Century of Endeavour

Listing of JJ archive material

(c) Roy Johnston 2012

Joseph Johnston SFTCD 1890-1972 Archive

Initial Classification by his son Roy Johnston, again revised November 18 2011

TCD MS 11398 cf Jane Maxwell (amended herewith, unfinished WIP)

We record here the re-boxing within topic, where possible in historical sequence. Those prefixed with (N) were in boxes JJ took to Nenagh with him for his last days, suggesting that he valued them highly; this was done when his TCD rooms were cleared out under his supervision, circa 1970.

Topic 1: Development Economics

Selected with 'development economics and agriculture in Ireland' in mind as a possible research topic; also the origins of development economics in the 18thC in mind, with Swift, Molyneux, Berkeley in mind, supported by Prior and Dobbs in the RDS, in the analysis by Salim Rashid (U Illinois) of the role of Berkeley.

Sub-topic 1.1: Development Economics: historic origins

Boxing of the material in this section is more or less complete; provisionally we have the foolscap folder sized material organised as follows:

Box 1.1.1:

Reporter's notebook 'Hist of Theory of Money /analysis of 1931-32' etc
Envelope 'misc essays on B(erkeley)'
Folder 'misc essays', Berkeley & money etc

Folder with: Review 1963 of 'Scottish Trade on the Eve of the Union' by TC Smout (3 copies & related comment); corresp ca 65 between Cullen, Moody and JJ re JJ and 18thC economics in Ireland; copy of paper on Woods coinage episode, with letter to Moody

Envelope 'Berkeley Theory of Credit'

Box 1.1.2

Folder with Querist draft material & reviews; also complementary copy list
2 folders tied together 'Topic Essays on Q / New Book on Querist'
Folder with misc essays, 1960s, some published in Irish Press

Box 1.1.3,

Copies of Hermathena and Hermathena reprints relating to Berkeley etc
Nov 1938 JJ Irish Currency in 18thC
May 1939 JJ Commercial Restriction and Monetary Deflation in 18thC
Nov 1939 JJ Berkeley and Abortive Bank Project 1720-21
May 1949 JJ Synopsis of Berkeley's Monetary Philosophy
Nov 1940 JJ Locke, Berkeley and Hume as Monetary Theorists
May 1942 JJ Bishop Berkeley and Kindred Monetary Thinkers
Nov 1953 issue on Berkeley with papers by Jessop, Luce, Leroy, Dobree, JJ, Whitrow, Ramsey, Popkin

Plato's Religious Experience; JV Luce (compliments); Hermathena XCVI, 1962
1970 issue: JJ Monetary Manipulation Berkeleian and Otherwise

included are reprints of the JJ papers in all the above.

(N)Hermathena: May 1956: paper by EJ Furlong on Berkeley and tar-water 1132; May 1946: paper by AA Luce on Berkeley's gold medals; Nov 1946: paper by AA Luce on early memoirs and lives of Bishop Berkeley; also review by EJF of Luce's book on Berkeley's Immaterialism.

(N)3 issues of Hermathena, Nov 1952, May 1953, May 1955; these each contain a paper by Ben Farrington on a classical topic, suggesting in interest by JJ in the work of BF who had developed a Marxist historical view of classical civilization. (This perhaps arose via a link with his classical Greek economic papers, on Solon etc?)

also additional Hermathena reprints:
1931: JJ Chronological Note of the Expedition of Leotychidas to Thessaly (2 copies)
1932: JJ An International Managed Currency in the 5th Century BC.

Box 1.1.4

Copies of other journals and reprints relevant to Berkeley, including JJ's copy of his Berkeley book ....(this lot should be in 1.2 development economics area)
Quarto binder with ms draft 'adaptive programme for agriculture, circa 1965
Irish Agriculture, Then and Now; Manchester School, Oct 1940
Irish Press 20/04/1965: Relevance of Berkeleyan Theory of Credit to today
Economic Leviathans; SSISI, Feb 5 1953

real Box 1.1.4:

Lincoln Oxford notes 1910 on Greek commerce
Bishop Berkeley: The Querist; Ellen Douglas Leyburn; Proc RIA XLIV/C/3, 1937
Berkeley's Bermuda Project etc; AA Luce; Proc RIA XLII/C/6, 1934
Desmond Clarke on Thomas Prior 1681-1751, RDS founder; RDS 1951
The Monetary Theories of Berkeley; Economic Journal, Feb 1938, 19 copies
Solon's Reform of Weights and Measures; J Hellenic Studies, LIV, 1934, 3 copies
Dublin Magazine July-Sept 1951: p57 has review of Luce on Berkeley
Bishop Berkeley's Querist in Historical Perspective; Dundalgan Press, 1970
...(latter has copy of bicentenary programme folded in)
Problems of interpretation..18thC Irish Economic History; LM Cullen; Royal Historical Soc 17, 1967
....(letter included)
TW Hutchinson on Berkeley in Brit Journ Philosophy of Science 1953
Berkeley's Essays in the Guardian; AA Luce, reprint from Mind LII, NS, 207 (date?)
Reviews by JJ (undated, ca 1940, could be in JSSISI, 2 copies)):
....McLysaght on Irish Life in 17thC
....O'Sullivan on Cork economic history
Economic History (ed Keynes & Robinson) Monetary Theories of Berkeley
The Treaty of Limerick, J G Simms, Dublin Historical Association, 1961

