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Doc # 381: Memo re bombings at Donore Avenue, South Circular Road, Dublin and Ballymurrin, Co. Wexford 3 Jan. 1941. The Germans paid compensation for damaging a nearby Synagogue.


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Doc # 372: Request by German ambassador to land extra legation staff at Shannon (then called Rynanna). Turned out to be spies, refused entry.

-3Doc # 119: Enclosing draft of De Valera to Chamberlain re the proposed execution of two IRA bombers in London – the executions were carried out on February 7, 1940.

Among many hundreds available to PERUSE today.

Conor Mulvagh, of the Royal Irish Academy writes:

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Volume 6 (1939-41) is live online to browse from today The volume shows why neutrality was Ireland’s only option in the conflict and how Anglo-Irish relations were closer than one might expect during the emergency.

 

Hmm.

FIGHT!

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Volume 6

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