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                    June 2009
 
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		IN THIS ISSUE

=== News Snaps from Ireland 
=== New free resources at the site
=== Great Irish Families: The O'Neills
=== A Biography of Wolfe Tone
=== Earn This by Brian Kelly
=== The Corn Crake by Pat Watson
=== The Irish Coins Proof Set
=== Gaelic Phrases of the Month
=== Monthly free competition result

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FOREWORD
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Hi again from Ireland where a mini-heatwave has 
actually given us something resembling a Summer!
The talk here is still of the economic problems
and rising unemployment - is there an end in 
sight?

Until next month

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IRISH ECONOMY AT THE CROSSROADS

The severe downturn in the Irish economy which 
was in part fuelled by a property bubble and 
which has been compounded by world events is at 
a critical juncture. The Irish government has 
acted decisively and increased taxes significantly 
while reducing spending. It has also 
recapitalised the banks and plans to set up a 
'bad bank' to absorb the dodgy loans that the 
banks have lent out over the last decade. Their 
policies have not met with universal approval 
although Brian Cowen's government will take heart 
from a recent IMF report that, although critical 
of government policies that led to the problems, 
is broadly approving of current remedial actions.

Whether these policies work or not will define 
the economic outlook for this country for the 
next 5 years and possibly longer.

Recent property bubble collapses in Japan and 
Sweden are often cited by economists here as 
examples of the devastation that can befall an 
economy if a property market collapse is not 
handled correctly. Other commentators suggest that 
it is ridiculous to compare an economy of the size
of Japans to that of Ireland. Opposition political 
parties have been quick to, on the one hand blame 
the government for all of the problems while on 
the other hand criticizing everything that the 
Fianna Fail and Green Party coalition have done to 
remedy the problem. Both Fine Gale and Labour 
expect to take over the reins of office in 2012 
especially after the thumping that the government 
parties received at the recent local and European 
elections. While the opinion polls are in their 
favour there is more at stake here than which 
simply political party is in power.

Should the world economy recover within the next 
two years (as seems likely) but Ireland gets left 
behind, then the prospect of long unemployment 
queues and emigration could blight the economic 
landscape for the next decade. If the harsh tax 
increases and public service cutbacks are matched 
by the promotion of Irish development in the 
technology sector however, then Ireland could be 
well placed to recover in tandem with the broader 
world economies.

It is a high stakes game not just for the fortunes 
of Fianna Fail and the various political parties 
who would replace them, but also for a generation 
of school-leavers and graduates who are looking 
for jobs, as well as those at the other end of the 
employment cycle who are about to retire.

GOVERNMENT PARTIES GET AN ELECTION WHIPPING

The results of the local and European elections 
are in and it does not make good reading for the 
ruling Fianna Fail and Green Party coalition. 
Both of the government parties were severely 
punished for their handling of the economy with 
Fine Gael and Labour showing the biggest gains.

A very quick look at the share of the local 
election votes shows that, if the trend were 
repeated in a general election then a Fine Gael 
and Labour coalition would easily sweep into 
power:

Fine Gael 32.2%
Fianna Fail 25.4% - government party
Labour 14.7%
Sinn Fein 7.4%
Green Party 2.3% - government party
Others 18%

Therein lies the problem for Fine Gael and Labour. 
The general election will not be held until 2012 
which is plenty of time for the economy to improve 
and sentiment to swing back somewhat to Fianna 
Fail. The Greens look doomed with the Irish 
electorate having a history of punishing smaller 
coalition parties. Despite the best efforts of Fine 
Gael to force a general election immediately 
Fianna Fail know that to allow that to happen 
would be political suicide.

NEW LISBON TREATY TO BE HELD IN THE AUTUMN

Recent opinion polls have shown that a re-run of 
the Lisbon treaty would be passed in Ireland, 
especially given the current economic malaise. 
The 3 anti-Lisbon candidates in the recent 
European elections all either lost their seats or 
failed to get elected so the government has acted 
and announced that there will be a second 
referendum in October. 

Should the treaty be again rejected by the Irish 
then both Poland and the Czech Republic will also
refuse to ratify and the treaty will be doomed, 
causing an unprecedented crisis within the Union.

Defeat would also almost certainly mean the end 
of Brian Cowen's leadership of the country so it 
is expected that the government will do all that 
it can to promote a 'yes' vote.

