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Irish Labour Movement Comintern Papers (RGASPI), Complete Listing MS57 Comintern Collection About the Collection This collection comprises copies of files held in the Russian Archives for Social and Political History (RGASPI), Moscow. The files pertain to the Irish Labour movement and the history of Communism in Ireland, comprising documents from the departments and standing committee of the Executive Committee Communist International (ECCI) including speeches, reports, letters, agendas, fliers, handwritten notes, lists, telegrams, minutes and posters. The papers provide considerable insight in the personalities, organisation and policy development of Irish Communism during the 1920s/ 1930s. Included in the collection are ten microfilms (representing approximately 4, 000 pages) detailing contacts between the Communist International and Irish groups between 1919 and 1943. All materials in the collection were selected and the catalogue prepared by two academics, Dr. Emmet O’Connor (Ulster University, Northern Ireland) and Dr. Finbarr McLoughlin (University of Vienna, Austria) and copied in 1995. The microfilms were deposited with Special Collections and Archives in 2011 and the paper copies were deposited in July 2012. There are 8 boxes of materials in the collection. 1 Comintern Papers (RGASPI), Complete Listing Copies from files held in the Russian Archive for Social and Political History (RGASPI) on the history of the Irish Labour Movement ECCI= Executive Committee of the Communist International Language: G= German; E= English; R=Russian Format: Paper document Microfilm BOX 1: fond opis delo list Date Body of ECCI Lang Remarks MF Reel MS 57/1/1 495 2 19 193-194 05.11.1923 Presidium G Setting up Irish Commission, including Bob N/A Stewart of CPGB 495 2 37 1 07.01.1925 Presidium G Report of Irish Commission, Jim Larkin N/A present 495 2 37 149-154 15.02.1928 Presidium E Resolution ECCI on Irish question (1925) N/A 495 2 64A 63-64 20.12.1926 Presidium G New Irish commission, including Bukharin N/A 495 2 64A 95-101 20.12.1926 Presidium E Speech by Jim Larkin against CPGB, wants N/A permanent represent for Ireland in Moscow 495 2 70 1 07.01.1927 Presidium G Report of Irish Commission accepted N/A 495 2 70 8 07.01.1927 Presidium E Speech of Jack Murphy (CPGB) against Larkin N/A attack 495 2 70 74-76 26.01.1928 Presidium E Irish Resolution N/A 495 2 95 86 25.01.1928 Presidium G Acceptance of letter to Irish Worker League N/A 495 2 95 94-136 25.01.1928 Presidium E,G Discussion on alliance with Republicans N/A 495 2 95 182-187 24.01.1928 Presidium E Letter of ECCI to Irish Worker League (IWL) N/A MS 57/1/2 495 3 3 15-17 05.01.1927 Politsekretariat (PS) E Irish Draft Resolution 3 2 Comintern Papers (RGASPI), Complete Listing 495 3 3 46-49 05.01.1927 Politsekretariat E Resolution of Brussels Conference of League 3 Against Imperialism 495 3 14 10 19.03.1927 Politsekretariat G Dissolution of Irish Commission 3 495 3 46 2 23.12.1927 Politsekretariat G Resolution on Irish Question 3 495 3 46 62-73 23.12.1927 Politsekretariat G Discussion on Ireland from Christian Hilt on 3 