Liam de Róiste Papers Descriptive List Ref. U271

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Scope and Content:

Reference:

U271/N/2/H/1

Date:

16 Dec 1947

Title:

MS. Letter from 'Liam', Liam de Róiste, Janemount, Sundays Well, Cork to

'Dear JLF', Diarmuid Fawsitt, [Dublin]. Level: Item Extent: 2pp Part of: U271/N/2/H Scope and Content:

Personal letter concerning the collection of information and records by the Bureau of Military History regarding the Cork Irish Volunteers. Details periods and events for which de Róiste has no records. Refers to the "Bureau…looking for 'dry bones' only.

Reference:

U271/N/2/H/2

Date:

12 Apr 1950

Title:

MS. letter from ‘JLF’, Jeremiah L. Fawsitt, (Diarmaid Fawsitt) Dublin, to ‘Dear

Liam’, Liam de Róiste, Cork. Level: Item Extent: 2pp Part of: U271/N/2/H Scope and Content:

Encloses a bundle of papers to do with the Bureau of Military History from whom he has had no further letters. ‘I am afraid that....the interest in happenings in Cork two-score or more years ago is dropping to zero.’ Notes ‘one or two men were emplaced in the Fianna Fail regime and the Bureau was conceived to make a profitable niche for these.’ Wonders who will make use of the Bureau’s ‘rakings’ and when. He hasn’t heard from de Róiste in ‘ages.’ Notes his work is ‘arduous,’ refers to life past in Dún na nGaedheal.

U271/N/3 Witness Statement of Liam de Róiste c1950

Reference:

U271/N/3

Date:

c1950 (1902 - Feb 1915, Apr 1916 - Jun

1918) Title: Level:

TS. partial Witness Statement of Liam de Róiste to Bureau of Military History

Item

Extent: Part of:

288pp

U271/N

Scope and Content: Contains pages 17 - 203 and 414 - 515 only. Much of the content concerns dated events and subjects and may be extracted from de Róiste's diaries.

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