Moriarty Tendentious! Jewish Identity Connolly & Pilsudski John Martin Wilson John Haire Labour Comment page 7 page 29 back page IRISH POLITICAL REVIEW May 2011 Vol.26, No.5 ISSN 0790-7672 and Northern Star incorporating Workers' Weekly Vol.25 No.5 ISSN 954-5891 Queen to visit on 37th anniversary of the European Union: Dublin/Monaghan Bombings of 17th May 1974 Don't mention the war! "Irishwoman Catherine Day, the secretary general of the EU Commission, said the “shine” had gone off Ireland in Of Vampires And Other Blood-Suckers Europe, and we had lost goodwill. People . did not believe the Irish were “good Attention Shoneens. Let you all rise up and unite, for your hour is nigh. Unfurl your Europeans” anymore" (Irish Times, 2 brightest banners and raise them aloft. Reach under the bed. Take out those medals. April, 2011). Make sure your shoes are shiny. Heels together. Toes at an angle of forty-five degrees. This is undoubtedly true and some Arms held tight to the sides. Thumbs in lines with the seams of the trousers. Salute with prominent EU-philes here have been so right palm exposed Learn how to curtsy, bow and scrape. For the news has broken. She shocked by recent developments that they is to come amongst us. On the seventeenth of May, 2011. The Queen of England is on have had to think seriously about the her way. All cackling ghouls rejoice. Oh, the Somme, the Somme. Some are put out European project for the first time. John of pain by this. Others have had their pain increased. The sale of drink will soar, for Bruton is one of these. He had a long piece diametrically opposed reasons. She is to be the guest of said nation. Many citizens in the Irish Examiner to give us his believe Her domain still includes part of said nation. Some will be drinking 'for' Her. thoughts. So he begins at the beginning: "I Most will be drinking 'because' of Her. I might have one or two, myself. Poppies will hope to show this project has deep roots in come into bloom, early, too. But, where will She go? Her itinerary is unknown to me. post-war European history. It is part of a Nobody told me. Though I admit this does give me the hump, it is not the reason that process to build a structure of peace and I am the way I am. Other matters impinge. stability in Europe based on deep integrat- ion of European economies with one It is all so full of pathos. Bathos, too. By the seventeenth of May 1916, fifteen of the another" (Irish Examiner, 7.3.2011). leaders of the Easter Rising had been executed. Casement still awaited the hangman. By then, fourteen bodies had been put into unmarked, quick-lime graves, in a corner to the Straightaway, John gives us.the usual rear of a little known British Army burial ground in Arbour Hill. Consigned to oblivion. palaver about post-Second World War (Thomas Kent had been executed and buried in Cork.) All this was done in the name peace—as if nobody planned to have a of the ancestors of She who is to come among us. May, it seems, is a wicked month. structure for peace in Europe before that. 'Irish' elements of the British Army (I'll spare blushes and not name them) had been But why start in 1946? The project was employed to put down the Rising. Even more ingloriously, they had supplied the Firing founded because of what had happened Squads, too. The final indignity. Tried by British Army Officers. Sentenced to death. before 1946 and therefore it would be continued on page 2 continued on page 12, column 3 LIBYA: 20th April as saying: "The US, Britain and France— sometimes those countries contradict When Is Regime Change Not Regime Change? themselves. They talk about democracy, but when it comes to Libya, they say he In a written answer in Dáil Éireann on "Colonel Qadhafi and his family should {Qadhafi} should leave. It should be up 14th April 2011, Foreign Minister, Eamon surrender power and leave the political to the Libyan people. This should not be Gilmore, said: stage in order to allow the Libyan people dictated from any other head of state. It is "Calling for Colonel Gaddafi to relin- to peacefully determine their future", he against the principle of democracy." quish power does not amount to actively was seeking regime change—and arrog- Minister al-Obeidi should add Ireland seeking regime change". antly deciding on the Libyan people's to his list of countries contradict themselves. That remark is beyond parody. If the behalf that their future must exclude (Gilmore was replying to an interesting Qadhafi regime is no longer in power in Colonel Qadhafi and his family. question from Fine Gael Deputy, Eoghan Libya, the regime will have