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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.
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that the people must now go on or go under.Speaking in the Dublin Mansion
With ourbacks to the wall,and believing in thejustice ofour cause,each one ofusmust
House in support of the National Aid Fund on January 19th, 1918,
fight to the end.The enemy's ‘ objects are to separate us from the French, take the Channel ports
Eamonn de Valera quoted John Redmond as having said in Chicago in 1886 :
Hemight have added:EveryEnglish shipafloatis under orders
anddestroytheBritisharmy.
" The principle ermbodied in the Irish movement is just the same principle which was the
tostandready,steamup,tobringourfleeingtroopsbackfrortheportsofFrance.
saltofeveryIrish movementfor thelastseven centuries,theprinciple of rebelion against the rule
April lst,the application of conscription to Ireland was considered
ofstrangers,the principle which Eoghan Ruadh O'Neili vindicated at Benburb,which animated
Tone and Fitzgerald, and for which Emmet sacrificed bis life.Yes,Mr.de Valera commented:
by the British Cabinet, and Lloyd George again appealed to the Dominions :
Irishmen trustedJohnRedmond in the pastbecause they believed hemeant these things.He
anti-conscription riots in Quebec were Canada's answer.Next day Gen.
.The people ofIreland whoare at presentstandingbyJohnRedmond
Hubert Gough,noted in connection with the Curragh Revolt,was relieved
backwardsbefore Carsoh,
didnotwant toberegarded asturncoatsbydesertingtheirleader.Letthemremembertheyarenot
ofhis command on theWestern front in connectionwith the Germanbreak-
through: but the British troops were said to have withstood the German
Three days later he_wrote in a long public letter:"We have no
battering-ram.Dublin and Waterford now led in the protest against
compulsory military service,which,it was intimated,Lloyd George proposed
to introduce without delay.
her usurpation."
At this time Sir Edward Carson,manifestly in obedience
to the Ulster Unionist Council, resigned his seat in the British Cabinet
April 10th, the Catholic Hierarchy issued a protest against this
sothathecould takeanindependent stand on the findings oftheIrish
threatened conscription.Two days later the text of the Bill showed that all
Convention.Towards the endof the month Eamonn deValera,speaking
males in England between18 and 51were liable to compulsory military
at Bessbrook in the course of the Armagh election,said:
service, and it passed the Commons next day. That day, too, the Report,
The Unionists of the North must makeup their minds as to whether they wil be the
rather the reports,of the Irish Convention saw the light. Northern delegates
to do,and that is not to try and conciliate them.
Ulster's'attitude towardstheConvention...
The Unionists are a rock on the road.
at an estimated cost off20,000,sucha mockery as that Convention could have
of our path."
been staged for eleven months in Dublin,Cork and Belfast,with practically
no report except bald announcements that the members had met,considered
The collapseofRussiaenabled theGermans to transfer75newDivisions
to the Western front at that juncture, and the Allies'great problem now was :
"Where will the German blow fall ?*Devastating air raids fairly terrorised
whereas the Chairman paid frequent surreptitiousvisits toLondon to report
to Lloyd George. The Secretary, in the grand manner of the British, was
London. Lloyd George appealed to the Colonies for aid, but it was pointed
rewarded with a peerage.
outthatAustralia's casualties,for example,alreadynumbered some 43,330
April 15th, the Lord Mayor of Dublin summoned a &Conference
Lords early in February.Speaking at Letterkenny on the 9th of that month,
representing the different political parties;and delegates from Sinn Fein,
Mr de Valera said:
Labour and the supporters ofJohnDillon andwilliam O'Brienrespectively,
Ulster's casewasthe case of arobber coming intoanotherman's house and taking a room
met three days later, in the Mansion House. It was unanimously decided
in it as his own.:
JubnRedmond hadbecomea Unionistof theUnionists,and the Ulster
to open a National Fund and submit Ireland's case to the nations.The
Orangemen werea hanged sight more SinnFtiners thanMr.Redmond was.
e s d
Countless Allied ships werebeing sunk,and theaerialbombardment
"Denying the rightof theBritishGovernment toenforceCompulsoryService onthis country,
ofLondoncontinued.Diarmuid Lynch commandeeredadroveof fatpigs
wesolemnlyledge urselves,ne toanother,toresistConscriptionby themosteffectivereans
on their way to the North Wall for export on the 22nd:and by the end
at our disposal."
of themonth Germany attacked thewholeAllied line,American andPortuguese
Forthwith the country was united as never before to meet this menace;
troops suffering severely.
