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TRUSTING JUDGE JAILED 18 BELFAST Appeal Court ordered the release of eighteen men who -Whose border ? were found guilty on the evidence of Christopher Black, an IRA "WE DID not ask for the Border NOW and we should not be asked to pay "supergrass". i ' Lord Chief Justice Lowry said for it," said one Dail member to the the judge in the original trial has Committee on Crime, Lawlessness greatly over-estimated Black's and Vandalism, which has criticised honesty. Thirty M.P.S in favour die diversion of police resources to So because of the gullibility of a Border security when there is an judge, eighteen innocent men rot escalating crime problem in in jail for three years, and a self- Dublin. confessed criminal is dolled out in PILE ON THE PRESSURE Fianna Fail Chief Whip Vincent new gear and enjoys a new life Brady said that the police had been away from it all. SURELY no more time need be wasted before the release of the six men who have done eleven able to detect only 12 of the 176 ? This fiasco probably spells the years in jail for a crime others have admitted to. armed robberies in the first four end of the practice of mass trials at months of this year and businesses They were savagely beaten up, convicted on the flimsiest evidence, in For some real criminals are still at which the only evidence is that of a which were unable to procure the midst of a wave of unprecedented hysteria in which a number of Labour large — on both sides of the court. single informer who is promised insurance in Dublin city centre are immunity if he compromises the MPs disgraced themselves. GUILDFORD FOUR now susceptible to protection others. It is good that thirty of their successors are prepared to make belated Similar considerations apply to rackets. He laid much of the blame p It also probably spells the end amends by demanding a reopening of the case. the case of the "Guildford Four," for crime in Dublin on the pressures of the Diplock Courts, where Paul Hill, Patrick Armstrong, imposed on the Gardai by the there is no jury and two judges run But is this necessary? Chris Now is the time to pile on the Gerard Conlond and Carol Anglo-Irish Agreement. "Why the whole show. Mullen's book (to be reviewed by pressure. August is not the best Richardson, on whose behalf Mrs should the ordinary Joe Citizen be |l The change will come in the Alasdair Logan in next month's month for campaigning. But Teresa Cushnahan (aunt of Paul sacrificed for the sake of guarding autumn and will be passed off as a "Democrat") has shown the score. organisations that meet should Hill) is running a release the Border", he asked. "If the UK wonderful achievement of the Slap on a Royal pardon and let pass resolutions and send them to campaign. want it they should pay for it." Anglo-Irish Agreement, that them out now. the Home Office. In September Mr Paul Gilhooly recently couldn't be brought in till the And the same goes for the men there is needed a concerted interviewed members of the Policing the Border is now marching season was over. But all involved in the Guildford affair. campaign by the Irish Community family who are encouraged by costing the Irish taxpayer the change is expected to be is — ALL PARTY and the Labour Movement with recent television coverage and the something like one million pounds three judges instead of two. Let's An all-party delegation from the slogan "hurry up, justice!" support of MPs like Mr Merlyn per day - over £300 million a year. hope they're good sceptical ones! the Oireachtas visited London on Rees. But that is not enough. These The consequence has been police fc Other changes tipped are the July 15th and saw MPs, and They are anxious that the Irish cutbacks in Dublin and a rise in repeal of the Flags and Emblems officials at the Home Office. men have gone through eleven years community should bring the utmost of the hell of British prison life. crime and lawlessness on the Act, and the giving of votes to They were told of an "urgent" pressure to bear on die authorities. They have been robbed of a sixth of streets. It is a lunatic policy and the citizens of the Republic in review. Why does it take so long And it would help if someone were their natural lives. A substantial sooner Britain is told to do her own Parliamentary elections, but not for an "urgent" review of a to write a book on the case like that indemnity should be paid to each dirty wort the better. local elections. The British Tories manifest injustice, when half the of Mr Ouris Mullen. one of them, we would suggest of have two motives. First they want Manchester police force can be The vital new piece of evidence the order of £500,000 at least. to soothe Mr Peter Barry who has mobilised at a few days' notice to that they rely on in their shown he is not quite the wet they go through Mr Stalker's And another enquiry needs to contention that the four are FERRIES ARE took him for. Second they want to associations with a fine tooth be opened. Who was it who innocent was given at the trial of lose Mr Enoch Powell his seat and comb? knocked the living lights out of the men arrested after the thus remove an irritant at One would almost suspect there them to extract confessions? It Balcombe Street siege. On being CHEAPER •Westminster. was politics in it. would be very interesting to know. asked to plead, one of them, THERE are reductions — and about Joseph O'Connell, replied: time too — on Sealink and B and I _ > "I refuse to plead because the fares between Ireland and Britain as a indictment does not include the result of competition from the air carriers. two charges concerning the The new standard train-boat fare li Guildford and Woolwich Pub of the most respected and hard-pants turning up as '"private from London to Dublin return is £59, IT WAS a report firom Kader bombings. I took part in both. valid on any day of the week and not Asmal, Dean of Arts Humanitiesworking political lobbies in the citizens"and then going bachhome Innocent people have been requiring any advance booking. The and senior lecturer in Law at country and Asmal is highly to report to their masters. , convicted." old fare was £66 midweek and £79 at Trinity College Dublin which ledthought of by South Africa's J Nobody suggests that bombing weekends. to the exclusion of South liberation movement for his work.* No "private citizens" from ordinary people enjoying their There are similar reductions on the I The latest campaign of the Irish leisure hours is not wicked, foolish Rosslare-Fishguard route — £59 South Africa either, says the Irish return—and the Cork to London fare from the British loam at the Anti-Apartheid Movement is Anti-Apartheid Movement. And thean d almost certainly counter- productive. The issue is in comes down to £61 return. against South African participa- trade unions involved are baching that Now if British railways laid on Using their frantic haste to assuage ii' J 3 athletes from apartheid-land to tion at the World Computer them up. The electricians union some decent dining facilities on their Conference in Trinity College insays there will be no power to workpubli c clamour by locking crowded trains between London and boost Britain's sports prospects somebody up, the authorities Holyhead, travelling might be quite -M was shown by Asmal to be against,September. Computers are all those computers if South caught the wrongpeople, and now pleasant. There has never in its entire the constitution ' and rules of the essential to the apparatus of Africans come along. And the this is dear they should be let out. history been a proper restaurant car S3 35 oppression in South Africa. Theresecurity andpomdsuq^TrMty fc-fafe branch of the Connolly on that service, though it must be one is no question of an official South Louege, memaers oj tne rromersAssociatio As socialn is arranging a public of the busiest in Britain. 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& ' » • an Sf* mm 'AUGUST 1986 IRISH DEMOCRAT Page Thret Page Two IRISH DEMOCRAT LETTER lluta FOOD IT IS a pity that Erna Bennett did IRISH COMMUNITY RADIO WAR REMEMBERED THE sorely i» discredited nuclear not read the review of "Geldof in mdustiy is in THE RECENT decision by the Home begin to make programmes as we had LITTLE over two hundred sanctions to halt Italy's invasion of the throes of self- intended, which will be an enormous Africa" more carefully. veterans of the International embellishment. Secretary, Douglas Hurd, to 'shelve' By There was no suggestion in the MEETING IN BUSWELLS HOTEL Abyssinia. The outcome in Spain BUY GARLIC community land had left numerous resource with regard to teaching radio Brigade that fought for the disillusioned him with collective security review that Band Aid would solve Technicolour pictures of idyllic community groups angered and Brid Dooley skills to members of the Irish Spanish Republic in the thirties Council in Ireland passed newspapers referred to him as Mr and he determined to keep Ireland out of embittered. Not alone has enormous community. Furthermore the the long term problems of hunger the coming world conflagration at all rural scenes. Courteous invitations to still survive. resolutions supporting Franco. In Laborda, concealing the fact that costs. amounts of money already been spent, programmes that we make can be used in Africa. What the review said October the Catholic Hierarchy come and have a look round. And to in a variety of ways. Obviously we will Three of