1940 AD - 2 / April to June
April:
In the
Irish Republic / Eire,
David Gray,
a relative of
President
Roosevelt,
was
appointed the American Ambassador to
Ireland, and was to prove anti
- Irish Government and pro -
British Imperial Government, and he was to be not very discreet
in his endeavours, which often back fired on him.
April 6th:
Sean Russell
the previous leader of the anti - Treaty IRA, was to leave
America by this date, as his bail
was to expire on
16th April.
April:
Ernst Weber - Drohl
/ Atlas the Strong,
who had been sent by the Germans
to
encourage the IRA to attack British
Imperial Military targets instead of trying to re - unite the
32 Counties of
Ireland, was
arrested in the Irish Republic as a foreign alien, but
he was allowed to carry
on his stay in Ireland,
although he was fined
3
pounds, because his story that he was seeking to find his
2 sons
from an Irish
girl checked out.
Eamonn de Valera,
the Irish Prime Minister, banned the Memorial Service
to commemorate the 1916
Easter Rising,
for the first time ever,
and instead on
Easter Sunday
he
decided to lay
wreaths at the cemetery at
Arbour Hill Prison on the graves of those
shot by the British Imperial Government
after the 1916 Rising,
which was
also attended by
Philomena Plunkett, the
daughter of
Count
Plunkett,
a
sister to
Joseph Plunkett, who was one of the
15
Irishmen who
were shot in cold blood after the
Rising in their struggle for
Irish Independence.
She also had another of her brothers,
Jack Plunkett who was presently on a hunger strike
in Mountjoy Prison with
5 other
IRA members,
and she
heaped abuse on
Eamonn de Valera
as a traitor to the cause of a
United
Ireland.
April 16th:
Tony Darcy,
who was also on the Hunger Strike
in Mountjoy Jail,
died.
April 20th:
Oscar Pfaus,
the original
German agent, who was now back in
Germany, was visited by
Stephen Held who was
of
German heritage
who produced the other torn half
of the One Pound Note,
as originally devised by
Seamus Donovan
way back in February
1939, to prove his credentials. He had been sent by
Stephen Hayes
who was now the Chief of Staff
of the anti - Treaty
IRA, to request a German
Officer be sent to
Ireland
to liaise with them.
April 25th:In
the
Irish Republic,
the
anti - Treaty IRA
blew up a section of
Dublin Castle, were the
Irish Garda
police had their
headquarters, and
6 people were injured.
April 27th:
In the
Irish Republic,
the Fianna Fail
Government under Eamonn de Valera, now
interred
Ernst Weber - Drohl / Atlas the Strong,
who was to eventually regain his freedom and remain
in Ireland
for a year, trying
once again,
to get his strong act off the ground, and the
German Foreign
Office now also warned their army staff, not to
become involved with the
IRA anymore, as this would lead to friction with the
Dail
Eireann / Irish Assembly.
May 1st:
Sean Russell
the previous leader of the anti - Treaty IRA, who had
by now left America, arrived in
Genoa travelling as a fireman on an
American Liner,
the
Washington, under an alias, where he was given a
German passport.
May
3rd: Sean Russell
made it to
Germany.
May 5th: In the Irish Republic, the Irish Fianna Fail Government under Eamonn de Valera, in an endeavour to destabilize the anti - Treaty IRA further, now recruited 133,000 Irishmen to join the local Defence Forces, in case Ireland was invaded, and there was now basically no roll for the IRA in Erie.
Captain
Hermann Goertz,
the
German contact, previously made by Francis Stuart in Germany for the
IRA,
flew to
Ireland, and parachuted out in
Co. Meath in the south of
Northern Leinster, although he had really intended to land
further north into
Co. Tyrone
one of the 6 Counties artificially
partitioned
from the 9 in the Ulster Province.
Losing his radio, during his landing, he
decided to head further south into
Co. Wicklow instead, into the south - east of
Southern Leinster, to seek out
Mrs.
Francis Stuart
at Laragh Castle,
and
was carrying English Pounds
and American Dollars
for the
IRA. After
4 days
of walking for 70 miles, with no food, he reached
Laragh Castle, were he was accommodated
by Iseult Stuart and her mother, Maude Gonne, who also purchased clothes for him
in Dublin to wear, so that he would not stand out from the crowd in
Ireland. He was to be picked up by
Seamus O Donovan the next day, who took
him to
Dublin, and
3 days
later he
was visited by a radio operator from
Belfast in Co. Antrim, who was not connected with the
IRA, and he then met with
Stephen Hayes
the Chief of Staff
of the
IRA 3 days
later. He was
taken away by the IRA
to stay
with his compatriot,
Stephen Held, who was also of
German descent, who was now
back in
Ireland.
May 7th:
In the
Irish Republic,
the Irish Garda Police, who were
delivering mail to the British
Imperial Government representative,
Sir
John Maffey, were attacked by the
IRA and wounded, and the
Irish Government
under
Eamonn de Valera, fearing an outbreak of
Civil War,
offered
5,000 pounds reward for any information leading to their capture.
Captain
Hermann Goertz,
the
recently arrived German agent, met with
Stephen Hayes
the Chief of Staff of the IRA again, and demanded that he order the
IRA to stop
attacking the
Irish Government
and carrying out raids in
Eire, and tried to convince him that
the IRA was only benefiting
the British Imperial Government
by
their actions. He further advised him to concentrate their efforts on the
6 Counties artificially
partitioned from the
9 in the Ulster
Province, who were still under
British Imperial Government
control.
