The Starry Plough

Éire Nua Building Fund
Belfast / Derry

Republican Sinn Féin has secured a premises at 229 Falls Road, Belfast as the organisation's public office in the city. This excellent location near the city centre will give a much-needed focus and morale boost to our growing membership in Belfast and throughout Ulster.

We need £60,000 by contribution or loan to Ard-Oifig, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1 or to the following:

Mary Ward, Co Donegal
Frank McCarry, Co Antrim
Jimmy McElhinney, Co Tyrone
Geraldine Taylor, Belfast
Michael McGonigle, Co Derry
Joe O'Neill, Co Donegal
Mick McManus, Co Fermanagh
Larry McMahon, Co Monaghan

or send a donation to: Éire Nua Building Fund, Bank of Ireland, Main Street, Limavady, Co Derry, a/c number 49431733, quoting the Branch code 90-50-96 or donate by Standing Order.

All donations, large or small, will be gratefully acknowledged.

PRICE INCREASE

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See June edition.


CABHAIR

Irish Republican Prisoners Dependants' Fund

Annual Testimonial & Republican Reunion
West County Hotel
Chapelizod, Dublin

2000 Honorees:
Kitty O’Brien, Munster
Frank McCarry, Ulster
Fred McDonagh, Leinster
Seán McGoldrick, Connacht
Andy Brogan, England

Friday, May 19, 2000
Buffet Supper & Music by
Patsy Farrell & the Connolly Folk Group,
Tickets £10
SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom
The Voice of the Republican Movement
SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom
Issue number 157
May, 2000

DRUMCREE THREATENS AGAIN

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13th ANNIVERSARY FUNCTION
FOR THE LOUGHGALL
MARTYRS
GALBALLY COMMUNITY HALL
GALBALLY
CO TYRONE
FRIDAY, MAY 5
Music by:
Genuine Miracle
Taille; £5
10.30 to late
All proceeds to
Loughgall Truth and
Justice Campaign

* * * *

CRITICAL VOICES
IN A CHANGING EUROPE
PUBLIC CONFERENCE
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
MacNEILL LECTURE THEATRE
HAMILTON BUILDING
SATURDAY, MAY 6
1pm-5pm
Admission: £3
Speakers include
Carol Fox of the
Peace and Neutrality Alliance.

* * * *

SEAN MAC DIARMADA
COMMEMORATION
SUNDAY, MAY 7
KILTYCLOGHER
CO LEITRIM
Assemble:
Straduffy Cross
3pm
Prominent speakers
Wear an Easter Lily


* * * *

NIALL PLUNKET O’BOYLE
COMMEMORATION
KNOCKADRUCE
CO WICKLOW
SUNDAY, MAY 14
Assemble 3pm
at Hollywood


* * * *

PUBLIC DEBATE
CONNACHT
DRAFT WASTE
MANAGEMENT PLAN
CORRIB GREAT
SOUTHERN HOTEL
GALWAY
SUNDAY, MAY 14
3pm
Speakers:
Dr Vivian Heward
Univ of Liverpool
Prof Paul Connett
St Lawrence University
New York
Speakers in favour
of the plan are also invited.

* * * *

REPUBLICANISM
-- THE WAY
FORWARD
PUBLIC CONFERENCE
SATURDAY, MAY 20
10am to 5pm
EUROPA HOTEL
BELFAST
Organised by
Springhill Community House
Tel. Belfast 326722

* * * *

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Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill

A chairde
The Dáithí Ó Conaill Memorial Committee wish to announce that the outstanding debt on the Head Office premises of £1,753 has finally been cleared. It was made possible by our faithful Republican comrades and supporters in general who have kept the donations coming on a regular basis, and in particular by the generosity of an anonymous benefactor who has helped to pay off the final sum.

We intend to keep the Dáithí Ó Conaill Memorial Fund open and appeal to all Republicans and friends to make occasional donations so that some time in the future a further memorial, perhaps in the form of a scholarship, may be realised.

Sincere and heartfelt thanks are extended to all who have made this enormous achievement possible.

