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Public Dance Halls Act 1935

The Public Dance Halls Act 1935 was enacted by the Irish Government in 1935. Almost from the date of its introduction it has been believed to have been a significant factor in the decline in the practice of traditional music in rural Ireland.

Below, you will find some background information as well as historical information regarding the Act.

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Background

The Public Dance Halls Act was enacted by the Irish Government in 1935. Almost from the date of its introduction it has been believed to have been a significant factor in the decline in the practice of traditional music in rural Ireland, particularly the decline in the house dances and crossroads dances. It was believed that the Act prohibited these activities, and that it was enacted specifically to discourage them.
Writing in Dal gCais in 1977, Junior Crehan said:

The way of life at Markham's Cross and the country house dance was rooted in our traditions and culture. But this way of life was ended in the mid-30s by a number of events; and while it is hard to say that it would have continued in the same way for much longer it is safe to say that its end was quickened by those who, for different reasons, wanted to put an end to it.
In 1932 the Economic War began. Times were very bad and money was scarce, and because most farm produce could not be sold the small farmer was badly hit. The year old calf was sold for ten shillings and I remember one widow who was forced to sell six of them for three pounds because the rent and rates had to be paid. She had no other income and the Widow's pension had not yet been introduced. To help each other out people started running card tournaments where everything and anything was put on the board: turkeys, geese, pigs, calves and cows. At each tournament there were thirty or forty teams of three or four people, and while the tournament was going on there would be a dance and a fine supper or grinders and red jam. The fee for all this was a shilling for men and sixpence for women. These tournaments could go on until three or four in the morning, three or four nights a week. It was all in a good cause.
But in 1934 both Church and Government dealt a severe blow to country life. For a long time the Church had been against the country-house dance. They put forward many reasons for their attitude. They claimed that the house dances were places of mis-conduct, that there were no proper sanitary conditions and they seemed to be fearing greatly for our morals. The Government thought that some of the money collected at these dance-tournaments was going to illegal organisations. Both Government and Church seemed to think that the country people were making fortunes out of the dance-tournaments; but in fact the most that was ever made at one of these was four or five pounds which were badly needed.
In 1934 [sic] the Dance Hall Act was passed. The Act banned the house dances and anybody holding such a dance after this was brought to Court and fined. The clergy started to build the parochial halls to which all were expected to go and the Government collected 25% of the ticket-tax. In these halls modern dance bands played a different type of music for a different style of dancing - Foxtrot, One-Step and Shimmy-shake. But country people found it hard to adjust and to them the dance halls were not natural places of enjoyment; they were not places for traditional music, story-telling and dancing; they were unsuitable for passing on traditional arts. The Dance Hall Act had closed our schools of tradition and left us a poorer people. In addition to this, in the 40's, the rate of emigration increased rapidly. The youth saw nothing in their own country but poverty, and Government and Church collected their Dance-Hall dues from a falling population. The countryside was once more going through that terrible silence which it had suffered after the Famine, the silence of a departing people and a dying of music and song. These were indeed the black Forties.
As a musician I played at many house dances and there was nothing there but innocent fun with fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters present. Nor was there anything wrong with our morals in those days, something I could not say about today. All in all, a fine job was made of our morals, customs and culture and the country house was finished.
. . . . . . .
The Dance Hall Act had put an end to the customs of the country house and its traditions were being forgotten. In addition to all this there was a widespread lack of interest in Irish music, especially among townspeople, and those who thought themselves fashionable and wanted to get on in the world. They considered Irish music not quite respectable and thought it better to have it replaced by the modern music then popular in the dance-halls. They did not seem to realise the value of what was being lost. All in all it was a lonely time for anyone interested in the music and all that it meant. There was a silence everywhere and Markham's Cross of a Sunday was a deserted place with only memories of the music and dancing that had at one time filled it. It was this loneliness that I felt most of all; there was no one to swap tunes with, very few to talk about music, and the flag floors were silent. In corners, in attics, and on shelves, fiddles and flutes lay gathering spiders and cobwebs. There was no heart to play and I remember finding it a struggle to take down the fiddle and play a few tunes to oblige a neighbour. There seemed to be no point in it; the music was slipping away in spite of us.

