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Warner Archive Instant Cult Picks - DEATH IN SMALL DOSES and MRS. BROWN YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER
DEATH IN SMALL DOSES(1957; Joseph M. Newman)
I feel like it was my friend Ned over at the Obscure One-Sheet Blog that first mentioned this film to me a few years ago. It was, at the time, a very tricky film to see as it hadn't(to my knowledge) ever gotten any home video release at all(no VHS even). I finally got a chance to catch it via TCM last year and it was just a hoot. I've oft described it as being sorta like REEFER MADNESS meets WHITE LINE FEVER, but with 'bennies' instead of weed. It's a "Trucker Noir" so to speak. Heading up the cast is the always solid Peter Graves, and he does fine here. The most memorable (and truly nutball) performance comes in the form of a supporting turn from Chuck Connors. Dude is just outta control in this movie. I won't go into it much further except to say SEE THIS FILM. Hoping it'll become more of a camp/cult favorite since Warner Archive put out their DVD last year and now it's found its way to instant streaming in HD!
MRS. BROWN, YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER (1968; Saul Swimmer)
Herman's Hermits were one of many British Invasion bands to rise to prominence in the wake of Beatlemania. While not nearly as charming or talented as the Fab Four, they had their hits in the mid 60s (the first of which being a cover of "I'm Into Something Good" by Earl Jean). "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" was certainly their next most well-known song after that one and it was a staple of the oldies station I used to listen to in high school. In the loosest of loos plotlines, the Hermits must travel around playing gigs in order to raise cash to pay the entrance fee to race their prize greyhound (she's called 'Mrs. Brown' herself). MRS. BROWN is a follow-up film to the Hermits' HOLD ON! which came out in 1966. Of the two films, MRS. BROWN is certainly the more interesting and more fun. I've always found it interesting though that said fun kind of flies in the face of the spirit of the song itself as it is kind of a downer (albeit a catchy one). Regardless, if you're a fan of this sort of energetic, 1960s fluffiness, then this may be just the ticket for you (and I also do love that it was shot in 2.35 to 1 widescreen).
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Erika DeSantis is a enthusiastic Fresh Air Fund host. When the opportunity to be the local host coordinator became available, she jumped at the chance to step up.
Fifteen years ago, when their oldest son was a year old, the DeSantis' hosted their very first Fresh Air Fund child- a good natured 8-year-old boy named Tyriek.
Jeremiah on an excursion with the DeSantis family.
Jeremiah is coming on Saturday to spend his second visit with the DeSantis family in Redding. He is excited that his family will be there in time to see the fireworks at Lonetown Farm.
The 10 year, who lives in Harlem with his mom, April and 17-year-old sister, Bianca, really enjoyed last year's visit. He thought the Maritime aquarium was awesome. He especially liked hiking with the entire DeSantis family which also includes their youngest son, Storm.
Jeremiah loves meeting new people and looks forward to bungee jumping at the mall again.
At his charter school, he enjoys math and science and wrestling.
His mom, April, admits being a skeptical parent at first. But, she and Erika connected over the phone and both decided it would be a good fit.
She liked that Jeremiah got to experience things that were both fun and educational.
The families kept in touch throughout the year. Erika and April are both looking forward to meeting in person on Saturday.
April said it was important to her that both families went through a thorough background check. Families are also matched for interests.
Jeremiah's mom was also happy that her son was comfortable enough to be himself. She feels that experience a different lifestyle and being familiar with diversity is very important.
Erika would love to help you host your own Fresh Air Fund child. Contact her ASAP at 203-253-0833. The deadline is fast approaching!
It's always a bittersweet time for Redding as a popular teacher retires. For the past 22 years, Roni Mikolajczyk has been a smiling and loving presence to both children and adults at RES.
During the Korean War, a Polish/German soldier met a French citizen and fell in love. Soon after, their daughter Veronique was born. They first came to the US when she was 3 but moved here permanently when she was 6.
Veronique, soon to be called Roni, became a P.E. teacher 42 years ago and first worked in the private school world including schools for the deaf, until coming to RES 22 years ago. Roni calls it 42 years of fun!
Roni has 4 children: Michael, an architect; Matthew who is in property management; Andrew, a contractor and Danielle who works at Adam Broderick in Southbury. Roni has 3 granddaughters.
She has an incredible memory for all of her students. She admits to having made amazing connections with the wonderful families she has met.
The little gym Haunted House at Halloween is legendary. She enjoyed the varied reactions of the children who experienced it, including special code words for kids that wanted to go through it and not be scared. Roni has left laminated instructions on how to set up the Haunted House for future generations.
Mrs. M feels that Redding is a special community with uplifting neighbors who are there for each other. When her husband, Marion, passed away several years ago, her RES family helped her through that hard time.
She is also thankful that the school has the equipment for students to try things like snowshoeing.
"Overall, Redding kids always seem so happy to come to school" says the teacher who always makes the kids smile. Roni Mikolajczyk: you're a major reason why!
Roni has a retirement home in Vail, Colorado. She has plans to fill her time with favorite pursuits like photography, pottery, travel and flea markets.
She hopes to stay in touch with the community here and encourages students and parents to email her at TeachPE1@aol.com.
We'll miss you and your ever present laughter, Roni Make-a-light -check!
Redding Police Captain Mark O'Donnell is not saying goodbye to his Redding friends when he retires. The Monroe native and resident's next gig will not be far away.
One of his first jobs was in the security department at Masuk High and now O'Donnell is going full circle by returning to the Monroe school. His role will be as a member of the security staff and not as an SRO or SSO.
When the amiable O'Donnell began in the Redding Police department in 1985, the department was being run by State Trooper Joe Paola. There were 10 officers under Paola. When on a call, the door to the precinct would be locked with a sign to call the state troopers in Southbury if help was needed. A payphone was available outside the door since cell phones were not yet in use.
Redding did not have a dispatcher until 1990.
The popular cop has had many memorable moments in 33 years. One of his proudest is saving an elderly man in 2008. He and Officer Signore were called to the house at 2:15 am and had performed CPR before the ambulance arrived. O'Donnell remembers the man grabbing his arm when he was revived and not letting go. He has an award on his wall commemorating this event.
A favorite traffic stop happened in 1986. He stopped a vehicle speeding on 53 just past the middle school. When he leaned into the Nissan Maxima Turbo, a famous pair of blue eyes peered back. Paul Newman was trying out a new racing engine from Bob Sharp Nissan. After O'Donnell gave the very pleasant Westport native a warning, they started to chat. Newman showed O'Donnell the new engine and then asked to see the engine of the police car. When O'Donnell mentioned that his dad was Newman's meter reader, the star exclaimed, "Bob is your father! Whenever he comes by, he comes in for a glass of iced tea!" O'Donnell said he thought his father was making those stories up!
One last anecdote has O'Donnell accidentally dropping a driver's license on the ground. When he stooped to retrieve it, his pants ripped from seam to seam! He returned the license and backed up slowly. Luckily it was a dark night! And, also lucky that he lived in Redding at the time and was able to stop home for a change of pants. That taught him to always keep a change of clothes in his locker!
O'Donnell has been the captain in the Redding Police Department for 4 years. Previously he was a lieutenant but received a change in rank because the second in command in most CT departments were Captains.
Being on the road was his favorite part of the job and he misses that in his administrative role. He admitted to not missing foot chases though.
He'll mostly miss interacting with the public and staff.
Captain Mark O'Donnell said he is leaving on his own terms and is very satisfied with his 33 years working in Redding. He looks forward to working close to home in Monroe.
We're holding you to that, Mark!


