FOUNDED 1939 Desmond Greaves Table Talk Organ of the | * CONTENTS * Connolly Association * EXCERPTS from the Table- Desmond Greaves's Talk of our late editor, Table Talk P.3 showing the realism, high Tributes intelligence and humanity of P5 an extraordinary man. A date Conference P.4 is given where it may be Songs P.6 helpful to set the context. The people 1 feel closest to are the Book Reviews P.7 Irish first, and then the English working class and then the people of America. Most of my relatives are in No. 536 OCTOBER 1988 America. The Americans have tremendous traditions, from which the world will one day benefit. (1969). THREE

Of course 1 am with the aristocrat, HUNDRED and with the working-class which hasan aristocracy of its own —but against the bourgeoisie and petit-bourgeoisie, that horde of cowards and trimmers. FAREWELL AT about 1.30 pm men and women When the last whiff of my ashes friends and colleagues of Desmond floats up the crematorium chimney, Greaves from all over Britain and many you can be sure there will be such an parts of Ireland began to assemble at assault on James Connolly, the likes the Co-operative Hall, Breck Road, of which you have never seen. It has Liverpool, on Tuesday, September 6th. begun already, with this fellow At about 1.45 pm over three hundred Morgan's book. I was lucky to get in people began to walk behind the hearse with the tricolour draped coffin. Two early, with my Connolly book, while pipers marched at the head of the there were people who knew Connolly mourners playing tunefully. still alive. I could interview them and 1 At Anfield, the coffin was carried by quote them as telling me such and Paddy Bond, Pat O'Doherty, Sean such. Redmond and Michael Mortimer into FRENCH TRAP CLOSES ON TUC the chapel. The mourners crowded in behind. AT the TUC Congress, EC President Delors omitted to tell the delegates that 80% of decision Then the Irish national Anthem, the making will be transferred from national parliaments to Brussels within the next decade. "Soldiers' Song" was played and sung. Thatcher says: I am proud to be Bernard Morgan, chairman of the Congress apparently swallowed the line, as they smiled politely at his attempted jokes, only British. What a silly woman! I presume Liverpool Connolly Association and one comment where he vaguely assured his listeners that "workers' interests would be taken that Mitterand says he is proud to be close colleague of Desmond tead out French and Kohl that he is proud to be the many messages of sympathy and account of," it seemed, was required from his hearers. German. As if one can be "proud" of tributes. He then introduced the anything one does not do or are not speakers, John Boyd, the London As part of a well planned in Brussels that we can discussion about 'Europe', responsible for. It shows her bogus computer engineering lecturer and PR exercise prior to the actually do something about meaning Britain's member- nationalism and her efforts to calm expert on the European Common Tory disquiet over the EEC. Market, Tom Walshe of Liverpool Irish Congress Mr Willis referred it." Mr Todd at the TUC said ship of the European Centre, Michael O'Riordan, Chairman of the Communist Party of Ireland and to section 118 of the SEA and "the only card game in town Community. Radical and left u Sean Redmond, Secretary of the stated the role of the law in at the moment is in a town journals abound with state- They have privatised the buses and Municipal Workers Union. are talking about privatising the Tie ceremony was ended with the British industrial relations called Brussels ... where we ments about the new era we playing of the "International." has become so one sided it is have got to learn the rules and live in and the need to come to water-works and much else. That Afterwards most of the three hundred means there is nothing people can people made their way to the Irish now a travesty of justice. It is pretty fast." Mr Willis and grips with modern conditions appeal to or complain about. If you Centre where there were refreshments Mr Todd do not seem to have in an international setting. A do not like the bus service or find it and all the different colleagues of inadequate, their reply is: why not Desmond Greaves mingled together. realised the rules are such badly corrupted form of the start up a bus company yourself! • Represented at the funeral were the 'We'll bring that they are not going to be word internationalism is used following organisations, The Connolly Association, London branches: Central, nril/atp pocp invited to the game in to justify support for South East, South West, East, West. Also JJIIVaiG UaDcasCe Brussels let alone get their replacing nation states with Have you heard of "spes phytisica" Nottingham, Northampton, Liverpool, the hope of sickness? I knew a man once Bolton, Glasgow. There were individual hand full of cards. There is no supranational states. who thought there was going to be a members from Birmingham and against great new dawning for mankind come Manchester. The trade unions represented mechanism for improving were: COSHE, CPSA, UCATT (five workers' interests and Mr out of China — that was years before branches), T & GWU, Municipal Workers the soldiers' SPECIAL APPEAL the revolution. It was because be had of Ireland, NUR and NCU, Droheda Trades Delors has no powers to OUR thanks to: C. O'S £50, J. Watson £5, bad TB. Diseases of the lung give you Council. Also present were members from THE families of the IRA unit killed by promise anything. P. Farrington £5, C. & G. Findlay£20, V. exaltation, those of the stomach make Campaign for Democracy in Ireland, the SAS in Gibraltar said on Morton £25, S. Hagan £10, J. McC £100, you depressed. So if you ever get over- Communist Party of Ireland, British September 15th, that they will be The labour and trade union D. Kotz and C. Williams £7.50, N. E. enthusiastic about something without Labour Party, CPGB, NCP, CPB. Other bringing a private prosecution for movement has suddenly Lanes, l.B.R.G. £45, T. Burke £25, W. good reason, tap your lungs! organisations were TU/CND, BSFS, murder against those involved. O'Mahony £5, E. O'Dowling £100, M. LGDR, Action for Peace, Irish Centre, Niall Farrell, brother of Mairead — found itself in the middle of a Brennan £10. Total: £407.50. (Continued on Page Three) Militant, Institute of Irish Studies. who along with Sean Savage and Desmond Greaves' remains will be later Danny McCann was shot dead by the moved to the family plot in Bebington SAS on March 4th — said in Cemetery. Written and verbal tributes and messages are printed on page five. Gibraltar: "It is for the Atorney General to take action. If he doesn't, we will." Mr Farrell said that evidence given SUSTENTATION by the SAS squad was unreal and ,- - ^ « ~ -v.. - <-• »"> unbelievable. i "There are more holes in it than in FUND poor Sean Savage's body. It's riddled OUR thanks to: A. Smith £5, K. Nolan £5, with contradictions. M. Keane £8, C. Pamment £2.50, J. "We intend to take civil action in Watson £5, South London CA £15, P. Ladkin £1, C.C. £25, R.H. £25. D. Northern Ireland against the seven McLoughlin £2.50, K. Doody £1. A. soldiers involved and the MoD." He O'Keefe £7, J. Nolan £2.50, A. Higgins , told the press. £10, Construction Safety Committee £10, "Untimately we will be taking this V. & M. Griffin £17.50, R. Doyle £2, J. to the European Court of -Human Kavanagh £5.20, A. Walsh £1.50, A. Rights," he added. McNally £3.20, supporters in South "The soldiers evidence" he. said London £11.97. Total £165.87. "contradicts civilian eye witnesses, the coroner's report and each other. "Even if Sean Savage had surrendered — as soldier 'D* made A "small section of the packed audience at the Jubilee Conference, Connolly Association, plain — he would have been killed. Kenilworth Hotel, London, 3/4 September 1988. Photo from London Irish News. (Conor The same applied to Dan McCann If-11 v • jit*.' . and my sister" he said. - 'sarin 11 ' •» SMI «- October 1988 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Three critics: look what you have made them do now, and so put the blame for the trouble on reactionaries. October 1988 ftette to Connaught Page Two THE IRISH DEMOCRAT It was when Tony Benn lost office EMMET STAGG, T.D. the ultimate withdrawal of the British and went out of government that be administration from Northern Ireland and the establishment of Irish unity. This might NEVER before have we experienced the By Peter Berasford Ellis took up socialism. But if be really had a seem somewhat blase. Aren't all Irish Anonn Is Anall present alignment of political forces in chance and tried to put into force all the political parties after this?The preamble of Ireland as wc have today. Never in the things he advocates, can you imagine their respective party constitutions might history of the State have all the right-wing how all bell would break loose. state it (Labour's calls for a '32 County parties (once two, now three), come into a WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE Workers Republic') but I'll be damned ll tacit alliance, never before has Fine Gael 'And the Englishman took it for they act that way. IN this column in April, I reported parliament. As is their wont, the propped up a Fianna Fail Government English members started to granted that other people took it Capitalism has outgrown the On an amusing note this has created .1 In this respect. Labour has a jump on the campaign by The Celtic everyone else. The key element of this is its whistle, cat-call, and behave like for granted. Herein lay the Nation State? You might rather say novel form of Western Parliamentary League to seek to persuade the link with the British Labour Party and the the pack of uffian school kids strength of his remarkable self- that the Nation State has outgrown practice, perfected by Fine Gael, namely United Kingdom Census voting with one's backside (Government Irish Labour Movement which has 32 they really are. Mr Speaker assurance. In an extraordinary capitalism. authorities to amend their proposes a Bill you state your problems county structure. demanded dyspeptically: 'What feat of introversion and question on the Celtic 'urguages extra version combined, and being with it and when it comes time to vote, stay The British Labour Party supports'Irish does that mean?' glued to your seat lest the slightest so that a more accurate picture of pleased enough with his own unity' as the long term goal What both A United Europe? Of course you movement might give your real opinions the number of speakers of the Obligingly, the junior minister image without having to look at it Labour parties can do, now, is to sit dow n must remember that Europe has been away). Democracy by abstention, that's together and put flesh on these bones, indigenous languages of these began to translate. The reply was in the pool, he has expected others united before. Under the Roman how Ireland is governed today. putting forward concrete transitional islands could be arrived at. A not particularly encouraging for to be equally pleased or, at least, Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, Parliamentary democracy will never be the policies which will prepare the ground for question on speakers of Irish those who want to see an adequate same. impressed, without calling on Napolean and Hitler. And it has fallen that eventuality. In other words, what does within the Six