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November 2006
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=== Paddy O'Sullivan, Tactician by Michael Mulcahy
=== My Native Land by Tom Shea
=== Irish Slaves in the Americas by Tom Osborne
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NEWS SNAPS FROM IRELAND
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FIANNA FAIL WILL NOT FORM GOVERNMENT WITH SINN FEIN
Taoiseach Bertie Ahearn has ruled out any
coalition with Sinn Fein when the General Election
is held next year.
The current Government consists of a coalition of
Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats, which
together with occasional support from Independent
T.D.s (members of Parliament) has meant that the
Government has been relatively stable in recent
years.
While it is likely that the P.D.s and Fianna Fail
will again seek office as the preferred combination
of parties, it is also likely that Fianna Fail will
have a few other partners in mind. Sinn Fein will
not be one of them however but not on nationalistic
grounds.
While Sinn Fein are well known for their obvious
'United Ireland' credentials their economic
policies are regarded as very left-wing and
anti-Europe. Bertie Ahearn has already stated that
his approach to low-taxation and its effect on the
market economy would be near opposite to that
promoted by Sinn Fein and for that reason there is
no way Fianna Fail will form a government with
Gerry Adam's party.
RYANAIR TAKEOVER OF AER LINGUS DEALT A BLOW
The attempt by Ryanair to take over Aer Lingus
was dealt a huge blow with the announcement of
the result of the staff ballot. A massive 93%
of staff rejected Michael O'Leary's audacious
bid to merge Ireland's two biggest airlines.
Together with likely opposition from the
Competition Authority in the EU it is now very
hard to see how Ryanair can proceed with their
takeover bid, unless they greatly up their
offer to staff.
HOUSE PRICES START TO EASE - FINALLY!
There has been no noticeable fall-back in the
price of houses in Ireland in recent months
but the rate of growth has slowed significantly.
The annual rate of growth in October was 14.2%,
down from 15% the previous month. This is still
a pretty spectacular rate of growth by
international standards and continues to cause
concern to Government and economists alike.
When the inevitable recession hits it is the
construction sector that will be hit hardest,
given the over-reliance on this sector in
respect of employment and tax collection.
POLLUTING CARS MAY BE TAXED EXTRA
The current system of motor taxation in Ireland
is under scrutiny and may be changed from the
current assessment of an engines cubic capacity
to its overall pollution rating.
The huge increase in the use of SUVs and other
high-emission vehicles has led to calls for
extra measures to be taken. Ireland is already
struggling to meet its obligations under the
Kyoto Protocol.
VICTORY AT LAST FOR IRISH SOCCER TEAM
The Irish soccer team that is managed by Steve
Staunton finally got off the mark in their
European Championships qualifying matches with
an easy 5-0 win against San Marino. The tiny
Principality are expected to be the whipping
boys of the group and last 13-0 to Germany in
an earlier round of matches. There is some hope
for Ireland however with Germany unexpectantly
drawing 1-1 in Cyprus, the scene of Ireland's
recent humiliation.
Next up for the 'boys in green' is the return
match in San Marino followed up by the historic
game against Wales in Croke Park. Qualification
at this stage looks unlikely but from Steve
Staunton's viewpoint, he will be glad just to
have weathered the storm.
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PADDY O'SULLIVAN TACTICIAN by Michael Mulcahy
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I grew up in Listowel in the 40s whilst World Two
raged in Europe. Ireland stayed neutral and that
period was called The Emergency. It affected
everything from travel to certain foods being
rationed.
My father was the Garda Superintendent. He was a
quiet, shy, very reserved man, a listener, who
was beholden to no one because as a professional
policeman he felt he should not be. My mother on
the other hand was different from him in every
way. She was gregarious, loved chats and company.
They were both strong individuals. They both
came from diametrically opposed political back
grounds and yet they had married in the midst of
a very bitter Civil War. Their marriage and
family life was happy despite this paradox.
The only thing that caused a slight hiccup in
their relationship was the fact my father never
discussed Garda business with her. She gathered
all her information from other wives at the
market and the owner of the grocery shop who
was loquacious to the nth degree.
Crime normally involved the stealing of sheep
and turf, kidnapping of rams to increase sheep
production, the odd burglary, riding bicycles
without a red light and other crimes of that
order. Being Kerry there were on going agrarian
problems some for decades that would occasionally
end up in murder. Being different to the other
crimes my mother would take a particular interest
in them. After doing the shopping she would
confidentially tell my father at lunch time
'It was John Stack who killed the Poor Crature
Murphy'. My father would digest this new lead
'Is that a fact?'
