much maligned. He was, they say, a socialist who went wrong. didn't really mean to go to the GPO: he meant to go somewhere else. This is rubbish. Connolly knew what he was about just as we, in Ireland today, know what we're about.
We're not willing to accept any London-Dublin accord, or measures that will make my children, or the children of my friends and comrades go to jail again, or die again, or be slaughtered in the streets by the RUC or force that takes over from the RUC.
We have been told that if we accept the London-Dublin accord we can fly the tricolour and I'll be allowed to speak Irish, and put Gaelic nameplates up on the streets, and the RUC will be with the UDR and they won't harass me.
He any half James Connolly British republicans they'll say: happened in March. ple! We beat up five or six hundred loyalists. That must something.' 'Look what We're good peocount for They want to will of the for . And that there is no military solution. Re you cannot withstand another me ment like ine one ourit behind a hunger-striking men of H-block prisoners of Armagh. You have got do something else in this situatie And they said: 'Don't think you cann on the soft wing of the nationalist ef munity in the North, the SDLP, to s port you for as long as you want. will not be able to do that.' The Americans were saying have got to get the Dublin governa on your side absolutely tooth and n And that is exactly what they set abs doing in the dialogue leading up to accord Now, it didn't come as any sur to the Labour Committee on Ire that the British government was able the Dublin government alon because they've always been able to d that. The surprise was how few conc sions, if any, they had to make in ordi to do it.
People have to be aware that there a new situation. For the first time th Dublin government has acceded to th principle of the division of Ireland an the right of Britain to be in the Nort completely against its own constit tion. For what?
What they propose for the runnin of the North is very interesting. Anyon who thinks that the loyalist uprising going to bring down the accord is co pletely wrong. The whole drift of we the loyalists are saying is 'You've got suspend the operation of the accord Are they saying: 'You've got to susper the fact that the Dublin governmet recognises the accord"? No, they're s 'You've got to suspend attemptin to run the North with the cooperatie of the Dublin government. We want yo to do it with us.' If you read the accord - really rea it, and not just the glib explanations t you will see that the mai Tory proposition is to run with a fore of devolved government that will incor porate a moderate wing of the unionis