Irish Democrat August 1980

FOUNDED 1939
Organ of the
Connolly Association
MAD JAZZ BAND page 2
MARX AND IRELAND page 3
TWO NATION NONSENSE . . . . page 3
No. 433 AUGUST 1980 20p
SCIENCE page 4
SONGS page 6
BUNTING'S FOLKSONG page 7
DESMOND BERNAL page 7
SHORT-STORY page 8
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2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August 1980 August 1980
Wanted, WHAT DID MARX CARE ABOUT
TUNE
UP THE, ORCHESTRA
WE'VE A BIG BLOW COMING
COR the first time the num-
• ber of people in Britain who
believe that the EEC is "a bad
thing" is more than double those
who think it is "a good thing,"
Only 23% of those interviewed
in the latest EEC opinion poll
support Common Market membership—a
dramatic decline
from a peak of 50% after the
referendum of 19T5-
Anti-Market apinion is highest
in Britain and Denmark, but the
poll shows that it is on the increase
everywhere in the EEC.
The Government should have
its work cmt omUJor -itfj* its
latest propaganda to
TALKING POINT
1
"WHILE socialists are in
no way under the
necessity of praising whatever
the Russian$ they
should be careful AM to be
coining {he under
which the third world war
will be fought What do
you say? . ; ,
'•>'.!'"•. J"?, 1 . -'
"it _
A S every useful industry and
social amenity is eliminated
by gjovenunestal ukase, preparations
for- the third world
war get more feverish every
day.
First came the cruise missiles,
before Afghanistan. Then came
the new tanks for use on the
North German plain( nice for
tfce Germans). Now five thousand
milium pounds are to be
wasted on an unnecessarily sophisticated
war head for the
pelfrris submarines. It will give
jobs to many Americans.
This latest crime against the
working class is justified by the
pretence that the Russians contemplate
the invasion of western
Europe. Since NATO admittedly
spends more on arms
than the Warsaw pact, one
thinks it unlikely. >
There is talk of an "independent
British deterrent." If the
Russian* shot atom bombs at
Britain, their own cities would
be obliterated in a "posthumous
strike/' For Britain would be
no more.
convert public opinion in Britain
to a more pro-EEC frame
of mind.
Have you not heard of this?
Well, we are sure you will be
interested to know that the
Government is preparing some
propaganda delights for you.
COMMON MARKET
A CCORDING to the "Guardian"
- * the other week, Whitehall officials
have been asked by senior
Ministers to prepare material for a
caordinated and sustained campaign
to increase public support for
the EEC. Sir Ian Gilmour, Lord
Privy Seal, and Mr Angus Maude,
the cabinet minister responsible for
government "information" policy,
will be in charge.
Mrs Thatcher's press secretary,
Mr Bernard Ingham, has suggested
that Ministers and civil servants
enlist the support-" of EEC Commission
offices in Britain, and of
the TUC, the Confederation of
British Industry and Members of
the European "Parliament," who
would be worried about losing their
jobs if Britain should leave "Europe."
The campaign must be properly
coordinated, he said, "with all the
instruments of the Orchestra, not
only central government, reading
the same score, playing the same
tune and coming in on cue."
The Government and the civil
servants in the Foreign Office, who
were more responsible th^wi any
other group for pushing the British
people into the EEC, are afraid that
unless the EEC is willing to negotiate
a long-term reform of its
finances, Mrs Thatcher and Co will
be put in a difficult position
coming up to the next General Election.
Foreign Office has therefore
beat instructed to try to persuade
ail Britain's "partners" in the
EBC ttoatthey have a major contribution
to make to the "Europeanisatiott"
pf Mm British public. -
Think o< it: the politicians and
top civil servants in Whitehall will
•Srf
This is supposed to deter the
Russians while the vastly
greater American deterrent
would not.
X>UT the cat was let out of the
bag in a provincial paper
which said that Britain must
play a "second centre role." 1
This meant that a British posthumous
strike would leave the
Russians '"critto^Jp^
for a later confrontation with
a relatively unscathed USA "
Britain is cast for the role of
striking i*
the process, in order that Russia
should be weakened before the
Americans attacked.
What a role. And the indication
seems to be that this is the
role Britain most accept if her
brass-hats are to get a seat at
the top table Of the war dub.
The people don't matter. They
ace expendable It is the same
policy as that being pursued in
relation to Ireland. By accepting
responsibility for the western
approaches and the highest
military expenditure per head
of population, Britain enhances
her status in the alliance.
3
be conniving once again with the
Germans and the French in a mass
campaign of brainwashing of the
British people to persuade them
that it is more important that they
belong to a German-dominated bloc
of 250 million people than to have
political independence as a State
of 55 million! Talk about treason
dressed up as high diplomacy.
At the same time. Whitehall officials
in turn have warned Ministers
that they should not underestimate
the "bureaucratic idiocies" of the
E0C Commission, and Mr Maude,
the Minister in charge of the campaign,
has warned that a cautious
approach is needed in view of the
growing hostility of the ordinary
people to the EEC and all its works
and pomps.
All this is a sign that the Establishment
is beginning to run scared
on the Common Market. The tide
has well and truly turned and the
Anti-Marketeers have a prospect of
undoing the damage of the last ten
years. For if Britain does not break
with the EEC her economy and
political system can only continue
careering down a precipitous decline.
The Labour Movement now has
a tremendous opportunity—to give
a lead to the whole country and
indeed to democrats and decent
people all over Western Europe.
Apart from peace the Common
Market is the biggest issue of the
day, as the "Democrat" preachedlong
before anyone else—when
membership by Britain was first
touted l^ittstcMfilan two years ago.
Nothing tjbat has happened since
shows that Judgement to be wrong.
There ndeds to be a revival of the
broad campaign of the referendum
period, to enable all kinds of people
to join a national mass movement
to take Britain out of the EEC.
