(h) Other Relevant Books, mostly but not always in my possession
Those marked * have indexed references to me in their texts. I am in process of going through these systematically, and to deliver 'hot-linked' critical responses via the hypertext support for this 'Century' book, where I have not done so already. I want to place on record here that, with the exception of Henry Patterson, none of the authors mentioned ever checked things out with me, though I was always available at the time the book was written. Any other books I find which reference me I will add to this list, and add responses if I consider it necessary. My experience of most of these references is that they are often erroneous and dependent totally on mentions in the contemporary press. Note that if I make additions to the numbered chronological sequence subsequent to the finalising of this list for the printed edition, I add them in as decimal inserts to the sequence.
1. The Social Function of Science, JD Bernal FRS, Routledge Kegan Paul 1939; this book was influential during the early TCD Promethean Society epoch; see also his subsequent The Freedom of Necessity, RKP 1949. (TCD Library).
2. The Life and Times of James Connolly and Liam Mellows and the Irish Revolution, C Desmond Greaves, Lawrence and Wishart, 1960 and 1971 respectively. Box RJlib1. Greaves had set himself the task of encouraging the development of independent Marxist thought within Ireland, and ensuring that the Irish when they emigrated to Britain learned to act politically in the Irish interest, the vehicle for this being the Connolly Association, with its paper the Irish Democrat. I have partially abstracted his journal, which he kept from the 1930s to his death in 1988, where it bears on this narrative, in the hypertext. An overview is accessible from Appendix 10.
2.1 Malachi-Stilt-Jack: A Study of WB Years and his work, Brian Farrington, Connolly Publications 1965. This was produced in the context of the 1916-66 celebrations and fuelled a Wolfe Tone Society seminar. Box RJlib1
3. The WTS History sub-committee was helpful in the production of The First Dail by Maire Comerford, published by Joe Clarke, 1969. She was a regular attender at the WTS meetings. RJlib1.
4. * Ireland Since the Famine, FSL Lyons, Collins/Fontana 1973. Box RJlib2.
5. * Memoirs of a Revolutionary, Sean Mac Stiofain, Gordon Cremonesi, 1975; this has references to the present writer, and provides several anchor-points for comment (TCD Library).
6. * The IRA, the Secret Army, J Bowyer Bell, Academy Press, 1979; this also deserves some critical comment which I have given in the Critics module. See also 11.1 below. Box RJlib2.
7. * Communism in Modern Ireland, Mike Milotte, Gill & Macmillan 1984; also needs critical comment. Box RJlib2.
8. * The Provisional IRA, P Bishop & E Mallie, Heinemann, London, 1987. Box RJlib2.
9. * Disillusioned Decades, Tim Pat Coogan, Gill & Macmillan 1987. Box RJlib2.
9.1 * The Politics of Illusion (republican and socialism in modern Ireland), Henry Patterson, Hutchinson Radius, London, 1989.
10. * Andrée Sheehy-Skeffington, Owen Sheehy-Skeffington's widow, wrote a biography Skeff which was published by Lilliput in 1991. I contributed material to her, which she acknowledged. Box RJ3.
11. * Heresy: the Battle of Ideas in Modern Ireland, Desmond Fennell, Blackstaff 1993. Box RJlib2.
11.1 The Irish Troubles: a Generation of Violence 1967-1992, J Bowyer Bell, Gill and Macmillan 1993. See also the Critics module.
12. * 20th Century Ireland, Nation and State, Dermot Keogh, Gill & Macmillan, 1994. This work by an academic historian is so sloppy as to hardly merit a mention, but it is of interest because of a reference to both myself and my father as subversives. Box RJlib2.
12.1 Inventing Ireland, Declan Kiberd, Vintage 1996. Box RJlib1.
13. Maurice Laheen, the Tuam local historian, put me in touch with John Cunningham who wrote a chapter on RM Burke's life and times for John A Claffey's Glimpses of Tuam since the Famine (Tuam 1997; ISBN_0_9530250_0_4).
14. Home Rule as Rome Rule, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books, 1997, based on his November 1996 address to the UCC Philosophical Society. Box RJlib1.
15. * Memoir: My Life and Themes, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Poolbeg, 1998. Box RJlib2.
16. * Science and Colonialism in Ireland, Nicholas Whyte, Cork UP 1999. Box RJlib2.
