Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt
PR81/1/3/I Personal letters of correspondence to and from Diarmaid Fawsitt (Apr 1921 - Feb 1929)
Reference: PR81/1/3/H/18
Date: 25 November 1921
Title:
Royal Irish Constabulary Weekly Intelligence Report from the Galway Brigade [Reference. A/INT/54]
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Extent: 6 pages
item
Reference: PR81/1/3/I
Date: 29 April 1921 - 25 February 1929
Scope and Content: Royal Irish Constabulary report from the Galway Brigade for the week ending 25 November 1921. Includes reference to reports of efforts to re-organise the I.R.A. in the county of Galway. A report is also included referring to protests by prisoners in a Galway jail on 23 November 1921.
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Personal letters of correspondence to and from Diarmaid Fawsitt
Extent: 7 files (133 items)
sub-series
Scope and Content: Substantial collection of letters, mainly of a personal nature, between Diarmaid Fawsitt and contacts located primarily outside of Ireland. These letters date from the period at the end of the war of independence and continue to where the correspondence ends with a particular contact. The letters include a significant file of correspondence between Fawsitt and James K. McGuire, a former mayor of Syracuse, New York.
Reference: PR81/1/3/H/19
Date: 2 December 1921
Title:
Royal Irish Constabulary Weekly Intelligence Report from the Galway Brigade [Reference. A/INT/55]
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Extent: 11 pages
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Scope and Content: Royal Irish Constabulary report from the Galway Brigade for the week ending 2 December 1921. Includes reference to reports of ‘ceaseless propaganda against Ulster... fines imposed by the I.R.A. on people for dealing with Belfast firms have, in nearly every case, been paid up’. A typescript copy is present of a notice placed by the I.R.A against Dr James Rutherford, Dunlo Street, Ballinasloe for not paying the fine.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01
Date: 29 April 1921 - 15 January 1924
Title:
Personal correspondence between Diarmaid Fawsitt and James K. McGuire, New York and Washington D.C., United States of America
Level:
Extent: 63 items
file
Scope and Content: Series of correspondence originally filed by Diarmaid Fawsitt in folder titled ‘To & From Hon. James K. McGuire, New York’. In folder printed ‘Aireacht um Tiuscal agus Trachtail’. In addition to letters from McGuire are a small number of letters and items sent after his death by his wife Frances G. McGuire and their daughter Mary Frances McGuire.
Reference: PR81/1/3/H/20
Date: 3 December 1921
Title: Level:
Royal Irish Constabulary Weekly Intelligence Report from the 5th Division, Curragh Camp
Extent: 17 pages
item
Scope and Content: Intelligence report marked ‘secret’, and stamped ‘Divisional Commissioners Office, Galway, 10 Dec 1921’ from the Lieutenant General, Commanding 5th Division, Curragh Camp. Includes summary points of a speech delivered by the Countess Markievicz at a concert in Athlone on 1 December 1921.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/01 Date: 29 April 1921 (1922) Title:
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, The Onondaga Hotel, Syracuse, New York State, to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter remarking on the shock and horror at news of deaths of Cork protestants. Commenting on his own affairs McGuire laments: ‘business is so bad that I fear I cannot afford to visit Ireland this year’. Appears to be wrongly dated 1921, and may relate to events of 1922.
Reference: PR81/1/3/H/21
Date: 16 December 1921
Title:
Royal Irish Constabulary Weekly Intelligence Report from the Galway Brigade [Reference. A/INT/57]
Level:
Extent: 6 pages
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Scope and Content: Royal Irish Constabulary report from the Galway Brigade for the week ending 16 December 1921. Includes brief report on the local reaction to the Anglo-Irish treaty. The report states that after initial acceptance, ‘during the past few days extremists have gathered together their followers and openly declared that they will have nothing to do with terms and will support De Valera’.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/02 Date: 1 August 1921 Title:
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, The Monticello Hotel, Norfolk, Virginia, to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter regretting Fawsitt is leaving USA. McGuire writes he has lately been in North Carolina.
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