1961 - 1964 AD
"Sean Lemass Re - Elected - Bernadette Devlin - Civil Rights Associations."
1961 AD
The
population of the
Irish Republic (26 Counties)
began to increase again and was
now at
2,818,341,
and
the population in the
6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the
9 Counties in the
Ulster Province
by the British Imperial Coalition Government
was now
1,425,642.
The
Irish Republican Government
(26 Counties)
applied for "European Economic
Community" /
E.E.C.
membership again for Ireland.
October:
A "General Election"
was held in the Irish Republic (26 Counties) and
Sean Lemass was returned as the Fianna Fail Prime Minister, and appointed
Charles Haughey
the Minister for Justice,
with "no" political
Sinn Fein Party
members elected at all, while the
Irish Labour Party
under
the leadership of
Brendan Corish were to "increase" their numbers in the
Dail Eireann
/ Irish
Assembly up until
1965.
November:
In the
6 Counties
"artificially partitioned" from the
9 Counties in the Ulster
Province and still under
the control of the
Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government and
Harold Mac Millan the British Conservative
Prime Minister, a
Stormont "Öfficial" Unionist
R.U.C.
police patrol
was" ambushed" at
Flurry Bridge
near Jonesboro
in Co. Armagh in
the south- east of the Ulster Province, which
was "condemned" strongly by
Sean Lemass the
Prime
Minister of Ireland, and he reintroduced
Military Tribunals
after
an absence of
20 years
in
Ireland.
December: National Television was finally "introduced" into Ireland, which was to have a "great impact" on what was really going on in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, for the whole "World" to see, especially the constituents in Britain itself.
1962 AD February 26th: in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, the "Anti - Treaty IRA" who were now under Rory Brady, gave up their previous "resistance" to the British Imperial "Occupation" on the "artificial border"" as there had been 600 individual "conflicts" carried out and the cost to the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government had been 700,000 pounds "damage" with 6 of their R.U.C. police"killed" and 32 injured, along with 9 of the "Anti - Treaty IRA" killed and 46 imprisoned, besides all of those who had also been imprisoned there. The "Anti - Treaty IRA" in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, now "dumped" their arms, giving as their reason, a "lack of support" and the general public's "attitude" towards the whole sorry mess, and rediscovered Socialism through the Wolfe Tone Society and an "Amnesty" was given to all "Anti - Treaty IRA" prisoners who were to be "released."
1963 AD At this time the President of the U.S.A, the Speaker of the U.S.A. House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the Senate and the Chairman of the U.S.A. National Committee were all Irish - American Democrats.
Membership
for
Ireland
was "vetoed" once again by the
E.E.C / European
Economic Community, as was also that of
Britain.
March:
In the 6 Counties
"artificially partitioned" from the
9 Counties in the Ulster Province
by the British Imperial Coalition Government,
Captain Terence O Neill
a Liberal "Official" Unionist,
who had been
born in
London and educated at
Eton and who was later to be created
Lord
O Neill by the British
Government, was to become the "leader"
in the "Officia" Unionist Stormont Government until
1969 and under his administration although he was always talking
about "reform," he
was always subject to "great pressure" from the hard - line
Ascendancy "Official" Unionists there,
especially
William Craig, and
the Rev.
Ian Paisley
the
"diehard sectarian religious extremist."
The Stormont Ascendancy Parliament continued to
"exclude"
Irish
Catholics there from
the
"housing" trusts,
from the Committee
to oversee University "expansion,"
and from the
"Public Boards." Captain Terence O Neill,
had also previously stated that if the
Irish Catholics
in these 6 Counties
in Ulster Province made any money, they would
try and "live" like the non - Catholics,
and so despite early hopes under his administration the "economic and blatant political
discrimination" against the Irish Catholics there was to continue on. Eventually in the future, due to
ever "increasing
pressure" from the
Civil Rights
groups, he was to try to introduce some "reforms," and
was even to meet secretly with
Jack Lynch
who would then be the new
Prime Minister /
Taoiseach of
Ireland,
and the
leader of the
Fianna Fail Party in
Dublin.
Although he was to receive
150,000 messages of "support" for his efforts to bring about
reform, he was
still to be forced to "resign" by the
hard - line
Ascendancy "Official" Unionists,
who were always really
in control in or out of the Ascendancy Stormont Parliament.
who would then
put in "another" of his class and upbringing in
James Chichester
- Clark. who they were of the opinion
would "not bow" to
pressure for Civil Rights
reform there, but he too was soon to be replaced by the
Ascendancy also, and they then put in an even
"more" hard - liner
in
Brian Faulkner as their man, and this was to be all
"stirred" along by the
constant unbelievable "agitation" of the
intolerant Rev.