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This year was going to be our last shot at growing tomatoes. The last few summers haven't been too productive on the tomato front and they had started to feel like too much effort for not enough return.
But, guess what - the little red fellows finally came through for us.
We were so close to giving up that I started a tomato tally on the blackboard; we stopped logging tomatoes consumed around a month ago.
We just had too many. In fact we've had an amazing year... starting with 'gardeners delight' which we bought as plants, followed by waterfalls of cherries which we grew from seed and a great selection of weird and wonderful varieties that my sister gave us.
The main bulk of the plants grow by the house up against a warm wall (and across our kitchen window by this time of year). Hugh sunk some much bigger planters into our decking area in the spring and I think these have been the key to our new success, (well those and the weather) but we also sort of shoved in plants in and around the other veg too and they have literally taken over, creeping across every bit of exposed soil - it's a bit like The day of the Triffids out there.
I think the reason I'm so amazed by the harvest is that I really don't think of myself as a garden person. I'm not the green fingered one in my family, and up until five years ago I'd never had a garden at all, ever. I can't quite get my head around the fact that for the last two months we've pretty much eaten something from our garden everyday. I suppose for lots of people that's totally normal; so forgive me for sounding like I think some kind of miracle has occurred... but, um, I kind of do.
I never would have imagined that I'd have enough tomatoes that I'd want to cook with them (ok; I'll stop with this amazement at my garden miracle now).
Heat some olive oil in a hot oven - once it's almost smoking tip in 1kg of halved tomatoes (Gordon says plum are best - but as you can see I used a variety and it worked fine!), an onion cut into rings, a couple of cloves of garlic, a teaspoon of caster sugar and a few thyme sprigs.
Season and cook for 20-25 minutes - adding a few basil leaves just before the end of cooking.
Meanwhile heat up 1 litre of stock and then when the tomatoes are cooked tip them into a pan, discard the twiggy bits of thyme (and in my case the tomato stalks) and then add the stock in.
Gordon says add some smoked sun dried tomatoes at this point and 1tbsp of BBQ sauce. I just added 3 regular sun dried tomatoes.
Bring to the boil and cook for 5 minutes.
Strain the mixture and then whizz up the tomatoes in a food processor, once you have a paste gradually add the stock back in.
When finished you can strain the remaining mixture through a sieve to get rid of any rogue seeds. Because I used lots of cherry tomatoes we had loads of seeds so it was definitely worth the hassle of removing them.
It was delicious - a perfect Saturday lunch.


A puzzle/dexterity game about a photon lost inside a quantum computer. Your goal is to guide the photon to the terminal pad after activating eight 1-bit flip-flops. But the photon is very elusive and cannot be directly controlled. And hence you are given a set of block of various types that effect the photon's direction in some way.
The game is mainly controlled via mouse. Pick a block type from the menu on the left-hand side and place into the game field using a left mouse button. To delete a placed block, right click on it. If you use touch-pad, you may find left click + Shift or numeric keyboard key more handy. You cannot delete a level block, one that you did not place yourself.
As promised, here is a short screencast of the Ookoobah gameplay: http://youtu.be/aiXntST983E.
Version 1.0 was reported to not work on Windows. Meet a fixed version 1.1: https://pyweek.org/media/dl/18/latitude11/ookoobah-1.1.zip.
To enable the editor, pass an additional command-line argument specifying the level name. If a level with the given name does not exist, you'll start with an empty grid and could make a level from scratch. If the level exists, you could amend it.
Once invoked, you'll find a new item "Edit" in the main menu. That's the editor.
and can specify which blocks are locked (level blocks), and which will be moved from the grid to a player's inventory.
Some levels have an optional introductory text that is displayed when a player enters a level for the first time. This text is stored in a file $GAME_DIR/data/$LEVEL_NAME.level.txt and may be edited separately.
To play your new level, simply pass its name on a command-line as shown above and select "Play" in the main menu. If you want to include your level in the standard series, you'd have to add it to the tuple LEVELS in the file ookoobah/game_mode.py.
During the challenge we were very focused on the game itself, and could find time for level creation only on the last day. I should say: coming up with level ideas is hard! Nevertheless we made 15 levels, including 6 tutorials, which should suffice for starters.
But you are absolutely free, even encouraged, to create your own. Please do and share them with everyone. Looking forward to seeing your work!
We are glad to present to you our game Oookoobah.
It's a puzzle/dexterity game about a photon lost inside a quantum computer. Your goal is to guide the photon to the terminal pad after activating eight 1-bit flip-flops. But the photon is very elusive and cannot be directly controlled. And hence you are given a set of block of various types that effect the photon's direction in some way.
The game was written and tested in Python 2.7 under GNU/Linux and MacOS X. Besides Python core libraries the game depends only on Pyglet, which is already included in the bundle. Unfortunately, we could not test the game under Windows, but it should just work. If you face any problem with running our game, please let us know.
The game is mainly controlled via mouse. Pick a block type from the menu on the left-hand side and place into the game field using a left mouse button. To delete a placed block, right click on it. If you use touch-pad, you may find left click + Shift or numeric keyboard key more handy. You cannot delete a level block, such that were not placed yourself.
Left mouse button on an empty grid cell Place a selected block on the grid.
Left mouse button on a placed block Rotate the block.
Left mouse button + Shift; or right mouse button Delete the block.
Arrow keys Move the camera around the grid.
Mouse wheel Control camera zoom level.
Digit keys 1 to 9 Menu item shortcuts.
We are the group of three Perl developers, none of which is a gamedev: kent_turbo, mvuets, and che. kent_turbo has been participating in PyWeeks for quite a long time and has got quite a good experience in making games with a help of Python. mvuets has never programmed in Python before, but always wanted to try it out in real, so PyWeeks seemed to be an excellent opportunity. che joined us as he was interested in Python and gamedev.
All of us have a full-time job, so we were not able to work on the project full day all the week through. Despite that I think we managed to achieve quite a good result. I personally am very happy!
Since the very beginning of the challenge we were using GitHub to coordinate all our code changes. If you are interested, feel free to check it out here: https://github.com/vickenty/ookoobah.
We hope you'll enjoy our little pet. Looking forward to hearing feedback from you.
P.S. I'll make and upload a demo video of the gameplay once I figure out how to compile and run a screencast software on my laptop q-: Stay tuned.


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ABSD vendor Owler officially announced their SalesLoft connector which feeds Owler News and Alerts into the SalesLoft Sales Engagement platform. Owler is one of several content partners that participate in SalesLoft's partner ecosystem. Owler intelligence is delivered via a combination of mined content (news, blogs, press releases), editorial work (funding and M&A announcements), and crowdsourced intelligence concerning competitors, company size, CEO approval, and future expectations.
SalesLoft CEO Kyle Porter posed the problem of engaging prospects as one of quickly understanding them.
How do you portray that feeling? How do you portray that understanding that you know what they're up to? That you know who they are? That you think you can help and you've got hypotheses about their needs? And I think the answer to that is sales intelligence and so for the last few year of my career I've been looking for amazing products that help our customers learn more about the prospects they are reaching out to whether it's the account or whether it's the individual themselves.
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SalesLoft trains SDRs on a 10-80-10 strategy for creating "sincerity at scale." SalesLoft suggests that the first ten percent of the email should have a custom hook from LinkedIn, Twitter, or Owler. The goal is to "find something relevant and connect with them on that level," said SalesLoft SDR Brad Ansley. The 80% message core should focus on how your product relates to their pains. It should not be a feature dump, but must "give them a reason to respond." The final ten percent is a "PS line" to connect on a more personal level (e.g. Congrats on the Pats).
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Spanish poet and essayist Juan Goytisolo once observed that, "A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque." Though I am certain he was not referring to dressage riders, aren't we, in some way, contemporary artists in our own right? In search of elegance and finesse, we explore all we can to refine our craft. That journey, as Goytisolo said, includes the most refined products of the baroque. In this month's baroque issue, we hope to bring you just that.
In our article on the "Breed Unbiased" (p. 30), Australian Nicholas Fyffe does a wonderful job of explaining how he trains his Pura Raza Española, Fiero HGF, as he would the warmbloods in his barn—as an individual.
It is a long journey to training at the upper levels, and Diane Barber does a wonderful job chronicling what it takes to become a master horse trainer in her article about Vivi Garcia, on p. 52. Garcia credits her success to mentor Rafael Soto of the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art in Jerez, Spain.
I had a chance to visit the school during my honeymoon and was inspired by the quality of horsemanship on display in the arena. At the time of my visit, a pupil was working piaffe in the center of the outdoor with the assistance of his trainer while a four-in-hand circled around them, not a single one distracted.
Keron Psillas seems to share my feelings about the region as she paints a picture of Spain as beautiful as I remember in "From Horses to Flamenco," on p. 58. If her stunning photos are not enough to inspire you, check out the gorgeous dressage horses in the baroque gallery (p. 62) for more images of classical breeds from around the world.
For a change of pace, or as Goytisolo calls it, "findings of all styles," check out Carole Grant's training article on straightness in the horse (p. 34). Though we stray from the baroque theme, this article is a must-read from our archives. We have reprinted this how-to as part of our "Dressage Today Classics" series in our anniversary year to revisit the best of years past.
Perhaps another style that will you suit you is "The Clinic" with Susanne von Dietze (p. 26). Her biomechanically based tips are sure to help riders at every level, on any breed—baroque or not. The key is taking what you can from varying approaches to become the best rider you can be. Here is to dressage as art and all of the artists trying to create it.


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Lübz est une petite ville allemande se trouvant au bord du canal de l'Elde dans le Mecklembourg et l'arrondissement de Ludwigslust-Parchim (Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale).

