Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt
PR81/1/2 New York Consulate (Jul 1919 - Oct 1921)
Reference: PR81/1/2/E/02
Date: c.1920
Reference: PR81/1/2/E/06
Date: 1921
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Address to Dr Kelly and Friends of Ireland (by Diarmaid Fawsitt)
Printed Booklet on Ireland’s Markets and American Trade, issued by the Office of the Irish Consul-General, New York
Extent: 40 pages (in 2 parts)
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Scope and Content: Fragile, damaged. Typescript copy of lecture or address to Doctor Kelly and Friends of Ireland at the first American branch of Cumann na mBan. Includes: ‘we in Ireland are not struggling for a mere Parliament in College Green... we are fighting for the ancient and glorious civiliation of Ireland’. The address also sets out the geographical size, population, minerals and industrial potential of Ireland.
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Extent: 11 pages
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Scope and Content: Publication titled ‘Ireland’s Markets, or a New Field for American Trade’. Issued from the Office of the Irish Consul-General, 119 Nassau Street, New York, Suite 1025-9, Temple Court. Includes a table with imports to Ireland for the years 1915, 1917 and 1919, and a table of exports from Ireland for the same years. Irish exports referred to include farm produce, food and drink stuffs, raw materials and manufactured goods.
Reference: PR81/1/2/E/03
Date: 12 September 1920
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Addresses by President Eamon de Valera, Consul Diarmaid Fawsitt and Secretary Harry Boland delivered at pro-Irish rally in Boston, United States of America
Reference: PR81/1/2/E/07
Date: 18 December 1920
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Extent: 21 pages (2 copies)
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Printed Booklet on Impact of War of Independence on Irish Industry by George W. Russell, Dublin
Scope and Content: Includes a short address by Eamon de Valera at Boston Common, and more detailed addresses by Fawsitt, Consul-General of the Irish Republic in America, and Harry L. Boland, Honorary Secretary of Dail Eireann at the Mechanics Building, Boston. Fawsitt’s address refers to the limitations placed on the freedoms of Irish people by coercive acts of the British Parliament, ‘any Irish subject can be sentenced to death for political offenses by ... court martials’.
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Extent: 15 pages
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Scope and Content: Publication titled ‘England’s War on Irish Industry’. Reprinted from the Irish Homestead, Dublin. Includes ‘A Plea for Justice’ by George W. Russell, and ‘Report on the Destruction by the British Forces of Irish Co-operative Creameries’. The article lists damages inflicted by ‘armed forces of the Crown’ on creameries across Ireland. Claims for damages are listed for creameries in counties Tipperary, Limerick, Sligo, Wexford, Cork, Kerry, Galway, Laois, Donegal, Clare and Roscommon. Cork creameries mentioned include Milford Co-op Creamery and Banteer Co-op Creamery. Each item on the list gives details of the claim and reason or motive for the attack (reprisals).
Reference: PR81/1/2/E/04
Date: 14 September 1920
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Address by Consul Diarmaid Fawsitt, New York, to Irish County Club at Boston regarding the role of the newly founded Irish consul office in New York
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Extent: 26 pages (2 copies)
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Scope and Content: Copy of public address by Fawsitt before the Central Council of the Irish County Clubs, Boston. Describes Ireland as ‘the most heavily taxed country in the world’. Thanks subscribers in the United States for contributing to the land bank in Ireland and accuses England of a policy ‘to turn Ireland into one large grazing ranch’. The address also outlines the consul’s role in New York City, for example in officiating documents required in Irish courts for the land commission.
Reference: PR81/1/2/E/08
Date: 2 September 1921
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Newspaper article with report on Irish Consul’s work in America printed in the Irish Independent
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Extent: 1 sheet
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Scope and Content: Copy of newspaper article in the Irish Independent recounting statement given by Fawsitt to the newspaper in relation to the Irish Consul’s work in America. The article refers to specific outcomes of the consul’s work including the achievement in securing direct trading between Ireland and the United States. The Independent reports that this has resulted in an increase in trade by fifty per cent. Fawsitt ‘was instrumental in securing the present direct freight service and in having the cargo facilities on the passenger boats made available for the transport of high-class freights requiring refrigeration in transit’ (butter and eggs).
Reference: PR81/1/2/E/05
Date: c.1920
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Article on Irish Nationalism and British Imperialism by unidentified writer
Extent: 9 pages (6 copies)
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Scope and Content: Typescript article, possibly by Fawsitt, titled ‘Ireland’s War Against Imperialism’. The article sets out English occupation of Ireland as part of an empire and that Irish independence would be the beginning of the end of the British empire: ‘Victory for Ireland, her freedom from the imperial yoke, would ultimately lead to the irrevocable defeat of imperialism everywhere’. Also, ‘Ireland...would remove the keystone from the now tottering arch of imperialism’.
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