That is the way out of Britain's
economic decline. It is also the way
out of the shadows of nuclear war,
for the E& is part of the system
of alliances which makes Britain
a, prime target in the event of war.
Let us hope the Laboer Movement
grasps its opportunity. •
Surely her rulers are madmen.
mHB monstrousness of the
A
treachery has not yet been
ftnupsd
there
is * parallel. Warn ISM to 1939 the
Tory Government backed and built
up latter so as to set him on a
coWatOn course with Russia. In the
collision both would be badly
mauled and England would dictate
the terms. Hitter revolted and
attacked the west.
Now the Tories offer to perform
for the Americans the role in which
they had cast Hitler. They hope
that this will induce the Americans
to respect British interests in
the old colonial world. Will they?
We shall see. We may also see a
new government which will jettison
the whole rotten plan.
• . >.'
But these acts of megalomaniac
folly evoke their reaction.
The National Union of Mineworkers
is calling an international conference
to discuss the danger of
war. We hope they will not forget
that there are still mineworkers in
Ireland, organized in the ITGWU.
There are no miners In the six
counties. But the struggle for
peace might well prove on* of those
issues ati which people in the'twoparts
of Ireland might work together.
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PARASITES
HE lazy, parasitical life of the
T Eurocrats in Brussels is highlighted
in a recent report by top
British civil servant, Sir Roy Denman,
which exposes the lift they
lead in the Berlaymont Buildlpg
there.
"What strikes me as nothing
short of scandalous," says Sir Roy,
"is the fact that no one in this organisation
can be sacked. There
oan be somebody working here or
anywhere else in the Berlaymont
who can spend most of the day
drunk under the table, oan U*, Meal
and engage rn whatever Immorality
takes his fancy. Quite apart from
the fact that he will be doing no
work, we cannot sack him.
"it will hs said that the personnel
side win object Let them, in
the middle and Junior grades in
partteutar they we paid two or
three times what they would get
outside. If they wish to go on
strike to support an Indefensible
degree of featherbedding, than It
would not be difficult to dispense
with their services and at going
rates get as good or better from
outside."
Bat these characters who cannot
be sacked are only too glad to push
through policies which lead to the
sacking of hundreds of thousands
m the Member States of the EEC.
AN
n-
r JM an diabhal ar an aimsir, a
Sheain. Ni aimsir shamhraidh
in aon chor i.
Nil si go maith gan dabht, a
Sheamais.
Go maith ? Ta si uafasach !
Ach seachain an raibh si
chomh maith sin riamh, a
Sheain ! Nar chuala me fear ar
an raidio a ra nach raibh ach
Meitheamh maith amhain le
deich mbliana againn—in 1976.
B'shin samhradh brea!
Agus ma team tu i bhfad siar
—Cinlae Amhlaoibh Ui Shuilleqbhain,
rrm shompla, siar go
dtinal820-anna, bhi droeh aimsir
san samhradh go minic acu
an uair sin chomh maith.
tAch deireann na sean daoine
go mbiodh an • samhradh go
hiantach.i gconai fadOw
Deireann na sean daoine go
leor rudai! " . /
Bhuel h'fheidir le churutmh De
gq tobea& an Ceimkreaipjft; go
maith, a Sheain.
B^dir.- Samhradh gpqti
sine go Noltaig a deireann an
6ati$fho«A -
Sea, a Sheain—agus
ni'fimht
a seed bank
A N international racket ha-;
* grown up in seeds. Its beneficiaries
are the international firm;
Its immediate victims are the com
mercial growers and gardeners. Its
ultimate victims will be the human
race whose , food plants will be en.
gulfed in epidemic diseases.
On July 1st this year EEC regulations
struck out 500 varieties
from the seed catalogues of
Europe. These included varieties
with the best qualities and those
most resistant to disease. For
example the onion Up-to-date. Its
replacement (which the Ministry
of Agriculture mendaciously says Is
the same thing) is of poor flavour
and is vulnerable to Downy Mildew.
The aim is to get large quantities
of very few varieties. It is
the same with newspapers. The
same with books. And aren't we
all dressed in jeans, once cheap,
now the competition has bee a
destroyed, expensive?
C (
COMMERCIALLY there are only
four varieties of tomato'grown
in Britain. Try growing some of
the old varieties yourself and note
the difference to flavour. The commercial
varieties are not grown fop
quality, but for high yield, convenience
of packing and quick
profit.
A tomato has been developed
which will grow In a greenhouse
anywhere in the world'ami e u n
ripened, artificially by 7 ' a chemical
spray whenever there |r a market
demand. What does it taste like?
WeH you'll soon have a chance te
see. ' 'Ptsrr*.'-*-'.
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Even single varieties are said
show too much variation In size
and shape for quick profit. Hence
experiments in "cloning", that is te
say getting a population of millions
of plants all identical, not twins,
not triplets — multlmillionuplets!
If one of these were struck bV
disease they'd all go. A whole fofrt
Industry could be wiped out. Nature
preserves its species by means of
variety. What kills one will not
kill the lot. There 11 always be
some survivors. The reason the
elms succumbed to Dutch disease te
that they were in effect cloned, all
cuttings from ^^^Mfrnt^lm.
Wych Elm whs hot affected.
N'
OW here are some of the unpleasant
facts.
If you sell a seed of one of the
forbidden varieties you are liable to
be fined £400.
Seed merchants are increasingly
going over to Pit." hybrids
do not breed true. That's to
vent you from saving your
seed. It is to put you at the mercf
of the monopolists.
Finally which is the biggest name
in the seed business? SuttOMf
Burpee? Thompson and Morgan?
•Us*.