Géographie
Les limites de la municipalité vont jusqu'au lac de Passow au nord, bien que la ville elle-même ne se trouve pas sur son rivage. Elle est bordée au nord et à l'est par des espaces naturels protégés. Parchim est à quinze kilomètres à l'est et Plau am See à environ quinze kilomètres à l'ouest.

Municipalité
Outre la ville-même de Lübz, la commune comprend les territoires des localités suivantes : Bobzin, Broock, Riederfelde, Ruthen et Wessentin.

Jumelages

Toponymie
L'endroit est mentionné comme Lubicz en 1224 (village de Lubec, en polabe); Louize en 1274; Lubicz en 1317; Lubitze en 1318; Lubcze en 1322; Luptz en 1342; Lubisse en 1377; et adopte définitivement la forme de Lübz au .

Historique

C'est en 1224 qu'un village est mentionné sous le nom de Lubicz. Le margrave Othon IV de Brandebourg permet d'y faire construire un château fort, l'. Ensuite Lübz appartient au Mecklembourg en 1328, ce qui est confirmé en 1348 par l'empereur Charles IV. Lorsque la lignée s'éteint en 1471, Lübz entre dans le duché de Mecklembourg. Lübz obtient ses privilèges de ville en 1456.

L'Eldenburg est reconstruit en simple château résidentiel au  et sert de résidence aux veuves de la famille ducale, jusqu'en 1631. C'est ici qu'habita par exemple la fameuse duchesse Sophie (1569-1634), ancienne régente, qui appela les habitants de la ville à la résistance contre les troupes de Wallenstein.

Lübz est dévastée par les troupes impériales pendant la guerre de Trente Ans en 1637, et en proie aux flammes à plusieurs reprises. Le château en ruines est démoli en 1691 à l'exception de la tour du bailliage,l' Amtsturm. Elle abrite maintenant un musée d'histoire locale. On construit en 1759, à la place du château, la maison du bailli, puis un pont en 1774 et une écluse. L'Elde est canalisée et rendue navigable en 1826, avec une nouvelle écluse en 1846. De petites industries s'installent à partir de la seconde moitié du . Le dernier grand-duc de Mecklembourg-Schwerin abdique à la fin de l'année 1918, lorsque l'Empire allemand s'écroule.

Un petit port fluvial est construit en 1934. Une cinquantaine de prisonnières soviétiques sont employées aux travaux du canal pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et un petit camp de prisonniers, dont une plaque rappelle le souvenir, est aménagé en dehors de la ville. Les troupes américaines entrent dans Lübz le  et les Soviétiques quelques heures plus tard. Ces derniers installent leur commandement dans l'ancienne caisse de crédit cantonal (devenue aujourd'hui un supermarché). Quelques mois plus tard, les premières réformes foncières exproprient les propriétés agricoles et les paysans sont regroupés dans des fermes collectives. Différents combinats voient le jour à l'époque de la république démocratique allemande.

La ville a été restaurée après la réunification.

Architecture et tourisme

 La vieille ville avec la place du Marché, la maison du bailli, la roseraie, le Ziegenmarkt (marché aux chèvres),et le pont de l'Elde.
 L'église de Lübz (1570) avec un intérieur Renaissance et la tombe de la duchesse Sophie (morte en 1634)
 L'église de l'ancien prieuré, Stiftskirche
 La tour du bailliage (1308), seul vestige de l'Eldenburg
 La maison du bailliage (1759), agrandie en 1879
 Le pont du moulin
 Les écluses
 le moulin à colombages (1759) avec des bâtiments du
 De nombreuses maisons à colombages
 Le château d'eau (1912-1913)
 La fontaine des Schirmkinder (enfants sous un parapluie) dans la roseraie (sculpteur: Christian Genschow)
 Le planétarium
 Le monument aux morts de la guerre de 1870 (1885), avec des médaillons de Guillaume  et du grand-duc Frédéric-François II (sculpteur: Ludwig Brunow)
La Mecklenburgische Brauerei Lübz fondée en 1877.
 Le monument aux morts de la Grande Guerre (1924), l'aigle qui le surmontait a été enlevée en 1945.

Personnalités
Gerd Wessig (1959-), champion olympique et recordman du monde du saut en hauteur.

Lien externe
   Site officiel de la ville

Références

Ville en Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale

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Thanks to Arthur Penn's 1967 movie 'Bonnie and Clyde', we all know the fiery Bonnie and mysterious Clyde, the American gangster couple who left their mark on history. At 26 years old, Faye Dunaway's stellar performance in her role as Bonnie catapulted her to Hollywood stardom. The role was the turning point of her career and always remained her favorite. Fifty years on, we go back on set of 'Bonnie and Clyde' in a tribute to the spirited blonde who was known for her black humor and unshakeable calm.