Counties has, for representation of programmes in policy mean on the ground.' them to examine him closely. apart again later. Hiere is no reason for More seriously, the present political example, not been part of the Gaelic on Scottish television. Mr, Secondly, we should use the Anglo-Irish 'This strength has, to a thinking this will not happen again. order has created an economic and social Census since 1911. Nor are there Kennedy replied: 'he does not concensus that is rivalling Thatcherism in Mechanism to put economic co-operation questions on Celtic-speakers sound any more acceptable to the perceptible extent, survived into anti-social, anti-working class and crude and integration high on the agenda. Both residents in other parts of the UK Opposition in Gaelic than he does these difficult days. Now that the individualist values. That these parties parts of Ireland suffer from similar although Westminster claims this in English.' pool is muddied with winter The national question needs to be receive 90% electoral support, that the economic problems: lack of a native as a centralised state. Welsh- spates and its surface wrinkled approached from the standpoint of concensus is so entrenched that a majority industrial base, reliance on foreign capital speakers have lived 'across the C. A. Mac Donald, Labour MP with winter winds, he has no call socialist internationalism. On that of the working class suppcrt the cuts (in the Republic, multi-national influence; in the North, the British sub-venlion) and border' in Hereford and for the Western Isles, thought it to be distressed that his image is basis it is unassailable. programme shows up the perilous Government responsibility to situation that any socialist party faces. ihe lack of a dynamic state role in ihe Shropshire since the Welsh/ no longer thrown back to him economics. increase the financial allocation to The challenge facing Labour is to break English border was so from the water. If he never Untimately, both parts of Ireland will the political concensus that exists between inaccurately drawn up in Tudor enable the broadcasting bothered to look into the pool All intellectual revolutions take place have to start relying more on each other to the right wing parties. If I thought that times. authorities to provide a Gaelic when it was placid and reflective, PETER BERRESFORD ELLIS within the ruling class. They are not get themselves out of the economic morass they were going to hang together for the television service. why should he do so now? His made by the working class or by w e all find ourselves in. There are a number next 30 years I'd hide under the bed (the I suppose it was to be expected outsiders. In social affairs problems are of short-term measures that could be It was a matter of time before image is in his heart, and it jolly Photograph of Desmond Greaves *ak«, in a restaurant in only place that reds like me would be that the Census authorities, who proposed which would win the support of the anti-Gaelic lobby reared its well ought to be in other people's almost4ilways solved practically before allowed). Imagine, future John Dublin about a month before his death. Photo by Derek working rt"n and women 011 both sides of have just issued their guide-lines head. John Marshall (Labour) heart's too.' Newcastle News they are solved theoretically. Brutonesque Ministers privatising for the 1991 Census, have utterly the border: declared that the people of This self-assured, illogical everything from the IDA to public toilets, refused to extend the question on Piers. ; consider Michael McDowell clones Infrastructural: rail and air transport Scotland wanted television nationalism strikes at many levels From Michael Crowe the Celtic languages. Amending More efficiency which means goosestepping about the Department of and not just on the Dublin/Belfast link. programmes they could enjoy and and diverse groups in English the question they say, would not Greaves Memorial Lecture to be organised more exploitation! Justice. If Cromwell were alive today he'd Energy: Provision of Kinsalegasand the understand... No, he was not society. Take the self-proclaimed TYNE and Wier County Association of lestorution of the electricity connector. maintain the continuity of by Newcastle Branch of The Connolly just say: 'Go to Connaught'. Hell is Here! referring to the Gaelic-speakers. liberal intellectual, Bernard Trades Councils and Sunderland Trades Association. The lecture is to be given Jby Agriculture: Ihe treatment of all of information. Concensus-breaking is not a science. But The language Scots enjoyed and Levin. I have always been curious Union Council were represented at the Sean Redmond, General Secretary of (be Whatever you do, never ascribe a Ireland as a single unit lor maximising funeral of Desmond Greaves by Michael there are a few rules that should be strictly understood was, naturally, that Levin could find no Irish Municipal Employees Trade Uni«n. good motive to the English adhered to. The first step in breaking a benefits from CAP. Well, of course not. That was Crowe. Desmond Greaves's Column English; not their native mumbo- contradiction in his 'liberalism' Further detailscan be had from the Tyaeside Government. Never, never. For they concensus is to not play by its rules. Let's Joint tourist marketing between the the purpose. Amending the Centre Unemployment. (Telephone Know thyself. I met a Jewish man North and South. jumbo! and his viscious racist attacks on Following a tribute to Desmond Greaves have one on. Marx used tobeamused at are quite incapable of it. look at the economy. The Right first pick question would give more Tyneside 2324606) or Sunderland .fades once who said that that meant: Know Co-operation in industrial policy I never cease to be astounded by the Celts. at its meeting on 8th September, it was the academics' use of the phrase " the up their aprons and cleavers and scream accurate information on the Council Centre for the Unemployed. your limitations. And when you have between the Republic's IDA and ihe the self-assured, calm, orchest- agreed to affiliate to the Connolly social question", as if all questions were hysterically, 'Cut taxes! Cut expenditure!' languages ... perhaps that would His attacks on the Irish are well (Telephone Wearside 5144888). reached them, you should get North's IDB and LEDU and Association and to sponsor a Desmond not social ones. What they were trying For the next act they don shawls, beat theii never do lor the mandarins of ration of English nationalism (the known. The article in which the someone else. That way you remain chests, and weep at the Tomb of the encouragement of sourcing within all of to do was to avoid referring to the Whitehall? Who wants accurate imperialist variety is, unfortun- Irish were depicted as ignorant, your own boss! Unknown Businessman. 'Shed a tear for Inland for Irish companies information on the Celts? ately, the English brand). It makes loud mouthed drunks (The Times, property questionor the class question. the oppressed private sector.' This comic Joint development co-operations It continually surprises me, though, emphasising public and co-operative The League are, of course, the most dedicated call of Celtic December 10, 1982) drew many Charlie Woods, R.I.P., 1900 - 1988 opera is playing out day after day, after , how (he academics have such a capacity day. enterprises in the depressed border continuing their efforts. Members nationalism (which merely seeks protests. But Levin has gone his wide reading on the subject. In discussion •i • . -i VETERAN socialist, trade unionist, and I never thought too much of lyrical to make tilings boring. I suppose it is regions. Celtic self-determination) sound blitMy on Ms way, firm in his Charlie often referred to T. A. Jackson's Never mind that public expehditure in of Parliament representing the true friend of Ireland, Charlie Woods died poetry. It is mostly about feelings This economic programme, working likea small,muteand lonelycryin classic, Ireland Her Own". Above all because most of them are of fairly Ireland is lower than most Western Welsh-speaking areas in England apparent belief that he is a peacefully in Newcastle upon Tyne on with the Irish trade union movement, can however, he understood the politics of rather than ideas. My feelings! What limited intelligence, who work away European countries. Never mind that will be asked if they will table the wilderness. 'progressive*. September 8th, aged 88. begin to win support from all working men Ireland because he understood the role-of they don't understand is that everyone's piling up facts upon facts, without a corporate and capital tax policy makes us questions on the matter. But as English nationalism is the Similarly, he has been the first the tax haven of Europe. Never mind that and women and emphasise the vital British Imperialism. For that reason, he feelings are the same, or more or less proper understanding of them. Mere these constituencies are unshakable belief that every other to elbow his way onto television Born in Blaydon on Tyne in 1900 his life both profits and unemployment have economic element of political unity. A never saw a lengthy discussion on Iretand-as so. It is their thoughts and ideas that are inky-fingers. Take this new book about nation in the world is envious of vividly reflects the momentuous upheavals skyrocketed in the last six years. Why let Northern policy of British intent to represented by Tories, one doesn't programmes to sneer at the Celtic a "diversion" from other issues. On the different. Nothing new can be said England and has the ambition to and struggles of the working class this povelrty among the Irish in Liverpool in R.I. P. facts dominate the stage. But what withdraw and economic integration can expect great things. language movements, welcome contrary he often expressed the view .that a about feelings. century. the 19th century. There is nothing in it happens with Labour? It becomes begin 10 locus on consensus where it Having said that, self- be English... particularly the the extinction of the Celtic solution to the national question in Ireland about the wealth being piled up on the associated with a set of proposals from its belongs, within the Labour movements ol peripheral Celtic nations. It is a languages and call them Despite enlisting young Charlie survived was a necessary prerequisite for social proclaimed champions of the other side. Yet it is impossible to TADG EGAN Party Leader (they are only proposals at both Ireland ::nd Britain. the horrors of the 1914-18 War. He returned advance in Britain. languages do pop up in the most self-assurance which smiles away anachronistic in his brave new All the greatest art avoids the this stage to our Party's Economic Policy National and economic reconstruction to the northeast sickened by the war's waste understand the one without the other. unusual places... even in the facts, neglects logic and takes for English civilization. Charlie was an internationalist of a personal, or seems to. it avoids the MY early recollection of Tadg was in Committee) which call for massive tax cuts are the bedrock upon which the Labour of human life. Resuming work in the North House of Commonsamong junior granted that the English language I can never be sure whether stature to be rarely found in the British first person and reveals through the early sixties and his friend