them, Michael he was a priest. boot, a flood of often quite subtle IN KERRY but also the hardwork and goodwill of by the Community Itadio Association was that lives were being saved. Among others who spoke Michael try to gain access to existing stations, O'Riordan, Peter O'Connor and issued a pastoral letter in the same propaganda designed to show that if our communities has once again been (CRA), and in particular the idea of Those who are not starving may He admitted that some Farrell described the unbelievable IT WA S Dr Johnson who said that a (possibly including RTE if they boost Bob Doyle (an old and respected sense and church collections anything you're safer in a nuclear abused. setting up a Community Radio Trust sneer at Band-Aid and can sit churches and religious houses had shenanigans of Belton and O'Duffy which man who is not interested in his their signal as promised in the next six member of the Connolly raised £43,000 equivalent of half a ultimately made them an embarrassment reactor than in Canterbury Cathedral. Glor Gael is the Irish User Group had been considered by all concerned. It back and theorise. It could equally been destroyed by Republican belly will hardly be interested in months), but tapes can also be used for million in today's money. to Fine Gael. He reminded those present within Spectrum Radio, an unbrella seems, however, that the mere threat of Association) enthralled their forces. This was because the educational and campaign purposes, be said that the paying of that Desmond Fitzgerald, father of the The "Observer" of July 13th fell in anything else. organisation which incorporates giving any voice to the community, audience at a meeting in Buswell's present Taoiseach, was an active blueshirt within both small and large unemployment benefit does not In November the Fine Gael Fascists had used them for with this trend. One article listed all So in the "Irish Democrat" thirteen user groups in all. The station especially in view of the ethnic and Hotel, Dublin, that must have in those days. organisations. solve the economic problems of leader, W. T. Cosgrave proposed military purposes. "I do not the radio-activity you meet in your was recommended by the Home minority groups involved, was too much been one of the longest in Irish every day life, from luminous occasional food column we intend GI6r Gael, as an organisation is as Britain. Is that a reason for not in the Dail that Ireland should condone this" he said, "But I am Office's own hand-picked panel for the for this government to bear, history. It began at 2.30 pm and Ronnie Drew of the Dubliners sang watches, camping-gas mantles, Italian to sing the praises of the beetroot, yet, unfunded. We are facilitated by paying it? saddened that Catholic Ireland ballads about the war, and Charles North London Community of Interest particularly during the sensitive pre- people were still coming in six defy international law and mineral water bottles. And "burning soon coming plentifully into the funded workers and resources at should take the position it does. It Donnelly, the poet, was remembered' in licence. To date Spectrum has been general election period. All of this It was Lenin writing about recognise Franco's government as coal "worldwide" lets off very much Spectrum, which are in turn available hours later. verse by poets Pearse Hutchinson and shops. The standard root is red. But financed by the GLC for both the points to one thing; legitimate access to Iskra who said that a progressive the legal rulers of Spain. De can only be because the people more radio-activity than is normally to any individuals or groups within the Mr Doyle reminded people that Michael Smith. there are orange and white varieties setting up of the project, the building of the airwaves for community groups is newspaper should expose all cases Valera stood firm. Labour said have been deceived." (note normally) emitted by nuclear Irish community through us. There are some 500,000 lives were lost in Mr Anthony Coughlan, who was studios and other resources. Since the going to be hard won. Furthermore it power stations." And that is to say you can grow yourself. The white various workshops and training of injustice no matter what group not a word. One of the speakers at Buswell's recently in Spain, spoke of the political loss demise of the GLC it has had continued will have to be incorporated into the Spain, and that after the Fascists to Ireland incurred by the deaths of so nothing of going to hospital and being ones grow auicker. do not bleed and programmes scheduled for the autumn, or individual was affected. There recalled telling Brendan Behan funding from both Camden Council and next general election campaign. no fewer than 100,000 were Most of the organised Labour many brave republicans, also of the X-rayed. and some are taking place currently. is no greater oppression and are marginally sweeter if you like GLAA, the Greater London Arts AS AN Irish group, the second executed by the Franco fbrces. He about the few hundred that went tragedy of forty years of Fascism in Spain, The group however does need a injustice than starvation. movement was intimidated. In that. Association. After months of waiting question Glor Gael addresses itself to said that the support given by the to Spain with O'Duffy with the which had deprived the people of decades Now some of these sources are committed active membership to see it Larkin's Workers Union of Never buy bunches of beetroot for a Home Office decision, not as to is, where do we go from here? We have We may be very glad of help intention of fighting for Franco. of democratic development and left them pretty weak. In my young days gas- through into an efficient and Spanish Catholic hierarchy was Ireland, Jack Kearney was told a prey to illusions about the EEC and whether there would be any licences, but spent the last year, and most of this one from abroad if, God forbid, there The Nazis sent a ship to Galway mantles were made of Cerium. My attached to withered leaves. Go worthwhile production group. We urge one of the most barbaric misdeeds not to speak at anti-Franco NATO which showed in last March's as to whom the licences would be given so far, campaigning within our is a nuclear power disaster in specially to pick them up. Two guess is the Thorium is only there as somewhere else and get them with all members (and potential members), in the history of Christianity in referendum result. to, all that has resulted is the certainty community for support. We feel we Britain or Ireland. Will the critics meetings. If that was the situation an impurity. And I handled Thorium not to get cold feet as the government any generation. were killed by their own forces, Finally, Fergal Goulding of the bright shining fresh leaves that there will be no question of a Tory have been fairly successful in this, and of Band Aid refuse help from in Larkin's union, the others can Connolly Youth Movement, said he had Nitrate every day for sever ' years has done, but to stay together and work only three in real action, and on attached, and do not let the Government licensing any community are very grateful to all the musicians A similar wave of hysteria was be imagined. spent a year in Nicaragua picking coffee. If without any deleterious effect. 1 had a with the whole of the CRA in attaining abroad or accept it as the Russians the way home they were joined by stations before a general election, if at and publicans who contributed to our whipped up in Ireland by the One of the few to stand out there was a United States invasion of that piece of uranium on my desk for assistant tear them off and put then what is not a mere demand but a right. did after Chernobyl? Irishmen who had been in the pro- all. fundraising activities. Our membership Blueshirts, Fine Gael and the against the tide was John Swift of country another international brigade years, these things are only slightly in the waste bin. Community radio will come, but not It is misleading to imply as Erna Franco Spanish foreign legion. To GI6r Gael, this raises two also have worked hard in developing the Hierarchy. Free State politicians might be necessary. And this might happen radio-active. But what the nuclear In the days when the Connolly without the continued active Bennett does that millions of the Bakers' Union, who was as the spirit of the war for the Spanish fundamental questions. Firstly, why the group within Spectrum and we hope who had lost their seats in "They made history all right," apologists omit to say is that Sellafield Association was at the other end oj involvement of all communities pounds were raised at the whim of present at the Buswell Hotel Republic lives on. sudden turnaround in the government's none feel their efforts or contributions previous general elections threw said Behan. "They must have been , pollution is in addition to the other concerned - and that includes the Irish. one man, Geldof. It should also commemoration. While Party Grays Inn Road, and Sean own policy? Amongst the many reasons were wasted. Glor Gael means to themselves into General the first army ever to come back things, as well as being strongly radio- given, was the problem of regulating or If you would like any more be remembered that per head of leader William Norton wrote to Redmond was General Secretary, continue as it started, with the aim of O'Duffy's Blueshirts and Paddy with more men than they took active, one Geoffrey Lean discovers