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Leinster Provincial Council Minute Books, 1915 - 1981

Minute books contain the meeting minutes of the Leinster Council, subsidiary committees and the Annual Provincial Conventions.

The minute books include the reaction of the GAA to the Irish War of Independence and Civil War period including the organisation of ‘Gaelic Sunday’ throughout Leinster, the administration of the ban on members of the armed forces of Britain, the issue of members taking the oath of allegiance to the British Monarch etc; the purchase, maintenance and development of grounds and stadia (club, county and provincial grounds) throughout the Province; the administration of the various Accident Schemes throughout the Province; Leinster’s re-action to the 1938 removal of Dr Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland, as a Patron of the Association and the wider issue of the ban on ‘foreign games’; the GAA in Leinster during the Second World War (1939-1945); the acquisition of trophies; the relationship between the Leinster Council and the media; the relationship between the Leinster Council and the other Provincial Councils; the relationship between the Leinster Council and the various national schemes implemented by the Governing Body of the GAA (Central Council) including Central Council Grounds Board (Bord na bPáirc); the Commission on the Activities of the GAA; the Central Hurling etc and the reaction of the Leinster Council to the political trouble in the North of Ireland.