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/G/12
Date: (12 September 1922)
Reference: PR81/1/3/G/15
Date: 19 December 1922
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TS. Copies of Dail Eireann questions and orders of the day, with various subjects including in respect of Ireland’s membership of the League of Nations, and the question of placing restrictions on foreign milled flour imported to Ireland
Newspaper report of Free State executions of seven prisoners at Mountjoy Prison
Extent: 1 sheet
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Scope and Content: Newspaper cutting with article titled ‘Free State Executes Seven More Rebels. Sentence carried out on men caught derailing trains and ambushing national troops’. Refers to the executions at Mountjoy Prison of Stephen White, Joseph Johnson, Patrick Mangan, Patrick Nolan, Bryan Moore, James O’Connor and Patrick Bagnell, arrested at Rathbride, Co. Kildare.
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Extent: 20 pages
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Scope and Content: A number of printed copies of Dail Eireann Questions and Orders of the Day, stamped with the date 12 September 1922. Includes questions in relation to Ireland’s membership of the League of Nations, and on proposed restriction of importation of foreign milled flour. A question relating to the country’s railways includes an attached letter stating ‘his business is solely concerned with the maintenance and distribution of food supplies within the country’, and is signed with the names of managers of the Great Southern and Western Railway, Midland Great Western Railway, Great Northern Railway and the Dublin and South Eastern Railway.
Reference: PR81/1/3/G/16
Date: 29 April 1923
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Newspaper reports on proclamation by Eamon de Valera in Dublin concerning terms of republican ceasefire, civil war, published by the New York Times
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Extent: 1 sheet (cutting)
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Scope and Content: Cutting from the New York Times of article with headline, ‘De Valera’s Terms Leave Ireland Cold: Public hardly discusses offer and government so far ignores it’. Refers to reports of proclamation by Eamon de Valera on 28 April in Dublin, indicating ‘a readiness to negotiate for an immediate cessation of hostilities’.
Reference: PR81/1/3/G/13
Date: 30 September 1922
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Newspaper reports of death of Professor Eoin MacNeill’s son, printed by Poblachta Na h-Eireann, War News No.71
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Extent: 1 sheet
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Reference: PR81/1/3/G/17
Date: 13 August 1923
Scope and Content: Includes reports on deaths of fifteen anti-Treaty ‘irregulars’ in Dublin city and county, and on the death of Professor Eoin MacNeill’s son.
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Invitation from the President of Ireland to Diarmaid Fawsitt for unveiling of Griffith-Collins Memorial, Leinster Lawn, Dublin
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Extent: 1 sheet
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Scope and Content: Invitation to ‘Mr Fawcett’ to be present at the unveiling of the Griffith-Collins memorial at Leinster Lawn, Dublin.
Reference: PR81/1/3/G/14
Date: (December 1922)
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Newspaper reports on resignations of Irish officials at consulate in New York, United States of America
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Extent: 1 sheet (cutting)
Reference: PR81/1/3/G/18
Date: 20 March 1925
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Scope and Content: Cutting from the New York Tribune newspaper with article headline, ‘Irish officials in N.Y. Resign over Reprisals’, ‘D.C. McGrath ordered to leave U.S’. The article refers to a threatening letter received by McGrath, who is described as in charge of the Free State consulate in New York. The letter, signed by the ‘Competent Military Authority, Irish Republican Army’ orders McGrath to leave the United States before 26 December (1922). The article goes on to report that McGrath and Joseph Connolly have already resigned from the consulate as ‘they refuse to countenance reprisals on the leaders of the Irish republican movement’. McGrath is quoted: ‘I am not consul and have never been consul. I was for a while assistant trade commissioner without diplomatic status’. Connolly reportedly resigned the consulate following the execution of Erskine Childers. Another article present is titled: ‘Irish Republicans want to know where O’Mara is’. The article refers to the imprisonment of Stephen O’Mara by the Free State, and notes he is one of only three trustees of the ‘fund raised in this country in furtherance of the cause of the Republic of Ireland’. The newspaper estimates the value of the fund at between $1,000,000 and $2,500,000. The events in the articles are undated however appear to follow the executions of Rory O’Connor, Liam Mellows, Richard Barrett and Joe McKelvey (8 December 1922).
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Newspaper reports on the demise of Eamon de Valera and republicanism by the Daily Mail (London)
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Extent: 1 sheet
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Scope and Content: Newspaper with articles including one with headline ‘The Eclipse of De Valera’ by Sir James O’Connor, Lord Justice of Appeal in Ireland, 1918-1924: ‘Ireland has definitely pronounced against Republicanism and has given ex-President de Valera notice to quit’. Also present is an article titled, ‘Lady Craig’s Message: Appeal to the Women of Ulster’. The article contains a message written by Lady Craig on behalf of the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council praising the courage and statesmanship of the new leaders and further opposing any territorial losses to the ‘province’ as a result of the boundary commission.
Reference: PR81/1/3/G/19
Date: 22 April 1925
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Letter from C.M. Byrne and J. McBride, Dail Eireann, to Diarmaid Fawsitt
Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Invitation to meeting to be held 24 August to discuss erection of a monument over Arthur Griffith’s grave at Glasnevin.
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