1939 AD - 2 / July - December 

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 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. 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 were seized.    

July 26th: The IRA bombed both King's Cross and Victoria stations in London and Eamonn de Valera the Prime Minister of Eire / Ireland informed the IRA that they were making no allowance for the changed circumstances in Ireland. July 27th: 3 more bombs were set off in Liverpool and other areas. July 28th: 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: The 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: The 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, and prisoners in the Dartmoor Prison were to attack the IRA prisoners there. August 8th: The Eire Government recalled Charles Bewley 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 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 in the Ulster Province that were still under the control of  the British Imperial Government or exploit the 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 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 IRA members were arrested in Britain.

October: The Times newspaper in England noted that there was already many Irish names in the War casualties. - The British Imperial Government requested the use of the Irish Naval Base at Berehaven in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, but the Dail Eireann refused on the grounds it would annul their neutrality, but if they were to consider the removal of the artificial border partition 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 IRA prisoners held in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin tried unsuccessfully to escape by bombing the walls. October 23rd: Patrick Mac Grath and some other IRA prisoners in Mountjoy Jail went on a hunger strike and the 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 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 the 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 decided to establish a small Navy to assist the coast watchers.

December 2nd: The IRA prisoners in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin began a second hunger strike against their detention. December 11th: 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. They all pleaded, not guilty, but James Richards and Peter Barnes were sentenced to death, which set off further 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 IRA were blamed for raiding the Phoenix Park army magazine in Dublin in Eire 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 IRA, or it was due to the discontinuation of shipping directly from America to Ireland, which restricted the IRA's opportunity to obtain arms and money to carry on with their campaigns. Gerald Boland the Minister for Justice in the Eire Government had 70 suspected IRA members arrested, but they were all released by the Irish Court as he had contravened the Irish Constitution. December 24th: The 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. December 25th: 60 IRA prisoners in the Derry Prison in the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province 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 discovered and seized the 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 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 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 the mother of Sean Mac Bride. He was also involved with Lady Gregory in the founding of a national drama group at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1904, which he continued to manage until his death. He married Georgie Hyde - Lees in 1917 who was a psychic, which had an effect on his literary work. He was 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 was buried 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 in the Ulster Province and still controlled by the British Imperial Government and the "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 them.  

1939 - 1945 The 2nd World War - 140,000 joined the British Imperial Army from the 26 Counties in Eire. 

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