Century of Endeavour

Source Listing for JJ organised by boxes transferred to Linen Hall Library

(c) Roy Johnston 2010

Most of the JJ material has been deposited accessibly in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast; in this case the box number has an LH suffix. Box numbers refer to the boxes in which it was delivered; the Library however in some cases may have reorganised the material. We list first the contents of the numbered boxes delivered prior to 2005. The numbering of the idems relates to an earlier filing system.

LHBox 1

History, Philosophy (* here implies via IAOS):

*1. The History of Ireland During the Period of Parliamentary Independence, JW Barlow FTCD, Hodges Figgis, Dublin, 1873.
*2. Seághan an Díomais / Shane the Proud, Conán Maol; Irish Book Co, Dublin, 1901; no 6 in the Léighean Éirean series, historical pamphlet published for didactic purposes in Irish and English on facing pages.
3. The Facts and Principles of Irish Nationality, Browne and Nolan, 1907, by 'Éireannaigh éigin'; 83 pages, price 6d; this is a scholarly attempt to defend Irish history from Catholic-nationalist revisionism.
4. The Making of Ireland and her Undoing, by Alice Stopford Green, Macmillan, 1909; also by the same author The Old Irish World, Gill & Macmillan, 1912. I have treated ASG and her books at some length because I feel they were probably an important formative influence on JJ during his undergraduate and early postgraduate years.
6. For Ireland's Sake, or Under the Green Flag; a Romantic Irish Drama, J and JM Muldoon (Ponsonby, Dublin, 1910). It seems JJ bought this in September 1915, wrote his name, address 30 TCD, and the date in it, and then somehow it turned up via the the Dungannon Royal School archivist Norman Cardell during my contact with him in 2000. It stimulated me to look into the Ulster dimension of the national theatre movement.
7. Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, 1917 issue, compiled by the Weekly Irish Times.
8. History of Trade Unionism 1666-1920, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Workers Educational Association edition 1919; JJ acquired this on 22/02/46. There are annotations, some of which are in JJ's writing.
9. Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period, A Walsh, Talbot Press, 1922.
10. Glimpses of an Irish Felon's Life, Tom Clarke, Maunsel and Roberts, 1922.
11. Reprints of sermons in pamphlet form by Rev E Savell Hicks, preached at the Unitarian Church, Stephens Green, Dublin; there are seven, four of which are undated; the others are dated 1918, 1923 and 1925. The 1918 one commemorates the restoration of the Wilson Memorial Window, in memory of Thomas Wilson who fought in the American War of Independence, was aide-de-camp to George Washington and who became the first US Consul in Dublin. Other titles are 'Live and Let Live' (1923) and 'the Spirit of Innovations' (1925).
12. The New Departure in Irish Politics 1878-9 by TW Moody, reprint from Essays in British and Irish History ed HA Cronne, London 1949; inscribed by TWM to JJ.
13. Michael Davitt and the British Labour Movement 1882-1906, TW Moody; reprint from Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, Vol 3, 1953; inscribed by TWM, and underlined by JJ, particularly Davitt's statement '..no one can say absolutely what is and what is not the duty of the State...it is for every successive generation... to say.. etc'.
14. The Seeker, poems by Maurice Wilkins, Dolmen Press, 1960, inscribed 'to JJ from his old friend the author, with every good wish...18th Oct 1960'. My sister remembers him well as a frequent visitor during her childhood.
15. Mrs George Berkeley and her Washing Machine, IC Tipton and EJ Furlong, Hermathena CI, Autumn 1965; this insight into the life of Berkeley through some notes left by his wife, at the end to ther days in Oxford, contains the first literary reference to the term 'washing machine'.
16. The Case Against the Common Market; no named author, but probably Anthony Coughlan; Assessment pamphlet 2, the first one being 'Labour and the Republican Movement, by George Gilmore; this was published by the Dublin Wolfe Tone Society in May 1967, as from the address of the present writer RJ. JJ had read this pamphlet and marked selected paragraphs. My sister chaired the Nenagh anti-EEC campaign; it was her introduction to politics. She subsequently became a Labour Party activist and served on the Administrative Council, and on the Midwestern Health Board.
17. The Irishness of the Irish, Estyn Evans; reprint of paper to the Irish Association, Armagh, September 22 1967.

