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Red Weekly No. 176, 1976 · p. 7 of the scan · 287 words

The scan: rw-no176-nov-25-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 7 of the scan

The lastest recruit to the "Peace People' is JOYCE KELLY, who is a leader of the Derry movement. Joyce Kelly has an interesting history. In 1972 she and the rest of her family squatted in a house in the Waterside district of Derry. During her stay she turned the house into a meeting place the Ulster Defence Association and constantly flew the Vanguard flag window. At the time the area was 70 per cent CathoHIC.

In September 1973 Ms Kelly moved out of the area to squat in another house. At a British Legion Social Club she declared that she was getting out so that the Fenian scum could be Cleanee out CIARAN McKEOWN is editor of a moderate pro-Unionist [i.e. pro-British] magazine in the North of Ireland called Fortnight. He is a seasoned politico, having been president of the Student Union of Ireland, a member of the 26 county Fianna Fail party of Jack Lynch, and also briefly People's Democracy.

BETTY WILLIAMS likes to describe herself as a housewife. Last week her life story was serialised by the Daily Express. She lives in a middle class area of Belfast and was - indeed, still may be - a member of the Alliance Party. The Alliance Party is a proborder, pro-brish party, almost entirely of middle and upper class members, which supported the introduction of internment.

MAIREAD CORRIGAN is secretary to the managing director of Guinness in Northern Ireland. long anti-trade union history in IreMs Corrigan is now leave. She also gets paid by the 'Peace People'. In the past she has worked with the Legion of Mary, a fanatically puritanical organisation of the Catholic Church.

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