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Volume 2
No. 199
Kevin O'Sheil (Dublin) to ()

Memorandum by Kevin O'Shiel
11/02/1924

THE BOUNDARY QUESTION AND THE CONFERENCE. I. THE BRITISH PROPOSALS. The British Government, as I thought, made proposals to us on this matter on the conclusion of the recent London Conference. Their proposals are not very detailed, but general as they are it is quite clear that their ac... View the full document
Volume 2
No. 345
W.T. Cosgrave (Emyvale, Monaghan) to ()

Statement by W.T. Cosgrave
22/11/1925

I have come here to-day uninvited and unexpected, but I have come because I have a statement to make to you and through you to the people of Monaghan and to the people of Ireland. It is that Dr. MacNeill, the Representative of the Irish Free State on the Boundary Commission has tendered to th... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 288
() to ()

Extract from a memorandum on nationality and citizenship

[matter omitted] [I]f the Irish Free State were an absolutely independent State, in the sense in which France or Italy is an independent State, all that would be necessary would be to declare by law (a) what persons are Free State Nationals and (b) the status of aliens when resident in the... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 241
John J. Hearne (Dublin) to ()

Conference on the Operation of Dominion Legislation
15/07/1929

Secretary, A preliminary examination of the Preparatory Memoranda circulated by the Dominions Office containing a survey of existing legislation 'affecting the Dominions' passed by the Parliament at Westminster will disclose how effectively that Parliament ruled and controlled the old British ... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 276
Patrick McGilligan (London) to ()

Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865
15/10/1929

MR. McGILLIGAN said that it was valuable to remember the history of the Colonial Laws Validity Act. Originally it had extended the powers of Colonial Legislatures, but now it was a restriction upon the powers of Dominion Parliaments, and its retention was an anomalous anachronism. He thought th... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 279
Diarmuid O'Hegarty (London) to Michael McDunphy (Dublin)

Conference on the Operation of Dominion Legislation
18/10/1929

Dear McDunphy, Enclosed you will find a report from Mr. McGilligan regarding a meeting of heads of delegations which took place yesterday afternoon. It is of course too early yet to arrive at any definite view as to whether a favourable report on other matters can be secured but if it can - an... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 300
Diarmuid O'Hegarty (London) to W.T. Cosgrave (Dublin)

Conference on the Operation of Dominion Legislation
12/11/1929

President, The position here is that sub-Committees dealing with Merchant Shipping, Extra-territorial application of laws, Reservation and Disallowance have reported and in these matters it seems that the results will be rather satisfactory. There has been the usual attempt to introduce into t... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 471
Diarmuid O'Hegarty (London) to Michael McDunphy (Dublin)

Appeals to Privy Council
07/11/1930

Dear McDunphy, You have no doubt already explained to the President the position regarding the Privy Council, but having regard to your telephone message of last night perhaps it would be no harm if I gave you a short resumé for his information. The discussion on the Privy Council start... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 472
Michael McDunphy (Dublin) to ()

Appeals to Privy Council
07/11/1930

On Sunday 2nd instant the Earl of Granard called to see the President with a proposal in regard to the Privy Council, which had been made to him by the British Lord Chancellor Lord Sankey, Chairman of the Committee on Certain aspects of Inter-Parliamentary Relations (one of the Committees of th... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 575
J.W. Dulanty (London) to J.P. Walshe (Dublin)

Statute of Westminster
05/10/1931

Sir Harry Batterbee telephoned to me today after I had seen Mr. J.H. Thomas, and said that the Prime Minister's Office was sending a telegram to the President explaining that in the present exceptional circumstances it was not possible to deal with the Statute of Westminster in this Parliame... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 602
W.T. Cosgrave (Dublin) to Ramsay MacDonald (London)

Statute of Westminster
21/11/1931

My dear Prime Minister, I have read the report of last Friday's Debate in the House of Commons on the Statute of Westminster Bill and am gravely concerned at Mr. Thomas' concluding statement that the Government will be asked to consider the whole situation in the light of the debate. I sincere... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 603
Patrick McGilligan (Dublin) to J.H. Thomas (London)

Statute of Westminster
21/11/1931

My dear Thomas, The High Commissioner will tell you that the President has written a letter to the Prime Minister There is no need for me to emphasise the grave statement made by the President in his letter to the Prime Minister, but as you and I are particularly concerned in our respective p... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 604
J.W. Dulanty (London) to J.P. Walshe (Dublin)

