FOUNDED 1939
Organ of the Connolly Association
2. NATO WANTS IRISH BASES 3. SCIENCE IN IRISH M OCR AT 4. UNEMPLOYMENT IN IRELAND 5. PAISLEY'S CRAZY TRAIL MAY 1981 No. 447 20p 6. IRISH SONGS & BOOKS 8. THE GREAT MARCH FOR EMPLOYMENT ELECTION ? Interview with Cllr. Doswell
UP CAN MR HAUGHEY MAKE IT? NEUTRALITY VITAL ISSUE NEW ICTU THE feeling at the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis was that a general election was likely in May or • June. Already aspiring T.D.s are dropping propaganda through the post-boxes and SECRETARY the party machines are getting set for the contest. R Donal Nevin has been For Mr Haughey the general At the Ard Fheis Mr Haughey stop us writing neutrality into the M appointed to succeed Mr election wilt be a test of whe- gave an assurance that "no dis- present Irish Constitution? Nothing Ruaidhri Roberts as general secre- ther he can get a popular cussion has taken place with any at all, once the proposal is put tary of the Irish Congress of Trade mandate to run the country as other country, or group of coun- before the people by the Govern- Unions on the latter's retirement tries, about changing our existing ment, they could adopt it, and al- leader of Fianna Fail until the at the end of this year. policy of military neutrality". But most certainly would do so if given later 1980s. This time the popu- Donal Nevln has been assistant he hedged a bit later when he said the chance. Labour should think secretary of the Congress since 1966. lar Jack Lynch will no longer that "Our place is with the Wes- again about this proposal. He has been active in the trade be standing, and there are still tern democracies and we share with Fine Gael is lukewarm on neut- union movement since he became divisions within the party be- them a common heritage, dedica- research officer with the old Trade rality. Garret FitzGerald is all for tween the pro and anti-Haughey tion to human rights, the rule of closer political and military co- Union Congress in 1945. Before factions. law, individual liberty, freedom of that he had been a clvit servant operation with the EEC. Richie conscience • and common economic Ryan, on the other hand, says we with the Central Statistics Office. interests." No discussion on neut- In 1977 Mr Jack Lynch said after should not abandon neutrality. Bobby Sands In his younger days he was asso- rality was allowed at the Ard Fheis his election that if there were still ciated with the old Irish Workers' and the resolutions dealing with it indeed the confusion in the WILL the English Govern- League, before joining the Labour 100,000 out of work when Fianna were not reached on the agenda. Opposition Parties, on this and on ment let M.P. Bobby Party, of which he has been one Fall went to the country again, other things, is perhaps Fianna Sands, elected by 30,000 voters ef the most prominent and well- they should not be re-elected. The The Labour Party has come out Fail's best hopes of getting back in Fermanagh, die on hunger- known members for years. He is a official unemployment figures are strongly in defence of Irish neut- into government. People may not friend of the present Labour leader now 120,000; the public finances strike? Or will they make the rality. There should be no deals be enthusiastic for Fianna Fail, but Frank Cluskey and1 both belong to are in a mess and the rate of in- small adjustments needed m with anyorie, says Labour in a leng- the opposition parties give small the same union, the Workers' Union uatlon this year will be around 20 prison regulations to settle fh)< thy statement, and we should be reason for enthusiasm either. The •f Ireland. per cent. It is not the most favour- matter humanely ? neutral politically as well as mili- memory of Cosgrave, Cruise O'Brien, ONAL Nevin's energy and dedi- able economic climate. Will Mr tarily. In fact Ireland should join Cooney and Co. is still in the minds Or will the Government make the cation to the Labour Movement Haughey bring it off? D of many. Labour is still hopeless humane response called for by are well1 known. He ha® lectured the Non- Aligned Movement, La- bour says. But then Labour spoils on the North. Its "solution" is to Dean Austin Baker, chaplain to the and written extensively on social As things stand at present he has the effect of what it is saying by call for devolution and the estab- Speaker of the House of Commons, and economic topics and on Irish a good chance of success. Impor- suggesting that a policy of perma- lishment of some revamped assem- when he spoke of the previous labour history. He launched, and tant groups of voters are being pro- nent neutrality should be written . bjy at Stormont. It does not realise hunger-strike last December in the tor many years edited, the Congress mised electoral goodies. This month that events have already passed organ "Trade Union Information," into a new Irish Constitution. following words:— pensioners and others on social that stage by. History has put the which is an invaluable source of security get welfare increases of "No British government ought That indeed is "mixing things". question of sovereignty clearly on data on matters of Interest to from one-fifth to onerquarter per ever to forget that this perilous For who would draw up the new the agenda, whatever the prelimi- trade unionists. He Is an active person. The Government has just moment, like many before it, is the Constitution? What guarantee is nary stages. Is it Britain or Ire- member of the Irish Arvti-Apart- announced a £4,000 housing grant outworking of a history for which there that all sorts of other things land is to rule the North? Fine hsM Movement and has been par- for people buying their homes. our country is primarily responsible. ticularly concerned over the years would not be in it which Labour Gael tends to limp behind Fianna Public servants have got big pay England seized Ireland for its own with the efforts of those seeking to people would object to? What is to (Continued on Page Four) Increases and the Government is military benefit; it planted Protes- improve the lot of those on social meeting these commitments by tant settlers there to make it stra- welfare. borrowing heavily both at home tegically secure; it humiliated and At the time of the EEC referen- and abroad rather than by impos- TWO CONFERENCES TO RECEIVE penalised the native Irish and dum in 1972 Donal Nevin was less ing vote-losing increases in taxa- then, when it could no longer hold vehemently hostile to the Common tion. It has also launched a mas- on to the whole island, kept back Market than was Ruaidhri Roberts, DELEGATION OF IRISH SOVEREIGNTY sive investment programme which part of it to be a home for the who played a key role In getting should boost the construction In- MOVEMENT settlers' descendants, a non-viable the Irish' Congress of Trade Unions dustry and bring much-needed Im- solution from which Protestants to oppose Irish membership of provements in the 'phone service. Daltun O Ceallagh, Sean Redmond have suffered as much as anyone. that body. On the national ques- tion generally he might be said' to and Anthony Cough Ian "Our injustice created the situa- be In the mainstream tradition of On the North Mr Haughey has tion; and by constantly repeating Dublin labourism, although a Lim- succeeded in giving the impression JUNE 6th :: 2.30 pm :: AUEW ROOMS that we will maintain it so long that something Is moving following as the majority want it, we actively •rickman by birth himself. Under 48 Mount Pleasant,Livefpool Donal Nevin's leadership the, Irish his talks with Mrs Thatcher, even inhibit Protestant and Catholic Congress of Trade Unions can ex- though no-one seems quite sure (Co-sponsors , Liverpool Trades Council) from working out a new future to- peet to continue on the steady, precisely, what It Is. There have gether. That is the root of the moderate course on which it has been fears about Irish neutrality, JUNE 7th :: 10.00 am :: MUFTO HALL violence, and the reason why the Men kept for many years by which could be electorally damag- Jockey Fields, London WCl protesters think of- themselves as Rtiaidhri Roberts. ing to Fianna Fail. political prisoners." May 1981 May 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 2 3 INTERNATIONALISM FOREIGN FLASHES O'Riordan in England CONCERT | AP AN has twenty-two nuclear and elsewhere she was told to take ''I'WO successful meetings and a ~ power stations. Six of them are her U.S. task force" (to defend the demand ot the Irish people lor A social evening marked the usil abandoning the policy ul bipar; out of commission and efforts are western oil interests) wherever she neutrality, and how international sall.shlp oil this issue as .1 In s JI ME was when you could to Britain ol Mr Michael O'Riordan pressure was now being brought on being made to get them working liked. But Arabia did not want it. already done on others AND THE EEC hardly turn on the radio as guest of the Connolly Associa- Mr Haughey to give it up, and h<- again. But on top of this came tion. The first meeting was held On Friday. April 2ath. there was ^ without hearing a broadcast The lengths to which the war- was looking round desperately for a new threat. The floor of one of in the A.U.E.W. Rooms, Liverpool, a successtul social evening at winch mongers will go was shown by the an excuse to comply, and suggest- or a record by Michael on April 22nd, the second in the Mr OHiordan w«.s euest ol honour By JOHN BOYD the operating stations became London "New Statesman" which ing he could get some concession N.U.F.T.O. Hall. London, on the and Mr Ken Keable provided tin O'Duffy. This most distinc- flooded with radioactive water. The revealed the fact that the Right- in the form of a reduced commit- 23rd, and the social was at the music. n discussion about the advan- wing "Institute for the Study of ment of Britain to the Unionists tive of Irish tenors uas in accident took place in March but Metropolitan, well-known stamping- Conflict", anxious to prove that in return for it. Two i onlen nees are to be held I tages and disadvantages of the the entertainment front- was not reported. Discovery of the ground of building workers, on the EEC. confusion over certain terms Russia had turned Finland into a The same resolution was passed early in June on the .subject of rank, and remains for many tacts led the government to order 24th causes a considerable amount of military transit area for the inva- at the two meetings, that in Liver- Irish neutrality, independence and people "The Voice of Ire- the examination of every nuclear sion of the west had published a world peace, one in I .ondon and hoi air as well as the occasional Mr O'Riordan spoke ol the way pool being proposed by Mr McNnlly station In the country. crudely-doctored map. This purpor- the other in Liverpool. That being firework. The confusion is in fact land". the Rising of 1916 had confirmed and seconded by Mr Ciaran. that so great that at times bewildering ted to show that all Finnish rail- in London proposed by Mr Tom held m Liverpool is co-sponsored positions are often taken by other- ways ran east-west. It was pro- Durkin and seconded by Mr Roger by the Liverpool Trades Council. For O'Duffy afficionados— it