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Articles from the Irish Democrat-Irish Echo-Irish Post
This selection covers 1968 - 1979. More articles will be added as time permits.
Some material from the 1980s is now available Ciaran Crossey, 28th Dec. 2004
An additional article, When Shankill came to Bodenstown, was added 14th Jan. 2005
Irish Democrat May, 1968
Donal O'Reilly R.I.P
Under the title "Donal O'Reilly, a valiant man" the current issue of the "Irish Socialist" publishes an obituary over the name of Mr Michael O'Riordan, of one of the most interesting characters of the generation that is now passing. He was buried at Glasnevin on Wednesday, April 10th, the funeral procession containing members of the Irish Workers' Party, leaders of the Labour Party, Fianna Fail, Dublin Trades Council, Plasterers Union and War of Independence veterans.
Mr. Peadar O'Donnell delivered the oration.
He was born in 1903. His father was author of "Wrap the Green Flag Round me" and with his three brothers he was present at the foundation meeting of the Irish Volunteers in the Rotunda Funk.
Though only 14, on the second day of the fighting Donal made his way into the G.P.O. Tom Clarke sent him home, but he returned again.
He was an active member of the Fifth Battalion. Dublin Brigade during the Tan war. He took the Republican side in the Civil War and with his life-long companion Bill Gannon, he was part of the garrison of the four courts, being particularly friendly with Rory O'Connor and Liam Mellows.
Subsequently he joined the Communist Party of Ireland, founded by Roderic Connolly, studied in Moscow and returned to become a member of the Workers' Party.
In his return he was associated with Hanna Sheehy Skeffington in establishing the "Irish Friends of Soviet Russia" and in September 1934 participated Congress in Rathmines Town Hall.
Subsequently he fought on the Republican side in Spain, becoming Political Commissar of the James Connolly unit of the International Brigade. He was wounded in the battle of Cordova.
After the Spanish Struggle was over he returned to his trade as a plasterer in Dublin. Two days before he died he had been returned in his Trade Union elections at the head of the poll, to begin his 24th year as an Executive Member.
A few copies of the Irish Socialist are available at the Connolly Association bookshop, 283 Grays Inn Road, or from the publishers at 16a Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
The Irish Democrat, July 1970
Ben Owens R.I.P
The death of Ben Owens on June 6th, at his home in Brighton, removes from the scene one of the great statwarts of the Irish and working-class movements. He was 81.
Born in Castlewellan, Co. Down, he emigrated to Scotland in his teens to join an uncle at Coatbridge or Motherwell. It was here that he had his first introduction to socialism. An open-air meeting was in progress, one of the speakers from the British Socialist Party attracted the attention of a group of apprentices, and if it was with difficulty that his uncle, a very pious man, dragged him away and warned him never to go listening to that sinful stuff.
Nevertheless he did go back and became a life-long socialist, a member of the I.L.P and later of the Labour Party, but within these always well to the left.
He declined military service in the First World War and was "on the run" for a while. After the war he was one of the first members of the Irish Self-Determination League, having by then moved to England and started up in business for himself.
In the thirties Ben Owens was active with who fought against the extension of fascism. He supported the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, and became attracted to the London branch of the Republican Congress. When this merged with other Irish organisations to establish the Connolly Association, he became a founder member.
At this time Ben Owens ran a restaurant which is now owned by Indians at the Kings Cross end of Grays Inn Road. He converted the first floor of this restaurant into a small dance hall for the Connolly Association, which used then to meet in Britannia Street. He stored its banners and equipment in his cellar, and his café was a rendezvous for much of the Irish political community in London.
Early in the war he went to live in Belfast, but around 1950 returned to England and settled in Paddington where he set up as an hotelier.
I remember him telling me of the questions asked by the bank when they saw all the co-operative cheques he was receiving. I had never realised they scrutinised so closely. He was a strong co-operator, and a generous donor to a variety of causes, which included the Irish Democrat and the Morning Star (then the Daily Worker).
After a serious illness at the age of 70 he retired from the hotel business and settled in Hove. There he remained of the Labour Party and was constantly in touch with all progressive developments.
Vastly experienced in the ways of the world, Ben Owens had a shrewd political head. He used to visit South Africa during the winter on grounds of health. He brought many a diagnosis which proved correct.
His kindliness, generosity and integrity were appreciated by all who knew him, and in the words of the late Billy McCullogh of Belfast, he was "one of the best".
, June 23rd 1979
Frank Ryan comes home
If Frank Ryan had not gone to Spain in September 1936 to fight on the Republican side in the Civil War – where he subsequently became leader of the English-speaking formations of the International Brigades – there would still be an important place for him in the pages of Irish history.
Born in East Limerick village of Elton in 1902 of Parnelite School – teacher parents, Frank's childhood involved roaming the Galtee Mountains and the shores of Lough Gur searching out the ruins and relics of ancient Ireland.
At 18 he was on the hills with a rifle, doing those things that apparently had to be done to win the struggle for national independence. In between he had spent a term at St. Coleman's College in Fermoy and from there went to Rockwell College in Tipperary where they tried to shape him for the priesthood but failed.
When the dark clouds of the Irish civil war broke open over Dublin, soon swamping the entire country in internecine conflict, Ryan was off again with the flying columns until the Free State army captured him and locked him away.
When he was eventually released, he entered University College, Dublin, aided by a grant from Limerick County Council. There he specialised in Celtic studies and languages.
For a time in the late twenties, he worked for the Irish Tourist Bureau – the forerunner of Bord Failte. He was also a prominent member of the Gaelic league during those years and active in the Republican movement.
In the early Thirties, he was appointed editor of An Phoblacht, the weekly newspaper of the Republican movement.
All went well for a while until it occurred to Ryan and others ideologically close to him – such as Donegal scholar Peadar O'Donnell – that a radical departure was required which would expand the social base of Irish Republicanism. This 'revisionist' reasoning was given added momentum by the spectacular victory of De Valera and Fianna Fail in the 1932 general election.
From the arguments provoked by Ryan and the supporters inside Irish Republicanism, there first emerged the radical organisation Soar Eire and, in 1934, the Republican congress. Quintessentially, the difference between Ryan/O'Donnell and the traditional wing of Republicanism was one of the priorities and tactics. Where the old school believed that the movement was exclusively concerned with national reunification and independence, the congress faction held there was also a 'social question' in which the general well-being if Irish workers and their families, including Ulster Protestant workers, should receive as much attention as the campaign against partition.
But the tradionalists interpreted this as a division that would sap the national will for realising a 32 counties republic. Moreover, Ryan and his colleagues were seen to be akin to Marxists.
So, inevitably, paths diverged. The Frank Ryan/Peadar O'Donnell camp got involved in unemployment demonstrations, in land agitation and in ventilating plans for the creation of a socialist-type planned economy.
Then in 1936, as the Republican split remained unresolved, the simmering conflict between democracy and facism erupted on the European stage. With fascists already in power in Italy and Germany, General Franco now embarked on the same dictatorial road in Spain – where he proceeded, initially, to use Moorish troops to overthrow the democratically elected, left orientated Republican government.
Though Frank Ryan and his Republican Congress associates deplored these continental developments, the probability was that they would have been prepared passively to observe them from afar. Then General Eoin O'Duffy, the ambitious police chief who had been dismissed by De Valera. Announced his intention, to bring a contingent of Irishmen with him to Spain and fight for Franco.
To finance O'Duffy's crusade, an 'Irish Christian Front' was founded. It held mass rallies and collected tens of thousands of pounds, thereby enabling O'Duffy and seven hundred of his followers to travel to Spain.
The political implications and swiftness of O'Duffy's action had the effect of galvanising Frank Ryan and his supporters into forming an opposing expedition. In September 1936, Ryan led 133 Irishmen onto Spanish soil to defend the Republican Government against the fascist onslaught.
After a few minor engagements, in which they suffered two casualties, O'Duffy's Irish Brigade lamely returned home. O'Duffy himself soon faded into political obscurity and his blueshirt movement disintegrated.
In the various sectors of the Spanish war front, the fighting was brutally fierce – Franco's forces having been enjoined by troops from Germany and Italy. Thus the International Brigades were largely a response to the combined fascist armies. The brigades consisted of manual workers, intellectuals, writers and poets, drawn literally from the four corners of the globe. But the Anti-Franco forces were often not ideologically united among themselves and there were shootings behind the lines as well as at the front. Frank Ryan and his Irish section remained aloof from this feuding.
In 1937, while recovering from a war wound, Ryan returned to Dublin where he joined big Jim Larkin as the election hustings. He stood as a candidate in a North Dublin constituency and receive over 700 votes.
Then back to Spain and into the thick of the war. By now Ryan was second-in-command of the entire International Brigades.
