Waterfront News 1966 June Vol. 7

VOL. 7. No. 6.

JUNE, 1966

FOURPENCE

GALA BIRTHDAY NUMBERCHAOSOR ORDER? That is the choice before the nation. One wave of strikes recedes, and another rolls up. The State appears bankrupt of policy, and the national economy-what there is of it-is being steadily corroded and destroyed.

Six YearsOld-And Still GoingStrong!

It is the Sixth Anniversary of Waterfront, and we celebrate it with a bumper number of the paper, containing twenty-four pages crammed with the best our contributors can give.

Michael O'Leary, T.D., comes advertisers, for helping to make up with another briUiant article, this issue such a success. . this time on education. "Duffo" But ~he 24 pages of ~e~ding . matter 1s not all that this issue contnbut~s alm?~t two P_agesof contains. There is also a 4-page cartoons, m addition t~ his usu~ special supplement on the features. F. X. Sherwm and his Society, which is going from fellow-poets are well repre- strength to strength. Pull out sented, and there is a hilario?sly these 4 pages and fold them, funny story by a new_ writer, and you will have a complete Desmond Farrell, which we 8-page brochure covering all recommend you to read. the activities of the Society.

All our other regular contriKeep this brochure by you, butors are present, too. We and study it carefully if you are thank them one and all, and our a member.

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This is the plain, simple, unvarnished truth. ~ut the Government does not wish to hear of it; the employers shie away from it, and the pundits of the F.U.E. refuse to recognise it.

Ask the housewife. She will state the proposition in the baldest possible terms; and only when it is recognised will some semblance of order emerge from the near-chaos of the movement.

LIVING COSTS SOAR AGAIN It has started already, the upward climb in the cost of living; the only difference being that on this occasion no time is being lost. The increases won by strike after strike are being wiped out with the least possible delay. Even before the supplementary Budget item after item had jumped; bus fares, newspapers, butter, and what have you. Now tobacco, drink, petrol, etc., have joined the procession; and before long the worker will be worse off than before.

O'REILLY'S Central

Until the root cause of the industrial unrest is realistically examined, the sorry tale will continue. And the root cause is what we have been saying for years past: that the average family just cannot live on the average wage.

Off ices

The economy of the Republic is going haywire. "Keep wages down but don't interfere with profits" seems to be the basic tenet of national policy, if you can call it policy. But the crazy runaround we're getting can't go on for ever, and a finale of some kind looks to be looming very near.

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t·wo poems by MARTIN WALTON I

Waterfront is becoming noted for its poems, from such talented contributors as F. X. Sherwin, Jack Ryan, Frank McArdle, and others.

We have pleasure in presenting herewith two remarkable poems. I! 'r~ They are remarkable because they are written by a 12-year-old IT/& schoolboy.

We predict a bright future for Master Martin Walton. am an oak tree, very old;

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The blackbird has two eyes of green, And his beak is golden yellow Altho' his colour's a funeral black; He is a merry fellow.

OFAN OAKTREE

When looking for food or worms each day, He hops along the ground.

His keen head is always alert For any scent or sound.

He chirrups merrily all day long The blackbird leads a joyful life A; he flies from tree to tree; While singing all day long, And he tells the sparrows, And thrushes too: HThis is the life Spreading joy to everyone With his merry song. for me!"

Passing me and thinking, He looked down with a sigh; My age is ninety years. life, He picked me up and looked at Wben I look back upon my me I feel like shedding tears.

Then he said I was too dry.

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I started as an acorn brown, Upon a tree like me; But then one day a wind came up And pulled me off my tree.

Then, leaving me upon the ground, Chung sighed and went his way; And now that I have told you that There's nothing more to say.

I could not understand it, As I was very young; Then came along a squirrel Whose name "".as Chung-a-chung.

So here I am an oak tree high, With branches big and small; And every Autumn just the same Some other acorns fall.

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"And now, Listeners, we have a request for the City Councillors and the nice gentlmen of the Housing Department. It comes from Mrs. Reilly of City-quay, and she wants "Let's Twist Again",

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WATERFRONT BIRTHDAY NUMBER 11

'!EDUCATE THATYOUMAY BE FREE(Thomas Davis)

By MICHAEL O'LEARY. T.D. Recently, there has been a great deal of controversy on the shortcomings of our educational system. This is to be welcomed.

The changes that are needed are long overdue. No Department of State is in greater need of reform than our Department of Education. People are beginning to realise the paramount importance of a good education for their children. Rightly, they are beginning to . demand fundamental changes in our educational setup. Furthermore, they have served notice on the controlling politicians to inaugurate these long overdue reforms.

Long overdue is to understate the position. The National School system was established in 1831.

Our Secondary system is the result of an Act passed in 1870. Both were introduced by Governments alierr, to say the least, to our own traditions and aspirations. Rightly did Pearse (himself a leading educationalist) term the resulting educational arrangements a 'murder machine'.

Britain, in the interim period since these Acts were passed has drastically revised her own system of education~in 1902 and again in 1944. Changes and modifications are constantly introduced as people look for more improvements. In I;eland, no significant change has been made in either the primary or secondary system imposed by an English Government · in the last century.

Whatever nationalistic • claims have been used by our controlling politicians, they have not altered this British legacy.

Can we deny the charge that our attitude to education in official ✓ circles is still Victorian ? Can we deny the charge that it is essentially a system based on that blind belief of Victorian society, namely class privilege ? Let us look closer.

The national system was the result of the findings of a Committee of the House of Commons which, in 1828, recommended its establishment under the following title "system of education for the poorer classes of 1:he community."

Its primary aim, stated quite honestly, was to give the hewers of wood and drawers of water a minimum basic education.

The graduates of these national schools, labourers and manual workers, are expected to get little financial status in our society and no

security of employment.

Our secondary education system, as far as one can see, is designed to produce administrators who are still thought of as clerks. Our Universities are supposed to provide a liberal educational background or, alternatively, professional training for aspiring gentlefolk.

The products of these three arms of our educational system are, therefore, from an early age given a pretty clear view or where they must fit in society. Everyone who has passed through our educational system must fit in society. Everyone who has passed through our educational system is given a healthy respect ,for the power of cash, which alone assures ability a chance of full education to uppermost level. The administrators, whom we have seen may come from our secondary schools and can look forward to being better paid than the manual worker in our society. They can also look forward, perhaps, to a reasonable pension. Their working conditions are more pleasant and they will have more leisure. The skills of the professional University graduate will bring him, even if he is selfemployed, greater financial and social status than his contemporaries in the office or factory enjoy.

This, I think, is a fair summary of official thinking on the aims and objectives of these three arms of our educational system. One may well ask are such views valid in the second half of the twentieth century. To-day, we have reached a stage in technical development where the machine can do the work of the manual labourer to an ever increasing extent more cheaply and more effectively. Technical -knowledge, however, can not be ex-

Michael O'Leary, T.D. plaited unless there is available a sufficient number of people trained to construct, tend and control the machines. Again, administrative work concerned with organisation and management is to-day specialised and complex. The mere ability to calculate or compose a letter, which seems to be the main objective of a secondary school system, is inadequate. Technology has become as important to society as the older professions and our system does not cater for this area in any satisfactory manner. To judge our system on the lowest level, it is wasteful in economic terms that talent, ability and usefulness to society are not the fundamental standards of our educational system. What can one say of a system where there is only one syllabus for all national school children? The very intelligent and the very dull must work through exactly the same course in exactly the same way and in exactly the same subjects. Some eleven year olds may have already reached the sixth standard but must stay there until they are fourteen if their

particular school has no higher standard. If their parents cannot afford the fees at a secondary school, they remain in the same class repeating the same work until they are fourteen. Other eleven year olds may not have graduated from the infant class but there are no special courses or teachers to help them.

The secondary schools fare no better. The approved curricula are set out in the rules and programme for secondary schools." The curriculum of a secondary school must include . instruction in a syllabus approved by the Minister in the following subjects : Irish, English, History, Geography, Mathematics, Science or a language other than Irish or English. What can one think of the crazy set-up in examinations at Intermediate and Leaving Certificate level ? Certain texts are prescribed for each particular course. The children are then examined on the contents of these prescribed texts. There is no attempt to take into consideration the standard they have reached in the subject as a whole. There are, of course, no alternative examination courses. No wonder Irish schoolchildren have limited horizons when they are not given any opportunity to realise their full potentialities or to discover their individual talents.

Education has remained in this sad position in Ireland because it suits powerful sections in our society to keep it so. The middle class can afford to send their children to the best private schools available. Some of these schools, by any standard, are very good.

They have a vested interest in keeping the most top-class professions within their own circle. Their way of life is dependent on the availability of cheap untrained labour. The controlling politicians in our society see nothing wrong in the majority of citizens being untrained and uneducated. It is time the Irish workers gained for their children in education_ the same rights that they themselves have won in industrial affairs.

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EDITORIAL

CAS-EOF DR. ANDREWS .

LIBERTY HALL, DUBLIN l.

JUNE, 1966.

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The appointment of Dr. ous pension and another subAndrews as_ Chairman of the I stantial parting gift-with pos,;-.E. Authonty, and the revela- sibly yet another lush appointt1on th_at he_has been awarded ment awaiting his kind con~ pen_s10nof £3,000 per annum sideration. tor his five years' service with • C.J.E., plus a gratuity of £8,000, ffoweve~, the case of Dr. has thoroughly outraged the ~ndrews_ 1s by no means an public conscience. It is a com- isolated ms_tanceof gov_ernmenof equilibrium in our crazy Nowhere in the world, not mon topic of indignant conver- ~al _g~neros1tyto"Yards favoured even in 'Britain, is the level of economic seesaw. It is the only sation everywhere and not even mdtv1~uals. He ts but one of a industrial unrest so high as in answer they can see to the the proposed (and abandoned) long li~t; for we are living in a the Republic in this year of repressive wage policy pursued Tokyo trip has aroused such a fantas1;t~ era of nepotism and favou~1~1sm,of pensions and by the all-powerful F.U.E., storm of controversy. grace ... or disgrace. perquisites and emoluments for backed by our big-business And the reason is that With all respect to Dr. the members (and the friends of nowhere-not even in pagan, Government; hence the series of Andrews, we do not ourselves members) of the "Establishmaterialistic, ageing Britain-is clashes we are witnessing all think that any man is worth ment." such a pension and such a the social fabric so lopsided, the over the country.

