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/I/01/03 Date: 5 October 1921 Title:
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/07 Date: 11 December 1921 Title:
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, The Raleigh Hotel, Washington D.C., to Diarmaid Fawsitt
Newspaper copy, The New York American, celebrating the Anglo-Irish treaty news and hopes of peace
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Extent: 5 pages
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Extent: 3 sheets
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Scope and Content: Letter responding to Fawsitt’s fears there are opponents to his work as consul in the United States. McGuire assures Fawsitt that most ‘fully appreciate the practical and successful values of your labors’. Further he has faithfully served Ireland at ‘every moment’. McGuire goes on to comment on the bond drive target of $100,000 hoped from Illinois. In terms of the Irish-American lobby in New York he comments it is divided into four groups, ‘watching the drama unfolding in Ireland’.
Scope and Content: Newspaper reports with headlines including: ‘Heroic Ireland has won a Great Victory; Now Peace’, and ‘ Irish Trade Revival Already Under Way’. The front page calls for America to ‘rejoice’ the news.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/08 Date: 22 December 1921 Title:
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, 321 West 106th Street, New York, to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/04 Date: 17 November 1921 Title:
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Extent: 1 page
TS. Letter from James K. McGuire, The Raleigh Hotel, Washington D.C., to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), c/o Cork Industrial Development Association, Cork, Ireland
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Scope and Content: Letter remarking on reactions in United States to the Anglo-Irish treaty. McGuire states he succeeded in stopping a ‘fist fight’ between ‘militant combatants of De Valera versus Griffith’. McGuire however is of the view that ‘the people of Ireland must in their own way Determine. American citizens have no business or rights’.
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter commenting on the current bond drive for $100,000. Harry Boland is receiving large crowds of volumes similar to those enjoyed by Archbishop Mannix, at Madison Square Garden. McGuire states that U.S. news reports of the Anglo-Irish peace negotiations are of a poor quality with ‘the greatest mystery’ surrounding the events.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/09 Date: 23 December 1921 Title:
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/05 Date: 29 November 1921 Title:
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, The Raleigh Hotel, Washington D.C., to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
TS. Letter from James K. McGuire, The Raleigh Hotel, Washington D.C., to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter remarking on local reaction to speech of George Gavan Duffy in Dail Eireann: ‘having a bad effect, indicating treaty signed under Duress. Our people generally accepting it but hating it’ (the Anglo-Irish treaty).
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter commenting on US news reports that James Craig will ‘declare against the United Ireland’. Requests details of a castle in County Fermanagh which he cannot afford himself however some friends are interested in buying. Briefly comments on shock to hear of reports of murder of Alderman Barry (Tadhg Barry). In terms of the bond drive, approximately $25,000 of the $100,000 target has been raised to date under Stephen O’Mara.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/10 Date: 29 December 1921 Title:
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, The Raleigh Hotel, Washington D.C., to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/06 Date: 8 December 1921 Title:
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Extent: 4 pages
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, The Raleigh Hotel, Washington D.C., to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
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Scope and Content: Letter commenting on some American businessmen who will ‘hold aloof’ from Ireland as a state for several years to see ‘how it worked’. McGuire remains optimistic for Ireland however, stating ‘the great body of American public opinion’ believe in accepting the treaty. He states that in America Michael Collins is relatively unknown, and Arthur Griffith known as a writer. States if Eamon de Valera was in favour of the treaty nearly all of the US would follow him.
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Extent: 4 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter written as news of the Anglo-Irish treaty reached McGuire. States he was with Harry Boland and O’Mara (Stephen O’Mara) when the ‘big news came across’. Reports their reaction as: ‘disturbed by the allegiance oath and the Ulster provision which will prove offensive to many friends here’. Believes a meeting of the National Convention of the Friends of the Irish will resolve itself into a demonstration ‘against your treaty with England’. Requests Fawsitt send him his analysis of the advantages of the treaty which will ‘help Ireland here’. Promises to keep same anonymous.
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