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7-16-63)
(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
No Wining, Dining
For Official IRA
Delegate's Visit
Eoin O'Murchu, the international secretary of the
IRA, was in town and wanted to be intervieued, the boss
told me.
So I traveled through the cold rain to a,shabby-house
the 3800 block of Hamilton st‘thathad'a”support.
'yourlocal anarchist"decalonthe
door.
The door was.opened by a fat
ladywho said her name was He-
lena Sheehan.She.had brought
the IRA man to America.
“I used'to be. Irish-Ameri-
can," she. said. “Now 'I'm just
Irish."
She told me she.was active in
a.number of causes“like Wom-
en's Liberation”in Philadelphia,
John Corr
but “America has a limited’cul-
ture and history so I went to Ire.
land looking for my ancestry."
"Iwon't try to describe the in-
'terior of the house; except to say that a three-alarm fire
would have done it a world of good.
O'Murchu, a squat man in a blue sweater,was sittir
t the kitchen table eating a take-out-shop baroecuel
chicken with his fingers. A black cat was stalking th3
sane.chicken.
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 09-28-2010BY
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(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
No Wining, Dining
For Official IRA
Delegate's Visit
Eoin O'Murchu, the international secretary of the
IRA, was in town and wanted to be intervieued, the boss
told me.
So I traveled through the cold rain to a,shabby-house
the 3800 block of Hamilton st‘thathad'a”support.
'yourlocal anarchist"decalonthe
door.
The door was.opened by a fat
ladywho said her name was He-
lena Sheehan.She.had brought
the IRA man to America.
“I used'to be. Irish-Ameri-
can," she. said. “Now 'I'm just
Irish."
She told me she.was active in
a.number of causes“like Wom-
en's Liberation”in Philadelphia,
John Corr
but “America has a limited’cul-
ture and history so I went to Ire.
land looking for my ancestry."
"Iwon't try to describe the in-
'terior of the house; except to say that a three-alarm fire
would have done it a world of good.
O'Murchu, a squat man in a blue sweater,was sittir
t the kitchen table eating a take-out-shop baroecuel
chicken with his fingers. A black cat was stalking th3
sane.chicken.
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 09-28-2010BY
b6
b7c