Copy letter from +McQuaid to Very Rev. M.A. Bain, President, 21 Old Cavehill Road, Belfast, with regard to instructions from Cardinal Villot relating the events for Pakistan on 10th October.

Typed two-page list of active members of the Communist Party in Dublin and Belfast.

Report of the amalgamation of Anti-Nuclear Campaign groups from colleges in Dublin and Belfast.

Handwritten report saying all is quiet. Hears that there is a move to get Dr. Browne back to Fianna Fail. Hears that Browne is trying to get Jack Murphy, unemployed candidate, for new party. Murphy went to Belfast for labour school. Met Marion, a good Catholic, prints IRA paper as a business proposition. Would not touch Communist stuff.

Typed letter to Fr. MacMahon. Thanks him for getting Vincent Grogan to speak at her Association. The Federation wants to take an active role in the coming event but it is now too late. They were asked two years ago to send people to help but not one member joined. Criticism made that the group did not have the education to entertain at this level. Mentions importance of voting. One member failed to get on the Committee by one vote. Youth section of the Irish Workers’ League are planning an excursion to Belfast. Death of Sean Murray, Chairman of CP Northern Ireland.

Handwritten letter to the Rev. Secretary from Mrs. Kathleen Kirwan enclosing a report on a Communist Conference in Belfast. She believes that the activities of this body contravenes the Constitution of Eire by inciting social disruption and religious antagonism. They are alive to every form of subversion. Many of the lecturers spoke with English accents. Many of the comments were from Jews.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Owen Kelly, President, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Bank Street, Belfast, informing him that a large number of men and girls regularly arrive in Belfast from Dublin looking for work and many of them get stranded.

Letter from John Donnellan, Foxrock, to +McQuaid. He has just returned from Belfast, describing the scene of destruction and homelessness there.

Typed letter to + McQuaid from Una C.A. Staic, Reprieve Committee, Mansion House, Dublin, requesting, in the event of the execution of Thomas Williams in Belfast, that prayers be offered for the repose of his soul in churches where 11 o’clock Mass is usually said.

Letter and enclosure from John Whyte, Queen’s University, Belfast to the Cardinal [William Conway] regarding his publication on the Church and State in modern Ireland.