A. followers memories of epic averaged 20.000 copies of national British factory in which he worked, being in the fourth, when the referee stepped in situation with which he is dealing.' socialist-humanism in our generation Anglo-Irish twilight, has bequeathed, as who has saved her soul alive." its inheriter. an equally important litera- games with the G.A.A. dailies as opposed to present-day figure later elected shop steward and mem- to save Valentine from further punish- The result is a play which the Reper- and places him in the foremost rank, with ture of peasants and Dominic Street Dub- of 10,000 copies per day. ber of the factory's Joint Produc- ment. tory and People's Theatres in Britain those others already mentioned and with Modern Morality Play Ignazio Silone. Peadar O'Donnell and liners. The middle class has been by- LAOIGHIS TEAM Flying copies by air, the present objec- tion Committee. He has been as- John Ingle retained his Irish light- might well consider staging—if only The setting of the play is a great Lewis Grassic Gibbons. passed. It would be a pity, a pity for a tive is to enable British dailies to reach sociated with the Irish Citizens' weight championship when he K.O'd as an antidote to the plays of The Laoighis team has been called a central room of a manorial house in nation and for a language, if Liam team of has-beens, but now it will be Dublin between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m., thus Union, the United Irish Societies, Johnny Ward, the Roscommon challenger. "poetry and ideas" which seem to be the south-west. But it is a room with O'Flaherty lost himself, while trying to evergreen that will be the operative word. allowing easier competition with existing the Green Cross Fund and the Anti- The knockout came in the sixth round gaining for Irish dramatists and Sword and Cloak return to it. Eire papers, such as the "Independent," Partition League. of the fifteen round contest. a difference ; a room of Long Ago. In The three Delaneys, Chris, Mick and Bill people the final distinction of a folk Only one man could have written "Irish Press" and "Irish Times." Also the prelude we see it in the half-light were all members of the Laoighis team Joe "Boy" Collins (Dublin) scored a whose ways are past finding out. "Famine" and "The Spring Sowing." PAUL POTTS which went down badly before a brilliant remarked upon is the considerably greater peopled by ghostly dancers in 18th Rinty Monaghan 'Belfast!, Irish fly- clever print victory over Tommy Madine Mayo team in the 1936 All-Ireland and in quantity of Sunday papers sold owing to century costumes, and we see how weight champion, has issued a challenge (Belfast) who holds the Six County Ban- addition to these three, Haughney and lack of competition, the only Eire Sunday the oak panellings in their simple for £1,000 a side to Jackie Paterson tam-weight championship. Tommy Murphy took part in the epic publication being "Sunday Independent." lines seem to shadow forth the shafts (Glasgow! for a fight for the World, Bri- O'Hara (Dublin) won the Novice Heavy- semi-final games with Kerry in 1937. And Reason given for this is the brighter and tish Empire, British and Scottish fly- weight Competition when he beat Pat and belts of a modern factory. The now they are back into the picture with more expensive feature articles carried Plays^ Pictures and People dancers are frightened by the red by British papers. weight titles. Dully iDerry) on points. a bang and who knows might succeed in glow at the window, and ghostly, this year of 1946 where they failed in A S tommyguns rattle and British air- weeks on end in Dublin, previously con- revoking of this decision and secure its LABOUR JOURNAL lover to lover, ask in their muted 1936. borne troops grimly fix bayonets, sidered an impregnable stronghold against licence for public performance. For this Particularly welcomed by Dubliners voices what is happening in Eng- scenes strangely reminiscent of the the strongest efforts to popularise the reason alone Unity deserves a big Irish In Munster, Kerry should qualify for is the importation of such periodicals as land ? The chord is struck, and as the "troubles" in Ireland, are being re-enacted "language." audience for this play. the All-Ireland semi-final at the expense "Reynolds News," whose lib«ral and SPOTUGHT ON SPORT lights go up in the Hatherleigh house- in Palestine. Slap-bang-up-to and even in * * * * * * of Waferford, but strange things have avowed labour policies form a welcome hold we may fairly expect to be advance of the news was Unity Theatre More than exciting sounds the advance This month sees Jimmy O'Dea, Ireland's happened this year and Waterford 'By J.A.D. change from the monotonously conser- with the "Hunter and the Shepherd," by "blurbs" about "Odd Man Out," the Two national humourist, playing in London. might pull a fast-one over the mighty shown something of what is happen- vative and labour-baiting editorials and TENNIS Irish athletes were prominent in the David Martin, a play based