Jim MacSweeney photographed this scene in Killarney on Aug 10 2014

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 Knockanure communion 1960

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Puck Time again






2014 King Puck is brought in    (photo Eaxminer)

Killorglin during Puck Fair in a National Library photo

More old photos of Puck Fair HERE

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Market Street, Listowel shops, then and now



Metamorphosis from Kerry Krafts to Slimming Island


Blue Note to Risin Sun

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Summer in Ballybunion


This stunning photograph of Ballybunion was taken by Hartney Photographics

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More interesting compensation claims.




Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/219

Date

Jan 1923-Dec 1926

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One ladies bicycle commandeered at Callanafersey by armed
Irregular forces on 15 April 1923.

Extent

1 file

Title

Roger Harty, Causeway, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/221

Date

Dec 1922-Dec 1926

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Police barracks damaged by fire at Causeway by unknown persons
on 28 November 1922.

Extent

1 file

Title

Major John McGillycuddy, Flesk Castle, Killarney, County
Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/232

Date

Dec 1922-Dec 1926

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional
Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to
have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were
‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1
April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Mattresses and bedding commandeered from the claimant’s
seaside residence at Ballingown, County Kerry, by IRA [Irish Republican Army]
on 19 August 1921.

Extent

1 file

Title

Maurice Lawlor, farmer, Ballymacquin, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/241

Date

Dec 1922-Feb 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Damage to fences and turnip crops at Ballymacquin by unknown
persons between 1 October and 30 November 1922.

Extent

1 file

Title

John Henry Daly, Lixnaw, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/249

Date

Jan 1923-Feb 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation
(from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the
annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government
agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil
Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Boxes of butter seized while in transit to Fenit, County
Kerry, at Ardfert, County Kerry, by armed men on 5 October 1922; butter
seized at Churchill, Tralee, County Kerry, by armed men on 21 October 1922.

Extent

1 file

Title

Maurice P Ryle, Strand Street, Tralee, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/258

Date

Dec 1922-[?1926]

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous
administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the
administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the
Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Printing works ‘The Kerry People’ raided and machinery damaged
at Barrack Place, Tralee, by Irregular forces on 31 August 1922; file states
that government proclamations and propaganda had been printed here.

Extent

1 file

Title

John Mooney, civil engineer, The Square, Tralee, County
Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/260

Date

Dec 1922-Feb 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Three hundred Ordnance Survey maps commandeered at Tralee by
Irregular forces on 21 July 1922.

Title

Matthew Hannon, merchant, William Street, Listowel, County
Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/266

Date

Jan 1923-Feb 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Dwelling house damaged at Convent Street, Listowel, when
occupied by Irregular forces during an attack on the Free State barracks on
30 June 1922 and subsequently sold at an undervalued price; goods
commandeered at Listowel by Irregular forces on 25 July 1922.

Extent

1 file

Title

Arthur V Gentleman and Robert G Gentleman, farmers,
Ballyhorgan, Lixnaw, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/285

Date

Jan 1923-Feb 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Gates taken, fences destroyed and land damaged at Mountcoal,
County Kerry, and Ballyhorgan, County Kerry, on various dates in the year
1922; file states that this was done by landless men attempting to seize the
land and were taking advantage of the state of the country in 1922

Title

Paul Sweetnam, Kerry land Steward, Feale View, Listowel,
County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/287

Date

Jan 1923-[?1926]

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the Department
of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation
(from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the
annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government
agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil
Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also
trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Wholesale looting and destruction of a farm including
buildings and machinery at Kilmorna, County Kerry, on various dates in 1922;
file states that Kilmorna House, the residence of Madame de Janasz was
occupied by her brother Sir Arthur Vicars; he was shot by the IRA [Irish
Republican Army] in April 1921 and Kilmorna House burnt to the ground; the
steward, George Cunningham eventually had to leave and the farm became subject
to wholesale destruction.

Extent

1 file

Title

Cecil Rowland Leslie, Tarbert House, Tarbert, County
Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/288

Date

Jan 1923-Feb 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Garden produce, milk, a motor car and other goods commandeered
at Tarbert by Irregular forces on various dates in the months August and
September 1922 while Irregular forces were in occupation of Tarbert.

Extent

1 file

Title

Thomas F Cronin, merchant, William Street, Listowel, County
Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/289

Date

Jan 1923-[?1926]

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous
administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the
administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the
Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

A quantity of tobacco forcibly taken while in transit from
Ballylongford, County Kerry, to Listowel at Dereenawack, Ballylongford,
County Kerry, by 3 armed men on 11 September 1922.

Title

Elizabeth and Marshall Hill, Hillsboro, Listowel, County
Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/290

Date

Jan 1923-Feb 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Damage to lands, dwelling house and livestock at Hillsboro,
Listowel, on various dates in 1922; file states that the claimant was a
sub-agent for the earl of Listowel and was accused of using his position to
acquire lands thus violent action was used to try and get back these lands by
former owners; the claimant, his family and workmen were vigorously
boycotted.

Extent

1 file

Title

Matthew J Byrne, Listowel, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/293

Date

Jan 1923-[?1926]

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance
[or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace
part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Ballylongford Barracks burned down at Ballylongford by
Irregular forces on 4 August 1922 in advance of the entry of National troops.

Extent

1 file

Title

John O’Connor, shopkeeper, Tarbert, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/294

Date

Jan 1923-Feb 1927

Creator

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Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional
Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to
have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were
‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1
April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Damage to dwelling house, premises and goods within from
gunfire at Tarbert due to it being occupied by Irregular forces during an
attack on the Free State barracks located opposite on 10 September 1922.

Extent

1 file

Title

Maria Daly, The Courthouse, Listowel, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/297

Date

Jan 1923-Feb 1927

Creator

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Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous
administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the
administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the
Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Personal and household effects destroyed by fire at The
Courthouse, Listowel, started by Irregular forces to stop it falling into
Free State hands on 4 August 1922; file states the claimant was caretaker of
the courthouse and resided there with her family.

Extent

1 file

Title

Margaret Hannon, William Street, Listowel, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/296

Date

Jan 1923-Mar 1927

Creator

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Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Dining room premises damaged by bomb explosion during fighting
between Irregular forces and National troops at William Street, Listowel, on
22 August 1922; Irregular forces billeted on the premises on various dates
from April to August 1922.

Extent

1 file

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