Finding aid databases

List of the personnel of the Council of State, March 1968. The list includes Mrs Jane Dowdall.

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list

List of the personnel of the Council of State, July 1969. The list includes Mrs Jane Dowdall.

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list

Table showing the personnel of the Council of State, 3 July 1969. Mrs Jane Dowdall, Mill House, Kilcully, County Cork, is amongst those appointed by the President.

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table

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Times', 25 November 1965, containing an article entitled 'Belgium's Queen Elisabeth dies'. The article refers to the death of Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. 'Her great preoccupation in life was the welfare of invalids. A nurse, both by vocation and training, she worked at an early age, for her father who was an eye doctor in charge of a clinic'.

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newsclipping

Letter from Mrs Patricia van Emst-Back, Voorburg, Holland, to the Irish Embassy, The Hague, 28 November 1966, concerning a proposal for a period of world-wide prayer for peace.

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letter

Copy letter from Sean R Ronan to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, 16 December 1966, concerning a letter which was sent to the Irish embassy at The Hague by Mrs Patricia van Ernst-Back. It states her letter and enclosures concerning a proposal for a period of prayer for world-wide peace have been acknowledged.

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letter

Letter from Roisin Nic Aongusa, Private Secretary to the Minister for External Affairs, to the Private Secretary to the Taoiseach, 11 March 1969, relating to a letter addressed to the Taoiseach from the Moral Rearmament Foundation [MRA], Caux, Switzerland. 'Presumably, individual Irish members of MRA have attended meetings in Caux and may still do so. In the circumstances it is considered that no action is called for in regard to the letter'.

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letter

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Times', 26 July 1985, containing an article entitled 'Shaw Society'. The article refers to the formation of a Society to explore the writings and political outlook of George Bernard Shaw.

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newsclipping

writers; bequests

Memorandum from the Department of Education for the Government, 16 August 1965, relating to reports made by the Arbitration Board in relation to national and vocational teachers. It states that both groups refused offers of an eight per cent pay increase in 1964. Current and proposed pay scales for both groups are given, for example, 'trained national teachers, pay claim as follows: married men £950 to £1700; women and single men £775 to £1375'.

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memorandum

Copy note signed by two Land Commissioners, John Kelly and PS Ua Laoghaire, 2 April 1965, relating to the estate of Patrick Farrell, Ballymoe, County Galway. The note states that the estate has passed into the possession of Margaret Scanlon.

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note