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Page 2 PAGE OF OPINION Page 3 STINKING FISH SCIENCE M OCR AT Page 4 THE WORKERS' PARTY Page 5 FINE GAEL WANTS POWER No. 463 SEPTEMBER 1982 20p Page 6 IRISH SONGS
Page 7 BOOK REVIEWS THATCHERS Page 8 DONALL MacAMHLAIGH HIROSHIMA REMEMBERED COLD WAR ON IN IRELAND
URING the weekend of August D6th to 9th, those slaughtered at Hiroshima In 1945 were re- PLASTIC membered throughout Ireland, the numerous CND branches taking the Initiative. The first atom bomb was dropped IRELAND at 8.15 in the morning. At that time central Dublin churches tolled their bells. This was the opening of three days of peace ac- • nhknill/ BULLETS tivity. At 11 a.m. a plaque was un- veiled by Mr Niall Andrews, TD at the cherry tree In Merrlon PLANRELATIONSS betwee FOn IrelanRd andENDIN England are reportedlG NEUTRALITy strained, Y /*REAscandaT indignation has beeln Square and a poem in Japanese How they got that ^ aroused in the nationalist com- was read by Or Taro Matsuo, way is a sordid story of intrigue and treachery. former high school student in munity in the six counties at the decision of the Director of Public Nagasaki and now a lecturer in When in May 1980 Mr. Haughey came to London to see Mrs. out the IRA bomb. But it is hard Tokyo. Thatcher and gave her a teapot for her thoughts, Ian Paisley to avoid the conclusion that the Prosecutions not to charge the EXHIBITION thought he was being sold out and behaved more like a big kid bomb made it easier, though* that British soldier responsible for the An exhibition of photographs *of than usual with his mountainy parades and vociferation parties. was not the intention. death of the 11-year-old Stephen Hiroshima after the bombing was McConomy last April in Derry. opened by Mr Tony Gregory, Some people took him seriously. Mrs Thatcher tried to persuade It may well come out before all TD. At lunch time the CND street But there was no need to. Mrs Mr Haughey to give up the Irish is finished that there is more to Sixteen witnesses had been avail- the Connolly affair than appears theatre group performed at the Thatcher was not letting him down, claim to the six counties. When he able but the authorities did not in- corner of Stephens Green and at first sight. and he could do nothing if she- declined she urged him to give terview a single one of them. Mrs Grafton Street, enacting a simula- British residents a vote in Irish did. McConomy is talking about going tion of the effects of a Hiroshima elections. This would be a big Brendan Munnelly in "Dublin sized bomb on Dublin. MICROWAVE step towards an overall Pine Gael Now" suggests that England now on hunger strike to see if she can Some of the Dublin CND What now transpires is that Mr majority which is the object of no longer resents Irish neutrality, attract attention to the scandal of branches organized events In Haughey was being urged to give British policy. Mr Haughey is said as the radar gap has now been these murderous weapons. localities. Dublin North-east away an important element of Irish to have foolishly agreed to this. plugged. If one assumes a defen- planted a cherry tree in St Anne's neutrality. The charming lady ex- Legislation is said to have been sive war against a Soviet attack, At the time the cynical decision that may be true, and Mr Haughey Park, Raheny. Tallaght branch plained that a radar station in Co. drafted. to take no action was announced, led by its able secretary Catherine may have felt he was winning pro- Down reached out a third of the a young man Conor Campbell was Lewis organized a twelve-hour fast NO CONSULTATION gress on the North at the expense way to Iceland, and the rest of fighting for his lite in hospital. He In which many young people the Iceland gap was filled by an of a purely defensive facility. When the Falklands crisis came had been present when plastic from the district participated. American station at Reykavik. the Irish government was surprised Petitions of condolence were taken But s'nce then things have bullets were firod at demonstra- to ^.J that Mrs Thatcher inter- changed. President Reagan has from door to door and many signed But what if the Russians flew tors in Lurgan. preted the accord to involve the stated frankly that he intends an them. four miles high until they were complete subordination of Irish offensive war in which the killing On Saturday August 7th Dun opposite the coast of Kerry, and THE setting up of an enquiry in- foreign policy to British. Fianna of twenty million Americans would Laoire branch planted a cherry then swooped in low. The first to deaths caused by plastic Fail did not see it that way. So be ' acceptable '. Can we be sure tree in the People's Park. Coun- England would know about them the cold war against Ireland began, he would not like to have the use bullets is being demanded, and it cillor Jack Loughran officiated on was when they struck South Wales. and the Prior initiative in the six of Irish territory for that? is being asked, very pertinently, behalf of the Dun Laoire Corpora- Wouldn't. Mr Haughey put a micro- counties was taken without con- why the vote of the European As- tion. Among other local represen- wave station In West Cork—only a sultation with Dublin, though Eng- Pressure is being constantly step- sembly condemning these weapons tatives present were Sean Bar- little one—and he could be sure land continued to claim telecom- ped up. British soldiers fired across rett TD and Councillors John of the blessing of a grateful munications privileges. the bows of an Irish yacht in Car- has been treated with such arro- O'Sullivan and Anne Brady. England. hngford Lough and troops de- gant contempt. JAPANESE CAGEY The result was a drying up of manded to be allowed on board, enthusiasm for giving Englishmen Representatives of the Japanese Well, he fell for it. The station but did not persist when it was Although it is widely appreciated the vote in Ireland. The next Embassy, despite pressing invita- is now open at Ballydehob. Mes- pointed out that the yacht (and the that plastic bullets are unsuitable move in London was a campaign of tions, were conspicuous by their sages are sent via Youghal, Dun- soldiers) were in Irish territorial weapons for so-called "riot control" threats to deprive the Irish in absence. When members of Tall- garvan, Waterford, Wexford, En- waters. the Thatcher government is deter- Britain of their vote If the Irish aght CND visited a factory with a niscorthy, Arklow, Three Rock mined to continue their use. This government did not comply. The aim of Tory policy, as the view to enlisting the support of its Mountain and Holyhead. What's Is partly from a desire to bolster more if anything goes wrong with constant sniping over the Connolly Japanese management they didn't Meanwhile discussions were held Unionism in the six counties. It the Bishopscourt (Co. Down) trans- resignation shows, is to topple want to know. It would seem that with the Fine Gael leader who is also from the desire to create mitter which links to Portpatrick in Charles Haughey and instal Garret official Japanese policy is to get promised to do whatever England a precedent for using them in 1945 forgotten as quickly as pos- Galloway, the message is beamed Fitzgerald who would then abandon wanted. Britain, and having available a sible. It is an unwelcome warning to Holyhead via the huge micro- the claim to unity of Ireland and force trained in this dubious art. about what militarism leads to, and wave dome between Gt Georges This would have happened with- abandon neutrality. what It might lead to again. Street and Grafton Street, Dublin. SEX SHOP PROTEST BY BOTH COMMUNITIES BEAUTIFUL IRELAND rpHE first sex shop in Ireland Apparently the aim is to estab- will have no protection against has been opened in the "Bible lish a number of such outlets the importation of unemploy- belt" of East Belfast. throughout Belfast, though ment, militarism and perversion. CALENDAR _ 1983 The owners are an English whether they ^et into the national- The proliferation of these estab- chain operating a number of such ist areas is very doubtful. lishments "is a symptom of a sick SHORTLY AVAILABLE AT: emporia, and the manager is an society reminiscent of ancient Englishman Mr Graham Bacon, of The unfortunate Protestant Rome where hypertrophied sex 177 LAVENDER HILL, SWl 1 whom East Belfast M.P. Mr. Peter population, who have so many good stood against a background of PERSONAL CALLERS, £1.40 Robinson declares "He Is going to points, cannot yet realise that un- bread and circuses — today drugs get his bacon cooked on this one." til they join the Republic they and television. September 