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Match 1 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
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Newsclipping from the `Irish Press', 22 March 1937, `Disposal of Sinn Fein Funds', being a letter to the editor by Siobhan Bean an Phaoraigh [Jennie Wyse Power]. She writes to correct the statement made in Miss Macardle's `Irish Republic' on page 671 which reads: `de Valera enquired in the Dáilwhat use would be made of the funds of the Sinn Fein organisation. Michael Collins suggested that these funds should remain in trust, and that de Valera should be the sole trustee. This was agreed to'. She also questions the statement on page 861 which reads: `Sinn Fein held no convention since May 1922 … There was no doubt that the majority of its members were against the Treaty. Its treasurers, however, supported the Treaty and rather than hand over the funds of the organisation to de Valera, the sole trustee, lodged them in the courts'. Siobhan Bean an Phaoraigh writes: `This question of the Sinn Fein funds could never have been discussed in the Dail, that body had no authority over these moneys. Their custody was voted to the treasurers of the organisation by the Ard Fheis of 1921. Following the acceptance of the Treaty, the Sinn Fein Standing Committee continued to meet weekly. … At one of its first meetings, Michael Collins moved, and I seconded, the proposal that the money be placed in the hands of Mr. de Valera. The motion was supported by Mr. Griffith and Eamonn Duggan and carried unanimously. To put this arrangement in force, a vote of the Ard Fheis was necessary. Accordingly Michael Collins gave notice of motion for the next meeting of that body, February, 1922. Unfortunately in the stress of work it had in hands, the motion was adjourned for three months, thereby losing an authority for the transfer of these funds. Miss Macardle is apparently unaware of my efforts for many years to bring about, through Mr de Valera and others, a settlement, whereby this money could be employed for national purposes. On behalf of the late Eamonn Duggan and myself, it remains for me to repudiate her suggestion, that as far as we both were in favour of the Treaty, we preferred to lodge the money in court rather than hand it over to the President'.

Date:

22/3/1937

Cabinet:

s 12110A

File:

Sinn Fein Funds, Disposal

Author:

Siobhan Bean an Phaoraigh

Type:

Newsclipping

Published:

Irish Press

Keywords:

politics

Match 2 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Newsclipping from the `Irish Press', 21 March 1937, `Sinn Fein Funds' being a letter to the editor by Liam Gilmore. He writes: `I have read Mrs. Wyse Power's letter … and feel as one long associated with the Sinn Fein organisation, that though her avowed object is to correct certain statements in Miss Macardle's book, `The Irish Republic,' her correction calls, itself, for correction and elucidation'. He writes, for example, `Mrs. Wyse Power writes rather loosely in stating that "this question of the Sinn Fein funds could never have been discussed in the Dail." It is common knowledge that the Dáildid more than once discuss the many substantial funds of the period, notably the Self-Determination Fund and the Anti-Conscription Funds. And her efforts for many years to have this money employed for national purposes, as she claims, would have been much more equitably employed in moving to have the money handed back to the Sinn Fein organisation to which it unquestionably belongs'.

Date:

31/3/1937

Cabinet:

s 12110A

File:

Sinn Fein Funds, Disposal

Author:

Liam Gilmore

Type:

Newsclipping

Published:

Irish Press

Keywords:

politics

Match 3 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
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Newsclipping from the `Irish Press', 2 June 1937, `Sinn Fein Funds' being a letter to the editor from Maighread Bean Ui Bhuachalla, President , Sinn Fein. She writes to counter claims by Miss Macardle in her book the `Irish Republic' that de Valera asked in the Dáilwhat use would be made of the Sinn Fein funds and that Collins suggested that they be put in trust with de Valera as trustee. As a member of Sinn Fein, Bean Ui Bhuachalla writes, de Valera never suggested that he was entitled to give away the funds for national purposes. `Why does not Miss Macardle suggest that Mr. de Valera should hand over the funds of the Fianna Fail organisation, of which he is President, to some outsiders "to be used for some national purpose approved of by all parties, such as the … revival of the language"'. She concludes the letter by stating: `Let Mrs Wyse-Power put this money back into the Bank to the credit of the Sinn Fein organisation, as it was when she removed it'.

Date:

2/6/1937

Cabinet:

s 12110A

File:

Sinn Fein Funds, Disposal

Author:

Maighread Bean Ui Bhuachalla

Type:

Newsclipping

Published:

Irish Press

Keywords:

politics

Match 4 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Letter to the editor of the `Irish Press', entitled `Sinn Fein Funds' by Siobhan Bean An Phaoraigh, 8 June 1937. She writes that her letter of the 19 March was written to correct an historical inaccuracy in Miss Macardle's book and that she has `no intention of entering into a newspaper controversy to justify my political actions at any time. Nevertheless, I am prepared to a answer Mrs Buckley's question as to why I lodged the Sinn Fein monies in court, as I realise that her connection with the national movement in 1922 was not such that she could know the facts of this matter. I lodged the money in self-defence as the only way of terminating the campaign of threats, violence and petrol raids to which I was subjected when I refused to hand the funds over to persons who had no title to them'.

