Left-Wing Associations 10.1 The Connolly Association 1955 – 1956
List and entries of persons associated with the Connolly Association (38 entries).
Copy of a dictated typed letter to Fr. Timothy Connolly from Douglas Hyde. He was recently told that Connolly Association members asked priests in Irish areas in England for permission to sell the Irish Democrat outsides churches. Hyde would like to meet Fr. McGrath to discuss his work. May be able to help him through his column. Would like to meet the two priests coming to Britain in the autumn.
Letter to Des from Con O’Keeffe enclosing a cutting on a lecture on James Connolly from the Evening Press.
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. 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.
Newspaper article taken from the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post titled “Irish Group Communist”. Says that trade union leaders have been warned about the increasing activities of the Connolly Association.
Letter from Fr. Hurley, St. Kevin’s to +McQuaid regarding a discussion on censorship. He quotes Peadar O’Donnell and Fr. Connolly.
Letter from +Browne to +McQuaid returning the copy of ‘Agora’. He considers the articles are poor and immature. He mentions Fr. Connolly who seems to have been the inspiration. He also states that some of the Maynooth Students have joined the University Students Movement. The Pax Romana National Congress is going to be held there at Easter.
10-13 December 1954 Correspondence between Br. Clancy, St. Mary’s, Marino and Mgr. Richard Glennon, Chancellor in relation to the application for Italian citizenship by Br. Michael Connolly.