(about 3 cms remain)

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Additional material may exist elsewhere:
Notebook labelled 'currency & credit in 18thC Ireland;
....1st entry is Dillon Banking, Gale 10 & 30

Additional Reprints of JJ papers are available in a separate box; numbers approximate:

Monetary Manipulation: Berkeleyean and Otherwise; Hermathena CX, 1970, 2 copies
Berkeley's Influence as an Economist; HermathenaLXXXII, 1953, 13 copies
Bishop Berkeley and Kindred Monetary Thinkers; Hermathena LIX, 1942, 11 copies
Locke, Berkeley and Humje as Monetary Theorists; Hermathena LVI, 1940, 6 copies
A Synopsis of Berkeley's Monetary Philosophy; Hermathena LV, 1940, 6 copies
Berkeley and the Abortive Bank Project... Hermathena XXIX, 1939, 14 copies
Commercial Restriction... in 18thC Ireland; Hermathena XXVIII, 1939, 7 copies
Irish Currency in the 18thC; Hermathena XXVII, 1938, 1 copy
An International Managed Currency in the 5th Century BC; Hermathena XXII, 1932, 8 copies
Expedition of Leotychidas to Sicily, Hermathena XXI, 1931, 2 copies

The following were transferred from Linen Hall Library (articles & pamphlets 2):

1.1 Hermathena May 1942 berkeley & kindred monetary thinkers
1.1 " Nov 1939 berkeley and abortive bank project 1720-21
1.1 " Nov 1940 locke berkeley & hume as monetary theorists
1.1 " 1970 monetary manipulation berkeleyan anbd otherwise
1.1 J Hellenic Studies 1934 Solon's reform of weights and measures
1.1 review by JJ of books by MacLysaght, O'Sullivan UCC on economic history
1.1 Hermathena November 1953 Homage to George Berkeley (record of bicentenary conference)
1.1 hermathena reprints 1931,2 of papers on economics in ancient Greece
1.1 Hermathena 1970 Monetary Manipulation Berkeleyan & otherwise
1.1 2 Hermathena reprints on classical themes
1.1 Rent of Irish land in 18thc
1.1 a modern theory of money propounded in 1735 (2 copies)
1.1 the old colonial system
1.1 a protestant archbishop on the economic victimisation of ireland
1.1 un-neighbourly neighbors in the old colonial system
1.1 Hermathena Nov 1938 Irish Currency in 18thC
1.1 " May 1939 Commercial Restriction & Monetary Deflation in 18th
1.1 " May 1940 Synopsis of Berkeley's Monetary Philosophy;
...........also Luce on Berkeleyan Idea of Sense

Sub-topic 1.2: Development economics: contemporary socio-political outreach etc

The following foolscap-sized items have been boxed:

1.2.1
Science lab notebook 'Profits - an adverse criticism' by 'Utis' (later = JJ); also Appendix in separate notebook; this seems to have been written circa 1912, and a fair copy made in CJJ's handwriting.

maths book labelled statistical curves ca 1941
hardback notebook '58.1' economic notes 1968
hardback notebook 'stats cals' 1948
black binder with m/s 'analysis of post-war inflation'
green folder '58-61 misc articles & economic data
envelop with m/s 'national economics and international money'
envelope 'metallic credit-base / inter-war monetary anarchy'
typescript draft material re money (Keynes etc)

(some space available; some quarto stuff could be moved to smaller boxes)

1.2.2
Consumer Demand as the Basis of Credit (ca 1938, re-edited in 60s)
Folder 'CM and Com Men' early EEC critical stuff circa 1962
Folder '26' with 'Consumer Demand & Credit' and related correspondence
Black binder with press cuttings 44 →> 61

envelopes:
Free Trade Area Agreement circa 1968 ('perennial relevance' envelope)
Gold and credit (flat earth) 1968, in small envelope
also large envelope with material on above topic
Envelope with ~1968? typescript "...economic distortion.."; response to Attwood?
Folder 're G Fitz article' etc with Future of International Money, Gold & Credit.

. 1.2.3
Folder with misc EEC material ~1970
2 Envelopes with more 1960s economic critique material
Folder with additional critical material 1970-71, some published in Irish Times 30.2.1971
....political reviews: Gerassi, Jacobi, N Korea, Joan Robinson
(some space available, perhaps for overflow of topic 8 foolscap stuff?)