1982 September 1982 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 2 ABORTION Science I I I II 1% I WOULD like to reply to your A MOUNTAIN OF STINKING FISH ? ' article iAugust issuei opposing TIMONEYS the proposed Pro-Life Amendment the Commission proposals included 1: no agreement is reached on a \\ r*\URiNG the war years in Britain to tin Constitution of the twenty More EEC a 12-mile limit. Britain wanted a CFP by the time current regula- I read the DEMOCRAT. That six counties. CERAMIC 5C-mile limit. (It is ironical that the tions run out at the end of 1982. in wa> the time when the Soviet You stress that the amendment year before Britain had rejected theory, everyone with a fishing Un.on was saving our skins in its is being opposed by both Catholic •fl the extension of Iceland's fishing boat will be able to fish light i.pio and Protestant clergymen. Since limit to 50 milesc Soon after this, the beaches and even into the decisive contribution tc the rout a proposal to . franchise the Irish, through before the next election |.) HI IAIN'S war for tiie lecoti- when did the Irish Democrat start ENGINE' by 200-mile limits were agreed mier- Thames Estuary. To add insult to o! Fascism. Nor were you coy, .the majority elmg would be "let and they would be handing Labo. : quest j: Ireland is not a mili- to take its position on political nationally. injury Spam is soon expected to ::h n The Insh- a plank and inviting all the Irish 1T is becoming increasingly evi- r at that time, in giving the them get on rHE argument over the CFP enter the EEC bringing m the tary "lie althovgh the stakes are . .Id have hated who deserted Labour thanks to the matters from priests of whatever * dent that the most difficult as- R. H. W. Johnston JOHN BOYD Workers State its ccrrect name. born majorit'. centres on where most iish are largest fishing licet m Western military It i- political and ideo- ue people at home record of the Callaghan govern- creed? I can understand Michael pect of the activities covered ay I've recently taken the paper and the idea that O'Leary doing that, but the Irish to be found — namely around the Europe. logical and a new (actor is the at- should have ue.r policy con- ment to come back. And in am the title of this article is the rela- poration. a subsidiary of Standard ft no you're not reflecting the world Democrat never. You have a tradi tionship between science and tech- Oil. "Britsh Isles" and especially in the The fundamental political prin- strained cat consideration for case they can only disfranchise one as it is How among all the 15C-odd tempt to use the Irish community tion of supporting democratic nology. How do you convert North Sea. Attention is centred ciple involved in turning the North those who ha left the country. third of the Irish community while The initial market for the car in Britain as t pawn in the game rights yet you wish to deny the a scientific principle into a here be,-u se other member states Sea :nto a common fishing lake statas in the U.N.. you can t see simultaneously making implacable borundum engine, needless to say, majority of the people of the useful technology? Most science have over-fished and destroyed has already been extended, in un- the Soviet Union beats ms enemies of the other two thirds. So will be in military vehicles. Profes- Various organizations con- kN f the ir. • occasions when twenty-six counties their constitu- lies on the shelf. Most technology many of their own grounds. Also heralded discussion to the oil and they'll hardly do it. To panic and sor Timoney's company. Adtec Teo cerned with Irish studies' have < thi> s Ques'. •r. has come up be- tional rights to express their wishes is either developed by craft rather non-EEC members Norway and gas lields. The aim is a 'Common SEAN 0 CEALLAIGH. appeal to Dublin to give in is a at Gibbstown. near Navan, is fore, the Cor.: Association has on a major political issue. Surely it than by science; much depends on Iceland have full sovereignty over Energy Policy," Uv. blossomed in the past few years mug's game. already producing armoured per- advised the :.: u to defend their cannot be that you only support the science of a century ago. It their own important grounds and Current EEC manoeuvres on the Propagandist histories have ap- sonnel carriers for the Irish and ." . the war the political franchise th: o u|h the Labour democracy wher. you are confident is rare to find a good case of look after them. CFP include dividing Denmark peal ed on television. What are the Belgian armies. The main output p im• sir •' ...as duleren'. a:.d the movement. V... -a a South London I/'OR these reasons it was re- of getting the right result? science transforming into tech- and Britain by taking a quota of the Gibbstown factory is specia- The latest Commission proposals, i-d". > different a" a-.i-st lor change* tlnr a:e being taken note newspaper rar. campaign for de- * giettable that Mr Kevin Mc- nology in the Irish environment. iH from one and giving it to the other. seek to play down the im- list vehicles like airport fire tabled on June 15th. but still not m ••• •: time At present our . of the vote, and a Namara whose motives of course When it does happen, usually liM Denmark occupies the chair at priving the I;.-: ' portance of the pro-life move- tenders. The principal input from yet agreed, are for a six-mile at: • . : the USSR i< 'hat its Ireland, the late are entirely worthy, should invite there is foreign capital involved; these meetinu and is delaying the real friend ment by your reference to "a UCD research effort heretofore has exclusive limit, with bigger "boxes" p.- air entitled to r.m then , Lipton. gave some the Irish to preserve their vote the process costs money and there taking ol a decision. The switch to The Gua: ilian newspaper has Colonel Mar small well-organised lobby." If they been the design of the suspensions. off Scotland to be retained by Co . they wish, we de- u'ed countenance (which we do not believe is in is usually more risk than the aver- majority voting from the \eto published two articles on the Irish kind of half-.', were that small would Fitzgerald How the Timoney engine will relate Britain. The 6-12 mile /.one will be danger, and can be defended if and age Irish capitalist is prepared to system, puts Britain in a very weak ti-:r .•••ween Fast and West: and in Britain. Before they were to it, we tack'. : the Colonel, insis- and Haughey have conceded their to the family of Timoney specialist for selected boats and quotas based when it is in dangen by writing to take. position. Inside the EEC Britain a ; ,. iii in' do not wan: v.ar Al- written the papers correspondent ted on our lo reply in the demands for a referendum or vehicles remains to be seen. To on traditional rights. However Mr Haughey asking him to give is in a cleft stick and has to accent io. . Ae cannot take m> the . b- spoke for twenty minutes with Noel press, and r.: • won from him would Michael O'Leary (w hatevei Despite the involvement of tool up to produce it will require further loss of sovereignty would : -!:e Irish were en- the British in Ireland a vote. else he is a shrewd political mover) nearly any policy, as. without one VI! :v>::ain that everv'.hir.Jf the Gordon, organiser of the Connolly a statement t'.. foreign capital, it is necessary to heavy investment: the most likely WMim occur in these waters because have stayed silent until after the the tisli are in practice common till :;- do is rieht. we neve: at- Association. All the other organiz- titled to the v welcome successful transformations route to the market is via a licen- policing would be carried out by result of the Galvvay by-election property. The one policy with any (.If •i:em l;ecanse. a pa it from Ireland is a small country I: when they occur. For the process cing agreement with a US military Y RGUMENTS, suspicions, sell- EEC inspectors rather than nat- ations had mentioned the C A was known'' Anyway what is sense is that the maritime coun- iiiir.;;::: else, that is r,, oring Brt some today's generation can be swamped by immigration. in this mode is infinitely better than supplier. outs and horsetrading clutter ional inspectors. In addition "con- s;!.. ' I'lesideni Hea.."'s mill wrong with small well-organised tries should leave the EEC and He spent twenty minutes try- have all wed .-.eii'.selves to be in- It is all very well to be very inter- 0 the traditional process, which is the trail of the Common Fish- servation" would be in the hands ,.: • ; to cut our o1 n throats groups Are not we in the Con- regain sovereign rights to a 200- ing to go; me to say what I timidated. T •.'. rite to Mr national and turn Britain's inner- for Irish science to contribute its The UCD team which did the of the Commission. If the CAP is w!u n we r ad i Man- nollv Association one such group? ing Policy (CFP). The CFP mile limit and control over con- Haughey sugg -'.::_ that he should cities into a local version of the mite to the global pool of know- development consisted of three anything to go by there will be el' •• Coi.inl:an. 17 Au.u
