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April: In the Irish Republic, David Gray, a relative of President Roosevelt, was appointed the American Ambassador to Ireland, and was to prove anti - Irish Government and pro - British 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 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 Irish men who were shot in cold blood after the Rising in their struggle for Irish Independence. She also had another of her brothers, presently on a hunger strike in Mountjoy Prison, namely Jack Plunkett, who was on a Hunger Strike there 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 on the Hunger Strike in Mountjoy Jail, died. April 19th: Jack / Sean Mac Neela, another of the Hunger strikers in Mountjoy Jail, died, as the Strike was called off.

April 20th: Oscar Pfaus, the original German agent, who was now back in Germany, was visited by Stephen Held an Irish man of German heritage, sent by the IRA, and he produced his torn half of the One Pound Note, as originally devised by Seamus Donovan way back in February, 1939, to prove his credentials, and had been sent by Stephen Hayes now the Chief of Staff of the 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, but eventually he regained his freedom and remained 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 escaped from 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 Irish men 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 Meath in the south of Northern Leinster, although he had really intended to land further north into Co. Tyrone in 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, also of German descent, who was also now back in Ireland.

May 7th: 2 In the Irish Republic, the Irish Garda Police, who were delivering mail to the British 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 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 Government control. The Irish Fianna Fail Government, meanwhile had made contact through a priest, Father O Hara, to bring about a collaboration of the IRA and the Irish Government's Army, to strengthen the defences of Ireland, and Captain Hermann Goertz advised him to co - operate with them in the overall interests of Ireland.

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 Government control they placed a 6,000 tonne ship 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. May 24th: Stephen Held, was charged under the Emergency Powers Act, as the Irish Guards also found plans in his house to overthrow the Irish Government, so Eammon de Valera sought assurances from the German Ambassador that Germany would not invade Ireland.

June: Winston Spencer Churchill, was now in as the British Prime Minister, as Neville Chamberlain had resigned, but was still in the Cabinet, and knowing Winston Churchill's disposition, Eammon de Valera was now even more wary of a British 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 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, wrote to Eammon de Valera wanting to hold a 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 greeted warmly by Willy Prietz, much to his disgust.

June 20th: Eduard Hemple, the German Ambassador, met with Eammon de Valera, as the British Government forces had been forced out of Norway, the Low Countries and France, while Italy had joined in with the Germans, and everything seemed to be going their way and Eamonn de Valera received an assurance from him that Ireland would not be used for an attack on England.

June 25th: France was to succumb to the German advance, and they were now face to face with the British Government, across the English Channel.

June 26th: The British Government, 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, 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 Forces to be invited into Ireland, All German and Italian aliens to be interned, United Kingdom to provide all Military Equipment." Eammon de Valera said "No," which was based on the first item only, and reminded him of John Redmond's struggle with Irish Home Rule, and if the British 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.

+On to 1940 / 3 - July to September

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