a controlling community radio. This gaining access to the airwaves still information about the group and how to population the Irish raised more the Pope assuring the pontiff of much worse villain. "Radon, the we used to lunch in Adams' chop Belton's Christian Front. out!" On the other hand nearly a however, was by no means an foremost. We will however have access become involved, contact Olga Buckley for the starving in Africa than any his true Catholicity, John Swift A LETTER second largest cause of lung cancer," house, now the Montegrappe. Old on 609-8916. Spectrum is at 15 Wilkin hundred Irish international impossible obstacle to overcome. Many to Spectrum's production studios in other nation in the world, and no The aim was to pressurise De raised money for the Republic. runs his headline. Adams was a portly man of a fair Street, Kentish Town, London, NWS. brigaders lost their lives. concrete proposals had been submitted August. This will mean that we can . other nation is more aware of the Valera into supporting Franco, Bobbie Edwards, widow of Another speaker at Buswell's was "Thousands of people in Britain age. imperialist causes of famine. and with this object the war was Frank Edwards, was also present, represented as one between Professor Thomas O'Neill of University FROM CORK are unknowingly receiving higher "Who was that fellow who used Some people in politics think and recalled the difficulty of College Galway, the official biographer of "nationalists", as they called the doses of radiation each year than to come in here before the first that an enormous gulf separates getting a hearing in those days. De Valera. He recalled that there were I COMMENTED in February that the most exposed nuclear workers Fascists, and "reds", although at three Irish groups in Spain, the world war and got mixed up with all themselves from the unpolitical Peadar O'Donnell, George since Ireland entered the EEC Cork — while living peacefully in their Irish Centre with a difference the outbreak of the war the Span- International Brigade, the O'Duffy group, industry has been decimated, and at that fuss in Russia?" he once asked funds from two local authorities — tuition of the Irish language, the Gilmore, Hannah Sheehy- homes." FOR just over a year now, a building masses. How can "they" start and also observers from the Irish army sent that time the only surviving old The Greater London Council, now history of Irish language and its ish Republican government con- Skeffington and others held a The radio-active decay of Radium his wife. "Oh," she replied, "that in the West Kilburn area of the anything if "they" are not by De Valera to oversee the working of the business was Sunbeam Wolsey which sadly abolished, and the London literature. Tuition by experts will be tained no communists at all. De meeting in The Gaiety Theatre for "non-intervention" policy of Britain and produces what used to be called was a man called Lenin." The London Borough of Brent has been politically educated revolution- gave employment to 500. undergoing a major transformation. Borough of Brent. Both these provided in traditional music with Valera was portrayed as a Basque priest Father Ramon France. This was a breach of international "Radium emanation," a radio-active Russian exiles club was fust around aries? Yet some of the most We are now faced with a possible This development is unique as it will, authorities were keen to see the instrumental workshops for fiddle, tin "crypto-communist" because he Laborda. That great republican law, as it prevented the legal government gas. The Uranium in the soil produces important social movements have from importing arms, while ffitjfr and repetition ; of the Ford-Dunlop the corner. in the coming years, establish a new establishment of an Irish Cultural and whistle, harp, concert flute and uillean refused to accept the Christian Radiufn, the Radium then produces started outside the ranks of Father tO'FIanagan who had Mussolini poured in war material to disaster, for uncertainty now hangs ONE of the waitresses was a type of Irish Centre the like of which Community Centre in the Borough pipes; dance classes in step, figure, set Front antithesis "For God or Radon which seeps up from the professional revolutionaries, the opened the first Dail was in the strangle the Republic. over this vital industry. exists no-where else in the world. which has the largest concentration of and ceili dancing. bowels of the earth and strangles you Kerry woman. "Doonavale", she Communism." chair. Father Laborda spoke of Professor O'Neill said De Valera's When Sunbeam was doing badly The organisation running the Irish people anywhere in Great Cuban revolution, CND and in your own home! would say to one argumentative Between July and Christmas the massacre of Basque priests by attitude to international affairs was nobody was interested. But now it is development will bring together Britain. The Committee running the Of course, alongside all of these Greenpeace to name but a few. The writer accuses "environ- customer who came specially from' 1936, nearly every County the Franco forces. The profoundly influenced by the Spanish doing well and take-overs loom. John under one roof the various strands of project, which is made up of wonderful activities, will run the daily GERARD CURRANt struggle. He had tried to get international mentalists" of keeping quiet about Crowther of Huddersfield have the city to taste the genuine Irish culture and heritage and representatives from approximately community activities. There will be Radon in houses because it might London. acquired a 22.5% stake in the Edwardian chops - we called him encourage their promotion in a setting 10 Irish organisations, has been space for meeting rooms, a Mother divert attention from the nuclear company. which also affords community moderately successful in fund raising and Toddlers Group, a drop in club industry. But it can equally be pointed "beal mor." Recently plans were announced to facilities for all those living locally and from the private sector which also for the elderly (daily Irish newspapers out that the pro-nuclear lobby only One terrible day the greens did move into the flax-processing indeed any who care to avail of them. bodes well for the future. and video) and also planned for a later noticed Radon when the general business with a two million pound not arrive. And at the instance of To date, the project has attracted SO, what, you might ask, is stage a luncheon club for our Senior public began to notice Chernobyl and the Kerry woman "beetroot tops" intended to happen within such an Citizens. There will also be an NO TEARS for Sealink. Not after they plant at Midleton, using East Cork Sellafield. ranean" race is spread across two lint. appeared on the menu. And damned unusual and original Centre? The Information Centre which should be closed the decent restaurant on the St A SCEPTIC S continents from Spain to India. It has There follows an account of houses That might seem fine enough but answer is an extremely important one, of special interest to those who have Columba and substituted a fast-food many examples in Britain and Ireland. in Cornwall whose sitting rooms had good they were too, cooked like REFERENDUM there is talk of closing down the especially given the chronic only recently arrived from Ireland or serve-yourself. Next fliey'II be closing Most Persians and Pakistanis belong to 4,000 times as much Radon as there spinach and served with butter. LETTER parent factory, one of the oldest in THE "Irish Democrat" has had underfunding of Irish culture and the have not yet found their feet. Gaelic the bar and installing a lemonade it. But a Persian would be classified was in the outside air. There is of That's why you shouldn't buy sport is not forgotten and the first POLITICAL Cork. This city has thousands in the more than its share of organisations promoting it in the UK. THE GRANTING of a fountain. No tears, I said, but Mrs "white", whereas a Pakistan (on this course almost none in the outside air. beetroots without their tops. You handball courts to be built in the UK Thatcher has sold them a horrible pup. dole queues. correspondence offering post Irish arts will be represented by knighthood by her Imperial absurd principle) would be classified The location of the houses and the get two meals instead of one. mortem examinations of the groups specialising in theatre, music, are currently under construction. A British Ferries bought Sealink from the "black". What's the difference? The OVERFLYING names of their owners are being kept Handball Club will be based at the Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to RAGBAG Ireland's foreign affairs minister, The one thing not to do with divorce referendum. There's not dance, literature and visual arts. On Railway for £65 million. Quite a Pakistanis were part of the British "confidential." completion, this cultural and centre and tuition for beginners will Bob Geldof, after the HillsbOro bargain; eh? Indeed; but two years later Cork deputy Peter Barry has stated But however dreadful are the beetroots is boil them. You should enough space for the lot of them and Empire, the Persians were not. It's a it would be invidious to select. community complex will offer much be available. Gaelic football and Castle deal brings into focus the the public-spirited lady okayed a wonder they don't call the Irish that three thousand unauthorised dangers to which these