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First broadcast 23rd October 1972.
The origin of Northern Ireland.
J.G. Devlin - Tom Curdie
Elizabeth Begley - Sarah Curdie
Denys Hawthorne - Archie Heron
Sam Kydd - Tom Brannigan
Patrick McAlinney - Rev. William Piggot
Dermot Tuohy - Father Donaghue
Derek Lord - Willie Henderson
Harry Towb - Sash Walker
John McBride - Lambeg Billy
Roisin Donaghy - Eunice Gilbraith
Oliver Maguire - Major Crawford
Allan McClelland - Andy Greer
Maggie Walker - Mrs. Piggot
Patricia McAuley - Mrs. Brannigan
Norma Vogan - Mrs. Gilbraith
Stanley McGeagh - New Member of the Orange Lodge
Will Leighton - Clergyman No. 1
James Greene - Clergyman No. 2
Bert Lena - Catholic Barman
Eamonn Boyce - Protestant Barman
Neil Coney - Lord Carson
John Molloy - Catholic Man
Joan Campbell - Woman at the Bonfire
Maggie Fitzgerald - Woman at the Bonfire
Phyllis MacMahon - Woman at the Bonfire
Paul Nemeer - Solo Singer
The origin of Northern Ireland.
J.G. Devlin - Tom Curdie
Elizabeth Begley - Sarah Curdie
Denys Hawthorne - Archie Heron
Sam Kydd - Tom Brannigan
Patrick McAlinney - Rev. William Piggot
Dermot Tuohy - Father Donaghue
Derek Lord - Willie Henderson
Harry Towb - Sash Walker
John McBride - Lambeg Billy
Roisin Donaghy - Eunice Gilbraith
Oliver Maguire - Major Crawford
Allan McClelland - Andy Greer
Maggie Walker - Mrs. Piggot
Patricia McAuley - Mrs. Brannigan
Norma Vogan - Mrs. Gilbraith
Stanley McGeagh - New Member of the Orange Lodge
Will Leighton - Clergyman No. 1
James Greene - Clergyman No. 2
Bert Lena - Catholic Barman
Eamonn Boyce - Protestant Barman
Neil Coney - Lord Carson
John Molloy - Catholic Man
Joan Campbell - Woman at the Bonfire
Maggie Fitzgerald - Woman at the Bonfire
Phyllis MacMahon - Woman at the Bonfire
Paul Nemeer - Solo Singer
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00:00:16Men have viewed with suspicion the fact that Sir Edward Carson is a South of Ireland man.
00:00:22That is so. I am indeed a South of Ireland man.
00:00:26But I have spent my whole life in resisting home rule, not merely in Ulster, but in Ireland as a
00:00:33whole.
00:00:34Now some members of our party have said that the ideal...
00:00:37Edward Carson, born 1854 in Dublin, died as Lord Carson of Duncairn in 1935 near Ramsgate.
00:00:47Barrister, politician, Crown Prosecutor in Ireland, Solicitor General,
00:00:53leader of the Tory party, First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord of Appeal, and architect of Northern Ireland.
00:01:03My own view is that the whole of Ulster should be excluded,
00:01:07but the minimum would be the six plantation counties, and for that, a good case could be made.
00:01:16I believe, however, that the Irish Nationalist Party will not consider the question of excluding Ulster,
00:01:24and since they, as a party, have 83 representatives in Westminster,
00:01:29this indeed puts them in a strong position.
00:01:33But we will fight it out with them.
00:01:36God give us men, men whom the lusts of office do not kill,
00:01:44men whom the spoils of office do not buy,
00:01:49men who possess opinions and a will,
00:01:54men who love honor,
00:01:57men who cannot lie.
00:02:00A time like this demands great hearts,
00:02:05strong minds,
00:02:07true faith,
00:02:09and willing hands,
00:02:10and we will fight it out
00:02:13to the bitter end.
00:02:25We have sworn an orange oak,
00:02:28for their coffee's favorite stroke,
00:02:30on our drums they will rattle like a bonger,
00:02:35for we'll never be the two of the Pope for a bonger,
00:02:39we're the brave orange heroes of conquer.
00:03:07No surrender is our boast,
00:03:10and there's still a favor to boast,
00:03:12no surrender is our pride,
00:03:20no surrender is our pride,
00:03:21no surrender will be nigh,
00:03:22we're the brave orange heroes of conquer.
00:03:28Being convinced in our consciences, said Sir Edward,
00:03:31that home rule would be disastrous
00:03:33to the material well-being of Ulster,
00:03:35as well as to the whole of Ireland.
00:03:36There was a brave shout from the crowd when he said that.
00:03:40Subversive of our religious freedom.
00:03:41Now would be jist.
00:03:42Will you stop your little erupting,
00:03:44Sir Edward's speech of fire and lambeck?
00:03:46Destructive of our citizenship,
00:03:47and perilous to the unity of the empire.
00:03:50When he said that a slop-roll and degree on the shoulder,
00:03:52and I damn near left him a hunchback.
00:03:54I saw you, I saw you, I saw you.
00:03:55We whose names are underwritten,
00:03:58men of Ulster,
00:04:00loyal subjects of his gracious majesty,
00:04:02King George V,
00:04:03humbly relying on the God.
00:04:07Oh, sorry, lads, it's just too funny.
00:04:10Jesus Christ, this fellow Carson should be on the music hall.
00:04:12What the hell do you mean funny?
00:04:15There's nothing funny about a man losing his empire
00:04:17and his religion as well.
00:04:19You go too far, Willie Henderson, too far.
00:04:23Now look what you've made me do.
00:04:26Oh, you shall have it off my heart for now, good brother.
00:04:31We do hereby pledge ourselves.
00:04:35Ah, but that bitch all tore.
00:04:36To use all the means necessary
00:04:38to defeat the present conspiracy
00:04:39to set up a home-ruled parliament in Ireland.
00:04:42God save the king.
00:04:44Just you carry on with a painting there, Archie Heron.
00:04:47That's what you're getting paid for.
00:04:49Well, I'd rather paint it than carry it.
00:04:51It's the red flag you'd want us to carry.
00:04:54Ah, no, no, Tom, Tom.
00:04:55I've got a great one for flags.
00:04:56I leave that for boys.
00:04:58It's intelligent men I want.
00:05:00Oh, is it the huge crowds that assemble to hear you
00:05:03at your factory gate meetings you're talking about?
00:05:06Ah, well, through enough.
00:05:08My gate meetings will hardly be addressed
00:05:09by the leaders of the Liberal Party
00:05:10or of the Tory party.
00:05:12And that's a proud boast.
00:05:14But if you're not a Tory, nor a liberal, Archie,
00:05:17you must have no politics at all.
00:05:18I'm a Christian, Tom.
00:05:20A plain old Christian.
00:05:22You see, I could see a man been a Protestant.
00:05:25I can even understand a bit of pipish.
00:05:28But you're nothing.
00:05:29You're neither fish, flesh, nor good red heron.
00:05:31Oh, but I am.
00:05:33Good red heron.
00:05:36Archie heron's an orange pun, you might say.
00:05:44My visit to Belfast was very encouraging,
00:05:48as I have had a considerable promise of funds
00:05:50which are very requisite.
00:05:51I met many of the merchants and big men,
00:05:55and they are all inclined to be very generous.
00:05:59It shows me more than anything else
00:06:01that they're in earnest.
00:06:03Sir Atwood, Sir Atwood,
00:06:06one by one,
00:06:08you in the middle must follow by the drum.
00:06:12The drum shall play
00:06:14and the whistle shall blow.
00:06:16Sir Atwood, Sir Atwood says,
00:06:19you must go!
00:06:20I don't want to be the body anymore.
00:06:22I played the poem yesterday.
00:06:23Now I want to be Mr. Carson.
