1939 AD - 2 / July - December
"Eire Remaind Neutral."
1939 AD July 24th:
Sir
Samuel Hoare
the
British National Coalition Home Secretary
in the British House of Commons
put forward the
"Prevention of
Violence Bill" to stop the
"Anti - Treaty IRA"
actions by "preventing"
Irish
"immigration" and wanted to "deport" aliens and for
all the
Irish
to be "compelled" to
"register" with the British
Imperial Government
police, and he
reported that there had been
127 bombings
with
57
in
London alone and
70
in other areas with
one person
"dead" and
55
injured since
"January," and
66
persons
were "convicted" and
55
sticks of dynamite,
1000
detonators,
2
ton of
Potassium Chlorate
and
Oxide of Iron,
7 gallons
of
Sulphuric Acid
and
4 hundredweight
of
Aluminium Powder had been
"seized. "
July 26th:
In England the "Anti - Treaty
IRA"
bombed both
King's Cross
and
Victoria stations in London
July 27th:
In England 3 more bombs
were set off in
Liverpool
and other areas.
July 28th:
In England the
"Prevention of Violence Bill"
was
passed in the
British House of
Commons and many
Irish
citizens "left"
England
for
Ireland
while
12
people from the
Irish
area
in
Glasgow in
Scotland
were "arrested.
August 3rd:
In England the
"Anti - Treaty
IRA"
stated it would "continue"
the "bombings" for another
2 1/2
years,
and further spasmodic attacks
occurred in
Liverpool. Blackpool
and
Coventry
over the next
few weeks with many being "arrested" and many" returning" to
Ireland.
August 5th:
In England the "Anti - Treaty
IRA"
bomb being
carried by a courier went off "prematurely"
in
Coventry in
England
were
5
civilians were "killed"
and
50
were "wounded," which had meant
that any chance of talks on "re - unification" at this stage were ended,
August 8th:
The
Eire
/ Irish Government
recalled
Charles Bewley
who had been their
representative in
Berlin.
August 23rd: Seamus O Donovan returned for a third discussion to Germany were he and his wife received some "rough treatment" from the German Customs and he became "offside" with the Germans and basically all he received from them was the code word "Houses of Parliament " for radio transmission.
August 31st:
With
"War"
pending
between the
British
Imperial Government and
Germany
under Adolph Hitler
the
Irish
Prime Minister Eamonn de Valera
called in
Dr.
Eduard Hempel
the
German Ambassador
in
Eire and informed him
that
Ireland
was to remain
"neutral" and that
Germany was
not to
"violate"
Ireland's
territorial
waters, take action against the
6
Counties
"artificially partitioned"
from the
9
Counties
in the
Ulster
Province
that were still
under the overall control of the British Imperial Government
or
exploit the "Anti - Treaty
IRA"
or take any
action to interfere with
Irish
"neutrality."
September 1st:
The
German Government
invaded
Poland
and the
"2nd World War"
began.
Eamonn de Valera the Prime Minister of Eire sent J.P. Walshe the Irish Secretary of External Affairs to see Neville Chamberlain the British National Coalition Prime Minister about "appointing" someone from Britain to represent them in Ireland and he was send over Sir John Maffey as a "representative" only.
September 2nd:
Eamonn de Valera
called an
emergency session of the
Dail Eireann
/ Irish Assembly
to confirm that
Eire /
Ireland
would remain "neutral" and sought recognition from
the
British
Imperial Government that
Ireland
was not to be "invaded," but
it was "never" to be given.
September 3rd:
The
British Imperial
Government
declared "War"
on
Germany
and over
100
"Anti - Treaty IRA"
members
were further "arrested" in Britain.
October: In England the Times newspaper noted that there was already many Irish names in the "War" casualties.
The British Imperial Coalition Government requested the use of the Irish Naval Base at Berehaven in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, but the Dail Eireann / Irish Parliament "refused" on the grounds it would annul their "neutrality," but if they were to consider the "removal" of the "artificial border partition" in the Ulster Province that they had set up to "divide" Ireland then they might be able to come to some "agreement."
Eduard Hempel the German Ambassador in Dublin, reported back to Von Ribbentrop and the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin that there was "anti - German" feeling in Ireland over the takeover of Catholic Poland and he informed him not to "interfere" in Ireland and thereby cause any means of effecting their "neutrality."
October
22nd:
The "Anti - Treaty
IRA"
prisoners
held in Mountjoy Jail
in
Dublin
in
Ireland tried
unsuccessfully to escape by bombing the walls.
