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Memorandum from the Department of Health for the Government, 25 June 1962, concerning proposed amendments to the Marriage Acts. It refers in particular to the amendment of laws relating to the age of marriage and the legitimisation of certain marriages not at present recognisable here. 'With the exception of Spain, this part of Ireland is the only State in Western Europe where a boy of 14 and a girl of 12 may legally contract a marriage'. Paragraph 8 of the memorandum states that the Minister for Health has received requests for an amendment to the law from the following groups: Catholic Women's Federation of Secondary School Unions; Women Graduates' Association, National University; Irish Countrywomen's Association; The Women Graduates' Association, Trinity College; Institute of Almoners; Irish Save the Children Fund, Saor an Leanbh; Girls' Friendly Society and the Women's Health Organisation. 'It is patent from this list that the proposed reform is generally desired by those who can be taken as expressing the feminine view'.

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memorandum

Copy letter from T O'Cearbhaill to the Private Secretary to the Minister for Health, 31 July 1962, concerning his proposals for an amendment of the Marriage Acts. The letter states that the Government have decided to withdraw the matter from the Cabinet Agenda until further notice.

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letter

Memorandum from the Department of Defence, 29 July 1962, concerning amendments to the Army Pensions Acts, 1923 to 1961. 'The Minister for Finance does not agree with the proposal … because he considers that the pensions involved are really compassionate allowances and that adequate Social Welfare benefits are already available to the widows and children involved'.

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memorandum

Army Pensions Bill, 1962. The Bill amends and extends the Army Pensions Acts, 1923 to 1961.The rates payable to widows and orphans are outlined in detail within the schedule.

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Bill

Copy letter from NS O'Nuallain to Maire Ni Cheallaigh, Personal Secretary to the President, 14 September 1962, regarding the postponement of the proposed visit to Ireland by the President of the German Federal Republic.

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letter

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Press', 22 March 1962, containing a newspaper article entitled 'Eight cardinals get the red biretta: colourful ceremony in Clementine Hall'. The article refers to the conferring of Cardinal Browne. It also states that the President and Mr de Valera visited three Irish convents in Rome. 'At the Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, they were received by the American-born Mother General, Mother Helena Flynn, and Assistant Mother General, Mother Brendan O'Keeffe from Killarney. The President met thirty sisters in the community and sixteen novices and postulants, all of whom came from Ireland'. The President also visited the Convent of Salvatore Mundi and the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary.

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newsclipping

nuns; Catholic Church; Irish-Americans

Invitation list compiled by the Department of the Taoiseach for the reception in honour of Cardinal Browne, 28 July 1962. Several women are included on the list, for example, Mrs Sinead O'Deirg, Mrs Hanora Moylan and Leslie Bean T de Barra.

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list

Notes on negotiations relating to Ireland's application for membership of the European Economic Community. This folder relates in particular to articles 117 to 122 of the Treaty of Rome concerning social policy. It outlines the implications for Ireland of harmonisation of social security. Section B refers in particular to equal pay for men and women. 'Once the principle is accepted it will undoubtedly result in upward pressure on female wages generally. Even the employer who uses only female labour on work reserved to females cannot hope to isolate his wage rates from the general trend'.

European Economic Community, application by Ireland for membership, brief for negotiations, 1962

employment; industry

Note on a discussion which took place between representatives of the Irish Embassy, Washington, USA, and representatives of the US Maritime Administration Service, 7 November 1962. The discussion concerned the proposed world tour of the United States nuclear ship 'Savannah'. Mrs Dorothy Eccleston, Attorney, General Counsel's Office, US Maritime Administration was amongst those who attended.

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note

Letter from Ann M Moloney, Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations, New York, to Miss Roisin Ennis, Department of External Affairs, Dublin, 8 November 1962, requesting an appointment with the Taoiseach for a group of builders and architects who wish to build an 'Ireland House' in New York.

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letter