Politics, pamphleteering:

18. Diary of a Cabinet Minister, Olley and Co, Belfast, 1892 and 1893. This was a Unionist production which made fun of the idea of an Irish Cabinet under Home Rule.
19. How Ireland is Treated by her "Friends", William Pentland, Dublin 1898; this is a pamphlet highly critical of the Land League, by an author associated with the Tenants Right Movement in Westmeath.
20. 'Lest We Forget', or questions and comments touching the evolution of the Home Rule or Fenian Conspiracy, by 'a Philosophic Radical'; Hodges Figgis, Dublin, no date given, but perhaps related to the 1906 election. There is an undated review of the booklet from a Belfast paper which on the reverse side has a reference to Wednesday September 9(?) and Friday August 28. There is a news item about a 'hunger march' at Lydd in Kent.
21. For Ireland's Sake - Under the Green Flag, J and JM Muldoon; Ponsonby (Dublin), Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton & Kent, (London) 1910; this is a 'romantic-nationalist' drama, dedicated by the authors to the memory of Emmet, Fitzgerald and Tone; JJ wrote his name in it in September 1915; there is an annotation in JJ's writing which suggests that he regarded the national aspirations as being 'fulfilled in John Redmond (under?) Asquith'. It has a stong local Dungannon flavour.
22. Religious Intolerance Under Home Rule ed Jeremiah MacVeagh MP; Irish Press Agency, 1911; this consisted of letters from over 100 prominent Protestants in favour of Home Rule, and discounting the 'Rome Rule' bogey as promoted by the Orangemen. This was a source-book for 'Civil War in Ulster'.
23. Dublin Castle and the Irish People, R Barry O'Brien, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & co, London 1912; this is inscribed AE Johnston, the Cottage, Stillorgan, which dates it acquisition to the early 1920s; my Aunt Annie probably got it to give her some background understanding of the Civil Service which she by then had joined. My sister agrees with this.
24. A Protestant Protest Ballymoney, October 24 1913, price one penny; this reprint of the proceedings of the famous Liberal Home Rule rally contains the records of speeches in the Ballymoney Town Hall. The Foreword is signed 'W'. The printed contributions are from Captain JR White DSO, Mrs JR Green, Sir Roger Casement, Mr Alex Wilson JP, Mr John Dinsmore (jr) and Mr William Macafee BL. I have written about this in my Introduction to the 1999 re-edition of JJ's Civil War in Ulster.
25. The Great Fraud of Ulster, TM Healy MP, Gill, Dublin, 1917.
*26. Thoughts for a Convention: Memorandum on the State of Ireland, by AE, Maunsel, 1917.
27. How to Settle the Irish Question, Bernard Shaw, Talbot Press, Dublin and Constable, London, December 1917.
28. Ourselves Alone in Ulster, Alice Stopford Green, Maunsel, Dublin, 1918.
29. Thomas Davis: The Thinker and the Teacher, collection with preface by Arthur Griffith, and essays by Gavan Duffy, John Blake Dillon, John Mitchel and others. Gill, Dublin 1918.
30. A Plea for Justice, AE, being a demand for a public enquiry into the attacks on co-operative societies in Ireland; Irish Homestead pamphlet, 1921.
31. The Inner and the Outer Ireland, by AE, Talbot Press, Dublin, 1921.
32. Ireland and the Empire at the Court of Conscience, AE, Talbot Press, Dublin, 1921.
33. Ulster in 1921, by 'the author of 'Tales of the RIC', Blackwood, Edinburgh and London; reprinted from Blackwood's Magazine, October 1922.
*34. The Case for the Treaty, Alfred O'Rahilly, Professor of the NUI, no date and no publisher's imprint.
35. The Truth about the Treaty, Robert Barton, National Series no 2, reprint from The Republic of Ireland, no date given, but probably 1922.
36. Free State Promises: Are They True?, unsigned, National Series no 4; this and the previous pamphlet presumably are examples of Erskine Childers' output at the time of the Treaty debates.
37. Arguments for the Treaty, Arthur Griffith, Martin Hester, Dublin, 1922(?); there is a similar one by Michael Collins.
38. Bulletin de la Societé Autour du Monde 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929; also Juin 1931 which includes the 1930 issue. JJ had a short outline of the current Irish situation in the 1926 issue. The delay in publication of the 1930 issue would have been due to financial constraints brought on by the 1929 financial crash. There were no subsequent issues in JJ's possession.
39. A Tour in Ireland, Arthur Young (1780), ed Constantia Maxwell, Cambridge UP 1925; acquired by JJ 1/06/28.
40. Towards a Better Ireland; report of a Conference on Applied Christianity held in Dublin, January 1926; speakers included RM Henry and Lionel Smith-Gordon. (This seems to have been an attempt by the Home Rule-supporting Liberal Protestant community to develop a constructive critical voice in 'civil society' mode. RM Henry helped to lobby Asquith after the Ballymoney rally, and Smith-Gordon we have met as a Socialist in Oxford, and later at the 1924 Commonwealth Co-operative conference organised by the Plunkett Foundation. RJ Oct 2000.)
41. The Political Future of India, James Johnston, PS King, London, 1933. This book by JJ's eldest brother gives useful insights into the British imperial system.
42. Can the Hindus Rule India?, James Johnston, PS King, London, 1935. James wrote this in his retirement; he compared the current proposals to pre-Reform England.
43. Hindu Domination in India, James Johnston, PS King, London, 1936; this is a sequel to the 1935 book. This sequel carries an advertisement by the publisher for JJ's 1934 'Nemesis of Economic Nationalism'.
The analysis of James Johnston's experience in the Indian Civil Service is outside the scope of this work, but it is evident that he was very critical of the Hindu culture, particularly regarding the treatment of the 'untouchables'. My sister regards his work as important and under-appreciated.
44. The Price of Irish Neutrality, by Henry Harrison OBE MC, Commonwealth Association, London, 1943; 'an invocation of historical truth in reply to Henry Steele Commager, Professor of History at Columbia University, New York'.
45. Czechoslovak Policy for Victory and Peace, Dr Edvard Benes, Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs, London 1944.
46. Ireland's Economy; Radio Eireann talks on Ireland's part in the Marshall Plan; March and April 1949, three talks by by Sean MacBride, with responses by JE Carrigan and WH Taft on behalf of the ECA Mission to Ireland.
47. PR in Ireland, Proinsias Mac Aonghusa; a reprint of six articles published in the Irish Times; undated; must have been 1959, when de Valera became President and the people rejected the constitutional amendment abolishing PR which was linked to his election.
48. I Accuse: A Monstrous Fraud which Deceived Two Continents, Herbert O Mackey; no date, no publisher's imprint, printed by Cahill; a copy signed by the author; it is a polemic exposing the Casement forgeries.
49. The Royal School Dungannon 1614 - 1964; commemorative booklet, with letter from James Kincade the Headmaster, thanking JJ for his donation to the building fund.
50. Burntollet; Bowes Egan and Vincent McCormack; LRS Publlishers 1969; an illustrated blow-by-blow account of the ambush of the January 1969 Civil Rights march from Belfast to Derry.
51. New Ulster Movement - Interim Report to members, NUM, Belfast, April 1972.

