IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.182
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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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Venezelos,pitchforkedintopower.The ship that then boreKing Constantine
away-hke the ships in the Shannon at the Black Faminemet one having
not rely even onthe Allies who were exploiting him : many in Greece
wanted'a Republic,it was admitted;butWestminsterwanted a sympathetic
monarchy there,as they nowwant aBavarian prince on the German throne
the British royal family,meantime,having changed its Hanoverian name to
Windsor. What self-respecting race,let me ask.again, could
lremain
hypocritical, so unchristian,so callously brutal?
Letme submit,before concluding,thatit is time foreveryone whohas
reached the age of responsibility in Ireland to reflect that there has always
been an abundance of red blood in this land to ensure that alien reformers"
can never substitute lasting despotism for the deathless spirit of pure
Scholars since time was young, while dowering her children with the
perseverance to ensure that, as the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against
Holy Church, the wiles,even of wolves in sheeps’ clothing shall never prevail
against holy Ireland.And so, let me publicly protest against, first, the recent
arbitrary arrest of Miss Mary McSwiney in Galway, next, against the
suppression ofallreference to the Sinn FeinArd-Fheis held some weeks ago
in Dublin.Those who ordered this suppression keep telling us hypocritically
that all political organisations are free to seek'the'endorsement of their
policy by the Irish people.Yet,not only is the organisation that was most
instrumental in defeating conscription and establishing Dail Eireann
ostracised by the heavy arm of‘the Law,under a vaunted Christian
Constitution,butits funds,to a minimum of f16,000 are either drafted into
Free State Loans or growing mouldy in the Chancery Court. Eighteen years
ago, some f8,ooo from the Sinn Fein Treasury was lodged in Chancery
without authority. At 4 per cent., which represents the average dividend
on such Loans,as any schoolboy here may calculate,that money would have
more thanrenewed itself by now,andhence doI say the minimum amount
so retained must be 16,000.I have just read,of course, that no less exalted
an authority than the new Minister of Finance has stated that Fianna Fail
brought the entire Sinn Fein policy with it into Leinster House,and I wonder
soclaimed.
I need hardly add that it is anything but a pleasure to trace those
stepping-stones asI have doneascending untilwe were invited to look
up, salute the flag of the Republic, and give allegiance to it ; then descending-
inthemidstofpeace-totheconceptionofCoercianschemesworthyofthe
Cecils.It is,I suppose, automatic that anybody disturbing the prospects
oflife-long luxurywhich thepolitical partieshave spreadbefore themselves
challenged the despotism of the comfortable Conservatives_planted in our
midst to perpetuate England's imperial sway.The patriot Gael will survive
themall.
I am glad that commemoration lectures like this are being made
in every serious struggle for our liberty, and whose right and duty it is to
study the ambitions and the tendencies ofwould-be leaders,and so guard
themselves against being exploited. I trust the young people who have paid
me the compliment of coming to hear me will keep in close contact with the
triedandloyalmenwhobecometheeldersofthemovementwiththepassing
of the years,and seek in association with them to raise your cause to thehigh,
unselfish, noble plane on which only men and women of true courage and
steadfast character can liveto the plane,in a word,on which all that was
sincere and truly_patriotic in the Republican movement stood before the
betrayal.Need'I urge the Republican youth of Cork to remember the
services and the sacrifices of the Four Martyrs we commemorate to-night;
needI ask them to adhere loyally to thePrinciples ofFreedom thatanimated
their ownMartyrs and all the Martyrswho have given'their lives in the cause
smashed the last link binding us to England.Beannachi dilis De oraibh uile.
away-hke the ships in the Shannon at the Black Faminemet one having
not rely even onthe Allies who were exploiting him : many in Greece
wanted'a Republic,it was admitted;butWestminsterwanted a sympathetic
monarchy there,as they nowwant aBavarian prince on the German throne
the British royal family,meantime,having changed its Hanoverian name to
Windsor. What self-respecting race,let me ask.again, could
lremain
hypocritical, so unchristian,so callously brutal?
Letme submit,before concluding,thatit is time foreveryone whohas
reached the age of responsibility in Ireland to reflect that there has always
been an abundance of red blood in this land to ensure that alien reformers"
can never substitute lasting despotism for the deathless spirit of pure
Scholars since time was young, while dowering her children with the
perseverance to ensure that, as the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against
Holy Church, the wiles,even of wolves in sheeps’ clothing shall never prevail
against holy Ireland.And so, let me publicly protest against, first, the recent
arbitrary arrest of Miss Mary McSwiney in Galway, next, against the
suppression ofallreference to the Sinn FeinArd-Fheis held some weeks ago
in Dublin.Those who ordered this suppression keep telling us hypocritically
that all political organisations are free to seek'the'endorsement of their
policy by the Irish people.Yet,not only is the organisation that was most
instrumental in defeating conscription and establishing Dail Eireann
ostracised by the heavy arm of‘the Law,under a vaunted Christian
Constitution,butits funds,to a minimum of f16,000 are either drafted into
Free State Loans or growing mouldy in the Chancery Court. Eighteen years
ago, some f8,ooo from the Sinn Fein Treasury was lodged in Chancery
without authority. At 4 per cent., which represents the average dividend
on such Loans,as any schoolboy here may calculate,that money would have
more thanrenewed itself by now,andhence doI say the minimum amount
so retained must be 16,000.I have just read,of course, that no less exalted
an authority than the new Minister of Finance has stated that Fianna Fail
brought the entire Sinn Fein policy with it into Leinster House,and I wonder
soclaimed.
I need hardly add that it is anything but a pleasure to trace those
stepping-stones asI have doneascending untilwe were invited to look
up, salute the flag of the Republic, and give allegiance to it ; then descending-
inthemidstofpeace-totheconceptionofCoercianschemesworthyofthe
Cecils.It is,I suppose, automatic that anybody disturbing the prospects
oflife-long luxurywhich thepolitical partieshave spreadbefore themselves
challenged the despotism of the comfortable Conservatives_planted in our
midst to perpetuate England's imperial sway.The patriot Gael will survive
themall.
I am glad that commemoration lectures like this are being made
in every serious struggle for our liberty, and whose right and duty it is to
study the ambitions and the tendencies ofwould-be leaders,and so guard
themselves against being exploited. I trust the young people who have paid
me the compliment of coming to hear me will keep in close contact with the
triedandloyalmenwhobecometheeldersofthemovementwiththepassing
of the years,and seek in association with them to raise your cause to thehigh,
unselfish, noble plane on which only men and women of true courage and
steadfast character can liveto the plane,in a word,on which all that was
sincere and truly_patriotic in the Republican movement stood before the
betrayal.Need'I urge the Republican youth of Cork to remember the
services and the sacrifices of the Four Martyrs we commemorate to-night;
needI ask them to adhere loyally to thePrinciples ofFreedom thatanimated
their ownMartyrs and all the Martyrswho have given'their lives in the cause
smashed the last link binding us to England.Beannachi dilis De oraibh uile.