File relating to parish property including 79, 83 & 98 The Rise, Mount Merrion, 3 Allen Park, Woodley Park, 1 Upper Kilmacud Road, 82 Lower Kilmacud Road and plot adjoining the church.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Hugh P. Allen. He has done the wrong thing and apologises. The reason he wrote was to provide the Archbishop with information.

Typed letter to Peter J. Huxley-Blyth from George V. Allen, Managing Director, Soul Magazine. Allen’s organisation, The Blue Army, is the largest international organisation promoting devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. Allen would now like to have an article on Huxley- Blyth’s “Operation Fatima” for Soul magazine. It might be a means of gaining support for his organisation and is vitally important to Blue Army members.

Dunne, John J., Sandymount, Dublin, informing the Archbishop that Messrs David Allen and Sons have received permission to remove the posters.

• 11 July 1942 Letters from Hugh Allen, Grace Park Road, Dublin to + McQuaid informing him of various events, including: reviving the Catholic Mind with the new name Irish Mind; relations with his employer at C.T.S.I.; states he will act out of harmony with the Archbishop; Hugh O’Neill, Coras na Poblachta (an Irish Popular Front) scorning the Bishops’ action regarding the Labour Party and the Workers’ Republic; he would have no objection to O’Neill being appointed as Secretary of The St. Joseph’s Young Priests’ Society if he would withdraw from politics; the Trade Union Bill and Professor O’Rahilly, friend of Dr. Browne; a row in the Labour Party where it looks as though the Communist element will be elbowed out; Russia entering the war and censorship; quarrel between the Bishop of Galway and Professor O’Rahilly; article in The Standard by Gearoid Mac Eoin. One copy reply from +McQuaid included.

Copy of letter from +McQuaid to Allen Nolan, Messrs Browne & Nolan, informing him that Prof. McMackin has been appointed Editor of the I.E.F.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Hugh P. Allen, enclosing a copy of his letter to Mr. McEnroe.

-24 May 1944 Allen, Hugh, Grace Park Road, informing + McQuaid on his position with The Standard regarding the Labour Party inquiry on infiltration by Communists.

Letter from Allen Nolan, The Richview Press, to +McQuaid thanking him for the honour which he to the I.E.R. and to his company.

Letter from Fr. Patrick Hamell to +McQuaid regarding the forthcoming centenary of the I.E.R. He and Allen Nolan wish to commemorate the occasion fittingly.