it ir wise sane and rational people. Why duced by the simple process of Kelly. The resolution, which was The conferences will receive Un- and indeed for anyone who delegates from the Irish Sovereignty does this confusion exist and what Following the appearance of omitting all the lines which ran as follows, was despatched to Mi s Movement. Mr Daltun O Ceallaigh. fo^m docs it take? Why, In the cur- enjoys good songs well sung iauutli African military men in the north and south including those EEC DIKTAT Thatcher and to Mr Tony Benn Mr Sean Redmond and Mr Anthony rent era, is it so important to have by a superb professional— United States just after President from the capital Helsinki. Indeed, Previously the Association had sent Helsinki, which has two rail routes, .'PHE EEC is now issuing a new Coughlan. a clear understanding of such terms there's a treat in store when Michael O'Duffy and John Paddy Bfowne Reagan took office, there have been a letter to Mrs Thatcher pointing one running north-east and the ' diktat to allow: monster 44- as internationalism," and nation Michael O'Duffy tops the further talks between representa- out the dangers that would result other west-north-west, was depicted tonne lorries on roads throughout Enquiries to Connolly Association, stat'. ' along with others? bill in a Grand Irish Concert tives of the two powers. These dis- from the possible death of Mr as not even having a railway sta- the Common Market, compared 283 Grays Inn Road. London. WC1 cussed the South African nuclear Bobby Sands. Miss Jane Tate, along at the Conference Centre tion. Be careful of what you read! with the 32.5 tonnes which is the and to Councillor Doswcll, 73 Vic- In the context of Western Europe capability, which is being tolerated, with Liam and Siobhan O'Neill, mistakenly assumed that there is no beside Westminster Cathed- GREEDY EYES ON IRISH maximum now permitted through- toria Street, Liverpool. the term most misused is that of further use for the nation, that the in return for which American war- represented the Association at a ral in Victoria Street on ATO may have Its eyes on Irish out Ireland and Britain. internationalism", followed by a time has come for doing away with ships are being allowed to use the picket of Downing Street on Satur- Saturday May 16th at 7.45 waters for submarine bases. lack of understanding of the his- the nation state, all In the name of N TERRITORY Simonstown naval base. The news The scheme would be disastrous day April 25th. Attempts were p.m. This- point was made by E. P. POLAND ARMAGH torical reasons for the nation- INTERNATIONALISM. The poli- comes shortly after the disclosure on environmental grounds. It made by Fascists to interfere with Thompson during the oourse of state' and the emergence of the tically naive have forgotten that the By that Britain, Fi ance. West Germany rrHE news and propaganda media would destroy road surfaces even ihe picket butthe police did not his speech to a large audience In superstate". To make matters very word "International" means Supporting acts include and the United States together are full of reports of alleged faster than at present and would interfere until the picketers showed PIPERS the Central Hall, Liverpool, on worse, the class struggle" Is thrown that there must be nations In order the very popular Gaelic GREG QUERY with Italy and Israel are brazenly interference by Russia in Poland's pose big problems for local autho- signs of defending themselves. April 9th. rities who would have to adapt The Armagh Pipers Club is or- into the melting pot as well. to have various functions and acti- League Choir who only this defying the embargo on arms to internal affairs. Nothing is said looking for alternative locations on bridges and roads, foi the present RESOLUTION ganising a summer school and par- vities to be carried out between the apartheid state. about the interference by Western A NATION consists of a distinct month won the coveted The meeting was organised by land or sea. ones could not accept the heavier "This meeting, called under the ticulars can be obtained from Mi- them. bankers who are laying down con- race or people having a common Irish Post/Allied Irish Banks Merseyslde Campaign for Nuelear Cruise missiles could easily be ditions before granting the loans vehicles without extensive rebuild- auspices of the (Liverpool Branch Brian Valley. K1 Mullacreevir Park. descent, language and customs. A t Community Award for Disarmament as part of the local accommodated aboard aircraft car- ing. In Britain one study suggests ol the i Connolly Association calls Armagh. The superstate tries to supress that Poland has a.'.ked for. It is NATION STATE or STATE is an their work in Britain "Peaov Week", and was also ad- riers or submarines. that £1.500 million would nave to upon the British Government tu The school is residential and lasts the aspirations of each nation. hard to believe that the Poles have organised political community with as musical ambassadors. dressed by Dora Russell and Liver- be spent on strengthening bridges. accede to the five demands being from July 11th to July IKth. It Each nation or people, react and re- T Is well known, he went on, that \]k/HILE the British mass media not acted foolishly in putting their a government and a state apparatus pool organizer Mary Ben Tovin. made by Mr Bobby Sands and his will be held at Benburb Priory, a taliate against subordination. This Also on the bill are the de- I the Irish government Is under country in hock to the financial The taxpayers—that is. you and recognised by the people, either wil- During the course of his address, in continue with the songs of fellow prisoners in Long Kesh land few miles outside the city, and the is the NATIONAL QUESTION and lightful O'Sullivan Family, fierce pressure to relinquish neu- monopolies, especially as much of me—would have to meet that. The lingly or unwillingly, within Its which he advocated the establish- praise the truth is that Mrs Armagh), in connection with which cost of everything, including bus takes various forms throughout the ' who have been charming trality and align with NATO. With the money borrowed is said to benefit would go to the Continental boundaries. ment of a nuclear free zone In Thatcher has wen more enemies he is on hunger strike. We regret trips, is £72 'under lHs. £64.:>D>. EEC. The strength and resilience ' | audiences regularly for some Europe and the withdrawal of the Britain alone spending one million have been used for current expen- lorry-owners and the foreign multi- than friends in India and the near the statements of Mr Don Concan- It will cater for all levels of ability The United Kingdom is a state of each nation should not be under- i time now; the Carberry proposals to site Cruise and Per- pounds an hour on "defence" any diture. Sometimes the borrowed nationals who would be able to Irish financial contribution would money has to be paid back, or the non who gave support to Mrs and various forms of the instru- consisting of three nations and a estimated, and is the very factor School of Dancing, who will shing weapons In Britain, Thomp- East. In India the principal news- flood the British and Irish markets be of small significance. cost of servicing the debt becomes Thatcher's rejection of these de- ment.. There will also be concerts. piece of a nation, namely England, which will bring to an end the EEC. show what Irish traditional son referred to Irish neutrality. He papers called her a "cold warrior", with even more goods, more quickly mands and urge upon the Labour Scotland, the north of Ireland and However the massive new trident unmanageable. The Pipers Club has been estab- dancing is all about; and pointed out that the Scandinavian than they are doing at present. movement the desirability of Wales. The borders of this state countries, Including Denmark, are submarine, five storeys high, would' lished for fifteen years. songs sung to her own gui- and other states In Western Europe ITHIN each nation or state well on the way to setting up their be suitable for accommodation In But in fact the Irish government have been decided in the past by W there are different classes tar accompaniment by the own nuclear free zone, and that Ireland's exceptionally deep water is pursuing the same policy. It the reigning economic order. That with different Interests. For In- lovely Celia Breen rounds small countries such as Belgium harbours, especially now that It le PRISONERS may even form a part of the back- REBUILDING stance, workers attempt to obtain off the entertainment. have rejected new American ground of the Tratcher-Haughey Unity Theatre, Camden Town, Solar energy in Ireland is In the Interests of capital. These growing increasingly difficult for According to the bulletin of the as high a wage as possible whilst weapons. With growing opposition talks. "If you want to go on the famous working-class theatre states in many cases cut across not the United States to find adequat* Irish Political Prisoners in Britain I N an earlier article in this series the employer seeks to gain as big a In the United Nations and West borrowing, join N.A.T.O." And pos- where Sean O'Casey's "Star Turns ' I referred to an tOllamh only the boundaries of the nations facilities on the coasts of western .Committee (Eddie Caughey, 2 Lea- profit as possible. This is a small The evening is compered Germany to the cruise missile In sibly the Russians may be wonder- Red" had its first performance, is Annraoi dc Paor and his creditable but go against the Interests of the Europe. As In Britain the presence bon Grove, Harborne, Birmingham! part of the CLASS STRUGGLE. by John Paddy Browne. particular, governments are now ing if the Poles jjue at some time being rebuilt and re-started. Its attempt to introduce Irish as -a race or people as well. of these weapons on land or at sea, Joe O'Connell (338635, HM Prison, going to be told the same. The first play will be "Mad Tom", by medium for the discussion of con- would make the country a target, Parkhurst) has his birthday on May A SUPERSTATE is what the EEC The Interest of big capital Is to bankers are ordering the Polish Paul Ryan (about Tom Paine, of temporary problems in science and while at the same time allowing thb 15th, and Anthony" Cunningham is being made into and consists at have a superstate. The Interests national government no control Government to reduce production whom, incidentally, Wolfe Tone did technology. the moment of ten states with (B03106, HM Prison, Long Lartini on and create unemployment. That of those who work Is for their own over the decision to launch or not not think muchi and three per- On March 24th I attended a another 'two likely to join soon. Police records "used by firms" June 1st. The Committee is urging would create more discontent which nation to achieve its separate aspi- to launch them. Presumably the formances, on May 1st, 2nd and meeting of the Solar Energy This emerging superstate covers the rations without Interfering with that birthday cards be sent them. would be blamed on the socialist 3rd are to be given at the Irish A WAVE of alarm spread through which should have been removed United States and