Diarmaid Fawsitt Letters
TitleDiarmaid Fawsitt Letters
ReferenceIE 627/SM2
Date
1 Mar 1965 - 6 Feb 1966
Production date 1965 - 1966
Scope and ContentTwo MS letters from Diarmaid Fawsitt to W. D. O'Connell regarding the setting up of the Irish Volunteers in Cork city and county.
1. Unsigned letter from Fawsitt, Mater Private Nursing Home, Eccles Street, Dublin, 1 Mar 1965, to 'My dear O'Connell', opening 'as I write our Chief of State is speaking over Roger Casement's grave in Glasnevin'. He goes on to give an account of the opening public meeting at City Hall to found a branch of the Irish Volunteers in Cork. He was one of four 'youngsters' who called the meeting and, knowing Casement, had invited him to attend and speak. The meeting was disturbed by 'the then Redmondite "Molly Maguire's"' when Eoin MacNeill called for 'Three Cheers for Carson's Volunteers'. Fawsitt restored order by presenting Casement and shouting 'here is a man who would be received in every chancellery in Europe - Will Cork deny him a hearing?'. He states that some 200 volunteers signed up that night. He suggests that Examiner and Echo newspaper files should have something on the speech. He later convened a meeting of the Galtee Battalion of the Volunteers.
2. Letter from Fawsitt, Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, 6 Feb 1966, to WD O'Connell, Editor, Evening Echo, Cork, apologising for not being able to prepare, owing to ill health, copies of articles on the setting up of the Volunteers in Cork, to be published in special issues of 'your Cork dailies' for Easter 1966. He asks if O'Connell has copies of newspapers of 15 December 1913, 'the day following the holding of the inglorious public meeting in Cork's City Hall at which the Cork City Corps of the then newly-founded Irish Volunteers organisation was formed'. He says that if he makes it to Cork he will call on Mrs de Roiste and look through Liam [de Roiste's] diaries.
1. Unsigned letter from Fawsitt, Mater Private Nursing Home, Eccles Street, Dublin, 1 Mar 1965, to 'My dear O'Connell', opening 'as I write our Chief of State is speaking over Roger Casement's grave in Glasnevin'. He goes on to give an account of the opening public meeting at City Hall to found a branch of the Irish Volunteers in Cork. He was one of four 'youngsters' who called the meeting and, knowing Casement, had invited him to attend and speak. The meeting was disturbed by 'the then Redmondite "Molly Maguire's"' when Eoin MacNeill called for 'Three Cheers for Carson's Volunteers'. Fawsitt restored order by presenting Casement and shouting 'here is a man who would be received in every chancellery in Europe - Will Cork deny him a hearing?'. He states that some 200 volunteers signed up that night. He suggests that Examiner and Echo newspaper files should have something on the speech. He later convened a meeting of the Galtee Battalion of the Volunteers.
2. Letter from Fawsitt, Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, 6 Feb 1966, to WD O'Connell, Editor, Evening Echo, Cork, apologising for not being able to prepare, owing to ill health, copies of articles on the setting up of the Volunteers in Cork, to be published in special issues of 'your Cork dailies' for Easter 1966. He asks if O'Connell has copies of newspapers of 15 December 1913, 'the day following the holding of the inglorious public meeting in Cork's City Hall at which the Cork City Corps of the then newly-founded Irish Volunteers organisation was formed'. He says that if he makes it to Cork he will call on Mrs de Roiste and look through Liam [de Roiste's] diaries.
Extent2 items
LanguageEnglish
Persons keywordFawsitt, Diarmaid (JL) | 1884-1967 | republican, civil servant, judge, Casement, Roger | 1864-1916 | Diplomat, Human Rights Activist, Irish Nationalist, Republican, De Roiste, Liam | 1882-1959 | T.D., diarist, Gaelic scholar, Irish Volunteers
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Levelfonds
RepositoryCork City and County Archives
Object categoryPersonal and family papers