Economics, Co-operative Movement:

*52. Plain Talks to Irish Farmers, Sir Horace Plunkett, Eason, Dublin, 1910.
*53. The Building Up of a Rural Civilisation, George W Russell, Sealy Bryers and Walker, Dublin, 1910. (This is a reprint of AE's address to the IAOS on 10 December 1909.)
*54. The Organisation of Co-operation for Credit...on Raiffeisen Principles, German Co-operative Union, produced for the American Commission of Agricultural Inquiry, 1913.
*55. The Rural Community: an Address to the American Commission of Agricultural Inquiry, by George W Russell, at Plunkett House, Dublin, July 15 1913.
*56. Inaugural Address by the President of the Co-operative Union, Robert Fleming, at the Dublin Conference, 1 June 1914; Co-operative Union, Manchester, 1914.
57. Lombard Street, Walter Bagehot, ed E Johnston, 1904; no indication when pruchased, but extensively marked; this would have been JJ's introduction to the understanding of the nature of money.
58. Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, 1905 edition, with introdction by Dugald Stuart; JJ put his name and address in it, 25 Fitzwilliam Square, and 38 TCD; this dates the purchase to sometime around 1915-16. It is extensively marked and annotated.
*59. Templecrone: a Record of Co-operative Effort, by AE, IAOS Leaflets no 22, new series, 1 December 1916.
60. Principles of Economic Geography, RN Rudmose Brown, Pitman, London, 1920. JJ wrote his name on this on 16/10/21, he then had rooms in 9 TCD; it is much marked.
*61. Education Department programme of the Belfast Co-operative Society, session 1920-21.
62. Rural Reconstruction, Henry W Wolff, Selwyn & Blount, New York, 1921; copy signed by JJ and dated 10/01/22, at 9 TCD; much underlined.
63. The Shannon Scheme, Thomas A MacLaughlin, Sackville Press, undated, probably 1924.
64. The Electrification of the Irish Free State; report of the experts appointed by the Government, Borgquist et al, 1925. The name of EH Alton was on this; he was the TCD representative in the Dail at the time, and he must have passed it to JJ for comment.
65. The Dilemma of Thrift, WT Foster & W Catchings, Pollak Foundation, Newton, Massachusetts, 1926.
66. The Golden Crucifixion of John Bull, WH Wakinshaw & HJD Thompson, Economic Freedom League, Newcastle on Tyne, no date given, but there is in it a letter from the author dated 5/07/27, to which JJ replied.
67. Report of the Committee on Finance and Industry, HMSO 1931; this is the MacMillan Commission set up by the Treasury in November 1929. It is extensively marked and annotated by JJ.
68. The Querist, ed JM Hone, Talbot Press, Dublin, undated, but circa 1930 from internal evidence. Heavily annotated by JJ.
69. The Collapse of the Monetary System, Johan Jacobsen, published by the author, Copenhagen, March 1932.
70. Monetary Policy and the Depression, George O'Brien, SSISI 5 October 1933, reprint.
71. To Tell you the Truth, WT Foster, Pollak Foundation, Newton, Massachusetts, 1933. This is a polemic aimed at the consumer alerting him to the high cost of hire-purchase credit.
72. Bishop Berkeley: the Querist, Ellen Douglass Leyburn, Proc RIAS, XLIV, Section C, No 3; read June 28 1937, published December 15 1937; this was in the context of a Yale PhD.
73. The State and Economic Life, Anwar Iqbal Qureshi, New Book Co, Bombay, 1938. The author had been a lecturer and research assistant in economics in TCD, and had become Head of the Economics Department, Osmania University, Hyderabad Deccan. "Being a Study of the Methods of State intervention in Economic Life in the Leading Countries of the world, with special reference to the Problems facing India". JJ had marked many passages. My sister remembers him as a frequent visitor during her childhood.
74. The Economics of War, GA Duncan, Hermathena XXVIII, 1939; compliments of author, much underlined. Duncan, though junior to JJ, leapfrogged JJ to get the Chair of Economics in TCD, JJ being relatively less qualified, due to his classical background. They remained on good terms. JJ eventually had an Applied Economics Chair created for him.
