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Vol. Ill, No. 1
JANUARY, 1941
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De VALERA MURDERS PRISONERS!
TWO PRISONERS IN CURRAGH CONCENTRATION
CAMP SHOT
DUBLIN—Following upon
the expose in the November
IRISH REPUBLIC of the terrible conditions in the Free
State Concentration Camps, but especially in the Curragh,
comes the news that two prisoners there were shot by the
Free State military who have
wire and machine gun posts.
Prisoners in the Curragh have been
suffering extreme deprivations. They
are poorly fed and lack sufficient
clothing to protect themselves from the
cold weather.
(Just after Christmas a bundle was received
from a Chicago reader of the Irish Republic,
containing three Army blankets and two over-
coats, These were distributed among the sick
prisoners but five articles of clothing could
not go far among so many hundreds in this
one camp.)
Unable any longer to withstand the
harsh treatment, the prisoners protest-
ed and, within their barbed wire en-
closure, organized a demonstration
against the inhuman conduct of the
Free State authorities toward political
prisoners. The military fired with
machine guns over the heads of the
prisoners and under threat of firing
into their ranks dispersed the crowd of
prisoners,
The following week (December 16th)
bitter protests were made when the
starvation rations were reduced even
further, On this occasion the military
brutally fired upon the prisoners, Sev-
eral were injured and one killed out-
right. They are still in a eritical con-
ringed the Camp with barbed
dition and may not survive. None of
these men has any charge preferred
against him. The only reason given by
the Free State for their detention is
that they are SUSPECTED of being
members of the Irish Republican Army
whose members are pledged to drive
England out of Ireland and restore the
Irish Republic. (For the benefit of those
who may not have seen the November
issue we reprint below the salient part
of a report printed therein on the con-
dition of political prisoners in the Cur-
ragh Concentration Camp.)
a (FROM NOVEMBER ISSUE)
DUBLIN—Shocking details of the barbarous
attitude of the Free State Government toward
the thousands of Republican prisoners have
just come to public attention through the hos-
pitalization of two men who were suffering
from malnutrition and exposure . . . Prisoners
of the Curragh are deprived of all communica-
tion with the outside. They are not allowed to
receive packages or mail as are the prisoners
in Dublin and Cork gaols. They are not per-
mitted to have visitors. They are packed into
crowded quarters with the poorest sanitary con-
veniences. They are badly and inadequately
fed... There is not sufficient clothing to go
around and je from two men recently hos-
e suffering from the cold
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pitalized, o
damp nights.’
THOSE BOMBS
It will take a lot of evidence to con-
vince readers of the IRISIT REPUBLIC
that the Treland
was not done by England
So far as we know, Germany has no
reason to bomb Ireland. If she had any
intention of doing so, why would she
not strike at the Belfast Port with the
rich prize of British ships there?
England has repeatedly said that her
shipping losses are not as great as in
1917: yet in 1917 she was in possession
of the Irish ports! Is she bombing Tre-
land now, not for the ports, but to get
Treland’s manhood into the war?
Why talk of hypothetical invasions
of Ireland while an invader is still pre-
sent on Irish soil?
recent bombing in
CENSORS ROBBING MAILS?
DUBLIN.—Complaints have been re-
ceived by the Free State Government
that the censors are pilfering money
from the mails. Many old people here
who were accustomed to receiving re-
mittances from their sons and daughters
in America have told of receiving no
mail for months at a time and then re-
ceiving a letter from a son or a daugh-
ter asking about the cash sent in a pre-
vious letter. The only conclusion is that
the censors at Bermuda and elsewhere
are growing rich as happened in the
last war.
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JANUARY — 24 MONTHS AGO
This month is the second anniversary
of the ultimatum served by the LR.A.
upon England’s Foreign Secretary on
January 12th, 1939. It is a month where-
in we pledge ourselves anew to support
Ireland’s right to be free. The very
manner in which the I.R.A. served Eng-
land with the ultimatum wa’
ant. Whereas deValera conducts all his
business through the Dominions Seere-
tary in London, the LR.A. went direet-
ly to the Foreign Secretary through
whom INDEPENDENT countries con-
duet their business.
signifie-
In that ultimatum Ireland made only
one demand. She didn’t ask for colon-
ies, or world trade, or gold, or anything
that didn’t belong to her by justice.
Ireland asked only for the right to live
her own life unhampered by Engiand.
Treland asked simply for freedoni.
“Who sups with the devil needy a
long spoon’? and from Ireland’s past
experience with England the LR.A.
realized that England will never grant
Ireland independence. Ireland can re-
cover her independence only by wrest-
ling it from England. Accordingly the
ultimatum carried a four day time lim-
it within which the English might sig-
nify their intentions.
England ignored the ultimatum; and
four days later, precisely ag the ulti-
matum expired, England quivered be-
neath the blows of the Irish Republie-
an Army Expeditionary Force.
News of greater frightfulness has
conspired with English censorship to
drive all accounts of LR.A. activities out
of the news, but from that day until
this, the Expeditionary Force of the
LR.A, has relentlessly pursued its blood-
less warfare in England, and will con-
tinue to do so until the “Champion of
small Nations’’ recognizes the basie and
necessary justice of Ireland’s claims to
independence.
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