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/08
Date: 1921
Reference: PR81/1/3/B/11
Date: c.1915
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TS. Republican report on the Irish Home Rule Act by unknown writer outlining the contradictions of the act
TS. Response to British Memo on Irish Income Tax, Pensions and National Debt, written by the Financial Relations Committee (Ministry of Economic Affairs or Ministry of Finance, Dublin) and in respect of the Anglo-Irish peace treaty negotiations
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Extent: 8 pages
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Scope and Content: Document titled ‘Postscript - The Home Rule Act on the Statue Book’. Sets out Irish nationalist perspective on Home Rule and its contradictions, and asserts consequent weaknesses of any Irish parliament resulting from the act. Appears to be written during WWI: ‘this wretched measure of “Home Rule” cannot be put into operation after the war’.
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Extent: 4 pages
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Scope and Content: Document setting out Irish position on British ‘Memo on Income Tax Contributed by Ireland’, titled ‘Financial Relations Committee: Criticism of British Memorandum’. The document notes the national debt gross figure of £7,623 million. In respect of pensions further details are required before responding to the British memo. With respect to Irish contributions a list of compensations is deducted including £30 million ‘reparations for damage and loss caused by Crown Forces’. Ireland’s contributions would preferably be set out by examining average three years surplus contribution after meeting expenditure per case of Austrian succession states. A copy of p.1 of the British memo is also present.
Reference: PR81/1/3/B/12
Date: 10 November 1921 - 25 November 1921
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Letter from William Calwell, Dublin Chamber of Commerce, to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Grosvenor Hotel, London, with reply letter from Fawsitt, Royal Avenue Hotel, Belfast
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Extent: 2 items
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Scope and Content: 1. Letter from William Calwell, Secretary, Dublin Chamber of Commerce, to J.L. Fawsitt, Room 341, Grosvenor Hotel, London, regarding British embargo on ships calling at Cork harbour. Calwell states: ‘to make a representation on this subject to the Peace Conference would be inopportune’. (1 page) 2. Reply letter from J.L. Fawsitt to William Calwell as above, from the Royal Avenue Hotel Belfast advising he will call on the chamber offices in person. (1 page)
Reference: PR81/1/3/B/09
Date: 24 November 1921
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Peace Conference, British Memorandum on Ireland’s Share of National Debt, and reports on income tax and pensions by Professor Smiddy, Irish Delegation of Plenipotentiaries, London
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Extent: 3 items
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Scope and Content: 1. Document titled ‘Ireland’s Share of The National Debt Etc. By Professor Smiddy’. Stamped ‘Irish Delegation of Plenipotentiaries’. Suggests methods for Ireland to pay £102 million. (1 page) 2. Document marked ‘Secret. Memorandum by the British Representatives’. Sets out gross debt at £7,623,000,000 and pension figures. (4 pages) 3. Document titled ‘Memo on Income Tax Contributed by Ireland by Professor Smiddy’. 24 November 1921. Sets out Smiddy’s opinion that the Treasury tax figures are ‘unreliable’, but does not commit if they are too high or too low in his opinion. (3 pages)
Reference: PR81/1/3/B/13
Date: 11 November 1921(1920)
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TS. Resolution protesting ongoing shipping embargo at Cork Harbour, passed by the Cork Chamber of Commerce, with covering letter addressed to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
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Extent: 3 items
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Scope and Content: 1. Letter to J.L. Fawsitt from Cork Chamber of Commerce enclosing copy resolution to be passed ‘for anyone representing Gr. Britain to whom you may want to send it’. (1 page). 2. Copy of resolution by Cork Chamber of Commerce dated 11 November 1920 protesting the continuance of the embargo on east bound vessels calling at Cork harbour. (1 page) 3. Draft memorandum ‘setting forth the injury to American Interests Consequent on the British Admiralty order prohibiting passenger steamers calling in at Cork Harbour on the East East-bound Atlantic service’. (5 pages)
Reference: PR81/1/3/B/10
Date: 1921
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Memorandum on history of Act of Union relative to Irish finances and debt, prepared for the Anglo-Irish peace treaty negotiations, (written by the Economic Relations Committee, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Dublin)
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Extent: 7 pages
Reference: PR81/1/3/B/14
Date: 15 November 1921 - 16 November 1921
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Scope and Content: Document titled ‘First Memorandum on Irish Claims in regard to Finance’. This memo sketches a historical overview of different constitutional instruments including the Treaty of Union and the Statue of 1816, which amalgamated Irish and English debt. The document sets out the opposition of the Irish delegates to the British approach quoting non-legislative ‘white papers’ issued by the British Treasury c.1900 onwards. The historical overview also criticises over-taxation of Ireland from Gladstone’s budget of 1853 onwards imposing income tax on Ireland and raising Irish tax on spirits to British level.
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Letters from the Managing Director, Limerick Steam Ship Company Limited to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Hans Place, London, requesting information on Irish-American trade volumes
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Extent: 2 items
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Scope and Content: 1. Letter requesting Fawsitt send statistics on direct trade between the United States of America and Ireland. Addressed to Fawsitt at 22 Hands (Hans) Place, London. (1 page) 2. Letter enclosing above, addressed to Fawsitt at Gresham Hotel, Dublin. (1 page)
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