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Copy letter to Eamon de Valera, Taoiseach, from Kathleen Brady, Secretary, Bennekerry Land Club, Carlow, 17 January 1959. She writes that a conference of delegates from twenty six County Carlow Land Clubs held on 16 January 1959 `viewed with uneasiness the policy of the Minister for Lands which permits foreign syndicates to buy large tracts of good land in Carlow. It is well known that Carlow farmers make the best possible use of land. It is also clear to the local people that the absentee farmer who bought two thousand acres is using the land badly. It is our belief that when he has exhausted it he will offer it to the Land Commission and the unfortunate people among whom it is then divided will have to undertake the costly work of restoring it to fertility. It is the declared policy of the Fianna Fail Organisation to place as many people as possible in reasonable comfort on the land. We believe the Minister's policy to be in conflict with this declaration'. She asks him to receive a deputation.

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Letter

Copy letter to Miss Kathleen Brady, Secretary, Bennekerry Land Club, Carlow, from the Private Secretary to the Taoiseach, 10 February 1959. The Taoiseach, she is told, `is of the opinion that there would be no point in his receiving the deputation you suggest'. She is informed that the question of the allocation of land is one for the Land Commission. With respect to the acquisition of property by non-nations she is directed to the Taoiseach's reply to a Dáilquestion put to him on 21 November 1957, a copy of which is enclosed.

s 14200A

Letter

Handwritten copy of telegram to Madame McGillycuddy, The Reeks, Beaufort, County Kerry, from Costello, expressing `sympathy in your great sorrow', 29 April 1950.

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Telegram

Letter to de Valera from Mrs Margaret O Connell O Leary, Rathmore, County Kerry, 16 February 1954. She tells him that her father, Daniel O Connell, died the previous week.

s 14426B

Letter

Letter to Mrs Margaret O Connell O Leary, Rathmore, County Kerry, from de Valera, 20 February 1954, offering sympathy on the death of her father.

s 14426B

Letter

Acknowledgement card from the wife and family of the late Maurice P Walsh, Listowel, County Kerry, September 1959, expressing gratitude to all those who sympathised with them in their bereavement.

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Card

Newsclipping from `The Kerryman', 23 April 1949, `Salute From the Navy. The Republic of Ireland Act. County Celebrations'. The article gives details of the celebrations throughout County Kerry which marked the coming into operation of the Republic of Ireland Act. For example, in Waterville, a parade of Old IRA, Cumann na mBan, Local Defence Force, Red Cross and Clann na Poblachta took place.

s 14440

Newsclipping

commemoration of national leaders; politics

Newscutting from the `Kerryman', 23 July 1949, `A Case of Mistaken Identity. Cork Man Pleads Guilty to Offence For Which Tralee Man Was Convicted'. Finbarr Nolan was charged with the offence in which Albert McCaffery was convicted at the previous sitting of the Court. Nolan also pleaded guilty to other charges, for example, `obtaining a sum of £1 by false pretences; and with intent to defraud, from one Eileen Buckley, of Lisheens, Ballincollig, Co. Cork, on July 22'.

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Newsclipping

Minute to the Secretary, Department of Social Welfare, from the Department of Justice, 27 January 1948, relating to the alleged recruitment by foreign agents of Irish workers for employment abroad. The Gardai have made inquiries in the matter and state that they have no information concerning any unapproved recruitment with the exception of certain listed cases. For example, in County Kerry up to ten months previously `a Miss Margaret Mahony, 19 Urban Terrace, Tralee, an Irish national, carried on a recruiting agency with a view to placing girls in employment at a Flax Mills, Nevis Hostel, Heathfarm, Nacton, Lincoln. She advertised on the local cinema screens and charged a small fee to recruits accepting employment. She got tired of the work and returned to England'.

s 15398A

Minute

Newsclipping from `The Kerryman', 16 June 1956, `Property Is For Sale By Private Treaty'. This deals with the news that the portion of the Kenmare Estate comprising of the lakes and mountains of Killarney has been put on the property market. Details of the property for sale are given as are details of the Kenmare family. For example, `The last Earl died without issue in 1952, and the estate passed to his sister, Lady Dorothy Chartris, who in tun transferred it to her daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Grosvenor. Since Mrs. Grosvenor came into possession of the property she took a deep interest in Killarney affairs and modernised the family residence, Kenmare House…' A photograph of Mrs Grosvenor is included with the article.

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Newsclipping

land issues