Letter from Joseph MacDonagh to Louise Gavan Duffy regarding subscriptions for the Irish National Aid Association Letters 1916-1923 Joseph MacDonagh

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Joseph MacDonagh suggests means for raising money for the Irish National Aid; he advocates asking the central council of the G.A.A. to adopt a tax scheme in favour of the Irish National Aid.

 National Library of Ireland MS 24,376 /1; Collection List 131 https://letters1916.ie/item/2386 English Joseph MacDonagh 1916-06-02 Friar St., Thurles Susan Duffy 10 Exchequer Street Male Industry and Public Administration Industry and Public Administration

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 Friar St. Thurles. 2.6.1916. Dear Miss Gavan Duffy, Seeing that you are one of the secretaries of the Irish National Aid Association, I am taking the liberty of writing to you. I shall be most happy to do any thing I can to help the association. Owing to my employment in the Excise I am not at liberty to openly canvass for subscriptions; but any clerical work or collecting among my friends I shall be very ready to undertake. If you will send me fifty weekly subscription books, I think I shall be able to "place" all or most of them. I regard the weekly subscription idea as the most likely to bring in the necessary money, & it will also do good from a national point of view. There is a suggestion I would like to make which may not have been put forward already. It is unlikely that the Gaelic Athletic Association will have to contribute any thing to the Entertainments Tax. If that is so, I think it would be an easy matter to get the Central Council of the G.A.A. to adopt the tax scheme in favour of your Aid Association. This is how the thing is worked for the Revenue In the large central offices such as Dublin & Limerick there are rolls of tickets of 1000 each for sale. The proprietors of theatres ste pay 1000 pennies for each roll (where the tax is 1d) & sell each ticket for 7d. Of course there are other rolls of 2d tickets for admission tickets exceeding 6.d. This scheme could easily be adapted to suit your Ass'n. You could buy have the tickets manufactured & the various county committees of the G.A.A. by order of the Central Council would have to buy them from you, paying 1d. or 2d for each ticket (1d. not exceeding 6d. & 2d. otherwise). You could afford to give the paper free & still make a lot of money. A very poor year would amount to at least £1200. The time is rife now I think for a simultaneous collection some Sunday all over Ireland with an annual collection on every St. Patrick's Day in the future. Reverting to the G.A.A. idea, I know some of the leading G.A.A. officials. I often heard my brother (Thomas) speaking of you. My second brother who managed the Irish Theatre for Ed. Martyn is a present in Knutsford. He is unmarried. My brother's widow & children come down here tomorrow to stay with me for a time. Your's sincerely, Joseph MacDonagh Miss L. Gavan Duffy, 10 Exchequer St. Joseph MacDonagh Letter from Joseph MacDonagh to Mary MacDonagh, 4 May 1916Letter from Joseph MacDonagh to his sister Mary MacDonagh, 7 May 1916Letter from Joseph MacDonagh to Louise Gavan Duffy regarding subscriptions for the Irish National Aid Association 10 Exchequer Street Letter from Joseph MacDonagh to Louise Gavan Duffy regarding subscriptions for the Irish National Aid Association Friar St., Thurles Letter from Joseph MacDonagh to Louise Gavan Duffy regarding subscriptions for the Irish National Aid Association