BRITISH PROPAGANDA , 1921 - Royal Irish Constabulary newspaper .......



.......in June 1920 ,a provincial newspaper , ' The Westmeath Independent ' , published a pro-Irish freedom Editorial ; Dublin Castle 'spin-doctor' Basil Clarke did not like the point made by that Editorial and sent the Black and Tans in to convey that message .......


The owners wife , a Mrs Chapman , and the house-maid , were living next to the printing works ( in Garden Vale House ) when , at one A M on a Sunday morning , the two women noticed flames coming from the works ; some of the employees lived in nearby Mardyke Street , and Mrs Chapman ran there for help but , due to the British-imposed street curfew (ie anyone on the street during certain hours was shot at) she got no offers of help .

She ran back to the works and herself and the maid worked through the night trying to put the fire out . Both women reported seeing about a dozen Black and Tans at the building when they first noticed the fire . As dawn broke on that Sunday morning , and the curfew was lifted , the 'Westmeath Independent' Works Manager , a Mr. James Martin and a warehouse worker , a Mr O' Brien , rushed to the plant and worked with the two women in salvaging what they could from the ruined building .

Other newspapers also received a knock on the door from Basil Clarke and his 'censorship board' ....... (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.

A QUIET PERIOD.......

".......I remember one IRA Volunteer in particular ; a small man , past middle-age , who had worked all his hard life on a farm , every day . Now he also worked at night for his country ......."


" His name was Neilus O' Connell , but he was known to us by his nom de guerre , ' Louth '. During his long service for Ireland , he saw many a day breaking . It was his greatest pleasure . May he enjoy the brightness of an eternal dawn .

In the autumn of 1917 , the time had come for me to leave home and go to a secondary school . I viewed the prospect with dismay , as Volunteer re-organisation was in full swing . One of my sisters , a secondary teacher , stepped into the breach and saved me . She taught a younger sister and myself and prepared us for the 'Junior Grade' examination .

We had a most enjoyable school year , and I had plenty of time for Volunteer work . But good times come to an end and June 1918 came quickly . We passed our examination and were free from study for the summer months . The attack on the RIC at Beal a' Ghleanna early in July 1918 and a little subsequent martial law activity brought on the autumn again .

The 'Conscription Bill' , passed on 16th April 1918 , had caused a scare amongst people opposed to , or not interested in , the cause of Irish independence . It had caused a good deal of amusement amongst the rank and file of the Volunteers , and had provided extra work for their Officers who had to deal with a large influx of recruits while the scare lasted......."

BHOPAL.......

(From an article by Richard Douthwaite , published in 'ALPHA' magazine , 30th March 1989 , page 10).

(2 of 3).



Even R. S. Pathak's (the Indian Government's Chief Justice) immediate predecessor as Chief Justice was appalled - " The court order places a ridiculously low price on Indian life ," wrote P. N. Bhagwati , " the order is breathless in its sweep . It defies comprehension how criminal proceedings against Union Carbide can be quashed without even examining if there is a prima facie case " .

Not unexpectedly , government officials argued that , although 592,000 people out of Bhopal's population of 680,000 have claimed compensation , most of the claims are bogus ! They estimate that 3,410 people have died (deaths still occur every day) , 25,000 people will be seriously ill for the rest of their lives , mostly as a result of damaged lungs , and that 80,000 people are less badly affected .

If the $470 Million dollars is divided up among the " 100,000 real victims ", they say , the average figure of £4,700 dollars should be enough to give the bereaved £13,000 dollars each , with smaller sums to look after the permanently ill and the partially incapacitated ........ (Part three of three tomorrow ...)

---

BRITISH PROPAGANDA , 1921 - Royal Irish Constabulary newspaper .......


.......The new British 'Chief Secretary for Ireland' , 'Sir' Hamar Greenwood , is believed to have worked closely with Dublin Castle 'spin-doctor' , Basil Clarke to produce a propaganda 'newspaper' , ' The Weekly Summary ' ; Clarke was a devious character who would 'cosy-up' to the journalists and become their 'new best friend '........


He would then attempt to politely advise the journalists on how best to report a certain story , or if same should be reported on at all .....

If the 'buddy-buddy' routine failed , Basil Clarke used other methods ; in June 1920 , the 'Westmeath Independent' (a provincial newspaper) stated in an Editorial - " English rule is broken in Ireland . No English policies , good or bad , will stand . The Irish people will govern themselves . "

The (founding) Managing Director of that newspaper , a Mr. Thomas Chapman , was absent from the town of Athlone (where the newspaper and its Offices , printing-press etc were based) and was in fact convalescing from ill health . Basil Clarke did not like the tone of the Editorial , and sent in his 'boot-boys' ; the Black and Tans ....... (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.

A QUIET PERIOD

" Except for the periods of actual military activity , the ordinary IRA Volunteer attended to his everyday duties in private life . This was not an easy matter , at any time , especially for the man who had to do a hard day's work . To work hard , or indeed to work at all , it is essential to have regular sleep and rest . Youth and enthusiasm replaced sleep and rest during many of these years of preparation and conflict .

The fire of youth burned brightly in most of us . But I remember , above all , the few who had to depend on enthusiasm alone to sustain them . One of these , a small man past middle age , joined the Volunteers on the very first day of their inauguration . He had worked for a farmer for a few shillings a day since his early youth . Now , with over half a hard life behind him , he cheerfully took up the additional task of working for his country by night , without hope of remuneration but with the certainty of shortening and the chance of losing his life . " (MORE LATER).

BHOPAL

(From an article by Richard Douthwaite , published in 'ALPHA' magazine , 30th March 1989 , page 10).

(1 of 3).


In New Dehli tomorrow (ie 31st March 1989) Union Carbide will pay the registrar of the Indian Supreme Court $470 million dollars in full and final settlement of all claims - criminal or civil - which have arisen or could still arise out of the gas leak at the company's pesticide plant in Bhopal in December 1984 .

The settlement figure was reached in secret negotiations between Union Carbide and the Indian Government . However , in order to shield itself from charges of selling out , the government pretended that the Supreme Court had imposed the agreement !

It got Chief Justice R. S. Pathak to interrupt Union Carbide's appeal against a high court order that the chemical company make an interim payment to the victims . Pathak made another order - this time settling the affair for good . Union Carbide's lawyers did not even ask for time to check with the United States . They just nodded .

So did the Indian Attorney General who had been demanding more than six times as much - $3,000 million dollars ....... (Part two of three tomorrow .......)

---

BRITISH PROPAGANDA , 1921 - Royal Irish Constabulary newspaper .......


....... 'Sir' Hamar Greenwood gave the British 'police' in Ireland , the 'Royal Irish Constabulary' , and the Black and Tans 'official' clearance to go on the rampage and blame it all on Republican resistance to Westminster 'rule' .......


In the last few months of 1920 , Greenwood and his staff put together plans for the publication of a weekly 'newspaper' to be distributed mainly to the British forces in Ireland ; the 'newspaper' was to be known as ' The Weekly Summary ' , and , in the third week of January 1921 , the first issue was published .

It is almost definite that a Mr. Basil Clarke was heavily involved in the publishing of ' The Weekly Summary '; he was an earlier version of the now infamous 'spin-doctor' , a devious character known to the Irish and international media , whom he used to entertain twice a day at 'press conferences' in Dublin Castle , as "The Black and Tan Publicity Man . "

Basil Clarke would 'cosy-up' to the journalists and become their new best friend ....... (MORE LATER).




WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......


