Liam de Róiste Papers Descriptive List Ref. U271

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Part of:

U271/H/3/D

Scope and Content: Regards memorial on behalf of Denis and John Porter who were convicted of an ‘aggravated assault’ on a widow, Kate Scanlan, and were now in Cork Male Prison. The Minister has determined that the law must take its course and encloses a copy of the Judges Report which concludes ‘I thought it essential that the people in the district should understand that they cannot take the law into their own hands and assert unsustainable claims by violence.’

Reference:

U271/H/3/D/006

Date:

7 Oct 1922

Title: TS. Letter from Austin Stack, Department of Home Affairs, to Liam de Róiste TD. Regards the setting up of ‘administrative committees’ in each County and County Borough as a ‘local Cabinet to represent the National Cabinet.’ Members of the Dáil will be eligible and also entitled to attend ex-officio. Also, list of names for Cork. Level: Item Extent: 2pp Part of: U271/H/3/D Scope and Content:

Reference:

U271/H/3/D/007

Date:

12 Oct 1922

Title: TS. Letter from Liam Cosgrave, President, Provisional Government, Dublin, to Alderman Liam de Róiste TD. Concerns grants to be made available to the Corporation of Cork for works to relieve unemployment, including money for housing, money from the Shaw Commission, and a sum under the reconstruction scheme, plus a sum for the Cattle Market. There is no additional grant owing to the ‘limited resources at present available to the Government.’ Level: Item Extent: 2pp Part of: U271/H/3/D Scope and Content:

Reference:

U271/H/3/D/008

Date:

23 Oct 1922

Title: MS. letter from Liam de Róiste, Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin, to ‘A Chara’, Liam Uasal MacCosgair (Liam Cosgrave), President of the Executive Council. Refers to the President’s remarks on a conspiracy for non payment of income tax in Cork City. Explains the situation in Cork, refers to anti-treaty forces in control for much of the year, collecting their own taxes. Refers to unemployment and says many local Volunteers joined the irregulars to obtain a weekly wage from the customs revenue, this could have been avoided had monies been made available. Cork has ‘...had some severe blows....hit hard by the English and...harder by the Irregulars...city rates are 22/ in the £; borrowing limit of the Corporation has been reached...the city was looking forward to sympathetic consideration of its special

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