householders peeI them, grate them, soften some needed ^theatre space for their hurling clubs will have use of regular manner in which the constitutioa scheme to spend a hundred times the IN case you thought everything was "black". We will return to this subject, overflights of Irish territory took are exposed, I repeat, nobody has onions in butter, fry the grated But we offer an editorial last productions as well as providing for meeting rooms and indoor training is being violated. Article 40| price on a channel tunnel. It couldn't hunky-dory with Mr Charles Haughey, but the "Democrat" proposes to call place last year. suggested that the emissions from beetroot adding if you like half a word. Irish dancing groups; regular facilities. paragraph 2, clearly states: possibly pay unless the ferries were lean tell you it isn't. Politically perhaps people by the names they give Sellafield reduce them. It is common he's not doing too badly, but his country tea-spoon full of sugar. Then tip the If people who advocate progressive exhibitions by Irish artists or of Irish 1. Titles of nobility shall not be forced out of business. So Sealink are themselves, not put names on them as if ground that they add to them. social causes are linked with others who interest; exhibition of works by Certainly then it is an Irish Centre jibbing. So are the people of Kent. The residence is besieged by menacing they were dogs. By How much do they add? That's a fried beetroot into a pot of stock, conferred by the state. are putrid on the national question, then photographers, sculptors, potters and with a difference and if you are garden of England is going to be triffids, to wit Heracleum crucial question. Only yesterday (July 2. No title of nobility or honour with a few odd bits of beef or other they must expect those progressive craft workers. Space will be provided interested in knowing more about the transformed into a Spaghetti junction mantegazzianum, the giant hogweed. Jim Savage 21st) it was revealed that Windscale, meat floating about in it and you've causes to be looked on merely as for workshops on such specialist skills Project or becoming associated with may be accepted except with priot and the well-breeched denizens of the This recently surfaced near Chester, or Sellafield as it is now called, had got Russian "borsch", their window-dressing for anti-nationalism. as printing, photography, painting its development, ay you have to do is approval of the government. stockbroker belt will be seeking where it can be seen from the railway, One such violation of Irish air space leaked 40 times more Uranium into contact Myles Crummie at the Project desirable villa-residences in Wigan. and stung a lot of children. For that is took place immediately before the national soup. It was in practice impossible for the and pottery^ Unless Bob Geldof has changed the atmosphere than had been Irish people to vote for divorce without The educational facilities will be Office at the telephone number below. his nationality to British, hk just what it does. Its juice sensitizes the United States attack on Libya. previously admitted. Serve it with a blob or two of sour Volunteer helpers are always welcome skin to ultra-violet light and if the sun steagthenlng the hands of the second to none and will include, on action in accepting a knighthood THE imminence of press day limits The over-flights are mostly at high You can't trust their figures. So it-is cream, youghurt, or even competition a library, an archive, as are people with ideas on fund strikes the affected part, you come over full enquiry, but that seems a , very level, and mostly by American and government that held the referendum. raising to help progress the from the British Crown, must not with a painful blistering rash that lasts no wonder that the Manx government mayonnaise, and a splash of But they blamed that government for soundproofed music and dance fishy document the Manchester Canadian military aircraft. Mr Barry has joined the Irish in demanding that development. If you can help in any be allowed to go unchallenged to I'was thinking to myself there was a warned "it is a state of affairs that angostura bitters. the destruction of Irish Industry, the rooms, seminar/lecture rooms, a the law of the country. Clearlyif ...... ***** 'It " spreading rapidly in Guardian claims to have got from this devil's cook-house should be shut bookshop and education resource way, please give us a ring at " ~ secret Kremlin sources. It forecasts cannot be allowed to countinue." He ruin of many farmers, the permission was granted, by our smell of a slump in the air. There's Ireland, and the Dublin Naturalists' down. centre. Courses will be offered in the beert' a steady slide in the prices of Field Club want to have the law on it. the collapse of the socialist system in said informal consultations had IF YOU like you can put a couple of clovesnprecedeate d unemployment, and the department of Foreign Attain, Meanwhile you can take it that Mr glad—I abandonment of the Irish primary commodities, and violent They want the government to register it the USSR as a result of lagging behind already taken place with the United Lean's claim that "Radon exposure is of garlic in it. You might be wondering where then the government must be States authorities with a view to the best garlic comes from, and be thinking•itiui l character, culture, fluctuations on Stock Exchanges all as a noxious weed. Another good reason the west and getting into ever deeper the hottest issue among radiation of France, Italy. Greece. Iran and Mia. It indicted for suck action. over the world. Plop on the mat comes for voting Fianna Fall! debt. It calls for "revolutionary persuading them to comply with scientists today" is something of an distinctiveness and neutrality. diplomatic clearance procedures. comes from none of these places. It comesS O don't blame the church. Don't SUBSCRIPTION COUPON The granting of such "honour!* a cutting from Colm Power in Dublin changes" all of which seem to coincide exaggeration. And again the reply is from Ireland, to be precise from Allihlts in by the British establishment has showing that othershad been struck * * , with what the Americans have been Obviously the practice of over- simple — if something we have never the same County of Kerry also filmed forblam e Flanna Fail. Don't blame the faint-hearts in the Fine Gael camp. the purpose of vicariously the way. What he sent me was an calling for over years. There are-some flying bears on the subject of Irish noticed is so bad, why add to it beetroots and people knowledgeable about advertisement for!a book by Bob "quotations" from Lenin that seem neutrality. The USA is behaving as if something we have noticed? beetroots. Beetroots grow best when thereDon' is t Ma me the backwardness of Irish Please send me the "IRISH DEMOCRAT" each monopolising the good work of WHO decided that people of non- salt in the air, and gardeners often sprinklewome a n - It doesn't exist. Don't blame Beckman. I'm not sending for it_It very odd indeed. There is an assertion Irish neutrality did not exist. People interested in a factual account month for a year. I enclose £6. dedicated people, whilst it sounds a bit trendy. I don't like European stock resident in Britain that Marxism predicates certain Matters seem to be getting worse as little salt on the beds where they grow. the selfishness of those happily continues to perpetrate its crimes should all be designated black? There of the appalling record of this war- Very likely the west coast of Ireland as farmarried . Don't blame the youth for not authors who get too matey — none of permanent economic laws valid for all the EEC gradually change the terms linked industry, should call at the north as Sligo might t> in for high quality against humanity, such as thx your Bills and Teds, and Steves and are no black people on eartB, nor white social formations. And amid endless on which we acceded to it. The goal- 0 either. We are aU different shades of Four Provinces Bookshop, Grays Inn vegetables, making use of the frost free the sort of situation that can sinking of the Belgrano, and tkfl Mikes, if you please. Let them use the breast-beating about low standards of posts are being moved. Most people Road, London, News from Nowhere climate. be expected to arise when the Irish Name.. killing of the child of the Libyan names, they were christened with! But brown. Tl»e dark brown pigment living there is no reference whatsoever still think the EEC is what its name (miscalled "melanin") is an adaptation at Whitechapel, Liverpool, or But then they would need a government in b proclaims itself anti- leader Colou«l Qadhafi and thi all the same my bold Bob thinks a to the cost erf the arms race. One hates implies, an economic organisation. Progressive Books in Berry Street, Dublin that was oriented to the small man. lonal by its alliance with the party of crash, like that of 1929 will be on us at to strong sunlight. So the darkest to: wounding of other members of his lie live on the equator, the lightest stick one's head out, but this seems They are only beginning to realise that where they can get a pamphlet the blnesUrts. The opportunism of the family. any minute. So this book is to tell you, < to have the Washington hall-mark, an 1; «is being transformed into a military exposing the systematic poisoning of cities of Britain. Again and again »«r hrtyb tte diabolus in machine "how , to protect yoyr, assets" and produce is the best, but instead of And incidentally, is not this inthave'mft^ ^ Afric*ns "Bd attempt to forge a programme that S alliance linked to NATO, the Irish Sea by the nuclear polluters. encouraging small producers at home theof Iris h pontics. added is the encouraging intimation will set the whole socialist world in t Ifthere is not a clear protest against It has a table showing exactly what government floods the supermarkets with Let tie mm lane come' up when country supposed to be that "'Fortunes Were made in the it is insulting to ign^^Sfl^Hmp ideological chaos, and perhaps end up \ th® treatment of .Irish territory as if it damage each of the radioactive continental potatoes. A shame! there la a nationally minded Republican? 1930s and fortunes will be made this them all together as "Mack". There's as a "democratic" casus belli. j were NATO territory, then the isq.tones is liable to cause. By post it ®®tl tt tvffl^'iHPslMriMjF*' (0 Deny BBllwr time &strell." Altruistic of him to tell alsoian imperialist aspect to It. Take an J neutrality the majority of Irish people costs £1.20. example, llie brown or "Mediter- - Art priomhchocairt Co. Wkttow. us ali'fc
