Correspondence sent between solicitors Ronan Daly Hayes & Company and South Presentation Convent regarding road widening at Abbey Street and surrender of convent property. Also includes a map of the relevant area.

Letter from +Rodgers to +McQuaid. The letter concerns Mr Roche of Pearse St. who had complained during his stay in the abbey, Roscrea. He has written a number of letters and +Rodgers wishes to know what he is like. +McQuaid annotates that it is the consensus among the clergy who know him that he is an eccentric and that no attention should be paid to him.

Letter from Abbot Augustine O’Sullivan, Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co. Limerick, accepting the invitation to the Liturgical Reception.

Typed copy of a letter to Dr. Sziecko from Fr. MacMahon saying he is assured by a priest that he is a practicing Catholic.

Typed note to + McQuaid from the Secretary suggesting he be referred to the Vicar General for Censorship.

Information on prizes for significant writing in Irish from The Irish American Cultural Institute, to be distributed in the Abbey Theatre.

Copy of typed letter to the Secretary, St. Vincent de Paul Society, 64 Grafton Street from Maire Ní Gabann, Ard Runaidte, Sinn Fein, 3 Lower Abbey Street. Sinn Fein understands that the Society has invited Mr. Richard O’Sullivan Q.C. to lecture in the Aberdeen Hall on 9th January 1955. He was the Crown Prosecutor when Barnes and McCormack were sentenced to death in Birmingham in 1939. A large number of people will object to his public appearance.

10-12 November Letter from Miss MacBride, Luinneac, Co. Donegal to +McQuaid stating she is a member of a Dramatic Group who have two plays at the Abbey Theatre, ‘The End’ and ‘The Stranger’. She asks permission to invite the clergy and the Christian Brothers. Annotated by +McQuaid. 1958

Copy of letter from +McQuaid to Phil Donohoe asking him to understand that The Abbey Theatre ‘would have s scant consideration for his intervention.’

Letter and reply from Frances Fearon to +McQuaid regarding a play at the Abbey Theatre, ‘The Loves of Cass Maguire’.