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FOUNDED 1939<br />
Organ of the<br />
Connolly Association<br />
MAD JAZZ BAND page 2<br />
MARX AND IRELAND page 3<br />
TWO NATION NONSENSE . . . . page 3<br />
No. 433 AUGUST <strong>1980</strong> 20p<br />
SCIENCE page 4<br />
SONGS page 6<br />
BUNTING'S FOLKSONG page 7<br />
DESMOND BERNAL page 7<br />
SHORT-STORY page 8<br />
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<strong>August</strong> t980<br />
2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT <strong>August</strong> <strong>1980</strong> <strong>August</strong> <strong>1980</strong><br />
Wanted, WHAT DID MARX CARE ABOUT<br />
TUNE<br />
UP THE, ORCHESTRA<br />
WE'VE A BIG BLOW COMING<br />
COR the first time the num-<br />
• ber of people in Britain who<br />
believe that the EEC is "a bad<br />
thing" is more than double those<br />
who think it is "a good thing,"<br />
Only 23% of those interviewed<br />
in the latest EEC opinion poll<br />
support Common Market membership—a<br />
dramatic decline<br />
from a peak of 50% after the<br />
referendum of 19T5-<br />
Anti-Market apinion is highest<br />
in Britain and Denmark, but the<br />
poll shows that it is on the increase<br />
everywhere in the EEC.<br />
The Government should have<br />
its work cmt omUJor -itfj* its<br />
latest propaganda to<br />
TALKING POINT<br />
1<br />
"WHILE socialists are in<br />
no way under the<br />
necessity of praising whatever<br />
the Russian$ they<br />
should be careful AM to be<br />
coining {he under<br />
which the third world war<br />
will be fought What do<br />
you say? . ; ,<br />
'•>'.!'"•. J"?, 1 . -'<br />
"it _<br />
A S every useful industry and<br />
social amenity is eliminated<br />
by gjovenunestal ukase, preparations<br />
for- the third world<br />
war get more feverish every<br />
day.<br />
First came the cruise missiles,<br />
before Afghanistan. Then came<br />
the new tanks for use on the<br />
North German plain( nice for<br />
tfce Germans). Now five thousand<br />
milium pounds are to be<br />
wasted on an unnecessarily sophisticated<br />
war head for the<br />
pelfrris submarines. It will give<br />
jobs to many Americans.<br />
This latest crime against the<br />
working class is justified by the<br />
pretence that the Russians contemplate<br />
the invasion of western<br />
Europe. Since NATO admittedly<br />
spends more on arms<br />
than the Warsaw pact, one<br />
thinks it unlikely. ><br />
There is talk of an "independent<br />
British deterrent." If the<br />
Russian* shot atom bombs at<br />
Britain, their own cities would<br />
be obliterated in a "posthumous<br />
strike/' For Britain would be<br />
no more.<br />
convert public opinion in Britain<br />
to a more pro-EEC frame<br />
of mind.<br />
Have you not heard of this?<br />
Well, we are sure you will be<br />
interested to know that the<br />
Government is preparing some<br />
propaganda delights for you.<br />
COMMON MARKET<br />
A CCORDING to the "Guardian"<br />
- * the other week, Whitehall officials<br />
have been asked by senior<br />
Ministers to prepare material for a<br />
caordinated and sustained campaign<br />
to increase public support for<br />
the EEC. Sir Ian Gilmour, Lord<br />
Privy Seal, and Mr Angus Maude,<br />
the cabinet minister responsible for<br />
government "information" policy,<br />
will be in charge.<br />
Mrs Thatcher's press secretary,<br />
Mr Bernard Ingham, has suggested<br />
that Ministers and civil servants<br />
enlist the support-" of EEC Commission<br />
offices in Britain, and of<br />
the TUC, the Confederation of<br />
British Industry and Members of<br />
the European "Parliament," who<br />
would be worried about losing their<br />
jobs if Britain should leave "Europe."<br />
The campaign must be properly<br />
coordinated, he said, "with all the<br />
instruments of the Orchestra, not<br />
only central government, reading<br />
the same score, playing the same<br />
tune and coming in on cue."<br />
The Government and the civil<br />
servants in the Foreign Office, who<br />
were more responsible th^wi any<br />
other group for pushing the British<br />
people into the EEC, are afraid that<br />
unless the EEC is willing to negotiate<br />
a long-term reform of its<br />
finances, Mrs Thatcher and Co will<br />
be put in a difficult position<br />
coming up to the next General Election.<br />
Foreign Office has therefore<br />
beat instructed to try to persuade<br />
ail Britain's "partners" in the<br />
EBC ttoatthey have a major contribution<br />
to make to the "Europeanisatiott"<br />
pf Mm British public. -<br />
Think o< it: the politicians and<br />
top civil servants in Whitehall will<br />
•Srf<br />
This is supposed to deter the<br />
Russians while the vastly<br />
greater American deterrent<br />
would not.<br />
X>UT the cat was let out of the<br />
bag in a provincial paper<br />
which said that Britain must<br />
play a "second centre role." 1<br />
This meant that a British posthumous<br />
strike would leave the<br />
Russians '"critto^Jp^<br />
for a later confrontation with<br />
a relatively unscathed USA "<br />
Britain is cast for the role of<br />
striking i*<br />
the process, in order that Russia<br />
should be weakened before the<br />
Americans attacked.<br />
What a role. And the indication<br />
seems to be that this is the<br />
role Britain most accept if her<br />
brass-hats are to get a seat at<br />
the top table Of the war dub.<br />
The people don't matter. They<br />
ace expendable It is the same<br />
policy as that being pursued in<br />
relation to Ireland. By accepting<br />
responsibility for the western<br />
approaches and the highest<br />
military expenditure per head<br />
of population, Britain enhances<br />
her status in the alliance.<br />
3<br />
be conniving once again with the<br />
Germans and the French in a mass<br />
campaign of brainwashing of the<br />
British people to persuade them<br />
that it is more important that they<br />
belong to a German-dominated bloc<br />
of 250 million people than to have<br />
political independence as a State<br />
of 55 million! Talk about treason<br />
dressed up as high diplomacy.<br />
At the same time. Whitehall officials<br />
in turn have warned Ministers<br />
that they should not underestimate<br />
the "bureaucratic idiocies" of the<br />
E0C Commission, and Mr Maude,<br />
the Minister in charge of the campaign,<br />
has warned that a cautious<br />
approach is needed in view of the<br />
growing hostility of the ordinary<br />
people to the EEC and all its works<br />
and pomps.<br />
All this is a sign that the Establishment<br />
is beginning to run scared<br />
on the Common Market. The tide<br />
has well and truly turned and the<br />
Anti-Marketeers have a prospect of<br />
undoing the damage of the last ten<br />
years. For if Britain does not break<br />
with the EEC her economy and<br />
political system can only continue<br />
careering down a precipitous decline.<br />
The Labour Movement now has<br />
a tremendous opportunity—to give<br />
a lead to the whole country and<br />
indeed to democrats and decent<br />
people all over Western Europe.<br />
Apart from peace the Common<br />
Market is the biggest issue of the<br />