'4% Page Six IRISH DEMOCRAT AUGUST 1986 Page Seven AUGUST 1966 IRISH DEMOCRAT ON THE ONE ROAD IRISH Anne Devlin's lament THOUGH we've had our quarrels now and then, Now is the time to make them up again - BOOK HONEYMOON IS OVER What about Amiens Street ? Sure aren't we all Irish anyhow? SONGS for Emmet "Garret Bloodshed Scen- "This (the Fergus pamphM) views" thought had to be given as to what to do And we've got to step together row. REVIEWS says Kellagher, "the current violence in The Railway Station - A with it. After much deliberation, the MY heart's blood was yours, my love was the same, ario", by Derry Kellagher. our streets as arising from too much Social History. By Jeffrey 'revolutionary' proposal that it should And would my soul had flown to God before the trouble came, (Price £2.00 39pp). concern for the rightso f the individual, Richards and John make an ideal railway station CHORUS: rather than a manifestation of the death surprisingly prevailed. On the one road, sharing the one load, Ah, would 'twere mine to slumber within the narrow bed MacKenzie. Oxford And you in youth and glory were marching overhead. EDITED BY IT was Sean McBride who drew knell of capitalism which ofTers no On the road to God knows where; attention to the Fitzgerald American perspective for the youth of the world University Press. Price On the long road, it may be the wrong road, Most people who use railways, even Mo Bhuachaill deas 'tis lonely and old am I, GERARD CURRAN speech in which the Taoiseach hinted except rising unemployment and £15. But we're tegether now, who cares? that negotiations then proceeding with ultimately of obliteration in a nuclear those who have come to loathe them Around me the shadows all day darkly lie, have favourite stations. Mine does not Northmen, Southmen, comrades all, Mrs Thatcher would create a more holocaust." »• AS soon as I saw this book, I had My weary nights are haunted by dreams, 'Mhuire's truagh! attract a single sentence in this book, Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Donegal, favourable situation for defeating the Fergus Fitzgerald lumps together misgivings. It takes some audacity on Of the sweet maid whose loving heart broke for love of you. yet its past social and economic On the one road, swinging along. THE CHURCH IRA. Here are his exact words as criminals, violent demonstrators, the part of the authors and publisher to importance, together with its colourful Singing a Soldier's Song. On the brown heathery hills no danger lurked, I ween, quoted by Derry Kellagher. terrorists with those interested ia civil claim that the subject of the title - The Edited by history, are worthy ofa book of its own. With Wicklow men to guard you, and pikes bristling keen, "If we do succeed (in the current liberty in Britain and in Ireland — The Railway Station. A Social History - Alas, its period refreshment room with PATRICK BOND negotiations) and if the achievement of Irish Sovereignty Movement — as can be dealt with adequately in four Tinker, tailor, every mother's son But her eyes drew you forth from their sheltering care, a long bar serving lunches to customers stability and peace in Northern Ireland menacing the "citizen". In Ireland he hundred pages of text. Perhaps, twenty Butcher, baker, shouldering his gun, For a kiss from her red lips, a curl from her hair. seated on bar stools, its electrified lines "Is Irish Catholicism by this route were to be, preceded as says the Garda and Special Branch are volumes of this size might allow a fair Rich man, poor man, every man in line, dated back to 1916, its wooden booking CLARE'S The rose left her cheek, the brave eyes grew dim, Dying?" by Peadar Kirby. might be, by a last (fitch stand by the singled out as a target "for various civil presentation. All together, just like Old Lang Syne. office in the middle of the concourse, all She drained the bitter cup of sorrow to the brim, (£4.95. Published by IRA involving for a period perhaps, a rights organisations." Surely he has To be fair to the authors, they do not are gone. Farewell, Broad Street. How Night is darkest just before dawn, When that sad September noon saw your young head lie low, heightened level of violence, then the heard of the Nidi Kelly case. DRAGOONS Mercier Press, pp 157). pretend to aspire to comprehensiveness. long before other London termini share From dissension Ireland is reborn, And the dawn of Ireland shrouded in a dark cloud of woe. only remaining source of tension within Another gem of a quotation WHEN, on Ramillies' bloody field. THE question asked by^ this the existing European Community What we have are fifteen chapters with your fate? Now let us all, United Irishmen, The baffled French were forced to Kellagher has picked out is the Fergus I had died for you gladly, my courage never quailed, interesting and stimulating little book would have been eliminated." Fitzgerald statement in support of headings such as "Station in Make our land a Nation Once Again. yield, can be answered, in tlie manner of For all that railways will be around The victor Saxon backward reeled When their swords pierced my bosom, their wild threats assailed. Even for Fitzgerald this is an Nepotism. Architecture." "The Station in the such questions, by both yes and no. for as long at civilisation requires an Before the charge of Clare's Dragoons, Nor did their prison torture win from me a single tear; incredible statement. Not surprisingly "Nepotism in public appointment, Economy", "The Station in Literature Yes, thank God, what has passed for and Film." orderly, efficient means of transport. The flags we conquered in that fray That memory of grief and pain would fade if you were here. McBride was very alarmed. This means the amigo network, can ensure So it will be possible to pause in the Look lone in Ypres' choir, they say, Irish Catholicism for the past hundred that the Taoiseach does not regard the nomination of people who can be years is finally breaking down. No, busy streets of Paris and admire the We'll win them company today, May Christ give you peace in your nameless biding-place, British Army, the RUC, the Protestant trusted, even controlled, through family Obviously, the preponderence of thank God, the Irish people as a whole architecture of its main stations. Even Or bravely die like Clare's Dragoons. Sleep soft, my withered flower, nor weep for our disgrace, paramilitary organisations as making or other relationships and thus references to Britain, (one might say Viva la, for Ireland's wrong! have more Christianity or 'England'), North America and India the mediocrats of the EEC will be hard GOODBYE, JOHNNY The Mother bows beneath her chains, her harp-song is dumb, even a contribution to the tension. Only guarantee honesty, devotion to duty prc ^a! 'o force a French government to Viva la, for Ireland's right. Catholicism, however you describe it, the force resisting the British presence reflect the influence of these places on She pines among her sighing reeds until the victor come. than the clergy give them credit for. At and efficiency which the Western inflict on its citizens and visitors a Viva la, in battle throng, is the enemy. But is the climate right for the authors. If we exclude quotations JUST twenty years ago today 1 grasped my mother's hand, last the Irish people are free to express method of open and anonymous public Parisian Eusto. < or Kings Cross. For a Spanish steed and sabre bright! isolating and smashing the IRA? from a book for staff written by the She kissed and blessed her only son going to a foreign land; Another Clare is here to lead, Oh! had the cruel spoiler spared your young dark head, their spiritual convictions in an Irish competition certainly cannot." Fitzgerald's brother Fergus has been Fergus's famous brother could never Goods Manager of the Midland Great The neighbours took me from her breast and told me I must go, The worthy son of such a breed; The tramp of your United hosts had waked the very dead. way without the restrictions imposed I have meandered somewhat from the working on the angle that other be accused of "open government" — in Western Railway, which could have Yet I could hear my mother's voice, though her words were soft The French expect some famous dead, The shouts of your triumph had thundered