4 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August 1980
TECHNOLOGY AND THE STATE SECTOR
'THE role of the major senii-
* Stale enterprises in promoting
uvhnoiogical developments
in Ireland deserves more
attention than it has had up till
now. There is a vacuum m the
recording of the technological
basis ot Irish economic history.
One guru o: State enterprise
was the late Paaraig O'Halpin.
After a career as a consulting
engineer (during which he was
influential in obtaining State
support for the transformation
of the old GNR workshops into
Dundalk Engineering) for a
period he managed Ceimici Teo
i which provides a local market
for low-grade potatoes in Louth
and Mayo for conversion to
alcohol, starch etc), after which
he took a research fellowship in
Trinity College to work on the
history of State enterprise. He
died suddenly last year, leaving
the work unfinished. He
showed me the M S ahd I
gained the impression that he
was concerned primarily with
the structural problem: how the
enterprise interfaces with the
Civil Service on the one hand
and the private sector on the
other, a useful and interesting
thesis but leaving the "history
of technology" vacuum unfilled.
Let me give a few examples to
illustrate this innovative role,
other than the traditional ones
that are well-known (eg the
Shannon Scheme, milled peat
etc.). Let us begin with computing
(where I happen to have
some experience).
THE GREENEST
PAPER SO FAR
PHILLIP RENDLE
AT 3.41 pm on 9th July, 1980
Her Gracious Majesty's
Secretary of State for Cloud
Cuckoo Land rose from the
Government Front Sofas to introduce
his latest brainstormchild
"The Government of Northern
Ireland: Proposals for
Further Discussion."
Trying manfully to keep his
tongue as far as possible from his
cheek, he declared: "In the light
of all that we have learnt from the
political parties, the Government
are clear that there is comparatively
little dispute on a number of
points. There should be a transfer
of both legislative and executive
power over a wide range of subjects,
similar in extent to the transfer
in 1973. A single elected
Assembly should be established with
about 80 members, elected by the
single transferable vote method of
proportional representation . . . The
existing Northern Ireland Departments
should come under the control
of Members of the Assembly.
The Assembly should have representative
Committees to scrutinise the
action of each Department. The
existing safeguards against discrimination
and maladministration
should be at least maintained, if not
improved . . ."
"I urge the people of Northern
Ireland not to miss this opportunity,
and I ask the House to give
(Contnlued on Page Seven)
> r I'HE first computer in Ireland
' was installed at the Sugar
Co at Thurles in or aboi;t 19.38:
it was a HEC i Hollerith Electronic
Calculator', was programmed
in "machine language".
and was used to calculate
the farmers' cheques from the
weights and analyses of the deliveries.
It was on occasion used
by the Institute of Advanced
Studies for scientific calculations.
a courtesy arrangement.
Shortly afterwards came the
ESB. which developed applications
in optimising the allocation
of generating capacity to
service the load. About this
time (ie, before 1960) the first
of a class of what would now be
known as "dedicated special-purpose
machines'' was built in Advanced
Studies to process data
for a scientific experiment "in
real time" (ie. as it emerged).
The sixties was the big growth
decade, led by Aer Lingus,
which installed one of the first
"real-time" reservations systems
in Europe, using IBM equipment.
With this equipment
it was also possible to work
"in scientific mode", and Aer
Lingus were first in Europe
and possibly in the world to use
the computer to evaluate suppliers'
data relevant to the
choice of the next aircraft to
purchase. Staff trained in Aer
Lingus pervade the current
computing industry in leading
positions.
Back to the Sugar Co: the use
of micro-computing techniques
(the "microchip" of newspaper
BY
ROY JOHNSTON
cliche) in a manufacturing environment
has been pioneered in
the Irish context in the footsteps
of the old HEC of 22 years
ago, ie capturing weighbridge
and laboratory data and marrying
them up "untouched by
human hand" to produce the
farmer's cheque. The co-operative
creameries are also looking
at this for milk, but the lead is
with State enterprise,
inpo get away from computing:
the ESB in the fifties
pioneered rural electrification
using a system that was original
and innovative (single-phase 10
kv distribution); specially tailored
to the needs of dispersed
houses, it was superior to the
service provided in the developed
countries, which only catered for
the towns. (I remember being
in the French Alps in 1951 at
the end of the local "127 v" line:
the volts dropped to 80 at night
and the radio wouldn't work!)
This is the basis of the ESB's
competitive edge in servicing
Africa and the Middle East with
knowhow services.
So great has been the demand
for on-farm electricity that
the ESB has had to develop
(back to computing again!) an
"intelligent" load-scheduling device
«using micro - computing
techniques) for on-farm use.
(This was done with the help of
the National Institute of Higher
Education, Limerick). This is a
cost-effective way of supplying
more energy without overloading
the distributing network, or upgrading
it to take increased peak
demands.
Finally, the Sugar Co has an
Engineering Division which has
been pioneering beet-harvester
developments. Its most recent
model, the Cougar, has again
won a medal at the Royal Agricultural
Society of England
competition which took place at
Stoneleigh near Birmingham on
June 30. Medals were won in
1972 and '73 with an earlier beet
harvester and a vegetable harvester.
This is a prestigious
international event, and a win
invariably leads to export orders
from many countries. The Cougar
lifts, cleans and loads beet
as a one-man operation at a rate
of one acre per hour. The Carlow
agricultural engineering
works is now turning over £4m
annually and employing 230.
Another factory is being built at
Tuam to help cater for the expanding
export demand.
Who are the bigots now?
'"THE Orange yelping aboiU
Prince Charles marrying a
Catholic has really showed them
for the backward-looking lot
they are.
That roaring, reverend bigot,
Ian Paisley, told the world he
would regard himself as released
from his oath of loyalty
STOP THOSE
FOOD IMPORTS
irpHERE should be a ban on imports
of foodstuffs to Ireland
which are otherwise available from
Irish manufacturers, says Mr Ray
Burke of the Irish Distributive
Trades Association.