In 1982 Breandán Breathnach wrote, also in Dal gCais, :

The clamour grew but it had become obvious that exhortations and condemnations from palace, pulpit and press were proving ineffectual and demands began to be made for state intervention. This the state did when it enacted the Public Dance Halls Act 1936 [sic] which required all public dances to be licensed and laid down the conditions under which licences might be issued by the District Justices.
Intentionally or otherwise, country house dancing was not excluded from the scope of the Act and after its passing raffles, soirees and such were treated as illegal activities. That it extended to parties in private houses when dancing took place is unlikely but that is beside the point. The local clergy and gardaí acted as if it did and by their harassment they put an end to this kind of dancing in those areas of rural Ireland where it still survived.
. . . . . . .
It is accepted that the Public Dance Hall Act was enacted in response to pressure on the Government by some members of the Catholic Hierarchy. Although almost fifty years have passed since its enactment the matter is not yet considered dessicated enough for handling by the public. The Dept. of Justice refuses access to the the relevant file on the specious grounds that it is not its practice to allow researchers access to departmental records apart from material which has been transferred to the Public Records Office.

Junior Crehan's criticisms have been echoed by others down the years. Breandán Breathnach's comments are more considered. He is certainly correct in stating that clerical pressure was the major influence in having the act passed. It is perhaps illustrative of the cast of mind of the time that the Dance Halls Act was dealt with by Government in tandem with the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1935, which dealt with prostitution and sexual offences. Breathnach obviously believed that the file, when finally released, would contain material which would confirm his belief that it was enacted due to clerical intervention. This is not the case, however. There is nothing whatever in the file to indicate any religious input whatever into its framing or enactment. Perhaps it was naive to expect that there would be.
The newspapers of the time are full of letters calling for something to be done about the perceived problem, many of them from members of the clergy. Perhaps the Diocesan libraries are the place to search for the real story.
In a different respect Breathnach's understanding of the act is absolutely correct. The house dances and crossroads dances were not the target of the legislation. This point was explicitly raised and was answered by the Attorney General (see documents PDHA 218 PDHA 219 PDHA 220 PDHA 221 PDHA 222 PDHA 223a PDHA 223b PDHA 223c, as follows:

I am of opinion that the dances referred to are not held in contravention of the Act because they are not held in a place as defined in that act.

Nevertheless, the clergy and gardaí continued to apply the act as if it did outlaw these activities, and although they were not the only factors in the demise of the country dances, they were at any rate the only agents of change who consciously and deliberately set out to do away with this part of our traditions. The Act was not to blame, but its agents, encouraged and assisted by the clergy, certainly were.

Government Documents, Public Dance Halls Act 1935

Below, you will find the complete Public Dance Halls Act 1935. For the most part the papers reproduced here are drafts, memos, covering notes and all the usual trivia of inter-departmental correspondence. There is material from local Garda stations and from Solicitors seeking clarification of aspects of the Act; documents dealing with the exemption of the Defence Forces from its application, etc. For those interested in traditional music the six documents cited above are the most significant. For a pen picture of a country dance in Banteer in 1941 see PDHA 166a PDHA 166a

These papers below are reproduced with the permission of the Irish National Archives. Copyright remains with the Archive and anyone wishing to reproduce them elsewhere or use them in any other way should contact the Archive at http://www.nationalarchives.ie.

The papers constitute file number 8/21 in the Archive's system, and comprise 270 individual sheets, including copies and multi-page documents. They are presented here in the order in which they lie on the departmental file.

In this site each document has been assigned an individual reference number from "PDHA001" to "PDHA227". The different sheets of a multi-sheet document are shown as "PDHA999a", "PDHA999b" etc. Copies are named as "PDHA999copy". There are no documents numbered 171, 172 or 173. The absence of these numbers in the series is due to a scanning error.