It perhaps should be mentioned that many of those who were Ryan's subordinates later achieved political prominence and leadership in their respective countries. Foremost in that regard was a Croatian locksmith named Joseph Broz – in later years known to the world as president Tito.
Of the 133 Irishmen who originally went with Ryan to Spain, 63 were killed, while during the whole three-year-war over two million people were killed and injured.
By 1938 Franco had won and amongst the many prisoners was Frank Ryan. He had been captured by the Italian fascists who took him to Burgos jail in Northern Spain, where he was tortured. He would almost certainly have been executed because of his high rank were it not for the intervention of Eamon De Valera who sent an emissary direct to Franco. The then Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Dr. Paschal Robinson, also assisted, as did others.
Eventually, Frank Ryan was removed from Burgos jail and given into the custody of German military intelligence. They took him first to Paris and later to Berlin. He was treated well and the Germans attached some political importance to him – in the context of his influence in Ireland and as a link with, on the one hand, De Valera and, on the other hand, the IRA.
Meanwhile, the IRA had launched its bombing in Britain and the organisations chief-of-staff, Sean Russell, arrived in Germany, via the United States. On 8th August 1940, Russell and Frank Ryan were aboard a submarine which left the port of Wilhelmshaven with the objective of putting them ashore on the West of Ireland.
The precise objective of this mission has never been revealed. Back in 1934 Irish Republican split, Russell and Ryan were on opposite sides. Russell was certainly in Germany seeking support for the new IRA offensive. It remains unclear whether Ryan was to join that campaign or was simply availing of the submarine to get back to Ireland.
But neither of them made it. As the submarine approached the Irish coast, Russell became seriously ill. A few hours later, he died in Frank Ryan's arms.
Reporting back to Berlin on the situation, Commander Von Stockhausen received new orders. The submarine was to return to Germany. With Russell dead, the objective of the journey could not be achieved.
So the submarine turned around and, on the way back, Russell was buried at sea. Frank Ryan was now back in Germany and with little immediate hope of seeing Ireland. Some who met him during the subsequent four years in Germany recall him being unhappy and frustrated – forever talking and dreaming about Ireland.
Despite being a huge and powerful man, his health and indifferent as a result of the ill treatment he received in Burgos jail. He was now living in bomb-ravaged Dresden and he died there in June 1944 in the presence of his German girl friend who was also a nurse and who had been taking care of him. It is understood that she is still alive in East Germany.
With his premature death, both Irish Republicanism and Irish Socialism lost their most important activist and political thinker since James Connolly. This week, coinciding with the 35th anniversary of his death, Frank Ryan finally returns to Ireland.
The Irish Post July 14, 1979
Dolan In Spain
There are some interesting letters on page 6 regarding Frank Ryan and Irish involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Both points of view are expressed. Indeed, I would say that both are reflected accurately in synopsis.
My attention here is not to comment but rather briefly to tell the story of another type of Irishman who fought in Spain. He is Brendan Moroney from Ennis, Co. Clare, and he lives in London. A colourful character, he is known to thousands.
Brendan's family had a British army tradition. It wasn't political – simply a tradition. Politically they were Dev supporters and Dev was, of course, the local TD. Being a Dev supporter meant that one was anti-Blueshirt and forcefully so.
Brendan joined the Irish guards as a youngster and among his army mates was the inimitable Jack Doyle. Having done his army spell, Brendan returned to Civilian life in London but didn't like it. He was restless and, largely because he fancied the action, he decided to join in the war in Spain.
Being anti-Blueshirt, there was never any doubt as to which side he would be on. But he certainly wasn't an IRA-type Irish Republican or a doctrinaire Socialist as were the members of the Irish contingent that Frank Ryan led to Spain.
Via France
The way to go to Spain from London was via the British Communist Party. One went along to their office and was given £3 and a weekend ticket to Paris. There one was met by a given destination and taken by train to the south of France and from there into Spain by coach.
Brendan arrived in Spain on December 6, 1936. He was there two weeks before Frank Ryan arrived with the first of the Republican Irish contingent.
But they met and, when Frank was being issued with his uniform and kit, he gave Brendan his leather coat. Brendan didn't go to the front right away because he contracted typhoid fever. But the following March he was in action – as runner for a commando battalion mainly made up of French and Dutch.
They were a mixed bunch and some had little idealistic commitment. One evening a drunken platoon officer drew a gun on Brendan. There was a fiery verbal exchange and the officer fired. Brendan was wounded. The OC was a Russian general. The officer was arrested and would probably have been executed had not Moroney intervened on his behalf.
The two met some time later and got drunk together. On another occasion Brendan got into a row with a fellow-Irishman – Paddy Lane from Tralee. He was an IRA man and referred uncomplimentary to Dev. This was sufficient for Moroney, a useful man with his fists, to belt him. He was hauled off to jail.
"I was wearing one shoe, a shirt and trousers. There was no trial and no guarantee that one would ever get out". Brendan recalls.
He already spoke reasonably good Spanish, but in jail he became fluent. After three months and no little ingenuity, he was released, given 15 days', convalescence and then shipped into action again.
Years later in London during the blitz, Brendan bumped into Paddy Lane and they became firm friends. It was a savage war – no quarter given and with extraordinary and at times inexplicable heroism.
Leader of men
Moroney met Frank Ryan twice afterwards. He doesn't consider him to have been a soldier of significance. Indeed, he questions whether Ryan held the high rank which was subsequently attributed to him."He was certainly a leader of men and a fine journalist, but not a soldier. He was a fine man", Brendan says.
The Co. Clare man man found himself in an unusual position. Not being of IRA disposition, he had little in common with the Frank Ryan type. He had less in common with the communists who were considerably more numerous on his side of the war. But he had nothing at all in common with Franco and the Fascists.
But he was still a soldier by training and he continued, was wounded and made many friends. But eventually the time came to disengage. It wasn't his war to the bitter end. His battalion treated hungry and haggard and he himself came out, with aid from the British consulate, aboard a British ship and posing as a merchant seaman.
In 1970 – 32 years later – Brendan and his wife went back to Spain on holiday. He sought out the hotel in Las Villas de Benicasim on the east coast where, back in 1937, he had been tended when wounded. The hotel was then being used as casualty clearing station.
Franco was still in charge in Spain and Brendan wasn't too keen on being identified as somebody who fought against El Caudillo in the civil war. But a woman at the hotel recognised him. They talked of the old days, apparently, she kept the knowledge of his visit to herself.
The foregoing is but a vignette of Brendan Moroney's war in Spain. He actually should have written a book about it, for his story is full of colour and adventure. He also had a political detachment, which allowed him to see the war and its characters without the emotionalism and fervour, which gripped most others. The fact that he acquired fluent Spanish early on and mixed with a whole range of nationalities added to his perspective.
Brendan is, of course, still very much hale and hearty and if he hasn't been in any wars recently it has only been because the passing of years has brought with it a fair share of common sense.
But then, we were always on the continent when fighting had to be done. Over the past 300 years more Irishmen died fighting for France than for any country. Britain is second. It's difficult to be sure about third position but it's probably America (Washington's army and all of that). But, fair play to us, the chances are that Ireland is fourth.
Irish Post July 14 1979
Memories of Frank Ryan
I was especially fortunate to have been shown your issue of June 23 by an Irish-German family. The result was that I had the pleasure of reading that first-class article on the life and times of Frank Ryan. It evoked memories and emotions – both happy and sad.
Together with two other members of the family (one lost in the Egro Battle). I had the honour of serving with Frank Ryan. It wasn't with the Irish contingent but with the Germans in the fifteenth Brigade. It was a source of much personal comfort and pride to know that men of such quality were our comrades.
Our mother, a Kerry woman, used to say: "It does not matter where the seed is blown, the beautiful flowers will come up beautiful anywhere". Frank Ryan was indeed one of Ireland's most beautiful flowers.
Joachim Flomm
Passauet Strasse
Galgenberg 9,
Vilshoven
Nieder Payein
I was delighted to read in your issue of June 23 that the remains of Frank Ryan were brought back to Ireland for burial at Glasnevin Cemetery. It made my day.
I knew him well. He used to come quite often to Co. Wexford in the mid-thirties. I remember him giving a number of lectures in Wexford and Waterford in 1935. He made many friends on those visits.
I myself would have gone to Spain with him except that I broke a leg. I later had a letter from Peter Daly. He was first left back row in that photograph you published. He died in action at Christmas 1936.
Unless I am mistaken the man in the beret in the front row of the photograph was Tom Patton and Achill Island. He too was killed in Spain.
Aidan O'Leary
76 The Grove
Ealing, London W5.
I thank you for publishing Pat O'Donovan's splendid article on Frank Ryan in your issue of June 23.
There have been few Irishmen of his stature in this century and he embodied the twin goals of socialism and republicanism, which may yet be called upon to save our beloved country.
Frank Ryan deserves to be remembered wherever Irishmen and women place a value on social justice.
