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/03/3 Date: 13 April 1923 Title:
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/02 Date: 9 December (1921) Title:
MS. Letter from David Condon, 350 E 41, New York City (to Diarmaid Fawsitt, Dublin)
TS. Letter from Caoimhghin O’Siadhail (Kevin O’Sheil), Assistant Legal Adviser, Irish Free State, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin to Diarmuid Fawcett (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Ministry of Industry and Commerce (Irish Free State, Dublin)
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Extent: 3 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter regarding the peace conference between Ireland and Britain, Condon is forwarding the New York newspaper reactions. The papers are no longer enclosed. Mr O’Farrell of M & Mc (Moore & McCormack’) is out of work.
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter confirming that O’Sheil acted in connection with the late President Arthur Griffith and Dr MacNeill (Eoin MacNeill) in sending W.H. Joyce (William Henry Joyce) to the USA ‘on work for our cause’. O’Sheil is willing to meet with W.H. Joyce however believes it would be better to address any queries about the US mission to Dr MacNeill as the last surviving person connected with the matter. O’Sheil wishes to know did anything ever materialise in terms of Joyce’s intended publications in the US.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/03 Date: 15 May (1922) Title:
MS. Letter from David Condon, 350 E 41, New York City (to Diarmaid Fawsitt, Dublin)
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter requesting if Fawsitt is still interested in continuing the arrangement of Condon forwarding New York newspapers to Fawsitt. Condon remarks of the Irish question in New York that things are in a ‘good muddle’, however mass meetings are well attended, mostly out of apparent curiosity.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/03/4 Date: 14 April 1923 Title:
TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Department of Trade and Shipping, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin, to Kevin O’Sheil, Assistant Legal Adviser (Irish Free State)
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Extent: 1 page (2 copies)
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Scope and Content: Letter advising that W.H. Joyce has already attempted to make contact with Dr MacNeill and in the circumstances now wishes to contact Kevin O’Sheil. Fawsitt confirms that Joyce had written a large manuscript intended for publication in the US around the time of the Anglo-Irish truce, however, Professor Smiddy should be able to throw further light on same.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/04 Date: 26 May 1922 Title:
TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Irish Provisional Government, to D. Condon (David Condon), 350 East 41st Street, New York
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter in reply to Condon’s letter of 15 May (1922) confirming that he wishes to continue paying Condon to send newspaper copies to him, and enclosing two five dollar bills to cover cost. Regarding the new political pact he states this is ‘a gain for the Anti-Treatyites’ as they will ‘consolidate their forces and obstruct the operations of the Treaty’.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04
Date: (15 June 1921) - 25 Feb 1929
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Correspondence between Diarmaid Fawsitt and David Condon of New York, USA, and Mitchelstown, Co. Cork
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Extent: 20 items
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Scope and Content: Correspondence originally filed by Diarmaid Fawsitt in folder marked ‘Mr D Condon, 47 Lenox Avenue, Wingfield, Long Island, New York, and Mitchelstown’. The original folder was printed with the department heading: ‘Aireacht um Tiuscal agus Trachtail’. Correspondence relates to the forwarding of US newspapers to Fawsitt, no longer enclosed, and enquiries from Condon regarding establishing a drapery store in the suburbs of Dublin.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/05 Date: 6 June 1922 Title:
MS. Letter from David Condon, Suite 1025, 119 Nassau Street (Irish Consulate), New York (to Diarmaid Fawsitt, Dublin)
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter stamped, received, 22 June 1922, regarding receipt of ten dollars for newspapers sent by Fawsitt to Condon. Remarking on politics, Condon believes: ‘at present a T.D.s job is not very pleasant, it is difficult to please every body’. Condon asks Fawsitt when the Irish authorities will begin issuing their own passports.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/01 Date: 15 June (1921) Title:
MS. Letter from David Condon, 350 E 41, New York City (to Diarmaid Fawsitt, Dublin)
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter including reference to Fawsitt’s illness sailing over (to Ireland). Condon reminds Fawsitt that he has a ten dollar bill belonging to Fawsitt in his possession. Note, the letter does not contain a year of writing and may relate to the sailing of 1923, however the address of Condon’s matches correspondence more firmly dated to 1921.
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