It is, in fact, becoming a " golden handshake " for so national scandal. Government The result of the recent economy so distorted, the· election shows brief _a term of service. Nor, for the greater good of the approach to industrial pn;,bleins Presidential even 1f he were worth it do we number is a recognised so unrealistic and so primitive, clearly 'that the Government think that this impo~erished greater democratic tenet, but in our as in this little land of ours, would be defeated. if a General State can afford to pay it. The crazy Republic it is government which ought to be in the very Election took place to-morrow. people are groaning under an for the greater good of the van of nations but is instead the But the workers would have mtolerable and ever-mounting privileged few. little better to hope for under a burden of taxation; there are . (_)ur . yo~ng . people are laggard of Europe.

Fine Gael administration. The thousands of . lowly pensioners em1gratmg m thousands and All around us, in the year two big parties have alternated w_ho are finding it daily more tens of thousands. There is no when we are celebrating half-a- in power since the foundation of difficult to adjust their simple century of independence, there the State, and the condition of needs to their meagre allow- place for them in Eire, which is becoming a country of the old; are strikes and threats of strikes, the country reflects no credit on ances, and in these circum- the preserve, the happy huntingstances we submit that our an epidemic of upheavals that their stewardship. The average masters are being far too groun~ of privileged septuais completely disrupting trade wage level is to-day only two- generous with our money. genanans and octogenarians. thirds that of Northern Ireland, and commerce.

The whole which is supposedly impoverThe only question is, how But the question of the lo_ng will it last ? How long industrial front is in chaos. ished by foreign rule, and little nation's ability to pay is apparNever was money so tight and more than half that of Britain, ently the last consideration w1ll--:-orcan-the plain people credit so restricted; never was it which has been drained by two likely to deter our rulers in a· sustain the back-breaking load ?

Not, we think, very much so hard for the common man to world wars. A sorry commen- matter of this k;ind; and it will tary on our precious indepenlonger. A day of reckoning is make ends meet as to-day. The not surprise us if in five years' coming, and it is not very far dence. total •inability of the average W~ do not think, on the time Dr. Andrews should retire away. The Government should worker to exist on his pay whole, that we have very much from T.E. with another gener- be careful with that last straw. packet is the stark fact at the to boast of after 50 years of bottom of the smouldering native government. We think unrest that is, everywhere in that Connolly and Pearse would turn in their graves if they could evidence. know what poor use we have To speak of strike-happy made of the freedom they shed workers is sheer nonsense. The their blood to achieve.

Buying a house?

We should stop rattling the real truth is that no group of Thinking of getting married? workers can afford to strike, and bones o( the mighty dead, for we have betrayed them. Let the strike weapon is only used them rest ... at least until we as a last resort, a final desperate prove ourselves worthy of the attempt to restore some measure heritage they bequeathed.

THESTRIKES

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Savings--aretl,e answer!

JUNE, 1966.

WATERFRONT BIRTHDAY NUMBER

SEVEN

be) should call both parties propose. with work proceeding together and ask them to· agree normally in the meantime, givon a cooling-off period of one ing both sides time to simmer .month, the work to be kept down and refle.ct.might just posIn our June, 1963, issue we the actual machinery of negoti- going in the meantime. sibly create the atmosphe.re published a special front-page ation. All strikes have one A futile proposal, it may be necessary for the conclusion of article entitled "Wanted : A thing in common : they must said. Well, we do not claim it a settlement which would Ministry o( Labour." As the end round the conference tahle. is a work of genius. But too obviate the threatened stoppage. heading implied, the article But prevention is better than many strikei-: last a month or It might fail. On the other called on the Government to set cure, and the aim of any worth- more, and all of them end at a hand. it might work. And if up a new ministry forthwith to while Labour Minister must be conference table, in a com- the "cooling-off" period averted deal with labour problems to get a settlement before and promise settlement which could only one strike in six, it would alone, and we put forward a not after a disastrous stoppage. -and should - have been surely justify itself. number of cogent reasons in He must keep the parties talk- reached before the cold war Nothing can be lost by trying, ing and try by all means pos- became a hot one. Ergo, a anyhow. But let's not take support of the demand.

A good deal of water has sible to hammer out a settle- cooling-off period such as we three years tt' think it over ! flowed under the bridges since ment. He must try, and try, then. Now, in 1966, the mes- and' keep on trying. He is going sage appears to have got to be judged, not on the strikes through at last; and the he settles, but on the number he Ministry is to be set up. It is, prevents.

Too many disputes drag on of course, three years too late.

In one respect we have to conf.ess that we of Waterfront are very lf the step had been taken when without any attempt being made much behind the times. We pay our debts promptly. And we are we advocated it, and a realist for long periods to get talb becoming more and more acutely aware that this is a very unusual had been placed in command, a going. The bank strike is a case practice indeed these days. great many of the troubles that in point; the paper strike is Once upon a time we held a to advertisers and all others who have arisen since might have another. For months in both stoppages nobody bothered to big dance and supper. The bill was help the paper in any way, we been avoided, and we might not now be floundering from one start even a ripple of negotia- over £300. We paid it in full within send a plentiful supply of copies tions, and in our view this is three days. The establishment each month, to which they are industrial crisis to another. nothing short of scandalous. The where we held the dance gave us more than entitled.

However, • better late than new Minister will have to do a £5 advertisement for Waterfront.

But we would be ashamed to never. But the new Minister better than this-a very great Six months later we received paytell you of the many notable will have an extremely tough less people who ask for and receive task. He will need to be a deal better--or he will assuredly ment for the advert .•••• Waterfront regularly, but never commission.

Solomon and a Samson rolled be adjudged a failure.

In short, his primary aim That is one example. Another think of sending a subscription. into one to repair all the harm that has been done. The indus- must be to achieve settlement is that of a certain firm with which Apparently they are blind to the trial situation could hardly be before a threatened disruption we once did a large volume of subscription form which regularly worse and worker-management takes place. In this connection business. A representative of ours appears in these pages, and it never relations are at just about theiy he must get one thing clear in secured a 50/- advt. from this firm. occurs to them to append their his mind at the very beginning. When do you think that advt. was names and attach a postal order. ir,west level ever.

As for big firms, the less said We have two pieces of advice No worker wants, no worker paid for? Two years later, when we the better. Some time ago the to offer the Minister. We hope can afford, a stoppage. He can- had written it off as a bad debt.

We could quote many such ex- London headquarters of a multiit will not again take three years not live on his wage, never mind firm sent us an order to to assimilate what we say. on strike pay, and only with- amples. Tardy payment is the rule million deliver one· copy per month to draws his labour when he sees "in the business world to-day, apFirstly, he should set up an Advisory Council at the very no other method of gaining parently. For ourselves, we have an their general manager in Dublin, with careful instructions to debit outset to help him. Civil ser- redress. Consequently, he will old-fashioned and primitive belief the head· office (4d. per month). vants as such should be not resent, but will approve and that when a bill is presented, it excluded from this body, which appreciate, any honest attempt should be met. And that is the You can perhaps guess what we should consist of representatives that a conscientious Minister of way we meet our commitments. It did with the order and the halfdozen or so forms attached. Yes, of the unions and the Labour may make to secure a is our proud boast that Water- you're right. We dumped the lot front pays its debts on the nail, employers, and should operate settlement by negotiation.

But let us suppose that the without delay and without fuss. in the w:p.b. under the chairmanship of a In short, we've reached the limit, nominee of the .Labour Court, Minfster's best efforts at con- And if debts due to us were settled as promptly, the and hereby serve formal notice preferably one of the skilled ciliation fail. Deadlock ensues, one-quarter conciliation officers at present and the Minister cannot break organisation would be rolling in that we .are supplying no more buckshee copies to anyone who attached tc that body. We it. Strike notice is served, and money.

The paper itself is a non-profit doesn't help the paper or the believe that such a Council events move forward to a showwould be of immense practical down, a disastrous clash which mak,ing publication. We have never society in some way way or other.

And in the meantime, we shall help to any Labour Ministry in will benefit neither workers or attempted to make it otherwise, the prodigiously difficult tasks it employer. Even then all is not and are quite content to break continue to set a bad example to will have to face in the imme- lost. At this late hour, when even. In this we are helped by a all and sundry by paying our debts, open hostilities seem unavoid- loyal band of contributors who meeting our commitments, and disdiate future. f\ble, the Advisory Council (if expect no payment and receive charging all our obligations fully, Our second, and more imporpromptly, and without quibble. tant, advice is concerned with constituted, as we hope it will none. To all such contributors, and

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TheStory of Marconi

Sea Shanties-XLVI

By "Metman" Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was the inventor who did most to make radio (wireless telegraphy) into a going concern. His mother was Irish and his father Italian. Before his time it had been suggested that electro-magnetic waves might exist, and in 1863 a Scot, Clerk Maxwell, calculated that·these waves would travel at the speed of light.

HERTZIAN WAVES In 1887 a German, Heinrich Hertz, produced waves of this kind and managed to receive them at the other end of his workshop Marconi was born at Bologna, in Italy, and studied science at the university there. Here he met a professor named Righi who was then experimenting with Hertzian waves. Marconi rigged up a crude wireless set on his father's estate near Bologna in 1894 and managed to send signals over a distance of about a mile.

ENGLAND ENCOURAGED HIM He got little encouragement in Italy in this work, and, in 1896, he came to London where the chief engineer of the G.P..O. supported him in his experiments. Slowly but surely he improved his instruments and increased the distance at which his signals could be picked up.

By 1899 he had a station at South Foreland lighthouse, in Kent, sending messages 31 miles to Wimereux in France. In 1901 he sent signals from Poldhu in Cornwall across the Atlantic to St. John's in Newfoundland.

SHIPS ADOPT RADIO This news made a great sensation and shipowners started installing wireless sets in their vessels so that they could send them orders while they were at seal In 1904 Marconi started a wireless news service between England and the United States, and, three years later, he opened_ a public service for commercial and private use between the Old and New Worlds.

LIFE-SAVING _AND DETECTION He had the satisfaction of seeing life saved at sea by the use of wireless - once when the Goodwin Sands Lightship was wrecked, and again, in 1912, when the great liner "Titanic" sank after colliding with an iceberg. On both occasions radio signals brought help more quickly by far than would have

JUNE, 1966.

CAWSAND BAY

In Caws and Bay lying, The Blue Peter flying, The hands all turned up for the anchor to weigh, There came off a lady As fresh as a May day Who looking up modestly these words did say : "I wants a young man there, So do what you can there To hoist me aboard or to send him to me.

His name's Harry Grady And I am a lady Come off for to save him from going to sea."

been otherwise possible. One of the most surprised. criminals ever apprehended was the infamous murderer, Dr. H. H. Crippen, who fled from England on a Canadabound ship. A radio message from the English C.I.D. to its Canadian counterpart made his arrest possible before he set foot on Canadian soil. This happened in 1910-the first instance of crime detection by wireless.