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TERRY MOYLAN

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Ref	Date	From	To	Content	A	B	C	D	E	F
PDHA001				Cover sheet	001
PDHA002	19/02/1935	Roinn an Uachtaráin	Minister for Justice		002
PDHA003	31/01/1935	Minister for Justice	T. Dillon-Leech & Sons		003
PDHA004	26/01/1935	T. Dillon-Leech & Sons	Department of Justice		004
PDHA005	21/01/1935	Minister for Justice	Ruttledge & Corr		005
PDHA006	18/01/1935	Ruttledge & Corr	Department of Justice		006
PDHA007	11/01/1935	Minister for Justice	James Wren		007
PDHA008	09/01/1935	Minister for Industry & Commerce	James Wren		008
PDHA009	08/01/1935	James Wren			009
PDHA010	03/01/1935		John W. Buggy		010
PDHA011	02/01/1935	Michael Buggy & Co.	Ministry for Justice		011
PDHA012	02/01/1935	Minister for Justice	Circuit Court Office		012
PDHA013	28/12/1934	Circuit Court Office	Department of Justice		013
PDHA014	20/12/1934			Public Dance Halls Bill, 1934	014
PDHA015		Senator Comyn		Draft amendment	015
PDHA016				Draft amendment	016
PDHA017	13/12/1934	T. Dillon-Leech & Sons	Department of Justice		017
PDHA018	14/11/1934	Minister for Justice	T. Dillon-Leech & Sons		018
PDHA019	10/11/1934	Department of Local Government and Public Health	Department of Justice		019
PDHA020	05/11/1934	T. Dillon-Leech & Sons	Department of Local Government and Public Health		020a	020b
PDHA021	08/11/1934	Minister for Justice	John T. Hannon		021
PDHA022	06/11/1934	John T. Hannon	Department of Justice		022
PDHA023	01/11/1934	Minister for Justice	Lughaidh Breathnach, District Justice		023
PDHA024	28/10/1934	Lughaidh Breathnach, District Justice	Minister for Justice		024
PDHA025		Lughaidh Breathnach, District Justice		Observations on the Draft Public Dance Halls' Bill 1934	025a	025b
PDHA026	04/10/1934	Minister for Justice	C.W. Ashe & Co.		026
PDHA027	24/09/1934	C.W. Ashe & Co.	Minister for Justice		027
PDHA028	23/08/1934	Minister for Justice	Michael Purcell & Son		028
PDHA029	21/08/1934	Michael Purcell & Son	Minister for Justice		029
PDHA030	02/08/1934	Minister for Justice	Parliamentary draftsman		030
PDHA031	30/07/1934	Minister for Justice	Clerk of the Dáil		031
PDHA032	28/07/1934	Parliamentary draftsman's office	Department of Justice		032
PDHA033	28/07/1934	Parliamentary draftsman's office		Draft amendment	033	033copy
PDHA034	09/07/1934	Minister for Justice	Clerk of the Dáil		034
PDHA035	02/07/1934	Minister for Justice	Galway Town Clerk		035
PDHA036	04/07/1934	Parliamentary draftsman's office	Department of Justice		036
PDHA037	04/07/1934	Parliamentary draftsman's office		Draft amendment	037	037copy
PDHA038	02/07/1934	Minister for Justice	Parliamentary draftsman		038
PDHA039	26/06/1934	Galway Urban District Council	Minister for Justice		039
PDHA040				Public Dance Halls Bill, 1934	040a	040b	040c	040d	040e	040f
PDHA041	19/06/1934	Minister for Justice	Clerk of the Dáil		041
PDHA042				"Licence Forms"	042
PDHA043	27/05/1950	P.S. � Donnghaile, Chief Examiner	District Court Clerk, Ballina		043
PDHA044	25/05/1950	The Attorney General	Department of Justice		044
PDHA045		The Attorney General	Department of Justice		045a	045b
PDHA046	22/05/1950	Minister for Justice	The Attorney General		046
PDHA047	18/05/1950	P.S. � Donnghaile, Chief Examiner	Mr O'Reilly		047
PDHA048	15/05/1950	Martin J. Hegarty	Department of Justice		048a	048b
PDHA049	28/11/1949	Patrick J. Rooney	Martin J. Hegarty		049a	049b
PDHA050	18/12/1946	P.S. � Donnghaile, Chief Examiner	Acting District Court Clerk, Ennis		050
PDHA051	16/12/1946		Chief Examiner, D.C.C.'s branch		051
PDHA052	18/10/1946	District Court Clerk, Ennis	Chief Examiner, D.C.C.'s branch		052
PDHA053	07/12/1945	Justice Dermot, F. Gleeson	S.A. Roche		053
PDHA054	03/12/1945	The Attorney General	Department of Justice		054
PDHA055	28/11/1945	P.P. O'Donoghue	The Attorney General		055
PDHA056	26/11/1945	Minister for Justice	P.P. O'Donoghue		056
PDHA057	22/11/1945	P.S. � Donnghaile, Chief Examiner	Mr Powell		057
PDHA058	19/11/1945		P.S. � Donnghaile, Chief Examiner		058
PDHA059	17/10/1945	Dermot F. Gleeson	S.A. Roche		059
