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/D/1/20
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Reference: PR81/1/4/D/1/24
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7 August 1923
(August 1923)
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Telegram and TS. copy of Telegram from Dowdall, Royal Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, to Diarmaid Fawsitt, copy of Ministry Economics, Dublin
TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Room 216, (Government Buildings), to Professor Joseph B. Whelehan, T.D.
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Extent: 1 page (5 copies)
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: A short telegram, either from J.C. or T.P. Dowdall to Fawsitt. Note states: ‘Hope you will act as advised’. Date stamp is illegible.
Scope and Content: Copy of letter sent by Fawsitt enclosing a memo or typescript copy of a private conversation between Fawsitt and Whelehan. The letter requests Whelehan to verify the contents of the conversation summary and for any corrections.
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/1/25
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(August 1923)
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MS. Note by Diarmaid Fawsitt about LC (Lindsay Crawford) report and GA (Gaelic American) article
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/1/21
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7 August 1923
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Extent: 2 pages
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TS. Memo or summary of private conversation between Diarmaid Fawsitt, and Professor Joseph B. Whelehan, T.D.
Scope and Content: List of bullet points by Fawsitt listing similarities between the contents of the Crawford report and the Gaelic American article, for example, both contain references to Fawsitt visiting friends in Boston.
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Extent: 1 page (3 copies)
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Scope and Content: Copy of Fawsitt’s account of a private conversation between himself and J.B. Whelehan. The conversation surrounds the circumstances under which the report Fawsitt submitted to Professor Whelehan came into the hands of the Minister Joseph McGrath, Minister Desmond Fitzgerald, and Secretary Gordon Campbell. The conversation recounts that the report was left on Whelehan’s desk and the three men accessed it without Whelehan’s permission.
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/1/26
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(August - November 1923)
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MS. Note by Diarmaid Fawsitt listing important dates concerning his dismissal from the civil service
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: List of dates including reference to dates of publication of ‘Eire’ issue and other publications leading up to the date of Fawsitt’s dismissal from the civil service.
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/1/22
Date:
10 August 1923
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TS. Copy letter from Professor Joseph B. Whelehan, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, to Diarmaid Fawsitt, Ministry of Industry and Commerce
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/2
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1922 - 1923
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Extent: 1 page (2 copies)
File of newspaper clippings kept by Diarmaid Fawsitt relating to Irish-American pro and anti treaty factions and reports of a spy in Irish government offices
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Scope and Content: Letter in reply to Fawsitt’s letter enclosing typescript memo or summary of conversation between the two men. Whelehan states: ‘your memo contains many serious errors’ and was a ‘private conversation’. Whelehan states that he personally can be brought forward to bear the facts of the leak of the report if required.
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Extent: 7 items
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Scope and Content: Small collection of newspaper clippings located with letters concerning Fawsitt’s dismissal from the civil service of the Irish Free State. The newspaper articles contain reports of a spy in Irish government offices, the identity of the person is not revealed.
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/1/23
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Reference: PR81/1/4/D/2/01
Date:
18 August 1923
(1922)
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Newspaper cutting from unidentified publication with article concerning handover of Registry of Joint Stock Companies and Registry of Business Names to the Provisional Government of Ireland
MS. Note by Diarmaid Fawsitt recounting Statement of Margaret O’Reilly, 76 Haddington Road, Dublin
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Extent: 2 pages
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Extent: 1 sheet
Scope and Content: A small note recalling a statement made by a Margaret O’Reilly: ‘ I heard from a friend that the official referred to is a Mr Diarmaid Fawsitt who was consul at New York’. This appears to refer to a newspaper article noting that an official in the government has been dismissed for leaking a secret government report (unrelated to Crawford or Whelehan reports). Fawsitt notes that O’Reilly is unwilling to reveal the source, but her statement was witnessed by Miss Garrigan (Lily Garrigan), Mrs O’Gorman, Mrs Griffith, and Mrs Collins.
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Scope and Content: An article titled ‘Registry of Companies’ referring to the fact that ‘today’ Diarmaid Fawsitt took over control of the Registry of Joint Stock Companies and Newspapers, Jury’s Hotel, and of the offices of the Registry of Business Names, Coleraine House. The article notes he is acting on behalf of Mr Kevin O’Higgins, Minister of Economic Affairs, dating the article to the first three quarters of 1922. Unidentified newspaper.
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