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Brief for the Taoiseach on the Sinn Fein Funds Bill, 1947, 9 March 1947. This details the history of the funds and developments in the matter of how the funds should be disposed of. For example, the appointment of Mr Eamonn Duggan and Mrs Jennie Wyse Power as Honorary Treasurers of the Sinn Fein Organisation on 27 October 1921 are detailed.

s 12110B

Brief

Sinn Fein Funds Bill, 1947, as introduced, ordered by DáilÉireann to be printed on 11 March 1947. Amongst those who may be entitled to payment from the funds are those who were members of Cumann na mBan from 1 April 1916-11 July 1921.

s 12110B

Bill

Letter to de Valera from Aine Bean E Ceannt, 18 March 1947. She writes in connection with the proposed disposal of the Sinn Fein funds that there is one class of persons that has been forgotten, the old Sinn Feiners. She writes in the hope that before the Bill becomes law some clause could be introduced to allow such persons to benefit. She details cases of such men who are in need.

s 12110C

Letter

Copy letter to Aine Bean E Ceannt, 20 March 1947, acknowledging her letter to the Taoiseach.

s 12110C

Letter

Newsclipping from the `Irish Press', being a letter to the editor entitled `Sinn Fein Funds' by Kathleen Clarke. As a member of the executive of Sinn Fein she ventures to make a suggestion. She is one of the Trustees of the Wolfe Tone Memorial Fund. The money they have is not sufficient to erect a `fitting Memorial to so great a man'. She suggests that some of the Sinn Fein money be transferred to the fund.

s 12110C

Kathleen Clarke

Irish Press

Newsclipping from the `Irish Press', 17 April 1947, stating that a further application was made to the President of the High Court, Dublin, yesterday on behalf of Mrs Margaret Buckley and other members of Sinn Fein to have a date fixed for the hearing of their action against the Attorney General and Circuit Court Judge, Charles Power, claiming funds worth £27,000 on behalf of the organisation.

s 12110C

Newsclipping

politics

Extract from the `Irish Independent', 20 November 1925, `Sinn Fein Funds. Ard Fheis Decision'. The Sinn Fein Ard Fheis `appointed a committee to examine the proposal to hand over certain pre-Treaty funds of the organisation to the Gaelic League'. The extract states that `Mrs Sheehy Skeffington said she would like to know the names of the Executive of the Gaelic League. She would hesitate about giving over the funds without the strictest conditions. The Gaelic League ought to protest against Irish organisers and teachers being victimised for refusing to take the political test'.

s 12110C

Extract

politics; Irish language

Letter from Mrs Winifred Burke, Crumlin, Dublin, to the Secretary, Department of Finance, no date [the Department stamp indicates that it was received on 12 May 1947], asking to be sent the necessary forms to apply for a grant under the recently passed Sinn Fein Bill.

s 12110C

Letter

Letter to Mrs Winifred Burke from NS O Nuallain, Department of the Taoiseach, 15 May 1947. She is informed that the Sinn Fein funds Bill, 1947, has not yet become law and accordingly the Board under which the Sinn Fein Funds will be administered has not yet been appointed. `If and when the Board referred to is duly established, it will, no doubt, advertise for applications from "qualified persons" as defined in the Act, and, if you have a claim which you desire to be considered, I am to suggest that you should at that stage communicate with the Board'.

s 12110C

Letter

Newsclipping from the `Irish Press', 11 June 1947, `"Constitutional Issue Involved". Court Refuses to Dismiss Sinn Fein Funds Case'. This details the refusal by the Court to dismiss the action taken by Mrs Margaret Buckley, Sinn Fein, against the Attorney General and Judge Wyse Power relating to the Sinn Fein funds. Details of why this decision was taken by the Court are given.

s 12110C

Newsclipping

politics