Ellen Farley

Irish Republicans on both sides of the Atlantic were saddened to hear of the death of their comrade Ellen Farley (70) in New Jersey, USA on January 24.

Ellen and her husband Peter were frequent visitors to Ireland since the early stages of the present struggle for Ireland's freedom from British occupation and became totally involved from then on.

They attended many Republican events and visually recorded them and conducted interviews with Republican leaders. These included the funeral of 1916 Veteran Joe Clarke in Dublin and interviews with Máire Drumm, Comdt General Tom Maguire, Seán Keenan, Dáithí Ó Conaill and Ruairí Ó Brádaigh.

Following Máire Drumm's assassination by pro-British death squads in 1976 Ellen and Peter's recordings were used by the US media and received world-wide coverage.

During the 1980-81 hunger strikes Ellen co-ordinated publicity tours, recorded interviews with blanketmen and women and interviewed US Republican activists such as Michael Flannery.

Ellen made her home a safe haven for Irish Republicans for many years in Newark, New Jersey and, since 1987, in Point Pleasant. She was a valued distributor of Republican Sinn Féin publicity material in the US from the newspaper SAOIRSE to press statements, faxes and e-mails.

Ellen and Peter Farley were two of the first voices in the US to support Republican Sinn Féin in 1986. Up to the time of her death she was active in supporting the Republican Prisoners Dependants Fund, CABHAIR and in promoting the ÉIRE NUA policy. She frequently contributed reports of events in the US to this newspaper.

She was born Ellen Monaghan in East Orange, New Jersey and worked there with her late mother Agnes at the Hotel Suburban. She was a legal secretary in the Law Department of the City of Newark before becoming an Essex County Sheriff's Officer.

Ellen became a Superior Court clerk and Chief Civil Assignment Clerk for Essex County Superior Court. She married Peter Farley in 1949 and they and had four children.

A close friend in the US paid tribute by saying that Ellen and Peter exemplified the true meaning of love, marriage and family. Mary Ward, Donegal, represented Irish Republicans at their 5oth wedding anniversary in New Jersey in 1998. That year Ellen and Peter were also the US Honorees at the CABHAIR Annual Testimonial Dinner in Dublin in aid of Republican prisoners.

Ellen was waked at O'Brien's Funeral Home in Brick, New Jersey. Her remains were brought to the Sacred Heart Church in Bayheads for 10am Mass on Friday, January 28, and interred afterwards in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in East Orange.

At the Irish Freedom Committee's Michael Flannery Testimonial in New York on January 29 – fittingly, also in aid of Republican prisoners – a moment of silence was observed in honour of Ellen Farley. Those present spoke of her great spirit and energy in the cause of Irish freedom and the unfailing good spirits she brought to every task and occasion.

SAOIRSE extends deepest sympathy to her husband Peter; her sons Peter and Robert, daughters Patricia Cilli and Theresa; brother Frank Monaghan; sisters Claire Monaghan and Kathleen Murray and two grandchildren, Jennifer and Peter.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam uasal.
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COX, The Ard Chomhairle, Republican Sinn Féin extend deepest sympathy to the family of Des Cox, Armagh who died on February 4. I measc Laochra na Gael go raibh sé.

COX, Deepest sympathy is extended to the Cox family, Armagh on the death of Des Cox on February 4. From Comhairle Uladh, Republican Sinn Féin.

COX, Deepest sympathy is extended to the Cox family, Armagh on the death of Des Cox on February 4. From the Corrigan/McKearney Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Armagh city.

DEEPEST sympathy is extended to the family of the lady in the Liberty Belle on Francis Street, Dublin who always bought SAOIRSE. She died before Christmas. She loved the All-Ireland Republic and the Republic never forgets. From the James Connolly/Tommy O'Neill Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Dublin.