May 10th: In
the
Irish Republic,
Eamonn de Valera,
was personally upset by the German
takeover of Belgium
and
Holland, and said so publicly, although he had
said nothing previously when they captured
Denmark
and Norway,
and he told the
Irish people it was time to take the
War
seriously and realise that the people of
Ireland
were in
danger. May
16th: The
Germans, were not pleased with
Eamonn de Valera's
outburst regarding their invasion of
Belgium and Holland,
and
they advised their Ambassador
to tell him so.
In the 6
Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province
and still under
British Imperial Government
control they
placed
a 6,000
tonne ship there in
Lough Neagh
to house the IRA
prisoners
there, while the Irish Government
had
also set up an Internment
Camp at the
Curragh in Co.
Kildare in Central Southern Leinster.
May 22nd:
In the
Irish Republic,
the
Irish
Civic Guard, raided
Stephen Held's home, and discovered all of
Captain
Goertz's
incriminating
material left there for safekeeping, together with
20,000
American Dollars, and
Stephen Held's
excuse was
that he was unaware of it all, and
advised them he was only renting the room to a stranger, named
Brandy.
June:
Winston Spencer Churchill,
was now in as the
British
Conservative Coalition
Prime Minister until 1945,
as
Neville Chamberlain
the National Coalition Prime Minister had
resigned, but was still in the
Cabinet, and knowing Winston
Churchill's Conservative disposition,
Eammon de Valera was now even more
wary of a British Imperial Government
invasion of Ireland.
In the
Irish Republic,
the German
Government's spy operations network sent over
another of their agents in the form of
Willy Prietz / Paddy Mitchell,
who they landed
at Dingle Bay in
Co. Cork in Southern Munster,
from a
U Boat, and he made his way north to
Dublin in
Co. Dublin in the north
- east of Southern Leinster,
were he rented a shop there, and immediately began
transmitting messages to
Germany every night for weeks, until he was also caught
and put in
Mountjoy Jail in Dublin.
June:
Thomas Mac Curtain,
was sentenced to death for shooting a
detective in Cork in
Co. Cork in Southern Munster,
but was reprieved by
Eammon de Valera.
June 12th: Neville Chamberlain, acting as a proxy for Winston Churchill the new British National Coalition Prime Minister, wrote to Eammon de Valera wanting to hold a combined meeting of the "Official" Unionist Stormont Government in the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, the Government of Ireland, himself, and the Dominion Secretary.
June 13th:
In the
Irish Republic,
the German Government sent another of their agents to
Ireland,
known as
Walter Simon
/ Karl Anderson,
who made his way to Tralee
in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the
Munster Province, were he caught a train north to
Dublin,
under the observation of
3 Detectives, and was arrested on arrival in
Dublin,
where he was charged, and also put in
to Mountjoy
Jail, and where he was acknowledged and personally greeted warmly by
Willy Prietz,
much to his disgust.
June 20th:
Eduard Hemple
the German Ambassador, met with
Eammon de Valera, as the
British Imperial
Government forces had been driven out of Norway, the Low
Countries and France,
while Italy
had now joined in with the Germans,
and everything seemed to be going their way, and Eamonn de Valera
sought and received
an assurance from him that
Ireland
would not be used for an attack on
England.
June 25th: France
was now to succumb to the
German advance, and they were now face to face
with the British
Imperial Government, across the
English Channel.
June 26th: The British Imperial Government, under Winston Churchill the Conservative Coalition Prime Minister, was trying to form a Defence Council of Britain, that would include the Irish Government, and the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, but could not get it off the ground, due to the intransigence of James Craig / Lord Craigavon the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Prime Minister in the 6 Counties, who wanted, "No discussion on Political Unity." To this end Malcolm Mac Donald acting for the British Imperial Government, arrived in Dublin, and put forward the following proposals; "A Declaration by the United Kingdom Government for a United Ireland in principle, A joint body of Eire and the Stormont Government, Joint Defence Council of Eire and the Stormont Government, Eire to enter the War on the Allied side, and British Military forces to be invited into Ireland, All German and Italian aliens to be interned, with the United Kingdom to provide all Military equipment." Eammon de Valera said "No," which was based on the first item only of a United Ireland, and reminded him of John Redmond's struggle with Irish Home Rule, and if the British Imperial Government wanted any of the others, then Irish Unity must be now, with no turning back or broken promises as before, but Ireland would still remain neutral.
June 26th: Stephen Held was found guilty and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment, and Mrs. Iseult Stuart, from Laragh Castle in Co. Wicklow in the south - east of Southern Leinster was also arrested on the possibility of her purchasing the clothes for Hermann Goertz / Brandy in the first instance. Captain Hermann Goertz, was now on his own, with no where else to go, and was abandoned by the IRA, who he also felt that he was well rid of, with his only other contact in Ireland being Mrs. Stuart herself. He arrived once more at Laragh were he found the old Republican stalwart, Helena Moloney, looking after the place, and was told of Mrs. Stuart's previous arrest, and he hid out in the Wicklow Hills, until he was picked up and taken to Dublin, and kept away from any contact with the IRA, who now had no chance of any agreement with the Irish Government.
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