I am glad too that you did not waste much time on Eoin O'Duffy's ridiculous 'crusade' in Spain.
Eoin MacNeill
24 Sarum
Roman Wood
Bracknell, Berks.
Your article of June 23 on Frank Ryan and the Spanish Civil War should not result in us forgetting the facts. The Republican Government in Spain had become a dictatorship. Those who opposed it were shot. It was supported by Communist Russia and the Marxists in Britain. Franco fought against communism. He fought against a Government whose troops desecrated and burnt churches and convents and murdered priests and nuns.
Morocco was then a Spanish colony and there was nothing unusual about Franco having Moroccan troops.
General Eoin O'Duffy played an important part in restoring law and order in Spain. To Ireland's credit he and his men went in when Franco's side was out numbered twenty to one.
Let's remember too Pope Pius' words when he congratulated General Franco by telegram in September 1939: "A magnificent Catholic victory for Spain", he said.
Without those sacrifices, Spain would have been a communist country for the past 40 years.
Thomas K Conney
The Irish Post, July 21, 1979
Dolan – Incentive
I finished last week with a quip about those Irishmen who over the centuries "won every war but their own". Since then a very interesting document has come my way from L. Collins in Southsea, Hants. It is the address to Eoin O'Duffy and the Irish Brigade who were on their way to fight with Franco in the Spanish Civil War. The address was delivered at the Irish National Church, Lisbon, on November 26, 1936, by the rector, Fr Paul O'Sullivan.
The document is too long to reproduce in full but I will summarise. It begins by reminding them that they are in a church, which for 300 years has honoured St. Patrick. It goes on: "You are fighting in God's holy name, for God's glory, in God's defence, to save our holy faith, to save Christianity, to save the world from the fiendish atrocities which have been perpetrated in Russia, Mexico and now in Spain".
Next comes a quotation from the then Pope in addressing Spanish refugees in Rome in the previous September 14. He told them that Franco and his side of Spain were "defending and restoring the rights and honour of god and religion".
Fr. O'Sullivan went on to state that O'Duffy and the Irish Brigade were about to engage in "the holiest war that was ever waged on this earth".
Lest anybody missed the gravity of that, he elaborated: "Of this there can be no doubt, for never in the history of this sad world did human monsters rise up in battle against God himself; never did men dare to make war against the almighty personally, directly, with such satanical hate. The bolshevists against whom you go to fight have in their insane fury declared that they will hurt the creator from his throne. What demoniacal blasphemy!"
But this wasn't even half of it, Fr. O'Sullivan hadn't as yet reached full flight. He went on to describe how vulnerable bishops, aged priests, holy nuns were being "outraged, butchered and hewn to pieces with hatchets, soaked in petrol and burned alive".
Diocletin
Then he reached crescendo: "Never have we heard, even in the days of Nero, Domitian, Diocletian, never can amongst the most barbarous hordes, that innocent children were cut in pieces, that the bodies of the dead were exhumed, insulted and profaned. You are going to fight these monsters who are more like demons let loose from hell than mortal men, more fierce, more depraved, more godless than Turks or Moslems.
"Go, my friends, fight manfully, give your blood, your sufferings, your lives for your God. Die with these dispositions and you are martyrs."
At this stage he was half way and he continued in like vein. I'll tell you this if you were in the Irish National Church, Lisbon, on November 26, 1936, you would at that stage either have your coat off and be roaring for blood or else you'd tighten your coat and run like hell for home and sanctuary.
This type of hysteria wasn't, of course, confined to an Irish priest in Portugal. It was being preached from many a pulpit in Ireland and who's to blame the young lad who was swept along on the tide?
Luckily, O'Duffy's brigade didn't dig in too deeply in Spain, and, as far as I am aware, all come home with their scalps still intact.
Actually, O'Duffy was a very interesting Irishman and it's surprising that nobody (at least to my knowledge) had done a biography. Many years ago, while researching another project, I came across much correspondence and other items, which had to do with him. He was an outstanding performer in the early struggle, not alone for Irish independence but also for a Gaelic Ireland. He was very much involved, for example, with the GAA, at a time when that organisation was an intergal part of the Gaelic and independence movement.
He a superb organiser and few worked harder or with more dedication in those years. He served several terms of imprisonment, was director of organisation of the IRA in 1921 and the following year became chief-of-staff.
He favoured the Treaty – in the manner of Collins and most others of an IRB background. He was appointed first commissioner of the Garda by the Free State Government and at that first stage was only 30 years of age. He held that office until being fired by Dev in 1933.
He was still a young man with considerable personal ambition. Frustrated and aggrieved, he founded the Blueshirts probably out of personal vendetta. Then came Spain, which was largely an anti-climax. Thereafter he took no part in public life but lived until 1944. Following his death in November of that year he was given a state funeral.
Whatever about O'Duffy post-Treaty, this man from Castleblayney was among the bravest and most dedicated in pre-Treated days.
He deserves to be remembered and judged not just for Spain or the Blueshirts, but also for the entire span of his active life.
Irish Post August 11, 1979
Rise and fall of the Blueshirts
A series of letters on O'Duffy
That profound generosity of spirit
I must take Thomas Conney (July 14) to task when he claims that General Eoin O'Duffy played an important part in Franco's army in the Spanish civil war. I don't know if Mr. Conney was there. I was, Frank Dolan recalled my escapades in his column in that same issue.
O'Duffy was never acknowledged in Spain as an officer – much less a general. The one or two engagements that he and his men took part in were fiascos. They were mighty glad when de Valera sent a ship to rescue them.
The Republican government was never a dictatorship. On the contrary, it would have had a popular victory were it not for the intervention of Italy, the intervention of the German airforce and the non-intervention treaty brought about by Baldwin's reactionary Tory government.
In this regard it must be remembered that Germany and Italy were flexing their muscles in preparation for World War 11.
The popular front government in France supported the Republican government in Spain and were it not for its help we would not have fought so long and so well. We lost when the French popular front collapsed.
I would also like to refer to some Irishmen, apart from Frank Ryan, whose memory I shall honour to the day I die. They epitomised the great attributes of our race. I know that I will be allowed space to name but a few, but I start with the name of Captain Paddy O'Dare and follow with Lt. Col.Jock Cunningham (Scottish-born of Irish parents), Joe Monks, Frank Edwards, Jim Prendergast, Mickey Duff, Jack Nalty, Kit Conway, Peter Darby, Peadar Flanagan, Charlie Donnelly, Paddy Kelly and Paddy Roe.
Most of them died in action or from war wounds.
Paddy Roe, I hope, is still alive. He was a great warrior.
These are but a few of the Irishmen who came from many parts of the world to fight for freedom and democracy and for the Spanish people.
Before I left for Spain and throughout my service there, I was never other than a practising Catholic. The leaders of the International Brigade whom I knew personally always backed me in my religious convictions. We had many a verbal battle with the political commissars.
The world will never appreciate the profound generosity of spirit of the International Brigades. A lot of propaganda was made of the burning of churches. There was a long and savage war in process. Many buildings suffered. Yes in certain parts of Spain mobs burned or partly burned churches. That was only after anti-catholic feelings were stirred up by bishops who advocated the overthrow of the legitimate republican government of Spain.
I would estimate that only 20% of the International Brigades were Communists. The remainder were simply anti-fascists.
When I went back to Spain in 1970 I was on various occasions in conversation with a cross-section of people who had no knowledge of my involvement in the civil war. Franco was still alive but these people spoke in glowing terms of the International Brigades – men who, with a generosity of spirit, came from all over the world to fight in the cause of democracy.
In conclusion, I must with reverence mention the name of a school friend, Miko Russell from Ennis, another of those gallant men who died in action.
Brendan Moroney
London W10
I was surprised that Frank Dolan, in his column of July 21, should appear to know so little about the Blueshirts as to assert that the movement was founded by General Eoin O'Duffy.
The Blueshirts grew out of the Army Comrades Association, which was an organisation of former members of the Irish Free State Army who had fought against de Valera's republicans in the civil war.
In the general election of 1932, which brought Fianna Fail to power for the first time, the ACA came out to protect the meetings held by the outgoing government party, Cumann Na nGaedheal, which were being attacked by de Valera supporters.
By then, the joint leaders of the ACA were Dr Tom O'Higgins and Ernest Blythe, both of whom were ministers in the outgoing government. The blue shirt was adopted by the ACA early in 1933 and was first worn by six members in Kilkenny on Easter Sunday that year.
Later in 1933, O'Duffy, chief commissioner of the Garda Siochana, was dismissed by de Valera and replaced by Col. Broy. But it was not until the following year that he was invited to become leader of the ACA. At the meeting in the Royal Hibernian Hotel, Dawson Street, Dublin, at which he became leader, it was decided, on O'Duffy's suggestion, to change the name to the National Guard.
When the National Guard was banned by de Valera, it changed its name to the League of Youth, and when that, in turn, was banned Youth Ireland took its place.
The Blueshirts later merged with Cumann Na nGaedheal and the Centre Party, which was led, by Frank McDermott and James Dillon and the new party was named Fine Gael. O'Duffy became president, while William Cosgrove, McDermott and Dillon were vice-presidents.