to the sky, by an imported theology. Ironically,, subject of this review, the book by organisations need to be singled out for his secret comings and goings for been valid for any English railway, and low: When Clare leads on his bold dragoons. But alas! and alas! in the cold grave you lie. this freedom has been granted by the Jeffrey Richards and John MacKenzie. His wounds are in his breast and face. very authority which the clergy used treatment. Kellagher in this excellent consultations with the high and mighty Ireland is neglected. pamphlet has pin-pointed some very The authors will understand. Railway The bearna baoghail is still the place ETHNA CARBERY in the past to stamp out without mercy abroad — in his efforts to subvert Irish The admirable edifice at Amiens revealing statements from the Fergus stations have that effect on some CHORUS: The foremost of his bold dragoons. true Irish culture, language and nationality and neutrality. Street, now known as Dublin Connolly, Viva la, the new brigade! Fitzgerald pamphlet called "Too Much people. The price of the book precludes Goodbye, Johnny dear, when you're far away liturgy in the church; that is the Again Kellagher hits the ^ack-pot" which could stake a claim for inclusion Viva la, the old one, too! Government" published 1982. me from recommending every Don't forget your dear old mother far across the sea; Vatican Council. in giving us McBride's statement in most of the chapters, merits not a Viva la, the rose shall fade, explaining how he was taken in by the "Democrat" to go out and buy it, but Write a letter now and then and send her what you can, All the blame is not to be borne by paragraph, while the chapters on And the shamrock shine for ever new! pro EEC propaganda at the beginning. for those who find fascination in the And don't forget where're you go that you're an Irishman. the clergy. Their fault is that they • "Stations in Wartime" take the reader railway environment, an application for Oh! Comrades, think how Ireland submitted too easily to the pressure "The concept of the European ideal to Africa, India, North and South pines, Continued from previous column is the pursuit of peace based upon it at your local library would be well We sailed away from Queenstown, that is the Cobh of Cork, put on them by Rome, by the British America, the Ireland of 1916-1924 is Her exiled lords, her rifted shrines. justice and international co-operation worthwhile. Government and by the necessities of the mission fields of the new English- passed by. Brian Wilkinson A very pleasant voyage we had, and soon were in New York. Her dearest hope the ordered lines, for the preservation of human society a ferocious protestant persecution. In speaking empire. To accomplish this Friends I had to meet there, and work I got next day, And bursting chirge of Clare's • and civilisation. The richness of the I mention Ireland specifically these ecumenical days it is too easy to all elements of republicanism and But with all the hospitality I could hear my mother say: Dragoons, European civilisation was based on because this review is intended for The fling your green flag to the sky, forget the condition of both church especially Fenianism had to be Spiritual, Moral and Cultural values, people with Irish interests. On a Be LIMERICK! your battle-cry, Limerick — you're a lady and people before the clergy made squashed, the Irish language had to be represented by the different broader scale, much of the material is CHORUS: And charge, till blood flows fetlock- their bid for power in Ireland. The abandoned and relations with nationalities and ethnicities that interesting and educational. The high pity is when they got power they Protestants cut off completely. Around the track of Clare's Dragoons. CHORUS: compose Europe. coverage of India, for example, is very LIMERICK, you're a lady. didn't know how to use it properly. good, showing how the indigenous class THOMAS DAVIS THE contrast between the ordinary "It was never contemplated that the Your Shannon water's tears of joy have flown - As Peadar Kirby says: 'As the last national ideal, and the spiritual and structures permeated Indian society of CITY JUNGLE ACH 1 The beauty that surrounds you century progressed, the principal clergy at the beginning and at the end. which, Railway stations have been an of the nineteenth century could not be I mwal values that animate the 'Open Cut', by J. M. O 'Neill. THE GRAZIER TRIBE > DUNNO I I take it with me, love, where'er I go. preoccupation of Irish Church leaders greater. They were completely' different European nations diould be important part from the time of the I'Mm simply surrounde•. dj bt y ilovers , While waking in the arms of distant waters became the creation of an efficient coming of railways to the present day. Heinman. £9.95. ! involved in the politics of the subjugated to a common muhi-parpose OH ye toilers of this nation, I hope you will draw near, Since Da made his fortune in A new day Finds me far away from home; and disciplined Church organisation. monstrosity that would seek to impose movements for Catholic Emancipa- The United States gets a fair share of MR O'NEILL'S crime-thriller is set in A new and true narration I mean to let you hear; land; Then Limerick you're my lady, Though they were at times the wiH of the more powerful nations on scandalised by some of thetraditional tion and Repeal but the War of the available space and equally, a and around north London. A sharp Tis for your information my pen I take in hand, They're comin' in crowds like the The one true love that 1 have ever known. -Independence left them firmly on the the smaller and weaker European plovers practices of the people, such as the states; that would seem to have as widespread coverage. By contrast, the young lorry driver, Hennessey is To try describe a grazier tribe that now infests this land. fence, with a few notable exceptions. To ax for me hand. As children you and I spent endless days of fun. confession of women in people's its objectives the creation of a Soviet Union and its predecessor, the picked by Nally, gang-land boss and' No wonder they seized the chance of Russian Empire, feature only the This grazier tribe has overrun your country so fair, There's clerks and policemen and In winter snow or summer's golden sun; houses on the occasion of station conglomerate commercial, and even building contractor for a "bank job" masses, Church leaders never had to supporting the Treaty of 1921 and military empire in which we would be Trans-Siberian, mostly culled from one out in the "sticks". I Enough to make the angels weep or drive you to despair; teachers, We fished in silver streams - the fabric of my dreams Partition because they thought it gave doubt the fact that Irish Catholics subjugated to the wiH of the more book of doubtful merit, bordering on There's not a town from Cork to Down, or Dublin to Tralee Some sandy, some black as a Was fashioned by your loveliness, and so I had to say - them what they wanted. With the However, on a trial run Hennessey were wholeheartedly a believing powerful states of the EEC. This would the tedious. Of the far more interesting But has a den of grazier men to keep you in poverty. crow; majority of the Protestants isolated in seizes his chance to "escape" from the Ma says ye get used to the people. be destructive of the spiritual, moral, stations in Latvia, the Ukraine, CHORUS: the north and the Republicans divided economic and political values which, Georgia and Armenia, there is not a circle of work, drink and life in doss- Oh ye men in name, have you no shame to see this beauteous land creatures, Throughout the fourteen A gift that time has made to travellers on their way they could mould the Free State into form part of our heritage." word. houses that has brutalised the men Turned into one vast wilderness by a cursed grazier band? But, ach, I dunno! hundred years of Irish Christianity the the Catholic State of their dreams. around him. He goes ahead and robs Seeking out the beauty of our land; Following Coughlan and Mt Bride, Church had been predominantly a In Britain, the massacre of the the bank and we are off into the realm This land so kind was ne'er designed by Providence on high The convent is in a commotion How tragically they have failed and Derry Keihtgher seeks to arouse Irish A shrine where children pray and bells ring out to say people's church. Our identification of railways carried out under the Labour of "bent cops, grasses, hard faced To keep John Bull with mutton full while the natives starve and die. To think of me taking a spouse, how much has been lost in the pursuit people at home and abroad to act to Thank God we're living just for you, the freedom of each day. the Church with institutions and government of 1964-1970 has whores" and all the usual cast. ; And they wonder I hadn't the notion of this chimera! There is still the prevent the elimination of their hud Oh ye men of honest labour, if ever you'd be free, clergy would have puzzled our diminished not only the number of Of taking the vows. chance that a Gaelic and open- won liberties in the "Fenda!" political I understand there have been No«v take your stand upon the land and strike for liberty; CHORUS: ancestors. Instead, for them, the stations, but the relevance to many 'Tis a beautiful life and a quiet, minded group can emerge among the and economic superstate* into which recently published "modern cruse Church was the Pobal