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Saturday, December 14, 2002

The old Irish song ' The Old Bog Road ' was penned by Teresa Brayton , who was born in Kilbrook , Co. Kildare , in 1868 . The song itself is a ballad about being exiled from Ireland , while another of her songs was adopted by Na Fianna Eireann , the Republican scouting organisation , as its marching song . Teresa was known locally as an Irish patriot and a staunch Republican , and she became an assistant teacher at Newtown in Kildare . She emigrated to America in 1908 but returned home frequently , and was a friend to , amongst others , Constance Markievicz and Helena Moloney . After the 1916 Rising and throughout the Tan War she supported the Irish Republican cause in America by distributing pamphlets and fund-raising . She also wrote a song about ' The Manchester Martyrs ' ( Allen , Larkin and O Brien ) . Teresa Brayton died in America on August 24 , 1943 .

When he was British Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , former Six-County Direct Ruler , stated -- " We need to make it clear that we don't accept the partition of Bosnia by force . The idea that simply because you or your friends have occupied swathes of terrority , the world simply packs up and accepts that , will be shown to be wrong " . ' Hear Hear ' , Douglas , and so say all of us !

¶ 4:59 PM

Friday, December 13, 2002

In 1963 , the British pulled out of Kenya . The Mau Mau 'terrorists' that fought against the British presence were treated much like the Irish ' terrorists ' , and are now fighting the Brits again !
They are taking their former oppressors to court to seek compensation for human rights abuses during the 1950's and 1960's . More than half a million Mau Mau belonging to the Mau Mau Trust welfare group have hired British lawyer ( fight fire with fire ! ) Martin Day to fight their case . They claim that British soldiers regularly beat and tortured the Kenyans with rifle butts and glass bottles before putting them to work as slave labourers . It has been stated that some of the men were effectively castrated by the British soldiers , while female prisoners were raped repeatedly and with extreme violence . The brits , as can be expected , deny the claims and have said that the majority of 'official ' records(ie their own files) were destroyed in the war .
On the other hand , Mr Blair , we Irish have plenty of paperwork ......

Liam Mellows , the Irish Republican leader , predicted in the Treaty debate on January 4 , 1922 -- " Men will get into positions , men will hold power , and men who get into positions and hold power will desire to remain undisturbed and will not want to be removed " ;
Human Nature again - Mellows was warning us about those that fool themselves into thinking that they can cosy up to the British but still maintain their opposition to the British presence : the Brits , of course , are past masters of pulling people like that ' the extra mile ' ie into the establishment . They will try it now , again ,in Kenya , and are doing it now , in Ireland . But not to all of us ...

¶ 7:08 PM

Thursday, December 12, 2002

A group called ' Ailtiri na hAiseirghe' , Irish for ' Architects of the Resurrection' , entered the political scene in the Free State in the early 1940's , with the intention of creating a ' Gaelic , Christian ,Corporatist (fascist) state ' . They apparently supported the Portugese dictator Salazar , and condemned "the cumbersome indirect methods of our imposed, corrupt , unchristian , Godless and inefficient brand of parliamentary democracy " . They stated that there should be "room for only one national party " in the State , and that under its rule we would be " a model for the whole world ,and our superior civilisation would enable Ireland to control not only the Atlantic , but the Pacific ... " .
They also claimed that such a State " could dictate to dictators and in co-operation with Divine Providence it could settle the affairs of the universe for another two-thousand years ! In the 1943 election , four 'Resurrection' candidates amassed four thousand votes between them - in !944 , seven 'Res' candidates got six thousand votes , all but one of them losing their deposits . In the 1948 election they fielded one candidate and received only 323 votes . Perhaps Fine Gael should change its name and improve its fortunes ......
About ten years ago , a Mr Geoffrey Wheatcroft was a columnist with the (ever-so) British ' The Sunday Telegraph' (perhaps he still is - its not a newspaper I 'take' , as they say...) . In one of his columns , Geoffrey stated - " Fifty years ago , Serbs and Croats were massacring each other on a scale that makes the Ulster(sic) problem seem as trivial as it indeed is . Partition has been the greatest boon and benefit Ireland has enjoyed this century .It is the essential condition without which the southern state could not have survived as it has " . I say-steady on , Geoffrey , old man !
I have just removed 'The sunday Telegraph' from my Christmas card list ...

