Letter from Basil Clancy, Foxrock to +McQuaid proposing the establishment of various Catholic bodies including a Catholic Press Guild; School of Religious Art; Institute of Social Science; specialised libraries; a Council to engage in promotion work abroad; a council to promote Catholic work; a Catholic Council to promote Christian ways of life.

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

Correspondence regarding routine community life and apostolate. Diamond Jubilee of Brother Clancy, Superior General. Centenary of Synge Street school and Westland Row school celebrated. Project of a foundation at Ballyroan. Sutton C.B.S. has difficulties with a neighbour.

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

Letter from Mgr. Paro to +McQuaid referring to a cheque for £32.10.0. paid in relation to travel expenses of Mgr. Dunne and Fr. Stephen Clancy. Further expenses have been incurred and £4.5.0 is now owing.

Letter from Mgr. Paro to McQuaid thanking him for the cheque for £4.5.0, which will be forwarded to Propoganda Fide, and will pay for the forwarding of the luggage of Fr. Stephen Clancy and Fr. William Martin from Rome to Lisbon.

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.

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.