Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt
PR81/1/5 Industrial Development and Trade (1920s-1930s)
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/08
Date:
16 September 1921
Thomas Jordan & Sons, Linen Handkerchief Manufacturers, Lurgan, and James Magee & Sons, Box Manufacturers, 24-26 Alfred Street, Belfast.
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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
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Extent: 1 page
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/13
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2 November 1921
Scope and Content: Letter in reply to Miss Somers’ request for any information on an American manufacturer of ‘oil cake’. Fawsitt requests further information, is it cotton or linseed cake required and what is the quantity required. Suggests firm of William Hughes & Co Inc., 516 Fifth Avenue, New York.
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TS. Minutes or notes by E.N. Somers of meeting of the Economic Committee of the All Ireland Industrial Conference held at the Dublin Industrial Development Association (Molesworth Street), Dublin
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Typed copy of minutes or notes of the ‘Economic Committee’ of the All Ireland Industrial Conference held in Dublin in 1921. Attendees referred to include J.P. O’Shea, President of the Dublin Industrial Development Association, M.F. O’Hanlon of the Irish Famers’ Union, and Mr Darrell Figgis and Mr T. Johnson of the Irish Labour Party attending in a private capacity. Matters referred to include Danish butter and the issue of the import of furniture and prices of chairs from England and Czechoslovakia (Czechia and Slovakia).
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/09
Date:
17 September 1921
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TS. Letter from Darrell Figgis, Secretary, Commission of Inquiry into the Resources and Industries of Ireland, American Chambers, 15 Lower O’Connell Street, Dublin
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter requesting a meeting with Fawsitt. Figgis explains if he cannot meet today there will be a delay in their meeting as he has to attend the Milk Inquiry Public Session.
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/10
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Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/14
Date:
21 September 1921
22 November 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
TS. Minutes or notes by E.N. Somers of meeting of the Economic Committee of the All Ireland Industrial Conference held at the Dublin Industrial Development Association (Molesworth Street), Dublin
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter inviting Fawsitt to present a paper at the All Ireland Industrial Conference, the paper to be titled: ‘Ireland’s Home and Foreign Trade’, at 11.30am on 18 October 1921. Somers also outlines a little detail about the timetable of speakers at the conference. In reply to Fawsitt’s suggestion for inclusion of fiscal policy on the agenda of the conference, Somers states: ‘this is regarded as not being desirable at the moment’.
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Extent: 3 pages
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Scope and Content: Typed copy of minutes or notes of the ‘Economic Committee’ of the All Ireland Industrial Conference held in Dublin in 1921. Matters referred to include a suggestion from J.P. McKnight of the City Woolen Mills, Dublin, for ‘re-productive employment’ in schemes around river drainages of the Barrow, Suir, and Shannon, and harnessing of water power for ‘cheaper light and cheaper power’ (electricity).
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/11
Date:
23 September 1921
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Reference: PR81/1/5/A/02
Date: 2 September 1921 - 8 December 1932
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
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Correspondence file of letters between Diarmaid Fawsitt and contacts at the Cork Industrial Development Association, Grand Parade, Cork, including Donal Cronin and Michael O’Herlihy
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter provisionally accepting invitation from Somers for Fawsitt to read a paper at the All Ireland Industrial Conference.
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Extent: 90 items
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Scope and Content: Substantial correspondence between Diarmaid Fawsitt and the Cork Industrial Development Association concerning both public and private matters. The majority of correspondence in the file are letters received from Donal Cronin. Industrial matters referred to include the Cork Spinning and Weaving Company (ref. PR81/1/5/A/02/18), Ford’s motor factory (ref. PR81/1/5/A/02/20), the tobacco industry (ref. PR81/1/5/A/02/44), and other initiatives to encourage Irish trade including ‘Irish Month’ in March 1928 (ref. PR81/1/5/A/02/46).
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/01/12
Date:
28 September 1921
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TS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Bayville, Youghal, to E.J. Riordan, Secretary, Irish Industrial Development Association Inc, 102 Grafton Street, Dublin
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter informing Riordan that Fawsitt has met with two northern firms who are to write to Mr Riordan for permission to mark their products with the Irish Trade Mark. The firms in question are:
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