Britain roason Society ol Ireland that had been globe from the ice and snow of There is also a demand for paper- government. A very dangerous Club. Unfortunately the press re- others or being Interfered with. J * Irish and other immigrant from the man's records under the that the new business the base* advertised in Irish under the title Creenland to the Mediterranean backs and records. path! lease doesn't give the time, so ring This means that the Internation- communities in South London when Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. might create, such as the provi- "Fuinneamh na Greine". Annraoi Islands of Italy and Greece, and 986-1209 or 486-7743. alist duty of the various working the evening newspaper the New- 1974. A director of the company sion of food and drink for service- de Paor delivered a review paper from the Atlantic coast of Ireland classes of each nation is to smash Standard reported allegations from admitted using information from men, would be an additional Incen- before an audience ol about thirty, to the border between West and up the EEC. For the foreseeable the Streatham Citizens' Advice the police computer and said the tive to attract the Irish government in which I recognised some well- East Germany. future there Is a role for the nation. Bureau that London firms are practice was widespread among to support the halrbrained scheme. NORTHAMPTON known and successful consulting The achievement of that role goes getting details of the records of London's major firms. It is apparent that all those con- architects and engineers, who hand In glove with the class strug- OUR FUND BY HE problems of each of the In- job applicants from the police In a second case where a worker cerned with the future of Ireland largely outnumbered Ihe tiny hand- gle. computer. was rejected before his references should be alerted to the danger ful of pure language enthusiasts T dividual states as well as the HE Irish Democrat emergency different nations cover a very wide The combining in the bralnbox While Scotland Yard deny that were taken up, he was questioned which overshadows us front this di- IRISH SEASON who were present. So a modest R. H. W. JOHNSTON appeal fund stands at £784.64, of the class struggle with Incorrectly this is possible, since their records about "convictions." These turned rection. T success can be counted; also in the spectrum. The problems of a family which sounds fair enough until you in southern Italy are quite different defined "internationalism" leads not are "top secret" the Bureau gives out to be warnings given by the Mr E. P. Thompson Is a pro- Programme of Events fact that the ensuing questions and Alternatively houses can be de- remember that we need £2,000. to those of a family In Birmingham a few people on, to the Idea and two examples where information police when he was only fifteen minent academic and anti-war cam- discussion was dominated by the signed round the concept ol the years of age. These could only (all start at 7.30 pm unless otherwise stated) or Cork. The creation of a super- trap, of a West European revolution in possession of an employer seems paigner whose best-selling pam- What about a real effort to get technical people in the audience "passive solar system" (tamhehor- state has only antagonised these via the structure of the EEC. A to have come to him in no other have come from the police com- phlet "Protest and survive" wae with a remarkable level of iluency. aisi griandai. double-glazed WCjftt V May 1981 May 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRISH DEMOCRAT UNEMPLOYMENT HITS THE REPUBLIC Bobby Sands, MP Protest against rugby tour CIVIL SERVANTS •'I 'HE election of Mr Bobby Sands I'he maintenance of overall ing the internal, domestic market, I'PHREE HUNDRED priests, nuns of isolation of the IRFU from pub- other countries. |'HI- l-i WW oft'u-iallv n il u! iMirk numbers out ul work are bound t-. to the Westminster Parliament IN NEUTRALITY manufacturing employment in Ire- expanding home demand and em- and brothers marched through lic opinion. ' II lilt- l-;t'i)u!:!u make up me get lluher St.I! should give Mrs Thatcher furiously People may wonder why the IRFU land does not mean there ha\e not ploying people to meet the needs Dublin streets in a demonstration The Irish Anti-Apartheid Move- executive is so obdurate. The rea- . 11ii .it all employers which is I he fall in agricultural employ- to think, that is, of course, if she INTRIGUE been job losses Since Ireland of the young, growing population — against the Irish Rugby Football ment is urging the Taoiseach, Mr son is that it is being urged to a nit hmliei' ihan Bnta.n'.s ment estimated to be around is capable of thought. Union's decision to go ahead with CENIOR officials in the Oepart- ; joined the EEC over one third ol their needs for more houses, more Haughey, to speak personally to the go ahead with the South African i unemployment rate Acid m 4,000-5.000 a vear m the Republic Her traipsing through south- the manufacturing jobs existmg food, more clothing, furniture, their South African tour. Some executive of the Irish Rugby Foot- tour by tile English Rugby Union, ment of Foreign Affairs in Dub- i , ii, i). IKK) uftuialU unemployed at present has a negligible effect west Asia as President Reagan's then have been destroyed Th'ise transport, entertainment and the fifty clerics and religious held ball Union and put before them and for some members of the Irish lin have been putting pressure on :., ; lit* North and one sets a on Britain's unemployment figures, galloper, donning fancy uniforms have mostly been m traditional rest. It would mean cutting down a week - long vigil outside the the damage this tour would do to executive, traditionally West Bri- successive Irish governments to join . ,!•,•!• ui a million looking for a as there are so few people working for Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist labour intensive sectors such as the share which imports take of the Rugby Union headquarters, which Ireland's image and interests in tish in their attitudes, their loyalty the Western European Union, a , n an island ot less than me on the land there anyway dinner parties do not offer much military alliance linked to NATO, footwear, textiles, furniture and home market — which has been continued day and night. Africa and the Third World If to the English rugby body comes ..,,.(.,ii, men women and children » S for manufacturing, there is recommendation on that score. according to former Foreign Mini- tood production. They have been growing rapidly during the 1970s in Mr Haughey does this he will have before their own country or its • » heavy pressure on the jobs But if there is any part of her ster Sean MacBride. • iiiiain s unemployment is addum replaced bv slightly more new jobs, both Ireland and Britain. "We are concerned as religious done all that reasonably can be government. It is pathetic, but un- available m both countries. For it mind in which she can free herself i i eland's unemployment m two in sophisticated capital - intensive to give witness about what is hap- fortunately there are such people is in manufacturing that capitalist This is a common feature of the of the zeal of the convert aristocrat, expected to prevent the tour taking This was a clique of officials who ,One is that the lack of jobs plants invited in by the IDA — in pening in South Africa and we are But there is now such overwhelm- competition is fiercest, as business- unemployment problem in both J)eter mulligan's the rest remaining crammed with place. The Government could with- were ardently pro-EEG and anxious Britain discourages young Irish areas such as health products, elec- in solidarity with those people ing opposition to the tour in Ire- men trv to maintain their profits countries For it is now evident aristocratic prejudices multiplied draw passports from the players, that Ireland abandon its military • 11-le out ol work from emigrat- tronics. metal goods and chemicals. working in South Africa, particu- land that whether the IRFU goes by cutting labour costs and raising that Buy Irish Campaigns — and peepshow into grotesque nonsense, let it re- but this would raise civil liberties neutrality. . . The dole queue is nasty any- This restructuring of the Irish larly our missionaries," said Mr ahead or not. things can never be the productivity of their remaining Buy British Campaigns — are not flect on the fact that the decent questions and could quite possibly The Western European Union • •,i ,• but tor a Dublmer it is manufacturing sector lias been a Chris Harrison, a Jesuit student at quite the same again in Irish workers. And in the EEC. with enough to meet the situation. people, of Fermanagh and Tyrone be struck down by the Supreme was set up before NATO and its :),•;tei 111 Dublin than in Birmmg- very expensive business. It has E used the ballot-box, but Milltown and one of the organis- rugby circles. What is really needed in both Court, so that the Anti-Apartheid ., 'I'jje second is that Mrs free trade, free movement of capi- cast vast sums of money, much of W Paisley Is out on the moun- elected a convicted terrorist, self- ers of the vigil. military functions were transferred countries to deal with this unpre- Movement is not asking the Gov- I .Michel's deliberately created tal and 'restrictions on government it provided by Irish taxpayers in tains waving gun licences, so who confessed I.R.A. man and im- to NATO on the latter's establish- cedented unemployment problem is ernment to do this. ,,ii:np hits Irish exports to Britain. intervention, the standards of what the form of of grants to foreign is voting for violence? It's not a prisoned felon to the Mother of ment. in a protocol to the Brus- a break with the rules of the Parliaments. SIMULTANEOUSLY the heads of Y/TR HAUGHEY must make a uli which the Twenty-Six Coun- is competitiive are set in Germany. multinationals. But it has given vote for violence. You can't tell sels Treaty, and which was adopted EEC planned trade instead of free ^ several Jesuit schools which play personal appeal to the IRFU IRELAND IS ti-. -t.U does half its trade, and so France. Benelux and Italy. Ireland a much higher investment me 30,000 people here want violence. ''THIS does not mean that there In 1955, the military functions of trade, control of capital instead of rugby appealed to the IRFU to Executive, however. It is only then ices output and employment at Still, overall manufacturing em- rate than Britain. In fact, at 30'-, It's a vote for a settlement of the J- is universal approval for the the Western European Union were free movement of capital, low in- change its mind at this late stage. that the Anti-Apartheid Movement CHEAPER NOW handed over to NATO and the .tunc ployment has been maintained in of the economy's gross national H-block issue, and there was no principles or tactics of the I.R.A. terest rates to encourage invest- They included Clongowes, Belvedere can inform all countries that the I RELAND is now about 20% Ireland during the 1970s and has product. Ireland's investment rate, more peaceful way of doing it.