1.2.4 (smaller box) journal and off-print material relating to current development economics
Quarto binder with ms draft 'adaptive programme for agriculture, circa 1965
...(should be here but is in 1.1.4)

Associated Material by other relevant authors:
Alleg, La Question; Sartre, Une Victoire; La Cite, Lausanne, 1958.
Trinity 9 Michaelmas 1957; has article by GF Mitchell on the Kells Ingram Farm (a JJ concern)
The Political Future of India; James Johnston, PS King, London 1933, Bodleian Library reprint
...(NB I might need to access this RJ 18/10/11)
The Farmer and his Debt; AI Qureshi; Indian Rural Reconstruction League, London 1934
Irish Historical Studies May 1969: TW Moody on a New History of Ireland
reprint circa 1945 (source?)
George O'Brien 'some Queries regarding Cheap Money'
Studies:
...autumn 1954: Louden Ryan on Protection and Efficiency of Irish Industry
...spring 1955: Patrick Lynch on Irish Economic Prospects
(N)WH Burry; the Machine Age at the Crossroads; Hollycrofters, USA, 1932
(N)GDH Cole; Beveridge Explained; New Statesman December 1942
(N)Per Jacobsson; Towards a Modern Monetary Standard; U London, Athlone Press, 1959
(N)Geoffrey Crowther; Paying for the War; Clarendon, Oxford, 1940
(N)Pollak Prize Essays 1927; criticisms of 'Profits' book by Foster & Catchings; Pollak Foundation, USA

JJ authored material:
Consumer Demand as the Basis of Credit; duplicated monograph by JJ circa 1970
Some Causes and Consequences of Distributive Waste; SSISI March 1927, (9 reprints)
Food Production in France in Time of War; Maunsel ca 1916
Irish Homestead review 24/02/1917 by AE Plunkett Foundation, transferred from JJ8.7
Manchester School Oct 1940 / JJ on Irish agriculture Then and Now
(N)The Banker Sept 1938: paper by JJ on anglo-irish trade
(N)J Inst Bankers in Ireland April 1933: JJ on world crisis non-monetary background
(N)Studies:
....June 1935: JJ on Agriculture and the Free Economy
....June 1939: JJ on an Outlook on Irish Agriculture

Reprints, pamphlets etc:
Raw Materials for Irish Animal Husbandry; SSISI Dec 8 1950
An Economic Basis for an Irish Rural Civilisation; SSISI, date ca 1946, 6 copies
Post-war planning in Irish Agriculture; Irish Independent, undated, ca 1945
Manchester School Oct 1940 / JJ on Irish agriculture Then and Now
An Outlook on Irish Agriculture; Studies 1939; parts 1 and 2, 8/7 copies
Price Ratios in Recent Irish Agriculture Experience; Economic Journal
....(ed Keynes/Robinson), Dec 1937, 3 copies
The Plight of Irish Agriculture; Fortnightly Review, London, ca 1937 (undated)
The Anglo-Irish Economic Conflict; Nineteenth Century & After; Feb 1936, 4 copies
Agriculture and the Sickness of the Free Economy; Studies June 1935, 2 copies
Aspects of the Agricultural Crisis at Home abd Abroad; SSISI May 1935
Purchasing Power of Irish Free State Farmers in 1933; Economic Journal Sept 1934; 18 copies
The Importance of Economy in the Distribution of Goods; Irish Co-op Conference Assoc, Aug 1933
The Nemesis of Economic Nationalism (public lecture, March 1933, Talbot Press)
The World Crisis - Its Non-monetary Background; Inst of Bankers, Nov 1932, 5 copies
A Plea for Winter Dairying; SSISI March 1931
Some Causes and Consequences of Distributive Waste; SSISI March 1927
National Transport Problems; JSSISI; read March 20 1930
Irish Economic Headaches – a Diagnosis; Aisti Eireannacha 1966
The Sickness of the Irish Economy; Parkside Press, 1957

Location uncertain:

JJ's 1916 notebook relating to his work on French wartime agriculture;
....also 1933 desk diary with JJ accounts 1947-69;
I saw this along with the Albert Kahn report in another box RJ 18/10/11
1.2 causes of post-war inflation
1.2 the logical development ot international money
1.2 post-war inflation
1.2 freedom of commerce and the basis of credit

for transfer to smaller boxes:

(transferred from Linen Hall Library (articles & pamphlets 2):