¶ 7:09 PM

Wednesday, December 11, 2002

In May , 1956 , while speaking to the Aden Legislative Council , British Lord Lloyd stated~ " The importance of Aden both strategically and economically is such that we (British Government) cannot forsee the possibility of any fundamental relaxation of our responsibilities for the colony " -- In November 1967 , Britain withdrew !
Speaking about Cyprus in 1954 , Henry Hopkinson , a Colonial Office Minister of State , said~ " It has always been understood and agreed that there are certain territories in the Commonwealth which , owing to their particular circumstances , can never expect to be independent " -- In August 1960 , Cyprus became independent ...
In ???? , speaking at ////// British PM ~~~~~~~ stated that due to the proximity of the two isles/our stiff upper lip/ for the sake of our position on the world stage/ the British will continue to exercise a jurisdictional claim in Ireland-- however , in ..........

An extract from MIchael Davitts ' The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland' states -- The genius of misgovernment has never been more wilfully blind in its methods or more persistent in the folly of political unwisdom than in the ways and means of Englands rule in Ireland . Laws and force have come to us across the sea in their most provocative form and applicaton , while concessions were never wisely or tactfully made to a cry of justice , but always to the pressure of turmoil , illegality or insurrection . Every stage of the Anglo-Irish struggle attests this fact in its history " .
Those that left the Movement in 1986 and are now in the pay of the British -"attempting to change things from the inside" - would do well to remember that it was tried before ; the only position the British will allow them is that of a poacher turned gamekeeper . And our history is littered with those ....

¶ 5:38 PM

Tuesday, December 10, 2002

By early 1931 it was obvious to the Free State administration that what they termed " the normal process of the law " could no longer deal with Republican activity in the State , and Free State President Cosgrave introduced the necessary paper-work to set up a Military Tribunal on October 14 , 1931 . Eamon de Valera , who had left the Movement in 1926 and formed the Fianna Fail party , stated - " They (the then IRA) are to be taken into these secret tribunals and maltreated and nobody is to hear a word about it and nobody is to be allowed to raise his voice in protest. That is the situation. But tradition is a hard thing to kill. They have been reared in that tradition . That is the Gospel that kept Irish Nationality alive through all the centuries of persecution . These are the men whom we want to crush now . These are the men who are represented as terrorists , these who never thought of themselves . They are simply the rats that are to be squelched . These are the people who are ready to give everything that they had for Ireland , and well we know it , and now they are being deserted by the majority of their people . They have been deserted by old comrades who can no longer see any hope of success on the line they are adopting , by people who were with them originally but who are so far away from them now that the road which they are following is leading diametrically in the opposite direction . They are brave men anyway : let us at least have for them the decent respect that we have for the brave " .
---- Words from a heavy heart , obviously , but words the man was to put into action .

More words from another anti-republican ; " The only solution for dealing with the (P)IRA is to kill 600 people in one night- let the United Nations and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene , and it is over for 20 years " .
--- Former British Defence Minister Alan Clark , October 12 , 1997 (see ' Ireland On Sunday' newspaper , 12/10/97 , page 15) ; that's the attitude that got the British into trouble in all the countries they colonised - indeed , it is the reason they set out on their conquest . And they still have'nt learned !

¶ 6:42 PM

Monday, December 09, 2002

One of this State's elected representatives who sits in Leinster House and is paid 1438 Euro a week for doing so has what hundreds of thousands of ordinary working-class people have'nt got - a medical card , which he has used three times since his election last May . Politicians in that institution received a pay-rise in 2000 and , in January 2001 , they received another increase ( of 18.7per cent) , then an extra 4 per cent in October last plus another wage increase last week (announced after the budget) which has them at their present wage ; after ten years ' service ' they get 1670 Euro a week , based on present wage structures . On top of their salary , they also get 625 Euro a week in various expenses , not all of which has to be vouched for with receipts . Martin is apparently a quick learner~ Leinster House has no shortage of financially and morally corrupt members - now , since last May , Ferris ( the ' good ' apple) has gone into the barrell ( of bad apples ) to change them or , at the very least , to ' keep an eye on them ' but ... human nature kicked in and another wealthy politican decided he , too , wanted more !
Plus ca change , plus c'est la meme chose .

