Chief
of Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Irish Republican Army and Free State Army: correspondence
files, operational memoranda, brigade and intelligence reports, orders and directives
(1921–4); captured Irregular documents (1922–4). Acting
Minister and Minister for National Defence in the First and Second Dáil,
the Provisional Government and Executive Council (1919–24): minutes and reports
of the Conference on Ireland, London (1921); minutes of the Provisional Government
(January–September 1922) and Executive Council (February 1923–March
1924); proceedings and reports of the Army Enquiry Committee (1924); reports and
memoranda from government departments for meetings of the Executive Council (1922–4). Minister
for Local Government and Public Health (1927–32): departmental reports and
memoranda, and minutes of the Executive Council. Proceedings
of the Defence Conference and correspondence concerning aspects of government
and defence policy during the Emergency (1939–45). Minister
for Education in the First Inter-Party Government (1948–51): departmental
reports and memoranda on education policy and issues. Cumann
Na nGaedheal and Fine Gael Parties: executive and party political material; transcripts
of speeches (1922–50). Research notes, transcripts
of tape-recorded conversations, and printed matter concerning the period 1914–24
and the need for re-evaluation; extensive notes on the text of Piaras Béaslaí’s
Michael Collins; outline and draft chapters of an autobiography. Military and
political pamphlets. Notes and printed matter relating to the Irish language. | 
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