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/01/19 Date: 26 February 1922 Title:
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/24 Date: 27 March 1922 Title:
MS. Memo from James K. McGuire, 321 West 106th Street, New York to J.L.F. (Diarmaid Fawsitt) enclosing details of the motorship Kennecott
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, Hotel Raleigh, Washington D.C., to Diarmaid Fawsitt
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Extent: 2 pages
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Extent: 3 sheets
Scope and Content: Letter mentioning that McGuire had attempted to attend a public address by Stack and O’Kelly in the Lexington Avenue Theatre but was unable due to the ‘enormous crowds’.
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Scope and Content: Memo enclosing pages torn from an unidentified book with details of the motorship Kennecott. The pages include black and white photographs of the interior and exterior of the ship, which McGuire describes as ‘the best paying ship in US’.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/25 Date: 7 April 1922 Title:
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, Hotel Raleigh, Washington D.C., to Diarmaid Fawsitt
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/20 Date: (February 1922) Title:
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Extent: 3 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter advising Fawsitt he has received ‘crank’ caller reporting of a Cork threat to Fawsitt’s life. James O’Mara has returned to Ireland. McGuire promises to revert to Fawsitt on a query about ships.
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, 321 West 106th Street, New York to J.L.F. (Diarmaid Fawsitt) enclosing newsletter from the Friends of Irish Freedom
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Extent: 1 page letter and 8 page pamphlet
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Scope and Content: Undated letter forwarding a copy of the weekly newsletter of the Friends of Irish Freedom (25 February 1922). McGuire complains there is ‘not a word about Ireland’ in the newsletter. On the cover he has written: ‘what a swindle to mail this to thousands of good meaning people’.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/26 Date: 22 April 1922 Title:
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, Hotel Raleigh, Washington D.C., to Diarmaid Fawsitt
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter apologising for sending ‘alarming cable’ received by Mrs Fawsitt. The cable was sent on reports he received of a threat to Diarmaid Fawsitt’s life.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/21 Date: 19 March 1922 Title:
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, New Rochelle, New York to Diarmaid Fawsitt
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Extent: 4 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter reporting on U.S. reactions to news reports from Ulster. McGuire states there is a ‘growing feeling that Irish people... will murder each other for the jobs and power under any government of their own’. Stack and O’Kelly due to speak in Boston under auspices of A.A.R.I.R.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/27 Date: 1 May 1922 Title:
TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Ministry of Economic Affairs, to the Hon. James J. McGuire (James K. McGuire), 321 West 106 Street, New York
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter regarding Friends of Irish Freedom (FOIF) drive for funds. Fawsitt agrees with McGuire’s opinion on matter.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/22 Date: 20 March 1922 Title:
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, New Rochelle, New York to Diarmaid Fawsitt
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Extent: 3 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter states S. O’Mara is in Washington and has paid Fawsitt compliments in an address, as ‘a man unique and indispensable in modern Irish life’.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/28 Date: 11 May 1922 Title:
TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Ministry of Economic Affairs, to the Hon. James K. McGuire, 321 West 106 Street, New York
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Extent: 1 page
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Reference: PR81/1/3/I/01/23 Date: 24 March 1922 Title:
Scope and Content: Letter regarding murder of protestants in Cork. Fawsitt ponders if these murders are the cause of ‘agents provocateur or emissaries from Carsonia in the north of Ireland’. (Note, see related item dated 1921, PR81/1/3/I/01/01.)
MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, 321 West 106th Street, New York to Diarmaid Fawsitt
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter acknowledging receipt of shamrocks evidently for a St Patrick’s day dinner. States Professor Smiddy, Gilbert Ward and Joseph Connolly are joining for dinner. McGuire comments on Ulster murders: ‘horrifying’. His son James has been promoted, ‘in charge of 190 negro laborers at Berkeley Va (Virginia)’.
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