DORAN, The Corrigan/McKearney Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin extends its sympathies to the family of Rosie Doran. One of the characters of Armagh, she was always first on the street with her bin lid in the early 1970s, warning of an approaching Brit foot-patrol. To her husband Eddie, sons and daughters we offer our sincere condolences.

FARLEY, Deepest sympathy is extended to Pete and family on the death of Ellen Farley, New Jersey, USA on January 24. She will be greatly missed. From the staff of SAOIRSE, Dublin. Solas na bhFlaitheas dá hanam uasal.

FARLEY, Deepest sympathy is extended to Pete and family New Jersey, USA on the death of Ellen. From CABHAIR (Irish Republican Prisoners Dependants Fund). Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a hanam uasal.

FARLEY, Deepest sympathy to Peter Farley and family, New Jersey, USA on the death of his wife Ellen. From Mary Ward, Burtonport, Co Donegal. Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a hanam uasail.

FARLEY, Deepest sympathy to Peter Farley and family, New Jersey, USA on the death of his wife Ellen. From Líta Ní Chathmhaoil. I measc Leaba na bhFíníní go raibh sí.

FARLEY, The Ard Chomhairle, Republican Sinn Féin extends deepest sympathy to Peter Farley and family, New Jersey, USA on the death of his wife Ellen on January 24. She will be sorely missed by her comrades in the Republican Movement in Ireland and the USA. Go raibh suaimhneas síoraí dá hanam uasal.

HANNILY, Sincere sympathy is extended to his wife Kathleen, sons Michael and Patrick, daughters Rena and Frances, grandchildren and great-grandchildren on the death of Frank, Co Meath and formerly Co Roscommon. From the Kevin Coen Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, West Roscommon.

HANRATTY, Sincere sympathy is extended to the Hanratty family, Dundalk, Co Louth on the death of their brother Owen in the USA. From The Magill family, Dundalk.

HANRATTY, Sincere sympathy is extended to the Hanratty family, Dundalk, Co Louth on the death of their brother Owen in the USA. From Bearna Uladh, South Armagh, Republican Sinn Féin. Go raibh suaimhneas síoraí dá anam uasal.

HANRATTY, Sincere sympathy is extended to the Hanratty family, Ravensdale, Dundalk Co Louth on the death of their brother Owen in New York. Owen was a true and trusted Republican who worked hard for the cause of Irish freedom. From the Willie Stewart Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Dundalk. Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam.

LANE, Deepest sympathy is extended to Alfie Lane and family, Cork on the death of his brother Leo John recently. From Cumann Mac Curtáin/Mac Suibhne, Sinn Féin Poblachtach, Corcaigh.

MacCARTHY, Sincere sympathy is extended to the MacCarthy family on the death of Tom. From the Willie Stewart Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Dundalk.

MacMANUS, Deepest sympathy is extended to the McManus family on the death of Terence McManus, Kinawley, Co Fermanagh who died recently. He was a brother of the late IRA Volunteer Patrick McManus who died on active service in 1958. From the Coiste Seasta, Republican Sinn Féin.

McARDLE, Sincere sympathy is extended to Peter McArdle, Togher, Cork on the death of his brother who died in England. From the Willie Stewart Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Dundalk.

MESCAL, Deepest sympathy is extended to the family of Sonny Mescal, Kilmurry MacMahon, Co Clare, who died recently. From the Michael Keane Cumann, West Clare.

MESCAL, Deepest sympathy is extended to the family of Sonny Mescal, Kilmurry MacMahon, Co Clare, who died recently. From Nollaig Mac Riastaird, Quilty, Co Clare.

MURPHY, Deepest sympathy is extended to Jason Murphy and family on the death of his father, Edward Murphy, aged 71. From Tadhg Mac an Rí, Limerick.

MURPHY, Deepest sympathy is extended to Jason Murphy and family on the death of his father Eddie. From the Michael Keane Cumann, Co Clare.

MURPHY, Deepest sympathy is extended to Jason Murphy and family on the death of his father Eddie. From Nollaig Mac Riastaird, Quilty, Co Clare.

