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`Summary of views on the disbursement of the Funds of the Sinn Fein Organisation'. For example, the Finance Officer in the Department of Defence `refers to a scheme drawn up in 1936 for the establishment of the National Veterans Benevolent Funds which provided for the assistance of destitute members or their dependants of the following Organisations: (a) Oglaigh na hÉireann (Irish Republican Army), (b) The Irish Volunteers, (c) The Irish Citizen Army, (d) Fianna Éireann, (e) The Hibernian Rifles, (f) Cumann na mBan, (g) the National Army, (h) The Defence Forces (including the Reserve)'. In the case of categories a-f the only members eligible were those who were members between 1 April 1922 and 30 September 1924. However, the Parliamentary Secretary `considers that it would be inadvisable to utilise the money as a benevolent fund owing to the tendency to develop jealousies, ill-feeling and disappointment'.

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Letter to MA Corrigan, Chief State Solicitor, from W Boyle Fawsitt, 19 November 1941. He refers to the Sinn Fein funds lodged by the late Mr Eamonn Duggan and the late Mrs Jennie Wyse Power in the High Court on 4 February 1924. He writes that he `has been instructed by the President and Council of the existing Sinn Fein Organisation to take the necessary legal steps to have the said funds and moneys transferred and paid out to Mr. Patrick Power and Miss C. McElroy, the Honorary Treasurers of the Organisation'.

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Letter

Summons in the case between Sinn Fein and the Attorney General of Eire and Charles Stewart Power, relating to the matter of the disposal of the Sinn Fein funds. Amongst those listed as members of Sinn Fein are Margaret Buckley and Mairead McElroy.

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Summons

Letter to the Taoiseach from Cathal Power, 24 January 1942, enclosing a copy of the 1924 correspondence between Jennie Wyse Power, S O Dalaigh, Secretary, Sinn Fein, and WP Corrigan, Solicitor, relating to the lodgement of the Sinn Fein funds in the High Court.

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Letter

Memorandum from Siobhan Bean an Phaoraigh [Jennie Wyse Power], November 1923, concerning the payment of salaries in relation to the closing of the Sinn Fein offices in July 1922. Details of monies paid are given together with information relating to the closing of the office.

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Memorandum

Copy of the minutes of the Standing Committee [of Sinn Fein?], 9 December 1921, signed by Eamon de Valera, 16 January 1922. For example, Mrs Aine Ceannt made a verbal report on Communications, stating that the `test despatch made up by the General Secretary was not sent out. The date would be changed and despatch forwarded during the coming week'. Amongst those present were Dr Kathleen Lynn, Siobhan Bean an Phaoraigh [Jennie Wyse Power], Aine Ceannt and Mrs Sheehy Skeffington.

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Minutes

Statement of the claim of Sinn Fein versus the Attorney General of Eire and Charles Stewart Power in the matter of the disposal of the Sinn Fein funds, 17 June 1942. The statement discusses the lodgement of the funds in the High Court by Jennie Wyse Power and Eamonn Duggan. Amongst the named plaintiffs are Margaret Buckley, President of Sinn Fein, and Mairead McElroy, Honorary Treasurer of the Organisation. The plaintiffs call for the money lodged by Jennie Wyse Power and Eamonn Duggan in the High Court to be transferred to the existing Sinn Fein organisation.

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Statement

Extract from `Sinn Fein', 20 October 1923, volume 1, number 26, being a report of the Ard Fheis held at the Mansion House. Dr Kathleen Lynn temporarily presided. Miss MacSwiney paid a tribute in Irish to de Valera and `spoke at length and in detail on the Treaty and the foundation of the Free State, and of the necessity of building a great Organisation which would stand unswervingly for the Republic, and through that they must educate those who had for a time gone astray and bring them back to their true allegiance'. The names of those appointed to the newly formed Standing Committee are given, for example, Dr K Lynn, Mrs Brugha and Mrs Ceannt. Miss MacSwiney and Miss Molony, amongst others, were co-opted onto the Committee at a later date.

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Extract

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Extract from `Sinn Fein', 14 August 1923, being an appeal by de Valera, President, Sinn Fein, for election funds. Subscriptions should be sent to Dr Con Murphy, Director of Elections or Mrs Cathal Brugha, Honorary Treasurer.

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Extract

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Extract from the `Freeman's Journal', 27 October 1922, giving the wording of a document issued for de Valera's headquarters and entitled `DáilÉireann, Official Communique'. The Council of State members are listed, for example, Mrs O Callaghan and Mary MacSwiney.

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Extract

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