IWL 495 3 46 207-211 ?12.1927 Politsekretariat E Draft of letter to IWL 3 495 3 51 41-44 12.01.1928 Politsekretariat G On draft letter to IWL by Willie Gallagher 3 495 3 51 64-95 13.10.1928 Politsekretariat E,G Discussion on Irish Question 3 495 3 62 25-29 07.04.1928 Politsekretariat E Immediate Tasks of IWL 3 495 3 70 179-182 06.06.1928 Politsekretariat G Report by Christian Hilt on visit to Ireland 3 MS 57/1/3 495 4 32 5 18.05.1930 Politkommission PS G Agenda, draft of letter to Ireland 3 495 4 39 10 23.06.1930 Politkommission PS G Agenda, confirmation of letter to Irish 3 comrades 495 4 39 158-164 21.06.1930 Politkommission PS E Draft letter to comrades in Ireland 3 495 4 55 4 28.09.1930 Politkommission PS G Agenda, Irish question (Tom Bell) 3 495 4 65 4-5 03.11.1930 Politkommission PS G Agenda, financing of Irish group N/A 495 4 94 125 28.01.1931 Politkommission PS R Letter from Peadar O’Donnell (bad quality) 3 495 4 102 10 23.04.1931 Politkommission PS G Agenda, draft letter to Ireland from Anglo-US N/A Sekretariat 495 4 102 35-39 16.04.1931 Politkommission PS E Instructions on Ireland N/A 495 4 102 145-147 03.05.1931 Politkommission PS G Schedule of sittings of ECCI bodies N/A 495 4 103 3-5 28.04.1931 Politkommission PS G Agenda, send William Rust (CPGB) to Ireland, 3 then cancelled 495 4 106 5-6 13.05.1931 Politkommission PS G Agenda, Irish instructions and letter from 3 3 Comintern Papers (RGASPI), Complete Listing Belfast comrades (G) 495 4 106 41 28.02.1931 3 495 4 151 96 24.07.1929 Politkommission PS E Instructions to Irish, Bell and another (CPGB) N/A to Ireland 495 4 112 7, 11 03.06.1931 Politkommission PS G Agenda, money for Irish party paper 3 495 4 202 14, 276 11.07.1932 Politkommission PS E Call to CPUSA to help CPI financially 3 MS 57/1/4 495 4 205 6 27.07.1932 Politkommission PS G Agenda, Sean Murray asks for funding 3 495 4 205 12-23 n.d. Politkommission PS E Costs of CPI, 1932 election 3 495 4 207 23 09.08.1932 Politkommission PS G Agenda, Irish Question 3 495 4 207 168-171 09.08.1932 Politkommission PS E ECCI letter to CPGB on Ireland 3 495 4 207 207-210 09.08.1932 Politkommission PS E ECCI letter to CPUSA on Ireland 3 495 4 249 41 n.d. Politkommission PS E Draft of telegram to CPI (launch of party, June 3 1933?) 495 4 261 108-109 15.09.1933 Politkommission PS G Reorganisation of ECCI 3 495 4 261 156-158 13.09.1933 Politkommission PS G Invitation to Ireland to attend XIII. Plenum 3 ECCI 495 4 318 8-11 16.11.1934 Politkommission PS E Letter to CPI re Republican Congress 3 MS 57/1/5 495 14 20 1-37 19.07.1935 Anglo-US E Oral report by Sean Murray 1 Sekretariat 495 14 20 ? (1-10) 23.05.1937 Anglo-US E Oral report by Comrade Mooney, Dublin 1 Sekretariat 495 14 220 2-3 15.01.1936 Anglo-US E Letter by Harry Pollitt on visit to Ireland N/A Sekretariat 4 Comintern Papers (RGASPI), Complete Listing 495 14 220 73 June 1936 Anglo-US E Undated and unsigned letter from GB, N/A Sekretariat including help for Irish party MS 57/1/6 495 14 334 1-8 11.02.1930 Anglo-US E Report on Revolutionary Workers Groups 1 Seckretariat (RWG)in Ireland 495 14 334 9-12 22.12.1930 Anglo-US E Report on Ireland, Sept.