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Letter to the Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice from Maire A Ni Dhomhnail, former Secretary, Annascaul, County Kerry, Fianna Fail, 6 July 1940. She trusts that at a time when `Europe is deluged with blood' the Government will change the death sentence on Tomas MacCurtain to one of life imprisonment. She writes:` I am the lst to condone crime, but for the sake of our common country, for the sake of his dead father, and for the sake of his dear broken-hearted mother who witnessed the murder of her poor husband, to spare her the agony of seeing her only son led to the scaffold …'

s 11974

Letter

Copy letter to Maire A Ni Dhomhnaill, Annascaul, County Kerry, 9 July 1940, acknowledging receipt of her letter addressed to the Taoiseach.

s 11974

Letter

Letter to de Valera from Mrs Mary O Egan, Castlegregory, County Kerry, 9 July 1940. She appeals to him on behalf of Castlegregory to stay the execution on Tomas MacCurtain. She suggests that this should be done by a Government based on Christian ideals, on the `ideals of our Redeemer's Act of forgiveness on the Cross…'

s 11974

Letter

Copy letter to Mrs Mary O Egan, Castlegregory, County Kerry, 10 July 1940, acknowledging her letter of the 9 July 1940 addressed to the Taoiseach.

s 11974

Letter

Memorandum, no date, signed Kerry Redin, Medical Officer for ARP, no date. This gives details of the responsibility for the various aspects of the air raid precaution scheme. For example, the role and functions of the St John Ambulance Brigade is distinguished from that of the Irish Red Cross Society (Dublin Branch). The memorandum gives the numbers of trained personnel, differentiated by sex, of the St John Ambulance Brigade in nine city areas.

Irish Red Cross Society, Allocation of Functions, etc.

Red Cross

Report to the Economic Cooperation Administration, Washington, DC, by the Irish Hotels Delegation, 1 December 1950. Amongst the members of the delegation are Miss Hilda Huggard, Managing Director, Lake Hotel, Killarney, County Kerry, and Miss Honora Hayes, Proprietor, Ardhu House Hotel, Limerick. `The members of this Group were invited by the Irish Government to visit America under the auspices of the Technical Assistance Branch of the Economic Cooperation Administration at Washington, with the object of studying American techniques in the Hotel and Catering industry and to examine tourist activities generally. On our return to Ireland, a report will be prepared for submission to our own Government in order that a better understanding will be formed of the habits, customs and expectations of the American traveller. In this survey, it is hoped to incorporate recommendations which may assist the Tourist Industry at home in the reception of the American visitors in Ireland'.

s 13087D

Report

Report to the Minister for Industry and Commerce by the Irish Hotels Delegation to the United States, 15 January 1951. Amongst the members of the delegation are Miss Hilda Huggard, Managing Director, Lake Hotel, Killarney, County Kerry, and Miss Honora Hayes, Proprietor, Ardhu House Hotel, Limerick. The report is intended to be a summary of the group's recommendations for action to be taken by the Government and the Tourist Board in co-operation with the Tourist Industry in respect of American tourism in Ireland. For example, they recommend the registration and grading of all establishments, the improvement of roads, and adequate funds to be made available for advertising and publicity.

s 13087D

Report

Letter in Irish to the Secretary, Department of the Taoiseach, from Ide Ni Chleirigh, Dingle, County Kerry, 29 May 1958, giving details of the career of Sean O Cleirigh in respect of his nomination as a member of the Commission for the Restoration of Irish.

s 13180B

Letter

Copy letter to Ide Ni Chleirigh, Dingle, County Kerry, 31 May 1958, acknowledging her letter of 29 May and stating that the Department [of the Taoiseach] is very grateful to her for the enclosed note.

s 13180B

Letter

Newsclipping from the `Irish Press', `Housewives Urged to Buy Irish Goods', 7 January 1952. At the Jubilee Dinner of the Fianna Fail South Kerry Comhairle Ceanntair, Mr Jack Lynch, Parliamentary Secretary to the Government, said that all possible steps had been taken to protect Irish trade interests. `Housewives in particular, could play a most important part if, when purchasing their requirements, they insisted on getting the Irish made article. If they could not get it in one shop, they should go to the shopkeeper who stocked Irish goods'.

s 13221D

Newsclipping

housewives