A Mr George Marshall was ' Regional Director of BBC Northern Ireland(sic) ' in 1937 and is best remembered by us for the following quote - " There is no such thing today as an Irishman. One is either a citizen of the Irish Free State or a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland(sic) . Irishmen as such cease to exist after the partition " . George may be gone but no doubt his sentiments live on in the minds of his BBC colleagues .

¶ 7:28 PM

Sunday, December 08, 2002

The Informer Reynolds~
The meetings that Reynolds attended of the ' United Irish Supreme Executive' were detailed gatherings to plan the Rising - he supplied chapter and verse on these to his English paymasters . He also compiled and handed over information which led to the arrest of most of the membership of the Leinster Directory of the United Irishmen : the arrests took place at the home of Oliver Bond , in Bridge Street , Dublin , in March 1798 . The arrests were a severe blow to the organisation and irreparably damaged the prospects of a successful rising taking place the following May .
Reynolds , thinking that his ' job ' was done , refused to comply when ordered to testify at the ' trial ' of Oliver Bond and John McCann , the Provincial Secretary of the Leinster Directory , and so was placed under arrest himself ( in May 1798) ! However , being the weasel that he was , he struck a deal -- in exchange for personal immunity he agreed to appear in court to give evidence about certain figures and , for a lump sum of £5000 and a pension for life he agreed to tout on the people arrested at Bond's house .
Reynolds was no doubt proud that , thanks to him , three members of the Directory - McCann , Billy Byrne and Bond were found guilty in July 1798 . McCann and Byrne were executed while Bond died in jail the following September . The Informer left Ireland for his own safety and was employed abroad by the English authorities . He settled in Paris and died there on August 18 , 1836 . I can only hope he had many a sleepless night .
Lloyd George again ~
In his book 'Year 501; The Conquest Continues' , Noam Chomsky tells how former British PM Lloyd George noted approvingly that British diplomacy had prevented the 1932 Disarmament Convention from banning the bombardment of civilians . Lloyd George observed - " We insisted on reserving the right to bomb niggers " . God knows he sent enough people , including coloureds , to their deaths ...

