Letter from +Dyer to +McQuaid regarding Fr. Alan De Lastic who will be studying at the National University and he hopes the Archbishop may be able to find a chaplaincy for him. 1 item 158/3.16 September 1963 Note for +McQuaid from Br. Clancy stating +D’Souza of Calcutta wishes to visit with him. Delhi

File relating to the removal of a crib from Dublin Airport chapel. The figures in the crib, designed by Fergus O’Farrell, were described as being ‘beneath the level of human dignity.’ Letter from Basil Clancy, editor of ‘Hibernia’ among these. Newspaper cuttings attached.

Clancy, Basil, Bray Road, Foxrock. He has proposals for a Catholic School of Journalism.

Letter from Stephen Clancy to Fr. Mangan partially replying to an anonymous letter received by the Archbishop over his silence on matters of grave importance.

Letter from Fr. Raphael Clancy to +McQuaid thanking him for the gift of £500 for the unemployed in the parish. 1 item

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid thanking him for allowing Fr. Stephen Clancy leave the Clergy Retreat to accompany Fr. Moylan, former Vicar General to the Nuncio and from Atlanta, to Shannon Airport. Neither he nor Mgr. Alibrandi were available to accompany Fr. Boylan to Collinstown and hence he is very grateful to the Archbishop. He also discusses the merits of the complaints of Br. John O’Toole which will be sent to the Sacred Congregation for Religious and he has followed the advice and information provided by the Archbishop. He also mentions Professor H. Bruck who has been nominated for membership to the Pontifical Academy of Science. He mentions the new Nuncio who is leaving Cairo on 31 July and who plans on stopping in Rome before coming to Dublin.

10-13 December 1954 Correspondence between Br. Clancy, St. Mary’s, Marino and Mgr. Richard Glennon, Chancellor in relation to the application for Italian citizenship by Br. Michael Connolly.

Anonymous typed letter to + McQuaid wondering if he is aware that Miss Clancy, retired teacher of Meath Street School, is an active Communist? The Standard described Patricia Lynch as one of the leading Catholic writers. She is not a Catholic. Her husband is in Communist Secret Service. So too is Charles Acton.