PR81/1/2 New York Consulate (Jul 1919 - Oct 1921)
PR81/1/2/F Irish Relief Funds, Accounts of the Irish-Consul, New York, of sums received for humanitarian relief in Ireland (1920 – 1921)
Reference: PR81/1/2/F/04
Date: 30 July 1921 - 13 August 1921
Title:
Articles by J.L. Fawsitt in The Irish World Newspaper on Irish Relief Funds in the United States
Reference: PR81/1/2/F
Date: 1920 - 1921
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Extent: 4 items
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Title:
Irish Relief Funds, Accounts of the Irish-Consul, New York, of sums received for humanitarian relief in Ireland
Scope and Content: 1. ‘An Acknowledgment’ of sums received by the Irish consul in New York for the purposes of Irish relief during the war of independence. The article sets out Fawsitt’s position that the sums received be at his ‘discretion in the advancement of the best interests of the Republic of Ireland’. The article includes a list of names and sums of contributions received. 2. ‘Irish Republican Prisoners Dependent Fund’, notes receipt of $5,253.98 in 6 months previous, with list of donors. 3. Damaged. ‘Funds Sent to Ireland...By Consul...’. Lists sums of $15,214, including $2,000 for the Irish White Cross Fund per Messrs De Lisser and P.L. Ryan. 4. Handwritten draft of letters as above, with blank spaces left for sums of money.
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Extent: 22 items
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Scope and Content: Copies of account sheets of sums received from American subscriptions raised for the relief of the people of Ireland during the war of independence with Great Britain. Accounts referred to include the Irish White Cross Fund, Tralee Relief Fund, and Cork Relief Fund. A small number of funds mention money raised for specific individual cases including relief of republican prisoners. A cheque book and account book detailing sums received for these funds at the office of the Irish Consul-General, New York, are also present (ref. PR81/1/2/F/21-22).
Reference: PR81/1/2/F/01
Date: c.1920
Reference: PR81/1/2/F/05
Date: 2 July 1921
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Letter from Dr F.P. McCarthy to President Eamon de Valera
Title:
Account of sums raised for the Irish White Cross and for the relief of prisioner Patrick Hayes, Ballykinlar Camp, Co. Down.
Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Fragile. Letter or memo from Dr F.P.McCarthy, Professor Bacteriology, Tufts Medical and Dental School, Boston, Massachusetts, to President de Valera. The letter sets an outline for organisation of a medical unit for ‘Irish Relief purposes’. In addressing de Valera the writer is careful to emphasise the non-political motivation of his letter: ‘The failure of the Red Cross to go to Ireland prompts our action. We are approaching our proposed activity from purely humanitarian standpoints’. Also mentioned is a target objective of raising $25,000 by 15 December, by method of public appeal.
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Damaged, fragile. Record of two cheques received for two Irish Relief Funds: i) Irish White Cross Dublin, £277 from American Aux. Irish White Cross, NYC and P.H. Foley. ii) Irish R. Dependents’ Fund Dublin, £42:18:3 from Ethan Allen Council and Timothy Hayes for personal needs of Patrick Hayes, Hut 4, E.Co. Camp, Ballykinler (Ballykinlar), Co. Down, an interment camp.
Reference: PR81/1/2/F/06
Date: 16 May 1921
Reference: PR81/1/2/F/02
Date: c.1920
Title:
Account Sheet, Cumann na mBan of Ireland Fund, receipt of sums received from Cumann na mBan, New York
Title:
Instructions for establishing a Boston organisation for the raising of Irish humanitarian relief funds
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Extent: 3 pages
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Single line account of $600 received per Miss H.Kelly, Treasurer, Cumann na mBan New York. (3 copies)
Scope and Content: An instruction for setting up or establishing an Irish relief organisation in the Boston area of the United States. The instructions include reflection on the ‘high mortality amoung (sic) the children’. The aim of the unit is ‘for the immediate relief of the suffering people of Ireland’.
Reference: PR81/1/2/F/07
Date: 30 April 1921
Title:
Account Sheet, Irish White Cross Fund, receipt of sums received from the Boston Unit, Irish White Cross
Reference: PR81/1/2/F/03
Date: c.1920
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Extent: 3 pages
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Title:
Report on Irish Relief in America and the position of the American Red Cross by Dr Livingston Ferrand
Scope and Content: Account of $500 received per Miss Monie English, Treasurer, American Aux., Boston Unit, Irish White Cross. (3 copies)
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Extent: 5 pages
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Scope and Content: Includes statement by Dr Livingston Ferrand, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Red Cross on reasons why the American Red Cross has not embarked on relief work in ireland. (4 copies)
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