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Arthur P. McLean, Michael Leech, Desmond
Moran, J. B, MacGarry, D. Curran, John J. O’Dwyer,
T. J. Kirwan, Ernest W. Proud, P. C. Moore,
Peadar Cowan, Maurice Veale, John M. O’Farrell,
R. M. Wilson, B. J. Daly, J . J. Hickey, E . McCarron,
G. M. Doyle, E. J . Crowley, J. P. King, Francis R.
Tully, David Bell, John J. Walker, Toirlach de
Valera, Leslie Mellon, John M. O’Connor, Ed. H.
Byrne, Brendan Wallace, Seamus Kerr, James A.
Kelly, Louis Walsh, James Byrne, D. B. O’Sullivan,
Francis A . Gibney, Walter Rhatigan, William
Synnott, Joseph Glackin, H. B. Fottrell, T. P.
Glynn, Brendan T. Walsh, Patrick M. O Gara, C. G.
Vanston, Thomas K . O’Connor, M. J . Dunne,
Jacob Marcus, Charles Hyland, Fras. J. Keane,
(Miss) Stella Webb, J . A. G. Cullen, Donald R.
Cullen, R. G. H. Roper, W. P. Roper, Oliver G.
Fry, R. B. McConnell, Raymond Kenny, Rowland
Plealy, Eugene Gillan, Gerard Lyons, Hyman
Tarlo, R. E . Felton, R. A . French, Peter Leon,
R. H. Ryan, Mathew Purcell, H. E . St. G.
McClenaghan, Michael B. Kelly, Michael G.
O’Beirn, Dominick M. Dowling, Joseph J. Hughes,
Michael Hayes, Ivan Howe, Roderick J. Tierney,
P. J. Walsh, J . J. Kennedy, A. P. Curneen, John L.
Burke, T. j. Kenny, James M. Farrelly, T. G.
McVeagh, Rodk. O’Connor, John K . Boland, Kevin
Burke, John B. McCann, C. Gore-Grimes, Hubert
Wine, Joseph P. O’Connell, (Miss) Ellen Beatty,
J. G. O’Connor, David Slattery, W. B. Allen, Ed.
J. Durnin, John-E. Doyle, Charles J . Starkey.
The notice convening the meeting was taken as
read.
The minutes o f the Ordinary General Meeting
of the Society held on 13th May, 1954, and the Special
General Meeting held on 24th May, 1954, were read,
confirmed and signed.
Mr. William J. Norman moved and Mr. John J.
Sheil seconded the adoption o f the audited accounts
and balance sheet. The motion was adopted and the
President signed the balance sheet.
Messrs. Kevans & Sons were unanimously re
appointed as the Society’s auditors.
The Secretary read the report o f the Scrutineers
of the ballot for the election o f the Council and
Provincial Delegates for the year 1954-55. The
report stated that for the office o f Provincial
Delegate the following had been returned
unopposed :—Ulster, Derrick M. Martin Munster,
John J. Dundon; Leinster, Reginald J. Nolan;
Connaught, Christopher E . Callan.
The foregoing were declared duly elected.
The result o f the ballot for the 31 ordinary
members o f the Council and the supplemental list
was as follows :—•
Arthur Cox, 522; Joseph Barrett, 518; Flenry
St. J. Blake, 496 ; John Carrigan, 488 ; Louis E .
O’Dea, 471 ; Thomas A . O’Reilly, 470; Joseph
Tyrrell, 453 ; Dermot P. Shaw, 453 ; Cornelius J.
Daly, 450 ; Patrick R. Boyd, 449 ; John R. Halpin,
442 ; John J. Nash, 429 ; Peter E . O’Connell, 421 ;
James J. O’Connor, 413 ; William J. Norman, 413 ;
Charles J. Dowling, 4 1 2 ; Niall S. Gaffney, 4 11 ;
Desmond J. Collins, 405 ; Francis J. Gearty, 403
Sean O hUadhaigh, 402 ; Francis J. Lanigan, 393 ;
John J. Sheil, 391 ; Patrick F. O’Reilly, 383 ;
Nathaniel Lacy, 362; George A . Nolan, 359;
George G. Overend, 350; Francis X . Burke, 336 ;
Terence de V . White, 331 ; Ralph J . Walker, 330;
John Maher, 328 ; Desmond Mayne, 322
Supple
mental L ist
:—Francis Gallagher, 309; Robert
McD. Taylor, 30(5; James R. Quirke, 299.
The President declared the foregoing members
o f the Society duly elected to the Council and the
supplemental list in accordance with the Scrutineers’
report.
The following candidates received the number
of votes placed after their names :—
Denis Greene, 295 ; William A. Lee, 270 ; David
R. Pigot, 268 ; Raymond A . French, 245 ; William
J. Comerford, 240; John J. O’Dwyer, 220;
Lyndon G. Carr Lett, 201 ; Gerard M. Doyle, 177 ;
Rowland H. S. Healy, 145.
The President moving the adoption o f the report
o f the Council said :—
Ladies and Gentlemen : Since I last had the
honour to address you at the 336th General Meeting
in May o f this year, it is inevitable that some o f our
members and friends should have died. Amongst
them a special mention must be made o f one o f my
distinguished predecessors in the office which I now
hold as your President—Mr. Roger Greene. In
all his activities both inside and without the pro
fession, Mr. Greene proved himself to be a man of
rare distinction. His demise while still in his early
forties is a matter o f very great regret to the many
who knew him. Others who no longer are with us
are :—Henry J. Walker (Athlone) ; Charles A.
Cooke (Galway); Rupert J. Fetherstonhaugh
(Mountmellick), Charles P. O’Neill (Dublin) ;
Cuthbert J . Furlong (Letterkenny), Member of
Council, 1 951 - 52; Joseph Morrissey (Cork);
David G . Dixon (Belfast); Michael A . Nestor
(Dunmore) ; Samuel Reid (Belfast) ; John Wells
(Carrickmacross) ; John A. Ryan (Thurles) ; Peter
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