— It does mean that they hold the parties to the treaty agreed that in ' |>HK Republic shows the paradox ment instead of monetarist-in- Irish Government has done all it ' cheaper to live in than the UK. slightly increased in the past three for all forms of investment, is one Thomas Murray, SOLP councillor. entire British political system in and Gonzaga colleges. These schools order to avoid duplicating military I il simultaneously rising em- spired high rates to deflate the reasonably can. There are prece- according to a recent cost of liv- yeais, whereas there has been an of the highest in the world utter contempt. have for year been bastions of Irish staffs, the council of the Western .,!,., nient and unemployment in economy and keep up Bank profits, ing survey. That is on average, of absolute decline in Britain's manu- ECONOMIC TERRORISM the Let the worthy well-breeched rugby. Their call shows the degree dents for this happening in some European Union "will rely on the hi vears. This is due to the tact and above all a government plan course, when account is taken of facturing base. Between 1960 and But if more of this investment province has by far the highest gentlemen of the Tory benches sit appropriate military authorities of thai its population is growing. to put people before profit and the difference in the pound-punt the North Atlantic Treaty Organisa- 1980. for instance, the numbers of had gone into keeping more of the unemployment at 17.3 per cent down and contemplate. In the . iu ivas Britain's population m the which will thereby have the moral exchange rate. tion for information and advice on British workers employed in manu- jobs already there instead of buying (34.5 per cent in Strabane, more opinion of the electors of Ferman- •-orking age-range is falling. In the authority to rally ordinary men Drink in the Republic is dearer military matters". facturing fell from 8.2 million to 6.3 in much more expensive new jobs, than 50 per cent in parts of Bel- agh you are no better than gun- late 1950s, for example, the Repub- and women for the sacrifices nec- Russia accuses than in Britain, but the food bill million, and last year Britain's the overall increase in manufactur- fast) and the highest number of men. indeed you are worse ! They lic.. population was falling at an essary to build a humane society rPHE Soviet Union has accused for a sample middle-income family QECAUSE of this protocol, said manufacturing output dropped bv ing employment would have been long-term unemployed. The appall- elected the gunman and wouldn't opinion in Ireland.' u.nual average of lfi.000 a year. In in which no one will be out of work ". ' Britain of trying to bring is about 18"/- lower than in the ® Mr MacBride, joining the Wes- 15' ;. the largest fall since the better. This in turn would have ing catalogue goes on and on, touch you ! Recently the situation has tin- l!Ki(ls it began to grow at an who can work. Ireland into a military alliance UK. The margin by which many tern European Union would effec- Second World War required more reliance on develop- lowest personal and household in- But, to be more serious, once been aggravated, the paper said, .nniial average of 13.000 a year. with NATO by taking advantage by Britain trying to use the Irish goods in the Republic exceed British tively draw Ireland into NATO. He come, greatest dependence on so- mori; there is demonstrated the And between 1971 and 1979 this of the desire of the Republic to desire for reunification and a prices is more than offset by Ihe said there had been pressure on cial security, highest domestic fuel irremovable fact that the question accelerated to an annual average bring about a resolution to the solution in Northern Ireland to lower rate of exchange of the Irish Ireland to join the Western Euro- expenditure, fewest household dur- of national independence is funda- 4row tli of 50.000 persons a year, troubles in the Six Counties. exert pressure on Dublin and pound, the only exception being gas pean Union since Garret Fitz- Identity cards through the back door ables and housing amenities, high- mental in Irish affairs. and this growth looks like continu- "Izvestia." the official voice of draw it into NATO's military and some fuel prices, which are gerald's days In iveagh House and est proportion of housing unfit for I ABOUR men should think 1114 tor some years yet. COMPUTER readable pass- asking them to present the piece forces in all ten member States 1 the Soviet Government, says plans. still cheaper in energy-rich Britain. it still continued. EEC Commie- human habitation, lowest reading * pver it too. Mr Concannon's sioner Richard Burke had floated port for nationals of EEC of plastic in the passport. to keep a closer eye on their popu- that Ireland has a declared ••Izvestia" praised Ireland for British tourists visiting Ireland Not surprisingly the numbers out A standards, lowest mean IQ and the impertinent intervention shows the Idea recently. Mr MacBride States will be obligatory by 1985, lations. policy of neutrality which has establishing diplomatic relations this summer will be able to avail i-.; work have gone up. They are Originally the EEC had been howt lost to all realities people can said, however, that he understood according to a recent decision of highest congenital abnormality and •• enhanced the country's prestige with the Soviet Union some themselves of a lower sterling price made u» mostly of those leaving talking about a passjiort-iree F COURSE the EEC people say be His invitation to the electors that no officials in Iveagh Hons* EEC Foreign Ministers In Brus- mental handicap rates.—The Times. in the world. It also notes that years ago and called this a posi- of about 7-8% for clothes and more school, those who lost their jobs Europe, like that existing before O the purpose Is to speed up to vote for the Unionist must who were pressing for Irish mem- sels. National passports are to b« Ireland's goal of national unity tive contribution to detente. It than 20% for consumer durables. is their old Arms closed down and 1914, but that dream has faded as queues at airports during holiday have brought Bobby Sands hun- bership of NATO had drawn the phased out by that date and to be I had never before been any- remains unattained while "the suggested that greater ties with Ireland now offers good value for p-.-ople leaving the land, mostly the momentum behind European rush periods. But one of the Brus- dreds of votes. If Mr Foot has any attention of any Minister to the replaced by a cardinal red EEC where in the United Kingdom oppression of the Catholic min- eastern Europe would " help the tourists from Britain and the ex- srr.s and daughters of fam?ti. integration flagged. sels Eurocrats blathered: "It will sense he will remove Concannon. 1955 protocol, its Implications for version containing a plastic- where there were so many evident ority in Northern Ireland is country through the crises change rate difference gives Irish II HE paradox is that for the past be like a flag or national hymn to despite his Irish name, from all Irish neutrality, or the WEU's links covered machine-readable insert What Is not flagging, however, is signs of poverty, and I remember worrying all shades of political sweeping the capitalist world." goods a significant competitive edge t four years, since Kianna Pail the ordinary citizen. It will be a contact with Irish affairs. Make with NATO. giving information which can be the "integration" of Western two Incidents in particular. In one him shadow Minister of Education. in B'ritain and the Six Counties. came to office m 1977. the numbers symbol of his European Identity." immediately fed into a computer Europe's peoples in what more and street I saw two red-haired child- He will be able to shadow an evap- employed have also mci eased and enable police and Immigation , more comes to resemble a prison- There should be a national cam- ren selling coal by the pound from orating shadow. But gag him There are about 80.000 more jobs control people obtain lots more in- house. The common EEC passport, paign against this latest piece of a handcart. Then a short distance rather than let him talk about Ire- ,i> the Irish economy now compared MR IAN PAISLEY'S formation Instantly about the pass- which was originally being talked government trickery and police spy- away I noticed young girls looking land — that is if the Labour Party r« then. There has been a little port holder. about as a piece of identification ing, which has rfever been discussed for underwear in a secondhand is seriously looking for Irish sup- expansion in manufacturing employ- to be used beyond the frontiers by national parliaments and which clothes shop—this seemed to me a port'. or, to be blunt, is anxious to PARSON TRAIL CRAZY FANTASY ment. but the bulk of the increase It is a scandalous assault on of the EEC, will now become an is being pushed over people's heads poignantly significant manifesta- wipe out the disgrace brought upon ill services and distribution and people's rights and provoked the T has been remarked that histo- Cork for was never explained. But these, their officers mutinied. On as he learned too late, was protect- efficient tool to be used by police by EEC diktat. tion of hardship unique in the it by the unregretted Mr Mason. National Council of Civil Liberties rical tragedy tends to re-enact the wildness of the talk brings out April 24th 1914, 35,000 German •,penally in the public service, United Kingdom.—Professor Peter I ing other people's privileges for to say "We are entirely opposed to The long and short of it iwe itself as farce. As such Indeed it one thing—it was bluff. Some of rifles and two and a half million them. which the Government ha.s been c\ Townsend, author of "Poverty in p Hiding rather than, as in Britain, these measures, which will allow mean no disparagement of Mr is safe to regard Mr lan Paisley's his followers, for example Mr rounds of ammunition were landed the United Kingdom". Now compare Paisley's position. i hboiately cutting back. Governments to codify information Sands whom we consider an ideal- Bonar Law, later Prime Minister, at Larne, Co. Antrim, while the REAGAN'S PLAN FOR IRELAND mountainy mazurkas which have The conservative forces which made on individuals." istic and courageous young man) is made equally heady declarations. British Navy sailed about the chan- rhe trouble is that the expansion aroused so much amusement and .use of and indeed fomented the )KESIDENT Reagan wants a North Atlantic Treaty ... On We are so far down the line that that the people of Fermanagh, He declared that "if Ulster does nel looking the other way. By this .ii employment in Ireland ha.s been ANKS and credit card companies speculation. He should head for religious prejudices of the Orange- solution to the Six-Countv the military side, however, it must we can't take it any further. The rather than vote in favour of the less than the expansion of unem- B will also be enabled to discover I the barmy house. If he can be- resist by force, there are stronger time It was clear that the Liberal men, are anxious to secure military problem m the interests of the be noted that the obligations of social situation is explosive because continuance of British rule in Ire- ployment. so that the