Pat Mullen

REPUBLICANS were shocked to hear of the death of Pat Mullen, Sixmilecross, Co. Tyrone, a former H-Block prisoner, at the early age of 48. He died on May 1.

In all Pat spent 18 years in prison and was wounded in action three times. He was prominent among the group of 25 prisoners in the Six Occupied Counties who sent greetings to the Ard-Fheis of Republican Sinn Féin in 1987, the first after the disastrous sell-out of 1986.

Pat Mullen was buried in Drunmoyle churchyard. Sincere sympathy is expressed to his mother and all his family and relatives. Ar Dheis Dé go raibh a anam uasal.
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Josie McDermott

SAOIRSE regrets to record the death of Josie McDermott, one of the illustrious Mac Diarmada family of Kiltyclogher, Co Leitrim, during the second week of May.

Josie was a familiar figure at the annual Bundoran hunger strike march, representing to the end the direct connection with executed 1916 leader and signatory to the Proclamation Seán MacDiarmada.

Joe O’Neill represented the Republican Movement at his funeral.
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Comhbhrón

BEATTIE, The Tormey-Hurson Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Co Westmeath adopted a resolution of sympathy at its recent meeting to Frank and Mary Beattie, Rahara, Roscommon on the tragic loss of their daughter Georgina, aged 19 years.

LINEHAN, Deepest sympathy is extended to the wife and family of Tom Linehan who died recently. From Republican Sinn Féin, Cork.

LINEHAN, Deepest sympathy is extended to the wife and family of Tom Linehan who died recently. From Cumann na mBan.

LYNCH, Deepest sympathy is extended to Seán Lynch and family, Longford on the recent death of his brother Peter. From Geraldine and Bobby McNamara and family, Tipperary.

McMONAGLE, Deepest sympathy is extended to Martin McMonagle, Derry, on the tragic death of his nephew Mark Robinson. From Republican Sinn Féin, Limerick.

McMONAGLE, Deepest sympathy is extended to Martin McMonagle, Derry, on the tragic death of his nephew Mark Robinson. From Christy Smyth and Joe McGee. Portlaoise Jail.

McMONAGLE, Deepest sympathy is extended to Martin McMonagle, Derry, on the tragic death of his nephew Mark Robinson. From Colum Walsh and Kitty Fitz and family, Limerick.

McMONAGLE, Deepest sympathy is extended to the McMonagle and Robinson family, Derry, on the tragic death of their son Mark Robinson. From Joe Lynch and Seán O Neill, Limerick.

RYAN, Deepest sympathy is extended to the Ryan family, Limerick on the recent death of Éamon. From Des Long and family, Limerick.

RYAN, Deepest sympathy is extended to the Ryan family, Limerick on the recent death of Éamon. From Republican Sinn Féin, Limerick.
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I gCuimhne

McELVANNE – 22nd Anniversary. In proud and loving memory of IRA Vol Peadar McElvanne, killed in action on June 9, 1979. Always remembered by his comrades in the Republican Movement, Armagh city.

McELVANNE – 22nd Anniversary. In proud and loving memory of IRA Vol Peadar McElvanne, killed in action on June 9, 1979. Always remembered by his comrades in the Corrigan/McKearney Cumann, Sinn Féin Poblachtach, Armagh city.

RUANE – 10th Anniversary. In proud and loving memory of Tony Ruane, Honorary Vice-President, Sinn Féin Poblachtach, who died on June 13, 1991. Remembered always by the members of the Liam Mellows Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, BÁC.

RUANE – 10th Anniversary. In loving and sad memory of Tony, beloved husband of the late Bridie, who died on June 13, 1991. Always remembered by his loving daughters Nuala and Frances, son-in-law James and granddaughters Joan and Laura. Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam.

O’HARA – 57th Anniversary. In proud and loving memory of IRA Vol Charles O’Hara who died on June 2, 1944 on the Isle of Man Internment Camp. Always remembered by his comrades in the Republican Movement, Armagh city.