PDHA060	19/11/1945		P.S. � Donnghaile, Chief Examiner		060
PDHA061	17/10/1945	Dermot F. Gleeson	S.A. Roche		061
PDHA062	12/02/1941	Trim Circuit Court	Department of Justice		062
PDHA063	11/02/1941	Minister for Justice	Trim Circuit Court		063
PDHA064	24/01/1941	Trim Circuit Court	Department of Justice		064
PDHA065	07/01/1940		Mr O'Reilly		065
PDHA066	03/01/1941	Trim Circuit Court	Department of Justice		066
PDHA067	29/11/1940	Drogheda District Court	Trim Circuit Court		067
PDHA068	13/12/1940	Trim Circuit Court	Drogheda District Court		068
PDHA069	30/11/1940	Drogheda District Court	Trim Circuit Court		069
PDHA070		District Court of Justice		Conviction or Order (Appeal Cases)	070
PDHA071				Schedule	071
PDHA072	04/11/1940	Duleek District Court		Public Dancing Licence	072
PDHA073	11/10/1938	T. Cleary			073
PDHA074				Draft of Public Dancing Licence	074
PDHA075	01/10/1938		Mr O'Reilly		075
PDHA076		District Court of Justice		Draft of Public Dancing Licence	076
PDHA077		District Court of Justice		Draft of Public Dancing Licence	077a	077b
PDHA078		M.J. Hannan, DJ		Note of minute	078
PDHA079		S.G. Rutherford		Licence for Public Dancing in Roman Café Dunlaoghaire	079
PDHA080				Licence for Public Dancing	080
PDHA081				Public Dancing Licence	081
PDHA082	20/07/1935	P.J. S., Chief Examiner	Wood Printing Works		082
PDHA083				Public Dancing Licence	083
PDHA084				Licence for Public Dancing	084
PDHA085				Licence for Public Dancing	085
PDHA086	07/06/1935	P.P. O'D.	The Attorney General		086
PDHA087	06/06/1935	Minister for Justice	The Attorney General		087
PDHA088				Public Dancing Licence	088a	088b
PDHA089	01/06/1935	P.J. Sweeney, Chief Examiner	Mr Duff		089
PDHA090	01/05/1935		P.J. Sweeney, Chief Examiner		090
PDHA091	25/05/1935	P.J. Sweeney, Chief Examiner	Mr Duff		091a	091b	091c
PDHA092				Public Dancing Licence	092a	092b
PDHA093				Licence for Public Dancing	093
PDHA094	20/05/1935	Lughaidh Breathnach			094
PDHA095				"Correspondence relating to the "Local Authority" to which notice of application is to be given"	095
PDHA096	07/10/1937	S.A. Roche	Diarmuid Ua Gliossain		096
PDHA097	04/10/1937	Diarmuid Ua Gliossain	Department of Justice		097a	097b	097c
PDHA098	09/09/1936	Department of Local Government and Public Health	Department of Justice		098
PDHA099				Extract from the minutes of the North Cork Board of Health	099
PDHA100	15/11/1935	Department of Local Government and Public Health	Department of Justice		100
PDHA101				Extract from the minutes of the North Cork Board of Health	101
PDHA102	13/11/1935	Minister for Justice	West Cork Board of Health		102
PDHA103	08/11/1935	West Cork Board of Health	Department of Justice		103
PDHA104				Extract from the minutes of the West Cork Board of Health	104
PDHA105	07/11/1935	Minister for Justice	North Cork Board of Health		105
PDHA106	31/10/1935	Department of Local Government and Public Health	Department of Justice		106
PDHA107	05/09/1935	Department of Local Government and Public Health	S.A. Roche		107
PDHA108	28/08/1935	Department of Local Government and Public Health	Department of Justice		108
PDHA109	28/08/1935	Department of Local Government and Public Health	West Cork Board of Health		109
PDHA110	08/08/1935	West Cork Board of Health	Department of Local Government and Public Health		110
PDHA111	27/08/1935	Department of Justice	Department of Local Government and Public Health		111
PDHA112	22/08/1935	Department of Local Government and Public Health	Department of Justice		112
PDHA113	12/08/1935	Minister for Justice	Department of Local Government and Public Health		113
PDHA114	07/08/1935	Michael Tynan & Co	Minister for Justice		114
PDHA115	31/07/1935	Minister for Justice	Department of Local Government and Public Health		115
PDHA116	26/07/1935	Cathal Flynn	Minister for Justice		116
PDHA117				"Halls under the Authority of the Minister for Defence & Commissioner Garda Siochána - Section 15"	117
PDHA118	29/01/1943	Minister for Justice	Department of Defence		118
PDHA119	26/08/1938	Minister for Justice	Private Secretary to the Taoiseach		119
PDHA120	20/08/1938	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Minister for Justice		120