".......the two IRA men ,carrying their bicycles and rifles , went across country to a safe-house ; Richie Walsh's place . He was delighted to see them ...... "


" The width of the roads they crossed was the only horizontal and smooth surface they met . Even the bed of the river they crossed was rough . The little fields they met all sloped at a steep angle , and the stone fences were often ten feet high , on one side at least . Rocks , stones of all shapes and sizes , with furze and stunted black and white thorn in between the stones , covered the ground they travelled . They were giants who did it .

After tea and a talk with Richie Walsh , they filled bags with straw and , climbing further up the rugged hill to a beilic they knew , made their bed and slept the sleep of the just , not far from ' Lua's fairy lake ' where Michael Doheny had also rested . Poor Doheny's thoughts could hardly have induced pleasant dreams , since he had seen dismal defeat .

Johnny and Liam had at least tasted victory . "


[END of THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......].




DO AS I SAY ,NOT AS I DO .....


(From ' Magill ' magazine , December 1988 , page 62).


FIANNA FAIL AND EXTRADITION ----> (6 of 6.)


<---- In 1975 and 1976 , as the largest 'opposition' party in Leinster House , FIANNA FAIL 'the republican party' was most vocally opposed to the very idea that an extradition treaty should be signed between this State and Westminster .

At the time , 'The Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act (1976)' was being discussed in Leinster House , and FIANNA FAIL (as 'the republican party' , don't-ya-know) was dead set against it . Or was it .......?


Finally , one of the de Valera's - not sure if it was Sile or Vivion , but suspect it was the latter , stated re 'The Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act (1976) ' --

-- " The effect of Section 2 of this Bill , particularly when coupled with Section 14 , will turn this State and particularly the agencies of the State , the security forces and the courts , into an agency for another sovereignty over which we have no control ."


Now that's rich : A de Valera objecting to " the agencies of this State " being turned over to be used by the Brits !

Anyway , for all their talk , Jack Lynch , GERARD Collins , David Andrews , Charlie Haughey , Des O'Malley , the de Valera's and the rest of the Fianna Fail 'republican party' went right ahead and used 'The Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act (1976)' against Irish Republicans when they got back into power .

When they made the above-mentioned statements , the 'republican party' were in 'opposition' - the State Administration at the time was composed of a Fine Gael and Labour coalition (1973 - 1977).

'Magill' Magazine (December 1988 , page 62) wrote that Fianna Fail were using 'The Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act (1976)' as " the panacea for the difficulties over extradition " despite their condemnation of same during their term in opposition !

DO AS I SAY , NOT AS I DO .....indeed .

---

BRITISH PROPAGANDA , 1921 - Royal Irish Constabulary newspaper .......



........ Ireland , 1920 - and the Brits were losing the propaganda war . A new British ' Chief Secretary for Ireland ' was appointed in April that year ; 'Sir' Hamar Greenwood .......


Greenwood was a careerist , determined to be at the top of the British 'social-ladder' and not at all concerned at how he would arrive there ; he viewed his post in Ireland as just another 'test' , another step , to prove to his 'betters' that he would be a worthy and faithful addition to their level of the social structure . Ireland was to be his ' meal ticket ' .

Under orders from the new 'Chief Secretary', the British 'police' and military were granted 'official' clearance to do what they had , up to then , been doing 'un-officially'-ie ignore the limitations imposed by so-called British 'justice' and dis-regard all notions of fair-play - in short , it was now British policy , as introduced and sanctioned by 'Sir' Hamar Greenwood , to 'legally' take reprisals against the population for any real or imagined IRA activity and to operate a 'shoot-to-kill' policy against suspected IRA members ....... (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......


"....... The RIC had lost whatever little respect some of the people had for them . Their name was now associated with 'bully-boy' tactics - bullet , baton and battering ram ......."


" This is how my mother taught me the English alphabet -

A for the Army that covers the ground ,
B for the Buckshot we're getting all round ,
C for the Crowbar of cruel ill-fame ,
D for Davitt , a right glorious name .

In the favouring dusk , Johnny and Liam , the slings over their shoulders and the carbines tied on their bicycles , rode down the road towards Ballingeary . At Cathair Cross they left the road and , taking the bicycles on their shoulders , crossed over Carraig na Dabhaire , down through Gurteen Owen Wood , up Coom Dorcha , down Doire na Buairce , out on the road at Scrahan Mor , near Muing na Biorrai , where Smith was buried after Cath Ceimaneigh .

Down Tuirin Lahard , across the river at Tuirin Dubh , and out on the road to Ceimaneigh . Along the road to Ceimaneigh for a short distance , then up the steep boreen to Richie Walsh's place . If they had come staggering under the weight of bags of gold for Richie , they could not have been more welcome . Apart from the events of the day , before they left the road at Cathair Cross , the cross-country march , with bicycles and rifles on their shoulders , was a feat that few could accomplish in the daytime . " (MORE LATER).



DO AS I SAY ,NOT AS I DO .....


(From ' Magill ' magazine , December 1988 , page 62).


FIANNA FAIL AND EXTRADITION ----> (5 of 6.)


<---- In 1975 and 1976 , as the largest 'opposition' party in Leinster House , FIANNA FAIL 'the republican party' was most vocally opposed to the very idea that an extradition treaty should be signed between this State and Westminster .

At the time , 'The Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act (1976)' was being discussed in Leinster House , and FIANNA FAIL (as 'the republican party' , don't-ya-know) was dead set against it . Or was it .......?


Desmond O'Malley , then a front-bench member of Fianna Fail ; a Limerick man , born in 1939 , and a solicitor by profession . Educated at Crescent College in Limerick and University College Dublin , he studied at the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland .

He was Free State Minister for 'Justice' 1970 - 1973 , Minister for Industry and Commerce 1977 - 1981 , and Free State Minister for Trade , Commerce and Tourism in 1982 . Ambitious and arrogant , O'Malley had his heart set on leading Fianna Fail , but it was not to be ; he stated , re ' The Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act(1976) ' --

-- " I do not propose to cover the full spectrum in its political context as has been done fully and ably and in terms with which I totally agree by Deputy Haughey . I am opposed to this Bill and will certainly vote against it . "


The words " totally agree (with) Deputy Haughey " and the name 'Dessie O'Malley' were , to the best of my knowledge , never used in the same sentence again !

---

BRITISH PROPAGANDA , 1921 - Royal Irish Constabulary newspaper .


Ireland , April 1920 - the Black and Tans were in the second year of their campaign to destroy any resistance to British mis-rule in Ireland ; their British paymasters in Westminster were not happy with their 'progress' . The 'Royal Irish Constabulary'(the British 'police' in Ireland) were being burnt out of their barracks' and the Black and Tans thought it would have been all over with in a few months - morale was low .

Westminster was adept at sending out propaganda regarding the situation in Ireland to the international press , and decided to try the same 'spin-doctoring' in Ireland itself ; this time , to its own troops . A little-known Canadian of Welsh parentage , a 'Sir' Hamar Greenwood , was appointed 'Chief Secretary for Ireland' in April 1920 ....... (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.

THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......


".......the RIC man that Johnny Lynch gave a thumping to went by the name of Bennett . He was known in the area to be a vicious blaggard ......."


" On the previous evening , this truculent policeman had cleaned his rifle outside the gate of the barracks . With this accomplished to his satisfaction , he had proceeded to display his skill . Catching the weapon by the barrel , he had spun it in the air and again caught it as it fell . This he did repeatedly for the delectation of the simple peasantry . Well , he had his fling . So had the RIC as a body . The people were tired of them and their overbearing , strutting tyranny .

The "Law" and the "Force." Yes , and the Crowbar and the Battering Ram. The Torch and the Buckshot . The Bayonet and the Bullet and the Baton . These tools had been always associated with the "Law." The "Force" was the eyes and the ears and the power behind the "Law." " (MORE LATER).




