1920 AD / 4 - October
"The Murder Gang and the Cairo Gang""
1920 October: Diarmuid O Hegarty informed Eamonn de Valera the Priomh Aire of the 1st Dail Eireann that the Cabinet wanted him to stay on in America and see his "Official Proposal" through, and Diarmuid Fawsitt / Fawcett was also inducted there to be the Irish Trade Consul in New York, and Frank P. Walshe was to then present the "Proposal," that had been prepared by Arthur Griffith for the "Recognition of the Irish Republic" to Bainbridge Colby who at this time was the U.S.A. Secretary of State of which "no reply" was ever to be received.
Sir
Neville Mac Ready
and
Sir
Ormonde "Holly
Terror" Winter put together a new
British Imperial Government I"ntelligence Unit" of really
"ruthless" men who
previously had served the
British Imperial Government well
in
Egypt and
Russia, who
became known as the "Cairo Gang" who
were
then given all of the
information that they held in the
Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2
acre) on many members of the
Irish population,
and they then began to set up
dossiers on all known "political"
Sinn Fein Party
members, and under
Mac Lean who was
their Chief Intelligence Officer,
they began carrying out "night raids" and
"interrogations" on the general Irish population.
Michael Collins
meanwhile as the "Director of
Intelligence" for the 1st Dail Eireann
/ Irish
Assembly had previously been informed from his sources in
"Scotland Yard" in England that they were coming to
Dublin with the intention of "destroying" the
I.R.A. / Irish Republican Volunteer
organization within the
Dublin area, and had also been given
"permission" by
David Lloyd - George and the British
Coalition Government to use "any methods" they wished to carry out their orders.
Liam Tobin
was the Irish Volunteers / I.R.A. "Deputy Director of Intelligence"
serving under
Michael Collins,
while
Eamonn Duggan, who was
a
Dublin
solicitor, controlled another
section with back up from the "12 Apostles," and they were
now carrying out "surveillance" on any doubtful
persons who were arriving into the
Dublin area, but
Cathal Brugha
as the
I.R.A. "Chief of Staff,"
who had an
English father and an
Irish
mother, had the last say as to
when to carry out any of the "executions," they were to find
necessary, but he was always very
reluctant to do so due to
the fact that he was a very "religious" man and would only condone this type of action if there
was enough sufficient authentic "evidence" to support that particular course
and the "12 Apostles"
then carried
out the sentences if they were required. To counteract the future activities of
the British Government's "Cairo Gang"
Michael Collins
ordered an all out surveillance to report back on any
of the suspected
British Imperial Government's
"Secret Service Agents"
/ "The Cairo Gang"
who would most likely only come out at "night," and they would
also be under surveillance during this particular time also by the
Dublin "Metropolitan Police" members who also reported back to
Michael Collins. (All
of the Irish
population were on a "curfew" at this time).
Frank Thornton
was then to be assigned
by
Liam Tobin to keep them
under his surveillance also, but he was to be "arrested" and held in custody for
10
days, during which
time he was
thoroughly "interrogated," and among these British Government interrogators were members of the
British "Cairo Gang" themselves, and
this allowed him to be
able to supply a general "description" of them when he was to be "released.
"
October 6th:
General
George Cockerill
the
British Military Brigadier, now
put forward a proposal for a "Truce" and an
"Amnesty"
for
the population in
Ireland, which would include a "Conference" to be held for the best
"peace" possible, which was subsequently approved by
Arthur Griffith the Acting - President
of the 1st Dail Eireann and
David
Lloyd - George
the very worried British Imperial Prime Minister also showed
some "interest" in it.
October 11th: Dan Breen
and
Sean Treacy who were both still wanted by the
British Imperial Government
Dublin Castle Military Forces for the shooting at
Soloheadbeg back in
January, were on this day totally surrounded at
Drumcondra in
Co. Tipperary
in the north - east of the Munster Province, but
despite this they
were still able to "escape" the trap that had been set for them, but during their escape
2 of the
British Imperial Government's "Miltary Intelligence"
officers were "killed" who by co - incidence
had been involved previously in the bloody cold - blooded "murder" of the
"civilians''previously in
Dublin. One of those
killed was the brother to the Dublin Castle's
R.I.C Commissioner
Smythe
in
Listowel
who
had originally created the "mutiny" there by his instructions to "kill the
Irish
at will,"
and
in a further reprisal
the
British Military Army Forces had also in cold blood
"killed"
the innocent Professor
Carolan
there.
Mac
Lean
the "Cairo Gang's"
Chief Intelligence Officer,
was to interrogate the young
James Fleming after
Dan
Breen and Sean Treacy
escaped, but
he then released him.
October 20th:
The
British
Imperial Governments' other
real nasty group who were known as the "Murder Gang," were
now using "silencers" on their weapons when they also shot
Peter Carroll
dead in his home also, while at this time the two worst offending British
Intelligence officers,
King and
Hardy were now also
"torturing" their victims.
October 24th: Terence Mac Swiney
the
Lord Mayor of
Cork,
died, in the
"Brixton
Prison" in
England
on the
74th day of his
"hunger
strike," and
2 others were
also to "die" in the
Cork
Jail
itself,
and this created further "bad" publicity for the British
Imperial Government as it
was further evidence of what was really going on in
Ireland and also further "upset" the Irish
population and many people in many parts of the
"World"
and
Terence Mac Swiney's body was recovered by the
Irish
there in
England and draped
in the Irish Flag and paraded through the streets of
London then onto
Holyhead to be brought back over to
Dublin. In a complete act of
"disrespect" the
British Imperial Military
Forces and the Dublin Castle's "Black &
Tan Auxiliaries" then seized his body and loaded it onto a boat to send it directly onto
Co.