But O'Duffy, who had converted to the corporate state, was frequently at loggerheads with his vice-presidents and an irrerarable split came in 1935. For a brief period there were two groups of Blueshirts – O'Duffy's called the National Corporate Party, and the Fine Gael section led by Commdt Ned Cronin. Neither survived long afterwards.
By the time the Spanish civil war started, the Blueshirts movement was a dead duck. O'Duffy was at a loose end and he recruited 500 young men to go with him to fight in what many Irish people believed to be a holy war. Many of the 500 were unemployed and certainly not all were former Blueshirts.
Contrary to what Frank Dolan says, they acquitted themselves honourably. Some, including Tom Hyde of Cork, were killed and others, including Col. Tom Carew of Tipperary, were wounded. They were withdrawn because de Valera refused to allow a further 1,500 volunteers to embark at Passage East, Co. Waterford.
O'Duffy served his country nobly in the struggle for independence and in building the police force. His intervention in the Spanish civil war had the backing of infinitely more Irish people than that of Frank Ryan, who threw his lot in with the Communists.
The first foreign troops to intervene in Spain were the Russians. This brought the Germans and the Italians in on the Franco side and no doubt prolonged the struggle. Despite Frank Dolan's apparent disbelief, priests and nuns had been murdered before the Franco uprising. Franco had far more Spaniards with him than against him. It would be difficult to deny Spain's need for a dictatorship in the period immediately following the bloody struggle. But it would be equally difficult to justify the denial of democratic government until after Franco's death.
Franco's memory may be sweeter to the Spaniards had he stepped down immediately after World War 11.
A.J. Travers
22 Sunningdale Road
Essex.
In all the letters about Irish involvement in the Spanish civil war, nobody has taken up Frank Dolan's very valid point that the Irish – whether with O'Duffy or Frank Ryan – had no business being there.
It is significant that as many Irishmen went to Spain as turned out with Pearse and Connolly on Easter Monday 1916.
Dolan suggested that Ireland comes fourth in the list of countries for which Irishmen have died. He listed France first, followed by England and then America.
Somehow I doubt if Ireland ranks fourth. I would submit that more Irishmen died fighting for the Austrian Empire than for Ireland.
But our country is probably fifth in the order of loyalty, which it has been able to command from its own.
L. Quinn (Miss)
Wickham Lane
London SE2.
If Thomas Conney really believes Eoin O'Duffy helped to bring law and order to Spain, it puts into comic perspective other things he wrote. Spain had to discard her 'law and order' regime in order to be accepted by the est of Europe to be considered for EEC membership.
Mr Coooney may be surprised to learn that my father and his brothers fought, and in one case died, against Fascist Franco as faithful Catholics and remained so.
The horrors and stupidities of Spain's war and the pantomime antics of O'Duffy should not demean the idealist spirit of men like Frank Ryan and thousands who shared his views.
Kathleen Maxwell (Mrs)
Pattingham
Irish Post September 1, 1979
Place in Irish History
It may be argued with all the force of hindsight that Irishmen should have left in the Spanish war (1935-1939) to the Spaniards and others and instead devoted their energies to the liberation of Ireland. But I still feel that we should salute the heroic column of freedom fighters led by Frank Ryan against the barbarism of what is known nowadays as Nazism.
With prophetic insight, men like Ryan realised that much more than Spanish parliamentary democracy was under attack. Human rights and decency were being assailed throughout Europe.
Spain was simply the first battleground, the first rampart erected by the people against the state tyrannies which gave us Belsen and Buchenwald and such final atrocities as Hiroshima.
Amidst all the confusing propaganda of 1936 and the criminal stupidity of those who blessed the alliance of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Salazar, Quisling and O'Duffy, the Irishmen who fought so bravely for the rights of mankind on the hills of Jarama and by the banks of the Ebro were not confused or misused. They deserve an indelible place in the memory of the Irish nation.
May I add this comment: although I have had the privilege of meeting several of those Irishmen who fought in Spain under Frank Ryan, I have met only, one who served with O'Duffy. As he said, he saw little military action but enjoyed drinking brandy with O'Duffy in the posh hotels in Lisbon.
A.J Travers, in your issue of August 11, made claim that O'Duffy's Blueshirts "acquitted themselves honourably. Some, including Tom Hyde of Cork, were killed and others, including Col. Tom Carew of Tipperary, were wounded…"
The sad fact, as related by O'Duffy himself ('Crusade in Spain') and by the one Blueshirt officer I ever met, is that Capt. Tom Hyde and Vol. Dan Chute (both Kerry men) were killed by General Franco's troops who failed to recognise their strange uniforms.
A month later, in March, 1937, four more volunteers were killed in action - three of them from Kerry.
Thereafter, O'Duffy's men were engaged, mainly in guarding Spanish prisoners. Perhaps it is their sole claim to doubtful fame that they refused to machine-gun to death batches of their peasant prisoners, rounded up by Franco's men, even when told that they were priest-murdering anarchists and church-burners.
Some authorities on the subject say that split on this issue in May 1937. In any event, Franco packed them out aboard the SS Mozambique on June 17 – bag and baggage.
M O Callanain
London W9
Irish Post, September 8 1979
Letters: When Shankill came to Bodenstown
It might be rightly felt, set against my mighty article on Frank Ryan of June 23, that I should leave it to others, especially those who knew Frank personally in Ireland, or who fought beside him in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, to tie up in this newspaper's Letters' Page the loose ends of his life and times.
Many of the letters which have so far appeared have been excellent. Even the few overtly hostile letters have only helped to enlarge our understanding of the Limerick man with the result that a much more definite image of him now obtains.
Yet some areas still remain blurred and some misconceptions still prevail. May I therefore attempt to clarify a few points.
To begin with Frank Ryan was never a member of the Communist Party – be it Irish, British, Spanish or otherwise. But neither was he anti-Communist. He applied his own criteria to men and events and aided by his own sharp perception of social situations. He proceeded along his own route employing empirical guidelines and, if as sometimes happened, Communists were travelling in the same direction, Ryan was unequivocally prepared to accept them as comrades.
And if Ryan had not died in 1942 and had instead arrived to resume an active political life in Ireland, it is hardly on insignificant communist groups that he would have expended his immense talents. But, and let there be no doubt whatever on this, the likes of de Valera and Fianna Fail or the pathetic Irish Labour Party, would have got no support from Ryan either.
Actually, and this was the misfortune of his early demise, Frank Ryan had the capacity of building a mass party around the power and charisma of his own personality.
Such a party would not only have captured most of the electoral terrain held by Fianna Fail and Labour but would also have won the allegiance of those segments of Irish republicanism and diverse radicals who felt alienated from conventional political parties.
De Valera never succeeded in converting such people to his viewpoint- a phenomenon that largely went unnoticed, though it has had some curious consequences across the decades.
And what of the North? Had Ryan a viable policy for that tormented area? It would appear that he, in fact, had a solution, at least in embryo.
At the Republican Congress conference in Rathmines Town Hall, Dublin, on September 29 and 30,1934, Ryan, supported by his two close colleagues Peadar O'Donnell and George Gilmore, formulated a set of proposals which, had they been tenaciously pursued, might have culminated in the reunification of Ireland.
In essence, Ryan's strategy was to build democratic organisational bonds, bridges of brotherhood; between the Protestants and Ulster and the rest of the country.
But because the Northern Protestants, specifically Belfast Protestant workers, were not sympathetic to the aspirations of traditional Irish nationalism, Ryan attempted to reach them on a different level.
What was submitted to the Belfast Protestant workers, some of whose representatives were in Rathmines as delegates, was that the ideological meeting point between Northern and Southern proletarians is to be found in the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone. No time was wasted at the conference in abstract arguments about 'two nations' but it was tacitly conceded by Ryan that cultural and other differences existed between North and South. Also, the value of politically uniting all working people in Ireland was stresses and the objective was the transforming of the existing social structure.
Not all the Protestant representatives at the Congress were impressed with this argument. Some of them expounded orthodox Unionist views but nonetheless, and as a consequence of Ryan's persuasive powers, many delegates returned to Belfast strongly imbued with a new political perspective.
Thus it transpired in June of the following year, during the annual commemoration of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown, Co. Kildare, that some 100 Belfast workingmen from such Orange strongholds as the Shankill Road and Sandy Row, marched behind Frank Ryan and the Republican Congress contingent into the churchyard.
And what happened? The simmering bad feeling in the bitterly split republican movement again erupted around the great patriot's grave. Fists flew, flagpoles were used as weapons and in the melee some of the innocent and baffled Belfast men were injured.
Soon afterwards came Spain, so we will never know if the reunification momentum that Frank Ryan had so effectively set in motion could have been sustained and expanded.
Certainly the men from the Shankill and Sandy Row have not since come to Bodenstown. Maybe some day they will return.
Pat O'Donovan
Eaglefield Rd
London N1
Other 1930s local newspaper reports here.
Extracts from the Left press of the period.


