5 h 8 OA--ER,S il PROJECTORS l tiloring AND ALL ~nder the supervision of ii our London-___trai_ ned cutter PHOTOGRAPHIC ACCESSORIES TRi N ITY N E /S GOWNS, HOODS, DIXON CASSOCKS, BLAZERS S, 46 A Dublin University Undergraduate Weekly 3 CHURCH LANE ¯ ; 3. HEMPENSTALL COLLEGE GREEN aders 111 LR. GRAFTON ST., DUBLIN, 2. BRYSON THURSDAY, 14th NOVEMBER, 1963 PRICE THREEPENCE LTD. ng of Th,c: Free speech each ¯ Tl~e Speaking at a meeting of the Gaelic Society last Friday, Mr. Con ~pe1’i- Lehane, a former Clann na Poblachta T.D., described the circumstances lcleus in which the edition of the Telefis Eireann programme " An Fear agus ought I~ Sceal," in which he appeared, came to be banned. y by Mr. Lehane said that he was convinced that the reason why the 11, ill Government procured the banning of this particular interview in the utside series was that in the course of it he had dealt with the circumstances ". One surrounding the two trials and execution of George Plant. For obvious olleg,: reasons this was a case about which the Government did not wish the n and public to be reminded. u? be Mr. Lehane went on to say that purporting to have made the lg. A " nothing extreme was said, nor statement refused to corroborate m tile anything which exceeded the it on oath. On the unsworn k and normal limits of comment on statements of two witnesses, V o|) public interest during the course Plant was executed. At Plant’s of the interview." trial the two men who made the Outlining the facts of the Plant statements implicating Plant and le are case, which took place some implicating themselves denied on rug-by twenty years ago, in which he, oath that the statements were true and gave detailed particulars :lly to --Photo: Irish Times Mr. Lehane, was the solicitor and of the force used to compel them Mrs. Woodham-Smith with An tUachtaran. Mr. Sean MacBride, S.C., appeared f each to make the statements. D U CAC as Counsel, he said that George lstant Plant was tried before a military Explaining how he came to to the tribunal. The case against him discuss the Plant case in the ;by in was intended to be based on the course of his interview, Mr. Lehane said that it was in answer mt is Quakers praised 2.M evidence of two men who had made unsworn statements. When to a question put to him by the ed to Regent House the trial proceeded the two men interviewer as to whether there testified on oath that the state- was any case in particular that he Mrs. Cecil Woodham Smith that time is what the Daily There appears to be a wide- spread ignorance of the Central ments which they had signed had still vividly remembered among attracted a large and distinguished ?layed Express is now, while the Irish Athletic Club and its many pur- been extracted from them under the various cases he had appeared in during the 1930’s and 1940’s. rarely gathering that included President papers were too angry to be poses, especially amongst those duress and that the statements Mr. Lehane also spoke about all. As de Valera and the Provost to the accurate. whose interest and participation were untrue. At the conclusion other aspects of free speech in Examination Hal! last Friday to in sporting activities is only pass- of the prosecution case a Nolle ~s the Mrs. Woodham Smith paid Ireland and gave a long list of tribute to the work of the Society ing. Its responsibilities cover Prosequi was entered on behalf ,eague hear her lecture on " The newspapers and periodicals of Friends. During the Hunger wide fields, from the maintenance of the State, no evidence on er the Historical Background to the banned since 1931. This list in- their observers, sent out to see and running of College Park and Plant’s behalf was called and he every Great Hunger’." Santry to the organisation of was discharged. He was re- cluded one paper which was not what was happening to the officially banned, but a messenger eneral Mrs. Woodham Smith described people, provided a wealth of Trinity Week and the award of arrested as he left the Court and the Government prepared an was sent to the printers telling ,’ation. the difficulties of collecting first- material. These included detai!s grants to the. twenty-six affiliated clubs. Emergency Powers Order which them that it would be inadvisable fr~on3 hand materia!