John Redmond was reported seriously il, March 6th; next day
the month.
his death was announced;within a week JohnDillon was chosen to succeed
On May Day came the Chief Secretary's resignation.In a week'the
him.Airraids onLondon towards themiddle ofthemonth were followed
by similar attacks onParis,which,by the25th,wasbombarded by thefamous
became Chief Secretary, but Walter Long, a bigoted ex-Chief Secretary,
gun, Big Bertha, at a range of 72 miles. At this stage Germany, with half-a-
million men on the British front,took 16,000 prisoners and 200 guns;next
drove the wholeAllied line farback,the Britishnow losing 45,000prisoners,
domiciled in Ireland,have conspired to enter into, and have entered into,
and the Irish fighting rearguard actions to cover the British vretreat. On the
treasonable communications with the German enemy." Forthwith, a hundred
leading Republicans were rounded up and deported to England.They
included Count Plunkett, Eamonn de Valera, Joe MacGuinness and Williatn
fighting, point " in February, 1917, were co-operating in'France, although
selected to contest a vacancy in Cavan,Mrs.Ciarke,Madame Gonne MacBride
for twelve months.With the Germans only ll miles from Amiens,Marshal
and Countess Marckievicz. A German air raid on England, causing 200
Haig shrieked ; and Lloyd George squealed in a .message to the United
Statestowardstheendofthemonth:
" German Plot, of which Lloyd George in a lame expianation failed to give.
French and British are buoyedupwith the knowledge that the greatRepublic of theWest
any evidence whatever.It is true thatJoseph Dowling landed on the coast
he cabled.Attacked
of Clare, was arrested, and taken to London; but he was never charged with
willneglectno effortwhich canbastenitsshipsand troopstoEurope，
by animmensesuperiority ofGermantroops,ourarmyhasbeenforcedtoretire.
the plain people, stood up to Conscription, as the heroic men and women,
now fighting in England have done again. To them is it due that the British
were taken by the Germans, apart from 50 Britishofficers and 3,000 men
people,the BritishDominions and the whole world see clearly that there
who, likc true Boys of the Bulldog Breed, laid down their arms, and so
is still'an Irish problem at the heart of the Empire, and hence do the
Haig reported :
Dominions repudiate British conscription.
6
that the people must now go on or go under.Speaking in the Dublin Mansion
With ourbacks to the wall,and believing in thejustice ofour cause,each one ofusmust
House in support of the National Aid Fund on January 19th, 1918,
fight to the end.The enemy's ‘ objects are to separate us from the French, take the Channel ports
Eamonn de Valera quoted John Redmond as having said in Chicago in 1886 :
Hemight have added:EveryEnglish shipafloatis under orders
anddestroytheBritisharmy.
" The principle ermbodied in the Irish movement is just the same principle which was the
tostandready,steamup,tobringourfleeingtroopsbackfrortheportsofFrance.
saltofeveryIrish movementfor thelastseven centuries,theprinciple of rebelion against the rule
April lst,the application of conscription to Ireland was considered
ofstrangers,the principle which Eoghan Ruadh O'Neili vindicated at Benburb,which animated
Tone and Fitzgerald, and for which Emmet sacrificed bis life.Yes,Mr.de Valera commented:
by the British Cabinet, and Lloyd George again appealed to the Dominions :
Irishmen trustedJohnRedmond in the pastbecause they believed hemeant these things.He
anti-conscription riots in Quebec were Canada's answer.Next day Gen.
.The people ofIreland whoare at presentstandingbyJohnRedmond
Hubert Gough,noted in connection with the Curragh Revolt,was relieved
backwardsbefore Carsoh,
didnotwant toberegarded asturncoatsbydesertingtheirleader.Letthemremembertheyarenot
ofhis command on theWestern front in connectionwith the Germanbreak-
through: but the British troops were said to have withstood the German
Three days later he_wrote in a long public letter:"We have no
battering-ram.Dublin and Waterford now led in the protest against
compulsory military service,which,it was intimated,Lloyd George proposed
to introduce without delay.
her usurpation."
At this time Sir Edward Carson,manifestly in obedience
to the Ulster Unionist Council, resigned his seat in the British Cabinet
April 10th, the Catholic Hierarchy issued a protest against this
sothathecould takeanindependent stand on the findings oftheIrish
threatened conscription.Two days later the text of the Bill showed that all
Convention.Towards the endof the month Eamonn deValera,speaking
males in England between18 and 51were liable to compulsory military
at Bessbrook in the course of the Armagh election,said:
service, and it passed the Commons next day. That day, too, the Report,
The Unionists of the North must makeup their minds as to whether they wil be the
rather the reports,of the Irish Convention saw the light. Northern delegates
to do,and that is not to try and conciliate them.
