Copy of typed letter to Fr. Timothy Connolly, Superior-General from James Ardle MacMahon. + McQuaid asked that Fr. Connolly contact Douglas Hyde regarding a misquote in the Irish Democrat from an article in The Furrow by Douglas Hyde.

Typed letter to Fr. MacMahon from Timothy Connolly, St. Columban’s, Navan. He is proceeding as suggested by Fr. MacMahon but fears the gentleman (Douglas Hyde) may be on holidays.

Typed letter to Fr. MacMahon from Timothy Connolly. He has just heard from Douglas Hyde who had not seen the distortion in the Irish Democrat. Hyde will refer to it in his column in the Catholic Herald. The Irish Democrat dropped the section of his paragraph which linked the Connolly Association with the Communist Party.

Extract from The Newsletter, titled “The truth about the Stalinist-controlled Connolly Association”, by Pat O’Donovan. The Connolly Association has been attacking the Socialist Labour League so Irish workers want to know the truth about it, and the ideology of its paper, the Irish Democrat. It is not a nationalist organisation but a sordid Stalinist set-up. After Stalin’s death in 1953 wrote a glowing tribute to him, but was silent when Khrushchev exposed him.

Copy of Pagan Missions, containing the article by Fr. Michael O’Neill titled “The Connolly Association and Communism”.

Correspondence, involving Mrs Teresa Connolly, Oaklands, Ballsbridge, +McQuaid, T. Deirg, and Seamus O Neill, relating to the proposal to open a Juvenile Detention Home at Marlborough House, Glasnevin.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from J.P. Keane, thanking him for informing him that Fr. Maurice Connolly has replaced Fr. P. Dennehy as Chaplain to St. Mary’s Chest Hospital. 56/

File relating to a lecture given on censorship by Fr. Peter Connolly. Includes a newspaper cutting from ‘The Irish Times’ entitled ‘Attacks on censorship outdated’, a lecture given by Fr. Peter Connolly in Rathmines. Also letters from Fr. James Ardle MacMahon, Fr. Connolly and annotations by +McQuaid. 8 items (See no. 16)

Item in The Evening Press advertising a public lecture by the Connolly Youth Movement.

Kavanagh, Jim, 47 Westland Row, Dublin. In his letter to Chris he says that the Connolly Pipe Band is quite alright.