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September 1982 September 1982 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRISH DEMOCRAT GETTING OUT OF Irishman FINE GAEL BIDS THE NORTH dies on /•NNE-tenth of the Six County motorway ^ population emigrated between PSEPHOLOGISTS — fel- KJIDNIGHT on the motorway, 1971 and 1981, according to the pre- • lows who fiddle about July 18th. A hitch - hiker, liminary report of the Northern with election results — claim knocked down and killed sixteen THE WORKERS' Ireland Census, just published. miles from his home in Birming- that if the Galway by-election ham. spoke for the country as a FOR POWER There has always been emigra- Such was the tragic end of James Nelson Lindsay, 34-year-old I AST month the "Irish Democrat" discussed the prospects of whole, Fine Gael might well tion from the North of course, go- TOMAS MacGI0LLA south of the border. And a few Fine Gael loudly decries fund- ing back to the 18th century Ulster native of Belfast. He had accepted the Irish Labour Party. This month we publish an assess- (President) have an overall majority at key facts will prove it. ing public spending by borrow- a lift from London and got as far Presbyterians who settled in Cana- as the Hilton Service Station on the next general election. In the general election earlier ing, and accuses Fianna Fail of ment of the newly-named, dynamic, controversial, Workers ther it comes fro-i political parties da and the USA and who provided the M6. this year Fine Gael candidates "squandermania" which has put like Fianna Fail or the SDLP or If this happened it would be the genetic stock, as local lore has Born in the Shanklll Road area Party, formerly official Sinn Fein. That its leaders would even bodies like the CP or Irish the work of the coalitionists in included II company directors, the country in pawn to foreign it, of 10 American Presidents. he used to tell me about his early 15 strong farmers, 10 practising bankers. There may be a point life as we walked round Birming- like it to replace Labour as the third force one need not doubt, Sovereignty Movement. It is not a the Labour Party. They have far step from that to incipient helped Fine Gael to create a lawyers, five publicans and in this, but unfortunately it was But the net loss of population be- ham selling the IRISH DEMO- CRAT. but what is it? And what are its chances? • two-nationism" of the Cruise new image, liberal and "caring". shopkeepers and four auction- the 1973-77 coalition govern- tween 1971 and 1981 was greater ^m PARTY He has been "led by the nose" O'Brien variety and to outright Instead of grim old Cosgrave eers. ment, dominated by Fine Gael, than at any time since the 1860s. apology for unionism and British in his top-hat, glaring down that started the process of bor- into the Orange Order as a boy, In the EEC Assembly (mis- It averaged 13,000 a year compared when the chief amusement of the AN ASSESSMENT policy in Ireland. The irony ia balefully from his horse or rowing abroad to meet the day- •Uf were right to set up the tical individualism. For only the called "Parliament", which it is with 6,000 a year between 1961 and youngsters was to "chase damned that it is not too long since the directing gravelly-voiced pro- to-day expenses of running the I?c|>ublii Mil Congress, but I be- tight framework of a military or leadership of the Workers' Party not) Fine Gael teams up with 1971 and 9,000 a year between 1951 Fenians" out of Protestant terri- lieve now — though I did not at quasi-tnilitary formation could hold by nouncements to the populace, country. If Fianna Fail kept tory. were themselves doing the things the Christian Democrats and and 1961. In part this reflects the ,l,e tunc — that Saor Eire was a together the contractor and the Fine Gael's present leader is the bad practice up, it was their they now criticise the Provos for. British Conservatives, on the far troubles; In part the availability of "THE great shock came when with mi-take. It was an attempt to clerk, the small farmer and the said to personify the new spirit, opponents who threw "sound lead and uwuld the Labour his wife and children he emi- artisan, whose economic interests that of "Garret the Good", the right of the political spectrum. jobs in Britain until the early and Movement from outside and bring ANTHONY COUGHLAN finance" to the winds for the grated to Britain and discovered would otherwise have divided them, plain man's friend, unaffected, Fianna Fail used to have its mid-1970s. it under the control of the Re- sake of electoral prospects. The on building sites and in public as they were pulled between the 5. The baby of Republican- TACA and big-business backers, publicans — rather like what the of physical force republicanism, a swell as virtues. But looking back decent, modest, "with it" and taxpayers of the future will have houses that here a loyalist was just -o called Workers' Party people working-class on the one hand and The Six County population, at going back to the "hillside men" of on the past decade, it is difficult ism tipped out along with honest. Yes. above all honest but Fine Gael hardly collected to stump up. another "Paddy." are up to toda>." the ranks of middle and large busi- — quite different from that its million pound plus election just less than H million, has re- Fenian times. They think they not to conclude that the Official the physical force bath- "A veil was lifted from In 'THIS remark was made re- nesses on the other. thuggish Fianna Fail crowd. can unite Ireland by these 19th cen- Republicans, now the Workers' fund in hand-outs from the un- mained very stable over the past front of my eyes," he told me The split between Sinn Fein and water. THE new Fine Gael is a mix- cent'ly by George Gilmore, tury methods, something in which Party, has on balance been a And moderate, too; you never employed. century. Britain's population once, "and I saw clearly for the Fianna Fail in the 1920s, between the famous Protestant republi- I believe they are mistaken. But source of weakness, confusion and heard of him playing with guns ! And the bold Garret is also ture of trendy careerists doubled In that time, while that first time in my life. How I wish Republican Congress and IRA in can and socialist, who with Pea- there is no doubting the label on disunity on the Irish Left. Which and old-fashioned dyed-in-the- every other man and woman on the 1930s. the rise of Clann na Having largely abandoned re- THIS image of the "people's" very much England's man. of the Twenty Six Counties de- tkir O Donneil. Sean Murray that particular political bottle. It is not to say it has not done good wool conservatives. Indeed its the Shankiil Road could have Poblachta in the 1940s, the divi- publicanism — the litmus test ol Fine Gael thought up and Didn't he get patted on the head clined, although It is now growing and Frank Ryan in the 1930s is physical - force republicanism, things, or that it does not contain social ingredients resemble my experience and learn what sion of Officials Irom Provisionals in its ranks people of great ideal- progressive politics in Ireland — it marketed by the media men by Humphrey Atkins for trying rapidly. tried to push Irish Labour into classical vintage. those of the Tory party in the fools have been made of us all in the 1960s and early 1970s and ism and high human calibre. The is not surprising that the Workers' with all the expertise of modern to get the claim to a united Ire- these years." taking the leadership of nation- the subsequent splits within these The Officials had a problem in Party should make other political land cut out of the constitution ? British House of Commons, *a same point can be made of the mind-bending techniques, was There is no Information yet on Within a year Jimmy was In ally minded people away from various groups, show a common finding a role for themselves after U-turns. Its ideologues now define cookie in which an odd Liberal Provisionals indeed — though any badly needed to appeal to the He criticised Fianna Fail for not whether the recent high emi- UCATT, a member of Aston branch De Valera. tendency for the political organisa- the split. They could have dis- the main reactionary