Letter to Conor Ward from the Archbishop.

Letter from +Morris to +McQuaid regarding Fr. O’Dwyer, Dr. William Lee and Fr. Conor Ryan. He mentions the death of Canon Dick Quinn, Parish Priest of Galbally and due to this death he now has to recall Fr. Matthew McGrath.

Memorandum to +McQuaid informing him that Conor Cruise O’Brien has not been selected for the post of Assistant Tourist Board Manger, salary £2,500. Job to be readvertised. Mr. O’Keeffe wonders if there is any good Catholic man who could reply to the advertisement. BOX 8 Department of External Affairs

/1. 6 July1944 Typed letter to +McQuaid from Conor A. Maguire, Chairman, The Irish Red Cross Society. The Society, with the approval of the Government, have promised to care for

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from D. Molony, Belville, Donnybrook. Mr. Justice Conor Maguire is displeased with this other body and wants the Red Cross in charge of the work.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Conor Maguire, Mount Merrion Ave., Blackrock. As a result of the meeting with the Committee the objects he had in mind appear to be reached. He is the Chairman of the Committee which will be known as the Red Cross Anti T.B. Committee.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Conor Maguire. There is a deep feeling of unfriendliness between the Commissioner and …..

Short typed biography on the family of Dr. Conor Cruise O’Brien. Has two children, two of whom are at school in Newtown, Waterford, and two in Rathgar. Neither school is Catholic. Children are not being taught formal religion as they are allowed to make up their own minds when they come to age. Wife is living in Howth.

Typed report (possibly from Chief Superintendent Philip MacMahon, item 669?). The following items are mentioned in the report: nothing to indicate that known Communists attend ‘The Runaway House’, Ballsbridge Denis Cahalane is now Co-Auditor of the Student Christian Movement a few members of staff at TCD are believed to have paid off the debt of ‘Nusight’ no trace of a person named Cogan in South Anne Street enquiries failed to establish that nude parties take place in any house in Kilternan Myra, a Finnish national working as a beauty specialist in Brown Thomas, has been identified as Marie Anneli Havukarnen. Nothing to indicate that she is connected to a German spy ring Rudi Deusche is a German Communist agitator. Stayed with Conor Cruise-O’Brien while recuperating from a gunshot wounds.

Handwritten letter to Ardle from Paidric O [ill.] (Patrick Seery), St. Mary’s, Sandyford, regarding the Farrington family, Ticknock House. Dr. Farrington was Secretary o f the Royal Hibernian Academy. Mrs Farrington, nee Synge, is a niece of Millington Synge. Their son, Conor, is a promising actor. The family are professed Socialists and sympathetic to Soviet Russia. Dr. Farrington is a member of the Society of Friends and Mrs Farrington is a dedicated worker for the abolition of nuclear warfare. Farringtons do not try to influence Catholic parishioners. Mrs Oscar Leach, an English lady, is source of information.