75. Food, Health and Income, John Boyd Orr, Macmillan, London, 1936.
76. Papers by Henry Kennedy: The Future of Agriculture in Ireland, reprint from the Irish Monthly, October 1938; this was a Social Order Summer School contribution, and was marked in detail by JJ, and referenced directly or by implication in his Seanad speeches; the key message as to 'use the plough to grow better grass' and in support of systematic winter feeding of livestock. There is a compliments slip from the Secretary of the IAOS. Another one, Agriculture and the Banking Commission is a reprint from Studies December 1938, and is also heavily marked; the key message is the deterioration of agricultural practice in the context of the Economic War'. This was also Seanad material for JJ.
77. Can Britain Feed Herself on Home-produced Foods?, HH Jones; Vegetarian Society, Manchester, undated, but probably 1941. Unmarked, but contains typescript notes by JJ folded in, perhaps towards a review, the thrust of which it the mobilisation of the consumer co-operative movement in support of the Boyd Orr thesis.
78. A Select Bibliography of Economic Writings by Members of Trinity College, Dublin, RD Collison Black, Hermathena LXVI, 1945; with author's compliments.
79. National Investment, Louden Ryan, reprint from Studies, Winter 1945.
80. Report on Rural Electrification, Stationary Office, P6530, undated, but must have been 1945; this Report was produced for Sean Lemass (Industry and Commerce) and JJ welcomed it in the Seanad on March 7 1945.
82. Farming in Irish Life, TW Freeman, reprint from the Geographical Journal, July-Sept 1947; this was a complimentary copy given to JJ by the author, and is marked.
83. Economic Studies at Trinity College Dublin, pt 1, RD Collison Black, Hermathena LXX, 1947; author's compliments. 84. Centenary 1847-1947 Proceedings, SSISI, October 6-9 1947.
85. The Sterling Area, Paul Bareau, British Commonwealth Affairs no 3, Longmans, London, 1948. Heavily underlined by JJ.
86. Industrial Development in Ireland: a Statistical Review, RC Geary, Manchester Statistical Society, March 9 1949; extensively marked by JJ.
87. Ireland's External Assets, TK Whittaker, SSISI 29 April 1949, reprint.
88. Britain's New Monetary Policy, WTC King, reprinted from The Banker, December 1951 and January 1952. Underlined by JJ.
89. Agricultural Co-operation in Ireland CC Ridall, JT Drought & Co, Dublin 1950; this booklet is an outline of the history of the IAOS, in the form of a reprint of articles in Agricultural Ireland by the Assistant Secretary of the IAOS, published in the period 1945-47. Although 'Charlie Riddell' receives honourable mention in Patrick Bolger's 1971 history, the latter does not reference this book. JJ however seems to have used it, as it is marked.
*90. Co-operative Year Book 1956, National Co-operative Council.
91. Planning for Economic Development, Patrick Lynch & CF Carter, Tuairim pamphlet 5, September 1959.
92. An Appraisement of Agricultural Co-operation in Ireland, P7467, Stationary Office (the Knapp Report) 1963. (This is now in JJ5, RJ 22/04/05)
93. Lauredale, Malthus and Keynes, Paul Lambert, reprint from Annals of Public and Co-operative Economy, 1966, no 1.
94. Irish Agricultural Production - Its Volume and Structure, Raymond Crotty, Cork University Press 1966; JJ got to review this in the Irish Times.
95. Free Trade with Britain, Garrett Fitzgerald, Business and Finance, undated, probably circa 1969, price one shilling.
96. Irish Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol 3 no 1, 1970; this has a paper by BC Hickey on Economies of Size in Irish Farming which contains a graph on p55 showing the rapidly declining cost per unit of output as a finction of size. JJ must have kept this as a vindication of what he had been saying all along, though he was not referenced.
97. Lincoln College Record, 1970-71; this newsletter for Oxford alumni contains a review of JJ's Berkeley 'Querist'.