Joe for the well off and impliedly criticises Movement in Ireland can begin toassert its East coalfield, he was excited by the 1917 Labour movement. He came through a hard lory ministers! and culture is the only true vehicle Levin is a fool or a knave. If he is indirection. O'Connor with whom he was interned government expenditure on public political will. This calls for not only revolution, and was determined to school, a school whose lessons included Glancing through Hansard (for of civilization. intelligent enough to understand by the Free State Government. transport and secondary education. proposing but also unsettling. James understand the system that had perpetuated Ypres, lock-outs, military occupation of pit it is obvious now — unlike what we Connolly once said that the best role an As John Milton once said: the double standards he preaches This school of 'we-can-cut-public- July 27) I noticed that the Scottish the recent slaughter of the "Great War". villages, blacklisting, hunger, fascism and all thought when we were younger — elected socialist could play would be to He could be described as a living link expendilure-better-than-they-can' or Member for Ross, Cromarty and 'God showed Himself to His then he is a knave. But if, as I betrayal by reformists. Charlie never lost I left it too late to retire and will keep that capitalism will exist beside enter the halls of representative democracy with Republican history of the twenties 'we-can-cut-taxes-better-than-right- Skye. C. P Kennedy (a Liberal Englishmen first*. Is it fair to suspect when I give the matter He became involved in the "Plebs sight of the class enemy, and never failed to going right on to the end now. (1988). to upset the present political order. Let's socialism for a very long time and that and thirties period. He believed that wingers' is one we can only fail in because it quote from an Englishman who considered opinion, he merely League", a vigorous expression of working stress the centrality of imperialism to not be sanguine about the matter. As a social and Social Democrat — or have they will interact in all sorts of is not our own. We must, instead, put lived threecenturiesago? Perhaps. suffers from the unquestioning class desire for self-education. This capitalist survival. Dublin Castle under the Free State ist politician I don't care which they changed their name again?) established a habit of continual self complex ways, ff the USSR had been forward courageously and imaginatively Let me quote from The Times, assurance that the words When he referred to the Union Jack as the administration served the same purpose combination ol allied interest of the Rtghl I asked the Secretary of State for development which never left him, the vast The weakness of the Republicans is more successful economically it might an alternative logic exposing the half- "Butcher's Apron", he did not do so to inddge as it did under the British. upset. But I certainly would be concerned Scotland what representations he November, 1963, from a Christian 'civilization' and 'Englishness' variety of volumes on his bookshelf on the ideological side. have been different. But what could truths and outright lies of the Right Wing his listener in rhetoric, he did so because-be if my role as a socialist politician upset 110 hac received in favour of Englishman: 'The God I serve, have the same meaning, then we expressing the wide breath of his interests. you expect with the pressures of the In conversation he was a good Parties, an alternative logic which puts job understood, as he put it, that "Imperialism is one in particular. who inhabits the council chamber must pity him. From self-education sprang his socialism, raconteur and made his point with few creation and technological modernisation increased Scottish Gaelic the mortal enemy of progress and is arms race? Gorbachev is trying to A consensus breaking role for Laboui of my soul, said to me, I am and he was admitted to the Communist words in debate and usually laced with of our economic base as the economic language programmes in In view of his pronouncements therefore the prime and common foe of the • All this talk about "devolution" in change that, but as soon as- he would be the lirst step in posing a radical satisfied with the people of Party in 1922. humour. priorities. We must convince people that if television in Scotland. on the celtic languages, I would British and Irish working class." Farewell to the North. Calling for devolution from commences, look what ups and hits jobs are not created through major state alternative that can unite Irish working England, as with no other people like to quote Mr Levin from The men anil women. North and South And As Rilkind was enjoying his Charlie took a leading role in (he national a true friend and paragon of Brifein is not consistent with calling for him in the jaw — the national He was a very good carpenter and in intervention then we can look forward to since man became conscious of what about the wealthy, the rich and vacation (not in Scotland) junior Times (June 5, 1975): coal strike which culminated in the General internationalism. • Britain to get out. Devolution from question, in this Armenian business. I later years we both worked for Camden more years of poverty, emigration and low time. To this people, I have given powerful, the leader writers of the Irish minister Michael Forsyth 'The English language is not a Strike. He also played a leading role in the j J. CORCORAN Duiflin as a local arrangement is a was thinking what I would do in his Direct Labour Department. standard of living, not matter what the Independent and the spokespersons for the dominion of an Empire...* tool, though it is used as one; it is Newcastle Council of Action in those days. different matter. But if there is place. Perhaps set up a commission, GNP and export trade figures show. answered i for Newcastle and District Connajly FIJE. sectarian politicians and glotified The Scottish historian, Moray After Citrone's betrayal, Charlie was among devolution from London, it can be "de- 'Anns na dha no tri bhliad- not an ornament, though it is Association and Irish Democrat supporters. so as to buy time while he was getting Another issue lies in the North. Now I'm gombeen men. the entire apparatus that those victimised by the pit owners. He was hnaichean a chaidh seachad tha MacLaren (If Freedom Fail, 1964) ornamental; it is not even a devolved" again, just like it was before. on with his economic reforms. not doing cartwheels over the Anglo-Irish sustains a corrupt order that divides our not to return to work in the mines until 1938. sinn air tagraidhean fhaighinn o once wrote of English conduit, though expression pawes Communism's weakness is the Agreement but there is no sense in praising nation, sends its citizens to the nationalism: "It is the faith of a through it. It is us, and we are it;it national question. Remember Biafra? Nottingham Branch it one day and calling for its suspension on unemployment junk heap or emigration bhuill uasal, comhairlean ionadail In the intervening twelve years, Charlie Narcissus who has no need to lie defines us as well as describing us, Hie trouble with most academics the next. Anyway the real issues do not lie bout, condemns its women to second class agus buidhnean Gaidhlig...' dedicated himself to political work. He was DESMOND j Social on his belly gazing at his image in it is the breath whereby we haye doing social science research is their in the terms of the Agreement itself. The status and berates the low income group Not even a Tory minister is district secretary of the North East district real issues for the Labour Party are the pool. He just takes it for life, the means and also the for daring to ask about a better standard of allowed to speak Gaelic in the of the CPGB from 1934-1937. He also GREAVES lack of knowledge of the world. The Friday, October 7th twofold: first, to state inunequivocal and granted. meaning, the hedge and the field Nowadays the Russians under living? To hell with them. Let's be socialist hallowed halls of the English attended the Lenin International School in non-academic often will have a nose unambiguous terms that Labour's goal is again. alike. If it perishes, we perish; no, Moscow for a year, travelling and returning for something which he thinks is likely Gorbachev are developing a more OLD vie tavern; if it perished, we have perished,' illegally on Soviet bound ships on the Tyne. BOOKS because of-his worldly experience, and sympathetic attitude to religious faith. Now had the words been He played a crucial role in the campaign to i this will lead him to look for Isn't tot What we were saying they 7.30 pm 1 JOIN THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION written by a Celt, and 'English' defend Republican Spain, and lost a number something until he finds it. But for the should 4o all along? I . hare been ON Fletcher Gate, been replaced by 'Irish' or 'Welsh* of friends in that war... academics everything is books and advocating this in the Irish Democrat In Its Jubilee Year... and receive tlie etc., Mr Levin would have been paper. for years. j Nottingham "Irish Democrat" FREE the first to launch a scathing He worked at Mongague Colliery from Name attack on the 'backwardness' of 1938-1958, where he was union branch JAMES CONNOLLY Kelly's Heroes secretary. He was transferred to North SUNDERLAND UCATT the sentiments. LIAM MELLOWS Address Walbattle pit where he worked underground Die sociologists' use the word I marvel continually at the stupidity Speaker from affiliate to the Connolly Association Yet what is right for English, is until his retirement in 1965. He remained SEAN O'CASEY "societal" instead of "social". I always of the Left, instead of getting into a SUNDERLAND No 4 branch of also right for all the languages of actively involved In the working class stop reading a book when I see that twist about Afghanistan or the Six U.C.A.T.T. passed the following and continue to campaign for Irish Birm 6 Committee £6.50 one year £3.50 six months the world; and, therefore, it is movement to the end. word. It means the writer is trying to Counties, they should say to their resolution at its meeting on 8th self-determination, being the only AT SemHo: 244/246 OftAV8 INN HOftP, LONDON, WC1 equally right for the Celtic September. solution for peace. I came to know Charlie in the relatively languages. In this small This branch congratulates the We acknowledge the timeless work recent past, and will always remember being FOUR PROVINCES Connolly Association on its 50th of Desmond Greaves, who paragraph, Mr Levin has given the •track by the surety of his convictions on BOOKSHOP Anniversary. They have continually campaigned until his death in August raison d'etre for the existence of Ireland. He was familiar with Ireland's tried to educate the British labour 1988 to educate the movement and the Celtic movement. For once, history, due partly to the strong Irish 244 GRAY8 INN RD, WC1 movement on Irish affairs. We urge contributed major works on James Mr Levin and I agree! community In the coalfield, but also due to the Sunderland Trades Council to Connolly and Liam Mellows. •

