Seamus Fitzgerald Descriptive List (Ref. PR6)

PR6/

with Liffey Dockyard that will be both friendly and fruitful to both companies" (1) and discusses pricing strategies. Lenaghan discusses the formation of an agreement between the two companies to ensure Irish Shipowners use Irish Dockyards (2. 2 items

VII

Voices of Dissent

1220 11 April 1961

Two copies of a letter from a disgruntled employee of Verlome Fitting to Fitzgerald's shop complaining that the foreman has a vendetta against himself and others and complaining about general work standards. 2pp

1221 20 April 1962

Vitriolic letter from the same writer as PR/1220 above to Fitzgerald blasting "Murchu and his useless scabs" who 12 12 "ordered us out on strike and then sold us the same as our Lord was sold for a few pounds". Blasts those including Fitzgerald who said there would never be a dockyard in Rushbrooke claiming "I left my kids go hungry to save it with a few other men" and that "it was non of the Old I.R.A. informers or their sons or the niger or Black and Tan navy stokers. No wonder we cannot build decent ships or repair them we have a lot of imported Dagoes Bluffers and a lot of white collar men that don't know the Bow from the Stern of a ship". 3pp

VII

General Correspondence

1222 12-16 October 1958

Correspondence between Fitzgerald and Sean McCarthy, Lord Mayor of Cork, regarding the invitation to the Lord Mayor and his wife to attend a launch at Verlome United Shipyard in Holland. Also report of the trip. 4pp

1223 18 July - 24 August 1960

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