1994 Pop Goes Northern Ireland

# Another head hangs lowly

# Child is slowly taken

# The violence causes silence

# Who are we mistaken... #

They tried to burn down a library.

Now the last group of people that tried to burn down libraries

were the Nazis before the Second World War.

# ..In your head, in your head

# They're fighting

# With their tanks and their bombs

# And their bombs and their guns

# In your head, in your head

# They are crying

# In your head

# In your head... #

I feel very bitter.

I feel very angry.

I feel completely alienated

when I think that I was attending the funerals of my fellow countrymen

all the time his emissaries were talking peace to these murderers!

We've had no negotiations with the IRA

about the future for Northern Ireland. We have said very clearly

and repeatedly, that those negotiations, those discussions

are only possible after a permanent cessation of violence.

# What I got I got to give it to your mama

# What I got I got to give it to your papa... #

I think it's unfortunate.

I think that the effect will be for Sinn Fein to say, "There we are,

"we've got a concession before we renounce violence out of the Irish, let's get one out of the British."

As it stands, whenever you read the document, yes, you can see that there could be peace there,

but, for the Loyalists, there's an awful lot of trust

for us to be giving to the British Government and the Irish Government.

The declaration as it stands looks OK.

-You will accept it as it stands, could you?

-Yes, as long as what is on the paper actually came through.

Britain has a role in reassuring and persuading the Unionist community

that its position lies in reconciliation with the rest of the Irish people.

# I like to move it, move it

# I like to move it, move it I like to move it, move it

# You like to move it... #

I did believe that, by giving Mr Adams this limited visa to come here,

that we might have a constructive role in pushing the peace process.

# ..I like to move it, move it

# I like to move it, move it

# You like to move it... #

They hope that by letting Gerry Adams come here for a couple of days on restricted conditions,

that it will help to bring about the cessation of violence. I hope they're right.

I am quite confident that the IRA would respond positively

to a package containing the principles, the process and the dynamic

presented to the British Government as a result of the initiative undertaken by John Hume and myself.

To the best of my knowledge, the IRA's door remains open.

# Is it my imagination

# Or have I finally found something worth living for?

# I was looking for some action

# But all I found was cigarettes and alcohol

# You can wait for a lifetime... #

I didn't wait 17 years to be told I was innocent of this.

I always knew I was innocent of this.

I think the whole sorry debacle of Guildford and Woolwich

and events in Guildford police station has never been gotten at.

I think that it's a travesty of justice as much for the victims

as it was for the people who were put in prison for crimes they didn't commit.

# But it's just your attitude

# It's tearing me apart

# It's ruining every day... #

# Swing low in a darkless hour

# And you turn and cower

# See it turn to dust

# Move on a stone dark night

# We take to flight

# Snowfall turns to... #

This is a demonstration that people power is stronger,

has more tenacity, has more dignity

and will win than all the power the RUC have at their disposal.

These armed men who are surrounding us,

and those armed men who they supplied with weapons,

who attack this demonstration and who are killing nationalists in the city of Belfast, are no match

and will be no match against the nationalist people of Belfast - north, south, east and west!

# Roughneck and rudeness

# We should be using

# On the ones that practise wicked charms

# For the sword in the stone

# Bad to the bone

# Battle's not over even when it's won

# And when a child is born

# Into this world

# It has no concept of the tone the skin it's living in

# There's not a second

# We're seven seconds away

# And just as long as I stay... #

Everything is up for grabs

and slowly, but surely, the British Government is surrendering.

# Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur

# Of what is known as...

# Park life

# Morning soup can be avoided

# If you take a route straight through what is known as...

# Park life

# John's got brewer's droop

# He gets intimidated by the dirty pigeons

-# They love a bit of him

-Park life

# Who's that gut lord marching?

# You should cut down on your pork life, mate, get some exercise... #

Bodies are piled on top of each other.

They were obviously all sitting watching the game.

The gunmen obviously came in, opened fire and the people were shot dead

as they were sitting watching the game on TV.

It's just beneath contempt...people who could carry out this type of thing.

Let's just picture a future conversation that you may have with your daughter who asks you,

"What did you do in your so-called war, Daddy?"

And you will say, "I killed a man of 87.

"He was sitting with his back to me.

"He was watching the World Cup.

"I shot him dead. He was 87."

She won't think that the record of a hero. Will she?

BELL TOLLS

# Violently happy

# Cos I love you

# Violently happy... #

I feel very empty.

It's almost as if someone was dead.

There's a lot of fans that would go just once a year to Daniel. That's their life.

