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61-7606 is the FBI’s old main file on the Irish Republican Army. 61 is the classification (treason / internal security in that era). 7606 is the case number. When the paper got too thick they bound it into sections. Joshua Smith’s 2015 release is seven PDFs covering sections 1–32, from 1939 into the early 1990s. A serial is one document inside a section (a letter, teletype, or clipping). The file list follows those PDFs, not the serial numbers.

The 2015 drop includes a second PDF with an embedded text layer for some parts (_text). Same pages as the scan; that copy is omitted from the file list. Word-level OCR differs and search may still hit both.

Irish Republican Army Part 1 of 7 61-7606 Sect 1-5.pdf page 164

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Vol. Il, No. 10
OCTOBER,
1940
EIRESAORASUS
The IRISH REPUBLIC
s "Free""
1
State
Dictatorship
Helen Landreth. Attacks
Author of lrish Best-Seller Hits
Harsh Treatment of Prisoners
ELEN LANDRETH,author of
f any party in Ireland beside the
DN MEMORIAN
Dear Dark Head,and well one now in power had propoed Coer-
Josph P. JMcGarrity
known in literary cirelee in ejon Bills I woold hsve been against
1574 1940
America,delivered the following clear,them,nd for one renson only,them
MeGerrity! Dyunmic and fntemse!
Dublin last year. Because her word isin power,It s not right for Irish mn
He lent no aid to tboe: wbo would sppeese
peppopb eqodo
wrong throngh sape Beial harmonies;
oeuadsp Praom o m eeou xog om eg peg sog
speech in its entirety.Sinee her oration,cure tbe Britiah Bmpire,
"The men wbo meet in Leinster
the coercion lawa of whieh sbe spoke
have inereased in number snd severity, House miy not be swayed in their vot.
The promise of an Engiaz.d om her kmee,
Itisforbidden nowin theFree State”
ing by prineiples of right and wrong:
Wben promises had value ss de'ense
"Government”, Men have ben banged,
"General Maxwell in 1916 thought
Lender and friend! Why should L'eath strike so soom
starved and shot in Ireland since this
he could end the Easter Rining by ez.
speech was delivered in Dublin.What
ecuting the leaders. He found that the
ot uo do o qq
might this far-seeing Authore have to
exeeution of any person for a prinei
ened place?
say NOW it her lipe were not sealed
ple only stregthened that prineiple.
by the dictatorial censorship of the
found thatmartyrs'blood in fiary red
"Fre’ Statet The following is her
It des not quench a nation's spirit,s
r yo u Pe do
apeech, delivered from the platform
Through Tios'1 etarnal corridors will glow1
with Mrs. Cathai Brugha.
murtyr to the Treason Bill of 193
“Wher I came to Ireland,I did not
intend to take sny part in politioa.
1
Domagh and Plunkett and Connoly
thought it was not the part for an out.
and Bory O'Connor and Lism Mellow
sider to take.And in matters of mere
and Cathal Brugha, snd I envy hin
party interest, of partisan politics,
his deeth.
NEWBRITISHCOMMANDERINIRELAND
should never have changed my mind.
LONDON.Lt. General Sir H. R.longer regardis the invasion of Ireland
But the introduetion of tbe new
for'Ofens gainst tbe tate'ill
Pownall has just been appointed to
asprobable.
Coereion Bills into the Dail have chang-
liberate the whole apirit of the Irish
people.In 1798,Under-Secretary Cooke
command the Britiah 1roops in Ireland.
ed matters. They are not matters of
The War Ofice is paying more atten-
During reent operations in France,
party politics only, these bills.They
ofDublin Castle,wrote to hin superior,
tion reeently to the British forees in
Pownall served under Lord Gort.In
are above party politics.They involve
Mr.Wiekham, in London:The spirit
Ireland.It is felt that, should Germany
conferring this new post on bim,the
principle,and ars a matter ofright
ad
continue her successeg
in
kzmashing
War Ofiee seted in order that his ex.
and wrong.They are an indication that
Mfr.Cooke's suecessor can now write to
English defensea, a strong English base
perienee might be utilized to coordin-
Bngiand is roverning Ireland by reh
his chief in London and use the identi
in Ireland could be used to counter-
ate snd supervise organisation of this
attack the Germans. The War Ofce no
new and bighly ioportant force'
sgainst any Irish nationalists who,in
"The government shonld not under-
the erent that Engiand was eugaged in
OBβOLT
CALIPORNIA IRISH
war, would ue England's diffeulty
ing.Theymay be deeived by the faet
PROTEST IXECUTIONS
Ireiand's opportunity to sever the con-
The 50“obsolete'
and "over age”"
nection with England. (Misa Landreth
litieal rallies last summer. Boan is
haa been proved right by the imprison.
one of the times when numbers do ot
‘'traded' to England in return for
ments and murders done since under
worthlem leases on our own property
these laws by the Free State Ed.)
are in“perfeet condition"#o far as the
English Navy is concerned.
"My whole devotion to Ireland rents
togive their livee in the struggle to.
"They
Gove
on the faet that,bo matter how much
are
nimpiy
magnifcent
she suffered, how much ahe was oppres
maintain it.They have cherished in
Shipe', Rear Admiral Stewart Bom-
sed,how tempting and insidious were
theirhearts theeedsofre,andfrom
ham-Carter, Chiel of English naval op
tnd
the indueementa ued to force her peo
erations in the North Atlantic, id
ple,eoleetively and individually,to
mighty thinga.Against them the lsws
when he took them over in Canadx.
tbe
surrenger, there were alwsyn thote in
ofempires are ofno avail,and the
"They are in perfeet eondition. They
armies of great nations canot over.
are the egual of onr VNW', and the
the
ppugs oa
no right to rale Ireund, or te owrn Lre
come them,for when they gird them.
ua8 auu m sdu Au go [enba
lnd.It ia this tradition of uodefest
elves for combat they triumph even
ConerMurphy
in defent.
For weeks before the deal with Eng-
that is the foundation of my devotion
"I warn
the governmentof the
land the Ameriean publie was "edu-
to lreland I fell in love with Ireland’s
wrong of these bills. As an outaider I
cated’ to the belief that these deatroy-
Thank You Ben Pranciseo!
loyalty to a principle,and that prinei
protest sgainst them.'
ers were 'obsolete''and worthless.
ple a free and independent Ireland.
the
War
22n d
for
IRISH
Freedom..
Month
of

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