Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt
PR81/1/1/D Secretary, Cork Industrial Development Association (1915 – 1918)
Reference: PR81/1/1/C/06/06
Date:
(18 October 1915)
Title:
Draft Text, Outline Summary, ‘What Could Germany do for Ireland?’ by unknown author (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
Reference: PR81/1/1/D
Date: 8 November 1915 - 24 February 1918
Title:
Diarmaid Fawsitt’s file on Cork Industrial Development Association from around the period of Fawsitt’s role as secretary to the association
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Extent: 10 pages
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Scope and Content: A typescript document outlining subject headings for a book or series of chapters, titled ‘What Could Germany do for Ireland?’. The document includes subject headings for nineteen intended chapters, two of which are present (refer to PR81/1/1/C/06/07 and 08).
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Extent: 8 items
sub-series
Scope and Content: Small file of papers kept by Diarmaid Fawsitt, Secretary, Cork Industrial Development Association. Includes annual report of 1916 and texts of lectures and other papers delivered by Fawsitt on Cork industry and trade. (Related material under reference VEC/B/IDA)
Reference: PR81/1/1/C/06/07
Date:
(18 October 1915)
Title:
Draft Text, Chapter Titled ‘The Gateway of Europe’ by unknown author (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
Reference: PR81/1/1/D/01
Date: 8 November 1915
Title: Level:
Letter from JCM to EJ Riordan, 102 Grafton Street, Dublin
Level:
Extent: 13 pages
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Extent: 7 pages
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Scope and Content: Typescript chapter for book or newspaper article, titled ‘Chapter 1. The Gateway of Europe’. Note, this item is described as Chapter 6 in the outline summary document (ref. PR81/1/1/C/06/06).
Scope and Content: Letter from JCM to EJ Riordan, 102 Grafton Street, Dublin, outlining the role of the Cork and Belfast branches of the Industrial Development Associations and in particular the role of organisers engaging with shopkeepers and other businesses in supporting subscriptions to the association. The letter states at its outset that despite ‘fairly successful branches... the real work of the organisation should be in Dublin’.
Reference: PR81/1/1/C/06/08
Date:
(18 October 1915)
Title:
Draft Text, Chapter Titled ‘Ireland Under Irish Parliaments’ by unknown author (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
Level:
Extent: 6 pages
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Reference: PR81/1/1/D/02
Date: 15 January 1917
Scope and Content: Typescript chapter for book or newspaper article, titled ‘Ireland Under Irish Parliaments’. Note, this item is described as Chapter 15 in the outline summary document (ref. PR81/1/1/C/06/06).
Title:
Report by Diarmaid Fawsitt, Cork Industrial Development Association, on the positive potential for the manufacture of cement in Cork
Level:
Extent: 9 pages
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Scope and Content: Report by Fawsitt as Secretary of Cork Industrial Development Association (CIDA) on a ‘Proposal to Establish a Cork Portland Cement Manufactory’. The report sets out the advantages of locating a cement works in Cork: ‘limestone and clay or shale, occur in close proximity to each other on sites on the Harbour’. The report also includes a list of total imports of cement through Cork harbour from 1903 to 1916, and outlines the scale of the operation, ‘a mill of the size contemplated would require the services of some 60 hands’.
Reference: PR81/1/1/C/07
Date: 9 December 1915
Title:
Letter from Major L.B. Friend, British Military, Headquarters, Irish Command, Parkgate, Dublin to Mr Jeremiah L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Cork
Level:
Extent: 1 page (2 copies)
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Scope and Content: Letter addressed to Mr Jeremiah L. Fawsitt of Cork, informing him that by returning to County Cork he has rendered himself ‘liable to summary expulsion or arrest and imprisonment’. The letter requests Fawsitt to ‘live quietly and conduct yourself as a loyal British Subject should’ or face future arrest under the Defence of the Realm Regulations. This letter quotes the earlier order by the ‘Competent Military Authority at Queenstown (Cobh)’ of 27 May 1915, that Fawsitt should leave county Cork and not return without written permission from the Competent Military Authority or Naval Authority. The letter, unsigned, is sent from Major General L.B. Friend, Headquarters, Irish Command, Parkgate, Dublin. (2 copies)
Reference: PR81/1/1/D/03
Date: (13 June 1917)
Title: Level:
Cork Industrial Development Association, Fourteenth Annual Report, 1916
Extent: 64 pages
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Scope and Content: Printed copy of C.I.D.A’s Fourteenth Annual Report, presented by Fawsitt at C.I.D.A meeting, 13 June 1917. The report summarises the association’s activity and achievements of the past year, in particular the success of bringing Henry Ford & Son to Cork (p.22). The report also includes a list of names of C.I.D.A officers and council. Fawsitt addresses the report to the Lord Mayor of Cork, Councillor T.C. Butterfield, with thanks for his role in promoting industry in Cork.
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