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Included in the Archives of ' 1169 And Counting.....' is the following (use the ' GOOGLE SEARCHBOX ' , bottom of site , if ya really must read-up on these pieces! ) - * The British 'Military Service (No. 2) Bill 1918' - Irishmen to fight for England .
* Dinny Lacey , 1890 - 1923 ; IRA Guerrilla .
* ' Leo ' of 'The Nation' ; John Keegan Casey , 1846 - 1870 .
* Dorothy Macardle - Irish Republican , Historian and Novelist : 1889 - 1958 .
* Molly O'Reilly - GPO , 1916 .
* Liam Lynch , IRA leader ; The Fermoy Attack , 1919 .
* P.J. Smyth and the Tasmania Escape , 1853 .
* Michael Scanlon - Poet and Fenian .
* 1920 : Canon Magner , Cork , and the Black and Tans .
* James Clarence Mangan : 1803 - 1849 .
* James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris .
* Fr. Luke Wadding , Author and Irish Republican .
* Dr. William Walsh , Archbishop of Dublin - and Irish Republican .
* Patrick O'Donoghue and 'The Irish Exile' Irish Republican newspaper , Australia .
* Peter O'Neill Crowley ; Cork Fenian , killed by the British in Tipperary , 1867 .
* Joseph Malone , Hunger-Striker , 1941 .
* Richard Dalton Williams ; 'Shamrock' of 'The Nation' newspaper .
* Tim Coughlan - IRA Volunteer , 1906 - 1928 : Shot Dead By IRA Informer , or Free State Agents ...?
* Joseph Denieffe , 1833 - 1910 ; IRB Founder .
* Jackie Griffith , 1921 - 1943 ; A Staunch Irish Republican .
* Richie Goss , 1915 - 1941 ; A Revolutionary Irishman .
* American Fenians - their plan to raid the Chester Castle Military Arsenal in England , 1867 .
* Attempted Tunnel Escape From Cork Jail , 1940 .
* The B-Specials , 1920 - 1970 .
* 13 Hours In New Ross , Wexford - 5th June 1798 .
* The First Irish Republican Newspaper - 'The Northern Star' , 1792 - 1797 .
* Donegal 1861 ; Evictions under 'Deasy's Act'.
* 1971 Prison Break ; 'Kangaroo's' in the Six Counties !
* Sunday , 26th July 1914 - On The Dublin Quays : British Soldiers Open Fire .
* Stormont 'Talking-Shop' ; Not A New Failure : Belfast May 1998 - Dublin July 1917 .
* A Rebel Priest - Fr. James O'Coigly ; 1762 - 1798 .
* Irish Republican Law And Order ; The Court System , 1920 - 1922 .
* British Propaganda , 1921 - Royal Irish Constabulary 'Newspaper' .
* Patrick Egan - Founder of 'The Land League' , 1841 - 1919 .
* Arthur O'Connor - United Irishman And General-Of-Division In Napoleon's Army , 1760 - 1852 .
* Pat and Harry Loughnane , Galway - Tortured To Death By The Black And Tans , 1920 .
* The Irish-American 'GROWL' : The 'AARIR' , 1920 - 1926 .
* 'The Irish People' ; An Irish Rebel Newspaper , 1863 - 1865 .
* William Putnam McCabe , 1775 - 1821 : A Determined Irish Rebel .
* William Rooney , 1872 - 1901 : Poet And Journalist .
* Joseph Brennan , 1828 - 1857 : 'Young Irelander' Leader .
* John Sadleir and William Keogh - 19th Century Irish Turncoats .
* July 15th , 1976 ; IRA Prisoners Escape From Dublin's 'Special Court' .
* July - December 1921 : Revenge Attacks On Irish Republicans During The 'Truce' .
* Philip Grey , 1827 - 1857 : An Irish Military Man .
* Martin McDermott , 1823 - 1905 : Young Irelander .
* Working Within British 'Law' With A Vow NOT To Use Force Against The British : Daniel O'Connell , 1843 - The Provisionals , 1994 To Date .
* 'Tan War' Irish Republican Newspaper - 'An tOglach' , 1918 - 1921 .
* July 29th , 1848 - RIC , Firearms , Pikes ; And Five Children .
* Ireland , January 15th , 1920 - Elections .
* 'The Press' Newspaper : October 1797-March 1798 ; Too Radical For The Radicals .... ?