'It is Tom, the grocer told me only this morning'
Later my mother would find out that my father had
only just arrested Con Lehane for the murder and
he had pleaded guilty. My mother would be raging
he had not let her know. The shame not to mention
the loss of prestige in the grocery shop and
market would be unbearable.
Life and crime continued at this leisurely pace.
It was predictable.
Then there came Paddy O'Sullivan.
Paddy O'Sullivan was a small man with dark hair
and piercing ice blue eyes who lived in the far
end of Listowel town, married with 6 children and
a patient hard working wife. He was unemployed
and drew the dole each week on a Wednesday. Life
was hard but Paddy was happy and content with his
lot. He did occasional work when he could get it
and he had the reputation of being an honest,
hard worker and was respected by local people.
Paddy did not have any trade skills that he could
sell on the building sites in England like his
contemporaries, who were busy building air fields
and fortifications for the Allies.
Then again maybe he was not interested in leaving
the town of Listowel where he was happy. However
he had one natural skill that served him well. He
was a superb fisherman and this was the main
support of his family. One salmon a week helped to
bring some level of comfort into their lives. It
was never over done except for holiday week ends,
school books or other special occasions. It was
not Paddy's style to over do things. He liked life
quiet and unobtrusive. It is a philosophy in
Kerry 'we won't preten a word' as they say in the
local vernacular.
His crime of course was that he was fishing
without a licence that cost two shillings and
six pence, 25 cents in today's money. Even that
small sum was not within his reach. Neither did
he feel he should pay for a licence either.
The fishing rights of the Feale River that ran
through the town of Listowel were held by Lord
Listowel, who was then Minister of Posts and
Telegraphs in Westminster, London. There was
some royal charter going back to ancient times
when lands were being dispensed to the landlords.
Since Independence the Lord had not really
exercised his rights.
The Garda were aware of Paddy's activities but
there was an undeclared 'gentleman's agreement'
between them. He did not poison the river with
chemicals that killed the fauna and young fish
as other poachers selfishly did. This effected
the number of fish running in the river the
following year. As long as he took the odd salmon
as family support, they ignored the fact he did
not have a licence. What is more, many of the
Garda themselves had fought in the War of
Independence and felt that maybe what Paddy was
doing was what they had fought for.
However life was to change.
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However life was to change. Lord Listowel was informed by his agent of Paddy's heinous crime. He wrote to his counterpart in the Irish Government the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in Dublin. 'His river was being disgracefully poached and the police are doing absolutely nothing about it, what was the country coming to, actually this was a complete break down of law and order that would definitely encourage miscreants and mischief making leading to more dire consequences; actually one can only stand appalled'!
In due course the file arrived on my father's desk requesting information for a reply to this charge. In civil administration there is nothing more time consuming or irritating than the ongoing file. It becomes a letter writing competition as additional information and further clarifications are requested. The recipient's objective is to kill the file quickly and once and for all. So the reply had to be water tight, factually accurate, and concise. There should be no loop hole. Kill the file in one blow. This required careful thought and planning.
The Garda applied all their professional police skills honed on apprehending sheep stealers, kidnappers of rams and riding bicycles without a red light to this task. And they came up with what they considered a brilliant solution.
Paddy's mid morning routine was to fish the pool at the rear of the Stand on the Listowel Race Course. The pool was ideal for fishing and he was near his market for his produce.
The two latest arrivals that had just completed their training in the Garda Depot in the Phoenix Park, Dublin (then the Garda Training Centre) would be sent to the Stand in the Race Course to stake out the fishing pool there. When Paddy caught a salmon, as undoubtedly he would, he would be arrested with the rod and salmon. He would be charged with poaching in that he was fishing without a licence. My father would arrange with the District Justice to fine Paddy two and sixpence and upbraid him in public court about his criminal activities. The Garda would pay the fine (a penny or one cent each) and Paddy would have the salmon. Justice would be done. Lord Listowel would be assured that law and order had been restored in North Kerry and the file would be terminated. What more could anyone ask for in life?
The two young Garda were dispatched to the Race Course and hid in the Stand. As the criminologists at the Barracks had predicted Paddy arrived and by mid morning had caught a salmon. The Garda rushed out calling on Paddy to put down the rod and salmon, he was under arrest. Paddy taken unawares panicked and ran across the weir into a small wood. By the time the Garda had taken of their shoes, socks and rolled up their trousers Paddy had vanished. He now knew the Garda had developed a new and very disturbing change of policy. Disaster for the Garda he knew the river well and could continue fishing any where in its 65 miles length with impunity.
