Diarmaid L. Fawsitt Archive Section 1 Desc. List.

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/D/12

Date: 12 December 1921

Reference: PR81/1/3/D/16

Date: 14 December 1921

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TS. Extract of speech by Lord Carson (Edward Carson) on Anglo-Irish Treaty delivered in the House of Lords, London

Letter from Patrick McMeel, William Hughes & Co Inc., 516 Fifth Avenue, New York, to Diarmaid Fawsitt, 27 Grand Parade, Cork

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Scope and Content: Extract quoting Lord Carson (Edward Carson), speaking in the House of Lords about the Anglo-Irish treaty. Carson is critical of the circumstances of the treaty: ‘these Articles of the treaty...were passed with a revolver presented at your head’. Carson is also critical of the terms of the treaty granting Ireland the right to raise taxes for its own army: ‘what do they want an army for unless it be to invade Ulster?’.

Scope and Content: Letter referring to McMeel’s views on the Anglo-Irish treaty: ‘many in this country are undertaking to decide for the Irish people as to just what they should do. I think they should let the people in Ireland decide for themselves as they are the ones who have to live under any settlement that is made’.

Reference: PR81/1/3/D/13

Date: 12 December 1921

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MS. Note by Diarmaid Fawsitt, containing a copy of Cork No.1 brigade order to reject the Anglo-Irish treaty

Reference: PR81/1/3/D/17

Date: 14 December 1921 - 15 December 1921

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TS. Extracts of speeches on the Anglo-Irish Treaty by Captain C.C.Craig and Colonel Gretton, Members of Parliament, House of Commons, London

Scope and Content: Copy, in the hand of Diarmaid Fawsitt, of an order issued by the Headquarters of the Cork No.1 Brigade addressed to all TDs in the Cork ‘I’ area. Order demands rejection of treaty proposals and states ‘to act otherwise would be treason to the Republic to which we have all sworn allegiance’.

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Scope and Content: Extract of speeches delivered by two Members of Parliament of the House Commons in London: Charles Curtis Craig, M.P. for South Antrim, and Colonel Gretton (John Gretton), M.P. for Burton. The speeches criticise the wording of the oath of allegiance and the emptiness of their meaning with regard to the fact the commonwealth is not a legal entity. Craig is quoted: ‘the oath in the document, as an oath, was not worth the paper it was written on... a most extraordinary conglomeration of senseless words’.

Reference: PR81/1/3/D/14

Date: 12 December 1921

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Letter from Andrew A. MacErlean, Attorney at Law, New York, to Diarmaid Fawsitt

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Scope and Content: Letter from Andrew A MacErlean, Attorney at Law, New York addressed ‘dear Fawsitt’. MacErlean notes that ‘the sudden termination of the conference surprised us. Outside the dyed-in-the-wool politicians, all of us while regretting to get full independence, know Collins and Griffith did all that could be done’. MacErlean also notes position of other Irish-Americans and promises to forward copies of the Gaelic American and Irish World publications.

Reference: PR81/1/3/D/18

Date: 15 December 1921

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TS. Extract of article in The Morning Press Editorial, London, on Anglo-Irish Treaty and referring to the oath of allegiance

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Scope and Content: Extract of press article, critical of wording of the oath of allegiance in the Anglo-Irish treaty. The wartime clause allowing British use of Irish coastal defences also appears to be flawed. Argues that ‘strategically Ireland and Great Britain are one’.

Reference: PR81/1/3/D/15

Date: 12 December 1921

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Letter from Edward Sheehan, 15 Grattan Hill, Cork, to Arthur Griffith, T.D., Sec. Foreign Affairs and Chief Plenipotentiary (Anglo-Irish Treaty)

Reference: PR81/1/3/D/19

Date: 1921 (1946)

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Scope and Content: Letter stating that to repudiate the Anglo-Irish treaty would be ‘a violation of good faith & disgrace our nation in the eyes of the world’. A note at the top of the letter suggests making copy and showing this to Jim Dowdall (James Charles Dowdall). The letter from Sheehan also suggests sending Arthur Clery and Fawsitt to King’s Inns Library to access international law books on treaties and diplomatic practices. Sheehan also states that Cork city and county could not afford a renewal of warfare after £30 million in damages to date, with £7 million in Co. Kerry, and an estimated £250 million across Ireland as a whole.

Copies of newspaper articles with reactions to the Anglo-Irish Treaty from American and English publications

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Scope and Content: Printed newspaper articles and cuttings mainly from the United States of America from the period immediately prior and after signing the Anglo-Irish Treaty in London.