1940 AD - 3 / July to September

                                                                                                                                                "German Invasion Planned."

1940 AD July - September: During this period in time, the Battle of Britain took place.

July 1st:  Mrs. Iseult Stuart was found "not guilty" of any wrong doing, and Frederick Boland from the Eire Department of External Affairs, asked the German Ambassador for an "explanation" of the whole affair, as he was concerned that the British Imperial Government under Winston Churchill and the American Government would use it to their "advantage" and the German Foreign Office advised their Ambassador in Ireland that they "proposed" to send no further "agents" to Ireland for the present.  

July 10th: The British Imperial Government Ministry, advised the Dail Eireann / Irish Parliament that there was "previously" supposed to have been a German Invasion of Ireland on 4th July, but it was called off.

July 14th:  Sir John Maffey, the British Imperial Government representative, told Eammon de Valera in Eire that the proposed German Invasion of Ireland was to now occur the next day on the 15th July, and the Irish "Opposition" leader, William T. Cosgrave the leader of the Fine Gael Party, asked him to include the Irish "Opposition" in what was really going on.

July 15th: Frank Ryan, the 38 year old socialist, who was the Irish Republican Congress Party leader, who had fought for the Republicans in Spain, was still being held by the Fascist General Franco in Spain, and he was now turned over to the Germans secretly by the means of a farce escape attempt at the Spanish frontier and he was then taken onto Paris for repatriation, as he was now very "ill" and thin, and from there he went to Berlin were he saw Sean Russell, the previous leader of the "Anti - Treaty IRA," who warmly embraced him, and told him that he would take him with him back to Eire. A German friend of his, had pointed out to the hierarchy, what a good public relations exercise it would be, especially in relations with Ireland, if he could be returned to Ireland as a result of German efforts as Eamonn de Valera had agreed to his "release" and return to Ireland, as he had previously appealed to Franco personally on his behalf, as one Catholic leader to another, and at that time his release was "not" obtained, but his Death Sentence was reduced to Life Imprisonment.

       J.P. Walshe, the Irish Secretary of External Affairs, protested to Sir John Maffey the British Imperial Government representative in Ireland, about the "anti - Irish" propaganda being carried out in Britain, from where it was then filtered on into America, and he reminded him of a British officer who was carrying out "subversive" activities on the Dail Eireann / Irish Parliament members, trying to get them to drop Irish "neutrality," which they had let slide and he passed it onto the British Minister of Information, who pleaded innocent, but matters "improved" after that.

July 18th:Against their previous commitment the German spy agency landed another 3 of their "agents" in Ireland, 1 of which was an Indian, who were soon picked up "walking" along a country road in Eire, who informed the Irish authorities, that they had "no idea" why they had been sent to Ireland.

August 15th: Sean Russell, the previous "Anti - Treaty IRA" leader, who was now only 47 year of age, was on board a German U Boat on his way back to Ireland, when he died, with a burst stomach ulcer, and was buried at sea 100 mile out from Galway Bay, and his compatriot Frank Ryan was then "returned" to Germany.   

     Captain Hermann Goertz, the German agent who was now known as Mr. Robinson, was still at large, staying with and being looked after by a group of Old Republican "ladies" from the 1916 Irish Easter Rising under the auspices of Miss Coffey at Dun Laoghaire near Dublin, and he was conveyed around by Miss Maisie O Mahoney, and also assisted by Mary and Bridie Farrell, and Caitlin Brugha, the widow of Cathal Brugha the Old Republican killed in the Irish "Civil War" and he was also being visited daily by Seamus / James O Donovan and  Mrs. Daly, also bought him back a new code via "Spain," and channelled his reports back through Spain for him.

August 16th: 2 Detectives were "killed" while trying to arrest Patrick Mac Grath and Tom Harte in a Dublin shop in Eire, run by the "Anti - Treaty IRA" as their training centre headquarters, and they were to eventually be "executed" for their involvement in the crime.

August 17th: Eduard Hemple, the German Ambassador, advised that the seas around Britain and the Irish Sea were to be "blockaded" by the German Government, in which no Irish Ships were to enter, only at their "own risk."

August 22nd: Tom Hunt, an "Anti  Treaty IRA" member, was also "arrested" this month in Eire, and along with Patrick Mac Grath and Tom Harte they were all sentenced to "death," which "upset" the general Irish population.

September 27th  Eammon de Valera, made an offer to Sir John Maffey the British Imperial Government representative, that Eire / Ireland would take the "women and children" from any of the "Air Raid" areas in Britain.

    Michael Devereux, who was an "Anti - Treaty IRA" officer, was accused by members of the "Anti - Treaty IRA" as being a "traitor," and he was "assassinated," and his body disposed of in a cave in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province.

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