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/07
Date: 13 October 1922 - 6 June 1928
Twomey asks if Fawsitt has any information on Cosgrave’s apparent plans to put an embargo on all imported flour after 1 April (1923).
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Correspondence between Diarmaid Fawsitt and Richard Twomey, Kincora,
Moreton, Cheshire, England Level: file
Extent: 10 items
Scope and Content: Correspondence originally filed by Diarmaid Fawsitt in folder marked ‘R. Twomey, Kincora, Moreton Cheshire, re. flour imports’. These letters were previously located together with letters from Diarmuid Twomey, residing at the same address, Kincora.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/07/05 Date: 13 March 1923 Title:
TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Trade Branch, (Ministry of Industry and Commerce), Upper Merrion Street, (Dublin), to R. Twomey (Richard Twomey), Kincora, Moreton, Cheshire, England
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Extent: 1 page (2 copies)
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Reference: PR81/1/3/I/07/01 Date: 13 October 1922 Title:
Scope and Content: Letter regarding the rumoured introduction of tariffs on foreign flour imported into Ireland, Fawsitt advises that he has no knowledge of any such plans under Cosgrave’s government. Fawsitt requests that Twomey please address future personal matters to his home address and mark the letters ‘personal’.
TS. Letter from Richard Twomey, W. Vernon & Sons Ltd., Flour Mills, Cunard Building, Liverpool, England, to Mr Fawcett (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Ministry of Economics, Dail Eireann, College of Science, Dublin
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter requesting a meeting with Fawsitt in Dublin on Tuesday next. The subject of the meeting is any information Fawsitt may have on information reaching Twomey of plans by the Provisional Government to introduce restrictions or tariffs on the import of English made flour. Twomey wonders if the Provisional Government are interested in establishing an Irish flour mill.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/07/06 Date: 13 April 1928 Title:
TS. Letter from Richard Twomey, Kincora, Moreton, Cheshire, England, to Diarmuid (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
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Extent: 1 page
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Reference: PR81/1/3/I/07/02 Date: 28 October 1922 Title:
Scope and Content: Letter in response to Fawsitt’s letter of 4th April (1928). Twomey has been in contact with Messrs Bracken Forsythe & Company, 16 Temple Street, Liverpool, regarding ‘a good cream connection’. In respect of possible tariffs on flour, Twomey comments: ‘we are all sceptical here’. The family hope to be present in Dublin in August for the Tailteann games.
MS. Letter from Dick Twomey (Richard Twomey), Kinocra, Moreton, Cheshire, to Diarmuid (Diarmaid Fawsitt, Dublin)
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter apologising Twomey was unable to meet Fawsitt, this was owing to a sudden business problem requiring his attention.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/07/07 Date: 18 April 1928 Title:
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/07/03 Date: 31 October 1922 Title:
TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt to Messrs Bracken, Forsythe & Co, 16 Temple Street, Liverpool
TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, St Petroc, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, to R. Twomey (Richard Twomey), Kincora, Moreton, Cheshire, England
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Extent: 1 page
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Extent: 1 page (2 copies)
Scope and Content: Letter thanking the company for forwarding information regarding the market for Irish cream in Liverpool (information no longer enclosed).
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Scope and Content: Letter marked ‘personal’, reassuring Twomey that he has received message from the hotel porter that Twomey would be unable to meet the Fawsitts although Mrs Fawsitt was disappointed.
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/07/04 Date: 12 March 1923 Title:
Reference: PR81/1/3/I/07/08 Date: 23 May 1928 Title:
TS. Letter from Richard Twomey, W. Vernon & Sons Ltd, Flour Mills, Cunard Building, Liverpool, to Diarmaid Fawsitt, The Ministry of Industry and Trade, Dail Eireann, Dublin, Ireland
TS. Letter from Richard Twomey, Kincora, Moreton, Cheshire, to Diarmuid Fawcett (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Irish Industrial Development Society, Dublin, Ireland
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Extent: 1 page and 1 envelope
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Extent: 1 page
Scope and Content: Letter requesting information for a friend seeking to purchase pigs for export to Liverpool. Specifically they are looking for pigs over the age of 12 to 16 weeks and ‘white Yorkshire’ breed. In the letter Twomey mistakenly writes for Yorkshire ‘peas’ instead of pigs (see subsequent correspondence).
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Scope and Content: Letter stamped received, ‘Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Trade Branch, 13 March 1923’. The contents of the letter remark upon the recent case of Lord Justice O’Connor over a millers’ strike, where an arbitrators award was accepted by the owners after a meeting with President Cosgrave.
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