1.2 JSSISI 1927 causes and consequences of distributive waste
1.2 JSSISI 1930 national transport problems (not in RDS boxes?)
1.2,3? reprint from sept 1934 Economic Journal: purchasing power of IFS farmers in 1933
1.2 Economic Journal Dec 1937 on price ratios in Irish agriculture
1.2 (Bankers Institute?) lecture 17/11/1932 on world crisis
1.2 JSSISI 1950 raw materials for Irish animal husbandry
1.2 " undated, but circa 1945; an economic basis for an Irish rural civilisation
1.2 Banker circa 1939: Prospects of Anglo-Irish Trade (proof copy, undated)
1.2 JSSISI 1931: a Plea for Winter Dairying
1.2 Sickness of Irish Economy 1957
1.2 Irish Economic Headaches 1966
1.2 economic atavism and foreign investments
1.2 international money and national economics
1.2 international money in 19thC
1.2 structural inflation with a stable price level
1.2 JSSISI paper read Feb 1953 Economic Leviathans
1.2 Manchester School Oct 1940 Irish Agriculture Then and Now
1.2?. The Gold Problem - Prof Griffin's Solution; not so idle thoughts of an idle Fellow;
1.2 Money and the Long Term Rate of Interest; Irish Times letter Berkeley Progress 03/04/65
1.2 A National Economy Standing on its Head (19p); Bord na Mona & the National Economy (+ letter)
1.2 Folder Keep no 53 Foyle & Co re G Fitz article: has a curious mix, needs analysis
1.2 Envelope March 1968 gold and credit
1.2 Envelope metallic credit base, inter-war monetary anarchy.
1.2 Black binder-folder 'press cuttings' 44-61
....(Not feasible to list these at present, includes Common Market material, including Crotty RJ) 1.2 Envelope 'Prof J Post-War Inflation'
1.2 Envelope (Traighli Jan 1957) 'convention re public enterprise' with unfinished typescript;
1.2 Envelope 'Logicel devel of int money (revised draft)'
1.2 Consumer Demand as the Basis of Credit; unpublished monograph, late 60s

Topic 2: Northern Ireland

Box 2, in Linen Hall mode, foolscap size, top lid (this is for transfer to Linen Hall Oct 22)

Irish Historical Studies March 1950 / JJ review of Green on Lagan Valley 1800-1850

(Perhaps for transfer to TCD eventually?)
Civil War in Ulster, Sealy, Bryers & walker, Dublin, 1913; annotated by JJ;
....(joint authorship with James Johnston ICS acknowledged in JJ's handwriting.)
Ireland's Opportunity: a Plea for Settlement at Conference, by 'Unificus'; PS King, London, 1916
Reviews of the 'Civil War in Ulster: its Objects and Probable Results' by Joseph Johnston BA
pamphlet 'Ulster in 1922' (RIC?)
RW Robson; Autobiography of an Ulster Teacher; Dorman, Belfast, 1937
Handbook of the Ulster Question; Boundary Commission 1923 (2 copies, one with map)

added by RJ:

Dungannon Royal School magazine, 1966, 1967
copy of DRS records of JJ
folder with Dungannon family material researched by RJ circa 2000
FJ Bigger; Crossing the Bar; Erskine Mayne, Belfast, 1926
folder with early JJ letters & family photos etc
...also spare copies of JJ publications where available:

5,2 The Sickness of the Irish Economy; Parkside Press, Dublin, 1957;
.....preface by Sir Graham Larmor, President, Irish association;
5 Why Ireland Needs the Common Market; Mercier Press, Cork, 1962;
5 Irish Economic Headaches - a Diagnosis; Aisti Eireannacha 1966;

There are many more duplicate copies and these are being added as we find them; some already have been added by so far unlisted. RJ 18/11/11

Topics 3, 4, 5 (agriculture, co-operatives, Free State Politics

This is basically a record of JJ active in development economics, in outreach mode, trying to make things happen. There is therefore probably some duplication and overlap between this and the material boxed in the '1.2' domain, above. >

The initial listings below refer to the material in unclassed mode, boxed temporarily as it was found, with tentative allocation to groups 3, 4 and 5. There follows a second listing describing an initial rough grouping into archive boxes, with labeling of boxes in pencil, to facilitate further possible re-classification in an expert-led research-oriented situation.

As before, an initial (N) indicates that JJ took the material with him for his final spell in Nenagh, perhaps suggesting a 'last word' research agenda.

