Material in this file includes letter from Mary Robinson (MR) to Mr Brown, Clerk to the Trustee, Leinster House, enquiring if pension scheme of Oireachtas members operates in favour of widower in same way as it does for widow (22/02/1977); letter from Jerusha McCormack, member of Academic staff committee, UCD [University College Dublin] 02/01/1978 re pensions scheme in UCD; correspondence between MR as Senator and Office of Minister of Public Service, Houses of the Oireachtas (Members) Pensions Fund, Minister for Finance and The Public Service, Richie Ryan, TD [Teachta Dála; member of Irish parliament] 03/03/1977-12/01/1978; correspondence with Office of Minister for Tourism and Transport 25/01/1978; photocopy of 1946 Industrial Relations Act Labour Court Provisional rules; Council of Europe reply from Committee of Ministers to written question from Mr Peridier re pension scheme for Council of Europe staff 16/02/1978; drafts of application to Equality Officer under Anti-Discrimination Pay Act 1974, parties Senator MR, Mr Nicholas Robinson (NR) and the Minister for the Public Service, mid 1978; copy of audited accounts of the trustees (Houses of the Oireachtas (members) Pensions Fund), Y/E 31/12/1977; memo from NR to MR 16/11/1978; copy of judgement in Labour Court of UCD v Irish Federation of University Teachers (Anti-Discrimination (Pay) Act 1974), 11/09/1979; typed copy of submission of Department to Equality Officer re provision of widowers' pensions in the Houses of the Oireachtas (members) scheme, n.d.; correspondence with Equality Officer, Labour Court 30/03/1978-17/10/1978; handwritten notes; copy of judgement in Labour Court of Unidare Ltd and The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union 08/12/1978; text of presentation at appeal to Labour Court, ITGWU [Irish Transport and General Workers Union] representing MR, 21/03/1979; typed copies of Equality Officer's recommendation, 21/03/1979; research material including other case in UK; copy of judgement in Labour Court of Dept of the Public Service and Senator Mrs Mary Robinson, represented by ITGWU, 7/5/1979; correspondence with EEA [Equality Employment Agency] 01/10/1979; typed copies of address “Sex Discrimination in Pension schemes”, by Senator MR to Irish Association of Pension Funds, Dublin 10/12/1979; typed article/address by John Dunne "Anti-Discrimination - Pension Schemes", 10/12/1979; cuttings 20/12/1978-12/5/1979.
Material in this file includes letter from Office of Chairman of Seand Éireann to Senator Mary Robinson (MR) re request to raise the amendment of the Members' contributory pension scheme following Labour Court determination on 07/05/1979, which they said was unsuitable for discussion on the grounds it would involve amending legislation, 06/02/1980; correspondence with Office of the Minister of State and the Department of the Public Service 15/05/1980; correspondence with Maura Minogue, employed as local authority engineer with Cork Corporation, re her pension rights 18-24/09/1980; typed draft "The Impact on Irish Women of EEC [European Economic Community] Equality Legislation", Eithne Fitzgerald, May 1980; typed project outline involving six people including MR each to submit chapters on "Impact on Irish Women of EEC Equality Legislation: Actual and Potential", [Jan?] 1980; typed outline of proposed chapter on Labour Market "Impact of EEC on Equality for Women in Ireland" 06/1980; typed draft "The Impact of EEC membership on Women's Participation in Vocational Training" [1980?]; circular from Government Chief Whip to Government deputies on schedule for 8th - 10th Nov 1983, 03/11/1980; circular with date of next Seanad Éireann [upper house of Irish parliament] meeting 03/11/1980 from clerk of Seanad Éireann; Dáil Éireann [lower house of Irish parliament] official report Parliamentary Debates 03/11/1983; Seanad Éireann official report Parliamentary Debates 09/11/1983; Second reading speech by Minister for the Public Service in Seanad Éireann "Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices (Amendment) Bill, 1983", commending the bill to the House; copy of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices (Amendment) Bill, 1983; copy of amendment to above bill, to insert "or widowers" proposed/put forward by Senators Mary Robinson, Catherine McGuinness and Katherine Bulbulia, committee stage, 09/11/1983; Seanad Éireann order paper 09/11/1983; correspondence with Minister for State, Nuala Fennell, 10/11/1983; letter from Office of the Minister of Health announcing the formal approval of the extension to women of the existing widows and children's schemes for pensionable staff in certain hospitals and homes , 31/05/1984.