The Captain, his honour, When he looked upon her, HIGH FREQUENCY Marconi was contiually inventing Ran down the ship's side to assist her on board; new apparatus. After the Kaiser's War-1918~he experimented with And he said with emotion, short-wave signals, which can be "What son of the ocean "beamed" - or sent ,in definite Can thus be looked arter by Elinor Ford?" directions-and which are used for When thus she gave answer, nearly all long distance messages. " This here is my man, sir, DECORATIONS AND HONOURS I'll make him as rich and as fine Marconi owed his success to his as a lord." belief in the possibilities of wire"That 'ere," said the Captain less, his untiring energy, and his . Can't very well happen. genius as an inventor. He received We've got sailing orders-you, sir, honours and decorations from go on board I " many European nations, and from the United States. When he died "Avast I " says the lady, in Rome the Italian government "Don't mind him, Hal Grady, gave him a state funeral, but he He once was your captain, but now was buried, as he wished, in you're at large; Bologna, his native town, in 1937. You shan't go aboard her

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In spite that chap's order," Then out from her bosom she lugg'd his discharge.

Says the Captain, says he, now " I'm damned but he's free now!'

Hal sings out, "Let Weatherface have all my clothes."

For the shore then he steered her And all the hands cheered her, But the Captain was jealous and looked down his nose.

Then she got a shore tailor To rig her young sailor In fine nankeen trousers and blue long-tail coat; And he looked like a squire .For her to admire With a dimity handkercher tied round his throat.

"And now," says she, "Harry, The next thing, we'll marry."

And she looked like a dove in his fine manly face "That's the thing," says Hal Grady, "A parson get ready, And arter a 'long-splice' we'll 'splice the main-bra~e'."

Their house it was greater Nor e'er a first-rater, With servants in uniform handing the drink; With a garden to go in , Where flowers was blowin' Sun-flower, jessamine, lily and pink.

Then he got eddication Just fit for his station: For we know we aren't never too old for to larn; And his shipmates soon found, him, With young 'uns around hiIJ:1, All "chips off the old block'' from stem to the starn. ,

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ElizabethFaye'sShowPage Square, eventually getting her man. Only will be a film you can look forward in Leicester Back from London where I went EMPIRE then does she Jet the tears fail. to with pleasure. to see a press showing of "Dr. London.

Zhivago" I also took in a visit to the cinemas showing the Dean To me there is no substitute for AMBASSADOR. "Cat Ballou".

Looking for enjoyable Sunday Martin film "The Silencers" and the ABBEY THEATRE PLAYERS, This is a marvellously directed Night entertainment? You will find Elvis Presley in " Frankie and but when I saw Sir Laurence hilarious "way out" western film it hard to beat Derek Cobbe's Jol'tnny".

Oliver's National Theatre Company and when you see it, as you MUST, VARIETY FANFARE in St. Fran"Dr. Zhivago" is a full three- .at the OLD VIC do a stunning proyou will also agree that Lee Mav.in cis Aavier's Hall, Sherrard Street. and-one-quarter hour film, and for duction of Sean O'Casey's "Juno certainly deserved to win an Oscar Here you will find favourite variety the scenery alone it was well worth and the Paycock", I realised that for his acting. Jane Fopda handles stars Frankie Blowers, who does a the making. Taking wide expanses this group have captured the her part as Cat Ballou extremely of outline in Spain and the snow- passion and sincerity of this play well. There is some very enjoyable good job as Compere as well as capped mountains in Finland, it with quite remarkab~ facility. singing by the late Nat King Cole. singing in his easy relaxed style; Edmund Browne, Cecil Nash, manages to look authentically like Joyce Redman in her role of Juno No matter what your taste in Monica Bonnie, Frankie Howard, the Russian Steppes and the Urals. created a memorable picture of plots and stories you cannot fail who 'WithMickser Reid, does some The handsome dark-eyed Omar suffering womanhood. Colin Blaketo enjoy this highly enjoyable film. very funny sketches (what a great Sharif plays the part of Dr. ley has the reputation of being one Not to be missed. little trouper Mickser Reid is !).

Zhivago, the dreamy poet. fulie of the most versatile actors in Then there is some sophisticated Christie (who won an Academy British theatre to-day; and, after Award for her part in the film seeing him as Captain Boyle Coming to the ADELPHI soon, songs from Pauline Forbes, who "Darling") plays the part of Lara, strutting around either wallowing ''The Silencers." I.C.E. (Intelligence has show business in her blood dressed for the most part in in self-pity or self-praise or Counter Espionage) describes the from way back. It is a well-known stunning Russian furs. Rod Steiger drunkenly shouting "the world is handsome, sauve, ruthless agent fact that her father, the late Dick plays the best performance of his in a state of 'chassis'," I would Matt Helm, played by the dynamic Forbes, was the power behind the career and makes a tremendous • certainly agree that his superb Dean Martin. It has been said Theatre Royal, in its early days, impact. Tom Courtenay is good as performance will enhance his "Matt Helm takes the spark out of and kept it going during the war the revolutionary student, who reputation further. • Flint, makes Uncle look like years with clever sketches and Auntie and 007 a back number I" stage arrangements. Noel McNeil becomes the sadistic terror of the is' a talented yodeller and has a R~d Army.

So you can easily imagine you ACADEMY CINEMA. "Marriage remarkable range (he should go are in for a lot of fun when you A remarkable feature about the Italian Style." The Italians can far), and is always very popular, press showing was that the British extract humour from the most un- go to see "THE SILENCERS".

No need to mention how much a critics were asked to withhold likely situations, and this film, Beautiful girls galore with dancer favourite Mike Nolan is. their reviews for 24 hours, the cleverely directed by Vittoria de Cyd Charise, Stella Stevens (who reason apparently being that the Sica, has it's share of fun. A story always reminds me of the lovely Cecil Nash, a very fine singer, is wh.ole film itself needs to be revolving around Sophia Loren, iate Marylyn M~nroe), and tha.t "digested" ... not summed up in who plays the part of a lady of popular idol of practically every- at present appearing in the Cabaret the mad rush to the typewriters (it easy virtue, and the drastic lengths body, Arthur O'Connell, who was shows in JURY'S HOTEL. These got quite a "going over"· in New she goes to, to make the man she hit under ·the ear by a piece of nightly Cabarets are proving very York); which leaves me wondering loves marry her. All he wants to flying glass during the making of popular not only to visiting if they think the rich. full fare of do (understandably, in the circum- the film. He had to have six tourists but for the many who are Dr. Zhivago" will be too rich for stances) is go his own sweet way, stitches, but insisted on carrying being attracted to this relaxing British audiences! However, it is but inevitably it all works out, on filming wearing a polo neck form of enjoyment and entertainexpected to have a record run in the with the now ageing Miss Loren sweater to hide the plaster. This ment, while having a drink or meal.

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MEDICAL AND SICKPAY SCHEMES Investmentson Behalf of PensionFund We are happy to report that our investment programme is proceeding apac-e, and up to the mo111~nt of going to press we hold over £4,000 worth of gilt-edged stock. Among the securities we hold are the following: Sunbeam Wolsey, Guinne,ss, Land Bonds, Government Loan Stock, E.S.B., Munst-er and Lcinster Bank, I.C.I., Roadstone Limited.

We regret to report that the Medical Service and the Sick Pay Fund are "in the red." Both schemes have been running at a loss for months past. In fact, it has been the worst winter in the history of the Society, and were it not for -the strength of the organisation, we would have been compelled to inc-rease the general subscription long ago, or alternatively drastically reduce benefit.

We have been able to avoid this, but the Committee must nevertheless take all m~asures necessary to safeguard the Society and protect the interests of the many members who have never so far received any benefit. To take the Medical Scheme first, it has been decided that the subscription of 1/6 weekly must stand, regardless of whether the member chooses a Society doctor or elects to consult his own. It had been hoped by the Committee that in the case of panel members the extra 6d. might have been used to help in meeting the cost of prescriptions, but this is not possible, and the weekly subscription will cover only medical services. This will continue until the end of the year, when the whole scheme will be reviewed again, and the Committee will then be in a better position to determine what is best in the general interest.

Our readers will remember that the investment programme was begun last Junc, with the launching of our Pensions Plan. The target was £2,500 by the end of the year, and this target was achieved comfortably.

This figure should have been doubled by June, 1966, b'ut it will be appreciated that the bank strike has thrown a spanner in the works. Because of the strike, our stockbrokers (Butler and In the Sick Pay ·sphere, the fund is only now getting on its feet Briscoe, Govt. Brokers) have advised caution, and we are accordingly again after a very trying time. Claims have been many and heavy marking time. throughout the winter and spring, and we have been hard put to it The moment the strike comes to an end, we will lose no time to keep pace with •the demands. The worst is now over, but it is making up leeway. We wish it were tomorrow, for the strike is very obvious that new measures are necessary to prevent abuse in the - causing us a lot of oth-er headaches besides th-e problem of inv-estments. future.

Enough said !

It will be remembered that at the end of last year the Committee

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AND VIEWS issued an order, which was circulated •to all collectors, that any member who drew maximum or near maximum benefit at any time would be deba-rred from further benefit for a full twelve months. It has now been unanimously decided that this is to stand as a permanent rule of the Society. It has also been decided that any member who has drawn benefit repeatedly or frequently over the last three years will Some members of the Society who subscribe weekly to our Pension henceforth be paid entirely at the discretion of the Committee, and Fund have expressed perturbation lately over the delay in the issue at a rate to be fixed by them, after considering the merits of the case. of contracts governing their pensions and mortality rights, etc.

Furthermore, the Committee may if they deem it advisable send any We would like to assure them that they need not be in the least uneasy. The contracts and the whole matter of pensions are in the claimant before a Society doctor at any time. hands of our legal advisers, and will be issued to all members as soon It will be appreciated that these provisions are necessary for as the scheme is thoroughly vetted and approved. Anything worth the general safety of the scheme. We need hardly emphasise th.it any doing is worth doing well, especially in such an important matter as member who has never previously drawn benefit, or has drawn only this, and it will pay us all to be patient.

In the meantime, we can safely assure each individual subscriber a negligible amount, will receive the full scale as laid down in the that he or she will get full benefit as from the date of entry, and this schedule should he or she fall ill. is a public pledge to that effect, issued on behalf of the Committee and Trustees.

