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/05/03 Date: 9 February 1922 - 3 March 1922 Title:

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/05/06 Date: 18 May 1922 Title:

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, Dublin, enclosing letters to Woods from T.P. Donohue, 316 Essex Street, Laurence, Massachusetts, from William S. Collins, 91 Merrimack Street, Haverhill, Massachusetts, from J.E. Henderson, 251 Tompkins Avenue , Brooklyn, New York, and from Thomas O’Brien, 155 Main Street, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Ministry of Economic Affairs (Provisional Government of Ireland, Dublin), to P.M. Woods, 615 St Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, USA

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Extent: 2 pages

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Scope and Content: Letter regarding employment opportunities for Miss McLaughlin of Philadelphia. Fawsitt advises the market is ‘glutted with shorthand-typists’ in Dublin however he promises to interview Miss McLaughlin in Dublin to establish if she is a skilled stenographer. He cannot promise employment however.

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Extent: 14 pages

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Scope and Content: Letter from P.M. Woods to Fawsitt forwarding letters he has received from five correspondents. The letters relate to the various opinions of men with Irish-American interests across New England. The opinions of the writers focus on support for Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins, and those who support Eamon de Valera. Woods evidently falls into the group supporting Griffith and Collins. William S. Collins writes that the great majority of people in the Merrimack valley ‘are satisfied with the Free State’. He writes that if Harry Boland is sent to the US then Fawsitt ought to also come but better that neither arrive until after May. J.E Henderson meanwhile sides with Eamon de Valera and forwards a copy of the A.A.R.I.R. resolution passed by its national executive on 9 Feb 1922 pledging support to de Valera. Thomas O’Brien refers to a school friend of his, now serving as town clerk in Cashel, Co. Tipperary, who is pro-Treaty as he believes the Republic can still be achieved within ten years in spite of the treaty. O’Brien compares de Valera to the ‘cow that gave the overflowing pail of milk and at the end gave it a vicious kick and spilled it all’.

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/05/07 Date: 19 January 1923 Title:

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, Dublin

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Extent: 2 pages

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Scope and Content: Letter referring to Mrs MacSwiney’s (Mary MacSwiney) part in endeavours to oust Lindsay Crawford and take hold of the Irish consulate in New York. Regarding the north of Ireland, Woods states: ‘I do not think they will ever settle in the North’. His nephew is imprisoned in a ship by Belfast authorities and Woods wishes he would quit the north altogether.

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/05/08 Date: 1 February 1923 Title:

TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, St Petroc, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, to P.M. Woods, 615 St Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/05/04 Date: 7 March 1922 Title:

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Extent: 1 page (2 copies)

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Scope and Content: Letter referring to the upcoming Dail elections in Ireland, Fawsitt remarks these will not be held in the six north-eastern counties. He goes on to state: ‘partition is one of the greatest stumbling blocks to national unity, and whilst any part of Ireland continues to be politically severed from the rest of the country there will always remain the elements of unrest and political dissatisfaction’. The internment of Woods nephew on a ship is also referred to, Fawsitt stating that reports on conditions on board are unknown as reporting is censored. Also in reply to Woods view on his nephew quitting the north of Ireland, Fawsitt states: ‘I don’t at all agree with your view that our people in the six north-eastern counties should quit the place. That is what the enemies of our country would desire...’

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, Dublin

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Extent: 3 pages

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Scope and Content: Letter forwarding a letter Woods has received from Timothy F. Toohey of 2375 Lincoln Avenue, New York, also an employee of John Hancock’s insurance company. Woods refers to being disturbed by news reports of events in Limerick.

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/05/05 Date: 3 May 1922 Title:

Reference: PR81/1/3/I/05/09 Date: 26 May 1923 Title:

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, Dublin

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Extent: 2 pages

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Scope and Content: Letter requesting Fawsitt look into options of employment for a Miss McLaughlin of Co. Tyrone now living in Philadelphia who wishes to work in Dublin as a typist or stenographer.

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Extent: 2 pages

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Scope and Content: Letter referring to having just seen Fawsitt, evidently in New York. Woods regrets that he had a ten year old bottle of Irish whiskey for Fawsitt but it is too late now to get it to him. Also enclosed is a letter from Hugh Caine thanking Fawsitt for his blackthorn stick and regretting he could not meet Fawsitt during his visit to the US. This letter has a postscript in the hand of Margaret Rausch apologising for Fawsitt not receiving a bottle of whiskey, she had hidden the bottle from view and Woods had forgotten to present same to Fawsitt.

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