DO AS I SAY ,NOT AS I DO .....


(From ' Magill ' magazine , December 1988 , page 62).


FIANNA FAIL AND EXTRADITION ----> (4 of 6.)


<---- In 1975 and 1976 , as the largest 'opposition' party in Leinster House , FIANNA FAIL 'the republican party' was most vocally opposed to the very idea that an extradition treaty should be signed between this State and Westminster .

At the time , 'The Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act (1976)' was being discussed in Leinster House , and FIANNA FAIL (as 'the republican party' , don't-ya-know) was dead set against it . Or was it .......?


....... CHARLIE HAUGHEY - an unprincipled chancer (and one of the few unprincipled chancers in Fianna Fail to be actually caught with his/her hand in the till) was born in Castlebar , County Mayo , in 1925 . He was educated in Dublin at Scoil Mhuire ( Marino ) , Saint Josephs CBS (Fairview ) , University College Dublin and Kings Inn .

An accountant by profession (ie "five grand for the party , fifteen grand for me .....") he's into horses and property , and was first elected to Leinster House at the age of thirty-two , in 1957 . As one of the movers and shakers of his day , the bould Charlie was a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants , the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts and Malahide Rowing Club .

He was Free State Minister for 'Justice' from 1961 - 1964 , Agriculture , 1964 - 1966 , Finance 1966 - 1970 and , before he was appointed as the Free State Minister for Health and Social Welfare (1977 - 1979) had this to say about the 'The Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act (1976)' =

" If this Bill becomes law , its operation will have the very opposite effect to that which is intended . It will be counter productive in every way . Unpalatable and repressive though they clearly are and alien to the principles to which we are accustomed , the procedures laid down in this Bill cannot guarantee successful prosecutions . "


The words " cannot guarantee successful prosecution " were coupled with the name 'Charles Haughey' in later years as well .......

---

' LEO ' of 'The Nation' newspaper ; John Keegan Casey , 1846 - 1870 .......


.......captured members of The Fenians and the Irish Republican Brotherhood were treated badly by the British - although only a young man , John Keegan Casey was not healthy enough to withstand the abuse .......


He was not physically strong enough to deal with the conditions he was forced to endure in Mountjoy Jail and , although only twenty-two years of age , his health began to disintegrate ( due , perhaps , to the diseased times in which he was born). Within a few months of beginning his sentence , his British jailers were worried about his sickly demure - not because they were concerned about him , but because if he were to die in prison it would reflect badly on them and perhaps make a martyr of young Casey ; they released him .

On the 17th March , 1870 , at twenty-four years young , John Keegan Casey ('LEO' of 'The Nation' newspaper) died ; the writings he left behind join the treasured memoir's and memento's bequeathed to the struggle for Irish Freedom ; an on-going struggle . His best-known works include 'A Wreath of Shamrock ' , which he wrote when he was twenty and , at twenty-three years of age , 'The Rising of The Moon .'

He died one-hundred-and-thirty-four years ago , but is still remembered in Irish Republican circles to this day ; the British should learn from our long memories .......


" I will see my day of freedom at The Rising of The Moon ,
oh , my trusty friends and comrades , I know its coming soon .
All you freedom loving people hear this voice in many lands -
when the song-bird sings of freedom , that's the voice of Bobby Sands . "

(From ' The Birds of Freedom ' , by Tomas O'Riain ).


[End of ' LEO ' of 'The Nation' newspaper ; John Keegan Casey , 1846 - 1870 .].



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......


"........the ambush was successful ; the useless material (ie helmets , batons etc) had been dumped - now the rifles and ammunition , and the men themselves , had to be got to safety ......."


" They had already decided that , when darkness fell , they would take the rifles and ammunition away to the south , across the main road from Ballingeary through Ceimaneigh to the west . This would eliminate all risk of their being found in a minute local search . They now decided to take the bicycles also .

Meanwhile , what of the police ? Evidently they roused themselves up and caught the horse which had been grazing along the dykes of the road . The wounded man mounted the animal and his comrade led it by the head . Thus they made progress down by Acharus , not indeed as dignified as that of the morning . They met Mick Callaghan . With unfeigned surprise he asked " Yerra what happened ye at all , at all ? "

Under the circumstances one could hardly expect a civil answer . Compared with their polished , well equipped and martial bearing of the forenoon they now looked a total loss . " Ah , someone will pay for this , " was the reply he got from Johnny's opponent . The man scarred by the bullet said nothing . Indeed , it was a matter of regret with the Volunteers who knew him , and especially with Johnny who had experience of his courtesy during a raid on his house , that he should have been hurt .

They rejoiced when they learned that his wound was not serious . His name was Butler . There was scant sympathy for the other man's bruises - his name was Bennett . " (MORE LATER).



DO AS I SAY ,NOT AS I DO .....


(From ' Magill ' magazine , December 1988 , page 62).


FIANNA FAIL AND EXTRADITION ----> (3 of 6.)


<---- In 1975 and 1976 , as the largest 'opposition' party in Leinster House , FIANNA FAIL 'the republican party' was most vocally opposed to the very idea that an extradition treaty should be signed between this State and Westminster .

At the time , 'The Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act (1976)' was being discussed in Leinster House , and FIANNA FAIL (as 'the republican party' , don't-ya-know) was dead set against it . Or was it .......?


DAVID ANDREWS (a barrister by profession) , born in 1936 in Dublin , and educated at Colaiste Mhuire in Dublin and Mount Saint Josephs in Roscrea , County Tipperary . He studied in University College Dublin and Kings Inn , Dublin . A bit of a lad for the oul' soccer , I believe .....

Mr. Andrews did'nt think much of ' The Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act (1976) ' = " The unconstitutionality of this Bill is well settled . This is a politically disastrous Bill . It could bring the whole criminal law into contempt and make a sham of our adherence to the European Convention on Human Rights . "


A barrister and " human rights " ? Only if the price is right .......

Fianna Fail against extradition ? Only if the price is right .......

---

' LEO ' of 'The Nation' newspaper ; John Keegan Casey , 1846 - 1870 .......



....... John Keegan Casey ('LEO' of 'The Nation' newspaper) joined the revolutionary Irish Republican Brotherhood in the mid-1860's when he was still only a teenager - on 5th March 1867 the IRB made their move .......


Armed actions took place at , amongst other locations , Stepaside , Glencullen and Tallaght in Dublin , Ballyknockane and Knockadoon in Cork , Ballyhurst in County Tipperary , and also in Louth and Limerick .

John Keegan Casey , now aged twenty-one , was one of the thousands of Irish Rebels arrested when the Fenian Rising failed ; he was brought before the Special Court in Green Street , Dublin , where he was sentenced to seven years penal servitude in Dublin's Mountjoy Jail .

The conditions for the Fenians and the Irish Republican Brotherhood prisoners in the jails in which they were held were deliberately harsh - they were locked in their cells for twenty-three hours of every day , with the other hour being spent in forced exercise , in single-file and in silence , in a metal cage in the prison yard . (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......


".......the fight for possession of the weapons was over ; the IRA had them - two rifles , one-hundred rounds of ammunition , belts , batons , helmets and notebooks ......."


" The whole IRA team went up the hill on the north side of the road . Here the Ballyvourney men and Tadhg Twomey had dumped their bicycles . Tadhg took his and , making a detour by Gougane Barra , came home to the village of Ballingeary .

Jamie , Neilus and Dan also cycled home around the mountain road . Johnny and Liam dumped the helmets , batons and other useless stuff in a nearby beilic - a jutting rock under which the sheep slept at night , and often many a good man as well . With the carbines and ammunition , they again came down to the scene of the ambush . The police had gone . Crossing the road , they skirted by Johnny's house .