PRESIDENTIAL APOLOGY TO VICTIMS OF ABUSE

Irish President Mary McAleese has met with victims 
of clerical child abuse at Aras an Uachtarain. 
Over 280 people attended the Presidents residence 
at her invitation where they received a formal 
apology for the part that the state played in the 
decades-long abuse suffered by so many unfortunate 
children.

The President told her visitors:
'I know one day in the Phoenix Park cannot hope 
to restore to your lives all the things that were 
taken from you. The people of Ireland are 
desperately sorry for many ways in which you were 
not cherished, in the abuse itself, in the 
silence, in the failure to act, in the failure to 
listen, hear and believe in time.' 

CONSUMER SENTIMENT PICKS UP

A surprising jump to a 14-month high in economic 
confidence has been recorded by the consumer 
sentiment index that is compiled by KBC Ireland 
and the ESRI. The June reading was 53.4 up from 
45.5 in May. The improvement in sentiment can 
perhaps be ascribed to an overall feeling that 
the worst is over, both in Ireland and in the 
world economies. Although the banks are still a 
problem for the Irish economy it is clear that 
the Irish consumer is feeling more confident than 
in recent months. Or maybe it is just the good 
weather we have had recently.


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GREAT IRISH FAMILIES: THE O'NEILLS
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The history of the O'Neills could fill volumes 
such has been their influence on Irish history 
and culture. The O'Neills are most associated with 
Ulster Province (the red hand of Ulster is taken 
from their coat of arms) but there were other 
septs located outside of Ulster who also 
anglicized their name as O'Neill.

The O'Neills of Thomond were centered on the area 
around Bunratty and although O'Neill is not 
often found there today traces of the sept are 
hidden under the names Nihill and Creagh.

The O'Neills of Carlow were located at 
Rathvilly with descendants of another sept found 
in Counties Tipperary and Waterford.

The Ulster septs of O'Neill, of course, are those 
most associated with the name. Their ancestor was 
Niall, King of Ireland, who died while battling 
the Vikings in the year 919 AD. They were the chief 
family of the Cinel Eoghan, their territory being 
modern day Tyrone, Derry and Donegal. These septs 
were originally of a tribe called 'the Ui Neill' 
who were the descendants of the famous 'Niall of the 
Nine Hostages' and who were undisputed Kings of 
Ireland for centuries. They formed two main 
branches, the Ui Neill of Ulster and the Southern 
Ui Neill, located in County Meath.

The O'Neills were so powerful that they were 
targeted by the English for extermination with 
special zeal in the sixteenth century. Despite the
best efforts of the crown under their agent Essex, 
the O'Neills continued to thrive in Ulster right 
up until the 'Flight of the Earls' in 1607, and 
the departure from Ireland forever of Hugh O'Neill 
(1540-1616), the second Earl of Tyrone. His 
departure signalled a new era in Irish life and 
history as the Gaelic way of life was finally 
subverted by the superior war machine of the 
English.

There have been many famous bearers of the name 
including Shane O'Neill (1530-1567), Sir Niall 
O'Neill (1658-1690) who distinguished himself at 
the battle of the Boyne. Arthur O'Neil (1737-1816) 
was a blind harpist of great renown. John O'Neill 
(1834-1878) was a Fenian leader. Eugene O'Neill 
(1888-1953), the dramatist, was the son of an 
American actor, himself an Irish immigrant. 
Congress Thomas 'Tipp' O'Neill (1912-1994) was a 
US Speaker of the House of Representatives and 
an advocate of the Irish cause.

In modern times the name O'Neill is still found 
throughout the world in considerable numbers, 
such was the influence of the mighty families 
of O'Neill.


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A BIOGRAPHY OF WOLFE TONE
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The famous and important Irish historical figure 
Wolfe Tone was born Theobald Wolfe Tone on 20th 
June 1763. His place in Irish history can 
scarcely be overstated as he is regarded as the 
father of modern Irish republicanism.

He was born in Dublin to a Protestant family and
attended Trinity College, qualifying as a 
barrister at the age of 26, practicing in 
London. He soon turned his attention to Irish 
politics and wrote an essay attacking the ruling 
administration which became popular among the 
liberal 'Whigs' of the time. At the time the 
French Revolution had had a profound effect on not 
just French but on world politics. Ireland was no 
exception with the ideals of that revolution 
fuelling a desire for separation from English 
rule. 

