Copy of typed letter to Fr. Timothy Connolly thanking him for getting in touch with Douglas Hyde.
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.
Press statement from the Connolly Association. The following items are mentioned: the Northern Ireland police state gave security to neither Catholics or Protestants men in Crumlin Road jail mainly trade unionists. African freedom
Typed note to + McQuaid stating the attached issue of The Irish Democrat shows that the Connolly Association is becoming more organised.
Typed letter to + McQuaid saying that Fr. O’Neill called. He is seeking copies of the Irish Democrat, the Irish Workers’ Voice and certain personalities in the Communist Movement for article he proposes to publish on the Connolly Association in Pagan Missions.
Copy of Pagan Missions, containing the article by Fr. Michael O’Neill titled “The Connolly Association and Communism”.
Typed note on The Irish Democrat. Mrs Toni Curran is its new business manager Roy Johnston has become Treasurer of the Connolly Association and Peter Mulligan its secretary Jim Andrews new chairman of this branch. 10.3 Wolfe Tone Society 1967
Connolly Youth Association
Copy letter from the secretary, Archbishop’s House to Fr. Peter Connolly thanking him for the manuscript ‘Can Ireland do without censorship?’
Letter from Dermot O’Flynn to +McQuaid regarding the Archbishop’s recent statement on divorce and contraception. He mentions the RTE programme ‘Encounter’ which was chaired by the Head of the Catholic Communications Centre. Among the panel were Judge C. Conroy, Lee Dunne, Fr. Peter Connolly and Gabriel Fallon. He discusses what was said and by whom.