O’HARA – 57th Anniversary. In proud and loving memory of IRA Vol Charles O’Hara who died on June 2, 1944 on the Isle of Man Internment Camp. Always remembered by his comrades in the Corrigan/McKearney Cumann, Sinn Féin Poblachtach, Armagh city.

WALL – 85th Anniversary. In proud and loving memory of Seán Wall, O/C East Limerick Brigade IRA, executed by Crown Forces, May 6, 1921 at Annacarthy, on the Limerick/Tipperary border. Always remembered by Republican Sinn Féin, Limerick.

WALL – 85th Anniversary. In memory of Seán Wall, O/C East Limerick Brigade IRA, murdered on May 6, 1921 by Crown Forces ar Annacarthy, on the Limerick/Tipperary border. Always remembers by Limerick Republicans.

WALL – 85th Anniversary. In memory of Seán Wall, O/C East Limerick Brigade IRA, murdered on May 6, 1921 by Crown Forces on the Limerick/Tipperary border. Always remembers by Na Fianna Éireann, Limerick.

WALL – 85th Anniversary. In memory of Seán Wall, O/C East Limerick Brigade IRA, murdered on May 6, 1921 by Crown Forces on the Limerick/Tipperary border. Always remembers by North Kerry Republicans.
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What They Said

I was shocked, therefore, to learn that Ireland (sic) failed to support a UN resolution which would have urged the creation of an international observer force to protect Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from Israeli aggression.
— Sunday Business Post, April 8, 2001, Letter to the Editor from Máirtín Ó Gliasáin, Patrick Street, Dublin.

In a survey of 64 newspapers in 25 countries across the globe, the Sunday Times (May 31, 1981) con-cluded that world opinion had begun to shift away from the British government and in favour of the IRA.
— Paul Arthur, Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster in an article in the Irish Times, May 1, 2001.

But it was the New Statesman some months later (August 14, 1981) that highlighted the IRA’s tactical advantage when it argued that Mrs Thatcher had unwittingly set a new agenda: “She has made politics in Northern Ireland into a straight confrontation between the British government and the Provos, in which everyone else is rendered powerless or irrelevant.”
— Paul Arthur.

The hunger strikes were about a Republican sense of victimhood and of memory. It was a practice which flourished in pre-Christian times and was derived from the Brehon Laws. Even before the 1980-81 protest, 12 Republicans had starved to death (sic) for their beliefs earlier in the century.
— Paul Arthur.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights that the British government violated the right to life of 12 Irish people has implications that stretch to other cases north and south of the Border, according to human rights activists.
— Sunday Business Post, May 6, 2001.

Many of the pictures of the [hunger] strikers offered Christ-like images of martyr figures. Those images carried such power that in the eastern world, streets were named after Bobby Sands, including the thoroughfare on which the British embassy stood in downtown Tehran (Iran).
— Declan Kiberd in the Sunday Business Post May 6, 2001. Many French cities also named streets and squares in honour of “Bobby Sands and the Irish Martyrs”.

But no loyalist prisoners ever felt able to employ the hunger strike; and the writings of Bobby Sands became posthumous best-seller and are now the subject of college dissertations.
-- Declan Kiberd

Byrne said she did not accept that [Provisional] Sinn Féin had abandoned any principles by embracing the peace process. “I firmly believe that if Bobby Sands were alive, he would be involved in the peace process. It is naive to say that it has not been difficult and frustrating. I am convinced that Bobby Sands and other hunger strikers would be standing here today, if they had lived.”
— Joan Byrne of the Dublin 1981 Committee at an O’Connell Bridge vigil quoted in the Sunday Tribune, May 6, 2001.

Traffic around the O’Connell Street area (of Dublin) was disrupted for over an hour by the [Republican Sinn Féin] commemoration. The Sunday Tribune, May 6, 2001. Then just before the town [of Newry] materialises in the valley below, there is another sign, demanding: Restore Political Status.
— Sunday Tribune, May 13, 2001 constituency report on Newry/Armagh on work of local Republican activists.