As with the Medical Scheme, the whole structure will be examined The Pension Scheme, in fact, continues to offer the best value in again at the end of the year. the whole Society. We claim there is nothing to touch it anywhere and every member would be well advised to join. This applies to In the meantime, all collectors and members are warned that the women members as well as men; to old as well as young; and we are rule respecting arrears will continue to be rigidly enforced. Under no confident that nowhere in these islands are better terms (or even circumstances will benefit be paid to any applicant who is more than comparable) available.

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by I.C.E. means "Son of the carpenter, mason or freeman." Other English forms Some mechanical faults cause much waste of "juice".

A common are MacEntire, MacEntee, McAteer, Minteer, Mateer, etc., etc. As one is brakes binding on the drums.

It only needs a seized brake Saor mean a freeman as well as craftsman, by translation it sometimes cylinder on one wheel to pull five or ten miles per gallon off the petrol becomes Carpenter and Freeman.

There are, no doubt, several dis- No. 45. Nolan, O'Nolan, Nowlan, consumption.

Next check the engine. Begin by reconditioned, all the moving parts tinct families so called. About Noland, etc. checking the air cleaner's filter for are really too tightly assembled.

Dublin this surname has been The Irish form is O Nuallain, Anglicised Carpenter.

In other pronounced Owe Noo-law-in, and clogging. If this filter is blocked But, when correctly run in, a perplaces it has been incorrectly made means descendant of Nuallan, dimi- the engine will be running on an fect fit of these parts should result.

It is, perhaps, hard to imagine a Freeman on the erroneous sup- nutive of Nuall, noble, or famous. over-rich mixture.

Now what about the spark smooth-looking bearing or cylinder position that it is derived from It is the name of (1) a numerous "Saor", a freeman. This was also and respectable family in Leinster, plugs? How many thousand miles wall having those so-called "high the name of a famous Scottish the head of which was chief of have they been in service? Remem- spots", but if viewed under a micclan, whose territory was Glen O, Fothard Feadha, now the Barony ber that the life of a spark plug is roscope, these surfaces would look in Lorn, and many of the Mc- of Forth, in Co. Carlow, and had between ten and fifteen thousand like a succession of hills and Intyres of Ulster are, doubtless, of the privilege of inaugurating Mac miles. Also make sure the contact- valleys. As the engine runs the that race.

Morrough as King of Leinster; and breaker points are adjusted to the tops of the "hills" are rubbed off If your name is Pierce McIntyre (2) a family of Corea Laoi in South correct gap. If you are in any and thus the oil is charged with an about their condition, abrasive mixture. It is easy to see (or Carpenter or Freeman) the West Cork. If your name is Joe doubt Irish form is Piaras Mac an tSaoir Nolan the Irish form is Seosamh remember a few shillings will buy from this that if the oil is not changed regularly the engine will (Peer-us Mock un Tear); your 0 Nuallain (Show-suff Owe Noo- you a new set. sister Kate is Cait Nfc an tSaoir law-in); your sister Angela is A healthy_ engine should have soon become very worn.

(Kawt Neek un Tear); Mrs. Mc- Aingeal Ni Nuallain (Ang-ill Knee equal compression in all cylinders. NEVER LET ENGINE LABOUR In the actual running-in process Intyre is Bean Mhic an tSaoir (Ban Noo-law-in); Mrs. Nolan is Bean Three good ones and one faulty Vick un Tear); and Mr. McIntyre i's Ui Nuallain (Ban Ee Noo-law-in) one is no good at all. If this con- avoid violent fluctuations of speed, Mac Mhic an tSaoir (Mock Vick Mr. Nolan is Mac Ui Nuallain dition is suspected a burnt-out temperature and load for the first un Tear). , (Mock Ee Noo-law-in). valve or broken piston rings may 500 miles. For the first 100 miles be the cause of the trouble. Or drive very gently and try not to incorrectly adjusted tappets might depress the accelerator pedal more THE VOICE,OF SEVEN-By Jack Ryan cause _!:his condition.

Excessive than one-third of its capacity. For In the shadow of Kilmainham Gaol fuel consumption is also caused by the next 400 miles try not to depress Where seven leaders fell it more than half its "travel". slipping clutches or radiators that They brought to trial a nation Never overload the car with pasrun too hot or too ,cold.

And asked if we could tell sengers for this 500 miles.

RUNNING-IN THE NEW CAR How did you use your freedom J Never "slog", or Jet the ·engine The first 1,000 miles are the labour, in any gear.

Said the chorus from on high Are you Irish now and freemen most critical miles in the life of an Always get into a lower gear engine. Incorrect running-in can (change-down) early.

Did your love for Ireland die ? considerably shorten its life. This It is a· good practice every mile We heard the echo of your praise running-in process involves the or so to lift the foot off the acceleBut from some a shallow sound rubbing-off of "high" spots on all rator pedal-this will cause a deThe fragrance was not incense moving parts. When the engine is pression Gver the pistons and will And it fell back to the ground assembled, whether brand-new or draw oil up the cylinder walls.

Are there good men in Oireachlas ?

Do they serve our people true ?

Remember we gave our lives To leave this gift to you We hear the ghost guns blaze again On every election scene Our deaths we thought brought unity CAMERAS This was our greatest dream TAPE RECORDERS We never sought vain honour BINOCULARS Can pride turn stones to bread ACCESSORIES When we signed the Proclamation FILMS Such vanity was dead We redeemed the generations THE CAMERA CENTRE ON THE QUAYS Who fought for Ireland's cause And broke the chains that bound her From thoughtless foreign laws False echoes reach us all the time But please allay your tears The seed of blood will always win In answer to your fears 9 BURGH QUAY, DUBLIN. 2.

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THE FormerDublinC.Y.M.S. FITZSIMON Hand ballers BROTHERS

by J. K. CLAJ{KE

llTTTH the closing, some time ago, of the Aughrim Street, Dublin, ff Branch of the C.Y.M.S., attention is focussed on this one-time noted centre of handball in the Metropolis. Since its foundation, in 1926, the Branch has given many fine players to this ancie~t pastime of our people, and none more enthusiastic, than the four Fitzsimon brothers-Michael, Peter, Pat and Tom who, 30 to 40 years ago, spent much of their time on the nearby ballalley attached to the old Manor Street Police Barracks (since converted into flats), where the spacious, three-walled, venue was amongst the busiest in Ireland, and an irresistible mecca for lovers of the game--including noted Police, Army, Tramway and Post Office players; attendants from nearby Grangegorman Mental Hospital, and visiting teams from surrounding areas, like Garrlstown, Co. Dublin.

Not surprsing then, that the 1934-35 Mick beat M. Kavanagh in Fitzsimon brothers evinced such the final of the Metropolitan Club an interest in the game, a pastime junior tournament at Crumlin, folin which Michael was to make a lowing a fine display. Mick was a name for himself locally. Like founder member and committee his brother Peter, Michael learned member of the Aughrim handball his handball at the Patrician Col- club, in the mid 1920's, set up to Jege, Mountrath, where they were cater for the novice and junior students.

Coming to Dublin, he players of the Metropolitan club, joined the Metropolitan Club, so that the latter would be able to based on Manor Street alley, where concentrate on the intermediate he was associated with the various and senior players. Mick still reefforts made for the development tains his great interest in the and encouragement of the game pastime and is a member of the in the area. As a player, he took committee of his old club-Metropart in the Dublin novice and politans. junior championships, in the Handball was not Mick's only 1920's, in addition to participating sport, he was a fine rings player, in various club competitions.

He and reached the final of an imwas essentially a softball man, and portant tourney at the C.Y. branch. played on all the courts in and He was a founder member arrd around Dublin.

His principal committee member of the Aughrim success came in 1924-25, when he soccer club, and is still a great supsecured the coveted ·runner-up porter of Bohemians. He served medal in the club's famous Murphy several terms as a member of the Cup Competition (from an entry C.Y. Branch Executive, and reof 38)-being beaten in the final, ceived the Society's Gold Emblem at Clondalkin, by that grand and Certificate, in recognition of player, Stephen Quirke, runner-up 21 years service to the Organisain the All-Ireland junior S.B. tion. singles Championship (Tailteann) Mick's brother, Peter, as earlier in the same season. In ,the late mentioned, was also a handballer 1920's, Mick played in the 'Quirke' and a competitor in the Murphy Cup (the Murphy Cup renamed, Cup Competition. He was also a and now in the writer's museum), fine snooker player. Third brother Aughrim Street C.Y.M.S. Branch -Pat-was a founder member of competition and, in 1931, played the C.Y. Branch (Aughrim St.), and in the Branch handicap.

In a nice left-handed handballer,

Paddy Oliver at Manor Street is still spoken of. Pat's name also appears on the list of competitors in the Murphy Cup competition.

Pat was also a fine snooker player, and winner of the Branch handicap. He was likewise a good Billiards player. Pat was one of the founders and organisers of the popular Saturday night whist drives at the branch premises. It will be as a cricketer, however, that he will be best remembered, his many fine displays being still spoken of with enthusiasm.

He played for, and captained, both Richmond (Grangegorman) and whose marathon game with the late

Civil Service, more than 30 years ago, and is said to have been the only man to hit a ball on the first hop, on to the main road of the Park from the Civil Service grounds. He was also a professional umpire, in which capacity he officiated at Gentlemen of Ireland versus Australia match at College Park.

Tom, the fourth brother was a fine left-handed snooker player at the Branch, he also played friendly cricket, and took a keen interest in handball, encouraging young lads to take it up and showing them how to play, despite being unable to participate himself, due to physical disability.

A fifth Fitzsimon - Pat's son, Noel, was yet another sportsmana cricketer, like his father. Noel played senior with Phoenix, Railway Union and Civil Service, and captained the last named in 1965.

He was a member of Civil Service in 1964-65, the season they won the Cup and League together, the first time since the foundation of the club in 1863. Noel also played snooker and local football, and like his father, was a member of Aughrim Street Branch of the C.Y.

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(CONSTANCE DE MARKIEVICZ) Most people know the Countess's "Battle Hymn", sung to the air of a Polish Anthem. But this poem "Tomorrow", also by her, is not generally known.

• In '98 the Yeoman hordes Like hell-dogs swept our land, On naked gibbets hanged our men Marked by the rack and brand; Our women tortured, shamed and starved Wrung helpless piteous handBut to-morrow, by the living God, We'll try the game again!

No, you didn't; are yeb deaf or what, Wasn't -I bawling hke a lion ?

Wouldn't mind, but I promised the Mott I'd be home tonight on time.

After bursting me heart up Cardiff Lane, And I parching with the thirst; A schemozzle tonight, and you're to blame; I'll have to wet me whistle first.

J The prison hulk and prison cell "Young Ireland" patriots knew.

In Fenian days the land was swept From coast to coast anew.