Page Four THE IRISH DEMOCRAT October 1988 PRICE INCREASE jr October 1988 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Five TO FORTY PENCE ANNOUNCING the rise in the price of TRIBUTES TO DESMOND GREAVES the Irish Democrat to 40p, Pat Bond would only be found at this stage history. He was a great but modest said our price had not conformed to From Dublin Council of Town Hall, Hackney, British Peace Assembly in the context of a phased and man. modern costs for a long time and price We send our best wishes to the .Trades Unions. constructive withdrawal of the London, E8 1EA. In this loss, we send our rises though regrettable, were long Connolly Association on the t ^ It was with deep regret that we British Government's role form On behalf of the people of the fraternal condolences to the overdue. He said we were attempting to occasion of its 50 years Jubilee. heard of the sudden death of Irish affairs. He emphasised that London Borough of Hackney I Connolly Association. be not harsh, but just, and equitable. He Desmond Greaves. He was a would wish to join with you today Congratulations for your unique any devolution to a local assembly Peter Berresford Ellis, announced the proposal to raise the human dynamo. Ideas flew from in the celebration of fifty years of contribution to the struggle for an Democrat subscription to £6.50 to which remained under the British independent and sovereign Chairman, Celtic League. him like sparks. He was always in Parliament's control would be a unrelenting work for the Connolly cover the new price for the paper and motion. From his earliest years, Association on behalf of the Irish Ireland able to play its own part in From London Irish Labour the rise in stamp costs. The membership recipe for more violence in the the fight for world peace and he developed a deep interest in the future. in Britain and in the struggle with Councillors. fee, he announced would be £8 for Kibble, Josephine Logan, Iberesa political problems of Ireland and the British Labour movement progress. We share your sorrow at Joe Deighan, John McClelland Condolences on the death of individuals, £10 for couples, £4 for McGing, Ellen Mitchell, Martin In the welfare of Irish emigrants to defending the right of the Irish the loss of a great man, Desmond senior citizens and the unwaged. Sinn Fein, Belfast Greaves. We are sure his work will Desmond Greaves and congrat- Moriarty, Peter Mulligan, Pat ! Britain. This interest still burned * * * people to self-determination. live on. ulations to the Connolly The constitutional amendment which O'Donoghue, Derek O'FIaherty, Joe brightly to the very end. His work Allow me also to send my Association on fifty years of was required to make the changes was Rosemary Bechler, O'Grady, Jane Tate. I will never be forgotten so long as From Sinn Fein, Belfast condolences to the Conference on activity. General Secretary, B.P.A. agreed by the delegates to the i people read his books on James I wish to extend my sympathies the death of Desmond Greaves. Conference. * » * Financial report i [Connolly and Liam Mellowes, his to the friends and comrades of Both as a writer and a political history of the Irish Transport and Desmond Greaves, socialist, activist, Desmond's contribution From Communist Party of Executive Council Moving the audited accounts for (General Workers Union and his internationalist and fighter for to the Irish movement has been Great Britain. Election 1987, outgoing treasurer Jane Tate many contributions to Irish Irish freedom. His untimely death gigantic. Celtic League, London Condolences on the death of stressed that although the Association labour history. The world will be a on his way to yet another meeting Councillor Andrew Puddgphatt Branch Desmond Greaves. He was a true was growing, there was a need for more darker place with his passing, as if Hie following were elected to the new on the Irish issue is a blow to the It is with much regret that I find son of James Connolly. members and more activity. a bright light had been .John Boyd. Martin Moriarty, and Peter Mulligan at the top table, Jubilee Conference, Executive Council. Paddy Bond, Stella progressive movement in Britain that one of my first duties as a Gordon McLennan, extinguished. Bond, John Boyd, Michael Crowe, The accounts were unanimously and to those struggling for Gery Lawless, Councillor. newly elected chairman of the General Secretary. September 3/4, Kenilworth Hotel. Photo from London Irish News. (Conor Kelly). • * * Gerard Curran, Doris Daly, Tony accepted. k. Sam Nolan, Secretary, socialism and self-determination Celtic League is to write Conference closed at 4.15 pm. Chair, (Association of Donaghy, Brendan Feeney, Brett r* * * here. expressing the sadness of the Ereland posed for the British people. London Authorities Irish O l l-(,01\(, president, Peter Connolly Association was unique. In his writings however, we are league on learning of the death of From New Communist Party The miners, the Wapping pickets and Mulligan opened the conference, noting There was the perfect blend of theory From Irish Transport and left with a weapon to continue the Sub Committee). C. Desmond Greaves. of Great Britain. the Dover seafarers have all suffered and practice. Speaking of the situation the man\ memorial tributes to the late General Workers Union. fight and we, Irish Republicans, As one who has worked over Desmond was a member of the It was with great sadness that I under police tactics developed in in Ireland, Sean Redmond said the General Secretary, Desmond (Jreaves. are grateful for that. In the coming the years both with Desmond League's London Branch and a learned of the death of Desmond. Northern Ireland, he said. Anglo-Irish Agreement had ensnared Dublin No. 3. He then invited former president, Joe WOLFE TONE Irish Republic Desmond Greaves Greaves, and on occasion, in firm believer in the aims and What a tragic loss to the whole Deighan to chair the First session. the Dublin Government. Extradition It is with regret that we have • The Prevention of Terrorism Act, will live forever in the peaceful just tactical opposition to him, may I objects of our movement. He will movement, nationally and had been overturned. He referred to learned of the death of our dear and democratic society that Irish pay the following tribute. be sorely missed. internationally; irreplacable in In his opening chairman's address, introduced as a temporary measure in Irish Trade Unions for Unity and friend, Desmond Greaves, ON NEUTRALITY people will at last enjoy. Whatever one's view of His work will remain his best terms -of his knowledge, Joe Deighan told the conference we had 1974, it to be made permanent." Independence with which he 'vas closely p Desmond was a true friend of Gerry Adams, MP. Desmond's analysis of the balance monument, particularly his experience and practical activity. been too dependent on Desmond Gerard Curran, editor of the Irish associated. There had been some ,the Irish Working class, JOHN Foley reminded the conference independence is part of the world v (President, Sinn Fein) of political forces at any given biography of James Connolly, (.rea\es. "We thought he was here for Democrat said it was unrealistic to change on Northern Ireland Trade particularly those who for • * • The greatest tribute that we can that Desmond Greaves had referred to struggle for peace and socialism. time in Anglo-Irish relations, which stands as a definitive work CUT. Desmond did not believe in "Fits expect one out of five armed groups to Union Committee's policy on economic reasons had to emigrate pay to Desmond is to re-dedicate and Starts" politics. Mis application to Wolfe Tones plea for neutrality in his "In the old days you had blantant Local Government and whatever one's disagreement with in spite of 'revisionists' to discredit call a unilateral ceasefire and lay down discrimination against Catholics. A and live in England. Many of these ourselves to the struggle for Irish pamphlet "Theobald Wolfe Tone and imperialism. Now the system is under £ the tactical application of that it. His work in building up the political work was unremitting, lie had their arms. If, he said you wanted peace Resolution had been passed in lieu of workers were employed in the Public Services Union. Freedom, not just for the sake of The Irish Nation." cloud. The old methods have beer analysis at a given point in time, I Connolly Association, his a vision of the future derived from in the Gulf War you would not expect giving full support to the McBride construction industry, and We are sorry to hear of the Ireland alone, as he said so many "It will not be pretended," said Tone. replaced by more subtle forms. One is know of no one who has displayed editorship of the Irish Democrat, socialist and national literature. only Iran to cease fighting. The British Principles. Desmond all through his life was death of Desmond Greaves and times, but also because it is in the "That we have immediately, from our the anti-national brainwashing. And such dedication over such a long his lectures and his unflagging press and Government are more and Conscious of them and outspoken we would extend our sympathy to interests of working people in "He was intolerent of dilettantes. own concerns, any ground for now we have to deal with the pseudo- period of time on the Irish front of dedication to the movement foran more speaking the language of war in their cause. you and your members. He will be Britain. When we first met, the two interfering in the approaching war; on marxists. The latter are merely the world anti-imperialist independent, united and socialist when speaking about the six counties. It Pat O'Doherty of Liverpool ^ His biography on James missed by all of us in the Irish George Da vies, personalities gelled together the contrary, peace with all the world, producing a rehash of Williair< movement as Desmond. Ireland have earned him a place in might be time to consider calling in the Connolly Association drew the attention Connolly and the history of the trade union movement. National Organiser immediately. He fought those who but peace with Spain particularly, is Walker's ideas. Like Walker they are United Nations to exert pressure to of Conference to the current all-out formative years of the Irish Phil Flynn, wanted to engulf us in the pig trough of our object and interest. The quarrel is saying that nationalism is out of date. bring about a withdrawal. attack on democracy. The Irish iTransport and General Workers* General Secretary and EC member the I Ft . Hie iconoclasts wanted to merely and purely English." We must counter this by insisting that question wa»ttoe key thing, He referred Union are an inspiration and a of Irish Congress of Trade Unions. smash the Irish language. "When Desmond Greaves talked for The speaker drew the analagy with Irish nationalism is a progressive force. to the "unholy alliance" in Europe. If source of invaluable information * * * "Both republicans and socialists will the need for a declaration of intent to the present, stressing the importance of In Irish history we had struggles for Ireland gave up neutrality, unity would to the Irish and international suffer tile loss. We must keep the withdraw from Ireland he used to say he • maintaining the policy of Irish great democratic and social causes. be assured. He reminded the conference Labour Movement. Ken Gill, Member of TUC ( onnolh Association and the Irish expected the British Government to use neutrality. Bigotry and undemocratic unionism of Mallon's attack on neutrality. • While his death will be a great General Council, Joint persuasion and