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This file concerns FBI monitoring of Irish republican activity and support networks in the United States, including organizations associated with the Irish Republican Army, the Provisional IRA, and Irish Northern Aid. The 1973 Philadelphia records include airtels, memoranda, informant reports, a rally flyer, and a newspaper clipping about a Philadelphia Irish Republican Clubs demonstration marking Bloody Sunday and a visit by Official IRA representative Eoin O'Murchu. Later New York and Albany material from 1987 concerns NORAID activity, Irish republican fundraising, a Unity Dance notice, reported internal disputes, George Harrison, Joe Cahill, and protest threats around British military band performances. A 1989 San Francisco memorandum describes NORAID as a major Irish fundraising organization in the United States believed by the FBI to support PIRA funding, and notes its 1970 founding by Michael Flannery and other Irish republican veterans. Many pages are deleted or redacted under national security, confidential source, and privacy exemptions.

FBI file number: NY 199F-1564 | Documents span: 1973-1989 | Released in 4 parts
Names in this file: Jack McKinney, Frank Houlihan, Eoin O'Murchu, John Corr, Helena Sheehan, Ken Tierney, George Harrison, Joe Cahill, Michael Flannery, Sam O'Reilly
Subjects: Irish Republican Army, Provisional IRA, NORAID, Northern Ireland, political fundraising, domestic security