Diarmaid L. Fawsitt Archive Section 1 Desc. List.

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/04/14 Date: 24 August 1923 Title:

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/19 Date: 23 December 1928 Title:

MS. Letter from David Condon, Lower Cork Street, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork (to Diarmaid Fawsitt, Dublin)

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Extent: 2 pages

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Scope and Content: Letter referring to a trip to Youghal and dips in the sea on the Waterford side. Commenting on the dail elections of 1922: ‘the Elections around here are very quite (quiet) there would be more noise at a dog fight, it seems to me they are not in the least concerned who gets in’.

Scope and Content: Letter stating Condon plans to visit ‘Fordes’ in the new year, as he has seen newspaper reports that suggest they will be needing staff. Commenting on house prices in Mitchelstown he complains they are ‘still going at war prices’.

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/15 Date: 16 April 1927 Title:

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/20 Date: 25 February 1929 Title:

MS. Letter from David Condon, Lower Cork Street, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork (to Diarmaid Fawsitt, Dublin)

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Scope and Content: Letter regarding any information Fawsitt may have on the cost of establishing a small drapery in the suburbs of Dublin. Condon wishes to establish his own drapery and is considering Dublin as an option.

Scope and Content: Letter commenting on Fawsitt having the ‘flue’, that they are also suffering from it in Mitchelstown although ‘they are not of the dangerous type’. Condon confirms he has applied to Fords with Fawsitt as a reference for position as an electrician. Condon expects to soon be a home owner, he has purchased a licensed premises which he intends to turn into a drapery or run as a bar.

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/16 Date: 6 May 1927 Title:

MS. Letter from David Condon, Lower Cork Street, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork (to Diarmaid Fawsitt, Dublin)

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/05

Date: 29 December 1921 - 7 December 1923

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Extent: 3 pages

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Correspondence between Diarmaid Fawsitt and P.M. Woods (Patrick M. Woods) of Brooklyn, New York

Scope and Content: Letter regarding reply Condon has received from Fawsitt advising him of the bad business conditions persisting in Dublin at present. Condon states he is contemplating returning to America (crossing the pond). Regarding Mitchelstown he states that except for the farmers taking over the Newmarket creamery co-operative the town is the ‘same as it was fifty years ago’.

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Scope and Content: Correspondence originally filed by Diarmaid Fawsitt in folder marked: ‘From and To Mr P.M. Woods, St Mark’s Avenue, Brooklyn N.Y’. Original enclosure marked ‘Aireacht um Tiuscal agus Trachtail’.

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/17 Date: 2 June 1928 Title:

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/05/01 Date: 29 December 1921 Title:

MS. Letter from David Condon, Lower Cork Street, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork (to Diarmaid Fawsitt, Dublin)

TS. Letter from D. McGrath, Vice Consul, Irish Consulate, Suite 1025-9, Temple Court, 119 Nassau Street, New York City, to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Bayville, Strand, Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland

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Extent: 2 pages

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Scope and Content: Letter enclosing £10 and thanking Fawsitt for invitation to St Petroc’s, Dublin. Condon also thanks Fawsitt for his offer of introduction to Fordes, evidently Condon is considering applying for work at Henry Ford & Son Ltd, Cork.

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Extent: 1 page

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Scope and Content: Letter from McGrath advising he has received a telephone message from Mr P.M. Woods of the John Hancock Insurance Company. Woods is visiting Derry and his home at Six-Mile Cross, Co. Tyrone and wishes to meet Fawsitt whilst in Ireland.

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/04/18 Date: 4 July 1928 Title:

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/05/02 Date: 23 February 1922 Title:

MS. Letter from David Condon, Cornhill, Glanworth, Co. Cork (to Diarmaid Fawsitt, Dublin)

TS. Letter from P.M. Woods, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 615 St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Stillorgan,

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Extent: 2 pages

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Scope and Content: Letter congratulating Fawsitt on his legal career success. Condon laments the lack of jobs with the Fords: ‘with all the great talk of the Fords...there was work for the nation to be had only to ask for it’.

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Scope and Content: Letter promising to post a package of Sunday newspapers to Fawsitt. Return trip on the Baltic was terrible and arrived 3 days later than scheduled.

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