PR81/1/3 Anglo-Irish Treaty, Ulster Special Mission and Civil War (1921-1929)
PR81/1/3/E Anglo-Irish Treaty, Dail Debates (Dec 1921 - May 1922)
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/04
Date: 19 December 1921
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TS. Extracts from speeches or other publications by Erskine Childers on the subjects of Home Rule and the Anglo-Irish Treaty
Reference: PR81/1/3/E
Date: 14 December 1921 - 16 May 1922
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Extent: 5 pages
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Anglo-Irish Treaty, Dail Debates
Scope and Content: Typescript extracts from speech and publication by Erskine Childers titled ‘The Form and Purpose of Home Rule’ (1912) dated 19 December 1921. Childers is quoted criticising the fact the treaty does not allow Ireland full control of her coastal defences, a matter he states is not imposed on any other dominion.
Extent: 43 items
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Scope and Content: Sub-series containing correspondence received by or sent by Diarmaid Fawsitt in the period immediately after the beginning of the treaty debates in Dail Eireann, during the debates, and in the immediate aftermath of the vote. Contains also notes from attending treaty debates from 5-7 January 1922. The notes from the seventh of January include lists of names of T.Ds and whether they voted in favour or against the Anglo-Irish treaty. A letter written by Fawsitt during the debate on the sixth of January sheds significant light on his views on the treaty debates and the position of President Eamon de Valera (see ref. PR81/1/3/E/19).
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/05
Date: 20 December 1921
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Letter from Jim Dowdall (James Charles Dowdall), Dowdall O’Mahoney & Co Limited, Margarine Manufacturers and Butter Merchants, London and Manchester, to ‘Dear Fawsitt’ (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/01
Date: 14 December 1921
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Extent: 2 pages
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Letter from D.J. Kelly, 390-4 Street (New York), to Diarmaid Fawsitt (Dublin) regarding personal matters with brief mention of anxiety regarding outcome of vote in Dail Eireann concerning ratification of the Anglo-Irish treaty
Scope and Content: Letter concerning efforts to persuade opinions to back the Anglo-Irish treaty. Dowdall states that F.D. French ‘& others did not seem able to make up their minds. I’m writing him & sending letter by hand ... it may possibly influence him’.
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Extent: 3 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter from D.J. Kelly addressed to ‘my dear Consul’. Mainly personal in content, the letter wishes Fawsitt and family season’s greetings. The writer also states ‘we are all anxiously awaiting the result of the Dail meeting today’.
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/06
Date: 20 December 1921
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Letter from unidentified sender, Sheehan family, 15 Grattan Hill, Cork, to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Esq., Gresham Hotel, Dublin
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/02
Date: 15 December 1921
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Extent: 2 pages
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Telegram from Dowdall (Thomas Patrick Dowdall) to Diarmaid Fawsitt requesting Fawsitt assist with distributing article by P.S. O’Hegarty (Patrick Sarsfield O’Hegarty)
Scope and Content: Letter concerning personal opinions on treaty debates in Dail Eireann. Opinions include: ‘the poor speeches by Griffith & Collins yesterday (Monday) have made public feeling in our circles much harder’. In spite of this the writer states: ‘I should still vote for ratification’. Other opinions expressed include fears that the treaty means a military alliance with England: ‘it means that we are still to supply soldiers & sailors for England to crush other peoples’.
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Extent: 1 page
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Scope and Content: Telegram referring to article by P.S. O’Hegarty (Patrick Sarsfield O’Hegarty) in New Ireland dated 17 December. Suggests distributing article ‘round immediately’. Sender is Dowdall and identified as Thomas Patrick Dowdall per subsequent letter (ref. PR81/1/3/E/03).
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/07
Date: 21 December 1921
Reference: PR81/1/3/E/03
Date: 16 December 1921
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Letter from A.O.R. (Alfred O’Rahilly), University College Cork to Diarmaid Fawsitt
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Letter from T.P. Dowdall (Thomas Patrick Dowdall), Dowdall O’Mahoney & Co Limited, Margarine Manufacturers and Butter Merchants, London and Manchester, to Diarmaid Fawsitt in response to request for information on P.S. O’Hegarty (Patrick Sarsfield O’Hegarty)
Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter addressed simply ‘a chara’, likely to Diarmaid Fawsitt, and signed A.O.R. The letter sets out O’Rahilly’s views on the treaty debates in Dail Eireann: ‘I never in my life read such academic unrealities as the Dail debates’. O’Rahilly also criticises TDs for ignoring their constituents and advises that there is a rumour in Cork that ‘Donal is against the treaty’. This rumour likely refers to Lord Mayor Donal O’Callaghan.
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter referring to Fawsitt’s request for information on P.S. O’Hegarty (Patrick Sarsfield O’Hegarty). States that ‘they (Dail members) did not know that the Republic was as good as abandoned’.
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