17. Elephants Against Rome, C Desmond Geaves, Learmheas 1999; preface by Anthony Cronin and introduction by Anthony Coughlan; an epic poem dealing with the writer's early experience in left-wing anti-fascist politics in the 1930s and 40s. Box RJlib1.
18. * Ireland and Empire, Stephen Howe, Oxford UP, 2000. RJlib2. This leans heavily on the Patterson and Purdie analyses; I have commented in the Critics module.
19. * The Arms Trial, Justin O'Brien, Gill & Macmillan 2000 (TCD Library); this has references to the present writer on which I have hung some commentary in a separate file. It also confirms contemporary 'official' republican analyses of the role of Fianna Fail, as outlined in Nuacht Naisiunta during the Easter 1970 period.
20. For Protestant Self-Determination, CM Hussey, Dunesk Press, 2001; this thoughtful historical analysis of the Ulster situation deserves in-depth review, and I hope to do this in the current context, with further additions to the hypertext. Box RJlib2.
21. * A Secret History of the IRA, Ed Moloney, Penguin, London, 2002. While being a competent history of the Provisional campaign and its eventual politicisation led by Adams, the treatment of the origins of the Provisionals at the end of the 1960s leaves much to be desired, and I have commented in the Critics module. Attic, case 5, shelf 2R
22. * Sinn Fein: 100 Turbulent Years, Brian Feeney, O'Brien Press, Dubllin, 2002. This book deserves credit as an attempt to show the historical continuity of Sinn Fein over the century, in popular narrative form. Feeney's analysis of the current role of Sinn Fein in the political mainstream is however somewhat uncritical, almost promotional. It is to be regretted that he fails to pick up the irony of the Provisional politicisation process following some of the paths which we tried to pioneer in the 1960s, though the parallel is far from exact. I have commented in the Critics module. Attic, case 5, shelf 3L
23. Ireland and Postcolonial Theory, ed Clare Carroll and Patricia King, Cork University Press, 2003. This important offering based on mostly US scholarship breaks new ground in Irish cultural studies; I review it for the October 2003 Irish Democrat. Attic, case 1, shelf 5R.
24. JD Bernal: the Sage of Science, Andrew Brown, Oxford UP 2005. This definitive biography is based on extensive researches in the Bernal archive, acknowledging the Brenda Swann work; it complements effectively the 1999 Verso publication listed above, #5 in the RJ authorship section. Attic, case 1, shelf 3R.
What follows went to LH in first batch:
From Group b:
1. Folder containing SF Ard Feis records (incomplete) from 1964 to 1969; also the Roy Garland (UUP) version of the 1969 'Garland Commission Report'. I have included a 1962 report on the state of the IRA from the Minister for Justice to the Cabinet with these. Box RJ3LH.
2. Where We Stand, Tomas Mac Giolla; Carrickmore Republican Clubs Conference, 1972; reprinted by Workers Party 2000; Box RJ3LH.
4. Economic and Social Implications of the Political Alternatives that may be open to Northern Ireland, ed Norman Gibson, NUU Social Sciences, 1975. Box RJ5LH.
5. The Ripening of Time - this pocket-sized left-wing theoretical quarterly ran from December 1975 at least up to October 1980 and perhaps later; I have a complete series Nos 1 to 13 (January 1980). It was produced by a group which preferred to remain obscure; it had an anarcho-Trotskyist flavour, and was critical of the USSR. I read a paper to the Wolfe Tone Society on January 24 1978, and I sent them a copy, which they published in No 9, March 1978. Derry Kelleher had a paper in No 11, February 1979. The RoT people lumped these together, and did a critical reply to mine in No 13, October 1980, and promised one on Kelleher, but I don't have it. This is raw material for the 1970s political thread. Box RJ3LH.
6. Co-operation and Community Development in the West of Ireland, Patrick Commins, 5th international seminar on marginal regions, TCD, July-August 1979; Box RJ3LH.
7. De Valera Centenary Publication Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 1982; this was a stimulus for the present writer to try to reopen relations with it, as a follow-on from the TCD Applied Research Consultancy contract. There is correspondence with Ken Whitaker, Stan Nielsen and others. It was a false trail. Box RJ4LH.