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48. Manchester Guardian articles, 1917, photocopies; probably by JJ, working in journalistic mode in the aftermath of 1916; they relate to travels which could have been done during the Easter vacation.
1. Handbook of the Ulster Question, ed Kevin O'Shiel, Stationary Office, 1923; this was the Report of the Boundary Commission, to which JJ contributed. My sister remembers KO'S as a frequent visitor during her childhood.
2. Reports of the Commission on Agriculture, Stationary Office, 1923-24. (TCD Library)
3. Report of the Tribunal on Prices, Stationaey Office, 1926. (TCD Library)
4. Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Civil Service, 1932-1935, Stationary Office, 1935. (TCD Library)
5. Reports of Committee of Inquiry on Post-Emergency Agricultural Policy, Stationary Office, Dublin, 1943-45.
6. Records of JJ's Seanad speeches which I have photocopied and filed by year between 1938 and 1954.
Group (d) NGO Records: This includes notes abstracted from minutes and records of organisations with which JJ was connected, primarily the SSISI and Barrington material. It also includes the Oldham / Collison Black / Salim Rachid material. It is in Box 2LH along with the public service record. I have also included in LHBox 2 some material which overflowed from the Albert Kahn folders: there is an album of photos, and some notes taken by JJ, mostly in India, background Brahmin material etc.
1. Folder containing correspondence with the Horace Plunkett Foundation in Oxford, which has supplied material relating to JJ's piloting of the consumer co-op concept in TCD, and the College archives in Oxford, which contains records of student debates. I have also included material from the Plunkett House library.
2. Folder containing notes and extracts from the SSISI and Barrington archives.
3. Photocopies of the 1917 Manchester Guardian articles which can credibly be attributed to JJ, and which I have abstracted in the political module.

