Handwritten card from + Wall to Dr. O’Connell regarding a cheque for £12-10-0.

Handwritten letter from Msgr. John O’Regan, Collin’s Barracks, to Dr. O’Connell informing him that Mrs Fitzgerald, Limerick City Sanatorium, has been selected as an invalid for this year’s Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. 46.1 Typed address of +AB on occasion of invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Patroness of the Defence Forces.

[February 1952] Note from Fr. M. O’Connell regarding a Low Mass for Mgr. Felici on May 9th at 11am.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid thanking him for enclosures relating to the Lenten Regulations and the Apostolic Constitution ‘Christus Dominus’. He much admired the statement in relation to attendance at Trinity College and the declaration on Catholic education. He also thanks him for allowing Dr. O’Connell to accompany him on a recent trip to Northern Ireland and the ‘West Coast’.

Letter from +O’Hara to +McQuaid, marked Confidential. He encloses a copy of a letter he is sending to Cardinal D’Alton and the Archbishops of Tuam and Cashel in relation to Fr. Edward Lodge Curran, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn who is due to visit Ireland where he wishes to give a number of open-air public addresses. The priest is persona non grata in many American Dioceses. He had visited Ireland previously and addressed several public meetings. Fr. Lodge Curran claims there was never any objection to these by the Irish Hierarchy. He wishes the Cardinal and Archbishops to inform their Bishops. Annotated by +McQuaid stating ‘The address was given in O’Connell Street without my knowledge. I should never have allowed it’. See item 483.

Letter from + Gerard O’Hara to Dr. Michael J. O’Connell seeking his advice in helping Margaret O’Leary obtain employment.

Handwritten draft letter to G. Boland, Minister for Justice, from M.P. O’Connell, Secretary, regarding the departure of Fr. M. Clarke as Chaplain to Mountjoy Prison, and the proposal that Fr. Joseph Carroll and Fr. Jerome Curtin should be Chaplains to that Institution.

Draft handwritten letter (in +McQuaid’s writing) to John F. O’Connell, Esq., M.B., T.D. from the Secretary. The Archbishop did not say he would not grant an interview, he is surprised that his name was used in the Dail, and if Dr. O’Connell has any practical proposals to make asks that they be sent to him in advance that His Grace may decide if it is necessary or useful to see him.

Draft handwritten letter (in +McQuaid’s writing) to John F. O’Connell, from the Secretary. His Grace will take what measures he considers suitable.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Dr. John F. O’Connell, T.D., enclosing a copy of a letter he has sent to Dublin Corporation in connection with overcrowding in a mixed adult family.