Statute of Westminster
23/11/1931

In order to see me and to receive from me the letter which the President had addressed to him He read the President's letter and said that he agreed with every word of it; that if he were Mr. de Valera he would be jubilant over Mr. Churchill's speech - one of the most mischievous speeches ever... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 605
J.W. Dulanty (London) to J.P. Walshe (Dublin)

Statute of Westminster
23/11/1931

I saw Mr. J.H. Thomas this morning and delivered to him the Minister's letter of yesterday, I handed to him six typewritten copies of excerpts from the President's speech at Charleville yesterday in accordance with the directions. These I supplemented by the verbal representations which the Mi... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 608
J.W. Dulanty (London) to J.P. Walshe (Dublin)

Statute of Westminster
25/11/1931

In my rather hurried telephone conversation late last night, giving you the result of the House of Commons Debate on the Statute of Westminster, I probably did not make as clear to you as I should have done the tremendous impression which the President's letter I saw Mr. Thomas today at his re... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 610
J.W. Dulanty (London) to J.P. Walshe (Dublin)

Statute of Westminster
27/11/1931

In accordance with the arrangement made on the telephone with the Secretary yesterday I waited upon the Secretary of State for the Dominions and conveyed to him the appreciation of my Government for his friendly energies in securing the passage through the House of Commons, without Colonel Gret... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 611
J.W. Dulanty (London) to J.P. Walshe (Dublin)

Statute of Westminster
27/11/1931

I have already reported on the telephone the substance of what I heard in the House of Lords on the second reading debate on the Statute of Westminster Bill. There was an extremely sparse attendance and neither the speeches for the Bill nor against it drew any applause. I had to leave the House... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 613
J.W. Dulanty (London) to J.P. Walshe (Dublin)

Statute of Westminster
05/12/1931

Sir Harry Batterbee came to see me this morning to renew the request for facilities for one of the British Air Squadrons, on which matter I am reporting separately.   I reminded him of one or two matters which were outstanding between us, and in apologising for the delay in the Dominions... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 617
Patrick McGilligan (Dublin) to (Dublin)

Statute of Westminster
11/12/1931

A Saorstát Achievement The Statute of Westminster The Statute of Westminster has received the King's assent. A new epoch has begun in the relations between Great Britain and the other States of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Since the British Parliament renounced its right to leg... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 620
Edward Phelan (Geneva) to Patrick McGilligan (Dublin)

Statute of Westminster/ Sino-Japanese Dispute
26/12/1931

My Dear McGilligan, I had been intending to send you congratulations on the Statute of Westminster. I can now combine them with best wishes for the New Year. I cannot wish you the same measure of achievement in 1932 as in 1931 as the Statute is unique. You are left with no more worlds to conqu... View the full document
Volume 3
No. 623
Michael MacWhite (Washington) to J.P. Walshe (Dublin)

New York Horse Show MacWhite
11/01/1932

In reference to your minute 19/2, you will find annexed hereto During a luncheon in connection with a Horse Show especially when the parties interested include both organisers and competitors it is only natural that the general trend of the conversation bears largely on horses. On this occasio... View the full document
Volume 4
No. 81
John J. Hearne (London) to Sir Harry Batterbee (London)

Conversation with Batterbee
08/07/1932

Sir Harry Batterbee joined Mr. Machtig He said that everybody connected with official life in the Dominions Office had been very much hurt by the treatment the British Government had received at the hands of the new Irish Free State Government. The attitude of 'declining to discuss' the Oath... View the full document
Volume 4
No. 119
John J. Hearne (Dublin) to ()

Outstanding British-Irish issues
06/09/1932

Questions outstanding between the British Government and the Government of the Irish Free State. Land Annuities and other Financial Questions. The Privy Council. A Bill has been prepared to abolish the appeal. It will be introduced in the autumn session of the Oireachtas. The Britis... View the full document
Volume 4
No. 284
John J. Hearne (Geneva) to C. te Water (London)

Regency question
11/10/1935

My dear High Commissioner, Will you please forgive me for not having sent you a note as to our views on the Regency question before today. The summoning of the Assembly for Wednesday made it impossible for me to send you a letter from Dublin, as I had hoped. The fundamental question a... View the full document
Volume 4
No. 372
J.W. Dulanty (London) to Joseph P. Walshe (Dublin)

British-Irish relations
14/10/1936

(1) When I received your Secret minute of the 6th October (2) At his request I therefore met Sir Warren Fisher in his room this evening at the Treasury, together with Sir Horace Wilson, Sir Harry Batterbee and Sir Grattan Bushe. I told these gentlemen that I had had conversations with the... View the full document
Volume 4
No. 383
Sir Harry Batterbee (London) to ()