Ian Paisley
the religious extremist and bigot.
His continual "personal" inflammatory sectarian and ethnic interference, was to bring about many
"innocent deaths" and injuries
to the general population in these 6 Counties whether Irish
Catholic or non - Catholic and this would would finally lead on to
Direct Rule
by the
British Imperial
Government
as their
Ascendancy "experiment"
was to
"fail totally" after causing so much "terrible" wastage, misery,
religious bigotry and a great loss of human life and suffering.
At this time in these 6 Counties in the Ulster Province, the "Homeless Citizen's League" was to be set up by Patricia Mac Lusky at Dungannon in Co. Tyrone in Central Ulster, to try and obtain homes for the Irish Catholic families in the area there.
One third
1/3rd of the
Irish Catholics in these 6 Counties
also accepted the
Stormont
Constitution, while all up
83 % of them at this time
also
"disapproved" of using any type of "force" to try and "end" the "artificial
partition"
of
Ireland.
In the
Irish Republic,
the priests at
the
Ballintober Abbey in
Co. Mayo
in the mid - west of the Connacht Province, that had been originally built by
the O Connor
Kings of
Connacht,
that had been burnt
down by
Oliver Cromwell's forces in
1653 AD,
had still
continued to hold a
Catholic Mass there for the previous
750
years
regardless of what had occurred there. (It
was to be restored up until
1966.)
Roy Johnston the "Socialist" member of the James Connolly Society returned to Ireland from England, where he had been associated with and was influential on Cathal Goulding who had been serving a prison term there for carrying out an "Anti - Treaty IRA" raid and he was then to begin a "new" political programme involving the "Anti _ Treaty IRA," utilising Socialist principles.
Sir Alec Douglas - Home became the new British Conservative Prime Minister until 1964.
1964 AD
Harold Wilson,
became
the new Prime Minister
in the
British Labour Government
until 1970,
and had
made a friendly gesture towards
Ireland
and
Eamonn de Valera,
by
allowing the "remains" of
Roger Casement
to be taken
from Pentonville Jail
in
England and returned
to
Ireland for burial, as he
had personally wished, and a grave had been prepared by the shore of
Mulough Bay in the
Ulster Province
as there had been
many representations made to previous
British Prime Ministers
for his
return, but with no result, as the Imperialist, "Sir Winston Churchill"
had told
Eamonn de Valera
it was
against British Law,
and it
couldn't possibly be done.
Cathal Goulding, who had been influenced by the "Socialist," Roy Johnston, now stated that the "Anti - Treaty IRA" would work within the system to achieve their aims of a re - unified Ireland, and both the "Anti - Treaty IRA," and the "political" Sinn Fein Party, now had a "left wing" political stance.
Brendan Corish was at this time still the leader of the Irish Labour Party.
Sean O Casey
(1880 - 1964)
the "socialist" playwright, who was a Gaelic
speaker, and who had been reared as a non - Catholic, and
who wrote
Juno and the Paycock, and
The Plough and the Stars, died this year.
Brendan Behan
(1923 - 1964)
the well known
Irish writer, also
died this year, and was taken from
Donnybrook to be interred at
Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
In the
6 Counties "artificially partitioned"
from the 9 Counties in the
Ulster Province,
the hard - line religious extremist, the
Rev.
Ian Paisley who was the leader of his own
"Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster,"
which in reality had no connection to the real
Presbyterian Church,
was
finally "jailed"
for promoting anti -
Catholic "rioting" as he had created only "great hardship and misery" for all
of those involved in his own agenda and perilous schemes, while he
pandered to the most "basic instincts" and the
enduring "siege mentality" of his followers there.
Bernadette Devlin who was to play a very "important" role in bringing about "reform" in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, which were still under the control of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Parliament, for which she would "suffer terrible injuries," became a member of the Young Socialist Alliance to try and initially bring about "relief and reform" there in her own home territory.
Patricia Mac Lusky
was also joined in her endeavours by her husband, and the
Homeless Citizen's League
became
now known as the "Campaign for Social Justice,"
to also try and obtain normal
Civil Rights
in these 6 Counties in
Ulster Province, by using "statistics,"
that openly disclosed what was really going on there under the Ascendancy
"Official" Unionist Stormont Government.
October: There was 2 days of "rioting" carried out in Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, when the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont R.U.C. police "raided" the Irish Catholic area in the Falls Road, and 21 R.U.C. and 50 civilians had to be taken to hospital.