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Letter to the Taoiseach, Mr Costello, from Mr Willis Murphy, Acting Secretary of the Organisations concerned in the matter of flour confectionery and biscuits, 27 May 1955, listing the names of the deputation which was elected to meet him, for example, Miss HS Chenevix, Irish Women Workers' Union.

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Letter

Minute to the Secretary, Department of Industry and Commerce, from the Department of the Taoiseach, 9 June 1955, enclosing a record of a discussion on 8 June 1955 when the Taoiseach received a deputation of representatives of employers and employees engaged in the flour confectionery and biscuit industries. The deputation discussed different aspects of the problems created by the desubsidisation of flour confectionery and biscuits. For example, Miss Chevenix `pointed out that many of the operatives in these trades were young girls and there was a grave danger that the proposals might force them to emigrate'.

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Minute

Newsclipping from the `Irish Independent,' 9 June 1955, `Leinster House Conference. Cake and Biscuit Makers Fear Price Reduction'. This article discusses the deputation of biscuit and confectionery makers together with other interested parties which met the Taoiseach. For example, the article states that `Messrs. Swift, Larkin, O'Brien and Miss Chenevix supported the representation that the Order now made would cause further unemployment in a trade in which there was redundancy'.

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Newsclipping

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Newsclipping from the `Irish Press', 20 May 1952, entitled `Art of Stained Glass: Evie Hone's Achievement'. This details the Hone family's artistic achievements and the early artistic years of Evie Hone in London and Paris and her encounter with Cubism and the modernist group `Abstraction - Creation'. Reference is also made to the achievement of Mainie Jellet. When Hone and Jellet returned to Ireland from Paris `they found themselves isolated in an atmosphere almost entirely devoted to direct representation of the object seen photographically, or so they thought. Few had time to more than smile at the enthusiastic young ladies with their crazy paintings and mad ideas. But Dublin was soon to notice them and these two artists, more than any others, have been responsible for quickly introducing the modern idiom into art circles in Ireland'. Reference is made to the stained glass windows produced by Evie Hone, for example, `My Four Green Fields' which was produced for the New York World Fair.

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Newsclipping

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Letter to Mr de Valera from Mrs Nancy Connell, 22 May 1952. Her sister, Evie Hone, she writes, did a lovely stained glass window for the Irish Pavilion at the New York World's Fair and since it was returned to Ireland it has been lying in packing cases. She asks if it would be possible to find a place for it in one of the Government Buildings or Art Galleries in the country. This letter was sent by the Department of the Taoiseach to the Secretaries, Department of External Affairs, Industry and Commerce and Education, 23 May 1952.

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Letter

Copy letter to Mrs Nancy Connell from de Valera, 26 May 1952, thanking her for her suggestion [to exhibit the window in a Government Building or Art Gallery] regarding the stained-glass window done by Miss Hone for the Irish Pavilion at the New York World's Fair.

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Letter

Minute to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, from the Department of External Affairs, 29 May 1952, stating that the stained glass window commissioned from Miss Evie Hone for the New York World's Fair is the property of the Department of Industry and Commerce and that it is stored in Kilmainham by the Office of Public Works on behalf of the Department.

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Minute

Minute to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, from the Department of Education, 29 May 1952, relating to the stained glass window by Evie Hone which was exhibited at the New York World's Fair, 1939-1940. Communication has been received from the Office of Public Works concerning an inquiry by An Chomhairle Ealaion [Arts Council] as to whether the window could be made available for inspection by the public in some building in Dublin. The Department of Education is in communication with the authorities in the National Gallery on the question of displaying the window in the National Gallery and they will let the Department of the Taoiseach know the result as soon as possible.

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Minute

Minute to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, from the Department of Industry and Commerce, 5 June 1952, stating that the window executed by Evie Hone for the Irish Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939-40 was, with the approval of the Minister for Finance, presented to the Commissioners of Public Works on the 31 October 1941. The presentation was made on the understanding that the window would be incorporated into some suitable building to be erected by the Commissioners and that if this did not happen it was to be disposed of to private interests at a reasonable figure. The Department of Industry and Commerce is not aware whether the Commissioners have made any arrangements relating to the housing or disposal of the window.

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Minute

Minute to the Secretary, Office of Public Works, from the Department of the Taoiseach, 5 June 1952, forwarding a copy of a letter addressed to the Taoiseach from Mrs Nancy Connell, 22 May 1952, relating to displaying the stained glass window executed by Evie Hone for the World's Fair in New York. A copy of a minute on the subject, dated the 5 June 1952, received from the Department of Industry and Commerce is also forwarded.

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Minute