day, as the "<strong>Democrat</strong>" preachedlong<br />
before anyone else—when<br />
membership by Britain was first<br />
touted l^ittstcMfilan two years ago.<br />
Nothing tjbat has happened since<br />
shows that Judgement to be wrong.<br />
There ndeds to be a revival of the<br />
broad campaign of the referendum<br />
period, to enable all kinds of people<br />
to join a national mass movement<br />
to take Britain out of the EEC.<br />
That is the way out of Britain's<br />
economic decline. It is also the way<br />
out of the shadows of nuclear war,<br />
for the E& is part of the system<br />
of alliances which makes Britain<br />
a, prime target in the event of war.<br />
Let us hope the Laboer Movement<br />
grasps its opportunity. •<br />
Surely her rulers are madmen.<br />
mHB monstrousness of the<br />
A<br />
treachery has not yet been<br />
ftnupsd<br />
there<br />
is * parallel. Warn ISM to 1939 the<br />
Tory Government backed and built<br />
up latter so as to set him on a<br />
coWatOn course with Russia. In the<br />
collision both would be badly<br />
mauled and England would dictate<br />
the terms. Hitter revolted and<br />
attacked the west.<br />
Now the Tories offer to perform<br />
for the Americans the role in which<br />
they had cast Hitler. They hope<br />
that this will induce the Americans<br />
to respect British interests in<br />
the old colonial world. Will they?<br />
We shall see. We may also see a<br />
new government which will jettison<br />
the whole rotten plan.<br />
• . >.'<br />
But these acts of megalomaniac<br />
folly evoke their reaction.<br />
The National Union of Mineworkers<br />
is calling an international conference<br />
to discuss the danger of<br />
war. We hope they will not forget<br />
that there are still mineworkers in<br />
Ireland, organized in the ITGWU.<br />
There are no miners In the six<br />
counties. But the struggle for<br />
peace might well prove on* of those<br />
issues ati which people in the'twoparts<br />
of Ireland might work together.<br />
r v '<br />
PARASITES<br />
HE lazy, parasitical life of the<br />
T Eurocrats in Brussels is highlighted<br />
in a recent report by top<br />
British civil servant, Sir Roy Denman,<br />
which exposes the lift they<br />
lead in the Berlaymont Buildlpg<br />
there.<br />
"What strikes me as nothing<br />
short of scandalous," says Sir Roy,<br />
"is the fact that no one in this organisation<br />
can be sacked. There<br />
oan be somebody working here or<br />
anywhere else in the Berlaymont<br />
who can spend most of the day<br />
drunk under the table, oan U*, Meal<br />
and engage rn whatever Immorality<br />
takes his fancy. Quite apart from<br />
the fact that he will be doing no<br />
work, we cannot sack him.<br />
"it will hs said that the personnel<br />
side win object Let them, in<br />
the middle and Junior grades in<br />
partteutar they we paid two or<br />
three times what they would get<br />
outside. If they wish to go on<br />
strike to support an Indefensible<br />
degree of featherbedding, than It<br />
would not be difficult to dispense<br />
with their services and at going<br />
rates get as good or better from<br />
outside."<br />
Bat these characters who cannot<br />
be sacked are only too glad to push<br />
through policies which lead to the<br />
sacking of hundreds of thousands<br />
m the Member States of the EEC.<br />
AN<br />
n-<br />
r JM an diabhal ar an aimsir, a<br />
Sheain. Ni aimsir shamhraidh<br />
in aon chor i.<br />
Nil si go maith gan dabht, a<br />
Sheamais.<br />
Go maith ? Ta si uafasach !<br />
Ach seachain an raibh si<br />
chomh maith sin riamh, a<br />
Sheain ! Nar chuala me fear ar<br />
an raidio a ra nach raibh ach<br />
Meitheamh maith amhain le<br />
deich mbliana againn—in 1976.<br />
B'shin samhradh brea!<br />
Agus ma team tu i bhfad siar<br />
—Cinlae Amhlaoibh Ui Shuilleqbhain,<br />
rrm shompla, siar go<br />
dtinal820-anna, bhi droeh aimsir<br />
san samhradh go minic acu<br />
an uair sin chomh maith.<br />
tAch deireann na sean daoine<br />
go mbiodh an • samhradh go<br />
hiantach.i gconai fadOw<br />
Deireann na sean daoine go<br />
leor rudai! " . /<br />
Bhuel h'fheidir le churutmh De<br />
gq tobea& an Ceimkreaipjft; go<br />
maith, a Sheain.<br />
B^dir.- Samhradh gpqti<br />
sine go Noltaig a deireann an<br />
6ati$fho«A -<br />
Sea, a Sheain—agus<br />
ni'fimht<br />
a seed bank<br />
A N international racket ha-;<br />
* grown up in seeds. Its beneficiaries<br />
are the international firm;<br />
Its immediate victims are the com<br />
mercial growers and gardeners. Its<br />
ultimate victims will be the human<br />
race whose , food plants will be en.<br />
gulfed in epidemic diseases.<br />
On July 1st this year EEC regulations<br />
struck out 500 varieties<br />
from the seed catalogues of<br />
Europe. These included varieties<br />
with the best qualities and those<br />
most resistant to disease. For<br />
example the onion Up-to-date. Its<br />
replacement (which the Ministry<br />
of Agriculture mendaciously says Is<br />
the same thing) is of poor flavour<br />
and is vulnerable to Downy Mildew.<br />
The aim is to get large quantities<br />
of very few varieties. It is<br />
the same with newspapers. The<br />
same with books. And aren't we<br />
all dressed in jeans, once cheap,<br />
now the competition has bee a<br />
destroyed, expensive?<br />
C (<br />
COMMERCIALLY there are only<br />
four varieties of tomato'grown<br />
in Britain. Try growing some of<br />
the old varieties yourself and note<br />
the difference to flavour. The commercial<br />
varieties are not grown fop<br />
quality, but for high yield, convenience<br />
of packing and quick<br />
profit.<br />
A tomato has been developed<br />
which will grow In a greenhouse<br />
anywhere in the world'ami e u n<br />
ripened, artificially by 7 ' a chemical<br />
spray whenever there |r a market<br />
demand. What does it taste like?<br />
WeH you'll soon have a chance te<br />
see. ' 'Ptsrr*.'-*-'.<br />
, ..'••• , it.: . fpifft'A<br />
Even single varieties are said<br />
show too much variation In size<br />
and shape for quick profit. Hence<br />
experiments in "cloning", that is te<br />
say getting a population of millions<br />
of plants all identical, not twins,<br />
not triplets — multlmillionuplets!<br />
If one of these were struck bV<br />
disease they'd all go. A whole fofrt<br />
Industry could be wiped out. Nature<br />
preserves its species by means of<br />
variety. What kills one will not<br />
kill the lot. There 11 always be<br />
some survivors. The reason the<br />
elms succumbed to Dutch disease te<br />
that they were in effect cloned, all<br />
cuttings from ^^^Mfrnt^lm.<br />
Wych Elm whs hot affected.<br />
N'<br />
OW here are some of the unpleasant<br />
facts.<br />
If you sell a seed of one of the<br />
forbidden varieties you are liable to<br />
be fined £400.<br />
Seed merchants are increasingly<br />
going over to Pit." hybrids<br />
do not breed true. That's to<br />
vent you from saving your<br />
seed. It is to put you at the mercf<br />
of the monopolists.<br />
Finally which is the biggest name<br />
in the seed business? SuttOMf<br />
Burpee? Thompson and Morgan?<br />
•Us*.
