Terence MacSwiney L.Mayor Files Descriptive List (Ref. PR4)

PR4/5/ (FILE 5 )

24 February-19 March 1920

2pp

7 MS letter to Seán from D.Lynch, Macroom, County Cork, apologising for not meeting with MacSwiney on the subject of a Dail loan for buying land and asking for all relevant information on the subject. 9 March 1920 1p 8 Telegram cable to the Lady Mayoress of Cork (Eilís Mac Curtain) from J.L. Fawsitt, United States of America, offering the deepest sympathy of his Chief and colleagues on the death of her husband. 20 March 1920 1p 9 Telegram cable to the Town Clerk Cork, from J.L. Fawsitt, United States of America, offering his condolences on the death of the Lord Mayor (Tomás Mac Curtain). 20 March 1920 1p 10 An t-oglach The Official Organ of the Irish Volunteers Volume II Number 8 1 April 1920 1 item 11 Letter to MacSwiney from [Richard Mulcahy, Chief of Staff] disagreeing with his stance on resisting arrest at all costs. Warns that unless the country is in 'very tightened circumstances' resisting arrest by a military party as opposed to an official murder party will only offer more power to the enemy and be destructive for the Organisation (Irish Volunteers) as a whole. 12 April 1920 2pp 12 Notice submitted by the Cork Corporation to the Executive of Dáil Éireann calling on them to make it known world- wide that a verdict of wilful murder on the death of Tomás MacCurtain was passed against the Royal Irish Constabulary and the British Government and requesting that a united diplomatic action be taken to expel the English army from Ireland. Includes MS note by MacSwiney that this should be translated into Irish. 23 April 1920 1p 13 Notice submitted by the Cork Corporation to the Executive of Dáil Éireann calling on them to make it known world- wide that a verdict of wilful murder on the death of Tomás MacCurtain was passed against the Royal Irish Constabulary and the British Government and requesting that a united diplomatic action be

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