force in the or SDLP type appears like a damage they have done and are supporting England over the gration affected Protestants and where Pete Carter was secretary. tions of the small bourgeoisie to banded and joined the organisa- country as being native Irish young and sophisticated Ireland current in a bun. Fine Gael's The judgment of such a re- doing to the cause they believe in Falklands and urged the SDLP Catholics differently. In 1926 This branch specialised in political fragment in face of social pres- tions of the Labour Movement. Or capitalism — what they call "gom- of the eighties. is of a different nature to that of to back Prior's "rolling devolu- leader is an Irish edition of Roy education. Jimmy became an acti- spected socialist republican on they could have attempted to con- been capitalism". This is also Catholics were just over one-third sures. their erstwhile comrades. But pure image-making it re- Jenkins, a sign that even con- vist and a speaker, later Joining the the Workers' Party — formerly tinue to uphold political republican- ironic considering the small bour- tion" in the six counties He is of the Six County population and In the 1960s the Republicans, mains. For Fine Gael is still servatives must adapt to the Connolly Association where for the Official Sinn. Sinn Fein Gardi- ism at a time when the Provos That those who formed the geois origins of so many of the all for Ireland's going along with by 1961 were nearly 40 per cent. In following the failure of the 1956-62 the most conservative party times. first time he learned something ner Place and Sinn Fein were making all the running, which Workers' Party took the course the war - oriented NATO-EEC Border campaign, decided to go Workers' Party's own leaders and the past the higher birth rates about Irish history. He saw the would have been a lonely task in they did since the early 1970s is foreign policy and has said Workers' Party — is worth political. They dumped their arms, advisers. among Catholics, reflecting their place of the national independence unpropitious circumstances. Or to a degree a matter of accident. The adaptation is working noting. especially at a time supported housing, unemployment "there is no such thing as neu- higher average family size, was movement as part of the struggle they could counterpose their It was much influenced by some Multinational big business is seen when there is much speculation and land agitations in the South trality today". well. The near 40% first for a new society. He realised that personnel changes in Official Sinn as being "objectively" progressive, * future counterbalanced by higher rates of <>•: its pljCv :n Irish politics, now and, in the North, advocated civil preference votes in the last he was an Irishman. Fein and the IRA. A group of for it destroys small business and fINE GAEL is* opposed to a emigration. But It has been sug- that it has three members in rights. They opposed Lemass s election are an ominous augury. young intellectuals in RTE played brings into being a proletariat. wealth tax, but favours gested that recent years have seen nETURNING from his father's policies of economic integration 3. On balance a source of Hence the Workers' Party's un- This chameleon party, resusci- a key part in working out the Events * dishing out public money to a rise In the exodus of skilled funeral in 1975 he was arrested with Britain and later on fought weakness, confusion and critical support of foreign invest- tated from its death-bed by the against full membership of the ideological underpinnings of the rescue big farmers who are in Protestants, as well as of young in Liverpool under the so-called A quasi-military formation ment as the principal motor of ORTHAMPTON Connolly As- Labour coalition of 1948, pro- "Prevention of Terrorism Act." His EEC. The Republicans' going poli- disunity in the Irish left. new departure and these were pub- trouble with the banks. When people who have got their higher Irish economic development. They Nsociation has been Instrumen- vided with a new set of clothes union and the C.A. effected his re- can hold together the tical was one of the more hopeful lished in a document, "The Irish have dropped their opposition to tal in bringing In the Department farmers refused to pay the re- by Garret Fitzgerald in 1977, education in the North. lease within two days. developments of a hopeful decade Industrial Revolution", a few years contractor and the clerk. the EEC, the political instrument of Adult Education of Leicester source tax, a form of land tax, He was always among the first and the influence of the move- newly-found "socialism" to the ago. is now making a bid to become of the European multinationals and University to hold twelve ireetlngs and a levy on farm sales, Fine HE North's latest unemploy- to answer the call to the picket ment inevitably grew. At the be- "nationalism" of the Provisionals To an outsider, though, it seems the largest party in the state they support social contract-type under the title of "The Troubles"— Gael not only praised this act of T ment figure, at 121,000 or 21 line even when the batons were hest of the late Seamus Costello and use their tightly disciplined that it did not matter very much and the "natural" party of Irish Pail Eirear.n and is a growing national wage agreements which a political analysis of Irish history. per cent of employees, should be being wielded. He had dauntless they inserted the aim of socialism organisation to supplant or take- how internally coherent or relevant defiance, but later refunded conservatism. Labour and are also congenial to large busi- set beside the emigration figures. physical courage. During the Grun- i. = rce or. tr.e Irish Left. The in the Constitution of Sinn Fein, over the existing organisations of to the problems of Irish society the Lest readers fear once more to their payments to those who had Fianna Fail should recognise a ness. This combines a male unemploy- wick dispute he received a club articles or. the Workers' Party although what exactly "socialism'' the Labour Movement — the La- new policies were. Almost any hear Robert Kee's portentous voice complied. dangerous enemy. ment figure of 25 per cent, with a stroke on the head which he be- in the April and May issues of meant was left undefined. bour Party, the CP, the trade ideological concoction might have Although presumably the "gom- booming out the message that female f)gure of 15 per cent. lieved made him deaf in one ear. the Dublin magazine "Magill" unions and various progressive served, so long as it proved ac- been capitalists" run the Irish nothing can be done, they are It was a move to the Left, The details of how he met his have also attracted interest, organisations on the Left. ceptable to the leadership of the State, the Workers' Party are un- sen(ding Dr John Hoffman, a mem- though it did not make the IRA or The North's 21 per cent jobless death will probably never be known, tightly disciplined organisation, critically in favour of public enter- ber of the Connolly Association, especially in the ideological Sinn Fein part of the Labour They chose this third course, IRELAND BEGAN IN THE WEST rate compares with a British but all who knew him will remem- rooted in a military past, which the prise. Anything is good so long as who Is a lecturer In their depart- evolution of the party in the Movement. Though militarism was which is what prompted the com- average of 13 per cent. The worst- ber his generous idiosyncrasies and Officials remained. There has been the State runs it, but they do not ment of politics. C1TARTUNG new light is thrown lecting the ripening fruits and nuts. past decade, the role, if any, of in abeyance, the Army Council still ment of George Gilmore already hit spot In the Six Counties is extend sympathy to his wife, Lily, pause to ask who runs the State. ' on the prehistoric Irish by re- The monuments of the cemetery ran the Republican show and quoted. surprise nonetheless at how exotic The meetings will be enlivened his daughter Donna and three the Official IRA. and the party's search work on the great cemetery were their central fixed point around Strabane, with 3,500 or 37 per cent policy was handed down by a small It is not surprising that this de- some of the new policies were, for by the showing of the Thames TV young sons. influence m the Trade Union of passage graves at Carrowmore, which they gathered for rituals, out of work. Dungannon has 3,800 group of leaders and advisers. To- velopment of the Workers' Party in effect they threw out the win- series. The fee Is £9 for the lot and Movement. Co. Sligo. ceremonies and