Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt
PR81/1/3 Anglo-Irish Treaty, Ulster Special Mission and Civil War (1921-1929)
Reference: PR81/1/3/B/01
Date: 20 October 1921
Reference: PR81/1/3/B/04
Date: 1921
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Peace Conference Memorandum on Dissolution Act Clause (Memo IX), written by the Economic Relations Committee (Department of Economic Affairs, Dublin)
Economic Relations Committee Circular from P. McGilligan, Department of Economic Affairs, Dail Eireann
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Scope and Content: Circular from Department of Economic Affairs, Economic Relations Committee, 76 Harcourt Street, Dublin. Contains a list of twelve documents referred to as memos, apparently circulated to members of the Economic Relations Committee. Documents mentioned include Memo XVIII Special Trade Agreement with Great Britain. A handwritten postscript by P. McGilligan (Patrick McGilligan) refers to a volume of enclosed confidential papers forwarded to J.L. Fawsitt from Mr O’Neill.
Scope and Content: 1. Typescript final draft of text for inclusion in dissolution act ‘if trade and kindred matters are to be negotiated by separate treaties’. Sets out Irish position on free trade and free movement of goods, and citizens. (2 pages) 2. Draft typescript as above with corrections.
Reference: PR81/1/3/B/05
Date: 1921
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Reference: PR81/1/3/B/02
Date: 1921
Peace Conference Memorandum on Customs Union (Memo XIV), written by the Economic Relations Committee (Department of Economic Affairs, Dublin)
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Peace Conference Memorandum on Trade Tariffs (Memo VII), written by the Economic Relations Committee (Department of Economic Affairs, Dublin)
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Scope and Content: Document possibly Memo XIV, Preliminary Note on a Customs Union referred to in Circular from Economic Relations Committee. Sets out terms Irish delegates seek to agree with British delegates on the subject of imports, exports, and customs duties. Also present is a page titled Economics Department setting out the three distinct stages in the negotiations over trade: 1) securing full fiscal freedom, 2) drafting a commercial convention, and 3) framing of tariffs.
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Scope and Content: 1. Copy of memorandum referred to as Memo VII on Circular from Economic Relations Committee, known as ‘Memorandum on Condition V’. Condition or Clause V from the Peace Conference stated the need ‘to avert the possibility of ruinous trade wars’. The memorandum on Condition V sets out the Irish response to this, using examples of Canada and India to demonstrate precedence for the independent right of Ireland to raise tariffs on English goods. ‘In the case of a large and a small nation desiring to live side by side in amity it is surely the small nation which requires safeguards and protection against aggression’. (22 pages) 2. Copy of memorandum as above, with addition of four appendices. (23 pages)
Reference: PR81/1/3/B/06
Date: 15 October 1921
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Peace Conference Memorandum on Trade Agreement (Memo XV) by Liam de Roiste on behalf of the Economic Relations Committee (Department of Economic Affairs, Dublin)
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Extent: 4 pages
Reference: PR81/1/3/B/03
Date: 1921
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Scope and Content: Document referenced as Memo XV, Notes on a Trade Agreement with the English Government, referred to in Circular from Economic Relations Committee. Examines Clause V of the conditions of peace set out by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Recommends defending Ireland’s need to have protective tariffs, and sets out Ireland’s relative advantages and disadvantages in trade balance with Britain.
Peace Conference Memorandum on Commercial Convention between Great Britain and Ireland (Memo VIII), written by the Economic Relations Committee (Department of Economic Affairs, Dublin)
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Scope and Content: 1. Note outlining structure or plan of ‘Reciprocal Commercial Convention’ with sixteen numbered points. (2 pages) 2. Early draft of document ‘Commercial Convention between Great Britain and Ireland’, circulated as Memo VIII by the Economic Relations Committee. This draft includes portions of existing trade or shipping treaties between Great Britain and other nations including the United States, Bulgaria, and Japan. Contents include references to trade, reciprocal freedoms of commerce and navigation, consular administration of estates, imports and exports (‘most favoured nation treatment’), dumping of goods, fisheries, internal trade duties, vessels, cargoes and mail ships. (23 pages) 3. Typescript draft of document ‘Commercial Convention between Great Britain and Ireland’, as above, marked as first draft however evidently a later draft as removes all references to Japan and other nations. (17 pages)
Reference: PR81/1/3/B/07
Date: 1921
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TS. List of suggested British imports to be included in any free trade agreement between Ireland and Great Britain anticipated at the Anglo-Irish peace negotiations
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Scope and Content: Document titled ‘Suggested Free List for Imports to Ireland from Great Britain’. Items listed include coal, plants bulbs and flower roots, wheat (‘on a vote, 4 to 2’), copper, timber, cotton, jute, wool and others.
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