--revealing how the of diets, diseases and the number to continue to print it. who died each day. She had a!so Simon Newman, the outgoing was machined through the Dail Satm’- peopte actually felt~on the and Senate. The effect of this No attempt, however was made Famine. She thought that she gained a great deal of informafior, Secretary, reported on the Club’s on the part of the authorities to ff by Order was to make unsworn had never really been able to get from the Distress letters in activities during his year of office. statements admissable as evidence prevent Mr. Lehane from address- layers hold of sufficient first-hand evi- Dublin Castle, which the Regretting the delays which had even in cases where the person ing the meeting in Trinity. Could ~tary’s dence and that all that her book Taoiseach had given her per- held up the completion of the this be because the proceedings had been able to give were the mission to read. Santry pavilion, he attributed were in Irish, and thus incompre- dry bones of history. Mrs. Woodilam Smi_~h stressed them to external labour disputes Reilly’s forty-three years’ service hensible to any average student The newspapers of that period that she had cried to avoid using over which DUCAC had no con- to Trinity on the ground staff. of T.C.D. One thing seems to must be taken with a pinch of emotion or" invective in writing trol, and Mr. Lute added later DUCAC has generously offered to emerge, that there is freedom of salt --. the London Times at her book--the facts about the that the official December open- help on a pound for pound basis. speech in Trinity. Famine were sufficient on their ing had had to be postponed to The Secretary of the Bar Com- own. "They speak with such a sometime early in the New Year. mittee, Malcolm Argyle, said that loud voice that nobody can fail The Executive had decided to proposals for the improvement Entertain to hear them." suspend the 10/- nightly tour of the Pavilion Bar were now Mr. Donagh O’Malley, Parlia- allowance for at least one year. awaiting consideration by the Young at the mentary Secretary to the Minister This was in line with the Secre- Executive. These included the of Finance, proposed a vote of tary’s basic argument that current removal of the Bar to the far end thanks to the lectured. He said expendkure had of necessity to of the Pavilion, and the installa- Colony that at any rate the Office of be considered iess important than tion of heating, extra lighting Public Works was no less capital investment. and curtains. Another point of cretinous ac the time of the The Treasurer, Mr. Thornton, interest here: As from this week, Young Colony is a new word in Famine than it is now, and illus- followed next with his report. cigarettes will be on sale there. fashion . it’s the gay young trated tiqs by quoting from a His annual headache of balancing It was learnt that Mr. G. Dininz . Dancing . document sent in 1846 from one the accounts had largely been Dawson, the Vice-Chairman, had del~arLment at Brown Thomas decided to relinquish his post Nightly . Table d’Hote committee to another: " It is managed last year by the incom- which sets the fashion trend noticed that a loan of £506 is to parable success of Trinity Week. because of other pressing com- for 15 to 25 year olds. Smart ~-~,Dinner and a la Carte be made to lower the hills and Profits amounted to over £800. mitments. Fortunately his in- up-to-the-minute casuals and . No Cover Charge... This he attributed to fortuitous valuable experience will not be fill the hollows in Co. Clare." separates. Budget priced coats Licensed to Midnight . Mr. O’Malley said that Mrs. weather and the inspired efforts lost as he is to remain on the Executive next year as a Pavilion and suits. Dreamy donee dresses. ,i Informal Dress .... Woodham Smith’s nine years of of Roger Brawnlee as Treasurer. He was warmly congratulated "in Member. So too is Simon New- The Young Colony means youn~ LUNCHEONS D A I L Y. deep and careful research had reaped rich rewards and that absentia," and Mr. Thornton man, whose successful year as fashion . at your oriee. 12.30-3 p.m. "The Great Hunger" had made stressed the importance of Trinity Secretary received some of the a greater impact in Ireland than ~Neek to DUCAC’s finances. gratitude he deserved at the METROPOLE am’ other historical book. A succession of reports were meeting. "The most successful The lecture, not being adver- then heard. John Fuller-Sessions, Secretary I’ve ever worked with," O’Con~mU St., DUBLIN tised inside College, was attended Secretary of the Premises and said Mr. J.V. Lute. His successor by very few undergraduates. It Grounds Committee, mentioned to this onerous post will be GRAFTON ST.