festivities. or 35 per cent; Newry 6,000 or 33 MARK CLINTON. day the policies are duferent but caused alarm elsewhere on the Left. dow most traditional republican 6. If Labour fails to the first meeting Is on Wednesday, Like all parties with roots "Population expansion began; per cent; Derry 12,000 or 29 per on both sides, whether Provisional The Labour Party is electorally positions. September 22nd. Previously it was thought that in ohysical-loice republicanism — re-think the Workers' family groups moved outwards in cent and Belfast 55,000 or 18 per or Official, the method of deciding threatened by it. The Communist •k it Tflr our ancestors came to Ireland Provos and IRSPs as well as Offi- T N this writer's judgment, the Party will inevitably different directions; agricultural cent. The overall figure includes them remains in essence the same Party is irritated by the pretensions Incidentally we have heard from from Europe by moving up the Irish cials — the social base ol the Wor- J- psychological process at work knowledge came somehow and 11,000 school leavers on the dole. with all the strengths and weak- of the quondam Sinn Feiners who grow in influence. Dr Hoffman. He tells us that Mr Sea to the Boyne Valley, where JACK BEIRNE kers' Party has been the small throughout among the principal eventually, 1,000 years later, a nesses of that way of doing things. would have blushed to be called Michael O'Rioidan, Secretary of the they built the huge passage graves bourgeois class, the self-employed, individuals involved has essentially highly organised farming com- Small wonder that with statis- Neither of the republican organisa- Marxists in the early 1960s but who CPI is coming from Dublin to de- at Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth traders, small farmers and contrac- munity, descendants of the original tics of waste and misery like that, RIP tions form policy on the same open now put themselves forward as liver the Kath Westacott memorial between 3,000 and 2,000 B.C. It was tors. or employees such as clerks These views are diametrically settlers in Sligo, were able to de- largely the result of Mrs Thatcher's basis as the organisations of the lecture on Sunday September 26th thought that they then moved in- the authentic representatives of the opposed to those the Official Re- vote themselves to the building of lunatic economics, there should be • JARD on the tragic death of and certain office and intellectual 4. The motivation of hostility at 2.15 p.m. at the Derbyshire land and westwards through Irish working-class vis-a-vis com- publicans held a decade or so ago. the great cathedral tombs of the fertile ground for recruiting to the •• John Roy in July, London's workers in olaied employments Miners' Chambers in Saltergate, Loughcrew in the west of Co. Meath munist parties and national libera- and bitterness against They have been largely foisted on Boyne Valley", say the archaeol- IRA and the Loyalist paramilitary building workers lost another removed from group discipline and Chesterfield. Admission charge is and then to Carrowmore near 2. Physical force republican- tion movements around the world. their former comrades. them by their ideological advisers ogists. gangs. doughty champion with the sad with slender links to organised 50p (OAPs 15p) and his subject is Sligo Town. Tensions are aggravated by the and it is hard to believe they carry departure at the age of 68 of Jack ti > unionism ism goes back to the "Towards a United Ireland." Kath unwillingness of the Workers' conviction to the many good men Now Swedish and Irish archae- Beirne, known universally as "The Tins small bourgeoisie used to Westacott was the daughter of a "hillside men" of Fenian Party to work constructively with in the leadership of the Workers' ologists say things happened the Parson". bo numerically the largest class in been hostility to and bitterness to- Welsh miner, very active in all other way round. The early tradition. others on the Left. There are bit- Party or to the dedicated and hard- Jack came from near Drum- Ireland. Physical f ace republican- wards the Provisionals — feelings forms of Labour politics and a sup- settlers came along the west coast, ter memories of how the Resources working representatives they now shanbo in County Leitrim, and was ism was its militant expression, and completely understandable in the porter of the unity and indepen- not the east. The Sligo passage YOU MUST HAVE IT * Protection Campaign, for instance, have in Dail Eireann. an active Republican in the thir- like the unstable class which was circumstances. The sad thing is, graves can be dated to well before an organisation which pioneered Does the Official IRA still exist? dence of Ireland. its base republicanism always had Labour Movement, the trade unions though, that the leaders of the 4,000 B.C., which requires a com- ties and forties. When he even- the demand for State development It is certain that some leading •b -ir £ • Clf cauxae y,au mu&t! ieitw.rd and nghtward trends. for example, or even political par- Workers' Party, in their anxiety to plete revaluation of the' neolithic tually settled in London he was a of Ireland's mineral wealth, was people now running the Workers' Turn to the back page for par- Tins no: to say that working- ties like the Labour Party or CP. differentiate themselves from their or stone-age period. stalwart of the old Lambeth Wood- taken over and left to die. If it Party were running the Official ticulars of the one day school on class people 'ver, not involved in HE disastrous split of 1970 under former comrades, have thrown out Have the IRISH DEMOCRAT posted each* month to workers' Branch of the old A.S.W. cannot dominate it will not co-op- IRA less than a decade ago. As the Protestant contribution to such movements, bat their leaders, T t lie strain of the Northern the baby of republicanism with the TT has now been shown that some He later became Secretary of Step- erate, p, pie say of the Workers' there has been no announcement of Irish Republicanism, which takes your home. Fill in the coupon below and send to: those who ran the various Sinn troubles sent Provisionals and Offi- physical force bathwater. ' of the tombs at Sligo must have ney UCATT, but was ai.-ays asso- Party. the Official IRA dissolving itself, place on Saturday, September 4th Feins and IRAs over the years, cials on their different courscs, but Their statements now counter- been built before agriculture and 177 Lavender Hill, London, SW11 with the appropriate ciated with the Lambeth area. In one must assume that in some at the Community Centre, March- had 110 real roots in Labour or they remain in many ways mirror That may be an injustice, but it pose socialism and republicanism pottery-making were known in the famous Horseferry Road strike form or another it is still in being. mont Street W.C.I. A subject not trade union bodies, even though at images of one another. No con- is how the Party is widely seen in a way which would have been Ireland by a people who lived by sum. Tick the period required. on Sunley's site, subject of the taokled before. hunting and fishing and the gath- times they could use a strongly flicts are more bitter than when by those who should be its natural repugnant to Connolly and is Magill claims that this body was Cameron Enquiry, Jack stood for ft ft & ering of edible fruits, berries and left-sounding rhetoric. Above all. families fall out, and when good allies in progressive causes. For reminiscent of economistic Iiish used to carry out assassinations, One year • Six months • thirteen months on the picketline There is also a conference being plants. These people at different the policies they adopted showed men on both sides get killed, it those interested there arc details of labourism at its most barren. bank robberies and disciplinary (enclose £3.90) (enclose £1.95) with Jack Henry and others and organized by the Glasgow Branch times of the year moved about the the individualism and orientation to creates unbridgeable anger and re- the Workers' Party's relations with Instead of defending political re- actions well into the late 1970s. never missed a day. He was also of the Connolly Association. Owing area to take advantage of the sev- conspiracy of the classical small sentment. This gulf of bitterness other groups in the February and publicanism against the advocates The Workers' Party leaders deny Name a leading steward In the 1972 na- to the holidays we have not been eral food resources—sea food like bourgeoisie. now lies between the Provos and March issues of Magill already re- of physical force, the Workers' knowledge of its