Diarmaid L. Fawsitt Archive Section 1 Desc. List.

Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt

PR81/1/4/C Re-organisation of Ministries and appointment of Diarmaid Fawsitt as Assistant Secretary to Minister of

Reference: PR81/1/4/B/08/10

Date:

19 October 1922

Title:

Letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Ministry of Industry and Commerce to ‘The Minister’ (Joseph McGrath, Minister of Industry and Commerce, Provisional Government of

Industry and Commerce, Provisional Government of Ireland (Feb 1922 - Dec 1923)

Ireland) Level:

Extent: 1 page (3 copies)

item

Reference: PR81/1/4/C

Date:

3 February 1922 - 3 December 1923

Scope and Content: Letter requesting retrospective payment of salary increase from £600 to £1,000 per annum.

Title:

Re-organisation of Ministries and appointment of Diarmaid Fawsitt as Assistant Secretary to Minister of Industry and Commerce, Provisional Government of Ireland

Level:

Extent: 70 items

sub-series

Reference: PR81/1/4/B/08/11

Date:

27 October 1922

Scope and Content: Set of files belonging to Diarmaid Fawsitt, mainly copies of outgoing correspondence from Fawsitt regarding the re-organisation of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and the formation of the new Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The most substantial file contains correspondence from Fawsitt resisting the appointment of Gordon Campbell as secretary to the Minsiter of Industry and Commerce.

Title:

Letter from J. McGrath (Joseph McGrath, Minister for Industry and Commerce), Irish Provisional Government, Dublin to Mr Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt)

Level:

Extent: 1 page

item

Scope and Content: Letter declining request for retrospective payment of salary increase from £600 to £1,000 per annum.

Reference: PR81/1/4/B/09

Date:

11 September 1922

Reference: PR81/1/4/C/1

Date:

22 June 1922 - 20 December 1922

Title:

Letter from Secretary, Dublin Industrial Development Association, 40 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Minister of Economics, Dublin

Title:

Correspondence between Diarmaid Fawsitt and others concerning a re-organisation of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Provisional Government of Ireland

Level:

Extent: 1 page

item

Level:

Extent: 12 items

file

Scope and Content: Letter requesting Fawsitt arrange meeting with Mr J.F. O’Gorman of Messrs O’Gorman Bros Ltd., Clonmel.

Scope and Content: Series of papers originally enclosed in folder titled ‘Mr Fitzpatrick re. Co-ordination of Economic Activities of the State’, and sub-folder ‘Re Setting up of the Combined Ministeries of Economics, Trade Commerce, Labour’. Folder on government printed paper from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Aireacht um Tiuscal agus Trachtail.

Reference: PR81/1/4/B/10

Date:

12 September 1922

Title:

TS. copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Ministry of Industry and Commerce to the Secretary, Dublin Industrial Development Association, 40 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin

Level:

Extent: 1 page

item

Reference: PR81/1/4/C/1/01

Date:

22 June 1922

Scope and Content: Letter from Fawsitt to advise that he has already spoken with Mr G.F. O’Gorman of Clonmel by telephone interview.

Title:

Copy typescript report from T. MacGoilla Padraig (T. Fitzpatrick) to the Minister (of Industry and Commerce) regarding Co-ordination of the Economic Activities of the State

Level:

Extent: 4 pages (6 copies)

item

Scope and Content: Report titled ‘Co-ordination of the Economic Activities of the State’, setting out need to reform government structures to better manage the various economic policy areas overlapping the responsibilities of the ministries of agriculture, trade and commerce, finance, education, and labour. The report recommends establishing a committee to implement change.

Reference: PR81/1/4/B/11

Date:

(9 March 1922)

Title:

Newspaper cutting with black and white group photograph of Advisory Committee at Haulbowline Dockyard with the harbour and the town of Cobh visible in the background, by unknown publisher. (Damaged)

Level:

Extent: 1 sheet

item

Scope and Content: Fragile, damaged. Cutting from an unidentified newspaper with a photograph under the heading, ‘Haulbowline Dockyard’ and with caption, ‘Visit of the Advisory Commitee, Members of the Commitee Arriving at the Dockyard’. The photograph shows a group of ten men standing at a pier on Haulbowline island, Cork harbour. The island is not otherwise visible, however, the harbour, two ships, and a distant view of the town of Cobh are in the backrgound. The men are pictured wearing business attire, hats, and overcoats. Diarmaid Fawsitt is clearly identified standing fifth from left.

Reference: PR81/1/4/C/1/02

Date:

19 August 1922

Title:

Copy typescript letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Aireacht um Gnothal Tionscail (Ministry of Economic Affairs), to the Minister of Economic Affairs

Level:

Extent: 2 pages (4 copies)

item

Scope and Content: Letter suggesting changes to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the creation of a new Ministry of Transport and Fisheries.

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