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* The Boundary Commission , 1921 - 1925 : A British 'sleight-of-hand' which caused a mutiny within British forces in Ireland .
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* Censorship - Section 31 of The Broadcasting Act .
* The RUC's 'paid perjurer' strategy .
* To Westminster And Back - Gerry Fitt .
* The GAA And The Hunger-Strikers.
* The Long Kesh Escape - Sunday 25th September 1983 .
* Fire And Brimstone : The DUP and Civil War ... (from 1985).
* Politicos And Paramilitaries : Loyalists prepare for a strike ...(from 1986).
* Preparing The Defence Of Ulster (sic) Loyalism - from 1984 .
* Chaos In The Gardai - from 1986.
* The Inevitability Of Sectarian Collison - George Seawright (DUP) interview , from May 1984 .
* The IRA Has To Do What The IRA Has To Do - Danny Morrison (SF) interview , from September 1984 .
* 17 Victims Of British Justice - from 1984.
* The Interrogation Of Stephen Moore - from 1986.
* A Gay View On Kincora - from 1984 .
* Hunger-Striking Against Show-Trials -from 1986 .
* The Sea Green Incorruptible - Seamus Mallon (SDLP) in Westminster : from 1986.
* Na Fianna Eireann - from 'IRIS' magazine , 1981 .
* Fianna Fail And The IRA Connection - from 'New Hibernia' magazine , Dec/Jan 1986/1987.
* UDR's Rotten Apples - from 'The Phoenix' magazine , March 1984 .
* 23 Days In Hell:The Story Of The O'Grady Kidnap - from 'Magill' magazine , May 1988 .
* A History of Armagh Jail - from 'Women Behind The Wire' , 1984.
* In The Shadow Of A Gunman : Sinn Fein The Workers Party - from 'Magill' magazine , 1982.
* "Don't Let Them Break You , Love ... " : Strip-Searches in Armagh Jail - from 'Women Behind The Wire' magazine , 1984.
* Where Sinn Fein Stands - Caretaker Executive statement , January 1970 .
* Fr. Denis Faul : A Conniving , Treacherous Man... - from November 1981 .
* The 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement (Hillsborough Treaty) : The Shadow Of The Gunmen - from 'MAGILL' magazine , November 1985.
* Entering Leinster House - A Veteran Speaks : statement from Comdt. General Thomas Maguire , 22nd October 1986 .
* Informers : The RUC's Psychological War - from March 1983 .
* Dublin Council of Trade Unions : Heroic Dublin! - from February 1986 .
* Bloody Sunday - from 'Magill' magazine , February 1998 .
* Butchers Dozen - Bloody Sunday poem .
* The Unbroken Links In The Irish Republican Chain - By Martin Calligan .
* 1913 : 75 Years After the Lock-Out ; from 1988.
* Plus Ca Change : Haughey and Parnell - from 'MAGILL' magazine , 1998 .
* Fianna Fail - The Mask Of De Valera : from 1989 .
* The Simple Truth About The Irish Sugar Industry : from 1989 .
* All At S.E.A. -A 'skit' on the 'Single European Act' - from 1987 .
* Billy Wright , Loyalist Volunteer Force - from 1998 .
* Liam Mellows And The Irish Civil War - from 1983 .
* On The Take ! - Corrupt politics in the Free State . From 1988 .
* The Extradition Sell-Out : from 1987 .
* Sean O'Callaghan , Informer - from 1998 .
* MacGiollas Guerrillas : The Workers Party and the OIRA - from 1987 .
* Garda Gunfire : Who To Believe ? - from 1987.
* Orange Judge Executed - from March 1983 .
* The 26 Counties : A State But Not A Nation - from 1983.
* Eoghan Harris : Out Of The Shadows - from 1997.
* Eoghan Harris : Pillars of Society - from 1985.
* "We Are All Part Of The Same Struggle" - by Margaret Ward : from 1983.
* Republicans And Youth , by Jack Madden : from 'IRIS' magazine , 1983.
* Shane Ross : Playing The Orange Card : from 'PHOENIX' magazine , 1984.
* The Roman Reich : from 'In Dublin' magazine , October 1987.
* The Right To Silence : from 'In Dublin' magazine , February 1987 .
* The Rules Of Engagement - Inside The 'Peace' Talks : from 'Magill' magazine , 1997 .
* Shoot-to-kill-The Unchanging Face Of Repression : from 'IRIS' magazine , 1983 .
* Paddy Cooney's Army : from 'The Phoenix' magazine , 1984 .
* The Kerry Garda Crisis : from 'The Phoenix' magazine , 1985.
* The Quality of Justice is Strained : from 'New Hibernia' magazine , April 1987.
* A Hard 'Oul Station - Life on the Streets : from 'New Hibernia' magazine , March 1987 .
* More Questions Than Answers - Death In a Garda Station : from 'In Dublin' magazine , 1987.
* Vincent Browne - Pillars Of Society : from 'The Phoenix' magazine , February 1985 .
* The Wallace and Holroyd File : from 'New Hibernia' magazine , April 1987 .
* The Strange State Killing of Maurice O'Neill : from 'Magill' magazine , 1999 .
