Liam de Róiste Papers Descriptive List Ref. U271

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Scope and Content:

Reference:

U271/M/3/5

Date:

nd [1939]

Title: TS. text of lecture by Liam de Róiste, President, Cork Guild, Muintir na Tíre, on ‘Muintir na Tire. Its aims & objects: Primary Purposes. An Analysis and Argument'. Page 1 and other pages missing. Level: Item Extent: 16pp Part of: U271/M/3 Scope and Content:

U271/M/4 Correspondence, 1939-1941

Reference:

U271/M/4

Date:

1939-1941

Title: Level:

Correspondence, 1939-1941

file

Extent: Part of:

27 items U271/M

Scope and Content: Muintir na Tire. File of correspondence to Liam de Róiste.

Correspondence mainly to de Róiste regarding the aims, principles and organisation of Muintir na Tire 1939-41. Correspondents include Fr. J. Hayes; Alfred O’Reilly; P. J. O’Reilly; W. Byrne; J. Lyons; J. J. Bergin; M. S. O Briain; J. J. Walsh of Ulster Bank; Tom Dowdall and Organising Secretary J. O. Barry Walsh. Such as MS. letter from Alfred O'Rahilly, UCC, expressing concern that Muintir na Tíre '...may end in froth....a kind of brotherhood good-will association so beloved of British non- conformists...' (23 Mar 1939); and such as TS. letter from PJ O'Reilly, Hon, Sec, General, Clonmel with detailed observations on Catholic social teachings and their relevance to the organisation, and the avoidance of 'political Catholics' and sectarianism (17 May 1939); and such as MS. letter from Rev. JM Hayes CC, Tipperary, stating 'non-Catholics are welcome' (19 May 1939); and draft MS. letter from de Róiste to Rev. JM Hayes on aims of the organisation (22 May 1939); and such as TS. letter from JJ Walsh, Ulster Bank, Dublin. He envisions vocationalism and 'the complete organisation of Society beginning with the Parish Council...to mobilise all the divergent elements of the nation....there is practically nothing that Inter-Parish rivalry cannot produce...to the nations good'. (26 Jul 1939) and such as letter from JJ Horgan referring to the wages of agricultural labourers in Portugal (14 Aug 1939); and such as TS. letter from Organising Secretary J. O. Barry Walsh, Kilmallock, Co.

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