00:06:25You're too small in the pair, mister.
00:06:28Sir Atwood is a big, big, big, tall man.
00:06:36Sir Atwood, Sir Atwood,
00:06:38two by two,
00:06:40you at the start must turn and follow through.
00:06:44The drum shall play
00:06:46and the whistle shall blow.
00:06:49Sir Atwood, Sir Atwood says,
00:06:52you must go!
00:06:53They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.
00:06:57Adder's poison is under their lips.
00:07:00David.
00:07:01Psalm 140.
00:07:04Or Carson describing the Liberals' ask within churches.
00:07:07I don't think even Saul was as bad as them.
00:07:10God knows he was a right villain.
00:07:13The people think of Carson as David.
00:07:15The rich, maybe.
00:07:16But you might as well ask
00:07:17the men of Sandy Road to mistake.
00:07:19King William for the Pope of Rome
00:07:21has told them that an elderly Dublin lawyer
00:07:23playing at politics is their David.
00:07:25There's plenty listening when he talks.
00:07:27Oh, yes.
00:07:28He's come a long way from his early days in Dublin.
00:07:31Defending Fenians.
00:07:33Maybe the man has changed, William.
00:07:35The oldest saying of all in law, dear,
00:07:37is to beware of a Dublin lawyer.
00:07:40Now, what on earth can Sir Edward Carson,
00:07:42Mr. F.E. Smith,
00:07:43and Mr. Andrew Bonner Law,
00:07:45three good Tories,
00:07:46want to do with Ulster, do you think?
00:07:48Are they Protestant?
00:07:49Bonner Law is the son
00:07:50of a poverty-stricken Canadian clergyman.
00:07:52And you know how poor church mice are.
00:07:55And Sir Edward Carson's father
00:07:56is the son of an Italian hat-maker,
00:07:59Carson.
00:08:01The Italian bit is rather ominous.
00:08:03I may be a conservative, Mary,
00:08:05but I don't intend to allow those fellas
00:08:07to play a game of political soccer,
00:08:10using the decent Protestants of Ulster
00:08:12as the football.
00:08:15Loyalty is a strange thing.
00:08:17It is not something you get
00:08:19by merely sitting around a table
00:08:21and trying to find a formula
00:08:23for an oath of allegiance
00:08:25which means nothing.
00:08:27It is something born
00:08:29and bred in you.
00:08:31I have often,
00:08:33I admit it,
00:08:34when we were threatened
00:08:35because we were loyal in Ulster
00:08:38and for no crime
00:08:40except that we were loyal,
00:08:42said to myself,
00:08:43well, why don't you give it up?
00:08:46And I never did
00:08:47because I know I could not.
00:08:50because I know
00:08:52it is something
00:08:53that is born in you,
00:08:55inherited in you,
00:08:57and that is
00:08:58the safety of the state.
00:09:02We in Ulster
00:09:03will be loyal to the Empire.
00:09:06Let the Empire
00:09:07be loyal to us.
00:09:13Great lads,
00:09:14come around in a minute.
00:09:15I'll let Mama Blackleaf
00:09:16get past you this day.
00:09:17Stop this at once, Brannigan.
00:09:19Let you all go home
00:09:20to your wives and children.
00:09:21You can't do that, Father.
00:09:23You don't say the word
00:09:24can't to a priest.
00:09:25I just did, Father.
00:09:27May God forgive me.
00:09:28Think of what you're saying, Brannigan.
00:09:29We've been locked out
00:09:30by the Protestants
00:09:31ever since Carson
00:09:32brought out his covenant, Father.
00:09:33What's that supposed to mean?
00:09:35Look, come on,
00:09:35get home, the lot of you.
00:09:36There's no place for you to be.
00:09:37You should be at home
00:09:37with your wives.
00:09:38You never came down
00:09:38to see us before, Father,
00:09:39or the bishop, either.
00:09:40The bishop and I,
00:09:41we've been busy.
00:09:42Ah, well, it's more
00:09:43than we've been, Father.
00:09:44That's why our families
00:09:45have had neither
00:09:45biting or sump in months.
00:09:47Have you forgotten
00:09:48the power of prayer?
00:09:49It's very hard
00:09:50to keep your mind
00:09:50on someone you can't see, Father,
00:09:52when you've got a belly
00:09:53that's empty.
00:09:55Look, I'll pray, Brannigan,
00:09:56that God Almighty
00:09:57may stick you to the ground
00:09:58for your stand.
00:09:58Oh, God, Father.
00:09:59If he only sticks
00:10:00with Edward Carson
00:10:01to the ground,
00:10:01save us all the bloody trouble.
00:10:04Ah, Mr. Heron.
00:10:06I might have known
00:10:07that an atheistic Protestant
00:10:08like yourself
00:10:08would have something
00:10:09to do with this.
00:10:10Oh, no, an atheist
00:10:11is a man with no
00:10:11invisible means of support,
00:10:13Father.
00:10:14It's quite wrong
00:10:14of you to give him one.
00:10:16If you talk with this man,
00:10:18Brannigan,
00:10:18don't come looking
00:10:19for any more help
00:10:20from the church.
00:10:20Oh, Father,
00:10:21the only help
00:10:21the working man
00:10:22ever got
00:10:22from the Catholic church
00:10:23was when...
00:10:24You're a bastard!
00:10:25You're a bastard!
00:10:26He's got this feeling!
00:10:27Get off!
00:10:28Get back the way
00:10:29I'm alone!
00:10:30Get off!
00:10:31The men in there
00:10:32are not blacklegs
00:10:33and you're not going
00:10:33to solve anything
00:10:34by starting
00:10:34sectarian strikes.
00:10:35Now, look, Archie,
00:10:36you're the head
00:10:37of the works.
00:10:38Who's fighting you on?
00:10:39Oh, well, now,
00:10:40that's a silly quote
00:10:40to ask you.
00:10:41What I'm telling you
00:10:42is that you can't
00:10:42equate being a Protestant
00:10:43but being a blackleg.
00:10:44But isn't a fellow
00:10:45a blackleg
00:10:46who does his mate's job
00:10:47when his mate's been victimized?
00:10:48Oh, well, yes, yes, Tom.
00:10:49Where's we victimized?
00:10:50Because we're Catholics
00:10:51from the throne
00:10:52out of the works.
00:10:53Ah, yes, Tom,
00:10:54but in this case...
00:10:54And the men
00:10:54are doing our jobs.
00:10:55Are workers.
00:10:56They're misguided workers, Tom.
00:10:58They're bloody blacklegs.
00:10:59But if we don't work,
00:11:00nobody works.
00:11:01Come on.
00:11:03Come on!
00:11:04Come on!
00:11:05Come on!
00:11:07There we have blood to spill
00:11:09and the Pope is hoarsely killed.
00:11:11It's perhaps to tear
00:11:12our enemies as order.
00:11:15There's not a man
00:11:16who'll clash
00:11:17with the lands
00:11:18and we're the sacks.
00:11:20With the brave
00:11:21orange hair
00:11:22and we're the heroes
00:11:22of conqueror.
00:11:25Faith of our Father's
00:11:29living still
00:11:30in spite of dungeon fire
00:11:34and sword.
00:11:36Oh, how our hearts
00:11:38beat high with joy
00:11:40whene'er we hear
00:11:43that glorious word.
00:11:45Faith of our Father's
00:11:49holy day
00:11:50we will be true
00:11:53to thee
00:11:54till death.
00:11:55We will
00:11:57be true
00:11:58to thee
00:11:59till death.
00:12:17and there's no doubt
00:12:18about it
00:12:19that we're led
00:12:20with our priesthood.
00:12:26the priest
00:12:26didn't work
00:12:27the papyrs
00:12:27up to such a pitch
00:12:28that when we were
00:12:29coming out of our work
00:12:30peaceful
00:12:30they led into us
00:12:32without warning.
