Introduction to the Falls & Hanna Papers
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This is a document summarising some of the most interesting and significant content within the Falls and Hanna archive (D1390) held in PRONI.
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Around 50,000 documents, 1613 to 1950, comprising the records of Falls & Hanna, solicitors, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. This major legal collection is rendered all the more important because of the status and influence of its partner, Major Sir Charles (Fausset) Falls, 1860 to 1936, who was educated at Trinity College Dublin and served in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Ulster Division in France during the 1st World War. Deputy Lieutenant for Co. Fermanagh, he was also Co. Fermanagh Secretary to the Grand Lodge of Ireland and was Conservative Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and Tyrone between 1924 and 1929.