financial inducements were fought. Democrat going. Greaves was a great Tom Durkin reminded the loss, we are in no doubt that his to get the unionists to accept a united Secretary MSF. patriot and internationalist. He gave Conference of how the Prevention of In replying to the resolution, Martin work will be continued in the and independent Ireland." Desmond was a very important his life to [lie Irish struggle." Terrorism Act had been made Moriarty said the level of debate was Connolly Association by his Sunday, September 4th permanent. He referred to a Bristol influence on my life. I met him Brett Kibble urged the conference to very high. He asked the question: friends and colleagues. engineer who had been excluded from "Does the Connolly Association have i when I was relatively new to the Annual Report support the Campaign for Democracy Continuing the discussion on the ^ On behalf of all Dublin building Britain. Under the PTA he said 'you future? With the father figure of movement and worked as his in Ireland, whose programme include Policy Resolution, Eamonn workers we extend our deepest 'bespoke' cartoonist on the Irish - Moving the annual report for the have to say why you should not be Desmond Greaves gone, are we going economic democracy. We need, he McLoughin said we should look at the sympathy. Democrat. Like thousands of F\ecutive C ouncil, John Boyd noted deported. Strip searching is now being to stumble? We could answer with added, to go all out for the "Time to past so as to mould the future. The k Eric Fleming, Branch Secretary other activists, he was my that Jiiri.m knapp and not Ray Bucton used against black women. Northern another question. Is Ireland yet united? Go" programme. Irish Democrat attempt is being made to roll back the [ Michael Lambe, Chairman. constant source for understanding as stated in the annual report had Ireland is being used as a laboratory. While the answer is "No" there is a support was essential for its success. gains of the French Revolution. The Irish history and Irish people's chaired a successful conference 011 The same methods were used against vital need for the Association. We have i * * * ideas of Wolfe Tone have been replaced aspirations. He was one of the few British l abour and the Irish Question. Derek O'Flaherty referred to the the miners and at Wapping." got to take the lead in the struggle. by many Irish historian, by From Campaign for writers who combined national beginning of TUC week on the Flann Campbell was pleased Tom "Violence" is the punishment for the psychological and social studies, Democratic Rights. aspirations and class objectives in following Monday. The Irish Democrat Durkin had raised the question of the "economism" of the labour movement. Policy resolution because Tone was inspired by the a vigorously Marxist manner. He would be missing at the Congress, he PTA in relation to civil liberty here. There is no overnight solution. I It was with deep regret and a French Revolution. University will be missed by many both sides said. Not only, he. warned, was the "The curtailment of liberty in the six The Policy Resolution was passed keen sense of loss that the Dominating the Conference debate programmes had been underpinned by of the Irish Sea, but his influence labour movement not making progress counties spills over into Britain. An unanimously. The text of the resolution on the lengthv policy resolution was the the aims of 1992. Even some of us here committee of the Campaign for on the Irish question but it was going injury to one in the six counties is an along with some more highlights from will live on. impact of the single market in 1992. today had been affected by the | Democracy heard of the sudden backwards. At the NUR Conference injury to all in Britain. We must convince the Conference will be published in the Anthony Coughlan, of the Irish distortion in language. I have heard death of Desmond Greaves. He • • * one resolution supported the Anglo the labour movement that unity and November issue. Sovereignty Movement, the group Britain being referred to as the was widely known as an Irish Clare Short, MP Irish Agreement while another had been I Historian and journalist through which forced the debate on the Single "Mainland", as if Ireland was just an Desmond was a fine comrade passed for withdrawal. his biographies of James huropean Act in the 26 counties, off-shore island. who was loved and respected by Connolly and Liam Mellowes and w arned of the immensity of the change. many. We shall miss him. The best his editorship of the Irish What 1992 means," he told the In the editorial office "We have got to use video, painting tribute we can pay to him is to Pipers lead the way into the chapel at Anfield Crematorium followed by the friends and Democrat for 40 years. What is conference "is the whole reorganisation and music to promote the ideas of continue his lifelong work to Sean Redmond, General Secretary not so well known or understood colleagues t)f Desmond Greaves. of«world imperialism. It means a James Connolly' he went on. The achieve freedom and justice for of the Municipal Workers Union of is the seminal role he played in the concerted attempt to end national Connolly Association must invade the Ireland. Ireland told the Conference he first met fosmative years which led to the democracy and the nation state." academic world. The young will be * * * Desmond Greaves in 1957. He said he campaign for democratic rights Executive member John Boyd taking seeking an understanding which only we From New York was very proud of having worked with and civil reforms in the Six Desmond Greaves Memorial Meetings up the theme, said that the Caterpillar can provide. We need an influx of To the Friends of Desmond him for eight years though, sometimes, Counties. He was the first to pin Tractor dispute in Glasgow showed that masses of young people." Greaves, our deepest sympathy. added smiling, he felt he should have down the British Parliament as to Liverpool Newcastle workers alone could not resist a His sudden death silences one of London been given a medal for it. He told the its responsibility for the transnational company. Only the Eddie Cowman, one of the the most brilliant minds on Irish story of when Desmond had left the undemocratic rule and discrim- nation state was in a position to stand Association's most flamboyant general affairs. His books on Connolly date off a notice of a meeting in the inatory excesses of the Stormont up to the transnationals. secretaries recalled the days in Hyde and Mellows Will never be Unity House paper. By the time Desmond walked Parliament. He pioneered the Labour History Tyne Room, "But after 1992 Brussels would be in Park with Desmond Greaves when they surpassed. His writing in the Irish across the editorial office to see his Concept of a Bill of Rights. The control of 80% of economic decision had to contend with a hoard of jeering Democrat lifts been read world error, he thought up a reply. "I diu :hat British Parliament rejected this NUR Hall Museum Tyneside Cinema making, reducing national parliaments Orange tourists. As a speaker he was a wid: for decades. deliberately" he said. "So that lots of constructive approach and we to rubber-stamping machines", he said. terrified beginner and he watched We American admirers of people would be ringing in and it would mesmerised as Desmond took over. now know the policies which Euston Road, Wm Brown Road, Pilgrim Street, generate more interest." Sean Westminster did adopt led to the Desmond Greaves hope that his untiitiely death will not set back announced the presentation of a set of He advised the Association to pay mayhem and violence of the last London Liverpool Newcastle Northern Ireland danger his and the Connolly Assoc- photographs of Desmond to the special attention to the new wave of twenty years. iation's work to win the British Tom Durkin, vice-chairman of Brent Connolly Association. young emigrants. He said the first Sean Redmond, Pat O'Donoghue, and Michael 18th October 21st October i Among the organisations and people for the cause of Ireland and 29th October generation Irish, combined with the Trades Council, called on the Continuing, Sean Redmond Crowe at the Conference. Photograph from London individuals who we consulted in to win the Irish in Britain to the 7.00 pm new young emmigrants would make a 6.30 pm Tues. 7.30 pm Association to campaign in the dangers described Greaves as a man of action, our formative discussions, we cause of Labour. great combination Irish News. (Conor Kelly). Speaker: that the continued British occupation of as well as a thinker. He said the sought the opinion of Desmond Gerald O'Reilly, John Joe Hoey, Speakers: S. Redmond Greaves. He was adament that the Joseph Jameson, New York, Clare Short MP F.Campbell A. Coughlin - £1.50p - solution to the Irish question U.S.A.

i i 5 aM3 a H nt *h r Page Six THE IRISH DEMOCRAT October 1988 IRELAND FRANK ROCHE FROM Qamrayoa Cauaveihl HER OWN ENNISCORTHY October 1W8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT (Words: Dick Gaughan. (Air: Boolavogue) Tune: Skibbereen) A BRAND-NEW weapon that needed testing I THE JACKETS GREEN (This sonjj was actually sung by Dick Was brought to Ireland in sixty-nine; TRANQUIL WHI N I was a maiden fair and young on the pleasant banks of Lee, Gaughan on the BBC, which caused It silenced protest, it was effective; No bird that in the greenwood sung was half so blithe and free some consternation) 'Twas CS Gas - and it worked out fine. M> h eart ne er beat with flying feet, no love sang me his queen IT wounds me in the heart, It stung the eyes out - it burned the lungs up Till down the glen rode Sarsfield's men, and they wore the jackets green. Although I am a stranger born. To see my Irish cousins "It's harmless stuff" said front bench MP's Wing Donal sat on his gallant grey like a king on a royal seat. In division split and torn; So the people crouched in their little houses And m> heart leaped out on his regal way to worship at his feet. The cause they should be fighting for And wondered when the onslaughts would cease. Land Hunger Oh! Love, had you come in those colours dressed and wooed with a There's many still deny - Then into London came a brave young hero IRISH Peasants: Violence Corruption and gerrybuilding soldier's mien IRELAND'S Inland Water- Ireland her own, and all therein From Enniscorthy of ancient fame; and political unrest 1780- became the order of the day and the I d have laid m\ head on \our throbbing breast for the sake of your jacket ways. By Ruth Delany. canals spread very slowly, often one Between the earth and sky. Straight to the Commons he strode uprightly, green. 