MURPHY, Deepest sympathy is extended to Jason Murphy and family on the death of his father Edward. From Republican Sinn Féin, Limerick.

MURPHY, Deepest sympathy is extended to Jason Murphy and family on the death of his father Edward. Colm King, Pa Downey, Christy Dunne, Wesley Fitzgerald, Limerick.

MURPHY, Deepest sympathy is extended to Jason Murphy and family on the death of his father Edward. From Joe Lynch, Limerick.

MURPHY, Deepest sympathy is extended to Paddy O'Brien, Limerick on the death of his sister Maggie Roche. From Republican Sinn Féin, Limerick.

MURPHY, Deepest sympathy is extended to Paddy O'Brien, Limerick on the death of his sister Maggie Roche. From Joe Lynch and Mick Hanley, Limerick.

O'DONNELL, Deepest sympathy is extended to Dessie O'Donnell on the death of his sister Angela Prise in London. From Republican Sinn Féin, Limerick.

O'DONNELL, Deepest sympathy is extended to Dessie O'Donnell on the death of his sister Angela Prise in London. From Joe and Nora Lynch, Limerick.

O'DONNELL, Deepest sympathy is extended to Dessie O'Donnell on the death of his sister Angela Prise in London. From Mick Hanley and Christy Dunne, Limerick.

O'SHEA, Deepest sympathy is extended to Jackie Sullivan, Derrymore on the death of his uncle John O'Shea in January. From Kerry Comhairle Ceantair, Republican Sinn Féin.

O'SHEA, Deepest sympathy is extended to Jackie Sullivan, Derrymore on the death of his uncle John O'Shea in January. From the Derrymore umann, Co Kerry, Republican Sinn Féin.

O'SHEA, Deepest sympathy is extended toJimmy O'Shea, Cahersiveen, Co Kerry on the death of his mother. From Kerry Comhairle Ceantair, Republican Sinn Féin.

O'SHEA, Deepest sympathy is extended toJimmy O'Shea, Cahersiveen, Co Kerry on the death of his mother. From the Maurice O'Neill Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Cahersiveen, Co Kerry.

O'SHEA, Deepest sympathy is extended toJimmy O'Shea, Cahersiveen, Co Kerry on the death of his mother. From Catherine Doherty, margaret and John Houlihan, Currow, Killarney, Co Kerry.

O'SULLIVAN, Sincere sympathy is extended to the family and friends of Veteran Republican Michael O'Sullivan, Beaufort and Cahersiveen, Co Kerry who died on January 4. From Kerry Comhairle Ceantair, Republican Sinn Féin.

O'SULLIVAN, Sincere sympathy is extended to the family of Michael O'Sullivan, 2, East End, Cahersiveen, Co Kerry who died on January 4, 2000. From Jim O'Shea, St Joseph's Terrace, Cahersiveen, Co Kerry.

O'SULLIVAN, Sincere sympathy is extended to the family of Michael O'Sullivan, 2, East End, Cahersiveen, Co Kerry who died on January 4, 2000. From Margaret and John Houlihan and Catherine Doherty, Currow, Killarney, Co Kerry.

O'SULLIVAN, Sincere sympathy on the death on January 4 of Veteran Republican Michael O'Sullivan, Beaufort and Cahersiveen, Co Kerry. To his widow Shelia, daughters Nora and Mary, sons Michael and Joe and sister Nora. From Cumann Maurice O'Neill, Republican Sinn Féin, Cahersiveen, Co Kerry.

WALSH, Deepest sympathy is expressed to Colm Walsh, Limerick on the death of his father Christy. From Republican Sinn Féin, Limerick.

WALSH, Deepest sympathy is expressed to Colm Walsh, Limerick on the death of his father Christy. From Seán O'Neill, Limerick.

