Letter from +Ryan to +McQuaid regarding Boyd Reid. He wants to ensure this man is qualified to become a student at both Clonliffe and the N.U.I. He encloses an outline of the conditions on which Colonial Scholarships are awarded in Trinidad.

Letter from +Ryan to +McQuaid regarding Harrison Williams who has won the scholarship. He looks forward to him being in Clonliffe. He will also examine the suggestion that the other student, Boyd Reid, could remain in Dublin right up to ordination. He mentions problems with the Art Festival. Some of the plays are ‘filthy and blasphemous’ and he does not know what Princess Margaret will think of them. He mentions the successful novena to Our Lady. Newspaper cutting entitled ‘Noble ends of theatrical art’ attached. 3 items

Letter from +Ryan to +McQuaid stating Boyd Reid will complete his studies and ordination in Clonliffe before heading to Rome. He mentions the meeting of the Latin American Bishops which he describes as ‘a rather depressing affair’. Annotated by +McQuaid.

. Boyd, R.O.F., 196 West Close, Camber Drive, Pevensey Bay, Sussex. Since one should love one’s enemies there are bloodier ways of doing it than taking them on at Football. [Possibly referring to the Ireland vs Yugoslavia game.]

-7 March 1966. Boyd Barrett, Basil, St. Fintan’s, Strand Road, Sutton, Dublin. Thanks + McQuaid for the gift of Joan of Arc and his pastoral The People of God.

article on the destruction of the Irish Public Record Office in 1922; "Instruments of the Passion"; "Presentation Convent Bandon 1829 - 1929"; "Protestants come home: a plea for reunion" (M.L.I. White) "Preliminary survey of Irish history"; "Nuns in Ireland"; "Ireland and the history of Ireland" (Andrew Boyd); "Strands of Irish Spirituality" (George Otto Simms); "An introduction to early Irish saints' lives" (Kim McCone); "Irish medieval spirituality" (Peter O'Dwyer); "Tuathal Techtmar: A myth or ancient literary evidence for a Roman invasion" (R.B. Warner).

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

Boyd, Theresa, 118 Dingle Road, Cabra West. Her husband is in prison and she asks the Archbishop’s help in having him transferred from Portrush to Mountjoy.