numbers >ffi- personal details about an individual lieve himself Carson, why not make influences than Parliament majori- Government was on the re'reat, bases in the south of Ireland while Western Alliance, according to the the North Atlantic Treaty would of all the poverty here. People land. would vote far an anthropoid eial'h out of work have gone from without his or her knowledge, by It Eilljah? Being shut up would ties". like Wilson a few years ago, and being perfectly capable of holding message he sent forth on St. Pat- not compensate for the with- could get killed because of this. ape. ,round 90.000 to 125.000 in that be the best thing for him, too, for What were they? On May 10th, suggestions for the partition of Ire- those they possess In the north. If nek's Day. drawal of Northern Ireland from Every cut in spending has a dis- Let the British Labour movement aeriod of time. Unless the pace ot he has yet to learn the dangers of land were under discussion. When Mrs Thatcher wishes to do a deal the United Kingdom. Under that proportionate effect on us. Deli- get it into their heads that there is 1912 Carson declared: "Assuming job-creation is accelerated the donning the mantle of a dead war broke out in August the Home with Haughey which will deprive As an American, proud of his arrangement Ireland would be berate discrimination on religious not a decent Irish man or woman in for the sake of argument, that the Bank profits prophet. Rule Act was placed on the Statute the six-county Unionists of their Irish ancestry and as President, 1 less . defensible, not more, and grounds is fading; everybody's Britain, despite the fact that they people of this country would allow Book, without partition, but an- special position as protectors of recognise the vital importance to there would be no guarantee going down the same drain now.— do not advocate violence, who would the' coercion of their kith and kin, booming and « Carson's ultimate comment on other Act, suspending Its operation imperial interests, what can Mr our nation and the western alliance whatever that Britain would be Eileen Evason. Lecturer in Social not do the same. what would be the effect on the his own constitutional escapade was until after the waf", was placed Paisley do? Mrs Thatcher will be ELECTION of a peaceful, just and swift solu- left in a position to make the Administration. University of Ulster army? Many officers would resign; "What a fool I was! I was only there simultaneously. Carson and independent of him. (Continued from Page One) zooming tion to the current problems in dispositions necessary for the no army could stand such a strain a tool, and so was Ulster and so his friends were not aiming for Northern Ireland." he said. defence of the transatlantic Small wonder that there Is a on them." S Britain's economy slumps was Ireland ... in the political partition but for the dropping of So the ironical situation is that Pail on Partition, and Labour's routes. formidable and still growing public CURSAI \ deeper into recession. Britain's game that was to bring the Con- Accused by the Prime Minister the utmost Mr Paisley can achieve tloundei nigs presage trouble for There was nothing casual about debt in Ulster, now exceeding £31 Home Rule altogether. But the Banks show ever-rising profits. As servative party back Into office," of preaching anarchy, Carson re- •s to help Mrs Thatcher to strike possible future Coalition partners. this remark. editorialised the "The problems of defence have million, which represents in a pro- CLEAMHNAIS national movement of the Irish the "Democrat" has been saying Irish Times" the following day. changed in certain respects since plied: "The Attorney General says people proved so strong, especially a better bargain by pointing to him, vince of little more than 1.5 million Cilt: An bhfuil rimead ort faoin This is the story. When the For another Coalition is un- for some time now. Mrs Thatcher "Few people now doubt that defence the Second World War. The im- that my doctrines and the course I after 1916, that a measure of free- while for preventing the deal that people a total of £20 for every man, sceal, a Bhrid? second election In 1910 gave the doubtedly what both have in mind is running Britain in the interests portance of the transatlantic am taking lead to anarchy. Does is cooking he Is completely depen- has been at the bottom of British woman and child, owed for unpaid Irish Nationalist Party the balance dom had to be given to 26 counties, The official policy of fine Gael and of the Banks, the City of London routes remain unaltered; indeed, Br Ids C6n sc£al ta i gceist agat, he not think I know that? Does dent on Mr Haughey's willingness thinking on the North all along." rent, rates, electricity and gas. The of power in the House of Com- while England continued to hold Labour is that there will be no and the Foreign Office. it might be said that it has now a Chait, no cad chuige an rimead? he think that after coming to my to stand firm for Irish indepen- statistics are difficult to disentangle mons, Premier Asquith decided to what she could. Surveying the agreement between them before an T is worth remarking that the become greater than ever. The Cait: Sceal an chleamhnais, ar time of life, and passing through dence. because those who owe in one cate- bring in the third Home Rule Bill. resultant wreckage, Carson reflec- election, but that a coalition pact, Of the top - ten profit - makers I"Irish Democrat" has been sav- place of Northern Ireland in the ndoigh! Searlai agus Daigh. the various offices and responsibi- gory are the most likely to owe in The Conservatives opposed it, and ted on what a fool he had been. IINDER these circumstances Mr among all Banks in the entire ing this for years, long before it Brid: An as do mheabhair ata lities I have accepted, I did this w may be possible afterwards. The perimeter of defence of the the Lords threw it out twice. They Paisley will no doubt provide capitalist world the Big Four became part of the conventional others, but it would appear that tu. a oinsigh? Cad chuige an like a baby, not knowing the con- ••"HERE are certain features of electorate are thus being asked to British Isles—including the Irish could not under law throw it out the histrionics, but the show will London clearing Banks took wisdom. And when the "Demo- 100,000 householders share the total mbeadh rim6ad orm faoi sin? sequences?" • the position leading up to 1921 |,uy a pig in a poke, for they have Republic itself — is still strategi- a third time. So the battle had be definitely a farce. There will be first i Barclays i. second i Westmin- crat" claimed Britain was holding debt, an average of £304 each..— Cait: Ta se chamh ramansuil, a that are completely absent today. no idea what the programme of a callv vital." Bonar Law capped this by saying no Carson trail. The wheels these ster i. fifth i Midland i and seventh on to sovereignty in Ireland for The Times. (On the orders of the Bhrid; Beidh posadh alainn ann to be taken to the country. Carson was dealing with a vacillat- Coalition might be. Labour is urg- the population of London would days go round a different way. No (Lloyds i places, according to a strategic reasons, numerous aim- British Government the Northern san samhradh. ing Liberal Government which had ing second preferences should go HE Unionist Council had been lynch government ministers on republican need fear that voicing recent survey of international bank- chair strategists derided it. It is Ireland Housing Executive has an- Brid: Nil a fhios agam an ag espoused Home Rule only because to Fine Gael, however, and Fine T founded in 1905. On September lamp-posts. And Carson's galloper, the national demand vigorously will ing in "The Economist" journal. not too long ago since various Irish nounced that all rents will now be tarraingt mo chois atair no an the Irish Party held the balance Gael is urging the same tor Labour A TRIAL RUN 23rd 1911 this body began prepara- F. E. Smith, said he agreed. add to Mr Paisley's strength. And politicians let them be nameless increased by 38 per cent with im- blifuilir ag eiri saonta. in the House of Commons. Asquith, The best elements in the Labour In 1979 Barclays became the first R TONY BENN has warned tions to set up a Provisional gov- we hope Mr Haughey will not. were claiming that Britain would mediate effect.) Cait: Ni ceachtar acu, a Bhrid. HE building up of the Ulster when he retreated from Home Rule Party are opposed to another bank ever to top 1 billion dollars ernment In Belfast The "Ulster be out of Ireland "by next year"! M that British security forces are Taim lan den sc6al, ta se iontach. T before the Tory onslaught, was like For Paisley's strength is Britain's Coalition. Thev want Labour to in protits, that is, one thousand The Army G.O.C General Sir R. Covenant" was launched and taken Volunteers was not left in local The "Irish Times" says the using Northern Ireland "as a trial Brid- Is baolach go dteastaionn a cat being chased into a dairy. It strength. What he has of his own support a minority government million. When expressed as a Lawson: Make no mistake, the round shops and workplaces. The hands alone. The members must reason for Britain holding on is run" for what would happen in uait < > chloigeann a chur faoi was where he wished to be from the Is dependent on the fifteen hundred from outside, on condition it imple- return on assets the four big British army is in Ulster to back up the para-military Ulster Volunteers be drawn from Orange Lodges, not that the concept of nuclear war so Britain itself if unemployment con- scrtidu, a Chait! Nach bhfuil a start but now he could blame the million pounds Britain squanders ments crucial points of Labour banks were streets ahead of all police; it is a role for which we were shortly established. And to mention the yellow Protestants- scares world leaders that all are tinues to rise. fhios agat go maith gur siorcas ta dog. in the six counties every year. What policy like the maintenance ol Irish their major international rivals. will always be available and I can speeches of the most reckless kind only trade union that had wrecked neutrality for example. But the at the same time preparing for Speaking recently at a fringe san obair seo go 16ir chun aigne would happen If Britain decided no The strength of sterling, which assure you that there will always were made. the 1907 dock strike. The officers The people who were challenging longer to support the shipyard? desire of Messrs. Cluskey. O'Leaiv •conventional"' w«r. And it quotes meeting at the Scottish Labour na ridaoine a bhaint den ghear- hits British manufacturers, in- be more than sufficient troops to were provided from the upper the government were wealthy, arti- That is a small part of the sub- and Co for office is likely to prevail Sir Cyril Falls, foimer Professor Party's annual conference in Perth, ch6im fostaiochta, den easpa oibre. The leader of the Unionists, Ed- creases the profits of the banks meet the requirement of the police classes of the two islands. English culate and well organised. They sidy. over any principled approach It of Military History at Oxford, on Mr Benn said "I wonder