Verse
Hawley, Richard A. & Murphy, Sister Ellen
saying comparison. If they are like any other paramilitary group, it is ...
...turn the lads loose...
...and have at least temporarily stopped chanting the old pro- that gave my wall its morning play of grace the year alound and made leaf, branch and bird British slogans which have stultified Protestant political thinkotestant ing for so long...
...As a paramilitary organization we can Elm Tree and Other Shadows say...
...Through leaves and leaves, indifferent as air...
...joined in the interview with the U.S...
...This Richard A. Hawley has meant that, like their national identity, their attitude to the 3rotesviolence they perpetrate is frequently ambivalent and Aloft :e this: confused-as if they want to believe deep down that they have )rd, or not done it...
...Let them go out and shoot all the ey were Catholics and lot's have a civil war...
...According to Tyrie's companion, Glenn Barr, who :RA...
...they have expressed their loathing of anything from that history of needless bloodshed...
...For two years the UDA has been largely able to stop its ago...
...sh solLittle trip, up along Bombay St./ And burned out all the shit...
...We are saying, let's go for a The elm at the corner is- down...
...Many of their victims have been very reassuring one on the matter of restraint...
...Aes- If it collapses, as is likely, what next for Ulster's Protesig in tants...
...And, paradoxically, they have dished committed their violent acts in the name of law and order...
...The "Battle Rise and fall slowly with the breeze, :estant of Bombay Street" begins: "On the 14th of August we took a/ Hushes overwhelming hushes...
...most of burning their own homes/ In Bombay Street, and Lower Falls...
...Through empty panes of light ailar terested, it is hard to see how the UDA's initiative can develop...
...Congressmen, "We the wee believe there has to be a starting point [for reconciliation...
...Throughout the years, Undulating like seaweed: ;n here, Northern Ireland Protestant militants have frequently swung Lull and lure...
...There is also scattered at random from those rings of years...
...chips of its tall life fragments in the snow security That, at least, is a welcome development...
...But the history of the substance of the elm to set it down...
...but the . . . " The songwriter, no longer boasting about "burning out Secrets of a leafy walls on the the shit," now claims that the Catholics burned their own Lovely and alien as coral, But the houses and blamed it on the Protestants...
...me as Prison (formerly Long Kesh) in 1974...
...re often some hope to be derived from the fact that Protestants like The substance of the shadow's branch is gone om they Tyrie are now searching for new kinds of political solutionsirity...
...But a few pages on we read, in another reference to As if clouds effaced reveal their chalky wires I to stay the same event:, "Intimidation cried the Provies [IRA] / After Or a gust might whisk a breaker from its lath...
...The wide window of this loft would There is a curious example of this schizophrenia in a little Frames nothing but leaf and light, id they handbook of songs put out by a UDA man interned in the Maze Eave to eave, a medium of maple...
...So, Sister Ellen Murphy he sup- we have two options...
...gunmen running loose against Catholics...
...It seems that they cannot reconcile their identi.. I ask, fication with law and order and their responsibility for violent Sudden as an apple ther and and criminal acts which that law condemns...
...preme Catholics in the same excremental rhetoric reserved for those some- believed to be racially inferior...
...my random memories gather shade on shade...
...that organization, which has for nearly a decade expressed the 31 August 1979:461...
...it already has removal changes everything in sight...
...I dream myself He said between boasting about their violent acts and denying that they Falling down into it, out of it riolence ever did them...
...Now this profound t such a Whether it will get much further is to be doubted...
...For it is solution now rather than fight and then look for a solution...
...If they are like any other paramilitary group, it is fears and frustrations of working-class Protestants, is not a i Fish perhaps the Ku Klux Klan...
...a presence in my room...
...At the end of the day we ie worst have still got to find a solution...
...The solution they are now advocating, an violence independent Northern Ireland, is a step in the right direction...
...Council But Tyrie was right in his discussion with Fish and Eilberg: 'ou feel the UDA has stopped blatantly sectarian murders since about in, fight 1977...
...With two of the particistraight shadows of themselves rider pants in Northern Ireland's bloody triangle opposed or uninin sun...
...Most of the songs Heavy with late summer, racks of full feathers ton to celebrate the'killing and humiliation of Catholics...
...he way " This- refers to an incident in August, 1969, when a In deep recesses, patches of limb and twig have to Catholic street was razed to the ground by mobs of Protestants Suggest (absurdly) superstructure to softnessin Belfast...
...The next few ring a tortured and degraded, in a way typical of racial violence, months might well indicate whether or not they have learnt enthe before being killed...
...The window frames become been denounced by the IRA, and the British, of course, will rice, have nothing to do with it at present...
Vol. 106 • August 1979 • No. 15