PDHA121	18/08/1938	Minister for Justice	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		121
PDHA122	15/08/1938	Private Secretary to the Taoiseach	Minister for Justice		122
PDHA123	20/07/1938	Archbishop of Tuam	Private Secretary to the Taoiseach		123
PDHA124	29/11/1935	Minister for Justice	Department of Defence		124
PDHA125	19/11/1935	Department of Defence	Minister for Justice		125
PDHA126	21/10/1935			Defence Force Regulations	126a	126b
PDHA127	21/10/1935			Defence Force Regulations	127	127b
PDHA128	18/09/1935			Cutting from the Derry Journal	128
PDHA129	01/08/1935	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Minister for Justice		129
PDHA130		Garda Siochána, Letterkenny		Market Hall at Moville used by Sluagh committee	130
PDHA131	07/10/1935	Derry Journal			131a	131b
PDHA132	02/10/1935	The Attorney General	Mr Duff		132
PDHA133	02/10/1935	P.P. O'D.	The Attorney General		133a	133b
PDHA134	01/10/1935	P.P. O'D.	The Attorney General		134
PDHA135	01/10/1935	J.E. Duff	The Attorney General		135
PDHA136	01/10/1935	J.E. Duff	Department of Defence		136
PDHA137	26/09/1935	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Minister for Justice		137
PDHA138	18/09/1935	Garda Siochána, Letterkenny			138
PDHA139	17/09/1935	Superintendant's Office, Buncrana	Garda Siochána, Letterkenny		139a	139b
PDHA140	04/09/1935	Department of Defence	Minister for Justice		140
PDHA141	19/08/1935	Minister for Justice	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		141
PDHA142	17/08/1935	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Minister for Justice		142
PDHA143	14/08/1935	Chief Superintendant's Office, Monaghan			143
PDHA144	13/07/1935	Department of Defence	Minister for Justice		144
PDHA145	19/06/1935	Minister for Justice	Lughaidh Breathnach, District Justice		145
PDHA146	19/06/1935	Minister for Justice	Department of Defence		146
PDHA147	15/06/1935	Lughaidh Breathnach, District Justice	Minister for Justice		147a	147b	147c
PDHA148	01/06/1935	Minister for Justice	Lughaidh Breathnach, District Justice		148
PDHA149				"Question of imposing conditions on licences limiting the numbers of persons who may be committed to Dance Halls"	149
PDHA150	16/02/1942	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Minister for Justice		150
PDHA151	11/02/1942	Superintendant's Office, Kanturk			151
PDHA152	11/12/1941	Minister for Justice	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		152
PDHA153	08/12/1941	Department of Local Government and Public Health	Minister for Justice		153
PDHA154	27/11/1941	J.E. Duff	Department of Local Government and Public Health		154a	154b
PDHA155	24/11/1941	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Minister for Justice		155
PDHA156	20/11/1941	Superintendant's Office, Kanturk			156	156copy
PDHA157	04/11/1941	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Minister for Justice		157	157copy
PDHA158	16/06/1941	Superintendant's Office, Kanturk			158	158copy
PDHA159	28/10/1941	North Cork Board of Health	Superintendant's Office, Kanturk		159
PDHA160	28/10/1941	Cork County Council	Superintendant's Office, Kanturk		160
PDHA161	28/10/1941	Superintendant's Office, Kanturk	Cork County Council		161
PDHA162	22/09/1941	Cork County Council	Superintendant's Office, Kanturk		162
PDHA163	20/09/1941	Superintendant's Office, Kanturk	Cork County Council		163
PDHA164	01/11/1941	Minister for Justice	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		164
PDHA165	30/10/1941	The Revenue Commissioners	Minister for Justice		165
PDHA166	30/10/1941	Customs & Excise, Mallow		Report re difficulties in securing payment of Entertainments Duty at Banteer Dance Hall	166a	166b
PDHA167	21/10/1941	Minister for Justice	The Revenue Commissioners		167
PDHA168	16/10/1941	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Minister for Justice		168	168copy
PDHA169	06/10/1941	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Minister for Justice		169
PDHA170	01/10/1941	Superintendant's Office, Kanturk			170	170copy
PDHA174				Rules Governing Conduct of Dance Halls applied for at Kanturk District Court	174