Material in this file includes typed copy of judgement in Labour Court of Anti-Discrimination (Pay) Act, 1974 Equality Officer's Recommendation, Parties: Department of Education and the Employment Equality Agency (case of Joseph Candon following death of his spouse, primary school teacher Mary Candon), 30/08/1984; typed copy of Labour Court determination of Anti-Discrimination (Pay) Act, 1974 Parties: Department of Education and the Employment Equality Agency (EEA) represented by Mary Robinson as Senior Counsel, appeal by EEA of Equality Officer's recommendation in same case 13/5/1987.
Material in this folder consists mainly of research material, photocopies of press articles, minutes of meetings between Dublin Corporation, the National Museum and the consultant architects for the proposed project, and correspondence. It includes correspondence between Dublin Civic Group and Dublin Corporation 15/01/1968; correspondence between Dept of Local Government and Dublin City and County Manager, City Hall 31/07/1972; copy of judgement delivered in similar case Tormey v Commissioners for Public Works, 21/12/1972; correspondence between Richard Haworth, Archaeologist, The National Institute for Physical Planning and Construction Research, and H Byrne, Principal Officer, Development Section, Dublin Corporation 28/02/1974- 07/05/1974; report of public meeting, Mansion House, Dublin, 12/03/1974 relating to Archaeological Investigation in Dublin and Wood Quay; minutes of meetings of Dublin City Council, Dublin Corporation and between representatives of Dublin Corporation, the National Museum and the Consultant Architects, Stephenson, Gibney and Associates 13/03/1974-01/07/1975; correspondence between The National Museum and the Consultant Architects 09/04/1974; correspondence between H Byrne, Principal Officer, and others, Development Section, Dublin Corporation and the Consultant Architects 07/05/1974-13/03/1975; copy of letter from Senator MR to Professor Otway-Ruthven following his verbal expression of worry, and including letter from several professors to the Irish times, 26/09/1974; correspondence between The National Museum and Dublin Corporation 10/3/1975-30/07/1976; photocopy of telegram from Irish Association of Professional Archaeologists' AGM requesting mechanical work on site be suspended, 23/04/1975, and correspondence from them 30/04/1975; letter between secretary, Department of Education and Dublin City Council 10/07/1975; report to Assistant City Manager from Assistant Development Officer, Development Department, Dublin Corporation, 20/01/1976
Archivist's Note: some of this material was possibly photocopied at a later stage as part of briefs for counsel in the late 1970s but has since been separated. It is presented here based on date of creation of the original record, not when the copy was made
Save Wood Quay Campaign 1977
[Archivist's Note: some of this material was possibly photocopied at a later stage as part of briefs for counsel in the late 1970s but has since been separated. It is presented here based on date of creation of the original record, not when the copy was made.]
Material in this folder consists mainly of court documents, handwritten notes of Nicholas Robinson (NR) and draft affidavits. It includes letter from NR, solicitor, to John Paul & Co Ltd [construction company] informing them that Justice Costello, High Court had granted an injunction restraining defendants from demolishing, destroying etc. on contested site until 30th November 1977; draft plenary summons "The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dublin, Stephenson & Associates and John Paul and Company, Defendants", 28/11/1977; draft and typed affidavits for Francis X Martin, George Eogan [lecturer in archaeology UCD], and Consuelo O'Connor, [Deputy Chairman of An Taisce, the National Trust of Ireland], 28/11/1977; notice of motion for FX Martin to apply for a restraining order on 30 November 1977, 28/11/1977; draft and typed copies of Justice Costello's order, following FXM's motion, that defendant's be restrained from further work until 06/01/1978; handwritten notes (NR's) including a statement of claim, early Dec 1977; bound documents labelled "1977 No. 5919P The High Court Between The Attorney General at the relation of Francis X Martin, Plaintiff, and The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dublin, Stephenson & Associates and John Paul and Company, Defendants, Documents Relating to the Supreme Court Appeal Against Injunction, Nicholas Robinson & company, Solicitors...", 12/1977.
