Handwritten letter from Fr. Ciaran Ryan, Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, to + McQuaid. He is to take up a position as lecturer in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics in UCD and in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Seeks his permission to reside in Dublin.

Correspondence involving Fr. Victor Conzemius, Dr. – 20 February 1967 Gerard Sheehy, Chancellor, and + Leo Lommel, Bishop of Luxembourg. Fr. Conzemius wishes to visit Clonmacnoise from where St. Willibrord of Echternach departed for the Friesian Islands. He has been given permission by his bishop to do historical work in Dublin and offers his services to the diocese. Malta

Handwritten note to + McQuaid informing him that the Bishop of Ardagh to hold the pilgrimage at Clonmacnoise. Would he now give permission?

Typed letter to ‘Dear Father’ from …Garde, St Mary’s Priory, Pope’s Quay, Cork. He is wholeheartedly in favour of the Pilgrimage to Clonmacnoise and that it should go as a Dominican Crusade, Industrial Branch.

Typed letter to Fr. Mangan from Tom Harty, St. Mary’s, Tallaght, (Dominican Rosary Crusade-Industrial Section) regarding the proposal to hold a pilgrimage to Clonmacnoise. Would like a discussion to develop the scheme.

Letter from +Cathal Daly, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, to +McQuaid, stating he will be unable to assist at the Liturgical Reception as he is leading a Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock on the same day.

Copy of typed letter from + McQuaid to + Fergus noting that all Episcopal Commissions are to make a report. Ardagh & Clonmacnoise

Typed note to + McQuaid saying Fr. T. Harty, O.P., wrote seeking permission to run a pilgrimage to Clonmacnoise. People from the different shops and factories where the Rosary is said would travel. The idea of the pilgrimage would be to bring these people together and to develop the spirit, which has already been aroused in them.