JOURNAL OF THE IRISH LABOUR HISTORY SOCIETY

100 SAOTHAR 13Francis Devine, Hugh Geraghty, Norah O'Neill, Peter Rigney and Sarah Ward-Perkins.Sean Dtinne DepositSean Dunne: born Waterford 1919. Educated Mount Sion CBS. Joined Workers' Union oflreland1936; lead 'hunger marches' 1937. Interned 1939-40, 1941 returned toworkforWUI. 1944 Secretary,Agricultural Workers' Section, WUI and founding General Secretary, Federation of Rural Workers,1946. Contested 1947 County Dublin bye-election for Labour, Labour ID for County Dublin 1948,1951, 1954. Declared bankrupt and unseated from Dail, 1956. Worked in England for a number ofyears. Regained County Dublin seat as Independent Labour in 1961 after failing to get Partynomination. Re-elected as official Labour candidate 1965 and 1969 (for Dublin South West). Died1969.Vast majority of papers are dated 1961,1964-7: mainly correspondence with individual constituents,residents' associations, Labour Party Head Office and branches; local authorities and governmentdepartments; posters, pamphlets, circulars etc. re 1961,1965 General Elections; notes from canvassingand clinics.Enrolment card into 'Boys of Pear se ',c. 1929; correspondence between Patrick Desmond (Dunne' sstepfather), Gerry Boland, Minister for Justice, William Norton and Roddy Connolly for release ofDunne from internment, 1941; miscellaneous material 1948 General Election; correspondence withFinglas constituents, 1950-51; Labour Party Manifesto, 1951; speakers' notes and election leaflet,1954; legal document re bankruptcy, 1956; type-script by W. Norton, 'The Labour Party - Policy onParticipation in Government' , n.d.'Contacts' with notes of meetings of Rush, Clondalkin, Dundrum and Balgriffen Labour PartyBranches, 1961; membership lists Rush, Balbriggan Branches Labour Party, 1961; annotated electionlists and other details 1961 election; accounts and receipts, 1961 election; pamphlet, Sean Dunne' sPlanfor Ballyfermot, n.d.; typed document 'The Labour Party: the next five years', signed B. McC.,23 March, 1965; Labour Party leaflet attacking plans to abolish PR; Abbey Theatre, 1965, 1966; EquityCalling, Annual Report Irish Actors' Equity Association 1965-6; correspondence re play DawnChorus written by Dunne and broadcast by Teleffs Eireann, 1965; 'Contacts in County Dublin', n.d.but probably 1965.Tuairisc, newsletter of MuintirWolfe Tone, no. 5, Jan-Feb, 1966; typed document 'Memo on theOffences Against the State Act, 1939, 1940' signed Con Lehane, 15 February, 1966; ConfidentialReport by Barry Desmond, Secretary Labour Party Finance Committee to AC, 31 March, 1966;Kennedy Memorial Committee, 1966; Roger Casement Commemoration Committee, 1966; Anti­Apartheid Movement, 1966; pamphlet For Your Tomorrow, Athlone Labour Party, n.d.; explanatorymemo to Disabled Persons (Employment) Bill moved by Dunne; and various undated correspondence,personal papers and leaflets.In addition there are a large volume of official publications, commission reports and electoraldocumentation.Northern Ireland Labour PartyMinute Book of Potting er Branch, Nll.,P, 1 February, 1968 - 17 January, 1974. J.H. Barkley's fileof Executive Council and Policy Sub-Committee Minutes, 11 February, 1973 - 3 March, 1974 includingfinance and staff matters; policy drafts on Direct Rule; Relations with the Labour Party; Towards aNew Stormont; Role of the Nll.,P; Economic and Social Policy; and Education.The Socialist, Monthly Magazine of the NILP, three issues, no. 6 March/April, 1971 to no. 9, n.d.;Labour Challenge, The Voice of Labour in Northern Ireland, vol. 1 no. 7, Sept/Oct 1971; NILPNewsletter, January, 1974; Impact, Newtownabbey Labour Party, nos . .5-7, June-August, 1971;Workers' Weekly, BelfastBulletin of the British andIrish Communist Organisation, sixteen issues fromno. 15, 14 July, 1972 to no. 110,23 May, 1974; Workers' Association Bulletin, four issues from 24August, 1974 to 5 September, 1974; The Two Nations, Workers' Association Bulletin, four issues, no.