Liam de Róiste Papers Descriptive List Ref. U271

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U272/J/008/J

From Liam de Róiste 1941, 1949

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U271/J/008/J

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1941, 1944

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From Liam de Róiste

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U271/J/008

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U271/J/008/J/1

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31 May 1941

Title: MS. copy letter from Liam de Róiste, Cork, to Mrs. Kathleen Clarke, Lord Mayor of Dublin. In response to the bombing of the North Strand in Dublin by the Luftwaffe on 31 May 1941 he advocates a system of flares, similar to that of Sweden, to use instead of ground defences, to protect Irish neutrality. Level: Item Extent: 1p Part of: U271/J/008/J Scope and Content:

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U271/J/008/J/2

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16 Oct 1944

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MS. letter from de Róiste, Cork, to ‘My dear friend’, Diarmaid Fawsitt.

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U271/J/008/J

Scope and Content: Fawsitt’s contact has set him going on his memoirs, beginnings and days of childhood. There are many things the younger generation might learn. ‘Not one, but three volumes might be written.’ Recalls that, in Dáil Éireann during one of the ‘interminable’ Treaty debates, he asserted that he still held the same opinions or principles that he held as a child. ‘How Ireland has changed from fifty/sixty years ago. And yet how much the same!.’ He finds he has many a good story of the countryside. From the time of him coming to Cork city in 1899, he has quite a lot of notes, diaries, memos, minutes of the Celtic Literary Society, its manuscript journal, old anti-recruiting and pro-Boer handbills, newscuttings. Somewhere he also has letters from Padraig Pearse, Arthur Griffith, O’Rahilly, Sean MacDiarmuida, and others who achieved fame. He recalls an incident on the day JJ Walsh was first elected Chairman of the Cork County Board, GAA, with Miah Ahern a supporter, who ‘links up with my childhood, for Miah saw me in my cradle.’ Requests Fawsitt’s ‘able assistance, in recollections of the stirring days.’

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