Initial Quasi-random Listing:

3 (N)Commonwealth Economic Committee: Meat and Dairy Produce Reviews for 1962
3 JSSISI 1966-7 paper based on Attwood thesis
3 Post-war planning in Irish agriculture; Irish Independent pamphlet ca 1945

numbered folders (eg 57 Attwood etc as below) where they occur are based on an earlier temporary filing by RJ in Belgrave Road);

3? 1.2? 57 Attwood agriculture project
5? 1.2? 59 Intermediate Technology
5 Blue folder 'Dublin a National Capital?'
5? (N)AM Sullivan; New Ireland; 30 years of Irish public life; Cameron-Ferguson, Glasgow, 1977

(N)Books kept by JJ in Nenagh:
5 JJ Webb; Municipal Government in Ireland; Talbot Press 1918
5 LJ Walsh; "On My Keeping" and in Theirs; Talbot Press 1921
5 Aodh de Blacam; Towards the Republic; Thomas Kiersey 1918
5 RD Collison Black; SSISI Centenary volums; Eason 1947
3 MJ Costello; Farming Programme for Ireland; Studies 1952
5? TW Moody; The Fenian Movement; Mercier Press 1968
5? RM Fox; Louie Bennett her Life and Times; Talbot Press 1957
5? M Philips Price; Russia through the Centuries; Allen & Unwin 1943

JJ publications:
5(N) A Groundwork of Economics; Educational Co of Ireland, undated, but 1926
5(N) The Nemesis of Economic Nationalism; PS King, London, 1934; annotated JJ
5,3 JJ; Irish Agriculture in Transition; Blackwell 1951
5,2 The Sickness of the Irish Economy; Parkside Press, Dublin, 1957;
....preface by Sir Graham Larmor, President, Irish association; 5 copies
5 Why Ireland Needs the Common Market; Mercier Press, Cork, 1962; 2 copies
5 Irish Economic Headaches - a Diagnosis; Aisti Eireannacha 1966; 5 copies
5 19thC and After Feb 1936 the Anglo-Irish Economic Conflict

Transfers from LH:

3 Photos. agriculture in 1930s?
5?3? Fortnightly Feb 1938 Plight of Irish Agriculture
3 Studies June 1935 Agriculture and the Free Economy
3 Studies Sept 1946 comments on Shaw maper on Irish meat etc
3 Studies Sept 1939 Outlook on Irish Agriculture
3,4 blueprint for Irish agriculture part
3 Canal into Sewer (?)
3,4 Irish Independent 30/10/1966 JJ on farm problems, 27/11/66 on Save the West
3 Economic Doodling; 'Irish Tracts for These Jubilee Times' (a Grattan Lodge micro-analysis)
3 Vital Statistics of the Problem Small Farm Areas; Glenamoy Techniques...;

5 place of wheat in Irish agriculture
5 realpolitik of anglo-irish economic conflict (2 copies)
5 political and economic problems in modern ireland
5 aspects of the ag crisis at home and abroad
5 how british policy impeded eire's 'war effort'
5 an outlook on Irish agriculture, & supplement

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Initial Allocation to Archive Boxes:

(temp name) 5 20s to 60s:

34 Barrington Lectures, in 1920s
Economic Atavism of Mr Keynes, with correspondence
37 Nemesis feedback
Folder 'Freedom of Commerce...' with 1940s essays, on credit etc.
Folder 'Misc Economic Articles 40s 50s, with horticulture etc
Folder 'published material' (Dublin a Foreign City etc)
Folder 'common market stuff from 60s'
Folder 'Keep / pamphleteering etc 50s & 60s'

(temp name) 3 & 5 foolscap folders<> 5 Dublin a Foreign City; National Dream & Financial Reality;
5 55.1 Folder with 1970-71 Common Market material (Coughlan, Crotty);
....also paper on all-Ireland custome union
5 55.2 Inland Waterways correspondence etc
3 51 Freedom from Hunger material; includes ag policy 30s to 60s
3 39 Wheat paper from 1937
3 50.2 'Arcadian Adventurer' letters; Albert College letters
3 57 Interaction with Attwood in Ag Inst; also 1960s EEC controversy
Envelope with James Johnston (JJ's elder brother) on Political Future of India
Envelope 40: Economic War / Roosevelt New Deal press cuttings etc

(temp name) 3, 4, 5; ag, co-op, polit:
(primarily 4 foolscap folders re co-ops; also 3 & 5 related material)

3,5: Folder 'File of Published Articles' with press cuttings and published scripts,
....50s & 60s, ag econ:
. I Press 20/04/65 Berkeley credit & today etc
. Bus & Fin 1965 free trade with UK?
. I Times 02/12/67 whose fault if Ireland poor? 08/11/67 Dublin foreign city?
. 06/12/65 incomes policy
. correspondence re Crotty; Berkeley and gold; Ethna Viney on EEC 1967;
(foregoing is a sample; more, mostly from 1960s; some letters relating; RJ)

4: envelope with co-op material
4,3: folder '1947 articles' (based on his 'Young's Tour?) leading to 1951 book:
.....Economic Conditions of an Irish Rural Civilisation

(drafts for SSISI? others attached?)
Pigs in Co Cork
Part 3 an economic synthesis header with SSISI reprint of 'rural civilisation'
Irish Agriculture in a European Perspective
Legacy of Land War (ms); also
...Mitchelstown Creamery Farm, local integration..., hist of mitchelstown, Trant Estate; recent Irish ag hist; raw material sources; speeding the plough; feed costs and product prices; Eire bounties & British penal duties + misc draft material...