4 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT <strong>August</strong> <strong>1980</strong><br />
TECHNOLOGY AND THE STATE SECTOR<br />
'THE role of the major senii-<br />
* Stale enterprises in promoting<br />
uvhnoiogical developments<br />
in Ireland deserves more<br />
attention than it has had up till<br />
now. There is a vacuum m the<br />
recording of the technological<br />
basis ot <strong>Irish</strong> economic history.<br />
One guru o: State enterprise<br />
was the late Paaraig O'Halpin.<br />
After a career as a consulting<br />
engineer (during which he was<br />
influential in obtaining State<br />
support for the transformation<br />
of the old GNR workshops into<br />
Dundalk Engineering) for a<br />
period he managed Ceimici Teo<br />
i which provides a local market<br />
for low-grade potatoes in Louth<br />
and Mayo for conversion to<br />
alcohol, starch etc), after which<br />
he took a research fellowship in<br />
Trinity College to work on the<br />
history of State enterprise. He<br />
died suddenly last year, leaving<br />
the work unfinished. He<br />
showed me the M S ahd I<br />
gained the impression that he<br />
was concerned primarily with<br />
the structural problem: how the<br />
enterprise interfaces with the<br />
Civil Service on the one hand<br />
and the private sector on the<br />
other, a useful and interesting<br />
thesis but leaving the "history<br />
of technology" vacuum unfilled.<br />
Let me give a few examples to<br />
illustrate this innovative role,<br />
other than the traditional ones<br />
that are well-known (eg the<br />
Shannon Scheme, milled peat<br />
etc.). Let us begin with computing<br />
(where I happen to have<br />
some experience).<br />
THE GREENEST<br />
PAPER SO FAR<br />
PHILLIP RENDLE<br />
AT 3.41 pm on 9th July, <strong>1980</strong><br />
Her Gracious Majesty's<br />
Secretary of State for Cloud<br />
Cuckoo Land rose from the<br />
Government Front Sofas to introduce<br />
his latest brainstormchild<br />
"The Government of Northern<br />
Ireland: Proposals for<br />
Further Discussion."<br />
Trying manfully to keep his<br />
tongue as far as possible from his<br />
cheek, he declared: "In the light<br />
of all that we have learnt from the<br />
political parties, the Government<br />
are clear that there is comparatively<br />
little dispute on a number of<br />
points. There should be a transfer<br />
of both legislative and executive<br />
power over a wide range of subjects,<br />
similar in extent to the transfer<br />
in 1973. A single elected<br />
Assembly should be established with<br />
about 80 members, elected by the<br />
single transferable vote method of<br />
proportional representation . . . The<br />
existing Northern Ireland Departments<br />
should come under the control<br />
of Members of the Assembly.<br />
The Assembly should have representative<br />
Committees to scrutinise the<br />
action of each Department. The<br />
existing safeguards against discrimination<br />
and maladministration<br />
should be at least maintained, if not<br />
improved . . ."<br />
"I urge the people of Northern<br />
Ireland not to miss this opportunity,<br />
and I ask the House to give<br />
(Contnlued on Page Seven)<br />
> r I'HE first computer in Ireland<br />
' was installed at the Sugar<br />
Co at Thurles in or aboi;t 19.38:<br />
it was a HEC i Hollerith Electronic<br />
Calculator', was programmed<br />
in "machine language".<br />
and was used to calculate<br />
the farmers' cheques from the<br />
weights and analyses of the deliveries.<br />
It was on occasion used<br />
by the Institute of Advanced<br />
Studies for scientific calculations.<br />
a courtesy arrangement.<br />
Shortly afterwards came the<br />
ESB. which developed applications<br />
in optimising the allocation<br />
of generating capacity to<br />
service the load. About this<br />
time (ie, before 1960) the first<br />
of a class of what would now be<br />
known as "dedicated special-purpose<br />
machines'' was built in Advanced<br />
Studies to process data<br />
for a scientific experiment "in<br />
real time" (ie. as it emerged).<br />
The sixties was the big growth<br />
decade, led by Aer Lingus,<br />
which installed one of the first<br />
"real-time" reservations systems<br />
in Europe, using IBM equipment.<br />
With this equipment<br />
it was also possible to work<br />
"in scientific mode", and Aer<br />
Lingus were first in Europe<br />
and possibly in the world to use<br />
the computer to evaluate suppliers'<br />
data relevant to the<br />
choice of the next aircraft to<br />
purchase. Staff trained in Aer<br />
Lingus pervade the current<br />
computing industry in leading<br />
positions.<br />
Back to the Sugar Co: the use<br />
of micro-computing techniques<br />
(the "microchip" of newspaper<br />
BY<br />
ROY JOHNSTON<br />
cliche) in a manufacturing environment<br />
has been pioneered in<br />
the <strong>Irish</strong> context in the footsteps<br />
of the old HEC of 22 years<br />
ago, ie capturing weighbridge<br />
and laboratory data and marrying<br />
them up "untouched by<br />
human hand" to produce the<br />
farmer's cheque. The co-operative<br />
creameries are also looking<br />
at this for milk, but the lead is<br />
with State enterprise,<br />
inpo get away from computing:<br />
the ESB in the fifties<br />
pioneered rural electrification<br />
using a system that was original<br />
and innovative (single-phase 10<br />
kv distribution); specially tailored<br />
to the needs of dispersed<br />
houses, it was superior to the<br />
service provided in the developed<br />
countries, which only catered for<br />
the towns. (I remember being<br />
in the French Alps in 1951 at<br />
the end of the local "127 v" line:<br />
the volts dropped to 80 at night<br />
and the radio wouldn't work!)<br />
This is the basis of the ESB's<br />
competitive edge in servicing<br />
Africa and the Middle East with<br />
knowhow services.<br />
So great has been the demand<br />
for on-farm electricity that<br />
the ESB has had to develop<br />
(back to computing again!) an<br />
"intelligent" load-scheduling device<br />
«using micro - computing<br />
techniques) for on-farm use.<br />
(This was done with the help of<br />
the National Institute of Higher<br />
Education, Limerick). This is a<br />
cost-effective way of supplying<br />
more energy without overloading<br />
the distributing network, or upgrading<br />
it to take increased peak<br />
demands.<br />
Finally, the Sugar Co has an<br />
Engineering Division which has<br />
been pioneering beet-harvester<br />
developments. Its most recent<br />
model, the Cougar, has again<br />
won a medal at the Royal Agricultural<br />
Society of England<br />
competition which took place at<br />
Stoneleigh near Birmingham on<br />
June 30. Medals were won in<br />
1972 and '73 with an earlier beet<br />
harvester and a vegetable harvester.<br />
This is a prestigious<br />
international event, and a win<br />
invariably leads to export orders<br />
from many countries. The Cougar<br />
lifts, cleans and loads beet<br />
as a one-man operation at a rate<br />
of one acre per hour. The Carlow<br />
agricultural engineering<br />
works is now turning over £4m<br />
annually and employing 230.<br />
Another factory is being built at<br />
Tuam to help cater for the expanding<br />
export demand.<br />
Who are the bigots now?<br />
'"THE Orange yelping aboiU<br />
Prince Charles marrying a<br />