00:12:33That's all right.
00:12:34Well, here I tell you
00:12:34bloody cowardly
00:12:36so it was sure
00:12:36didn't poor Tom Peterson
00:12:38get his whole head
00:12:39cast in
00:12:39after the pub
00:12:40was going
00:12:40Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
00:12:42hey
00:12:42we've no license
00:12:44for entertainment
00:12:44in this pub
00:12:45drink seriously
00:12:46or go somewhere else.
00:12:47Poor wee
00:12:48Tony Peterson
00:12:49that's never done
00:12:50no harm to nobody.
00:12:51Tom Peterson
00:12:52was his name.
00:12:53Well, Tom or Tony
00:12:55didn't have
00:12:55battered him down
00:12:56without warning.
00:12:57Well, here
00:12:57by Christ
00:12:58they'll get jibbled
00:12:59from us
00:12:59when the pub's
00:13:00is shut tonight.
00:13:04Where do you think?
00:13:05For the pokies chapel
00:13:07of course.
00:13:08If that bastard
00:13:09of a priest
00:13:09thinks he can start trouble
00:13:10we'll show him
00:13:11the men of Sandy Row
00:13:12have they
00:13:12finished.
00:13:14Hey, hey
00:13:15wait a minute.
00:13:15Wait on me.
00:13:16Hey.
00:13:18Don't fall away
00:13:19you're a pip.
00:13:19He's stopped
00:13:20listening to everything.
00:13:21I bet you
00:13:22shouldn't he's
00:13:22dashing off
00:13:23to the falls road
00:13:23to tell the feelings
00:13:24about our plans.
00:13:25Hey, let's go
00:13:26back.
00:13:27Here, here.
00:13:29Hold on there.
00:13:31There'll be plenty
00:13:32along with us
00:13:32tonight
00:13:33and the fenians
00:13:34will need
00:13:34all the help
00:13:34they can muster.
00:13:36I suppose
00:13:36you're right, Tom.
00:13:37That serious work
00:13:38we've got before us
00:13:39would be buck stupid
00:13:40to waste good
00:13:41drinking time.
00:13:46Three wee ones there.
00:13:47You want a pint?
00:13:49You know,
00:13:50I never spoke
00:13:50to a priest before
00:13:51like that in all my life.
00:13:53And after a minute
00:13:54he might as well
00:13:55have been wearing
00:13:55a collar and tie
00:13:56around his neck
00:13:56and still that
00:13:57bloody white bond.
00:13:58Well, it wouldn't
00:13:58have been me, Blodigan.
00:13:59I'd have been terrified
00:14:00he'd have put horns
00:14:01on me.
00:14:02The daytime could
00:14:03look after itself
00:14:04but them fellas,
00:14:05they rule the long nights.
00:14:07Ah, him and Piguet
00:14:08are two right cellmates.
00:14:10Raisin blue murder
00:14:10from the pulpit.
00:14:11Them and the Havis
00:14:12all to each other's
00:14:13throats
00:14:13and just leave us
00:14:14where Jesus
00:14:14has left the Jews.
00:14:15Hey, hold on there.
00:14:16It's not closing time yet.
00:14:18I just come
00:14:19from the head and hands.
00:14:19Oh, for God's sake,
00:14:20don't bring religion
00:14:21into the conversation.
00:14:22Does it make you think
00:14:22God saved the king then?
00:14:23It seems that the
00:14:24whole Orange Lodge
00:14:25is there.
00:14:26Well, there would be,
00:14:27wouldn't there?
00:14:27Wouldn't the Grandmaster
00:14:28himself own it?
00:14:29And the brothel
00:14:30and the shankle.
00:14:31They're blaming
00:14:32Father Dunhoof
00:14:32the row today.
00:14:33Oh, God help
00:14:34their sense then.
00:14:35They're going to burn
00:14:35the chapel tonight.
00:14:37Oh, Jesus.
00:14:37I'll send them
00:14:38along a box of matches.
00:14:40The submission on,
00:14:41the place will be
00:14:41full of women and kids.
00:14:42Oh, Christ.
00:14:43Wouldn't that bloody
00:14:44priest could be there
00:14:45by himself?
00:14:46Come on then.
00:14:46Better go and look
00:14:47after the women.
00:14:50Ye women,
00:14:52can I rattle your bins?
00:14:53Hard enough to waken the day?
00:14:55Couldn't need a lot
00:14:55of help tonight.
00:14:56Into the night,
00:14:58titty-follet.
00:14:59If you can come fight,
00:15:00titty-follet.
00:15:02Make a ding,
00:15:03rattle your bins,
00:15:04titty-follet,
00:15:05titty-follet.
00:15:07Rattle your bins,
00:15:08titty-follet.
00:15:09Rattle your bins,
00:15:11titty-follet.
00:15:12Come out and rattle your bins,
00:15:15titty-follet,
00:15:16titty-follet.
00:15:31Strangers appear,
00:15:33titty-follet.
00:15:34Strangers to fear,
00:15:35titty-follet.
00:15:36Make people here,
00:15:38danger is near.
00:15:39Titty-follet,
00:15:40titty-follet.
00:15:41Rattle your bins,
00:15:43titty-follet.
00:15:44Rattle your bins,
00:15:45titty-follet.
00:15:47Come out and rattle your bins,
00:15:49titty-follet.
00:15:50Titty-follet.
00:16:07And in his statement,
00:16:09Connolly says,
00:16:10The Socialist Party of Ireland
00:16:13seeks to organise the workers of this country,
00:16:16irrespective of creed or race,
00:16:18into one great party of labour.
00:16:21It believes that the dependence of the working class
00:16:24upon the owners of capitalist property,
00:16:26and the desire of these capitalists and landowners
00:16:29to keep the vast mass of the people so subject and dependent,
00:16:32is the great and abiding cause of all our modern social and political evils.
00:16:40Recognising this,
00:16:41it cancels the Irish working class
00:16:43to follow the example of the workers of every civilised country in the world,
00:16:48whether subject or free,
00:16:49and organise itself industrially and politically,
00:16:53with the end in view of gaining control and mastery
00:16:57of the entire resources of the country.
00:17:00He's absolutely right, you know.
00:17:02Hey, Archie,
00:17:04I've just realised,
00:17:06I'm a socialist.
00:17:08Huh?
00:17:09I've been a bloody red for weeks now,
00:17:11and you know,
00:17:12nobody's struck me dead yet.
00:17:15You're an entire man, Tom.
00:17:17You're an entire man, entirely.
00:17:21Ha, ha.
00:17:25Could have some more sugar on, Sarah.
00:17:26I fancy something sweet.
00:17:28You'll be ruining your teeth, Pat.
00:17:30Still?
00:17:31For your own teeth.
00:17:39Oh, you're in, are you?
00:17:41No, I'm away up the road with a ball.
00:17:44Do you afraid to think that you're taking it out of me, Tom, Corley?
00:17:51Now, listen, you.
00:17:53I don't want you running around with that fella,
00:17:55that Antichrist Archie Heron.
00:17:57Even the bloody papishes hate him.
00:18:00That should be a recommendation for him in your book.
00:18:02What's up with him now, then?
00:18:04He's stopped the yards coming out the day
00:18:05to the Reverend Piggott's mass protesting at Home Rule.
00:18:08Him and his bloody conveners.
00:18:10He's only trying to stop workers beating each other up.
00:18:13Is that so wrong now?
00:18:14Now, look, when you're as old as I am, young fella,
00:18:16you'll know that a fella doesn't do that
00:18:18unless he has something else up his sleeve.
00:18:20What, for instance?
00:18:22Nothing.
00:18:28Oh, is that a...
00:18:29Another book you're reading?
00:18:32The Quintessence of Ibsenism by George Bernard Shaw.