Seven hundred years of murd'rous work But left our people true !

And tomorrow, by the living God, We'll try the game again !

In Easter Week our flag went downWe flung it wide again I 'Mid women's screams the murd'rous foe Fired homes on hill and glen, And many an Irish graveyard hides Disfigured, tortured men.

But tomorrow, by the living God, We'JI try the game again !

Last year within the Saxon jails The gallows took their toll Each dying man but brought our ,cause A step towards the goaL We face our foe today and SPURN EACH OFFERED TREACHEROUS DOLEAnd tomorrow, by the living God, We'll try the game again!

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Ah, cast off Joe, or we'll be here all night And let yourself out, man dear, No sign of the squad, you may thank God, You'd be lagged for loitering, I fear.

Threepence for what ? Are you gone stone mad ?

Wait till I get me jar; I'll bet you a bob, I will, be gob, That I can spit that far, What in the name of God was that ?

Our craft attacked, did you say 7 Send out an S.O.S. quick, Joe, To the Macha, she's out in the bay.

Oh, the shaft is cracked, is that what you said ?

Excuse me, I didn't hear, Well, man the lifeboats, throw out the raft, It's goodbye to me pint of beer, I always knew it would be this wayBuried at sea, I'll be, Far from me home in sweet Ringsend, On the wild and stormy sea, Ah, this is no joke, you may scuttle the yoke, And let me go down in full glory, For I'd rather face death, I'd be wasting me breath, She'd never believe this story, Shipwrecked me foot, filling your gut; " Go on, Mick, tell i.ls another; Off me head, God be good to the dead, Should have listened to me poor mother ! "

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By J. D.

Summer has come, and far and wide, From Kilakee to Stepaside The heather purples on the hill, And many a bird is singing still.

In Bohernabreena and Glendhu The sun is hot on every rock , That lies 'twixt Tallaght and TicknockAnd Howth is veiled in gold and blue.

It is the time to climb and find The Hellfire Club in mountain wind, And, lying on the grass, again To see the city in the plainThe ships slow-gliding to and fro Graciously on the bay below.

Then rise you up and come with me To woods or mountains, or the sea So that we may fill our hearts

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The little streams, qui-et and sweet, That murmur gently in the heat Thro' Glas'valaun and Jone Glen-

With mem'ries of those pleasant parts, And build - against all wintry weatherA dream to shelter us together.

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cree • Are softly calling you and me.

It is the season now to stand Upon Portmarnock's velvet shore And watch the waters flash and pour To flow'ry margent of the land.

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9. Is it legal in the Republic for a man to many his widow's Why cannot a person living i sister? in de Courcy Square not be A Ballyfermot cat has nine buried in Glasnevin 7 legs. Can you prove this ?

How many birthdays does the A farmer had 17 sheep. All' average man have? l l. but 9 died. How many did Some months have 31 days he have left ? others 30 days, how many 12. An archaeologist claimed to have 28 ? have fouhd a coin dated I have two Irish coins in my 46 B.C. Was he in earnest? hand which total 2/6. One is• 13. -Two men were playing not a sixpence. What are the snooker.

They played five coins? games and each man won the Divide 30 by ½ and add 10. same number of games. How What is the result? do you figure this out i A woman gives a beggar 2/6. 14. How many three-letter stree The woman is the beggar's road and square names are in sister but the beggar is not -the the Dublin City area ?

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WATERFRONT BIRTHDAY N(!MBER

JUNE, 1966.

A TREAT FOR WESTERN FANS .

SHOWDOWN!

By DESMOND FARRELL you

do not open your mouth too wide in Leo's Billiards Salooon The fact that Sunday is six days Such times as '(vhen you are bereft of shekhels and are obliged off is much appreciated by Leo's to join the oracles in the seats along the wall you sit quietly and listen patrons. This will allow time for to the topics of the day ... lurchers failing to chase the hare; a right- a stable market to form on the wiager who should be up for loitering; the scarcity of the few contest. hae'pence. ...

Now, although there is no guide It· is foolhardy to - venture an personal; this, regretably, being to the gun-slinging form, it is a opinion unless you possess docu- a feature of most arguments in certainty that Mortimer Barrett is mentary proof, or a packet of Leo's Billiards Saloon. going to be a favourite of some .weeds ,to hand around. Take, for Mortimer Barrett wonders what heat. The- oracles all agree that instance, what occurs in the case would an uncultured layabout any chine so guzzled with bookof Mortimer Barrett and Dummier know about gun-slinging ? learning will know a ;thing or two Lynch .... " Oh, inaybe I never done a and maybe three. Furthermore, It begins when Mortimer Barrett correspondence course in it," Dum- he plays a nifty game of pool, proclaims that Shane is out on his mier says sneeringly, "but if I can- whereas, outside of composing Tod. He says he has scanned all not out-draw you, lave me up!" each-way trebles, Dummier js never available literature on Hickok and Here is a challenge which Mor- known .to do anything with his Billy the Kid and Doc Halliday . timer Barrett dare not disregard, hands. So how can he hope to and the James boys; and there can if he wishes to remain a power in win? Still, it is pointed out that be no doubt but that Shane would Leo's Billiards Saloon. when Dummier touches on the let the air out of each and every Before long a test is being pro- horses he is undeniably swift on one. posed to determine which one can the draw. He will have disappeared Dummier Lynch says modestly out-draw the other. .Flyaway Rice wi,th the winnings before any that he is no literary man himself takes over the arrangements. This person has a chance to put the and therefore he is not too familiar pleases all parties, since Mister hammer on him. with these Western gentry, but it Flyaway Rice, who works in a Well, in the week preceding the is his humble opinion that the glue factory, is a great organiser, as duel, the .two may be seen around Lone Ranger will mill Shane any well as being a popular figure in our. locality walking bow-legged ~day of the week.

Leo's Billiards Saloon, when he is and whipping latch-keys out of " What ! " roars Mortimer Bar- not wearing his working clothes. their pockets and acting, in general, rett, imp.ping to his feet and start- Flyaway says he can negotiate ·a in such a way as to alarm lawling a player into going in-off. short-term Joan of -two six-shooters abiding citizens of our locality, if "Measure the fastest gun in history and belts from a young nephew there happens.~to be any. with a pedestrian novice like the who is well heeled.

In Leo's Billiards Saloon the He names Lone Ranger?

Ha, Ha! You are Sunday as the day and ,the side of odds shor-ten unexpectedly. Early a pretty judge, no doubt ! " the saloon as the venue for this in the week it is three-to-one, freely, against Dummier Lynch, If it is ~nyone else but Dummier quick-on-the-draw duel. " What time on Sunday? " Dum- but by Friday night you cannot Lynch he will back down immehave better than eleven-to-eight. diately, for this Mortimer Barrett mier asks unthinkingly. '' Why," says Flyaway Rice in " Sentiment," Flyaway Rice is such a well-spoken character . heavily on ,that you will not want to bandy pajned surprise, "high noon, of explains, " .

Dummier's side." words with him, unless you are course!" greatly familiar with your onions.

But Dummier can be as stubborn as four mules and he keeps on about !he Lone Ranger, despite all the lengthy words Mortimer BarFUNERAL. UNDERTAKERSAND rett utters on Shane's behalf and which he cannot in justice dispute.

CAR HIRERS When Mortimer Barrett calls the Lone Ranger " a veritable • greenhorn " Dummier is deeply wounded because he senses that "veritable" is something insulting, so he suggests saving all further talk of (5 Lamps Comer) 81 AMIENS STREET Shane until Christmas, as he is Pbona 46454/41471 DUBLIN clearly a holly-and-ivy gunman.

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This is undoubtedly true. But in Leo's Billiards Saloon when it comes to sentiment versus shekhels, sentiment is usually under the whip a long way out.

Even the, fact that he is seen coming out of "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" on Wednesday night; and journeys to the far side of the city on Thursday to take in "Stagecoach", does not justify their support for Dummier. So, by the time Sunday dawns and we are· all assembled at the side of Leo's Billiards Saloon, the market is very jumpy indeed. . . .

Flyaway Rice is there first of all.

He has two stakes driven into the ground ten feet apart, where the contestants will face each other.

A ·little to one side is a large boulder, upon which rests a tin can and two small sticks. One of the onlookers is- appointed to perform on this instrument.

He will beat a rally on the can for ten or twenty seconds, a sudden cessation being the signal for the contestants to go for their guns.

While the two principals stand glowering and nervously flexing their fingers, Flyaway disappears around the end of the building, ;to emerge, a minute later, carrying belts and guns. The guns are yellow - handled flashy - looking weapons, fully loaded with new rolls of caps ... " Strap these on," he directs, handing a belt to each, but retaining the guns.

Mortimer Barrett, whose trust in mankind ranges up ,to and including nil, watches Flyaway closely as he buckles his belt. But his suspicions seem groundless when Flyaway offers him choice of guns and elects to second him.

Another onlooker is detailed to serve Dummier Lynch.

• You think you are fullyequipped to meet this monster ? " Flyaway\1sks abruptly. " Mortimer Barrett regards him wjth displeasure. " If you are advocating handgrenades ... " (Continued on page 17)

WATERFRONT BIRTHDAY NUMBER

SEVENTEEN

DO YOUREMEMBER . ••• NICK DINEEN, a young farmer's-son from Rose Creek, Minnesota, was in Chicago studying theatre. He was " in digs " at Kolplng House, a foundation for Immigrant boys, when he was joined as a room-mate by Roderick _Bourke of Dublin.

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How about our hectic Christmas of 1957 ? It seemed like we had all our shopping and visiting to do Christmas Eve, plus making a train to Rose Creek, Minnesota, to spend Nick joined the Trappist Monas- my me or read by you " was pubtery, New Melleray, Peosta, Iowa, lished in the Kolping News.

I still find myself unable to Christmas with your family. lookin January, 1959.

This Open January 13th, 1959. believe .that you have entered ithe i_ng back, I still don't know how Letter which was "never mailed Dear Nick,~This is one of those monastery. For all of us on the we ever did it. I suppose our other side of the wall, a step such youth was a deciding factor, but I as this is, to say the least, awe. think I at least aged considerably that day.

SHOWDOWN!-continued from page 16 inspiring.

Rose Creek, place of happy "Mental approach," Flyaway says explodes, as in that case he may So clearly the night of October impatiently. " Is it rooted in your lose the contest on an o.g., or a 31st stands out in my memory. I memory. How I enjoyed, Nick, mind that you are facing not suicide, or some such technicality. had just returned from Ireland, meeting your wonderful family . always felt a family consisting merely a polecast, but a killer Mortimer Barrett is still pulling full of the many misgivings that who strikes quick as a snake. frantically at his holster. That he only those of us who have left of girls an ideal set-up. The days Him or you for Boothill ! •Such does not untrouser himself is a home and country across an ocean seemed to go so fast, you had so an attitude,'' he says earnestly, matter of much amazement to the can experience. Having been far many friends that we were kept on the go all the time. It was won"will make you a shade faster when onlookers.