WALSH, Deepest sympathy is expressed to Colm Walsh, Limerick on the death of his father Christy. From Joe Lynch and Mick Hanley, Limerick.
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I gCuimhne

IN proud memory of all those who died on hunger strike for Irish freedom: Thomas Ashe, Terence McSwiney, Michael Fitzgerald, Joseph Whitty, Joseph Murphy, Dennis Barry, Andy Sullivan, Tony Darcy, Seán McNeela, Seán McCaughey, Michael Gaughan, Frank Stagg, Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, Patsy O'Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Thomas McElwee and Michael Devine. Remembered with pride by Republican Sinn Féin, Limerick.

McGUIRK – 2nd Anniversary. In proud and loving memory of Dermot McGuirk, Dublin, a true and dedicated Republican who died on January 4, 1998. From the Liam Mellows Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Dublin Central.

O'NEILL — 2nd Anniversary. In proud and loving memory of Tommy O'Neill. From the Connolly/O'Neill, Republican Sinn Féin, Dublin South Central.
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What They Said

[The Provisionals leadership] can afford to jettison the base. Their election strength has doubled post-ceasefire, half of the new members support [P]SF so long as [P]SF no longer support armed struggle.
— Member of the Provisionals' military wing, Magill magazine, January 2000.

It is just another tactic.
— Provisional speaking about the surrender of arms, Magill, January 2000. Where have we heard that before?

Evolution has replaced revolution. Symbolic of this shedding process is the fact that when Minister McGuinness is in his departmental office he discards the big green POW ribbon that elsewhere adorns his lapel,
— Ed Moloney, the Sunday Tribune, January 16, 2000. Take it down from the mast, Martin . . .

The significant decision last week was the move by [Stormont] assembly members to vote themselves a generous redundancy package -- half annual salary -- in the event of them losing their jobs.
— Ed Moloney.

It is virtually impossible now to recapture the sheer filth of the racist terrorist white regimes of the American south, that pioneer of Herrenvolk democracy, where poor whites, of whom there were many, could savour a feeling of superiority to their axiomatic racial inferiors that enabled them to indulge an exhilerating sense of spiritual, if not social, solidarity with the ruling elite of the world.
— Joe Lee, Professor of History in UCC, in the Sunday Tribune, January 23. Could not this analysis be applied to parts of the Six Counties?

Blacks, however, were deemed to be sufficiently threatening to have to be kept in their place by regular exhibitions of ritualised lynchings, reaching their peak with the Ku Klux Klan, that body of fine citizens in the view of Bob Jones of university fame.
— Joe Lee. And do not elements of the British-backed loyalist death squads fulfil the same role in parts of the Six Counties.

Most of political life consists, wisely, of compromise. But there are basic principles which cannot be compromised. Racism has to be one of them for any civilised society.
— Joe Lee. Is not the right to national freedom and independence another principle which cannot be compromised?

Nationalists and republicans will have to take a lot on trust from Peter Mandelson and his British government colleagues when it comes to implementing key sections of the Patten report on future policing in Northern Ireland.
— Ed Moloney, Sunday Tribune, January 23, 2000.

. . . from a sporting and cultural point of view it is interesting that, somewhere along the line, it has become part of the shorthand of the media debate about policing to invoke Rule 21 and push and prod at the GAA for some sort of contribution to the political discussion. There is a clear agenda at work here. As the other elements of the Patten debate become bogged down in recriminations about badges and disagreements over redundancies, it is the GAA that is expected to provide some momentum to a process that has slowed to a crawl.
— Des Fahy, 'Out of the North' column, Irish Times, January 26, 2000.

. . . These are clearly difficult times for the GAA, It is under intense pressure, just as it [had] been during the very worst years of the violence here when its members were murdered and its clubrooms destroyed. All through that difficult time the association did not deviate from its exclusively cultural and sporting aims. Now, more than ever before, the GAA needs to cling to these same goals and resist the attempts of others to manipulate it for their own political ends.
— Des Fahy.