LHBox 3

1. JJ's 1913 polemical book Civil War in Ulster (originally Sealy, Bryant and Walker, Dublin 1913; it has been re-published by UCD Press in 1999 with introduction by the present writer, and preface by Tom Garvin)
8. Food Supply in France (1916; Albert Kahn Fellowship supplementary report).
10. The Importance of Economy in the Distribution of Goods, Irish Co-operative Conference Association, August 1933.
14. Some Causes and Consequences of Distributive Waste, (J SSISI vol XIV p353, 1926-7; this was read on 10 March 1927. It was a spin-off from his work on the Prices Tribunal.
15. National Transport Problems, JSSISI XIV, 53, 1929-30.
16. A Plea for Winter Dairying, JSSISI XV, 33, 1930-31.
17. Chronological Note on the Expedition of Leotychidas to Thessaly, Hermathena XXI, 1931. This was with the momentum of his earlier classical scholarship; later classical papers show a trend into economics.
18. An International Managed Currency in the 5th Century BC, Hermathena XXII, 1932; I have included the 11/04/33 Keynes letter with this, as it is related.
19. The World Crisis - Its Non-Monetary Background, lecture delivered to the Institute of Bankers, Dublin, November 17 1932.
20. The Purchasing Power of Irish Free State Farmers in 1933, in The Economic Journal, ed JM Keynes, September 1934. 21. Solon's Reform of Weights and Measures, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol LIV, p180, 1934.
22. Aspects of the Agricultural Crisis at Home and Abroad, JSSISI XV, 79, 1934-5.
24. Price Ratios in Recent Irish Agricultural Experience, The Economic Journal, ed Keynes & Robinson, December 1934.
25. I reference his unpublished 1937 wheat paper here in the academic stream.
35. The Capitalisation of Irish Agriculture, JSSISI XVI, 44, 1941-2. (cf TCD Library)
36. Bishop Berkeley and Kindred Monetary Thinkers, Hermathena LIX, May 1942.
37. An Economic Basis for Irish Rural Civilisation, (JSSISI xviii, 1, 1947-8)
38. Review: Ireland - Its Physical, Historical, Social and Economic Geography, by TW Freeman; Hermathena LXXVI, 1950, p99.
39. Raw Materials for Irish Animal Husbandry, JSSISI XVIII, 392, 1950-51.
41. Berkeley's Influence as an Economist, Hermathena 'Homage to George Berkeley, a commemorative issue, LXXXII, November 1953.
43. Consumer Demand as the Basis of Credit, 1969; JJ produced this as a 46-page stapled duplicated pre-print, for promotional circulation, with a view to getting it published; he never succeeded. It was rejected by the SSISI under the influence of Roy Geary, as being philosophical and non-quantitative.
44. Monetary Manipulation, Berkeleian and Otherwise, Hermathena CX, 1970.
45. There is an article in the London Times ('from a correspondent') on September 8 1916, headed Ireland Today / Spread of Sinn Fein / Political Cross-Currents. I have reason to believe that this was by JJ, based on some travelling he did during the TCD summer vacation. My sister Dr Maureen Carmody questions this, on the basis that he would have had to abandon her as a 3-month baby with our mother. I respond that he would have been quite capable of doing this, as indeed he did a couple of months later when he went to France on his final Albert Kahn Fellowship project, studying wartime agriculture. There must have been a support system, and it almost certainly involved our aunt Florrie, then working in Dublin as a 'typewriter'. RJ August 2001.
46. If France Ruled Ireland / A Dream of Change, by 'Viator'; September (?circa 18+) 1916, Irish Times(?); this was a series of three articles, two of which are preserved in a scrap-book which JJ lodged in the TCD Library in 1971.
47. War Agriculture in France / The Benefits of United Action / A Lesson to British Farmers, from a Correspondent in France, September 29 1916, The Times, London.
51. The Prospects of Anglo-Irish Trade; I have this as galley-proof, and it is for the Banker; circa 1938 or 39; it refers to the recent trade agreement and the economic war as history.
52. Economic Development under Public Enterprise, Irish Times, April 16 1947; he referenced this in the Seanad on the same day. This was a report of a paper he had given in Athlone, possibly as Barrington Lecture.
53. Unfinished Programme, in Sir Horace Plunkett Centenary Handbook, National Co-operative Council, 1954.
53.1 Sunday Press article by JJ on the Common Market; entitled 'The Common Market and the Communist Menace', appeared on December 23 1962 in the Sunday Press. I remember at the time being put off by the use of the cold war term 'communist menace' but it is clear he was primarily using it with the connotation 'heavy-handed State intervention in the free market'.
53.2 Irish Press Articles by JJ: 'Freedom from Hunger'; this a series of articles began on April 19 1963. The first exists as newsprint, and I have scanned it in. The remaining three are somewhat fuzzy carbon copies, and they are more difficult to scan. I have abstracted them where the full text is not available.
54. The Relevance of a Berkeleyan Theory of Credit to the Problems of Today, Irish Press, April 20 1965 or perhaps 1966?.
Fun:
55. The Compleat Anglers: A Brazen Monument Immortalising the Tutorial System, by 'Jack Point', Dublin University Press, 1935.
56. Kottabistae, Hermathena LXVII, 1946; this is a set of translations into Latin verse of various poetic exerpts. JJ on p115 renders the Ogden Nash quatrain 'You dress yourself in floppy pants...' etc as follows:
Tegmine braccarum cumulasti membra saluto / Deliciae nostrae, sed tua membra tegis; / Adveniens simulas venerem sed versa retrorsun / Quantula tunc praestas, heu, simulacra deae.