# .. Before I get into trouble... #

We have said from the beginning of this process

that our goal was seeing the end to violence in Northern Ireland

and the beginning of a broad-based political process.

# Streets like a jungle

# So call the police... #

I've no doubt that there are talks going on already.

I don't think that the IRA would have launched out into the dark.

They must have known that certain concessions were going to be made.

Now they're capitalising on that and demanding more, they're insatiable.

# ..It's paranoid

# On sunny beaches... #

If he is attempting to get the Provisionals to the table

without a total renunciation of violence, then I would deplore that.

I also deplore the fact that it appears from that statement

that he is joining with Adams in calling on the British Government

to become the persuaders of Unionists to become a part of a united Ireland.

It's just been announced that from midnight tonight, the leadership of the IRA...

# Things can only get better

# Can only get better

# Now I found you... #

Deep, deep suspicion because this talks about complete cessation of military operations.

It doesn't say that that cessation is permanent.

# ..Now I've found you

# You, and you... #

The onus is on Mr Major to seize this moment.

I also want to appeal to the Unionists to join with us,

to join with others, to join with all the people of this island.

# ..In a different life... #

We've just received a piece of paper, making that announcement

from the IRA, announcing a total cessation of violence.

That is a piece of news that will be welcomed by Irish people everywhere,

but particularly the people on the streets of Northern Ireland.

# ..Things can only get better

# Can only get better

# Now I've found you

# Things can only get Things can only get better

# Things can only get better Can only get better

# Now I've found you... #

It's extremely regrettable but, I think, because of the experience

of the past five years, it's just sadly inevitable.

Hopefully it will bring the sectarian confrontations, which have been extremely serious, to an end.

# Ain't love, ain't love Ain't love a surprise

# Ain't love, ain't love Ain't love a surprise... #

So I said you are the first Prime Minister that ever asked

a political opponent - ever - in this room, or outside this room,

that if he doesn't swear that he believes in your truthfulness, then you will not speak to him.

The Reverend Ian Paisley continued to read

a further part of his statement to a Cabinet room,

which, by that time, had no Prime Minister and no ministers in it.

I think there's something going on that we don't know about.

We already know that John Major hasn't been absolutely truthful

and the IRA just won't stop suddenly after 25 years

with nothing out of it.

# ..As a matter of fact

# At the drop of a hat

# You're my love surprise... #

What's wrong? I know, son.

You have to use an actor's voice for this child.

When the final history is written, there will be the names of many extraordinary men and women

who have been a part of this process over many years, trying to move the process of peace forward,

but one of the names that will be there will be Gerry Adams

who has been a courageous leader in advancing the cause of peace.

Get the hell out of Ireland and take all their troops out of Ireland and stay in England where they belong.

# Creeps keep crawling Drunks keep falling

# Teasers keep teasing... #

Things should develop in such a way

that there's no road back to terrorism for Sinn Fein, IRA.

# ..Death keeps a knocking Souls are up for auction

# Ain't no use in praying

# That's the way it's staying... #

It's a bit silly and a bit bizarre that you have to come to New York

for us to have this discussion. Why not back in Belfast?

-In due course these discussions can take place.

-Why not now, Michael?

-Rather than talk about the IRA and what it's going to do...

-Why not?

-You speak for them, Mr Adams.

-But you speak for the British Army.

-But you speak for the IRA.

-I do not.

-Then who does?

# Two can play that game

# Two can play that game

# Two can play that game

# Lately you've been acting mighty strange

# To me it seems your attitude has changed... #

It is important that they cease their violence,

that they cease it now, even if it is to be conditioned by being as permanent as the Provisional IRA's

or lasting while the British Government allows

the people of Northern Ireland and the principle of consent to reign.

At least let us stop the violence and let us stop it now.

# ..If you want to do your own thing

# I hear what you're saying

# Two can play that game you're playing

# Two can play that game... #

..Conveying Loyalist military command will universally cease all operational hostilities

as from 12 midnight on Thursday, 13th October, 1994,

in all sincerity.

We offer to the loved ones, of all innocent victims

over the past 25 years abject and true remorse.

No words of ours will compensate

for the intolerable suffering they have undergone during this conflict.

Let us firmly resolve, therefore,

to respect our differing views of freedom, culture and aspiration

and never again permit our political circumstances

to degenerate into bloody warfare.

The Radio Ulster headlines this morning.

The Loyalist ceasefire has been marked by modest celebrations in Belfast.

# Don't stop moving, baby

# All it's doing is driving me crazy... #

I think it's good.