We were outmanoeuvred on this by the unionists.
— Gerry Adams, BBC, January 29, 2000.

. . . and Peter Mandelson will finally meet his match when he encounters Brian Cowen. [Provisional] Sinn Féin may also discover that 'Biffo' is more than it bargained for.
— Tallyman, Sunday Tribune, January 30, 2000.

Why do Martin McGuinness and Bairbre de Brún maintain the illusion that they are inheritors of [Seán] Russell's republic rather than ministers of the British Crown?
— Steven King, advisor to David Trimble, in the Sunday Tribune, January 30, 2000.

Decommissioning was never in the script that was shown to [Provisional] IRA volunteers and [Provisional] Sinn Féin members. Since the end of the Mitchell review, the [Provisional] IRA has been described variously as “in disarray”, “confused”, “anxious” and “unsure”. Rumours and reports of resignations and departures have abounded. The suspicion they may have been conned is the reason why.
— Ed Moloney, Sunday Tribune, January 30, 2000.

What London wants above everything else is a continuing [Provisional] IRA ceasefire and they will do whatever is necessary to ensure that.
— Tom McGurk, Sunday Business Post, January 30, 2000.

And just in case there is anyone who doesn't fully understand what is going on, the [Provisional] IRA are in the business of utilising a ceasefire tactic to create a new political alternative not a decommissioning tactic.
— Tom McGurk.

On Friday the Euro fell to US$0.975 on foreign exchange markers, signifi-cantly below the parity that the currency's masters never felt it would stoop as low as. This is a fall of more than 15% in the value of the Euro against the dollar since its creation just over a year ago.
— Matt Cooper, Sunday Tribune, January 30, 2000, under the heading “EMU membership may spell economic ruin”.

Countries at different stages of the economic cycle were grafted together [in the EMU] at the one time. This meant that unsuitable economic policies were bound to be applied to some members [of the EU] at entirely inappropriate times. Ireland is going to suffer more than most from this.
— Matt Cooper.

In order to secure civil rights and equality Republicans (sic) comprom-ised and signed the Belfast Agreement.
— Danny Morrison, Sunday Tribune, January 30, 2000. True Republicans have not fought for over 800 years for “civil rights and equality” to be bestowed on us by the British. The goal is now, and has always been, for a British political and military withdrawal.

Tugtar céad faoin chéad do na Gardaí as liosta marfach a ghabháil i gCo Thiobraid Árainn, Dé Domhnaigh.
— Eagarfhocal LÁ (Béal Feirste), Eanáir 27, 2000. Tá sé á rá go bhfuil LÁ i bpóca na Sealadach anois. Cé chomh fada go mbeidh na Sealadaigh iad féin ag cáineadh agus ag daoradh iad siúd atá ag leanúint leis an troid in aghaidh Riail Shasana. (Rinne sé é Feabhra 6.)

I believe there will be some decommissioning before May.
— Brendan O'Brien, journalist, RTÉ TV Primetime, February 1, 2000.

It would be a disaster, to put it at its mildest, if any of the [Stormont Agreement] institutions were to slide (sic).
— Bertie Ahern, Leinster House, February 1, 2000.

Government leaders, most recently Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, and officials with access to security information have accepted the bona fides of Adams and McGuinness as aspiring politicians whose goal is to lead their movement on to a steady constitutional path.
—Deaglán de Bréadún's analysis, Irish Times, February 5, 2000.

That presupposes the ultimate disbandment or withering-away of the [Provisional] Irish Republican Army, an objective the two governments would certainly seek.
— Deaglán de Bréadún.

To propose, in the context of decommissioning, that fudge was acceptable up to the point of signing up, but suspect thereafter, is to suggest that the point of the Belfast Agreement was to create a trap for republicanism. If this is the tactic now being put into effect, we should be clear in our minds that it has no chance of success. Given what is at stakem this alone places its morality in question.
— John Waters, Irish Times, February 8, 2000.
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