existence. They tional builders' wages claim strike. ferred to. are adamant that so far as they are able to get full particulars. But oysters and n^assels on the shore of Indeed the military style and the Workers' Party, as well as Sea- Party has drifted gradually into a Address Jack was a good friend to and concerned politics has definitely the date is Saturday October 30th Ballysodare Bay; at other times organisational discipline of the mus Costello's followers now A LL social movements are com- position of seeing any advocacy of seller of the "Irish Democrat" and taken over from the gun and there and the subject is "Irish neutral- hunting in the forests on the traditional IRA was the counter- grouped in the IRSP and INLA. plex of course. All parties, Irish unity as "green nationalism" was widely respected. We extend (Continued on Page Eight) 1 y " mountain sides; in the autumn col- put of tins psychological and poli- The Provos continue the tradition even the best of them, have faults and crypto-Provisionalism — whe- sincere sympathy to his family. September 1882 6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT September 1982 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 7 OLD IRELAND FREE ONCE MORE THANKYOU THE POOL SONG I AST myht I had a happy dream, though restless where I be : MA'AM SAYS PROMETHEUS RE-BOUND I thought aga n brave Irishmen had set old Ireland free. yOU Lords upon high, who rule from the sky And how excited I became when I heard the cannon's roar, Look down on our pubs and bars 'The Rise of the Irish Working Class. The Dublin Trade Union Movement and Labour Leader- 0 graclh mo chroidhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more. DAN For the people within, both women and men ship 1890-1914". Dermot Keogh. Appletree Press, 7 James Street South, Belfast Are neglecting their pints and their jars; BT2 SDL. 288pp, £12 (£IR 15). It's true wc had brave Irishmen as everyone must own. WHAT brought you into my The crack it is bad and the atmosphere sad, O'Neill. O'Donnell, Sarsheld true Lord Edward and Wolfe Tone, " house, Every man has a face like a mule; I IKE a blunt knife this book is the Trades Council All the mat- have only circumstantial evidence, And also Robert Emmet who till death did not give o'er— To my house, to my house. J For all he can do is to grab an ould cue ' serviceable but not satisfac- erial is available, backed up by half a century's ex- 0 sradh mo enroidhe. I long to see Old Ireland free once more. What brought you into my tory. The somewhat pretentious perience of Labour politics, but And start playing that game called Pool. BEAUTIFULLY fj^HE book is of course an intra- house ?" title is ui validated by two limita- there is no doubt in my mind that Now we can't forget the former years, they're kept in memory still, Said the mistress unto Dan. tions. As the subtitle indicates it duction to an important sub- Mclntyre was a police tout. I do WRITTEN ject. But the issues are touched Of the Wexford men of '98 who (ought on Vinegar Hill, "I came here to court your When I was a boy it was always my joy confines itself to Dublin, apart not expect Dr Keogh to risk say- upon rather than analysed in ,t With Father Murphy by their side and the green flag waving o'er, daughter, ma'am, To go to the pub each night, "The Pupil", by Monk Gibbon. from occasional forays into the ing this—but some of the remark- thoroughgoing fashion. There are 0 gradh mo chroidhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more. I thought it no great harm, We had arguments, scraps—the odd killing perhaps, Published by Wolfhound country. More regrettably it stops able coincidences involving Mcln- at 1914 though the apex of Irish indications of the importance of ma'ati.'' And everyone thought it was right; Press. tyre could well be recorded. Labour development was not 1890 as a climacteric. Dr Keogh Allen, O'Brien and Larkin died their country to set free, 'Oh, Dan, me dear, you're We had badgers and dogs and men from the bogs "jl/TONK GIBBON, born In 1896, reached until 1919. The story does a service in rescuing Adol- And some day yet brave Irishmen will make the Saxon flee : And young fellows acting the fool— J \NE of the difficulties one often welcome here." is one of Ireland's foremost breaks off before the denouement. phus Shields (father of the actor experiences with academics Both day and n ght they'll always fight, until death they'll ne'er Ah but now there's no crack, for every man-jack 'Thank you, ma'am," says Dan. literary figures. A cousin of W. B. Barry Fitzgerald) from undeserved works is their reluctance critically give o'er— Has his arse in the air playing Pool. Yeats, he is a link with the Irish The publishers claim that Dr obscurity. He acknowledges the "How came you to know my Keogh dispels myths which give to evaluate sources. Any references 0 grarih mo chrotdhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more. Literary revival, and is renowned importance of the early socialists will do. But most irritating is the daughter, Larkin and Connolly undue prom- To the rural alehouse, after milking his cows for his poetry, criticism, travel in promoting industrial organisa- ourable transport terms for the inence. It is said that "by 1907, the tendency to annotate profusely My daughter, my daughter, Every customer made his way books, and autobiographical writ- tion. He traces the increasing latter. There are always subsidies. Dublin Labour movement had al- things that are common knowledge, How came you to know my ings. power of the infrastructure wor- The question is^who is to get them. And it's there he would dwell and drink till he fell ready come to accept the need for while offering the improbable on daughter ?" Much of his writing is based on kers until they won hegemony in While the fiddles and pipes they did play comprehensive trade-union, social bald assertion. It is in accordance with this DOWN BY THE GLENSIDE Said the mistress unto Dan. personal experience; even his 1913. There is an interesting ac- While the jigs and the reels and the rattling of heels and political reform." One cannot generally establishmentarian out- "Going to the well for water, novels are thinly disguised auto- count of the struggles of the For example, how does Dr Keogh And the polkas and slides were the rule— see where this is made out. To know that "Shellback ", who wrote look that Dr Keogh concludes his ma'am, biography. His memoirs of the first Drapers' Assistants though they TWAS down by the glenside I met an old woman, establish it would require a close book with tile following profound Ah but now there's no chance of a tune or a dance world war and its impact on a are given a central position they in Larkin's "Irish Worker", was ' A'plucking young nettles, she ne'er heard me coming, To raise the can I taught her, historical study of the history of reflection. "Yet despite the popu- For everyone's playing at Pool. sensitive young man, are told with are hardly entitled to. These none other than Sean O'Casey ma'am." that central organising body the lar romantic and nostalgic attach- And I listened awhile to the song she was humming— an honesty that is almost painful things are worth a few bob and (238). I never heard for certain "Oh, Dan, tis you're the handy Dublin Trades Council. Instead who "Shellback" was, but always ment to the promethean figure of Glory-o. glory-o to the bold Fenian men ! Now this Pool, you will find, 'tis a game that's designed to the reader. The same somewhat readers and librarians should be man," the assertion is rested on the ad- 'Big Jim', the philosophy of Wil- discomforting candour is displayed prepared to pay them. understood he was a Liverpool doc- For a foolish illiterate lout mittedly significant struggles of liam Martin Murphy has been the Tis fifty long years since I saw the moon beaming, "Thank you. ma'am," says Dan. in this short volume. ker and the pseudonym suggests You put in four bob; then you press an auld knob the Drapers' Assistants. The whole At the same time this book seems more enduring and influential in On strong manly forms and on eyes with hope gleaming, that. "She's a bonny girl, your And a big shower of balls they come out; It is the story of a teacher's love story should have been centred on to have been produced in a hurry the shaping of modern Ireland." ! see them again, sure, through all my day-dreaming, for his pupil. The teacher is a daughter, They're placed on the table and then, if you're able and should not be regarded as Y \NE must sympathise with an Glory-o, glory-o to the bold Fenian men ! man in his thirties, the pupil, a If Dr Keogh were a cook, the