MS. Letter from James K. McGuire, The Raleigh Hotel, Washington D.C., to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
TitleMS. Letter from James K. McGuire, The Raleigh Hotel, Washington D.C., to J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt)
ReferencePR81/1/3/I/1/6
Date
8 December 1921
Production date 1921 - 1921
Scope and ContentLetter written as news of the Anglo-Irish treaty reached McGuire. States he was with Harry Boland and O'Mara (Stephen O'Mara) when the 'big news came across'. Reports their reaction as: 'disturbed by the allegiance oath and the Ulster provision which will prove offensive to many friends here'. Believes a meeting of the National Convention of the Friends of the Irish will resolve itself into a demonstration 'against your treaty with England'. Requests Fawsitt send him his analysis of the advantages of the treaty which will 'help Ireland here'. Promises to keep same anonymous.
Extent4 pages
SubjectAnglo-Irish Treaty
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