3,4: loose draft material from 1940s on agriculture (re-box?)
3,4: Folder Misc economic articles, 40s - 50s (eg 'Blueprint for Irish Agriculture', Laois Experiment in Co-operation, preservation of fruit and vegetables, horticultural actual and potential etc)

(~2cm space remains here; could be used for related additional copies of relevant reprints?)

smaller boxes:

3,4,5: journals and reprints with JJ material; photos

Econ Journal 1934; Purchasing Power of IFS Farmers in 1933
Envelope with 1930s ag photos
Studies issues with JJ papers:
. June 1936 Agriculture and the Free Economy
. Sept 1939 An Outlook on Irish Agriculture
. Sept 1946 comments on Shaw article 'Irish Meat and Livestock Industry'
Irish Independent symposium 1943 'Post-war Planning in Irish Agriculture'
Fortnightly February 1938: The Plight of Irish Agriculture
19th Century and After: February 1936 'The Anglo-Irish Economic Conflict'
Commonwealth Economic Committee Reviews 1962:
. Meat
. Dairy Produce
SSISI 1966-67: Attwood on Agriculture North and South; JJ comments
MJ Costello; Farming Programme for Ireland, 1953, JJ notes
JJ on The Trinity Co-op, 1913-1921 and after; 'Better Business' reprint, 1921
JJ on the Importance of Economy in the Distribution of Goods, ICCA 1933
JJ on Sickness of the Irish EconomyParkside Press 1957
JJ on Irish Economic Headaches – a Diagnosis, 1966
JJ on Why Ireland Needs the Common Market, Mercier 1962
The Trinity Co-op 1913-1921 and After; forward by AE;
...from Better Business, Plunkett House, 1921
4 Importance of Economy in Distribution... Co-op Conference assn 1933
4 retrospect on the historyof Mitchelstown
4 some related co-op records
4 Envelope labelled 'co-operative material ca 1948

3,4,5; Books; by JJ (incomplete); historic related books by other authors:

A M Sullivan, New Ireland, Cameron-Ferguson, Glasgow, 1877
Aodh de Blacam, Towards the Republic, Kiersey, Dublin 1918
JJ Webb, Municipal Government in Ireland, Talbot Press, 1918
TW Moody (ed), The Fenian Movement, Thomas Davis Lectures 1968, Mercier Press
Louis J Walsh, “On My Keeping and in Theirs”; Talbot Press 1921
JJ Groundwork in Economics, Educational Co of Ireland, 1925(?)
James Connolly, Labour in Irish History, Maunsel 1910
JJ Nemesis of Economic Nationalism, King, London, 1934
M Philips Price, Russia Through the Centuries, Allen & Unwin, 1943
RM Fox, Louis Bennett her Life and Times, Talbot Press 1957
RD Collison Black, SSISI Centenary Volume 1847-1947
JJ Irish Agriculture in Transition, Hodges Figgis / Blackwell 1951

Topics 6, 7 (Dublin academic politics, academic publishing, TCD internal politics)

Earlier quasi-random listing:

6 AP Smith on the earliest Irish annals; RIA 1972
Folders: TCD 30s & 40s; TCD 50s; TCD 60s;
numbered folders;
30.4 TCD salary issues
7? Invincible file with 'General Economics' typescript (lecture notes?)
add envelopes re 1968 merger, fellowship etc, from Box JJ8.7? RJ 18/10/11
1.2 recent economic changes 1947-48 (?)

Topic 8 (family, biographical background, unfinished draft material, WIP etc)

Foolscap-size box 8.1:

Folder 'K R Finn'(?) containing mise memorabilia incl 1938 Econ Hist paper,
Berkeley bicentenary, Academy & TCD letters, misc photos, including a dinner group;
....this seems to be among his final concerns in 1972.
Records of property and other legal transactions:
..Foolscap file 'sale of Shrubs house', also Grattan Lodge Stradbally material
..Purchase of 5 Ballally Drive Dundrum
..Will with related correspondence
..Accident to Mrs Johnston
..Sale of 'The Glen' & purchase of Shrubs House
..Election Addresses 1943 and 1944
Folder 'Barrington Lectures?' with material on the 1930s world crisis
Folder 'Recent Economic Changes' with 1930s flavour
Cuttings book initiated by Claire Johnston in the 1960s
Folder 'Spare Copies? Surplus?' with misc JJ controversial material 1971-2

Foolscap-size Box 8.2:

Bound volume 'Economic Theory'; basically lecture notes
Bound volume, un-named, with lecture notes 'Recent Economic Changes' dated 1948-48,
...dealing with post WW2 situation as compared to earlier decades, prior to WW1.
Envelope with 1954 letter re IRA, 1969 re Derry, and Dublin planning comments
Title-deed records of various houses owned by JJ over the years

