File 16 - Save Wood Quay Campaign 1979 Part 16

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Material in this file includes handwritten notes, circulars to members of the Dublin City Council (DCC), 19/06/1979, directing the city manager to rescind consent of Dublin Corporation (part of joint consent of 29/08/1978), and rescinding decision to have Dublin Civic offices built on Wood Quay site; photocopy of typed memo on Section 4 Motion for City Council, 2 July 1979; photocopy of letter from F.J. Feely, Deputy City Manager to Lord Mayor, Aldermen and members of DCC 02/07/979; summons to Lord Mayor, Aldermen and members of DCC to monthly meetings (02/07/1979, 13/08/1979, 03/09/1979) and special meetings (09/07/1979, 17/07/1979) by Feely; circular from Muriel Allison and Michael O'Brien, secretary and press officer for Wood Quay Action Group calling on TDs and local councils to press the government to allow Dublin Corporation to move the Civic Offices off Wood Quay; letter from majority of Aldermen and councillors and signed by them, including Mary Robinson (MR) to J McCarthy, chairman of the Commission of Public Works in Ireland, expressing "grave concern about the number of serious complaints alleging breaches of the terms of the joint Consent which have been received by us and which have also been communicated to the Acting City Manager, Mr Feely", 11/07/1979; photocopy of typed letter to MR both as Senator and member of DCC from Professor Frank Mitchell, Trinity College Dublin, asking she take immediate action to see flagrant breaches are stopped, 13/07/1979, which she then attached to letter to Feely 19/07/1979; letter from Assistant City Manager [Feely?] to MR enclosing copy of Consent to enable National Museum of Ireland to recommence archaeological excavation, 20/07/1979; press release issued by FX Martin (FXM) in relation to being sued by Dublin Corporation for £200,000, 23/07/1979; copy of typed letter from Tánaiste and Minister for Finance, George Colley to Allison and O'Brien in response to their letter, stating Government won't and can't intervene, 31/07/1979; draft request from signed members of DCC that a resolution to direct the City Manager "to use his best endeavours to obtain from Mr Colley... a guarantee of financial support of such nature as to enable this City Council to give effect to Colley's suggestion and save the national monument..." be considered at next ordinary meeting of DCC; official minutes of a Special meeting of DCC, 20/08/1979; handwritten list of dates for consultations between MR as Barrister and FXM, and visits to Wood Quay site 1977-9; opinion[?] of Damian McGarry, n.d.; correspondence (personnel) between FXM and the Robinsons, 08/1979; draft motion to be tabled at DCC meeting 13/08/1979; photocopy of newspaper article in German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17/08/1979 with translation ("The Viking Town in Dublin turns into a Political Issue") and cover note to MR from Anngret [Simms]; copy of letter to councillors from Muriel Allison, 30/08/1979; typed replies to questions posed by Councillor Michael O'Halloran, Alderman Ben Briscoe, Councillor Mary D Flaherty, and Alderman Sean Loftus [aka Seán D. Dublin Bay-Rockall Loftus], meeting of the DCC, 03/09/1979; report of Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, on the conservation of the “European architectural heritage (1)" 13/09/1979; photocopy of letter from Nicholas Robinson, solicitor for FXM, to William Dundon, Law Agent, Dublin Corporation in relation to whether FXM gave an undertaking to the court, [relates to damages and the Attorney General's liability], 27/09/1979.

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