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Handwritten letter from Dan Connell, Oakland, California, to EP McCarron, Secretary, Irish Free State, 24 September 1928, requesting information of the validity of a sale made by him of a holding of land in Ballina, County Mayo. He states that he was coerced into a compulsory sale for certain reasons. He married against the wishes of his mother, Bridgit Connell and stepsister, Lizzie Dolan. About two years after his father's death life was made `so dangerous and miserable for my wife, by threats of violence and even poisoning, that for her protection I was compelled to accept a fraction of the value of my inheritance, and get out at once'. The land was sold to his brother-in-law who at a later date sold or leased the land to a Mr Keane, including the 1/2 acre his mother held for the terms of her natural life. He continues: `I would like to know if my mother, while she lived had the legal right to dispose of, by sale or by "Will" the half-acre (1/2) which she was allowed to retain - according to certain provisions in the "Will" [made by his father] - during her life, and which was part of the whole estate bequeathed to me? or if the original compulsory sale to J. J. Gilboy was valid, did the half-acre (1/2) in question pass along with the whole?'

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Letter

Circular letter to `Dear Sir' from the Kellogg Reception Committee [Citizen Committee to welcome Frank B Kellogg, US Secretary of State], 1 September 1928, expressing thanks for the subscription made towards expenses in connection with the Kellogg Reception. The circular lists the committee, which includes the name of Mrs Collins O'Driscoll, TD.

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Circular

List of staff on loan to the President's Department in connection with the issuing of invitations, etc., relating to the reception for Kellogg, US Secretary of State, to be held, 30 August 1928. The list includes the name, for example, of K Woods, Shorthand Typist, Oireachtas.

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List

Typescript extract from the `Irish Independent', 23 October 1928. `Untried Prisoners', letter to the editor, signed, Maud Gonne MacBride, Honorary Secretary, Women Prisoners' Defence League, relating to male and female prisoners kept in jail for long periods without trial. She cites the situation of Sighle Humphries as a case in point. `She was arrested last April, charged with a crime few people have ever heard of, embracery. The jury before whom Miss Humphries was brought disagreed as to the evidence connecting her with the leaflet, but this young girl is still locked up in Mountjoy awaiting another trial, her whole summer lost in these hideous conditions'.

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Maud Gonne MacBride

Irish Independent

Printed statement from the Political Prisoners Committee, Women Prisoners' Defence League, November 1930, listing republican political prisoners and prisoners of war. The statement also includes `An Open letter to Fitzgerald Kennedy' from Maud Gonne MacBride, Secretary, Women's Prisoners' Defence League, relating to the treatment of three prisoners, Aidan Sweeney, Patrick McGuinness and George Mooney, in solitary confinement in Mountjoy Prison.

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Statement

Copy minute to the Secretary, Department of Justice [from Mr McDunphy], 9 October 1928, relating to the estate of Mrs Helen Blake who died intestate in England in 1876. The minute states that Mrs Holland of Glasnevin left documents in connection with the estate which are being circulated to members of the Seanad and the Dail. The minute proposes that since the Department of Justice has already dealt with certain aspects of claims relating to this estate correspondence with Mrs Holland should be dealt with by that Department.

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Minute

Copy letter to `Dear Sir' from HT Dix and Sons, Solicitors, 15 October 1928, relating to the claim of Bridget Shaughnessy, wife of a small farmer in County Galway. Her father, the letter claims, was a first cousin of Mrs Helen Blake. The letter asks the Executive Council to ascertain from the British Government what was the result of the inquiry made in 1877 to establish Mrs Blake's next of kin.

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Letter

Copy letter to ER McC Dix, Solicitor, 18 October 1928, acknowledging receipt of his letter relating to the estate of Helen Blake and informing him that it has been sent to the Department of Justice.

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Letter

Copy minute to the Secretary, Department of Justice, [from McDunphy] 18 October 1928, enclosing a letter from ER McC Dix, Solicitor, relating to the estate of Helen Blake, dated 15 October 1928.

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Minute

Copy letter from ER McC Dix, Solicitor, to the Secretary, Department of the President, 18 December 1928, relating to the estate of Mrs Blake. He wishes to know if his letter dated 15 October 1928 is receiving attention from the Department of Justice.

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Letter