Diarmaid Fawsitt's Daily Diary
TitleDiarmaid Fawsitt's Daily Diary
ReferencePR81/1/7/22
Date
1 January 1941 - 31 December 1941
Production date 1941 - 1941
Scope and ContentPage a day diary, includes:
1 January 1941, 'Snow. Sile's year in Cork St (Dublin) Fever Hospital begins. At Foxrock with C. and Brendan... Kathleen O'Connell telephoned & told me of temporary vacancy in office of Circuit Court Judge for Kerry Limerick & Clare counties, asked me to phone An Taoiseach (Eamon de Valera) on his private line... I agreed to accept office'
2 January 1941, 'bombs dropped near Drogheda... with Minister of Justice - offered me officially Deputy Circuit Court Judgeship for Co.s Clare, Limerick, & Kerry for period of 3 months at min rate of 9 gns per day sittings - acceptanced same'
2 May 1941, '10pm, Powell Dept Justice phoned me at Ballina not to proceed to Co. Kerry. Judge McElligott (Edward J. McElligott) had stated he wd do the sessions - the Govt had called on him to resign & he had refused. I was to work off all arrears of cases in Castlebar & Ballina in coming weeks'
23 September 1941, 'Ardmore, Ballycotton. Accident to my head at St Declan's well. Stayed Ballycotton at Fawcitt's Hotel'
29 September 1941, 'Cork, Bon Secours Home. Appointment as temporary circuit court judge for s-w circuit gazetted - to last until 28 Sep 1942 subject to conditions'.
17 October 1941, 'Dublin. Rested in bed, day wet. Phoned Kathleen O'Connell to get An Taoiseach and G.C. Powell (Dept. of Justice) who told me my appointment of 29 September was still-born - null & void. The judge Tom O'Donnell sitting Clare'
3 November 1941, 'ESB (Electricity Supply Board) man began to wire St Petroc for electric light supply'.
1 January 1941, 'Snow. Sile's year in Cork St (Dublin) Fever Hospital begins. At Foxrock with C. and Brendan... Kathleen O'Connell telephoned & told me of temporary vacancy in office of Circuit Court Judge for Kerry Limerick & Clare counties, asked me to phone An Taoiseach (Eamon de Valera) on his private line... I agreed to accept office'
2 January 1941, 'bombs dropped near Drogheda... with Minister of Justice - offered me officially Deputy Circuit Court Judgeship for Co.s Clare, Limerick, & Kerry for period of 3 months at min rate of 9 gns per day sittings - acceptanced same'
2 May 1941, '10pm, Powell Dept Justice phoned me at Ballina not to proceed to Co. Kerry. Judge McElligott (Edward J. McElligott) had stated he wd do the sessions - the Govt had called on him to resign & he had refused. I was to work off all arrears of cases in Castlebar & Ballina in coming weeks'
23 September 1941, 'Ardmore, Ballycotton. Accident to my head at St Declan's well. Stayed Ballycotton at Fawcitt's Hotel'
29 September 1941, 'Cork, Bon Secours Home. Appointment as temporary circuit court judge for s-w circuit gazetted - to last until 28 Sep 1942 subject to conditions'.
17 October 1941, 'Dublin. Rested in bed, day wet. Phoned Kathleen O'Connell to get An Taoiseach and G.C. Powell (Dept. of Justice) who told me my appointment of 29 September was still-born - null & void. The judge Tom O'Donnell sitting Clare'
3 November 1941, 'ESB (Electricity Supply Board) man began to wire St Petroc for electric light supply'.
Extentc.400 pages (1 vol)
SubjectHunger Strikes
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