Not only are they [Provisional Sinn Féin] trying to steal the SDLP clothes and language, now they are adopting our policy objectives.
— Alex Attwood, SDLP Chairperson, Sunday Times, May 13, 2001.

Many uninvolved people will be flabbergasted that a company called Praxis — controlled by two former Workers Party ideologues Gerry Gregg and Eoghan Harris – should make a four-hour long hagiography concerning Desmond O'Malley, the former leader of the Progressive Democrats.
— Sunday Business Post editorial, May 13, 2001.

After all, the party founded by O'Malley has always sought to advocate policies that are the obverse of those promoted by the WP, Gregg and Harris over a period of many years; cutbacks in spending and taxes, sale of state assets, deregulation and so forth.
— Sunday Business Post. But both the PDs and the WP agree on a unionist agenda regarding the national question.

I have never and never will accept the right of a minority who happen to be a majority in a small part of the country to opt out of a nation.
— Jack Lynch in 1970 as quoted in the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, edited by Anthony Jay: Irish Times Weekend Review, May 19, 2001.

People (in Northern Ireland) don’t march as an alternative to jogging. They do it to assert their supremacy. It is pure tribalism, the cause of troubles all over the world.
— Gerry Fitt in 1994, quoted in the Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations.

Séamus Heaney in a 1983 open letter rebuking the editors of the Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry for including him among its authors:
Don’t be surprised,
If I demur, for, be advised
My passport’s green.
No glass of ours was ever raised.
To toast the Queen.
— Irish Times Weekend Review, May 19, 2001.

Do you think Ireland should continue or discontinue its policy of military neutrality? Answer: Continue 72%; discontinue 16%; no opinion 12%.
— Results of Irish Times /MRBI poll, May 19, 2001.

[Provisional] Sinn Féin ministers [in Stormont] conduct themselves within the rule of law. They accept the consent principle and they implement British law.
— Sylvia Hermon, UUP candidate for North Down, the Sunday Business Post, May 20, 2001.

Now that it [conflict and war] has changed, now that the Provos have put away their guns and accepted the principle of consent, now that only age and class mark the difference between it and the SDLP, now that Ulster Unionism is beginning [to] embrace power sharing and change, the Alliance Party has lost it’s purpose.
— Northern Editor Ed Moloney in the Sunday Tribune, May 20, 2001.

After Nice, the EU takes over from the WEU and becomes directly responsible for the 60,000 member European Army which is being established. There will be no debates about observer status then. We will have become fully fledged members of a military alliance.
— Article by Diarmuid Doyle in the Sunday Tribune, May 27, 2001.

While it is possible to envisage us supporting a just war like the intervention in the Kosovo conflict two years ago, it is equally likely that we would be dragged into a conflict created by the self-interest of some of the bigger EU states.
— Diarmuid Doyle.

As the new EU force has authority to “intervene” up to 2,500 miles from its borders, it is also possible to see us being dragged into a conflict created by the self interest of America.
— Diarmuid Doyle.

Sceptics who warned about the huge transfer of sovereignty to Brussels were proved right. We have ceded monetary policies to Brussels, our rich fishing waters are plundered by EU boats and now we have a European army. And the Dáil (sic) has largely been reduced to a rubber stamp for EU legislation.
— Sunday Tribune, May 27, 2001, letter to the Editor, Niall Garner, Dublin.

Big countries don’t need to worry about the loss of the power of veto in 30 areas. If two or three of them combine together under the new voting rules, they can exercise an effective veto over every policy proposed.
— Sunday Tribune, May 27, 2001.

Nice is a recipe for a two-tier Europe, and that’s a big problem, because its the first time those who really believe in a two-tier Europe have had the arrogance to design a treaty that reflects that preference.
— Sunday Business Post editorial, May 27, 2001.
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