00:18:35That doesn't sound very exciting.
00:18:37That must be about the fourth book you've read this month.
00:18:40It's the second this week, Uncle Tom.
00:18:42Do you think that's good for you?
00:18:45You've been running your brains into mincemeat.
00:18:49Don't you ever feel like reading?
00:18:51Me?
00:18:52Oh, I've read a book.
00:18:53It's the Bible he's talking about, Willie.
00:18:55Now, listen, my good woman.
00:18:56I've read other books than the good book.
00:18:58Not since you've been married to me, Tom Curdy.
00:19:01Aye.
00:19:02I've read Rob Soe Crusoe and Eastland.
00:19:07Eastland.
00:19:08Ah, that puts me in mind a wee Jono.
00:19:12You know that place where wee Willie dies?
00:19:14Aye, I saw it on the stage.
00:19:16Aye, saw it in real life.
00:19:18With wee Jono.
00:19:19His father and my father were school chums.
00:19:22Did you know that?
00:19:24I think you told me that, aren't you?
00:19:25Hmm.
00:19:27The father and wee Jono went up to Derry one 12th of July in the year, uh...
00:19:32Let me see, uh...
00:19:351902.
00:19:38Aye, 1902.
00:19:40And the father had this great concrete block.
00:19:43And he had it on the walls beside the diamond.
00:19:46And he was going to tip it over on some passing fiennes.
00:19:50And what do you think happened?
00:19:51Wee Jono went off on his own and the concrete block fell on top of Henn.
00:19:57Aye, Willis, as well you know the story.
00:19:59But that story shows you the power of the good book and prayer.
00:20:03Wee Jono's daddy sucked up all night praying that his son,
00:20:06whom the doctors had given up all hope for, might be saved.
00:20:09And God, in his infinite mercy, spared the boy to grow up as he is today,
00:20:13a fine, healthy, raven lunatic.
00:20:16Now, Willie Henderson, you're going a bit too far.
00:20:20You know, if I had a God as good as you say your God is,
00:20:23I wouldn't treat him as badly as you and your friends.
00:20:26Yes.
00:20:41You want what, Brennigan?
00:20:44We're looking for the loan of the church hall, Father.
00:20:46Who wants the loan of the parochial hall?
00:20:50The Gaelic League, Father.
00:20:52Indeed, Brennigan.
00:20:54To learn Gaelic in, I suppose.
00:20:57I suppose so, Father.
00:20:59Father Donoghue must look the right fool to you.
00:21:02Does he, Brennigan?
00:21:03I don't know what you mean, Father.
00:21:04Don't I know right well that the Gaelic League is only a front for the Irish Republican Brotherhood?
00:21:09Do you tell me that now, Father?
00:21:10A lot of gunmen foolish enough to think they can fight the lawful authority of king and country with idealism
00:21:17and stones.
00:21:18Well, they were foolish enough to try and defend your chapel
00:21:20when your friends of king and country tried to burn it down round your ears, Father.
00:21:23That's a different thing altogether.
00:21:25And while we're at it, there's something else I want to talk to you about.
00:21:29Ah, well, you might as well get it all set now, Father.
00:21:33Now, your wife tells me
00:21:34that you haven't been to mass for over two months
00:21:37and to confession for more than six.
00:21:38I don't see the point in it, Father.
00:21:41You don't see the point?
00:21:43Well, you wouldn't give me absolution for my sins,
00:21:45so it'd be a fine waste of time.
00:21:47But I've never refused absolution to anyone.
00:21:50Except to Republicans, of course.
00:21:55Do you know
00:21:56that membership of the Republican movement
00:22:00carries with it the extreme penalty
00:22:01of excommunication from the church?
00:22:03Aye, Father, I know.
00:22:05I lose my job because I'm a Catholic
00:22:08and I lose my religion because I lost my job.
00:22:11But why should a man give up his religion?
00:22:13Because he loses his job.
00:22:15It gave me time to meet people
00:22:16who were really interested in my situation
00:22:19and they gave me books to read.
00:22:22Books?
00:22:23No doubt you're talking about the trade union organizer,
00:22:26Mr. Archie Heron.
00:22:27You don't like him, Father, do you?
00:22:29Is it because he's a Protestant
00:22:31or because he's a socialist Republican?
00:22:33The man's an Antichrist.
00:22:35Oh, well, there you and the Orange Lodge
00:22:37have got something in common
00:22:38because they call him by the very same name.
00:22:41How very sad.
00:22:43Yes, Father, very sad.
00:22:45When a man learns to be a Republican,
00:22:47he won't throw stones at Protestants anymore.
00:22:50I've never wanted one man to stone another.
00:22:52But have you ever preached brotherly love
00:22:54any more than the Orange Men?
00:22:55And I'm not talking about
00:22:57my poverty-stricken broad brothers.
00:22:59The Catholic Church has always been
00:23:01on the side of amity.
00:23:03I suppose by the way you say that word, Father,
00:23:05you mean that it's got something to do
00:23:06with living in peace with your fellow man.
00:23:09But of course.
00:23:09But all your teachings have been about
00:23:11how unholy it is
00:23:12for two people to marry each other
00:23:14because one of them's a broad
00:23:15and the other one's a fit.
00:23:17And the peace that you want
00:23:18has to be underwritten by the Pope.
00:23:21Mixed marriages, Mr. Brannigan.
00:23:23Don't call me Mr. Father.
00:23:25You don't respect me.
00:23:26And any respect I had for you, I lost
00:23:29when I realized that you valued your position
00:23:32more than you valued my liberty.
00:23:55You'll have that button twisted after you.
00:23:57Look, that tail be stewed
00:24:00and you know how I hit stewed tay.
00:24:03That'll be the Roman Catholic bells for devotions.
00:24:05She'll be here shortly.
00:24:07How did you know that?
00:24:09Devotions is always at seven o'clock.
00:24:11Well, he said they'll be here a little after that.
00:24:14Don't say any mystery in it.
00:24:16No, I don't mean that.
00:24:17I mean, how did you know
00:24:18that was the bell for devotions?
00:24:22Well, I've been living here
00:24:23for the past 15 years.
00:24:25How would I know what time
00:24:26the factory horn goes on?
00:24:28But we know all about factory horns.
00:24:31Don't tell me you're angry
00:24:33because I recognize the bells of St. Dominic's.
00:24:35Don't be a daft bitch.
00:24:36The man's going to be jealous
00:24:38of Roman Catholic bells.
00:24:40Oh, there they are now.
00:24:41Thank God for that.
00:24:47Eunice, this is me on Sarah,
00:24:48me Uncle Tom.
00:24:50I'm very pleased to meet you, Eunice.
00:24:52How are you?
00:24:53You're very welcome, dear.
00:24:55Willie has told us a lot about you.
00:24:57You'll be dying for a wee cup of tea.
00:24:59Oh, I'd simply do all a cup of tea, Mrs. Perdon.
00:25:02All right, Willie.
00:25:03Willie, will you take the wee girl's handbag there
00:25:05and I'll put it over on that sofa there.
00:25:07Yes, and you come along with me, dear.
00:25:09And you just sit yourself over there
00:25:11and make yourself at home.
00:25:14That's it, all right.
00:25:16Come on, pass that along now
00:25:18and the sugar to me.
00:25:19I will indeed, yes.
00:25:20Yes, you will.
00:25:21You'll have a cup of tea.
00:25:23I need to ask you.
00:25:24You'd like some milk?
00:25:25No, you needn't.
00:25:27Would you like a little milk, dear?
00:25:28Yes, I'm good.
00:25:29Yes.
00:25:30Now.
00:25:31There you are.
00:25:40Your name's, uh, Gilbraith.
00:25:43You know, I worked with a fella in the yard some years ago
00:25:47by the name of Charney Gilbraith.
00:25:49Would he be any relation to yours?