LHBox 4

98. There were also selected for retention by JJ in 1971 several Government reports dating from the period of British rule: the 1836 Fisheries report, the 1894 Matheson Report on Surnames in Ireland, the Ordnance Survey Index (undated), the Viceregal Committees of Enquiry into Primary Education 1913 and 1918, the Educational Endowments (Ireland) Act 1885, the 1910 Railways Commission Report, the 1906 Poor Law Reform Commission, Office of Public Works Reports 1879-80, 1906-07, 1907-09, 1914, 1916; Criminal Statistics 1900, Census 1901 (Antrim); also the Government of Ireland Act 1920. There is also a GSWR timetable of 1850 for the Dublin to Cork service; the express mail left Dublin at 10 am and arrived in Cork at 5 pm. He had also kept a copy of the 1925 Gaeltacht Commission, with associated maps. I have retained these in Box 4LH.
31. Primarily relating to 'Civil War in Ulster', 1913 edition and 1999 edition, with RJ's background notes. I have added in a May 1914 issue of the Irish Volunteer, and an undated cutting relatin to the 'Listowel emeute (terrorist tactics that failed)'. I have included here also the galley of his January 1916 published appeal to the Nationalists to support a fair national service conscription system, with a view to restoring the all-Ireland basis of Home Rule.
32. Irish Convention letters: Childers, Mahaffey; 1916 issue of 'TCD'. Monteagle, Plunkett and the Dominion League.
33. 1920s material: correspondence with Blythe and Edgeworth; 1926 Seanad election material; letter from Cosgrave acknowledging subscription to the Party.
35. Political letters relating to the War of Independence and Civil War period; Boundary Commission, Childers, Collins, Kevin O'Higgins, Dermot MacManus (to whom I think the Pierrepoint file can be attributed). My sister remembers particularly Kevin O'Higgins and Erskine Childers.
38. Lemass letter of 1932; the Fine Gael leadership meeting of 1934; a Spring Rice poem from PC Duggan; a letter from one J Warren, a Unionist, undated, but probably reacting to his Seanad maiden speech in 1938.
41. JJ and Judge Wylie in 1941 on national emergency political economy; there is also an Irish Times poster for December 6 (1944?) which perhaps relates to an altercation between JJ and Aiken. A further cutting relates to the flag-burning incident in 1945. I have treated these in the 1940s political module. I also include here a letter to the Irish Times dated June 1 1950, in response to one from the US Ambassador, relating to Irish neutrality during the war, and the question of US bases.
. 44. Sr John Ervine correspondence 1942 re Seanad; feedback re stove to heat glasshouses; George O'Brien re draft of '..Transition'; Knocklong co-op 1948. There is also a letter dated 27 May 1941 from 'Meta' (signed also Margaret O'Flaherty) to JJ as Senator, relating to the deportation of Stella Jackson, who has been living (in 'sin') with Ewart Milne in Meta's house, Kilmacavea, Leap, Co Cork. The police raided at 4.30 a.m. Meta gave some Stella Jackson background; she was the author of a pamphlet of the Fabian Society on Partition, and 'a person of some account'. Meta suspected that the deportation was on foot of her non-marital status, if so 'a contemptible reason'. She concludes 'tell Annie to come down and see me'. (According to my sister Meta was a friend of our aunt Ann. I can add some background to this letter: Stella Jackson was the daughter of Thomas A Jackson, author of 'Ireland Her Own', the first attempt since Connolly to publish a Marxist history of Ireland. TAJ was a British Communist Party stalwart. The deportation took place before Hitler attacked the USSR, and the Russo-German Pact still nominally held; in this situation the CBGB was anti-war. There may therefore be more to this episode than met the eye at the time. There is a note on the envelope by my sister, as follows: 'Meta (née Barrington) married Professor Carter, left him for Liam O'Flaherty'. JJ had written on the envelope 're Meta O'F'. I had some contact with Stella Jackson in the early 1960s, when in London, via the Connolly Association; it is a pity I was unaware of this episode at the time; I would certainly have explored it further had I known. RJ.)
45. Irish Association material, 40s and 50s. Includes 40s Bulletins (printed) and some 50s essays, including the printed prize essay by William Ward, and another one relating to the Isles-Cuthbert Report. Also the local press reports of the Kilkenny Debates, and the Mary McNeill History of the IA. I have included here also the 1948 Protestant school speech-day stuff (Drogheda and Dungannon), the signed 1951 Irish Association dinner menu, and the Charter of TCD verses by 'Rabach' which seem to relate to the 1948 'declaration of the republic' situation and the TCD response.
46. Irish Association 1960s material, including the Estyn Evans paper, and JJ's 1963 proposal for a 'common market of these islands', and correspondence relating to it. There is correspondence with Irene Calvert, and a positive assessment of the incoming President Martin Wallace by Sir Graham Larmour, with an attached article by him attacking the Orange Order. Box JJ4LH. 47. Plunkett House Library stuff, including Irish Statesman material.
48. Seanad Election addresses; correspondence with James Douglas in 1950 relating to JJ's standing down as TCD Senator; his 1939 'speech book'. Also Dev's 1951 nomination telegram, and a letter from Dev thanking him for his book Irish Agriculture in Transition. Also a short press report of the 1959 Seanad election, when JJ stood but lost to Fearon.
56. Peace movement letters, relating to Northern Ireland and to Vietnam, from Peadar O'Donnell, Moira Woods and Conor Farrington; the latter is a copy of a joint letter submitted to the press signed by notables; it is undated but relates to the situation post August 1969. One of the CF letters notes the appreciation on the part of Catholic victimes of the concern by Southern Protestants. There is a JJ membership card of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement dated 1971, and an Irish Democrat book-list.
58. Late 60s letters and drafts relating to the Northern Ireland question, including a typescript embodying some of his Boundary Commission experience, to the effect that the Border, if drawn to minimise the number of unwilling citizens, should run from the northern tip of Monaghan to a point just east of the entrance to Lough Foyle. There is also a letter from Professor W McC Stewart of Bristol, with an enclosed copy of an article by him, supportive of the status of Magee College in Derry, critical of the Lockwood Report, and the situation in the Coleraine campus of the New University of Ulster, staffed mainly with English academics. He had hoped to meet JJ at the 1969 scholar's dinner in TCD, but there is a copy of a letter from his sister Anne indicating JJ's imminent hospitalisation for a hip replacement.
60. Letter from the Taoiseach Sean Lemass dated 23/03/65 thanking JJ for his paper on the Berkeley Theory of Credit. He sent the same paper to de Valera, apparently after a meeting with him, and received an acknowledgement from him dated 03/10/66, in which Dev expressed the hope that it would revive interest in Berkeley's economic work, and that there would be a demand for the projected 'Querist' book. This was JJ's unpublished 'Consumer Demand as the Basis of Credit' monograph, which the then SSISI influentials (Geary, Whitaker et al) had declined as being too philosophical and not econometric enough. RJ Dec 2000.

