IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.269
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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
On Marah 1l, 1939, arter 2he bombinga in Iagland, thdoh
startod on Jannmiy 16, 1939, the Gaelic-Amarican carried an article
which stated, a... The regular Clan Ja Cael, whioh bas no oonnectio
with the Irish Ropublican Aray Yeterans, Ineorporated, has no
kaowledzo or tha so-callod bombing canpaign axoept that mhich Ma
been arailsble to the pablie through zewnpaper roperts. lhe old
and real Clan Ka Gael has no responsibility far any wach oampaign
nar bas it promised te sappert it... Tbo clan Ya Gael from the tim
-qe pue poptu ssg ose sswol on4-LqueAeu ATater pesguesso stn s1
oouraged the people of Ireland in their strugzle for national inde-
pendence. It'gare a practical and financial support to the mon of
Ireland, who rose to assart their country's right to freodom 1n
Iastar week, l9l6. Its officers, members, and friends collected most
Of the several mlllioas of dellars raised through the.-yalg'of Iriah
Repdblican bonds at a latar tine fo 'help the Republicans in Ireland
in their fight against Bagland'a military forces, the Black 'and Tans,
and auxiliaries, whose canpaign of tarroriam shocked the civilised
world, The clan, however, has its oun ideas as to hcw the Inds--
pendence of Ireland should and can be won. In l92o some individuals
in Mew York and some srall groups elsewhere soceded frcm the Cian
Ia Gael and, after their secession, called themselves the Reorganizod
Clan Na Gael. In recent years they bave stoppod using the word 'le-
arganisodi as part of their titlo, but they bave ne right or autharity
to wpoak for the arganisation ar to make docisionn in ite naae.
(61-7560-1657)
One Joseph McGarrity of Philadnlphia, Pennsylvania, uho
died at Philadelphia on August 5, l9lo, was for a number of years
1dentified with the actirities or the Iriah lepublican Arny and
the Clan Ya Gael Roorganised, and ms described as. the head or the
8-2-22; 61-7606-1)
Irish Ropublican Army in this country. (
me Iew Iork Sun of Jannary l2, l92l, rerlocts tbat %.
De Yalers was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Wovenber l, l920,
1n order to be present as godfather at the christening of the four
weeks old son of Kr..apd Krs. Joaeph McGarrity, when the boy was
(61-7606).
christened Bamcn De Yalera MoGarrity.
Tne Mew York Tines of January 1l and 30, 192l, and Dctober
1l, l92l, reflected that on January l0 the British Governnent pub
the part of Irish-knericans during the Werld War. Docunentary wi-
dence was quoted purparting to show how Sir Roger Casement's entar-
prise was planned by Irish-nericans mith Berlin through Count