00:25:51Oh, well, dead he is in the building trade.
00:25:54Oh, that's a very unreliable class of work altogether.
00:25:56Out in all welles and up the earth...
00:25:58Eunice's father is Charles Gilbraith,
00:26:00but not the one you know, Uncle.
00:26:01Oh, her father's the big building contractor.
00:26:03Oh, is that sure?
00:26:05Oh, very sorry, miss.
00:26:06Oh, daddy remembers very hard times.
00:26:09When he was a boy, of course.
00:26:11Oh, of course.
00:26:13Would you like, uh, a wee rock bone,
00:26:16a bake for myself, then?
00:26:17Oh, I do love home baking, thank you.
00:26:20Oh, and I've really nice to you.
00:26:21I love all myself, sir.
00:26:22Thanks.
00:26:24Oh, I remember when I used to go to my granny's house.
00:26:27She had a picture like that.
00:26:29King William, isn't it?
00:26:30Well, oh, King Billy, oh, yes.
00:26:34Have you not got a picture like that in your house?
00:26:37Oh, no.
00:26:38We're Presbyterians, you see.
00:26:41But so are we.
00:26:42But what has King Billy got to do with that?
00:26:45Well, Daddy says King William was a Catholic hero.
00:26:50King Billy?
00:26:52Where did he get a daft notion like that?
00:26:54Well, he's right, of course.
00:26:56Didn't you know?
00:26:57King Billy and the Pope fought on the same side against the King of France.
00:27:01What the hell are you talking about?
00:27:03The Pope ordered fires to be lit in the Vatican to celebrate King Billy's victory at the point.
00:27:12Would you answer me a personal question, miss?
00:27:16Of course, Mr. Cody.
00:27:18Would you tell me where a wealthy man like your dog got crazy daft notions like that?
00:27:49Well, what the hell are you talking about?
00:28:04But how do you mean they don't talk about religion?
00:28:08Tom, I asked you to take that kettle off the fire before the backside's burnt out of it.
00:28:13You're all right, woman.
00:28:14That wean must have been born in a terrible hurry.
00:28:17Well, in their class, it's considered an impertinence to talk about such things.
00:28:22Except philosophically, of course.
00:28:24What do you mean by that?
00:28:26Well, it might be of interest to a person of the Jewish faith to know how a Catholic worships and
00:28:30so on.
00:28:31But where would they meet them?
00:28:33Where would they meet whom?
00:28:35Jews and papishes.
00:28:37Where would Protestants meet them?
00:28:39In their clubs, and when they'd play golf together, or when they'd visit each other's homes.
00:28:44Well, wait a minute there.
00:28:45Are you going to sit there and tell me that rich people would have poverty-stricken papishes and Jew boys
00:28:52in their houses?
00:28:53Well, of course not.
00:28:54But that's what I'm trying to say.
00:28:55They'd have rich papishes or Jew boys in their houses, or Hindus, or Buddhists, or Muslims.
00:29:01It's a question of class.
00:29:02There's something queer about living like that.
00:29:07Look, people fight each other in the working classes not because of religion.
00:29:11Why then?
00:29:13Economics.
00:29:14A man is jealous of another man's house, or his clothes, or his job.
00:29:19The rich don't recognize these problems.
00:29:21They have good homes, the best of clothes, and they don't do any work anyway.
00:29:26And you're going to be living among people like that?
00:29:31Too right I am.
00:29:32But all I can say is, may God look down on you.
00:29:40Honour the king, thy master, and all those in high places above you.
00:29:48Those words, my children, are not mine.
00:29:51They are the words of your catechism.
00:29:54Now, we all know who the king is.
00:29:57We mean, of course, his gracious majesty, King George V.
00:30:00But are we really clear as to what is meant by our masters?
00:30:09We must not honour those in high places only when the going is good.
00:30:16If an employer has no work to give his servant, does it make the man less the master?
00:30:28Now, there are among you those who would have you believe that it would be right for the common people
00:30:34to rise up against their masters and take what is the master's by right.
00:30:40That is the act of the brigand, of the socialist, of the Fenian.
00:30:47And I admonish you to shun those people.
00:30:52Because whether they speak in the name of rebellion or trade unionism,
00:30:57they are all Fenians.
00:31:02And I would remind you what the Bishop of Kerry, the most reverend Dr. Moriarty, said in this regard.
00:31:10That hell is not hot enough, nor eternity long enough, to roast the Fenian.
00:31:24I'll smile among the whole shower of bastards.
00:31:32We must be prepared, in the event of a Home Rule Bill passing,
00:31:37with such measures as will carry on for ourselves the government of those districts of which we have control.
00:31:45We must be prepared, the morning Home Rule passes,
00:31:50ourselves to become responsible for the government of the Protestant province of Ulster.
00:31:56Let me warn the government that prevaricates on the Home Rule question from the far reaches of Westminster,
00:32:04that we in Ulster are ready for any exigency.
00:32:10We have, in order to defend the provisional government of Ulster,
00:32:16and to protest a Protestant parliament for a Protestant people,
00:32:20an army on war footing,
00:32:24100,000 Ulster Protestant men fully armed and ready to face all in defence of their birthright.
00:32:33I salute the Ulster Protestant volunteers.
00:32:39If it is to be rebellious, to be loyal to the Crown,
00:32:44then 100,000 soldiers of Ulster are rebels.
00:32:50I stand with them,
00:32:52and I am proud to be called so.
00:32:56I rejoice in the name Rebel.
00:33:02In time, the whole empire will remember with gratitude
00:33:06this day when loyal men were brought forward to defend king and country.
00:33:15God bless the Ulster volunteers.
00:33:18God save the king!
00:33:31Put just enough lead in each mole now, that's precious stuff.
00:33:36Aye, I heard.
00:33:38Look to the work, Major Crawford.
00:33:41Thank you for lending us your furnace, Mr. Piggott.
00:33:44Ah, man!
00:33:45Sure isn't it God's furnace.
00:33:47And who would I be to say that it shouldn't do God's work?
00:33:50Well, those clergymen wouldn't hear of it, then.
00:33:52Now we have many that give us every facility.
00:33:54As long as there's nothing in it that'll blow me church up.
00:33:57It's taken me a fair long while to gather the congregation I have.
00:34:00It's only the lead noses for the bullets we do in the furnace.
00:34:03Charlie here packs the cord out of powder,
00:34:06and his brother Billy here pinches the casings round.
00:34:08Hmm.
00:34:08You need a sore lot of lead and furnace to make bullets for the guns of a hundred thousand men.
00:34:15I believe that's the number in Carson's army.
00:34:17Near enough.
00:34:18Though we've no intention of making that many bullets.
00:34:21No, aye, home rule would be passed and gone before you'd have enough made to fire a shot each.
00:34:25We'll have the arms before home rule gets near us.
00:34:27Well, you need to worry, then.
00:34:29You see, the bill gets his final readings in a few weeks' time.
00:34:32Then it becomes law.
00:34:35You know, I thought Sir Edward's wealthy friends might see a way to getting some arms for you.
00:34:40No raising the money just at the moment, sir.
00:34:42Hmm.
00:34:42That shouldn't be too much trouble for them.
00:34:45F.E. Smith spends, or so I'm told, a thousand a week in horse racing.
00:34:50When he's not at the bar of the Old Bailey, the bar of the House of Commons,
00:34:54or any one of any number of bars retailing out the hall.
00:34:58They're doing their best to raise the money, sir.
00:35:01Lord Londonderry owns, or so they tell me,
00:35:04gold mines in the Klondike,
00:35:06diamond mines in South Africa,
00:35:08and he owns every blessed coal mine in Durham.
00:35:12I don't think they're short of a bob or two.
00:35:14They won't let us down, sir.
