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Statement relating to the career and employment particulars of Miss N McAsey. The following is included under the heading `National Service': `Miss McAsey's paid service with the I.R.A. seems to date from August, 1921, when she was employed as Confidential Typist by Major-General Dalton, then Director of Training. Since that date she has been continuously employed under the Department of Defence as a Stenographer. Miss McAsey claims that she was employed by Major-General Dalton pre-Truce, … For a considerable time before, during and after the period of hostilities which began in 1922, Miss McAsey rendered invaluable service as a Confidential Stenographer'.

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Statement

Copy statement by Nancy McAsey, 9 October 1924. She wishes to bring to attention facts regarding her claim for special consideration. She details her service to date. `Considering that I relinquished a well-paid post in the City to undertake somewhat onerous duties with the I.R.A. at a time when such a position was not attractive, I think that, as an act of justice, credit for pre-Truce service should be given and sanction obtained for my appointment as a Civil Servant'.

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Statement

Copy letter to the Secretary, Executive Council, from Piaras Beaslai, 6 June 1928, relating to the case of Miss Lily Mernin's claim for establishment as a civil servant on the basis of past national service. `You are aware that Miss Mernin did invaluable work for Intelligence, at great risk to herself, in 1920-21. After the truce she was dismissed by the British … and it was understood that she was to go into the paid employ of I.R.A. intelligence. Collins gave her a lump sum to take a long holiday, as she had a regular nervous breakdown at the time. She returned to Dublin in June, 1922, and was immediately sent to work as a Shorthand Typist in Oriel House. Since then she has been constantly in Army employment.' The letter further states that Miss Mernin is the sole support of an aged aunt and invalid sister. `She is not very young and the study of Irish (which, of course, she had no opportunity of studying while in the employ of the British) she found rather difficult'.

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Letter

Statement of the employment record of Miss L Mernin, aged 33, 26 February 1929.

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Statement

Copy list of persons who have special claims to establishment on grounds of pervious national service, for example, Miss Maire O'Reilly, 19 August 1929.

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List

Statement by Donnachadh O h-Annagain, Lands Officer, to the Army Finance Officer, 25 July 1928, relating to his claim for establishment in the Civil Service on grounds of past national service. He states that his wife, who was the Principal in a two teacher National School, was forced to resign shortly after gaining her Diploma for successful teaching due to intimidation by the Irregulars and their supporters.

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Statement

Letter, marked personal, to Captain Harry Murray, [from Diarmuid O'Hegarty], 4 October 1929, relating to Miss K Fleming, employed in the Labour Exchange. He states that she `rendered considerable service prior to 1921' and wishes to have her case for establishment put forward on the basis of this national service.

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Letter

Copy letter to Captain H Murray, Private Secretary to the Minister for Industry and Commerce, unsigned [M McDunphy], 19 November 1929, asking whether the Minister for Industry and Commerce has decided whether the case of Miss K Fleming is to be included amongst those submitted to the Executive Council for consideration as to establishment in the Civil Service on grounds of national service.

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Letter

Letter to M McDunphy, President's Department, from H Murray, Department of Industry and Commerce, 20 November 1929, stating that within a few days he shall be able to let him have a full statement on Miss K Fleming's claim for establishment in the Civil Service on grounds of previous national service.

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Letter

Memorandum from the Department of Industry and Commerce to the Secretary, Department of the President, 28 November 1929, submitting particulars of the claim for establishment in the Civil Service of Miss K Fleming, employed by the Department of Industry and Commerce in the Employment Exchange, Athlone. The memorandum details her membership of Cumann na mBan from 1916. From 1916-1919 she was a member of the Coiste of the Ard Craobh of Cumann na mBan. `In September 1919 Miss Fleming and her sister were requested by the late General Collins not to identify themselves further with Cumann na mBan but to direct their activities to intelligence work in the Drumcondra district and to find safe channels for conveying despatches, etc., to the prisoners in the jails and military prisons in Dublin.'

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Memorandum