8. On to the Republic, Derry Kelleher, Ripening of Time, 1982; Box RJ3LH.
9. Coalition?, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books 1, 1984; Box RJ3LH.
10. Garret's Bloodied Scenario, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books 2, 1986; Box RJ3LH.
11. An Alien Ideology, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books 3, 1986; Box RJ3LH.
13. An Open Letter to Ian Paisley, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books 6, 1990; Box RJ3LH.
15. Skeff, Andrée Sheehy-Skeffington, Lilliput 1991; there is inserted also the original of my September 1978 MS notes for Andrée S-S, which she used as the basis for her references to the 1940s student left in the book, without acknowledgement, and MS letters from OSS to RJ dated 23-25/04/56, on issues relating to the exposure of Stalin; Box RJ3LH.
16. Patterns of Betrayal, Sean Garland et al; Workers Party, 1992; this is their response to the Democratic Left breakaway; Box RJ3LH.
17. Caorthann 1994-95, a fringe Green theoretical publication edited by Laurence Cox, this includes material published by me, in particular a paper on A Green Paradigm for Nationality. Box RJ7LH.
19. Bodenstown 1998, Sean Garland, Workers Party 1998; Box RJ3LH.
From subsequent groups:
1. Folder with 1950s correspondence: Owen Edwards and the 1913 Club, Brian Farrington on Stalin, Plough material in draft, notes on the Wolfe Tone diaries; raw material for the development of politics in the black 1950s. Box RJ5LH.
2. Folder with Connolly Association correspondence, mostly with Desmond Greaves, from the period 1963-68. (I have copied the Greaves letters for the Coughlan archive.) Box RJ5LH.
3. Folder with material relating to the 1964 Sinn Fein draft social and economic programme, including some critical notes by RJ. Box RJ5LH.
4. Folder containing Wolfe Tone material 1964-66, including correspondence with George Gilmore in 1966, and 'economic resistance' papers. Also the Minister Des O'Malley correspondence re Griffith Barricks and the housing crisis. Also the NI Republican Clubs Constitution, and the 1966 Independent 'red scare exposure'. Box RJ5LH.
5. Folder containing the earlier Irish Times series January 9-13 1967 on 'Science in Ireland', and the original more extended paper from which the series was condensed. Box RJ2LH.
6. Folder with material relating to the Pierre Tielhard de Chardin Society of Ireland; circa 1967; Derry Kelleher and the writer took an interest in this, in the then fashionable spirit of enquiry into issues relating to Marxism and Christianity. This episode has been placed on record by Risteard O Glaisne in Irish published by Coscéim in 1994. Box RJ2LH.
8. Folder containing a limited amount of 1967-68 Sinn Fein-related material, including correspondence with Derek Peters and Betty Sinclair about the NICRA and how to improve its relationship with the Republican Clubs, primarily regarding arrest without trial etc. It also includes letters from Anthony Coughlan on the abstention question, 'Definition of Socialism' material, draft recruiting leaflet material for the 26 and 6 counties, and miscellaeous correspondence relating to educational conferences etc. Box RJ5LH.
9. Folder containing Wolfe Tone Society material mostly from 1968, supplementary to the Society's records as salvaged and retained by Anthony Coughlan. It includes a copy of the 'Text-books in Irish' report compiled by Micheal O Loinshigh et al in May 1968, and a report of the Maire Mac an tSaoi lecture of July 1967. It includes the August 1968 circular which enshrined the present writer's still-persisting broad-spectrum agenda, at a time when the focus was already narrowing to Civil Rights in the North. Box RJ5LH.
10. Folder with some 'dirty tricks department' material attempting to undermine the politicisation process 1964-73; some from 'ultra-left' sources, others Special Branch forgeries. Box RJ5LH.
11. Folder containing a few papers related to the NICRA, including the original Constitution, the January 1969 constitutional revision memorandum, a slanted press cutting suggesting 'IRA infiltration', the June 1969 'Ultimatum to Stormont' leaflet, and a September 1969 draft of a document supportive of the 'Civil and Political Rights Covenant' campaign. There is also a copy of the abortive August 24 1968 'Dungannon Declaration' which Anthony Coughlan had drafted and attempted to convey as the public message from the Coalisland-Dungannon march, but for which the transmission procedure failed through an unfortunate misunderstanding, between the Dublin WTS people and the NICRA. Fred Heatley mistakenly blocked it, claiming it was an 'Army Council statement'. Box RJ5LH. (I am retaining copies of the latter 2 documents in Box RJ3, in the Cathal Goulding folder b20 above.)