Talks in Dublin on Abdication Crisis
29/11/1936

Mr. de Valera received me in his room at Government Buildings at 11.30 am on Sunday, November 29th. The interview lasted for two hours, and Mr. Dulanty and Mr. Walshe were present during the greater part of it. The interview began with an expression on Mr. de Valera's part of hope that the... View the full document
Volume 4
No. 390
Joseph P. Walshe (Dublin) to ()

Abdication crisis
07/12/1936

KING EDWARD CRISIS Summary of events in so far as Saorstát Éireann is concerned up to Sunday night, 6th December On Sunday, 29th November, Sir Harry Batterbee, Assistant Secretary of the Dominions Office, visited the President in Government Buildings and gave him, on behalf o... View the full document
Volume 4
No. 399
Joseph P. Walshe (Dublin) to ()

External Relations Act
10/12/1936

NOTE FOR IMMEDIATE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT Suggestions have been made to us by the British Government as to the kind of reply the Attorney-General might be forced to give in the House of Commons if he were asked what the position of the Irish Free State would be during the interval between the ... View the full document
Volume 6
No. 173
John Dulanty (London) to Joseph P. Walshe (Dublin)

Confidential Report, Dulanty to Walshe
14/05/1940

As I had made a courtesy call on Mr. Neville Chamberlain when he became Prime Minister three years ago I thought An Taoiseach would feel that it was fitting that I should make a similar call this afternoon on his leaving that Office. He was in good spirits, apparently relieved more than d... View the full document
Volume 8
No. 316
John Hearne (Ottawa) to Frederick H. Boland (Dublin)

Confidential report, Hearne to Boland
22/04/1947

I have the honour to report that Mr. John D. Kearney who has been in Ottawa for some days left tonight for New York, to complete the arrangements for his journey to India. He will not be in Ottawa again before he goes to his post. He called me up yesterday afternoon at 5.30 from the Chateau a... View the full document
Volume 8
No. 334
Michael Rynne (Dublin) to Sheila Murphy (Dublin)

Minute, Rynne to Murphy
14/05/1947

I am passing you this as directed by the Secretary (9th inst. above). The Dominions (according to the Statute) include Ireland (the Irish Free State). It must, therefore, be borne in mind, when preparing a minute to the High Commissioners, that we no longer consider ourselves a Dominion (... View the full document
Volume 8
No. 353
Frederick H. Boland (Dublin) to Stephen Roche (Dublin)

Letter, Boland to Roche
30/06/1947

Lord Rugby came to see me on the 26th June and told me that it was proposed to introduce a Bill in the House of Commons next week one provision of which would alter King George's title by taking out of it the words 'Emperor of India'. The Governments of the Members of the Commonwealth had bee... View the full document
Volume 9
No. 61
John J. Hearne (Ottawa) to John A. Costello (Dublin)

Letter, Hearne to Costello
21/05/1948

My dear Taoiseach, I received your kind letter of the 30th April Mr. St. Laurent received me this afternoon and we discussed the programme generally. He desires me to convey to you at once a message of greetings and to assure you of the happiness it will give to the Prime Minister ... View the full document
Volume 9
No. 109
John J. Hearne (Ottawa) to John A. Costello (Dublin)

Letter, Hearne to Costello
12/08/1948

My dear Taoiseach, Mr. Mackenzie King had me come to him last evening to talk over your visit. He began the conversation by expressing again the happiness it would give him to have you as the guest of the Canadian Government. He said that he knew that I had taken care to assure you of ... View the full document
Volume 9
No. 116
Frederick H. Boland (Dublin) to John J. Hearne (Ottawa)

Letter, Boland to Hearne
21/08/1948

My Dear John, This is the personal letter which I promised to try to let you have before the Taoiseach's arrival in Canada. Some at least of the Taoiseach's speeches are bound to touch on external - particularly Commonwealth - affairs, and, in connection with these, he will naturally look to... View the full document
Volume 9
No. 226
Frederick H. Boland (Dublin) to Seán MacBride (Dublin)

Memorandum, Boland to MacBride
07/01/1949

Minister Most of our time in London was taken up in discussions about the most-favoured-nation clause with a Committee headed by Sir Eric Beckett, Legal Adviser, British Foreign Office. This Committee met in the mornings and afternoons of the two days we were in London - four times in all ... View the full document