Catholic has really showed them<br />
for the backward-looking lot<br />
they are.<br />
That roaring, reverend bigot,<br />
Ian Paisley, told the world he<br />
would regard himself as released<br />
from his oath of loyalty<br />
STOP THOSE<br />
FOOD IMPORTS<br />
irpHERE should be a ban on imports<br />
of foodstuffs to Ireland<br />
which are otherwise available from<br />
<strong>Irish</strong> manufacturers, says Mr Ray<br />
Burke of the <strong>Irish</strong> Distributive<br />
Trades Association.<br />
Imports are now causing massive<br />
losses to the <strong>Irish</strong> food manufacturing<br />
industry, he said. There<br />
was a drop of employment in foodproduction<br />
from 48,000 in 1973 to<br />
45,000 five years later. Food imports<br />
doubled in value in the four<br />
years to 1979 and increased in real<br />
terms by 23 per cent.<br />
"Many <strong>Irish</strong> firms are losing<br />
business, but are afraid to speak<br />
out for fear of being boycotted by<br />
the multiple chainstores," most of<br />
which are British or foreign-owned,<br />
he said.<br />
The textiles and footwear Industries<br />
were the casualties of imports<br />
during the 1960s, and it would be<br />
the turn of the <strong>Irish</strong> food Industry<br />
in the <strong>1980</strong>s unless the Government<br />
did something realistic.<br />
"Buy <strong>Irish</strong>" was all very well as<br />
good advice, but Bloganising at the<br />
public was not the same as Government<br />
action. --<br />
We are likely to hear more such<br />
calls as this as the unemployment<br />
and economic crisis builds up, in<br />
Ireland and in Britain and indeed<br />
all over the EEC—'where there are<br />
now six million jobless—and as<br />
people begin to realise how governments<br />
can act to counter it only<br />
if they have real sovereignty and<br />
independence.<br />
to the crown if such a disaster<br />
were to happen!<br />
But the Grand Master of the<br />
Orange Order was powerful<br />
enough to be treated with solicitude<br />
by Northern Secretary<br />
Humphrey Atkins. Atkins told<br />
him that the Act of Settlement,<br />
which bars heirs to the British<br />
lies, will not be repealed. The<br />
Orangemen also wrote to Mrs<br />
Thatcher about the matter, and<br />
the woman herself told them no<br />
change was contemplated.<br />
Next time you hear some<br />
humbugging journalist going on<br />
about the strength of religion in<br />
the Twenty-Six Counties, ask<br />
him what he is doing about the<br />
backward-looking stupid bigotry<br />
that is enshrined in the heart of<br />
Britain's own Constitution.<br />
And next time you hear of the<br />
so-called "priest-ridden" South<br />
you can point to the political<br />
clergymen of the benighted Six<br />
Counties. Was there ever any<br />
Catholic clergyman in the<br />
Republic who interfered in<br />
public life, mixing religion and<br />
politics in a most unholy brew,<br />
as Paisley does, or who acted<br />
A S <strong>Irish</strong> people know well, TV<br />
^ can be disastrous for minority<br />
languages. The progressive disappearance<br />
of the Gaeltacht in the<br />
past twenty years has been due to<br />
the impact of TV more than anything<br />
else. It brings a stream of<br />
English-language material Into the<br />
average family circle every night.<br />
We therefore wish full support to<br />
the Welsh people's campaign for a<br />
full-time TV service, and their opposition<br />
to London's plan to split<br />
Welsh-language TV output between<br />
BBC2 and;the new fourth channel<br />
at the end of 1982.<br />
This is despite a Tory election<br />
promise to provide a full Welsh<br />
language service on the fourth<br />
like that other Northern Reverend,<br />
Martin Smyth, head of the<br />
Orange Order, who was lately<br />
urging the British Government<br />
to reannex Cavan and Monaghan<br />
no less ?<br />
President Otntens of Germany<br />
at Caetiel (See eol. live).<br />
channel. Several people have appeared<br />
in court for , withholding TV<br />
licences. Slogans are painted on<br />
government buildings all over<br />
Wales and a Bangor University student<br />
was given three months recently<br />
for daubing slogans on Nelson's<br />
column in Trafalgar Square.<br />
A dramatic development has been<br />
the announcement by Gwynfor<br />
Evans, President of Plaid Cymru,<br />
that he will go on hunger strike In<br />
October unless the Government<br />
keeps to its original promise. He<br />
told an Eisteddfod gatnerlng recently<br />
that he would fist to the<br />
death if necessary, beginning on<br />
October 6th.<br />
Demograms<br />
WEST Ealing Branch of th«<br />
AUEW wrote to Humphrey<br />
Atkin expressing concern about<br />
the Oiplock Courts and asking what<br />
proportion of the men and women<br />
on the blanket in Armagh and<br />
Long Kesh had been sentenced<br />
without a jury. The Minister's<br />
secretary replied that exact figures<br />
were not available, but that 30 out<br />
of 32 women came into this category<br />
and about 90% of the men.<br />
He claimed that procedures adopted<br />
were not repugnant to the principles<br />
of British justice and<br />
claimed that all trials were held "in<br />
public.''<br />
TTiELTHAM Labour Party is join-<br />
* ing with a neighbouring constituency<br />
to hold a public meeting<br />
on the subject of Ireland on July<br />
30th. On <strong>August</strong> 20th Desmond<br />
Greaves is to address the Haslingden<br />
Labour Party in the <strong>Irish</strong><br />
<strong>Democrat</strong>ic League Club, founded<br />
a century ago by Michael Davitt.<br />
Nearly all the many <strong>Irish</strong> clubs in<br />
Lancashire were originally branches<br />
of the <strong>Irish</strong> <strong>Democrat</strong>ic League.<br />
ir<br />
ft<br />
HE article defending <strong>Irish</strong> Marxism<br />
which was published In<br />
T<br />
the July <strong>Irish</strong> <strong>Democrat</strong> is, we<br />
understand, to be reprinted In a<br />
forthcoming Issue of the <strong>Irish</strong><br />
Socialist (Dublin). The <strong>Irish</strong> Socialist<br />
Is available at 283 Grays Inn<br />
Road, and at most other <strong>Irish</strong><br />
<strong>Democrat</strong> outlets In Britain. In<br />
Ireland it is obtainable at 43 Lower<br />
Essex Street, Dublin, where you<br />
can, if you miss the paper owing to<br />
holidays, also pick up your <strong>Irish</strong><br />
<strong>Democrat</strong> This Is the same bookshop<br />
that used to be in Pearse<br />
Street, but it Is now a much more<br />
impressive and handsome affair. It<br />
is managed by Mr Sean Nolan, but<br />
In the mornings our old friend Mr<br />
Sean Redmond, many will remember<br />
In tlie Boston at Tufnell Park,<br />
officiates. He is the father of Sean<br />
Redmond the former General Secretary<br />
of the Connolly Association.<br />
Give him a call.<br />
vpHE June issue of the <strong>Irish</strong> Government<br />
Bulletin of the Department<br />
of external affairs has an<br />
interesting account of the historical<br />
relations between Ireland and Germany.<br />
It is known of course that<br />
not only the north of England but<br />
areas as far away as Bavaria were<br />
christianised by <strong>Irish</strong> missionaries.<br />
The article was prompted by the<br />
state visit of President Carstens to<br />
Ireland at the end of April.<br />