Cork
to try and stop the Irish from parading him through
the City of
Dublin
and this despicable act was to only create a further
massive "demonstration" within the Irish population.
Arthur Griffith
as the Acting
- President of the
1st Dail Eireann
/ Irish Assembly
in Ireland, asked the
Cork
Irish Volunteers headquarters
to
stop the boat and they complied and the procession then proceeded
onto
Cork City with thousands of
Irish men
and
women marching behind it and the
Cork I.R.A.Volunteers
who were to act as the
"Guards of Honour" were then "arrested and imprisoned" in
"Mountjoy Jail" by the
British Military Forces.
Sean
Lemass a future
Joseph O Reilly,
was Michael Collin's
Aide - de - camp,
and together with
Liam Tobin,
Joseph Cullen, the
"Adjutant General"
Gearoid O Sullivan,
Sean Murthaile
and
Piaras Beaslaoi / Beasley they were able to stay at the
Vaughan's Hotel, which was run by
Mac Guire, for many months and
even still after they had been "raided" there. and among the others who assisted
Michael Collins
in
his Intelligence
were
Michael Mac Donnell,
Tom Keogh, Ben Barret,
Edward Byrne, Vincent
Byrne, James Conroy,
Frank Conroy, Patrick Daly
/ Padraig Ua Dalaig, Sean Doyle,
Patrick Griffin, Joseph Leonard, Michael
Reilly, and
James Slattery / Seamus Ua
Slatraigh, while Kathleen Doyle from the women's organization of
Cumann na mBan
assisted in
obtaining "arms" in England
for
the Irish Volunteers
/ I.R.A. Michael Collins was also protected by the "12 Apostles,"
who were used to great effect, especially on one occasion, when
2 of the Dublin Castle's
"Auxiliaries"
stopped him in the
street and intended to take him in, but he told them to look about and on
seeing the "12 Apostles"
in
various areas surrounding them they decided to leave well enough alone.
Peadar Clancy's
shop was also a centre for the Irish
Volunteers / I.R.A. so it too was raided by the
British
Imperial Military Forces, and
Sean Treacy was to be "killed" along with several others, with
Joseph Vize, who was
now the
"Director of Purchasing"
being
captured also, but
Richard Mac Kee
was able to
escape, while
Sgt.
Roche from the
Dublin Castle's
R.I.C. continued to
"gloat" over the body of
Sean Treacy, much to the disgust of all those present, and
Michael Collins
hearing of
his sickening attitude had him taken care of.
Richard Mac Kee
who was the
"Director of
Training" with the
Dublin Irish Volunteers / I.R.A. also carried out a raid on the
"Post Office," where they were able to
seize all of the British Imperial Government's
Dublin Castle
correspondence.
Richard Mac Kee had previously been involved in producing the
"Irish Volunteer" newspaper,
An
tOglach / The Republic, which had since been taken over by
Joseph Cullen who was then to continue
with it's production until the "Anglo - Irish
Treaty" was to be produced. J.J.
"Ginger" O Connell was the "Assistant
Director of Training"
under him and he too produced articles for
An tOglach,
while Frank Thornton was the next in command to
Liam Tobin
and
Joseph
Cullen,
and was also a
member of the Staff.
Maurice Collins
also
allowed the Staff
to use his
premises as an office, and
Liam Devlin,
who had came
over from Glasgow in
Scotland, also allowed
Michael Collins
to
use his home.
Sean O Connell,
Claffey,
Daly,
Finnegan,
Patrick Dunne,
Quigley, Ambrose
and
Semple
also acted as "message" carriers
for the Irish Volunteers
/ I.R. Army throughout the
Irish
rail
system.
Sir
Hamar Greenwood
introduced
a Bill into the
British House of Commons at
Westminster in England, "For the Restoration of Order in Ireland,"
to
further increase the
numbers of the British Imperial Dublin Castle's "Black & Tans," and it also gave the
British Military more
powers
in
Ireland
by "abolishing" any
inquests
into "violent" deaths, which now allowed the
British Imperial Government Forces
to
really
"kill" anyone and everyone
in Ireland
with out requiring
any justification and
The British Imperial Forces now found the place where the "Irish Bulletin" newspaper was being printed in Molesworth Street in Dublin who throughout the whole turmoil had continued to report on the activities and published lists containing the names of the British Imperial Military Forces, their backgrounds, and their "crimes," which were circulated throughout the whole "World" so the British Coalition Government authorities in Dublin Castle then took it over and printed a "bogus" Irish Bulletin, sending them out all over the "World" also per the list they had found of previous recipients, but the original Irish Bulletin staff still continued to operate elsewhere, sending out the "proper" reports, which included the British Imperial Government's take over of the "Irish Bulletin" and of their "bogus" copy.
The "Special" Constabulary enrolment began in Ireland as the "Official" Unionist Orangemen were "armed" in the north - east of the Ulster Province by the British Imperial Government, and enrolled as "Specials" and British Imperial Government Martial Law was declared in Co. Cork, Co. Kerry, Co. Limerick and Co. Tipperary in the Munster Province. and in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, while the other western regions of Ireland, where there had been little Irish resistance before this date was now to also see a new "reign of terror" carried out there by the British Imperial Military Forces who were to remove the inhabitants from their "homes" at night, and beat them up, while telling them to leave the area or be "shot dead."