00:35:17Let us hope, Major, that Ulster is not in the hands of people who care less for the destiny of
00:35:21Ulster
00:35:21than they do about who's to be the next English government.
00:35:25There will be no betrayal of Ulster, sir.
00:35:28I'm glad to hear it.
00:35:32I have every reason for such faith, sir.
00:35:35Your faith is monumental, Major. Monumental.
00:35:39Give it another day.
00:35:40What is it?
00:35:41It's a draft drawn on a London bank.
00:35:44For 250,000 pounds.
00:35:49God, I thought only the Vatican had money like that.
00:35:52I sailed from London tonight and from there to Hamburg,
00:35:55and I'll get all the weapons the Ulster volunteers need.
00:35:59And bullets.
00:36:00And bullets, too, sir.
00:36:02Well, thank God for that.
00:36:04You know, that old furnace has been going so hard all through the summer,
00:36:08the communications were beginning to think it was getting them ready for the roaring flames of hell.
00:36:12We are not going to fight the army and the navy.
00:36:17But if the army and the navy come up to displace us, they will displace us at their peril.
00:36:24It is not that we mean to fight them.
00:36:28God forbid that any loyal Irishman should ever shoot or think of shooting the British soldier or sailor.
00:36:37But, believe you me, any government will ponder long before it dares to shoot a loyal Ulster Protestant devoted to
00:36:51his country and loyal to his king.
00:36:54It's all very well, Mrs. Gilbraith, if they don't live in your pocket.
00:36:58But if you had to wake up every morning and find Roman Catholics next to you, you'd maybe think differently.
00:37:05And they're very dirty, you know. Some of them live ten in a room.
00:37:09Poor creatures. Is there nothing we could do for them?
00:37:13Mrs. dear, you couldn't do nothing to help them ones.
00:37:18Give them better houses to live in, and I'll guarantee they'll turn them into pigstays in less than a week.
00:37:23There was one Roman Catholic family, and they got a house with an inside toilet.
00:37:28And they used to wash their faces in, and they thought it was the sink.
00:37:31Ah, dear me. Poor creatures.
00:37:34You see, they didn't know what to do because they hadn't to go out into the backyard for water.
00:37:38Oh, right enough, the sink's a great boon.
00:37:41Lord Tom, do you mind when you had to wash your back under the tap in the yard?
00:37:44Oh, don't I? Oh, yes.
00:37:47Mrs. Gilbraith, that bathroom of yours is a great improvement on the sink, and that's a fact.
00:37:51I was just saying to Tom, Don Bath would how the queer locker closed.
00:37:55Oh, she did, she did, she did.
00:38:08Well, you're back. You took your time.
00:38:11Well, Willie, my son, we chapped our end up already. Do you think they were impressed?
00:38:17Impressed? I couldn't have been more impressed if you'd vomited on their carpets.
00:38:24Smaller groups, Tom. We'll have to organize into smaller groups.
00:38:29Carson's volunteers make great spies for the military. Jesus, there's 100,000 of them.
00:38:33Aye. At the rate we're being arrested, so we'll soon be able to meet in a confession box.
00:38:36Oh, but that's because we got involved with local issues. We've got to put a stop to that.
00:38:40Are you saying we should walk away every time somebody threatens to shoot us up?
00:38:45If necessary. We've got ourselves bogged down in a sectarian struggle.
00:38:49We are doing Carson and the Tory party's work for them.
00:38:52Now, let the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Orange Order, let them, let them carry on the gang fights
00:38:57if they want to.
00:38:58What do we do then?
00:39:00We fight.
00:39:02Who do we fight? And where?
00:39:04We fight British imperialism, and we fight it from Dublin.
00:39:07Ah, Cartier, you're out of your mind. Sure the British army would only have to blow on us.
00:39:11No, no, no. Not if they've got so much trouble on their hands somewhere else.
00:39:14Don't tell me you believe in all that claptrap about Britain fighting Germany.
00:39:17Connolly says that an imperialist war cannot be held off any longer.
00:39:21I don't care what Commandant General Connolly says. Sure blood's thicker than water.
00:39:26What's that mean?
00:39:29Isn't the king the casers' first cousin?
00:39:30Well, they never knew that'd stop kings from killing each other before now.
00:39:33No, they don't get killed. They never do. The poor bastards that fight for them.
00:39:37So you wouldn't fight in Dublin?
00:39:40Not fight.
00:39:42Sure I wouldn't miss it. Didn't I help to wind up the clock?
00:39:46Hello, Mr. Hearn.
00:39:48What's upset you, love? Why aren't you out playing?
00:39:50He can't, Tom. The other kids keep calling them names.
00:39:53What names?
00:39:54Socialist drawers and Pagan Brannigan.
00:39:56And I'll carry Duffy won't let him go on the chapel holidays.
00:39:58He says he'd be a bad influence.
00:40:00I'll twist that Duffy's neck with you, so I'll give him a chance to die for his bloody saviour.
00:40:03And the priest read your name out from the altar and nobody spoke to his all the way home from
00:40:07mass.
00:40:08That bastard. I'll kill that git.
00:40:12I'll kill you all.
00:40:12You bastard you mean us!
00:40:14The coward in the priest's eggs!
00:40:17But it looks worse than it is, Nellie.
00:40:20Look, get a rag. Get a rag and wipe the blood off.
00:40:22I'll go down and try and calm them down.
00:40:24Go out! Out there they'll kill your chick.
00:40:26Not at all, I know most of them. I'll talk.
00:40:42You are not a Roman Catholic.
00:40:45God forbid, worshipful master.
00:40:48You never had any track with a papist.
00:40:51As God's my judge.
00:40:54No man has used undue influence to get you to join the loyal Orange Order.
00:40:59My conscience was my persuasion.
00:41:03You may take the oath.
00:41:06No one said I was to learn an oath, worshipful master.
00:41:10I'll read the oath right through.
00:41:12I could think that's shock and good of you.
00:41:15I do solemnly and sincerely swear, of my own free will and accord,
00:41:22that I will to the utmost of my power
00:41:26support and defend the present King George V and all the heirs of the crown
00:41:30so long as they support the Protestant ascendancy.
00:41:45Next.
00:41:49William, it's Mr. Heron.
00:41:51Oh, well, well, Archie.
00:41:53As I live and breathe.
00:41:55Hiya, Bill.
00:41:55I didn't really believe you'd turn up.
00:41:58Have it here.
00:41:59What am I doing keeping a guest?
00:42:01An old friend standing at the feet of himself.
00:42:04Sit down, man.
00:42:05Sit down and take your ease.
00:42:06Thanks, Bill.
00:42:07There you are.
00:42:08Oh, Mary dear, will you pour a cup of tea for Archie?
00:42:11Oh, I forgot.
00:42:12You two haven't met.
00:42:13Mary love, this is Archie Heron.
00:42:15Hi, dear.
00:42:15Mr. Tiggott.
00:42:16You've often heard me talk about Archie.
00:42:18Well, now.
00:42:20That's the honours done anyway.
00:42:22My husband tells me you and he were at school together.
00:42:24Yes, ma'am, yes, indeed we were, indeed we were.
00:42:26Ah, yes, indeed.
00:42:28Starboy, he wasn't off.
00:42:30Here's your tea, Mr. Heron.
00:42:31Thank you, Mr. Tiggott.
00:42:33No sugar, thanks.
00:42:34Sit down, Archie, sit down.
00:42:36Hi.
00:42:42Oh, thank you, dear.
00:42:46You'll excuse me, Mr. Heron.
00:42:47Oh, yes, yes, of course, Mr. Heron.
00:42:52Well, now, Archie.
00:42:54Now, what can I do for you?
00:42:57Stop the orange walk from going through the Catholic Quarter.
00:43:00Well, you're right from the shoulder.
00:43:03No beating about the bush with Archie Heron.