1914. Edited by Samuel Published by Appktree part becoming unnavigable before the The demon of division With smiling face - Frank Roche his name. No hoarded wealth did m> love own, save the good sword that he bore; next was opened. Some did survive to Which has blighted Ireland's cause Clarke and James S. Press. Price £7.95. But I loved him for himself alone and the colour that he wore. Then from the gallery he cried his message serve a useful purpose well into the Has only served her rulers Donnelly, Jr. Published by For had he come in England's red, to make me England's queen, "Of all your talking I've had enough!" twentieth century, although the And legitimised their laws; In 1717 the Irish Parliament offered I'd rove the high green hills, instead for the sake of the Irish green. And down among them he threw the canister GUI 7 Macmittan. pp4S4. coming of the railways consigned There's those who rule, those who resist £1,000 to the first person to provide Saying "Here's a taste of your harmless stuff!" £12.95 paperback. five hundred tons of Irish coal in many to premature ends. When William stormed with shot and shell at the walls of Garryowen And those who bow the knee Dublin. The proprietors of the In the breach of death m\ Donal fell and he sleeps near the Treaty Stone. Regardless of what flag they wave And there beneath him this grand Assembly Present day historical research is Ballycastle Colliery claimed the The relative success of the Lagan That breach the foemen never crossed when he swung his broad-sword Or which their deity. Ran here and there to get away about dispelling myths and replacing Navigation as compared to the Newry them with as true a picture as it is reward in 1721, shipping the coal by keen. For the ruling class of Ireland From the "harmless stuff" they had used so freely Canal was one of the factors in possible to obtain, of the lives and sea. This gave the impetus to the And I do not weep m> darling lost, for he fell in his jacket green. Is neither Pape nor Prod, On the poor proud people who had no say. establishing Belfast as a major town in motivations of our ancestors. This Tyrone colliery owners to look to the Serves neither Pope nor Paisley And now in Brixton our hero's waiting north-east Ireland. But generally it? When Sarsfield sailed away I wept as 1 heard the wild ochone, v volume, formidable at first sight, in Dublin market and ten years later For Power is their God; For the judgment of the powers that be, was the railways which determined I felt, then, dead as the men who slept 'neath the fields of Garryowen, size and layout, sets out to do just this. their agitation was rewarded when Their loyalty is neither to the growth or otherwise of Irish While Ireland held mv Donal blessed, no wild sea rolled between, But we are watching and we are waiting There are twelve contributors, work started on the construction of Dail Eireann nor the Crown townships. The last remaining Till I would fold him to mv breast all robed in his jacket green. And we won't rest till our Frank is free! including two editors, from the Newry Canal, linking Newry Uam O'Flaherty in 1984 To them, Ireland's a piece of to Lough Neagh. It opened 'classic' canal, the Grand Canal, - EILEEN FINNEGAN Universities worldwide. The nearer the day of revolution. Ever M> soul has sobbed like the waves of woe that sad o'er tombstones break. Property they try to own. throughout eleven years later. The linking Dublin with the Shannon, SKERRITT. pp286. The publication was made possible by a closed to commercial traffic in 1960 though Skerritt is both a bully and a Lor I buried my heart in his grave below for his and Ireland's sake. You Protestants of Ireland first cargo of Tyrone coal arrived in grant from the University of Assassin. pp286. Insur- bore the writing is so brilliant that the And I crv: "Make uav for the soldier's bride in your halls of death, sad Stand up and sing your song; Dublin in 1742, having been carried Wisconsin-Madison and is a very During the last decade there has rection. pp254. Three reader's interest and sympathy is queen." But, to a stranger, one thing's clear - overland from Coa[island to Lough detailed study of aspects of rural been an upswing in interest in canals always held. The Skerritts of this world I or I long to rest h\ m\ true love's side, and wrapped in the folds of green. Your heroes are all wrong; ONLY 0UR RIVERS RUN FREE Neagh. The Coalisland Canal, started paperback novels by Liam KEY D violence in Iceland over a period from as tourist attractions. Better a stretch are always flexing their muscles. The? Your praise is for a Dutchman, ten years before, would not be ready I saw the Shannon's purple tide roll down by the Irish Town 1780> to the outbreak of the first world of water than rubbish-filled holes in OFlaherty. Each £3.95. usually insult the people who try to help You forget about your own. for use until over a decade later. As I stood in the breach b\ Donal's side when England's flag went down; war in 1914. the ground. Parts of canals on both Published by Wolfhound them. Witness Skerritt's treatment of Like Henry Joy McCracken, And now it glowers as it seeks the skies like a blood-red curse between - The events of this period that sides of the border are being restored the villagers who helped him after he Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone. Canal building in Ireland was Press. I weep, but 'tis not women's sighs will raise the Irish Green. immediately spring to mind are of usually a long-drawn-out business. with government assistance. The was sacked from the school. The visual' You' re free to beat the Lambeg drum course, the famine, the rebellions of The impetus came in 1755, when the author reports a joint survey on the SKERRITT is my favourite OFlaherty character of OFlaherty writing is very Oh Ireland, sad is thy lonelv soul, and loud beats the winter sea, So long as one thing's true; 1798, 1848 and 1879, and;the Land possibility of reopening the derelict novel. It is the story of the straggle for evident here - particularly in the scene But sadder and higher the wild waves roll from the hearts that break for Irish Parliament decided to change It suits the ruling class to wear War, marking those years as a the rules regarding its finances. Until canal between the Erne and the supremacy between a teacher and an outside the church when the "haffl l thee; The Orangs and the Blue; memorable and unhappy period for Shannon. I assume provision will be autocratic priest whose domination of man" ORourke is arrested and the Net grief shall come to our heartless foes, and their thrones in the dust be then, all money remaining unspent by But let that Orange sash take on Ireland. the Irish Parliament at the end of the made in the estimates for the the island of Cara was not confined to scenes at the time of the drowning of the ' seen. The faintest shade of Red - But behind these events, which financial year reverted to the English mandatory British army post at the spiritual matters. Like Hemmingway boatman. If ever we decide to have a So Irish maids, love none but those who wear the jackets green. Your name will soon be on the list dominate the history books, was a crown. To retain this money in border crossing. and Jack London, OFlaherty was national film industry, Flaherty's story Of Ireland's glorious dead. fascinated by the man of action, or as should be one of the first to be used. V MICHAEL SCANLON series of outbreaks of rural Ireland, Parliament set up a system of For all that canals did not have the For, on both sides yet, there's those who discontent, taking the form of 'undertakers', whose job was to spend impact on urban development in Jung would have described him, the One of the best novels in the last fear agrarian outrages, such as cattle the money before the English could Ireland as they did elsewhere, their extrovert. In the Rambo series of films twenty years was the Mosquito Coast. JIMMY MO MHILE STOR To speak of '98 driving, boycotting, faction fighting, claim it. Canals were then the vogue in histories are interesting. The author the strong man is fantasised and There's chief character closely When Irishmen together fought secret societies. The reasons for this England and the 'undertakers' has done a good job in telling of their glamourised. In OFlaherty he is true to resembles Skerritt, but the Irish story is BLIAIN an taca seo d'imigh uaim run mo chleibh. Regardless ftfjtheir faith seething violence and the results, are decided that a canal system would be a vicissitudes in a single volume. reality. In a pessimistic mood about far more universal and therefore of Ni thiocfaidh se abhaile go dtabharfaidh se cursa an tsaoil. Their deeds are praised in countless the subjects of the essays. The rise of valuable asset to the country. Brian Wilkinson progress which was prevalent after the much greater interest. Wolfhound have Nuair a chifeadh e rithfead.le fuinneamh ro-ard ina chomhair songs world Capitalism was bringing . Civil War in Ireland, this was how rightly pledged themselves never to let agus chludod le mil e, is e Jimmy mo mhile stor. But their purpose still denied - thai has nc-ver known free And on- ly lier vi'rs nm free. change to all peasant communities. OFlaherty described his chief these novels go out of print. The growth of industrial towns character. Bionn mhathair is m'athair ag bearradh is ag bruion liom fein. Ireland her own, and all therein In "Insurrection" the action moves Between the earth and skv. 1 drink to the death of her manhood created new markets for food and WELSH "Among those who attempt to from outside the General Post Office Taim grobaithe, piocaithe, ciapaithe, craite de m'shaol. even on small holdings, the old self Those men who'd rather have died improve society there are always two where the 1916 Rising begins to the Thug as taitneamh don duine ud dob 'fhinne is dob aille sno sufficiency was giving way to a more Than to live in the cold chains of bondage groups; revolutionaries and reformers. famous Battle of Mount Street Bridge, agus chuaigh se ar bord loinge, is e Jimmy mo mhile stor. commercial farming. The latter aim at leading the people To bring back their rights were denied. No Language and then finally back to OConnell Rachadsa chun coille agus caithfead ann an chuid eile de m'shaol Ireland's proximity to England and towards the desired goal by reason and Street. The behaviour of the intellectual Oh where are you now that we need you, O. M. Edwards, by Hazel san ait na beidh einne, ag eisteacht le ceol na n-ean the dependence of her economy on the gradual progress. The former try to Captain Kinsella is contrasted with the What burns where the flame used to be No Nation ag hun an chrainn chaorthainn mar a bhfasann ann fear go leor whims of trade with a rapidly rising Da vies (Writers of Wales effect the change by violence, by instinctive agression of the central THE ROSE OF Are you gone like the snow of last winter. ag tabhairt taitnimh don duine ud, is e Jimmy mo mhile stor. urban population did nothing to Series), University of A HISTORY of Verse sneering and an affectation of character, Madden. In the background And will only our rivers run free? ARANMORE stabilize an already disturbed Wales Press, Cardiff, Translation from the Irish superiority, which is generally a token is the young Tommy Colgin, at first in a How sweet is life, but we're crying. country. of defeated ambition or of some state of trembling terror under fire. £3.50. 