PDHA175	27/09/1941	Superintendant's Office, Kanturk	Daniel Casey, State Solicitor		175a	175b
PDHA176				"Irish Dance Classes"	176
PDHA177	04/03/1940	Department of Justice	Costigan		177
PDHA178	26/02/1940	Briain � hUidhir	Domhnall � Ruairc T.D.		178a	178b
PDHA179	23/02/1940	Minister for Justice	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		179
PDHA180	22/02/1940	Department of Justice			180
PDHA181				" "Licence" & "Occupier" - Sections 5 & 11 "	181
PDHA182	07/08/1935	Minister for Justice	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		182
PDHA183	29/07/1935	Department of Local Government and Public Health	Minister for Justice		183
PDHA184	25/07/1935	Department of Local Government and Public Health	W.J. Fegan & Co.		184
PDHA185	25/07/1935	Department of Local Government and Public Health	G.V. Maloney LLB		185
PDHA186	19/08/1935	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Minister for Justice		186
PDHA187	13/08/1935	Garda Siochána, Store Street			187
PDHA188	31/07/1935	Minister for Justice	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		188
PDHA189	29/07/1935	The Attorney General	Department of Justice		189
PDHA190	29/07/1935	The Attorney General	Ancient Order of Hibernians		190
PDHA191	26/07/1935	P.P. O'D.	The Attorney General		191
PDHA192	23/07/1935	Ancient Order of Hibernians	The Attorney General		192
PDHA193	11/07/1935	Minister for Justice	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		193
PDHA194	11/07/1935	Minister for Justice	Department of Local Government and Public Health		194
PDHA195	08/07/1935	The Attorney General	Department of Justice		195
PDHA196	03/07/1935	Chief State Solicitor	The Attorney General		196a	196b
PDHA197	22/06/1935	Chief State Solicitor	The Attorney General		197
PDHA198	01/07/1935	Chief State Solicitor	Department of Justice		198
PDHA199	25/06/1935	J. Geoghegan	Chief State Solicitor		199a	199b
PDHA200	19/06/1935	Chief State Solicitor	The Attorney General		200
PDHA201	21/06/1935	Minister for Justice	Chief State Solicitor		201a	201b
PDHA202	18/06/1935	Department of Justice	Chief State Solicitor		202
PDHA203	15/06/1935	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Department of Justice		203a	203b	203c
PDHA204	04/06/1935	Department of Local Government and Public Health	Department of Justice		204
PDHA205	21/05/1935	M. Killeen & Co.	Department of Justice		205
PDHA206	31/05/1935	Minister for Justice	Co. Galway Board of Health		206
PDHA207	30/05/1935	Department of Local Government and Public Health	Department of Justice		207
PDHA208	27/05/1935	Co. Galway Board of Health	Department of Local Government and Public Health		208
PDHA209				" "At Home" held by clubx & Cross Road Dances"	209
PDHA210	08/06/1939	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Department of Justice		210
PDHA211	03/06/1939	Superintendant's Office, Adare			211a	211b
PDHA212	05/11/1939				212	212copy
PDHA213	03/06/1939	Superintendant's Office, Adare			213a	213b
PDHA214	24/05/1939	Minister for Justice	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		214
PDHA215	22/05/1939	Donnchadh � Briain	Minister for Justice		215a	215b
PDHA216	18/05/1935	Thomas Guerin	Donnchadh � Briain		216a	216b
PDHA217	28/03/1936	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Minister for Justice		217
PDHA218	26/03/1936	Minister for Justice	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		218
PDHA219	26/03/1936	Minister for Justice	James P. Maher		219
PDHA220	24/03/1936	The Attorney General	J.E. Duff		220
PDHA221	14/03/1936	P.P. O'D.	The Attorney General		221
PDHA222	13/03/1936	J.E. Duff	The Attorney General		222
PDHA223	10/03/1936	James P. Maher	Department of Justice		223a	223b	223c
PDHA224	27/08/1936	Minister for Justice	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		224
PDHA225	23/08/1935	Minister for Justice	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		225
PDHA226		Commissioner of the Garda Siochána	Minister for Justice		226
PDHA227		Superintendant's Office, Donnybrook	Commissioner of the Garda Siochána		227

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