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Copy letter from Alice Crabb, Greystones, County Wicklow, to the Minister for Justice, 16 January 1968, relating to the proposed introduction of legal divorce in Ireland. She outlines the dangers of divorce. 'By legalising divorce we would be condoning broken marriage vows, the seducing by unscrupulous persons of someone else's husband or wife and the desertion of family responsibilities. I have seen the drastic, unhappy results of divorce. A wife, heart-broken having relinquished her husband to another woman. A young girl of nineteen haunted by the black shadow of her parents' divorce'.

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Copy letter from Sean Flanagan, Minister for Health, to Mrs Alice Crabb, Greystones, County Wicklow, 28 February 1968, concerning proposed changes to the laws governing divorce. The Minister points out that any amendment to the Constitution would require a Referendum.

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Hand-written letter from Miss Kathleen Egan, Madonna School of Nursing, Ballinasloe, County Galway, to the Department of the Taoiseach, 21 May 1968, requesting information on the Constitution and divorce.

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Copy letter from HJ O'Dowd to Miss Kathleen Egan, Madonna School of Nursing, Ballinasloe, County Galway, 24 May 1968, forwarding a copy of the section of the Constitution setting out the position in regard to the dissolution of marriage in Ireland.

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Hand-written letter from Mrs Frances Foy-Wyse, Finglas, County Dublin, to the Taoiseach, Mr Lynch, 27 August 1969, relating to divorce.

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Copy letter from RS O'Dubhda to Mrs Frances Foy-Wyse, Finglas, County Dublin, 29 August 1969, acknowledging receipt of her letter to the Taoiseach on the subject of divorce legislation. 'The Government have no proposals under consideration for legislation to permit divorce. It is suggested that your personal problem is one which you might wish to discuss with a Solicitor or with your Parish Priest'.

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Letter from the Attorney General's Office to the Secretary to the Government, 16 May 1963, relating to the will of Jeremiah Geany. 'The Attorney General is satisfied that there is no evidence of any expression of the testator's wishes or that Ellen Geany had ever intimated what her wishes were in relation to the charitable purposes which might be selected'. The letter also refers to the estate of Ellen Galvin.

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Memorandum from the Department of the Taoiseach for the Government, 28 May 1965, relating to charitable bequests. It refers in particular to the case of Jeremiah Geany. A copy of Geany's memorial is attached to the memorandum. 'To his sister Ellen Geany upon trust to distribute such portions of same to such priests or institutions as she might in her absolute discretion select'.

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Memorandum from the Minister for Justice for the Government, 2 February 1965, relating to the proposed control of land acquisition by non-nationals. The memorandum also explores the manner in which land is transmitted upon the death of the owner. 'The definition of family does not include an adopted or illegitimate child'. It also refers to the Adoption Acts of 1952 and 1964 and to the Legitimacy Act, 1931.

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Hand-written letter from Mrs Maura Mackey, President of the Federation of Old IRA and Cumann na mBan (Liverpool), Preston, England, to the Department of the Taoiseach, 18 September 1968, relating to the recent visit of the English airforce to the Republic of Ireland. 'We protest most strongly at the presence in Dublin of the representatives of the armed forces of England'. She also refers to the sale of Irish land to non-nationals.

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