Whig stalwarts such as Henry Grattan however, 
wanted Catholic emancipation without breaking the 
tie to England. Tone was adamant that the Irish 
people should be governed by an Irish parliament 
and, although he was an Anglican he proposed 
co-operation among the various religions as a 
means to make progress on the issue of separation 
from England. In 1791 Wolfe Tone founded the 
Society of the United Irishmen, together with 
Napper Tandy and Thomas Russell. The moderate 
aims of this society (parliamentary reform) soon 
became overtaken with the desire for full 
independence from England and especially once 
Tones view of the necessity for armed insurrection 
took prominence. It was at this point that the 
difference between Henry Grattan and his pursuit of 
parliamentary reform without democratic consequence 
and Wolfe Tone's view of revolutionary democracy 
came into stark relief.

The English authorities were quick to realise the 
threat and sought to promote religious intolerance 
and sectarianism, thus dividing the Catholics and 
Presbyterians who otherwise were of the same Irish 
stock. The newly formed Orange Order was also a 
useful tool used by the English in stoking 
religious discord. By 1794 and after much 
political manoeuvring it became clear to Wolfe 
Tone that no political party would fully get 
behind their movement and they began to lobby for
French military support in the form of an 
invasion.

Communications between the United Irishmen and the 
French were betrayed when the go-between, an 
English clergyman named William Jackson, was 
arrested and charged with treason. Given that 
England and France had been a war since 1793 any 
collaboration between the United Irishmen and the 
French would certainly have greatly alarmed the 
parliament in London. The organisation was 
effectively broken up by the English with several 
of the leaders fleeing the country. Wolfe Tone was 
able to use his connections to negotiate passage 
from the country and he duly emigrated to America, 
arriving in May, 1795. He had first stopped in 
Belfast however, and made what became known as the 
'Cavehill compact' with Russell and McCracken, 
swearing:

'Never to desist in our efforts until we subvert 
the authority of England over our country and 
asserted our independence'.

He lived in Pennsylvania until 1796 but disliked 
the new American revolution, declaring that the 
birth class system of England had been replaced 
by one decided by wealth in the US. He travelled 
to Paris with Tandy to try to persuade the French
to invade Ireland. He provided the necessary 
intelligence to the French who were impressed with 
his proposal. The result was an armada led by 
Louis Lazare Hoche consisting of 43 vessels under 
sail and 14,000 men. Much to Tone's disgust the 
French could not land off Bantry Bay due to severe 
weather and eventually returned to France. A further 
attempt at invasion by a Dutch expedition in 1797 
also fell foul of the weather with Tone returning 
to Paris only to find that his greatest French 
ally, Hoche, had died of consumption.

Records of the time showed that membership of the 
United Irishmen numbered 280,000 volunteers, or 
about 5% of the entire population. Had the French 
force under Hoche been able to land at Bantry, and 
been joined by a popular native uprising, then the 
country would surely have been liberated from 
English rule.

By the winter of 1797/98, with hopes of a renewed 
French attempt fading, the United Irishmen were 
forced to adopt a go-it-alone military strategy 
focused on Dublin. Their organisation was 
strengthened in and around the capital and it 
also expanded in south Leinster. The planned 
insurrection was to have been a three-phased 
affair: the seizure of strategic positions within 
Dublin city co-ordinated with the establishment 
of a crescent of positions outside in north County 
Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Wicklow. The 
engagement of government forces in the counties 
beyond was designed to prevent reinforcement. 

Disaster struck on 12th March 1798 with the arrest 
of most of the Leinster leadership. Further 
arrests on the very eve of the rising in May 
effectively decapitated the movement. The seizure 
of Dublin from within was aborted as the rebels 
waited for orders that never came.

United Irishmen positions outside the city 
succumbed one by one with only Wexford showing 
any success. A fortnight later (7-9 June), despite 
the mauling at the hands of Lake's forces the year 
before, the United Irishmen of Antrim and Down 
managed to rise up but they too were quickly 
defeated.

The Wexford insurgents met with a string of early 
successes but were ultimately prevented from 
spreading the insurrection beyond their own county 
by defeats at New Ross (5 June) and Arklow 
(9 June). Massive government forces began to move 
in for the decisive military showdown at Vinegar 
Hill, outside Enniscorthy (21 June). Although the 
insurgents suffered defeat, the bulk of their 
forces escaped encirclement and carried on the 
struggle for another month, one group in the 
Wicklow mountains and the other in a 'long march' 
into the midlands before being worn down and 
forced to surrender.