Here , in a grove , they found Jer Shea's bicycle . Evidently Jer had gone home across country and intended to return for the bicycle that night . Liam had his bicycle also , and both were in the wrong place in case of an early morning search by crown forces - which was now a certainty . " (MORE LATER).



DO AS I SAY ,NOT AS I DO .....


(From ' Magill ' magazine , December 1988 , page 62).


FIANNA FAIL AND EXTRADITION ----> (2 of 6.)


<---- In 1975 and 1976 , as the largest 'opposition' party in Leinster House , FIANNA FAIL 'the republican party' was most vocally opposed to the very idea that an extradition treaty should be signed between this State and Westminster .

At the time , 'The Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act (1976)' was being discussed in Leinster House , and FIANNA FAIL (as 'the republican party' , don't-ya-know) was dead set against it . Or was it .......?


Gerry(" Call me Gerard") Collins , a likely lad from Limerick , ex-Fianna Fail Minister for Posts and Telegraphs 1970-1973 , Minister for (Free State) Justice 1977-1981 and , as the Free State Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1982 , had no doubt but that issues relating to the Six Counties should be included in his brief (ie part of the national terrority being 'dealth with' under the portfolio of 'Foreign Affairs' ! That's the 'republican party' for ya .....)


But anyway ..... the bould GERARD had this to say about extraditing people to Britain - " It is well known that no country has been stronger in asserting this idea of non-extradition for politically motivated offences than the British themselves . Yet it now appears they are trying to foist a different rule of law on us . We believe that this Bill , if it becomes law , will remain a dead letter. What we are now attempting to legalise here is trial in which evidence will be given on commission in the absence of the accused , something which is totally unacceptable since it is at variance with the constitutional guarantees of fairness of procedures . "


YEP ! No doubt about it ; that's a definite line in the sand from our GERARD and FIANNA FAIL . Obviously made on a windy day .......

---

' LEO ' of 'The Nation' newspaper ; John Keegan Casey , 1846 - 1870 .......


....... Daniel O' Connell's ' Catholic Association ' was controlled by polite gentlemen who were politely fobbed-off by the Brits ; the ' Young Ireland ' group , led by Thomas Davis and James Fintan Lalor were radicals who did not rule out physical force to remove the British . John Keegan Casey was drawn to them .......


He submitted material for publication to ' The Nation ' newspaper under the pseudonym ' LEO ' ; his poetry and other writings were published on a regular basis , and this brought him into contact with like-minded individuals . John Keegan Casey was in his late teens when , in the mid-1860's , he joined an Irish Republican organisation founded by James Stephens in 1858 - the ' Irish Republican Brotherhood ' , and worked full-time within that Movement , alongside the Fenians , in preparing for an armed rising in Ireland .

The Fenian / IRB Rising went ahead on 5th March 1867 (having being postponed from its original date of 11th February 1867 due to the actions of an informer)....... (MORE LATER).




WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......



".......The IRA men had stopped the RIC patrol ; a fist-fight had started and one shot was fired , injuring one of the RIC men , whose cart had by now been pushed off the road ......."


" Johnny Lynch's opponent still clung to his rifle . He shouted for mercy , and said he was a married man with a wife and family depending on him ; yet he would not relinquish the rifle . Johnny , for a reasonable time , had taken him as easily as he possibly could . He had risked his life and liberty to spare him , even after hearing him boast of how the machine-gun had frightened the people at Coolea .

Now he had to treat him roughly , and when Johnny straightened himself up holding the captured rifle , the RIC man lay on the ground bruised and vanquished . " Where is the other rifle ? " someone asked . Jamie and Neilus had assumed that it had fallen on the road with the wounded RIC man . Actually it had remained on the seat of the car , and was now gone down the glen with it . Johnny and Liam climbed down . They found it undamaged . It had fallen out on the thick heather , early in the sidecar's wild career .

The booty was now checked and found correct . It comprised two magazine Lee-Metford carbines , two slings of .303 with fifty rounds in each , two belts with batons , two spiked helmets( for the overawing of simple people ) and two notebooks . " (MORE LATER).



DO AS I SAY ,NOT AS I DO .....


(From ' Magill ' magazine , December 1988 , page 62).


FIANNA FAIL AND EXTRADITION ----> (1 of 6.)


<---- In 1975 and 1976 , as the largest 'opposition' party in Leinster House , FIANNA FAIL 'the republican party' was most vocally opposed to the very idea that an extradition treaty should be signed between this State and Westminster .

At the time , 'The Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act (1976)' was being discussed in Leinster House , and FIANNA FAIL (as 'the republican party' , don't-ya-know) was dead set against it . Or was it .......?


The then Leader of Fianna Fail , Jack Lynch , stated -- " I totally oppose this Bill . I believe this Bill , if enacted , would be politically disastrous in the sense that it would not only not help to bring peace to Northern Ireland(sic) or promote reconciliation in the North or between the North and South ; it would do the contrary . Secondly , this Bill would violate the Constitution of the Republic(sic) . "


GOOD MAN , JACK , ya boy ya ! A sound man from the Rebel County of Cork .

Yeah , right .......

---

' LEO ' of 'The Nation' newspaper ; John Keegan Casey , 1846 - 1870 .......



.......Born in 1846 at Mount Dalton in County Westmeath , John Keegan Casey was brought into the world in bad times ; the potato , the main food source , was unedible .......


He grew up witnessing poverty all around him . When he was twelve years young he heard his people discussing a new group that had been formed to drive the English out of the country and return all lands to their owners - the Irish Rebel leader , James Stephens , was in command of that group , the ' Irish Republican Brotherhood ' .

Even as a teenager , John Keegan Casey was angered by the mis-treatment of his people by the British , but confined himself to expressing his feelings on paper and submitting same for publication to ' The Nation ' newspaper , which was associated with ' The Young Ireland ' group , an organisation formed from within Daniel O' Connell's (constitutional) movement , the ' Catholic Association ' ; the ' Young Ireland ' group , however , did not agree that only methods favoured by the British should be used to oppose the British presence in Ireland .

It was to that physical force organisation , led by Thomas Davis and James Fintan Lalor , that young John Keegan Casey was drawn ....... (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......


".......The IRA Company , led by Johnny Lynch , stopped the armed RIC patrol to take their weapons ; in the fist-fight that developed , Johnny's mask was torn off his face and his nose was marked ......."


" The mark on his nose would persist . Johnny had little doubt about the outcome of the struggle ; it would be hard to meet his equal for physique and spirit . As the RIC man reached the ground , a revolver had cracked at the other side .

Dan and Liam had jumped from the heather simultaneously with the others . They had a longer distance to travel and had to scramble a little to get up on the road . They presented their revolvers , and their opponent reached for his rifle which lay on the seat beside him . As he grasped it , a bullet scarred his neck deeply - he fell from his seat and lay bleeding on the road .

Jamie and Neilus worked quickly , too quickly , as it transpired afterwards . Cutting away the horse from the side car , they caught the shafts and , driving the car over a bank , released it . When it came to rest at the foot of the precipice , it was a sorry sight . " (MORE LATER).



NUKING THE IRISH , and the world .......

[from ' The Sunday World ' , 5th June , 1988 , pages 10, 11, and 12].


Thirty ' bullet points ' regarding Windscale/Sellafield -- re-published here , three at a time .......


(28)... In 1987 , what was later described as " a serious incident " took place ; whatever it was that happened was not reported to the Health Board until three months afterwards . It was then discovered that at least one of the workers who was present when the " serious incident " occured was unable to walk through a 'body monitor' (ie- an electronic bleeper/tester) , for six months , without setting it off !

