Liam de Róiste Papers Descriptive List Ref. U271

Sweden. Level: Extent: Part of:

Item 23pp

U271/A/2

Scope and Content:

Reference:

U271/A/2/005

Date:

20 Jan 1923 – 25 Feb 1923

Title: MS. diary/journal of Liam de Róiste written when travelling in Europe including Germany and Holland. Refers to Civil War in Ireland, dockers’ strike in Cork, the Free State Army having ‘martial law powers,’ while ‘...the Irregulars, of all sections, have flouted the voice of reason and religion; they are shaking the very foundations of Christianity....’ Refers to positions of De Valera, Mary MacSwiney. Liam Lynch; deficiencies of “...the factors of civilisation...and...common forms of public morality...in many of the Irish people...the ‘ideal’ of the revolver, the bomb, the petrol tin.....” Level: Item Extent: c30pp Part of: U271/A/2 Scope and Content:

Reference:

U271/A/2/006

Date:

23 Nov 1923

Title: TS. memoir/essay/diary by Liam de Róiste, ‘A Trip Abroad. Leaves from the Diary of a Journey through Holland, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium.’ (See also W/T/092) Level: Item Extent: 17pp (2 copies) Part of: U271/A/2 Scope and Content:

Reference:

U271/A/2/007

Date:

10 Oct 1944

Title: MS. memoir, title page only, 'Mar a Tharla Memoirs and Memories My Story. Recollections, Reflections and Extracts from Diaries in a pageant of the years from 1882 to ?. Liam de Róiste Cork 1944' Level: Item Extent: 1p Part of: U271/A/2 Scope and Content:

Reference:

U271/A/2/008

Date:

1 Dec 1946

Title: MS. memoir by Liam de Róiste, ‘Some recollections of Sean Milroy’, refers to meeting him in the Cork Celtic Literary Society in about 1903, his contributions to the