Smaller box 8.3:

Pink folder 'Invincible' with introductory economics lecture notes; 'General Economics'
..93 pages followed by 50 pages on 'Exchange'. It can perhaps be seen as
..a philosophical primer; an insight into JJ's basic understanding of economics.
Folder '172' Cairnes to Johnston re 'The Glen'
Folder (multi-pocket) 'Old Family Letters & Certificates
Death-records of Maureen & Dermot Carmody (daughter & son-in-law)
Hermathena reprint; Kottabistae; Latin version of 'Boy stood on the Burning Deck...'
...by Felicia Hemans & LJD Richardson
TCD tercentenary 1892, programme
Botany Bay, one-act play by RH Woods & CW Wilson; centenary performance
Olive Purser on Women in Dublin University; DUP 1954
The Compleat Angler: a brazen monument immortalising the Tutorial System;
...DUP 1935 (internal TCD politics), (8 copies)
small pocket notebook relating to his 1916 study of French agriculture
Desk Diary 1943 'agriculture records for T W Lane'
Handbook of the Ulster Question; Boundary Commission 1923;
....AE Johnston's copy, no map; see also Topic 2 box

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Large box A8, with 3 tied-up folders re-labelled 8.4, 8.5, 8.6:

These labelled folders have had some of their contents re-classed in other topics, and their labelling has been updated. Initial numbering refers to location in earlier filing system.

Folder 8.4:
Envelope 68.1 'Historic certificates, Wilson, Jane Pond etc
Folder 66 'Family letters 1910-1970...'
Pink folder 61 'letters to IT ~1970..' etc
Yellow folder 68.2 'JJ to CJ 1914-15 world tour' also photos

Folder 8.5:
Folder 69 'Presentation portrait etc' contains several photos of JJ, family & others,
...including Rutherford Mayne and Laski...; (I will see can I scan these RJ)
Envelope 70 'dinners, social events, incl one with Horace Plunkett'
Envelope 71 'JJ personal, memberships, masonic, 1916 stuff'
Envelope 72.2 'Austin 1917 Maureen's godfather, killed in war'
Envelope 72.1 'Sandy in Hereford' (?)
Envelope 72.3 'Apperly' (?)
Folder 72.4 'Jack Poynton'
Folder 73 'Roy' misc material relating to RJ, mostly education etc
Folder 74 'letters from ex-students at front ...misc 1914-18'

Folder 8.6:
Folder 79 'Family, Annie' Budapest letters
Envelope 91 'Glen Accounts' (running a farm during WW2)
Envelope 92 'misc accounts, some 1920s'
Folder 93 'financial, last days' ~1972
Folder 94 'recent bank records' as kept by JJ, incl Cookstown during bank strike
Box file with letters of condolence for JJ and CJJ
Small Box with many JJ pocket engagement books

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On 06/10/2011 foregoing has been lodged in TCD library (cf Jane Maxwell) with the exception of topic 2 (NI) which was returned to the Linen Hall Library in Belfast, along with some additional RJ material, in November 2011.

On 18/10/2011 location of Albert Kahn box was uncertain; additional material has turned up in another box; I have sorted this and allocated some background family tree material to a separate box for Douglas Johnston who is interested in researching this topic.

The Albert Kahn material missing from the foregoing list was specified earlier thus (see below); Jane Mazwell says she as it OK. RJ 18/11/11.

Index of Albert Kahn collection, 1910-1931
AK 1913 Irlande colour photos
Albert Kahn reports 1-6;
1927 report on Ireland in French

I am submitting additional material specific to JJ for a box JJ8.7 as listed below:

RJ 13/12/2011.

Box JJ8.7 (includes additional material from the Linen Hall 22/11/11)

Folder containing assorted postcards relating to India , Lucknow , Agra etc , China and Edinburgh ; booklet on the Darjeeling Mountain Railway; dating from 1914-15 Albert Kahn Foundation trip;

Folder f56: Letters relating to events in Northern Ireland in 1970 including an Open Letter by Conor Farrington

Folder f60: Letters of thanks to Professor J Johnston from de Valers in relation to his book on Berkeley's Querist.

Folder f58: Letters re North in 1969 (NUU campus locations etc)

Envelope 're Fellowship...': record of discussions re role of Fellowship in TCD Board 1971

Folder f95: Obituary notices and Letters re JJ's death 1972

Folder with letters etc on controversies re TCD/UCD university merger ~1968

Folder 95/JJ70s with records of the disposal of JJ's books when he vacated his TCD rooms

Folder 'IWA' with JJ's Inland Waterways interests in 1960s

Folder '31.1 CwiU': this has original 1913 edition of 'Civil War in Ulster', along with a letter from James Johnston, JJ's elder brother in the Indian Civil Service, who was in fact the prime author, with JJ covering for him. Folder contains also correspondence between RJ and some ACIS (American Conference on Irish Studies) people, re the 1998 re-publication of the book by UCD Press.

