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Letter from Dorothy Tulridy to Sean Lemass undated, requesting that Lemass autograph two pictures for President Kennedy's sisters, Miss Jean Smith and Mrs Eunice Shriver.

John F Kennedy President of USA

Irish/Americans

Letter from Mary Smilley, New York, USA, to Mr. O'Dowd, thanking him for forwarding requested copies of the 'Irish Press' and the 'Evening Press'. Also informs him that the only fault she finds with the Irish nation is partition and entreats the Irish people to mobilise and fight for their own soil.

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Letter

Letter from Pauline Roland (Mrs Harold Roland Shapiro) to Sean Lemass, enclosing a copy of the Irish ballad 'Son of Killarney' which herself and her husband wrote with Morton Downey and thanking him for the reception accorded to JF Kennedy.

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Letter

Anonymous letter to the Taoiseach, dated 5 December 1963, requesting that the Taoiseach ensures that married women with no children receive 'fair play when wills are made'. She insists that legislation should protect the wife in the case of a husband making a will but leaving nothing to the wife.

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Letter

Resolution passed by Dáil Éireann at its meeting, 6 November 1963, that legislation should be passed ensuring that a person may not dispose by will of his property without making provision for a dependent wife and/or children.

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Resolution

Memorandum for the Government from the Office of the Minister for Justice regarding the Administration of Estates and Wills. Contains a submission by the Minister of a general scheme of a Bill to provide for the amendment and consolidation of the law relating to the devolution and administration of property on death ; the distribution of property on intestacy; wills and the legal rights of the surviving spouses and children of the deceased person. In reference to spouses, the Minister proposes that the Acts relating to wills should be repealed and replaced by modern legislative code incorporating a system of family provision which will prevent a testator from disinheriting or making insufficient provision for his dependants. 'The special position of the family as a moral institution forming the necessary basis of social order, as recognised in the Constitution, demands that a man's obligations to maintain his wife and children during his life should extend also ... to their maintenance after [his] death.' Detailed consideration of this is contained in remainder of memorandum.

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Memorandum

Memorandum from the Minister for Justice for the Committee of Government regarding the Administration of Estates and Wills. Discusses the 'legal rights' of the surviving spouse and surviving children.

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Memorandum

Department of Local Government Local Inquiry into the administration by Dublin Corporation of the law respecting unfit dwellings and dangerous structures in relation to buildings which collapsed involving loss of life in Bolton Street and Fenian Street, Dublin. Inquiry held at City Hall, Dublin, between 24 June to 5 July 1963. Miss Joan Ryan, Mrs Angela Doyle, Mrs Maura Ryan and Mrs Bridget Ryan were summoned as witnesses. The report contains an account of their evidence.

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Report

Letter from NS O'Nuallain to Miss Sheila Murphy, Assistant Secretary, Department of External Affairs, responding to a request from the Ambassador in London that the Taoiseach, Sean Lemass, attend the annual 'Ireland Week' held in London on 12 March 1964.

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Letter

Letter from R Gallopin, Executive Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross, to Mrs Leslie de Barra, Chairman of the Central Council, Irish Red Cross, Dublin, dated 21 June 1963. Letter informing Mrs de Barra of the creation of new delegations abroad. Gallopin wishes to organise a meeting between Mrs de Barra and the committee's assistant director, Mr Claude Pilloud, to discuss the possible establishment of a delegation in Ireland.

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Letter