Finding aid databases

Report in booklet form entitled `Social Insurance, Part I', presented by the Minister of Reconstruction to the British Parliament, September 1944. Section XI, for example, deals with married women under such titles as, for instance, `The Housewife', `The Employed Married Woman' and `The Unmarried Mother'. Section XII deals with widows.

s 13053B

Booklet

Report in booklet form entitled `Social Insurance Part II. Workmen's Compensation. Proposals for an Industrial Injury Insurance Scheme'. For example, the report states that women `will be entitled to injury allowance and pension at the same basic rates as men. A married woman whose husband is wholly or mainly dependent on her earnings and incapable of self-support will be entitled to an allowance for her dependent husband (at the rate for a wife) together with an allowance in respect of a first child, subject to the conditions applicable to the first child of a male workman. Where no husband's allowance is payable, a woman will be entitled to claim an allowance for a dependant on the conditions applicable to a male workman'.

s 13053B

Report

Home Office, published `Report on the Work of the Children's Branch', April 1923. This includes, for example, a section on traffic in women and children.

s 4169

Report

Home Office, published `Third Report on the work of the Children's Branch', July 1925. This includes details of steps to deal with male and female juvenile offenders, for example, sections on places of detention, children's homes, etc.

s 4169

Report

Memorandum addressed to M. MacConchadha, Assistant Secretary, Office of Executive Council, from G Fagan, Ministry of Finance, 5 December 1924, enclosing Form of Estimate for 1925/1926 and asking for observations. The enclosed form, which is annotated, gives details of, for example, salaries of female clerical officers. The file also contains details of salaries and wages for 1924-1925.

s 4175

Memorandum

Letter to President Cosgrave from Moya Llewelyn Davies, Raheny, 22 February 1923. Her husband was acting for the Australian Commonwealth with respect to a case of appeal to the Privy Council. She submits his account of this case `as our position is much the same as Australia's in this matter'.

s 4285A

Letter

Letter from the Assistant Secretary on behalf of President Cosgrave to Mrs M Llewelyn Davies, 26 February 1923, acknowledging her letter and stating that he will arrange an appointment to meet her at an early date.

s 4285A

Letter

Letter from the Assistant Secretary, President's Office, to Mr Kennedy, Chief Attorney, 27 February 1923, enclosing communication from Mrs Llewelyn Davies, which the President thinks might interest him.

s 4285A

Letter

Letter from the Chief Attorney, Aodh Ua Cinneide, to Mr Mc Gann, Office of the President, 6 March 1923, acknowledging the copy of the letter from Mrs Llewellyn Davies in relation to Privy Council Appeals, `It is most interesting, and I am noting it for future reference'.

s 4285A

Letter

Typed extract from the `Independent', 28 October 1926, `Privy Council Dismisses Saorstat Appeals'. Among the dismissed cases was that of Mary Murphy, a charwoman, a weekly wage earner in Dublin Corporation who applied for a pension or compensation for loss of office following retirement. The Privy Council stated that under the Free State Constitution it had no power to hear this case.

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Extract

constitutional matters