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/14/11
Date:
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/14/15
Date:
10 June 1932 - 11 June 1932
4 November 1933
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MS. Letter from J.C.D. (James Charles Dowdall), Dowdall O’Mahoney & Co. Limited, Margarine Manufacturers and Butter Merchants, Cork, to J.L. (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
TS. Letter from F.M. Henry, Secretary, Committee on Reinstatement of Civil Servants, Department of Finance, Saorstat Eireann, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin, to Diarmaid Fawsitt, St Petroc, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter regretting Dowdall’s delayed reply to Fawsitt. Promises to ‘endeavour’ to do as Fawsitt wishes. A note at the bottom of the letter states: ‘I am beginning to feel the passing of the years & feel I am trying to do too much’.
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter requesting confirmation that a James J. Baskerville of Ardnacrusha Power House, Limerick, had served in the Consular Service in the United States in 1919 under Diarmaid Fawsitt as ‘Irish Consul General and Trade Commissioner’. A manuscript copy of reply from Fawsitt is on the reverse.
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/14/16
Date:
7 November 1933
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TS. Letter from E.D. Burca, Secretary, Department of Finance, Saorstat Eireann, Dublin, to Diarmaid Fawsitt, St Petroc, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/14/12
Date:
(1 July 1932)
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Extent: 1 page
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TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, St Petroc, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, to F. Aiken (Frank Aiken), T.D., Minister for Defence, Parkgate, Dublin
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Scope and Content: Letter acknowledging receipt of Fawsitt’s application in connection with position relative to the Land Act (1933).
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter incorrectly dated 1930 and corrected to 1932 regarding application to any vacancy in the National Army for a Judge-Advocate-General. In the letter Fawsitt sets out his longstanding service as a republican dating back to 1900 when he was ‘a member of a separatist organisation’, and first chairman of the committee of the Cork Volunteers. States he is now a practicing barrister-at-law and on the Attorney-General’s panel of state consul. Fawsitt also outlines he has been a supporter of the Fianna Fail Party since its establishment.
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/14/17
Date:
8 November 1933
Title:
TS. Letter from P. Little, Office of the Parliamentary Secretary to the President, Saorstat Eireann, to Diarmaid Fawsitt, St Petroc, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter acknowledging receipt of Fawsitt’s letter of 6 November. The letter states the hope that Fawsitt will be found a civil service position either in the Land Commission or some other suitable government department.
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/14/13
Date:
8 July 1932
Title:
TS. Letter from Frank Aiken, Department of Defence, Dublin, to Diarmaid Fawsitt, St Petroc, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/14/18
Date:
8 November 1933
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Level:
Extent: 1 page
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MS. Letter from D. McCullough, McCullough’s Pianoforte and Music Showrooms, Musical Instrument Manufactory, Dawson Street, Dublin, to Diarmaid Fawsitt
Scope and Content: Letter in response to Fawsitt’s letter of 1 July (1932). Aiken advises he has filed Fawsitt’s application should a civilian Judge Advocat General vacancy become available in future.
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter advising Fawsitt that McCullough and his wife have spoken to a number of persons on Fawsitt’s behalf to use their influence in his favour. Presumably relates to Fawsitt’s application for reinstatement to the civil service. Names mentioned include Dr Jim Ryan.
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/14/14
Date:
6 October 1933 - 9 October 1933
Title:
MS. Telephone Memo and Memo of Meeting between Diarmaid Fawsitt, Joseph Connolly,
Reference: PR81/1/4/D/14/19
Date:
11 November 1933
and Sean Lemass, Minister for Industry and Commerce, Dublin Level: item Extent: 1 page Scope and Content:
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TS. Letter from the Secretary, Department of Local Government and Public Health, Saorstat Eireann to D. Fairfield (Diarmaid Fawsitt), St Petroc, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin
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Extent: 1 page
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Notes by Fawsitt in relation to a telephone call received from Mr Connolly (Joseph Connolly), secretary to the Minister for Industry and Commerce, Sean Lemass. A note of a meeting between Fawsitt and Lemass details an invitation by Lemass for Fawsitt to apply for chairmanship of the reformed commission on food prices. The offer is declined by Fawsitt.
Scope and Content: Letter acknowledging receipt of Fawsitt’s letter dated 4 November, in respect of an application for position of Lay Commissioner on the Appeal Tribunal, to be established under the Land Act (1933).
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