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/04/06 Date: 26 June 1922 Title:
day, states from what he can see there is less green this year than in years past. Requests update from Fawsitt on the home situation, ‘are they ever going to come to a settlement or a general understanding, they ought to have enough of it this time’. Asks how Mr Connolly (Joseph Connolly) is getting on in the new job.
TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Ministry of Economic Affairs, (Irish Provisional Government, Dublin), to D. Condon (David Condon), Irish Consulate, Suite 1025, 119 Nassau Street, New York, United States of America
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter thanking Condon for forwarding newspapers regularly. Fawsitt states he was chosen unanimously at both the East Cork and North-East Cork election conventions for upcoming elections to Dail Eireann. Regarding passports Fawsitt writes these will be issued by Irish authorities when the third Dail sits, and he believes one of the issuing authorities will be Condon’s own offices, i.e. the Irish Consulate in New York.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/10 Date: 30 May 1923 Title:
MS. Letter from David Condon, 47 Lenox Avenue, Winfield, L.I. (Long Island, New York, to Diarmaid Fawsitt)
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Extent: 3 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter promising to travel to Ireland in the summer and requesting information as to where he should obtain his passport, i.e. will it be the Irish or British authorities. Requests also any information on tax liabilities that Fawsitt may be able to advise him further.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/07 Date: 24 July (1922) Title:
MS. Letter from David Condon, Suite 1025-9, Temple Court Building, (Irish Consulate), New York (to Diarmaid Fawsitt)
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Extent: 3 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter mentioning a number of matters, including ‘your old friend’ Joyce (William Henry Joyce), who has not been seen in some time due to illness however is now giving instructions about ‘papers’. Condon states that Mr Connolly (Joseph Connolly) has shipped these papers to 5th Avenue, the office of the Envoy Extraordinary. Condon remarks on news from a Mr Dobbyn, Olympic games organiser, that the games have been called off owing he believes to events in Ireland. This appears to relate to a planned involvement of Ireland in the Olympic games of 1924. Condon complains that in Ireland: ‘soldiering seems to have gone to their heads’, how ‘do they expect the country to progress’?
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/11 Date: 13 June 1923 Title:
TS. Copy letter, Diarmaid Fawsitt, St Petroc, Stillorgan, County Dublin, to D. Condon (David Condon), 47 Lenox Avenue, Winfield, Long Island, New York, United States of America
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Extent: 2 pages (2 copies)
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Scope and Content: Letter from Fawsitt enclosing letter from Fawsitt to Moore McCormack Company requesting the shipping company facilitate Condon’s return sea crossing to Ireland. Fawsitt confirms Condon should apply for a temporary passport at the British consul.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/08 Date: 5 January 1923 Title:
MS. Letter from David Condon, 47 Lenox Avenue, Winfield, L.I. (Long Island, New York, to Diarmaid Fawsitt)
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/12 Date: 29 June 1923 Title:
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Extent: 3 pages
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MS. Letter from David Condon, 47 Lenox Avenue, Winfield, L.I (Long Island, New York, to Diarmaid Fawsitt)
Scope and Content: Letter detailing events outside the consulate in New York. Condon reports that since the New Year the place is closed and in care of a squad of police, ‘with Mr Crawford & his assistant installed on the inside’. All other staff have been paid off as the consulate is likely to be closed for some time. Condon remarks that Mr Crawford (Lindsay Crawford) is ‘a wreck’. Condon states that there are demonstrators, ‘the mob’ outside the building, ‘Irish enthusiasts’ who ‘fatten on disturbances’. Condon believes this marks the end of the Irish consulate in New York, ‘the end of the consulate for the present, after all the years of worry in making it a success’.
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter from Condon enclosing newspaper cuttings, no longer present. Condon advises he expects to sail for Ireland on the President Adams on Thursday 5th or 7th (July, 1923).
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/13 Date: 24 July (1923) Title:
MS. Letter from David Condon, Lower Cork Street, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork (to Diarmaid Fawsitt, Dublin)
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/09 Date: 28 March (1923) Title:
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Extent: 2 pages
MS. Letter from David Condon, 47 Lenox Avenue, Winfield, L.I. (Long Island, New York, to Diarmaid Fawsitt)
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Scope and Content: Letter at length outlining Condon’s experience of the sailing from New York to Cork, which he describes as ‘not very pleasant’. The food and cooking ‘excellent’, the speed averaging 14 knots. In respect of Mitchelstown he remarks ‘very little change in the old town although at first sight the houses seemed smaller... but it is a grand change of scenery from skyscrapers’.
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Extent: 4 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter reporting Condon has been sick with the flu, he is ‘getting accustomed’ to a new job, but states he often wishes for the consulate and wonders will it ever reopen. Regrets working on St Patrick’s
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