Imports are now causing massive
losses to the Irish food manufacturing
industry, he said. There
was a drop of employment in foodproduction
from 48,000 in 1973 to
45,000 five years later. Food imports
doubled in value in the four
years to 1979 and increased in real
terms by 23 per cent.
"Many Irish firms are losing
business, but are afraid to speak
out for fear of being boycotted by
the multiple chainstores," most of
which are British or foreign-owned,
he said.
The textiles and footwear Industries
were the casualties of imports
during the 1960s, and it would be
the turn of the Irish food Industry
in the 1980s unless the Government
did something realistic.
"Buy Irish" was all very well as
good advice, but Bloganising at the
public was not the same as Government
action. --
We are likely to hear more such
calls as this as the unemployment
and economic crisis builds up, in
Ireland and in Britain and indeed
all over the EEC—'where there are
now six million jobless—and as
people begin to realise how governments
can act to counter it only
if they have real sovereignty and
independence.
to the crown if such a disaster
were to happen!
But the Grand Master of the
Orange Order was powerful
enough to be treated with solicitude
by Northern Secretary
Humphrey Atkins. Atkins told
him that the Act of Settlement,
which bars heirs to the British
lies, will not be repealed. The
Orangemen also wrote to Mrs
Thatcher about the matter, and
the woman herself told them no
change was contemplated.
Next time you hear some
humbugging journalist going on
about the strength of religion in
the Twenty-Six Counties, ask
him what he is doing about the
backward-looking stupid bigotry
that is enshrined in the heart of
Britain's own Constitution.
And next time you hear of the
so-called "priest-ridden" South
you can point to the political
clergymen of the benighted Six
Counties. Was there ever any
Catholic clergyman in the
Republic who interfered in
public life, mixing religion and
politics in a most unholy brew,
as Paisley does, or who acted
A S Irish people know well, TV
^ can be disastrous for minority
languages. The progressive disappearance
of the Gaeltacht in the
past twenty years has been due to
the impact of TV more than anything
else. It brings a stream of
English-language material Into the
average family circle every night.
We therefore wish full support to
the Welsh people's campaign for a
full-time TV service, and their opposition
to London's plan to split
Welsh-language TV output between
BBC2 and;the new fourth channel
at the end of 1982.
This is despite a Tory election
promise to provide a full Welsh
language service on the fourth
like that other Northern Reverend,
Martin Smyth, head of the
Orange Order, who was lately
urging the British Government
to reannex Cavan and Monaghan
no less ?
President Otntens of Germany
at Caetiel (See eol. live).
channel. Several people have appeared
in court for , withholding TV
licences. Slogans are painted on
government buildings all over
Wales and a Bangor University student
was given three months recently
for daubing slogans on Nelson's
column in Trafalgar Square.
A dramatic development has been
the announcement by Gwynfor
Evans, President of Plaid Cymru,
that he will go on hunger strike In
October unless the Government
keeps to its original promise. He
told an Eisteddfod gatnerlng recently
that he would fist to the
death if necessary, beginning on
October 6th.
Demograms
WEST Ealing Branch of th«
AUEW wrote to Humphrey
Atkin expressing concern about
the Oiplock Courts and asking what
proportion of the men and women
on the blanket in Armagh and
Long Kesh had been sentenced
without a jury. The Minister's
secretary replied that exact figures
were not available, but that 30 out
of 32 women came into this category
and about 90% of the men.
He claimed that procedures adopted
were not repugnant to the principles
of British justice and
claimed that all trials were held "in
public.''
TTiELTHAM Labour Party is join-
* ing with a neighbouring constituency
to hold a public meeting
on the subject of Ireland on July
30th. On August 20th Desmond
Greaves is to address the Haslingden
Labour Party in the Irish
Democratic League Club, founded
a century ago by Michael Davitt.
Nearly all the many Irish clubs in
Lancashire were originally branches
of the Irish Democratic League.
ir
ft
HE article defending Irish Marxism
which was published In
T
the July Irish Democrat is, we
understand, to be reprinted In a
forthcoming Issue of the Irish
Socialist (Dublin). The Irish Socialist
Is available at 283 Grays Inn
Road, and at most other Irish
Democrat outlets In Britain. In
Ireland it is obtainable at 43 Lower
Essex Street, Dublin, where you
can, if you miss the paper owing to
holidays, also pick up your Irish
Democrat This Is the same bookshop
that used to be in Pearse
Street, but it Is now a much more
impressive and handsome affair. It
is managed by Mr Sean Nolan, but
In the mornings our old friend Mr
Sean Redmond, many will remember
In tlie Boston at Tufnell Park,
officiates. He is the father of Sean
Redmond the former General Secretary
of the Connolly Association.
Give him a call.
vpHE June issue of the Irish Government
Bulletin of the Department
of external affairs has an
interesting account of the historical
relations between Ireland and Germany.
It is known of course that
not only the north of England but
areas as far away as Bavaria were
christianised by Irish missionaries.
The article was prompted by the
state visit of President Carstens to
Ireland at the end of April.
The Irish currency is already
linked to the Mark. The British
die-hards who refuse to budge on
the issue of Irish unity now have
an opportunity to think over what
has eroded their former influence
in the Republic. The final result
may be a united Ireland sponsored
by Germany, controlling the
northwest Approaches with German
support. The Foreign Office
would not like that!
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Council, meeting that day (June
29th) had decided to launch the
campaign for the repeal of the
Act without delay. It was essential
not to leave it until just
before it was renewed.
It was necessary, he said, to
give a big push to the membership
of the Connolly Association
and the circulation of the
IriBh Democrat. These were
steadily rising now* but not at a
rate commensurate with needs
of the times. Six people handed
in their names.
