Letter from +Mulligan to +McQuaid thanking him for accepting the invitation to the consecration and hoping Fr. Ardle MacMahon will also be in attendance. Clonfert

Letter from Mgr.Gerada to Dr. O’Connell, Archbishop’s House, thanking him for the cheque for £5 which was received from the Bishop of Clonfert, Dr. Philbin, for the Catholic Hospital in Tehran.

Handwritten letter to + McQuaid from Patrick Roche, Secretary, the Richard Corish Branch, Irish Labour Party, Rosslare Harbour. Thanked the Archbishop for his visit to James Larkin. Is grateful for all he has done in “genuine Christian charity”. Archbishop has much in common with Dr. Dignam, Bishop of Clonfert, who did his duty. But Dr. Dignam made one mistake. He was too honest “for our newcomers to the ballot box”, and went down gloriously. “Right under Might.” The working-class pray that similar just prelates do not suffer same fate. Earnest wish is that Labour leaders of future will pay respect to bishops.

Handwritten letter from + O’Callaghan to + McQuaid thanking him for his kind letter of sympathy. Newspaper article enclosed containing the Bishop’s statement on a former priest, Edward Flanagan, who left the Church and was accepted into the Anglican Church. 2 items Clonfert

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Hugh P. Allen. At a lunch with J. McEnroe he was informed that Dr. Kevin Malley was thunderstruck by Your Grace’s letter. In their communications there was no hint of +McQuaid’s opinions. The letter startled the Bishop of Clonfert and Rory Henderson who are in favour of the proposed League.

Copy of Lenten Pastoral, Diocese of Clonfert. Cloyne

Letter from +Thomas Ryan, Bishop of Clonfert, to +McQuaid, accepting his invitation to the Liturgical Reception. He states that the new Nuncio was a colleague and close friend as far back as the early 1940s, both at the Academia where we lived and at the Secretariat of State where we worked.