The <strong>Irish</strong> currency is already<br />
linked to the Mark. The British<br />
die-hards who refuse to budge on<br />
the issue of <strong>Irish</strong> unity now have<br />
an opportunity to think over what<br />
has eroded their former influence<br />
in the Republic. The final result<br />
may be a united Ireland sponsored<br />
by Germany, controlling the<br />
northwest Approaches with German<br />
support. The Foreign Office<br />
would not like that!<br />
ft<br />
(Continued from Page One)<br />
Council, meeting that day (June<br />
29th) had decided to launch the<br />
campaign for the repeal of the<br />
Act without delay. It was essential<br />
not to leave it until just<br />
before it was renewed.<br />
It was necessary, he said, to<br />
give a big push to the membership<br />
of the Connolly Association<br />
and the circulation of the<br />
IriBh <strong>Democrat</strong>. These were<br />
steadily rising now* but not at a<br />
rate commensurate with needs<br />
of the times. Six people handed<br />
in their names.<br />
<strong>August</strong> <strong>1980</strong><br />
THE IRISH DEMOCRAT<br />
SECOND TRADE UNION SAYS BRITAIN WITHDRAW,<br />
•THE Workers' Union of Ireland, Ireland's second<br />
largest union, has now moved into line<br />
with the ITGWU in demanding that Britain<br />
adopt a policy of constructively disengaging<br />
from the North and ending Partition. This is<br />
an important step in getting rid of the legacy<br />
of Cruise O'Brienism from the <strong>Irish</strong> Labour<br />
Movement.<br />
For a long time the Workers'<br />
Union of Ireland, even though<br />
established by Larkin himself, has<br />
been "weak" on the national question,<br />
whereas the Transport Union,<br />
with its strong nationalist tradition,<br />
has been strong. The present Labour<br />
leader, Mr Frank Cluskey, who<br />
is very close to Dr O'Brien in his<br />
Northern thinking, is a member of<br />
the WUI. So is Mr Donal Nevin<br />
of the Congress of Trade Unions.<br />
There is a "two-nationist" element<br />
in the Union, as well as group of<br />
Sinn Fein Workers Party membcJrs<br />
who in recent years have opposed<br />
any emphasis on Britain's fundamental<br />
responsibility for the Northern<br />
problem.<br />
Last year, both these groups<br />
joined with .the Party's more conservative<br />
Labour Party elements<br />
to oppose an anti-partition resolution<br />
which had been submitted to<br />
the annual conference. The General<br />
Secretary appealed for the<br />
resolution to be referred back to<br />
the Executive and put "in cold<br />
storage", as he said, and this was<br />
done.<br />
'THIS year an even stronger resox<br />
lution was put on the national<br />
question. Delegates supporting it—<br />
among them Mr Tom Redmond, formerly<br />
a prominent member of the<br />
Connolly Association and Mi-<br />
Michael Mullen of the <strong>Irish</strong> Sovereignty<br />
Movement (not to be confused<br />
with the Michael Mullen of<br />
the ITGWU), anticipated that a<br />
similar attempt to refer it back<br />
would again be made. They argued,<br />
however, that it was only right<br />
that their Union should have a<br />
Council discriminated<br />
against Catholic-Court<br />
"I OYALIST"-dominated Cralgavon<br />
Borough Council in Northern<br />
Ireland has been found<br />
guilty of anti-Catholic discrimination<br />
by the High Court.<br />
The Court upheld an appeal by<br />
the Fair Employment Agency<br />
against a decision of a county court<br />
judge who had cleared the Council<br />
of discrimination In appointing a<br />
senior recreation officer in 1977.<br />
An appointment panel had interviewed<br />
candidates for the post arid<br />
a Protestant was eventually given<br />
it even though, as the Court decided,<br />
the qualifications of the Catholic<br />
candidate who brought the case,<br />
Mr Tim Duffy, were undoubtedly<br />
superior.<br />
Mr Duffy had already been employed<br />
by the Council as a recreation<br />
officer and had applied for the<br />
senior position when It fell vacant.<br />
The Council decided, however, to<br />
give the job to a Protestant gardener<br />
and landscape supervisor.<br />
S the Lord Chief Justice said,<br />
A<br />
one Council member, Alderman<br />
Wright, had asked Mr Duffy a<br />
question: "Mr Duffy, are you<br />
loyal?" The Chief Justice commented<br />
that Mr Duffy quite reasonably<br />
would have felt Insulted at being<br />
asked such a question in which, to<br />
say the least, there was sortie evidence<br />
of religious or political discrimination.<br />
Lord Lowry said that<br />
no matter what the alderman<br />
I i mmmmmmmmmmmm<br />
Still groph<br />
a<br />
''THE <strong>Irish</strong> Government is not<br />
' hoping much from Humphrey<br />
Atkins's latest double blueprint for<br />
devolved government in the North.<br />
In an official reaction to the<br />
scheme Dublin says that "the problf-m<br />
cannot be solved in a Northern<br />
Ireland context alone," and repeated<br />
us belief that "a declaration by the<br />
British Government of their interest<br />
in encouraging <strong>Irish</strong> unity by<br />
consent would advance the situation."<br />
it now looks as if there is to be<br />
another year of boredom as Atkins<br />
and Co go through the motions of<br />
consulting with the Northern politicians<br />
in the North about the latest<br />
wad of paper from the Westminster<br />
mill.<br />
All to avoid a genuine facing-up<br />
the issue by Britain,, who wants<br />
i'» hold on to sovereignty In Ireland<br />
i"r strategic and mhltery reasons<br />
and is thinking up all these<br />
"•hemes as window-dressing for<br />
that imperialistic aim.<br />
meant by the question, he could not<br />
have failed to appreciate the fact<br />
that a Catholic candidate, asked<br />
that question by a Protestant politician,<br />
was bound to resent ft and<br />
to react as Mr Duffy had done.<br />
The Chief Justice ruled that the<br />
appointments panel, having been<br />
decisively influenced by two men<br />
who were discriminating against<br />
Mr Duffy, were themselves also<br />
discriminating against him.<br />
Mr Robert Cooper, chairman of<br />
the Fair Employment Agency, said<br />
that ithe High Court ruling had<br />
wide implications, as a number of<br />
other cases were pending, and the<br />
verdict in the Duffy case helped<br />
to make clear the principles which<br />
should apply to evidence in such<br />
cases.<br />
Powis am<br />
people have succeeded<br />
in stopping for<br />
the time being a devilish plan<br />
to dump radioactive waste in<br />
mid-Wales. When the Govf<br />
sent scientists to<br />
possible sites near<br />
Machynlleth, they were picketed<br />
and lobbied.<br />
fkf&K cars-were blocked on<br />
a mountain road for more<br />
than nine hours by farm tractors<br />
md, cars. They decided<br />
to cqll it a day, and promised,<br />
the^lqcal people they would<br />
do mo more* • $<br />
"No doubt the Government<br />
will'draft in other scientists,"<br />
said Mr Paul Wesley, who<br />
owns a bookshop in Machynlleth,<br />
"but we intend to give<br />
them the same treatment."<br />
NORTH-SOUTH<br />
(Continued from Page One)<br />
of Irisk Industrial activity in the<br />
twenty-six counties has resulted in<br />
a shortage.<br />
This shortage could be made up<br />
by jrestorlng the link-up with the<br />
six countiep (broken as a result of<br />
