IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.34
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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
Unless otherwise indicated, the following information
was developed from the following sources:
THE NEW YORK TIMES MORGUE
THE NEW YORK SUNMORGUE
With reference: to the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY, the New
York Times of July l6, l939 traced its origin through an anonymous
mriter claimed to have been a former member of the I.R.A. Prior to
the World War in l9l4, men amd boys in Ireland were openly drilling
ered the entire country, and another gtoup confinedyto an area approx-
imating the present boundaries of Northern Ireland, called THEAULSTER
VOLUNTEERS. Their sole aim was to achieve Home Government for the
entire Irish nation.
It Was contemplated that JOHNIREUMOND, then the leader
of therish Parliamentary Party; would use this force as a lever in
insisting that the Home Rule Bill, which had already passed both
Houses of the British Parliament, be made operative. However, at the
MOND that the volunteers should either declare thenselves for REDuOND'S
Parliamentary Party, or declare what their ultimate aims were so far
as the future of the Irish movement was concerned. As a result, the
volunteer force was split, the majority siding with REDMOND's Party,
and about 25% for the original principles of the body , whrich were for
an Irish republic. This latter group became kmown asJSINN FEINERS!
During the Easter Week Rebellion of 19l6, the armed
force of the Rebellion became kmowm as the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARIY. The
men who fought in the Rebellion from 19l6 through l922, and those who
sided with DeVALERA are now kmown as the Old I.R.A., and are loyal
supporters of theAIRISH FREE_ STATE Government, the present ruling
body in Ireland.'
The die-hards kept the name of the IRISH REPUBLICAN
ARMY, which is presently barined by law in Ireland.
This press aocount stated that the I.R.A.'is'better.
organized in Northern Irelamd than in the Free. State, and that the.
Adjutant General of the I.R'A., JAMES J.NKILIEEN, is. presently im-
prisoned in Belfast, Ireland, and that MAURIcEyTwOMEY of Dublin, was
formerly Chief of Staff of this organization, a post which' is now held
by SEAN RUSSELL. All I.R.A. activities are presently confined to