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Newsclipping from the `Daily Express' entitled `Divorces for Men Only'. `As matters now stand, a husband who has been wronged can only obtain relief by abandoning his Free State citizenship and going over the Ulster border or to some other part of the Empire. A wronged wife is in an even worse position, for she will be unable to change her domicile without the consent of her husband'.

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Newsclipping

divorce

Handwritten letter to President Cosgrave from John Moore, County Waterford, 28 April 1925, discussing divorce and church teaching on the subject which he feels may be useful in the discussion which is to take place in the Dáilon the following Thursday. The letter makes much reference to the definition of fornication and adultery in church writings. `It does not at all predicate that a man is authorized to put away his wife if she is guilty of fornication, but that if she is not guilty of fornication, the putting of her away makes her an adulteress'.

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Letter

Debate in the Seanad on divorce legislation, includes the contribution of Mrs Wyse Power.

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Debate

Memorandum on the subject of a proposed `open competitive examination for Junior Posts' circulated to the Executive Council by the Minister for Finance, December 1924. `No examination has hitherto been held for the admission of Junior Executive Officers by open competition. An open examination for not less than 30 places in this class is now contemplated, and the question whether women as well as men are to be admitted to the competition requires decision'.

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Memorandum

Copy of letter from S Ua Broin, Attorney General, to Mr Boland, Department of Finance, 15 December 1924, on the issue of admission of women to examinations. In this letter he gives his reasons why he is of opinion that the Commissioners had no power to make the regulations excluding women from this examination'.

s 4195

Letter

Extract from the opinion of the Department of the Taoiseach on Department of State Bill forwarded to the Department of Finance on 7 March 1950. The extract deals with section 36. `This section does not appear to preclude the appointment to the Civil Service, in either an established or an unestablished capacity, of a woman who is already married.'

s 4195

Extract

Memorandum from Dalton, Liaison Department, to M. Collins, 27 January 1922, stating that he had a letter from a Mrs [Linehan?], mother of the late Patrick Maher who was executed at Mountjoy requesting that his remains be removed.

s 4199

Memorandum

Report by the Department of Defence, 22 January 1925, in reply to a complaint that economic conditions in the Curragh and Newbridge areas were adversely affected by the closing down of Newbridge Barracks and by the issue of contracts to non-local suppliers. The complaint stated that local farmers were allowed the opportunity to supply milk and vegetables to the Curragh. The report refutes this and gives the name of local suppliers, for example, Mrs O'Connor, Hellon Hill, Mrs Denigan, Creen Road.

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Report

Despatch from L S Amery to the Minister for External Affairs, 8 May 1928, enclosing a copy of a despatch, 17 April 1928, from the British Ambassador in Rome on `measures designed to discourage Italians from acquiring foreign nationality'. Section 3 of the latter despatch states:
`Expectant mothers resident in foreign territories adjacent to Italy will in future be received on application into Government maternity homes on the Italian side of the frontier'.

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Despatch

Copy of a letter from Stritch & Stritch, the Royal Swedish Consulate, Eustace Street, Dublin, to the Acting Secretary, Provisional Government, Dublin, 14 July 1922, stating that they have been instructed by Mrs Jane Murtagh, 60 Lower Domick Street, Dublin, widow, to issue a claim for £34.14.0 for damage to the premises, 16 Grenville Street, occupied by both Regular and Irregular Troops.

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Letter