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/22
Date: (13 December 1921)
Reference: PR81/1/3/C/25
Date: 13 January 1922
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TS. Fourth report on Economic and Political Conditions in Belfast, by Diarmaid Fawsitt (Economics Department, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Dublin)
Letter (from Richard Valentine Williams, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast) to Diarmaid Fawsitt and copy of letter by Fawsitt, outlining fears amongst the business community of the north following the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty
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Extent: 1 page (3 copies)
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Scope and Content: Report on fourth visit to Belfast, made on January 11th to 13th of 1922. The report states that Fawsitt visited Belfast ‘in compliance with the wish of the cabinet’ of Dail Eireann. Fawsitt mentions that he was unable to meet the chairman of the Unity Committee, Mr R.V. Williams and therefore contacted Sam Kelly, a member of the same committee. Mr Kelly was shown a letter in Fawsitt’s possession given to Fawsitt by the President and asked to make contact with the government of Northern Ireland. Mr Kelly is mentioned as establishing contact on Fawsitt and the President’s behalf with Mr Andrews (John Miller Andrews), Minister of Labour in the Craig cabinet. The reply deferred any further decisions on north-south co-operation until a plan could be drawn before the meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council scheduled for 27 January 1922. [ Note . This fourth report is dated prior to the third visit report which relates to a visit on 26 December 1921. Original date order preserved at time of cataloguing.]
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Extent: 2 items
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Scope and Content: 1. Letter in the hand of R.V. Williams (Richard Valentine Williams), referring to a number of concerns in Ulster about future trading in the context of the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty. The letter states fears in the business community that Sinn Fein desire to ‘abolish’ Ulster’s industries, cripple prosperity, and also mentions fears of export taxes and import tax on raw materials used by manufacturing companies in the area. Letter refers also to issues surrounding the Irish language and religious freedom of education system. (2 pages) 2. Copy of above letter in the hand of Diarmaid Fawsitt. (2 pages) Note. Item 2 above refers to a Tuesday date in December. It is referred to as Tuesday 13 December 1921 in a subsequent report by Fawsitt and has been dated accordingly.
Reference: PR81/1/3/C/23
Date: 14 December 1921
Reference: PR81/1/3/C/26
Date: (January 1922)
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TS. Second report on Economic and Political Conditions in Belfast by Diarmaid Fawsitt, Economics Department (Ministry of Economic Affairs, Dublin)
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MS. Copy of a letter by an unidentified writer concerning dismay in the north at the proceedings of the treaty debates in Dail Eireann, (letter copied by Diarmaid Fawsitt)
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Report written by Diarmaid Fawsitt for the Economics Department, Dail Eireann, marked confidential. The report is titled ‘Report on Second Visit to Belfast’ by Diarmaid Fawsitt. The report refers to excerpts from two letters by R.V.Williams, a linen mills manager of McBride and Williams Co., Belfast. The first letter quoted in the report refers to views by the Ulster business community in favour of accepting the Irish Parliament (in Dublin). Fawsitt meanwhile reports that his second visit to Belfast has witnessed an increased anti-British sentiment in the city. Various points that will require addressed to bring Ulster into union with the south are raised including freedom of education from Roman Catholic clerical control, and promises that the Irish language will not be compulsory in schools or a bar to promotion in the civil service.
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Extent: 3 pages
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Scope and Content: Three pages copied from an original letter, no longer present, in the hand of Diarmaid Fawsitt. The letter states the author is from the north of Ireland. The writer purports to write on behalf of the many in Ulster who are following closely the treaty debates in Dublin and dismayed at the length, quality, and division visible within the treaty debate proceedings in Dail Eireann.
Reference: PR81/1/3/C/27
Date: 25 January 1922
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MS. Copy letter from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Royal Avenue Hotel, Belfast, to Bishop Joseph MacRory, regarding the provisional lifting of the southern boycott of northern goods known as the Belfast boycott
Reference: PR81/1/3/C/24
Date: (January 1922)
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Extent: 2 pages
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Letter from unidentified writer to the editor of a newspaper, not identified, concerning New Year’s Day message from Ulster to Ireland by Sir James Craig
Scope and Content: Handwritten letter, marked ‘copy’, from Fawsitt to the Bishop of Down and Connor, Joseph MacRory. The letter states that Fawsitt is in Belfast at President Griffith’s request to meet the bishop and explain the decision of the cabinet of Dail Eireann to provisionally lift the Belfast boycott.
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Letter addressed to unknown editor by unknown writer, titled ‘Peace and Goodwill. Ulster’s Offer to Ireland in 1922’. The letter quotes optimistically from Sir James Craig’s new year’s day message, which the writer believes recognises the principle of Irish unity and the common citizenship of all the people of Ireland.
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