A month later (22 August) over a thousand French 
troops under General Humbert landed at Killala, 
County Mayo, but it was too little too late. 
Despite some initial successes, including a 
spectacular victory at Castlebar, Humbert and the 
United Irishmen who flocked to his standard were 
defeated at Ballinamuck, County Longford on 8th 
October. 

The 1798 Uprising was a military catastrophe. The 
French and Irish forces were severely out-gunned 
in the field and in one battle 2,000 
revolutionaries faced 30,000 English regulars. 
The captured French were shipped home, but the 
Irish were all executed after their surrender. It 
is estimated that 30,000 Irishmen were killed in 
fighting that terrible summer, many of the victims 
were peasants who faced cannon with pitchforks, 
and a great number of these were women. 

Tone himself had sailed in a French raid at 
Donegal in October 1798 but here too his hopes 
were dashed. He was captured and taken to Dublin 
and court-marshalled. He requested that he be 
afforded the death of a soldier, to be shot, 
rather than hanged. His request denied he died in 
Provost's Prison in Dublin of a neck wound in 
November 1798 at the age of 35 years. History 
records his death as being a suicide but there 
remains some doubt.

The defeat of the United Irishmen signalled the
end of Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland as the 
Act of Union of 1800 abolished the powerless
parliament in College Green and moved all 
authority back to the parliament in London.

Some United Irishmen welcomed this development 
as the first step on the road to parliamentary 
reform as did many of the Catholic peasantry 
who envisaged their election in the English 
parliament. Daniel O'Connell secured Catholic 
Emancipation in 1829 by which time the context 
of separation from England had changed from being 
a wholly national issue to being a Catholic issue.
The great famine of 1845 to 1849 destroyed the 
countryside and for those who survived and did 
not emigrate left a lasting legacy of hatred of 
English rule.

Wolfe Tone is remembered by republican groups 
as the father of their cause. When examining the 
timeline to Irish freedom it is certainly easy 
to view him as the political ancestor of 
O'Connell, the Young Irelanders, Parnell and 
Davitt, Pearse and Connolly, Collins and DeValera, 
on the ultimate path to independence.

He is commemorated annually at his graveside at 
Bodenstown, County Kildare.

'To subvert the tyranny of our 
execrable government, to break 
the connection with England, 
the never failing source of 
all our political evils, and to 
assert the independence of my 
country - these were my objects. 
To unite the whole people of Ireland, 
to abolish the memory of all past 
dissentions, and to substitute the 
common name of Irishman, in the place 
of the denominations of Protestant, 
Catholic, and Dissenter 
- these were my means.'

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EARN THIS by Brian Kelly
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Earn this...
Tom Hanks' character, dying, whispered that 
simple phrase into the ear of 'Private Ryan', 
after so many of his platoon had given their 
lives in the quest to 'save' Private Ryan. 
Throughout Ryan's life, he remembered that 
moment, that whispered phrase, and the absolute 
need for him to 'earn' the privilege made 
available to him through the struggles and 
sacrifices of many others. 

Somewhere, you've got Ireland in your blood. The 
great people of your ancestry may not have lived 
the 'lace curtain' lifestyle. They likely suffered 
great hardships somewhere along the line, had a 
tremendous work ethic, valued and protected their 
family, loved their homeland endlessly without 
reservation. The country they loved so well was 
a land divided. Regardless of their political 
views, the internal civil struggle had horrible 
impacts upon their lives and those of their 
descendants. 

At some point, someone in that family line may 
have made the decision to emigrate from Ireland. 
Moving to a different house in a different town 
can be traumatic. Can you imagine the personal 
and family angst involved in moving to an entirely 
different country? The strength of character, the 
sorrows of divided families and friends, the 
inescapable hurdles of living in a new land 
(the prejudices, the poverty, the search for 
employment, and more), the continued love and 
faith in their actions and hopes and dreams. 

Regardless of the details of your personal 
background, there was the Irish deep in that 
heritage. A proud, weathered, war-torn, faithful, 
warm and family-loving peoples comprise the 
underpinnings of who you are. 

Whatever the specifics of your specific family 
heritage, it would be safe to say that those that 
had gone before you had done what they'd done and 
lived where they lived and fought their 
struggles... so that they would be the foundation 
from which the next generation would reach to 
greater heights. Each successive generation had 
that same thought, as you do for your own children. 
Here you are now. Look around you. Look at your 
family and loved ones. Take close account of your 
lifestyle, your benefits, and your comforts. In 
clarity, take conscious note of the differences 
in your lives as compared to those of your 
ancestry. 