Dummier Lynch then from happy in my Jiving arrange- derful for me to be so far from you come to draw. Stick rthat gun points the gun at him, which goes me'nts on my last visit, I was in your holster and give me just bang . . . bang . . . bang . . • . to feeling that the idea of an oppor- home and yet not lonely. When two minutes wh-ile I harden you to end the contest.

•tunity to live in Kolping House the time came to return we missed the train on the first attempt; you .the job.''

It is the only known occasion on was heaven sent. The idea of did have the time right, it Then he draws the mystified having a room-mate, however, I Mortimer Barrett aside and can be which Mortimer Barrett is ren- viewed with mixed emotions. You was the DAY you had wrong. The dered speechless.

Ignoring the only reason I left at all was that heard totting up al) the marshals now noisy crowd he unbuckles his were studying dramatics at Good- we had made plans to return for this killer Lynch has erased. gun-belt, drops it on the ground, man Theatre and frankly, because the summer vacation!

Not to be out-done, the other of my interest in anything and stalks off, disdainfully. second instructs Dumm.ier with a After Christmas ,the winter theatrical, that for me was the Some unhappy voices are raised selling point. What sold me to seemed to drag. Of course even brief spoof, in which the wo~s " ornery," " bushwhacker," and in regret that he does not stay to you, I've never known; you more so awaiting for summer.

•:coyote" are most prominent. By observe Flyaway Rice collecting couldn't have told immediately it.hat Shortly after the New Year; I the time they come up to the mark notes and silver from all quarters; I would be able to do the cooking realised that you were no longer the two antagonists are looking enough to keep him in vi-tamins for for us, not to mention the laundry. studying drama and that you had agreeably mean, at which the ten- a month, at least.

At any rate, share a room we did, other plans, but it took quite a sion mounts considerably on the Flyaway Rice is not seen in Leo's and to a certain ·extent we shared while to. realise just what these sideline.

Billiards Saloon for some time our lives. We both have many plans were. Up until you went A great hush falls as the char- subsequently, although Mortimer good friends to remember from the home in June, I"m afraid I thought acter with the sticks starts to rally Barrett is around a great deal, house, but for me the first stands it was just talk. From your letters on the tin can.

I knew you were serious. I have enquiring for him and looking out.

That he is discovering a hidden grim.

Fortunately you weren't reading often wondered just how much talent soon becomes apparent. The He is anxious to discuss with all the time and when you weren't~ thinking you must have done that drumming goes on and on and, Flyaway the finding of a half-full tin we managed to keep active . . . spring and summer. It was the ';though there is a general desire of liquid glue around the back of such as the time we put the flag time of the change. to introduce the virtuoso to a the Saloon, where Flyaway hides (Irish, that is) on top of the When I saw you in July I was thump, nobody dares move, all the gunbeJ.ts before the contest. Kolping House (no small trick). convinced you were indeed ready being eager to witness ,the lightning He is beginning to comprehend the It seemed then and now as a very to join. We had two gay weeks draw. difficulty he encounters in trying to appropriate way of celebrating St. and I found out that there was Unexpectedly, the noise stops. remove his gun from the holsterPatrick's Day. As I remember just as much to do in Minnes~ra A little pent-up moan escapes the " Give me .two minutes to harden you must take credit for the idea, in the summer as there had been crowd as two right hands lunge you to the job," he mutters but I deserve the credit for not in the winter. d·ownwards .... strange)!, in Flyaway's very voice. only carrying out your instructions, That brings us to ,this year and In the interests of truth and There is a half-hearted move but taking all the ·ribbing the next your entrance to the monastery. honesty •is must be conceded that among Leo's patrons .to form a day. In all our escapades you My luck held and I was with your you will out-draw the two, handy, market on the exact amount of were the General and I sure was family the day they drove you to with a bazooka. A full minute of glue Flyaway will need to stick the troops. Father (Fischer, ,the the abbey. So having been in on tugging and grunting elapses before himself together again, when Mor- Chaplain) really had me going about the beginning, I was in on the any gun is produced. Then Dum- timer Barrett meets up with him. the flag. Not being too well versed end. mier Lynch's gun comes up so But it seems that nobop.y is in the laws of the land, I was Good luck, God bless you, and fast the barrel strikes his nose. willing to bet on anything, just almost (just almost) convinced it thanks for the memories.Fortunately for him, no cap about this time. was a criminal offence.

RODERICK BOURKE. letters that will never be mailed my me or read by you. It is written primarily to set down my impressions of my brief and rewarding friendship with you.

EIGHTEEN

WATERFRONT

BIRTHDAY NUMBER

JUNE, 1966.

OUR WITTY SCRIBE RETURNS WITH A MASTERLY DISSERTATION ON .

DUB-PUBOLO<iY! ( Embracing Do,ko/ogy,Codology, and ldiology !)

By '' BANBA " Now that Brendan Behan and was taken up in adding water to Tinkers are barred because they Myles na Gopaleen are no longer the whiskey. have plenty of money and no with us, the way is clear for me to When he instructed the appren- manners, and the students are set myself up as Dublin's tice to do likewise, the young lad's barred because they have plenty "authority" on its world famed reply was "what about my souL" of manners and no money. pubology.

"Don't worry about your soul; It's a lesson in living to see the Perhaps we should start by Jet- I'll pray for you!" was the pub- students sitting over the same pint ting off some steam about the pub- lican's retort. for four hours, and every time they licans themselves.

The young pub owner of to-day get thirsty-into the gents room In spite of the fact that the pub does all he can to· uplift the culture for a few mouthfuls out of the cold owner is regarded as being miser- of his customers. tap. able and the essence of meanness, How's this for licensed trade A short time ago an American he is really at heart a good efficiency! got off the Belfast train at Connolly Christian.

A barman who lives in a Cor- Station (Amien's Street to you), His voice is loudest and saddest poration house in BaJlyfermot and visited one of the pubs in Talat the graveside prayers when one recent-ly rented a broken-down pub bot Street for a drink. While he of his customers is being buriedon the quays. He cleaned it up and was. sitting at the counter, a rather the more the deceased owed him painted the interior. Business is ex- rough-looking individual entered, the harder and longer the publican cellent. "The decor is conducive to and the barman refused to serve prays. intellectual thinking." The patrons him.

A certain publican, not so many are comprised mostly of well-read "Sorry I can't serve you; you're years ago, used never miss nine "button" men (I assume they read barred". o'clock Mass in Arran Quay Church. the "Waterfront"), checkers, trade "Don't worry you b-culchie, • Each morning, home from Mass, he union officials and, of course, the 1'11 get a drink elsewhere!" would spend about twenty minutes B. & I. clerks and typists.

"That's right, there's more pubs to half an hour down in the bar The old style lamps inside the before going upstairs to have his door were bought in a scrap-yard than parish churches".

At this point the Yank interbreaklast. Now what he did in the in Smithfield, the paintings came bar before breakfast was always a from the Bank of Ireland, College jected. "Say, Bartender, they told mystery to his young apprentice Green. me up in Belfast that Dublin was who lived on the premises.

The two sections of the drinking run by Rome. But, gee, if you ask The publican be_came ill and was population for which I have great me it's run by you Bartenders."

All over our wonderful city there removed to hospital. While there he sympathy are the tinkers and the extraordinary pubs and sent for his apprentice. He pro- students. The pubs of Dublin have are ceeded to let the young lad in on never quite accepted them for what ordinary pubs, normal drinkers his big secret~apparently the blank I might best describe as opposite subnormal drinkers. space in his morning movements reasons.

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WATERFRONT BIRTHDAY NUMBER

JUNE, 1966.

NINETEEN

An ScilleadLeath-fholarnh LE FURLONGS NA NOSSULEEN

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Rudyard

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rai bh aon so las ar an ts raid ach na gaethe abhf ag teacht 6 leathMA ta " Kim " le Rudyard Kipling leite agat beidh cuimhne agat ghealach.

D'fhiafraigh se de ar ~n gcead oilhiint a cuireadb air le haghaidh na Runseirbbise, dhuine de th6gail na Mite sin, ••An Bhiodb air ainmneacha scata mionrudai ar thradaire a ghlaoch amach mbfonn an tsraidbhaile chomh 6 cbuimhne tar eis feachaint orthu ar feadh cupla soicind, droch-lasta seo i gconai? " "Nf bhfonn," arsan duchasach, "ni Bhf sonru no"Tabhairt-fe-deara" [ le smaointi eile e. Se seo bunbhfonn se chomh hole i Jar an a mhuineadh dh6; sin e ealafn chloch an deachuimhne. lae ! " ·• usaid-na-sul."

Nfl sli nfos fearr ann, do chumas Nf usaideann duine as deichniur "tabhairt faoi deara'• d'fheabhsu, Bfonn fhios agat go bhfuil tu a shuili go heifeachtach. Sin e an na ''Cluiche Kim." Is fiu e meanaosta nuair a bhfonn .rogha fath go ngearanann an mheid sin 'chleachtadh mar muna shonrafonn dha chathu agat agus a thoghann daoine fe dhroch-chuimhne.

Ni tu go maith nf chuimhneoidh tu go ,tu an ceann gur feidir teat bheith hionann ar fad cuimhne agus an maith ar aon rud riamh.

Bain sa bhaile go moch ina dhiaidh. cumas cuimhnimh ar neithe. Nfl usaid as do chluasa chomh maith anso ach toradh an ch6ais leis na suilf. Is feidir a bheith Mian a gcroi ag an lantiin seo chuimhne. aigne-bodhar ce go bhfui! dha saoire bheith acu ar an m6r-roinn Braitheann eifeacht do chuimhne chluais follain agat. agus fe dheireadh thiar thall bhf Is fiu an cluiche seo d'imir.t agus ar an tslf a chuaigh an ide, abhf a nd6ithin airgid acu du! ann. le coimead i gcuimhne, i bhfeidhm dall6g ar do shuile ag braith ar Nuair d'fhill siad thainig iriseoir mheabhair na lamh. Ma's mian ar an aigne i dtosach. aitiuil chucu agus bhf se a gceisniu. !eat cuimhne mhaith a bheith agat " Agus an bhfaca sibh m6ran den Ni hionann rud d'fheiscint agus tosnaigh ar oiliuint na gceadfai. mbochtaineacht ar an M6r-roinn? " rud a shonru n6 a thabhairt faoi deara. Ma fheachann tu ar rud GLAC SCEAL ATA AG DUL are seisean. " An bhfacamar f? " arsan fear-cheile de chuach, "thug agus gan ach e d'fheiscint faighTIMPEALL AN CHALAFOIRT me cuid di abhaile liom." eann tu pictiuir de gur feidir e bheith cruinn soileir n6 neamhAN tARM SA gCIPJR FOCLOIR chruinn, doileir, eideimhin, de rud Bhf an Ceannfort, an Captaen eigin ata ar eolas agat. Ma fheach- agus an Foleiteanant i gclub ofche Ursceal = novel. ann tu air, agus ma shonrafonn tu uair amhain, agus cupla manglam a oiliuint= training.

