Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/35/09
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Reference: PR81/1/3/E/35/05
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20 January 1922
16 May 1922
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Cork Newspaper reports on Duggan and O’Higgins Envoy to Churchill, from London sources published by the Cork Examiner
New York Newspaper report on Art O’Brien case in the House of Lords, by the Evening World, New York
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Scope and Content: Article appearing in The Cork Examiner reporting from London, ‘London Letter. Irish Envoys’. Reports on meeting of Duggan and O’Higgins (Eamonn Duggan and Kevin O’Higgins) with Winston Churchill in London. Meeting relates to establishment of Provisional Government of the Irish Free State. Other articles include references to ‘robbery at the castle’ (Dublin Castle) from the Inspector-General’s house and ‘Belfast Religious War: Hope for Peace’ by John Steele of the Chicago Tribune.
Scope and Content: Short article with headline ‘Britain Asks Free State to Send Back Deportees’ with London reporting by the Associated Press. Refers to the request by Britain for the return of all prisoners deported to Ireland following the Art O’Brien case in the House of Lords.
PR81/1/3/F Elections to Dail Eireann (Jan - Jun 1922)
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/35/06
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14 February (1922)
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Pretoria Newspaper article expressing opinion on the Irish civil war from the South African perspective of British rule, written by Afrikander Ashman
Reference: PR81/1/3/F
Date: 16 January 1922 - 21 June 1922
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Elections to Dail Eireann
Scope and Content: Article appearing in unidentified newspaper published in Pretoria, South Africa. The article, titled ‘The Irish Irregulars’, is an opinion piece or letter to the editor of the New York Herald, in response to a quoted account of a South African solider, Jacobus van Rooyen of Kaalplaats, South Africa, who had spent eight months fighting with the ‘irregulars’.
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Scope and Content: Printed publications and correspondence from Diarmaid Fawsitt’s papers dating to the period after the Dail Eireann vote approving the Anglo-Irish treaty and leading to the start of the civil war. Includes items relating to the 1922 elections, including the selection of pro-Treaty candidates in County Dublin and the manifesto of the communist party.
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/35/07
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Reference: PR81/1/3/F/01
Date: (January 1922)
(14 February 1922)
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Newspaper opinion piece on Ireland’s proposed membership of the League of Nations, with copy of text of telegram sent to Michael Collins, from unidentified news publication (United States of America)
Manifesto of the Communist Party of Ireland, Dail Eireann Elections of 1922
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Scope and Content: Manifesto in the form of a large poster or bill outlining the anti-treaty position of the Communist Party. The manifesto sets out in clear terms the party’s anti-treaty stance, including sub-headings such as ‘it is not a free state: it is a slave state... civil war and social hell will be loosed if it [the Anglo-Irish treaty] is accepted’. Allegiance to the British monarch and common citizenship with Great Britain is also denounced: ‘we repudiate with scorn and hatred common citizenship of Ireland with Great Britain as she now is’.
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Scope and Content: 1. Newspaper article from unidentified newspaper, United States, outlining reasons against Ireland joining the League of Nations. Includes text of telegram sent to Michael Collins. Refers also to matter of Eamon de Valera’s continued hold over Irish relief funds raised in the United States: ‘he is now holding a vast balance... to retain his grip as leader’. Undated. 2. Newspaper article with telegram from Michael Collins to John Devoy regarding above subject. Undated.
Reference: PR81/1/3/F/02
Date: 16 January 1922
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Letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Gresham Hotel, Dublin, to Michael Collins, (Department of Finance, Dail Eireann, Dublin), regarding draft statement by religious leaders on Eamon de Valera and his supporters
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/35/08
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7 March 1922
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Cork Newspaper report on republican ‘invasion’ of Limerick, by the Cork Constitution
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Scope and Content: Letter marked ‘confidential’ confirming Fawsitt has met with Archbishop Harty (Dr John Mary Harty) in relation to preparing a statement arguing against the denunciation of Eamon de Valera and his anti- Treaty supporters planned by the cardinal and bishops. Fawsitt writes to ask for Collins’ view on the draft statement.
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Scope and Content: Article with headline ‘Invasion of Limerick by Republican Units’. Includes references to reaction in London. Published by the Cork Constitution newspaper.
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