Profile
Frank Ryan
Politician + Editor + Collectivist
Male
Born
1902
Died
Jun 10, 1944
Frank Ryan was a prominent member of the Irish Republican Army, editor of An Phoblacht, leftist activist and leader of Irish volunteers on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1902
Birth
Born in 1902.
TWENTIES
1927
25 Years Old
He was always an anti-imperialist, and Peadar O'Donnell believes the biggest influence on Ryan's thinking in those days was the anti-Imperialist Congress in Paris, which he attended with Donal O'Donoghue, as delegates of the IRA, in 1927.
In 1929 Ryan was appointed editor of the Republican newspaper An Phoblacht, where he worked alongside Geoffrey Coulter, his assistant.
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1930
28 Years Old
In May 1930 Ryan spent several weeks in the US, addressing Irish conventions, where he witnessed the start of the Great Depression.
1931
29 Years Old
In 1931 he was imprisoned for publishing seditious articles in An Phoblacht.
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THIRTIES
1933
31 Years Old
In 1933, Ryan, along with George Gilmore and Peadar O'Donnell, proposed the establishment of a new left-republican organisation to be called the Republican Congress.
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1935
33 Years Old
In 1935, Ryan established two publishing concerns, the Cooperative Press and Liberty Press, to circumvent the difficulties in publishing left-wing material.
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1936
34 Years Old
O'Donnell due to his age and Gilmore with a broken leg were not in a position to return to Spain to fight. Despite his deafness in late 1936 Ryan travelled to Spain with about 80 men he had succeeded in recruiting to fight in the International Brigades on the Republican side.
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1937
35 Years Old
He was seriously wounded in March 1937, and returned to Ireland to recover.
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On his return to Spain, he again served in the war until he was captured by Italian troops fighting for the Nationalists in March 1938.
He was then transported to Berlin, and met up with Seán Russell on 4 August 1940.
Although Operation Sea Eagle was first postponed after being shown to Hitler on 6 September 1941 and then ultimately cancelled, Ryan's part in planning continued up to its cancellation.
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FORTIES
1942
40 Years Old
Once a feared invasion of Éire by US Troops stationed in Northern Ireland in 1942 failed to materialize, Ryan was dropped as a possible mission specialist in further covert Abwehr and Foreign Ministry plans and operations.
1943
41 Years Old
He was approached late 1943 for his opinion on the feasibility of a "Geheimsender" (secret transmitter) propaganda operation in Ireland for broadcast to the United States, but the plan never reached fruition.
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Ryan was given the cover name "Richard II" (Russell had been "Richard I"), and he was listed in the Abwehr (Intelligence) files as "Frank Richard". This protected him from the Gestapo, who might have been very interested in a former officer of the International Brigades, but they had no access to the Intelligence files until 1944.
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