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Cover letter unsigned, to Miss EM Coulson, Vice Regal Lodge, 27 March 1930, acknowledging receipt of her note enclosing a letter from Mrs E Grintzevitch seeking permission for her husband, a Russian Pole, to enter the Irish Free State. The letter states that the matter has been referred to the Department of Justice.

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letter

Letter from Department of Justice to the Secretary, Department of the President, 2 April 1930, regarding a letter received from Mrs E Grintzevitch seeking permission for her husband, a Russian Pole, to enter the Irish Free State. The Minister for Justice states that permission cannot be granted, 'Under Article 1(5) of the Aliens Order, 1925, Grintzevitch, who is the subject of a Deportation Order in Great Britain, cannot be allowed to land in Saorstat Éireann'.

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letter

Copy letter unsigned, to Miss EM Coulson, Vice Regal Lodge, 4 April 1930, stating that the Department of Justice cannot grant permission to Mr Grintzevitch to enter the Irish Free State, 'The applicant has been informed accordingly'.

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letter

Copy letter to Mrs E Grintzevitch, 45 Beeby Street, Workington, Cumberland, unsigned, 4 April 1930, regarding her letter which sought permission for her husband, a Russian Pole, to enter the Irish Free State. The Minister for Justice is unable to grant the desired permission.

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letter

Letter from [Margaret] Long, Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin, to Mr McDunphy, 11 July 1928, returning the Message to the Oireachtas in connection with the Betting Bill, 1928.

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letter

Report of the Greater Dublin Commission of Inquiry, 1927. This report examined laws and the practice affecting the administration of local and public utility services, including local representation and taxation throughout the capital. Amongst other topics, the report includes provision for future extensions of the city; hospitals and dispensaries and the immigration of aliens. The Commission includes Siobhan Bean an Phaoraigh [Jenie Wyse Power]. Several women gave evidence to the Commission, 'The Civic Survey. Witness: Miss Long and Mr R Caulfield Orpen. - mainly in regard to slums, congestion, and civic planning ... Plot Holders' Association. Witnesses: Miss SC Harrison'.

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report

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Independent', 17 June 1929, regarding the playing of the National Anthem at functions attended by the Governor General. Particular references are made to the Trinity College Sports Week at which the British National Anthem was played. A letter to the editor from Miss May Boyle, BA, NUI, Booterstown is reproduced, 'an aide-de-camp of the Governor General was sent to give a verbal message as regards the playing of an anthem and that he gave this to the student secretary of the Sports Committee'.

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newsclipping

protocol

Copy letter from Miss EM Coulson, Private Secretary to the Governor General, Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin, to EJ Gwynn, Provost of Trinity College, 28 May 1929, regarding the Governor General's attendance at the College Sports. The letter states that he is compelled to decline the invitation in view of the statements made by the Provost in a recent letter [the letter refers to the playing of the British National Anthem at functions attended by the Governor General].

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letter

Hand-written letter from LA [Lady Ardee], 2 Merton Road, South Hampstead, London, to Mr Cosgrave, 24 June 1929, regarding the playing of the National Anthem at functions attended by the Governor General.

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letter

Copy letter to Lady Ardee from Liam T MacCosgair, 25 June 1929, regarding the playing of the National Anthem at functions attended by the Governor General. He refers to the Trinity Affair and the controversy which ensued when the British National Anthem was played on the Governor General's arrival at a college sporting event. He warns Lady Ardee of the serious implications which his actions may have, 'we had two shooting affairs here this year ... it was unfortunately fatal. Mr Armstrong had been a witness in a prosecution against two men who entered premises from which the Union Jack was flown and tore it down'.

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letter