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Copy letter from the Taoiseach, Sean F Lemass, to Breandain O'Cearbhaill, President, Irish Folk High School Council, Gardiner Street, Dublin, 15 August 1963, regarding the possible use of St Enda's school by the group. 'St Enda's will, as I mentioned to you, become the property of the Nation on the death of Senator Miss Pearse ... I think you will agree that this provision seems to rule out completely any possibility of its being used as a Folk School'.

s 9045C/63

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Letter from Breandain O'Cearbhaill to the Taoiseach, Sean F Lemass, 21 August 1963, thanking him for his letter concerning the use of St Enda's school. 'The conditions of Mrs Pearse's will certainly rule out any hope of its being used as a Folk School. Many thanks for your prompt attention and early answer even though it was not good news for us'.

s 9045C/63

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Newsclipping from the 'Irish Times', 30 August 1963, containing an article by Owen Dudley Edwards entitled 'Two-way tide of scholarship: The American-Irish Foundation'. This article relates to the establishment of an American-Irish Foundation to promote cultural and educational exchanges between the two countries. It also refers to the Scholarship Exchange Act of 1957. The current members of the Board in charge of the administration of the Act are listed. Mrs P Drury-Byrne and Mrs Luan P Cuffe are amongst the Board members.

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Owen Dudley Edwards

Irish Times

Letter from Eibhlin Ni Riain, Personal Secretary to the Minister for Finance, to the Personal Secretary to the Taoiseach, 6 April 1960, concerning a letter which was received from Comhnaidhm Oglaigh na hÉireann [Federation of IRA].

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Copy letter from Frank Casey, Comhnaidhm Oglaigh na hÉireann [Federation of IRA] to the Taoiseach, Sean F Lemass, 14 October 1960, relating to the pension entitlements of the widows of old IRA men. 'Nothing more would earn the gratitude of the old IRA than a provision that would continue to the widows the pensions or allowances that were held by deceased IRA men'.

s 9240C/63

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Copy letter from R O'Foghlu to Comhnaidhm Oglaigh na hÉireann [Federation of IRA], 18 October 1960, acknowledging receipt of his inquiry concerning the widows of members of the Old IRA who were in receipt of Service Pensions. 'The matter is being brought to the attention of the Minister for Defence'.

s 9240C/63

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Copy letter from NS O'Nuallain to Maire Ni Cheallaigh, Personal Secretary to the Taoiseach, 19 October 1963, forwarding a copy of a pamphlet entitled 'The Anglo-Irish Treaty and Mr de Valera's Alternative' which was published in 1924.

s 93026/63

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Hand-written letter from Mrs Nora Zack, Leytonstone, London, England, to the Taoiseach, Sean F Lemass, 10 June 1963, requesting his views on the partition of Ireland and also on relations between American, Ireland and Britain.

s 9361K/63

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Copy letter from R O'Foghlu to Mrs Nora Zack, Leytonstone, London, England, 13 June 1963, acknowledging receipt of her letter to the Taoiseach concerning partition. He encloses the text of a speech on the subject which the Taoiseach gave to the Oxford Union Society. 'This sets out his views on the question of the reunification of Ireland and Ireland's relations with Britain'.

s 9361K/63

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Letter from Mervyn Wall, Arts Council, Merrion Square, Dublin, to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, 19 March 1963, relating to the establishment of civil list pensions in Ireland. 'They might be paid to persons of distinctive creative achievement in the arts who are advanced in years or by reason of ill-health unable any longer to fend properly for themselves'. He refers to the activities of 'Irish PEN' a group which was active in 1944. 'In January 1962 Professor Aloys Fleischmann and Mrs Cormac O'Cuilleanain (Eilis Dillon) informed the Council that they were thinking of a fund-raising campaign in Cork for the purpose of establishing a national civil list'.

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