how much de dhroch staid no tire? ward Carson, a Dublin lawyer when expressed in dollars. Finance Ireland's strategic importance: and community—NOW. ladies prepared their stately homes comprised the landed aristocracy of is shortsighted, for countless voters of their time is devoted to prevent- C«iit: Ma sea is brea ta ag eiri whose previous speciality had been This fact must have been realised capital dominates over manufac- for the reception of Unionist refu- two Islands, the top brass of army will be looking for a real alterna- It is sometimes argued that ing an invasion and how much of The R.U.C. is being thrust into leis, a Bind, mar na smaoinios air packing juries to secure the convic- by many Unionist workers. Pais- turing and industrial capital in gees. A million pounds was col- and navy, plus arch-imperialists these dangers would be averted their time is devoted to seeing that a para-military role which in the puinn le seachtain. tion of Land Leaguers, declared ley's rally at Stormont was to have tive. That is true of the young Britain, which is whv British capi- lected and arms purohases were like Rudyard Kipling, Without if Partition were brought to an the British people do not get out past has been responsible for many Brid Fagaim ag Dia tu, a Ch.iit, that he believed with all his heart brought a hundred thousand. The especially. But as tliev are not tal is so parasitic and imperialist - begun. The Liberal Government Tory money, Tory organisation, end. if Northern Ireland became of hand. of Its present difficulties. There is mar is duine le Dia thu. that, if necessary, Ulster would agencies gave him 31,000. The being offered this, it is quite on the and behind all the other big capi- learned that the Unionists were Tory influence and Tory personnel, incoiporated in the Irish Repub- no military solution to our prob- Calf Meas ta cen s6rt girna . . .? march from Belfast to Cork, even "qualities" said less than 10,000. cards they will give Mr Haiighev talist countries when it comes to "It is a trial run for what might eyeing covetously British Army Carson's "rebellion" would have lic, and if the Irish Republic lems. — Michael Canavan of the if not one of them ever returned." HI. puff and I'll blow —but the his mandate and return hmi to making real things and increasing happen here if there are four A Bhrid? CA bhfuil tu ag dul, a dumps. When troops were ordered been been a damp squib. Carson, canie a member-State of the S.O.L.P. house lwon't come down. nfflee. nation il output. million unemployed " Bhrid .. :? D. Mac A. What he wanted to march to from The Curragh to safeguard May 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT May 1981 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT A REBEL SONG PADRAIG PEARSE THE IRISH REBEL I'VE sung many a song, I've told many a story, by 1 Of lovers so tender and battles so fierce, O'CASEY-CONTROVERSY RAGES GREAT crowd had gathered outside ot Kilmainham, Now may God be my guide as I sing of the glory, A "Sean O'Casey, Centenary Essays", edited by David Krause and With their heads all uncove/ed they knelt on the ground. James Connolly The goodness, the grandeur of bold Padraig Pearse. inaccuracies For example under For inside that prison lay a brave irish soldier . Robert G. Lowery (Colin Smythe, 256pp.) the year 1912 he has 'Reads the tExecuted May llith. 191fil Home Rule edition of George Ber- H s life tor his country about to lay down. P OR the most part the essays in A'l the virtues and graces that God ever granted these books, find out just what nard Shaw's John Bulls Other To mortal on earth here in him were combined ; this book examine distinct liter- story they purport to tell, and so Ke went to his death like a true son ot Ireland, Island' and gives up nationalism." f"*OME, workers, sing a rebel High honour and faith in his soul were implanted, ary questions and the themes are see how the writer has contrived The firing party he bravely did face; song, well chosen. Mr Ronald Ayling Mr Lowery has forgotten the let- He was fearless in battle yet gentle and kind. to tell it. Unfortunately Professor ter O'Casev wrote as a nationalist A sing of love and hate— gives a businesslike assessment of Then the order rang out: "Present arms; fire.' THE CHIEF Maroldo has not been able to against the socialist Euchan of the Ol love unto the lowly the degree of O'Casey's indebted- match up the events of the life- James Connolly fell into a ready made grave. "C. S. ParneW, by Paul Bew "Irish Worker ". His words are — And of hatred to the great; There are fields round Rosmuck, there are fields round ness to the Abbey Theatre. Mary story with the facts of history and (Gill & Macmillan, 152pp, The great who trod our fathers Roscommon Fitzgerald examines his relations geography. In a note he has ' I am one of those who has The black flag was hoisted, the cruel deed was over; (£2.50). with Lady Gregory. Benstock, Alan down, Where wild flowers grow brighter, the air is more clear, O'Casey living in the predomin- entered into the labour of our Gone was the man who loved Ireland so well. Simpson and Stanley Weintraub con- And the grass seems to whisper "We'll always remember, antly Catholic slums of North Dub- fathers, one of those who de- Who steal our children's bread, CO many are the myths that have sider him in relation to other writ- There was many a sad heart in Dublin that morning, lin '. The houses in which O Casey clare-by the fame of our fore- Whose greedy hands are Though the whole world forget him, he used to walk here." obscured the person and beliefs ers, Synge. Behan, Joyce, Yeats When they murdered James Connolly, the Irish Rebel. lived from quite early childhood fathers; by the murder of Red stretched to rob of Charles Stuart Parnell that the and Shaw. are standing not five miles from biographer starts with the advan- Hugh; by the anguished sighs of The living and the dead. When the westering sun sends the long shadows creeping There is nothing outstandingly where I am writing. They are not food's curse on you, England, you black-hearted monster, tage of the reader's curiosity. How the Geraldine; by the blood- Through ancient St Enda's the wind brings a sound, compelling, but nothing incompe- slums nor ever were. Moreover, the Your deeds they would shame all the devils in Hell. did this nervous and Inarticulate dripping wounds of Wolfe Tone; CHORUS: As a child feels its mother twixt waking and sleeping, tent or slipshod. There are, how- important geographical fact is that There are no flowers blooming, but the shamrock is growing man, a Protestant landlord, become, by the noble blood of Emmet; by Walk softly, your feet are on sanctified ground. ever. small errors by which some O'Casey lived near the North Wall, the death-wasted bodies of the O'er the grave of James Connolly, the Irish Rebel. In a few short years, the darling Then sing our rebel song of the American writers reveal that is to say in the port area famine—that we will enter into As we proudly march along of both the Irish people and the their incomplete knowledge of Ire- and near the railway line to Bel- One glorious week when the red flame of battle Catholic Church Establishment? our inheritance, or we will fall To end the age-long tyranny land and Irish history. It comes fast. There was thus a small en- Many years have gone by since that Irish rebellion, Wrapped Dublin around and the staunch hearted few And what reckless disregard for one by one. Amen." That makes for human tears ; as a surprise when O'Casey is de- clave of Protestantism with St When the guns of Britannia they loudly did speak. Stood with Pearse through the shell bursts and rifle's sharp convention caused his equally dra- Barnabas's Church at the centre SEAN O'CASEY Our task is nearer done scribed as a trade union organiser. That was published on , March The bold IRA they stood shoulder to shoulder rattle matic downfall? This is the of the university of it. • 1st 1913. Mr Lowery also forgot And the blood from their bodies flowed down Sackville Street. With the setting of each sun, While the bright torch of freedom was kindled anew. thesis and all the writers except that writing about Thomas Ashe in that if you take up the appropriate And the tyrant's might is Paul Bew's excellent biography balances the personal story with a Alan Simpson have provided a The chronological problems raised 1917 O'Casey glorified the Easter position anything "can be seen" as passing The Four Courts of Dublin the English bombarded wealth of historical detail. His "critical apparatus". Simpson's by O'Casey's autobiographical me- Rising. But perhaps these lapses anything else. O'Casey was fami- With the passing of the years. Then the sudden end came but still fearless it found them, The spirit of freedom they tried hard to quell, knowledge of the period Is schol- work is the best written and easiest thod are several times noted, but of memory are connected with his liar with Marxist theory. He was They lost but in losing the battle was won. read. third contribution, which is neither not born with it so the question is But above all the din rose the cry, ' No surrender"— arly and he fills in the background perhaps more use could have been They fought till old Dublin in ruins fell rou> d them, of an Ireland disturbed by agrarian literary nor historical but an exer- when did he acquire it? That 'Twas the voice of James Connolly, the Irish Rebel. We sing no more of wailing made of independent historical Then to death with a smile walked our land's bravest son. unrest and threatened by a renewal "IT is when the American writers sources, such for example as state cise in political special pleading insofar as he acquired it he did- And no songs of sighs or tears, of famine, with the Fenians defea- stray from the literary field that papers and vital documents. designed to establish the following so late in life has been established High are our hopes and stout So some of his politics might be One short whispered prayer, then the murderous thunder ted and gone underground, and they are least successful. Professor thesis:— our hearts political activity in the hands of Maroldo, taking the theme "Pris- seen as a "continuation and in- BUACHAILL ON EIRNE Of rifles rang out in that bare prison yard; jlTR LOWERY has made three ". . . that Sean O'Casey's poli- And banished all our fears. 5saac Butts's ineffectual Home Rule tine Catholicism and Green patriot- 1 tegration" of Marxist theory and While the grim fusillade tore his broad breast asunder contributions. The purely lit- tics can be seen as a continuation Ourflag is raised above us League. ism in O'Casey's Irish books", others not. Most people agree that UACHAILL on Eirne me's bhreagfainn cailin deas og ; His pure soul ascended to heaven unmarked. erary one, "O'Casey at the Abbey and integration of Marxist So that all the world may see, weaves his way ab^y through the the first play to show clearly B Ni iarrfain bo spre leithe, ta me fein saibhir go leor, Theatre", is a useful list of per- theory." O'Casey's political identification 'lis Labour's faith and Labour's QARNELL'S rise was due to the complex and tangled allusions with formances. His incursion into his- •S liom Corcaigh a mheid e, dha thaobh a'ghleanna' a Tir Eoghain • Land War. In 1879 he became which O'Casey's autobiography with Marxism was "The star turns arm Not Ireland alone but the whole world should mourn him, tory, a chronology of O'Casey's life, "VI^HAT does that sentence mean? 