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 +Wall to +McQuaid mentioning an order illegible who is seeking another house in the Diocese. He mentions the ‘Abbey’, Loreto, Glencree and Shelton Abbey.

Letter from Abbot Colmcille O’Toole, Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, to +McQuaid stating he will be unable to attend the Liturgical Reception.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: implementing a prepared plan of education and the formation of a new educational committee the unfavourable criticism from Northern Ireland and British Communists of the IWL the showing of two films, ‘Swan Lake’ and ‘Calavier of the Golden Star’.

Advertisement from a newspaper for a lecture in the YMCA, Minor Hall, Lower Abbey Street, on 24th May titled ‘Warning against the danger of testing Nuclear Weapons’.

Typed letter to Mr. O’Reilly, Catholic Truth Society, Abbey Street, from W. Kinsella, North Crumlin & Drimnagh Tenants’ Association, writing to deny that his organisation is attached to the communist party. The Committee does not accept responsibility for the political opinions of individual members. The writer is not a member of any political party.

Typed letter from Phil Donohoe to +McQuaid asking asking him to use his good offices to support his application for the post of manager in the new Abbey Theatre.

Letter from Moira Lysaght to +McQuaid regarding the plays, ‘Tarry Flynn’ and ‘The Loves of Cass Maguire’ being staged at the Abbey Theatre. Annotated by +McQuaid.

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

Kilcullen from New Abbey Parish