1789-1897. Robert Welch. abnormal passion, akin to insanity. MY thoughts today, though I'm How mellow, the wine, but we're dry. The "tenant at will" resented the In The Assassin there is the strongest NANCY HOGAN'S GOOSE Skerritt had begun as a reformer and he far away, How fragrant the rose, but it's dying. more secure farmer; the small holder Sir Owen M. Edwards (1858-1920), Colin Smythe Ltd. £16.00 resemblence to Dostoevsky, the same (Air: Portlairge) was now forced by Mociair's cunning was at war with the Grazier, who known affectionally in Wales simply changes from fear to anger, agonies of Dwell on Tyrconnell's shore, How gentle the wind but it sighs. into the other group. And as there is a OH, I was doing no-one harm could be a farmer, but was more often as 'O.M.', is one of the great national This is an excellent but very guilt and doubt suddenly changing to The salt sea air and the colleens fair. What good is in youth when it's ageing. thin dividing line between a When to Grogan's slore 1 set my course an opportunist trader or shopkeeper, heros of Wales. Even in his own time, overpriced book which appears in the action, the slinking in the shadows. Of lovely green Gweedore. What joy is in eyes that can't see, revolutionary and a reactionary, in face And 'twas there I spied Ned Flanagan's gander renting pieces of land on the hated a photo-portrait of 'O.M.' hung in publisher's Irish Literary Studies Here again there is the remarkable There's a flower there, beyond When there's sorrow in sunshine and flowers. of general hostility Skerritt soon F logging Nancy Hogan's goose. eleven months system. many a Welsh home. He is looked on series, No 24. It covers the history of visual quality. That betting shop comes compare, And still only our rivers run free. verse translation from Irish from 1789 became a complete crank, criticising Oul' Nance was there and herself was course, At the bottom of the heap was the as the father of the older, cultural side alive in the mind. One sees the That I'll treasure ever more, (the date of Charlotte Brooke's every social activity and custom on the bedraggled prostitute being pushed and And the Lord knows she had the divil's own tongue landless laborer, struggling for a of Welsh nationalism who believed in That grand colleen, in her gown foothold in the society. Reliques of Ancient Irish Poetry) to island." pulled all the way to the police station. And she swore by all the high courts a vision of a new Wales where 'y of green. The book is divided into three 1897 (the date of Geore Sigerson's Skerritt was more of an ultra leftist And the neurotic, thin lonely but still That she would have the old gander hung! werin' (the people) would come into She's the Rose of Aranmore. sections, each with a very readable their own. He is a folk hero who is in Bards of the Gael and Gall). It is the than a real revolutionary. Both haughty and attractive Kitty Mellitt. A "Oh, you cannot hang my gander now introduction by the editors, giving the period when, as Dr Welch says, the Connolly and Wolfe fone knew how to brilliant political thriller. I've travelled far 'neath the danger of becoming part of the For the goose herself she is to blame, historical background to the localised nation's mythology. bulk of the Irish people moved from use the struggle for reform to bring GERARD CURRAN Northern star, one language to another, from Irish to For she wanders over every morn and detailed pieces by the Since the day I said goodbye; contributors. He was an admirer of the Welsh English. HE INSPIRED WOLFE TONE And wiggles her bum so you know she's game." socialist Michael D. Jones, who And seen many maids in the golden "Land and Religion in Ulster" published in Scottish Gaelic was not But a policeman came next morning attempted to found a free Wales in The volume is almost essential THOMAS Paine, by A. J. glades, introduces new research into the rural some laudable religious tract, or a And took the ol' gander off to jail; Patagonia - Y Wladfa - in the 1860s, a reading for anyone interested in the Beneath a tropic sky. background to the Northern troubles, Ayer, Seeker and Warburg work of piety, but was in fact The "Put him back to the next assizes small socialist-run colony which was motivations which drove translators There's a vision in my reverie, by such experts as Paul Bew and 195pp. £12.95. Rights of Man. There is no doubt that And don't let him out without strong bail." A MOTHER'S LOVE A BLESSING quickly absorbed by Argentina, of the 19th Century to seek to re-voice I always will adore. Frank Wright. John W, Boyle in his the work was an inspiration text for 'O.M.' was an ardent pan-Celticist, the 'soul' of Irish culture into the alien There have been many biographies When the gander heard this sentence AN Irish boy was leaving, leaving his native home, contribution "The Irish Rural the Scottish republican uprisings in That grand colleen, in her gown of advocate of Welsh political, economic but new language which was engulfing of Thomas Paine. No political writer He looked the old justice in the face; Laborer", claims that the rural 1797 and in 1820. green, Crossing the broad Atlantic, alas, he had to roam, and cultural independent, who could them, ever made a more immediate impact Says he: 'is it for doing me duty landless worker has been neglected by She's the Rose of Aranmore. And as he was leaving his mother, while standing on the quay, on his own time than this man who Professor Ayer's book is an historians. Once the most numerous not be ignored by the Establishment. Dr Welch is a good guide. He states I hat I must leave me native place?" She threw her arms around his waist and this to him did say: was English by birth, French by excellent introduction to Paine. This But soon I will return again. class in rural society, "the only In spite of their efforts to woo him 'to me there is a relation between The judge he listened to his plea with honours, 'O.M.' remained firmly decree and American by adoption. is not just a biographical study but an To the scenes I loved so well, A mother's love a blessing, no matter Mere you roam genuine Irish Proletariat",famine and language and being'. Indeed, he And says he: "Young man, I'll set you loose. convinced of his vision. Common Sense crystallized the examination of Paine's political and Where many an Irish lad and lass Keep her while she's living, you'll miss her when she's gone, emigration reduced his numbers by believes that should the Irish language But when you get back to Grogan's store arguments for independence of the philosophical ideas. Professor Ayer Love her as in childhood, though feeble, old and grey 73% in the space of sixty years. In disappear, then the Irish people would Their tales of love do tell; Hazel Davies' book is an excellent American colonies; The Rights of not only sketches the discourse Stay away from Nancy Hogan's goose." spite of efforts to be included in land cease to exist in any recognisable way. The silvery dunes and blue lagoons. For you'll never miss your mother's love till she's lyin^ beneath the clay. introductory study to one of the Celtic Man, in defence of the French between Paine and Burke, seen as But when I get back to Grogan's store, reform, it was not until the 1883 world's great thinkers, writers and It is a belief that has been central to Along the Rosses shore. And as the years go onwards, I'll settle down in life Revolution, gave the basis for the emblematic of the radical and I'll fill myself with oats and grass Laborers (Ireland) Act was passed activists. the philosophy of the Irish struggle. And that grand collccn, in her gown And choose a nice young colleen and take her for m'y wife, republican movements throughout conservative stances in English that cottages were built on '/2 acre Peter Beresford Ellis Peter Berresford Ellis And I'll flog Nancy Hogan's goose the world — more particularly it political thinking but also extends the of green, And as the babes grow older and climb around my knee, plots to replace the old thatched one And Nancv Jlogan can kiss mv arse. inspired the United Irishmen, the debate into the 20th Century. She's the Rose of Aranmore. I H teach them the very same lesson that my mother taught to me. roomed cabin. By 1900 16,000 Friends of the Pfcople in Scotland cottages had been built and a slow and The only disappointment in the (subsequently called the United modest improvement in conditions book is that Professor Ayer does not Scotsmen) and the Welsh republicans. was in progress. These are huta few of mention or examine Paine's influence many interesting contributions. I always found it an intriguing fact on the Irish and Scottish republicans. that one of the bestselling books Peter Berresford Ellis N.D. Page Eight THE I RI|H DEMOCRAT October 1988 SPelet MiMtycwv^ SEA-DIVIDED GAEL THERE is a Scots Gaelic saying which I . of Inshness far more than any God's retaliated with understandable Patagonia!) while by and. large the have never had properly explained to me: amount of the Irishmen and women viciousness just as in many parts of Irish seemed to have wanted to ditch 'Ni hionann O Briain is na Gaeil.' who live in Ireland today and in rural England farm workers their own language as soon as (O'Brien is not the same as the Gaeil). particular who control the Irish media organised in secret bands to bring possible. Equally inexplicable to me is I can only assume that it means that — on radio and television many of pressure on their employers for the manner in which the Scots Gaeil O'Brien (or the Irish) differ in some - these seem to me to be almost various purposes — among them not have retained respect and affection for ways from their Gaelic firsl-cousins of indistinguishable from their to employ Irish labour which was their ancestral chiefs, all of whom the Scottish Highlands and the counterparts here in Britain. On the generally seen as a threat to the half- appear to be thoroughly Anglicised, Western Isles. No doubt they do just other hand I recall a number of decent pay rates in operation. Overall to speak with upper-crust English as the people of any one race or nation television documentaries about places I suppose it might be said that the accents and to be neither Scots nor may differ considerably from each like Barra and Vatersay in the Irish peasant was docile enough — Gaelic in anything but name and other; the people of the Connemara Hebrides and it seemed to me that the how little fuss he made, hofW little blood ... perhaps the Scots Gaeil are Gaeltacht are very different from the KITES LOR THF GULLIBLE - "It is. people portrayed there were looting or crime emerged throughout altogether a more magnanimous now believed lh;tt at leas! three major arms people of the Donegal Gaeltacht as quintessential^ Irish, to me it seemed the period of the Great Famine! — breed than ourselves? Nor is it a shipments Irom Col GadaITi reached the Seosamh Mac Grianna pointed out in that they were as alike as could be to but he did fight back sporadically; by IRA ... It is now being suggested the IRA matter of sodar i ndiaidh na n-uasal one memorable essay which he wrote the Connemara people I know so well; contrast the people of the Scottish may have acquired American Stinger (running after the gentry) with them, on Piadraic O Conaire. And if there it would be hard to live among these hand-launched missiles destined for the Highlands and islands were positively it is not a matter of snobbish pride or was considerable to-ing and fro-ing people for any length of time, it Afghan guerillas". — DAILY saint-like in their submission to their interest but a real and enduring feeling between Gaelic Donegal and Scotland seemed to me, and not feel a very close TELEGRAPH cruel fate. The Trial of Patrick Sellars of kinship; perhaps the loss of our (where the Donegal folk met thtf kinship with them. !