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Garda Siochana Commissioner's Report for the year ended 31 December 1929. This includes, for example, a table detailing the number of offences `under the more serious categories of crime', with details of the number of people proceeded against. This includes, `defilement of girls under 13' and `defilement of girls under 16'.

s 6093A

Report

Garda Siochana, Commissioner's Annual Report, 1929 (Revised Edition). This gives criminal statistics for 1927, 1928 and 1928, for example, in 1927 there were 41 cases of concealment of birth and 22 persons were proceeded against. In 1928 the figures were 49 and 31 respectively and in 1929 50 and 33.

s 6093B

Report

Extract from the Executive Council Minutes, 27 November 1930, stating that an order was made advising the Governor General to commute to penal servitude for life the death sentence on Christina Russell who had been found guilty of the murder of her infant child at Kilreask Bridge, St Margaret's County Dublin on 6 September 1930.

s 6096

Extract

Statement of the facts of the case of Christina Russell convicted of the murder of her infant child at the High Court, 27 November 1930. This was sent to the Secretary of the Executive Council by the Department of Justice, 28 November 1930. The child, a male, was born in the South Dublin Union on 17 August 1930. Mother and child left the institution on 5 September 1930. Christina Russell stayed in Dublin on the night of 5 September 1930 and started for her home in North County Dublin on 6 September, being traced to St Margarets. The child was found face down in a stream with two stones placed in a cloth wrapped around his body. `This is not an ordinary case of infanticide, inasmuch as the murder did not take place until some 20 days after the birth of the child'. The statement suggests that this is `a proper case in which to exercise the Prerogative of Mercy'.

s 6096

Statement

Letter to Mr McDunphy from M Long, Vice Regal Lodge, enclosing the Commutation of the death sentence passed on Christina Russell signed by the Governor General, 28 November 1930.

s 6096

Letter

Memorandum sent by the Department of Defence to the Secretary of the Executive Council, 28 November 1930, relating to the allowances paid under the Army Pensions Acts to Miss Barbara and Master Donagh MacDonagh, children of the late Thomas MacDonagh. £80 is paid to the female child up to her 21st birthday and to the male up to his 18th. The memorandum deals mostly with the case for the extension of the allowance to Donagh McDonagh, who suffers a physical handicap, until he has finished University. The memorandum states that the death of the children's mother by drowning in 1917 deprived the family of a widow's pension.

s 6097

Memorandum

Minute to the Secretary, Department of the President, from the Department of Finance, 25 January 1936, relating to the allowances paid under the Army Pensions Vote to Donagh MacDonagh and Barbara MacDonagh. For the most part the minute deals with the case of an extension of allowances to Donagh McDonagh. The minute states that in March 1936 Barbara MacDonagh will reach 21 years of age and will cease to draw any further allowances.

s 6097

Minute

Memorandum relating to the continuation of the provision of extra-statutory grants to the children of Thomas MacDonagh, deceased, circulated by the Minister for Finance, 18 January 1937. The memorandum gives details of monies paid to Barbara MacDonagh since the age of 18. She married Liam MacReamoinn and then dropped her studies for a Librarianship.

s 6097

Memorandum

Handwritten letter to the President from Tomas Ua Dalaigh, Cork, 2 January 1931, stating his objections to the Hairdressers Registration Bill, 1931. In the course of the letter he refers to a number of hairdressing establishments in Cork, notably Athenus's and mentions the problems Miss Athenus's husband, Mr Devlin will have in securing registration since he was at one time a carpenter. [Any person who wishes to be registered has to satisfy the Board that their principle means of livelihood for the past five years was as a hairdresser].

s 6103

Letter

Newsclipping from the `Irish Press', 16 October 1952, `Candidate's Paper Ruled Out'. This discusses an argument which ensued relating to the nominations for the bye-election for the University seat in the Seanad left vacant by the death of Mrs Helena Concannon. The result of the argument was that one of the eight prospective candidates was ruled out. Miss Catherine O Dwyer, a national teacher, had her nomination ruled out on the basis that her list of eight assentors was incomplete.

s 6177C/1

Newsclipping