Seamus Fitzgerald Descriptive List (Ref. PR6)

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734 26 April 1937 Copy letter to Sean Lemass, requesting him to meet a deputation representing Cork Dock Interests to discuss a proposal to cut off sea-borne imports into Cork. 1p 735 21 March 1937 Menu for lunch to celebrate the inaugural sailing of the Anchor Line Cobh to USA service. 4pp 736 1937 - April 1947 Correspondence file between Fitzgerald and Senior Civil Servants regarding proposals to establish an operating Dry Dock at Haulbowline. 25 items 737 11 July 1938 Material relating to celebrations to mark the formal handing over by the British Authorities of the Naval base on Spike Island. 3 items 738 December 1938 Personalised Christmas Cards for Fitzgerald as Chairman of the CHC. 2 items 1939 739 7 February - March 1939 Material (mostly newsclipping) relating to the visit to Cork Harbour of the German Naval training Ship "Schlesion", and the refusal of the Lord Mayor to welcome it because of German Press references to the late Pope. Includes letter (1 March 1939) from R.J. Daly, Daly & Foley Shipping Agents supporting Fitzgerald's welcome of the ship "The Germans are a very fine race and it is their affair entirely as to what form of government they wish for themselves". c 20 items

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