Macroom Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/115
3 Jul 1920 Series of resolutions passed, one refusing ‘to tolerate the canvassing of its members’, and another ‘that the resolution passed after Easter Week be read to the guardians with the names of the proposer and seconder and the other members present’ (‘the resolution referred to was produced and burned by the chairman’). 17 Jul 1920 Series of resolutions, one stating that members missing three consecutive meetings without satisfactory explanation ‘shall be deemed to have tendered their resignations’, and others requiring that union stationery be in Irish, that advertisements be bilingual, that no official be appointed without a good knowledge of Irish, that officials under 40 acquire such a knowledge ‘as soon as possible’, and that Irish - speaking members ‘pledge ourselves to speak in Irish on suitable occasions’, while non - Irish speakers ‘pledge themselves to do their best to learn Irish’. Visiting committee report, including reference to the lighting of the house, noting that in the week to 20 Dec 1919, use was 12lbs candles (at 9s) and 16 pints oil (at 3s 10d). Clerk draws attention to the condition of the boardroom, noting ‘books are stored in the lavatory for want of library accommoda tion’. Letter drawing the board’s attention ‘to the incompetency of your midwife nurse for the Ballingeary district, through whose bungling action, I attribute the death of my child’. 14 Aug 1920 Letter, ‘we the undersigned Dail Eireann justices called in the services of Dr W Riordan to commit a patient to the Cork Lunatic Asylum, and we recommend payment of his fee’. Paid. Letter from the late master regarding charges made by the female searcher. Resolution, ‘while reluctant to take any action which might be considered suggestive of coercion’, calling for a cessation of trade with ‘tainted areas’ in Belfast, until ‘all the employees who have been driven from their employment because of their religion and political beliefs, have been unconditionally reinsta ted’. Resolution asking the proprietors of the Cork Examiner why they did not publish the board’s resolution ‘calling on all men between the ages of 17 and 40 to join the Republican Army’. 28 Aug 1920 Resolution of adjournment, in response to ‘the inhuman treatment meted out to Alderman Terence McSweeney, Lord Mayor of Cork, and representative of this constituency in Dail Eireann’. 25 Sep 1920 Clerk reports that the Local Government Auditor attended on 13 Sep and accounts were not submitted to him. Representatives appointed to [Dail Eireann] Conciliation Board. Inserted, printed form of ‘General tender for Workhouse Supplies’. Resolution refusing ‘to recognise the authority of the English Local Government Board’. Gap
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