Ulster's'attitude towardstheConvention...
The Unionists are a rock on the road.
at an estimated cost off20,000,sucha mockery as that Convention could have
of our path."
been staged for eleven months in Dublin,Cork and Belfast,with practically
no report except bald announcements that the members had met,considered
The collapseofRussiaenabled theGermans to transfer75newDivisions
to the Western front at that juncture, and the Allies'great problem now was :
"Where will the German blow fall ?*Devastating air raids fairly terrorised
whereas the Chairman paid frequent surreptitiousvisits toLondon to report
to Lloyd George. The Secretary, in the grand manner of the British, was
London. Lloyd George appealed to the Colonies for aid, but it was pointed
rewarded with a peerage.
outthatAustralia's casualties,for example,alreadynumbered some 43,330
April 15th, the Lord Mayor of Dublin summoned a &Conference
Lords early in February.Speaking at Letterkenny on the 9th of that month,
representing the different political parties;and delegates from Sinn Fein,
Mr de Valera said:
Labour and the supporters ofJohnDillon andwilliam O'Brienrespectively,
Ulster's casewasthe case of arobber coming intoanotherman's house and taking a room
met three days later, in the Mansion House. It was unanimously decided
in it as his own.:
JubnRedmond hadbecomea Unionistof theUnionists,and the Ulster
to open a National Fund and submit Ireland's case to the nations.The
Orangemen werea hanged sight more SinnFtiners thanMr.Redmond was.
e s d
Countless Allied ships werebeing sunk,and theaerialbombardment
"Denying the rightof theBritishGovernment toenforceCompulsoryService onthis country,
ofLondoncontinued.Diarmuid Lynch commandeeredadroveof fatpigs
wesolemnlyledge urselves,ne toanother,toresistConscriptionby themosteffectivereans
on their way to the North Wall for export on the 22nd:and by the end
at our disposal."
of themonth Germany attacked thewholeAllied line,American andPortuguese
Forthwith the country was united as never before to meet this menace;
troops suffering severely.
John Redmond was reported seriously il, March 6th; next day
the month.
his death was announced;within a week JohnDillon was chosen to succeed
On May Day came the Chief Secretary's resignation.In a week'the
him.Airraids onLondon towards themiddle ofthemonth were followed
by similar attacks onParis,which,by the25th,wasbombarded by thefamous
became Chief Secretary, but Walter Long, a bigoted ex-Chief Secretary,
gun, Big Bertha, at a range of 72 miles. At this stage Germany, with half-a-
million men on the British front,took 16,000 prisoners and 200 guns;next
drove the wholeAllied line farback,the Britishnow losing 45,000prisoners,
domiciled in Ireland,have conspired to enter into, and have entered into,
and the Irish fighting rearguard actions to cover the British vretreat. On the
treasonable communications with the German enemy." Forthwith, a hundred
leading Republicans were rounded up and deported to England.They
included Count Plunkett, Eamonn de Valera, Joe MacGuinness and Williatn
fighting, point " in February, 1917, were co-operating in'France, although
selected to contest a vacancy in Cavan,Mrs.Ciarke,Madame Gonne MacBride
for twelve months.With the Germans only ll miles from Amiens,Marshal
and Countess Marckievicz. A German air raid on England, causing 200
Haig shrieked ; and Lloyd George squealed in a .message to the United
Statestowardstheendofthemonth:
" German Plot, of which Lloyd George in a lame expianation failed to give.
French and British are buoyedupwith the knowledge that the greatRepublic of theWest
any evidence whatever.It is true thatJoseph Dowling landed on the coast
he cabled.Attacked
of Clare, was arrested, and taken to London; but he was never charged with
willneglectno effortwhich canbastenitsshipsand troopstoEurope，
by animmensesuperiority ofGermantroops,ourarmyhasbeenforcedtoretire.
the plain people, stood up to Conscription, as the heroic men and women,
now fighting in England have done again. To them is it due that the British
were taken by the Germans, apart from 50 Britishofficers and 3,000 men
people,the BritishDominions and the whole world see clearly that there
who, likc true Boys of the Bulldog Breed, laid down their arms, and so
is still'an Irish problem at the heart of the Empire, and hence do the
Haig reported :
Dominions repudiate British conscription.