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Copy letter from the Private Secretary to the Taoiseach, to the Superintendent, Phoenix Park, Dublin, 20 July 1941, regarding the slaughter of deer and the distribution of venison to charitable organisations, for example, '1 buck to the Matron, Old Men's Home, 15 Northbrook Road, Leeson Park, Dublin; 1/2 buck to the Matron, Simpson's Hospital, Wickham, Dundrum and 1/2 buck to the Little Sisters of the Poor, Kilmainham, Dublin'.

s 6454

letter

Hand-written letter from the Matron, Simpson's Hospital, Wyckham, Dundrum, County Dublin, to E Simpson Esq, Deerkeepers Lodge, Phoenix Park, 9 August 1941, acknowledging 'receipt of the very kind gift by the Taoiseach of venison'.

s 6454

letter

Hand-written letter from the Matron, Old Men's Home, Northbrook Road, Dublin, to the Department of the Taoiseach, 8 August 1941, thanking the Taoiseach for the venison which he gave to the men.

s 6454

letter

Extract from a letter, sent by LF O'Brien, St Patrick's House, Kilmainham, to E de Valera, 10 August 1941, 'I am desired by the Rev Mother to send you her most grateful thanks for your great kindness in sending her a present of venison. So acceptable a present is very welcome indeed'.

s 6454

letter

Letter from Helena Moloney [Molony], 226 North Circular Road, Dublin, to President Sean T O'Ceallaigh, 4 January 1953, thanking him for his letter informing her that the Markievicz Memorial is to be restored at State expense. She suggests that a suitable memorial should be erected to Wolfe Tone. She also hopes that 'my other scheme re veterans ... will take shape at some time in the near future, and will be carried out in a spirit, not of the barrack or institution but a decent residential club, with the amenities of civilian life'.

s 6453

letter

Extract from a newsclipping from the "Irish Press", 4 December 1936, letter to the Editor from Mary Donnelly, County Westmeath, 4 December 1936, regarding the graves of the Invincibles in Kilmainham Jail, 'It seems paradoxical that these graves in Kilmainham Jail should be left completely effaced by the hand of time, while due honour is paid to other members of the same organisation'.

s 6521A

newsclipping

commemoration

Newsclipping from the "Irish Press", 29 August 1953, article entitled 'Kilmainham is taken over' by Anna Kelly. The article deals with the Government decision to preserve the jail as a national monument. Anna Kelly describes her visit to the jail, 'This small ceremony took place outside the front door of the jail ... Then RA Guise Brown, Assistant Architect, takes out his dramatic key and unlocks the jail ... Mr Stafford, husband of Mrs Stafford, caretaker of the next door courthouse, came too and Mr Stafford is a man who knows more about the place than most ... I had a look at the padded cell with the bursted leather and the disembowelled horsehair hanging down'. She also discusses the women prisoners who served their time in Kilmainham, 'Genuine too, and full of pleasant memories for me was the name of Sheila Hartnett of the Medical Hall, Kenmare, who was arrested at eleven thirty on 2 March 1923. She shared her cell with Nellie Lambert of Old Bridge House, Milltown, Dublin ... In this place in 1922-23, women linked with 1916 were imprisoned with hundreds more ... and the big hungerstrike, and the stand-up fights against authority and the tunnel the women made out of the laundry'.

s 6521C

newsclipping

commemoration

Notice issued by the National Secular Society, 62 Farringdon Street, London, 1934, outlining the organisation's principles and objects and also giving membership details, 'Secularism declares that theology is condemned by reason as superstitious, and by experience as mischievous, and assails it as the historic enemy of progress'. The reverse side of the notice lists the organisation's immediate practical objects, for example, 'A reform of the Marriage Laws, especially to secure equal justice for husband and wife, and a reasonable liberty of divorce ... The equalisation of the legal status of men and women, so that all rights may be independent of sexual distinctions'.

s 6522

notice

Copy letter from the Department of Justice, to S Moynihan, Department of the President, 21 March 1934, regarding a periodical entitled the "Freethinkers", which contains 'advocacy of contraception, the objectionable articles are not frequent enough to sustain a complaint under the censorship of Publications Act'.

s 6522

letter

Hand-written letter from Mrs E Grintzevitch, Cumberland, England, to the Department of the President, 24 March 1930, seeking permission for her husband, a Russian Pole, to enter the Irish Free State. The woman states that her husband was deported to Russia from England and that 'the only way that my husband and I can get together again, would be if you would be kind enough to give him permission to enter Ireland, so that I and the children could join him there'. Covering letter attached from [Miss] EM Coulson, Vice Regal Lodge, to the D O'Hegarty, Department of the President, 25 March 1930.

s 6523

letter