The two young Garda could see their careers going up in smoke; the Barrack Sergeant was faced with telling my father that he had failed to implement a simple plan. The even tenure of Barrack life was seriously disrupted by this arch criminal Paddy O'Sullivan (he had come up a grade) and worse my father now faced a long and trying correspondence with the Department. An air of doom and gloom descended on the Barracks.
The Barrack party assembled to contemplate plan B. The case would be taken on circumstantial evidence. The two Garda would swear they saw Paddy catch a salmon and evade arrest. Paddy would be arrested immediately, told he was being unreasonable and encouraged to plead guilty. The District Justice would fine him. The Sergeant started collecting the fine immediately from the rest of the Garda. Paddy would have the salmon. The new plan was presented to my father. He was not very happy about it. It was not as water tight as he would have liked but under the circumstances it was the best alternative.
Lunch in our house always followed the same ritual. We would come in from school before my father, who would arrive at the stroke of one o'clock. My mother would fuss around serving food, encouraging us to eat more vegetables and remonstrating with us for wearing our good shoes on a dry day. They were only to be worn going to Mass on Sunday.
On this day my father arrived in a grumpy humour. My mother enquired about the crime scene and most unusually for my father he replied there was serious trouble brewing in the Barracks. He would have to go back early. For my mother it was like a lighting conductor. This was the stuff of scintillating grocery shop conversations.
To show she was there for her husband in times of trouble and also to press the advantage in case more detailed information was available. My mother announced with a great flourish:
'Tom I have a great surprise for you for supper this evening, I bought a salmon for half nothing from Paddy O'Sullivan'.
There was what is called in literature a pregnant pause.
It was the first marital row we had ever seen in our house. My father went berserk; my mother was annoyed with him and told him he was being completely unreasonable. She was trying to make ends meet in these difficult times and trying her best to put wholesome food on our table. In addition it was only common charity to help unfortunates when they were in trouble. We scattered back to school early.
Paddy knew he was in deep trouble with law and order enforcement. He knew something unusual had occurred to have prompted the Garda to make such a serious policy change and revoke the 'gentleman's agreement'. Even if he fished elsewhere it meant walking long distances and worse coming home with the salmon. The Garda would not let this pass. He applied his criminal mind to come up with a plan.
Apparently he had sold salmon to my mother before unknown to my father (although now he began to suspect it) for the going black market rate of a £1 that was 50% of the fish monger's price. My mother was by no means a mean woman but she was careful. Any savings she could make in the household budget were triumphs for her. My longest memory as a small boy was wearing blue trousers made from my father's old uniforms. Paddy came to the door straight from the crime scene. His price was 10 schillings he needed medicine urgently for his young daughter. Under the circumstances my mother offered him his going rate of a £1 or would lend him the money. He replied that they came from good stock. They were never beggars. A man had his pride. Paddy knew of course my mother would not be able to resist the bargain and the deal was done for 10 schillings.
Every law enforcement officer in North Kerry was dispatched on a man hunt. Plan B worked. Paddy, after some encouragement, pleaded guilty. The file was closed. The Garda arranged a job for Paddy with the County Council repairing roads. Perhaps they saw it as hard labour that such a criminal deserved. But also the salmon season was coming to an end and he did have to support a family. He also had to agree not to sell any more salmon to the Superintendent's wife.
Success and relief all around but we had a silent poached salmon supper.
Some years later the arch criminal Paddy O'Sullivan invited my father and mother to the graduation of his daughter at University College, Cork They both attended, my father in full uniform as it was a formal occasion.
In the criminal sub culture of the 1940s Listowel there was both honour and respect.
Michael Mulcahy
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MY NATIVE LAND by Tom Shea
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Oh land of my birth far across the wild ocean
O'er the wastes of the waters my heart flies to thee,
As the wild bird uncaged flies away to the woodland
And pours out his heart in the song of the free.
In dreams I have roamed once again through thy valleys
Or rode through thy forests to hunt the wild deer,
The dawn sometimes finds me on heather clad hillsides,
But alas! I awaken and find I am here.
Far away from the island where loved ones are sleeping
I'm forced to continue my life far apart.
In the land of my forefathers ancient in glory
The tyrant still strangles the Queen of my heart.
Yet! Dearly I love this free land I have chosen
Where great men once banished the tyrant away,
From the shores of Columbia unfastened his clutches
And routed his redcoats in battle array.
Still pensive I dream of the moor and the meadow
Of nests in the bushes where speckled hens laid,
Where the cry of the hound and the song of the reaper
Rang out through the land where in childhood I played.
