• Letters and newspaper cuttings relating to the proposed poetry reading in the Abbey Theatre by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Lectures 5 March 1965

Correspondence between Owen Mulholland, Fr. McCarthy And Fr. J.A. MacMahon regarding permission to have a film show in aid of Kylemore Abbey. Permission given.

Letter from +Walsh to +McQuaid. He regrets that he won’t be able to attend the Solemn Votive Mass for the President as he’ll be staying in Kylemore Abbey and celebrating their High Mass.

Letter from +Dunne to +McQuaid regarding a Fr. Descleves from Licuge Abbey near Poitiers, France who called seeking Mass stipends. He was advised to contact the Archbishop in future about such matters.

Letter from Cardinal Bernard Griffin, Benedictine Abbey, Kylemore, Clifden, Co. Galway to +McQuaid thanking him for the invitation to Archbishop’s House and to lunch at Notre Dame. His brother, Fr. Basil will also be able to attend. He has hoped to keep his visit private but was photographed by someone ‘snooping round’. Cardinal Griffin was Archbishop of Westminster and Fr. Basil was his twin brother.

• Correspondence concerning the foundation of a house in Dublin from Bodmin Abbey (Cornwall). Some begging letters. Abbot White granted permission for a hostel for his scholastics to attend Clonliffe College. They settle in Clontarf: but first batch of 3 seek dispensation from vows before commencing. A refocusing of the houses’ purpose ensures Canons Regular - Kilnacrott Abbey

Note for McQuaid regarding permission to show ‘Gigi’ in aid of the Kylemore Abbey reconstruction.

File relating to a visiting priest, Fr. Abbey, who celebrated Mass in Donabate and in the hospital without verifying the correctness of his status.

Kilcullen from New Abbey Parish

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.