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116
Unsigned to CS, 7 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (310).

117
Unsigned to CS, 18 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (308).

118
CS to HS, 24 February 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (297–8).

119
CS to F. and Accts Officer, 1 March 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (277).

120
CS to F. and Accts Officer, 1 March 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (277).

121
CS to HS, 10 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (250).

122
HS to CS, 25 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (293–4).

123
HS to MD, 1 December 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/150 (9).

124
HS to CS, 16 May 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (22).

125
Unsigned to HS, 3 October 1927, in MTUCDA P69/150 (22).

126
HS to MD, 1 December 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/150 (9).

127
Unsigned to HS, 5 December 1927, in MTUCDA P69/150 (8).

128
HS to MD, 5 January 1924 [1928], in MTUCDA P69/150 (3).

129
HS to CS, 25 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (293–4).

130
CS to HS, 28 January 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (311).

131
Unsigned to CS, 7 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (310).

132
CS to HS, 9 February 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (309).

133
Unsigned to CS, 18 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (308).

134
HS to CS, 25 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (293–4).

135
CS to HS, 24 February 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (297–8).

136
Unsigned to CS, 5 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (260–1).

137
CS to HS, 10 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (250).

138
Unsigned and unaddressed letter, 29 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (183). HS to CS, 3 April 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (182).

139
MD to HS, 25 April 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (59).

140
HS to CS, 27 April 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (57).

141
MD to HS, 6 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (50).

142
HS to CS, 14 May 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (23).

143
MD to HS, 18 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (21).

144
HS to CS, 24 May 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (18).

145
MD to HS, 28 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (17).

146
MD to HS, 17 October 1927, in MTUCDA P69/150 (20); HS to MD, 20 October 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/150 (19).

147
In this chapter the name ‘Fitzgerald' is presented in this format when it is taken from decrypted cipher or other IRA correspondence. In the cipher there is no distinction make between capitals and lower case letters and therefore it would be presumptuous of James or myself to write it as (the less common) ‘FitzGerald'. However, the arms merchant, Francis FitzGerald's family are known to have written their name with a capital ‘G'. Therefore for the purposes of accuracy I've used both formats, depending on whether the text came from IRA documents or referred directly to Francis FitzGerald or his brother, Desmond.

148
Dáil in Committee – Reports of the Committee of Public Accounts. Dáil Éireann, Vol. 12, 7 July 1925;
Irish Times
, 12 September 1927.

149
P. A. Murray in the O'Malley Notes, P17b/88.

150
MacEoin,
The IRA in the Twilight Years
, p. 238.

151
Ibid
., p. 238.

152
Dr Garret FitzGerald is of the opinion that the ‘Merchant' was not the same person as Francis W FitzGerald. At the time I contacted Dr FitzGerald I had made the mistaken assumption that the Merchant's name was ‘T. F. Fitzgerald'. This was based on a misreading of the text of P69/48 (59), 25 April 1927. Originally James Gillogly and I thought that the decryption of Paragraph 7 (130) should read: ‘T F Fitzgerald has not paid up … '. However, we went back to double check our copy of the document and realised that we had mistaken an ‘I' as a ‘T' and thus the first two words of the decryption should instead be ‘If Fitzgerald … ' Due to the font used on the typewriter by the IRA at the time it is relatively easy to mistake these two letters. Therefore I gave the wrong initials for Fitzgerald aka the ‘Merchant' when in communication with Dr Garret Fitzgerald.

153
Hart,
The IRA at War
, pp. 153–4.

154
Ibid
., pp. 170–1.

155
The Irish National Foresters was a moderate nationalist organisation which was primarily a benevolent and fraternal society. A small number of branches are still in existence. OC No. 3 Area to CS, 11 Oct 1923 [1926], in MTUCDA P69/47 (66–9); CS to IO No. 3 Area Britain, 16 October 1923 [1926], in MTUCDA P69/47 (96).