-n6 mathugann tu faoi deara-e, n6I acu. Thainig speirbhean 6g tabharfaidh tu •a threithe Ieat. isteach agus arsan Ceannfort : "An Cuirfidh tu i gcomparaid le rndai bhfeicheann sibh an ainnir sin ata eile e, le hinstinn. Ceangl6idh tu. tar eis teach t is teach ? Is mise a·

R unsei rbhis = Secret Service. tradaire= tray. sonni =observation.~ ealafn=ar.t.

Braitheann = depends. ide = idea. trei the= characterictics. le hinstinn = by instinct. bunchloch =foundation. d'fheabhsu = to improve. rs fiu e chleachtadh = It is worth practising. aigne-bodhar = mentally-deaf. dall6g = a blindfold: ceadfaf = senses, Cean nfort= Commandant. manglam = cocktail. ainnir= young girl, maiden. ceadunas = licence. gleas=set, instrument. gaethe = rays, shafts. de th6gail na haite=native, a ''local." duchasach = native, a "local." ca.thu = temptation. a thoghann = that select. lanuin = couple (married). m6r-roinn = continent. iriseoir= journalist. bochraineacht= poverty. de chuach = with a snort.

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an aois muna mhfonn sf i mbuideal.

Bhain an taistealaf an baile beag sea amach go deanach agus • nf

Look back with eye, aged wilh bitterness; Teared by sorrow, saddened by sights; Glazed with horror, strained by vigil; Seeing but carnage, darkness, night.

Look back with eye, softened by weeping; Hurt by memories, haunted by fears; Turned to heaven, appealing mercy 1~o a day, nigh fifty years. f.ook back with eye of manhood's glory; Blazing, fearless, undismayed; Oh to God, you'd been amongst them, When· the sacrifice they made.

Look back in awe, at he who taught them To dream a dream, they loved so well; See the lesson on the black-boardNot merely free, but Gaelic as well.

By F. X. SHERWIN.

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WATERFRONT BIRTHDAY NUMBER

TWENTY

Mony~> Happy Returns PLEASE,MOREPEAS! I

By FRANK McARDLE

By •LISA 0 FEICH

On Monday, a strange concoction Came brimming to the boil.

Dear Lord, it's Uncle Paddy Hard to explain, with great ability, Happy birthday to a great little Nicely done in oil.

A kind of Zulu missionary Or draw clever cartoons with equal paper Humbly he requested: Bottled in Irish rain.

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Called the "Please-more peas."

Gaily he requested: NEWS'. peas."

Within its pages are topical events There's hardly a subject he doesn't "Please-more On Friday, French fried chips and And interesting views. know; fish Of course I'm referring to good old On Tuesday a Shetland pony; Was the prqud but simple fare.

He swore he had the proof.

"Duffo".

It has tremendous pulling power, There's the wonderful talent of He got it from the pony's mouth One thought remains unanswered Is ·quoted far and near Do fish grow hair?

He also got its-hoof.

Mannix-Gray, ~y newspapers, periodicals and Insanely he requested : Bravely he requested: The articles and showpage of weeklies "Please-more peas."

"Please-more peas."

Elizabeth Faye; Because it prints the truth without Or the moving style of poetic Jack fear.

On Saturday, the flower-decked On Wednesday, great jubilation; Ryan, coffin At last, a real Ii ve stew.

Capturing the wonders of nature It is always on the side of right, Stopped outside the gate.

He tried to sing its praises, in every line.

Of justice and compassion, Both friend and foe raised their But nought came out but moo.

And takes the· part of the undercaps, There's Sherwin and McCarthy, Dumbly he requested: dogBut knowledge came too late.

MacEligot and MacGowan, "Please-more peas.!'

What matter if it isn't the fashion.

His ghostly voice requested: Ted Dinnigan, Andrew Stewart as peas I " On Thursday, the witch's cauldron "Please-no well.

Contributor John B. Keane, the There are many more, contributors playwright, by the score; A genius with a pen, And I'm sure the name Bill Hickey HEAR SHANTIES, POPS, AND BALLADS IN W~ites philosophy or humour, rings a bell.

Or the study of fellow-men.

Rnnegan s Singinglounge

We all join in saying "Happy Seamus de Burca writes of the Birthday," Dublin' of old; With continuing success.

Metman can tell you if it will blow Never lower your high standardshot or cold; Good Luck~Good Wishes-God There's another who can write Bless l

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JACK DUFFICY Some years ago when strolling through a quiet Viennese park near slept for almost two days surthe Danube I came on a graceful memorial obelisk 1 n a leafy nook. 1 rounded by worried doctors and was brought up with a jerk when I saw the name O'BRIEN in metal generals. letters inscribed on it. Underneath the name was the likeness of a This Colonel O'Brien was one of strong handsome man framed in a laurel wreath. On the apex of the the O'Briens of Thomond (North ob~lisk a metal Imperial Eagle crouched protectively over this Munster). Like many other young mQ_numentto oJl'eof our "Wild Geese". I made a quick sketch, here-- Irishmen, debarred from serving with of the memorial and determined to do some research into the their own country, he elected to history of this mem~r of the great O'Brien Clan. serve under the black and yellow banner of the Austrian Empire. He On May 13, 1809 a decisive This interception was the turn- quickly made his mark in the army battle was fought at Aspern, a vii- ing point of the battle. "But for and was decora~ed with the Marie !age near Vienna, between French the _courage and initiative of the Therese Order of Merit, the troops led by Napoleon and the 49th Regiment, under the skilled highest honour awarded to an Austrian Army led by Archduke leadership of Colonel oiBrien there officer in the Emperor's army.

Charles. The 49th Austrian In- would have been no glory at At the present time O':§irien 'is fantry Regiment commanded- by Aspern," was part of Archduke still honoured in Austria. Every this Colonel O'Brien stopped a Charles's report on the battle. year, on May 13, the 6th Austrian French force from crossing the From this defeat stemmed the Infantry Regiment, which is sucDanube at Schwarzlackenau, ten decline of the mighty Napoleon. cessor to the old 49th, parades to miles to the west of Aspern. These Broken and weary he retreated the memorial, where wreaths are reinforcements were -badly needed across the Danube and took refuge laid, and full military honours by ·a depleted French Army. . . in a -castle at Ebersdorf where he paid.

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THE1916COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS The accent in the Irish language, that is, the stroke sometimes placed over the vowels 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o' and 'u', is absolutely necessary in many words to avoid ambiguity. for example a 'man' can be . , , b t k f c hange d mto gras Y a s ro e O the pen-'fear' (man) 'fear' (grass).

A 'crime' can be made 'righteous' by the same means-'coir', 'c6ir'.

Other examples are 'fainne' (weakness), 'fainne' (ring): 'sean' (old), 'sean' (food fortune), 'Sean' (John): 'silim' (I drip), 'sflim' (I think): 'ailim' (I nurse), 'ailim' (I pray or beseech).

The effect of the accent or 'stroke' over the letter is to make it 'long'. For example, the word for 'man' (fear) is pronounced like the English word 'far', while the word for 'grass' (fear) is pronounced like the English word '_fair'. 'Sean' (old) is pronounced 'shan'; 'sean' (good fortune) is pronounced 'shane'; and 'Sean' (John) is pronounced 'shawn'.

A 'long' accent will usually change the

meaning completely, if not give it j Deputy P. A. O'Donnell asked "Is appear. The capital "E", in Roman an exactly opposite one as in 'coir', , the Minister for Posts and Tele- lettering of 'Eirf' has a long accent. 'c6ir' above. j graphs aware of the mis-spelling of What has happened here to h , . I the word 'Eire' on the 'Moore' 2-½d. "artistic balance" and "common 1n t e 1916 ' commemorative stamp, and if so, will he take im- practice"?

Postage stamps the name of the mediate steps to have this error According to the Official country is given as 'EIRE' instead r·ect"rfied'.,. of EIRE'. In the Constitution the Standard Irish Grammar, issued name of the country has a long The Minister, Mr. Childers, by the Government some eight or accent on the initial which not answered "The omission of the nine years ago, the values of the only changes the pronounciation, accent in 'Eire', which I assume is stamps, as appearing on the "1916" but also the meaning. 'EIRE' is what the Deputy has in mind, was , issue, are grammatically incorrect pronounced 'Err-eh', and means a deliberate, in the interests of I_also. In this grammar the numerals· burden or encumbrance. 'EIRE' is artistic balance in the stamp itself, 'one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five' and pronounced 'Air-eh' approxi- and in accordance with a common 'six' aspirate (put an "h" after) the mately~and means 'Ireland'.

So practice in the printing of Irish in following noun, which should be these stamps call our little country Roman letters for display pur- in the nominative singular. The a 'burden'! poses." numerals 'seven', 'eight', 'nine' and 'ten' eclipse (put a new letter in In 1952 a series of stamps comOne presumes that a similar front of) the following noun, also memorating Thomas Moore, the answer would be given if the spelin the nom. sing. Therefore the' poet and song-writer, was issued. ling of the present '1916' stamps stamp values should be printed The same mistake was made. A were questioned. But in this issue thus:-3 ph., 5 ph. and 7 bp. Or in newspaper controversy about this there is a peculiar inconsistency to Gaelic characters there should be mistake was carried on in the be noticed in the second 5d. stamp a "dot" on the "p" after "3" and evening papers of the time all -that which bears the G.P.O. "5". through the months of November, wreckage futuristic. design. Near December and January 1953, cul- the lower edge of this stamp the Will anyone take these matters minating in a Question in the Dail! words "Eirf amach" (rebellion) up?

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persists to this day. There are ·instances of women in history dressing up as soldiers and doing a man's work in battle. And we have the case of St. Joan of Arc leading the French, dressed as a man.

