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/C/06
Date: c.1921
Reference: PR81/1/3/C/10
Date: 23 November 1921
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Draft Memo on anticipated economic prospects for ‘North-East Ulster’ (Northern Ireland), by Diarmaid Fawsitt, Economic Advisory Committee, (Ministry of Economic Affairs, Dublin)
Letter from President Eamon de Valera to Mr Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt) regarding special mission to Belfast
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Extent: 1 page
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Extent: 8 pages
Scope and Content: Letter issued from the President’s Department, Dail Eireann, requesting Fawsitt travel to Belfast ‘as soon as ever you can’. The letter also requests an update on the status of the Joyce manuscript. Signed in pencil, ‘Edev’.
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Scope and Content: Draft memo dictated by Diarmaid Fawsitt at meeting of Economic Advisory Committee. Includes reference to economic outlook of ‘north-east Ulster’ in the areas of trade, taxation, banking facilities, agriculture, and ship building. Also mentions fears of ‘reprisals’ by England if the republican government in Dublin imposes tariffs.
Reference: PR81/1/3/C/11
Date: 23 November 1921
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Letter from J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt) to President Eamon de Valera regarding Belfast special mission and the status of the Joyce manuscript in New York
Reference: PR81/1/3/C/07
Date: c.1921
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TS. Report comparing the north of Ireland with other minorities in Europe and a list of industries in the north by the Economic Relations Committee (Department of Economic Affairs, Dublin)
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter to de Valera from Fawsitt regarding mission to Belfast and status of Joyce manuscript. Fawsitt remarks that he was asked to wait for further instruction from R. Barton before travelling to Belfast. The Joyce manuscript he states as in the possession of Harry Boland. Brief mention is made of a Mr Philip Frances of the New York American who was considering publishing serials of the manuscript on the Sunday American publication.
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Extent: 2 items
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Scope and Content: 1. Paper titled ‘Ulster. Minority Parallels in Europe’, stamped Irish Delegation of Plenipotentiaries. References Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, Province of Posen, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and others. Details statistics for minority linguistic or cultural populations within Europe. (4 pages) 2. Paper titled ‘Economic Relations Committee. List of Industries in the Six County Area’, listing principal and secondary industries (2 pages), see also PR81/1/3/C/01.
Reference: PR81/1/3/C/12
Date: 24 November 1921
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Letter from Robert Barton to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt) regarding a special mission to Belfast (Damaged)
Reference: PR81/1/3/C/08
Date: c.1921
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Extent: 1 page
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Printed Publication on Ulster and Religious Freedom by J.R. White
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Extent: 4 pages
Scope and Content: Damaged, partially missing portion of page. Letter sent from Robert Barton, Department of Economic Affairs, Dail Eireann regarding Fawsitt’s mission to Belfast. The letter states Barton’s intended message on departing Dublin had been for Fawsitt to travel to Belfast. Barton also states his opinion that there will be negotiations including ‘a clause safeguarding North...[East] Ireland against taxation of the Raw materials of her industries’.
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Scope and Content: Printed publication titled ‘Ulster’s Opportunity’ by J.R. White. This paper envisages a protestant Ulster as the potential home of religious freedom from the threats of ‘Bolshevic license’ and ‘Roman tyranny’. The opinion of the author asserts that Ireland will never be fully independent ‘till Southern Ireland is freed from the enslaving elements of Roman Catholicism’.
Reference: PR81/1/3/C/09
Date: 21 November 1921
Reference: PR81/1/3/C/13
Date: 24 November 1921 - 1 December 1921
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Extract of letter by unidentified Ulster businessman (to the republican government in Dublin) requesting cessation of republican violence in the north and cancellation of the boycott of buying northern goods in the south
MS. Notebook of Diarmaid Fawsitt’s interviews with Bishop Joseph MacRory and members of the Ulster business community
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Extent: 24 pages
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Extent: 3 pages
Scope and Content: Small notebook containing brief handwritten notes regarding meetings conducted by Fawsitt with prominent Ulster businessmen. The front of the notebook contains a list of businessmen and their trades. Names mentioned include Bishop McRory (Joseph MacRory, R.C. Bishop of Down and Connor); J.I. Cosgrove, Potato Exporter; J. Brady, Linen Finisher; T. Burns, Accountant; R.V. Williams (Richard Valentine Williams), Linen Mills; Gordon Dickson, Solicitor; Sam Kelly, Coal and Ships; J. Cunningham (Joshua Cunningham), Tobacco, Biscuits; and J. Hoey, Bushmills.
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Scope and Content: Extract of letter, arguing in favour of Sir James Craig and the Northern Ireland Parliament negotiating directly with the government in Dublin and not with London. The letter states: ‘terms proposed to Ulster will be poisoned at the source if they come from (David) Lloyd George’. The letter also criticises the military actions of the IRA in the north, and calls for Sinn Fein to abandon direct military action in Belfast, cancel the boycott and withdraw gunmen from the area.
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