In all our lives, let's enjoy and celebrate our 
friends and family. Let's say and do things 
befitting of the struggles, hardships, sacrifices 
and aspirations of all the years and of all the 
fine men and women of our ancestry. Let's live 
all our days and nights that would make all that 
have gone before us... proud and righteous, with 
no regret for their sacrifices and no 
embarrassment of explanations needed on our part. 
Be the sibling, be the father, be the person, be 
the Irishman... for whom people lived and died so 
that you'd have the opportunities you have today. 
Let's have days and nights befitting of our 
lineage. Let's earn this. 

Brian Kelly

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THE CORN CRAKE by Pat Watson
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When we were young in the nineteen fifties we used 
to discuss what the birds said. We could never 
agree about the black bird, the thrush or indeed 
any other songbird but we all knew what the 
corncrake said. He went 
'grake grake, grake grake, grake grake' 
and everybody knew that meant, stand back, stand 
back, stand back. At that time there was a 
corncrake in every field in Ireland.

At this time there was a certain young girl who 
had just turned sixteen and she had her mother 
annoyed to let her go to a dance in the town but 
there was no way her mother would agree as she 
did not have a chaperone and towns fellows were 
not to be trusted. 

Then luck struck. The local GAA club hired a big 
tent in which to run a carnival for two weeks 
and it was close by the girl's house. Now she 
could go dancing.

She cycled to town and bought a lovely piece of 
material and a pattern. The material was spread 
out on the kitchen table, the pattern carefully 
spread on top. There was great excitement. The 
mother was more jittery than the daughter. They 
had just got in the electricity. They had a 
brand new singer sewing machine. 
'We will put in shoulder pads and you can wear 
your new bra. I will lend you my black patent 
belt to match the shoes, sure it would go twice 
round your little waist.' 

These were modern times. For the moment meals 
were suspended. The men could grumble and wait. 
Oh it was wonderful, Harry Belafonte was singing 
on the wireless, 
'I see woman on bended knee, cutting cane for 
her family,'
 'Well God be with the days.' 
'I see man by the waterside, casting nets at the 
surging tide.'
 'He might as well be, as looking for a bit to eat 
round here.'

In spite of those unhelpful remarks and a few 
minor glitches the needlework classes paid off, 
the project was successful and the dress was 
completed. Now for the hair! All hell broke loose.

After tea, her mother rolled her hair on her 
finger and held each curl in place with a pipe 
cleaner. It took ages and was sometimes painful 
but there were no complaints. You have to suffer 
to be beautiful. 

Next day, when the pipe cleaners were removed the 
hair brushed out perfectly. On the night when she 
put on the multi-coloured dress over the new bra, 
with the shoulder pads and the patent belt, she 
was beautiful. Even the hungry grumblers agreed.
 
 'Mammy' she said,
'What is it a Gra?' (Love) 
'If a boy wants to walk me home after the dance, 
will it be alright?' 
'I suppose as the place is well lit up and if he 
is a nice respectable country boy, it will.' 
'Mammy.' 
'What is it now child?'
'If the boy wants to kiss me will I let him?'
 The mother thought for a moment, her mind was 
racing, racing back to her own youth, her dreams, 
her dilemmas, her desires, 
'You can if you both agree to obey the corncrake 
and when he calls stand back you're to stand 
back.'

As it happened, the boy who walked her home on the 
night was a friend of mine and next morning I 
waylaid him. 
'Well how did you get on?' 
'How did I get on?' says he, with some agitation. 
'I'll tell you how I got on! You know as well as 
I know that the sweet girl lives only a hundred 
yards from the marquee, and I walked her home all 
of five miles but we never did get away from the 
blooming corncrake.'


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is one of sixty lyrical yarns from 
'Original Irish Stories' by Pat Watson, 
Creagh, Bealnamulla, Athlone, Ireland. 
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PHRASE:		Maire/Seosaimh bhocht 
PRONOUNCED:	moir-eh/show-suff buckt?
MEANING:		Poor Maire/Mary/Joseph

PHRASE:		Ta si/se ag caoineadh
PRONOUNCED:	taw shee/shay egg cween-idd
MEANING:		She/he is crying

PHRASE:		Thit si/se ar an urlar 
PRONOUNCED:	hit shee/shay air onn urr-lore
MEANING:		She/he fell on the floor

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