Material in this folder consists of correspondence and minutes relating to the case and includes correspondence between An Taisce [The National Trust of Ireland] and JB Molloy, City Manager, City Hall, Dublin 03/08/1977; minutes of meetings between representatives of Dublin Corporation, "Friends of Mediaeval Dublin" including FX Martin (FXM) and the Consultant Architects, Stephenson, Gibney and Associates 11/08/1977; letter from Michael J O'Kelly, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork to Dr Joseph Raftery, Director of The National Museum, 01/09/1977; letter from Principal Officer [Dublin Corporation, Development Section?] to the Secretary, Department of Education, relating to extent and nature of archaeological excavations, 08/09/1977; letter from Dr Michael Herrity, lecturer in Celtic Archaeology, UCD to Councillor Michael Collins, Lord Mayor of Dublin 13/09/1977 and response to it from Deputy City Manager to the Lord Mayor 20/09/1977; press release from Herrity "The Wood Quay Problem: an archaeologist's View" 09/1977; copy of letter from FXM as chairman of "Friends of Medieval Dublin" to Public Works Commissioners HQ, Dublin requesting that first Viking fortification at Wood Quay be designated a National Monument, 27/09/1977; letter from Dr Joseph Raftery to JB Molloy, 06/10/1977 and P.J. Molloy, City Manager 12/12/1977; minutes of special meeting of Dublin City Council, 10/10/1977; letter from Minister for the Environment [Sylvester Barrett] to Senator Trevor West, re representations about site and Corporation's proposed development, 13/10/1977; minutes of meetings between representatives of Dublin Corporation, the National Museum, John Paul and Company Limited [builders?] and the Consultant Architects, Stephenson, Gibney and Associates, 26/10/1977; letter from Michael J McCarthy, President of the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) to Jack Lynch, Taoiseach, along with an address to the IHF's AGM by Dermot Walsh, Donegal Branch of the IHF 16-18/11/1977; letter from the consultant architects to Dublin Corporation 28/11/1977; correspondence from the consultant architects and The National Museum 01-16/12/1977 and letter from City Manager to SS McCarthaigh, Chairman, Commissioners of Public Works, 19/12/1977.
Copies of report by Dr Frank Roche, Director of Colin McIver Associates Limited, "Exploratory Study of the Tourism Potential of Wood Quay", submitted to Irish Hotels Federation 12/1977; "Dublin's Wood Quay", a Civic Heritage Publication, Nuala Burke, Ph.D., signed by Nick Robinson, 20/11/1977; pull out map "Dublin c840-c1540, The Years of Mediaeval growth", prepared by the Friends of Mediaeval Dublin and printed by the Ordnance Survey 1977.
Folder labelled “Privileged documents - correspondence with solicitors relating to the action and misc. documents such as copy pleadings already known to defendants". Material includes copies of some of the material in P143/1/2/9/2/1-2; correspondence between the consultant architects Stephenson Associates, and Father FX Martin (FXM), 20/07/1978; photocopy of list of documents sent to counsel; copies of affidavits of FXM, Consuelo O'Connor, George Eogan, George Hegarty, Kevin B Nowlan, George Francis Mitchell, Peter Harbison, Joseph Raftery, Michael Joseph O'Kelly, Cornelius N Sheehan, Kevin Byrne, Ruaidhri de Valera 28/11-12/12/1977; correspondence between Principal Officer, Dublin Corporation and Director of National Museum of Ireland 30/06/1976-07/09/1977; correspondence between Director of the National Museum and the City Manager 07/09/1977-12/12/1977; correspondence between Principal Officer, Dublin Corporation and the Secretary, Office of Public Works (OPW), National Parks and Monuments Branch 08/09/1977; copy of circular from Deputy City Manager to members of Dublin City Council 30/08/1977; copy of statement of claim 13/12/1977 (delivered by Nicholas Robinson); letter from consultant architects Stephenson Associates to George Hegarty, Dublin Corporation, Development Section, 12/12/1977
Save Wood Quay Campaign 1978
[Archivist's Note: photocopies of some reports and correspondence are duplicated across this subsubsubseries as they were being used for research purposes, as part of briefs for counsel and/or as exhibits in court.]