ver- Your daughter, your daughter To stick them all into a hole, more authoritative tliar. it is. It author when his proof-readers girl of fourteen. It is not an un- dict would be "good food spoiled.' She's a bonny girl your More money goes in—then you start off again seems to have begun life as a uni- serve him badly. "Affect" for effect Some died by the wayside, some died 'mid the stranger, usual theme in literature, but this C.O.G. daughter, THE QUESTOR'S versity thesis. The author will (17) and "apprenticed" for appren- Till you've spent every bob of your dole. pupil was no Lolita. As the author And wise men have told us. their cause was a failure, thus have fallen victim to current tised are irritating, but easily hap- And I like her well," said Dan explains in his preface, the story But they stood by old Ireland, and they never feared danger, fashion which is to regard history pen. But what a pity that the "She's a girl that's fit for any In the Irish Free State, all the people are bate is not a portrait of the pupil, THEATRE Glory-o, glory-o to the bold Fenian men ! as a series of documents from Antient Concert Rooms have be- man rather is it an account of the im- From watching and playing this game which selections are arranged in a come "ancient"! The sign was Well-balanced And has a gradh for you, dear pact she had on him. "It was not ^ OR those of us who remember J passed on my way, God be praised that I met her, Their necks they have cricks that no doctor can fix 1 row. The classical historian docu- there in Pearse Street until quite Dan. And their shoulders and backs they are maimed. a love that needed any response be- the Sugawn Kitchen, that mented in order to "live" his period "Nuclear War: the Facts on our Be life long or short, I will never forget her, glorious hearth of Irish life and recently. And somebody should Oh, Dan, me clear, you're Their arses protrude in a manner most fewd, yond acceptance of his admiration." Dr Keogh is less than steeped in Survival". Peter Goodwin. Ash We may have good men, but we'll never have beiter. theatre that glowed in the Duke have spotted Keir Hardie's fore- welcome here." From being hoisted aloft in the air It is with regret that I must ad- the lore of the Labour movement, and Grant. £'5.95. Glory-o, glory-o to the bold Fenian men 1 of Wellington pub on the Balls name which is twice spelled Kier. ' Thank you, ma'am," says Dan. mit that I was unmoved by the whether that is an advantage or And their eyeballs are sore and dripping with gore Pond Road for as long as Jerry I JETER GOODWIN is a physicist story. So concerned is the author not. And some trade unionists may All this is evidence of haste, as And they act in a manner most quare. O'Neill was governor, it was great who works as a journalist for "Oh, you can have my daughter With analysing and explaining his present the academic pseudo-de- is also some of the writing. The to find that the Questors the BBC and as a presenter of my daughter, my daughter, emotions and actions that he fails tachment which sometimes patron- sentence (2) "By personalising the Theatre were putting on "Now science programmes. There is an Yes you can have my daughter," So, if you meet a young man and his face it is wan to convey the pupil's attraction. ises, sometimes implies a sneer, and reasons for the growth of the trade you see him. now you don't" by "afterword" by Greg Treverton, IF ALL WE YOUNG MAIDENS Says the mistress unto Dan. And his eyes have a vacant stare, She remains throughout, for this sometimes plunges invo banality. union movement, as Clarkson does, the same J. M. O'Neill. who is Assistant Director of the But when you take my If his jaw-bone is slack and his head is thrown back reader at any rate, a pretty, but a number of disturbing conclusions International Institute for Strate daughter, Dan, rather dull and ordinary school- rpHINGS are not helped by the follow" narrowly escapes anaeolu- EF all the young maidens were blackbirds and thrushes, And he can't tell a cob from a mare, The play deals with an old Irish gic Studies, London. girl. numerous inaccuracies. Why thon. And Clarkson didn't. A ' A-making sweel music in white flowering bushes, Of course, you'll take me also, His nostrils dilated, his hands corrugated, Canon in an East End Catholic The magic that stirred her tea- give railways wrong names ? I Dan. His manners like those of a fool- parish. He, true disciple of the theory is constructed from one The above would suggest that wa No work I'd be doing. I'd sit and be strewing cher, and continued to excite his suppose time has gone by. In my are dealing with a book of the OS, Dan me dear, you're Then your shirt you can bet, that you have just met God that hides Himself, is creating example. But the mixed metaphor The grains of my barn for the sake of their song ! imagination over a gap of some young days the names of railways on page 163 is magnificent. Writing calibre and status of the ' Civil welcome here," scandal by levitating and appear- A man who's been playing at Pool. fifty years, remains an unex- were as familiar as those of foot- ing and disappearing against the of the "Irish Worker" Dr Keogh ex- Defence" publication "Protect ami if all the young maidens were cowslips and daisies '•Thank you, ma'am," says Dan. plained mystery. As always with ball teams. More documentation is use of nature. There is another, plains "The overall tone of tiie Survive": ie a propaganda docu- Til! filled was the meadow with sweet pretty faces, -CON O'BRISCOLL. •Monk Gibbon, it is a beautifully required to establish that "Maurice" This c&upie, they got married, younger Irish priest, a post Vati- paper was intemperate and inflam- ment for Establishment mythology. I d scratch my head over, and chew a red clover, (This i.ni• .-ong is r IJEAR JOHNNY.—Thanks for affect them. Would they be in- RETURNS sulted / offended / beaten up — yours of last month and BY please excuse delay in answer- that was THEIR worry and they ing—the usual excuses, of were no different from the many TO '.ourse, you know the crack! thousands of British people who Things move so fast nowadays DONALL MacAMHLAIGH would like to go to Ireland (if it's hardly worth replying to the prices were half-reasonable LONDON so me of the points you raised. there, anyway!) but who imag- [ HE Emerald Meager (horse- As you will know from the IN times of war they say the of Britain (and to the ordinary ine that they too will be insul- ted / offended / beaten up . . . *• shoe-pitching) Club is based papers and the RTE, there was first casualty is truth and people of England in particular) we are victims alike of the times 1 • t :ie Stoekwell area of South no backlash of the kind you that is so, no doubt (well, look that we do not hold them re- and the things that are happen- London and is centred on the Dor- feared, not significantly at any at the way the ,Task Force sponsible for the atrocities at Arms, Clapham Road, where ing. rate though no doubt there are authorities muzzled the Press!) committed in Northern Ireland genial Kildareman Bob Porter is hundreds of Irish here in Britain by their forces any more than th< landlord and driving force o; but there is the perhaps even Before I finish I want to say they blame the bulk of us for the team. Consisting almost en- who will have felt something, sadder business of how human a word or two about the breast- tn'cly o! Irishmen, the Club went mure or less — I'll come to that relationships suffer . . . which putting a bomb under the band- beaters, that sizeable proportion to Ashy. Co. Kildarc in July 10 it. a moment. You lived here brings me to the bombs, at stand where a bunch of non- of Irish (most of them living in compete m tin All-Ireland C'ham yurself, John boy. in happier Regents Park and Knightsbridge, combatants are entertaining the Ireland) who say to the British p. unships of this growing sport. times, so you should know what that is, because by the time you public (wouldn't it have been people: "We are sorry, we are They didn't make The headlines in moof the people are like — read this there may well be nice if some curly-haired two- ashamed, we do NOT go along these, but in a private match with enough going and as long more, that is if Dathi O C. was year old had been ripped asun- with this." OK John, impeccable C: stlc Mitchell, Laois. club they <;-. they have the few shillings making a reliable forecast and der by that particular bit of sentiments, good ordinary hu- won back the Emerald Trophy !o spend, and a bit of grub on not fust voicing an opinion. To whatever-it-was,- gelignite or \\nu ll the Laois men had taken oft man feelings of shock