Typed letter to George A. Garrett, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, from Arthur A. Allen, U.S. Navy Public Information Officer, relating to the career of Admiral Richard L. Connolly, of which + McQuaid is interested. Items enclosed include a formal Navy Department biography, a mimeographed copy of an article on the Admiral’s background, article by Robert Considine and a column by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. 27/13A. 6 July 1951 Correspondence between Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Navy and newly appointed Ambassador, and +McQuaid. Asks the Archbishop for his suggestions regarding entry requirements for his daughter to U.C. D. +McQuaid wrote to the President of U.C.D. on his behalf.

Handwritten report saying that Sam Nolan and Deasy are going to seminar in Czechoslovakia. Selected by IWL at the request of the British Communist Party. Their subject is: ‘The Relationship between the Church and Trade Unions’. O’Riordan was in Moscow for May Day. Wonders what Eamon Byrne is doing here. Is he trying to start a branch of Connolly Association?

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Craven stating he has asked Fr. Connolly to speak with him about an Emigrant’s newspaper.

Typed letter to Fr. MacMahon from Fr. Brian O’Sullivan giving information on Eamon Lyons, Crumlin. He worked in England and the USA. Was a promoter in the Connolly Club movement in England. Is reported to have appeared at a public meeting in Abbey Street.

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.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Thomas J. Coyne, Dept. of Justice. Miss Connolly will lose no time in contacting + McCarthy.

Typed note to + McQuaid stating the attached issue of The Irish Democrat shows that the Connolly Association is becoming more organised.

Typed letter to Fr. T. Fehily from Fr. Michael O’Neill, St. Columban’s, Navan. Fr. O’Neill’s informant is not prepared to give an opinion on the Irish Workers’ Union at present. Pat O’Donovan has been expelled. There is a split in the Connolly Association, led by O’Donovan and the Trotskyites. Believes that the IWU came into being as a result. The key man in IWU is Michael Callinan. Does not know if there is a link between the Socialist Labour League and the IWL. It seems that the Trotskyites hoped to use the Irish Workers’ Union as a front for recruiting just as the British CP used the Connolly Association, but failed.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Craven stating Fr. Connolly will go over in November.

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.