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Eleventh Annual Report of the Arts Council for the period covering 1 April 1962 to 31 March 1962. The aims and objectives of the Arts Council are outlined on the opening page of the Report. It also provides a detailed list of the projects and artists who were assisted by the Council during the period under discussion, for example, 'Mrs Bea Trench in connection with courses in crafts, painting, music and drama for national schoolteachers conducted by her in the summer of 1962 at Termonfeckin, County Louth'. The following individuals were also recipients of aid: Dr Seoirse Bodley, Miss Brighid Mooney and Miss Aisling Drury Byrne. Grainne Ni Eigeartaigh gave a lecture entitled 'Irish Harp Music and Song'.

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Annual report

Copy letter from Sheila G Murray, Department of External Affairs, to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, 14 June 1963, regarding an application by John Coppinger Nolan for appointment as Honorary Consul in Mexico. 'Except in very unusual circumstances this Department would not favour the appointment of a person who is not either an Irish citizen or a Mexican citizen'.

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letter

Copy letter to Mrs Thomas Knightly, Keel, Castlemaine, County Kerry, signature unclear, 7 June 1961, acknowledging receipt of her letter [not in file] relating to the administration of the Local Appointments Commission.

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letter

Memorandum from the Department of Power and Transport for the Government, 17 January 1963, relating to pay claims which were submitted by staff at the Electricity Supply Board [ESB]. The document states that the technical staff are represented by the Staff Conference and that the clerical and female staff are represented by ESB Officers' Association. An appendix attached to the memorandum outlines the salary rates for each grade.

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memorandum

Copy letter from R O'Foghlu to Mrs HM McKenna, Lower Kimmage Road, Dublin, 27 November 1963, acknowledging receipt of her letter concerning the cost of living. It states that the matter has been brought to the attention of the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

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letter

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Press', 5 December 1963, containing an article entitled 'Prices Advisory Committee'. The article states that the Minister for Industry and Commerce has appointed a Prices Advisory Committee to inquire into the prices charged for soap. The Committee members are listed and include Mrs Doreen Johnston, Irish Housewives Association.

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newsclipping

cost of living

Letter from O'Rahilly, Chairman, Amnesty International, Irish Section, to the Taoiseach, Sean F Lemass, 28 October 1963, concerning the United Nations Human Rights Day. 'Our purpose in approaching you today is to offer our assistance in widely disseminating any message you, as Taoiseach, might wish to issue'. The headed-paper lists the group's patrons and committee members. It includes Mrs Josephine McNeill, Mrs Karin O'Donovan, Mrs Meryl Farrington and Mrs JB Wilkinson.

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letter

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Press', 10 December 1963, containing an article entitled 'Prisoners freed to mark Human Rights Declaration: Ireland pays tribute with others in UN'. The article refers to the fifteenth anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights and states that prisoners serving various sentences in Irish prisons will be released in honour of the event. It also mentions a symposium on human rights which was organised by the Irish United Nations Association, the Association of Jurists and Amnesty International. The speakers are to include Mrs Josephine O'Neill.

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newsclipping

human rights; international organisations; prisoners

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Press', 11 December 1963, containing an article entitled 'Taoiseach calls for co-operation on rights'. The article refers to the Taoiseach's speech on the fifteenth anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. The concluding section of the article examines the proceedings of symposium on human rights which took place in Dublin. 'Mrs Josephine MacNeill, patron of Amnesty International and former Irish Ambassador to the Netherlands, said it was a measure of our human weakness that almost two thousand years after we had received the Christian message we had to define and defend human rights'.

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newsclipping

human rights; international organisations; prisoners

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Press', 18 June 1963, containing an article entitled 'New Hotel not too high, says builder'. The article relates to the building of a new hotel at the Gap of Dunloe, Killarney, County Kerry. It states that the owner Herr Liebherr and Miss Olga Meier met with Kerry County Council in order to discuss the matter.

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newsclipping

tourism