(29)... The Windscale/Sellafield record for leaks - both accidental and deliberate - is by far the worst of any nuclear installation anywhere in the world .

[30]... Even if the Plant were to close tomorrow , the radioactive waste from its notorious pipeline will continue to pollute the coastline and contaminate fish-life for the next one-hundred-thousand years !


That's the Brits for ya - determined to leave their mark on the planet.......

In this State at the moment , the politicians are everywhere voicing their so-called " concern " over the health of the population in regards to smoking cigarettes in pubs , restaurants , hotels etc . Yet they ignore the above threat.......

---

' LEO ' of 'The Nation' newspaper ; John Keegan Casey , 1846 - 1870 ........


.......Born at a time when the main staple of the people , the potato , was of no use due to what was then described as " cholera " , John Keegan Casey was only a 'babe-in-arms' when things began to get worse .......


The potato blight , now known to be ' Phytophthora Infestans ', was carried to other potato plants by wind , rain and insects , and rendered the potato unedible .

Many tried to carry-on as normal , by simply boiling the foodstuff and hoping all would be well ( in most of the country at that time , up to nine-tenths of the population depended on the potato for survival)-- however , the foul stench from boiling the rotten vegetable was impossible to bear and resulted in the house being uninhabitable for man or beast .

It was into the above turmoil that a child was born in County Westmeath in 1846 , at Mount Dalton ; ....... (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.

THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......


"....... Johnny Lynch , carrying a shotgun and with his face blackened , jumped out in front of the RIC wagon ; he looked menacing ......."


" The RIC driver thought so anyway , for he left the box-seat with so much precipitation and maintained such an acceleration , that the onlookers thought he would leave the ground and fly . He did leave the ground , too , for meeting the wall of the glen , he dived over it and was lost to sight .

Johnny paid scant attention to the vanishing driver . He concentrated on the policeman on his side of the car . He saw him snatch , with finger and thumb , at the magazine cut-off . Then Johnny knew that the breech wanted a cartridge . Swiftly laying his gun on the ground , he reached upwards and , grasping his opponents tunic , dragged him off his seat .

The RIC man reached the ground on the flat of his back , still clutching his rifle with both hands . Johnny now transferred both hands to the rifle , and a struggle for possession started . As he had reached upwards for a hold on the tunic , the RIC man snatched at his mask . He had torn it off , and had brought a bit of skin from Johnny's nose as well .

That was a serious matter , as he might now be recognised ......."



NUKING THE IRISH , and the world .......

[from ' The Sunday World ' , 5th June , 1988 , pages 10, 11, and 12].


Thirty ' bullet points ' regarding Windscale/Sellafield -- re-published here , three at a time .......


(25)... In 1985 , fires at the Windscale/Sellafield Plant released plutonium into the main processing building . The incident was not admitted to by management until 1988 .

(26)... What the suits at the Plant refer too as " medium-level waste " is kept in the form of radioactive sludge in specially-built silos . The other form of nuclear waste -- that which is described as "high-level"-- is causing problems because , as reported in the article - " Nobody has the least idea what to do with it " in the long term !

(27)... The liquid run-off from the above-mentioned sludge , together with contaminated cooling-pond water and other such liquids , form what is described as " low-level waste " that is then pumped into the Irish Sea .

Ah , sure is'nt it only aul low-level stuff ; extra sun-block and a slightly hotter shower at the end of the day and sure ya'll be grand altogether .......

.....final three 'bullet points' tomorrow...

---

' LEO ' of 'The Nation' newspaper ; John Keegan Casey , 1846 - 1870 .


Ireland 1846 ; a Great Hunger stalked the countryside -


" The growth of the potato plant progresses as favourably as the most sanguine farmer could wish . "

-- ' The Freemans Journal ' newspaper , 20th August , 1845 .


" We regret to have to state that we have had communications from more than one well-informed correspondent announcing the fact of what is called 'cholera' in potatoes in Ireland , especially in the North . In one instance the party had been digging potatoes - the finest he had ever seen - from a particular field , and a particular ridge of that field up to Monday last ; and on digging in the same ridge on Tuesday he found the tubers all blasted , and unfit for the use of man or beast . "

-- ' The Freemans Journal ' newspaper , 11th September , 1845 .

The " cholera " was , in fact , a killer fungus , called ' phytophthora infestans ' - what chance for a child born into the above circumstances .......? (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......


".......one of the seven IRA Volunteers was up on high , watching . The other six men were concealed in the undergrowth , ready to do the job . They had not long to wait ......."


" Their plan was complete . Johnny Lynch was to step out on the road and present his shotgun . Jamie and Neilus were to seize the horse , cut him away from the car , and let him go his own way . They were then to take the sidecar and throw it over into the glen . This would help to discourage people from giving lifts to the RIC .

They saw the grey horse a long way off . He came slowly up the straight from Renanirree . He disappeared around the first bend . He would not reappear until within a few yards of them . They could hear his hoofbeats and the echo of his hoofbeats . Now they could hear voices . Presently they could make out a few words - " machine-gun " was one . It was repeated , and then Johnny's ear caught one complete sentence .

He knew the RIC voice that uttered it - he was a bad lad , and what he said confirmed that fact : " They(the people) did not run until they saw the machine-gun . " Just then Johnny stepped out on the road , his shotgun levelled . With his towering figure and masked and blackened visage , he must have appeared a most menacing apparition ....... " (MORE LATER).




NUKING THE IRISH , and the world .......

[from ' The Sunday World ' , 5th June , 1988 , pages 10, 11, and 12].


Thirty ' bullet points ' regarding Windscale/Sellafield -- re-published here , three at a time .......


(22)... In 1983 , a decision was taken by management at Windscale/Sellafield to " flush " one of their holding tanks , which was " choked " with highly-radioactive sludge ; the contents of the tank were then emptied into the Irish Sea , but all did not go as planned , and local beaches were contaminated . The nuclear filth which ended up on local beaches was strong enough to cause radiation burns but it took the suits at the Plant four days to issue a " Stay Away " warning !

(23)... Today (ie 1988) Windscale/Sellafield is still no longer just a power station - it is a major nuclear reprocessing plant that takes waste from all over the world . A staggering one-thousand tons of spent nuclear fuel arrives there every week .

(24)... There are three categories of nuclear waste from the process carried out at Windscale/Sellafield . The most dangerous of the high-level radioactive waste is kept in huge vats that must be surrounded by nine feet of concrete to stop the enclosed intense radiation from killing people working nearby !


...nine feet of concrete between you and six feet of clay - bad odds , I'd say .......

.......Six more 'bullet points' on the way ---->

---

DOROTHY MACARDLE -- Irish Republican , Historian , and Novelist : 1889 - 1958 .......



.......at sixty years of age in 1949 , Dorothy Macardle was a well-known writer and Irish Republican ; she had recorded , in print , details of her life , her involvement with the Republican Movement and the stories of some of those she met along the way .......


At sixty-nine years of age , in 1958 , Dorothy Macardle died in Drogheda in County Louth , on 23rd December .

The words that Dorothy Macardle spoke in Dublin , in May 1924 , when asked about her then-recently published book ' The Tragedies Of Kerry ' , summarise where the woman herself was coming from --

-- " Those who , sensitive to the sufferings of others yet tenacious of their own peace of mind , love to solace themselves with incredulity , will put down this book half read . To those who have any eagerness to understand that time in Ireland it is offered as an infinitesimal fragment of the truth . "

When Dorothy Macardle wrote that book , and the above words , the British were claiming jurisdiction over the six north-eastern counties of Ireland ; today , eighty years later , the British continue to claim jurisdiction over the same six north-eastern counties . The issue has not been resolved . The struggle continues .....


