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.
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Handwritten note from ‘Granny’ [Una Byrne]. David Thornley left Fianna Fail with Dr. Browne. Relations with Uncle Sam are excellent. Looked on as an “adopted” niece. Worried over sponsors of Boycott African Goods Campaign. Has plan to upset the influence of some public representatives. Belfast trip disappointing for “old ladies”.
-1 March Correspondence between +McQuaid, Fr. Gallen, Fr. John Kelly, Fr. John O’Connell, Fr. Patrick Leahy, +W. Philbin, Belfast, +Michael Browne, Galway regarding the papers of the 1968 Maynooth Summer School which are to be published by M.H. Gill. However, Fr. J. Coveney, S.J., Heythorp College has now published one article in the ‘Furrow’ entitled ‘The presence of Christ’. Annotations by +McQuaid. Front Page Detective 1969
Handwritten report saying article in The Tablet on Communism in Ireland is “rubbish”. Prof. Cleary, an American, is a “chancer”. Torture stories of IRA by the RUC may be true. Jack Murphy has left his ‘red’ friends – a big blow to them. Said the clergy got to him. Browne a loss to The Plough. Difficult to get agents to sell it. Col. Feehan showed him article in The Tribune by Andrew Boyd, Belfast. Murphy and Browne attack Archbishop for refusing to see delegation of unemployed. 4.2 Reports from Informants, 1958 - 1961