Finding aid databases

Handwritten letter to President Cosgrave from Elizabeth Healy, 2 April 1931, stating that she had not noticed the photograph he mentioned [1 April 1931], `but I know what press photographs are, and certainly no one is likely to accuse you of any want of respect for the dead, or imagine for a moment that you could be guilty of it'.

s 5620

Letter

Memorandum to the Secretary of the Executive Council from G Campbell, Industries Branch, Department of Industry and Commerce, 2 April 1925, enclosing a list for the approval of Personnel of the seven member delegation from Ireland to attend the Seventh Conference of the International Labour Organisation to be held in Geneva, beginning 19 May. The list includes the name of Miss B Stafford, Department of Industry and Commerce, in the capacity of adviser.

s 5625

Memorandum

Copy letter to the Minister for Justice from Anna O Rahilly, 36 Ailesbury Road, Dublin, no date [26 March 1928], relating to a series of `unjustifiable raids' carried on at the house for the past six months. She asks that responsibility be assumed for the damage done to the house yesterday by the CID.

`Ghosts', Seditious Posters, etc., 1928-1929

republicanism

Report by Garda Siochana, Metropolitan Division, 21 August 1929, relating to documents found at the house of Miss Sheila Humphreys, 36 Ailesbury Road. These include posters signed by `Ghosts', and letters to Sheila Humphreys from, among others, L[ouise] Ryan.

s 5631

Report

Report from the Chief Superintendent's Office, Garda Siochana, Metropolitan Division, 22 August 1929, relating to `Ghosts' literature and other material found at the house of Sheila Humphreys, 20 August 1929. Details of Sheila Humphrey's political activities are given and the report states that `she has been active for the past 7 years in propaganda against the established government'. Details of the documents found are given, for example, entries from a notebook -Documents marked Number 4- relating to grants from Republican funds. The entries include, for example, `Mrs. Jackson called in the evening [sic] wanted to know if anything could be done for her nephew. He was told to apply to Mrs. Despard's home'.

s 5631

Report

Extract from the Cabinet Minutes, 27 May 1932, stating the composition of the delegation to the Ottawa Conference. Two typists are to travel with the delegation.

s 6157A

Extract

Memorandum circulated by the Minister for Justice, 5 November 1930, relating to recruiting propaganda in the Free State for the British Army. Recruiting, the memorandum states, is being carried on in Dublin `through the agency of a number of persons of independent means who are holders of pronounced imperialistic views…' For example, at `the Soldiers' Home, Parkgate Street, Miss Sandes who is in charge, and the Lady Superintendent, Mrs Crawford, get into touch with young men frequently there, and after a discussion on the problems arising from unemployment they introduce in a guarded, but nevertheless effective way, the advantages associated with service in the British Army. Any young man who signifies his intention of joining is kept in the Home free of charge for some days after which he is advanced his fare to Belfast or Liverpool where he can be attested for service in the ordinary way'.

s 6091A

Memorandum

Copy minute from the Minister for Justice to the Secretary, Executive Council, 12 November 1931, relating to recruiting in the Free State for the British Army. The minute discusses various attempts at recruiting, for example, `It is known that one man received financial assistance from a Nurse Kelly, attached to the Blackrock Orthopaedic Staff, to enable him to travel to Omagh to join the British army'.

s 6019A

Minute

Statement, 12 July 1932, of information acquired by the Government concerning recruiting in Ireland for the British army. For example, in November 1930 the Minister for Justice reported that recruiting was being done in Dublin by, among others Miss Sandes and Mrs Crawford, Soldiers' Home, and by Lady Greer, Curragh Grange, County Kildare.

s 6019A

Statement

Minute to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, from John Leydon, Department of Industry and Commerce, 17 October 1945, relating to the future of Irish men and women who have served in the British forces and are now about to be released. This deals with unemployment benefit in Ireland for such persons and discusses its provisions in relation to, for example, widows and spinsters. Two leaflets issued by the Department of Industry and Commerce relating to unemployment benefit are attached, both of which make reference to the various categories of women, for example, widow and married women, who can claim unemployment assistance.

s 6091B

Minute