[END of ' DOROTHY MACARDLE -- Irish Republican , Historian , and Novelist : 1889 - 1958 .......].



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......


".......the seven IRA men were lying in wait to ambush an RIC patrol ; one of the Volunteers was up high , scouting , the other six had two revolvers and one shotgun between them . They were helped by the lay-out of the area ......."


" ' Beal a' Ghleanna ' was four hundred yards distant from Johnny Lynch's house . There were perpendicular rocks on the northern side , and on the southern side the glen fell steeply away from the road , which here and there had been built up from a depth of fifty feet below .

At one point a little plateau , unprotected by a wall and lower than the road level , jutted out over the glen . Here were stationed Dan MacSweeney , Liam Twomey and Neilus Reilly , lying concealed amongst the heather . The job of Dan and Liam was to deal with the policemen facing south , peacefully if possible.

Directly across the road from them and behind a pillar of rock , Johnny Lynch , Tadhg and Jamie waited . They had not long to wait ........" (MORE LATER).



NUKING THE IRISH , and the world .......

[from ' The Sunday World ' , 5th June , 1988 , pages 10, 11, and 12].


Thirty ' bullet points ' regarding Windscale/Sellafield -- re-published here , three at a time .......


(19)... Management at Windscale/Sellafield , and the 'spin-doctors' on their payroll , were always quick to assure the media that both local and national Health Authorities would be informed immediately should a dangerous incident occur . However , in one such admitted incident , in 1981 , a cloud of highly-dangerous iodine gas was released into the air . The Health Authorities were not notified until four days after it happened !

(20)... The site where the Plant is located - a former British Army munitions factory - was chosen because waste products could be dumped into the Irish Sea.

(21)... Shortly after the pipeline to discharge nuclear filth into the Irish Sea was built , a spokesperson for the Plant (not named in newspaper article) stated : " The intention has been to discharge fairy substantial amounts of radioactivity as part of an organised and deliberate scientific experiment . The aims of the experiment would have been defeated if the level of radioactivity discharged had been kept to a minimum . "


Don't mind human life , plant life , animal life or sea life - once the " experiment " can go ahead , eh , lads ? Typical Brit arrogance ....

....nine more 'bullet points' to go ...

---

DOROTHY MACARDLE -- Irish Republican , Historian , and Novelist : 1889 - 1958 .......


....... Dorothy Macardle joined Fianna Fail in 1926 , but continued with her work for the Republican Movement ; she was involved with the 'Women Prisoners Defence League' and the 'Irish Women Workers Union' and was not afraid to challenge the political establishment .......


She was a particularly sore thorn in the side of the then Free State 'Department of Industry and Commerce' , which was responsible for the ' Conditions of Employment Bill 1935 ' , parts of which prohibited the employment of women in industry and actually deemed it illegal for an employer to employ more women than men !

In 1937 , she wrote another historical book , - ' The Irish Republic : A Documented Chronicle of the Anglo-Irish Conflict and the Partitioning of Ireland ' (published by Gollancz , London) , which has since been described ( by author Michael Farrell ) as " the most detailed history of the period 1916-1923 .....'. In 1949 , at the age of sixty , Dorothy Macardle wrote a book on the subject of refugee children , entitled - ' Children of Europe' ' and , in a writing career which lasted for thirty-four years , wrote other well-known , and well-received , books and plays --

-- 'Uneasy Freehold' , 'The Uninvited' , 'Asphara Dark Waters' , 'Ann Kavanagh ' and a volume of short stories , 'Earthbound' . (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......


".... Johnny Lynch , the Captain of 'D Company' , and six other IRA men were preparing to ambush an RIC patrol and relieve them of their weapons ......."


" There were now more men than were necessary and Johnny suggested that three of the men should make an effort to intercept the two RIC men from Inchigeela Barracks , who would probably return by Derrinaonig . The others opposed this , as there was the possibility that the police from Inchigeela might also select the glen as their homeward route . Johnny was over-ruled . It was a pity .

At that early period it was imperative that , having decided to do a job of this kind , the utmost precautions should be taken to conceal the identities of the participants . British 'law' still functioned perfectly , nay , it was now double-edged . The RIC were stil the eyes of the enemy . Johnny Lynch therefore produced some burnt corks , and each man blackened his face . Each man also wore a mask , made from a handkerchief , with holes for his eyes . Two of the men carried small .38 revolvers and Johnny carried his shotgun , with two cartridges loaded and primed by himself . It was impossible to buy cartridges at the time ." (MORE LATER).




NUKING THE IRISH , and the world .......

[from ' The Sunday World ' , 5th June , 1988 , pages 10, 11, and 12].


Thirty ' bullet points ' regarding Windscale/Sellafield -- re-published here , three at a time .......


(16)... In 1976 , it was admitted that radioactive water had been leaking from a concrete silo , and draining into the ground , since 1972 : management at the plant were apparently aware of the leak but did'nt know what to do about it . So they done nothing ! Six weeks after the leak became public , the suits at the plant notified Westminster that it had happened ......

(17)... Around the Windscale/Sellafield area , the number of children who have suffered leukaemia is ten times the expected rate .

(18)... " Windscale " , as it was called at first , was never just a nuclear power-station ; it was set up forty years ago (ie 1948) to provide plutonium to give Britain its own atomic bomb !


.....what was that about "Weapons of Mass Destruction" , Tony ....?

Twelve more 'bullet points' in '1169's' arsenal ----> ...stay tuned.........

---

DOROTHY MACARDLE -- Irish Republican , Historian , and Novelist : 1889 - 1958 .......


.......in December 1923 , Dorothy Macardle was one of the thousands of Irish Republican Prisoners released from Free State jails ; she began writing her first book about that time , entitled - ' The Tragedies of Kerry '.......


Her book was a best-seller in its day and , in this , the 21st Century , it is still required reading for Irish Republicans of all ages . It will leave the reader with an angry tear in the eye - " a tense , restrained and true story of how men and women , boys and girls , fought for the freedom and honour of Ireland ; and of how , despite almost incredible torture and brutality , they refused to admit defeat . A tale of sorrow and glory . "

Two years after her book was published , Dorothy Macardle joined the then newly-formed Fianna Fail party (1926) ; perhaps in the hope that De Valeras 'new departure' could prevent others going through the nightmare that she had lived and wrote about , or maybe she was keeping her friends close and her enemies closer ..... ; if it was the former , she must have recognised the futiliity of believing that the self-servers in Fianna Fail would 'finish the job' re the six occupied counties - she remained active in the Republican Movement and actively supported her colleagues in the ' Women Prisoners Defence League ' in holding pickets and protests to highlight the rough conditions in which Republican prisoners were held in Free State jails .

Dorothy Macardle was to the fore in the ' Irish Women Workers Union ' and used any platform she could to challenge the establishment ....... (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .......


".......the British military and 'police' were at the festivities in and around Coolea , keeping an eye on the people ; IRA Volunteers were keeping an eye on them......."


" I was watching a young Scotsman in kilts who stood on a height playing the war pipes . His name was Ian MacKenzie Kennedy . He was staying at Tuirin Dubh , the home of Liam and Tadhg Twomey , and , years later , during the Civil War , gave his life for the Irish Republic . As I watched him , my brother Pat came to me and asked me to give a revolver to Dan MacSweeney .