bombing) and bringing surplus<br />
electricity southward across the<br />
border^.<br />
,If Ireland had been all<br />
have<br />
one these<br />
plans wou\d probably<br />
w been<br />
—<br />
carried out years ago.<br />
LABOUR SENATOR ENDORSES<br />
policy on the North, that it was<br />
cowardly to dodge the question and<br />
that failure to confront it only<br />
allowed the poisonous anti-national<br />
brainwashing of the two-nationists<br />
to do even more damage.<br />
Mr Cardiff again strongly urged<br />
the delegates to refer back the resolution.<br />
He said voting on it would<br />
be "divisive", but his arguments did<br />
not convince. The motion to refer<br />
the resolution back was_defeated by<br />
143 votes to 89 — such well known<br />
members of the SFWP as Mr Eoghan<br />
Harris absenting themselves<br />
from the vote. The resolution was<br />
then put and it was carried overwhelmingly,<br />
with about 20 hands<br />
going up against.<br />
from<br />
ANTHONY COUGHLAN<br />
rrHIS important resolution reads<br />
as follows:<br />
"This Annual Delegate Conference<br />
re-states the traditional<br />
policy of our Union and of its<br />
founder Jim Larkin, of being in<br />
favour of a United Ireland and<br />
opposed to Partition.<br />
"Conference believes that an<br />
essential step in achieving this<br />
end is for the British Government<br />
to make it its policy also,<br />
thus opening up the way for constructive<br />
discussions between the<br />
<strong>Irish</strong> and British Governments,<br />
and the elected representatives<br />
of Unionist and Nationalist opinion<br />
in the North, on, how it may<br />
be brought about peacefully, with<br />
maximum agreement all round<br />
and with full guarantees for the<br />
legitimate rights of political and<br />
religious minorities in a new Ireland.<br />
"Conference calls on the Labour<br />
Party to which our.. Union is<br />
affiliated to raise this matter<br />
with the British Labour Party<br />
and it instructs the incoming<br />
Executive of the Union to do all<br />
in its power to win support for<br />
this policy among fraternal sections<br />
of the Labour and Trade<br />
Union Movement in Britain, in<br />
whose interest it also is."<br />
TTTITHIN days of the resolution<br />
" being passed by the WUI<br />
further implicit criticism of the<br />
policy of the <strong>Irish</strong> Labour Party<br />
leader came from his colleague<br />
Senator Justin Keating, "former<br />
Minister for Industry and Commerce,<br />
one of the brightest political<br />
minds in Ireland and, Incidentally,<br />
also a former member of the<br />
General Sir Richard Lawson,<br />
made it clear that the British Army<br />
is "here to stay." He told the NI<br />
Chamber of Commerce that the<br />
Army would play its part to the full<br />
to "defeat terrorism." Th& Army<br />
would remain alongside the police<br />
in the streets of the cities and the<br />
roads to the countryside as long<br />
as they were required. He empha-<br />
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In an interview with the "<strong>Irish</strong><br />
Times" Senator Keating, who is<br />
leader of the Labour Party in the<br />
Senate, said that the British Government<br />
should declare its wish to<br />
leave Northern Ireland and should<br />
start preparing the mechanisms<br />
which would allow them to withdraw<br />
without social and economic<br />
destruction. He said that no Northern<br />
Unionist would budge an inch<br />
as long as he had a copper-fastened<br />
guarantee .that the British will<br />
never, withdraw against majority<br />
wishes.<br />
Official Labour Party policy, as<br />
enunciated by Mr Cluskey, is that<br />
the Unionists have a right to a<br />
veto on national unity, despite<br />
their minority status, but not on<br />
power-sharing and that reconciliation<br />
between Unionists and Nationalists<br />
in the North must come before<br />
<strong>Irish</strong> unity. Mr Keating's view<br />
is directly contrary to that of Dr<br />
O'Brien, Labour's last spokesman<br />
BOOSTING<br />
PRIVATE<br />
BUILDERS<br />
T is clear from previous statements<br />
made by the "gintlemen"<br />
i<br />
from Britain who run the Northern<br />
Ireland Office that they are devoting<br />
much Of their attention to the<br />
running down of publicly-owned<br />
housing now under the control of<br />
the Northern Ireland Housing<br />
Executive (NIHE). Most of the<br />
180,000 dwellings built by the latter<br />
are "up for sale." Those foolish<br />
enough to buy will probably find<br />
that their problems will have only<br />
commenced. (The demand to buy<br />
has not been very high and this<br />
shows some ordinary good MMf on<br />
the part of the tenants). But the<br />
Thatcher Government is dedicated<br />
to the pushing of the interests of<br />
private builders (and. their profits)<br />
and it ia no surprise that the Environment<br />
Minister NIO is offering<br />
for sal* some seven sites In Belfast<br />
which are pdMtriyewrisd for the<br />
building of privately-owned houses.<br />
Minister,<br />
Goodhart,<br />
sised that the Army "had no plans<br />
to withdraw."<br />
The British Government, whilst<br />
cutting down on social services in<br />
every direction and raising charges<br />
for what, services reihain, appears<br />
to be quite placid in face of the<br />
cost of violence in the North. More<br />
than £17m has been paid as a<br />
result of terrorist damage to privately<br />
owned .
6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT <strong>August</strong> <strong>1980</strong> <strong>August</strong> <strong>1980</strong><br />
IRELAND, BOYS, HURRAH<br />
I^EEP in Canadian woods we've met,<br />
From one bright island flown ;<br />
Great is the land we tread, but yet<br />
Our hearts are with our own.<br />
And ere we leave this shanty small,<br />
While fades the autumn day,<br />
We'll toast old Ireland! dear old Ireland!<br />
Ireland, boys, Hurrah !<br />
We've heard her faults a hundred times*<br />
The new ones and the old,<br />
In songs and sermons, rants and rhymes,<br />
Enlarged some fifty-fold.<br />
But take them all, the great and small,<br />
And this we've got to say :—<br />
Here's dear old Ireland ! good old Ireland!<br />
Ireland, boys, Hurrah!<br />
We know that brave and good men tried<br />
To snap her rusty chain,<br />
The patriots suffered, martyrs died,<br />
And all, tis said, in vain :<br />
But no boy, no ! a glance will show<br />
How far they've won their way-<br />
Here's good old Ireland! loved old Ireland!<br />
Ireland, boys, Hurrah !<br />
We've seen the wedding and the wake,<br />
The pattern and the fair;<br />
And lithe young frames at the dear eld games<br />
In the kindly <strong>Irish</strong> air;<br />
And the loud "Hurroo," we have beard It tee,<br />
And a thundering "Clear the way!"<br />
Here's gay old Ireland ! dear old Ireland !<br />
Ireland, boys, Hurrah!<br />
And well we know in cool grey eyes,<br />
When the hard day's work is o'er,<br />
Hew soft and sweet are the wards that greet<br />
The friends who meet once more:<br />
With "Mary Machree!" and "My Pat, 'tis he!"<br />
And "My own heart night and day !"<br />
Oh, fond old Ireland! Dear old Ireland!<br />
Ireland, boys, Hurrab!<br />
But deep in Canadian woods, we've met,<br />
And we may never see again<br />
The dear old isle where our hearts are set<br />
And our first fond hopes remain!<br />