August 1980
THE IRISH DEMOCRAT
SECOND TRADE UNION SAYS BRITAIN WITHDRAW,
•THE Workers' Union of Ireland, Ireland's second
largest union, has now moved into line
with the ITGWU in demanding that Britain
adopt a policy of constructively disengaging
from the North and ending Partition. This is
an important step in getting rid of the legacy
of Cruise O'Brienism from the Irish Labour
Movement.
For a long time the Workers'
Union of Ireland, even though
established by Larkin himself, has
been "weak" on the national question,
whereas the Transport Union,
with its strong nationalist tradition,
has been strong. The present Labour
leader, Mr Frank Cluskey, who
is very close to Dr O'Brien in his
Northern thinking, is a member of
the WUI. So is Mr Donal Nevin
of the Congress of Trade Unions.
There is a "two-nationist" element
in the Union, as well as group of
Sinn Fein Workers Party membcJrs
who in recent years have opposed
any emphasis on Britain's fundamental
responsibility for the Northern
problem.
Last year, both these groups
joined with .the Party's more conservative
Labour Party elements
to oppose an anti-partition resolution
which had been submitted to
the annual conference. The General
Secretary appealed for the
resolution to be referred back to
the Executive and put "in cold
storage", as he said, and this was
done.
'THIS year an even stronger resox
lution was put on the national
question. Delegates supporting it—
among them Mr Tom Redmond, formerly
a prominent member of the
Connolly Association and Mi-
Michael Mullen of the Irish Sovereignty
Movement (not to be confused
with the Michael Mullen of
the ITGWU), anticipated that a
similar attempt to refer it back
would again be made. They argued,
however, that it was only right
that their Union should have a
Council discriminated
against Catholic-Court
"I OYALIST"-dominated Cralgavon
Borough Council in Northern
Ireland has been found
guilty of anti-Catholic discrimination
by the High Court.
The Court upheld an appeal by
the Fair Employment Agency
against a decision of a county court
judge who had cleared the Council
of discrimination In appointing a
senior recreation officer in 1977.
An appointment panel had interviewed
candidates for the post arid
a Protestant was eventually given
it even though, as the Court decided,
the qualifications of the Catholic
candidate who brought the case,
Mr Tim Duffy, were undoubtedly
superior.
Mr Duffy had already been employed
by the Council as a recreation
officer and had applied for the
senior position when It fell vacant.
The Council decided, however, to
give the job to a Protestant gardener
and landscape supervisor.
S the Lord Chief Justice said,
A
one Council member, Alderman
Wright, had asked Mr Duffy a
question: "Mr Duffy, are you
loyal?" The Chief Justice commented
that Mr Duffy quite reasonably
would have felt Insulted at being
asked such a question in which, to
say the least, there was sortie evidence
of religious or political discrimination.
Lord Lowry said that
no matter what the alderman
I i mmmmmmmmmmmm
Still groph
a
''THE Irish Government is not
' hoping much from Humphrey
Atkins's latest double blueprint for
devolved government in the North.
In an official reaction to the
scheme Dublin says that "the problf-m
cannot be solved in a Northern
Ireland context alone," and repeated
us belief that "a declaration by the
British Government of their interest
in encouraging Irish unity by
consent would advance the situation."
it now looks as if there is to be
another year of boredom as Atkins
and Co go through the motions of
consulting with the Northern politicians
in the North about the latest
wad of paper from the Westminster
mill.
All to avoid a genuine facing-up
the issue by Britain,, who wants
i'» hold on to sovereignty In Ireland
i"r strategic and mhltery reasons
and is thinking up all these
"•hemes as window-dressing for
that imperialistic aim.
meant by the question, he could not
have failed to appreciate the fact
that a Catholic candidate, asked
that question by a Protestant politician,
was bound to resent ft and
to react as Mr Duffy had done.
The Chief Justice ruled that the
appointments panel, having been
decisively influenced by two men
who were discriminating against
Mr Duffy, were themselves also
discriminating against him.
Mr Robert Cooper, chairman of
the Fair Employment Agency, said
that ithe High Court ruling had
wide implications, as a number of
other cases were pending, and the
verdict in the Duffy case helped
to make clear the principles which
should apply to evidence in such
cases.
Powis am
people have succeeded
in stopping for
the time being a devilish plan
to dump radioactive waste in
mid-Wales. When the Govf
sent scientists to
possible sites near
Machynlleth, they were picketed
and lobbied.
fkf&K cars-were blocked on
a mountain road for more
than nine hours by farm tractors
md, cars. They decided
to cqll it a day, and promised,
the^lqcal people they would
do mo more* • $
"No doubt the Government
will'draft in other scientists,"
said Mr Paul Wesley, who
owns a bookshop in Machynlleth,
"but we intend to give
them the same treatment."
NORTH-SOUTH
(Continued from Page One)
of Irisk Industrial activity in the
twenty-six counties has resulted in
a shortage.
This shortage could be made up
by jrestorlng the link-up with the
six countiep (broken as a result of
bombing) and bringing surplus
electricity southward across the
border^.
,If Ireland had been all
have
one these
plans wou\d probably
w been
—
carried out years ago.
LABOUR SENATOR ENDORSES
policy on the North, that it was
cowardly to dodge the question and
that failure to confront it only
allowed the poisonous anti-national
brainwashing of the two-nationists
to do even more damage.
Mr Cardiff again strongly urged
the delegates to refer back the resolution.
He said voting on it would
be "divisive", but his arguments did
not convince. The motion to refer
the resolution back was_defeated by
143 votes to 89 — such well known
members of the SFWP as Mr Eoghan
Harris absenting themselves
from the vote. The resolution was
then put and it was carried overwhelmingly,
with about 20 hands
going up against.
from
ANTHONY COUGHLAN
rrHIS important resolution reads
as follows:
"This Annual Delegate Conference
re-states the traditional
policy of our Union and of its
founder Jim Larkin, of being in
favour of a United Ireland and
opposed to Partition.
