File 13 - Save Wood Quay Campaign 1979 Part 13

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Material relating to Dublin City Council's engagement with the Wood Quay controversy in June/July 1979, including the new council (post-election) directing the City Manager to enquire about breaches "by the contractors of the terms of the Consent of 29th August 1978" following alleged disturbance and damage on site. Material includes copy of statement by FX Martin (FXM) re Corporation bulldozing a portion of the National Monument 07/03/1979; minutes of Dublin City Council 09/04/1979, 04&07/05/1979, 17/07/1979 and abstract of the "more Important Managerial Orders Made During the" April and May; handwritten notes of Mary Robinson (MR); copy of document on Labour Party's proposal for Wood Quay and the proposal that the Labour Group within the council would move to have it examined by the City Manager (1978?); correspondence to councillors from public re the Wood Quay site; circulars to each member of council from Dublin City Manager and Town Clerk; correspondence from Principal Officer, Dublin Corporation to MR as councillor; copy of judgement of the Supreme Court delivered 21/06/1979 by Justice O'Higgins; letter from FXM to MR stating a bulldozer had begun to cut in to an unexcavated section without a supervisor from National Museum of Ireland (NMI) present, and querying whether it was a deliberate provocation 25/06/1979; statement by MR as senator re objects handed over to NMI which were thrown up by the unsupervised excavation 25/06/1979; translation of extract from article in German Newspaper/Magazine Die Zeit 29/06/1979, Gerhard Prause; article on the 20 day occupation of the Wood Quay site from the point of view of occupiers, which later appeared in a newsletter and which gave the reasoning for the need for occupation of the site, known as “Operation Sitric”; 3 x B&W photographs which were exhibits X, Y and Z referred to in the affidavit of Leo Swan, 17/06/1979 showing a before and after of the section bulldozed; letter to Nicholas Robinson from [BJE?] which includes a slide of the "Sleeping Viking" statue in Elsinore, Denmark which he suggested FXM might like to use, 21/06/1979; copy of telegram to Dublin City Council from Stockholm University appealing to new council to honour European Viking heritage at Wood Quay; circular from Local Government And Public Services Union to Dublin Corporation Branch urging them to support the building of the Civic Offices at Wood Quay 02/07/1979; questions from MR (as Councillor ) to Acting City Manager for written reply 02/07/1979; copies of memo on Section 4 Motion for City Council and supporting documentation relating to motion tabled by the Labour Party, 02/07/1979; copies of correspondence and other material which was produced in the Council chamber; motions of City Council 02/09 July 1979.

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