Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt
PR81/1/4 Civil Service, Provisional Government, and Irish Free State (1922-1934)
Reference: PR81/1/4/C/6/04
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Reference: PR81/1/4/C/7/03
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3 December 1923
17 May 1923
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Letter from T.A. Smiddy, Irish Free State, to W.L Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Hotel Pennsylvania, New York
Newspaper cutting from the Evening Herald reporting laying of new telegraph cable across the Atlantic from Rockaway, USA, to Havre, France via the Azores
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Scope and Content: A news report noting the laying of the American end of a new transatlantic telegraph cable, reportedly the first such cable laid since 1910 by the Postal Telegraph Commercial Cable Company of the United States.
Scope and Content: Personal letter, Smiddy states he is sorry to learn than Fawsitt has been placed ‘in the Doctor’s hands’, and he states he hopes to meet him in New York early next week.
Reference: PR81/1/4/C/7
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Reference: PR81/1/4/C/7/04
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25 May 1923
9 April 1923 - 14 September 1923
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Letter correspondence between Diarmaid Fawsitt and others regarding Fawsitt’s unofficial visit to New York City and other Ministry of Industry and Commerce matters
Transcript and manuscript memo on linen manufacture, Department of Trade and Shipping (Roinn um Trachtail agus Longseaoireacht) by unidentified writer
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Scope and Content: Letters found with damaged file on American-European Finance Corporation. These items appear to have been deliberately torn or damaged. The personal correspondence dates to the period of Fawsitt’s visit to New York in the summer of 1923. Other items are of an official nature relating to Fawsitt’s role as Assistant Secretary at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.
Scope and Content: A memo referring to the suject of linen manufacture and the establishment of flax spinning in Ireland. References are made to the Assistant Minister, Mr Campbell (Gordon Campbell), Mr Ferguson, Mr Gallan of Navan, Mr Brock, and to the Munster Flax Development Company. The writer notes that the Secretary has provided Mr Ferguson with the file and that he has suggested the writer attend a conference on the subject of the linen manufacture and flax spinning.
Reference: PR81/1/4/C/7/01
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9 April 1923
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Transcript letter or report on tariffs from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Trade and Shipping Department, to Gordon Campbell, Secretary, Ministry of Industry and Commerce
Reference: PR81/1/4/C/7/05
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25 May 1923
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TS. Copy letter from T.L. Hughes, Tobacco Specialist, Foodstuffs Division, Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washingon (D.C., United States), to Mr J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Pennsylvania Hotel, New York City
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Scope and Content: A letter or report in response to a minute from the President requesting information on any sub- department responsible for examining fiscal matters. The minute requests advice as to how to provide the correct machinery for same if a sub-department does not currently exist. In response Fawsitt sets out that the Commission on Reconstruction and Development may have the powers to investigate the matter within their existing terms of reference. Fawsitt outlines that it would be desirable to put such work in place ‘very soon’. The situation in America is criticised in that the tariff question has become political rather than scientific. Fawsitt suggests that Ireland can learn from this and must work to ‘eliminate the political element in tariff making’. The recommendation is made that Dail Eireann must decide policy on tariffs but an Executive Council with a panel of experts should be appointed to manage the daily question and greater detail of fixing tariff rates within the policy parameters set out by the Dail.
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Scope and Content: Letter regarding tariffs on the import of tobacco into Ireland. Hughes regrets being unable to meet Fawsitt, and asks him to confirm information on the development of the tobacco industry in the Irish Free State.
Reference: PR81/1/4/C/7/06
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7 June 1923 - 8 June 1923
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Letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Ministry of Industry and Commerce to Mr Duggan (Eamonn Duggan), forwarding letter from Sir Thomas Callan MacArdle, St Margaret’s, Dundalk, to Diarmuid Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Dublin
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Scope and Content: Letter from Fawsitt requesting advice from Mr Duggan regarding a letter he has received from T.C. MacArdle. MacArdle’s letter refers to his plans to sell the Dundalk and Newry Steampacket Company owing to ‘inequitable’ income taxes of £50,000. MacArdle is reluctant to sell and states this is ‘the last independent Company in Ireland’. He plans to see President Cosgrave about the matter. Mr Duggan’s reply to Fawsitt states that this company and the Limerick Steamship Company are the last two left in the state and recommends Fawsitt speak to Mr O’Brien about the tax matters.
Reference: PR81/1/4/C/7/02
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(May 1923)
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Newspaper cutting, American opinion on end of Irish Civil War
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Scope and Content: Newspaper article from unidentified American publication with article titled ‘Evidence from Ireland’. The writer is of the view that the end of the civil war is imminent. The opinion is given that ‘southern Ireland wants peace, wants to see whether the Free State can do what Griffith dreamed it could.’
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