"Conference believes that an
essential step in achieving this
end is for the British Government
to make it its policy also,
thus opening up the way for constructive
discussions between the
Irish and British Governments,
and the elected representatives
of Unionist and Nationalist opinion
in the North, on, how it may
be brought about peacefully, with
maximum agreement all round
and with full guarantees for the
legitimate rights of political and
religious minorities in a new Ireland.
"Conference calls on the Labour
Party to which our.. Union is
affiliated to raise this matter
with the British Labour Party
and it instructs the incoming
Executive of the Union to do all
in its power to win support for
this policy among fraternal sections
of the Labour and Trade
Union Movement in Britain, in
whose interest it also is."
TTTITHIN days of the resolution
" being passed by the WUI
further implicit criticism of the
policy of the Irish Labour Party
leader came from his colleague
Senator Justin Keating, "former
Minister for Industry and Commerce,
one of the brightest political
minds in Ireland and, Incidentally,
also a former member of the
General Sir Richard Lawson,
made it clear that the British Army
is "here to stay." He told the NI
Chamber of Commerce that the
Army would play its part to the full
to "defeat terrorism." Th& Army
would remain alongside the police
in the streets of the cities and the
roads to the countryside as long
as they were required. He empha-
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In an interview with the "Irish
Times" Senator Keating, who is
leader of the Labour Party in the
Senate, said that the British Government
should declare its wish to
leave Northern Ireland and should
start preparing the mechanisms
which would allow them to withdraw
without social and economic
destruction. He said that no Northern
Unionist would budge an inch
as long as he had a copper-fastened
guarantee .that the British will
never, withdraw against majority
wishes.
Official Labour Party policy, as
enunciated by Mr Cluskey, is that
the Unionists have a right to a
veto on national unity, despite
their minority status, but not on
power-sharing and that reconciliation
between Unionists and Nationalists
in the North must come before
Irish unity. Mr Keating's view
is directly contrary to that of Dr
O'Brien, Labour's last spokesman
BOOSTING
PRIVATE
BUILDERS
T is clear from previous statements
made by the "gintlemen"
i
from Britain who run the Northern
Ireland Office that they are devoting
much Of their attention to the
running down of publicly-owned
housing now under the control of
the Northern Ireland Housing
Executive (NIHE). Most of the
180,000 dwellings built by the latter
are "up for sale." Those foolish
enough to buy will probably find
that their problems will have only
commenced. (The demand to buy
has not been very high and this
shows some ordinary good MMf on
the part of the tenants). But the
Thatcher Government is dedicated
to the pushing of the interests of
private builders (and. their profits)
and it ia no surprise that the Environment
Minister NIO is offering
for sal* some seven sites In Belfast
which are pdMtriyewrisd for the
building of privately-owned houses.
Minister,
Goodhart,
sised that the Army "had no plans
to withdraw."
The British Government, whilst
cutting down on social services in
every direction and raising charges
for what, services reihain, appears
to be quite placid in face of the
cost of violence in the North. More
than £17m has been paid as a
result of terrorist damage to privately
owned .

6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August 1980 August 1980
IRELAND, BOYS, HURRAH
I^EEP in Canadian woods we've met,
From one bright island flown ;
Great is the land we tread, but yet
Our hearts are with our own.
And ere we leave this shanty small,
While fades the autumn day,
We'll toast old Ireland! dear old Ireland!
Ireland, boys, Hurrah !
We've heard her faults a hundred times*
The new ones and the old,
In songs and sermons, rants and rhymes,
Enlarged some fifty-fold.
But take them all, the great and small,
And this we've got to say :—
Here's dear old Ireland ! good old Ireland!
Ireland, boys, Hurrah!
We know that brave and good men tried
To snap her rusty chain,
The patriots suffered, martyrs died,
And all, tis said, in vain :
But no boy, no ! a glance will show
How far they've won their way-
Here's good old Ireland! loved old Ireland!
Ireland, boys, Hurrah !
We've seen the wedding and the wake,
The pattern and the fair;
And lithe young frames at the dear eld games
In the kindly Irish air;
And the loud "Hurroo," we have beard It tee,
And a thundering "Clear the way!"
Here's gay old Ireland ! dear old Ireland !
Ireland, boys, Hurrah!
And well we know in cool grey eyes,
When the hard day's work is o'er,
Hew soft and sweet are the wards that greet
The friends who meet once more:
With "Mary Machree!" and "My Pat, 'tis he!"
And "My own heart night and day !"
Oh, fond old Ireland! Dear old Ireland!
Ireland, boys, Hurrab!
But deep in Canadian woods, we've met,
And we may never see again
The dear old isle where our hearts are set
And our first fond hopes remain!
But come, All up another cup,
And with every sup let's say :
"Here's loved old Ireland! good old Ireland!
Ireland, boys, Hurrah!
OLD IRELAND FREE ONCE MORE
night I had a happy dream, though restless where I be:
I thought again brave .Irishmen had set old Ireland free.
Antf how excited I became when I heard the cannon's rear—
9 gradh mo chroidhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more.
Ift true we bad brave Irishmen as everyone must own,
O'MatU, O'DoHireli, Sarsbeld true, Lord Edward and Wolfe Tone,
tmt also Robert-Emmet who till death did not give e'er—
O gradh mo ehroldhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more.
Now we can't forget ttye former years, they're kept in memory still,
ft the WayfM* me* of '9i wfco fougjbt on Vinegar Hill,
Br Murphy by tbeir side and the green Has waving o'er—
MO chroidhe, I long to see Old Ireland free once more.