in and about Cities' film of F. L. Green's novel based on Creator of the world-famous character, Kerry, but that would surely be the sen- ing to England in 1940. featu-es of the "Sunday Independent." TAINNY PAILS (Australia) beat Cyril enjoyable sports and gala day organised Palestine. Pointing no very clear politi- the I.R.A. Assumedly because the film "Biddy Mulligan," much of Jimmy's suc- sation of sensations. Oak Leaves and Lavender is essen- Net so welcome however is the prospects " Kemp (Ireland) in two straight sets by Wimpey's at Heathrow airport. cal path forward, the play deals with deais with an "illegal organisation," the cess has undoubtedly been due to the con- tially a modern morality play. It of increased importation of some of the in the final of the Irish Open Tennis J. B. Byrne (Polytechnic), Steve Mc- Jewish problems and the various attitudes Belfast harbourmaster refused permission tinuous flow of brilliant skits and sketches CONNACHT CHAMPIONS more ^sensational dailies and Sunday Championship. Cooke (East Antrim) and J. E. Nesbitt seems to me the moral gets lost in and attempts at solutions of them by a to shoot certain scenes using the harbour from the able pen of his partner. Harry periodicals whose pages sometimes ap- (Six-Co. Police) have been selected to as- the argument, and the play itself is typical Jewish family group, torn and O'Donovan. Connacht, Mayo and Roscommon con- CYCLING proach perilously close to "Yellow jour- sist a British team against France in an confused by the telescoping of sundered apart by conflicting beliefs as to by Many there are who dislike Jimmy's tend for the right to enter the All-Ireland The Open Massed Start Cycling, Cham- nalism" and whose political lines are international athletic match at White events to suit the symbolism. If Sean the methods necessary to bring about the particular brand of humour, regarding it arena and he would be a prophet indeed bitterly antagonistic, not alone to the pionship of Ireland at Drogheda. had an City, on Monday, August 5th. realisation of their ideals in Palestine. as "stage Irish," but if for nothing more who would prophesy the correct result O'Casey had been content with his cause of Irish emancipation, but also to international flavour when the five Scot- Most significant line in the play, and I ALEC DIGGES than the authenticity of his rich Dublin of this game. Roscommon's ready defeat Byrne, an Armagh man now in England sub-title "A Warld On Wallpaper" the whole organised labour movement in tish competitors arrived. The 19,' miles lap quote from memory, was: brogue or his even more brilliant imita- of last year's Connacht champions makes course, regarded as one of the most trying and forme rlrish 16 lb. shot champion, is the play could then have been viewed general, whether British or Irish. "Hell. So what? One day we gotta as a background. The action of the book tions of Cork and Belfast accents, he de- them favourites, but Mayo on the march ever selected for any road championship Britain's No. 1 choice in that event. as a fantasy. But his title suggests .^Up to recently British Sunday netfs- work together .... Jews and Arabs." takes place mainly in the Falls Road area, serves a special place in the hearts of are difficult to stop'. in Ireland, was lined with spectators. that the play is treated not only as a lUpers reached Dublin Streets from 4 p.m. SOCCER Although tending towards the melo- but you will not see any similarity to this Irish exiles. Shrewd political thrusts add Up north Cavan has so far practically Results:— fantasy but as a realistic representa- to 5 p.m. dramatic, at times there was much real district in the film. We have often heard considerable zest to his racy dialogue. annihilated the opposition with astro- 1. M. Marlow (National), 4-7-21; 2, J. P. Peter Farrell and Tommy Eglington. ot tion of the Battle of Britain. beauty, even poetry, in many of the lines, of Republicans refusing to recognise the nometical scoring against Tyrone in the Shortall (National), 4-7-22; 3, P. Lennon Shamrock Rovers have both signed for Drishogue and Edgar Hatherleigh and despite, or perhaps because of, the couVt, but this must surely be the first first round and against a useful Donegal < Mountpleasant), 4-9-35; L. J. O'Kelly Everton. Dundalk have signed up Jimmy are killed, Jennie Frome the landgirl author's avoidance of partisanship, the case of a harbourmaster refusing to recog- team in the semi-final. Antrim has proved DATE FIXED FOR BELFAST (National), 4-9-35; 5, J. Starrs (Glasgow), Hooks, formerly inside-forward of Newry Dark Stranger dies, trying to pull her lover Edgar characters lived and their problems lin- nise the Republicans. National League form correct by qualify- 4-9-41; 7, T. D:ck (Glasgow). 4-17-55. Town. That Frank Launder is no stranger to gered long after the final curtain. Incidentally, reading through the cast- ing for the Ulster final for the first time . BY-ELECTION Team result.—1. National

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