IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.171
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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.
Transcript
STEPPING STONES*
By SCEILG
I.-OK THE ASCENT TO THE REPUBLIC.
" In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to natlonal freedom and
Standing
comrades-in-arms to the cause ofits freedom,ofits welfare andofits exaltationamong the nations.
：
Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishmeat of a permaneat
National Governrnent,representative of the whole people of Ireland,andelectedby the sufrages
of all her menandwomen,theProvisional Government bereby constitutedwill administer the civil
andmilitary affairs of theRepublicin trustfor thepeople.
"We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God,Whose
blessingwe invokeupon our arms,andwepray thatno onewhoserves thatcausewilldishonour it by.
cowardiceinhumanity orrapine.In this supreme hour,the Irishnation must by its valour and dis-
cipline,andby thereadinessof itschidren tosacrifice themselves for thecommon good,proveitself
worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.
So closes the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Easter Week, 1918,
inaugurating the struggle for national liberty, a later phase of which-
culminating in the execution of the Four Martyrs of Mountjoy--we commem-
orate this evening..
Temporary surrender came in Dublin that memorable
Easter after a week's fighting which won the admiration of friend and foe
and aroused anew the waning pride of our scattered race.The’execution
of the signatories followed, as of other leaders, young and old, and the death
in action of some of the more valiant of their comrades: their names will
remain forever on Ireland's martyr-roll. Despite his twenty-three wounds
MAHOM'B
one of the Dublin officers survived. Yet, stricken though he was, to his
PAINTING WOAKS
initiative and his resolute will was it mainly due that the continuity of the
QURLIN
'fight was maintained; and, almost before the blood of the martyrs had
grown coid, a conference was held in Banba Hall, Dublin, to conside: ways
and means for a new rally.
May 3rd furnished news from Cork of the heroic fight by the Kent
brothers at Castlelyons, encouraged by their aged mother with a valour
worthy of the mother of the Macchabees. From May 4th to May 12th
the brutal executions ordered_by Gen.Maxwell shocked the nation. For
nine days Dublin had been without news, except that it saw bundreds of
Republican prisoners deported daily to England's dungeons. When, at last,
the newspapers, dated April 26th—May 5th, were published.in one issue,
they carried the announcement that
" the following comimunique waa issued yesterday:Three signatoties of the notice proclaiming the
mentioned men were shot this morning."
The same day we read: :' the following further results of the trial of Sinn
Fein rebels were announced yesterday:
Convicted and sentented to death' : Joseph Plunkett, Edward Daly, Michaei O'Hanrahan and Wiliam
Comtmanding-in-Chief.
And " the dead body of the O'Rahily.was found.in Moore Lane."
The
following day came the. intelligence:
"The death sentence' on
MacBride was carried out this morning."
John
On Tuesday, May 9th, came the further announcement:
Sentenced to death, the sentences being carried out yesterdaymorning : Corelius Colbert,Edmond
Kent, Michael Mallin and J. J.Heuston.
Friday morning, May I2th, Premier Asquith arrived in Dublin and.
Maxwell and other British instruments of despotism..That evening came the.
*A Lecture delivered by J. J. O'Keily in the City Hall, Cork, December 9th, 193p, in, commernaration
of theFourMartyrsofMountjoy.
By SCEILG
I.-OK THE ASCENT TO THE REPUBLIC.
" In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to natlonal freedom and
Standing
comrades-in-arms to the cause ofits freedom,ofits welfare andofits exaltationamong the nations.
：
Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishmeat of a permaneat
National Governrnent,representative of the whole people of Ireland,andelectedby the sufrages
of all her menandwomen,theProvisional Government bereby constitutedwill administer the civil
andmilitary affairs of theRepublicin trustfor thepeople.
"We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God,Whose
blessingwe invokeupon our arms,andwepray thatno onewhoserves thatcausewilldishonour it by.
cowardiceinhumanity orrapine.In this supreme hour,the Irishnation must by its valour and dis-
cipline,andby thereadinessof itschidren tosacrifice themselves for thecommon good,proveitself
worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.
So closes the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Easter Week, 1918,
inaugurating the struggle for national liberty, a later phase of which-
culminating in the execution of the Four Martyrs of Mountjoy--we commem-
orate this evening..
Temporary surrender came in Dublin that memorable
Easter after a week's fighting which won the admiration of friend and foe
and aroused anew the waning pride of our scattered race.The’execution
of the signatories followed, as of other leaders, young and old, and the death
in action of some of the more valiant of their comrades: their names will
remain forever on Ireland's martyr-roll. Despite his twenty-three wounds
MAHOM'B
one of the Dublin officers survived. Yet, stricken though he was, to his
PAINTING WOAKS
initiative and his resolute will was it mainly due that the continuity of the
QURLIN
'fight was maintained; and, almost before the blood of the martyrs had
grown coid, a conference was held in Banba Hall, Dublin, to conside: ways
and means for a new rally.
May 3rd furnished news from Cork of the heroic fight by the Kent
brothers at Castlelyons, encouraged by their aged mother with a valour
worthy of the mother of the Macchabees. From May 4th to May 12th
the brutal executions ordered_by Gen.Maxwell shocked the nation. For
nine days Dublin had been without news, except that it saw bundreds of
Republican prisoners deported daily to England's dungeons. When, at last,
the newspapers, dated April 26th—May 5th, were published.in one issue,
they carried the announcement that
" the following comimunique waa issued yesterday:Three signatoties of the notice proclaiming the
mentioned men were shot this morning."
The same day we read: :' the following further results of the trial of Sinn
Fein rebels were announced yesterday:
Convicted and sentented to death' : Joseph Plunkett, Edward Daly, Michaei O'Hanrahan and Wiliam
Comtmanding-in-Chief.
And " the dead body of the O'Rahily.was found.in Moore Lane."
The
following day came the. intelligence:
"The death sentence' on
MacBride was carried out this morning."
John
On Tuesday, May 9th, came the further announcement:
Sentenced to death, the sentences being carried out yesterdaymorning : Corelius Colbert,Edmond
Kent, Michael Mallin and J. J.Heuston.
Friday morning, May I2th, Premier Asquith arrived in Dublin and.
Maxwell and other British instruments of despotism..That evening came the.
*A Lecture delivered by J. J. O'Keily in the City Hall, Cork, December 9th, 193p, in, commernaration
of theFourMartyrsofMountjoy.