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Report of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, for the year ending September 1924. The report outlines the Academy's activities during the year, including their annual exhibition; the provision of life drawing and painting classes and an award of prizes to students. The expenses associated with these activities are listed. The report also gives the recent appointments to the Academy, for example, 'On the 18th July Miss Sarah H Purser, Associate, was elected as an Academician to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr WH Lynn'.

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report

Copy letter from EMC [Miss Edith Coulson], Acting Private Secretary to the Governor General, to R Caulfield Orpen, Secretary, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, 24 December 1924, acknowledging receipt of a copy of the Academy's Annual Report.

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letter

Copy letter from EMC [Miss Edith M Coulson], Acting Private Secretary to the Governor General, to AC Orpen, Secretary, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, 9 June 1925, conveying the Governor's approval of the election of Mr Harry Clarke as a member of the Academy.

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letter

Copy letter from EMC [Miss Edith M Coulson], Acting Private Secretary to the Governor General, to R Caulfield Orpen, Secretary, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, 18 November 1925, stating that the Governor approves of the appointment of Mr PJ Tuohy as a constituent member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

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letter

Report of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, for the year ending 1925. The report outlines the Academy's activities during the year, including their annual exhibition; the provision of life drawing and painting classes and an award of prizes to students. Helen Yates and Helen Moore received several prizes in the drawing from life and painting from life categories. The expenses associated with these activities are listed. The report also gives the recent appointments to the Academy, for example, 'At a General Assembly held on the 17th of July, 1925, Miss Estella F Solomons was elected as an Associate'. Sarah Purser is listed as a member of the Council.

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report

Copy letter from EMC [Miss Edith M Coulson], Acting Private Secretary to the Governor General, to R Caulfield Orpen, Secretary, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, 28 January 1926, acknowledging receipt of the Annual Report and general abstract of accounts for the Academy.

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letter

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Press', 2 October 1934, in relation to the Abbey Players tour of America. The article lists those who sailed to America, 'the remaining members who were appearing at the Abbey Theatre until Friday night, left on Sunday morning, when they travelled on a special bus to Galway to join the ss Cynthia. They included: Maureen Delaney, Eileen Crowe, May Craig, Frolie Mulhern and Aideen O'Connor'.

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newsclipping

culture

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Rosary', September 1935, containing an article by Louis J Walsh, entitled 'The Defiance of the Abbey'. This article attacks the moral standards of the Abbey Theatre, 'It has gone from bad to worse in its defiance of Catholic, and Irish sentiment and opinion ... The whole tone of the plays, which its management appeared to favour in recent years, tended to lower our self respect and to give outsiders a grotesquely untrue impression of Irish Catholic life'. He refers to a letter written by Miss Hannah O'Brien, Toronto, to the 'Irish Independent', in which 'she voiced the average Irish opinion in the States and Canada when she said that the Abbey production showed the Irish people almost as savages. The scenes consisted of wakes, drinking, fighting, and a desecration of God and religion'. The depiction of several female characters is also discussed, for example, 'a Dominican nun, who acts and speaks like a Salvation Army lass, is dragged into the whirl of the movement in order to give point to the chanting of the Salve Regina in a setting that is brutally offensive'. The negative influence that these plays have on young women is also commented upon, 'what is a young girl to think when she hears Catholic actresses taught, to use on the stage, the foulest language of the gutter?' Covering letter from Father Matthew Littleton, Glasgow, to President de Valera, 4 February 1936.

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Louis J Walsh

Irish Rosary

Hand-written letter from Mrs Catherine E Kelly, Philadelphia, USA, to President de Valera, 9 February 1938, in relation to the Abbey Players tour of America, 'they are no credit to Ireland or the Irish, the plays they show are really disgraceful. It makes a decent Irishman or woman blush with shame'.

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letter

Copy letter to Mrs Catherine E Kelly, Philadelphia, USA, from PS O'Muireadhaigh, Private Secretary to the Taoiseach, 28 February 1938, acknowledging receipt of her letter relative to the present tour of the Abbey Theatre Players in the USA. 'The Government informed the Directors of the Theatre in 1934 that complaints received during the Company's previous tour in the United States indicated that many Irish exiles felt that the production of certain of the Company's plays was harmful to the reputation of this country abroad'.

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letter