WBrien and Larfcin died, their country to set free,
day yet brave Irishmen wHI make the Saxon flee:
stay and night they'll always fight, until death they'll ne'er
give o'er—
me chroidhe, 4 long to see Old Ireland free ence more.
i
DOWN BY
GLENSIDE
down by the glenside I met an old woman,
Alffutking yoMtg nettle* she ne'er heard me coming,
km* I rtaCM**a while to the song she was humming—
Glory-o, glory-o to the bold Fenian men I
Tie fifty long years sirte I saw the moon beaming
On strong manly farms and an ey ee wttto
I see «fm» again, sure, throng* ell my
Glory-o, glory-o to the bold Fenian men!
died by the wayaide, some, died 'mid the stranger,
•*«e men have told m (heir cause wee a failure,
Bttf fbey stood by
—war •feared danger,
Qlory-e, glory-e to tfce bald Fenian men i
ng,
an my way, Gad be praised-that I met her,
her,
tr bave better,
in!
IRISH
A NATION
ONCE AGAIN
^Jt/HEN boyhood's fire was in
my blood
I read of ancient freemen,
Of Greece and Rome who
bravely stood,
Three hundred men and three
men;
And then I prayed I yet might
see
Our fetters rent in twain,
And Ireland long a province, be
A Nation once again!
CHORUS:
A Nation once again,
A Nation once again,
And Ireland, long a province,
be
A Nation once again.
And from that time, through
wildest woe,
That hope has shone a far light,
Nor could love's brightest summer
glow
Outshine that solemn starlight;
It seemed to watch above my
head
In forum, field and fane,
Its angel voice sang round my
bed,
A Nation once again !
It whispered too, that freedom's
ark,
And service high and holy,
Would be profaned by feelings
dark
And passions vain or lowly; »
For, Freedom comes from God's
SgM hand,
And ind needs a godly train;
And righteous men must make
our land
A Nation once again !
So, as I grew from boy to man,
I bent me to that bidding
My spirit of each selfish plan
i g mgr****' "Wit*
Far, tlHffl hoped some day to
Oh, can such hope be vain
When ftiy dear country shall be
mad*
A NatioJjr once again!
I FOLLOWED
HBffiY JOY
(A Ballad of '98)
A" man I'm proud to he
** Prom Antrim's glene I. com*
And though I labour by tbft'.fj*
l have foHowed flag and dhnh*
l have neant the nwrtiaf tramp of
men,
> have seen men fight and die,
Aye, la*, I well mmiiahai when
t followed Henry Jsy.
I hung my nets upon a tree,
I hid my sails away,
I dragged my boa* upon the titer*
And wanned the rnoenht key.
The pnlle were out and the redcoats
I kissed my wife goodbye-
A*e, tad* I well remember when
I followed Hftwy Joy.
Aye, tads, for Ireland 'twas we
fought,
For heme and side we bled,
Though guns were few our hearts
were true,
And five to one lay dead;
Aye, and many » lassie missed her
led
And mother mourned her boy,
for youth was strong In the
(lashing throng
That tedaewd Henry Joy.
In Self art town they built a tree
And the mdeente mustered there;
I watched him oome as the beat of
the drum
Roiled out through the barrack
He kissed his sister and went aloft
And bade a lest goodbye.
Then, oh Sod, he died; I turned
and eviedt
"They have murdered Henry Joy."
VALLEY OF KNOCKANURE
VOU may sing and speak about Easter Week and the heroes o!
® 'Ninety-eight,
Of the Fenian men who roamed the glen, in victory or defeat;
Their names on history's page are told, their memory will endure-
Not a song was sung of our darling sons in the Valley of
Knockanure.
There was Walsh and Lyons and Dalton, boys, they were young
and in their prime,
They made their way to a lonely spot where the Blaek and Tans
did hide;
The Republic bold they did uphold though outlawed an the moor,
And side by side they fought and died in the Valley of Knoekanure.
'Twas on a neighbouring hillside, we listened with dismay,
In every house in the whole townland a maiden knelt to pray;
They're closing in around them now with rifle fire so sure,
And Lyons is dead and Dalton's down in the Valley of Knaekanure.
They took them then beside a fence to where the furze did bloom,
Like brothers so they faced the foe to meet thjeir dreadful doom!
When Dalton spoke his voice it broke wTth a passion proud and
pure
"For our land we die as we face the sky in the Valley of
Knockanure."
But e're the guns could seal his fate Con D. bad bratken through,
With a prayer to God he spurned the sod as against the bill he flew
Till the bullets tore his flesh in two he surprised the Tajaai'm sure
As he made his dash for liberty in the Valley of Mnockanure.
The evening sun is setting now behind the Feale and JLea,
The pale, pale moon is rising far out beyond Tralee,
The dismal stars and clouds afar are darkening o'er the moor,
And the Banshee cried where our heroes died in the Valley of
Knockanure.
While Walsh and Lyons and Dalton are resting in the elay
We have true men yet in Ireland to man the gap today;
While grass is green in Ireland your memory win endure,
God guard and keep the place you sleep in the Valley af
Knockanure.
FEAR AN BHATA
THEIO me suas ar an chnoc is airde,
Feach an bhfelc me fear an bhata;
An dtig thu anocht, no an dtlg thu amaracb?
No muna dtig thu Idir is frua ota me.
JLUINNEOG
A fhlr an bhata, Is na ho-ro eile,
A fhir an bhata, is no ho-ro eile.
A fhlr an bhata, is na ho-ro eile.
Mo shoraidh slan leat gach alt a dtoid thu.
Ta mo croise brlste, bruite,
is trio na deolr a rith bho mo shuilean;
An dtlg thu imdu no am bldh me dull leat,
Ne an druld me an doras Is osna thuirseach?
Thug me gaol dhuit Is ohan fhead me a thru;
Cha gaol Miana, is eha i
Aoht gaol o thelseaoh
is naoh seasc a cholche me 'gin eMoigh an bee me.
