Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt
PR81/1/3 Anglo-Irish Treaty, Ulster Special Mission and Civil War (1921-1929)
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/22
Date: 7 January 1922
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/26
Date: c.1921
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Note on Northern Ireland trade and Irish government position on tariffs by unidentified writer (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
MS. Notes of public proceedings of Dail Eireann Anglo-Irish treaty debates, with tally of votes recorded and written by Diarmaid Fawsitt
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Extent: 10 pages
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Note or draft text prepared for statement on position regarding Northern Ireland trade. Sets out position as no tariffs on materials imported to ‘North East Ulster’ that are deemed essential to its industries.
Scope and Content: Notes by Fawsitt titled ‘Sat, aft’, from public Dail Eireann Anglo-Irish treaty debate and vote on treaty. Speakers include Daniel Corkery, P.J. Ward, Joseph O’Doherty, Dr MacGinley, Sean Hales, Cathal Brugha (at length), Harry Boland, Arthur Griffith (at length), Eamon de Valera, and Michael Collins. Also present is a list of names for and against the treaty. Examples of notes from speeches include ‘Dan Corkery (against). People in Cork aren’t as half afraid of war as those of the other counties who didn’t fire a shot yet’. Arthur Griffith: ‘7.23pm. A suggestion was made that I was a weak man & I and M.C. (Michael Collins) held back door conversations with Eng(lish) Min(isters) & gave something away - for the same reason that Pres(ident) de Valera met Lloyd George alone’.
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/27
Date: c.1921
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MS. and TS. Notes on trade agreements between Great Britain, France, and Bulgaria, and question of full fiscal autonomy for Ireland
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Extent: 3 items
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Scope and Content: 1. Manuscript notes on Great Britain and Ireland trade agreements with France (1907) and Bulgaria (1905). 5 pages.
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/23
Date: 8 January 1922
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2. Typescript notes on requirement for Ireland to have full fiscal autonomy. 1 page. 3. Manuscript statement of four points in relation to Irish free trade. 1 page.
Telegram from Murphy (Michael H. Murphy), Glounthaune, Co. Cork, to Diarmaid Fawsitt, Gresham Hotel, Dublin
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Extent: 1 page
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Reference: PR81/1/3/E/28
Date: c.1921
Scope and Content: Telegram from Murphy expressing ‘heartiest congratulations...to Walsh, and De Roiste’. Evidently in response to the vote by TDs in favour of the Anglo-Irish treaty.
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Preparatory notes for paper on Anglo-Irish Treaty, by Diarmaid Fawsitt
Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Single page of notes, possibly in preparation for paper by Diarmaid Fawsitt on the Anglo-Irish Treaty (item referenced PR81/1/3/E/06). Includes: ‘the faith of Ireland is pledged to the ratification of the Treaty in the form in which it was signed’.
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/24
Date: 10 January 1922
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MS. Notes by Diarmaid Fawsitt recording proceedings of Dail Eireann debate and vote on election of President Arthur Griffith with extracts of speeches by Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera, and others
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/29
Date: c.1921
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Extent: 5 pages
Notes with brief mention of comparison of volumes of gold and silver coin in banks, by Diarmaid Fawsitt
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Scope and Content: Manuscript notes by Diarmaid Fawsitt detailing brief extracts from speeches made at the Dail Eireann debate on election of Arthur Griffith as President of Dail Eireann. Extracts are present for speeches made by Michael Collins, Sean MacEntee, Eamon de Valera, and others.
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Note titled ‘gold’ which makes point of comparing 1914 to 1921 total gold and silver coin held in banks. Actual figures of comparison not given.
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/25
Date: c.1921
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/30
Date: c.1921
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Notes containing list of corrections to be made to unidentified official Dail Eireann paper, refers to the treaty, Ulster, and associated state
Notes on Irish coastal defences and war arbitration by Diarmaid Fawsitt
Extent: 7 pages
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Scope and Content: Series of notes considering the legal implications of war post-Treaty and continued British access to Irish coastal defences. The subject of war arbitration is also addressed. Ireland’s right to an independent war policy is also stated, for example, ‘Ireland ever claimed to be a temporal power in its own right unsurrendered despite the English occupation, which from Ireland’s point of view did not alter the legal fact’.
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Extent: 2 items (1 page and 1 postcard)
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Scope and Content: One page of corrections made to an unidentified paper, contains references to sections on ‘Treaty’, ‘Ulster’, and ‘assoc. state’. Also one page similar notes on plain postcard.
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