But come, All up another cup,<br />
And with every sup let's say :<br />
"Here's loved old Ireland! good old Ireland!<br />
Ireland, boys, Hurrah!<br />
OLD IRELAND FREE ONCE MORE<br />
night I had a happy dream, though restless where I be:<br />
I thought again brave .<strong>Irish</strong>men had set old Ireland free.<br />
Antf how excited I became when I heard the cannon's rear—<br />
9 gradh mo chroidhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more.<br />
Ift true we bad brave <strong>Irish</strong>men as everyone must own,<br />
O'MatU, O'DoHireli, Sarsbeld true, Lord Edward and Wolfe Tone,<br />
tmt also Robert-Emmet who till death did not give e'er—<br />
O gradh mo ehroldhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more.<br />
Now we can't forget ttye former years, they're kept in memory still,<br />
ft the WayfM* me* of '9i wfco fougjbt on Vinegar Hill,<br />
Br Murphy by tbeir side and the green Has waving o'er—<br />
MO chroidhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more.<br />
WBrien and Larfcin died, their country to set free,<br />
day yet brave <strong>Irish</strong>men wHI make the Saxon flee:<br />
stay and night they'll always fight, until death they'll ne'er<br />
give o'er—<br />
me chroidhe, 4 long to see Old Ireland free ence more.<br />
i<br />
DOWN BY<br />
GLENSIDE<br />
down by the glenside I met an old woman,<br />
Alffutking yoMtg nettle* she ne'er heard me coming,<br />
km* I rtaCM**a while to the song she was humming—<br />
Glory-o, glory-o to the bold Fenian men I<br />
Tie fifty long years sirte I saw the moon beaming<br />
On strong manly farms and an ey ee wttto<br />
I see «fm» again, sure, throng* ell my<br />
Glory-o, glory-o to the bold Fenian men!<br />
died by the wayaide, some, died 'mid the stranger,<br />
•*«e men have told m (heir cause wee a failure,<br />
Bttf fbey stood by<br />
—war •feared danger,<br />
Qlory-e, glory-e to tfce bald Fenian men i<br />
ng,<br />
an my way, Gad be praised-that I met her,<br />
her,<br />
tr bave better,<br />
in!<br />
IRISH<br />
A NATION<br />
ONCE AGAIN<br />
^Jt/HEN boyhood's fire was in<br />
my blood<br />
I read of ancient freemen,<br />
Of Greece and Rome who<br />
bravely stood,<br />
Three hundred men and three<br />
men;<br />
And then I prayed I yet might<br />
see<br />
Our fetters rent in twain,<br />
And Ireland long a province, be<br />
A Nation once again!<br />
CHORUS:<br />
A Nation once again,<br />
A Nation once again,<br />
And Ireland, long a province,<br />
be<br />
A Nation once again.<br />
And from that time, through<br />
wildest woe,<br />
That hope has shone a far light,<br />
Nor could love's brightest summer<br />
glow<br />
Outshine that solemn starlight;<br />
It seemed to watch above my<br />
head<br />
In forum, field and fane,<br />
Its angel voice sang round my<br />
bed,<br />
A Nation once again !<br />
It whispered too, that freedom's<br />
ark,<br />
And service high and holy,<br />
Would be profaned by feelings<br />
dark<br />
And passions vain or lowly; »<br />
For, Freedom comes from God's<br />
SgM hand,<br />
And ind needs a godly train;<br />
And righteous men must make<br />
our land<br />
A Nation once again !<br />
So, as I grew from boy to man,<br />
I bent me to that bidding<br />
My spirit of each selfish plan<br />
i g mgr****' "Wit*<br />
Far, tlHffl hoped some day to<br />
Oh, can such hope be vain<br />
When ftiy dear country shall be<br />
mad*<br />
A NatioJjr once again!<br />
I FOLLOWED<br />
HBffiY JOY<br />
(A Ballad of '98)<br />
A" man I'm proud to he<br />
** Prom Antrim's glene I. com*<br />
And though I labour by tbft'.fj*<br />
l have foHowed flag and dhnh*<br />
l have neant the nwrtiaf tramp of<br />
men,<br />
> have seen men fight and die,<br />
Aye, la*, I well mmiiahai when<br />
t followed Henry Jsy.<br />
I hung my nets upon a tree,<br />
I hid my sails away,<br />
I dragged my boa* upon the titer*<br />
And wanned the rnoenht key.<br />
The pnlle were out and the redcoats<br />
I kissed my wife goodbye-<br />
A*e, tad* I well remember when<br />
I followed Hftwy Joy.<br />
Aye, tads, for Ireland 'twas we<br />
fought,<br />
For heme and side we bled,<br />
Though guns were few our hearts<br />
were true,<br />
And five to one lay dead;<br />
Aye, and many » lassie missed her<br />
led<br />
And mother mourned her boy,<br />
for youth was strong In the<br />
(lashing throng<br />
That tedaewd Henry Joy.<br />
In Self art town they built a tree<br />
And the mdeente mustered there;<br />
I watched him oome as the beat of<br />
the drum<br />
Roiled out through the barrack<br />
He kissed his sister and went aloft<br />
And bade a lest goodbye.<br />
Then, oh Sod, he died; I turned<br />
and eviedt<br />
"They have murdered Henry Joy."<br />
VALLEY OF KNOCKANURE<br />
VOU may sing and speak about Easter Week and the heroes o!<br />
® 'Ninety-eight,<br />
Of the Fenian men who roamed the glen, in victory or defeat;<br />
Their names on history's page are told, their memory will endure-<br />
Not a song was sung of our darling sons in the Valley of<br />
Knockanure.<br />
There was Walsh and Lyons and Dalton, boys, they were young<br />
and in their prime,<br />
They made their way to a lonely spot where the Blaek and Tans<br />
did hide;<br />
The Republic bold they did uphold though outlawed an the moor,<br />
And side by side they fought and died in the Valley of Knoekanure.<br />
'Twas on a neighbouring hillside, we listened with dismay,<br />
In every house in the whole townland a maiden knelt to pray;<br />
They're closing in around them now with rifle fire so sure,<br />
And Lyons is dead and Dalton's down in the Valley of Knaekanure.<br />
They took them then beside a fence to where the furze did bloom,<br />
Like brothers so they faced the foe to meet thjeir dreadful doom!<br />
When Dalton spoke his voice it broke wTth a passion proud and<br />
pure<br />
"For our land we die as we face the sky in the Valley of<br />
Knockanure."<br />
But e're the guns could seal his fate Con D. bad bratken through,<br />
With a prayer to God he spurned the sod as against the bill he flew<br />
Till the bullets tore his flesh in two he surprised the Tajaai'm sure<br />
As he made his dash for liberty in the Valley of Mnockanure.<br />
The evening sun is setting now behind the Feale and JLea,<br />
The pale, pale moon is rising far out beyond Tralee,<br />
The dismal stars and clouds afar are darkening o'er the moor,<br />
And the Banshee cried where our heroes died in the Valley of<br />
Knockanure.<br />
While Walsh and Lyons and Dalton are resting in the elay<br />
We have true men yet in Ireland to man the gap today;<br />
While grass is green in Ireland your memory win endure,<br />
God guard and keep the place you sleep in the Valley af<br />
Knockanure.<br />
FEAR AN BHATA<br />
THEIO me suas ar an chnoc is airde,<br />
Feach an bhfelc me fear an bhata;<br />
An dtig thu anocht, no an dtlg thu amaracb?<br />
No muna dtig thu Idir is frua ota me.<br />
JLUINNEOG<br />
A fhlr an bhata, Is na ho-ro eile,<br />
A fhir an bhata, is no ho-ro eile.<br />
A fhlr an bhata, is na ho-ro eile.<br />
Mo shoraidh slan leat gach alt a dtoid thu.<br />
Ta mo croise brlste, bruite,<br />
is trio na deolr a rith bho mo shuilean;<br />
An dtlg thu imdu no am bldh me dull leat,<br />
Ne an druld me an doras Is osna thuirseach?<br />
Thug me gaol dhuit Is ohan fhead me a thru;<br />
Cha gaol Miana, is eha i<br />
Aoht gaol o thelseaoh<br />
