IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · 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.
Transcript
The circular set out the following:
Every other_generation had made an armed protest against
Bngland and vhen England thought she had trampled them down
in blood, some strong men arose.and redeemed them by his sacri-
fice. Ireland's demand all through the centuries had been free-
dom, and there was only one sort of freedom, the definition of
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enemies, but in the book of a nation's fathers. Irish freedom
auoi Aa tie go asity - sianeg ay Aa wut xog pautgep uaen peu
who said, 'To break the cornection with England - the never fail-
ing sourcc of all of our political evils - and to assert the in-
ui s4oofqo Au srau asouz "fnunoo Au Jo souapuedap
"The path that our redcemers shoved
Our country, too iii tcars must tread
there faltering feet vill find the road
here Tone, and Clarke, and Eamet loud
Yes, she may falter, she Lay shrink;
But neler again to slivers sink
Hov illiams is silent in his bomb
And tyrants live vho planned his doom
Just Godl Men do we forget?
The cxecution of THOiASIILLIAMS has furnishied the I.R.A., for
On Sunday
the first time iu years, un opportunity for'rosuming operations. C
cvoninC, September 13, 1942, EAlON NORRISSEY, JAiZS 3RISLANE, 1R. JOHK
LcCARTIY, and FERNARD MicGOWIAN addressod a mccting of approximatel 3OO menbcrs
at the Roscomon Tuxedo Ballrooms, 59th Street int liadison Avenue, Nev York
City.T
This mceting was held for tvo rcasons, one to test tho strength and
in Ireland and England. KORRIsSEY very definitely stated thst the I.R.A.
of today is the very sane I.R.A. of tronty ycars afo, whilc LcGOfAll went
through
mention of complete freedom for Ireland. This, ho said, vas due to thc
triclery of England.
All of theso speurcrs vero anti-British. licGoTAl stated' that
the British Govcrment has stirred up troublo in Ireland betveon the poople
Aoya Jt qeut puu shear Qucu roy puunoil urauanos puu puaiorl uuourou jo
had stopped spending nillions of pounds each year in Ireland in propaganda
work, that thc Irish in the north and thc south, if they were left alono,
would got along togcthcr and becomc unitod. McGoTAN also condeuined the
Atlautic Chartor.
The spcakors also attacked Senator FRAlrMacDERLioTT, a Ropre-
sentativc of thu Irish Froe Statc Govermmcnt,who redcntly'irote articles
in thc New York Horald Tribune on thc policics of thc Irish Fruc Statc