'S mur n-athrai me beasai 'sme n' t-oidhr 'ar Chontae Mhaigh Eo president of Michael Davitt's Irish abounds. It is useful to analyse red", written during the period of Alone can Labour free. The selfless, the valiant, the friend of the meek; is mainly satisfactory but contains ** One supposes it could mean iftachaidh me amarach a dheanamh leanna fan choill National Land League. The slogan the fight against Fascism and the Brave men gather round him though hirelings may scorn Popular Front. Gan coite gan bad gan grainnin brach' ar bith liom, him ; "The land of Ireland for the people Ach duilliur na gcraobh mor eideadh leapa os mo chionn of Ireland" meant different things Out of the depths of misery Remember brave Pearse and sublime Easter Week. S oro sheacht mh'anam deag thu's tu 'feachaint orm anall. to the old Fenian and the Protes- One nevertheless gets the impres We march with hearts aflame sion that Mr Lowery is doing some With wrath against the rulers tant landlord. For Oavitt the goal THE TELEVISION IRELAND was eventual public ownership, for thinking and retreating from some- false Buachailleocht bo, mo leo, nar chleacht mise ariarnh, Parnell the buying out of the land- "Ireland : A History", by Robert Kee (published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £9.95). of his more far-fetched theories Who wreck our manhood's name. Ach ag imirt 's ag ol *s h-Ogmhna deasa fa shliabh lords by the tenants. Yet together The facts of chronology do not im>- OLD BALLYMOE rpHlS is the book of the television Ho chaill me mo stor ni do' gur chaill me mo chiall, The serf who licks the tyrant's they roused Ireland to a pitch British people. In fact in the whole One thing which the writer did press him deeply but he is bee ant- film which was widely viewed in A's ni mo liom do phog na'n bhrog ata'r caitheamh le blian. rod IN the County Roscommon in haste from the rain which eventually led to the Land book I cannot remember a single well in the book is bring out the ing aware of them. botta. Britain and Ireland. There A chuisle 's stor no pos an seanduine liath, May bend forgiving knee; • I was crossing the fields on my way to the train, Purchase Acts which broke the mention of the exploitation of Ire- change of ownership of land from had been a lot of correspondence In his declaration of intent Mr The slave who breaks his power of the landlords. land by the English ruling class Catholic to Protestant. Ach pos an fear og, mo leo, mur' maire se ach bliain ; I met a cailin and says she, do you know on the series in Irish papers. There Lowery says that "Although his slav'ry's chain Parnell was genuinely concerned whether through rent or over- No beidh tu go foill gan o mac os do chionn The shortest shortcut into old Ballymoe ? was a special discussion on the "The percentage of the land of political and artistic writings hava A wrathful man must be. for the plight of the peasants, espe- taxation. Neither can I remember A chilfeadh an dcor trathnona no'r maidin go trom. B.B.C.. Chaired by Ludovic Kennedy, Ireland owned by Catholics which been examined in the light of Irish cially those in the West of Ireland a reference to the suppression of with Robert Kee answering criti- had shrunk by the time of the history, they have not been ac- Says I, cailin og who led you astray ? but, at heart, according to Bew, he industries at the behest of English corded the same examination from cism. The politicians present were great rebellion to fifty-nine was re- Our army marches onward I think I'll go with you to show you the way. was a "conservative constitutional manufacturers. There is also the the perspective of socialist history.1' Merlyn Rees, Enoch Powell and duced by the Cromwellian land With its face towards the dawn Says she, I'm afraid because you I don't know— nationalist" and the violence from use of the country as a source of (Reviewer's emphasis. 1 The answer John Hume. A special film had settlement to a mere twenty-two BRIAN OG AND MOLLY BAWN In trust secure in that one thing You might kiss me between here and old Baflymoe I extremists turned him towards cheap food and its value to Eng- is that the whole includes the part. been made of an interview with per cent. After further Catholic Home Rule rather than Agrarian land as a buyer of high-priced humiliation in great events to come Socialist history, if this means H, come listen to my story, Molly Bawn, The slave may lean upon— Ian Paisley. The other series, The Revolution. engineering goods. This was over- it was to shrink by 1695 to fourteen the history of the actions of O For I'm bound for death or glory, Molly Bawn, The might within the arm of him Says I, cailin'og, I have seldom been kissed; Troubles, was discussed on the looked. per cent and by 1714 still further socialists, is a part of general his- For I've 'listed in the where no more those eyes can harm me Who knowing freedom's worth, army, Says she, you poor lad, sure a lot you have missed I LJ IS real genius was as a poll- same programme. tory, and if in dealing with tha Strikes hard to banish tyranny A significant economic fact would to seven per cent." Faith, they'd kill me though the'y charm me, Molly Bawn. Says 1, I am willing to learn you know— "tlcian keeping the balance be- Robert Kee appeared on the Late, actions of socialists in Ireland you From off the face of earth. have been a good quote at the end Again, on P.53, Kee tries to We can practise between here and old Ballymoe. tween the advocates of revolution- Late Show on R.T.E. and 4.000 com- exclude general Irish history, then of the chapter on the famine identify nationality with Catholic- ary change, the emergenlng Catho- plaints were received about remarks you make those actions incompre- Wisha Brian, you've been drinking now, you rogue, period. Despite the deaths of. a ism. lic bourgeoisie, the Churoh, and the he made about the Emmet Rising. hensible. S can tell it by your winking, Brian Og, Do you think I'll go with you, you Mullingar rogue ? million in the famine and the de- Protestant landlords. "Roman Catholicism, for better or But you'd ne'er such a villain, as to take the Saxon Shilling, I don't like your looks nor your soodherin' oul brogue— Never before, since the setting up parture in coffin ships of another Connemara It was at the Westminster Par- of the puppet state in north-east worse, is so much part of the atmos- And do their dirty killing, Brian Og. You're young and you're handsome but dear knows you're slow, million, according to a writer at * GAIN Mr Lowery presents liament, dominated by that remark- Ireland, has there been so much phere of Ireland that Irish national I don't fancy a dead one in old Ballymoe. the time in The Economist, the net -1 ' socialism and nationalism as able statesman Gladstone, that he discussion about Irish history and identity can seem inseparable from Cradle Song revenue from Ireland in 1851 was two mutually exclusive absolutes, And sure what will all the boys say, Brian Og ? was most effective. Elected leader politics and relations between the it- i £4,281,999—that is £184,000 greater though the real world does not pre- Th»t you've turned a redcoat heathen, Brian Og ? of the Irish Parliamentary Party In Says I, I've been noticed for strength and for looks, two countries. The fact that the than 1843. So the English Govern- There isn't much religion in bank- sent itself as a conflict of prin- the wings of the wind 1880, he skilfully used It In the Go list so, if it please ye, ach ye villain, do not tease me, And my brains aren't bad, for I'm mad for the books, other series was running at the ment found the Irish famine very ing, commerce and the multi- ciples but a conflict of people. He ^ O'er the dark rolling deep battle for power between Liberals Sure you'd drive a cailin crazy, Brian Og. So if you'll say yes, to be married we'll go same time seems to indicate a profitable. nationals but then they are little cannot understand that taking part Angels are coming And forever be happy in old Ballymoe. and Conservatives to put Ireland's change of policy on the part of the mentioned in the book or the tele- in the Easter Rising was, in Con- problems to the forefront of Eng- British media. Before, little was To watch o'er thy sleep ; "17" EE makes several references to vision film. nolly's estimate, not an attempt to 'Twas yourself that drove me to it, Molly Bawn, lish politics. published without the "imprimatur" Angels are coming Karl Marx in the book but he establish socialism, but an attempt When you read my death you'll rue it, Molly Bawn, She started to laugh till I thought she would choke; of the British army. To watch over thee, Parnell was responsible for Glad- does not pay him the compliment "IN the book there is the sly use to clear the way for it by giving When I die 'mid foemen wrestling where the balls like hail are She said, you poor fool, now I'll tell you a joket— So list to the wind stone becoming a convert to land Knowing that Mrs Thatcher's of quoting from his writings on of photographs and pictures to the Irish people a native govern- whistling, Step out of my way sir, for now I will go, Blowing over the sea. purchase and limited Home Rule parsimony does not apply to the Ireland. The following sentence identify terrorism with the Catho- ment. He took part in the nat- Aye, and bloody bayonets bristling, Molly Bawn. I've a husband and six kids in old Ballymoe. for Ireland, and while his Bill was B.B.C., for obvious reasons, there from Karl Marx could have been lic religion. The upper photograph ional revolution, but that does not defeated In 1886 the way was is the suspicion that both series on used to great effect, by Kee describ- on Page 57 is of Irish country mean he became a "nationalist". And the last words I'll be speaking, Molly Bawn, Chorus: opened for the Land Acts of 1903 Ireland had approval from a high ing changes in Ireland in the 19th people at an open-air mass. The When he was a prisoner he asfceA When me soul its leave is taking, Molly Bawn, and the Issue of Home Rule was level. Some Iristi suspicions go so century. lower picture, a drawing probably for socialist newspapers, and it was Ah Gradh mo Croidhe mo Stoirin, your old sweetheart Brian Oigin Hear the wind blow, love THE BUNCH OF THYME from that time on a continuing Irri- far as to connect the series with from Punch, shows Irish small these, as his daughter recorded, h When I visited Labour Councillor Doswell in his modest but comfortable Wavertree home, he told me that among the city's old- THE CHIEF J established coloured community, unemployment had risen to fifty per cent, with a possibly higher proportion among the youth. It (Continued from Page Seven) was rising all the time. Prospects for white youth were little ;ptit his own party was some skilful better. pressure trom his many enemies irt The closure of Tate & Lyle's where from 10.30 a.m. onwards na- Westminster. It was a sollt that sugar factory, contrary