is naoh seasc a cholche me 'gin eMoigh an bee me.<br />
EILEEN O'GRADY<br />
MOW Eileen O'Gradyt a real <strong>Irish</strong> lady,<br />
I'm longing to ogll her my owg*<br />
111 not be oentented tllt she has consented<br />
To be Mistress Barney Malone-<br />
I met iMa fair treasure while walking for pleasure,<br />
She looked up at me, then the cried<br />
Without any warning; "The lop of the morning"—<br />
And then up to her I replied:<br />
CHORUS:<br />
/<br />
Come, come .beautiful Eileen, aante for a drive with me,<br />
Over the mountain and down by the fountain,<br />
Over the high road and down by the low rend.<br />
Make up pan* mind, don't be unkind, and we'll drive to<br />
Castlabar.<br />
Ta the road I'm no stfanger, for you there 1 * no danger,<br />
So up like a bird on my old jaunting oar.<br />
Now Eileen^aid: "No sir, with you I won't go, sir,<br />
' Den't think U ungrateful of me:<br />
I'd rather «a walking Man bave people talking,<br />
You know whet the story wonHI be."<br />
Now, Eileen, my Jewel; don't treat me ao cruel,<br />
To traat me thh way iaJHiara*<br />
Give over your bUrndy an* say Pat your Barney,<br />
Aitf don't keep me waiting In vain."<br />
<strong>August</strong> <strong>1980</strong><br />
Greenest paper<br />
(Continued from Pago Four)<br />
Northern Ireland the lead and the<br />
encouragement it deserves." It was<br />
4.14 pm on 9th July <strong>1980</strong>, King<br />
Canute regained his throne and the<br />
tide rushed in:—<br />
Brynmor John: "There has not<br />
been enough agreement to bridge<br />
the gulf between the communities.<br />
Julian Amery: "We are not yet<br />
beyond the formative stage."<br />
James Motyneux: "mien the<br />
grotesque caricatures of democracy<br />
contained hi the White paper have<br />
been obliterated like political graffiti."<br />
Gerry Fltf: "I do not believe that<br />
there is any hope of success for<br />
these proposals."<br />
James fcMeddbr: "Option l has<br />
already been rejected by most<br />
Unionist politicians."<br />
Robert Bradford: "We can sum<br />
up the first proposal in one term—<br />
'Whitelawism.'". It is to be hoped,<br />
there is always hope, that Mr<br />
Atkins might have noticed that if<br />
he lifted up his eyes from the sea<br />
of Unionist ^toansjlgeaeaM- Pltgftt<br />
have noticed that some MEs were<br />
putting forward a democratic alternative:—<br />
ISt Kevin McNamana said: "If ^e<br />
cannot And- a system devolved<br />
government thai, is acceptable to<br />
all citizens in Northern Ireland or<br />
to a majority of oitimns bx each<br />
community we ere left witfc three<br />
possible solutions.." . (Iiiipat'ton,<br />
separation or) "to create a sttuntian<br />
in which a majority of people in<br />
Northern Ireland would see an end<br />
to the troubles and hope for the<br />
future in a more positive association<br />
with Ike RepUUfe af Ireland,<br />
As a people and as a government<br />
we can dMliiK W a<br />
closer association is in the long<br />
term interests of fei people of<br />
Northern Ireland, the <strong>Irish</strong> Republic<br />
and<br />
Clive Soley put the whiote thing<br />
in historical p&spebtive: "WO have<br />
some unfinished business on the<br />
agenda of the House. It has been<br />
on the agenda since the last century.<br />
it is about the. dtfjjip^bf<br />
Ireland. It is time we finished the<br />
business of the last century knd<br />
put that right."<br />
NEXT<br />
<strong>Irish</strong> rewriutlons at Lahbur Party<br />
Conference? It
8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT <strong>August</strong> <strong>1980</strong> <strong>August</strong> 19<br />
IN MARY HORAN'S LAND<br />
LIVERPOOL<br />
MEETINGS<br />
. I IVERPOOL Connolly Associal<br />
J<br />
meets next on Wednesday<br />
<strong>August</strong> 13th at the AUEW rooms<br />
'Mount Pleasant, The meeting will<br />
take the form of a discussion with<br />
members of the Troops Out Movement<br />
who will explain their policy<br />
anda representative of the CA will<br />
state the associative position. The<br />
two organsations have a number<br />
of points in common.<br />
Among the places it is hoped to<br />
visit are the school believed to<br />
have been attended by Jim Larkin,<br />
and his family home; the church<br />
in the crypt of which tradition has<br />
it James Stephens hid after<br />
escaping from Ireland; the place<br />
where Terence Bellew MacManus<br />
had his office; the old '98 shop; the<br />
Fenian monument, and the grave<br />
of Robert Tressell who wrote the<br />
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.<br />
On Wednesday, July 16th, twentytwo<br />
people attended the monthly<br />
branch meeting to hear Barney<br />
Morgan prepare for the trip with a<br />
talk on "the Fenians in Liverpool."<br />
IRELAND AND<br />
WORLD PEACE<br />
Sunday, July 13th, London<br />
" Connolly Association held a<br />
spectel meeting in the Marchmont<br />
•fififeet: Community Centre which<br />
%4b addressed by Mr Desmond<br />
Greaves on the subject of "Ireland<br />
•and World Peace."<br />
^ He said the current spate of "partition<br />
doesn't matter" propaganda<br />
had ulterior objectives. To some<br />
extent it showed the Tories anxious<br />
to continue their hold on the territory<br />
to view of the war plans. On<br />
the other it was directed against<br />
the neutrality of the Republic, for<br />
the reason why the Republic refused<br />
to entertain discussions for<br />
military purposes wafe the existence^<br />
of partition. If it iould be shown<br />
that partition did not matter there<br />
would be no reason (so the prope^<br />
gandists think) why the Republic<br />
should not join NATO.<br />
4<br />
J. D. BERN AL<br />
(Conttmnd from Page Seven)<br />
Among his triumphs were the<br />
elucidation of the structure of<br />
graphite and water. Perhaps you<br />
think water has no structure. Well,<br />
go and see his model in the<br />
Science Museum. As for graphite<br />
it acts as a lubricant because it is<br />
composed of flat plates which slide<br />
over each other. It conducts electricity<br />
because each of these plates<br />
has mobile electrons.<br />
Apart from experimental science<br />
he was deeply interested in science<br />
history and science policy. The thirties<br />
were an optimistic time.<br />
"Science can solve all human<br />
problems" was the belief. All that<br />
was necessary was to organize<br />
^ ^N the Avalon from Holyhead to<br />
Dun Laoire I got into conversation<br />
with a Londoner (a London-<br />
<strong>Irish</strong>man, really, a postman making<br />
one of his bi-annual trips to Ireland,<br />
he said i and a Kilkennyman<br />
several years my junior. The conversation<br />
somehow got round to<br />
the <strong>Irish</strong> Language and from there<br />
to Welsh, and the Kilkennyman<br />
opined that it was a little inconsiderate<br />
of the people of North<br />
Wales to wish to have road-signs<br />
in their own language only — what<br />
about the poor visitor, he asked,<br />
how was he to know what Llanfairwhatever-it-was<br />
meant and why<br />
couldn't they have an English<br />
equivalent?<br />
Yes, the London <strong>Irish</strong> postman<br />
agreed, and what about those<br />
houses they kept burning up there<br />
—there wasn't a lot of sense in<br />
that, either, was there now? I<br />
mean, he went on, if there was a<br />
shortage of homes then the thing<br />
to