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Memorandum from the Office of the Minister for the Gaeltacht for the Government, 25 April 1961, concerning the reports and accounts for Gaeltarra Éireann for the year ended 31 March 1960. 'At the end of the year the total number of persons in the Board's employment was 1469, 298 men and 171 women and girls. Of that total 720 were employed in their own homes, 685 were employed in industrial centres and 64 were employed in the Dublin headquarters'. The Boards activities included the production of tweed, toys, knitwear and embroidery.

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memorandum

Memorandum from Office of the Minister for the Gaeltacht, 21 October 1961, concerning the reports and accounts of Gaeltarra Éireann for the year ended 31 March 1961. 'The handknitting industry was further developed during the year. At the end of March 1961 there were 590 handknitters employed as against 450 at the end of March 1960. One new centre was established in County Cork, eight in County Galway, three in County Mayo, one in County Waterford and one in County Donegal'.

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memorandum

Minutes of the Institute of Public Administration's meeting concerning the Second Conference on Higher Administrative Studies, 20 July 1961. Miss TJ Beere was amongst the Civil Service representatives present. The meeting finalised arrangements for the second conference.

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minutes

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Press', 1 June 1961, containing an article entitled 'Irish industrial build-up an example says Scots'. The article refers to two recent articles which appeared in the 'Scotsman' dealing with Ireland's economic progress. One of the articles was written by Mrs Norrie Tomter, Honorary Secretary, Scottish Peat and Land Development Association. 'We in Scotland, where a new economy is also struggling to be born, could with great profit import some of Eire's present zeal, vision and ideas'.

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newsclipping

foreign affairs

Annual Report of the Institute for Public Administration for the year ending 30 September 1959. The opening page of the report lists the vice-presidents and council of the Institute. The Council includes Miss M O'Doherty, Executive and Higher Officers Association. Page 11 outlines the Institute's forthcoming activities. Miss I Meehan, Department of Posts and Telegraphs, is also listed as a committee member.

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Copy letter from T O'Cearbhaill to Mrs Cassidy, Private Secretary to the Minister for Local Government, 23 March 1961, requesting the Minister's observations on a draft speech to be given by the Taoiseach on the problems of small farmers. The Taoiseach proposes to make the speech at a function organised by the Irish Countrywomen's Association. 'Electricity, piped water, better accommodation, roads, comfortable dwellings are all essential features in any rural improvement programme'.

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letter

Letter from JC Nagle, Department of Agriculture, to T O'Cearbhaill, Department of the Taoiseach, 1 April 1961, concerning a speech to be given by the Taoiseach at a function organised by the Irish Countrywomen's Association [ICA]. 'I suggest that it might well include a little more about the actual work of the Association'. A short memorandum on the ICA is attached to the letter. Nagle also encloses a memorandum on the Rural Home Economics Advisory Service. The first document outlines in detail the aims and objectives of the ICA. 'It has done much to popularise the agricultural advisory services and to encourage a greater participation in the schemes administered by the Department of Agriculture'. The second memorandum outlines proposals for a Rural Home Economics Service. 'The ICA desire the establishment a new service of home economics advisers comprehensively trained in household management and in domestic arts, with some training in poultry keeping'.

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letter

Note on the rural water supply programme, 1961. The note outlines the progress of the programme to date. It also refers to the proposed Water Supply Exhibition and to the organisations who have assisted the Government in the administration of the scheme. 'With the combined talents of such organisations as the Irish Countrywomen's Association, Muintir na Tire and Macra na Feirme, it is expected that a national campaign of co-operative group water supply schemes will develop'.

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note

Extract from the first draft of a speech on the subject of small farms to be given by the Taoiseach at a function organised by the Irish Countrywomen's Association, 11 April 1961. 'The provision of piped water to rural households is the immediate purpose of rural improvement activity. This is being undertaken by authorities assisted by enlarged Government financial inducements. It would be optimistic to hold out the prospect of piped public water supplies to all rural dwellings for many years yet, but the drive to that target has started and, in most areas, the local authorities are undertaking it as enthusiastically as the Government would wish them to do'.

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Letter from Mrs F Cassidy, Private Secretary to the Minister for Local Government, to Mr O'Carroll, Taoiseach's Department, 4 April 1961, outlining the Minister's observations on a speech to be given by the Taoiseach at a function organised by the Irish Countrywomen's Association [ICA]. The Minister for Local Government refers to the role played by the ICA in the rural water supply programme. In particular their part in the 'Turn of the Tap' exhibition. 'This event which has been sponsored jointly by the ICA with other voluntary rural organisations, is designed to evoke widespread interest in the need for improvement in the piped water supply position in rural areas and to publicise the various means available to achieve that objective'.

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