changed. So Libyan Foreign Minister, Abdul Ati al- Murphy, who asked for "details of all when, earlier in his answer, he said that Obeidi, was quoted in the Guardian on those Heads of State outside of the Euro- continued on page 14 sensitivity that is bordering on the unbelievable. Any rational being would C O N T E N T S have deemed this as inappropriate. It is so Page bewildering, so unconscionable, that it Queen's Visit On 37th Anniversary Of Dublin/Monaghan Bombing. beggars belief. But the Seventeenth of Lt. Col. John Morgan 1 May is the date that has been officially Don't Mention The War. Jack Lane on the EU History Project 1 proclaimed. One wonders if the seeds of Libya: When Is Regime Change Not Regime Change? David Morrison 1 self-destruction will grow and choke this Readers' Letters: Some Musings On The McCarthy Report. Eamon Dyas awful infliction. Surely, at least, they will Gambling Debts? Conor Lynch 3 have to change the date. Or has all sense Editorial Digest. (Queen Of England; Northern Elections; Constable Kerr) 4,22 of pride, or propriety, been lost. Either Unpublished Letters: Embracing the Monarchy. Forgetting The Past. way, heads are sure to roll. What will She History Howler. Donal Kennedy 5,35 say when She finds out? Who would be Queen's Visit. Pat Walsh looks back Queen Victoria and John Redmond 5 the one who walked Her into this? It is a Poems. What's In A Name?. At Traitor's Gate. 1981. Wilson John Haire 7,15,35 rare one. Will the Tower of London be re- Moriarty Report On Michael Lowry. John Martin 7 activated? What about Dublin Castle? The Gaddafi Creed. Report 15 Do I hear the clink of keys? Could it all be Shorts from the Long Fellow (Moriarty Squeaks; Haughey's 'Corruption'; Denis serendipity gone mad? Or does it matter, O'Brien; Beauty Contest; Fianna Fail On Moriarty; Honeymoon; Revealing anymore? Pictures; Totalitarian Liberalism) 16 Talking Down The Irish Economy. Report: John The Optimist. The Dublin/Monaghan atrocity Garret FitzGerald (Transcription and note by Philip O'Connor). 17 occurred while the Ulster Workers' Coun- Exports Up! John Martin 18 cil Strike, designed to scuper the Sunning- Es Ahora. Julianne Herlihy (Libya; Selling History; Gorbachev) 21 dale Agreement, raged in the North. There On Peter Hart And Other Matters. Jeffrey Dudgeon (Letter) 25 was mayhem there. The striking loyalists A Unionist Going South. Brendan Clifford (Reply) 26 ruled the roost. The British Security Fintan O'Toole Reflects. Editorial 28 Forces—stood by on Red Alert, as the A Question Of Jewish Identity. Wilson John Haire 29 region teetered on the brink. The whole Bolshevism From Larkin To Lozovsky. Manus O'Riordan (Part 2) 30 political system of the UK was under Naval Warfare. Pat Walsh (Part 10) 34 threat. Mr. Wilson, the elected Prime Does It Stack Up? Michael Stack (The Law; Violence And The Law; Minister, was powerless. His wings were Marriage) 36 clipped. He was out of favour with the Securitat. Decisive action was beyond Labour Comment, edited by Pat Maloney: him. He'd face mutiny and political Connolly And Pilsudski downfall. The Securitat and the USW (back page) Strikers had the same objective. Sunning- dale would have to go. There was the nod and the wink. Strikers struck and the Dispatched by fellow-Irishmen. Rushed, they had sought the maximum random Securitat watched over all, in a type of hastily, to their graves. Buried without a killing of innocent civilians. Thirty-four, hidden benignity. loved one present. In twos, threes and in all, perished. A coincidental bus strike fours; One by himself; day by day at in Dublin prevented a bigger blood-bath. In the Republic, at the time, it transpired dawn they were shot and put under. The Now, the anniversary of the Seventeenth that there was an absolute, inexplicable only kindness seems to have come from of May, grotesquely, we'll witness the absence of any security. It is mind- an occasional English soldier on guard- honoured presence in Ireland of the boggling. Turmoil north of the Border. duty in Kilmainham Goal. Let it be said, Commander-in-Chief of the Security Sleepy valley to the South. The threat of too, that the prisoners were permitted Forces responsible. I believe She should car-bombings, emanating from the Six religious ministrations before being be invited to the commemoration cere- Counties, was a stand-out. Near a certainty. executed. That was all. Soon the daisies mony in Talbot Street. There She could Dublin, the capital, and Border towns, would sprout. It would all be over. apologise. In which case it should, I such as Monaghan, were obvious targets.