Tiocfaidh Ar La! - Issue 31 - OUT NOW!

Date: 15th Aug '01

Name: TAL FANZINE

http://www.talfanzine.com/

The latest issue (No. 31) of the Celtic supporters' magazine 'Tiocfaidh Ar La - For Celtic and Ireland' is out now.

Priced 1.50 from SF cummains, SF bookshops in Ireland and lefty bookshops & selected newsagents in the 'not-so-UK'.

The fanzine can also be purchased for the bargain "home fan's price" of 1 from our sellers outside of Celtic Park before and after most of Celtic's home matches.

This issue of TAL will donate 250 towards the sponsorship of a non-sectarian football team. This is in reply to an appeal from the newly-formed Glasgow team "Old Firm United" in order that they can take part in an international football tournament in Dorset at the end of August organised by the Easton Cowboys. The Cowboys, a Bristol-based football club, have recently been touring Mexico playing against the football teams of the Zapatista revolutionaries. The Old Firm Untied team is made up of supporters of both Rangers and Celtic and endorses the principles of non-sectarianism, co-operation and a 'friendly rivalry' between the supporters of both clubs.

Articles in TAL Issue 31 include:

Centre page full-colour poster/collage of Henrik Larsson strikes with the TAL logo and "Gunning For Europe" slogan.

'Should we stay or should we go?'
Editorial on whether Celtic and rangers should resign from the SPL and apply to play in The Premiership.

'Team Talk' - the usual round-up and assessment of team matters.

'Neil Lennon - The man who should be king!'

'Football Latest' - 'Celts in Dublin' - 'Shares Issues'

'Do we need an organised 'Singing Area'?' Atmosphere problems at home games.

'Our beautiful opponents and their beautiful strip' - An Ajax fans' preview of our European matches.

'The Fields of Athenry festival' - reviewed by a member of the Vol.Sean McIlvenna CSC Dundalk.

'Thousands march in memory of the Ten' - reports from the marches in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool.

'Reviews' of CD's, TV reviews etc...

'Seanchai' - Interview with the Irish/American rebel hip-hopper.

'Blood or Whiskey' - review/report on music of Pogues soundalikes from Co. Kildare

'The TAL Interview' - Newly elected Sinn Fein Councillor for the Oldpark ward of north Belfast, Eoin O'Broin, speaks to TAL. Eoin is also the editor of the Left Republican Review magazine.

'Turkish Hunger Strike' - 2 pages of news about solidarity with the Turkish death-fasters. Glasgow public meeting, Statement by hunger strikers to Liverpool march, Sinn Fein raise issue in Dail.

'The Glorious Twelfth' by Danny Morrison - SF's former director of publicity gives his own inimitable view of the political machinations of orange marchers and developements in the talks process.

'Our Day is Coming!' - SF member Sean Og gives another view of the loyalist sectarian backlash against the recent electoral successes of Sinn Fein.

The murder by loyalists of Protestant teenager Gavin Brett.

The outrage over the proposed appointment of the UUP's security spokesman Ken Maginnis to the NI Human Rights Commission "...akin to
appointing George W Bush the head of Greenpeace."

'Cage 17' - A former republican prisoner in the notorious cages of Long Kesh describes come of the characters which made his confinement more bearable in this new & regular column.

'Mr Kipling writes some exceedingly bigoted poetry' - Our resident 'man of letters' R.Doyne examines the pro-imperialist poetry of J.Rudyard Kipling with examples from The White Man's Burden, The Stranger and Ulster 1912.

'Remember Michael Gaughan & Frank Stagg'-
Former Irish republican prisoner of war, Jan Taylor, writes of his recollections of the earlier hunger strikes for political status of two Mayo IRA men - Vol. Michael Guaghan (died in Parkhurst prison 3/6/74) and Vol. Frank Stagg (died 12/2/76).

Back page Hunger Strike poster - colour.

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