Note from Fr. James Ardle MacMahon to +McQuaid regarding a message from Cardinal Conway about the day of abstinence on March 19.

Letter from +Conway to +McQuaid thanking him for a copy of the report on the Marriage Bill.

Letter from +Conway to +McQuaid requesting information for the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law. 1 item

Letter from +Hurley, Rome to +McQuaid inviting him to lunch on 16 November. Dr. William Conway will be the guest of honour. Salina

Note from Fr. James Ardle MacMahon to +McQuaid regarding a request for a meeting with Liberato Santoro and his brother, Ettore who is secretary to the Archbishop of Gaeta. They will meet also with Cardinal Conway. Annotated by Fr. MacMahon. Diocese of Genoa

Typed letter to +McQuaid from + Lucey, Bishop’s House, Bantry. A copy of the conclusions arrived at by the Committee should have been received. Dr. Conway is getting a report from Down and Conor; Canon Kelly, Leeds, will do a Memorandum on their experience of the British Act.

Letter from +Sensi to +McQuaid regarding the 9th World Festival of Youth which is organised by the Communist controlled ‘World Federation of Democratic Youth’ which is to be held in Algiers in July. The organisers are making great efforts to get Catholic Youth movements involved. The leaders of these movements should be notified and directed not to send representatives. This notice is also being sent to Archbishop Conway as President of the Irish Hierarchy so he can bring it to their attention.

re Heating and Cleaning of National Schools including those from T. O Deirg & Joseph O’Neill, Department of Education. Appointment of Rev. William Conway to Chair of Moral Theology in Maynooth. Reports from various individuals on films. Memorandum from Irish Farmers’ Federation. Government Rule 92 on Teachers and Public Houses including an extract from ‘The Irish School Weekly’. Procedures relating to the employment and dismissal of lay teachers in secondary schools conducted by Sisters under Diocesan control. Meetings of the Trustees of Maynooth College. Discussion on the vacant Chair of Sacred Scripture. 1943

Statement issued by Cardinal Conway and the Bishops of Derry, Dromore, Kilmore, Down and Connor and Clogher, focusing on one particular fact, namely, that a small group of people are trying to secure a united Ireland by the use of force. This idea is absurd.

October-December 1965 Invitations from dignitaries during the 4th session, including a visit from the Taoiseach to the closing of the council and a funeral mass for Cardinal Conway.