12. Folder containg miscellaneous correspondence relating to local SF work in 1969; this includes the record of the meeting of the Pearse Cumann with George Gilmore and the Rev Ned Watson, the correspondence with Mercy Simms. and also the draft notes for organisers for November 1969, prior to the Ard Fheis on January 1970. Box RJ5LH.
13. Folder with some cuttings and correspondence arising out of the August 1969 crisis, including letters to Bernadette Devlin, Noel Browne and Justin Keating; this material has mostly been abstracted in the 1960s political thread, in its context. Box RJ5LH.
14. Folder with some Sinn Fein material circa 1970; includes the Crowe episode, where an aging bachelor farmer was seeking a successor. Box RJ6LH.
16. Miscellaneous cuttings and correspondence etc connected with my resignation from SF in January 1972. Box RJ6LH.
19. Miscellaneous Common Market (Study Group and Defence Campaign) notes from the period 1966 to 1972. Box RJ6LH.
20. A folder with some 1973 Moscow Peace Conference material contains support for some initiatives relating to technology transfer to the third world, treated in the techno-economic stream. It also contains material relating to the political stream, as regards the composition of the group attending the conference, in the context of the republican politicisation process, and the convergence with the Left. Box RJ6LH.
21. Folder containing some CPI material relating to the period 1974-1978, selected papers from which I have reproduced in the 1970s module of the political stream; these relate to partition economics, the 'left alternative' and the 'science and society' question. Box RJ6LH.
22. Folder with material relating to the 'Irish Alternative' meetings which took place in 1977 around Sunningdale-time; this was an attempt to reach out to the IRSP and the Provisionals from the Left, which proved abortive. Box RJ6LH.
23. Folder with Operations Research Society of Ireland material for the period 1977-1980, including conference abstracts and attendances, and some lecture demonstration notes (in a separate folder). Box RJ6LH.
32. Government by Duplicity, a review by RJ of Tom Jones Whitehall Diaries Volume III (on Ireland); this appeared in Atlantis 4, September 1972; box RJ5LH.
33. The New Ireland - Utopian or Scientific? paper by RJ in Atlantis 5, April 1973. I reproduce this in full in the hypertext; it encapsulates the essentials of my vision at the beginning of my post-SF epoch. This vintage issue of a publication edited by Seamus Deane contained papers bt Desmond Greaves, Desmond Fennell, Jack Bennett, JW Foster, WJ McCormack, Lelia Doolan, Ed Walsh and many others; Atlantis was beginning to assume a mantle not unlike that of the Bell and the Irish Statesman; it is a pity if did not survive. Box RJ5LH
41. Two folders relating to the Constitution Club, which existed in the period 1986-1988, and involved the present writer along with Desmond Fennell, Tom Barrington, Ray Crotty, John Robb and a few others in an attempt to influence public opinion in the direction of Regional Government. One folder collects most if not all of the papers presented, including one by the present writer on the 'Regional Technopole' concept, while the other contains minutes and correspondence. Box RJ6LH.
43. Folder containing political feelers to Haughey, Spring, Quinn re Science & Technology policy, 1984-88. Box RJ1LH
47. Folder with political correspondence late 1980s, including a Brendan Clifford review and subsequent correspondence; includes also a 1989 memo on the Gorbachev situation in the USSR. Box RJ5LH.
53. Folder with Campaign for Democracy material 1991-1993, and Robert Lynd School material 1992; also correspondence with Senator Gordon Wilson. It contains also the original of my Irish Times letter dated 11/12/1992 relating John Taylor and the Donegal-Derry question to the opportunities presented by Maastricht. Box RJ8LH.
60. Copy of the 1992 Towards a Lasting Peace in Ireland manifesto published by Sinn Fein, containing 1994 Irish Times letter and related correspondence with Gerry Adams, and a 1996 fax to John Hume. Box RJ8LH.
63. Folder with correspondence between the present writer and leadimg members of the Orange Order, covering the period 1996-1999. The contacts were Henry Reid and Cecil Kilpatrick. I have reproduced some of the outgoing correspondence, but the incoming is handwritten. I later got to review Kilpatrick's popularising biography of William of Orange for Books Ireland, providing an opportunity to link it with Kelleher's 1798 bicenenary offering. Box RJ7LH.
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