156
Adjt to AG, 13 November [1926], in MTUCDA P69/47 (53).

157
Adjt to AG, 28 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (57).

158
MA to QMG, 21 November 1924, in MTUCDA P69/37 (226).

159
MA to QMG, 16 February 1925, in MTUCDA P69/37 (227–8).

160
AG to QMG, 17 November 1924, in MTUCDA P69/138 (12–13).

161
Adjt to AG, 28 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (57).

162
In the documents it's clear that the unit that was refusing to co-operate was the Special Services Section based on the docks, and though it's not directly stated, Tom O'Malley would appear to be a member of that section, though it's possible he could have been an ‘old timer' member of another section of the Liverpool Company. OC No. 3 Area to CS, 8 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (66–9); IO Liverpool to CS, 27 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (29–33).

163
CS to OC No. 3 Area, 12 October 1923 [1926], in MTUCDA P69/47 (63–4).

164
CS to IO No. 3 Area, 12 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (61).

165
Adjt. to AG, 5 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (56).

166
For AG to adjt. No. 3 Area, 16 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (58).

167
OC No. 3 Area to CS, 8 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (66–9).

168
CS to OC No. 3 Area, 12 October 1923 [1926], in MTUCDA P69/47 (63–4).

169
Adjt to AG, 28 October 1926, in MTUCDA P 69/47 (57).

170
For AG to adjt No. 3 Area, 16 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (58).

171
CS to OC No. 3 Area, 18 February 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (242).

172
Report on Britain, 17 November 1924, in MTUCDA P69/44 (366–9).

173
CS to adjt. No. 1 Area, 6 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (45).

174
Unsigned to HS, 3 October 1927, in MTUCDA P69/150 (22).

175
Coogan, T. P.,
The IRA: A History
(Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Niwot, Colorado, 1993), p. 33.

176
CS to OC No. 1 Area, 11 October 1927, in MTUCDA P69/150 (15).

177
KV 2/591 National Archives, Kew.

178
CS to OC No. 2 Area, 14 October 1923 [1926], in MTUCDA P69/47 (98).

179
CS to OC No. 3 Area, 12 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (108). Adjt No. 3 Area to AG, 13 November [1926], in MTUCDA P69/47 (53).

180
Commandant No 2 Area to DI, 30 Aug. 1927, in MTUCDA P69/196 (83).

181
Hart,
The IRA at War
, p. 144.

182
Ibid
., p. 170.

183
Ibid
., p. 157.

184
Organiser's report on Irish republican organisation in Scotland, 20 September 1923, in MTUCDA P69/44 (373–4); report on position of republican organisation in Scotland, 20 September 1923, in MTUCDA P69/44 (371–2).

185
Report on Britain, 17 November 1924, in MTUCDA P69/44 (366–9).

186
AG to QMG 17 November 1924, in MTUCDA P69/138 (12–13).

187
Hanley,
The IRA, 1926–1936
, p. 172; Pete Hughes to Frances Carty, 8 May 1925, in MTUCDA P69/62 (17–18).

188
CS to OC. Britain, 23 July 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (144).

189
CS to Comdt. S, 7 [or possibly 6] September 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (133).

190
CS to OC Scotland, 9 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (322). CS to OC Scotland, 24 Feb. 1924 [1927] in MTUCDA P69/48 (296).

191
OC Scottish batt [
sic
] to CS, 13 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (320).

192
CS to QM Scotland, 19 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/41 (44).

C
HAPTER
7: T
HE
IRA
IN
A
MERICA

1
Bayor, R. and Meagher, T.,
The New York Irish
(John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996), p. 485.

2
Doorley, M.,
Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism: The Friends of Irish Freedom, 1916–
1935
(Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005), p. 160.

3
Ibid
., pp. 17–18.

4
McGee, O.,
The IRB: The Irish Republican Brotherhood from the Land League to Sinn Féin
(Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005), p. 133.