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5. Labour in Irish History, James Connolly, Maunsel 1910, copy autographed by JJ; Box JJ5*(?).
1. Home Rule: Imperial and National and Real Representation for Great Britain and Ireland, AE Dobbs, Ponsonby Dublin 1908 and 1910; these arguments for Home Rule and for Proportional Representation came in via the Carmody collection, and are representative of the contemporary thinking of the Ulster Liberal Home Rule community. Box JJ5.(?)

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2. Report to the Trustees of the Albert Kahn Travelling Fellowships, November 1914 - September 1916; August - October 1916. I count this as a 'published book' because some hundreds of copies were printed and circulated to university libraries.
3. A Groundwork of Economics, Educational Co of Ireland, Dublin, 1925. (Copy annotated by JJ, with dates suggesting when points in it were referenced.)
4. The Nemesis of Economic Nationalism, PS King & Son, London, 1934.
5. Irish Agriculture in Transition, Hodges Figgis, Dublin and Blackwell, London, 1951.
6. Why Ireland Needs the Common Market, Mercier, Cork, 1962.
7. Bishop Berkeley's Querist in Historical Perspective, Dundealgan Press, Dundalk, 1970.
42. Comments on Agricultural Developments in Ireland, North and South, by EA Attwood; JSSISI XXI, part V, 1966-67; JJ had supervised Attwood's PhD. He used the occasion to bid farewell to the SSISI, of which he had earlier been President. His comments are on record, p30.

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9. The Trinity Co-op 1913-1921 and after; foreword by AE; reprint of Better Business article, based on a paper read at the co-op AGM on March 1, 1921.
11. Agriculture in our National Economy, introducing an Irish Independent series published as a pamphlet, undated, but probably circa 1946, under the general heading Post-war Planning in Irish Agriculture. Other authors were Bro Jarlath Edwards, JN Greene, William J Hans, James Hughes TD, Dr Henry Kennedy, CJ Kerin, Mrs JP Nagle, PF Quinlan and Thomas Wade. There was also a critical analysis by Capt ER Orpen which includes the phrase '..judging from the recent Hot Springs Food Conference..' which can help to date it.
12. The Sickness of the Irish Economy, Irish Association, Parkside Press, 1957.
13. Irish Economic Headaches - A Diagnosis, Aisti Eireannacha, Dublin. 1966.
23. Agriculture and the Sickness of the Free Economy, Studies XXIV, no 94, June 1935.
26. The Monetary Theories of Berkeley, Economic History (a supplement to the Economic Journal, ed JM Keynes and EAG Robinson), February 1938. (I have included the Keynes letter of 05/04/37 with this. RJ)
29. An Outlook on Irish Agriculture, Studies XXVIII no 111, June 1939.
30. Reviews: Irish Life in the 17the Century, by E McLysaght, and Economic History of Cork City, by W O'Sullivan, in Economic History, February 1940.
49. The Anglo-Irish Economic Conflict, Nineteenth Century and After, Vol CXIX, no 708, February 1936.
50. The Plight of Irish Agriculture, The Fortnightly no 854, new series, London, February 1938.

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27. Irish Currency in the 18th Century, Hermathena LII, November 1938.
28. Commercial Restrictions and Monetary Deflation in 18th Century Ireland, Hermathena LIII, May 1939.
31. Berkeley and the Abortive Bank Project of 1720-21, Hermathena LIV, November 1939.
32. A Synopsis of Berkeley's Monetary Philosophy, Hermasthena LV, May 1940.
33. Irish Agriculture Then and Now, Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, October 1940.
34. Locke, Berkeley and Hume as Monetary Theorists, Hermathena LVI, November 1940.
40. Economic Leviathans JSSISI XIX pt 1, 42, 1952-3.
81. The Irish Meat and Livestock Industry, Thomas Shaw; reprint from Studies September 1946. There are comments by JJ, TA Smiddy, J Hughes and EJ Sheehy in the same issue. JJ also used this in his Seanad arguments.

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