One should not be too conThere is a friend of mine who always refers to his trousers as men • • • a smock· and trousers cerned to see our teenage children "my breeches". Mr.· Quinn our master in Phibsborough always called • • • Women throughout history ... •boys and girls ... in their them pants. He was an excellent linguist and certainly as proficient , have adopted the disguise of wear- tight or bizzare clothes. Or when a in Irish as English. He was the first man to turn my mind to Shakesing male attire, to run away with young man appears in long hair or pea:re·,a~d the treasure therein. Pants, however, simply derives from a lover for instance. Dr. Crippen, his sister in short hair. These the word pantaloons or trousers. the American who murdered his things do not necessarily suggest -In the fascinating study of cos- firmly established as part of male wife in London, disguised his mis- abberations.

The trouserslike -· tume· through the ages it was attire by the beginning of the tress as a boy when they eloped linen garments I saw lately on popularly believed that our seventeenth century when "plus- together. In Shakespeare's plays that boy or girl, with the frill at ancestors, the Celts, were the first fours" were invented (I wore them we have many instances of women the bottom, could easily have been ,.,to wear trousers. This I have found myself as a youth). dressing as men, in the eighteenth borrowed from the specimen in the it impossible to substantiate, Rev. The modern pants were not century theatre almost every Platt Hall Museum. And haven't Dr, Simms, the knowledgeable invented until the end of the famous actress appeared at some- the dandies plenty of precedents in Archbishop of Dublin, in a lecture eighteenth century. By the 1820's time dressed as a man, and the history for their fancy shirts and to .us on the unique illuminated the trousers may be said to have convention of a woman playing : their fancy pants ? manuscript the BOOK OF KELLS, established themselves. They were the principal boy in pantomime !

Seamus de Burca. pointed out and proved by actual called pantaloons and were quickly coloured illustrations, that the 8th appropriated by women. In 1860 DUBLIN DISTRICT MILK BOARD century Irish wore knee-breeches, the male trousers were 16" at the and very fancy garments they bottom and plain, but until 1890 ESSAY COMPETITION were. I was a little- disappointed to they were pressed to the side. It Again, this year, three pupils of City Quay Schools received first be informed that I would not have was the Dandy Oscar Wilde who prizes in their classes in the essay competition sponsored by the above been the possessor of these introduced the crease down the body. The subject was "Milk In My Life", breeches if I had lived in those front of the leg. It was after 1900 The prizewinners are: I, Joseph Hoban of 9 Creighton Street, son days, simply because they were the "turn-up" came that of Paddy (leer) Hoban of Tedcastle's on City Quay (camera). 2, Michael worn only by warriors and ser- receptacle for dirt.

Parrott of 35G Markievicz House, son of Bobby Parrott, well-known Anyone who has read literature cargo-handler on Ocean Pier (football). Noel Connor of IG Markievicz vants, and of course I would not have -been either. The· figures, Dr. .. . . Dickens for instance . . . will House, son of Joe Connor, of Wallace's, Ringsend (camera).

Simms pointed out, were in fact have met the euphemism for The boys are aH pupils of the senior classes in City Quay Schools. .portraits of real persons. Tights we t r o users "unmentionables" .

-(Mr. J. Dufficy). find, with most beautiful •and Women's "unmentionables" were intricate patterns, were worn too. naturally not mentioned at all.

-The first reference I found to Catherine de Medici, wife of the breeches was in the Old Testament. French King Henry II (temp. 16th They ,were prescribed as part of a cent.) was the first female in hisJewish Priest's vestments, who tory to wear breeches as underw~re obliged to cover their nether wear. In those days ladies rode pa~ts when prostrated before the side-saddle, and as her legs were A;k. • There is also the famous likely to be exposed during a high "oreeches" worn by Adam and Eve wind, she adopted the male trunks, when they - discovered themselves then called calcons. Culotte is the naked. But the breeches they wore modern French word for the w1re apr()n~ of fig leaves. The female garment. In the famous origins of the '-'Breeches" Bible was Platt Museum, in Manchester, the squeamishness of an early there is a wonderful collection of trans la tor. women's drawers beginning with Jn pictorial art the first trousers the early nineteenth century pantI have seen were worn by women. aloons . . . long· trouserlike linen A~tually by an Amazon wearing an garments with a frill at the bottom.

Asiatic costume in a Greek wall Not until the middle 'of the last pajnting. The date is 500 -years century were drawers generally be1ore Our Lord or 13 hundred wotn at all. I have heard the years before th~ Book of Kells.

Dublin saying, which is probably :The tights we see in that book historical: "She is very respectable, were probably leggings like very her mother wears drawers I" "Wearing the trousers" is a term long . stockings. These trousers seem to have been worn generally of contempt we have he;ird applied in< Europe ·until the middle ag~s. to a married woman who rules Trunk hose were introduced in the over her husband. Chinese women ..... __________ _ 16th century. Knee-breeches were wear the, same garments as the I ,____________________

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TWENTY-THREE

BIRTHDAY _NUMBER

PORT-PANORAMA

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·Darts_Tournament

Congratulations to Martin THE Boar~ now entrusted w!th this important public service w~s Mitten, • who has been elected re-constituted by the -Dublm Port and Docks Act, 1898, and 1t chairman of the Deep-Sea . Port consists of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, six members of and appointed Committee. Martin is, of course, by the Corporation of Dublin; twenty-one elected members; twelve also a member of the Union's The South Central Dart League traders, and nine shippers.

Executive Committee, as well as The standing committees are : looking well ahead of the actual being a Trustee, so his hands· are .contest was held recently, and was a huge success. Sixteen publicFinance; Custom House Docks; requirements of the moment. There pretty full these days. house teams competed, and the , Law and Parliamentary; Quay is no doubt in their minds about Tara Bar team emerged triumphant CONNOLLY MEMORIAL Police; Berthage; Through Rates; the prosperous futur.e of Ireland, winners, beating Joe Kelly's by a Works; Staff; Balbriggan and and .they are ready and well PARADE point.

Skerries; and the Pilotage Com- equipped to deal with all shipping The . narrowness of the win Everybody who saw it agrees mittee, established under the that visits the Port of Dublin, testifies to the keenness with which that the march of the workers on J:?ublin Pilotage Order, 1925. which is the natural distributing the competition was fought, and . JURISDICTION OF centre for the Midlands and West Sunday, May 14th, was the best augurs well for the success of all demonstration for a long time in THE BOARD of Ireland. future contests conducted under memory of James Connolly.

The INDUSTRIAL SITES AND The Board is the Harbour arrival of a large contingent of the auspices of this enterprising Au.thority for the Port of Dublin, OPPORTUNITIES organisation. which, as defined by the Dublin Dublin, the centre of trade for Belfast dockers to take part in the Here are the names of the winparade demonstrated that there is.

Port and Docks Act, 1869, extends Eire, with its facilities for sea and ning team, which won a set of from Barrack Bridge to the Har- rail traffic, is in a desirable position no Border where the workers are cups:bour of Sutton on the north side for the development of industries. concerned, and the Unions were Joe Wade, Joe Crawley, Jim and to the Harbour of Dalkey on This is being recognised by impor- present in strength.

Berry, John Finn, James Finn, Mick the south (excepting thereout the tant interests; and already Tobacco, Donnelly, Tom Metcalfe, ,lQe POPULAR BARMAN Harbour of Kingstown), and pro- Soap, Confectionery and other Regan (Jun.), Pat Brennan, Larry vides accommoda-tion for all ship- factories have been established, ELECTED Byrne, Pat Nugent, D. Tomkins:°It ping using the Port. and enquiries for further sites are f I take off my hat to Seamus Buckley.

THE FUTURE being made.

There is ample And the runners-up, who Nolan, leading member of the staff • The Dublin Port and Docks accommodation convenient ,to of Mooney's of Eden Quay, who received a set of shields, were ~s Board is fully alive to the great Berthage with Railway Facilities; • has just been elected to the follows:extension of Irish commerce which and the future is bright with Noel Holland, Pat· Richardsoh, National Executive of his Union. is bound to take place, and are promise.

The election was very well de- W. Augusta, H. Hill, P. Pidgeoh, served, for Seamus is an· active and Joe Connolly, T. Moore, P. Moore.

PIPE BAND CHAMPIONSHP ? dedicated trade unionist, and all A. Sutherland, J. Harris; The individual winner out of Z8 The Fintan Lalor Pipe Band will National and Labour movements. who' know him are confident he games was Joe Lynch of J. J. travel to Cork on ~aturday, July We· feel sure that the Fintan Lalors will acquit himself well.

2nd, to compete in this year's All- have the best wishes of all our 1 Seamus, by -the way, is a man of Ryan's, who received a specikl F Ireland Pipe Band Championship. readers. To those interested, there considerable literary talent, and is presentation.

The presentation was held at tlie This is the first year that the will be a special •train leaving a leading contributor to his South Wall, • an(I All-Ireland will be held at a Cork Connolly Station at 8 a,m, Price Union's high-quality magazine, "Schooner", Richie Butler did the honours, a~venue, having in previous years, 35/ return, Amiens St. "Banba." He also contributes racy sisted by Tony Q!Brien. Richie since 1945, alternated between and enjoyable articles to "Waterpraised the high standard· of Dublin and Northern Ireland, The TRIP TO BRISTOL front" which are greatly appresportsmanship displayed in the " Lalors" hold an unique position A delegation from the Marine ciated. competition, and thanked the proin this competition, having won the Port and General Workers Union We wish Seamus every success prietors- of the "Schooner", Sea'!l, title more times than any other has just returned from a visit to and "Nobby" Comiskey, for tJi:e band, and on two occasions held Bristol, where they went to_ study in his new responsibility. great help they had rendered fu the record of having won three working conditions, etc. The deleANNUAL DANCE making the tournament a success~ times in succession. In .the early gation included Martin Mitten and years of the competition the band Willie Murphy. We are promised Joe Metcalf filled the cup for the The Sixth Annual Waterfront set a very high standard of piping a report, but from all we have Dress Dance will be held on 14th winners, and • a most • enjoyable and . drumming, which has been heard in the meantime, we are not October this year. All who remem- evening followed, with rousrng maintained ever since. so far behind Bristol and similar ber the stunning success • of last songs by "Sparrow" Smith and The ''Lalors" are well known to ports as might have been thought. year's function will make sure to Andy Sunderland • and others. the readers of WATERFRONT, In iact, in some respects I wouldn't book their tickets early. They will Altogether, a night to remember. their origin and subsequent exist- mind betting we could teach the be well advised to do so, and this Congratulations to all,. and .best. ence being closely connected with Bristol Channel lads a thing or two. applies particularly to parties. wishes for the future o(the. League. ' . .•·

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