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Copy minute to the Secretary, Office of Public Works, from the Department of the Taoiseach, 5 October 1953, asking whether the question of displaying Evie Hone's window, `The Four Green Fields of Erin' in the National Museum has been investigated.

s 10133B

Minute

Copy letter to Miss Yvonne Morahan, New Jersey, USA, 19 November 1957, acknowledging receipt of her letter to de Valera concerning her wish from information for the purpose of preparing an essay on the partition of Ireland. She is told that arrangements have been made whereby the Irish Consul General in New York will forward material to her.

s 10739B

Letter

Letter to de Valera from Ellen Kelleher, 26 July 1958. She is a student at Regis College, USA, and is doing research for a paper on the `Irish Separation Problem'. She wants to know what his `opinion of the real situation and whether you think that an early "de-segregation" would enhance or decrease the economic prosperity of Ireland. I am afraid that I am imbued with a "get rid of the English" policy so that heretofore I have not even considered the fact that their presence might be beneficial'.

s 10739B

Letter

Copy letter to Ellen Kelleher, USA from the Private Secretary to the Taoiseach, 9 August 1958. He encloses three booklets which would be of assistance to her in her research. With regard to de Valera's own opinion concerning the economic benefit that would result from a unified Ireland he sends her an extract from a newspaper report of a press conference given by de Valera on 18 March 1958.

s 10739B

Letter

Letter to de Valera from GA Culligan, London, 25 June 1938. He writes to him asking for his advice on the best scheme of disposing, after the death of himself and his wife, the £10,000 he has saved. `The money has been saved by my wife's self denial and so the disposal of it must be made with her entire concurrence. It has always been in her mind to save up with the one aim of benefiting the Irish youth …' He favours schemes which `would have as an object the improvement of country life …'

s 10825

Letter

Memorandum from the Department of Agriculture sent to JJ McElligott, Department of Finance, 2 August 1938, giving the recommendation and views of the Department of Agriculture relating to suggestions for the disposal of a proposed bequest by Mr GA Culligan. The memorandum suggests that the money should be invested and the interest used to provide scholarships at approved Agricultural Schools and Schools of Rural Domestic Economy. These scholarships would be awarded to the sons and daughters of the farmers and agricultural labourers resident in County Clare on the basis of a competitive examination held by the Department of Agriculture.

s 10825

Memorandum

Minute to JJ McElligott from Seosamh O Neill, Department of Education, 27 July 1938, enclosing an outline of a draft scheme of travelling scholarships in connection with the proposed bequest of Mr GA Culligan. For example, travelling scholarships in domestic science, dairying and poultry keeping are proposed.

s 10825

Minute

Letter to the Taoiseach from Seoirse Gabhanach O Dubhthaigh, [George Gavan Duffy], Dublin, 10 March 1944, enclosing a letter from Mrs Culligan, South Africa, dated 12 November 1943, addressed to his brother in Capetown and a covering letter, dated 22 November 1943, from his brother, Rev. Bryan Gavan Duffy, sending the letter to him. Mrs Culligan, he writes, is the widow of a GA Culligan and wishes to carry out her late husband's wishes to provide travelling scholarships for boys to become operative after her death.

s 10825

Letter

Note relating to Mrs Culligan's desire to carry out the wishes of her late husband and set up a fund to provide travelling scholarships, 27 March 1944. The note states that it should be suggested to Mrs Culligan that she take steps to ensure that the intentions of her husband are made fully effective and that if she required any advice the Government would be pleased to assist her.

s 10825

Note

Copy letter to Mrs Rena Culligan, South Africa, from the Private Secretary to the Taoiseach, 6 April 1944. `The administration of such a fund should not present any difficulty once the intentions of the donors are made clear. It would be a simple matter, for example, to set up a small Board of Trustees for that purpose. The Universities or Schools of Science and Art as well as any appropriate Departments of State, such as the Department of Education or the Department of Agriculture can readily be consulted should that be desirable'.

s 10825

Letter