October 23rd: Patrick Mac Grath and some other "Anti - Treaty IRA" prisoners in Mountjoy Jail went on a "hunger strike" and the Irish Labour Party asked Eamonn de Valera to let them go, but he would "not relent" until he was taken really ill himself and told he was going to die and he relented.
October 29th:
The "Anti - Treaty IRA"
finally got off a
message by radio to
Germany to
obtain a supply of "arms" and
Eduard Hempel
the
German Ambassador
informed the
German Foreign Ministry
under
Von Ribbentrop again
not to get
"involved" with them, and not to distribute any
pro - German
propaganda in
Ireland
as it would create
ill - feeling, but the German agent,
Oscar Pfaus
disregarded his
advice.
November: Sir John Maffey a retired British Diplomat was appointed the British Imperial Government's "representative" only in Eire / Ireland but was to carry out his mission with great decorum and sensibility and Irish Shipping was transferred to Britain for the cartage of feed stuffs and fertilizer to Ireland and cattle and produce back to Britain under an "agreement."
The
Dail Eireann / Irish Parliament
decided to establish a small
"Navy"
to assist the coast watchers.
December 2nd: The "Anti - Treaty IRA" prisoners in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin in Ireland began a second "hunger strike" against their detention.
December 11th:In England
3 men
and
2
women
were "charged"
with the "bombing" at
Coventry
including
Joseph Hewitt, James
Richards, May Hewitt,
Brigid O Hara and
Peter Barnes and they all pleaded,
"not guilty," but
James Richards
and
Peter Barnes
were sentenced to
"death," which set off
further "Anti - Treaty IRA"
attacks all over
England.
December 16th: Eduard Hempel the German Ambassador, advised the German Foreign Office again, that "propaganda" material being sent to Ireland could "upset" the Irish Nationalists and bring about the loss of Ireland's "neutrality. "
December 23rd: The "Anti - Treaty IRA" were blamed for raiding the Phoenix Park army magazine in Dublin in Eire / Ireland where they made off with 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition in 13 trucks without any casualties, and various theories were put forward to the cause of the raid, including it was actually an Irish Government attempt to discredit the "Anti - Treaty IRA," or it was due to the discontinuation of shipping directly from America to Ireland, which restricted the "Anti - Treaty IRA's" opportunity to obtain "arms" and money to carry on with their campaigns. Gerald Boland the Minister for Justice in the Eire / Irish Fianna Fail Government had 70 suspected "Anti - Treaty IRA" members "arrested," but they were all released by the Irish Court as he had contravened the Irish Constitution.
December 24th: The "Anti - Treaty IRA" sent their last message to Germany about the raid on the Phoenix Park armoury, but the Germans were not impressed as they wanted them to carry out "raids" on the British Imperial Military Forces.
December 25th:
60 "Anti - Treaty IRA"
prisoners in the
Derry Prison
in the
6 Counties
"artificially partitioned" from the
9 Counties
in the
Ulster Province
still under the overall control of the British Imperial Government and the
Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government at Stormont gained
control of the jail there for
5 hours,
singing
Irish
songs and
shouting abuse at their captors.
December 29th:
The
Garda
/ Irish
police in
Eire / Ireland
discovered and seized the "Anti - Treaty
IRA"
radio transmitter, which was also being used for their own local propaganda
consumption broadcasts, which had enabled it to be "tracked.
Sean O Kelly was to be the Minister for Finance in the Dail Eireann / Irish Parliament until 1945 and Frank Aiken to be the Coordinator of Defence until 1945.
John Whelan Dulanty was still the Irish High Commissioner in England.
The Clann na Gael / The Organization in America was to be put out of business by the F.B.I there until 1946.
Denis Ireland a "Presbyterian" founded the Irish Union Movement.
William Butler Yeats the poet and dramatist, died in France, who had been born in 1865 in Dublin, and was a spokesman for Irish Nationalism due to being enamoured with the Irish activist Maude Gonne Mac Bride the the wife of John Mac Bride and the mother of Sean Mac Bride, and with Lady Gregory he had founded a national drama group at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1904, which he continued to manage until his death and had married Georgie Hyde - Lees in 1917 who was a psychic, which had an effect on his literary work. He was also a member of the Irish Senate from 1922 - 1928 and was also awarded the "Nobel Prize" for Literature in 1923 as possibly Ireland's best lyric poet, and he was interred beneath Ben Bulben at Drumcliff in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province.
In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province by the British Imperial Coalition Government and and still under their overall controll and that of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government, the "Industries" there were being stimulated by the "War" with Germany and were also monetarily balanced by the British National Coalition Government to sustain their "viability."
1939 - 1945 During
the "2nd World War" 140,000 joined the
British Imperial Army from the 26
Counties in Eire.