| Description | The original title of the Association was the Irish Association of Women Graduates and Candidate Graduates (IAWG and CG) with branches formed in Belfast, Londonderry, Cork and Galway. It was founded at a meeting in Dublin on 14 March 1902 and its main object was to secure for women the advantages of a University education in Ireland as they were being offered to men. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was one of the founders of the Association. The IAWG and CG was affiliated to the Federation of University Women (FUW), London in 1909. In 1914 the Association divided itself into three associations, one for each university, Dublin University, National University of Ireland, and Queen's University, Belfast. The three associations reformed again in 1925 to form the Irish federation of University Women. In the same year the Irish FUW was affiliated to the international FUW.
General administration and related activities 1902 to 1952.
The Robertson commission, letter and petitions, including some sent to the Commission, relating mainly to the request by the IAWG and CG for equal opportunities for women in the fields of education and medicine, includes statement from A O'Farrelly to the Commission requesting full advantages of University education such as teaching, prizes, degrees, to be open to females as to males. They reject the proposal that a separate college or lecture halls be provided for women as it would be treated as inferior due to insufficient finance and inability to afford the best staff, 1902 to 1910.
Typescript copy report and printed statement about the founding of the Central Federation of University Women. Items detail the resolutions of the meeting of delegates from the local Associations of University Women and from women's colleges at which it was decided to form the Federation. The names of those representatives present, resolutions adopted in relation to the formation, composition, qualifications for membership, constitution and committees, finances and work, are also outlined, 1909.
Objects, rules, annual report relating to membership, committee meetings, general meetings, scholarships offered, employment, reports of local associations and a statement of financial accounts relating to the central fund, fellowship fund, donations and subscriptions, 1909 to 1912.
Address book of the secretary of the UCD WGA. Entries arranged in alphabetical order, details include names and addresses of the members, their year of membership, names of life members and of those who have paid membership fees, 1931 to 1932.
Reports, letters and resolutions relating mainly to the voluntary closure of the Galway branch of the NUWGA, 1971 to 1972.
Annual reports, 1929 to 1976, with exceptions, from 1939 appeared in typescript format.
Financial administration 1939 to 1976, includes summary income and expenditure, treasurers' reports and account books, receipt books, treasurers' correspondence, 1943 to 1947.
Activities of the Association includes items on politics and the 1937 Constitution. Photograph album containing press cuttings, circulars and statements concerning the opposition to the draft constitution., cuttings taken from the 'Irish Times', 'Observer', 'Irish Independent', 'Irish Press', 'Evening Herald', 'Kilkenny Post', includes material regarding special meetings to be held and letters from the NUWGA to the Executive Council and press articles asking to vote against the Constitution, includes press cuttings about the formation of the Women's Social and Political League, formed to promote the political, social and economic status of women, November 1937.
Relief work includes letters for relief provided to German students, March 1949, Hungarian refugees, March to April 1957 |
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