Dawn, No. 104

This edition of Dawn magazine joins another in the Archive. And many thanks to the person who forwarded it.

As was noted previously:

As anonymous notes…”Dawn magazine (An Irish magazine on nonviolent action civil liberties and movements for change) was associated with the Dawn Group and was published on a monthly basis from 1974 to 1985. The Dawn Group later become part of INNATE  This issue deals with “Ireland’s Eco-Death and ‘Oscar for Dr. Reagan?’ concerning the visit of Ronald Reagan to Ireland. There’s an history of the Dawn Group, which notes that it sprouted as an idea at the Benburb conference of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Pax Christi. It’s an eclectic mix of articles.”

In this edition there is the following headline: A NEW ALTERNATIVE MAGAZINE?

A meeting takes place on September 22nd in Dublin (2 pm at Glencree Hou­se, 1 Belgrave Sq, Rathmines, Dublin 6), to discuss setting up a new alternative magazine with a number of different pressure and alternative groups involved. The proposal, being made initially by the Dawn group after discussion with other people, is that groups covering ecology, disarmament and nonviolent direct action, third world, civil liberties and human rights, feminism, gays and lesbians, etc. would band together to produce a high-quality magazine with a wider circulation than any of the current magazines enjoy. There would be a guarantee of space for particular subject areas.

So far as DAWN is concerned, if the proposal went ahead, DAWN monthly magazine would be incorporated in the new publication (subscribers would re­ceive the value of their unexpired sub­scription to DAWN in copies of the new publication). The DAWN group would continue to publish the occasio­nal ‘DAWN TRAIN’ magazine, and would work on training, disarmament and other projects. There has been a question mark over the continued publication of DAWN monthly since the ‘Whither DAWN meeting at the start of the year (see report in DAWN 97).

Further details of the proposal for the new alternative magazine are avail­able from DAWN in Dublin or Belfast. All are welcome to attend the meeting on September 22nd but please contact DAWN beforehand. This meeting will test the ground and will make. initial decisions which representatives can then take back to their groups prior to further decision making.

There’s a piece on the Mt Gabriel radar station – blown up by the INLA in 1982 :

Another Mount Gabriel peace camp was organized by Cork Youth CND in late August. However, unfortunately the weather was atrocious.

There are pieces on actions at Bishopstown airfield in Northern Ireland and one suggesting a Multiple Choice Referendum for the North, as well as a rebuttal by Kay Wendell.

There’s a book review section that takes in books, one of which entitled Ireland: The Key to the British Revolution, and where the review notes that contrary to the argument in the book, the hunger strikes were not a ‘defeat’ but that ‘the prisoners won an overwhelming moral victory in being able to overcome years of carefully managed imperialist propaganda at one stroke…’.

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