00:43:07And what would make you think that the walk was going through the Roman Catholic Quarter?
00:43:11Now, listen to it.
00:43:13Archie, you put me in a very awkward position.
00:43:18You see, we agreed to avoid the Roman Catholics last year.
00:43:22And what happened in the spring?
00:43:25I'm danged if the priest doesn't take his procession right through Sandy Row.
00:43:28Oh, what else could he do?
00:43:29The Catholic cemeteries at the other side, they had to walk that way.
00:43:32Oh, yes, yes.
00:43:33But they shouldn't have gone on a procession.
00:43:36Ones and twos and walk on the pavement.
00:43:39And then they could have had all the processions they wanted on the other side.
00:43:42Uh-huh.
00:43:43Well, they went in ones and twos a couple of years ago, do you remember?
00:43:46They were half killed.
00:43:47Ah, yes, yes, yes.
00:43:48Regrettable, Archie.
00:43:49Highly regrettable.
00:43:52But you just try and tell our committee that.
00:43:55You could.
00:43:56Me, Archie.
00:43:59They wouldn't take it from Carson himself.
00:44:03No, no, no.
00:44:04They're their own men.
00:44:05My hands are tied completely.
00:44:10Why don't you see Tom Curley?
00:44:12He's the Worshipful Master.
00:44:14Now, if there's any man of the power, it'll be Tom.
00:44:17Well, I've already seen him.
00:44:18And he tells me that there is one man would never agree to it.
00:44:21Now, did he mention his name?
00:44:23He says you wouldn't hear of it.
00:44:25He said that, did he?
00:44:27Uh-huh.
00:44:28Ah, yes.
00:44:29Ah, well, well, I see.
00:44:31Well, I'm afraid that we must have had our subjects mixed.
00:44:36Tell you what.
00:44:38Let me have another talk with him.
00:44:40We'll maybe think of something.
00:44:42All right?
00:44:45Fair enough.
00:44:50By the way, Archie,
00:44:52I believe you stopped the workers from the yard from joining in my march.
00:44:57I did, Bill.
00:44:58Why did you do that?
00:44:59Because it's a trade unionist job to prevent sectarianism.
00:45:02And you think I'd revel in it?
00:45:04If it suited your purpose, Bill.
00:45:07Purpose?
00:45:08What purpose?
00:45:09You're looking for power.
00:45:11Oh, Archie, you're a terrible man altogether.
00:45:15And God help us, it would take an awful uncivil character to take a dislike to you.
00:45:23There are, among you, men who possess firearms.
00:45:29Of that I have little doubt.
00:45:31There are, among you, men who are soldiers of Bolster's new volunteer force.
00:45:38So petulantly derided by radicals in England and Ireland as Carson's volunteers.
00:45:47I exhort you, carry not arms with evil intent.
00:45:54Carry not arms with hatred for your fellow man.
00:46:00Carry your arms as a sign of your belief in the protestations of your Christianity.
00:46:08Carry your arms in the spirit of David.
00:46:11And remember, like David, that vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.
00:46:18Carry your arms with God on your mind and Jesus on your lips.
00:46:25And now, let us have hymn number 48.
00:46:29Stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross.
00:46:37You're surprised me, Mr. Harris, to think now that my little pamphlet should give you such offense.
00:46:42Now, you only criticize the Irish volunteers in this.
00:46:45Now, why is that, Father?
00:46:46I'm a shepherd, Mr. Herron.
00:46:48I defend my flock from violence.
00:46:50Only Republican violence you think should be attacked is not right, Father.
00:46:53The Church's attitude to unauthorized violence from whatsoever and whomsoever is very well known.
00:46:58Oh, is it?
00:46:58Well, in that case, why didn't you rush into print whenever Carson formed his army?
00:47:02But, sir, where was the need?
00:47:04Didn't the Prime Minister himself assure us that Sir Edward Carson would be dealt with?
00:47:07And did he deal with them?
00:47:09Ah, come on now, Tom.
00:47:11Give the Prime Minister a chance.
00:47:12After all, Rome wasn't built in a day, you know.
00:47:16And what about the arms from Germany that Major Crawford is bringing back?
00:47:21Nonsense, man.
00:47:22He's in the whole of the Royal Navy waiting to trap him.
00:47:24And didn't the First Lord himself, Mr. Churchill, speak in this town not so very long ago in favor of
00:47:29home rule?
00:47:30Now, we can certainly trust Mr. Churchill.
00:47:32Sir Edward Carson has sworn that Major Crawford will bring the arms from Germany in spite of Churchill's navy.
00:47:37Now, what have you got to say to that?
00:47:40Sir Edward is a politician.
00:47:42It is only natural that he should talk politics.
00:47:46Good day to you now.
00:47:47Yes.
00:47:48There will be the danger and difficulties of trying to run a government of our own against the constituted authority
00:47:56under the Home Rule Bill.
00:47:59I am told that it will be illegal.
00:48:03Of course it is illegal.
00:48:06Drilling is illegal.
00:48:08Well, the volunteers are illegal and the government dare not interfere with them.
00:48:15Let us not be afraid of illegalities.
00:48:21And my fear is, brethren, that the politicians will make fools of us.
00:48:25Worshipful Master! Worshipful Master!
00:48:28You will excuse me, brethren.
00:48:30I won't keep you a minute.
00:48:31Brother Walker, take the chair.
00:48:33Very well, Worshipful Master.
00:48:34Politics are all right for politicians.
00:48:36But, brethren, when the Carsons are finished shampboxing each other, who clears up the mess?
00:48:42We should make it clear, Mr. Pickett, that we are not criticizing Sir Edward himself or his sincerity.
00:48:48Didn't we swear to defend the Protestant descendancy?
00:48:51We surely did.
00:48:52Didn't Carson, F.E. Smith, Bonner Law, and Max Akin swear the same oath?
00:48:56There's none we'll dispute that.
00:48:58Then why is Carson and his friends ready to accept Home Rule for 23 counties of Ireland?
00:49:03The country belongs to us, man.
00:49:05Half a loaf is better than no bread at all.
00:49:07Half a loaf is the coward's dinner, Reverend Duff.
00:49:11Nine counties of Ulster they'll put us into.
00:49:14And on all sides, we'll be surrounded by war-painted papes.
00:49:18How long will we last?
00:49:20We'll have to live with them sometime.
00:49:21And when will our squirt's Indian agent arrive?
00:49:24Indian agent?
00:49:24I'll try to throw a handful of crumbs to the inhabitants of the Ulster Protestant Reservation.
00:49:30I think, Reverend...
00:49:31If Sir Edward Carson's plans are to go through, in a short while, the Protestants in Ireland will be as
00:49:39rare as a Red Indian is today in the banks of the Mississippi.
00:49:42I think we've spent enough time on this little matter.
00:49:44In order to move to the next business, I propose a vote of confidence in our leader, Sir Edward Carson.
00:49:49Not in my church, you won't.
00:49:51But you're surely not going to use your special position as minister here to silence a legitimate vote of confidence.
00:49:57You think not?
00:49:59But I'm to let you shut me up, while Sir Edward Carson is betraying everything that the Orange Order stands
00:50:04for.
00:50:05And you think I'll not resist?
00:50:07Oh, you don't know me very well, Reverend Duff.
00:50:09On the point of all...
00:50:09Sit down, you maggot!
00:50:11I'm really...
00:50:11Sit down, I tell you!
00:50:12Reverend!
00:50:13Reverend!
00:50:14Reverend!
00:50:23Well, at least there is one man for us.
00:50:27Major Crawford.
00:50:28Yes.
00:50:30Major Crawford is approaching Belfast Loch at this very minute.
00:50:35He has secured a great deal of arms from Germany.
00:50:38He has successfully eluded Mr. Churchill's blockade.
00:50:43And is expected to tie up at Larn before night.
