Typed letter to Dr. O’Connell from Cecil J. Barrett, Marino. He has been asked to deal with Mrs Marguerite Whelan’s case. He does not know why she has been refused a visa, but she was involved in Irish politics up to 1925.

Typed letter to Dr. O’Connell from Maire C. Nic Entee, Secretary, Dept. of External Affairs, enclosing the Catalogue of the Missionary Sacred Art Exhibition held in Lisbon. Count Gerard O’Kelly, Charge d’Affaires in Lisbon, suggests that an effort might be made to have it shown in Dublin. Asks that he ascertain +McQuaid’s views on the matter.

Typed letter to Dr. O’Connell from P.J. Hayes informing him that they are acting on the Archbishop’s advice.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from P. O’Connell, Principal Chaplain, Royal Air Force, thanking him for sending him a copy of the syllabus for catechetical instruction.

Typed letter to Fr. O’Connell from L.B. Walsh-Atkins, British Embassy, sending him Interpreter and The Search for Peace.

Typed letter to Fr. O’Connell from Thomas McEnelly, American Counsul General. The Department of Commerce in Washington has been asked where an eight-inch or six-inch speculum for a reflecting telescope may be purchased.

Typed minutes from the ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: The credentials of Mr. O’Neill, a teacher of philosophy at the Peoples’ College, queried. He was a Scholastic in Belvedere and a brilliant student, somewhat cynical, but a good Catholic. Mrs O’Connell, agitator against the cruelty of children in schools, is to speak to the Irish Housewives’ Association. The estimated number of Teddy-boys, Teddy-girls and Vicky-boys is 500. Their haunts are the Ballerina, the Orchard Rooms and the Four Provinces. Objectionable literature is being sold by Bamba Books 3-4 shops in city. Permission needed to read Communist journals.

Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: a full report was received on Ambrose Collins from Fr. Hegarty, Francis Street. Eamon Dillon is not living in Dundrum but may be in Bird Avenue. Sean and Lilly O’Rourke sell Communist literature. Anthony Farrington is a member of the Nuclear Committee. Msgr. O’Halloran to speak to Fr. O’Connell regarding the Lord Mayor presiding at a Nuclear Re-Armament meeting due to the personnel. Fr. Kent said he heard that the Communists were contacting people outside the Juvenile court.

• Correspondence between Eileen Brereton and Fr. Richard Glennon mainly regarding any family papers of Daniel O’Connell that may have been deposited in the Archives. Also letter enclosing a copy of Annalecta Hibernica. 3 items National Museum of Science and Art 10 January 1945

Letter (in Irish) from Donncad O Suilleabhain, Connradh na Gaedhilge, to Dr. Michael O’Connell seeking permission from +McQuaid for the clergy and Brothers to attend the Drama Contests and Plays of the Oireachtas Week.