IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · p.37

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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.

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The Ner/ York Sim of Noveicber 30, 1931 reported another
meeting at the Aster Hotel, at -Hfaich the CIAN NJL GAEL pledged unal-
terable allegiance to the principle of an independent Irish Republic,
and refused to accept the Irish fbree State as the final settlement of
the Irish |t|uestion« \ ..^ V— ^ : : . :
The World Telegram of March 1, 1939 reported the forai-
ation by the CIAN NIL GAEL and the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARM! VETERANS, INC.
of the UNHED IRISH REPUBLICANS at a meeting at Clan Headquarters at
537 West 125th Street, New York City, There were 350 people reported
to be present at this meeting, and it was hoped that this latter or-
ganization would be the biggest movement in the Uhited States for Irish
unity since 1921. The report further stated that circulars contained
the following letterhead:
"IRISH REPUBLICAN ARM!
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AMERICAN FUBLICITI BUREAU
537 WEST 125th STREET
NEff YORK CITY"
The headquarters of the n$w organization was to be at
the same address, and at this meeting MICHAEL QUILL, New York City
Councilman and President of the'4raANSP(HX..TI0RKERS UNION, was the prin-
cipal speaker* (It will be reca^^d that at ^uDIES COJiMITTEE hearing
in September of 1939> QUILL was designated by X^toess as a member
of the COMMUNIST PARTY).
This report further stated that the new group would be
conposed of the CIAI^ and I.R.A. VETS together with other Irish labor,
religious and county organizations. The new organization would function
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separately from these, and no officers were picked as yet. At this
meeting, QUILL is quoted as predicting that the movement would at
least equal the peak of strength obtained in I92I Ijy Irish ^ynpath-
izers in this country, who raised the millions of dollars for the
struggle in 1922. A periodical was to be published to report the oir-
ganization's activities and the events in the struggle to make Ireland
^an independent nation* QUILL attributed the resurgence of the move-
ment, marked by bombings in Europe recently, in part to "MR, CHAMBER-
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