IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · p.403
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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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Bie circular set out the follwiTingt
' « Bvory other generation, had made an araed protest against
lagland and rrhen England thought slie had trampled then dcfwn
in blood, sone strong men arose- and redeemed tliem his sacrx_-
fice. Ireland's demand all through the centuries had been free-
dom, and there was onlj^ one sort of freedom, the definition of
which vras not to be found on -the statute book of a nation s
enemies, but in the book of a nation's fathers. Irish freedom
had been defined for them by the fatiiers - first of all by Tone
who said, 'To break the connection vdth England - the never fall-
ing source of all of our political e^ils - and to assert the in-
dependence of my covntry, these xere ny objects.'
*'The path that o\xr redeenors sha\7ed
Our country, too iii toars must troad
Tftiere falterins foet vill find the road ,
Tihere Tone, and Clarke, and Irrxrv^t lead
Yes, she may falter, 3he ma:' shrink;'
But ne'er again to slivers sink
Koi'/ 'Jilliains is silent in his tomb
J^d tyrants live T/ho planned his doom
Just Godl Men do wc forf^ot? "
The execution of THCMA^TnLLIAiiS has furnished the I*R»A»; for
the first tine iu vears, an opportunity for resuming operations. On Sunday
cvoninc, September' 13, 1942, K^ION LWJSSm:, JA113S miSLAIIE, IjR. J(HI<
l'qn^nr:vr^ and BERNARD KcGCSIAN addressed a mooting of approximata:;«-.i02^
at the Roscommon Tuxedo Ballrooms, 59th Street Und l^^adison /nrenuo, Ho^r lOrk
City* This meeting was hold for t'.To reasons, one to tost tho strength and
tv/o. to secure financial aid for the families of the I.R.A, imprisoned men
in Ireland and England. KORRISSEY very definitely stated thst the I.R.A.
of today is the very sarae I.R.A. of tv/cnty ycai'S aco, i^milo lIcGOirrjUI went
through great pains to explain that in the Atlantic Charter there was no
mention of complete freedom for Ireland. This, ho said, vas due to the
trickery "of England,
All of tiiose spoalcors vcro anti-British. lIcGOTfAlI stated* that
the British Govcrnraent has stirred up trouble in Ireland bot\'^/eon the people
of northern Ireland and southern Ireland for many years and that if they
had stopped snending millions of pounds each yt^ar in Ireland in propaganda
work, that the Irish in the north and tho south, if they vjcro left alone,
* wojild get along together and become united* McGCTTAK also oondomned the
AtT.antic Charter,
The speakers also attacked Senator FRAlMITacDEiaiOTT , a Rapro-
sontativc of thu Irish Free State Government, who reftently^vTote articles -
in tho Nov York Kcrald Tribune on -ttic policies of the Irish Free State