De. the people of those remaining. Take a trip It is no crime, now is the time to burst your galling chains And keeps ye from going below, clergy which can save the soul of the they have been enticed by their thrillers". Alas, this is not one of people of God, and the church Irish nation. from Cardiff up the Rhondda and And drive this band clean off the land, as Brian drove the Danes. As a girl I thought I might try it, them. For example, O'Neillts bnitdrng was the Teach an Rhymney valleys and see the vandalised But, ach, I dunno! TADHG 6 DtJNLAING stereotyped women fall into three Phobail, the people's house. Ew.i relics of what were once places of THE UPTON AMBUSH categories and are treated I've none but meself to look after, the early Irish monasteries were Important social intercourse. accordingly, with brute .force or with An' marriage it fills me with MANY homes are Filled with sorrow and with sadness, known as households, Mutnm Fortunately in London, the pride of t ok rene e as long as tbey serve or«» fears, Many hearts are filled with anguish and with pain, rather than as institutions. them all, St Pancras, survives almost FOUR PROVINCES BOOKSHOP poor foolish women who have no I think I'd have less of the laughter The most crucial fact about the Intact. ROISIN DUBH For old Ireland now she hangs her head in mourning ideas in their minds. And more of the tears. For the men who fell at Upton for Sinn Fein. Irish Church today is that this 244/246 GRAYS INN ROAD, LONDON WC1 ( A ROISIN, na biodh bron ort na cas anois, I'll not be a slave like me mother, intimate link between faith and people Compared with the modernised This is a first novel and I believe monstrosities, either side. King's Cross Ta do phardun on Roimh is on bPapa agat, With six of us all in a row, CHORUS: has been profoundly weakened. For that the basis of the story or some part Even one little baby's a bother, the youngsr, more educated urban and EustoH, St Pancras is a veritable of it reflects O'Neill's own experience Ta na braithre ag tea'-'it thar saile's ag trial] thar muir, Let the moon shine tonight along the valley But, ach, I dunno! dwellers identified in chapter three we haven of civilisation (n what has of the "shitakers" in the building trade, 'S ni cealfar fion S ainncach ar mo Roisin Dubh. Where those men who fought for freedom now are laid, can say that this link has been degenerated Into a dingy district of in which he spent over a decade. Let There's a lad that has taken me May they rest in peace those men who died for Ireland, broken.' London. It is timely to reflect how close us hope this book is some sort of Ta gra agam im lar duit le bliain anois fancy, And who fell at Upton Ambush for Sinn Fein. the oflkkd vandals came to sending St literary exorcism and that O'Neill I know he's a bit of a limb, When the clergy made their bid for I Gra craite, gra casmhar, gra ciapaithe, Some wer<~ inking of their mothers, wives and sweethearts Pancras Into the same obttvkm as its soon finds his own hand; A And though marriage is terrible power tbey played on the British I Gra d'fhag me gan slainte gan rian gan rith, More were uiinking of their dear old Irish homes; imitations in Glasgow, Manchester and 1 chancy, government's fear of revolution aad I There axe some good signs. The 'S go brath, brath, gan aon fhaghail agam ar mo Roisin Dubh. Did they think of ow they drilled along the valley Liverpool. During the closure mania, It I'd - chance it with him. put themselves forward a* the main was seriously suggested that St Pancras book is written in a sinister whisper Or when they marched out from Cork City to their doom? He's coming tonight - oh -1 tingle, stabilising element in the country. I should be closed and its services wherein London is ajnagle with Beidh an fharraige na tuilf" dearga's an speir 'na fuil, From the top of me bead to me By Patrick Byrne mountains and foothills and the The warning cry rang out: Fix your bayonets, With English money for the I tiitdmmimif 4*% Yimrnm l/aiwanft tomA Beidh an saol 'na chogadh chraoragh 'gus reabfar cnuic, toe, seminaries and the English language I OlrcTlCU W A.trlgS K^TOSS, mOOrgufc characterand , deary, would be at home And the gallant lads they Fixed them for the fray; Beidh gach gleann sleibhe ar fud Eireann *s mointc ar crith, I'll tell him I'd rather live single, m its tool the hierarchy fashioned a «I Raton. As the tndUkg was 'fate*. in Mervyn Pfeakes, Ttoia Backs. Mr Gallantly they fought and died for Ireland La eigin sul a n-eagfaidh mo Roisin Dubh. But, ach, I dunno! new kind of Onirch.pleasing tobodr |j SEest account yet CTNsill has a second borituwuaW—w PERCY FRENCH Around the lonely woods of Upton far away. Rome and London, obedient, faithful, I called "Duffy is Dud". I Will read it hardworking at hone aad abroad i» fu. £1 (£1*20 by poet) with interest ancHfepej Page Eight IRISH DEMOCRAT AUGUST 1986 Peter Mulligan's asks DONALL peep show MacAMHLAIGH
WRITING IN IRISH cleaning job, and even quite well I REMEMBER receiving a very pleasant surprise in the summer of known authors admit that if it 1957 when I spent a fortnight's IS THERE A FUTURE ? wasn't for other lines of work in holiday in the Cois Fharraige stories ranging in depth and quality magnificent service to readers and radio or lecturing or whatever, their Gaeltacht, some fifteen miles west from thrillers to literature of a high writers of Irish alike. Sean quite pickings would be very poor indeed. of Gal way. A visit to Mairtin order, from Cathal O Sandair's literally killed himself with Maybe at the risk of a digression I Standun's widely-famed Bungalo - Reics Carlo detective series, overwork, a patriot and martyr in could give an example: if you are a a shop that has become a 'must'for through to swashbuckling stories of the truest sense of the word. conscientious and serious writer it many tourists, the Americans in adventure on the Spanish Main Sairseal & Dill encouraged and may well be that you will do particular - revealed something upwards of ten drafts of each page PRAISE FROM A PROFES- (Criostoir O Floinn's An tlolar published some of the very best that 1 had scarcely been aware of, so that a novel of say, 250 pages SIONAL — "The Provisional IRA Dubh) to Donncha and Sile 6 authors to emerge in the period, namely that there was a thriving may in fact represent 2,500 pages has changed into a more Ceilleachair's unforgettable people like Mairtin 0 Cadhain who market for books in Irish. Having or something like a quarter of a professionally trained organis- collection of short stories Bullai towers above the rest, Diarmaid / lived in Englandfor the previous six million words! Now even allowing ation whose own security is now Mhartain. I think the realisation Suileabhain, the poet Sean O years and not knowing much about that the finished, polished and extremely tight. Operations in the that there was a ready market for Riordain and many, many more. I the publishing scene anyway I had published product may not be worth province are co-ordinated with writing in Irish spurred me to do hope it is not indicative of anything not realised that so many books of the price asked for it the fact those outside, and planned in detail what in a vague sort of way I had that all three I have mentioned are so widely varying a character sold and thorough. The IRA man of been meaning to do for years, to now dead, O Suileabhain while still remains that your average writer is in the Gaeilge; like perhaps the today is no cowboy. He is often an write myself -1 had been keeping a a young man, but certainly the a very lowly paid animal indeed. majority of the Irish in Britain I was outwardly quiet unassuming diary of sorts since 1948 and it was prospect facing writers in Irish And if you add to that the many not in the habit of getting the Irish member of society, which makes that, together with still fresh today is nothing like as disappointments, frustrations and national newspapers at the time, -iim all the more deadly a recollections that furnished the encouraging as it was thirty or setbacks that writers receive in nor indeed even the Irish language Jerrorist." Major General Fursdon, material for Dialann Deorai the more years ago. There are more more than their share you would be monthly publications; nor Inniu the Defence correspondent of the Daily first book in Irish that I wrote. publishing companies to be sure tempted to say that there must be a sadly missed weekly newspaper... 