5
Doorley,
Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism
, p. 85.

6
Ibid
., p. 96.

7
Ibid
., p. 92.

8
Ibid
., p. 134.

9
Hanley, B., ‘Irish Republicans in interwar New York', unpublished paper, p. 2.

10
Doorley,
Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism
, p. 134.

11
Tarpey, M.,
The Role of Joseph McGarrity in the Struggle for Irish Independence
(Arno Press, New York, 1976), p. 224.

12
Quoted from an IRA document found on the arrested courier, Patrick Garland,
New York Times
, 1 May 1926.

13
Hanley, ‘Irish Republicans in interwar New York', p. 165.

14
To Mr O'Sullivan from M O'Connor, 18 June 1926, in MTUCDA P69/182 (31).

15
Report of the foreign relations committee, no date, in MTUCDA P69/183 (136).

16
Chairman to An Timthire, 9 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (113–14).

17
An Timthire to [no name], 1 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (129–31).

18
An Timthire to Mr Smith, 20 April 1927 in P69/183 (48–51).

19
Hanley, ‘Irish Republicans in interwar New York', p. 11.

20
Ibid
., pp. 7–8.

21
An Timthire to [no name], 28 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (98–9).

22
An Timthire to [no name], 1 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (129–31).

23
McGee,
The IRB
.

24
An Timthire to [no name], 1 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (129–31).

25
HS to MD, 20 June 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (2).

26
Bayor and Meagher,
The New York Irish
, pp.337, 396.

27
MacEoin, U.,
Survivors
(Argenta Publications, Dublin, 1987), p. 52.

28
The Advocate
, 1 January 1927.

29
The Advocate
, 19 March 1927.

30
Hanley, B.,
The IRA: 1926–1936
(Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2002), p. 163;
Irish
World
, 28 May 1927. Hanley, ‘Irish Republicans in interwar New York', p. 12; An Timthire to Mr Smith, 20 April 1927 in P69/183 (48–51).

31
An Timthire to [no name], 18 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (38–40).

32
An Timthire to Mr Smith, 20 April 1927 in P69/183 (48–51).

33
An Timthire to [no name], 18 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (38–40).

34
The Advocate
, 15 January 1927.

35
An Timthire to [no name], 28 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (98–9).

36
An Timthire to [no name], 18 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (38–40); Hanley, ‘Irish Republicans in interwar New York', p. 11.

37
Hanley, ‘Irish Republicans in interwar New York', p. 12.

38
Chairman to An Timthire, 3 June 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (3–4).

39
Hanley,
The IRA, 1926–1936
, p. 162.

40
An Timthire to [no name], 18 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (38–40); chairman to An Timthire, 3 June 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (3–4).

41
An Timthire to Mr Smith, 20 April 1927 in P69/183 (48–51).

42
Bde adj North Mayo brigade to DI, 23 December 1923 [1926], in MTUCDA P69/193 (47–8).

43
Chairman to An Timthire, 8 April 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (74–5).

44
Hopkinson, M.,
Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War
(Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1988), p. 159.

45
MacEoin,
Survivors
, pp. 446–7.

46
MD to Mr Brown, 15 January 1927 in P69/183 (132–3).

47
Chairman to An Timthire, 3 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (123–5).

48
An Timthire to [no name], 28 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (98–9); An Timthire to [no name], 21 December 1926 in P69/183 (159–60).

49
An Timthire, 3 June 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (3–4); An Timthire to [no name], 18 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (38–40).

50
An Timthire to [no name], 18 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (38–40).

51
Ibid
.

52
Ibid
.

53
Chairman to An Timthire, 24 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (106–7).

54
An Timthire to [no name], 18 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (38–40); An Timthire to [no name], 28 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (98–9).

55
An Timthire to [no name] 13 January 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (129–31).

56
S to Mr Jones, 10 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/183 (173–4).

57
Neenan frequently uses American-style spelling, such as ‘emphasize' here; An Timthire to [no name], 28 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/183 (98–9).