Date:

8/6/1937

Cabinet:

s 12110A

File:

Sinn Fein Funds, Disposal

Author:

Siobhan Bean An Phaoraigh

Type:

Newsclipping

Published:

Irish Press

Keywords:

politics

Match 5 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Newsclipping from the `Irish Press', 12 June 1937, being a letter to the editor entitled `Sinn Fein Funds' by Maighread Bean Ui Bhuachalla. She writes that now that `ordered conditions prevail, what is to prevent Mrs. Wyse-Power from re-lodging the moneys in the Bank to the credit of the Sinn Fein Organisation (which alone is entitled to them) and so fulfil the terms of her trust?'. She continues: `While I agree that I was not in the privileged position of Mrs. Wyse-Power as a member of inner circle of the national movement in 1922, I, as Secretary of the Michael O Hanrachain Sinn Fein Cumann during the height of Black and Tan terror in 1920-21; as a District Judge in DáilÉireann Courts, and Trustee of the DáilCourt funds during the whole functioning period of the Courts, and as trusted hostess to much-wanted men, may claim to a connection with the Struggle as close as most civilians'.

Date:

12/6/1937

Cabinet:

s 12110A

File:

Sinn Fein Funds, Disposal

Author:

Maighread Bean Ui Bhuachalla

Type:

Newsclipping

Published:

Irish Press

Keywords:

politics; Anglo-Irish War

Match 6 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Copy letter to Siobhan Bean an Phaoraigh [Jenny Wyse Power] from PS O Muireadhaigh, 15 November 1938. In connection with her interview with the Taoiseach on 8 November he is sending her a copy of the list of officers and Committee of Sinn Fein, 1921-1922. The list includes female names, for example, Mrs Sheehy Skeffington and Aine Ni Cheannt were both members of the standing committee, while Jenny Wyse Power is listed as an Honorary Treasurer.

Date:

15/11/1938

Cabinet:

s 12110A

File:

Sinn Fein Funds, Disposal

Type:

Letter

Keywords:

politics

Match 7 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Letter to the Taoiseach from Charles Wyse Power, 25 June 1941. He writes that he saw Mrs Sheehy Skeffington and she is of the opinion that the funds [Sinn Fein] should be handed over to the `existing organisation called Sinn Fein. I told her that this was quite out of the question, pointing out that I was merely Executor of my mother who, as Trustee, had refused to hand the Trust Funds either to the Treaty or to the Anti-Treaty Party in 1923 on grounds that the monies had originally been subscribed by people who later found themselves in political disagreement and that no equitable division on a per capita basis was practicable'. He writes that once Mrs Skeffington accepted that this was the case she became `very helpful'. However, `she was most particular that nothing she might be called upon to do should be construed as in any way prejudicing her personal political views'. She promised to see Dr Lynn and Mrs Ceannt. He writes that the points `which I think weighed most heavily with Mrs. Skeffington were those which I urged most strongly viz: (1) that in these days of economic distress something should be done for those suffering as a result of their efforts in the National Cause and that the interest on these Political Funds should be used in that direction, and (2) that political difference should be sunk in making a start at doing something about these Funds in the life-time of the generation which subscribed them'.

Date:

25/6/1941

Cabinet:

s 12110A

File:

Sinn Fein Funds, Disposal

Type:

Letter

Keywords:

politics

Match 8 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Notes by Judge Wyse Power, no date [?1941] relating to interviews he held with various involved persons concerning the disposal of the Sinn Fein Funds. For example, on 28 July he saw Mrs Sheehy Skeffington again. 'In the interval she has seen Dr. Lynn. The latter agrees - with I gather some misgivings. Dr. Lynn raised the old point about handing over the Funds to the present Sinn Fein organisation, as did Mrs. Sheehy-Skeffington [sic] at my first interview with her. Mrs. Sheehy-Skeffington told her that in the circumstances this was quite out the question. Miss ffrench Mullen was present at this conversation, and in the end Dr. Lynn agreed. Mrs. Sheehy-Skeffington has arranged that I shall myself see Dr. Lynn and give her the assurance she requires that this is not a Government move, but originates entirely with me as Executor of my mother. I anticipate no difficulty from her'. Amongst the other persons he met was Mrs Aine Ceannt.

Date:

1941

Cabinet:

s 12110A

File:

Sinn Fein Funds, Disposal

Type:

Notes

Keywords:

politics

Match 9 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Letter to the Taoiseach from Judge Wyse Power, 8 August 1941. He writes that Dr Lynn has agreed to the `whole scheme [relating to the disposal of the Sinn Fein funds for national purposes]'. He continues: `I then told her that I had heard that she would have some objection to your being in the Chair at the proposed meeting, but that the idea of any one else being in the Chair was unthinkable. She said that, for various political reasons which she recapitulated, she would normally have such an objection, but that on balance the question of the release of the Funds for National purposes would outweigh her personal objections'.

Date:

8/8/1941

Cabinet:

s 12110A

File:

Sinn Fein Funds, Disposal

Type:

Letter

Keywords:

politics

Match 10 from 'Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database'
Description:

Letter to the Taoiseach from Judge Wyse Power, 4 September 1941. He attaches a scheme for the use of the Sinn Fein funds lodged in the name of the late Eamonn Duggan and Siobhan Bean an Phaoraigh, the Treasurers of the Sinn Fein organisation on 30 December 1921. The fund is to be dispersed by the Trustees amongst members of Oglaigh na hÉireann, the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Citizen Army, Fianna Éireann, the Hibernian Rifles and Cumann na mBan who gave service in the National Cause between 1 March 1916 and 31 December 1921.

Date:

4/9/1941

Cabinet:

s 12110A

File:

Sinn Fein Funds, Disposal

Type:

Letter

Keywords:

politics

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