Folder ca 2002 with some reviews of UCD Press re-issue of 'Civil War in Ulster', and related correspondence, also The Irish Volunteer 1914, a letter relating to Home Rule in 1914, and RJ correspondence about trip to New England in 1998.

Folder f46: Material relating to the Irish Association in the 1960's including the lecture by JJ on promoting more neighbourly relations between the peoples of Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain.

Folder 'f47 Irish Statesman, ICOS etc': contains some 1920s Irish Statesman material and some recent RJ correspondence with ICOS contacts seeking JJ archive material in Plunkett House.

Folder f35: Political correspondence, 1917 to early 1920s, including Erskine Childers, Dermot McManus and others; articles relating to the Boundary Commission.

Folder f44: 'polit/econ 40s': SSISI 'Rural Civilisation' paper included with misc letters 1944-48.

Folder f45: Irish Association Bulletins 1941 and 1947; article about beginnings of the Irish Association by Mary A. McNeill; material relating to speech day at Dungannon Royal in 1949.

Blue folder 'NI 50s': includes Isles Cuthbert financial notes

Reprint of paper by J V Luce on 'Dublin Societies before RDS'; references Berkeley and Molyneux.

Folder f48: re Senate elections, with related hardback notes, 1939, 1948.

Folder '31.3': Oxford 1896-1912; records of James, William, John and Joe Johnston, unearthed during RJ's 1998 visit to library, courtesy of Peatling.

Folder f38: Political/economic advice to government 1930-38

Folder f41: Letters sent to the Irish Times by JJ relating to Judge Wylie's letter to the paper in 1941; also on the question of neutrality in 1950; press cuttings from 1941.

Folder f33: Scrapbook of press material collected by JJ relating to events between 1916 and 1927.

Folder f32: Correspondence 1917-20; Monteagle, Dominion League, Childers, Mahaffey,(arising from Convention?)

Folder 31.2: Photocopy of 'Civil War in Ulster : its Objects and Probable Results'

Retained for family research: 3 envelopes with family letters, diaries, photographs Family death records records re JJ's daughter Maureen in France 1920s 3 files re sales of houses.

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Jane Maxwell re-boxing Oct 19:

Box list of TCD MS 11398 the papers of Johnston

The following contents information is taken from labels attached to each box.

Box 1-2 Berkeley. See also box 16-17

Box 3-4
'Box 8.1 Personal & controversial '
'3 Political & Agricultural 1930s-70s'

Box 5-6
'8.2 Miscellaneous personal family controversy'
'Misc topics EEC'

Box 7-8
'5. 1920s-60s'
'1.2.1 Development Economics 1910-1950'

Box 9-10
'8.3 Miscellaneous personal TCD & family'
'1.2.4 Contemporary development economics & reports'

Box 11-12
'1.2.2 Development economics 1960s-70s'
'3,4,5 Agricultural, economics, co-ops, political'

Box 13-14
'3,4,5 Books by JJ, old historic books possessed by JJ'
'Topics 3-5 journals, reprints, photos'

Box 15
Engagement diaries & 1960s pamphlets (multiple copies)
'A.7.1, letters of condolence'

Box 16-17
Hermethena offprints. 'Development economics history', Berkeley
'1.1.4 reports, journals, books other than Hermethena, development/econ/hist'

Box 18
'JJ Archive 5' subjects numbered 34-53 ie 'Barrington' to 'misc 1960s Cork'
'Topic 7 JJ archive 3' subjects numbered 18-27 ie T'CD 1930s-40's to 'Queries'
'Topic 8 JJ Archive 8' subjects numbered 28-30 ie 'publishers' to 'cv stuff'

Box 19
'JJ archive 1'
Albert Kahn reports and correspondence 1-6
'JJ archive 2' subjects numbered 7 – 12 ie 'JJ light verse' to 'biographical proj'

Box 20
'JJ archive 8.4' Family letters 1910-70, letters to JJ, obituary, JJ to Claire 1914-15'
[i.e. while travelling]
'JJ archive 8.5' subjects numbered 69-72.4 ie 'Moyne' + 'Doynton'
'JJ archives 8.6' subjects numbered 79-94 ie 'Annie in Budapest' - 'Final years'

possibly in Box 19?
Index of Albert Kahn collection, 1910-1931
AK 1913 Irlande colour photos
Albert Kahn reports 1-6;
1927 report on Ireland in FrenchJoseph Johnston SFTCD 1890-1972 Archive

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I have edited this html version from the listing relating to the Jane Maxwell hand-over in 2011; it can perhaps be of use pending a subsequent professional sorting and classification of the material, should this occur. RHWJ 03/08/2012



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