to solemn tional speakers would address the spread all through Ireland and undertakings, under pressure of marchers and supporters. All local lingered on tor many bitter years ANSWER THE TORY the E.E.C., and the disappearance organisations had been invited to 2tter his death. of Courtaulds had been severe bring their banners and to walk R BEW considers that Parnell blows. The port had to,500 dock- the seven miles to Speke Airport, lacked sympathy and vision M ers in 1970, and now had only 4,000. from which the marchers would about Ulster and never realised These were under , constant pressure proceed to their first stopping-place the threat it posed to Irish unity. to sell their jobs for £18,000 re- at Hale. The next day they would His concern for Protestants did not dundancy money, and though the stop at Widnes. then on to War- ixtend to Ulster, possibly because shop-stewards advised against It, rington, Salford and Manchester. A ihey included every class. In turn many were tempted to accept. They special two-day programme of the businessmen and tenants dis- did not realise that if after a year events had been planned in Man- trusted him. Only In his decline they had not found alternative chester. as leader, when he was no longer employment, then they would get "About 380 marchers are expected a captive of Catholic nationalism, no social security payment until to leave Liverpool." said the coun- did he show a political maturity they had spent the £18,000 down to cillor. who is also secretary of «ith regard to the necessity of £2,000. Public money was being Liverpool Trades Council, "and towing to terms with Northern spent to put men on the dole, but every one of them will be provided Unionism. But it was too late. He 1 it was only an advance, which with an anorak, leggings, two pairs ji ied in 1891, and the myt " began. would be paid back later. of socks and a pair of boots. One This is an excellent book, very A SKED if there were concrete hundred of them will be local readable, and likely to send the -1 * plans for re-industrialising the people, two hundred and eighty reader in ciuest or more material city, Councillor Doswell said that will come from all parts of the i.bout the period. some people advocated import con- northwest of England and farther trols but. as a port-worker himself, afield." he was dubious .about measures The non-local people will be ac- TV IRELAND wjiich might reduce the quantities commodated over the night of of goods coming in, while he under- April 30th. The National Union of (Continued from Page Seven) stood the force of the argument. Seamen had provided unemployed Ijam.sm of an oppressed nation to Speaking of the great send-off ships' cooks to cater for them. tonlonn to the constitutional planned on May 1st, he explained "Perhaps it will only be bangers theory of the oppressor nation! that the usual May Day procession and mash a't night and eggs in the When the Kee series was dis- from Islington Square to the Pier morning, but they'll be catered for." cussed on B B.C.I, results of a poll Head was to be replaced. The. /COUNCILLOR DOSWELL spoke among viewers were given. It was sembly point would be Pier Head of the enormous organisational alleged that the popularity of the effort being put into the event. In } rovisional l.R.A. had declined by order that there should be no mis- i \\ i nty per cent. hap a lorry had been hired. In OBERT KEE expressed great it was rolled up a large marquee, K satisfaction at this. He said NORTHERN IRELAND HIT WORST ground-sheets and sleeping-bags. At this was the best thing that came I IVERPOOL Connolly Assoeia- spending is taken into account versal of Tory monetary policy, a pinch all the marchers could, if out of the series. In the book he *J tion plans to cany posters in there can be little doubt that pumping public money into hard- the worst came to the worst, camp islso goes "gunning" for the l.R.A. the anti-unemployment march Britain spends usefully consider- hit regions so as to revitalise their out in a field. The lorry was in tJie past. drawing attention to the serious ably less on the ponulation of the economic life, the control of infla- equipped with special two-way tele- Of the l.R.A. in l'J19 and 1920 situation in the six counties. six counties than on the people tion by cutting travel costs, restora- phone links, the gift of an elec- he says they had "no mandate for of Britain tion of the Price Commission, re- tronics firm. A prominent business- While not agreeing that Britain violence . This is rather like ex- form of the Common Agricultural man had donated £1,000 to the should be responsible for the six A contributory factor in worsen- pecting the French underground Policy of the E.E.C. selective im- funds of the march. He noted that counties the Association argues ing the six county position has movement to t.ake a referendum in port controls, and massive improve- the Times and Guardian were now- that having made itself responsible been direct rule which Mr Rose de- «-cupied France during the war scribes as an unmitigated disaster. ment in social services to be playing down the recession and it should act responsibly. financed by tfce reduction of un- saying it had "bottomed out" at an before shooting any Germans. He argues for an elected assem- According to Brian Roe. Editor of productive military spending. unemployment figure of two and Even when he reaches the 1932 bly in the six counties with wide- the C.P.I. Northern weekly news- a half million. election Kee is still complaining ranging economic powers. The article concludes with advo- iibout extreme republicanism. paper "Unity.'' while official figures cacy of a 'declaration by the "That's no good to us," he em- for unemployment in the six coun- This is a question beset by "The l.R.A. went canvassing Tor political and legal difficulties which British Government of its intention phasised grimly. Fianna Fail on the doorsteps in ties are approximately 100,000 to withdraw from control of and He was pleased to say that the 117.2% i, the exposure of concealed ' can be discussed elsewhere. companies so that anyone answer- IN the meantime the Northern interference in our affairs over a Transport and General Workers' unemployment would probably bring stated period1 and on the basis of a ing the door and being asked if ' Ireland Trade Unionists have Union had allocated two full-time the figure up to near 120.000, and worked out programme. This Joe was going to vote Fianna Fail conferred with the British T.U.C. organisers to the march, and he 150.000 is the forecast for later this would have a highly beneficial •would find sinister groups of men and the Northern Ireland Com- was aware that similar arrange- year. effect on political developments standing about watching them.' mittee of the Irish Congress of ments had been made throughout By way of comparison the high- here, forcing Unionists to work out I do not remember any visits Trade Unions supported the T.U.C. the country. est figure recorded in the thirties a new accommodation with other from the I.R.A. in 1932 in Marino, "week of action" from April 6th- rPHE route to be followed is: May Dublin, but I do remember the was 90,456 in January 1938. This political forces here, as well as giv- was after the situation in Britain 12th. ing an impetus to ecrm>mic 1st, Liverpool-Hale; May 2nd, Blue Shirts outside the church Widnes, 3rd Warrington, 4th Sal- when the people came out from had begun to improve as a result The Trade Unions demand a re- co-operation." of the Tory Government's war ford, 5th-6th Manchester, 7th Stock- Mass. port, 8th Macclesfield, 9th Coiigie- JI^HE main defect of the book is plans. That "improvement" cost tens of millions of lives. . ton, lOth-llth Stoke-on-Trent, 12th ^ that Kee does not present the NOTES FROM THE NORTH WEST Stafford, 13th Cannock, 14th Wol- history of the two countries as fPHE high figures are the result HE school which James Larkin the pipes. About two hundred verhampton, 15th Walsall, 16th-17th •loeing closely intertwined. He sees * of definite policies by the T attended as a child is being walked and a statue of St. Patrick West Bromwich, 18th Birmingham, DO class relationships in either Thatcher Government. One thous- knocked down. The church of Our was carried to the church. Among 19th Nuneaton, 20th Coventry, 21st country and fails to see the ruth- and industrial civil servants were Lady of Mount Carmel has built those who attended the Mass were Rugby, 22nd Northampton, 23rd less self-interest of the British fired in 1980. Another 2.700 civil a modern school on the other side Mr Bernard Morgan of the Liver- Bedford, 24th Letch worth, 25th Lu- ruling class. This comes of not servants are to go in 1981. of Chipping Street. The old school pool Connolly Association and his ton, 26th Hemel Hempstead, 27th Joeing primarily concerned with the Mi' Roe argues that figures show- Identified as Larkin's by thr Irish mother who was out in Dublin in Watford, 28th Wembley, 29th Lon- -basic needs and interests of the ing the relative amounts of public Democrat last autumn was also 1916. don. .majority of the Irish people. expenditure per head of population attended by the late Mr Leo It is up to those who have these in Britain and the six counties McGree, whose life has just been at heart to deepen and extend the (respectively £1,050 and £1,350) are published in Manchester. So one c -curiosity aroused by the Kee book deeply misleading. Th" r< county more Liverpool-Irish landmark goes Cardinal to visit Irish Centre and film series, and turn the new figures fail to take into account the way of all flesh. knowledge into political pressure to local authority spending, not en- HE Irish Centre, 127 Mount ing as its purpose the marking of settle the Irish question, i.e. to have tered in the national accounts in T Pleasant, Liverpool, is to hold the retirement of Mr Tadhg a peaceful united Ireland without Britain, and the large agricultural its annual dinner on Friday, June Feehan. This celebration is being any involvement in N.A.T.O. The and unemployed population. The / \N the Sunday before St Pat- 5th, tickets £7 a head. sponsored by the United Iref-tpd Irish people have -had more than excess of the six county of the rick's Day, Warrington Irish Club On thie occasion the main Association with whose work Mr their fair share of wars. G 0. British figure is only 3% when organized its annual parade from speaker will be Mr Jack Lynch, Feahan has been Identified for adjusted. the Club's premises to St. Mary's T.D., and Cardinal 0 Flash will many years. Frinted by Ripley Printers Lt^ efU), Indeed Mr Roe might have Church for a Latin Mass. The be the principal guest. Rssilers of the Irish Democrat Nottingham Road, Ripley Jerbys, added, if he had been writing from procession was led by the tricolour, This wIN be the second of two WW join wMh the U.I.A. in wlkhing and published by Connolly Publi- a political as opposed to an econo- followed by Mr William, Monaghan dinners organized at til* Centre, Mr Feehan a long and happy cations Ltd. at 283 Grays Inn mic point of view, that if military of the Liverpool Irish Centre with retirement. Road. London WC1. the ether, on Friday, May ftth, hav-