7he ten or fifteen years that (however small) - names like collective streak of masochism Telegraph. I was in short rather cut off from followed were good times, Coisceim, Clo Chonamara and running through the breed! » * * what was happening in that line of relatively, for publishing in Irish. others come to mind - but if there POOR MEXICO! SO FAR things at home. COMPULSORY Irish in the FROM GOD AND SO NEAR TO Private initiative is too valuable an are more publishers there are fewer educational system of the Republic AMERICAN BANKS - "Ameri- This may be less reprehensible asset to ignore even in a socialist readers. I imagine that any writer has always had its critics and lam than it seems for in those days can bankers are once again context andfor all the resources the in Irish would be very happy today not going to attempt to debate the moving from digs to digs and from Government's own AN GUM had at suffering nightmares about Latin- if he or she were assured of three issue here; there was one thing job to job and not having the time to its disposal it never did anything like American debt. This time it is thousand sales in one go (an Club about compulsory Irish - and it is a cultivate the links that I now do, I what it might have done for Gaelic Mexico's economy on the edge of Leabhar) and contrary to what the lot less compulsory now than it was drifted into that kind of internal literature - it's an old and sorry collapse, and international lenders general public imagines that is not a - and that was that out of every exile (I suppose you could call it) story now. how many talented are bracing themselves for trouble. bad circulation figure at all, many class of schoolchildren there was a which meant I was really out of writers, the Mac Griannas and Mexico's debt committments established English novelists do not good chance you'd end up with at touch. So I hadn't known anything others, were put to the soul- amount to $97 billion (£69 billion) expect to have any more than that least one competent Gaeilgeoir. In about the Club Leabhar, the Irish destroying task of translating number of copies of their work other words there was a not or roughly $1,300 for every language Book Club which had books into Irish which - allowing Mexican." Daily Telegraph. appear in hardback - and only a insignificant body of youngsters some three thousand members at its they were worth reading at all - tiny fraction of all hardbacks go I'. * # * coming along who could read and peak - nor of the junior version of could have been savoured more into the cheaper paperback editions write in Irish and whom writers of r MEDIA YO YO - The Media the same organisation with as many profitably 4n their native English. later! ~ Irish could depeniTon, more or less, now tell us that Stalins daughter members if not more Td imagine. has again gone to live in the USA. But in the late Forties things had BOOK writing, fiction in to buy their books. That can hardly But there in the Bungalo in When she left the Soviet Union she begun to stir and the late Sean O particular, may be one of the least be the case today when after almost Spiddal was a tempting array of denounced her homeland. When she hEigeartaigh, when he formed lucrative lines of work, not even on twenty years of quietly reneging on cheaply priced paperbacks in Irish, returned she denounced the USA. Sairseal & Dill, rendered a a par with the poorest paid contract the revival policy the result is that Now she is back in the USA she sa ys • many young teachers, never mind her second denial was not true. The the kids that they teach, cannot book has yet to come, E.E.C. AND THE THIRD WORLD read Irish adequately at all. So tf * * * what encouragement is there there IN 1973 Britain joined five other the third world. Bhopal gas clouds, for writers in our first national POLISH OFFER TO US former imperial powers in the EEC. Bangladesh floods and exploitation by POOR - "Poland wants to send Although their old colonial systems in all its forms are evidence enough language? Very little you would 5,000 blankets to New York for the were broken, imperialism, in a of modern imperialism. The John Boyd say, and I agree. • , city's thousands of homeless who different and modern guise still transfer of manufacturing and THE Club Leabhar now sleep in the open". DAILY exists. Of the six imperial powers, primary industries from Britain Compare that with Live Aid's £60 functions in a different, more TELEGRAPH. Britain is the richest in the EEC and continental Europe to the third million money raising event wiped advisory form, and from something world is to secure the largest profit out every day by the TNC's profit. and second wealthiest in the world / read a few months back it seems after the USA. Each has massive possible and has nothing to do with No wonder the media is happy to that not more than about a THIRTY PIECES OF investment in foreign countries. aiding the development of these concentrate ordinary well Whether this be in developed or countries. intentioned people on tee shirts and thousand copies of a work offiction SILVER third world countries it is mass running instead of the real in Irish is likely to be published The Lome Pact with 65 African, , Continued from page four exploitation of others and still cause behind the plight of the 'poor unless there is a proven demand for imperialism. The EEC is a vehicle Carribean, Pacific countries third world'. more. Poverty is one flourishing owest ebb, as handmaiden to the for international finance and (ACP), takes the form of trading aspect of modern Gaelic literature iiost anti-national government COMPARE also the 20 millions transnational corporations agreements and quotas on the but my recollection of the same ince the State was founded. spent every day by the EEC destroying, (TNC's), and as such is now one amount of goods that third world storing or subsidising food surpluses for article is that about 800 copies of IT WAS therefore heartening centre of modern imperialism. countries can export to the sale on the world market. The effect of even the most acclaimed of Gaelic hat Mr Charles Haughey was Japan and the USA are the other Community. food products, goods dumping surplus EEC food on the world onspicuous by his absence. But centres. and raw materials are shipped to market is one of undermining the prices poets is usual. I would be very Irian Lenihan, shadow minister the EEC, Japan and USA with of products of third world countries. In happy to find myself contradicted or defence was there — an For the third world, the Lome turn they have to raise loans to bail out and shown wrong on these figures agreements tying 350 million prices fixed by the TNC's involved, ominous choice, showing that as documented by the United their economies and raise further loans by some reader of the Democrat here were some who wanted people in former European colonies to pay off interest on previous loans. to the EEC, is the camouflage for Nations Conference on Trade and who knows more about the subject Fianna Fail to hedge its bets — the The overall result is that in Africa modern imperialism. This TNC Development (UNCTAD). alone, quite apart from the terrible than I do because of course it gives old ambiguity showing up again. directed imperialism is designed to famine, there are more people in me no joy to paint so gloomy a The choice of the time of the UNCTAD says the TNC's over-ride the independence of absolute poverty now than there were picture. i celebrating of the jubilee of the artificially fix prices for raw 30 years ago. Food Production per nation states, not only in Europe materials too low, items which YET the picture is not all gloom; Spanish Civil War was also but throughout the third world as capita has been declining there for at ignificant. It could be said that form the main exports of least 10 years. Any rational some lines of publishing in Irish well. Examples of TNC's include developing countries. For instance development of these nation states is seem to be making a gallant bid for he members of the International Shell, Philips, Thorn-EMI and Rio in the mid-1970s the latter received out of the question while they remain in success, the bilinguql Irigade who went out to fight for Unto Zinc. Audio hi-fi equipment, Droichead he Spanish Republic were $30,000m for exports of raw a subjugate position to their former under Gabriel Rosenstock, and TVs and microcomputers with their materials, excluding oil, while the imperial masters. :onsciously out to defend the Irish hi-tech components are specific Belfast's proposed daily Li, for Republic. One does not suppose buyers iw developed countries paid The EEC makes a common front example. And academic works in examples of goods made in the third the TNC's seven times more - about VIr Fitzgerald wishes to remember between the former imperial powers Irish are being published all the world countries of the Far East. At $200,000m for these goods. and the third world to keep former hem. But if he does — he has the other end of the scale TNC According to the UN statistics, in colonies In a subjugate position in order while - and purchased, tool I •erved notice he remembers operations include the wholesale to exploit their raw materials and But will a Gaelic AttUs A Boon O'Duffy's Blueshirts as well. He 1981-82 alone, third world states' felling of the world's forests, aa workforce. There is a need to create a arise to army vould, of course. He's in their losses from the sale of raw ever cater for an of agro-business which interferes with new order in world trade in which the popular readers? Rubbish must be oarty. the world's climatic conditions and materials on the market of western TNC's play no part. This requires aa and USA countries amounted to act of internationalism to bring the read and written in a living i*rinted by Ripley Printers Ltd (TU), produces droughts, floods, deprivation and famine. $21,000m. In 1985 the nett transfer current situation to an end, that language as well as literature of a . Nottingham Road, Ripley, Derbys, of resources from the third world to \and published by Connolly Publi- - Includes Britain withdrawing from the higher standard and (f Irish is to cations Ltd, 244 Grays Inn Road, DIRTY, poisonous and the developed world was $22,100 EEC aad abandoning imperialism in survive at all as a living thing it both its old aadaewforms London WC1. Telephone: 01-833-3022 dangerous industries are located in or $3*0^00 million. must cater for all tastes.