• THE INFORMER - A big increase in the and The Highland Clearances are just own native Irish aristocracy (not that Highlanders in the tatie fields of amount of money available lo IRA they were much good to us when we Ayrshire) I am not certain that there informers, entitling individuals to had them!) was a bigger loss to the was any special affinity in spite of the payments ol up to $100.0(10 is lo be offered Irish Gaelic nation that we realise? I fact that the two branches of the Gaeil bv the Royal Ulster Constabulary as part cannot claim to have given the matter of a renewed attempt to counter mounting shared a common language though a great deal of hard thought but it terrorism in Northern Ireland " — THE admittedly one with a great deal of seems to me that what the sea-divided TIMI S dialectical difference. There is a line Scots Gaeil have and feel allegiance to from a Donegal song in Irish which RICH PICKINGS - " I lie Queen, with is a people and a place rather than the l'5.l billion. (racehorses, art. shares etc), is seems to reflect the feelings of the concept of a nation; certainly the Mill the world's richest woman ". — THE Scots Gaelic saying quoted above — it It was the recent very excellent two books that make this point with sense of love for the islands and the TIMES runs 'Ach cailini na Hielans, chan iad Channel 4 series on the Scots Gaeil great force but there is a vast body of highlands which so many of them in RIC H PICKINGS 2 - "At present, an dream abfhearr linn.' (But the girls that prompted me to jot down a few material there for anyone who wants people offering information on the the USA and Canada have never seen of the Highlands, it is not they we observations about this subject. The to examine it. The Irish brought with Provisional IRA normally receive up to came across very strongly in the would prefer — as spouses for the Scots Gaeil ('Gaeil' being the proper them to the shores of Amerikay a 15.000, depending on the quality of the Channel 4 programmes, quite menfolk who had gone over to the plurai of 'Gaeil' and preferable, I burning hatred of British rule which is intelligence, although higher payments palpably in fact. And this love of place tatie hoking!). You could make too think to the rather ludicrous 'Gaels' of to this day a source of annoyance to have been known. Last week a man must be a very Gaelic thing, I think; much of such things, of course, for the G.A.A. parlance!) have had a Westminster; the Scots who suffered detained at (iough Barracks, Armagh, the English abroad can be as neither,forthat matter, wouldanyone history very similar to our own at no less, I suppose, seemed hardly to under the emergency powers legislation patriotically English (or British) as said he had been offered i'40.000 for 'thar tir isteach' — from the outside, least as regards eviction, emigration bear any grudge at all land most any other race can be patriotic in exile information." — I III TIMI S more or less — be all that acceptable and enforced enlistment in the British inexplicably retained a great devotion but what they yearn for and hearken PANIC JUDGES - "Panic buttons to in a close-knit, long established army — enforced by economic factors to their clan chiefs who had betrayed back to — or so it seems to me from help to protect judges Irom altacks are to community where the language was at least, I am not talking about them. The Gaelic Scots who settled in any reading I have done — are the be fitted in crown courts in a review of not that of the rest of the country. conscription. And yet their response Carolina fought on the British side sccunlv ordered by the Lord Chancellor, institutions and the way of life of Personally I have always felt a very has been very different. The Highland during the American War of (he devices were installed last week at England rather than a burning strong affinity with the Scots Gaeil Clearances must have been asgreatan Independence (a thing which it seems Winchester Crow n Court, where a number longing for any particular tract of (not that I have actually met that injustice as the evictions in Ireland was quickly forgiven them!) and in ol IRA trials have been held " — THE country; I would like, if I may, to TIMES many of them) but going by all I have and a more bitter pill to swallow since Canada their loyalty to the British in.ScotlaSnds the blood-relatives and connection was never in question. Of return to this train of thought next ' SF.L CENSORSHIP - The B% has read of them and what I have seen of hereditary leaders of the e victed — the course a* historian would argue that month. announced thai three plays on the subject them on television and heard on the of Irish dissent have been postponed radio they have always seemed to me Clan Chiefs — assisted in and in many there was a considerable difference "because of ihc current upsurge of to be a very homely sort of people, a cases initiated the clearances, an act of here in that the Gaelic Scots for the violence. " The BBC added that there was people that resemble my own concept basest treachery. There were Irish most part did not experience the no pressure Irom the Home Office or I he (Gaelic Irish) landlords in Ireland to closeness of the British presence that Northern Ireland Office." — DAILY be sure but they were in a minority we in Ireland did nor had there been Suaimhneas duit, a Dheasuin. TELEGRAPH. The BBC decided to and the landlord class as a whole was the same sustained (more or less) It is for those who knew postpone the screening of a play about Labour's document perceived to be English or Anglo-Irish resistance to British rule. In many Desmond Greaves better than F Northern Ireland in case n upset MI6 and but certainly not part of the Irish ways the Scots Gaelic patriotism was did to recall him now; we met on the Government, ralher than because ol on Ireland people. In Ireland going right back more positive than that qf the Irish; only a dozen or so occasions but I ' violence in the province, Mr Ray Brennan, did not have to meet him at all to • TOWARDS A UNITED IRELAND" is into the 18th century the dispossessed, the Scots retained their native Gaelic the play's author, said." — THE TIMI S. know that he was an except- ihe title of the Labour Party's new the evicted and the downtrodden down to the present day in Nova POLITICAL CANNON FODDER - document on "the north" which appeared organised themselves secretly and Scotia (as the Welsh did in ionable man, an admirable "Two years ago this month my son, then as we go lo press. individual, selfless, dedicated and 19, was sent on his first posting; to For that, at least, some lhanks as caring. He left a great body of Northern Ireland. Two of his friends who Labour's Leaders abandon one traditional important work and his life was were also posted to the province could not policy after another, it is a tribute to party given generously to the cause of bring themselves to tell their parents where feeling on the issue that the aim of Irish Ireland. We shall miss him they had been posted and started a reunification remains. greatly. pr 'tence thai they were going to Germany. There is talk for all-Ireland authorities How long the pretence lasted 1 do nol for transport, agriculture, gas and Donall Mac Amhlaigh know, bul they felt that their mothers electricity. That has the whiff of Common would not be able to cope with the Market harmonisation. intolerable strain I cannot explain how It is good that after the end of partition totally desolate and upsel I fell when I Labour envisages Britain still financingthe heard about the posting. My son, who six Counties until such time as Ireland as a RISKING HELL IN wears plain clothes on duty, is due back in whole can shoulder the burden. England in May and all 1 can think of al the But in ihe meant ime. there is to be an all- moment is. will he escape injury and death Ireland structure for the RUC and the in the final month and if he does will he Garda, without it infringing on theii GRAYS INN ROAD have anolher lour of duly in Northern operational autonomy. Devolution to a Ireland in the future? He had to sign on for local assembly in Belfast is included in Ihe REVOLUTION and decided that if reminiscences and anecdotes which six years Mr Brenda Smith. Camberlcy, IT was a privilege to know Desmond programme. If the British parliament Desmond Greaves was merely the non threw light on some corners of history Surrcv. in a letter lo ihc DAILY devolves power cannot thai power be de- as a friend. and brought light relief to the serious TELEGRAPH. de plume for old Nick Hell was a devolved again? How is that a formula for I first met him ten years ago. I had stimulating place for the brain. work to which he devoted his whole gelling oul of Ireland'' sent an angry but poorly constructed £ HOW THEY SEE US - "The British as life. a nation have never much liked or There seems to be something here for piece to the Democrat, attacking an respected the Irish Yel the further we those who want lo get out of Ireland and article by Cruise O'Brien in the Aware that Old Nick was Prince ol allow ourselves to be driven towards those who want to stay. When we see the OBSERVER. Some Editors would this world, I dressed myself up before The cause of Ireland, the cause of treating them in racial stereotypes, the whole document we will be able to give a have consigned it to the bin, and at dropping into Grays Inn Road. In Labour, has lost a champion who more parlous will our political predicament luller analysis which will appear in the best extended the consideration of a stature and wit Desmond was impish. could not be intimidated, bought nor there become." Max Hasting author ol November issue. rejection slip. Crueller ones would Sartorially, he had the style of a deprived of the power of laughter. His books on Ihc military achievements of the message now must be that of Joe Hill British Armv. writing in the DAILY have published it, and left me with the Printers Devil or a Dickensian — "Don't weep — Organise." TELI GRAPH. delusion that I was a writer. chimney-sweep's apprentice. I was in Personally, I cannot think of Wanted: Desmond sent me a kindly, even some awe of his learning, and not WHY - "Why do we keep our lorces in courtly letter, praising the raw encouraged by his advice to construct Desmond with sadness. His merry Northern Ireland? Why are our young material, suggesting how it might be an article like a Symphony. spirit infuses all my thoughts of him. getting killed like this? Just what are we Amateur Actors refined, and inviting me to drop in for Mathematical formulae and musical Donal Kennedy. trying to achieve and is it really worth it? It a chat sometime. theory are not really my metier and I is an unnatural war and the worst kind of & Actresses war.'' Mr John father of 19-year-old Jason' I knew Desmond by bad reputation wielded a pen like a faction-fighter's Winder, killed in Northern Ireland. . . . wanted, to play in some twenty years earlier. The Dublin shillelagh. But I was charmed by DAILY TELEGRAPH THE LABOUR LEADER' STANDARD then warned emigrants Desmond's courtesy, impressed with off the Connolly Association and his fastidious approach lo ideas and Printed by Ripley Printers Ltd (TU), By Daniel Corkery. predicted frying in hell for those who language and warmed by his wit. Nottingham Road, Ripley, Derbys, Phone Doric Daly on read the IRISH DEMOCRAT. I had These characteristics were also in his ' and published by Connolly Publi- writings and platform performances. cations Ltd, 244 Grays Inn Road, 01 - 833 - 3022 more recently read LIAM London WCI. Telephone:01-833-3022. MELLOWS AND THE IRISH He had a lund of personal