and re- the table they won't get into a whatever the hell it is they use them in London the year belore. unswer your query, on the whole morse surfacing, hope for the lather of sweat. Not like at the there was no backlash at the to make a bang ?). human race yet while people Six players compete in any one end of the 'thirties when there ' I'll go on for a minute, and match, pitching a 2 lb horseshoe ordinary level I'm thankful to express such feelings (the Ger- please nobody that might hear some :33 feet. It doesn't sound was a real anti-Irish backlash, say, because a man has enough mans asking pardons from the much but alter a few hours, as rthe time they topped McCor- to contend with these days and me express this view when I'll Jews and maybe some day the one player remarked. "You feel mack and Barnes for the Coven- not to be set upon by his work- say that there would have been Jews and the Palestinians asking as if you were throwing the bloody try bombs. mates and beaten up for some- olagoning, more lamentation, each other's pardon) . . . but horse." here than there was when little But there has been a lot of thing he didn't know was even the thing that is missing, Johnny The players who went to Ireland Majella O'Hare and many other education, willy-nilly, of the going to happen—and would — the LUB AR LAR as they say were Bob Porter. Charlie Nolan. children were murdered by sol- British people since then—the prevent if he did know, if only in Irish — is this : that a lot of Eddie Murphy, Arthur Burke. diers in the North. For, Johnny best part of a million of us to make life that bit more toler- those breast-beaters felt no Jimmy Connors. Tom Mulhall. boy, and this is what I'm trying Irish living here must have able for himself! Oh yes, no grief when kiddies' heads were Jimmy Quinn and Tony Marrin- to come at, incidents like the an. The Club has been invited to taught them something—and the doubt there are lots of-Irishmen smashed in by rubber or by London bombs show up very give an exhibition at the forth- vast majority today can dis- and women who would contra- plastic bullets . . . clearly what that unfortunate coming G.A.A. Gala Day at tinguish between your ordinary dict me and point out that man in Derry said some years The hoteliers of Kinsale have Ruislip. run-of-the-mill Irishman (or THEY had been variously in- ago when he was dragged from published a statement to say woman) here, trying to make sulted, offended, even physically church: "Ordinary people are how much they abhor what has ends meet and maybe manage assaulted because of the IRA bastards!" And so we ARE happened in London and if there the annual holiday in that most bombs, but by and large, as any because we can happily close is no other motive than genuine TWO IRISH expensive of all holiday resorts, fair-minded man will admit, our eyes to the most horrific sorrow for what happened then Mary Horan's Land, and your there wasn't a lot. things if we are not affected by let us honour them. But how determined activist who will them and a Tory M.P. whose many of them with his/her hand REGIONS risk a lifetime in the nick to In fact not one British person name I just can't recall, ex- on his/her heart can say that nlant his few pounds of explo- even mentioned the matter to pressed this perfectly some • LLcy were not in the least in- sives. I can see your point, me and fro#i the feelers I put years back when he asked his fluenced by the resultant can- JOIN HANDS though, because like the majo- out I know this to be the case "Sunday Express" readers if cellations, the drop in the num- rity of our compatriots here, I with a majority of Irishmen | RETAILS have recently they really give a damn about ber of British visitors and the have experienced .that atavistic working on whatever few build- reached us ot a most in- what happened abroad. consequent loss of business ? I (nice word, Johnny boy !) dread ing jobs there are left here teresting and encouraging event may be doing them an injustice of a general backlash. The fact today under Maggie's wonderful held last March by the two and if so I would happily ask of the matter is that the emi- government; most British folk fjUMAN nature being what it Irish Regions of UCATT. THEIR pardon, but I can't help grant/exile—call him what you can distinguish between us ordi- is nine out of ten folk don't This was a joint weekend semi- reflecting — a mite cynically, will, 1 mean the man or the nary non-bomb-planting Paddies give a damn and it's no use in liar on Safety, Health and Wel- perhaps — that they didn't have woman who lives and works in and the bombing variety and pretending they do: how many fare held in Malahide, Co. Dublin, a lot to say on a number of oc- with SO delegates from all parts of a country that is not, strictly see no point in taking their ordinary folk cared here when casions when they might have Ireland, North and South, both men speaking, his own—is very vul- anger or frustration out on us the 13 civil rights protestors opened their mouths. and women. nerable when it comes to some- which is no more than fair, were shot dead in Derry that JN conclusion, Johnny, let me Besides the platform speakers, thing like this; they fear the Johnny, because neither do WE Bloody Sunday ? Not many say that I hope there won't there were numerous discussions displeasure of friends, neigh- seek to take OUR anger and and I was here, I know. . . . No be any more such explosions, among rank and file delegates in bours and workmates. Rela- frustration out on the ordinary more, Johnny, than a lot of Irish comparison of wages, conditions, though I'm not very optimistic. tives, too, since of course a lot working-class Britisher when a — never mind British — people safety measures, pension and sick- You will have noted that my let- of the Irish here are related by ten-year-old has his brains here care very much how many pay schemes, etc. ter has been strangely non-poli- marriage and blood to the smashed in by a plastic bullet die in the North as long as it On the Saturday night there tical and THAT comes from a people of this country where so (too lethal for use on what is doesn't affect themselves. That's was a general get-together and despair of politics: a friend of singsong that lasted well into the many of us have had to come to quaintly termed the British hard fact and there's no use not mine, a journalist, said in an night, with harmony (if not get a decent going on over the Mainland these days) or when facing it. . . . Irish Sunday paper recently that always musical!) and friendship years : there was a tragic/funny a young man is taken out from And to the response to the he believed the majority of Irish prevailing throughout. A good incident here some time back his tea in a Co. Tyrone farm- London carnage . . . I've lost people felt that the Northern omen for the growth of further when an Irishman couldn't stand house and shot in the middle of unity of the Irish Working Class! count of the number of Irish situation was insoluble — FAL his English wife boasting about his own hay-field by the oddly- people, who live in Ireland I GO HAER was how he put it in the glorious Fcilklands victory named security forces. mean, who had holidays booked the old tongue — and I must and gave her a slap in the puss WORKERS PARTY here in Britain and were afraid confess that that is how I feel, (costly, as it turned out when I think we may pay ourselves (Continued from Page Four) to come across because of the too. I don't know if there's one she took him to court!). the compliment that we will- ingly pay to the ordinary people bombing and how it might nation or two nations in Ire- Is no reason to doubt their sin- land ; I don't know if under any cerity in this. At the same time conceivable situation the Loyal- no organisation is uninfluenced by ists would join with the rest of its historical origins and the us in a one-country state, but leadership style as well as the or- ganisational and ideological disci- what I do believe is that, what- pline of the Party show clearly its ever Britain does, we are not ONE DAY SCHOOL going to get the Loyalists to indebtedness to its military back- ground. join with us in any sort of How will the Workers' Party fare meaningful union against their in the period ahead? This largely 'The Protestant- contribution to Irish Republicanism" wishes. Knowing the way you depends on whether Labour aban- think, Johnny, this will be a dons its support for Pine Gael and sort of heresy and so I'll say reverts to the politics of Connolly. IN THE 19th CENTURY IN THE 20th CENTURY no more for now. 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