-Dec. 1930 1 Sekretariat 495 14 334 13-15 26.02.1931 Anglo-US E Letter to Irish party 1 Sekretariat 495 14 334 16-23 ? Anglo-US E Text of speech at Rep. Congress in Rathmines, 1 Sekretariat 30.09.1934 495 14 334 24-27 19.09.1934 Anglo-US E Letter to CPI 1 Sekretariat 495 14 334 30-40 February 1934 Anglo-US E Handwritten “Tasks of the CPI in the Present 1 Sekretariat Situation”. 495 14 334 41 August 1934 Anglo-US E Letter from London (Pollitt?) to CPI 1 Sekretariat 495 14 334 42-47 18.12.1934 Anglo-US E Letter from Pat Devine (Dublin) to Bob 1 Sekretariat Stewart on CPI MS 57/1/7 495 14 335 12-16 22.06.1935 Anglo-US E Anonymous report on recruiting inside 1 Sekretariat Republican Congress 495 14 335 17 07.09.1935 Anglo-US E Sean Murray to Moscow on intrigue by H. 1 Sekretariat Pollitt concerning visit of P. O’Donnell to USSR 495 14 335 121-123 n.d. Anglo-US E Handwritten note by Sean Murray about 1 5 Comintern Papers (RGASPI), Complete Listing Sekretariat bringing his Russian wife to Ireland 495 14 335 24-30 n.d. Anglo-US E Handwritten note by Sean Murray about visit 1 Sekretariat of Peadar O’Donnell to USSR 495 14 335 31-34 n.d. [1934] Anglo-US E Handwritten report on CPI 1 Sekretariat 495 14 335 ? (1-3) 26.08.1935 Anglo-US E United Front in Ireland 1 Sekretariat 495 14 335 ? (1-12) 04.09.1935 Anglo-US E Speech of Sean Murray at 7th Comintern 1 Sekretariat Congress 495 14 336 62,63,65 1934 Anglo-US E Three fliers of CPI 1 Sekretariat 495 14 337 1-27 5-6.10.1935 Anglo-US E Report of CPI meeting in Dublin 1 Sekretariat 495 14 337 35-57 ? Anglo-US E Report of S. Murray to Dublin aggregate 1 Sekretariat meeting, 1935 495 14 337 58-78 12-13.10.1935 Anglo-US E Report and speech of Pat Devine in Dublin 1 Sekretariat 495 14 337 86-92 21.07.1935 Anglo-UIS E Report on Ireland by Pat Devine 1 Sekretariat 495 14 337 115-120 26.03.1936 Anglo-US E Report on Ireland for Andre Marty 1 Sekretariat 495 14 337 168-171 26.05.1936 Anglo-US E The National Question and the CPI after 7th 1 Sekretariat Comintern Congress 495 14 337 188-197 1934? Anglo-US E Material on Ireland by Max Raylock 1 Sekretariat MS 57/1/8 6 Comintern Papers (RGASPI), Complete Listing 495 14 338 37-44 1933 Anglo-US E Seamus McKee: Constituent Congress of CPI 1 Sekretariat [1933] 495 14 338 ?(132,138, 1936 Anglo-US E Fliers of CPI on Spanish Civil War 1 162,163, Sekretariat 363) 495 14 339 1 03.05.1937 Anglo-US E Letter Max Raylock to Marty on visit of 1 Sekretariat Comrade Mooney 495 14 339 2 02.05.1937 Anglo-US E Letter denouncing Comrade Mooney 1 Sekretariat 495 14 339 34-38 23.05.1937 Anglo-US E Protocol of discussion between Mooney and 1 Sekretariat Marty 495 14 340 1-2 14.01.1938 Anglo-US E Letter by Sean Murray to Moscow 1 Sekretariat 495 14 339 ? 28.01.1937 Anglo-US E Letter from Belfast to Moscow 1 Sekretariat 495 14 339 5-6 21.02.1937 Anglo-US E Resolution passed by Dublin AGM CPI 1 Sekretariat 495 14 339 7-17 21.02.1937 Anglo-US E Protocol of Dublin AGM CPI 1 Sekretariat 495 14 339 18-21 08.05.1937 Anglo-US Sekretiat E Proposals for CPI 1 MS 57/1/9 495 14 340 1-2 14.01.1938 From Sean Murray, ‘Secretariat C.P.
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