00:50:49But it is beautiful, and as colors they are bright...
00:50:56I found Belfast and the surroundings very exciting.
00:51:00The government have been moving troops and police all day through the province and from the south.
00:51:07I imagine it is a scare on their part, and that they were under the impression our people were going
00:51:13to take action.
00:51:14Or it may be they desire to provoke an outbreak.
00:51:18This place is an armed camp with the general and officers here.
00:51:26March 21st.
00:51:28I've just addressed here all the commanding officers and given the best direction I could on questions of policy.
00:51:34We have many offers of men of high standing to come over.
00:51:37Our fund here is going ahead, and we are happy and calm.
00:51:41The puppy is dead, and he lies in his grave, lies in his grave, lies in his grave.
00:51:51The puppy is dead, and he lies in his grave, he lies in his grave.
00:51:59They seem to be making this one even bigger than them we've seen round the docks, Mr. Greer.
00:52:02Aye, every sandy little egg has two yokes.
00:52:06The kids seem to be enjoying themselves, aren't they?
00:52:08Indeed, it's a damn thing they ever have to grow up.
00:52:11Their age now is just like Guy Fawkes, right?
00:52:14You think we could have the same arrangement as last year and the year before that, Mr. Greer?
00:52:18I don't know, Mr. Branigan.
00:52:20I really don't know.
00:52:22Times have changed so much since last year.
00:52:26But the people haven't changed, Andy.
00:52:29Actually, the Tenant's Association was in great control then.
00:52:35I mean, the Orange Order didn't count for so much.
00:52:37It's not that it's all that big now, mind you.
00:52:39They have guns now.
00:52:41A bloody real arm.
00:52:45Well, we'll be to go, Andy.
00:52:46Still got some people to see.
00:52:48And Archie, I promise you we'll do all we can to keep tempers and check around here.
00:52:52But don't set your hopes high.
00:52:55Carson's volunteers are more glamorous than tenant associations.
00:53:01Oh, a rock where a rock to hang the rock, and a penny worth a cheese to do joking, and
00:53:07some land coins to wash it, and a big hot bar to roast him!
00:53:13Let me stop it, Archie.
00:53:14Good, you must be joking.
00:53:16But somebody must try, brother.
00:53:17Well, it won't be me, Archie.
00:53:19And for God's sake, don't call me brother when them fellas are around the place.
00:53:28You must be joking, Archie.
00:53:30Them fellas have guns now.
00:53:31Why don't you look after number one?
00:53:34I must try something.
00:53:36I'm sorry the thanks you'll get for it.
00:53:37Except maybe a bullet in the head.
00:53:39And the rest of them will turn around and say,
00:53:41Well, wasn't he the right old fool?
00:53:47Peaceful Roman Catholics can be assured, Archie, that the Protestant marchers will ignore papist provocation.
00:53:59I've told our people that they must not react to violence, Mr. Heron.
00:54:03They will accept insults without retaliation in the long tradition of persecuted Catholics.
00:54:25I've told you it was damn stupid trying to talk to them savages, Archie.
00:54:33What in the hell is going to happen?
00:54:36You march all over your mind.
00:54:45You march all over your mind.
00:54:50You march all over your mind.
00:54:52The music so sweetly playing.
00:54:55The tune we made with the Protestant boys right over Dolly's grave.
00:54:59The tune we made with the Protestant boys right over Dolly's grave.
00:55:09I believe you are too.
00:55:11Come on.
00:55:44The shot.
00:55:45It was only a car back firing.
00:55:46It was a shot of a man that came from over there.
00:55:48They're shooting on top of the folds.
00:55:49Yes, the Catholics are shooting down the Grosvenor Road.
00:55:51Part of the coast.
00:55:52The Catholics are murdering the Protestant people and their bands.
00:55:54There's only a car.
00:55:55The Catholics have taken over motor cars and they've gone.
00:55:58Yes, the fire machine guns and motor cars.
00:56:00The Catholics have stolen armoured cars and they've murdered all the Protestants about us.
00:56:17The Attorney General says that my doctrines and the course I am taking lead to anarchy.
00:56:26Does he think I do not know that?
00:56:30Does he think that after coming to my time of life and passing through the various offices
00:56:36and responsibilities I have accepted, I did this like a baby, without knowing the consequences?
00:56:44I did this like a baby.
00:57:03I did this like a baby.
00:57:05I did this like a baby.
00:57:14I did this like a baby.
00:57:17I did this like a baby.
00:57:22I did this like a baby.
00:57:37I did this like a baby.
00:57:48I did this like a baby.
00:58:07Worshipful master, why didn't you let Syster show his paces round the bar and you can judge for yourself?
00:58:12Well, now, that's not a bad idea. Now, will you be game for that, Syster?
00:58:15Come on, Syster. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
00:58:18All right. All right. But, Les, listen. If I could have the barn behind me, I mean, Christ, I'd feel
00:58:23daft walking in front of myself.
00:58:25Oh, well, wait a minute. Now, we can maybe fix that, too.
00:58:27Now, I beg. Will you let the Syster lead you round the bar there?
00:58:31Oh, I will.
00:58:32There. Come on, now.
00:58:33Read to Matt Faye from the hand in the bar there, Mac.
00:58:38What's the wee plate for it, Tom? It makes the fife weigh a ton.
00:58:40Ah, well, let me show that it'll be handy whenever they want it.
00:58:44Well, Sir Edward Jarson came on Tal Covenant Day.
00:58:47Every bloody instrument was in the poem, except the drums.
00:58:51It made every tune sound all to the one air like a fart.
00:58:55Right. Now, let us know when you're ready, lad.
00:58:59Hey, hey, hey.
00:59:00Hey, hey.
00:59:03Keep the noise down a wee bit, or you'll blow the bloody wonders out, man.
00:59:06Yeah.
00:59:07All right, Sice Walker.
00:59:09You can walk any time you've a main to.
00:59:12Right you are, Bumbelly.
00:59:35Try the green, rosy stalks of the vine.
00:59:39Working well, he understands where the lady's going.
00:59:43Want to fight for a glorious deliverance
00:59:47Where? On the green grassy slopes of the boy
00:59:51On the green grassy slopes of the boy
00:59:55Children wail in the brave and the high
00:59:59But he won for a Protestant religion
01:00:03Where? On the green grassy slopes of the boy
01:00:07Hear your bastards, cheer the elephants!
01:00:14Ah!
01:00:21Ah!
01:00:25Oh!
01:00:29Oh!
01:00:31Oh!
01:00:33Oh!
01:00:35Oh!
01:00:36Oh!
01:00:37Oh!
01:00:39Oh!
01:00:41Oh!
01:00:43Oh!
01:00:44Oh!
01:00:48Oh!
01:00:48Oh!
01:00:49Oh!
01:01:00Oh!
01:01:14Oh!
01:01:17Oh!
01:01:18Oh!
01:01:19Oh!
01:01:19Oh!
01:01:27Oh!
01:01:28I think there'd be more decency in a republic than in this humbug.
01:01:34In fact, I'd rather see a republic.
01:01:48God bless the men who joined at the battle of the boy.
01:01:54We'll remember every hero of that number.
01:02:00For great honor they bring to the empire and the king.
01:02:06Like the great orange heroes of comfort.
01:02:12Oh, raise your voices high.
01:02:15Catch us soaring through the sky.
01:02:18Tries our drones, they will rattle like the thunder.
01:02:24What is Ireland is our home.
01:02:26We serve Ireland and hope for Rome.
01:02:29We're the brave orange heroes of comfort.
01:02:38No surrender is our boast, while there's still a bit to roast.
01:02:43No surrender, our drums cry out like thunder.
01:02:47No surrender is our cry, no surrender till we die.
01:02:52We're the brave orange heroes of comfort.
01:02:55Come back.
01:02:56Come back.
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