Identity Statement
| Title | Thomas P. Waters Papers |
| Archive Reference | IE CCCA/SM625 |
| Web Link to this Entry | https://iar.ie/archive/thomas-p-wers-papers |
| Creation Dates | 1914-1920; 1957 |
| Extent Medium | 4 items |
Context
Creator(s): Waters, Thomas P. (IRA)
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Administrative History ↴
Cobh man, active member of Irish Volunteers from 1914, and later in the IRA in Counties Cork and Tipperary and in the North of Ireland. -
Archival History ↴
Donated to the Archives by Joan Waters, daughter of Thomas P Waters in 2002 -
Immediate Source Acquisition ↴
Donation
Content & Structure
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Scope & Content: Waters, Thomas P. (IRA) ↴
Copies of original papers of Thomas P. Waters.
SM625/1 Copy of Statement by Thomas P. Waters, Cobh, Co. Cork dated 20 March 1957 (17pp) detailing his activities in the period 1914 – 1921 as a member of the Irish Volunteers and later the IRA in Bantry and in the North of Ireland and in Co. Tipperary. Mentions attending G.A.A. meeting in 1914 attended by Sean O’Sullivan, Adjutant of Cork City Battalion, Irish Volunteers. Describes political situation in Bantry following the outbreak of World War One. Activites in Easter 1916. Travel to Belfast, procurement of arms, ambushes and attacks on R.I.C. barracks, Tipperary ‘Flying Column’ members.
SM625/2 Photograph, Cork Examiner, of Mr. Thomas Waters at ceremony at Beal na mBláth (1966) also shows other old IRA men.
SM625/3 Photocopy (2pp, very poor quality) from newspaper containing an article on address by Bishop of Cork Dr. Colohan, at Haulbowline Dockyard [1939].
SM625/4 Copy of ‘An Irishman’s Diary’ (Irish Times newspaper), 3 Sep 2001 (1p) by Eugene McEldowney concerning pogroms against Catholics in Belfast and Northern Ireland during the War of Independence in 1920-1922.
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Appraisal Destruction ↴
Permanent Retention -
Arrangement ↴
Limited items – no arrangement applicable
Conditions of Access & Use
| Access Conditions | Open by appointment to those holding a current readers ticket. |
| Conditions Governing Reproduction | Subject to rules governing reproduction of records of CCCA |
| Creation Dates | 1914-1920; 1957 |
| Extent Medium | 4 items |
| Material Language Script | English, Irish |
| Finding Aids | Fonds level description Archive Web Link → |
Allied Materials
| Related Material | CCCA: PR6 Seamus Fitzgerald Papers |
Descriptive Control Area
| Archivist Note | Brian McGee |
| Rules/Conventions | ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2nd ed. Ottowa: International Council on Archives, 2000. |
| Date of Descriptions | 40057 |