Finding aid databases

Copy letter to Mrs Mollie Cotter, Dublin, 9 November 1942, acknowledging her letter and enclosure of 6 November 1942.

s 13004

Letter

Lists of names of Kerry people calling for the reprieve of the death sentence on Maurice O'Neill, 1942. The lists include female names.

s 13004

Lists

Lists of names in a series of copybooks calling for the reprieve of the death sentence on Maurice O'Neill [?1942]. The lists include female names, for example, Hanora Sugrue.

Maurice O'Neill, Petitions for Reprieve

death sentences and executions

Extract from the Cabinet Minutes, 11 December 1942, stating, amongst other matters, that it was decided that the Minister for Justice should submit a report on the organisation, numbers and training, etc., of the Women's Auxiliary Local Security Force.

s 13051

Extract

Minute to the Secretary to the Government from the Secretary to the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures, 17 December 1942, transmitting a report for the information of the Government on the `organisations, numbers, training and general effectiveness of the Irish Red Cross Society'. For example, the report includes a summary showing the divisional strength in Ireland as of the 30 November 1942. For instance in County Cork there were 1,653 female VADs [Voluntary Aid Detachments] and 363 female FADs.

s 13051

Minute

Minute to the Secretary to the Government from the Secretary to the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures, 17 December 1942, relating to the Women's Auxiliary of the Local Security Force. The minute states that it `is presumed that the inquiry refers to the "Local Security Force Comforts Ladies Committees" which are similar to the "Comforts Committees" organised for the Army and Local Defence Force'. A copy of a circular dealing with these committees which was issued in December 1941 is attached. The circular details the regulations for the Local Security Force Group Comforts Ladies' Committees to ensure uniformity in organisation and administration. For example, each committee is to elect a Lady Chairman, a Secretary and a Treasurer. The activities of the Committees are detailed. For instance, the Committee provides `comforts' such as gloves, socks, etc., for members and the provision of hot drinks for members returning from patrol. The Committees are also to alleviate distress amongst `deserving needy members'.

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Minute

`Social Insurance and Allied Services', Report by Sir William Beveridge, presented to Parliament, November 1942. This deals with, for example, maternity benefits. For instance, the report states that all married women, whether themselves gainfully occupied or not, will be entitled to a maternity grant, and also to medical attention and midwifery and nursing services as part of the comprehensive health service. Married women who are also gainfully occupied will be entitled to maternity benefit, in addition to a maternity grant, for a period of 13 weeks including the date of birth, on condition of their giving up for the time their gainful occupation. The maternity grant is not intended to cover the whole cost of maternity, which `has a reasonable and natural claim upon the husband's earnings. But it should be raised materially above its present figure. The maternity benefit is intended to make it easier to give up gainful employment at the time of maternity, and will be at a rate materially higher than ordinary unemployment or disability benefits'.

s 13053A

Report

Typed extract from `The Economist', 5 December 1942. This is a summary of the Beveridge Plan. For example, the extract states that under the Beveridge Plan housewives are recognised as `a distinct insurance class - Man and wife are treated as a "team". On marriage, a woman acquires a "housewives policy" with rights to marriage grants, maternity, widowhood and separation provision and benefit during her husband's unemployment or disability, if not herself gainfully occupied. Gainfully occupied housewives will receive two-thirds of the normal rate for unemployment and disability benefit, but maternity benefit at 50 per cent above that rate'.

s 13053A

Extract

social welfare; maternity; housewives

Booklet, entitled `The Beveridge Report in Brief', 1942.

s 13053A

Report

Memorandum from the Department of Industry and Commerce on Social Insurance schemes in Great Britain and the estimated cost of adopting them in Ireland, 19 April 1945.The memorandum discusses the Beveridge Report and the British Government White Paper. For example, to implement Beveridge's recommendations regarding the maternity grant and benefit would cost £40,000 and to implement the scheme set out in British Government White Paper would cost £50,000.

s 13053B

Memorandum