Is mise
Cathleen Knowles McGuirk
Cisteoir

Dáithí Ó Conaill Memorial Building Fund


» Drumcree threatens again
» Hamill family's inquiry battle on third anniversary
» British Royal insult endorsed by Primate
» Mortar attack at Roslea Barracks
» Withdrawal symptoms The recent demise of the Belfast Agreement with the bleak prospects for its revival has caused severe withdrawal symptoms among the Provo leadership . . .
» Sectarian attacks in Larne A County Antrim man escaped a horrific death at the hands of a loyalist death squad at the beginning of May . . .
» Band members purged for Republican beliefs The marching Band Federation in the Six Counties, controlled by the Provisionals, has instigated a purge of band members who have Republican beliefs and refuse to tow the revisionist line on the Stormont sell-out. At a recent meeting of the Band Federation in Dungannon, Co Tyrone complaints were made about people in bands with Republican Sinn Féin sympathies. At a subsequent meeting of the committee of one band, the Strabane Martyrs Flute Band, three members were dismissed . . .
» ‘Irishman’ shot dead by British police Harry Stanley (43), originally from Belshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland, was shot dead in London by police snipers in October 1999. His body was left lying in a pool of blood for eight hours, 100 yards from his home in Hackney, London. Harry, a painter and decorator, moved to London six months ago to find work and be near his brothers . . .
» Republican prisoner refused parole Republican prisoner Michael Hegarty was taken from Portlaoise jail on Friday morning, April 7 last to Portlaoise General Hospital where he was given a general anaesthetic while a surgical procedure was performed, according to Joe Lynch Limerick, member of the Ard Chomhairle, Republican Sinn Féin . . .
» RUC ignored attack on women
» Finn Square violent siege A community that largely consists of elderly and disabled people underwent several hours of agony as loyalist youths launched a barrage of missiles at their homes on April 16 . . .
» Review: Irish ballads of American Civil War Irish Songs, Ballads and music of the American Civil War by Derek Warfield (Tape £5/CD £10 from Irish Freedom Press, plus postage) . . .
» ‘Killer Brits Out’ demand families

Easter Commemorations


» Easter Statement from the Leadership of the Republican Movement
» Special Branch assault Republican flag-bearers A large number of 26-County Special Branch police accosted and assaulted two Republican flag-bearers after the very successful Republican Sinn Féin Easter commemoration at the GPO in Dublin on Easter Sunday . . .
» 1916 Easter Commemorations 2000

Gearrscéalta


» Stormont members still being paid


» Happy Birthday, George! Republican Sinn Féin in Ireland sent its warmest congratulations to its Patron, George Harrison, on the occasion of his 85th birthday celebration in New York on May 2 . . .
» UN reports slam British Britain's callous regard for human rights in occupied Ireland underwent a stinging attack from the United Nations in Geneva on April 6 . . .
» Join FF call at Provo meeting Those erstwhile comrades in the Provisionals and the 32-County Sovereignty Movement appear to be mending fences, if a recent public meeting in Limerick is anything to go by . . .

WORLD NEWS


» Who borrowed the Third World’s debts? Noam Chomsky, the distinguished linguist and political commentator puts the facts and the legal case about Third World debts very clearly. Everyone should be clearly informed about this urgent world issue . . .

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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» Comdt-General Tom Maguire Republican Flute Band
SEOSAMH Ó LEOGÁIN
Republican Sinn Féin
229 Falls Road, Belfast
» The Missing Counties
MATT LEEN
Tralee, Co Kerry
» Join With us, Brendan
DAVID CLEARY
Limerick
» Thanks For Support
DOROTHY ROBINSON
Lamberville
New Jersey, USA
» Incineration: The facts
JIM FARRELL
Minneapolis, USA
» Distortion Of truth
JOHN KELLY
Mullingar
Co Westmeath


» Mac Cool: The chicken and the egg
» Fenian Notes
» 50 Years Ago: The 'Wolfe Tone Annual' of 1950

» Catherine Doherty
» Nancy Teehan

»

» Comhbhrón
» I gCuimhne
» Beannachtaí
» What They Said

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