EILEEN O'GRADY
MOW Eileen O'Gradyt a real Irish lady,
I'm longing to ogll her my owg*
111 not be oentented tllt she has consented
To be Mistress Barney Malone-
I met iMa fair treasure while walking for pleasure,
She looked up at me, then the cried
Without any warning; "The lop of the morning"—
And then up to her I replied:
CHORUS:
/
Come, come .beautiful Eileen, aante for a drive with me,
Over the mountain and down by the fountain,
Over the high road and down by the low rend.
Make up pan* mind, don't be unkind, and we'll drive to
Castlabar.
Ta the road I'm no stfanger, for you there 1 * no danger,
So up like a bird on my old jaunting oar.
Now Eileen^aid: "No sir, with you I won't go, sir,
' Den't think U ungrateful of me:
I'd rather «a walking Man bave people talking,
You know whet the story wonHI be."
Now, Eileen, my Jewel; don't treat me ao cruel,
To traat me thh way iaJHiara*
Give over your bUrndy an* say Pat your Barney,
Aitf don't keep me waiting In vain."
August 1980
Greenest paper
(Continued from Pago Four)
Northern Ireland the lead and the
encouragement it deserves." It was
4.14 pm on 9th July 1980, King
Canute regained his throne and the
tide rushed in:—
Brynmor John: "There has not
been enough agreement to bridge
the gulf between the communities.
Julian Amery: "We are not yet
beyond the formative stage."
James Motyneux: "mien the
grotesque caricatures of democracy
contained hi the White paper have
been obliterated like political graffiti."
Gerry Fltf: "I do not believe that
there is any hope of success for
these proposals."
James fcMeddbr: "Option l has
already been rejected by most
Unionist politicians."
Robert Bradford: "We can sum
up the first proposal in one term—
'Whitelawism.'". It is to be hoped,
there is always hope, that Mr
Atkins might have noticed that if
he lifted up his eyes from the sea
of Unionist ^toansjlgeaeaM- Pltgftt
have noticed that some MEs were
putting forward a democratic alternative:—
ISt Kevin McNamana said: "If ^e
cannot And- a system devolved
government thai, is acceptable to
all citizens in Northern Ireland or
to a majority of oitimns bx each
community we ere left witfc three
possible solutions.." . (Iiiipat'ton,
separation or) "to create a sttuntian
in which a majority of people in
Northern Ireland would see an end
to the troubles and hope for the
future in a more positive association
with Ike RepUUfe af Ireland,
As a people and as a government
we can dMliiK W a
closer association is in the long
term interests of fei people of
Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic
and
Clive Soley put the whiote thing
in historical p&spebtive: "WO have
some unfinished business on the
agenda of the House. It has been
on the agenda since the last century.
it is about the. dtfjjip^bf
Ireland. It is time we finished the
business of the last century knd
put that right."
NEXT
Irish rewriutlons at Lahbur Party
Conference? It

8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August 1980 August 19
IN MARY HORAN'S LAND
LIVERPOOL
MEETINGS
. I IVERPOOL Connolly Associal
J
meets next on Wednesday
August 13th at the AUEW rooms
'Mount Pleasant, The meeting will
take the form of a discussion with
members of the Troops Out Movement
who will explain their policy
anda representative of the CA will
state the associative position. The
two organsations have a number
of points in common.
Among the places it is hoped to
visit are the school believed to
have been attended by Jim Larkin,
and his family home; the church
in the crypt of which tradition has
it James Stephens hid after
escaping from Ireland; the place
where Terence Bellew MacManus
had his office; the old '98 shop; the
Fenian monument, and the grave
of Robert Tressell who wrote the
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
On Wednesday, July 16th, twentytwo
people attended the monthly
branch meeting to hear Barney
Morgan prepare for the trip with a
talk on "the Fenians in Liverpool."
IRELAND AND
WORLD PEACE
Sunday, July 13th, London
" Connolly Association held a
spectel meeting in the Marchmont
•fififeet: Community Centre which
%4b addressed by Mr Desmond
Greaves on the subject of "Ireland
•and World Peace."
^ He said the current spate of "partition
doesn't matter" propaganda
had ulterior objectives. To some
extent it showed the Tories anxious
to continue their hold on the territory
to view of the war plans. On
the other it was directed against
the neutrality of the Republic, for
the reason why the Republic refused
to entertain discussions for
military purposes wafe the existence^
of partition. If it iould be shown
that partition did not matter there
would be no reason (so the prope^
gandists think) why the Republic
should not join NATO.
4
J. D. BERN AL
(Conttmnd from Page Seven)
Among his triumphs were the
elucidation of the structure of
graphite and water. Perhaps you
think water has no structure. Well,
go and see his model in the
Science Museum. As for graphite
it acts as a lubricant because it is
composed of flat plates which slide
over each other. It conducts electricity
because each of these plates
has mobile electrons.
Apart from experimental science
he was deeply interested in science
history and science policy. The thirties
were an optimistic time.
"Science can solve all human
problems" was the belief. All that
was necessary was to organize
^ ^N the Avalon from Holyhead to
Dun Laoire I got into conversation
with a Londoner (a London-
Irishman, really, a postman making
one of his bi-annual trips to Ireland,
he said i and a Kilkennyman
several years my junior. The conversation
somehow got round to
the Irish Language and from there
to Welsh, and the Kilkennyman
opined that it was a little inconsiderate
of the people of North
Wales to wish to have road-signs
in their own language only — what
about the poor visitor, he asked,
how was he to know what Llanfairwhatever-it-was
meant and why
couldn't they have an English
equivalent?
Yes, the London Irish postman
agreed, and what about those
houses they kept burning up there
—there wasn't a lot of sense in
that, either, was there now? I
mean, he went on, if there was a
shortage of homes then the thing
to