Letter from +Walsh to +McQuaid. He enquires about permission to ordain a man whom he knows who is studying for the Diocese of Birmingham who wishes to be ordained by +Walsh. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Horne, Margaret, 8 Cowper Drive. She has resigned her post at the Rotunda in order to do a degree in Social Science at Birmingham University.

Letter from Fr. R.J. Connell to Fr. Dunne regarding the ordination of Fr. Philip Cleary for the Birmingham Diocese. He asks that the ordination can take place in Blackrock.

Bodlin, Thomas, The University, Birmingham 15. Refers to a testimonial, an invitation to the enthronement of His Grace of Westminster and His Grace of Birmingham.

Walsh, Lilly, Birmingham, regarding Irish emigrants in England.

Typed letter from Joseph Gray, Archbishop’s House, Birmingham, to Dr. Sheehy asking that + McQuaid will give permission for Fr. Peter Kavanagh to be accepted in the new retirement home for priests in Dun Laoghaire. Permission granted.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to Rev. Mother General, Selly Park, Birmingham, regarding the school of physiotherapy and his need for a tutor.

Copy of letter from the Secretary to Fr. James Leahy seeking baptismal information on a boy about to be confirmed in Birmingham.

Copy of typed letter to the Secretary, St. Vincent de Paul Society, 64 Grafton Street from Maire Ní Gabann, Ard Runaidte, Sinn Fein, 3 Lower Abbey Street. Sinn Fein understands that the Society has invited Mr. Richard O’Sullivan Q.C. to lecture in the Aberdeen Hall on 9th January 1955. He was the Crown Prosecutor when Barnes and McCormack were sentenced to death in Birmingham in 1939. A large number of people will object to his public appearance.

Typed profile of Professor George Thompson, Marxist, Birmingham University. Associated with Muiris O Suilleabhain and stayed at his house in Carrowroe, Co. Galway. Won O Suilleabhain’s son over to Marxism secretly. This boy went to Scoil Enna, Galway, to train as a National Teacher, but was expelled for propagating Communism among students. Now doing degree in Birmingham. Thompson regarded as a decent man and benefactor of Gaeltacht people whom he helps in Birmingham.