It stops all the trouble. You're not as scared to come on the road in case there's a bomb or anything.

Since I have always regarded the IRA ceasefire as permanent,

I regard the Loyalist ceasefire as permanent also.

# ..Don't stop moving, baby

# All it's doing is driving me crazy... #

Thousands of young men and women have suffered here through the Troubles.

They've went to prison, they've left their families behind

and she's sitting there saying you can't talk to murderers?

She's calling the people out there in them streets murderers.

Here. Here.

..Support those people who have fought republicanism.

I want to remind you of one great Unionist, Edward Carson, when he said

look after the minority.

We didn't.

And have we suffered for it!

# Everything changes but you

# We're a thousand miles apart

# But you know I love you

# Everything changes but you

# You know every single day

# I'll be thinking about you

# Everything changes but you

# We're a thousand miles apart

# But I still love you

# Everything changes but you

# I'll spend every single day, thinking about you... #

# I come home in the morning light

# My mother says when you gonna live your life right?

# Oh, mama dear, we're not the fortunate ones

# And girls they wanna have fun

# Oh, girls just wanna have fun... #

There's a lot of people win money like this, they say it'll never change them.

Do you think it will change you?

No, it couldn't.

At my age, could it change me?

# If it hadn't have been for Cotton Eye Joe

# I'd have been married a long time ago

# Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from Cotton Eye Joe?

# If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe

# I'd have been married a long time ago.

# Where did you come from, where did you go?

# Where did you come from Cotton Eye Joe?

# If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe

# I'd have been married a long time ago

# Where did you come from, where did you go?

# Where did you come from Cotton Eye Joe? #

I am now prepared to make a working assumption that the ceasefire is intended to be permanent.

This means we can move carefully towards the beginning of dialogue

between Sinn Fein and the Government.

Peace cannot be assured finally

until the paramilitaries on both sides hand in their weapons.

# ..He came to town like a midwinter storm

# He rode through the fields so handsome and strong

# His eyes was his tools and his smile was his gun

# But all he had come for was having some fun... #

Well, I have enough space at home that I can store it.

And possibly even enough space that I can take it out for a drive, occasionally.

I think the British Prime Minister has shown a degree of imagination.

Of course, there are many difficulties down the road,

but it's quite clear we now have something to build upon.

I would like to see now a rapid demilitarisation of the situation

and the British soldiers taken off our streets.

We've got a taste of peace now, we won't let go. I think

there's the kind of community that won't let go. We will go forward.

# Oh-oh, we're in trouble

# Something's come along and it's burst our bubble

# Oh-oh, we're in trouble

# We'll catch a ticket on the next space shuttle

# Yeah, yeah

# Trouble. #

Now that I am no longer in a position to make a further contribution as Taoiseach,

I would appeal to all those who are and who will be in a position

to influence the course of events to hold fast to and to build on

what has been achieved for the sake of everybody living and for future generations on this island.

I hereby declare John Bruton to have been nominated

by Dail Eireann for appointment by An Taoiseach.

The first duty of a government is to keep good order,

which means promoting peace.

Normal life in Northern Ireland is now our first national aim.

We are here and we're entering these discussions

on the basis of our electoral mandate and we hope to move speedily through

these discussions towards inclusive peace talks with all the parties to the conflict involved.

# I'm free to be whatever I,

# Whatever I choose

# And I'll sing the blues if I want... #

I'm just hoping that everything goes well, that the peace process continues with its momentum.

Are you behind the IRA's inclination to go along with the ceasefire?

We're happy that everything is moving forward. Thank you.

# ..You only see what people want you to see... #

We expressed our disappointment at the British Government

that the prisoner issue hadn't been dealt with properly, particularly at Christmas.

We also pointed out to them that the perception in the Loyalist community within the prisons

is that the British Government have become more hard line on prisoners

since the Loyalist ceasefire and we feel that's a retrograde step.

# ..I'm free to be wherever you...

I'm talking in the first instance about their release for Christmas,

-but this should only be the beginning...

-A permanent release?

A permanent release. Yes, I think so. It would have to be phased,

but I believe it would be a positive contribution to the peace process.

Those who have been convicted independently by the courts

must expect to serve their sentences according to law.

-So, no amnesty?

-That is correct.

# ..I'm free to be whatever I

# Whatever I choose And I'll sing the blues if I want. #

# Baby, if you've got to go away

# Don't think I could take the pain

# Won't you stay another day?

# Baby, you're all I miss

# Don't you say it's the final kiss

# Won't you stay another day... #