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Copy letter to the Secretary, Department of Education, from Thomas McGreevy, National Gallery of Ireland, 12 June 1952. The Board of Governors and Guardians considered the question of where to place Evie Hone's window entitled `Four Green Fields' and they regretfully decided that `as what is needed at the National Gallery is a maximum of light and as the effect of such a window would be to subdue the light - however beautifully - the display of the window in the National Gallery would militate against the Gallery's main function and could not therefore be approved. He suggests other buildings in which the window might be displayed, for example, Government Buildings, the National Museum and Dublin Castle.

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Letter

Minute to the Secretary, Office of Public Works, from the Department of Education, 1 July 1952, forwarding the letter received from the Director of the National Gallery on the subject of displaying the stained glass window by Evie Hone entitled `Four Green Fields'. The question of displaying the window in the National Museum has been, the minute states, been submitted to the museum authorities. A copy of the minute with the enclosure was sent to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach.

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Minute

Letter to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, from James White, Honorary Secretary, Irish Association of Art Critics, 22 December 1952. A Congress of the International Association of Art Critics will be held in Dublin from the 19-23 July 1953 and his committee is most anxious that Evie Hone's `unique work of art', the stained glass window entitled `Four Green Fields', should be available during the Congress and they request the Department to consider the `possibility of finding a site to display it before the 19th July 1953'.

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Letter

Copy letter to James White, Honorary Secretary, Irish Association of Art Critics, from the Department of the Taoiseach, 30 December 1952, stating that the stained glass window entitled `Four Green Fields' by Evie Hone is now the property of the Commissioners of Public Works.

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Letter

Minute from the Department of the Taoiseach to the Secretary, Office of Public Works, 30 December 1952, referring to the minute of 5 June 1952 on the question of the stained glass window `The Four Green Fields of Erin' by Evie Hone and asking if he may now be favoured with their observations on the matter.

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Minute

Minute from the Department of the Taoiseach to the Secretary, Office of Public Works, 26 February 1953, referring to the minute of 5 June 1952 on the question of the stained glass window `The Four Green Fields of Erin' by Evie Hone and the reminder of 30 December 1952, and asking if he may now be favoured with their observations on the matter.

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Minute

Minute from the Office of Public Works to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, 6 March 1953. They have investigated the possibility of incorporating Evie Hone's window, `The Four Green Fields of Erin' in one of the buildings at present under construction but due to its size have had no success. The Department of Education have informed them that there is no place to display the window in either the National Gallery or the National Museum. A proposal to have the window fitted into an existing building is now being considered.

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Minute

Typescript extract from the `Evening Standard', 29 May 1953, entitled `The Achievement of Evie Hone'. This discusses the fact that much of her work has gone abroad and most of her windows in Dublin are in private chapels. The article states that there `is the hope that the Government who possess "The Four Green Fields" which was on exhibition in New York, may soon find a site suitable for its display'.

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Extract

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Copy minute to the Secretary, Office of Public Works, from the Department of the Taoiseach, 26 September 1953, asking whether the results of their investigations concerning the practicality of having Evie Hone's stained glass window, `The Four Green Fields of Erin' fitted into an existing window are yet available.

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Minute

Minute to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, from the Office of Public Works, 2 October 1953, stating that it is not possible to fit Evie Hone's stained glass window, `The Four Green Fields of Erin' into an existing building. `There is the possibility that we may be in a position to incorporate the window in a future building scheme but we see no prospect of this in the immediate future'.

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Minute