Oh! Ireland! One prayer in my heart I keep ever,
To the end of my life with each ounce of my will
God grant that the tyrant be flung from thy borders
And the fall of his footsteps forever be still!
Tom Shea
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IRISH SLAVES IN THE AMERICAS by Tom Osborne
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Records are replete with references to early Irish
Catholics in the West Indies. Gwynn in Analecta
Hibernica, states: 'The earliest reference to the
Irish is the establishment of an Irish settlement
on the Amazon River in 1612.' Smith, in Colonists
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1625 urged the banishing overseas of dangerous
rogues (Irish Political Prisoners), kidnapping
(of Irish) was common.'
Condon states that the first considerable
emigration from Ireland to the southern latitudes
of America was to Guiana in 1629. Newton declares
that Antigua and Montserrat were occupied as early
as 1632 and that many emigrant Irish came out
among the early planters and servants in these
islands. Dunn,in Sugar and Slaves, asserts that,
in 1636, Ireland was already a prime source of
supply for servants: as early as 1637, on
Montserrat the Irish heavily outnumbered the
English colonists, and 69 percent of Montserrat's
white inhabitants were Irish.
Lenihan writes: in 1650 '25,000 Irishmen sold as
slaves in Saint Kitt's and the adjoining islands,
petitioned for a priest...'
In 1641, Ireland's population was 1,466,000 and
in 1652, 616,000. According to Sir William Petty,
850,000 were wasted by the sword, plague, famine,
hardship and banishment during the Confederation
War 1641-1652. At the end of the war, vast numbers
of Irish men, women and children were forcibly
transported to the American colonies by the
English government. These people were rounded up
like cattle, and, as Prendergast reports on
Thurloe's State Papers (Pub. London, 1742), 'In
clearing the ground for the adventurers and
soldiers (the English capitalists of that day)...
To be transported to Barbados and the English
plantations in America. It was a measure
beneficial to Ireland, which was thus relieved of
a population that might trouble the planters, it
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benefit to the West India sugar planters, who
desired men and boys for their bondsmen, and the
women and Irish girls... To solace them.'
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J. Williams provides additional evidence of the
attitude of the English government towards the
Irish in an English law of June 26, 1657:
Those who fail to transplant themselves into Connaught (Ireland's Western Province) or (County) Clare within six months... Shall be attained of high treason... Are to be sent into America or some other parts beyond the seas..."(10) Those thus banished who return are to "suffer the pains of death as felons by virtue of this act, without benefit of Clergy."(11)
The following are but a few of the numerous references to those Irish transported against their will between 1651 and 1660.
Emmet asserts that during this time, more that "100,000 young children who were orphans or had been taken from their Catholic parents, were sent abroad into slavery in the West Indies, Virginia and New England, that they might lose their faith and all knowledge of their nationality, for in most instances even their names were changed... Moreover, the contemporary writers assert between 20,000 and 30,000 men and women who were taken prisoner were sold in the American colonies as slaves, with no respect to their former station in life."(12)
Dunn claims in Barbados the Irish Catholics constituted the largest block of servants on the island.(13) Higham estimated that in 1652 Barbados had absorbed no less than 12,000 of these political prisoners.(14) E. Williams reports: "In 1656 Cromwell's Council of State voted that 1,000 Irish girls and 1,000 Irish young men be sent to Jamaica."(15) Smith declares: "it is impossible to say how many shiploads of unhappy Irish were dispatched to America by the English government," and "no mention of such shipments would be very likely to appear in the State Papers... They must have been very considerable in number."(16)
Estimates vary between 80,000 and 130,000 regarding the amount of Irish sent into slavery in America and the West Indies during the years of 1651 - 1660: Prendergast says 80,000(17); Boudin 100,000(18); Emmet 120,000 to 130,000(19); Lingard 60,000 up until 1656(20); and Condon estimates "the number of Irish transported to the British colonies in America from 1651 - 1660 exceeded the total number of their inhabitants at that period, a fact which ought not to be lost sight of by those who undertake to estimate the strength of the Celtic element in this nation..."(21)
It is impossible to ascertain the exact number of those unfortunate victims of English injustice during this period, but we do know the amount was massive. Even though the figures given above are but estimates, they are estimates from eminent historians.
Tom Osborne
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NOVEMBER COMPETITION RESULT
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The winner was: alan.foster@ukf.net
who will receive the following:
A Single Family Crest Print (decorative)
(US$19.99 value)
Send us an email to claim your print, and well
done! Remember that all subscribers to this
newsletter are automatically entered into the
competition every time.
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I hope that you have enjoyed this issue.
Until next time,
Michael Green,
Editor,
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