He told me that Dan , Jamie Moynihan and Neilus Reilly were going to Beal a'Ghleanna with Tadhg Twomey . I volunteered to go too , but he answered that it was full-grown strong men who were wanted there , as they were to grapple with the police . I was disappointed but had to put up with it . There were six men assembled at Johnny's house in good time : three were from the Coolea and Ballyvourney side , north of the road , and three from the Ballingeary side , south of the road .

A seventh man , Jer Shea , from the village of Ballingeary , had already been sent to the highest part of the hill to watch for the coming of the police......." (MORE LATER).



NUKING THE IRISH , and the world .......

[from ' The Sunday World ' , 5th June , 1988 , pages 10, 11, and 12].


Thirty ' bullet points ' regarding Windscale/Sellafield -- re-published here , three at a time .......


(13)... In 1977 it emerged for the first time that , in the previous 26 years there had been 177 " incidents " at the plant . Details were not provided .....

(14)... (Un-named) experts stated their concerns that the small but measurable dose of radiation which leak's from Windscale/Sellafield on a regular basis will result in small but permanent changes to the British genetic pool .

(15)... Distance is no barrier . Contamination from Windscale/Sellafield has been detected as far away as Sweden , Iceland and Greenland . And people in the remote Hebrides - directly in the path of the Windscale/Sellafield waste stream - have eight times as much radioactivity than people in England .


So.... - if you go to Sweden , Iceland , Greenland or The Hebrides and catch the 'flu .......

....half-way there ----> 15 more of the above type of facts-and-figures to follow .....

---

DOROTHY MACARDLE -- Irish Republican , Historian , and Novelist : 1889 - 1958 .......


....... Ireland , April 1923 - at least thirteen-thousand Irish Republicans were held in Free State jails in bad conditions ; the only 'weapon' they could fight back with was their body .......


A mass hunger-strike began ; the Free State Administration were determined to present themselves to their British bosses and to the international community as a 'new broom' , capable of 'sweeping clean' . Irish Republican organisations , however , were equally determined to remind the Free Staters and the Brits that the British were continuing to claim jurisdiction in this country and the struggle to end that jurisdictional claim was on-going .

A hunger-strike began , and continued until late November that year(1923). In December , most of the prisoners and internees were released , including Dorothy Macardle . She put pen to paper a few weeks later and wrote down her experiences of that last year and other incidents as told to her by Republican activists and friends in the county of Kerry ; the manuscript she produced was entitled ' The Tragedies of Kerry ' ....... (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.

THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN ........


".......on their way to Mass , Johnny Lynch and his wife were passed on the road by a well-armed RIC patrol . Their weapons could be put to better use by Johnny's ' D Company IRA ' ......."


" The couple then met Tadhg Twomey , who was bound for Coolea . Johnny instructed him to get one or two Volunteers , on his way , or at the aeriocht , and to be at his own house at the glen , in good time to intercept the police on their return .

Johnny met Liam Twomey , Tadhg's brother , in the village . Liam readily volunteered to take part . In the meantime , a large crowd of people were assembling at Coolea , about five miles north-east of the glen . Strong forces of British military and police were converging on Coolea also . The IRA Volunteers were watching their movements , and instructing the people accordingly .

Finally , the British military and police took up positions in and around Coolea , while the people all moved further west into the mountains of Cumuiclumhain . There an enjoyable aeriocht was held , while IRA Volunteer scouts watched the enemy......." (MORE LATER).




NUKING THE IRISH , and the world .......

[from ' The Sunday World ' , 5th June , 1988 , pages 10, 11, and 12].


Thirty ' bullet points ' regarding Windscale/Sellafield -- re-published here , three at a time .......



10... We may never know the full extent of what exactly took place in what became known as The Windscale Fire in 1957 , but the scientific world had described the incident as the worst nuclear accident in the world , up until Chernobyl . The amount of radiation released in 1957 was up to one-thousand-times greater than the Three Mile Island accident in the USA. The 1957 fire burned for twenty-four hours , and sent a huge cloud of radioactivity drifting out over the Irish Sea . Possible links to Downs Syndrome births in Dundalk in County Louth were raised , just as the British Government placed a thirty-year 'gagging order' on the incident (ie from 1957 - 1987) to prevent criticism of Britain's nuclear industry .

11... Pollution from Windscale/Sellafield has been found in all forms of marine life locally , and identified in fish caught in The Irish Sea and landed at ports along the east coast of Ireland .

12... A small but measurable dose of radiation from Windscale/Sellafield is received by everyone in Britain -- and the people of Ireland receive a slightly higher dose again .


....so what if that fish you bought in the market has two heads ; sure are'nt ya just gettin' better value for your money .......

.......eighteen more 'bullet-points' from 1988 on the way ...

---

DOROTHY MACARDLE -- Irish Republican , Historian , and Novelist : 1889 - 1958 .......


.......between November 1922 and March 1923 , Dorothy Macardle and about 13,000 other Irish Republicans were locked-up by the Free Staters ; also , in March 1923 , she was sacked from her teaching job .......


Dorothy Macardle was one of thousands of Irish Republicans that lost their jobs and , in a good number of cases , their families , houses and friends due , in the most part , to pressure applied to the employers , local councils etc by the politically-motivated Special Branch , themselves following orders (with relish , it must be said) from their political paymasters in Leinster House .

In April 1923 , the thousands of Irish Republican prisoners and internees decided to fight back with the only 'weapon' they had - their bodies . A mass hunger-strike began in the jails and prison-camps in the Free State , and the three-hundred-and-forty Republican women in Kilmainham Jail and the North Dublin Union Jail joined in the protest -- it was the last thing that the new British-supported Free State Administration needed ....... (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN ........


"....... Ireland , 1918 : on their way to Mass in Ballingeary , Johnny Lynch ( Captain of 'D Company', IRA ) and his wife met with an armed RIC patrol ....... "


" In each tunic pocket was a notebook . This would be used whenever the disaffected , to H. M. King George V , used only his tongue . As the horse slowly climbed the slope to historic Acharus , the police may have ruminated thus --

-- " Ah well , O'Sullivan Beara passed on through the glen , well over three hundred years ago . Good job , too . Trouble-some fellow , he was , by all our records . Not much doing since he left . Of course , there was that Ceimaneigh business , and a fair share of moonlighting , anything to keep the ball rolling . And that 1916 outbreak lately . The Government made a good job of that . Of course , those Volunteers are drilling again . But they have no arms. Who are those down the road ? Lynch and his wife . That fellow is no great 'iontaoibh' ,as those Irish speakers say . They are going to second Mass now . "

" The Peelers (RIC) are going to Ballyvourney , " said Johnny Lynch to his wife . " The aeriocht at Coolea has been proclaimed , and this is the contribution from the barracks below . " Johnny's keen eye had noted the Lee-Metford carbines , but his further thoughts were forestalled by his wife's remark - " I'd like to see those fellows come back empty-handed . "

Johnny made no comment , as he was working out those same details in his head ....... " (MORE LATER).



NUKING THE IRISH , and the world .......

[from ' The Sunday World ' , 5th June , 1988 , pages 10, 11, and 12].


Thirty ' bullet points ' regarding Windscale/Sellafield -- re-published here , three at a time .......


(7)-- The (as far as we know) first major crisis happened in 1955 when vital scanning systems inside the reactor broke down , necessitating the management looking for volunteers from amongst the workforce to go inside the highly-radioactive interior to repair the damage . This activity was kept secret for one year .

(8)-- At some points along the local estuaries , the mud is so radioactive that if you dug up a bucketful and put it in your dustbin , you could technically be prosecuted for illegally disposing of low-level nuclear waste !

(9)-- After an incident in 1983 when a radioactive slick was deliberately flushed into the sea from Sellafield , the resulting debris on the beach was so highly dangerous that it could actually cause radiation burns to the skin !


