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Copy letter to Miss Maire Comerford, Sandyford, County Dublin, from M O'Muimhneachain, 27 March 1945, in relation to a statement on conditions in Portlaoighise [Portlaois] Prison. 'I am to inform you that the statements in the enclosure to the effect that prisoners in Portlaoighise Prison have been subjected to physical violence are without foundation'.

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Letter from Maire Comerford, Sandyford, County Dublin, to the Taoiseach, 12 April 1945, regarding
J Crofton's statement on conditions in Portlaoighise [Portlaois] Jail. She encloses a letter which she received from Joe Callaghan relating to the conditions in the Jail. Her letter also refers to the mistreatment of prisoners at the Curragh Camp. 'No suggestion has been made that prisoners are at present subject to physical violence and, if we knew the date of this complaint it might coincide with the period which lasted for several years, when very serious abuses of this nature were of constant occurrence in the Curragh. On this there would be no difficulty whatever in obtaining abundant evidence'. She urges him to allow the prisoners to attend Mass and to wear their own clothing. 'In the period which may still pass before you decide on a jail clearance might I ask that at least freedom to attend Mass be removed from the list of privileges which prisoners must earn by good behaviour'.

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Letter to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, from the Department of External Affairs, 16 August 1940, stating that Maire Inghean Ui Hanbidge has presented copies of her book, 'The Memories of William Hanbidge', to the Taoiseach.

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Letter to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, 10 January 1941, regarding a letter [not in file] which was sent to the President by Frau Thurneysen, Berlin. 'The attached letter addressed to the President by Frau Thurneysen was received yesterday in the official bag from Berlin'.

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Letter from JP Walshe, Department of External Affairs, to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, 13 February 1941, regarding correspondence [not in file] which was received from Berlin. 'The enclosed letter addressed to the President was forwarded in our bag from Berlin at the request of the writer, Mrs Deuchler, who stated that she is related to Dr Hyde'.

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Letter from the Office of the President of Ireland, to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, 28 February 1941, enclosing a letter [not in file] addressed to the President which came in the diplomatic bag from Berlin. 'I enclose herewith for transmission through the same channel a reply to the sender of the letter, Frau EM Deuchler, written by the President's sister, Mrs Cambreth Kane'.

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Letter from M McDunphy to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, 2 February 1942, requesting the Irish Minister in France to convey a message of sympathy to Lady Asbourne. 'Sincere sympathy on the death of your late husband for whom I had always a great personal regard and profound respect'.

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Letter to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, from the Secretary, Department of External Affairs, 10 July 1942, forwarding a letter [not in file] addressed to the President from Frau EM Deuchler, which was received through the legation at Berlin.

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Letter from the Department of External Affairs, Dublin, to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, 8 July 1942, regarding correspondence addressed to the President by the Contessa M Spetia di Radione, Umbria, Italy. 'It is understood that the writer of the letters desires to have inquiries made in regard to three of her relatives in England, and I am to suggest that, should the President desire to have the writer's request complied with, the inquiries might appropriately be made through the Irish Red Cross Society'.

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Letter from the Office of the President of Ireland, to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, 8 August 1942, enclosing letters [not in file] for transmission to the President which were received through the Irish legation at Berlin. The letter also refers to a response addressed by the President's sister Mrs Cambreth Kane to Frau Deuchler. 'I am satisfied that the enclosed letter is such that it may be properly transmitted in this manner'.

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