* The Heavy Hand of The Law : from 'Magill' magazine , 2003.
* Lotteries And Other Hold-Ups : from 'New Hibernia' magazine , April 1987 .
* The Younger Breed - Tony Gregory : from 'The Phoenix' magazine , February 1985 .
* Passports , Please ! : from 'Magill' magazine , March 1999 .
* Pillars Of Society - Michael O' Leary : from 'The Phoenix' magazine , April 1986.
* Empires Of Dust - The British 'Empire' : from 'Magill' magazine , March 2003 .
* Guns to Bread And Butter - The Officials : from 'Fortnight' magazine , October 1983 .
* Disarming Martin - McGuinness Interview : from 'Magill' magazine , March 1999 .
* The Seeds Of Another Bitter Harvest : from 'Fortnight' magazine , October 1983 .
* Beyond Breakouts And Supergrasses : from 'Fortnight' magazine , October 1983 .
* Veteran Irish Republican , Lily Moffatt , interviewed : from 'IRIS' magazine , 1982 .
* The Provos At The Ballot Box : from 'Magill' magazine , June 1983 .
* Sporting Nationalism - The Political Origins Of The GAA : from 'IRIS' magazine , November 1982 .
* A People's Army - Women Volunteers In The IRA : from 'IRIS' magazine , November 1982 .
* "Comrades , Brothers and Sisters" - Michael O' Riordan , Irish Communist : from 'MAGILL' magazine , June 1983 .
* The Seeds Of A Police State : from 'Magill' magazine , September 1983 .
* New Departures For Sinn Fein ? : from 'Gralton' magazine , Aug/Sept 1983 .
* The World According To Gerry Adams : from 'In Dublin' magazine , August 1985 .
* The Accusing Finger Of Raymond Gilmour : from 'Magill' magazine , August 1983 .
* A Segregated Jail : from 'Iris' magazine , November 1982 .
* Which Way Forward In The Free State ? : from 'Iris' magazine , November 1983 .
* Troublesome Business - The British Labour Party And The 'Irish Question' : from 'Iris' magazine , November 1982 .
* Glossary Of The Left In Ireland : from 'Gralton' magazine,August/September 1983 .
* Young Bloods : Clare Daly - from 'Phoenix' magazine , September 2003 .
* Derry : A City Besieged - from 'Fortnight' magazine , 1983 .
* Death And Mystery ; John O'Shea , Kerry - from 'Magill' magazine , 2003 .
* A Rough Beast ; Charles Haughey - from 'In Dublin' magazine , 1987 .
* Out Of The Women's Ghetto - from 'Fortnight' magazine , October 1983 .
* A Day At The Rent Court - from 'Gralton' magazine , 1983 .
* 'The United Irishman' newspaper , January 1958 .
* Sounding off : Comrades And Calculators - from 'Gralton' magazine, August/September 1983.
* Crisis, What Crisis? - from 'IN DUBLIN' magazine, 'Election Special' , 1987.
* The Prisons Of The Past - from 'MAGILL' magazine August 2003 .
* Taking It Handy - from 'In Dublin' magazine Election Special, 1987.
* Public Inquiry Into Our Greatest Scandal- from 'MAGILL' magazine, June 1998.
* John Dunster At Windscale - from 'MAGILL' magazine , March 1986.
* Nicky Kelly : High Court Judgement - from 'MAGILL' magazine , February 1986.
* Henry Doherty Is 44 Days On Hunger Strike - from 'MAGILL' magazine , March 1986 .
* Kerry Death Mystery - from 'The Phoenix' magazine ,January 2003.
* Street Talk : Tony Gregory - from 'USI NEWS' magazine , February 1989.
* A Question Of Liberation - from 'IRIS' magazine , November 1983 .
* Republican Evictions - from 'MAGILL' magazine , June 1998 .
* The Left Behind : The Labour Party - from 'In Dublin' magazine , 1987 .
* Economy In Crisis : An Historical Perspective - from 'IRIS' magazine , 1982.
* Divis Flats: Building Towards A Demolition Campaign - from 'IRIS' magazine , November 1983.
* Prisoners Rights - The Mark Of A Civilised Society : from 'Fourthwrite' magazine, Autumn 2003.
* Robert Emmet - The Darling Of Erin : from ''Fourthwrite' magazine, Autumn 2003.
* A Portrait Of Ireland - from 'Republican Bulletin/Iris Na Poblachta' , November 1986.
* The Eamonn Byrne Case - from 'Phoenix' magazine , 1983 .
* King Of The Yuppie Heartland - from 'In Dublin' Election Special magazine,1987.
* Toxic Waste In Kill , County Kildare - from 'The Phoenix' magazine , May 1983.
* The Politics Of Repression - from 'IRIS' magazine, 1982.
* The Catholic Hierarchy : Propping-Up The Orange State - from 'IRIS' magazine , 1983.
* Ballymurphy Interview - from 'IRIS' magazine , July/August 1982.
* Republican Mourners Defeat RUC - from 'IRIS' magazine , October 1987.
* Operational Comments Of A British Army Officer - from 'IRIS' magazine , October 1987.
* Ernie O'Malley : Soldier Of Oglaigh na hEireann - from 'IRIS' magazine , July 1983.
* Sixty Years Of Repression : An Outline History Of The RUC - from 'IRIS' magazine , July/August 1982.