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Leake puts together solid career for Cincinnati Reds
Mike Leake's consistency, all-around game, a boost to the Cincinnati Reds
Leake puts together solid career for Cincinnati Reds Mike Leake's consistency, all-around game, a boost to the Cincinnati Reds Check out this story on bucyrustelegraphforum.com: http://ohne.ws/1AyirKL
John Fay , Gannett Ohio Published 7:32 p.m. ET March 2, 2015 | Updated 7:51 p.m. ET March 2, 2015
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Mike Leake bunts during a spring training baseball workout last week in Goodyear, Arizona.(Photo: AP)
GOODYEAR, Ariz. – Mike Leake has developed into a pitcher a lot like his good buddy Bronson Arroyo — minus the high leg kick, long blond hair and music career, of course.
Leake, like Arroyo, isn't dominating, but he's extremely reliable. Leake, like Arroyo, is adept at outsmarting hitters. And Leake, like Arroyo, competes.
The similarities are not coincidence.
"Spending some time with Bronson couldn't have hurt him at all, because they were connected at the hip there in their four years together," Reds manager Bryan Price said.
Leake is entering his sixth and possibly final year with the Reds (more on that later). But, at 27, he doesn't feel like a veteran.
"Not quite," he said. "Really I don't. Maybe after this year I will. I look around and I've got guys with 10 or more years around me. They're the veterans. If I were on a young team, maybe I would feel like a veteran."
But Leake is a veteran in terms of service time. Because he reached the majors right out of college without spending any time in the minors, he's already on the brink of free agency. He'll become a free agent after this season if the Reds don't extend his contract. That made for an interesting offseason.
With Johnny Cueto, Mat Latos, Alfredo Simon and Leake all a year away from free agency, everyone assumed someone was going to be traded. It turned out to be Latos and Simon. Leake knows it could have been him.
"I think every starting pitcher was anxious," Leake said. "Nobody was left out of the picture. Late, toward the end of the Winter Meetings, they started announcing, 'OK, we're not going to trade these guys.' That happened to be Cueto and me. But for a while, you were sitting there wondering what's going to happen."
Remaining a Red was good with Leake.
"I'm happy to be here," Leake said. "I'm glad they had me in their thoughts and considered me one of the guys they wanted to keep — at least for this year. We'll see."
Leake said he hasn't had any talks about an extension.
Business aside, this has been a normal spring for hjm.
"So far, so good," Leake said. "These days always get a little monotonous before the games start. But it's fun getting to know the guys, getting to know the group and becoming friends. I think it's necessary for building the team chemistry."
Leake is 53-42 with a 3.92 ERA in his five years with the Reds. Homer Bailey, by comparison, is 58-50 with 4.17 ERA.
Leake has increased his innings every year. He threw 2142/3 innings last year. He went 11-13 with a 3.70 ERA. The win-loss record was wrecked because he was the victim of five blown saves.
"He's been terrific (this spring)," Price said. "He's so prepared. He cultivated a sense of knowing how to prepare. He's very professional with his preparation.
"First of all, he loves baseball. He's always worked hard. He sets great goals. We all set goals differently. His goal is to take the ball every fifth day and give us a chance to win. He doesn't get too particular with how many innings he's going to throw, strikeouts, etc. Pitch, pitch efficiently, take the mound prepared, he looks as good as any other time I've seen him in camp."
Leake, at 5-foot-10, 190 pounds, is not the prototypical right-handed starter. But he's athletic. He's a great base-runner and arguably the best hitting pitcher in baseball. He's twice led the National League pitchers in hitting and his 69 hits since 2010 are the most of any pitcher.
He might get more attention from fans for his hitting than his pitching.
"He doesn't puff his chest out and need to be noticed," Price said. "I think it's important that we appreciate him and he knows that we do here internally, in the clubhouse, the coaches and manager's offices, and upstairs. But he's not that pomp-and-circumstance guy that needs to be front and center.
"I don't think he necessarily shies away from it but he doesn't do anything to command the attention beyond his performance."
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Forney EDC Uses Emsi Retail Leakage Report to Help Target New Businesses
November 8, 2017 by Fraser Martens
In a crowded market, where every business location decision requires a complete analysis, how can Forney, Texas, tell its story and attract the retail investment it needs to grow? For the Forney Economic Development Corporation, the answer came from a retail leakage report provided by Emsi's consulting team.
• Forney EDC used Emsi's report to show it had a retail sales gap of $210 million and that it could support 118 new retail businesses.
• The city now knows the types of businesses they were in the best position to pursue.
• Emsi's retail leakage data helped Forney EDC arrange meetings with legitimate retailers at this year's International Council of Shopping Center Texas conference.
Changing Nature of Retail Site Selection
Stewart McGregor
In many ways, Forney, Texas, is a small town like many small towns. Thanks to low housing costs and cost of living, it's a great place to live. Located about 20 miles east of the outskirts of Dallas, it's officially home to 19,000 people. But thanks to the way its city limits and the region around it are laid out, it actually has an effective population of more like 40,000, and that number is growing steadily. That's why its motto is "the city without limits."
At the same time, though, like many small cities, Forney is being affected by seismic shifts in America's retail economy. The combination of an aging brick-and-mortar retail infrastructure that was overbuilt, the rise of e-commerce, and overall shifts in consumer buying patterns have made it essential that Forney attract new innovative businesses so that it can keep its residents' spending in its own economy.
Those same trends have also changed the way businesses make site-selection decisions. A decade ago, companies like Walmart and Kroger could put locations in every town. Now site selection is a data-intensive decision. "Ten years ago, you could call up retailers and they would say, 'We'll put one there, no problem!'" said Stewart McGregor, Economic Development Coordinator for the Forney EDC. "But now that's changed and there's a lot of hesitancy from retailers."
Report Shows How Much Money Leaves Forney
To help attract businesses to Forney, McGregor wanted a crucial data point to add to the conversation: retail leakage. The goal was to be able to show potential businesses just how much money was leaving Forney to go to other regions—money that could be spent in the region if the businesses Forney residents wanted were to locate in the city. As McGregor explained, "When we go to International Council of Shopping Center shows or we get a visit from a site selector, we needed to have some hard data to show them, 'You will make money here. That will not be a problem. This is how much money is leaving Forney every day.' And the findings that Debbie [Menk] and her team provided for that were very strong."
Emsi's report gave Forney two important weapons. First, it was able to conclusively demonstrate that a large amount of money was leaking out of the city. And second, it knew exactly what kinds of businesses it was in the best position to pursue.
Emsi's research identified an overall amount of demand in Forney that wasn't being satisfied by local businesses—a retail sales gap of near $210 million in 2016. That meant, according to Emsi estimates, Forney could support approximately 118 new retail businesses.
Thanks in large part to showing these findings, McGregor has already seen an increase in the number of meetings he's been able to arrange with legitimate retailers at this year's ICSC Texas conference.
Forney Now Knows Which Businesses City Needs Most
Forney also needed to know which kinds of businesses the city most acutely needed. Emsi narrowed that demand down to key business types, including car dealerships, food and beverage stores, furniture and home furnishings stores, restaurants, clothing stores, and several more. For each of these, by applying the specific site selection criteria that apply to those industries, Emsi was able to calculate the immediate trade area of nearby competition.
"For example, one thing we found was that there are laws and franchising agreements in place that establish how far apart dealerships have to be," McGregor explained. "So, in our case, Mesquite has all the dealerships, and on the other side of Forney, Terrell has all the dealerships, and since we're within 10 miles of each community, we don't have much hope of getting a dealership. So our target is getting a franchised used car dealership like a CarMax."
Looking at this helped show how much of Forney's demand gap was being met by businesses that would directly conflict with a potential new business. Site selection looks closely at potential sites to avoid competition with existing local locations, so that number was important to make sure that Forney didn't end up trying to attract businesses that would dismiss the city. It also gave Forney the ability to know how many businesses it ought to try to attract.
Said McGregor: "In areas like food service, for example, it showed that we had demand for 50 more establishments. But we've seen that the industries that are growing in retail are the destination-type retail places like Cabela's and a Bass Pro Shop, and of course dining. It was helpful to get numbers on how many we have and how many we need—better direction regarding what our saturation could be. Is one enough? Can we get more than one?"
Overall, McGregor said that Emsi's report and data have been a big part of telling Forney's story to potential businesses. "We have the income that most of our surrounding cities don't have, we have the land, and we have the population, so we're trying to tell people about the opportunity you could have if you put your business here in Forney. That was what the Emsi study was for—to show retailers, 'You are not going to fail here. You're going to draw from a good area, and you're going to have the support of a growing community.'"
Fraser Martens
fmartens@economicmodeling.com
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Senior BJD leader Bhartruhari Mahtab, whose party supported the Bill in Parliament, expressed in his dissent note, which is annexed to the JPC report that, "the present Bill contravenes the provision of the principal Act and goes against the spiri.
New Delhi: Nine MPs from five political parties in the 30-member Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) had red flagged the negative consequences of CAB in Assam.
Senior BJD leader Bhartruhari Mahtab, whose party supported the Bill in Parliament, expressed in his dissent note, which is annexed to the JPC report that, "the present Bill contravenes the provision of the principal Act and goes against the spirit of Assam Accord. In an already densely populated state, this will open floodgates thereby accentuating discontent among the people of Assam."
The concern over the Assam Accord was also echoed by the law ministry's department of legal affairs, which felt that CAB "appears to be contrary to the Assam Accord". However, there were differences of opinion between the two wings of the Union law ministry.
The legislative department took a different stand by stating that section 6A of the 1955 Citizenship Act dealt only with foreigners who entered India, from Bangladesh to Assam between January 1, 1966 and March 24, 1971.
The legislative department added, "The proposed proviso to exempt persons belonging to certain minority communities coming from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan has general application beyond the Assam Accord and is intended to apply to the whole of India."
It emphasised that there appears to be no conflict in the application of the proposed proviso regarding exemption of minority communities coming from Bangladesh to Assam between 1 January 1966 and 24 March 1971, as per the Assam Accord.
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UK Government Proposes New Laws for Internet of Things
By Adam Smith
1 May 2019, 4:17 p.m.
The legislation would create a labelling system informing customers of how secure an IoT device is. In order to get a label, a device would have to: use a unique password by default, state how long security updates would be available, and offer a public contact for receiving cyber-security vulnerabilities.
Internet of Things devices, such as smart-lights, kitchen appliances, and children's toys will have to have greater security under new laws proposed by the government.
The BBC reports that the legislation would create a labelling system informing customers of how secure an IoT device is. Although the scheme will initally be voluntary, eventually retailers would not be allowed to sell products without the labels.
In order to get a label, and therefore enter the IoT market in the UK, a device would have to:
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use a unique password by default
state how long security updates would be made available
offer a public point of contact that would be responsible for receiving cyber-security vulnerabilities found in the device.
Digital Minister Margot James, who produced the legislation, said it was part of the UK's target to be a "global leader in online safety."
The technical director of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Ian Levy, said: "Serious security problems in consumer IOT devices, such as pre-set unchangeable passwords, continue to be discovered - and it's unacceptable that these are not being fixed by manufacturers."
Internet of Things devices can have numerous vulnerabilities in them; many coders skip inputting defense mechanisms, such as ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomisation), because it hinders performance.
In October 2016, a number of Internet of Things devices were targetted by the Mirai botnet which took down a number of major websites such as Twitter, Spotify, Airbnb, Netflix, Reddit, and GitHub.
Connected devices included everything from smart home devices and routers to hacked DVRs and connected cameras, which were particularly vulnerable because the default passwords on the devices were never changed.
Last year, Kasperspy Labs found that there were 121,588 malware samples attacking smart devices in the first six months of 2018 alone. That's three times as many as were found in 2017, and ten times as many as were found between 2016 and 2017.
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