Notes from the Secretary to + McQuaid informing him that Professor C. O’Reilly was enquiring about the presentation of the oil painting to Cardinal D’Alton.

Letter from Cardinal D’Alton, Ard Coeli, Armagh, to McQuaid thanking him for the notice regarding the arrangements for the Litugical Reception. He is not yet sure whether he will be able to attend.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid, marked Confidential. He encloses a copy of a letter he is sending to Cardinal D’Alton and the Archbishops of Tuam and Cashel in relation to Fr. Edward Lodge Curran, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn who is due to visit Ireland where he wishes to give a number of open-air public addresses. The priest is persona non grata in many American Dioceses. He had visited Ireland previously and addressed several public meetings. Fr. Lodge Curran claims there was never any objection to these by the Irish Hierarchy. He wishes the Cardinal and Archbishops to inform their Bishops. Annotated by +McQuaid stating ‘The address was given in O’Connell Street without my knowledge. I should never have allowed it’. See item 483.

Letter from +O’Hara to Cardinal D’Alton regarding Catholic principles and policies in relation to UNESCO. He states the Holy See is concerned with the activities of the programme and policies of OMEP as they deal with the education of children of pre-school age. This is a delicate matter ‘…since there is considerable Masonic influence at work in OMEP, which is tinged with communism’. The Holy Father wants Ireland to bring its influence to bear at the Congress in Rome in August. He also asks that a competent ‘layman’ to establish contact with the International Catholic Co-ordinating Centre for UNESCO in Paris. He also suggests that the Irish Hierarchy establish a National OMEP Committee in Ireland.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + D’Alton. He would have been quite willing to have their correspondence published in order to make their position clear to the general public, and especially the rank and file of the Trade Unionists.

Copy of typed letter to + John D’Alton, Primate of All Ireland, informing him that Mgr. Montini, Mgr. Kaas and Count Galeazzi, Chief Architect of the Vatican City, have assured him that a Chapel to St. Columban can and will be erected in the Crypt. It would hold about forty people and cost about £10-12,000.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from John A. Costello thanking the Archbishop for the invitation to lunch with Cardinal D’Alton.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Eamon de Valera inviting him to a dinner in honour of Cardinal D’Alton.

Handwritten draft of letter to Mr. D’Alton from Christopher Mangan explaining that the Archbishop’s intervention in the proposed Licensing Law would be of no avail at this stage.

Correspondence (21 items) relating to the organization of a meeting between the Hierarchy and the Government to allow the Hierarchy the opportunity to express their views on the legislation amending the licensing laws. The correspondents are + Fergus, Taoiseach de Valera, Cardinal D’Alton, Minister for Justice Oscar Traynor, +McQuaid, + Lucey, + Browne, + Conway, Francis Lenny.