Typed letter to +McQuaid from L. O Muirthe. The Department is communicating with Fr. O’Brien, PP, Clondalkin, with the view to ascertaining whether the teachers concerned would be prepared to enter into agreements with the manager on Form No. 2.

Typed letter to the Secretary from Catherine O’Brien, Medical Officer, thanking him for the list of dates for Confirmation.

Memorandum to +McQuaid informing him that Conor Cruise O’Brien has not been selected for the post of Assistant Tourist Board Manger, salary £2,500. Job to be readvertised. Mr. O’Keeffe wonders if there is any good Catholic man who could reply to the advertisement. BOX 8 Department of External Affairs

Handwritten letter to Fr. McKernan from Desmond W. McCarthy, Cork St., Dublin, reporting on Philip Cairns and Alderman Hickey. Cairns converted out of conviction in 1921, is a zealous Catholic Action worker, secretary of the Postal Workers’ Union and member of the Labour Party. Puts his Catholicism first. Hickey is an excellent Catholic and a director of the Catholic Standard. Sided with William O’Brien as he held a position with the ITGWU. 276A. 12 May 1948 List of names and addresses of ‘active’ and ‘not active’ persons. Signature of J. Counihan S.J.

• Letters and newspaper cutting regarding the formation of the Censorship Reform Society. Members include Jim Fitzpatrick, theatre and television producer, Michael Mac Liammoir, James Plunkett, Hugh Leonard, Edna O’Brien and Bruce Arnold. Dr. Paul McQuaid also asked to join the Society. Theatre 31 March 1967

Correspondence regarding routine community life and apostolate. A hostel for student-Brothers’ at Maynooth. Enquiry regarding possible Mater Dei course for Novice Masters/Mistresses. Project of All-Irish secondary school, Scoil Eoin, Stillorgan. Also mentions secondary schools at the O’Brien Institute (Marino). References to schools at Sutton, Kilmore Road and Ballygall. International Conference on Religious Education of the Deaf (at Drumcondra). New communities founded at Ballygall Road, Cabra and Ballyroan. Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd (L.B.G.S.)

Letter from +Eris O’Brien, Neutral Bay to +McQuaid thanking him for sending the books. He discusses letters of early missionaries to Australia. He does not think he will be able to travel overseas again but if he can he will grasp the opportunity. Annotated by +McQuaid. 1 item

Correspondence between John P. Keane, Deputy Manager and Town Clerk, +McQuaid and P.J. Hernon, City Manager, regarding the use of the Emergency Powers Order, 1939, to vest in the Corporation lands at the O’Brien Institute, Clareville and Glasnevin for food production. The Archbishop regrets the form of the letter as ‘gravely hurtful to the dignity of the See of Dublin.’

Copy of a typed letter to Dr. O’Brien, Parochial House, Aughrim Street asking him to act officially as Chaplain to the President.

Letter from T. O’Brien to Chris. It is difficult to know what to say about the Unemployed Men’s Association but advises not to touch them.