Diarmaid L. Fawsitt Archive Section 1 Desc. List.

Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt

PR81/1/5 Industrial Development and Trade (1920s-1930s)

Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01

Date: 31 August 1921 - 22 November 1921

Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/04

Date:

7 September 1921

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TS. Letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Gresham Hotel, Dublin, to Miss Somers (E.N. Somers), Secretary, D.I.D.A. (Dublin Industrial Development Association), 12 Molesworth Street, Dublin

Correspondence file of letters to and from Diarmaid Fawsitt relating to the All Ireland Industrial Conference (1921) in Dublin, and minutes of meetings of the conference’s Economic Committee

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Scope and Content: Correspondence originally filed by Diarmaid Fawsitt in folder marked ‘1. D.I.D.A. (me), 2. I.I.D.A. (me), 3. Dail Commission of Inquiry, Dublin’. The subjects evidently refer to the Dublin Industrial Development Association and Irish Industrial Development Association. The D.I.D.A were responsible for hosting and administering the the All Ireland Industrial Conference of 1921 in Dublin.

Scope and Content: Letter advising Miss Somers that he, Fawsitt, will call before he returns south on Saturday. Evidently written in reply to Miss Somers’ request for a call about the upcoming All Ireland Industrial Conference.

Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/05

Date:

15 September 1921

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TS. Letter from E.N. Somers, Secretary, Dublin Industrial Development Association, 12 Molesworth Street, Dublin, to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Gresham Hotel, Dublin

Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/01

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31 August 1921

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TS. Circular from E.N. Somers, Secretary, Dublin Industrial Development Association, 12 Molesworth Street, Dublin, to Diarmaid Fawsitt

Scope and Content: Letter inviting Fawsitt to serve on the Finance Committee of the All Ireland Industrial Conference. Lists names of members of the finance committee, including Sir T.C. MacArdle, Dundalk, and J.P. McKnight, City Woollen Mills, Dublin.

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Scope and Content: A circular letter setting the date for an All Ireland Industrial Conference, to be held in Dublin on 13 and 14 October 1921. The date is crossed out and corrected as 19 and 20 October 1921. The circular makes an open call for suggested inclusion of topics on the agenda for the conference, the ‘first held for eight years’.

Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/06

Date:

15 September 1921

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TS. Letter from E.N. Somers, Secretary, Dublin Industrial Development Association, 12 Molesworth Street, Dublin, to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Gresham Hotel, Dublin

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Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/02

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5 September 1921

Scope and Content: Letter requesting information for a friend who is seeking to switch from an English to an American supplier of ‘oil cake’.

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TS. Letter from E.N. Somers, Secretary, Dublin Industrial Development Association, 12 Molesworth Street, Dublin, to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Mansion House, Dublin

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Scope and Content: Letter requesting Fawsitt call Somers about the upcoming conference, All Ireland Industrial Conference, before Fawsitt leaves Dublin.

Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/07

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16 September 1921

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TS. Letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Gresham Hotel, Dublin, to Miss E Somers (E.N. Somers), Secretary, D.I.D.A. (Dublin Industrial Development Association), 12 Molesworth Street, Dublin

Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/03

Date:

6 September 1921

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TS. Circular letter from Miceal O’Dea (Michael O’Dea), Chairman of the Finance Committee, All Ireland Industrial Conference (1921) to Diarmaid Fawsitt

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Scope and Content: Letter accepting offer of invitation to serve on the Finance Committee of the upcoming All Ireland Industrial Conference in Dublin. Fawsitt also makes a suggestion for inclusion on the agenda on fiscal policy. The letter states he believes the leaders of industry and labour at the conference should give their views on ‘the subject of a fiscal policy to be pursued by self-governing Ireland in its economic relations with outside states’.

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Scope and Content: Circular letter addressed ‘Dear sirs’, outlining the benefit gained from past conferences and encouraging members to subscribe to this year’s conference. O’Dea reminds members that the conferences held in years past were crucial in ‘the registration if the first National Trade Mark of the world’, the Irish trade mark. He sets out that the last conference was held in Derry in 1913, with that for Dublin in 1914 delayed on account of the first world war.

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