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Women in 20th-Century Ireland, 1922-1966: Sources from the Department of the Taoiseach

Contents of subcategory 'Women in 20th-Century Ireland, 1922-1966: Sources from the Department of the Taoiseach', 19454 records found

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Record 14541 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Memorandum from the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, May 1948, with regard to the pay and conditions of employment in the Postal Service, 'an increase of 5s 6d, a week has recently, with Finance approval, been offered to Women Workers in the Post Office Factory (whose wages are related to outside rates) only emphasises the difference between the Civil Service and other employment'.

Date:

5/1948

Cabinet:

s 7452C

File:

Post Office Workers: Pay, Hours and Conditions of Work

Type:

memorandum

Keywords:

employment

Record 14542 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Memorandum from the Department of the Taoiseach to the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, 3 June 1948, regarding the remuneration of postal staff. The full-time officers of departmental classes whose wages did not exceed £350 per annum were offered the following increases, '11s a week in the case of men and by 5s 6d in the case of women and juveniles'.

Date:

3/6/1948

Cabinet:

s 7452C

File:

Post Office Workers: Pay, Hours and Conditions of Work

Type:

memorandum

Keywords:

employment

Record 14543 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Independent', 1 June 1948, in relation to pay increases for civil servants, 'All officials and workers whose total income does not exceed £350 per annum will be given 11/- per week in the case of men and 5/6 in the case of women and juveniles'.

Date:

1/6/1948

Cabinet:

s 7452C

File:

Post Office Workers: Pay, Hours and Conditions of Work

Type:

newsclipping

Published:

Irish Independent

Keywords:

employment

Record 14544 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Press', 5 June 1948, entitled 'What Civil Servants are to get Award?' The article deals with the decision to award pay increases to certain civil servants, 'an increase of 11/- a week to male civil servants receiving up to £350 and 5/6 to female civil servants and juveniles'. The Post Office Workers' Union requests information as to whether the increase applies to the Service as a whole.

Date:

5/6/1948

Cabinet:

s 7452C

File:

Post Office Workers: Pay, Hours and Conditions of Work

Type:

newsclipping

Published:

Irish Press

Keywords:

employment

Record 14545 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Report of the Civil Service Arbitration Board, 5 February 1951. The report outlines the terms of reference of the Board whose parties include representatives from the Post Office Workers' Union and the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs. The report lists the grades within the postal service whose wages are under consideration, for example, 'Post Office Clerks, Grade A, male and female; Telephonists; Female Stores Assistants and Warehousewomen'. The current rates of pay are discussed at length. The Board awards an increase in the pay of several grades and these are given in tables at the end of the document.

Date:

5/2/1951

Cabinet:

s 7452C

File:

Post Office Workers: Pay, Hours and Conditions of Work

Type:

report

Keywords:

employment

Record 14546 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Superannuation Bill, 1936. The Bill contains, amongst others, the following sections: British civil services; reckoning of established civil service in certain cases of ill health; supperannuation position of Quit Rent Office Staff and the application of the Superannuation Acts to certain services. A table lists the name, address and husband of each woman receiving compensation
'Nora Bulfin (nee Brick), Derrinlough House, Birr, County Offaly, Eamonn Bulfin; Margaret Mary (Madge) Comer (nee Clifford), Fairy Hill, Rathdowney, Leix, John Joseph Comer'.

Date:

1936

Cabinet:

s 7740

File:

Superannuation Bill, 1936

Type:

Bill

Keywords:

employment

Record 14547 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Letter from JJ McElligott to the Secretary, Department of the President, 9 May 1935, in relation to the Budget. The letter includes a list of savings in the estimates of expenditure for 1935, for example, 'Widows and orphans pensions, £100,000'.

Date:

9/5/1935

Cabinet:

s 7757

File:

Finance Act, 1935

Type:

letter

Keywords:

finance

Record 14548 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Letter from D Fitzgerald, Minister for External Affairs, to the Secretary to the Executive Council, 28 August 1925, recommending the immediate dismissal of two members of staff at the Department of External Affairs, 'I am satisfied from reading certain captured documents that Miss Ethna O'Byrne and Mr Carty have for a long period been acting treacherously, giving information to State enemies, removing newspaper cuttings etc from the office'.

Date:

28/8/1925

Cabinet:

s 8076

File:

Mr James Carty, Personal File

Type:

letter

Keywords:

anti-state activities

Record 14549 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Copy letter to the Secretary, Department of External Affairs, unsigned, 1 September 1925, stating that Miss Ethna O'Byrne and Mr James Carty have been dismissed from the Department of External Affairs.

Date:

1/9/1925

Cabinet:

s 8076

File:

Mr James Carty, Personal File

Type:

letter

Keywords:

anti-state activities

Record 14550 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Copy letter to the Private Secretary to the Minister for Justice, unsigned, 26 September 1925, listing State employees implicated by documents captured from the Irregulars. The letter gives the action taken in each case, for example, 'Miss Ethna O'Byrne, Department of External Affairs, dismissed 28 August 1925'.

Date:

26/9/1925

Cabinet:

s 8076

File:

Mr James Carty, Personal File

Type:

letter

Keywords:

anti-state activities