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July 1st: In the Irish Republic, Mrs. Iseult Stuart, was found not guilty of any wrong doing, and Frederick Boland from the Department of External Affairs, asked the German Ambassador for an explanation of the whole affair, as he was frightened the British Government and America would use it to their advantage, and the German Foreign Office advised their Ambassador, that they proposed to send no further agents to Ireland for the present.

July 10th: The British Government Ministry, advised the Dail Eireann / Irish Parliament that there was previously supposed to have been a German Invasion of Ireland on 4th July, but it was called off.

July 14th: In the Irish Republic, Sir John Maffey, the British Government representative, told Eammon de Valera that the proposed German Invasion of Ireland, was now to occur the next day on the 15th July, and the Opposition leader, William T. Cosgrave the leader of the Fine Gael Party, asked him to include the Irish Opposition in what was really going on.

July 15th: Frank Ryan, the 38 year old socialist, who was the Irish Republican Congress leader, who had fought for the Republicans in Spain, was still being held by the Fascist General Franco in Spain, and he was now turned over to the Germans secretly, by the means of a farce escape attempt at the Spanish frontier, then taken onto Paris for repatriation as he was now very ill and thin, and from there he went to Berlin were he saw Sean Russell, the previous leader of the IRA, who warmly embraced him, and told him that he would take him with him back to Eire. A German friend of his, had pointed out to the hierarchy, what a good public relations exercise it would be, especially in relations with Ireland, if he could be returned to Ireland as a result of of German efforts. Eamonn de Valera had agreed to his release and return to Ireland, as he had previously appealed to Franco personally on his behalf, as one Catholic leader to another, and at that time his release was not obtained, but his Death Sentence was reduced to Life Imprisonment.

J.P. Walshe, the Irish Secretary of External Affairs, protested to Sir John Maffey the British Government representative in Ireland, about the anti - Irish propaganda being carried out in Britain, from where it was then filtered on into America, and he reminded him of a British officer who was carrying out subversive activities on the Dail Eireann / Irish Parliament members, trying to get them to drop Irish neutrality, which they had let slide. He passed it onto the British Minister of Information, who pleaded innocent, but matters improved somewhat after that.

July 18th: In the Irish Republic, against their previous resolve, the German spy agency landed another 3 of their agents in Ireland, 1 of which was an Indian, who were soon picked up walking along a country road, who informed the Irish authorities, that they had no idea why they had been sent.

August 15th: Sean Russell, the previous IRA leader, who was now only 47 year of age, was on board a German U Boat on his way back to Ireland, and he died, with a burst stomach ulcer, and was buried at sea 100 mile out from Galway Bay, and Frank Ryan was then returned to Germany.

Captain Hermann Goertz, the German agent now known as Mr. Robinson, was still at large, staying with and being looked after by a group of Old Republican ladies from the 1916 Easter Rising, Miss Coffey at Dun Laoghaire near Dublin, and he was conveyed around by Miss Maisie O Mahoney, and also assisted by Mary and Bridie Farrell, and Caitlin Brugha, the widow of Cathal Brugha the Old Republican killed in the Irish Civil War. (He was also being visited daily by Seamus / James O Donovan.) Mrs. Daly, also bought him back a new code via Spain, and channelled his reports back through Spain for him.

August 16th: In the Irish Republic, 2 Detectives were killed, while trying to arrest Patrick Mac Grath and Tom Harte in a Dublin shop, run by the IRA as their training centre headquarters, and they were to eventually be executed for their involvement in the crime.

August 17th:In the Irish Republic, Eduard Hemple, the German Ambassador, advised that the seas around Britain and the Irish Sea were to be blockaded by the Germans, in which no Irish Ships were to enter, only at their own risk.

August 22nd:In the Irish Republic, Tom Hunt, an IRA member, was also arrested this month, and along with Patrick Mac Grath and Tom Harte they were all sentenced to death, which upset the general Irish population.

September 27th:In the Irish Republic, Eammon de Valera, made an offer to Sir John Maffey the British Representative, that Ireland would take the women and children from any of the Air Raid areas in Britain.

In the Irish Republic, Michael Devereux, an IRA officer, was accused by members of the IRA as being a traitor, and he was assassinated, and his body disposed of in a cave in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province.

+On to 1940 / 4 - October to December

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