.....twenty-one more of the above on the way ----> but don't sit so near that bloody screen .....

---

DOROTHY MACARDLE -- Irish Republican , Historian , and Novelist : 1889 - 1958 .......


.......active in 1916 , a member of ' Inghinidhe na hEireann ' and ' The White Cross ' , and working with ' The Gaelic League ' and Sinn Fein , Dorothy Macardle was adamant in her rejection of the 1921 Treaty of Surrender .......


She continued her work with the Republican Movement during the Civil War . As with so many others of that time , Dorothy Macardle was now being 'tracked' by former comrades , now working for the British-imposed Free State ; at a meeting of the ' Women Prisoners Defence League ' (WPDL) [a pro-Republican organisation which raised funds and campaigned for families of Republican prisoners] in November 1922 , in Maud Gonne's house , Dorothy Macardle was arrested by Free State forces and imprisoned in Kilmainham Jail in Dublin .

Within the next few months (ie between November 1922 and March 1923) thousands of Irish Republicans (approximately thirteen-thousand in total) were 'rounded-up' by the Free Staters and imprisoned in various prisons and prison-camps in the State . Also , in March 1923 , Dorothy Macardle was sacked from her teaching job at Alexandra College for " not attending to her duties ......." (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


THE MOUTH OF THE GLEN .


" Sunday , the eight day of July , 1918 , was a fine day and a historic one for Ireland . For the first deliberate and armed attack on enemy forces , since 1916 , was carried out on that date . It was a small but completely successful operation , and this is how it happened --


-- Johnny Lynch was Captain of ' D Company ' IRA , in the district of Ballingeary . He left his house at Beal a' Ghleanna to travel the winding downhill road to Ballingeary , about three miles distant . With him was his wife . Behind them at home was their four-months-old son , Dinny . Their objective was second Mass at half-past eleven .

For the first two miles of their journey they went over the road trodden by O'Sullivan Beara and his people , three-hundred and fifteen years before . They passed by his first camp at Acharus , and by Poul na Circe , where he lost his horse , An Chearc . Johnny and his wife would have been glad to meet Donal and his mighty warriors . But , alas , what were they fated to meet instead ?

A grey horse and sidecar , the driver on the box-seat , and two armed RIC men , one on each side . Each had a carbine between his knees , a spiked helmet on his head , a sling of ammunition across his shoulder and a baton hanging from his waist-belt ......." (MORE LATER).



NUKING THE IRISH , and the world .......

[from ' The Sunday World ' , 5th June , 1988 , pages 10, 11, and 12].


Thirty ' bullet points ' regarding Windscale/Sellafield -- re-published here , three at a time .......


(4)--- The discovery - by accident - and subsequent repair of basic flaws to the structure of the reactors during the construction stage . A near-explosion was caused by " unforseen chemical reaction " during the plant's trial run .

(5)--- Every single day , a million gallons of waste flow down the two-mile pipe , spewing out more than thirty different radioactive substances (one can only imagine how many new "radioactive substances" have been put to use by BNFL since 1988 , when the article was penned).

(6)--- As a result of the above-mentioned flow of waste , the coastline around Sellafield is more contaminated than any other spot except the remains of Chernobyl , and the actual sites of nuke explosions .


....twenty-four more bullet-points on the way ---------> : in the meantime , watch that micro-wave .........


(NOTE - The right-hand side of this site should be back as it was prior to 2nd January last ; the HTML code in the 'Templet' section had been tampered with and changed slightly (not by anyone connected to ' 1169.... ') to forbid access unless that section of the HTML code was re-adjusted . Thanks to Sharon for finding and repairing the damage . ' BLOGGER ' has been notified and the access codes have been changed .)

---

DOROTHY MACARDLE -- Irish Republican , Historian , and Novelist : 1889 - 1958 .......


....... Ireland 1910- groups and organisations had been established in the country to express and campaign for certain political objectives ; the people were polarised . Dorothy Macardle admired other women who had plainly stated their pro- Republican viewpoint .......


Maude Gonne MacBride , Helena Moloney , Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington , Madam Despard(the latter was , in future years , to donate a house in Eccles Street , Dublin , to be used as a 'Workers' College' , only for it to be burned to the ground by an anti-Irish mob).

In 1910 , Dorothy Macardle joined ' Inghinidhe na hEireann ' , a women's Republican support group , and worked with the Gaelic League and Sinn Fein as well . She was active in the 1916 Rising and continued her involvement with (militant) Republicanism in the years following same . Dorothy Macardle was one of the many Irish Republican women who traversed the island as a representative of the ' White Cross ' organisation (established 1921) providing whatever assistance it could to the thousands of people who had been made homeless and jobless by , amongst others , the Black and Tans (and other tools of the ' British Empire ') as those forces carried out their instructions from Westminster to terrorise the population away from supporting the Irish Rebels .

In December 1921 , Dorothy Macardle remained true to her Republican principles and , with the majority of Irish Republican women , rejected the ' Treaty of Surrender ' ....... (MORE LATER).



WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :

war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.

By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.


1917-- A NOCTURNAL EXPEDITION .......


".......the 'ghost' in the graveyard turned out to be a friend of ours , dressed-up in an old military tunic and cap to play a joke on us ......."


" The interruption proved to be the end of the adventure . Our lecturer made a fresh appeal and this time succeeded . We repaired the small damage done to the greensward and retired . It was now very late and we went to bed .

The following day , my brother , my uncle , the Brigade Officer and I met again . " Dan," said our visitor , " was it to show me that ye were not afraid of ghosts that you insisted on carrying on with last night's job ? " " No , " answered Dan , " but I was thinking of our lack of money . With it we could manage to buy a few guns now and again . " " How would last night's job enrich us ? " , asked our guest .

" Well , I'll tell you , " said Dan . " Those old fellows in that tomb were very rich , and liked to carry the world's goods as far as they possibly could with them . The devil a fear but they have at least a lot of jewellery in there ..... " Here , Dan winked at Pat and myself . " Dan , " I said , " would you take the rings off a dead man's finger ! "

" I'd pull them off his old nose , bedammed , " he replied .


[END OF 1917-- A NOCTURNAL EXPEDITION .......].



NUKING THE IRISH , and the world ....... (PART THREE).

[from ' The Sunday World ' , 5th June , 1988 , pages 10, 11, and 12].


.......but plutonium is not the only radioactive filth which the Brits dump in the Irish Sea .......


The Windscale/Sellafield pipeline also discharges a substance called ' CAESIUM 137 ' , which is an artificial radionuclide with a half-life of approximately thirty years : it is classed as a " nuclear fall-out " similar to that released into the stratosphere by the testing of " above-ground " thermonuclear weapons !

The newspaper article ended by stating that one million gallons of the above-mentioned waste pours out of the pipe every day - again , that was 16 years ago . Have the Brits cleaned-up their act , and were they really in all those other countries simply to stop the natives from wiping each other out ? Yeah , thought so ....

Finally , the article also listed thirty 'bullet-points' of interest re Windscale/Sellafield -- Here's three of them ---->


<---- * Construction of the plant itself was kept so secret that newspaper editors faced jail for even mentioning its existence or purpose . The first 'photo's of the buildings were issued only after seven years !

* More radioactive waste has been pumped out through the Windscale/Sellafield pipeline than from any other nuclear plant on earth , making the Irish Sea the most radioactive in the world .

* Over the past thirty years (ie 1958-1988) , the discharges from the plant have often been greater than the output from all the world's nuclear plants put together .

...twenty-seven more of these beauties to come ------- -----> (MORE LATER).

---